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Archbishop backs Sr Mary O'Connor Bridge Walk for hangs up the chalk Reconciliation after 40 years - Page 2 - Pages

Some of the 12,000 Catholics at Subiaco Oval last Sunday to honour and praise Jesus Christ, our King.

Morley has its own bell tower! - Page 4

Photos: Peter Rosengren

Have no fear: take Jesus to all Australians By Anthony Barich

Do not be afraid to live the life of Christ in a pagan world through the power of God, Archbishop Barry Hickey proclaimed to more than 12,000 Catholics gathered last Sunday for the Great Jubilee Celebration of Christ the King. With Channel 10 presenter Greg

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Pearce as the master of ceremonies, hundreds of drama and music students from Catholic schools all over the State, an orchestra, full choir and jazz band, the solemn feast of Christ the King was truly an all-encompassing event. 'We must not be afraid to live as true Christians in a pagan world, because only in this way, through the power of Christ working within us, will goodness triumph over evil, will truth win out over falsehood, will Christ reign in our hearts, in our families and in our cities,' the Archbishop preached 'We look forward, therefore, with joy, to the 20001h Birthday of Jesus Christ at Christmas and the New Millennium that follows. 'We look forward with confidence and with enthusiasm for the Mission entrusted to us. 'Be of good heart. Long live Christ the King!' The band performed light music for

over an hour to get the crowd in the mood and set the atmosphere for the Perth Catholic Church's gala event of the year as scores of buses transported parishioners to the oval. To kick off the day a parade of school banners entered the ground before the feast was trumpeted all over the city. Jubilee Trumpets played first at the Holy Door of St Mary's Cathedral in the city, then at Barracks Arch, Kings Park, the Catholic Education Office. out the front of Subiaco Oval, and climaxed with trumpeters finishing the fanfare on stage at the ground. The whole event was broadcast on an electronic screen, coordinated by Channel 7 and 9. Enter Archbishop Hickey and Bishop Robert Healy, who had been waiting in the wings for over half an hour for their grand entrance. When their moment came, they entered through the visiting teams' players' race. But they were no strangers to the sea of faces who greeted them with images of Christ and Mary emblazoned on parish and school banners and posters, and a cheer to rival the entrance of a West Coast Eagles squad onto the ground could be heard. It certainly fooled Greg Pearce. Continued on Page 15; Pictures Pages 8-9; Christ the King Jubilee celebration for laity - Page 3.

Archbishop Hickey prepares to bless the crowd with Jesus, God and Man, in the Most Blessed Sacrament

Archbishop Hickey signs autographs for some young admirers watched by Bishop Healy and Nyungah elder Ben Taylor.

Archbishop gives thanks for event Archbishop Barry Hickey said this week he was very grateful for the presence of thousands of Catholics at Subiaco last Sunday. "I am particularly grateful to the organising Committee for their months of preparatory work and for the wide range of skilled helpers they assembled," Archbishop Hickey told The Record "Most peopleIhave spoken to have been full of praise for the celebration," he said. "They have commented on the expert presentation, the joy of the event, and inclusion of all tastes in the choice of music and themes." Continued on Page 6

May God guide the Reconciliation process A

round Australia people have enthusiastically participated in the various Bridge Walks to indicate their support for Reconciliation. This Sunday thousands of people will participate in the Walk across the Causeway for the same reason. The crowd will include people from all religious faiths, including very many Catholics. I would be there myself were I not attending the Catholic Bishops' Conference in Sydney. Bishop Healy will represent me at the Walk It is clear that Australian people generally believe that the Reconciliation between the original inhabitants of the land and later generations from other countries is a necessity. We are all here together, making up one nation. We therefore need to strive for

the sort of national unity that They contain many excellent nally with Jesus' divinity. On this respects different traditions and suggestions that we need to basis alone the human family yet at the same time, draws us endorse and make sure are taken should be one. together as one large family. up by the community If we have one Eternal Father, Divisions based on historical cirThere is one area which these we are therefore all brothers and cumstances, racial differences, documents do not, and probably sisters. inequality or disadvantage are to cannot, address and they are the This concept of the human digbe overcome. spiritual dimensions of the chal- nity of every person we offer to The process of Reconciliation lenge. the process of Reconciliation, so has begun. The Church's teachings on that our unity be clearly estabThere is still a long way to go, social justice draw heavily on the lished by the way all people are but the good will already shown spiritual basis of human interac- included in society and accorded around Australia, and shown in tion. respect and dignity. Perhaps the most fundamental Perth this Sunday, will help bring The issue is beyond politics, secthat process to a happy conclu- is the Church's teaching on the tional interests and ideology. sion. dignity of the human person. The term "Reconciliation" has Opinions differ, sometimes As people who come from the deep religious overtones. vociferously, about the path to hand of God we are all loved and We use it to describe what hapReconciliation, but there is gener- blessed by God. pens in the Sacrament of Penance. al agreement that it must happen. As people redeemed by God's We use it to describe the effect Two documents have been Son, Jesus, our human dignity has of forgiveness of others. It is cenissued recently by the Council for been enormously enhanced by tral to our faith. Aboriginal Reconciliation that are his outpouring of love for us. It is, then, a good term to use to worth close attention - Achieving Furthermore, as God became describe the hoped-for result of a Economic Independence, and man in Jesus, our humanity has national conversation about and Overcoming Disadvantage. been joined inextricably and eter- with the Aboriginal people who

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Perspective carry the effects of some pretty tragic history. May this process of Reconciliation be guided by God.

Maranatha director farewelled By Glynnis Grainger

A Mass of Thanksgiving for the work of Brother Des Crowe as director of the Maranatha Institute was held on Monday night in the Chapel of St Michael the Archangel, at the Catholic Education Office, Leederville. Archbishop Barry Hickey concelebrated Mass and farewelled Br Crowe, who is returning to Adelaide after two years of illhealth. Glorious singing by the Catholic Education Office Choir "Ordinary Voices" filled the Chapel during the Mass, with the congregation joining in vigorously. Marist Br Crowe, 70, told The Record on Monday he took over in 1991 from the inaugural Director of the Institute, Sister Mary Berry, who established it in 1977. liis successor is Fr Vincent Glynn. Br Crowe was originally the co-ordinator of Adult Faith Education of the old Catholic Adult Faith Education Services (CAFES), Provincial of the Marist Brothers, and spent six years at the Faculty of the East Asian Pastoral Institute at the Jesuit university in Manila in the Philippines. "The body is telling me to retire," he said,

"and I am leaving in mid-December." "I have found working in this adult faith area a very rewarding and fruitful one." Br Crowe said that in 1988-89 the late Archbishop Foley's program of renewal emphasised three major needs: the wider participation of the people of the diocese in the working Church; inclusion in the Church, and adult faith education. CAFE had come into being as a result of consultation and Roman documents parish-based adult faith education programs, he said. "I will be doing some similar things [in the future], working with school-based groups - with their parents and teachers," Br Crowe said. Archbishop Hickey said in his homily to the packed chapel, "If there is one characteristic of Church life, it is the involvement of lay people; so we look at any part of Church life, its health care, care for the aged, its administration, its parish life, and we see an extraordinary level of ownership by the people of faith." "The priests have their special calling but that does not prevent the involvement of lay people in so many aspects of Church life," the Archbishop said.

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Br Des Crowe receives his special Jubilee award from Archbishop Hickey at the Catholic Education Office's chapel last Monday night.

Renovations planned for St Charles' seminary By Peter Rosengren

St Charles Seminary in Guildford is to embark on a renovation program to upgrade its facilities for seminarians. The building program is expected to commence no later than Easter 2001 and be completed by the end of that year, Seminary Rector Fr Tim Corcoran told The Record on Tuesday. He said that the seminary is currently full to capacity with a total of 24 students. Student accommodation is very small; normally each student is given one room for study and another as living quarters but with intakes climbing in recent years some students have had to give up their study room, he said. The top floor of the

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existing accommodation is not air-conditioned and in summer becomes extremely hot, he added. Meanwhile the recreation area is currently beneath where students live and study and sometimes there is a conflict between the recreational and the normal living and academic requirements for the block, he said. The renovation will mostly be funded by donations and bequests. When the building program for part of St Charles is completed there will be three blocks each with six rooms, able to hold 18 seminarians and accommodation for 4 priest staff. Fr Corcoran said that of the 24 seminarians based at St Charles, 19 are for

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The Maranatha Institute involved people taking on courses, or "simply coming here because they want to know their faith better, to deepen their faith." "We thank God for the work of Maranatha over the years and we know it is wanted, it is appreciated and it does have profound effect on the Church, through the life of the people and deepens what they have heard in their own life. We all need to go deeper into our own life, understand what Christ has chosen for us." Archbishop Hickey said, "Jesus wanted us to search for that inner change through the activity of the Holy Spirit." He thanked "all those who had worked so hard to put on these courses" and thanked Almighty God for the great work of Br Crowe. Br Crowe said he was very grateful to have had the gift to be able to share. "Fr Gerry [Holohan1 was a tremendous bulwark in all these years at Maranatha, with Sr Genuna Grant and Sr Maura Kelleher, the ministry supervisors for the second year of the course," he said. Fr Gerard Holohan, Episcopal Vicar for Faith Education, presented this year's graduates with their certificates.

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Perth, four are for the Bunbury Diocese and one for Geraldton. In addition to the 24 there are two other seminarians, Charles Waddell who has studied in Rome at the Beda College and Donald Kettle who is studying at the Irish College. Deacon Waddell will be ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Barry Hickey on 15 December together with St Charles' seminarians Phong Nguyen, Hui Nguyen and Sun Nguyen. Meanwhile, Fr Corcoran said, two students have been accepted by the seminary to commence studies next year and a third seems likely at this stage.

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Pope John Paul blesses a child during Mass in St Peter's Square on 26 November. Photo CNS/Reuters

weight of the rain, ran for shelter under the square's colonnades, but most resolutely stood fast for the drenching. In his homily, the Pope said the Second Vatican Council fathers of which he was one - entrusted the Church's lay members with the mission of working in the

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world and transforming it accord- in hand the documents of Vatican ture. And among the faithful, ing to God's plan. "With the coun- II to rediscover their great rich- selective or critical attitudes with cil, the hour of the laity in the ness of doctrinal and pastoral regard to ecclesial magisterium are not lacking," he said. stimuli," he said. Church truly struck," he said. The council taught that all peoHe said Christians, especially in "Today more than ever, dear brothers and sisters, your aposto- ple are called to holiness, and that this jubilee year, cannot escape late is indispensable in order for personal conversion is the neces- asking themselves such fundathe Gospel to be the light, salt and sary foundation for transforming mental "identity" questions as: yeast of a new humanity," he said. the Church and the world, he said. What have I done with my bap"Do not be afraid to accept this tism? Is Christ the centre of my Among the worrying challenges to be faced, he said, were the challenge: to be holy men and life? Does prayer find space in my advance of biotechnology, eco- women! Do not forget that the daily life? In addition, lay people must nomic underdevelopment in vast fruits of the apostolate depend on areas of the world, and wide- deepness of spiritual life, intensi- develop a deeper love and attachspread hunger and warfare. ty of prayer, constant formation ment for the Church, appreciating "Awaiting you are tasks and and a sincere adhesion to the it as a "sign and instrument of the intimate union with God and of goals which can appear out of Church's directives," he said. proportion to human strengths. In an earlier message to partici- the unity of the whole human Do not be discouraged!" he said. pants in the weeklong laity con- race," he said. "We, as baptised people, are liv"Being Christian has never been gress, the Pope said a return to easy nor is it today," he said. "Fol- fundamentals and a renewed ing limbs of this marvellous and lowing Christ requires the understanding of the Church as fascinating organism, nourished courage to make radical deci- communion were needed to com- by the sacramental, hierarchical sions, often against the current." bat the spread of indifference and and charismatic gifts that are coessential to it," said the Pope. He said today's lay Christians criticism of Church teaching. can find their necessary strength "In a climate of diffused secu"Because of this," he said. "today and guidance from the teachings larisation, not a few believers are more than ever it is necessary that of the Second Vatican Council. tempted to distance themselves Christians, illuminated and guid"Thirty-five years from its con- from the Church and unfortu- ed by faith, know the Church for clusion, I say: It is necessary to nately let themselves be infected what it is, in all its beauty and return to the council," said the by indifference or give in to com- sanctity, to feel it and love it as Pope. "It is necessary to take again promises with the dominant cul- ones' own mother."

Jubilee banner returns to Bunbury Parish prepares to celebrate Bunbury Diocese's Jubilee Banner completed its journey across the Diocese when it returned to St Patrick's Cathedral, Bunbury, last Saturday. It began its journey from the Cathedral 15 months ago on the Feast of the Queenship of the Virgin Mary, 22 October, 1999. It has passed through every Mass Centre in the Diocese, travelling nearly 2500 kilometres and the journey even included a river trip. People throughout the Diocese have been touched as the message of Jubilee came to them through the passage of the banner, bringing communities and people together in the one mission. Each parish designed and attached a patch to the Banner, as shown in the photograph. The Diocesan Pastoral Centre will be collecting the stories behind the parish patches and making the stories available in the Cathedral, where the Ban-

The East Victoria Park parish of Our Lady Help of Christians will celebrate 65 years as a parish community with a special Parish dinner and Mass in early December. The dinner will be held at Teramo Restaurant, Welshpool, on Friday, 8 December, and the special Mass will be celebrated at 9.30am on Sunday, 10 December. with morning tea afterwards. Parish priest Father Brian Harris said "all parishioners past and present are welcome to celebrate with

Fifteen months after it began its journey, the Bunbury diocesan Jubilee banner returns to Bishop Peter Quinn after its tour through parishes.

ner will hang. The journey is not complete, however, as parishes have asked that the Banner return to their community for special occasions in 2001. Ills planned that the Banner

us." He said "In this Jubilee year 2000, we give thanks to God for all the faithful parishioners who have made Our Lady Help of Christians Parish Community what it is today." The foundations of the original presbytery were laid in early August, 1935. Just four months later the Church. hall and presbytery were opened by Archbishop Prendiville. The present Parish Church. at the corner of Camberwell and Berwick Streets, was built and opened on 8 December, 1960.

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Farewell for Bishop • Healy at Cathedral Archbishop Hickey has issued a general invitation to attend a special Farewell Mass for retiring Bishop Robert Healy at St Mary's Cathedral on Tuesday 12 December at 7 pm. Parishes have been asked to send official representatives to acknowledge the tireless work of Bishop Healy among the people over the past 25 years, Archbishop Hickey told The Record this week. 'Friends and well-wishers are welcome to attend the Mass," the Archbishop said. A reception with light refreshments will be held in the Cathedral grounds after the Mass. Anyone who wishes to contribute to the expenses of the reception and to the gift to be presented to Bishop Healy may send their donation to the Archbishop's Secretary, Mrs Jane Pilkington. or bring it on the night.

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Archbishop Hickey blesses the bells - a gift from a parish in which Fr Eric Skruzny once worked.

The Archbishop blesses the land on which the new seminarians' quarters and the bell tower stands, with Fr Michael Moore, closest to camera.

Bells peal out for Morley seminary The new bell tower and quarters.

By Peter Rosengren

When Archbishop Barry Hickey pressed the button on cue last Wednesday evening 22 November, the bells in the new Redemptoris Mater Seminary bell tower In Morley pealed out across the surrounding rooftops. It was not hard to imagine that their sound, deafening inside the tower, added something special to the otherwise monotonous vista of Australian suburbia visible in all directions. But not only the ringing of the bells. The tower is itself a landmark that should remind those who see it from kilometres around that, in a world gone bland there is still spiritual vitality, and freshness to be found somewhere. Approximately 200 guests, including Bayswater Archbishop Hickey switches on the Mayor John D'Orazio and local power to start the bells pealing, MP Rhonda Parker, were present watched by Fr Skruzny. to witness Archbishop Hickey

also bless the new two-storey residential quarters attached to the

tower which will house Redemptoris Mater's seminarians. The astonishing thing about the new quarters and tower - which includes bells from Genoa presented as a gift from the Italian parish for which vice-Rector Fr Eric Skruzny once worked - is that, like much of the rest of the seminary, it has been a gift of Providence. Seminary Rector, Marist Fr Michael Moore, and vice-Rector Scruzny are convinced, together with hundreds of others, that the providence is divine. Their view is persuasive. All the materials and all the building costs have been donated to the seminary leaving Reciemptorts Mater with a total bill of $0.00 to pay out of an estimated $750,000. Earlier, at evening prayer, Archbishop Hickey also spoke of the miracle of the Providence of God. He personally

thanked the Fin! Group, which ed that because the seminary built the bedrooms, Angelo Bon- lives completely on Divine Provigascia, who built the bell tower, dence - what God gives through Barney Fernandez who con- other people's donations and taltributed the furniture and interior ents - those who helped the fittings; the architects Antonio Church would receive the hunIncognito and Ted Peters and the dred-fold reward for generosity engineer Michael Lalli. promised in the Gospel. New bedrooms implies new With only a quarter the populavocations. Of the 15 men ordained tion of major Australian centres for the Archdiocese of Perth this such as Sydney and Melbourne, year, seven come from Redemp- Perth has a far higher proportion toris Mater and eight from St of men studying for the priestCharles in Guildford. hood, approximately 50. Redemptoris Mater, the archPriests from Redemptoris Mater diocese's missionary seminary, is are ordained as missionaries of expecting another eight men to the Perth archdiocese. After serventer in 2001. ing two years as priests in the The new quarters house 23 peo- archdiocese they may be released ple. In total. Redemptoris Mater by Archbishop Hickey to serve in can now house up to 34 seminar- other missionary areas in Ausians. Fr Skruzny, who oversaw the tralia or abroad. project, said that 40 companies Meanwhile, with the new bells had been involved in the con- in place right over their heads, struction, and over 300 tradesman one thing seminarians at and workers. Redemptoris Mater will never sufCompanies approached for help fer from is the problem of sleepin the project were also remind- ing-in.

Neo-Catechumenal Way leads this international three to the priesthood

Set to be priests - Jerome Tibon, standing, Eugenio Zurias and Francis Sundararajan.

By Peter Rosengren Three deacons who will be ordained by Archbishop Barry Hickey at St Mary's Cathedral on Saturday 9 December have come from three of the world's four corners to be missionaries for the archdiocese of Perth. They hail from India, Venezuela and the Philippines. One is a convert from Hinduism who found Jesus calling him to the priesthood It all started with a book on the life of St Francis of Assisi. Another wanted to be a marine biologist but God got in the way. The third was born Catholic but grew up running away from suffering and uninterested in the Church. His drifting life ran aground on the shoals of faith. Three lives. Three stories of how God calls men, apparently the least likely, to be his priests. For Eugenio Zurias from Venezuela, 27, his calling has been won by a Church in the midst of a world precariously balanced in a battle between life and death. "I consider myself very much part of contempo-

Jury society," he said. "I am convinced that Jesus Christ is the answer and that our society is denying life, and that's why it's important for me to preach and announce life. "Icould say," he added, "that my vocation is also the fruit of the Church's patience and work You can't imagine how much the Church has fought for me." Like all other seminarians at Redemptorts Mater missionary seminary in the Perth suburb of Morley, Eugenio's own odyssey is bound up with an encounter with the Neo-Catechumenal Way. Founded among the marginalised in the 1960s by a Spaniard, Kiko Arguello, the Way has spread around the world and focuses on an intensive catechesis of adults. After a process of ongoing catechesis, guidance with a spiritual director and Intensive scrutiny of Scripture, men who are members of the Way and who feel called to the priesthood, journey to Italy each year where a mass meeting is held. Names are then pulled out of a hat and matched with Neo-Catechumenal seminaries around the world. That's how Eugenio, Jerome Tibon and Francis Sundararajan all came to Perth. Eugenio's

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Introduction to the Way came when the principal of his school invited him to listen to the catechesis being given in his parish. His family, meanwhile, rarely went to Mass and were not involved in the Church. "I found the catechesis very concrete, very existential - something that I could relate to," he said. It was, for him, the start. Jerome, 28, from Cebu in the Philippines, said his own calling had begun to grow when, as a university student studying marine biology, he became dissatisfied with the way his life was going. "I was drifting without any sense of direction," he said, adding "I was not completely outside the Church - but I was definitely on the way out." Because of an asthmatic condition he was forced to give up the love of his life, marine biology. It was a major disappointment. "For me, that was a big loss," he said. He encountered the Neo-Catechumenal Way through his parents' involvement and the talks he heard "spoke to me a lot." "I guessI was searching for the meaning of life.I could relate to it soIkept coming." A Neo-Catechumenal community formed in his parish, he joined, and after a few years began to realise that God was not as distant as he had previously thought. He found he wanted to respond to Pope John Paul us call for a New Evangelisation. "I received so much from God through the Neo-Catechumenal Way that I wanted to speak of Jesus Christ and bring Jesus Christ to the people," he said. "I could see that God had always been there, leading me. So, out of gratitude, I offered myself," he said. For Francis, now aged 38, his twenties were a serious crisis as he looked for meaning in his life. One of 10 children born to a Hindu family with many of its own problems in Madras in southern India, he had felt that suffering was a curse from God.

Studying for a degree in Commerce, he came across something that changed his life. "Once, in the library, I found a book about St Francis of Assisi," he said. "That book gave me the answer to what I was looking for." "Francis's life experience introduced me to the life of Jesus. That this one person loved me, and died for me, moved my heart," he said. "Something like a fire started in me. "I asked a Catholic friend to take me to a parish priest because I wanted to be a Catholic," he said, adding "I found Christ like a treasure." After he became a Catholic, the priest suggested he listen to a catechesis being given in the parish by members of the Way. Attracted by what he heard, he joined the parish Neo-Catechumenal community but was intent on marrying; instead he ended up in the seminary. "I said I would go into the seminary, and if that was God's will for me, then it would happen," he said. The three deacons interviewed by The Record will become priests on Saturday 9 December at 9.30am in St Mary's Cathedral, Perth. Eugenio noted that one thing common to all three is the announcement of the crucified Christ. Francis agreed, saying many people today see the Cross, but, frightened by suffering, don't see Jesus - the source of life - in the middle of the Cross. For Eugenio, the most important thing is to see and help the strays return to the fold. "Just to see the lost sheep come back, that's the best thing a priest can expect," he said. Meanwhile, his journey has all been worthwhile. "My family was not religious and priesthood, for me, was out of the question. Now, all my family go to Church. "So you can see: the Church has redeemed my life, and my family."

Veteran Mercy says 'cheerio' By Glynnis Grainger Our future is the children, according to a veteran Sister of Mercy who is retiring next month after more than 40 years in education. Sr Mary O'Connor, who is based at the Mercy convent at Craigie, will officially retire from school administration on 31 December. She is the foundation principal of St Luke's Catholic Primary School, Woodvale, from its beginnings 12 years ago, and before that also at Whitford Catholic Primary School, Craigie. Sr O'Connor will officially hand over St Luke's to the new principal, Brendan Spillane, on 31 December, She belongs to the Sisters of Mercy, West Perth and is based in Craigie. Born in Mount Hawthorn, Perth, Sr Mary, and her twin, Sr Catherine, both entered the convent in

see the development with children and parents, and the children you come across later as parents." "You see how they have developed and grown and see their families. . . . " she said. "They have just been wonderful years; at West Perth, half the children couldn't speak English as a lot of migrants came out from

Sister Mary and Sr Catherine were the last two to wear the full habit of the Sisters of Mercy. "We were received in February 119541 and in March they started to change some of the clothing," she said. Both she and her sister attended Aranmore Primary as students when it was called St Mary's, Leederville. "We were influenced by the very good Sisters who taught us and were very fair, just and understanding - good women, who worked extremely hard," Sr 1954. Asked what the highlights of her O'Connor said. "In the beginning, I taught as career, she said teaching children has been both a pleasure and a well as administering - in the last five years I haven't taught a lot; I great joy "I taught at 1St Brigid's] West have only done relief in the classPerth and St Gerard's, Westmin- rooms now and again. "Ihaven't been responsible for a ster, formerly Balga, in the 1960s, and I was just on the staff; as the class; I was responsible [for one] children were lovely, there was a before; as demands weren't as strong. great community spirit." Speaking of today's demands of "I started two schools from scratch - Whitfords in 1979 and educators she said "there are [St Luke's) and in betweenIdid a more meetings, legal requireprincipalship at St Lawrence's, ments; now it is more lay people Balcatta," she told The Recordlast in a bigger system. Thursday. She felt happy "just to Meanwhile, among the fun

Sister Mary doing what she loves most - at a recent school sports day. moments have been school camps. "When we go on camps with the children and teachers, I have been on the flying fox and abseiling; we had the staff for two days building up community, with an overnight stay at Pt Walter; there were all those 'trust' activities. "I have also ridden a motorbike - it was enough to get me around the place and to lectures at Leederville when I was doing my Diploma of Education RE: When she was at Whitford Catholic Primary School, (St Luke's] was an old barren limestone quarry without any trees. "I built it up from nothing; we Laying bricks, symbolic of much of Sr started with six classrooms. . . . O'Connor's career. and the parents were excellent in the busy bees, laying paths and the religious life - in one way it is planting lawn and being on ros- a concern - and now the teaching ter to make sure the watering was is the responsibility of lay people done," she said. Today, she said, and parents in the bringing up of "There are very few vocations to children in their faith," she said.

Traditions honoured at St Kieran's Eighty years of tradition in motto, enjoy their time at St Catholic education has recently Kieran's and remember that been celebrated at the blessing God is a constant and guiding and official opening of the Stage presence in their lives and all 2 capital development at St Kier- that they strive to undertake. an Primary School, Tuart Hill. The traditions of the St Kieran From humble beginnings in a school and parish communities three-sided tin 'classroom' were revisited in the address by behind the parish church, St the Auxiliary Bishop Robert Kieran Primary School has Healy who stressed the imporgrown to the point where today tance of such traditions to the its caters to more than 450 stu- communities around which dents from 54 suburbs across they have been built. the metropolitan area. "You students here today have This theme of change and Inherited a tradition which development was addressed by encompasses the development Therese Temby, the Director of of, and ongoing loyalty to, this Catholic Education in WA. who school and a dedication to your said it was imperative that studies," he said. schools planned for and devel"This proud tradition was oped facilities that catered for founded 80 years ago by the Sisthe future. ters of Mercy some of who have An example of this can be seen taught here over the years." in the school's high support "Tradition means passing on, needs centre which caters for and here at St Kieran ills a spestudents with special learning cial spirit, a way of looking at needs. things, a way of behaving and 'Riming her attention to the enjoying your school life that is students, Mrs Temby then urged passed on to each and every one them to live by their school of you," he added.

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Sister O'Connor taught her secretary, Lynn Donnelly, in Year One at St Kieran's, Osborne Park, now Tuart Hill. Sister O'Connor has seen a lot of changes. In information technology, particularly, she was a bit wary of computers and calculators at first but "you should see some of the work they do - it is just beautiful," she said. "Professional development of teachers has put computers in that area; older teachers would have to learn new skills - the changes have been extreme andI have coped. "Also in curriculum framework, there is always something new. "We used to spend our weekends doing charts - the children really knew - now Letterland and Thrass are used." Sister O'Connor used to drive the school bus at St Luke's and also at Whitford, until they were able to get someone with a bus licence. She will hopefully have a rest and work in the congregation. possibly doing pastoral care. Sister is packing up photographs people have given her or she has had taken and has boxes and bags on the floor of her office. She will be remembered for her zest for living and her enjoyment of life to the fullest, sharing this with her students, wherever she was.

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John Howard Second Coming to miss News Isreally behind the Record journalist Peter Rosengren this week begin a series of layman's reflections on the Sunday readings for Advent starting, believe it or not, with the 1st Sunday of Advent.

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With Peter Rosengren walks of life. So our waiting for Jesus in Advent should be an expression of our special vocation, which only we can carry out. This means, pm-eminently, the ongoing responsibility of evangelisation within our families and among our friends. Advent and Christmas are perfect opportunities. Meanwhile, as both saints and sinners have discovered throughout the ages, poetry and prayer go together very well, as in the psalms. In today's psalm, we implore God to guide us on the path of life, to draw us on a path which arrives beside a manger and a child in Bethlehem. By the time St Paul wrote his first letter to the Thessalonians, (3:12-4:2), the source of today's 2nd Reading, he was, according to the Jerusalem Bible, wintering in Greece in about the year 51. That puts this amazing character's letter closer to the Resurrection than we are now to the Australian constitutional crisis of 1975 - very close. The Thessalonians were Paul's converts and he was writing in response to the good news that they had held up

exceptionally well under persecution. Intensely proud of the Thessalonians, Paul's prayer is that their faith and efforts increase even more. And he simply reminds his readers of the coming of Jesus, then regarded by some as imminent. For us, Christmas is imminent. This is Advent. Jesus is coming. Like our Thessalonian ancestors of 2000 years ago we should strive for the same faith under pressure in the family, at work, and in working for justice in society, especially the most poignant of causes at the time of the babe of Bethlehem - the right to life of unborn children. The Gospel of St Luke, (21: 25-28,3436), is an attention-grabbing passage where Jesus speaks of the things which will signify the end of time and His second coming. It is gripping reading. As a journalist I would love to report the second coming but the next day's paper, of course, will never come out. Although the words of Jesus sound dramatic, they are literally true. It is enough to point out that Jesus says His second coming will be completely unexpected. "That day," he says, "will assault everyone who lives on the face of the earth." Again, the theme is preparation. Like Boy Scouts we should be prepared. This week's readings, the first of Advent, are the beginning of a journey. Let us not be blind or deaf, then, but enter into the mystery of the drama of the Son of Man's birth into the world.

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d bout 100 people gathered at St Patrick's Church, York, on Monay, 20 November, for the final day of reflection for combined country parishes in the Jubilee Year. After the Rosary cenacle and Benediction led by Father Elias Mary, Franciscan Friar of the Immaculate, talks were given by two Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate. Sister Maria Anna Pio outlined the origins of this relatively new order, which has been based in Perth for only one year. Spokeswoman for the day. Margaret Foss, said Sr Maria Anna told the gathering the rule of life for the Sisters is based on that of St Francis of Assisi, however, they take an extra vow, a Marian vow. This is in accordance with the ideals of St Maximillian Kolbe - to consecrate themselves in an unlimited way to the Irmnaculate. The Friars of the Immaculate and the Sisters now have houses on all five continents, Sr said. Sr Catherine Maria Pio gave an insight Into her personal vocation, which she attributed to the prayers and holiness of her own mother; as a tiny baby she was consecrated by her mother to the Immaculate Mother. She urged all, especially the mothers present, to love Jesus and make Him known, particularly in their own families. Mrs Foss said, following Reconciliation, which was made available by the number of priests present from various coun-

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try centres, Archbishop Barry Hickey ence of Jesus in the Eucharist poses a reflected on current trends in Australian problem for some people. We must call Church life. upon the Holy Spirit to help us with those She said, "Archbishop Hickey said, The aspects of the Faith which cause us difChurch is being challenged to stand up ficulty for its beliefs in a society which has The Archbishop urged everyone to conbecome very secular.'" stantly practice acts of love, not to be "We must pray daily and be nourished afraid to correct errors, and, above all, to by the Sacraments in order to support find time to quietly be with Jesus, Mrs those who are having difficulty with Foss said. At the end of his talk, Archsome of the Church's teachings," Mrs bishop Hickey concelebrated Mass with Foss reported the Archbishop said. the priests present and led the gathering Unfortunately, belief in the Real Pros- In prayers to gain the Jubilee Indulgence.

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Archbishop Hickey gives thanks for Subiaco event Continued from Page 1 "The event showed the versatility and effectiveness of modern technology and saw that the Church could embrace these new means of communication for the spread of the Gospel." The Archbishop said some who attended were a "little disappointed that the celebration was more like a concert when they were expecting a religious service or a procession." But he was particularly pleased at the presence of thousands of young people "whose solidarity with the

Church was reinforced by their participation, and who felt uplifted by the experience." "I sincerely hope they listened attentively to the message I gave that their Mission was the same one that Jesus gave his followers years ago - to spread his kingdom throughout the whole world, to tell the world of his love and to bring the world to God. "Our young people will be the ones to do it. "I know they will respond to the challenge."

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As a society, we're trying to make things better for women, the weak, the exploited and the needy. Many people rightly condemn conservative attitudes whenever these stand in the way of social justice. Yet, at the same time, the worst kinds of exploitation and degradation of the less powerful in society, especially women, are being promoted by some not-so-conservative elements, especially in the arts and media world. Do we hear the same condemnation of these "progressive" promoters of exploitation, from the defenders of social justice? Not so regularly, I fear. Take the exploitation of women in advertising. A few days ago, a spokeswoman for the Women's Electoral Lobby condemned the depiction of women as little more than *sexually available playthings" in advertising. She was lamenting the recent return of sexually suggestive images of women to Australian advertising billboards. Such ads would be laughable, she argued were it not for the very real violence, abuse, harassment and discrimination women suffer today. The WEL spokeswoman said society today should discourage "unreal images of women and media representations that degrade and discourage them." A fair enough case. But that was not all - she then went on to blame the Federal Government. Ills a mistake, she suggested, to separate the "regressive misogyny" in advertising from the "reactionary misogyny of the Howard Government." The recent "ugly shift" in advertising images of women "could not happen in a society where women were truly valued and enjoyed equal status with men," she argued. We should not assume that "culture operates independently of politics." I've no wish to defend the Howard Government, but isn't it odd that of all the factors that might be contributing to women's exploitation, the Howard Government is singled out? What about the worldwide pornography Industry, and all those books and movies by well-respected intellectual and artistic heavyweights that ever since the 1960s have continually promoted overthrow the of Judeo-Christian sexual morality? Or is poor old Johnny Howard alone responsible? Personally, I put more blame on the Marquis de Sade. De Sade, the 18th century French nobleman who enjoyed beating women and wrote books on the subject. is now undergoing a cultural rebirth in our society. Film director Philip Kaufman has just released a new movie, Quills, about de Sade's life, starring Geoffrey Rush. According to one review, Quills "would like • you to believe it's about such high-minded notions as the power of words, the risks of free expression and the price of censorship." The film's scriptwriter is zealous to make "right-thinking points about the horrors of stifling creativity." Creativity? De Sade was imprisoned several times throughout his life, not just for publishing pornography promoting his sadistic fantasies about women, but for acting them out He was imprisoned at the age of 28, for example, for locking up and sexually abusing a young prostitute, Rose Keller. She had escaped his house and showed the wounds he had inflicted on her to people in the neighbourhood. He was later involved in abducting young girls and boys. Sadly, such stories are not unique. But isn't it strange today's artists and intellectuals should continue to see something of value in the life of a person like the Marquis de Sade - just when concern about the exploitation of women by society at large is on the increase? Strange days, indeed.

Plan for new evangelisation awaits our action W The Record hen Archbishop Barry Hickey was preaching the spreading of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ throughout Australia at Subiaco Oval last Sunday, an echo of his words was heard on the other side of the world. laity were especially called to 'bring the As the Archbishop proclaimed that 'we light of the Gospel into the vital nerve cenmust not be afraid to live as true Chris- tres of society.' tians in a pagan world,' and that 'through The Holy Father underlined the precise the power of Christ working within us, means by which this transformation will goodness triumph over evil, will truth would take place win out over falsehood, will Christ reign 'Do not forget,' he said, "that the fruits of in our hearts, in our families and in our cities' Pope John Paul II was marking the the apostolate depend on the profundity Solenmity of Christ the King as a jubilee of spiritual life, on the intensity of prayer, of the laity and their role in the Church on constant formation and on ever more sincere adherence to the Church's direcand the world. tives . . . . If you live Christianity without Pope John Paul reminded the Church's compromise, you can light up the world.' lay faithful that 'today more than ever, As Archbishop Hickey proclaimed to your apostolate is indispensable in order for the Gospel to become light, salt and each of his Perth flock last Sunday, present or not: 'We should not allow the voice of leavening of a new humanity.' 'The Jubilee invites everyone to a seri- Christ to be sidelined and silenced by the ous examination of conscience and a last- powerful advocates of secularity. This mising spiritual renewal for ever more sion is not beyond us if Christ is with us.' incisive missionary action,' he said, In Rome, Pope John Paul also pointed to adding that as 'witnesses of Christ' the another essential basis for the new evan-

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gelisation when he reminded us that with the Second Vatican Council from 1962-65 'the hour of the laity in the Church truly arrived and many lay faithful, men and women, came to understand more clearly their own Christian vocation which, by its very nature, is a vocation to the apostolate.' 'Thirty five years after its conclusion, we must return to the Council,' the Pope said on Sunday. He encouraged "the lay faithful to study the Council's teaching, to love and live its message. In this way the laity will be the light and hope for the Church and for society. The Holy Father said that, for believers, sanctity continued to be the greatest chal• The opinions expressed in this editorlenge in bringing the light of Christ to soci- ial, and any other Record editorial, are not ety. necessarily those of the Roman Catholic "We must be grateful to Vatican Council Archbishop of Perth.

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unday's much advertised Subiaco extravaganza did not disappoint. Catholic parents were given a good insight into the way secular thinking and activities have come to influence our schools in recent years. However, the irreverent and the irrelevant displayed their craft without success. The beautiful memory etched on my mind is of our beloved Archbishop humbly kneeling before our Eucharistic Lord at Subiaco oval and sounding his final trumpet blast: "Long live Christ The King!" Philip Haydon The choir for the Jubilee celebration at Subiaco in full voice last Sunday. Choir member Camille Woodlands Photo Peter Rosengren Goodschild found the event magnificent and joyful.

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just had to write to express my joy of being at the Jubilee celebration on Sunday 26 November. I felt very privileged to be part of the choir. The practices at Mercy College were good fun and the Mercy students who joined us were delightful. Bobby Gallo started us off on the right key! He was very dedicated and we looked forward to each practice. Then Paul McCarthy came along with his great gift - as musical director he was great. He gave us a lot of encouragement. Last, but not least. was Robert Braham, mixed with humour and hard work, he gave us a special final touch. The solo artist, the 12 singers, were wonderful and very professional. All the bands were exceptional. The dancers and ethnic groups looked fantastic, but unfortunately we didn't see them performing, as we were on the stage. However, we did see the Aboriginal dancers, who were very good. A big thank you to all people who organised and the efforts and endeavours that were put in, and the lady who kept us all Informed: thank you, Liz Owers. Yes, it was a magnificent Jubilee Celebration and the date was perfect, because it was the feast of Christ the King. Camille Goodschild Westminster

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wish to congratulate the organising committee of the Christ the King Jubilee Celebration, for a spectacular pagan pageant. The mammoth task of organising and planning such an event was very evident. The bland children's skits, inclusive Ian-

guage, girls running around partially Sunday,Ifelt proud to be a Catholic. Thank clothed, music from Jesus Christ Superstar, you very much to His Grace, Archbishop and The Dream, plus Aboriginal dream Hickey, Fr Ross and the team who put time, and the birth of the Holy Spirit are all together a truly wonderful and unforgetfar from true Catholicism. table event. Many thanks to Bishop Healy for the readThe treasures of our faith were displayed ing of St John's Holy Gospel, and to the Dis- in a very creative and contemporary way ciples of Jesus for their skits portraying a touching the minds and hearts of everyone. great choice of saints. The singing, drama, commentary and use These were among the few Catholic highof technology was very professional and so lights of the day. I would sincerely like to thank the Arch- delightful. Amidst the music and colour, there was a bishop for his wonderful homily and for Including Benediction, a truly beautiful spirit of prayer and reflection. experience and wonderful climax to the May the Lord bless all those who used celebration. their talents so skilfully to make His kingHowever, I was very saddened and dis- dom a reality. appointed that all the money, expertise, and technology were not used to deliver a Andre Sequeira Willetton truly orthodox celebration. The committee failed to seize the opportunity to encourage true devotion and reverence for the Blessed Sacrament. ith reference to your article, An announcement for silence, and call to "Report chronicles Australian kneel, could have preceded the Blessed poverty," (The Record, 16 Sacrament procession. November), surely the Catholic DevelopParents could have been encouraged to ment Fund could devise a scheme where kneel their children down and pay true they could loan to people in Margaret's sithomage to their King. Instead so many ran uation the funds to be able to buy a home around oblivious to the holy ceremony tak- of their own. ing place. There are plenty of houses in the suburbs I went to the celebration in a happy, joywhere the repayments could be around ful, and hopeful mood. Sadly, returning home my mood was flat $150 a week. E M E Edmonds and slightly oppressed. I feel very concerned for the Church of Armadale the future, the Church I am bringing my children up in. What will they have in ten years time? n the October 12 issue, Ted Watt said research into married clergy was pointMargaret Laundy Ocean Reef less. So it is ironic that a front page article in the October 19 issue describes the Eastern rite Mass in St Mary's. Eastern rite t the time of the Olympics. I felt Catholicism permits married clergy. proud to be an Australian. At the Geoff Taylor Jubilee function at Subiaco Oval last Riverton

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hen Michelangelo's statue of Moses in Rome gets a long overdue makeover, the whole world will be able to watch. Beginning in January, art buffs can visit the "Project Moses" Web site to view Webcam footage of restoration work on the statue, in a mix of modern technology and Renaissance art. And if sneaking a peek behind scaffolding isn't enough, the site -www.progettomose.it - also will host a chat line so that amateurs and experts can debate the finer points of the statue's transformation. Funded by Lottomatica, which runs Italy's lotto game, in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Culture, the US$245,000 initiative marks the first interactive Internet restoration project in the world and continues cleaning begun in 1998 on the marble alcove housing the statue. Michelangelo's Moses, in the Rome Church of St Peter in Chains, was originally planned as part of Pope Julius H's tomb inside St Peter's Basilica - commissioned to the marble master in 1505 by the Pope. But after Pope Julius' death in 1513. plans were scaled back, and artistic rivalry, new demands from Pope Leo X and the anger of Pope Julius' family, who had put up the money for the tomb, cast an ugly shadow over the project -and the rest of Michelangelo's life. By the time the tomb was completed in 1545 in St Peter in Chains, almost nothing remained of Pope Julius' earlier grandiose ideas - not even his bones. which were scattered to the winds in 1527 during the sack of Rome. Despite the ill-will surrounding the monument - Michelangelo termed it a "tragedy of a tomb" - the statue of Moses is considered one of Michelangelo's finest sculptures and greatest triumphs. In conjunction with the restoration, the German photographer Helmut Newton, best known for his highly stylised fashion shoots and portraits of film stars, will design the project's photographic -icon." while the British composer Michael Nyman will present an original work inspired by the statue in September, when the restoration is expected to he completed. - Catholic News Service

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No missing the Palmyra parish!

Woodvale steps out on Sunday. . .

Armadale follows the way of Christ. . . . and Gosnells is its neighbour!

Kalamunda displays its pride. ...

North Beach primary could not be missed . . . .

Poles know how to celebrate. . . .

Greenmount parish is easily found!

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y dear People, It is good for us to be here. We have come here today in the name of Christ our Saviour, and we honour him and acknowledge him as Christ the King. Today we express publicly our unity in Christ and our common faith as brothers and sisters in him. I welcome Bishop Healy and the priests who have come from their parishes and special apostolic works. I welcome the Religious Women and Men who contribute so much to the life of the Church. I greet the organisations and movements that live out the Gospel in their own special way. I greet the school students and their staff, who recall for us how important a role schools play in the Christian formation of the young. I greet all of you, my brothers and sisters, you who have come here from our hundred or more parishes, from the city and from the country, you who have arrived here in buses, in private cars, by train and by foot. Our presence together here today at this historic assembly during the Year of the Great Jubilee, is evidence of the life and vitality of the

We should not be deterred by the forces that Archbishop's sermon oppose us - we should not allow the voice of Christ to be sidelined and silenced by the powerful advocates of secularity. at Subiaco This mission

is not beyond us if Christ is with Church as we move into the New Millennium. I us. want to say to you today that you have a special The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II told 2.4 milmission to the world, especially to our Australian lion young people in Rome recently - Do not be society. afraid - Do not be afraid to live the life of Christ. Your mission is the same mission which Christ To say No to the forces of evil is to say Yes to entrusted to his disciples - that is, to extend his Kingdom throughout the whole world, tell the God. We must not be afraid to live as true Christians world of his love and bring the world to God. Is it an easy mission? No, but we are not alone. in 'a pagan world, because only in this way, Jesus sent out his disciples to change the face through the power of Christ working within us, of the world, a world dominated by the Roman will goodness triumph over evil, will truth win Empire, a world of slavery, vice and corruption out over falsehood, will Christ reign in our hearts, and cruelty. in our families and in our cities. Within a relatively short time the whole of the We look forward, therefore, with joy, to the Roman world became Christian. 2000th Birthday of Jesus Christ at Christmas and We too have been entrusted with the same mis- the New Millennium that follows. sion but in a different world, in a world of wars We look forward with confidence and with and rumours of wars, in a world where marriage and family life is under attack, where the lives of enthusiasm for the Mission entrusted to us. Be of good heart! the elderly and unborn children are threatened, where millions of people live in dire poverty. Long live Christ the King!

Top left, dancers enact Christ's crucifixion. Above, Paul Whitely sings Heaven on Their Minds from the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar. Left young parishioners from St Thomas More parish, Bateman, get into the Jubilee spirit of the occasion., as did, below left, Natasha Garlick and Sarah Rankine of Sts John and Paul parish, Willetton. Below, the day's principal singers belt out another inspirational song for the thousands present.

Archbishop Hickey, top left, and Nyungah elder Ben Taylor watch as the didgeridoo is played during the ceremony welcoming the crowd to Nyungah tribal land.

Above, the Nathan family of Sacred Heart parish, Thornlie, worship Jesus, God and Man, at Benediction. Left, Perth's Asian Catholic community numbered in the thousands at the celebration. Right, dancers assembled in the form of a cross release balloons of joy in the Jubilee colours of blue, red, green, yellow and white during the closing ceremony to the music of the Hallelujah Chorus.

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Colour, sound and movement were keynotes of the celebration.

What better way to spend an afternoon wrapped up as snug as a bug in a rug: Naomi Gravestock with her mother Judi, brother Kevin and sister Caroline from All Saints parish, Greenwood, last Sunday afternoon.

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Book Review and Features

A champion of femininity A Dangerous Innovator: Mary Ward (1585-1645) by Jennifer Cameron, IVI3M), St Paul's Publications $29.95

Reviewed by George Russo

With Mary Busher, Perth Catholic Church Archives volunteer

Excerpts from the WA Catholic Record 1 December, 1900.

The eyes have it

From CooIgarclie: "A magnificent avenue of sugar gums with a sprinkling of white mulberry trees has been planted in number two of the park lands in Coolgardie. Around the bandstand are several varieties of creepers and growths of couch grass, which are looking beautifully green and pleasant to the eye."

Who is merciful? Editorial comment on a Select Committee Report into conditions in asylums. "The fact alone that the lunatic asylum at Fremantle is described as practically a prison is sufficient for its condemnation. "But even a prison. according to the ideas that now prevail, must be so constructed and managed that the health of the prisoners should be reasonably provided for. Cleanliness must be the rule and there must be sufficient ventilation - particulars in which the asylum referred to is sadly defective.... Lunatics justly hold a higher place in the compassion of civilised communities. . . . . The Committee recommends that the present building he pulled down. For the credit of this Colony no time should be lost in acting on this recommendation."

Pickaxe needed Comment on the retiring mayor (no name given) of Kanowna. "He is one of those rough diamonds who so successfully cover themselves with debris that it would take a pickaxe to get at their real worth." The mayor elected in his place was Mr NW Harper, manager of the VVF Main Reef mine.

Fr Dooley retires A tribute to Father Dooley who retired after more than four years at Menzies. "The reverend gentleman, who is over 70 years of age, has been in the Colony since its infancy. He can look back on many interesting experiences from the early convict days to the outbreak of gold fever and the invasion of lothesiders.' "Latterly the effects of old age and a hard life have been telling on him and he leaves the goldfields for a well earned rest." ,

A first law lady

"Miss Edith Haynes. eldest daughter of Dr Haynes, of Perth, has been registered by the Banisters Board as a law student. "This young lady, an undergraduate of the Sydney University, will be articled in the office of Messrs Haynes and Purkiss. Miss Haynes will be the first lady law student in this Colony"

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his is the story of a pioneering woman who adapted the great tradition of Jesuit education for boys to the teaching of girls in the Counter-Reformation period, when few, eyen in the Church, believed in female higher education. It was in this time of the cruellest persecutions of Catholics, yet her life was a perfect example of courage and wisdom. And it was the wisdom and power of Faith. Mary Ward believed, passionately, in female education, stood up to her opponents and foretold that "religious women would do much" to promote Catholic education and "offer a challenge to their age." She founded the order of nuns known here as the Loreto Sisters, and, abroad, as the Sisters of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary. She constantly reminded her sisters that they were called "to a vocation of love." and "to act out of love" and not "out of fear," and this was memorably exemplified in her Sisters; in spite of the fearful times. For Mary the true way of learning and the key to understanding was to imitate Christ; and this her students would find in the lives and example of their teachers. It is noticeable, too, that her curriculum embraced all areas of knowledge but gave a special emphasis to religion. Mary Ward was born in Yorkshire in 1585; her baptismal name was Joan, forecasting her fighting spirit. She came of a prominent recusant family, related to many of the Catholic families in England. As a young girl. Mary became engaged to a member of another Catholic family, but on his premature death she abandoned all thoughts of marriage, in spite of many suitors and her "extreme beauty." Instead, she Joined the Poor Clares at St Omer in Belgium. There, she encountered a completely different world from that of the hunted Catholics among whom she had been brought up. On the whole, it was much freer, especially for women of rank like herself. In fact, travellers often commented on the way "women participated equally in conversation and argument with men." The role of women in the Church was being questioned in some places following the coun-

cil of Trent, which stood for "enclosures." Women were to stick to their convents and leave the outside work to men. The spirit of the Counter-Reformation suggested that women, however, could achieve much; not merely by prayer and contemplation but by direct participation in the life of the Church. Mary put it this way for her followers: "to follow a mixed kind of life, such as Christ and His Blessed Mother lived on earth." In a word, she recognised the talents and capabilities of women. She wanted her followers to work freely in the world much as did the early Jesuits, and, for that reason, modelled her constitutions on the Jesuit Rule. Her followers were called "Jesuitesses," often with contempt in England. Like the Jesuits who studied abroad and then went back into Elizabethan England to teach the Faith, Mary founded a boarding school for English girls on the continent, called St Omer's, where she was aided by five English friends including her sister, Barbara. Her aim was "to instruct young girls in piety, Christian morals and the liberal arts," so that they could "profitably embrace either the secular or religious life." She sent this to the Pope with her plan, "to offer ourselves to the service of God for the role as preachers. It was completely wrong, education and instruction of such children as for Mary had deliberately stated that her nuns Catholics may wish to sent to live in these could neither preach nor administer sacraments. States." Her convents and schools were all over It happened that an increasing number of English girls were sent abroad to be educated Europe, and flourishing. under the auspices of Mary Ward and her But opposition intensified so much that in friends. 1631 a decree was issued by Pope Urban VIII This had the double effect of increasing Mary dissolving her institute, and imprisoning Mary Ward's contacts with the English Catholic in Germany - in "a tiny airless filthy cell on world, as it had done for the English Jesuits, the order of Church." and the necessity of trips to England. She was released by the orders of the Pope, The accounts of these trips read like the and subsequently lived her life in England, exciting flights of Jesuit priests buzzing about amid persecution. She opened a school in the countryside and hiding from pursuers in London, but the outbreak of the Civil War put garrets of big houses owned by Catholics. an end to this new apostolate. Mary and her ladies would come in fine She returned to work in her native Yorkshire clothes and blandly hold open house, as and died in 1645. though there was nothing to hide, then purWhen she lay dying she insisted on her Sissue their teaching under the noses of govern- ters around the bed singing to stop their tears. ment spies. Her final message was firmly practical: "It But the real enemy came from the Catholic matters not 'the who', but 'the what'." bureaucracy in Rome. She learned 'the what' from Christ her Lord, It was Mary's intention to place her Institute and the 'how to do it' from St Ignatius and his under a superior directly dependent on the obedient and valiant Jesuits. Pope - after the model of the Jesuits. Every Catholic should acquire a copy of this But her advocacy for women's role in the excellent book, for it shows the need of a Church was unpopular with many at home sound philosophy for Catholic education, and abroad. She was accused as wishing to something which is sadly lacking in some of rival men in the ministry, and usurping their our schools.

From a neurotic girl to prodigy of holiness

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heresa of the Child Jesus was born Marie Francotse Therese Martin, the oungest of nine children, only five of whom survived into adulthood. When Theresa was only four, her mother died. Despite the piety of her family, (all four of Theresa's sisters became nuns) she was spoiled as a child by her elder sisters and father, and became conspicuously neurotic. She used these early character 'disadvantages' as an opportunity to achieve greater holiness later in the convent. In 1888 she entered the Carmelite convent of Lisieux in Normandy, as a novice. Before making her first vows, she announced that she had come to Carmel to save souls and pray for priests. She was only 15. Theresa had wanted to enter the convent the previous year, but both the Order and the local bishop had considered her too St Therese of Lisieux young. Subsequently, on a pilgrimage aback, felt obliged to respect the to Rome a few months later, dur- decision of the bishop, but neving a public audience, she threw ertheless replied diplomatically, herself at the feet of the Pope and 'You shall enter if it is God's will.' begged him, in honour of his Apparently, it was God's will, jubilee, to allow her into the con- and Theresa, still only a girl, was vent at fifteen. allowed to enter the convent of Pope Leo XIII, somewhat taken Lisieux where two of her sisters

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Perth historian Dr Jennifer Skerritt sheds some light on Catholic history to mark 2000 years of Christianity. This week: St Therese of the Child Jesus 1873-1897 were, the following year. She was then a French colony, but was professed as a nun at seventeen prevented by contracting tuberand became assistant to the culosis in 1896. Instead she novice mistress when she was prayed, which is the chief misonly twenty-two. sionary task of the Church. Nevertheless, she and her life In her autobiography, The Story appeared very ordinary. of a Soul, which she began in She kept the Carmelite Rule to 1894 on the command of her perfection, she was smiling and superior. Theresa wrote that she pleasant to the other sisters, and would let fall a shower of roses. performed even the smallest In the form of miracles and tasks for the love of God. favours, after her death. "More than scorn, she sought This occurred in 1897, after oblivion." eighteen months of intense sufShe created a "Little Way" to fering caused by tuberculosis. This autobiography was pubsanctity, based on three points. The first is that the pursuit of lished the following year and sanctity does not have to be became an immediate success. impressive in the eyes of the Many miracles are attributed to world, the second is to maintain her intervention. Consequently, a relationship with God like that she was canonised in 1925, less of a child, and the third is devo- than thirty years after her death. tion to the suffering of Christ. She is the patron saint of misHer life is an example of mat sionaries and, with Saint Joan of holiness which can be achieved Arc, is patron saint of France. by ordinary people. Because of her prayers for a Theresa had wanted to volun- young missionary priest, many teer for missionary work in priests have sought her intercesHanoi in Vietnam, which was sion.

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Powerful encounter with family, pro-life issues By Peter Rosengren Three Perth Catholics who attended a pastoral congress and the Jubilee for Families with Pope John Paul II in Rome in mid-October said last week the experience had been a high-powered encounter with the Church's teachings on sexuality, the family and evangelisation. For one, the highlight had been the sight of one speaker weeping at the damage done by abortion. The Australian Family Association's John Barich, and a Perth couple, Trevor and Deirdre Lyra, represented Archbishop Barry Hickey in Rome. Although the Lyras could not attend the 14-15 October Jubilee with the Pope they were able to attend the Congress, which saw approximately 30 talks given over several days by a range of lay and clerical specialists in family and Church-related topics. Mr Barich, who attended both the 11-15 October Congress and the Jubilee reported with the Lyras on their experience to the Archdiocese's Committee for

Family and for Life last Thursday. The committee met at the L J Goody Bioethics Centre in Glendalough. Mr Barich said the pastoral congress was attended by approximately 6,000 people from all over the world. About a quarter of a million people attended the Jubilee for Families with Pope John Paul, he said. Mr Barich told committee members the range of talks given covered almost every aspect of family life and its relationship with the Church. These, he said, stretched from the humanity of the embryo to the importance of grandparenting John Barich, top of the table, flanked to his right by Mrs Deirdre Lyra and by and included related issues such Mr Trevor Lyra to his left, reports to Perth Archdiocese's Committee for Famas cohabitation before marriage, ily and for life. Archbishop Barry Hickey, back to the camera and Bishop in vitro fertilisation, homosexual Robert Healy listen with other members of the committee to his report relationships, the rights of children, partial birth abortion and children with disabilities. Discus- priest, Professor Angelo Serra, male and female complementari- sions had also taken place on with 20 years experience of studyissues such as the provision of ing the status of the embryo, was tY Also discussed were issues of Christian funerals for aborted so moved by the issue of abortion openness to life, poverty's impact children, how children can help that he could not continue giving on children, the plight of aban- sanctify their parents, the impact his speech. The congress gave doned children in wealthy coun- of divorce, the culture of death him a standing ovation - the only tries, the anti-family posture of the and the status of the embryo. one of the whole conference," he United Nations and the rights of Mr Barich said that one Jesuit said.

The congress had been organised by the Pontifical Council for the Family and 33 Australians attended. Mr Lyra later told The Record the congress "brought the focus of the whole family issue right to the centre in Rome. I t touched on the most important topics that we've been constantly drawing attention to issues like abortion, IVF and euthanasia," he said. "It proved to me that people from nations all over the world who were at the conference had a unifying goal." "We all seemed to be on the same plane, thinking very much alike and sharing the same experiences." Mr Barich told The Record the most memorable moment of the congress for him had been when Fr Serra broke down before his audience in sorrow at the worldwide carnage of abortion. "Here was a man in his eighties, crying. Why? Because he's totally convinced of the humanity of the embryo and people are killing them. 50 million a year, all over the world," he said.

Holy Family Sisters celebrate Northam parish wends The Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth celebrated their 125th anniversary with a series of festivities at Our Lady of Grace School and the North Beach parish last weekend. Polish woman Blessed Frances Siedliska founded th,e Sisters, an International congregation of religious women, in Rome in 1875; they are currently engaged in various apostolates in 10 countries around the world. In Australia, the Sisters are based mainly on the east coast and work in education, pastoral ministry and aged care. The Sisters first arrived in Western Australia when they were Invited to take over Our Lady of Grace School, North Beach, at the end of 1957. Though the school now has mainly lay staff, it remains 'orderowned' to this day. In the 1960s, the Sisters also worked at Our Lady of Good Counsel Primary, Karrinyup. Over the past 40 years, the Sisters have also been strongly involved in pastoral ministry in

its way to New Norcia

Celebrating 125 years of the Holy Family of Nazareth Sisters last weekend: Left, Mrs Wendy Dobra, new school principal for Our Lady of Grace next year, Sr Germaine, Sr Annuntia, Sr Joanna, Sr Jane-Marie, North Beach parish priest Father Ken Keating, Catholic Education Office of WA director, Therese Temby, school board chairman, Richard Broad, Sisters' Provincial Sr Helen, Sr Anita, and current school principal, Dr Tony Curry. Seated are Srs Amelia and Joseph.

the North Beach parish and still have three Sisters based in their North Beach convent. Five Sisters, including the

Top, St Joseph's, Northam, parish priest Father Robert Carillo, blesses Norttam parishioners recently before undertaking their parish pilgrimage to New Norcia . . . . and they made it and were suitably inspired and refreshed, as can be seen below.

Provincial, Sr Helen Tereba, a former Principal of Our Lady of Grace School, came to Perth for the anniversary.

Vocations prayer message released VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Criticising Western cul"We need to lead them to meet the Lord and help ture's tendency to sideline God, Pope John Paul II them establish a deep relationship with him," he called on Christians to "re-evangelise life," in his said. annual message for the World Day of Prayer for Calling on Christian parents to remain close to Vocations, to be celebrated on 6 May next year. their children, the Pope encouraged them to help The Pope said contemporary society needed "the "with the weighty decisions of adolescence and witness of men and women who show the fruit- youth." fulness of an existence that has its source in God." Catechists and Christian teachers must support The text of the Pope's message was released at the family, he said. and "encourage in young peothe Vatican last Saturday. 25 November. ple a sense of vocation." "Within the Christian community," he wrote, "Their task is to guide the young generations "each person must discover his or her own per- toward discovering the plan of God for them, culsonal vocation and respond to it with generosity." tivating in them the readiness, when God calls While emphasising the event's theme. "Every Life them, to turn their lives into a gift for that mission," is a Vocation," the Pope said attention should be the Pope told teachers. focused especially on the "urgent requirement" of Consecrated people, said the Pope, also could ordained ministers and people ready to commit help young people find God by their "witness to the truth that our only hope is in Christ" themselves to consecrated life. "May the presence and the service of consecratAsking the Holy Spirit to "stir up an abundant number of vocations to special consecration," he ed persons open the hearts and the minds of young said consecrated people could "encourage the people to horizons of hope filled with God, and Christian people to adhere ever more generously may this presence and service teach them humility, and liberality in loving and in serving," he said. to the Gospel." "In a certain sense," wrote the Pope, "love is the The Pope prayed in particular for "young people who thirst for values and yet who are often unable DNA of the children of God; it is the holy vocation by which we have been called." to find the way that leads to them."

India, Syria combine ROME (CNS) - With the Syro- ishes. The liturgy was celebrated Malankara bishops dressed in mainly in Aramaic and Malaypink, red and gold and the Syrian alam, sprinkled with English and bishops dressed in blinding Arabic, with explanations in Italwhite, faithful respectively from ian. the churches from India and the Pope John Paul II told a special Middle East celebrated their Holy audience for the 200 SyroYear jubilee together. Malankara pilgrims India's The 19-21 November jubilee Malankara leaders "understood ended with a concelebrated that 'the church is one, the Church Eucharist in Rome's Basilica of St of Christ between East and West' Mary in Trastevere. and they knew that, in entering While the two Eastern churches the communion of the Catholic share the same liturgical heritage, Church, they 'did not at all intend their celebration in St Mary's to deny their fidelity to their own brought together some local flour- traditions." The Record, November 30 2000 Page 11

International News

Catholic stem cell bank plan ROME (CNS) - The Romebased medical school of Sacred Heart University will Inaugurate Italy's first personalised stem-cell bank early next year, allowing parents to set aside their children's cells for future use against disease. Salvatore Mancuso, director of the Catholic university's obstetrics and gynaecological clinic, announced on 21 November that the cell bank would be up and running in January. Doctors will take stem cells from the umbilical cords of newborn babies, then freeze them, Mancuso told CNS on 22 November. While other cell banks exist in Italy, he said, they collect voluntary, anonymous donations, making the Sacred Heart's bank the first of its kind in the country. "The collection of these cells can represent a life reserve supply for a newborn child." said Mancuso. Personalisation is important, he said, because the small number of anonymous donations makes finding a match difficult for an individual. The new cell bank thus will end searching for compatibility. Stem cells can be used today in treating tumours and illnesses like hepatitis and heart disease, and Mancuso told CNS he expected that within five to 10 years they also could be used in tissue regeneration and organ transplants. He said "I think that umbilical cord cells can have the same value and the same use as embryonic cells, only they have no ethical consequences," since they do not involve the destruction of embryos.

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follows in violence's footsteps

JERUSALEM (CNS) - As violence in the Middle East entered its third month, its cost in human lives, economic hardship and disruption of religious observances continued to rise. Religious leaders pleaded with both sides to return to the negotiating table and end the fighting. Catholic aid officials said the turbulence has caused the economic situation of Palestinians in the West Bank to deteriorate drastically. As tours and pilgrimages were cancelled, many jobs in the tourist sector dried up. At the office of Bethlehem 2000, plans for a two-month Christmas Festival, including international events, were put on hold. The town of Bethlehem spent US $200 million in preparation for millennial tourism and was enjoying a tourist boom until the end of September. Then violence erupted on 29 September, the eve of Rosh Hashana and the Jewish high holy days, after Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon visited the Temple Mount/al-Harem alSharif area in Jerusalem. By 26 November, just before the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, renewed Israeli-Palestinian gun battles left five Pales-

Rojeece Qumsieh stands at a field behind her house near the West Bank village of Belt Sahour and points to the areas where the Palestinian militia gunmen fire on the Israeli army camp. Photo CNS/Debbie Hill

tinians dead. The death toll in two months of violence surpassed 280, mostly Palestinians. The US Catholic bishops, the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales and the southern African bishops all issued statements calling for the violence to end. Meanwhile, in Jerusalem, US Catholic Relief Services country representative Susan Silveus said, "In many of the villages where we are working, more and more people are reaching a point where they are running out of

money." CRS and Caritas Jerusalem have been reaching out to the poorer sector of Palestinian society. Silveus said people in the Hebron area are unable to go to their jobs, so they cannot bring home money even for staples. "The situation is getting worse and worse with all sorts of closures," she said. West Bank residents Imad and Rojeece Qumsieh exemplified the plight of many caught in the violence. In early October, their

newly built house in Beit Sahour, near Bethlehem, was badly damaged by Israeli bullets. The same day was Imad's last on his job at the Oasis Casino in Jericho. Israeli customers, who formed most of the clientele, quit coming because of the violence, and the casino's Austrian owners decided to close it temporarily. The vacant casino and adjoining hotel quickly became a favoured hiding place for Palestinian snipers, and the damage from Israeli retaliatory fire has made it unlikely that they will reopen any time in the near future. Rojeece Qumsieh, a science teacher at Catholic schools in the West Bank towns of Beit Jalla and Beit Sahour, said, "Now we have only enough money to feed our daughters with my salary." There is no money left to repair their new home or pay the mortgage. The Qumsiehs tried returning to their home two days after the first incident but found themselves in a crossfire between Israelis and Palestinians. Like other families In the neighbourhood, they had to leave and now live in an apartment in town. Many of the families in Beit Sahour relied on tourist industry jobs that have disappeared.

Patriarch to bead Eastern Congregation By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II has named Syrian Patriarch Ignace Moussa I Daoud of Antioch to be the first Eastern Catholic Patriarch to head the Vatican Congregation for Eastern Churches. Patriarch Daoud, 70, succeeds 77-year-old Italian Cardinal Achille Silvestrini, who had led the congregation since 1991. The Vatican announced the appointment and Cardinal Silvestrini's retirement on 25 November. The Congregation for

Eastern Churches cams for the 22 Eastern Catholic churches that originated in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and North Africa and maintain distinctive liturgical and legal systems. The congregation's responsibilities for the Eastern churches include those that the congregations for bishops, clergy, religious and Catholic education have for Latin-rite Catholics. In addition, the congregation has jurisdiction over all of the churches in Egypt. Eritrea and northern Ethiopia, southern Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine,

Syria, Jordan. Turkey and Afghanistan. Basile Moussa Daoud was born on 18 September, 1930, in Maskanah, Syria. Ordained to the priesthood in 1954, he earned a degree in canon law from Lateran University in Rome. In 197Z the synod of the Syrian Catholic Church elected him bishop of Cairo, Egypt. Seventeen years later, the synod chose him to be Archbishop of Horns, Syria. The synod of the 129,000-member Church elected him Patriarch in 1998, and Pope John Paul formally recognised the election one

week later. Patriarch Daoud and dozens of his faithful met Pope John Paul on 23 November during their Jubilee pilgrimage to Rome. The Pope praised the Syrian Patriarchs' custom of taking the name of St Ignatius of Antioch upon their election as a sign of veneration of the second-century martyr who described the role of the Bishop of Rome as one who presides in charity over the whole church. "He was concerned for the unity of the Church, inviting all the faithful to form one heart and one body around Christ," the Pope said.

A sian Catholic News

Ambon friendship plan Catholic Church in Aceh

LANGGUR, Indonesia (UCAN) Amboina diocese in the riot-hit Maluku islands, eastern Indonesia. has set up a five-year program focused on building fraternity among people of varied religious backgrounds. The decision to implement a pastoral program responsive to the sectarian conflict currently confronting the local Church was made at a diocesan pastoral meeting in Langgur, 2,835 kilometres east of Jakarta. Fifty-three priests, Religious and lay delegates attended the 15-20 October pastoral assembly which opened with a Holy Mass officiated by Sacred Heart Bishop Petrus Canisius Mandagie of Amboina. Mindful of the challenges the present situation poses to the local Church, participants of the diocesan meeting resolved to improve and enhance its primary duties of service, community building, witnessing, proclaiming the Good News and liturgical celebration. They agreed that the Amboina Church should revive and strengthen the people's sense of community and encourage Catholics toward a spirit of collegiality and humanitarian service.

They resolved to dialogue with other Christians, Muslims, government and local custom leaders with a view to collaborating for the common good. The pastoral meeting further agreed that the local Catholic Church should increase its service to riot victims and improve health-care services. It was likewise resolved that the local Church should promote justice and join in the struggle to defend human rights. For this purpose, each parish will set up an office for justice and peace. The participants also noted that the Church should deepen Catholics' spirituality, proclaim the Christian value of service, train people to serve, and prepare and disseminate the diocesan vision and mission through homilies, catechesis and the mass media. The assembly urged the local Church to direct its prayers and mortification toward service to others. It lauded the diocesan Crisis Centre, saying its information service has contributed greatly to the Church, particularly in determining its response to the protracted sectarian violence in the region.

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The assembly also vowed to reorient local Catholic schools and educational foundations and to work to improve Catholics' social and economic life. Langgur, a town in southeast Maluku district, was chosen for the diocesan pastoral meeting since Southeast Maluku is the only region in the archipelago which has remained secure and peaceful, Church sources said. Muslims and Christians have been embroiled in violent clashes for 22 months in Maluku, a picturesque archipelago once known as the Spice Islands. The fighting has claimed some 3,000 lives, forced about 300,000 people to flee from their homes and led residents to regroup in religiously divided villages and neighbourhoods. The sectarian conflict escalated after the arrival last May of 3,000 Muslim fighters from other parts of Indonesia who have been trained to wage an Islamic jihad against Christians, Church observers noted. Although Muslims make up about 85 per cent of Indonesia's 210 million people, Christians and Muslims are almost evenly divided in the Maluku islands.

still active despite tension

JAKARTA (UCAN) - The Catholic Church remains active in Aceh despite mounting tension owing to separatist demands, says a priest of the only Catholic parish in Indonesia's most Islamic province, Father Ferdinando Seven, head of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish in Banda Aceh, the provincial capital some 1,600 kilometres northwest of Jakarta, told UCA News by phone on 16 November that people all over Aceh were gripped by fear. "People refrain from doing their daily activities because of fear," the Conventual Franciscan priest said, adding that he hears reports that four people are killed daily "Although none of my parishtoners have become victims, I feel sad because most of the vicu rns were women and children," the Italian missionary added. Father Seveni said he needs to continually calm his parishtoners amid the continuing violence in Aceh, where civilians are caught in the fighting between government forces and the secessionist Free Aceh

Movement. "It is most important that we maintain good relations with our neighbours. When any of them becomes a victim, we should give our help," he said. Muslims comprise 98 per cent of the 3.5 million population of Aceh. which occupies the northem tip of Sumatra island. According to Father Seven, about 1,100 Catholics used to live in the parish, a majority of Chinese descent and the rest migrants from neighbouring North Sumatra province and Java. "No Acehnese becomes Catholic. They are all Muslim." he said. "Now only 500 Catholics remain in Aceh. Fearing worse situations to come, many Catholics have fled the province," he added. Despite the tense situation, the priest still keeps providing regular pastoral service. "The parishioners seem to feel anxions, but they keep on going to church for liturgical services." Father Seveni said. The missionary priest said he is confident that the Catholic Church will survive.

International News

In Brief Vatican issues faith healing senvice norms

Melkite head resigns at 92

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - On the 33rd anniversary of his election as Patriarch of the Melkite Catholic Church, 92year-old Patriarch Maximos V Hakim of Antioch resigned. The Patriarch's resignation was accepted by the Melkite Synod of Bishops on 22 November after consultation with Pope john Paul II, the Vatican said in a brief 24 November statement. Patriarch Maxi.mos has led the 1.2 million-member Church since 1967 Because of the Patriarch's ailing health, in mid-June Pope John Paul named Archbishop jean Assad Haddad of Tyr, Lebanon, to be apostolic administrator of the patriarchate, based in Damascus, Syria.

By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The Vatican issued norms on faith-healing services, saying prayer meetings for healing need the approval of local Church authorities and must avoid "anything resembling hysteria." While recognising that prayers for healing have a long and legitimate tradition in the Church, the Vatican said there should be no confusion between these special services and liturgical celebrations. It said a climate of "peaceful devotion" should reign in such services, and if healings occur they should be reported and documented to competent church officials. The norms were issued on 23 November by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith as part of a 17-page Instruction on Prayers for Healing. The text was approved by Pope John Paul II. The 10 disciplinary norms highlight the authority and responsibility of local Bishops to closely monitor encounters that feature prayers for healing. "Anything resembling hysteria, artificiality, theatricality or sensationalism should be absent from such gatherings, above all on the part of those who are in charge," It said. Several of the norms stressed that prayer gatherings for healing should remain separate from the celebration of Mass and the sacraments. They advised bishops to use discretion in determining whether such meetings should be televised or otherwise broadcast by mass media. The norms said local diocesan Bishops have the right to forbid the participation of another Bishop in healing services - a touchy issue in Italy, where retired Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo of Zambia has held faith-healing celebrations for years. sometimes without local Church permission. Last year, Archbishop Milingo was quietly removed from his Vatican position as a special delegate on immigration issues. The Vatican's briefly worded norms were accompanied by a doctrinal reflection on sickness, healing and salvation. While this has long been an Important focus of the Church's ministry, it said the increasing popularity of prayer gatherings for healing raises new questions, especially when the meetings are held with the expressed purpose of obtaining cures. "In many cases, the occurrence of healings has been proclaimea.

Cuban suffering Prayer does not automatically bring physical healing, no matter how much if is desired by the person who is ill.

giving rise to the expectation of the same phenomena in other such gatherings," it said. It warned that the "charism of healing" is a special gift to individuals; it must not be attributed wholesale to a class of faithful or to the directors of such prayer encounters. The instruction began with a review of the meaning of sickness and health in the Old and New Testament, saying the desire for healing is part of the human desire to be free from every evil. While sickness was sometimes seen as punishment for sin, people have long struggled with the question of why sickness also strikes the just. "Presuming the acceptance of God's will, the sick person's desire for healing is both good and deeply human, especially when it takes the form of trusting prayer addressed to God," it said. Recourse to prayer should not, of course, exclude the use of "effective natural means for preserving and restoring health," it added. The instruction said that Christ's miracles of healing illustrated the importance the Church has always placed on the health of the sick. Jesus welcomed the healing requests of the sick, and the Gospels contain "not even a hint of reproach" for these prayers, it said. Christ's concern for the sick is reflected in the modern liturgy, in which the Church prays for those in ill health, and in the sacrament of the anointing of the sick, it said. The instruction noted that Jesus told his Apostles to heal the sick as part of their missionary man-

date. Through the ages, this charism has been given by the Holy Spirit to individuals - it is not something that is simply received by those who have themselves been healed, it said. The document said that in modern times, it is important to distinguish between meetings connected to a "charism of healing" and those without such a connection. Those featuring this presumed charism require vigilance because of possible liturgical confusion, it said. But sometimes, as in many Christian sanctuaries around the world, celebrations are held which do not involve a specific "charism of healing." but in which healing has an important part. In this case, the instruction said. the liturgical celebrations are legitimate but their meaning must not be altered. For example, it said, if Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is part of the celebration, it should not be overshadowed by the desire to obtain physical healing of the sick. The instruction also said the legitimate desire for healing should not diminish the Christian understanding of suffering and its spiritual significance. People must remember that "not even the most intense prayer obtains the healing of all sicknesses," it said. The new norms also refer to the ministry of exorcism, a rite used to rid people or places of evil spirits. It said the ministry of exorcism must be done in strict dependence on the diocesan Bishop, and that the prayers for exorcism

must remain separate from healing services. Further, it said, prayers of exorcism must not be inserted into the celebration of the Mass, the sacraments or the Liturgy of the Hours. The norms on exorcism apparently were aimed at prayer services that claim to combine physical healings with the casting out of devils. Reacting to the Vatican instruction, Oreste Pesare, director of the Rome-based International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Services, told the Italian news agency ANSA that he was pleased the Church had clarified the rules on healing services because "there have been abuses." He said his organisation, which acts as a link among charismatic renewal movements worldwide and the Vatican, was working with the Pontifical Council for the Laity to organise an international encounter on prayer and healing for November 2001, with the expected participation of more than 100 directors of charismatic renewal movements. In an interview with Vatican Radio on 26 November, Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone, secretary of the doctrinal congregation. said the document was not aimed against charismatic renewal groups, many of which have been officially approved by the Church. Instead, he said, there was need for clarity in regulating prayer encounters for healing and also in making clear that prayer does not automatically bring physical healing. If people don't understand that, he said, the result can be "deep disappointment, even desperation, if healing does not occur."

VATICAN CITY (CNS) Nearly three years after Pope John Paul ll's historic visit to Cuba, the Church there continues to suffer the "repressive policies of the regime." according to the Vatican missionary news agency Fides. The latest step taken by Fidel Castm's government, Fides reported on 25 November, was a law suspending professional titles for those who enter seminaries or religious orders. In recent years, a number of doctors have enrolled in Jesuit and Franciscan programs, it said.

Vote postponed ROME (CNS) - The Orthodox Church of Greece has postponed a decision on whether to approve a possible visit by Pope John Paul II to Athens, the Italian news agency ANSA reported. In late November, the Holy Synod, comprised of 13 Orthodox Bishops in Greece. was expected to express its judgment on a papal visit, but it put off discussion until December. the agency reported on 24 November.

Kenyan law call NAIROBI, Kenya (CNS) - A Kenyan archdiocese has weighed in on what the Kenyan Constitution should allow or outlaw. The Nyeri archdlocesan justice and peace office presented the People's Commission of Kenya with a 37-point statement that said, among other points: Kenyans should be able to vote on whether or not the country will accept external loans; capital punishment should be stricken from the books; and detention without trial must be outlawed.

Pope urges Catholic lawyers to denounce injustice Slovak signing Catholic jurists do possess, said the Pope, is the conviction that VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Catholic their work in favour of justice, legal experts do not necessarily equality and the common good is have a narrow view of the law, "inscribed in God's plan." The International Union of Pope John Paul II told a group of Catholic jurists combined a Holy legal experts. Year pilgrimage with its lateSpeaking to members of the November plenary assembly in International Union of Catholic Rome. Jurists on 24 November, the Pope The Pope told the legal experts said Catholic legal experts "are that the contemporary world not the guardians of a particular needs them to "denounce all situform of knowledge" to the exclu- ations where human dignity is sion of non-Catholics. What Ignored." Freedom of speech and By Benedicta Cipolla

Abortion and religion are all too often unrecog- estimated." nised as fundamental rights, he euthanasia, he said, treat the right said, and the legal and social to life as a non-essential right. value of the family is increasingThe Pope also deplored all ly coming under attack in the form Instances where judges or lawof laws that place non-married makers make decisions indepenand homosexual couples on the dently of morality and same legal footing as traditional transcendent values. families. "Laws that are detached from In much of the world, the Pope anthropological and moral founcontinued, "the right to life, an innate and absolute right that dations bring numerous dangers, does not depend on practical law because they subject decisions to but on natural law and human the sheer arbitrariness of those dignity, is unrecognised or under- who enact them," he said.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The Vatican and Slovakia reached an accord establishing norms for Church-State relations more than a decade after the fall of the Communist regime. The agreement, signed at the Vatican on 24 November by Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican secretary of state, and SloPrime vakian Minister Mikulas Dzurinda, laid the foundation for the Catholic Church's legal status in the country

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Movie Reviews

Movie Ratings Here is a list of recent films the US Catholic Conference Office for Film and Broadcasting has rated on the basis of moral suitability USCC classifications: AI - general patronage; Al! - adults and adolescents; All - adults; AN - adults, with reservations (this indicates films that, while not morally offensive in themselves, are not for casual viewing because they require some analysis and explanation in order to avoid false impressions and interpretations); 0 morally offensive. Almost Famous, AN Animal Factory, AIV The Art of War, 0 Autumn in New York, All Bait, AIV Bamboozled. AIV Beautiful, All Bedazzled, AIII Best in Show, AIV Big Momma's House, All Billy Elliot, All Bless the Child, AIV Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, 0 Bring It On, All The Broken Hearts Club, 0 Catfish in a Black Bean Sauce, The Cell, AIV Charlie's Angels, AIII Chicken Run. Al Cirque du Soleil journey of Men, Al The Contender, AN Coyote Ugly, All Digimon: The Movie, All Dinosaur, All Disney's The Kid, Al! Dr. T and the Women, AN The Exorcist, AN Get Carter, 0 Gone in 60 Seconds, AIII Groove, 0 Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport. All The Ladies Man, All Legend of Bagger Vance, All The Little Vampire, All Lost Souls, AIV Lucky Numbers, AN Meet the Parents. AIR MVP: Most Valuable Primate, All The Nightmare Before Christmas, All Nurse Betty, AIV Nutty Professor H: 'i'11 Klumps, All The Original Kings of Comedy, AIV The Perfect Storm, AIII Remember the Titans, All The Replacements, AM Requiem for a Dream, 0 Scary Movie, 0 Space Cowboys, All Stardom, All! Urban Legends: Final Cut, AN Venus Beauty Institute, AN The Watcher, AM What Lies Beneath, AIII Woman on Top, AM XMen, AII The Yards, AIII

Tough nail polish beats the bad guys every time By Gerd Pare

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irls Just Wanna Have Fun should have been the theme song for the highoctane movie version of Charlie's Angels. Although songs with the word angel in the title are played Instead, they add to the bouncy, upbeat feel of a movie that never stops rocking. Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz seem to be having the time of their lives as two of the privateeye "angels," Dylan and Natalie, respectively. Lucy Liu as angel Alex is competent in the acrobatic action scenes but doesn't deliver the comedic shadings that animate Diaz's and Barrymore's characters - and make what can indeed be called a "chick flick" surprisingly enjoyable. Based on the TV series that ran from 1976-81, the eye-popping opening is a James Bond-type teaser. A man strapped to a bomb and his seatmate catapult out of a jetliner, a mid-air rescue ensues

Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Lacy Uu star in Charlie's Angels. and the three angels all land in a Rockwell) and the most likely susracing speedboat, gleefully outdo- pect, business rival Roger Corwin ing any Agent 007 feats three (Tim Curry). Using an array of times over. Back at the office, their alluring disguises and high-tech never-seen boss Charlie (voice of spy toys, the three infiltrate CorJohn Forsythe) calls them and win's kingdom. Surviving a shoottheir supervisor Bosley (Bill Mur- out which turns into martial arts ray) to describe the kidnapping of sound-and-fury with a creepy vilsoftware whiz Eric Knox (Sam lain who does a reverse Samson

and Delilah - escaping with locks of their hair - the angels get their man out alive. Knox and his second-in-command (Kelly Lynch) now want them to break into Corwin's ultrasecure mainframe to see if he's stolen their voiceprint identification software. Quicker than you can think of Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible the equally athletic Diaz has backflipped over all obstacles only now the angels find that maybe the good guys and the bad guys aren't so clear-cut after all. One would expect video director McG's feature-film debut to be full of quick cuts and jazzy angles, but it isn't overdone and the movie works as a glossy escapist fantasy. It's sheer Hollywood shallowness, to be sure, but it also has an irrepressible sense of fun that can't be dismissed. Because of frequent stylised violence, an implied sexual encounter, a few coarse expressions and minimal profanity, the US Catholic Conference classifi- CNS cation is - adults.

Promising Will motley kickers save the day? line fades By Anne Navarro

By Anne Navarro

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riter-director M. Night Shyamalan turns out a melancholy follow-up to his 1999 The Sixth Sense in the thriller Unbreakable. Teaming up once again with Bruce Willis, Shyamalan creates a moody tale about David Dunn (Willis), the sole survivor of a devastating train wreck, who is offered a bizarre explanation for his escape by a mysterious stranger, Elijah Price (Samuel L Jackson). The audience learns that Dunn has never been sick a day in his life and that as a young man, he escaped unscathed from an horrific car accident. Price suggests that these experiences may prove that Dunn has physical and psychic abilities that destine him to save others from evildoers, "Unbreakable" starts off with much promise but ultimately gets mired in an unsatisfying conclusion. Due to brief violence, fleeting sexual menace and minimal profanity, the US Catholic Conference classification is Al! - adults and adolescents, - CNS

Kikujiro

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motley crew of forgotten football players is recruited as stand-ins for striking pro players in the winsome gridiron comedy The Replacements. When his football team goes on strike with only four games left before the playoffs, Washington Sentinels owner Edward O'Neil plucks veteran coach Jimmy McGinty (Gene Hackman) from retirement and gives him one week to assemble a winning team. Director Howard Deutch's film is obviously based on the true-life misadventures of replacement players hired during the actual 1987 NFL strike. The film also

makes no bones about whose side It's taking as it depicts striking professional players as pampered millionaire jerks quibbling over a US $7 million instead of a $6 million salary And the strike-breakers are portrayed as blue-collar heroes who play for the love of the game. Hackman is undaunted by the task of recruiting a team within seven days because he has kept a running list of overlooked or promising players for just this situation. Top on this list is Shane Falco (Keanu Reeves), a once-promising college quarterback who lost his confidence after choking at a Sugar Bowl a few years back Among the most valuable sup-

porting players are Rhys Ifans, who plays Nigel "the Leg" Gruff, a chain-smoking Welsh kicker whose amazing talent for booting the ball is equalled only by his nasty gambling habit; and a bulked-up Jon Favreau as a psychotic SWAT cop-turned-linebacker. The regular cheerleaders are also on strike as head rah-rah girl Annabelle Farrell (Brooke Langton) ends up filling her cheering squad with a bunch of exotic dancers. Due to some sexually suggestive gestures, brief violence and an instance of rough language with recurring crass language and profanity, the US Catholic Conference classifica- adults. - CNS tion is

Get the tissues out, get ready to weep

A

May-December romance corny cliches ("Love is not a race," blooms again in the for- Charlotte whispers dreamily) and gettable three-hankie plot twists seen a mile away, Autumn in New York shamelessweeper Autumn in New York Winona Ryder plays Charlotte ly aims at the tear ducts. Fielding, a feisty young hat With her girlish giggle and highdesigner with a novel life-threat- strung energy, Charlotte proves ening disease who is fond of quot- herself to be a tempting distracing Emily Dickinson. tion for Will. Only this time Her leading man is debonair around, things will be different Richard Gere, who stars as Will for womanising Will. Keane, a middle-aged ladies' man Dewy-skinned and doe-eyed, and celebrity restaurateur. Ryder inexplicably glows for a They meet as Charlotte cele- woman stricken with a terminal brates her birthday at Will's illness. Gere, who wears his wrinrestaurant, and the attraction is kles well, seems to take personalinstantaneous. Riddled with ly the compliments paid to his

Movie Briefs

Flawless

character about how kindly time has treated him. From the shots of Rockefeller Centre's ice-skating rink to glorious pans of Central Park in all its autumnal glory, il ls clear that Chen's film is also a valentine to the Big Apple, but it still doesn't compensate for the film's thin spin on the 1970's Love Story. But mostly Autumn in New York falls far short as a sweep-you-offyour-feet romance. Due to a few sexual encounters and fleeting rough language, the US Catholic Conference classifitalon is AIII - adults. - CNS

Up at the Villa

Vlawed Japanese comedy-drama about even story about a homophobic cet in 1938 Florence where an English a sensitive 9-year-old boy (Yusuke stroke patient (Robert De Niro) takwidow's (Kristin Scott Thomas) misSekiguchi) who is reluctantly accompaing speech therapy from a hostile drag guided pity for an Austrian refugee (JereBoys and Girls nied by a gruff, middle-aged roughneck romance in which two dissimi- queen (Philip Seymour Hoffman), during my Davies) has drastic consequences (Beat Takeshi) on a quest to find the mothikYcollege pals (Freddie Prinze Jr. and the course of which each comes to see involving a womanising American (Sean er he has never met. Initially endearing, Claire Forlani) take four years to realise beyond their mutual contempt. Writer- Penn), and jeopardises her engagement to writer-director Takeshi Kitano's tiresome what their roommates keep telling them - director Joel Schumacher finds the an English diplomat (James Fox). road movie sours despite innovative visu- that they are meant for each other. Direc- humanity in his characters but clutters the Based on W Somerset Maugham's als by becoming emotionally manipula- tor Robert Iscove draws out the obvious as narrative with a murky subplot. Some vio- novella, the film blends pre-war political tive and unfunny. the two argue over commitment, sex and lence, ambiguous depiction of gay intrigue and romantic choices made for An attempted child molestation scene, friendship until the cliched final clinch. lifestyles, implied sexual encounters, brief all the wrong reasons. fleeting violence, brief full nudity and a Implied sexual encounters, a fleeting drug abuse, occasional profanity and Fleeting violence, references to adultery, few instances of coarse language. Subti- same-sex kiss and momentary violence. much rough language. The US Catholic an implied sexual encounter and a suitles. The US Catholic Conference classifi- The US Catholic Conference classification Conference classification is AN - adults, cide. The ITS Catholic Conference classification is - adults. is AM - adults. with reservations. cation is All - adults.

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Continued from Page 1 'I thought I was at a sporting event, the cheering was so loud,' he said. All the while, the band perpetuated the electric atmosphere with a solemn rendition of 'Amazing Grace' and even the blues song 'Georgia". The Trinity College Pipes and Drums entered followed by ethnic groups in rational costume. In accordance to the Jubilee theme of reconciliation, Nyungah tribe elder Ben Taylor welcomed the crowd and the Archbishop onto his peoples' land, both in his native tongue and in English. The Archbishop and Mr Taylor then walked between two towers of Jubilee banners set up as a Holy Door for the event. The Jubilee slogan, 'Jesus Christ: Yesterday, Today, Forever' was represented through biographies of the Saints performed as 'This is your life' skits by the Disciples of Jesus Youth Ministry Team. Actors dressed as Sts Benedict of Norcia, Hildegard of Bingen, Thomas Aquinas and Francis and Clare of Assisi spoke about

how they found Jesus and dedicated their lives to Him. Greg Pearce then declared, "The future of the world and the Church depends on our youth', to lead into a spine-tingling rendition of 'We are Young' followed by a speech on the spiritual significance of the World Youth Day in Rome by delegates Amanda Sapienza and Adam Mids. Songs about pilgrimages were performed alongside the Easter hymn 'By Your Kingly Power' as Archbishop Hickey brought the Blessed Sacrament onto the stage. where it was incensed by several thurifers (carriers of incense] as he knelt before it. Bishop Healy proclaimed the Liturgy of the Word - a reading from the Holy Gospel of St John - about doubting Thomas' profession of faith in Christ which ends with Jesus' immortal words, 'Happy are those who have not seen and yet believe,' a message for each Catholic who turned up on the day. Archbishop Hickey, preaching before Benediction of Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist, reiterated the Pope's message of hope to 2.4 million youth

in Rome earlier this year. 'Do not be afraid - Do not be afraid to live the life of Christ.' 'To say 'no' to the forces of evil is to say 'yes' to God.' He reminded all that the mission to live Christian lives is 'not beyond us if Christ is with us,' he said. This mission was the same mission which Christ entrusted to his disciples: ' to extend his Kingdom throughout the whole world, tell the world of his love and bring the world to God.' Jesus' disciples had changed the face of a world of slavery, vice, corruption and cruelty dominated by the Roman Empire within a relatively short time. 'We too have been entrusted with the same mission but in a different world, in a world of wars and rumours of wars, in a world where marriage and family life is under attack, where the lives of the elderly and unborn children are threatened, where millions of people live in dire poverty. *We should not be deterred by the forces that oppose us - we should not allow the voice of Christ to be sidelined and silenced

by the powerful advocateI of secularity.' After blessing the crowd with Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament, Archbishop Hickey led the crowd in the Apostles' Creed and the Benediction litany of praise of God, followed by the hymn 'Down in Adoration.' Head of the event committee, Fr Chris Ross, said the day successfully told the story of how two millennia of Christianity had shaped Catholics' faith today, and may even have strengthened it. 'This day was a year in the making,' Fr Ross said. "It had a deeply religious sense which was significant.' He praised the Archbishop for his support in organising the event and even credited him with coming up with 'the fundamental idea' of holding such an extravaganza. Earlier, Fr Ross thanked the many organisers of the celebration on behalf of the Archbishop, particularly the members of the organising committee. singers, presenters, choirs and bands, dancers, actors, backstage staff, technicians and secu. itv.

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Orana Catholic Primary School Willetton

Turning 21 and 'welcome' is still the watchword T

he Year 2001 will see Orana celebrate its 21st birthday, honour its history and showcase its achievements. Orana opened its doors in February 1980 with an enrolment of 85 students from Pre-Primary to Year Four. The foundation principal. Sister Myrene Erdman of the Loreto Sisters headed a staff of five. Sr Myrene, who had spent time working in the Kimberley, chose A big change from 21 years ago - the front of Orana Primary School as it appears today. the name "Orana," an aboriginal word meaning "welcome." lessons. Out-of-school involveIn keeping with it's name, Orana ment includes netball and soccer has certainly welcomed families teams that compete in local comfrom diverse backgrounds, and, munity weekend competitions. over the past 21 years, the school A Mission Week activity: children The 'Lunch Box' is an accredithas grown into a three-stream organised face painting. ed four-star canteen which thrives school from Kindy to Year 1Wo. Give is to Receive' was lived out on its reputation for high quality and two streams from Year Three in the tremendous response to the and nutritious food. to Seven. Orana's energetic canteen mancall to provide radios, batteries, In an ever-changing world. stationery items and books to East ager does not stop at preparing Orana remains committed to Timor. The students were com- and serving food but endeavours developing and nurturing the mended for their creativity and to educate children on good nutri- Very different then: Orana as it looked when it began taking enrolments. potential and dignity of the whole generosity in organising the var- tional practices through their par- Orana won the Priniary Band sec- innovative integration of new person. ied fundraising activities for a ticipation in Healthy Bones, tion. Like most schools. Orana methods of teaching and learnOn a spiritual level, the commu- very successful Mission Week. Healthy Heart and Fruit and Veg- foresees the significant role that ing. nity gathers for Morning Prayer, technology will play in future eduThe Year Seven children The Parents and Friends Asso- etable Weeks. classes participate in weekly litur- ciation is an integral and vital Orana offers an extensive music cational practices. engaged in a project which gies and once a term the whole component in Several highlights this year have involved them researching, the school commu- program. Students have the privischool celebrates Mass together. nity. Through their hard work the lege of being part of a diverse been Year Two children video designing and constructing scale The Sacramental Program school is air-conditioned and very Instrumental program, which chatting via the Internet to a models of the perfect primary attracts keen parental involve- well-resourced. forms the foundation of the school buddy class of Year Ones in the school playground. ment. Parents are involved in US and the graduating students Orana embraces and acknowlAs well as academic opportuni- band. preparing the 'sacred space' for ties, Orana's students enjoy a myrThe Catholic Education Per- creating an electronic year book edges its role in adapting to the Sacramental Celebration, cre- iad of change so as to provide the best forming Arts Festival provides the as a memoir. experiences. ating banners and attending We believe the Curriculum for its students. In the past year. Orana wel- perfect platform for portraying the retreats. As the Year of Jubilee draws to comed the Jubilee Year, the pop school's musical talents. In 1999 Framework will be the vehicle for Although the school and parish sensation, Sister to Sister, the an end, one door closes. Orana are not on one site, Fathers Wayne Olympic Torch on it's journey to looks forward to the year 2001 as and Karol are regular visitors and we continue our journey into the Sydney 2000 and a whole school the close association with the musical production Please Don't future and many more doors parish is reflected in the sharing Send Me opening. To Africa. of facilities. Orana's motto - `To We hope to see ex-Orana stuItalian is offered to students dents, parents and staff at our 21st from Years Two to Seven: Indonebirthday, 31 March. 2001. sian is offered in Years Five to Seven. Another of the priorities at Orana is to educate the children in the many ways they can mainPrincipal: Mr Dennis Kelly tain and improve their general Address: One!Tin Avenue, health and well-being. Willetton 6155 Fitness sessions, Physical EduTelephone: (08) 9457 4907 cation classes, involvement in Fax: (08) 9354 4099 Eagles Cup, inter and intra athletEnrolment: 658 Boys and ics and swimming carnivals are Girls from k-7 available to the students. Email: Students in Year Two using a Concept Year Six and Seven students also Mission week - another one of the activities organised by the children was orfmacps@orana.wa.edu.au Keyboard. participate in ballroom dancing nail painting. You could even get your shoes polished.

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