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Bishop Quinn, second from left, in a pastoral setting that he enjoyed: at the Bunbury Diocese's Jubilee Charity conPhoto Brian Coyne cert last January at the Leeuwin Estate. With him are members of the Seeber family.

Bishop Quinn at his sister's North Perth residence last week.

By Peter Rosengren Pope John Paul II has accepted Bishop Peter Quinn of Bunbury's resignation 50 years after the Bishop was ordained a priest. The Pope's personal representative in Australia, Archbishop Francesco Canalini, released the news last Wednesday week just after the Christmas edition of The Record was printed. Bishop Quinn, aged 73, had submitted his resignation earlier than the canonical age when bishops must normally offer their resignation to the Pope - 75 years of age - for health reasons. He has headed the Bunbury Diocese since his appointment to it in 1982. His resignation has brought to an official end the career of the former Highgate altar boy who

was recruited as a high school student to St Charles Seminary by Archbishop Redmond Prendiville in 1942. Bishop Quinn was able to announce his retirement at his Golden jubilee celebration of priestly ordination held in Bunbury last Thursday 21 December, 50 years to the day after his ordination in Rome. Although he will no longer be officially known as the Bishop of Bunbury, Bishop Quinn will remain as apostolic administrator of the diocese until a successor is announced. He told The Record in an interview in Perth on Friday 22 December that although he did not know when this would be, he expected the announcement could happen in another two or three months. "Icarry away tremendous memories of dedication, loyalty and love of the Church of the people in the Diocese of Bunbury and

In other pastoral fields: Bishop Quinn blesses a new garden outside St Matthew's Church, Narrogin, assisted by Fr Michael Slattery.

their desire to spread the good- . . . . and will make myself avail- us an awareness of alternative ness of God around them," he able to the Archbishop, and he ways of making the Gospel come assures me there will be plenty of alive and of involving people in said. "It's a good memory for me. to opportunities," he said. the life of the Church," he said. He agreed he regarded himself take away," he added. Now thirty-one years a Bishop, Bishop Quinn said his health as very much a Bishop of the Sec- much of his career had been had declined in recent years and ond Vatican Council. devoted to increasing the involveHaving been raised in a pre- ment of ordinary Catholic men he felt he did not have the energy to lead a diocese as extensive as Conciliar Church and made a and women in Church life and Bunbury, which stretches from Bishop in 1969 only a few years this had also been a focus during Esperance in the south-east to after the Council closed, Bishop his leadership of the Diocese of Albany, and Mandurah on the Quinn bridged the two eras in his life and work. west coast. The Bishop nominated two BunHe worked with Archbishop His Golden jubilee had therebury examples: the Pastoral Forfore been a suitable time to seek Launcelot Goody for 13 years durmation Program and the Mustard ing a time when that Archbishop to resign. program. He said he had chosen to do so was implementing the ideals and Seed Based on a correspondence Vatican II. cleardirectives of for the good of the Diocese, with live-in in-services and course This had meant lots of diocesan ing the way for a healthier and tutorials, the Pastoral telephone younger man to follow in his pastoral planning and the establishment of bodies such as a Formation Program sought to edusteps. After a successor is appointed, diocesan pastoral council, the WA cate lay Catholics in ministry, he plans to return to Perth where Catholic Education Commission instruct them in the spirituality of he was born and raised, and to and, at the local level, parish coun- serving the Church and to develop the skills to be able to offer cils. continue working. "They were exciting times pastoral service. "I hope to still be helpful to the Continued on Page 15 Church in a less-demanding way because the new structures gave

24 million to Rome in Jubilee JUBILEE DRAW

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ROME (CNS) - By 6 January more than 24 million people will "excursionists," mostly Italian have visited Rome during the tourists and pilgrims who did not Jubilee year, said the city's Jubilee spend the night. Throughout the year visitors agency. The office said it expects to have were welcomed, assisted and overestimated the number of vis- guided by more than 69,200 volitors, tourists and pilgrims by only unteers from Italy and 20 other countries, said Donato Mosella, 300,000, but people have been spending more time in the city director of the volunteer office cothan forecast so their impact on sponsored by the Vatican and the economy should be greater Roman Jubilee committees. The vast majority of the volunthan predicted. Officials of the city's Jubilee teers - almost 63,000 of them agency presented a provisional were Italian. summary of its Holy Year activiThe top five foreign sources of ties during a 19 December press volunteers were France, which conference. sent 1,003 volunteers; Poland, 861; Ciro dell'Acqua, director of the the United States, 513; Germany, agency, said that by the time Pope 401; and Spain, 240. John Paul II closes the Holy Door The volunteers ranged in age at St Peter's Basilica an estimated from 18 to 79. Women outnum24.2 million people will have bered men by a ratio of 61-39. come to Rome during the Jubilee The number of volunteers year. The total number of visitors included the more than 23,000

who worked during the August celebration of World Youth Day by far the largest Jubilee event with an estimated 2 million people attending the final Mass. According to the agency, besides World Youth Day, the largest Jubilee events this year were: • The opening of the Holy Doors at St Peter's and the city's other major basilicas, Christmas and the 2 January Jubilee for Children, which together totalled 1.4 million people. • Holy Week and Easter services in which 340,000 people participated. • The 1 May Jubilee for Workers with 300,000 participants. • The 15 October Jubilee for Families with 200,000 people. • The 22 October World Missionary Congress and the 12 November Jubilee for Agricultural Workers, which each brought 100,000 people to St Peter's Square.

Jesus inspires help for family life: Archbishop By Anthony Barich

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Catholics should work to support the traditional family in the face of opposition from a progressive secular society, Archbishop Barry Hickey said at the Midnight Mass at St Mary's Cathedral on Christmas Eve. In front of a packed house over-flowing onto the pavement outside, the Archbishop's Christmas message was one of hope for the Church and for society: Catholics should meditate on this festive season to bring about God's kingdom on earth. 'If we are to care for each other, we must find ways of supporting people, and not leaving them to their own devices,' he said. 'The angels sang of peace on earth at the original nativity scene, but it will not come unless peace is in our hearts, and that will not occur unless we listen to Cimino Dora reaches to touch the statuette of Baby Jesus in the crib at St Mary's Cathedral Jesus: 'Love God and one another'. on Christmas Eve as Lucia Steeman looks on. Photo Anthony Banal "Our society should support the family far more than it is now. As Catholics we Christmas was that God, in taking on that this task was becoming increasingmust work to support and help each human flesh, gave new dignity to the per- ly difficult, we had God and each other. son."Through the Incarnation, humanity other carry out our vocations." 'He stood for the promise of eternal life, Archbishop Hickey said the message of has been raised." he said. and if we follow His way, we will see His As Christians we can take a leaf out of face.' Christmas can be seen in the crib, which God's book and confront the evils in sociitself is a 'sermon without words.' The Archbishop identified several pracHe said that when children see the crib, ety by following God's will. tical applications of the lessons leaned they see, in all their innocence, the 'It was His power, through His son, that from the crib: impact of that wonderful event: that Jesus He saved the world,' Archbishop Hickey • One was that Christmas was a time should come among us and bring hap- said. when families come together. 'From the crib we are taught a powerpiness, joy and salvation. 'If there have been tensions, this is the 'We are not contemplating just anoth- ful response to our faith: Yes, we believe chance to resolve them and begin anew er birth here,' he said. that the child in Bethlehem is the Sav- in peace and reconciliation,' he said. "It is the birth of a saviour - the fulfil- iour, the Christ. • Another was to support families and ment of the prophecy. 'Yes, it was through His resurrection family life. 'That He should come among us in that He saved all of us, and yes to fol'So many have crumbled under pressuch simplicity, that He should choose lowing His way - through His teachings sures in modern-day society. We should the weak to confront the strong.' and those of the Church.' stand by them in their time of trouble,' He said a significant message from While Archbishop Hickey admitted he said.

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Pope to close door VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II will close the Holy Door at St Peter's Basilica on 6 January in a simple ceremony designed to remind people that their pilgrimage toward Christ must continue, said the official in charge of Vatican liturgies. During a 22 December meeting, a Vatican official outlined the service that will precede Mass on the feast of the Epiphany. A procession, which will include lay people representing each continent, will precede the Pope to the atrium of the basilica. As he did after opening the door last year, Pope John Paul will kneel alone in silent prayer on threshold of the doorway. Then, he will close each of the heavy bronze panels of the Holy Door. The Pope and those gathered in the atrium will then process into St Peter's Square for the Epiphany Mass. The inside of the doorway will be bricked up during the month of January

The Mission of the Church in the new Millennium The Year of the Great Jubilee

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has already been sanctified by the blood of thousands of martyrs of the last century. Their sacrifice and witness should never be forgotten.

ver two thousand years the Church has come from the mustard seed of its beginnings to develop into a s the Great Year of Jubilee draws to a close, we look back over the past great tree, its branches reaching out to he Holy Father also reminds us of year in a spirit of thanksgiving for cover the whole of humanity. The yeast of Christ's power, active in the the special role that today's young this time of deep renewal and growth. people will play in the conversion of The people of the Archdiocese of Perth Church from its small beginnings, has have responded enthusiastically to the call spread to every part of the world to draw the world of tomorrow. "Christ expects great things from young of the Holy Father which he made in his people to God. These images of the growing Kingdom of people," he said in his Apostolic Letter TerApostolic Letter "Tertio Millennio Adve'dente", "The Coming of the Third Millen- God give us hope and confidence that the tio Millennio Adveniente (58). Church will fulfil her Mission to the world He repeated his theme again to the enthunium" written in 1994. siastic assembly of over two million young In that Letter the Pope asked us to pre- of the future. Let us all accept that we have a role to people in Rome this year at the World pare spiritually for the Great Jubilee 2000 by a three-year meditation on the three play in carrying out the Mission of the Youth Day. Church. Those young people are now back in their Persons of the Blessed Trinity. For some that will demand the exercise own countries, ready to serve and give their I can say in all truth that the priests, the Religious and the people of the Church of leadership, a service to the Church, call- lives for Christ. Embrace and love our young people. have welcomed this opportunity to deepen ing Christ's followers to live the Good News Fire them with enthusiasm for the Gospel, their faith, have participated fully in the of Jesus Christ in courageous fidelity. Others will carry out their role in the as they are the ones who will carry the light three preparatory years and have opened Church's Mission in a variety of ways - by of Christ to future generations. their hearts to the spirit of the Great Jubilee. Priests and Religious organisations and spreading Christ's love in their own intimovements, parishes and schools have all mate circle, among their families and celebrated the Great Jubilee with enthusi- friends, among their fellow workers, he Third Millennium has been dedamong the poor and the rejected, or in asm and deep faith. icated already to Mary, Mother of I thank everyone sincerely for publicly seeking to change our society's laws, polithe Redeemer. sharing their faith with others in this Holy cies and customs to reflect better the jusShe will be the Daystar that safely guides tice of God and the dignity of the human Year. our steps on our journey. Jesus Christ, the leaven of truth and love The retreats, the prayer groups, the spe- person. There is much to be done. that will draw the people of the New Milcial events and the pilgrimages have We are all aware of the strong challenges lennium to and receive the saving power strengthened the faith of believers, have being made today to the teachings of Christ rekindled the faith of those who had ray that we will draw together as of God. Most Rev B J Hickey become luke-warm, and brought back as we witness the rise of beliefs and pracbrothers and sisters in Christ, free of Archbishop of Perth many "lost sheep" to the practice of their tices that are hostile to the Gospel. bitterness and the harmful spirit of Left to ourselves we would be powerless criticism, to become the Holy Church of ist January 2000 faith. to change this situation. However, believing in the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, and t is now time to look forward to the next accepting the call of our Baptism Millennium stretching out before us. and Confirmation, we know that Over the past few years the Church has our efforts are blessed by God and, at times been on the defensive because of like the five loaves and the two fish, the public failings of some of its leaders. our efforts will be taken by Christ John 23rd College Auditorium. While we readily acknowledge with sor- Jesus to feed untold multitudes. row the harm that human sinfulness causJohn 23rd Avenue, Mount Claremont, WA. es, we must not allow this to inhibit the preaching of the Gospel nor to impede the Mission of the Church. The Year of the Great Jubilee has pren encouraging us to accept our pared us to move into the New Millennirole in the lifegiving Mission of um with confidence and firm hope, the Church, the Holy Father Archbishop Hickey 2001 Programme. knowing that the Good News we carry will reminds us that, just as the first Mil279am. Sat _Jan be spread by the Holy Spirit through those lennium was watered by the blood Joel & a New Anointing: who seek to follow Christ faithfully. of martyrs, so the third Millennium Freddy Gomez.

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Record Project Compassion giving for Perth in 2000 Perth Catholics gave a record $590,000 to this year's Project Compassion appeal, contributing more than 10 per cent of this year's national total, also a record, of more than $5 million. Caritas Australia's Perth Diocesan Director, Ann Fairhead, announced the record-breaking Perth figure on 14 December. Jack De Groot, Caritas Australia's national director, said: "This year's Project Compassion Appeal has been a huge success andI would like to thank the Australian people for their outstanding support. This support is complemented by the community's ongoing Ann Fairhead Jack Os Groot commitment to the work of Caritas." He said thousands had contributed world." Organised through Catholic through a range of fundraising activi- parishes and schools for the past 36 ties to help build a better future for years, Project Compassion is Australia's some of the poorest communities in second largest aid and development Africa, Latin America, Asia and the appeal. Held during the leadup to EastPacific. er, the campaign allows individuals and Mr De Groot said that this Christmas, communities to observe Lent in a pracCaritas Australia is focusing its ener- tical way. "It's about turning faith into gies on the construction of 4,000 shel- action," Mr De Groot said. ters in East Timor. Meanwhile, he said, the appeal not "In the last seven weeks, over 1,100 only provided an opportunity for pracshelter kits have been distributed in the tical assistance but also played a sigmost remote areas of the Oecussi nificant role in raising public region and we plan to see another 2,900 awareness about human development completed in 2001," he said. Issues of global importance. "This is the largest focus on providing Donations to Caritas Australia can be shelter that any agency in East Timor is made by contacting the agency on (08) engaged in [and) only one example of 9223 4311 or 1800 024 413 or by sendthe work that Australians have been ing donations to GPO Box 9830 in any supporting this year throughout the capital city.

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The WA Prisons

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Better prisons needed, not more jails prison population rose by 29 per cent. Over representation of indigenous people - about one-third of prisoners in WA are Aboriginal despite constituting less than three per cent of the WA populan Christmas Day 1998' ate more balanced and equitable tion. there was a serious riot ways of living together Aboriginal people are more likeGood community develops comin Casuarina Prison. ly to be held in custody after being arrested than are non-Aboriginal Mr Les Smith, appointed by mon action based on justice and equality rather than on people. ethnicity the Minister for Justice to head Women in WA are imprisoned the subsequent inquiry report- or privilege. Good community keeps in mind double the national rate. Fiftyat ed that between 70 and 140 pris- the poor and vulnerable in its seven per cent of indigenous oners were involved and that midst. women imprisoned are for fine many staff and prisoners Individuals and groups in good default. required medical treatment. communities complete each Juveniles - Fifty per cent of juveniles re-offend and return to Mr Smith's report pointed to other more than compete with detention within two years of many problems within the each other. In fact, workshop participants at release. prison. "Young people from lower socioThey include problems with the conference had their say and economic backgrounds who have health services, activities for pris- made recommendations on juvebeen imprisoned are not successoners, encouraging more positive nile justice, prison reform, indigeful at surviving mainstream socisocial behaviour in prisoners, bet- nous issues and restorative ety." ter education and drug treatment justice. What emerged from the conferPeople living with mental illstrategies, more appropriate ness constitute 10 per cent of means of control and use of force ence was that the whole commumale and 14 per cent of female and improved relations between nity must be involved in the on-going renewal of the correcprisoners. staff and prisoners. tive services system. About 33 per cent of prisoners Even before the riot at CasuariThe Ministry of Justice in Westin WA have personality disorders. na Prison, prison chaplains and ern Australia has a great commuDrug and alcohol addiction social justice advocates had nity responsibility and deals with 25 per cent of all prisoners are on expressed concern about prison very challenging and difficult court-ordered drug and alcohol conditions leading to rising rates issues every day. programs. of self-harm and deaths in cusIts own mission statement is: "To Education and employment tody. provide quality, coordinated and Seventy-five per cent of prisoners In particular, concern was accessible justice services which have not had any secondary eduexpressed about the impact of contribute to a safe and orderly cation. Seventy-six per cent of overcrowding and some prison community." prisoners were unemployed management practices. It administers 53 Acts of State Uniting Church Minister Neville Watson last June protests against increased before imprisonment. These figures are from the In June 1999, the Association of Parliament. In regard to the prison cell-time imposed on prisoners involved in the 1998 Casuarina riot. Heads of Churches in WA asked services of the Ministry, there are WA Ministry of justice, men- grossly over-represented in WAs Neville Parliamentary Standing Committee Report (June 29, their social justice workers to con- seven metropolitan and seven tioned above, is one for all the cit- prisons. sult with others and organise a regional prisons for adult offend- izens of Western Australia. On the community side, there 2000). As Justice Malcolm observed, conference to investigate a way ers. One of the keynote speakers at has been the development of the There is a remand centre in Can- the conference was Justice David there are serious issues of social forward. Restorative Justice Network, a volning Vale, Perth. Malcolm, Chief Justice of the untary community group which justice bound up in the criminal The result was a weekend conOf the 14 state prisons, two are Supreme Court of Western Ausference held on March 18-19 2000 supports both victim and offend- justice system. women's The Casuarina Prison riot er. at the Law School of the Univer- Nyandi prisons, Bandyup and tralia. and some stirred regional up many negative comprisJustice Malcolm observed that sity of Western Australian. One of the inspirations for this ons have women prisoners. munity attitudes to prison reform the public looks to the criminal group is the work of Father Jim It was called, Prison, the Last There are two custodial centres justice system as a cure for the and to the work of the "do-goodConsidine in New Zealand. Option, New Directions for the for juveniles, Rangeview Remand ers" in the community troubles of contemporary society. Fr Considine says, "The goal of Millennium. Centre and Banksia Hill DetenSavage attacks on defenceless "What are we doing to reduce restorative justice is to heal the tion Centre. The conference aimed at procrime as a social justice issue and wounds of every person affected people and violent armed robAs of October 2000 there were not just as a criminal justice one?" viding people with up-to-date by the offence including the vic- beries occur far too regularly, yet a truly humane community is facts about the criminal justice 3076 prisoners in WA. he asked. tim and the offender." system and to involve as worth our best efforts. many as possible in the disThe choices are about not • only what to do as a comcussions and outcomes of munity in the face of crime the conference. It examined the deficienbut also they are about what kind of community we want cies in the present system in WA and attempted to proto be. pose ways ahead to help Important questions make the whole community more remain to be faced by the It is in the prison system that Another keynote speaker, Dr There are many communityWestern Australian community. responsive to the needs of all peo- one sees most clearly the role of Andrew Coyle, Director of the based programs for homeless ple involved in the system. the state as the centre of coercive International Centre for Prison youth and people with drug or They include the following: The conference indicated two power in any society - it has the Studies, London, supported Jus- alcohol dependency How effective in controlling run by critical directions for the future: power to imprison people. tice Malcolm and said that there Church agencies such as Uniting crime has the increase in the WA good government and good comThis power is qualified, firstly, was little evidence that imprison- in Care, Angficare and the St Vin- prison population been? munity. by the principle of subsidiarity, ment was an efficient form of cent de Paul Society. Have the "goods" achieved by Good government means better first explained by Pope crime control. The Heads of Churches in WA this higher imprisonment rate Pius XI in laws for the protection of the pub- his encyclical letter, Since the conference there has are strongly supportive of such outweighed the harm inflicted on Quadragesilic and effective correction and mo Anno, 1931 (paragraphs 79, been much discussion and work Initiatives and encourage this groups such as Aboriginal people rehabilitation of offenders. 80), whereby the state should put into improving the criminal ongoing dialogue and work and their families and other lower It means better prisons - not exercise its power only when less- justice system. between government and com- socio-economic groups, which more prisons - where there is er community groups or individThere are efforts within the Min- munity. are grossly over-represented in more compassionate practice and uals cannot fulfil a task required istry of Justice to improve the iniLast Monday week, 18 Decem- prison? stronger emphasis on rehabilita- by the common good. tial assessment and better ber, 2000, the Ombudsman, Mr What long-term effect on the tion of offenders and their return management of the prisoners Murray Allen, tabled a report, There are many aspects of the WA community will longer sento the community as effective cit"Deaths in Prisons", to both hous- tences and an emphasis criminal justice system in which themselves. on punizens. A comprehensive receival and es of the WA Parliament. islunent in our prisons have? Good government also means community groups can perform assessment program is being It was a welcome report. Mr more effective alternatives to Important tasks in helping to heal piloted at Halcea Prison. Why are we continuing to build Allen pointed out that deaths in the victims of crime and in the prison such as restorative justice prisons when we know that they Selected prison officers are prison will be reduced when the conferences and Church-based sentencing and rehabilitation of undergoing training to assist prisproblems of overcrowding, better will be filled with the poor, the projects for homeless youth and offenders. oners with better interpersonal access to health services, a more Illiterate, those with mental illThere is also a second important people with drug or alcohol and life skills. constructive and active day, and a ness, low-level drug offenders and consideration here. dependency. This cognitive and interperson- better system to identify prison- Indigenous and migrant people? Pope John XXIII, in his 1961 al skills program is being piloted ers who Good government means wider The Ministry of justice cannot are at use of alternatives to the criminal encyclical, Mater et Magistra, (59), In Casuarina, Albany, Bandyup, are effectively risk of self-harm, be expected to solve all our social dealt with. justice system itself so that young spoke of the growing interdepen- Bunbruy and Greenough prisons. The Ministry of Justice is not Ills. people will avoid the trap of dence of citizens leading them to There are efforts to seek accred- short of ideas and remedies, howAn ongoing Government, becoming institutionalised in the be involved in many social tasks itation of prison health services ever, Mr Allen Church and community effort is pointed out that and activities recognised even by so that professional standards ways of crime. - the Ministry has yet to achieve the required if, instead of wars on Second, good community means law. equivalent to the community at outcomes its new efforts are crime and on illegal drugs, we working for social conditions The interdependence of state large - will be maintained within designed to deliver. think of declaring a peace and which allow all citizens ready bodies such as the Ministry of Jus- prisons. The statistics show that prob- work on terms of lasting reconcilaccess to their own happiness and tice and community groups is There are moves to have vastly lems persist: iation. fulfilment. thus an established part of Improved support services and Overcrowding - A'VA has the The practical lessons from the Good community means people Catholic social teaching. culturally meaningful programs fastest growing prison rate in Aus- Year of Jubilee mean that a lot of who can work with others to creThe mission statement of the for indigenous prisoners who are tralia. From 1998 to 1999 the hard work is ahead of us. The Record, December 28 2000 Page 4 Last week's release of the WA Ombudman's report on Deaths in Prisons focused light again on conditions in West Australian prisons. The project officer of the Catholic Social Justice Council of the Archdiocese of Perth, Terry Quinn, comments here on issues to do with prison justice in WA.

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Clontart joins WA heritage list By Glynnis Grainger Two Catholic Church buildings one in Manning and one in Katanning - have been added to the State's list of heritage places. The 1901-built boys' orphanage at Clontarf and historic Reidy House, an imposing building on Austral Street, Katanning, have important links to the life of the Catholic Church in Western Australia. The Director of the Heritage Council of WA, Ian Baxter, said Clontarf was one of the significant projects of the Christian Brothers in this State. "Clontarf is historically important as a place of schooling for day boys and boarders, residential care, education and supervision of orphans, vagrants, children from suffering families, child migrants and Aboriginal children from 1901 to the 1980s," Mr Baxter said. "It also represents memories and associations for those in whose lives it played an important role." The site has been added to the State Register of Heritage Places on an interim basis. The Christian Brothers arrived In WA in 1897 and assumed management of St Joseph's boys' orphanage in Subiaco, which had been established in 1872 by the Sisters of Mercy. In 189Z the Manning site - then known as South Perth - was purchased for a new orphanage. "The wetland areas and spring at the east of the site are tangible reminders of Aboriginal occupation and use of the land prior to

European settlement," Mr Baxter said. On 3 January, 1901, the foundation stone of the main building was laid by Bishop Matthew Gibney of Perth, and the boys from St Joseph's were relocated to the new orphanage in September of that year. Although the site was named Clontarf, after a town in Ireland, the orphanage continued to be called St Joseph's. In 1903, sports grounds for cricket and football were established between the main buildings and the river, as well as a jetty and boatshed. In 1918, a bandstand was built as a performance venue for Clontarf's newly-formed brass band, and in 1919, a manual arts block for carpentry and boot-making was built to the south-east of the main building. By the early 1920s, Clontarf was a fully-operational farm with orchards and vegetable gardens, cultivated and tended by the boys. Further expansion of the buildings and training programs for boys occurred from the mid-1930s to the early 1940s. During the Second World War, the Royal Australian Air Force took occupation of Clontarf for three years, when the farm and grounds became neglected. The Brothers and boys were relocated to farms at Bindoon and Tardun. In the 1960s, day students were Introduced and boarders were accepted from the country. In 1973. it was announced that Clontarf was to move toward becoming a treatment centre for

adolescents with problems. From by the Catholic Church," he said. ers and Michael Cavanagh, the 1977, very few day boys were Built in 1929 at a time when architect of many fine Catholic enrolled and by the 1980s the Katanning was rapidly expanding buildings throughout WA, was number of resident boys had as a rural centre, it is an impres- commissioned to design the more than halved. sive, two-storey brick and stucco Katanning convent and boarding The Clontarf site is now used by building with a corrugated iron school, which was ready for use various Aboriginal groups includ- roof. by the start of the 1930 school ing the Abmusic Aboriginal and The Sisters of Our Lady of the Islander College of Music and the Missions had arrived in Katan- year. Mr Baxter said St Rita's "was Marr Mooditj Foundation Aborig- ning in 1926 to establish a founinal Health Workers College. also used for what was known as dation, under their Superior, For some years the Christian the Bushies School during holiMother Mary of Jesus Farrell. Brothers have been negotiating days, when Catholic children The parish priest was Father with local Aboriginal elders to from the surrounding district arrange for a mechanism by Michael Reidy, after whom the boarded at the school for a fortbuilding is now named. which the site can be gifted to the The Sisters established a con- night and were given religious Aboriginal community. The Christian Brothers' interest vent at the private hospital "Brock- instruction." In 1957, St Rita's was dosed, then in the site is retained through the hurst" and construction of the Clontarf Aboriginal College and adjoining school, known as St used as a Convent until its conthe retired Brothers' residences Rita's, was completed in 1926. version in 1975 to the Communion the eastern side of the site. Boarders stayed with the Sisters ty Welfare Department youth The Brothers also have a role as at the convent hostel known as Kartanup. co-ordinators of maintenance, The Sisters moved to a new conBy 1929, there was an alarming leasing and overall development increase in the number of board- vent in Beaufort Street, Katanning. of the campus. One of Katanning's bestlc Americas Pilsrimase Tour o known landmarks. Reidy House was built as the boarding school for St Rita's A 21 day pilgrimage journey featuring sites of spiritual school and then became the significance in Mexico and the USA. Convent for the Sisters of Departing Sunday 10'h Tune 2001 Our Lady of the Missions. Guadalupe Shrine • Mexico City • San Antonio.' In more recent years, it Philadelphia • Gettysburg • Baltimore became a youth hostel and Washington DC • Chicago • San Francisco home to a number of comFully escorted by professional Catholic Tour Leader munity groups. Mr Drew Porter and your Spiritual Chaplain, Mr Baxter said it would Fr Wilfred Plunkett. also be placed on the HerFeaturing: • A special reception with the Archbishop of San Antonio itage Council's interim reg• Shrine of St Francis Cabrini ister of heritage places. • National Shrines of Our Lady of Lourdes, the A ssumption and the Immaculate Conception. "Reidy House is a fine and • Exclusive meeting with Fr Ed Salmon to discuss the eclectic example of the Intersuccess of the Chicago model of Chruch War Romanesque style and • Visit Franciscan Missions of Northern California is also significant for its role in the establishment of reliFlying United Airlines priced at ic 8390 gious facilities in the town Call Harvest for a full detailed itinerary

Denmark-Walpole Deacon retires Permanent Deacon Terry Quinn will retire as parish administrator of Denmark-Walpole parish on 14 January. Deacon Quinn, 78, and his wife Audrey retired to Denmark and bought a farm to raise beef cattle in 1982, after he had four heart by-passes. The joined the parish community of St Mary's Catholic Church and after the death of Fr McSweeney in 1988 - the last resident priest in Denmark Deacon Quinn stepped in to care for the parish of Denmark/Walpole. On 26 January, 1991, he was ordained a Permanent Deacon together with Wally Kevis by Bishop Peter Quinn of Bunbtuy. After ten years of service, Deacon Quinn will hand over the administration of the parish to Incoming parish priest Fr Wally Kevis, 52, who has been a priest for two-and-a-half years and lives at Mt Barker. Denmark parishioner Tony Shepherd said Deacon Quinn

Retiring: Deacon Terry Qui= and his wife Audrey are deeply respected by people living in the Denmark area. He conducts Liturgy of the Word services when the priest is absent and weddings, baptisms and funerals either when the priest is not available or on request. The couple have three children and nine grandchildren. Deacon Quinn served for four years in the Navy as a Petty Officer during the Second World

War and was based at Leeuwin Naval Barracks in 1966 after arriving from Melbourne; he was in charge of HMAS Stirling Naval Base when it was opened in the early 1970s. He was officer-in-charge of the WA Department of Defence in Perth from 1976 to 1983 and opened it up for WA when the three services were joined together for overall Defence administration. Deacon Quinn was also Staff Commissioner of Exmouth Naval Base at that time. "Terry has done a lot with the other churches, including the blessing of the opening of the bar across the Denmark River," Mr Shepherd said. "It is a beautiful little town for ecumenical services," he said, noting that Deacon Quinn occasionally represented the Catholic Church in ecumenical services with the Anglican. Uniting and Seventh Day Adventist Churches. - Glymis Grainger

Time to ring your Federation bells The Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference has agreed, in principle, to support the National Council for the Centenary of Federation's event entitled the 'Ringing of the Bells' on 1 January 2001 at 3:55pm (AEDST). The National Council has programmed this event specifically

to herald the Mart of Federation celebrations in Australia and symbolically unify the nation. The Council is asking all Churches with bell towers, schools and people with hand bells to join in a 5-minute synchronous ringing of bells. For more information about

the event please contact Callum McEachern, Project Manager Events and Celebrations on (02) 6270 8241 or email: callum. mceachern@dcita.gov.au. The Centenary of Federation's Official Web-site can be visited at: http://www.centenary.gov.au.

Welcome, concern, for Ruddock's new role The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council chairperson, Ms Vicki Walker, congratulated Philip Ruddock on his appointment as Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs but expressed concern that the Aboriginal Affairs portfolio would not have its own minister.

"There are significant concerns with Mr Ruddock having the concurrent portfolios of Reconciliation, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, Immigration and Multicultural Affairs. she said. "It is imperative that the unique sovereign position of Aboriginal.... people as the first

owners of the land is not placed under the multicultural umbrella or otherwise diluted. "It is equally of concern that the Minister will not have adequate time needed to devote to Aboriginal . . . . affairs given the large number and nature of his portfolios."

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MEN OF HOSPITALITY LIVING AND PROCLAIMING GOD'S HOSPITABLE LOVE. ...the suffering ofmy neighbour breaks my heart... (St. John of God. 1540) As lived out by St. John of God over five centuries ago, our vocation is to give of ourselves completely and freely; to be a Brotherly presence; a symbol of hope for our world: proclaiming God's Hospitable love to all. We are called to a charism of Hospitality and love that promotes healing, advocacy and reconciliation for those most marginalised by our society.

Our core of Hospitality compels and urges us to depth our relationship with God. ourselves and with those whom we share our lives. community and ministry.

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WILL YOU ACCEPT GOD'S INVITATION TO A LIFE DEDICATED TO HOSPITALITY? Br John Clegg (OH) Vocations Director PO Box BN 1055 Bmwood North, N.S.W. Telephone: (02) 9747 1699 Fax (02) 9744 3262 Email: provincial@stJolm.com.au Website: www.stjolm.com.au The Record, December 28 2000 Page 5

a little Family love is not theory • • Learning theology: it can Peter Dwan continues with his meditations on the readings for Sunday's Mass. This week the thirty-third Sunday, Year B

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oday's feast of the Holy Family teaches us the important lesson that families need faith and love. Families need to see things with the eye of faith, with children being seen as gifts from God. In the first reading (1 Samuel 1:20-22, 24-28) we see how the aged Hannah saw her son, Samuel, as a gift from God. Hannah had prayed for a child and decided to call her son Samuel. "since", she said, "I asked the Lord for him." Unless children are seen as God's gift, abortion becomes rampant, as is unfortunately happening today in many countries, including Australia. Children are unfortunately sometimes seen as threats to a family's prosperity, with some abortions being performed on flimsy economic groUnds. The late Mother Teresa of Calcutta had her Missionaries of Charity fight abortion by adoption. The concluding verses of the reading tell how Hannah went to the temple to make Samuel over to the Lord for the whole of his life. Christian parents make their children over to God by having them baptised. However, unfortunately, in far too many cases today, Catholic parents don't do enough for their children's spiritual welfare. . For example, many Catholics don't

sanctity. Children should be thoughtful and help at home without being asked. A busy mother would appreciate, for example, having the table set and the dishes washed and dried. The Gospel passage (Luke 2:41-52) is the account of the finding of the Child buy Catholic papers or magazines. I Jesus in the Temple, an event which realise that I'm preaching to the con- should be familiar, as it is the Fifth Joyverted here. ful Mystery of the Rosary. But may! suggest to grandparents and At the age of twelve, a Jewish boy godparents who might worry about becomes personally responsible before their grandchildren or godchildren the law. growing up in homes that don't receive When Jesus was twelve, he accompaCatholic literature regularly that a subnied Mary and Joseph to the Temple. scription to a Catholic publication is an On this occasion, He stayed behind ideal Christmas gift or birthday gift. In the second reading (1 John 3:1-2, 21- without his parents. They asked: "Child why have you done 24) we read: "His (God's] commandments are these: that we believe in the this to us? See how worried your father name of His Son Jesus Christ and that andI have been, looking for you." Jesus said: "Why were you looking for we love one another as he told us to." me? St John wrote his first epistle from "Did you not know thatImust be busy which this reading is taken in response to a heresy which denied Christ's divin- with my Father's affairs." These words show that Our Lord was ity and whose members weren't loving aware of His divinity at the age of twelve to the first Christians. Our situation may differ, but Catholic and refute any claim that didn't know families in the twenty-first century must His identity until His baptism. All members of a family must concern be people with a living faith in Christ themselves with God's affairs. who love one another. When it is a question of heeding God's Living faith in Christ is shown by regular attendance at Sunday Mass and will or obeying parents. God's will must take precedence. living a consistent Christian life. In practice, this could mean following Loving one another is so important, especially in families. a priestly or religious vocation despite Mutual love will make family life a parental opposition. foretaste of heaven, while Its absence Of course, if parents are people of faith will make family life a foretaste of hell. and love, they will recognise that a Thoughtfulness in family life is vital. priestly or religious vocation is one of Mother Teresa of Calcutta considered the most wonderful graces God could thoughtfulness the beginning of great give to a member of their family.

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ore than 40 years ago, the great lay Catholic theologian and Australian. Frank Sheed, addressed a world meeting for the laity in Rome. His message was an urgent one. If faith in Christ is to be spread to a world in deep need of God, then lay Catholics must learn theology. Popes and bishops, clergy and lay Catholic writers and speakers - these can be relied upon to reach a certain proportion of the world's population by their speaking and teaching about faith in Christ. Sheed said. But in the flood of noise and activity which Is modern life, these voices "can only reach a small minority" For the rest of the world's population, these "expert" voices are "lost in the whirlwind." No, said Frank Sheed, these days there is only one voice that can be heard, by most people. Ills "the voice of a man speaking to his friend - speaking to the man next door, the man he works with, plays with, travels with." That voice, said Sheed, and only that voice, can secure attention in the modern world. "It is not necessary that (the lay Catholic) should be trained in argument, able to prove the existence of God, for instance, or the spirhe Combined Societies of Mary in Communions. "There is no doubt that which translates as God-bearer. "She is ituality of the soul," Sheed said. . the Archdiocese of Melbourne are amongst all the titles given to Our Lady the Theotokos, not in the sense that the "What is essential is that he know what the ensuring that New Year's Eve cel- this is the greatest. nature of the Word and his divinity had truths themselves mean, and what difference ebrations in that city will not be without "At the Council of Ephesus in 431AD their origins in the Virgin Mary, but that they make; and not only know these things, Christian meaning. she was proclaimed as the Theotokos, the Word, the second Person of the but be able to utter them." According to Kairos, the two-weekwas born of her according to the Decades have passed since Sheed spoke ly news journal of the Archdiocese flesh." those words. of Melbourne, the combined group Her role as Godbearer is not someDecades have also passed since the Second is organising a special celebration thing that is assigned to the past as Vatican Council gave a similar emphasis to the this New Year's Eve to honour Our an event 2000 years ago. Kairos said. centrality of the lay role in spreading the docLady on the very important Solem"Throughout the ages she has contrines of Christianity in the modern world. nity of Mary, Mother of God, which tinued to be the God-bearer. How have we progressed since that time? falls on 1 January each year. "It is the experience of countless Have lay Catholics, overall, become inspired "The title Mother of God is one of Christians through the ages that as to take on the active theological role envisthe oldest titles of Mary in the they draw closer to Mary, Christ aged by Sheed, reading about the doctrines of Church, and follows directly from comes in His fullness too. This expethe Church regularly and speaking of them, the fact that she is the Mother of rience is the basis of Marian devowith enthusiasm and spontaneity, to nonJesus, the Christ, who is both God tion." Christian friends and acquaintances, at work and Man," Kairos said. and at play? Kairos said the Combined Soci"Spontaneously the title arises Have we come to the stage now where we of Mary saw the eties celebration on from the Church's experience and regularly lean across the backyard fence and Eve in New Year's Melbourne's St faith in Christ as both true God and yack to the neighbours about the doctrine of Patrick's Cathedral as a way of man, the second person of the the Trinity? "thanking God for the last year, cenBlessed Trinity. Or are we still caught at the stage, as most and Millennium tury and praying "Widely esteemed in this exulted lay people were in Frank Sheed's time, where for the next, placing ourselves in the role from the earliest times in Chriswe basically haven't got a clue what life in the hands of the Almighty and seeking tendom, the Church did not solemnTrinity really means? the intercession of Our Blessed ly declare the title as an article of Sadly, the reality is that the vast majority of Mother." faith till a Christological controverus have made little progress in deepening our Archbishop Pell will lead the sy made it necessary. own or other people's understanding of the solemn celebration with Mass at "So it was at the Ecumenical Counmost powerful and liberating teachings known Midnight. cil of Ephesus in 431AD that Our to the human race - the doctrines of Catholic Before that there will be prayers of Blessed Mother was declared to be Christianity. thanksgiving and intercession comthe Mother of God in a most Solemn There is so much to be done. mencing at 10.30pm. pronouncement for the universal The good part is, this is actually good news, Church. not bad news. TWo girls admire Sandro Bottocelli's -The Virgin adoring Following Holy Mass there will be "Since this time it is a celebration the sleeping Christ Child" at the Kehringrove Art Gallery prayer in which participants will During these past few weeks of preparation which has been prominent through- and Museum in Glasgow, Scotland, last June. The paint- place themselves and the Church for Christmas, I've spent a few minutes each out the Apostolic Churches, includ- ing, dating from 1485-90, was unveiled following a suc- under the care of our Blessed Moth- . , day re-reading a simple but beautiful little ing er. the book, Theology for Beginners, by Sheed himvarious Orthodox cessful restoration. Photo: CNS/Reuters self (Sheed and Ward.) Advertisement It was first published in 1958, and was designed to help meet the need its author saw Message from Our Lady, Queen of Peace, so clearly - the need for deeper lay underVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Throughout the festivities of standing of the doctrines of the faith. • given to Marija Pavlovic Lunetti for the Holy Year 2000, Pope John Paul II consistently drew The message I took from this re-reading is attention to the sober reality of the poor and homeless village of Medjugorje and the world on extremely encouraging for all of us. - and Christmas Eve celebrations were no exception. It's that we do not need to enrol in theology December 25, 2000 Underscoring Christ's humble birth in a manger, he degrees to become confident enough to speak "Dear Children! said at his weekly Angelus address on 24 December to others about the beautiful teachings of the Today when God granted to me thatIcan be with you, with little Jesus that the nativity scene, "in its simplicity, represents a mystical body of the Christ. In my arms,Irejoice with you andI give thanks to God for everything silent invitation to understand the mystery of ChristThese teachings are our patrimony as bapHe has done in this Jubilee year. I thank God especially for all the mas in its real value, a mystery of humility and love, of tised Christians. vocations of those who said 'yes' to God completely. I bless you all joy and attention to the poor." With clear minds and a little effort at readwith my blessing and the blessing of the newborn Jesus.Ipray for all The Pope said Christmas should also include a "ges, ing, reflecting and praying on them, we can of you for joy to be born in your hearts so that in joy you too carry ture of solidarity toward those who, unfortunately, will quickly gain an enormous sense of excitement the joy I have today. In this child I bring to you the Saviour of your spend these days. in solitude and suffering." In a and enthusiasm for them. hearts and the One who call you to the holiness of life. poignant twist on the story of the Magi, two homeless Spiritually, this has a beneficial impact on Thank you for having responded to my call." men bore "birthday gifts" for the baby Jesus at the Vateach of us as individuals. For those around us, (It is accepted that the final authority resenting apparitions of Our Lady at Medjugorje rests ican's life-size Nativity scene. The Pope then appeared with the Holy See of Rome) it may in time prove positively revolutionary. at his window to light a candle of peace.

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Truly human culture: then peace is possible This week's editorial is an edited-forlength version of the New Year's editorial of Fides, the Vatican Congregation for Evangelisation news service, written by the news service director, Father Bernardo Cervellera.

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The Record as a sort of inevitable cancer for human life, but as elements closely connected with the very definition of the human person: "a person necessarily lives within a specific culture,' he writes in his message for the World Day of Peace, 1 January,

ith his message for World Peace Day 2001, John Paul II shows once again that he is a prophet, one who 'sees ahead 'and discerns the paths humanity must tread 'in this deci- 2001 . . . . This is why John Paul II sees the multisive passage of its history'. plicity of cultures as a marvellous expresshadows', sees dense 'vast and The Pope sion of the richness of nature and creation, the tragedies of this new millennium than a presupposition for conflict. rather which, almost as if to contradict the Jubilee's message of peace, seem to plot The Pope, instead, suggests that culture together to defeat hope. is the work of man in search of the truth, Efforts for peace in Sri Lanka, Kashmir, and that the authenticity of culture can be the Moluccas, Algeria, Congo, Burundi 'measured' by its 'it's commitment to the and particularly in Israel and the occu- human cause and by its capacity to propied territories of Palestine, where the mote human dignity at every level and in longest war on the planet is being fought, every circumstance'. would appear to be destined to fail. . . . It can be said that it is the suffocation of A few years ago, when the ethnic war in culture's 'human', and 'free' nature which Bosnia broke out, Samuel Huntington, a produces conflict. Harvard professor, warned that the third Moreover, any visitor to a Muslim or millennium would be one of conflict Hindu country will see that much of the between civilisations . . . . fundamentalism in Africa, the Middle East This Pope sees culture and religion not or Asia is often precisely a reaction to the

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fter reading Danuta Callaghan and Paul Gray, (Record, 14 December) on their views of rock music, mayI supply this Information. Popes Benedict XIV and Leo XIII had written on Church music. It was summed up by Pope St Pius X at the beginning of the 20th century who issued a Motu Propio on Sacred Music. It states Church music must be holy, that is must he true art, that it must be universal. Tradition has it that the music Christ and the Apostles sang was similar to or was Gregorian chant. Bishop Fulton Sheen in Peace of Soul, page 189, states; "The music we love is the music in our souls." "The disordered soul likes discordant music. "The unregulated will enjoy unregulated dissonances and rejects the finer, better orchestrated symphonies. "No one enjoys good music without training and discipline." Harry Miller Wattle Grove

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relativist (atheist and immoral) mentality of the West. The connection between culture and truth guarantees dialogue, respect, mutual enrichment. And the connection between culture and freedom says that the destiny of the planet is not necessarily one of conflict, it depends on the decision and actions of every individuaL Huntington's catastrophic forecast can be defused not by the power of leaders, but rather through education to dialogue and the implementation of values common to every culture: solidarity, promotion of justice, elimination of arms, defence of life, as the Pope points out. Reading the World Day of Peace message, we shake off the feeling of helplessness which grips us at the sight of conflicts near and distant. Pope John Paul H's words are a call to the ordinary man - who educates in the family, meets with neighbours, or with third world citizens - and also a call to governments: in too many countries more funds

are assigned for army and war expenses than to education. In both cases we see that peace is possible and that it depends on our decisions. The efficiency of peace efforts is sustained by the witness of Christians 'misand forgiveness of sionaries reconciliation'. The media's emphasis on conflicts between cultures and religions fails to say that Christians - Catholics in particular are working as mediators in the conflicts in the Moluccas, Sri Lanka, Burundi, as we in Fides continue to report. To support hope for a reconciled world, the Pope recalls the most recent World Youth Day in Rome, 'the miracle of the universality of the Clun-ch' a 'sacrament' for world unity: different languages, cultures, customs, ways of thinking, forming one 'multi-coloured mosaic', a comfort for the 'important and exciting task' of building world peace and at the same time a foretaste of it. Yes, peace is possible. • The opinions expressed in this editorial, and any other Record editorial, are not necessarily those of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Perth.

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hen the Palestinian police came to their door with a cradled bundle, the six Sisters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul who run the Creche of the Holy Family home in Bethlehem knew what to expect. Inside the blanket was a tiny baby girl, just a few days old. She was found abandoned in the street of a nearby village. The sisters took her in and named the dark-skinned girl Blanca. She joined the seven other infants in the home's nursery. Dressed in soft, dark blue brushed-cotton pajamas that are still too big for her, Blanca now sleeps soundly under a new blanket. Among those she shares the room with are 5-month-old Rosanna, who smiles brightly whenever she catches someone's eye, and newborn Salem, who, left at the home by his mother with promises to come back for him, Sister Gloria Inez Arias holds a 1-week-old abandoned infant at the Creche of the Holy Family home in Bethlehem. Photo: CNSiDebbie Hill cries fitfully in his sleep until a The centre is home to 100 orphan children under the age of 6. volunteer picks him up in her Toys line the hallways, and chil- bre. and Sister Gloria plays Span- dlers it is harder to find families arms. "Don't worry," whispers dren are easily picked up and ish carols as well to enliven their for them and more likely that they British volunteer Margaret Johns. cuddled by staff and volunteers. spirits. will spend their growing-up years "It only happens once. You won't In traditional Arab society it is Mubarak said: "This year Christ- in an institution. be abandoned again." Impossible and even dangerous mas for all babies and children in Following Islamic tradition, Sister Gloria Inez Arias, new for an unmarried woman to keep Bethlehem will be difficult. They there is no legal adoption accordeducational director of the Creche her child, and it can be dangerous are using bullets and missile parts ing to Palestinian law, Mubarak of the Holy Family, said: "It brings for the child, said Diana Mubarak. for tree decorations." said. tears to my eyes whenI see them director of the social welfare Families are given guardianship The driving force behind the bringing a little packet like that. department of Bethlehem. home is long-time director Sister over a child, but the child is rarely They don't give us many details Women have been killed for Sophie Boueri, who is media-shy permitted to take on the last name about the babies; we just accept being considered to have dishon- and reluctant to speak to journal- of the new family. them. oured their family by becoming ists. Children are placed only with "It gives me a lot of sadness. It pregnant out of wedlock. She rushes from one meeting to couples who have no children of makes me relive history: It is not Most women who abandon another with little time for pleas- their own. only 2,000 years ago that people their children do so out of des- antries. Under a 1999 law, if a child can rejected the Lord, but also today, peration to save not only their "Before, people never came to be proven to be Christian - if despite all the talk of evolution, lives, but that of their child as well, us asking for help. Today, because found in a church, or with a note children are still rejected and not she said. of the situation, many people are attesting to a Christian birth, or accepted," she said. Some 20 babies are found aban- coming," she said. wearing a crucifix, or if the mothThe Creche of the Holy Family doned on average per year, she Sister that confides Gloria Sister er is known to be Christian — then is home to some 100 children said. a time every cries still Sophie the child will be given in adoption solely supported is home The under the age of 6. baby is brought to them, and she to a Christian family according to Many were abandoned, while through private donations. cries when she has to say good- Christian law, said Mubarak. Though 95 per cent of the chilothers are from poor or troubled bye to a child because a home has However, not many Christian families who cannot take care of dren are Muslim, the main hall- been found. She stays in touch way of the Creche of the Holy are found abandoned, them. children with many of the children who she added. Children are brought to the Family is decorated with stars and have been placed with families. "It's very sad when a baby finds home by the families, by the social angels for Christmas, and all the Over the past decade, the con- out he does not have these two service department or, as in Blan- children are taken on field trips to visit the Church of the Nativity cept of adoption has slowly taken people who were meant to love ca's case, by the police. hold in Palestinian society. and care for him," said volunteer Sometimes family members and Shepherds Field. all ago years 20 maybe Whereas Johns. 10 Staff members, including come to visit their children. the of Creche the in children the "But God never deserts us, just play nurses, two and caretakers Family The Creche of the Holy also includes a pre-school day- Arabic Christmas carols for the Holy Family rarely found homes, the way he never deserted his today many of the infants will be Son. He never deserts us — somecare centre where children of the children. In light of the current political placed with a family, said times we just don't understand." hospital staff are welcome, as are - Catholic News Service situation, the atmosphere is som- Mubarak. Once they become todchildren from poor families. The Record, December 28 2000 Page 7

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Heroic protector of Aboriginals died in Rome 100 years ago The great missionary Benedictine, Dom Rosendo Salvado, died 100 years ago this 29 December. Perth author George Russo, who has written a biography of Salvado entitled "Lord Abbott of the Wilderness", prepared this memorial feature on the monk who founded New Norcia and worked tirelessly for the good of local Aborigines.

A drawing of the New Norcia Mission as it was in the 1870s.

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hen Bishop Rosendo Salvado came to die, he was away from his community of monks and Aborigines, in a monastic cell in Rome, among foreigners who heard him muttering unintelligible names, as if calling them to himself. Unknown to the bystanders, they were the names of Aborigines from the mission of New Norcia. The Aborigines were hardly an item in Australian life when Salvado arrived in 1846. Rarely did they receive any coverage in the news and, if there were incidents reported, they were always pejorative. Yet, from the start, Salvado recorded in his diaries frequent acts of kindness on the part of ordinary Aborigines. By the end of his life he had performed his role among them so convincingly that all the mission Aborigines had come to see and worship him as their moral leader; the one who lived among them - and lived up to their expectations - and never betrayed their trust. He died a hero's death. The Chief Protector of Aborigines called him 'the best friend the Aborigines ever had.' This epithet showed that Salvado understood the character of the Aborigines and, more importantly, that he appreciated their culture. In his quest to better their lot, he suffered defeats, but he obstinately refused to accommodate to the views of the majority that the Aborigines were beyond culture, and doomed to extinction. Only a culture based upon trust in the Abo-

rigines could produce such a hero. And finally it was the Aborigines who vouched for the reality of the mission at New Norcia; the Aborigines who followed Salvado for so long, with perplexity, and perhaps doubt, followed him with fidelity. Many of them did not believe what their master believed, but all of them believed in him. At first moved by curiosity and the need for food, in the end they were moved by love. Even through the worst tribulations, they kept following him because they loved him. When he lay dying, sadly divested of his dream of their total conversion, the Aborigines found that they had inherited their master's faith; they had acquired it simply, like a contagion. Because he devoted his life to the Aborigines, in a sense. Salvado will never die. He was the perfect illustration of the power and wisdom of faith. Born at Tuy in the Spanish province of Galicia on 1 March, 1814, the youngest son of a noble family that owned a considerable estate, Salvado grew up in a cultured household where the Arts were cherished, and he learned music. His family had close links with the Catholic Church and, in contrast to the majority of the Spanish nobility, showed a genuine concern for the suffering of the poor. In his 15th year, young Salvado followed an elder brother and entered the Benedictine monastery of St Martin at Santiago de Cornpostela. That exquisite medieval city in north-west

Spain became the setting of his education until the First Republic closed all monasteries in 1835. Forced to return home, Salvado gained practical experience in helping to run the family farm and took part in the social life of the town. He observed at close quarters the desolation of spirit that accompanies the deprivations of the very poor, and remembered it all his life. Still aspiring to the monastic vocation, he joined his friend Jose Serra at the monastery of Cava in Italy in 1838. The following year he was sent to Rome for further studies and came in contact with the missionary revival taking place in Europe. In 1845 Salvado with Serra requested permission to serve in the missions. By chance, the bishop of Perth, John Brady, was in Rome seeking recruits for his vast diocese of Western Australia. The Roman official offered him the two Spaniards. Bishop Brady was delighted and took them to England where they stayed at Downside Abbey to learn English. In September they sailed for Western Australia on the ship 'Elizabeth'. Salvado was 32 years old when the missionary party disembarked at Fremantle on 8 January, 1846. He had a poor command of English, but possessed the tenacity, energy and intelligence for a successful missionary. And, he had a charm of manner and gift for friendship that would endear him to Perth society. His appearance was not distinguished. His portrait reveals a short, well-built and robust man, with dark hair already receding from a lofty forehead, a thick, black untrimmed beard, strikingly large, expressive and powerful eyes, giving the impression of a strong, determined nature, He had the personality and character of a leader, but was then only second-in-charge of the party that Brady sent to the Victoria

Plains (130k11ometres north of Perth) to begin a mission to the Aborigines. As senior priest, Serra was in charge of the cosmopolitan group, comprising a French novice, an English deacon and Irish catechist. The fate of the Aborigines in the settled areas was a sad one from the start of European settlement. The white men moved in with their flocks Abbott Rosendo Sahiado, above, in ecclesiastical dress and, right, dressed for missionary work. and herds and pushed the Aborigines off their lands, leaving them dispossessed and Soon after he went to Spain to take part in nition and appreciation of its Aboriginal predestitute. the restoration of the monasteries there, and decessor. They loitered around the streets of Perth the Queen of Spain appointed him President Salvado believed, however, that if the Aboand country centres, stealing or begging for of the Escorial. riginal were to survive in the new society, he food, and were often the victims of alcohol. However, revolution broke out in Spain had to unlearn many of his principles of They were badly treated by the majority which forced Salvado to leave for Rome communal living and mutual ownership. who looked upon them as hopeless dereHe had to learn the concept of individual where he attended the First Vatican Council. licts. land ownership and improvement; his old recommending document presented a He Many were shot for stealing or imprisoned changes to the monastic constitution for ways of hunting and foraging had to give way in irons at Fremantle or Rottnest Island. monks working in mission lands, and then to planting and pasturing; his health habit of There seemed no solution to the growing nudity to wearing clothes. to New Norcia. returned 'Aboriginal problem'. He aimed to segregate his community durnumbers of Spannow had large Salvado Bishop Brady spoke out about injustice to Two Benedictine monks train New Norcia Aborigines in music in the 19th century. ing the transitional period, and to preserve Aboriginal cause, working for the ish monks Aborigines and devised a plan to help them something of communal life. become part of the new society. comfortable halls of Downside Abbey. In work, and even settled some on farms. He and insisted that they learn Aboriginal cusWhatever he did teach about European language. toms and He sought to establish missions throughout Perth, Salvado gave a concert, and from the taught them the value of money as incentive habits of industry, he taught with due regard much to work together did Their hard the colony to teach Aborigines European proceeds bought provisions and returned to to work and paid wages, explaining how Aboriginal ways; and his policy of gradfor place environment to a the bush transform ways and religion. their savings could buy them stock the bush. modification was pursued with careful ual of industry. To make his ambitious plan feasible, he He managed to persuade several tradesHe recognised the importance of the pasfor long standing traditions. consideration apprenof Aboriginal were full Workshops petitioned the Governor for a grant of 50 men to come with him to help construct a toral industry for their prosperity. He indulged their wandering instincts by acres outside the limits of settlement and building. In December, Salvado and his Aboriginal tices; fields dotted with Aboriginal workers; allowing one day a week to be spent in the catAboriginal shepherds; tended by sheep sent his rust missionaries there to begin their After some months they had their first team took a load of wool to Perth, and Brady bush. work monastery and a garden. ordered him to go to Europe and appeal for tle mustered and horses ridden by AborigiHe permitted certain tribal ceremonies and stockmen. nal On 1 March 1846, a bullock-wagon carrySalvado bought a flock of sheep, leased a funds. acknowledging their fear of evil corroborees, talent to monks musical used the Salvado ing provisions took the five missionaries to 1,000 acres for pasture, and the mission was He had misgivings what might happen to ghosts of the newly dead. and the spirits songs European a stream at the Moore river, where they made soon on the way to becoming self-sufficient. New Norcia but, bound to obedience, he teach the children to sing to make European ways he could did all He formed a instruments, and musical play and friends with the Aborigines. They called it New Norcia, after the birth- embarked with two Aboriginal boys. who attractive and meaningful, and mitigated band. They spent the next three months in their place of St Benedict, the founder of the Bene- were to study for the priesthood. And he had a formidable cricket team that their labours by the introduction of machincompany, sharing their lives, eating their dictines. One died in Rome in 1853, while the other food, and sleeping on the bare earth. During the years 1846-48, both Salvado and returned to New Norcia to die of disease two not only played locally and in Perth, but also ery and providing teams of working monks to cooperate in their labours. in England. Their own provisions were soon finished. Serra spent their whole time with Aborig- years later. always took He built stone cottages around the educational methods His "It is impossible," wrote Salvado, "for a mis- ines. Left in Rome. Salvado spent his time colsionary to endure for long that kind of life." They lived close to them and studied their lecting money and new recruits for New notice of Aboriginal pace and initiative, con- monastery for families so that the Aborigines The Irish catechist was accidentally shot language and ways. Norcia, as well as writing a history of the centrating on their aptitudes for practical could live their community life, much as they dead, the Frenchman became deranged did in their bush camps, but as part of the They worked long hours and encouraged mission to the Aborigines, which was pub- trades. mentally and had to be taken back to Perth, the Aborigines to work with them. From the outset Salvado made a study of monastic community. lished in Rome in 1851. and the Englishman returned to the more The extent to which Salvado became the They sowed wheat together, tended sheep Salvado then returned home with new mis- Aboriginal social structure, customs and reliand cleared a track from the monastery to sionaries who spent much of their time con- gious concepts, and became an authority spokesman and defender of Aborigines was link up with the settlement in Perth. also a measure of his success. structing a new monastery at Subiaco and a here and abroad. Not only did he study their religious beliefs At night they sat with the Aborigines cathedral in Perth. His recognition of land rights had always around their camp-fires and listened to stoIn 185Z he returned to New Norcia and and practices, which many found repulsive, been a strong plank in his platform. ries of their legends and dreams, taking part immediately took steps to make it indepen- but sought to adapt them to Christian ritual His dual struggle to convince the governin their corroborees and studying their musi- dent. and belief, translating doctrines for their easy ment of its responsibility and the Aborigines who were waiting to pass through St Peter's cal and religious rituals. Holy Door during the final days of the jubilee. Rome approved in 1859 and allowed the understanding. of the advantages of private ownership were And they learned something of their reli- monks the alternative of going to New NorNew Norcia became an impressive com- recognised. Intermittent showers throughout the holigious beliefs. day weekend, and especially Christmas Eve, cia or remaining at the Subiaco foundation munity. Some Aborigines were placed on lands Salvado said that "if a missionary knows near Perth. did little to steer people away from St Peter's Nevertheless, Salvado did not regard it as reserved for them. how to make the best of these situations, he or dampen Christmas cheer. All chose New Norcia under the leadership a final solution, but more as part of the Equally persistent were his efforts to point will learn more in a single night than in of Bishop Salvado. In 1865, New Norcia was process of adjustment to another culture. For out the absurdity of British law to people Pilgrims paraded in a steady stream up the months spent walking with them through created an Abbey with its own territory and him the Australian nation, if it were to who did not understand it. Via della Conciliazione toward the open-air the bush." Mass in St Peter's Square, carrying bundled emerge, would derive essentially from recogSalvado made Abbot for life. He condemned the injustice of sentencing It was Salvado's primary aim to teach the babies and laughing under their umbrellas for offenses that would have Aborigines Christian message, but he bided his time, and hats. reprimand for a white settler, earned a mere grafting where possible the new way of life Children from eight countries carried the requested Governors to send Aborigiand on the rooted cultural stock offertory gifts, wearing fuchsia hats from sentenced to Rottnest Island to New nal boys He wanted to build on their customs and Korea and Congolese purple batik, and Norcia. beliefs. brought a smile to the face of the Pope, who Salvado was one of the great pioneers of There is no doubt; Salvado was enlightappeared tired throughout the late-night the land. ened far beyond his time in his approach. liturgy. He distinguished himself as an explorer Although his basic Christian values were Television stations in 40 countries, from the surveyor, and the Survey Office certainand shared by most in the colony, few really United States to Cameroon to predominantly valued his maps. cared about the Aborigines. ly Hindu India, carried the midnight Mass He sank wells in the dry land and introIt was not considered rational to want to and "urbi et orbi" blessing. The Mass includsacrifice your life for them. duced new crops from Europe. ed readings and prayers in 10 languages, and Because Salvado wanted to be identified the Pope delivered Christmas Day greetings His business acumen placed New Norcia with them, he applied to the Governor for in 59 languages. on a sound financial footing. naturalisation, adding in his application "if it Lawrence Sullivan from the United States, As a churchman, Salvado gained renown be rejected, he be considered as a member immersed in memories, said he felt lucky to and won the respect of other religious of the Aboriginal race." return to Rome after being posted there durdenominations. In January 1848, Serra travelled to Europe ing World War II. He was offered posts in other parts of the for funds and missionaries. He said he met Pope Pius XII twice - once world, but refused in the interest of the Aboas an altar server during then-Cardinal PacelSalvado continued the work, obtaining rigines. more land and opening up the country with li's trip to Boston in the 1930s, and again in In 1899, Salvado made his last journey to the assistance of Aborigines. Rome in 1944, when army officers from Rome on mission business. .Northern Ireland invited him along to their He raised a "work-force of 74 Aboriginal It was his last work. men", and with this encouraging number papal audience. "It's just wonderful to be He died there on 29 December, 1900. built a boy's school, an orphanage, and workhere again," he said, looking toward the liferemains were brought back to New His shops which he hoped to put to use when size Nativity scene and 29 metre Christmas Norcia and buried in the monastery church Serra returned with skilled tradesmen. He tree in St Peter's Square. - CNS - 100 years ago. continued to engage Aborigines in farm The New Norcia Mission Cricket Team, pictured in 1878, that went to England.

Pope John Paul remembers pain of Bethlehem By Benedicta Cipolla

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Pope John Paul II arrives at St Peter's Square on Christmas Day to deliver his annual Christmas -urbi et orbi" (to the city and the world) blessing. Photo CNS/Reuters

t Christmas celebrations leading the Catholic Church into the final phase of Holy Year 2000, Pope John Paul II focused on hopes for peace in the Middle East. At the open-air midnight Mass and in his traditional Christmas message, the Pope expressed concern over the future of the region, where three months of violence between Israelis and Palestinians has left more than 340 people dead. During the Christmas Eve Mass, held outside for the first time during his pontificate to accommodate the large number of jubilee pilgrims, Pope John Paul looked back on his March pilgrimage to the Holy Land and recalled his moments in prayer in Bethlehem. Usually a Christmas Christian mecca, this year the town of Christ's birth lay silent as tourists feared getting caught in Israeli-Palestinian clashes. "Tonight," said the Pope, "I would like the Christian communities in (the Holy Land) to feel that the whole Church is very close to them." "We share your anxiety for the destiny of the entire region of the Middle East," he said to some 50,000 pilgrims who braved downpours to attend the Mass. Violence in the Holy Land continued "to stain with blood the difficult path to peace,." the Pope said. His twice-yearly blessing "urbi et orbi" (to

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the city and to the world), delivered this year from the steps of St Peter's Basilica rather than from the basilica's balcony, also included a plea for peace in Indonesia, where a series of Christmas Eve church bombings killed at least 13 people. In today's society, said the Pope, the "culture of death" takes many forms, from violence against women and children to the "endless streams of exiles and refugees." Referring to abortion and euthanasia, he said, "Shadows of death threaten people's lives at every stage of life and are especially menacing at its earliest beginning and its natural end." But despite the darkness of death, the Pope said he found hope in people's work around the world to defend human rights, end tragic conflicts among warring countries and relieve the debt of developing nations. The Pope underlined the jubilee theme of charity on Christmas Eve, spurring people to engage in "charity in action, showing itself in openness to and support of our many brothers and sisters sorely tried by want and suffering." Closing the four-day holiday weekend, some 30,000 pilgrims thronged St Peter's Square on Tuesday, 26 December, for the Pope's Angelus prayer marking the Feast of St Stephen. Taking the martyr of the early Church as an example for all Christians, the Pope said the faithful must spread the Gospel "even at the cost of life." Looking out over the crowd, the Pope said he was moved by the multitude of people

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

Excerpts from the WA Catholic Record 29 December, 1900.

Federation eve From an editorial on 1900. 'The last year of the century was eventful. With regard to the Australian colonies we need only point to the Federation that has been formed and which is now on the eve of being proclaimed. That the measure was generally desirable no one could doubt. Where West Australia was concerned we, for our part, saw reasons for delay and opposed the project, but the majority judged differently and passed the Bill. Although the objections we saw at the time have not altogether been removed, we accept the situation and sincerely desire to find that our apprehensions were ill grounded.'

Mayoral election A Mt Malcolm report gave details of the day locals elected the Mayor and aldermen for the town. 'One of the aspirants to the mayoral chair advocated the taxation of goats in Malcolm, simply because his opponent had many of them. The proposer of the tax received a great shock when he saw a billy goat, adorned with ribbons and a placard with the imprint, vote against the goattaxer promenading through the township. The opponent of this tyrannical tax won the mayoral chair by a majority of 72 votes. Consequently he was carried through the township on the shoulders of the excited populace, who marched to the endearing and spirited strains of the 'Wearing of the Green.' The night brought with it raging and piercing shrills, due undoubtedly to the free access to a barrel of beer."

Abundant gold On a more serious matter the Mt Malcolm report noted that Monroe & Green, of the Nevertie Mine had enjoyed good luck. 'From 501bs of stone they do!lied out gold which after being smelted at the Richmond Gem battery made a beautiful bar weighing 110ozs 9 dwts.'

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At Geraldton strong feelings were roused by what was perceived to be a particularly harsh sentence imposed by the Magistrate's Court on a Mr Pascoe. 'Pascoe was found guilty of killing a cow, of which he was not the owner and sentenced to 10 years penal servitude. His son who had assisted him, was at the same time sentenced to three years. The man had hitherto borne a good character, and his son was looked upon as an exemplary lad. The beast, besides, was said to have had a broken leg.

Young pilgrims found joy Testimonies to the Glory of God: World Youth Day Pilgrimage, AD 2000. Reviewed by Anthony Barich

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rom the moment Sr Helen WORLD YOUTH DAY asked me if I would like to PILGRIMAGE go to Rome in August on a pilgrimage, I was a changed perA D 2000 son." These words, as told by Melburnian youth Hayley Charles, sum up how the majority of young people felt upon returning from those memorable few days in 2000. She continues: "To be able to stand in Rome alongside thousands of other young people from around the world and to be a living witness that the Catholic Church is alive and active and that young people are willing to stand strong, united in faith, was very exciting." This comes in stark contrast to the endless monotony of social commentary which says that the Church is dying because it is too traditional, and is losing touch with its youngest members who are the Church of tomorrow and, and as Archbishop Barry Hickey once said, of today. Testimonies to the Glory of God, as told by numerous Victorian youngsters who attended the landmark event, is an account of how Catholic Australian youth found their lives turned around been similar: tales of massive faith, and discovered the true by visiting holy sites in Rome and journeys on foot from one holy magnitude of the legacy left by site to another, and of sleeping in Jesus, Saint Peter and the first the Vatican. They meditated upon the signif- churches and the on the hard bishops (the disciples) who initiicance of their faith, and, most wood of scout halls scattered ated what we know today as the Importantly, found their place in around Rome. Church. But the thing that distinguishes the Church to which they belong. The event brought home to the The stories we have heard from their stories, and those in this young people the fact that the the young members of our parish- book, is the way in which each Church is not "the Pope", nor is it es who attended the event have individual found his or her own "a multinational corporation run

by more-or-less intelligent men" with rules and regulations, as Pope John Paul pointed out last year. The Church is us, and we must work in everything we do to glorify God and to spread the Word of God in our everyday lives. That was the reason Jesus gave us the Church: to continue His work of saving souls. Youth pilgrim Sabrinas Hobkirk said the Pope called on them to do just that. "The Pope looks upon us to light up the world and dispel the darkness," she said. "We are expected to lead the way and make a valuable contribution to the living Church of the future and to be true apostles." There were many signs given to the young members of the Church to make them realise their place in the world. Adwina Rymarz told of how Cardinal Cassidy said young people don't have to lead a public life or do great things to become a saint. He gave the example of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati who was in many ways "just an ordinary guy." "He became close to God by living his life to the full, whether this be at home, with his friends or at university and always finding time for sacraments and prayer," Adwina said. Testimonies to the Glory of God Is a worthwhile book to read not only for those who are interested in what the pilgrimage was like. It is a spiritual guide book of how we can find our role in God's plan for the world and, more specifically, the Church. One youth, Lucy Mucciacciaro, said, "The atmosphere of joy, peace and celebration will forever remain in my heart." Amen to that.

Bethlehem Christmas a subdued affair By Judith Sudilovsky

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ubdued Christmas celebrations in rain-soaked Manger Square were in sharp contrast to the sparkling festivities of the 1999 opening of the Jubilee year, said local Christians. "It is so different than last year. This is so sad, there are so few people," said 24-year-old Catholic Amir Musleh, looking around Bethlehem's Peace Centre building. Although it had been decided at the last minute to allow some of the performances scheduled for Manger Square, rain had forced the small group of some 100 locals and a few foreigners inside the Peace Centre building, where performers sang Christmas carols and danced on a much smaller makeshift stage. In 1999, hordes of visitors and locals packed a festively decorated Manger Square. The lone Christmas tree this year was decorated with a few strings of light; otherwise the city was bereft of streamers and decorations. The festivities were lobe the culmination of a year of hard work for the Bethlehem 2000 committee, and over US $100,000 was poured into what was going to be a dazzling celebration to top last year's event. Instead, the hotels were as empty as Manger Square, which became a parking lot for journalists' cars and hopeful taxi drivers. As an international choir broke into a rendition of "Joy to the World," followed by "Jingle Bells," Musleh and others at the centre

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be better than this Christmas." One or two souvenir shops stayed open, but by 10 pm, they were closing their doors. A hamburger restaurant in Manger Square was the only place doing any business as the locals came in for a bite before Mass. The owner of a nearby falafel stand was left to wave his hand, virtually unnoticed, trying to entice customers to eat the traditional Middle Eastern pocket sandwich instead. "This is definitely the quietest Christmas I've ever seen," said New Zealander Theresa Hogg, who lives in the area and said she had celebrated 16 Christmases in Latin-rite Patriarch Michel Sabbah of Bethlehem. Jerusalem celebrates Christmas "Ills sad when you see that 2,000 Mass on 25 December at St Cather- years later people haven't bothine's Church in the West Bank city of ered to come to Bethlehem to celBethlehem, where small numbers of ebrate the greatest birth there has pilgrims turned up to visit the birth- ever been. We are thankful we place of Jesus. Photo CNSiReuters could come despite what people clapped their hands in tune to the perceive as danger," she said. Gwen Loppinet, 27, a French volmusic, even dancing a bit, and unteer teacher in Israel who came began to smile. "I want to feel that there is still to celebrate Christmas in BethleChristmas. It is nice to go out just hem, said, "It can't be very joyful once at night and see people, see when people have deaths in their heart from both sides. them smiling," Musleh said. "We hope that more justice and "Look around. I haven't seen people smiling like this for peace will come to this country. months." We pray for peace," Loppinet said. Allah Awad, 25, of nearby Belt Earlier in the day, Latin-rite PatriSahour, came to celebrate Christ- arch Michel Sabbah arrived from mas despite 11 weeks of violence Jerusalem with the traditional in Israel and the Palestinian terri- patriarchal procession. tories that has left more than 340 He was first greeted by the people dead. priests of Bethlehem and other "We wait for this day all year Palestinian religious and commulong,Icouldn't just stay at home," nal dignitaries in front of the he said. embattled Rachel's Tomb, which "I hope that next Christmas will has seen fierce clashes between

Israelis and Palestinians. Israeli police and soldiers stood by directing the vehicles, guns at hand and helmets on their heads. One young, freckled-faced soldier in camouflage fatigues held a small video camera to his eyes and took his own pictures of the Patriarch and the greetings. While normally the procession is greeted with much fanfare, this year was very solemn, and the procession was silent, with few spectators on hand to witness the event. "It's nice to have Christmas celebrations, but it is not the most important thing," said 20-year-old Jane Aqleh from Bethlehem. "We celebrate Christmas in our hearts." Her friend Rami Sarras, 24, also of Bethlehem, said, "This year people have to focus more on Jesus Christ because he is the prince of peace." In the grotto marking the traditional spot of Jesus' birth underneath the Church of the Nativity, priests and nuns and a few pilgrims sat in the hushed warmth, singing hymns. "There was so much tension within myself, then I came here and the feeling thatwent up in me from here was very peaceful," said German volunteer Yvonne Groger, 20. Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat arrived at the church just before midnight. This year the church, normally spilling over with worshippers, was comfortably full and easily accessible to locals wanting to pray there. - Catholic News Service

New Year Holiday Movie Reviews

Big chance for a funny fat man lost in sequel By Anne Navarro eviving his role as the gentle, overweight professor herman Klump - as well as the whole 1Klump clan - Eddie Murphy garners few laughs in the sluggish comedy sequel Nutty Professor II: The Klumps. Based on the appeal the Klump family - and Murphy's portrayal of each of them - had in the 1996 revival The Nutty Professor, the sequel makes them the main attraction. Despite his best efforts, Sherman Klump (Murphy) has not been able to control his obnoxious alter ego, "Buddy Love," who seems to pop out and say the nastiest things at the most inappropriate moments. Not about to let Buddy ruin his upcoming mar-

intelligence. Sandwiched between the tiresome sexual references made by Granny (Murwhose phy, again), eighty-something libido is in overdrive, is a barrage of tasteless flatulence and other body-function jokes. None of these is original or funny, and will likely make viewers squirm with disgust. And it all comes down to this: audiences have seen it all before. While "The Mumps" is a cer-tainly a showcase for Murphy's diverse talents, it doesn't show him off in his best light. Because of frequent sexual refEddie Murphy as Sherman Klump in a scene from The Nutty Professor The erences, crude toilet humour, Photo: CNS/Reuters Klumps." Parents are strongly cautioned. mild fleeting violence, and severriage to beautiful colleague extract the "Buddy DNA" from his al instances of crass language, the Denise (Janet Jackson) and steal system. But this only leads to US Catholic Conference classifihis latest invention, a miraculous Buddy becoming his own person cation is All! - adults. - Catholic News Service youth serum, Sherman decides to and Sherman begins to lose his

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Character irrelevant in gripping, spectacular flick By Gerd Pare

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ith nitroglycerine in their backpacks, a rescue team heads up snowy K2 in search of trapped mountain climbers in the action nail-biter Vertical Limit. Wasting no time, director Martin Campbell opens on a gorgeous Utah mesa where five climbers are jeopardised by a falling object and two plummet to their deaths. Left hanging on one rope barely able to support them are expert climber Royce (Stuart Wilson) at the bottom, with son Peter (Chris

O'Donnell) and daughter Annie (Robin Timmy) above him. Dad urges Peter cut him loose or all three of them will die. Caught between his sister's screams not to, and his father's insistence he obey or be responsible for killing his sister. Peter severs the connection. Three years later, Peter is on a nature photography assignment in the Himalayas, where his sister is climbing K2 - the treacherous, second-highest peak in the world. Daredevil billionaire Elliot Vaughn (Bill Paxton), expert climber Tom McLaren (Nicholas Lea) and Annie fall into a deep

crevasse which is then covered where the visuals are spectacular and the suspense continual. over by an avalanche. The avalanche footage seems to They are as good as dead despite radio contact, but Peter be in 3-D and special effects of gets five people to join him in a explosions and literal cliffhangers desperate rescue effort requiring ratchet up the tension level. Shot in the Southern Alps of that they transport volatile nitro to where they will blow the site New Zealand. but also combining indoor sets and blue screens, it all open. With every hour, the three- blends indistinguishably togethsome's chance of survival nar- er. Due to much intense peril, fleetrows - and villainous Vaughn would sacrifice the others in a ing implied drug abuse, brief sex references and minimal rough heartbeat to save himself. The characters are mostly stick language and profanity, the US figures. But character depth and Catholic Conference classificamotivation are in short supply and tion is All! - adults. - Catholic News Service frankly of little interest in a movie

A missing Terror is . . . . meeting future in-laws husband By Anne Navarro

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dealistic American engineer Peter Bowman (David Morse) is feverishly working to build a dam in the fictitious Latin American country of Tecala when he is kidnapped by rebels for a $3 million ransom in Proof of Life. His wife, Alice (Meg Ryan), refuses to give up on his life, even though her husband's employer and insurance company have, and seeks out the help of Terry Thorne (Russell Crowe), an expert in kidnapping. Due to intermittent violence, brief drug use and recurring rough language with fleeting profanity, the US Catholic Conference classification is AIll - adults. - CNS

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ne of the most potentially nerve-wracking meetings is tapped for all its laughs in the romantic comedy Meet the Parents. Director jay Roach coaxes fine performances from his cast while maintaining a sprightly pace. One of the mainstream movies of the fall season, Meet the Parents takes an ordinary premise (meeting your prospective in-laws) and ratchets up the intensity as well as the laughs. But while Roach finds comedic potential in almost every scene, some antics fall flat as the film inevitably falls prey to predictability with scenes extended to squeeze out one more laugh. What begins as an innocent enough visit quickly deteriorates into mayhem and madness when

Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller in a scene from the film Meet the Parents. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. Photo: CNSVntversal Studios Greg (Ben Stiller) meets his overprotective father, jack Byrnes prospective in-laws for the first (Robert De Niro). Due to minor time in their swanky suburban violence, reference to a live-in relationship,brief drug references home. The well-intentioned Greg and some crass language with intends to propose to his teacher.- profanity, the US Catholic Confergirlfriend Pam (Teri Polo), but first ence classification is Al!! - adults. - Catholic News Service must gain the approval of her

Complex epic weaves Jewish tale By Anne Navarro

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hree generations of a Jewish-Hungarian family experience the turbulent times of the 20th century and struggle to understand and accept their identity in the ambitious drama Sunshine. Director Istvan Szabo's massive drama uses as both a backdrop and a catalyst the historical events of the Austro-Hungarian empire, two world wars, the rise of the Communist Party and the Hungarian revolution of 1956 to poignantly tell the experiences of one family. Yet it is these social and political complexities that prevent the film from becoming completely absorbing, as the narrative is dense with information. The story of the

Movie Ratings NEW YORK (CNS) Here is a list of recent films the US Catholic Conference Office for Film and Broadcasting has rated on the basis of moral suitability. USCC classifications: Al - general patronage: All - adults and adolescents: All - adults; AIV adults, with reservations (this indicates films that, while not morally offensive in themselves, are not for casual viewing because they require some analysis and explanation in order to avoid false impressions and interpretations): 0 morally offensive. Almost Famous, AIV Bamboozled, AIV Bedazzled, AIII Best in Show, AIV Billy Elliot, All Blue Moon, All Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2,0 Bounce, All Bring It On, All The Broken Hearts Club, 0 Catfish in a Black Bean Sauce, AM The Cell, AIV Charlie's Angels, All Cirque du Soleil Journey of Men, Al The Contender. AN Coyote Ugly, All Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, AIII Dancer In The Dark. All Digimon: The Movie, All Dinosaur, All Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas, All Dr. T and the Women, AIV The Exorcist, AIV Gone in 60 Seconds, All Hollow Man, AN La Buc.he, AN The Ladies Man, All The Legend of Bagger Vance, All The Legend of Drunken Master, AIII Little Nicks/, AIII The Little Vampire, All Lucky Numbers, AIV Meet the Parents, All Men of Honour, AIR Moon Shadow, AIII Nurse Betty, AIV Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, 102 Dalmatians, Al Pay it Forward. Al!! The Perfect Storm. AIII Pollock, AIII Quills, 0 Red Planet. AM Remember the Titans, All The Replacements, AIII Requiem for a Dream, 0 Rugrats in Paris The Movie, Al Scary Movie, 0 The 6th Day, Alit Soles, All Unbreakable, Al! Urban Legends: Final Cut, AN Venus Beauty Institute, AN What Lies Beneath, AIII What's Cooking?, AM Wonder Boys, AIII XMen, All The Yards, AIII You Can Count on Me, AIV

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young New Jersey woman moves to Sonnenschein (German for "sunshine") New York City with hopes of becomfamily begins in the late 1800s and is told ing a successful songwriter in the by Ivan (Ralph Fiennes), the great-grandromantic drama Coyote Ugly. forgettable Sonnenschein (David de son of Emmanuel thing Violet Sanford (Piper PerThe last Keyser). abo) imagined after leaving her suburban Emmanuel travelled to Budapest, marhome and overprotective father (John ried and amassed a small fortune by turn- Goodman) to fulfill her songwriting dreams ing the family's secret recipe for a is that her bartending job would distract medicinal tonic into a business. her from her lifelong goal. His advice of always taking the middle But this is no ordinary bar; it's Coyote ground while standing by one's Jewish faith Ugly, a place where hard-bodied, minimalIs challenged by his two sons: Gustav ly-clothed young women clog on top of the (James Frain), a Socialist-leaning doctor bar while squirting with a soda gun anyand Ignatz (Fiennes again), a conservative one who dares to ask for a "girlie" drink of judge. Due to some strong sexual scenes water. Desperate and broke, Violet takes and graphic violence, and full nudity, the her place behind the bar to earn enough US Catholic Conference classification is money to keep sending out her demo tapes AN - adults, with reservations. - CNS to every label and independent record pro-

dycer in town. But when she struts her stuff and sings along to Blondie's sexy tune "One Way or Another," the attention and notoriety she receives from the clientele makes her heady and she temporarily abandons her aspiration for the more readily accessible popularity. Director David McNally seems to be hoping that audiences will be so distracted by the gyrations of scantily-clad women that they will not notice that the film lacks any dramatic credibility. Even if the viewer can get past the degrading treatment of women, who are portrayed as objects, the film still has little to offer. Due to sexual promiscuity, brief crass language and mild bar brawling violence, the US Catholic Conference classification is - CNS AM - adults.

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International News

Pope urges entertainers UN, death to promote healthy fun penalty In Brief

UNITED NATIONS (CNS) A campaign led by the lay Catholic community of Sant'Egidio for a worldwide moratorium on the death penalty got the personal endorsement of UN Secretary-General Kai Annan on 18 December. He noted that "only sovereign states have the power to grant your petition." And he added, "I pray that they will do So." The Secretary-General made his remarks in accepting a symbolic presentation of 3.2 million signatures that had been gathered from 145 countries in a two-year campaign. They were presented by Mario Marazziti, a producer for the Italian network RAI who is coordinator of the death penalty project for Sant'Egidio; Paul Hoffman, chairman of the international executive committee of Amnesty International, and Sister Helen Prejean. a Sister of St Joseph of Medaille and author of the best-selling book Dead Man Walking.

Essential reading ROME (CNS) - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Vatican's doctrinal congregation, said Dominus Jesus is essential reading for seminarians and seminary professors. The document, published in September by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, "expresses with great clarity the central point of our faith, that is that the Son of God was made man and that a bridge exists between God and man." the Cardinal said. Cardinal Ratzinger spoke on 16 December to rectors and professors from 43 seminaries that train future priests from the Neocatechumenal Way, a mostly lay movement emphasising the renewal of parish life and evangelisation. Although Dominus Iesus has been the focal point of controversy because of its firm statement that Christ and the Church are necessary for salvation, Cardinal Ratzinger said he also has received many expressions of gratitude.

Rights Bill flawed VATICAN CITY (CNS) - By avoiding all references to God in the European Union's Charter of Fundamental Rights, the continent's political leaders have ignored the true basis for guaranteeing human rights, Pope John Paul II said. "I cannot hide my disappointment that the text of the charter does not include even one reference to God, the supreme source of the dignity of the human person and his fundamental rights," the Pope said in a 16 December letter. The European Union officially proclaimed the 54-point charter on 7 December during its summit meeting in Nice, France. Pope John Paul commented on the charter in a message to a 16 December Vatican-hosted conference marking the 1,200th anniversary of Pope Leo III's crowning of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor.

ly Christian performances based on the Bible or church teaching, the Pope said artistic works and programs "not explicitly religious" also can "speak to people's hearts, provoking surprise, questions and reflection."

By Benedicta Cipolla VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Celebrating a Jubilee Mass attended by thousands of actors, singers and other performers, Pope John Paul II urged the entertainment industry to act responsibly and promote a healthy concept of fun. Addressing some 40,000 people gathered in St Peter's Square on 17 December for the Jubilee for Entertainers, the Pope told them to keep in mind the rights and needs of their audience, especially children. -Do not let yourselves be conditioned by sheer economic or ideological interests," he told the crowd, which included film and television personalities, musicians and entertainment executives. Stars in the public eye, he said, "must be constantly aware of their responsibility." "Always be positive and coherent examples." the Pope told entertainers, "capable of inspiring trust, optimism and hope." While

Pope John Paul II watches as jugglers perform during the jubilee celebration for entertainers on 17 December in St Peter's Square. Photo CNS/Reuters

Christian joy is primarily focused not vulgar," said the Pope, who on a spiritual level, he said, "it also penned and acted in plays as a embraces healthy fun that is good young man. for both body and soul." "Spreading authentic cheer," he "Society thus must give thanks said, "can be a genuine form of to those who produce intelligent social charity," and the new evanand relaxing transmissions and . gelisation of the third millennium programs that are enjoyable with- must involve the entertainment out being alienating, funny but industry. In addition to specifical-

Following the Mass, at his weekly Angelus prayer, the Pope mentioned in particular itinerant performers, from circus and carnival workers to street artists. Presenting an icon of Christ on the cross, which was to make its way through European and American circuses and carnivals in 2001, he said travelling entertainers "remind everyone that the Church is made up of a people who are always on the move, without a fixed home in this world." The three-day Jubilee event, the last celebration on the Holy Year calendar to focus on a specific group, also included a conference on Pope John Paul and the cinema, prayer services and an afternoon of song and dance at a Rome film studio.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Making a Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome, Italy's top fashion designers cast aside their more frivolous creations in favour of sober dress. Some of the biggest names in fashion - including representatives from Fend', Blumarine, Alberta Ferretti and Gal Mattiolo - participated in an outdoor audience with Pope John Paul Hon 16 December. Many women wore black veils. The designers also attended

Mass in a church near St Peter's Basilica and a dinner to benefit cancer research. Pope John Paul called on the fashion industry to be "animated by those healthy moral principles that make up the patrimony of every authentically human culture." Praying that their work be inspired by the love for beauty and the Christian message, he said he hoped their pilgrimage was one of faith and conversion. Gal Mattiolo, who has designed cassocks for the Pope, expressed disappointment over the absence

of Giorgio Armani and Valentino, saying perhaps more people would have come had there been live TV coverage. "The fact is that before the Church, we are all equal, and maybe that bothers (some people)," he told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. Alberta Ferretti, who often dresses several Hollywood stars on Oscar night, said on Italian state television that she was moved by the audience, adding that "beauty is nothing when compared to the spiritual."

Cardinal shelves Polish basilica plan

WARSAW, Poland (CNS) - A Polish Cardinal has suspended plans to build a US $45 million basilica in thanksgiving for the collapse of Communism. Cardinal Jozef Glemp said he was shelving plans for the basilica of Divine Providence in Warsaw's Wilanow suburb on the advice of a committee. One Church official said estimated costs would impose an

"excessive burden on the faithful" and had been judged "inappropriate for a place of worship." However, the decision was criticised by the architect, Marek Budzynski, who urged the Cardinal to reconsider. "Costs per square metre would be much the same as an average housing block, while maintenance and security can be han-

dled by volunteers," Budzynski told Poland's Gazeta Wyborcza daily. "The committee was unfriendly to me from the beginning." Plans for a Divine Providence Church in Warsaw date from 1791, when King Stanislaw August commissioned a project to celebrate Poland's "May constitution," Europe's first democratic charter.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican welcomed an Italian court decision to clear Naples Cardinal Michele Giordano of charges of complicity in loan sharking. Prosecutors had accused Cardinal Giordano of funneling more than $500,000 to a usury ring run by his brother and embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from arc.hdiocesan bank accounts. The ruling on 22 December followed a two-year investigation. Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls reiterated the Vatican's view that the investigation, which involved a search of the Naples archdiocesan offices and phone taps, violated a treaty governing Church-State relations. Prosecutors said they planned to appeal the decision.

Thousands brave bitter cold for Ukrainian leader's funeral By Liliya Kovalyk LVIV, Ukraine (CNS) - Nearly 10,000 people lined the streets of Lviv for the funeral procession of Cardinal Myroslav Lubachivsky, who, led the Ukrainian Catholic Church in exile and later re-established the Church in Ukraine. Lviv television broadcast live the procession and the 20 December funeral liturgy in St George's Cathedral, at which Archbishop Miroslav Marusyn, secretary of the Vatican Congregation for Eastern Churches, presided. Cardinal Lubachivsky died of pneumonia on 14 December at his cathedral residence. He was 86. Father Ken Nowakowski, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Catholic Church, said in the days before the funeral almost 200,000 people paid their respects by fil-

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Nearly 10,000 people line the streets of Lviv, Ukraine, on 20 December for the funeral procession of Cardinal Lubachivsky. Photo: CNS/Reuters

ing past the Cardinal's body as it lay in the cathedral. Lviv Awdliary Bishop Lubomyr Husar, who has been administrator of the diocese since 1996

because of Cardinal Lubachivsky's frail health, said it was amazing that so many people braved freezing temperatures and snow for the funeral procession and

attended the liturgy. Although Cardinal Lubachivsky was rarely seen in public in the last three years, he said, attendance at the funeral events showed how he had touched people's hearts, and it was a testimony to their attachment to the Ukrainian Catholic Church. The Cardinal was buried in the crypt of the cathedral. The crypt contains the remains of a medieval prince of Halych, Yaroslav Osmomysl, and of other Ukrainian Catholic clergy, including Cardinal Josyf Slipyj and Archbishop Volodymyr Sterniuk. Among those at the funeral were members of the 35-member Ukrainian Catholic Synod; Archbishop Nikola Eterovic, apostolic nuncio to Ukraine; and Cardinal Achille Silvestrini, head of the Vatican's Congregation for Eastern Churches.

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Anarchists claim responsibility for Milan bomb MILAN, Italy (CNS) - Italian police defused a time bomb found on the roof of Milan's cathedral, 15 hours before it was set to explode. The bomb, reportedly containing about two pounds of explosive mining powder, was discovered next to one of the roofs spires by a cathedral worker on 18 December. The following day, an anarchist terrorist group, Solidarity International, claimed responsibility for the bomb in a letter to a major Italian daily newspaper. Police called the letter "credible" but said their investigation continued. Authorities said the

ordnance, which was timed to explode at 3 am local time, would have caused limited damage to the 14th-century cathedral, possibly toppling a spire. More than 100 tourists and Mass-goers were evacuated from the building before a bomb squad deactivated the device. The cathedral was reopened an hour later. Milan's Cardinal Carlo Martini condemned the bombing attempt, calling it an offense against the entire city. The Vatican newspaper, L 'Osservatore Romano, said in its 21 December edition that the bomb

attempt was a "gesture of death against the Jubilee." In its letter, Solidarity International said the attempted bombing was intended "to worthily commemorate the end of the Jubilee and to salute the prisoners in combat against torture and repression in all the prisons of the world." The letter called for the abolition of tough prison terms established by Spain's anti-terrorist and Italy's anti-Mafia laws. The group has also claimed responsibility for a failed firebombing during a Mass for prison guards in a Milan basilica in June.

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By Benedicta Cipolla VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Offering his own Jubilee retrospective, Pope John Paul II cited progress in ecumenical and interreligious dialogue, his trip to the Holy Land, and World Youth Day as Holy Year highlights. Looking back on 2000 as he exchanged Christmas greetings with Vatican officials, the Pope thanked his administrative offices for successfully organising the Jubilee and making it "a true pilgrimage of the people of God." Among the hundreds of events throughout the year, the Pope, in his annual message to the Roman Curia, mentioned in particular his March pilgrimage to the Holy Land. "How couldI forget the emotion of those March days in which I was given the gift of reliving the fundamental moments of the historical life of Jesus, from his birth in Bethlehem to his death on Golgotha?" he said. "At the same time," the Pope said of his trip, which took him to Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories, "it was an opportunity for encounter not only with the Christian conrununity, but also with the Jewish and Islamic" communities. In expressing his high esteem for the leaders of the Holy Land's religious conununities, he said, "I could anticipate the joy that all people will feel. . . . when that land, so holy and unfortunately so tormented, finally will find peace." The Jubilee year as a whole underscored interreligious dialogue, which "has made significant steps forward over the past decades," said the Pope. Mentioning the September doctrinal declaration on salvation, Dominus Jesus, whose release sparked criticism from leaders of other religions, the Pope emphasised that dialogue "does not intend to diminish in any way the rightful announcement of Christ

MANCHES1ER, England (CNS) - Church and pro-life leaders said the decision by the British House of Commons to allow embryonic stem-cell research would open the door to human cloning. Archbishop Cormac MurphyO'Connor of Westminster, president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, said many people would be alarmed by the 19 December vote in Parliament. "Iam gravely concerned that this extremely important moral issue Is being pushed through Parliament without the country having had time to debate the very serious implications," the Archbishop said. "Stem-cell research is important, but there are other sources of these cells, and research can be carried out without the deliberate creation and destruction of new human lives," he said. Archbish-

as the unique saviour of the world." While interreligious dialogue must not question "'this essential truth of Christian faith," said the Pope, "'we can gather many seeds of light scattered by the (Holy) Spirit in various cultures and religions." The Pope recalled the January opening of the Holy Door at St Paul's Outside the Walls, attendBy Paulinus Barnes ed by the head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and an MANCHESTER, England (CNS) Orthodox prelate, as an important - Pope John Paul II appointed moment in ecumenical relations. Bishop Edwin Regan of Wrexham, Urging Christians not to lose Wales, as apostolic administrator hope in the face of "persistent dif- for the Welsh Archdiocese of ficulties," the Pope said that "we Cardiff. must believe that the goal of full The head of the Cardiff Archunity of all Christians is really diocese, Archbishop John Ward, possible." is recovering from a deep vein The biggest event on the Holy thrombosis. Year calendar, World Youth Day, One Vatican source said the which drew more than 2 million administrator named was young people to Rome, "has because "among other things, the remained particularly vivid in the Archbishop is very ill. common memory," said the Pope. He had asked for a coadjutor, He said the gathering was note- but because he became so sick so worthy not only for the vast num- quickly, the decision was made to ber of participants but also for name another Bishop as administheir commitment to Christ trator. The process is much quickThe Pope also underlined the er than naming a new Bishop as Jubilee theme of charity, especially international debt relief and clemency for prisoners. While "much remains to be done," the Pope said he was By Nancy Frazier O'Brien encouraged by the decision by several wealthy nations to cancel MANCHESIER, England (CNS) or reduce the debts of developing Church leaders and pro-life countries. "Only in the context of a com- groups condemned the British mitment inspired by a global sol- government's decision to allow idarity can a remedy be found to the over-the-counter sale of the the risks inherent in an economy "morning-after" pill. Cardinal Thomas Winning of that is fundamentally devoid of regulations to protect the weak- Glasgow, Scotland, said the pill, known as Levonelle, was abortiest," he said. The Pope also thanked countries facient and not contraceptive. Archbishop Cormac Murphywho heeded his appeal for prisof Westminster, LonO'Connor oner clemency. Ahead of a July papal Mass at a Rome prison, don, said: "To make the Italy, at the Pope's request, morning-after pill available to released Mehmet Ali Agca, the teenagers over the counter link who shot Pope John Paul in encourages sexual promiscuity 1981. Agca was extradited to and increasingly isolates young Turkey. people in difficulty from the help

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op Murphy-O'Connor said that cloning, even for therapeutic purposes, was a new form of human reproduction, "with massive moral implications." "As a society, do we really want to make this dangerous leap without much more thought and reflection? Is it wise to rush into a decision?" he asked, urging the House of Lords to reject the proposals. The Archbishop spoke

after members of the House of Commons voted 366-174 in favour of extending the existing rules on cloning to allow scientists to use embryonic stem cells in research. Lobbyists for the change claimed that the research could revolutionise the treatment of degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. The previous rules permitted research using human embryos for purposes related to infertility and for a period limited to 14 days. Peter Garrett, research director at the anti-abortion charity Life, told the BBC: "Firstly, to deliberately create and destroy human life is dehumanising to the scientists who carry it out and the society that licenses it. "Secondly, once you open the flood gates on the production of human cloned embryos, you are setting up the preconditions for full pregnancy cloning," Garrett said. "My view is that we are only a couple of years away from cloning human beings."

Pope appoints Cardiff administrator coadjutor who eventually would succeed the archbishop." A statement from the Catholic Media Office in London said that the position would be a temporary appointment "to provide episcopal governance for the diocese" while Archbishop Ward was convalescing. In November, Archbishop Ward faced calls for his resignation following media coverage of the conviction of a paedophile priest, Father Joe Jordan. Critics said the Archbishop failed to act on warnings of the priest's behaviour. Father Jordan was jailed in October after being found guilty of sexually abusing young boys in southern Wales. Shortly after a BBC TV documentary examining the case, it

was announced that Archbishop Ward had asked the. Pope to appoint a Coadjutor Archbishop to work alongside him until his retirement. Sources in Rome said the Vatican had not suspended Archbishop Ward and was not planning to take any disciplinary action against him. One Vatican source said the Bishop, who recently suffered a stroke, was clearly sick. Emphasising that Archbishop Ward was not using his illness as a cover for his possible resignation, the source said that if he wanted to step down, that was up to him. Bishop Regan was ordained bishop of Wrexham, in northern Wales in 1994.

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and advice they need.... It is futile to address the problem of teenage pregnancies, which are so numerous in this country, without

reference to clear moral principles," he said. "It is crucial for the moral health of our society that we rediscover the true place of sex in human relationships." • In a decision that could have ramifications for Catholic employers throughout the country, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled on 13 December that it is against the law for some health plans to exclude coverage of contraception. Employers "may not discriminate in their health insurance plan by denying benefits for prescription contraceptives when they provide benefits for comparable drugs and devices," the EEOC decision said.

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Asian Catholic News

Cardinal calls for bombings calm JAKARTA (UCAN) - Indonesia's ranking Catholic leader has asked Catholics to promote Christmas peace through forgiveness after bomb blasts near churches on Christmas Eve killed at least 13 people and injured almost 100. Cardinal Julius Darmaatmadja of Jakarta advised Catholics not to draw premature conclusions on who orchestrated the blasts, "for in doing so, we will suspect others and the consequence would be even worse." In his homily on 25 December at Jakarta's Catholic cathedral, the Jesuit cardinal urged, "Do not retaliate. We must respond to the situation in a rational manner. The meaning of Christmas must urge us to reconcile with everybony." Christmas peace must be brought to everybody, asserted

Cardinal Darmaatmadja, chairman of the Indonesian bishops' conference. To bring peace, he elaborated, "means to reconcile, to bring peace, to forgive, to create genuine harmony, no matter what background we are from." In expressing his sorrow for the bombings' victims, the Cardinal noted that they include not only Catholics and Protestants but also Muslims. Saleh Saaf, spokesperson of the office of the senior superintendent of Indonesia's National Police, says the Christmas Eve blasts that took place in six provinces in Indonesia claimed at least 13 lives and injured 96 people. Police defused 16 out of 31 bombs, but 15 others exploded. The bombs, Saaf said, were plant-

Governor confirms forced conversions JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNS) - About 1,000 more should have The Governor of Indonesia's joined them but were somehow Molucca Islands has confirmed prohibited from being evacuatthat some islanders in the ed, he added. province were forced to convert Latuconsina told the press, "It's to Islam. not easy to remove people from Governor Saleh Latuconsina, a the island, but we decided they Muslim. told media on 20 must be evacuated. We are talkDecember that members of a ing about people's lives." Earlier reports said hundreds joint team assigned to investigate clashes on predominantly of Utha villagers on Kasui Island Catholic Kasui Island told him were taken hostage in Novemthey found evidence that Chris- ber by an Islamic "religious task tian islanders had been forced force" and told to convert to to convert, reported UCA News. Islam or face death. Indonesia is a predominantly an Asian Church news agency Muslim country, but some of the based in Thailand. Bishop Petrus Canisius Molucca Islands have a majoriMandagi of Ambon repeatedly ty Christian population. On 16 December Bishop has said Christians were being forced to convert to Islam by Mandagi called for international help to stop the forced conjihad militias. The team sent to Kasui Island versions. "We are concerned over many included officials from the National Commission on Christians who are forced to Human Rights and the local reli- become Muslims under threat gious affairs office, as well as of being killed or expelled from members of the civil emergency their own land in Maluku," he administration, also headed by stated. "The threats and force on Kasui, Burn and other (Maluku) Latuconsina. islands are human rights violaThe Jakarta Post reported on tions, so I am taking the initia21 December that the Governor tive to ask for international had called on media not to exag- intervention." gerate stories. "Please don't file reports that can create new problems. Please be wiser and restrain yourselves," Latuconsina was quoted as saying. From the Crisis Centre of Ambon Diocese, Sacred Heart Father CJ Bohm said on 18 December that the team sent to Kasui returned on 17 December with 41 Catholics and 17 Protestants from Kasui and about 70 other catholics from neighbouring Teor Island. Most of them were women and Photo: CNS/Reuters children, Father Bohm said. Bishop Petrus CanIsius Mandagi

People examine cars destroyed from a blast outside a Catholic school in the Indonesia's capital of Jakarta on 24 December. Photo CNS/Reuters

ed in 21 public locations, 18 of them outside churches. Cardinal Darmaatmadja invited Catholics to renew Christ's love in

their relationship with others in the form of genuine brotherhood and solidarity. He told the press that Christmas

and Id al-Fitr call on both Christians and Muslims "to be pure and pious and not to commit violence." Id al-Fitr, the feast that ends the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan, is expected to begin on 28 December with the anticipated sighting of the new moon. The cardinal called the bomb blasts on Christmas Eve "inhuman acts that victimised innocent people." Meanwhile, Din Syamsuddin, on behalf of Majelis Ulama Indonesia (Indonesian council of Islamic scholars), read a statement saying that the bombings were aimed at provoking Christians and Muslims to fight each other. It urged all believers, particularly Muslims, to remain calm and maintain unity with other religions.

Estrada leak causes diplomatic fall-out By John Norton VATICAN CITY (CNS) - A leaked Philippine foreign ministry report on the Vatican's view of President Joseph Estrada's impeachment trial provoked a diplomatic falling out between the nation's Government and the Vatican. After Philippine media seized on the report - saying the Vatican was critical of local Church involvement in moves to oust Estrada - the Vatican's nuncio there issued a statement on 19 December pledging "absolute harmony and solidarity with the

Catholic bishops of the Philippines." Fides, the Vatican's missionary news service, said the leak was "an attempt to draw the Vatican into the question (of the impeachment) for political purposes." Philippine media said the report, written by Henrietta de Villa, the country's ambassador to the Holy See, concluded that "the Vatican believes that the position taken by the local Church has placed the whole Church in a precarious situation." De Villa reportedly informed the foreign ministry that Mgr Luis Montemayor, an official at the Vat-

ican Secretariat of State, told her the Philippines' Apostolic Nuncio had been instructed to bring the local bishops in line with the Vatican position. But Archbishop Antonio Franco, the Nuncio, said on 19 December he had "received no special instructions from the Secretariat of State in dealing with the present situation." He said the Vatican "fully supports the bishops' commitment in favour of spiritual and moral values" and leaves to them the responsibility "to evaluate the concrete situations of the country and their ethical and moral implications."

Vietnamese priest calls for boycott HANOI (Fides) - A Vietnamese Catholic priest has asked the country's Bishops to launch a general boycott of religious ministry to protest against pseudo-religious freedom in Vietnam. Father Thaddeus Nguyen Van Ly, aged 53, parish priest at Nguyet Bieu, Hue archdiocese, asked the nation's Bishops not to attend Bishops' meetings or international Church meetings, to make no applications for Government permission to administer Sacraments or to accept candidates to the priesthood. Father Ly

leads a movement for freedom of religion. Fides sources in Vietnam agree with Er Van Ly's protest, but think criticism and requests should be addressed to the Goverrunent rather than the Bishops. In the meantime the priest's house has been surrounded by police, his telephone lines have been cut and his personal computer confiscated. Fides sources in the local Church fear the Communist Party intends to eliminate Fr Ly as a "trouble maker". Harassment of Fr Van Ly, arrested, tried and given

varying sentences in the 1970s, resumed after he issued and diffused on 3 December, via e-mail, a ten-point appeal denouncing repression and control of the Church in Vietnam. On 4 December, in protest against the Government's seizure of Church property and restriction on their activities, Fr Ly and parishioners planted a large banner with the words "We need Freedom of Religion" on church land and began to sow seed. Public security cadres arrived immediately and engaged in acts of intimidation.

General and Bishop meet on security fears ATAMBUA, Indonesia (UCAN) A General has met with the local Catholic Bishop to discuss security amid bomb threats alarming both Muslims and Christians in Atambua in the run up to Christmas and Id al-Fitr. Divine Word Bishop Antonius Pain Ratu of Atambua told reporters that "many important and crucial things" pertaining to people's security were taken up on 20 December during his closed

meeting with Major General Williem da Costa. General da Costa did not make a statement as he left the Bishop's residence in Atambua, which is some 2,000 kilometres east of Jakarta in west Timor, part of Indonesia's Nusa Tenggara Timur province. Nonetheless, Bishop Pain Ratu said he believes that the General, a Nusa Tenggara Timur native, "will not let his native land face disaster." The Bishop also miter-

ated his call at other pre-Christmas meetings for Catholics, Muslims and other believers to stay "calm and vigilant." According to Father Malcsi Alo Bria, diocesan Youth Commission chairman, rumours of Christmas and Id al-Fitr bombings have spread in the area over the last two weeks. Id al-Fitr, the Muslim festival that ends the fasting month of Ramadan, is expected to begin on 28 December.

Bishops urge Sri Lankan MPs to live up to faith COLOMBO (UCAN) - Bishops have urged Catholic members of Sri Lanka's new Parliament to live up to their faith as Catholics and to create a new political culture. Bishop Oswald Gomis of Anuradhapura, President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference in Sri Lanka, told Catholic parliamentarians at a recent meeting that they are called by God to serve the nation "in perfect self-sacrifice." Though members of Parliament, they are "primarily Catholics," he said at the meeting at Lankaramaya. the Bishops' Confer-

ence Secretariat in Colombo. Eighteen Catholics were elected to the 225-seat legislative body on 10 October. Bishop Gomis called on the lawmakers to value the good of the people over self-interest and party concerns. Exhorting them to "try to build a new political culture," he warned that the "prestige of politicians is hardly existent today" and that "unethical politics is only providing fodder for a revolution." Referring to the 17-year war between Tamil separatists and the Government, Bishop Gomis said, "Our people are tired

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of the war. They crave for peace. . . . Try to work out a just solution to the problem and we will have peace." He urged that this "national crisis" be their priority. The Bishop also reminded the parliamentarians of their obligations toward the Catholic community, particularly citing "injustices that are happening to the Catholic community in the field of education." They should live a "just and proper" life and sponsor the Catholics' causes, he urged. Catholics in Sri Lanka have been

lobbying the government to return Catholic schools that had been nationalised in 1960, and to extend to Catholics and other groups educational concessions that have been given to Muslims. Government-run schools with more than 50 per cent Muslim students presently are headed by Muslim principals and are called "Muslim schools." Other issues also were raised and discussed during the most recent of such occasional meetings between the Bishops and Parliamentarians.

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Archdiocesan Panorama JUBILEE YEAR MASSES AT BULLSBROOK A t the Shrine of the Virgin of the Revelation. 36 Chittering Rd. Bullsbrook. The celebration of the Midday Mass for the Jubilee Year at the Shrine is discontinued after 31 Dec. A new time table for celebrations at the Shrine will be available for the c oming year. Inquiries: SACRI 9447 3292.

NEW YEAR'S EVE ALL NIGHT VIGIL AND MIDNIGHT MASS

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Principal celebrant: Archbishop Hickey. Sun 31 Dec to Mon 1 January 2001. Begins 11pm at St Mary's Cathedral, Victoria Square. Holy Rosary. R econciliation, followed by Midnight Mass and Prayer of Dedication of the New Millennium to the protection of Mary. 6.45am Holy Mass.

Mon 1 Jan 2001. 10.30am Feast of the Circumcision: Tues 2 Jan. 7pm Feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesus: Fri 5 Jan First Friday Mass and devotions: Sat 6 Jan 10.30am Feast of the Epiphany. St John's Pro-Cathedral, Victoria Ave. A ll welcome. Inq: Fr Michael Rowe 9341 6267.

Join us for one of our Summer Schools. Either 714 Jan or 14-21 Jan at Bunbury Cathedral Grammar School. Registration forms at the back of the Church or ring Julie Osman 9342 3707 (W), 9245 3701 (H) or 0413 303 769 (7am to 9pm) for details.

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Held on 6 Jan. Mass at 8.30am at St Anne's Church, Hehir St. Belmont. We proceed prayerfully to the Rivervale abortion centre and conclude with Rosary, led by Fr Paul Carey SSC. Please join us. Inquiries: Helen 9402 0349.

Cross Roads Community is holding a weekly support group for the addicted and those recovering from addictions each Thursday afternoon from 1.30-3pm at 26 East St. East Fremantle. All are very welcome. Inquiries: Glenda 9319 8344.

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The First Friday Mass, procession and Rosary Vigil will be held on 5 Jan, commencing at 9.30am with Mass at St Brigid's Church. Midland. The Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate will lead us. A ll are invited to witness for the sanctity of life. A LLIANCE OF THE TWO HEARTS A LL-NIGHT VIGIL Fri 5 Jan at Our Lady of Mercy Church. Girrawheen (cnr Patrick Crt/Girrawheen Ave). Vigil begins at 9pm with Holy Mass, followed by Exposition, hourly prayers and reflection. Benediction at 6.30am followed by Holy Mass. Please join us.

Holy Mass 9am every Sunday. followed by Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. Rosary and Benediction (except for last Sun of month). Mass. Exposition and Rosary on Tues and Sat at 11am. A DORATION AND CONFESSION at St Joseph's Church, Hamilton St. Bassendean every Thursday. The Blessed Sacrament is exposed following the 6.45am Mass and concludes with the Rosary and Benediction at 7pm. Confessions every Sat from 4pm to 6pm. Also on Fri half-an-hour before and after the 7pm Mass.

Bishop Peter Quinn resigns from Bunbury Diocese as baptisms, weddings and funerals and Continued from Page! couples for marriage. preparing Over two years, 70 lay people had gone A 'city man' by birth and training, Bishthrough the program, which helped to address the daily needs of a geographical- op Quinn said his appointment to Bunbury ly large and sprawling but sparsely-popu- had been a new experience. "It took me a while to get accustomed to lated diocese. rural distances, the `scatterdness' of the The Mustard Seed program was similar and the challenges involved in that people and was held over two years, assisted by he said. Church," the for the Bunbury Diocese's Director of Adult It was out of this that another initiative to supported and Chiera Education, Fr Tony conquer the tyranny of rural distance by Notre Dame University in Fremantle developed. and Marist Fr Tom Ryan SM of the same For several years now the Diocese has university. broadcast quarterly programs on faith eduThe focus on laity had been a keynote of cation via the State Government's Westlink his time as Bishop, Bishop Quinn said, television education service, the most adding that the ordination of permanent recent of which saw Bishop Quinn going deacons, many of them married men, had on the air to sum up the Great Jubilee Year also helped address his Diocese's special and its themes to audiences spread needs. throughout the Diocese's boundaries. Those who sought ordination to the dia"I've got a great sense of admiration for conate had been given an additional 12- priests and the challenges they face in month formation after studying in pastoral remoter areas, particularly at this time in courses; at one time the Diocese had 13 history when religion isn't the 'flavour of permanent deacons. the month'," he said, noting "They can be Although he had ordained the first group occasionally disappointed when their of deacons in 1983 the initiative had come efforts receive such little response." from his predecessor, Bishop Myles McKNevertheless, he pointed out, "There's eon. tremendous loyalty out there in the people Death has reduced the current figure of of the Church. permanent deacons to 11 but, after recent "Many want to face the challenges of the consideration by Bunbury's Council of changing times with new strategies and Priests and its Diocesan Pastoral Council, styles, but sometimes they can become another seven men are preparing for ordi- frustrated because they feel unable to nation to the permanent diaconate. experiment. Working on a part-time and unpaid basis "One of the big challenges for those in in the service of their local Church, per- authority in the Church is to recognise manent deacons have supplemented where change may be for the good, and parishes that might otherwise have need- where diversity of ministry may be accepted a curate - officiating at ceremonies such able or damaging to the [Church's] unity

and orthodoxy" On Thursday 21 December members of the Diocese gathered at Bunbury Catholic College to celebrate Bishop Quinn's Golden Jubilee. Archbishop Barry Hickey of Perth, Bishop Justin Bianchini of Geraldton, former Auxiliary Bishop of Perth, Robert Healy, and other WA priests participated. A Bunbury Diocesan source estimated that between 100 and 200 people attended and that, despite an earlier interview in the Bunbury newspaper, the Bishop's announcement of his resignation at the end of the Mass had come as a surprise to a number of people. After Mass Fr Ian Cunningham spoke about the Bishop, followed by Kaye Seeber and David Maguire, the former and current chairs of the Bunbury Diocesan Pastoral Council respectively, who spoke on behalf of the people of the Diocese. A picnic luncheon was held in the grounds of the college afterwards. Bishop Peter Quinn was ordained to the priesthood in Rome on 21 December 1950 by Cardinal Fumasoni Biondei, Prefect of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. He became an Auxiliary Bishop of Perth in 1969. Bishop Quinn was also the priest asked by Archbishop Redmond Prendiville to implement changes at the Church marriage tribunal in Perth. When he returned to Perth from studies and work abroad in March 1955, it was Fr Quinn under whom the Perth tribunal evolved from an occasional and ad hoc existence into a regular feature of Church life in the Archdiocese. Aged less than 23 when he became a

priest, the young Fr Quinn was one of a group of six ordained several months early in order for their ordination to fall within the Holy Year of 1950. He was also one of the first group of 20 students to begin studying at St Charles Seminary in Guildford when it opened its doors for the first time in 1942. After studying at St Charles' he was selected to go to Rome to study at Propaganda Fide, the missionary college administered by the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. He studied there from 1947 to 1951, completed a doctorate in Canon Law and worked briefly in the Diocese of Boston in the United States before returning to Perth and being assigned to his home parish of Highgate and part-time work on maniage tribunal matters for five years. He was then secretary to Archbishop Prendiville for another five years until 1965 when he was made the pioneer parish priest of St Gerard's in Mirrabooka. From the end of 1968 he was made administrator of the St Mary's Cathedral Parish, a position he held for only a few months before being appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Perth in 1969. Then aged 41, he was one of the youngest Bishops in Australia and spent the next 13 years in Nedlands combining duties as a parish priest and Auxiliary Bishop. It was in 1982 that he became Bishop of Bunbury, succeeding Bishop Myles McKeon who had been Bishop there since 1969 and who himself resigned for health reasons. Bishop McKeon still lives in the Bunbury Diocese.

The Record, December 28 2000 Page 15

The Last Word

Newman College opens new chapel By Anthony Barich

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ewman College in Churchlands now has its own chapel after six months and $1.8 million worth of work, with more still to be done. Archbishop Barry Hickey was on hand on Tuesday 19 December to bless the chapel, dedicated to Saint Marcellin Champagnat, the founder of the Marist Brothers, and concelebrate its first-ever Mass. The Mass, backed by a school choir singing traditional church hymns, was packed to the rear doors and was concelebrated with six other priests, including Newman chaplain Fr Gerard Holohan - who is also the Director of Religious Education for WA - and Wembley-Floreat parish priest Fr Paul Fogarty The chapel is modern but simplistic in design, with an emphasis on glass to see God's creation outside and to integrate it into the students' faith, according to college principal, Marist Brother Stephen Bugg. The chapel also has a reconciliation room, a seminar room, a chaplain's room and a sacristy. "It is a place for sacred connections, between the Marist Brothers and the school community; between the college and the West Australian community," Br Bugg said. The chapel also has two huge digital screens for hymn lyrics to be read from and will soon be "plugged in" to the Internet for showing religious images, Br Bugg said. In his homily, Archbishop Hickey said, "It is important that a college should have its own chapel, as it is where students will learn about the faith, appreciate God's teachings, receive the sacraments and learn that God must be the centre of their lives." "Chapels become holier as the years go on as people come to feel the presence of God in this sacred place. "Many people will have

special moments in here." Previous to the construction of the new chapel, students used the school amphitheatre for school Masses, and sometimes the Holy Rosary church located nearby. The Archbishop called on the students of the college to participate in the Church. "We are connected to a liturgical way of life, and this chapel will enable the students to be more active in that," he said. "It is a place of learning, encouragement and prayer." The Brothers expect to install a huge double-sided stained-glass window representing Saint Marcellin Champagnat at the back of the chapel which will cost approximately $75,000. A baby Grand Piano, worth $20,000, and a shrine to Mary the Mother of God will be installed when the funding is attained.

Striking background: Fr Gerard Nolohan, top left, concelebrates the first Mass in Newman's new chapel, with Archbishop Barry Hickey and Fr Paul Fogarty. Earlier, the Archbishop, below, sprinkled holy water throughout the interior as part of the chapel blessing ceremony.

The lights of Newman College's new chapel, dedicated to Marist Brothers' Founder Saint Marcellin Champagnat, glow in the early evening on 19 December, the first occasion Mass was celebrated in the chapel. Photographs Anthony 13,3007

Trinity studentt• gia Calcutta llinity College, East Perth, student Alex Coulsen, pictured right, wishes a Hindu beggar Happy Christmas on the streets of Calcutta before doing the same to a Muslim standing at the rear on Christmas Eve. Alex is one of 12 young people from Perth, nine of them Trinity College students, who have given up their summer holidays this year to spend five weeks in India doing things like washing dying people rescued from the streets of Calcutta, shaving patients and cleaning bed linen. While there, their experiences and impressions will be recorded on film for a documentary which is planned for later release to national Australian television. A journalist, a film director and a cameraman are accompanying the group.

Todd Flanagan, a teacher and freelance journalist from Trinity College, told The Record earlier this month that funding for the project had come from the Christian Brothers, Trinity College and the Minister for Cultural Affairs through Screenwest, the organisation that promotes WAs film industry. Mr Flanagan, the assistant coordinator for the trip, will also produce the planned documentary. He said the group would work in orphanages run by the Salesians, at Mother Teresa's home for the dying in Calcutta and attend midnight Mass at the Missionaries of Charity headquarters in that city on Christmas Eve. The exercise is aimed at challenging the young Aussies through humanitarian work and putting their faith into action.

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