The Record Newspaper 26 November 1981

PLEA FOR AID TO

DISABLED

Archbishop Goody pictured giving his h omily at the Christ the K ing Fest ival in Supreme Court Gardens. At lowe r right Bishop Healy wh o carr i ed the Blessed Sacrame nt and gave benediction wa s accompanied by Fat hers Sp roxto n and Ryan of St Mar y 's Cathedral

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Archbishop Goody called on priests to remove physical barriers to the disabled and prayed for the parents of the disabled to be strengthened in faith when he addressed several thousand people in Supreme Court Gardens for the Christ the King Eucharistic Festival on Sunday night.

Linking the theme of the International Year of the Disabled, Break Down the Barriers, Archbishop Goody said:

"There are no barriers here between us and Him who said: 'Come unto me all you who labour and are heavily burdened and I will refresh you.' "He did what He said and thousands flocked to Him to receive health , encouragement , and instruction. He also clearly indicated that we could imitate Him when He said: 'Anything you did for the least of those who are mine, you did for me'."

Citing Saint Margaret of Scotland and Elizabeth of Hungary whose feasts occurred last week, Archbishop Goody continued:

Follow example

"Their example is being followed by thousands today, often too with women in the forefront. God bless them ." Archbishop Goody concluded his prayer for the disabled:

• May the disabled themselves take courage from the strength of Christ and from His lowly and gracious approach to us. Let them understand that we too are anxious to be their supportive friends.

• May parents of the disabled, if they feel anger and

frustration at their fate, know how Our Lord will sustain them and appreciate from our actions how we too are with them in their difficulties. May such parents be given the faith which sustained Mary in her sorrows even at the foot of the cross

• May priests do all they can in their pastoral ministry and in the practical arrangement of their church and other buildings to remove any physical barriers which may exist and even more to lessen the tendency of so many of us to shy away from the unusual and the inconvenient.

My dear priests, give the sacraments frequently to all who can possibly receive them.

• May governments, authorities of all kind and all society see the needs, appreciate their responsibilities and take appropriate action.

Earlier in his homily, Archbishop Goody had said:

"When during this Year of the Disabled we spare a moment to consider what we might and could do to recognise the problem and help to alleviate it , let us not leave aside the first and most potent source of courage and

Iachievement, the promised help of Jesus Christ our Saviour."

He said that groups would receive hope and encouragement from Jesus' words : "Do you labour? I will refresh }OU. Are you heavily burdened? I will give you rest. Are you blind or halt or deaf or lame? I have come to bring good new s to the poor , sight for the blind and freedom to captives."

Before Christ

Referring to the gospel of the Sunday which spoke of all nations being assembled before Christ in judgement, Archbishop Goody said:

"Tonight in these gardens we have in microcosm, in a representative way, a gathering of all peoples before Our Lord's throne of glory.

"We are here in all our variety: Young and old, men and women, academics and business men, professionals and workers, healthy and disabled, wise and not so wise, all worshipping before Him.

"What does each individual expect to hear from Jesus: His blessing surely: 'Come you blessed of my Father, enter into the joy of the kingdom prepared for you'."

FRANK SHEED DIES

NEW JERSEY: Frank Sheed, the renowned Australian-born lay theologian of this century

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E D 8 4 and f~m«;>Us lecturer, apologist and publisher, has died m St Francis Hospital, New Jersey, at the age of 84.

He wa s the author of such books ary degree of Doctor of ic , and a daughter , Rosemary "We would talk it out with as !heology and Sanity and Theology In an interview last August, them When people found that Society and Sanity , which Sheed developed his talent for Sheed recalled the thorough we weren't waiting to pounce on explained theology in a lucid discussing religion and theology training members of the Catholic them, that we only wanted to style. in down-to-earth terms as a street Evidence Guild received before know what they thought so we Hi~ remarkable career is epi- corner lecturer 3:t London's Hyde going out to speak about could talk it out with them, we tom1sed by the fact that the man Park corner with the Catholic Cathohc doctrme on street got real, genuine dialogue." who never attended a Catholic Evidence Guild. corners. After an initial 26-weekschool or studied at a Catholic He was born in Sydney to a course, they attended a two or After World War II, television theological college was eventu- Catholic mother and a non- three-year course in Catholic diminished the size of crowds in ally one of the first lay men in Catholic father who had aban- theology. the streets, he recalled. memory to be granted the honor- doned religion in favour of "Th d. 1 ·th h h kl Marxism, even though his pater- teh ika ogu~ wt_ t e ec ers I d t h was e ey pomt m street corner na gran _paren s were staunc preaching,, She d .d Presbytenans. , e sat • He was educated at state schools before taking up the study of law "We learned two things very at Sydney University. early on:

Confusion grew

Went to Britain

Midway through law studies, he went to England "for a year."

Though he later returned to comple te work for the law degree , he took up permanent residence in England

Working wi th the Catholi c Evidence Guild , he met Maisie Ward , whom he married in 1926. They had two ch ildren, Wilfrid, who became a noveli st and crit -

"First of all, you must never raise a laugh at another person's expense. Never. If you do, you've put him further away from God as a result of his resentment.

"Second, we learned that we must never talk ot victory over a heckler, never argue to get the other man to admit that the Church is right and he is wrong.

"More seriously , however, we we~e affected by the growing confus10n about what the Church taught.

"~t got to be the case that any pnest was apt to say anything from his pulpit

"I think I can safely say that there is not one Catholic doctrine or moral teaching that I have not " In s tead ," Sh eed continued , heard denied in the pulpit." "our aim wa s to tell people what the Church taught and then get them to tell us what they thought

(Continued Pg. 3) of it.

Social justi·CI, conf.e.rence ·

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Six Catholics were among the 35 members of 10 churches who met last Saturday at St Mary's Leederville centre to compare attitudes and explore the possibility of joint action in the area of social justice.

Most of those who The Church in The Modattended did so at the ern World. request of their respective As a result, there had heads of churches. been a growth of commitRepresentatives of the tees for justice and develPerth Archdiocesan Com- opment both at the mittee for Justice and national and the diocesan Development and from level, as had happened in Cent~ecare attended the Australia. meetm_g at the reque st of One Catholic observer at Archbishop Goody. the meeting said that hear-

Each church presented a ing how different churches paper on the background went about dealing with and approach of their social issues pointed up the church to the matter of diversity of involvement by social justice. different church groups and how much the history Father John Gherardi gave a comprehensive review of Catholic initiatives in this field particularly after the publishing in 1891 of the encyclical of Pope Leo XIII on working class problems of the denominational groups had an influence on their involvement. The numerical size of a denomination also had to be taken into consideration, the observer noted

He pointed out that fresh impetus was given to Catholic social teaching by the encyclical letters of Pope John XXIII, Paul VI and John Paul II, but most of all from the Second Vatican Council statement

With a big numerical membership in a body such as the Catholic Church it was obviously harder to get communication and consensus from members compared with a comparatively smaller church

Pictured speaking with Anglican Assistant Bishop Michael Challen (second from right) are Catholics who attended last Saturday's inter-church meeting on social justice. They are (left to right) Mrs Janet Hay, Miss Pat Dolan, Sister • Loreto, Mrs Anne Fox, Miss Margaret Collopy and Father John Gherardi.

Two of the new expanding outer suburban parishes receive assistant priests for the first time in clergy appointments announced by Archbishop Goody this week. group.

CHARITY APPEAL

A letter from Archbishop Goody launching the annual Catholic Charities Appeal for 1981 will be read out at all Masses this weekend in churches throughout the archdiocese.

In his letter, Archbishop Goody said that the $45,000 raised in the 1981 appeal had proved "we do in practice what we preach."

He said that the appeal, which extends from the first Sunday of Advent until December 20, would provide funds to alleviate distress among the needy and underprivileged.

The following welfare activities of the Church would benefit from the Appeal: Children in care; migrants; families in need; natural family planning; the Apostolate of the Deaf; the Aboriginal Apostolate; intellectually handicapped people; and Emmanuel Centre for Disabled Persons.

The $44,400 raised in the 1980 appeal was distributed as follows:

Centrecare children's cottages $10,000; Aboriginal Apostolate for chaplaincy and Mass Centre $7000; child care subsidy for each child in Catholic residential child care facilities $7000; Centrecare family guidance and welfare services $5000; Catholic Immigration Office $5000; Apostolate for the Deaf for chaplaincy, and religious education services $4,400; religious support for intellectually handicapped $4000; Natural Family Planning Centre $2000

Father Gherardi

Father John Gherardi will work in the apostolate to Aborigines along with Father Bryan Tiernan, Pallottine, archdiocesan chaplain to Aborigines. Originally from Spearwood, Father Gherardi was educated at CBC Fremantle and graduated in science and economics at the University of WA. For several years he worked as an industrial chemist and taught at New Norcia before entering St Paul's Seminary, Kensington (NSW), to study for the priesthood.

Following his ordination in 1976 he was appointed assistant priest in Osborne Park following which he was for two years research officer with the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace.

On his return to Perth earlier this year he was appointed assistant priest at Hamersley.

Father Donald Sproxton of St Mary's Cathedral will become secretary to the archbishop in succession to Father P.G.J. O'Reilly who has been appointed administrator of the cathedral.

Father Sproxton was educated in his home suburb of Bayswater, at St Mark's College Bedford and at CBHS Highgate before studying for the priesthood at Guildford and Adelaide, following which he was ordained in 1977. His first appointment was as assistant priest at St Mary's Cathedral where he has been an assistant cha- • plain to Trinity Junior School and has been in charge of the East Perth section of the parish. He was appointed cathedral master of ceremonies two years ago.

Father Pires

Father Anthony Pires of Mirrabooka parish will transfer to St Mary's Cathedral as assistant priest. Originally from Bentley, Father Pires had his early schooling at Castledare, Clontarf and later Trinity College before training for i the priesthood at St Cha-

rles' Seminary Guildford and St Francis Xavier Seminary Adelaide.

Following his ordination in 1977 he was appointed assistant priest in Mirrabooka.

fat her Gordon Howell, newly ordained, will take the place of.,Father Pires as assistant priest at Mirrabooka.

Father Howell became a Catholic in 1971 and worked for five years as a cook before training for the priesthood first at Guildford and Adelaide and concluding his studies at Corpus Christi College, Clayton, before his ordination earlier this year.

tree Gully Road, Willetton. Father Cronin came originally from England an d spent some time in army service before working as a boilermaker-welder in several countries before coming to Australia. Following his studies at St Paul's Seminary Kensington he was ordained earlier this

already foreshadowed his career in physics studies

Father Trevor Simons, newly ordained, will succeed Father John Gherardi as assistant priest at Hamersley.

Father Simons had his early education with the Jesuits in Bombay before coming to Australia 15 years ago. He spent eight years with the public service before entering St Paul's Seminary Kensington to train for the priesthood, following which he was ordained earlier this year.

Father Kevin Cronin, newly ordained, will become the first assistant priest in the expanded Brentwood-Willetton parish and will live with Father Richard Doyle P.P. at the new presbytery built earlier this year on Pine-

Father Greg Donovan, newly ordained, who becomes the first assistant priest in the expanding northern parish of Whitfords where Father Nicholas Mcsweeney is parish priest, comes originally from Como and had worked in banking and the public service as well as full time parish duties before entering St Paul's Seminary Kensington to study for the priesthood prior to his ordination earlier this year.

Father Donovan

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CHRIST IS NOT ONLY A MAN

Archbishop Goody warned the Christ the King congregation in Supreme Court Gardens about a recent devotional tendency to II downgrade the status of our Saviour Jesus Christ to that of a man only." During his homily, Arch- man worthy of our imitabishop Goody said that he tion, but less mention is was "sounding a note of made of Him being comcaution" on such religious pletely and truly God as and devotional trends. well - worthy not just of He continued: imitation, but of adora"A great teacher, sure; a tion; not only full of com~an of love and compas- passion and kindness but s1on, a man of sorrows, a also to be our just and

IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY

p~netrat~ng judge. My Lord and my God! On ~his f~ast of th~ eter- "The tendency I speak of nal Kmgsh1p of. Chnst , as sometimes shows itself in a we gaze upon His real sac- tremendous growth of ramental presenc~ ~e devotion and prayer to the s~ould ren.e"." ?ur fai th m Holy Spirit at the expense h1_s true d1vmity nd say occasionally of Jesus with Th~mas agam st all Christ, the Son of God and the sceptics of our time: of His gospel teaching.

"Renewed and strengthened recognition of the life-giving role of the Holy Spirit is a wonderful thing

so long as we do not forget that we are Christians, and not Jews of the Old Testament nor pneumatics of some new revelation.

Worship

"Nor should we forget that Christ is our saviour, and His is the only name by which we can be saved; that He is the divine Son of God worthy of all worship and praise and thanksgiving.

"That he requested His Father to send upon us the Holy Spirit of them both to illuminate us to under-

ABOVE: Bishop Healy gives Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. stand Christ's gospel of peace, to strengthen us to LEFT: Children hold candles while prayers are offered for the follow Christ, the Way the disabled. Truth and the Life, to inspire us with love of God

BELOW: Children from Mary's Mount school, Gooseberry Hill, and of our neighbours dramatise Jesus' concern for the disabled. through Jesus Christ Our Lord."

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"LOVE ONE ANOTHER AS I HAVE LOVED YOU"

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The firm also published translations of such continental authors as philosopher Jacques Maritain, poet Paul Claude! and novelist Francois Mauriac and Leon Bloy.

Atlantic three times a year. In 1940, the family moved to the United States and settled in Jersey City.

Of the publishing venture Sheed said "We did

11 When nobody knew any longer what the Church taught, nobody felt called upon to go out and tell people what the Church taught," Sheed said. Sheed and his wife, Maisie, who died in 1975, founded Sheed and Ward in London in October, 1926, six months after their marriage, with a capital investment of 2,000 pounds (then about $8,000).

In addition to Hilaire Belloc and G. K. Chesterton, two major figures in an English Catholic intellectual revival then in progress, authors published by Sheed and Ward included Christopher Dawson, a cultural historian, Edward I. Watkin, a philosopher, Dominican Father Vincent McNabb, Msgr Ronald Knox and Jesuit Father C. C. Martindale.

In later years, its authors included French theologian Father Henri de Lubac, the controversial Swiss-born theologian Father Hans Kung, philosopher Etienne Gilson and German theologian Father Karl Rabner.

In 1933 the New York branch of Sheed and Ward was founded and Sheed began travelling across the

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In the years after the sale Buy a Brick Campaign! of the company, Sheed devoted most of hi time to NAME lecturing at universities and to other speaking ADDRESS engagements. The funeral took place on Tuesday in St Patrick's Cathedral in ew York City, where Cardinal No. of Bricks Cooke of New York was at 50C per brick celebrant of the Mass.

Buried in the avalanche of words that poured through the communications industry this week was the revealing fact that in Russia the citizens had not been able to hear or read all of German Chancellor Schmidt's address to President Brezhnev because Pravda had censored out certain strategic paragraphs relating to Russian nuclear missiles.

Last month as a tight-rope confrontation took place over the Russian submarine beached on a Swedish strategic site and world-wide cameras and microphones relayed every moment of the drama, it was at least a week before the Russian public was even told that one of their submarines was involved and then it was dismissed as a matter of no consequence.

The ironic non-news of such absences of information inside the Russian structure is that nobody knows what is not being said.

There are possibly some compensations

The Russian public must surely be spared the annual monotony of being force-fed the pulp that emanates from such nonevents as the Miss World contest or the umpteenth awards extravaganza for the worst show of the year.

They might even be spared also the illusion that every time a member of President Reagan's cabinet or-€ntourage looks sideways it is something of a world crisis. One wonders just how far the ripples travelled from the splashes made by politicians toppling in Australia over the past year or so.

Archbishop Ramsay of Canterbury once said on his return from a visit to Russia that he lived with the constant feeling that not everyone was telling the truth.

Compared with the brutalisation of humanity that has gone on in the name of the Russian socialist experiment whether in the starvation of the Ukraine, the millions who have vanished in the slave camps or the ultimate sophistication of commitment to a mental institution, the loss of public information might seem trivial.

Nevertheless, in the order of values the contrived and sustained lie is the final obscene weapon against the human mind because the brutality and genocide of the Russian, Chinese, and other communist systems - as well as the destruction camps of Nazi Germany -feed on the very fact that the majority of the people will never be able to know the whole truth.

The miracle of the transistorised radio is not that the spectators at the cricket can tune in to a more informed, if less expletive, commentary on the game than they are hearing from the yobbos on the hill.

Like the wrist watch which handcuffs humanity with a new ulcer-causing grip, the transistor radio has become the new addiction. From president, popes, and prime ministers down to a household laundry it chatters away not simply to

entertain but always with the ghoulish expectation that if anything worthwhile happens or needs to be said then the sound waves are switched on.

So far the impact of this new phenomenon is hard to measure but it is transforming the part people play or rather do not play in government.

Merely broadcasting or televising ~overnment debate has not enhanced public admiration for or increased involvement in the national decisions. The constant and relentless snap appearances of politicians all day every day on every topic is reducing government to a prncess of concealment and not openness.

What ought to be of supreme concern is that the necessary selective nature of modern news services - and it is the pub1ic tolerance that is as much to blame as the newscasters - lulls a tiny fragment of society into the belief that like the missing paragraphs of Chancellor Schmidt's speech, the vast populations of the Third World from whom scarcely a word is heard, do not in fact exist.

Laci< of teaching limits numbers

Sif~ your lea;~:::i:i:: :~:~s::e::rd, November

5) you state that some 50 per cent of the Catholic population no longer visit a church even BUCHAREST Romania Three for Christmas or Easter.

Romanian Rite Catholic bishops, The Wanneroo 1981 Catholic children attend- sendingacopyofthedirec- secretly ordained in the 1950's have Dire Ct Ory W hi Ch ing government schools, tory to interested persons. appealed to the Helsinki Conference reports an increase in whose parents are unable to force the Romanian government population over 1 2 to afford the fees or who Editors note: The source years from 4000 to cannot arrange transport of the figure 50% is a count to recognise their rite which was supover 86,000 includes for their children because made three years ago of pressed by the country's communist of the distance. persons attending Mass in I • 1 948 the following figures. all archdiocesan churches ru ers m

Among 37 churches there are three Roman Catholic, five Church of England, three Baptist, three Church of Christ, three Uniting Church.

Among nine high schools there are two Catholic high schools at Sorrento and Koondoola. Among 34 primary schools there are ,five Catholic schools at Whitfords, Wanneroo, Koondoola, Greenwood and Girrawheen.

There are numbers of

gious education is given to compared with the Com-

IBISHOPS' PLEA I

Very little, if any, reli- on Christmas Day, and The appeal says:

"We want to be recognised as an official sect among all the children in these monwealth census total of others in Romania. schools as there are only Catholics in the archdioce-

"We want to have either our churches, which were four Catholic parishes. son territory. expropriated 30 years ago, returned to us or the right to build new ones.

Perhaps this explains why A count was taken on the 50% of Catholics do not first Sunday of Lent and attend church. It is too produced a figure of less great a hardship as the than 30% of the archdiocemajority are young mar- san Catholic population rieds living in this area with attending Mass.

small children as is evidenced when one attends Mass at any of these three churches in the district.

The Wanneroo shire offices are very co-operative in

The Wanneroo Shire Directory appears to have overlooked a fourth Catholic parish and church: Our Lady of Mercy at Girrawheen.

BOMB MAY

"We want to be recognised officially as bishops and priests and have the right to pray openly as do the other sects in our country.

"We want to have our own seminaries in order to train future priests.

"We want monasteries and convents for those you ng people who want to go to them.

"We want printing offices of our own and the possibility to disseminate freely our clerical and religious material.

"We want radio and television time in order to convey our faith freely and even to combat atheism.

"We want our own newspapers and religious magazines."

The Romanian Rite is an Eastern-Rite Catholic Church. Toe Latin-Rite Catholic Church has bee n allowed to exist by the Romanian government Most of the Romanian-Rite members are ethnic Romanians, while most of the Latin-Rite members are Hungarians and members of other minorities.

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AT PEACE

from John C. Veszely, Nollamara Sir,

The bishops of Canada condemned the USA for deciding to develop and make neutron bombs. (The Record November 19.)

One may wonder why condemning the USA would help to maintain peace, and not condemning the USSR, which has already developed the most potent arsenal of all times. Which country incidentally, not only developed their destructive capacity but used it.

lt crushed the Hungarians freedom aspiration 25 years ago. · It imposed its

will through the Red Army

The neutron bomb is the only piece of armament, which may deter the USSR from acts of war! Its existence would spell out to the Soviet generals and politicians, that their three or four times over superiority in conventional weapons will not guarantee them victory. Hence they may be fo~ced to keep the peace!

FIRE FIENDS

in Czechoslovakia in 1968 which helped in Africa t~ destroy every democratic initiative and imposed its from L.M. Lake, puppets on the unfortu- Wembley nate subject nations, whose Now that summer is with proxies in Indo-China us, the backyard incendiaroppressed Kampuchea and ists will again plague Laos : neighbours as they burn The bishops quoted the rubbish with selfish disres~cond Vatican Councils gard for others Windows views: "Any act of war will have to be closed on aimed indis~riminately at warm evenings while suft~: de~truct10~ of w~ole fering citizens battle to c1t1es 1s a cnme agamst save the contents and inteGod and humanity itself." riors of houses from the The only reason why smoky odour of 'unWa hington decided on sanctity' emanating from the neutron warhead was domestic incinerators that - as clearly declared by should b~ banne? by law. the Administration - Housewives trymg to dry because the USSR has washing will have to make strengthened its forces to frantic dashes to clothes the extent that today they hoists to bring in garments outnumber the USA by that will otherwise stink some 3: I or in tanks for for days instance 5: l. Surely there should be

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TAX UNFAIR TO SINGLE WAGE

from Father L. Cusack, Bairnsdale, Victoria Sir,

Is it fair that a wife who works at home receives for her family a $4,041 tax free zone and $800 spouse rebate whereas another wife works away from home and her family is given an $8,082 tax free zone?

A third wife works at

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,WARNING TO THE CHURCH

ZYRARDOW, Poland

(NC) - Lech Walesa, leader of Solidarity, Poland's independent union movement, said the Catholic Church should avoid becoming too closely linked to the movement in case it fails.

"The Church should not get totally engaged in our affairs, because if we lose, and we could, we must leave something behind The Church must always be with our nation," Walesa said to leaders of 12,000 striking textile workers in Zyrardow, 30 miles southwest of Warsaw.

'End poverty:'

Pope

VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II urged representatives of 152 nations to make the elimination of 11 absolute poverty" a priority in individual, group, national and international efforts.

He also criticised costly . . j development loans to M t countries unable to afford 1n 1s ry or

JERUSALEM • ARCHBISHOP CONTROVERSY

JERUSALEM - The scheduled episcopal ordination of an archbishop-designate for the Melkite-R ite patriarchal vicariate of Jerusalem did not take place after the decision to ordain him had been approved by the Vatican.

High church sources familiar with the situation disagree as to the reasons why.

The delay is tied to the tense and controversial political issues of the status of Jerusalem and of Arab-Israeli relations.

• ment obtained through h l burdensome loans from private sources or from

Omosexua r Cf sources not as sufficiently

BALTIMORE (NC) - The Baltimore Archdiocese ha~ established a formal public and pastoral ministry to homosexual men and women.

The establishment of the new ministry is both 'appropriate and essential," said a statement issued by a special fivemember task force of local priests and religious after Archbishop William Borders, of Baltimore, appointed Father Joseph B. Hughes to be coordinator of the new ministry. The task force consisted of Father Hughes, two other priests and two women religious.

Father Hughes said the 10-page rationale is one result of several months of discussions between representatives of the archdiocese, the task force and members of the homosexual community in Baltimore.

The rationale said,

·'There is a need for a ministry that is pastoral in nature, taking into account the special needs that gays and lesbians have, for a ~tructure to which families ::an turn for information rnd support, and for a means of communication through which homosexu:1.ls can address the church as a whole.

"In carrying out his mis,ion," the rationale said, 'Christ reached out in a ,pecial way to the pooro the widow and orphans, ·o the powerless and the :lespised. But in so doing, 'le nner separated himself from them.

"Whenever a certain ~oup of people is denied ,asic human rights and mffer violence to their 1Uman dignity, the Church nust seek to act in their >ehalf," the rationale said.

ual" was being used to reflect "orientation", a predominant and persistent psychosexual attraction towards persons of the same sex, rather than certain forms of behaviour.

"Because of prejudice and misunderstanding men and women with a homosexual orientation (more properly spoke of as gays and lesbians) have suffered public ridicule, social exclusion and economic hardship, thereby denigrating their human dignity by denying them respect, equality and full participation in society," the document said "The ministry is being established," the document continued, "to make it clear to all that we have not forgotten these people" and are attempting to respond to their needs."

The document also challenged homosexuals to respond to the call of Christ to "be perfect" in heart and mind, body and spirit. "With regard to our sexuality, this call to perfection is a call to form our lives according to the virtue of chastity," the document said.

r~~::ni~~ tl~~s~u~t; pope said.

He described absolute poverty as "a condition in which life is so limited by lack of food, malnutrition, illiteracy, high infant mar-

respected and valued as tality and low life expecpersons. tancy as to be beneath any

• The identity of the per- rational definition of son not be limited to sexual human decency. orientation.

• The "detrimental effects" of prejudice, misunderstanding and social exclusion not be overlooked.

• The ministry provide an "outreach to families."

• Regular lines of communication be set up so that homosexuals can be heard by the church at large.

Grave

"The persistence of such degrading poverty, and especially the lack of the absolutely basic minimum of food, is a scandal of the modern world," the pope said.

Pope John Paul spoke in English to 850 participants in the 21st conference of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).

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VATICAN CITY (NC) - "The dangers of atomic self-annihilation threaten not just a country or a continent, but all of mankind today," Pope John Paul II warned a group of Italian and German scholars meeting to discuss The Crisis of The West.

The pontiff also warned of totalitarian threats to democracy and of world instability and declared that Europe's Christian culture has a special role in overcoming the crises the world faces.

In addition to the danger of nuclear holocaust, mankind today "is hit with explosive developments in the Third World that are leading to catastrophes of famine, to a decay in social and international structures and to a spread of terrorism and violence," the pope said.

"Uncontrolled industrial and economic expansion

It said the "obligations is endangering the ecological balance. The chalconnected with sexual lenges of new forms and methods of totalitarianism expression, arising as they pose new, serious problems for parliamentary do from the very meaning democracies ," he said. of human sexuality, bind "There is a crisis of culture because of the decline all people, whether their or fading of commonly shared ideals and ethical and orientation be heterosex- religious principles that bind all together," he said. ual or homosexual." He said that Europe has been the source of ideoloStating that homosexual gies that had spread over the world as "disastrous orientation "is in no way sicknesses," but that Europe•s Christian culture had held to be a sinful condi- also provided models of "personal responsibility, tion," the document said respect for freedom , reverence for life and high homosexuals need not esteem for marriage and the family," which were the bases for a more human world. change their orientation ,

'Therefore, the archdio;ese has acted to establish a pecial ministry to people n society known as homosexual' ." but must live out the "demands of chastity within that orientation."

He said the poverty of some underdeveloped nations "cannot be attributed solely to a lack of will and commitment on the part of the population and undue enrichment on the part of a few people within communities which have recently attained independence.

"Those conditions are also perpetuated by rigid and backward economic and social structures, both national and international, structures which cannot be changed suddenly. but which need to be changed through a long and gradual process," the pope added.

Pope John Paul said development "is clearly something much more fundamental than merely economic progress measured in terms of the gross national product."

He encouraged more prosperous nations to aid developing countries by providing "adequate external support of a kind which respects their dignity and autonomy of initiative.

• "The demands of justice in world solidarity cannot be satisfied merely by the distribution of 'surpluses', even if these are adequate and timely," the pope said.

"All nations have a claim on the solidarity of all others, but the nations that see the very existence and dignity of their people threatened have a priority claim," he added. "Responding to this claim is not a luxury. It is a duty."

Pope John Paul praised the F AO conference for its "recognition of the primacy of agricultural development and food production on a national, regional and worldwide level."

He also urged further discussion of "present political planning for worldwide development, whereby it is desired to encourage developing countries to become self-reliant and to define and put into effect their own national strategy for development with a model adapted to actual conditions , capacities and the unique culture of each country."

The situation involves Father Lutfi Laham, a Basilian priest, who was named Melkite-Rite patriarchal vicar of Jerusalem in 1978 and who was scheduled to be ordained an archbishop on October 4. The ordination date was announced by Melkite-Rite Patriarch Maximos V Hakim, headquartered in Damascus, Syria. Official papal approval of the ordination was published in the September 14-15 issue of L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican daily.

The situation also involves the previous Melkite-Rite vicar for Jerusalem, Archbishop Hilarion Capucci, who was convicted in 1974 by Israeli courts of smuggling weapons to Palestinian guerrillas and served three years of a 12-year sentence.

Syria, one of the more militant anti-Israel Arab states is taking Father Laham's elevation to the episcopacy a the church's de facto recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. "We will fight this decision to the death," said a Syrian official, but he did not elaborate as to how the episcopal rank would amount to recogn itio n of Jerusalem as Israel' capital.

Arabs want Israel to return portions of Jerusalem captured by Israel from Jordan in 1967 and have mounted an international campaign against the Israeli decision to ,declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel.

Father George Rizak, secretary of the Melkite-Rite vicariate said the decision was important for Jerusalem's Melkite-Rite Catholics because it elevated the rank of their leader in the church, but it did not change the nature of Father Laham's post as patriarchial vicar.

VICIOUS FEUD IS RAGING -AGAIN

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (NC) - A ,.moral pact of non-agression" negotiated by a cardinal between two feuding families in Brazil's rural Northeast has been broken and has spread to the major coastal city of Rio de Janeiro.

The 32-year-old feud between the Alencar and Sampaia-Saraiva clans resumed at the end of October when Antonio Saraiva was murdered in Rio de Janiero. Saraiva, 37, was killed as he left his home when a car pulled up and a passenger fired at him with a shotgun. About a week later the body of Jose Roberto Sarto Alencar, 67 , also a resident of Rio de Janeiro, was found dead with four bullet holes in it.

Earlier this year Cardinal A velar Brandao Vilela , of Salvador, negotiated the moral non-aggression pact and travelled to Exu to preside at the signing of the truce by the heads of the feuding clans. At the time, 27 people had been killed and 15 wounded in the feud.

"While the conflict has deep roots, I feel optimistic about the point we have reached in the talks," said the cardinal at a Mass accompanying the signing. "This feud must end for it is a source of scandal for the nation."

The feud, mostly over political and economic control of the tiny inland town of Exu, has claimed about 30 lives since it began in 1949.

GAOL SENTENCES FOR TWO

The document stressed hat the term "homosexThe document said the new ministry would seek to insure that: • Homosexuals be BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (NC) - A court in Mostar sentenced two Catholic priests to

eight and five-and-a-half years in gaol on

charges of anti-state activities.

Father Ferdo Vlasic and become strained since Jozo Krizic, priests in a Albanian nationalist riots Franciscan monastery in last spring in the southern Duvno, a town near Mos:. autonomous province of tar were editor-in-chief Kosovo Since the riots, in and ecretary of a Catholic which at least nine people magazine published there. were killed and scores Relations between injured, the authorities' Yugoslav communist sensitivity to dissent, parauthorities and the ticularly dissent based on Catholic clergy have nationalism, has increa ed 6 The Record, November 26-December 2, 1981

Recently they have accused members of both the Catholic and Greek Orthodox clergy of involvement in political affairs as well as of stirring up nationalist feelings Nationalism is considered to be one of the major threats to the unity of federal Yugoslavia, where

nine ethnic groups and three major religions put strains on the cohesion of the country' six republics and two autonomous provinces.

Another Catholic publication, the weekly Glas Koncila (Voice of the Council), and its editor, Father Zivko Ku tic, has been in trouble with the government in the past. In July 1975 Father Ku tic was sentenced to five months in prison for "agitating against the state" and in 1973 issue of the paper were confiscated because of articles dealing with the situation of the Church in other communist countries.

The Taxation Department was John Brindley's first empl oyer when he left school, but he was there only about six months before joining the PMG where he passed examinations to work his way up from junior postal officer to third-division cle rk.

But the Commonwealth public service saw the last of him when in 1965 he was appointed secretary-manager of the Fremantle Trotting Club, a post he held until he joined Howard Porter Pty Ltd as accountant-secretary in December, 1971.

Howard Porter's grandfather ·started a coach-building b~sin:ss at Fremantle in 1893 and the company moved to its present location m the port's industrial suburb of O'Connor in 1958.

Since then it has expanded the three acres it originally occupied to 10.2 acres and it is at present establishing a sales and service outlet at Redcliffe next to the ulsen Haven children's home - a move into the heart of the ground transport area.

Employing about 200 people, mainly commercial vehicle builders and spray painters and including up to 60 apprentices, it is the biggest WA manufacturer of road transport equipme nt and probably the most di versified familyowne d company in Australasia in its field

It has a substantial involveme nt with the State's farmi ng industry , producing as it does among other thing s trailers ranging from the big bottomd isc ha rge variety down to th e s ingle-axle farm trailer and the sheep and cattle cra tes in which you see li ve stock on trucks on so ma ny of our roads.

T he company's output includes school bus bodies and it built more than 140 of the bodies on the MTTs

Mercedes 305 chassis, including six on the new Linc buses that are known by various soubriquets from Bendy Bus to Magna Carter.

Its manufacturing inventory also embraces items such as truck tray bodies, tipping bodies, semitrailers and van bodies.

John tells you this while giant vehicles in a variety of categories move in and out of the adjacent yard, telephones ring, publicaddress system messages are broadcast and men shout directions to crane operators in a scenario of busy industrial activity

None of this, however, spread into the wellinsulated comfort of his office where he patiently answered the interviewer's questions.

He admits that he preferred cricket to football, but he had a. distinguished career in both sports.

Essentially a wicketkeeper, he was more than a useful batsman and only in reply to questioning does he confirm that he scored several centuries.

By BOB B OYLE

Some of the prominent players in the arena in his first-grade days were Test batsman John Rutherford, Test all-rounder Des Hoare, Allan Edwards, Ken Meuleman, Pat McCarthy, Alan Preen, Harry Price, Ron Gaunt,

Harry Gorringe, Hugh Bevan and Bert and Basil Rigg.

John left the WACA first grade to play with the South Fremantle Footballers' Cricket Club in the Fremantle Mercantile Association with fellows

such as Charlie Tyson, Tony Parentich, Ernie Grose and Bill Calder. Cricket is quicker -

Mr John Joseph Frederick (John) Brindley, managing director of Howard Porter Pty Ltd, was born at Fremantle in 1938. Educated at St Joseph's convent and CBC Fremantle, he worked with the PMG Department from 1953-65 and was secretary-manager of the Fremantle Trotting Club from 1965-71 when he joined Howard Porter.

He completed a mature-age study course. qualified as an accountant and is a Member of the Australian Society of Accountants.

He is also an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, a Commissioner for Declarations, a member of the Company Directors' Association and a vice-president and life member of the Fremantle Trotting Club.

He was chairman of the board of management of St Brendan's College at Beaconsfield for three years, deputy-chairman for two years, president of the Christ the King parish council for five years, vice-president for three years and is a Knight of the Southern Cross.

John and his wife Dulcie May (nee Nicholls) have three sonsPaul (18), Sean (16) and Peter 14).

John played 177 league football games for South Fremantle from 1957-64 and first grade cricket with Fremantle and Bassendean-Bayswater.

moving now than when he playe d, he says, and there seems to have been some movement away from pure skills to entertainment.

"Something the same has happened to football," John believes, "with the passing of skills such as drop-kicking. The game as a spectacle has been revolutionised to match the pace of the modern world. In general it is better, and I wouldn't mind playing now myself if I were able to."

He says factors that have speeded the game up include the amendments to the kicking out-of-bounds rule, the reduction of the number of men allowed at centre bounces and the greater fitness of today's players.

Some of his South Fremantle team-mates were John Todd, John Gerovich (who was in his class at school), Tony Parentich,

Ray R ic hards, J

garn, Cliff

and Don

John is proud of the Fremantle Trotting Club, with which he has had a 16-year association and of which he is a vice-president.

Since 1965, he says, it has had a growing reputation in the harness sport. Its development of its public amenities is among the factors that has put it among the top four trotting clubs in Australia. Another is the popularity of the highlight of its calendar, the $50,000 Lombardo Marine Fremantle Pacing Cup.

Church and school worker, accountant, business leader, trotting administrator, family man and prominent cricketer and footballer would be among the likely headings in any biography of John Joseph Frederick Brindley.

The Church and family matter to him

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Hillier, Pat Daly, Barry Wh ite, Ja ck Sumich

Byfield.

A "Magna Carter" MTT bus of the type for which Howard Porter Pty Ltd built the body.

Schools exhibition

preliminary rounds each received a hand crafted Swedish crystal art piece valued at $150. In the third and fourth programmes the two teams challenged each other. WA emerged the team winners and each received a Sony Bettacord video recorder valued at $800, and the three South Australian team members received the

MUSICAL GIFT _GIVES BEAUTY TO WORSHIP

The congregation at St Patrick's Church, Fremantle, ha·s good reason to be thankful to the Depression.

Without it they may not have had the talents of organist Beryl Owen for the past 28 years.

Young Beryl began learning to play the piano at the age of ~ix. She went on to complete Trinity College exams, until the age of 17, picking up a couple of gold and silver medals along the way.

She could see her future in the keyboard but fate had different plans.

The Depression years were hard and everyone who could work, did. The family needed money so Beryl went to business college and embarked on a secretarial career instead.

Her music Letters remained uncompleted but in 1953 Father Sullivan, at St Patricks, asked her to play the organ for Benediction.

Shortly afterwards, the church choir conductor, Mrs Jolly, asked Beryl

88, she has taken on an important role as the focal point of the family. In 1925 young Beryl started school at Girton College (now the Church of Latter Day Saints) in Fremantle.

After four years she moved to the East Fremantle State School and later won entrance to Perth Modern School. After that it was business college and then her first job.

"I started with the Liquid Fuel Board during the war doing clerical and secretarial work," she said.

"Then I got a job as secretary to the State Manager for Metro Goldwyn Mayer."

After nine years of lots of hard work, free movies and plenty of fun

A weekly feature by ROSLYN ROSS

to play the organ for Mass the rest is history. She has been there ever since, fitting in weekly practice sessions and weekend weddings with an already-busy work schedule.

It's quite an achievement and now, as she nears 60, Beryl looks forward to retirement at the end of this year and more time for music.

Born in Fremantle in 1921, Beryl Owen is a third-generation West Australian on her mother's side. Her father. William, was born in Victoria and his family moved to Fremantle before the turn of the century. Her mother, Kathleen, came from a Geraldton family who settled in the area, from England, in 1831.

Beryl's two sisters, Wyn (Mrs Doherty) and Rae (Mrs Van Heiden), are both married with families while Beryl still lives at home with her parents in East Fremantle. With her father 90 and her mother

she was ready for a change. It was 1953 and J. Gadsden's were advertising for a secretary to the manager. Beryl got the job and spent 20 years as secretary to Mr Bruce Mackinlay (now Sir Bruce) before his retirement.

She now acts as secretary to three executives managing the Can Division of J. Gadsden's but is due for retirement in the next few months. She hasn't thought too far ahead but is toying with the idea of some part-time work and delighted at the chance of having more time for her music.

There will also be more time fort he Institute of Private Secretaries of which Beryl has been a member since its formation in 1965. She has held the positions of honorary secretary (for about six years overall) and State registrar (for three years overall) at various times.

Through the Association she has been an affiliate of the Professional Secretaries Institute of America since 1961 and has attended four conventions in the United States.

"The Institute was formed to improve the status of secretaries and to raise the general standard," she said. "I've made many friends

through the group and benefitted from my association."

For Beryl, faith is now a way of life.

She may have started a bit late ("I didn't really become involved in the Church until I was in my 20s) but she has certainly made up for it.

She made her First Communion in her early 20s at St Patrick's at Frema ntle and then became heavily involved in the National Catholic Girls' Movement.

Since 1953, however, all her involvement has centred around choir work. There is Mass every Sunday at 11am and choir practice every Wednesday evening.

In the earlier years of the choir there was greater outside involvement with visits to Nazareth House at Christmas and recitals at Fremantie Gaol, Glendalough and Mt Henry old people's homes.

The choir was re-formed in 1966 and now has 22 members under the capable instruction of conductor Doreen Bradley. Beryl was one of the first to join the original choir and probably only loses first place to Miss Daphne O'Hara.

It's a labour of love for all concerned and even the annual Palm Sunday Cantata which requires practice two to three times a week for a month or so beforehand doesn't dim the enthusiasm. The choir has been performing the cantata for the past IO years.

Beryl rarely sees much of a Saturday either because she is as often as not booked to play at weddings. For her it is one of the joys of life.

"I love it," she said. "And I've always felt that playing the organ enabled me to contribute to worship by people and to their enjoyment of the Mass.

"Playing the organ is a contribution I can make. Music is my satisfaction and I feel it gives a spiritual uplift."

Beryl's love of music follows her into any spare time she may haveshe adores the opera and ballet and is also an associate member of the Harbour Theatre, a repertory group in Fremantle. (The group may well see more of her in the coming years). She loves travelling but family commitments look like keeping her home for the time being. There's no time for sport, and very little time for hobbies in fact. She's not a knitter or a sewer and allows the garden to be thrust upon her.

Music is to a large degree what she is all about and although the piano jostles for space in the lounge room it's a sure sign that Beryl Owen will find plenty to keep her busy in the years ahead.

After all it' never too late, and maybe that Bachelor of Music certificate will hang on her wall yet.

One and all welcome Tim_e for

Mass '81

61 All young people, their families and friends from the metropolitan and country areas are invited to an Archdiocesan YOUTH MASS '81," said Jeff Arnold of Osborne Park youth gr(?UP this week.

Discussing the preparations for the Youth Mass 81, pictured left to right Jon-Mark Catting (Riverton), Jeff Arnold (Osborne Park), Tom O'Regan (YCW Full Timer), Therese Fitzgerald (City Beach) and Steve Barton (YCW Treasurer),

The mass will be held on Saturday, December I, beginning at 7pm at the beautiful venue of the W,A, University Sunken Gardens.

It is an opportunity for all the different youth groups and movements to come together to praise and thank God our Father, to hear Christ's word and share His life.

Disabled people will be very special guests at this youth mass '81.

Even though a diocesan Mass for youth has been a tradition in Perth, it still Jeff Arnold takes someone to get the After the Mass a BBQ will ball rolling. be held at St Thomas More

This year Jeff Arnold has College. Bring your own been the main instigator. food and drinks. Youth He approached the groups and movements are Catholic Youth Council encouraged to bring their and organised various own banners to decorate committees to handle the the setting. Hope to see liturgy preparation, the you there. music, advertising and the THERESE barbeque. FITZGERALD

not at

As a student at school I used to dread this time of the year. In the ensuing weeks my school report card would arrive in the mail.

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Greg Edwards, (pictured right), Year two student at Mary's Mount Gooseberry Hill takes his job of collecting funds for the Bedfordale Youth Centre very seriously according his teachers Mrs Roberta Chapman and Mr Jack Keay. Over the last few weeks the students at Mary's Mount have made a special effor~ to raise funds after Melonie Hegney delivered the appeal posters to each classroom. Pictured above are Naomi Sullivan, Simone Sanzone, Frances McGinnis and Greg Edwards, all Year 2 students.

God's call is clearer

"The most important part of my life now is my relationship with God, and I see my work as a YCW fulltimer as part of that relationship," said Tom O'Regan this week. Tom began full time work for the movement five weeks ago, and replaced the previous fulltimer MiMi Johnson.

He believes that YCW offers a means through which God's call to each young worker may be more clearly heard. Since leaving John XXIIIcollege in 1978, he spent two years studying medicine at the university

He has worked as a barman and then after 5 months of unemployment he worked as a general assistant at Churchlands College.

"I first heard of the YCW when Elizabeth Chidlow from the Subiaco group visited our youth group in Nedlands," he said. "She invited me on an awareness camp and that's where my interest started and grew ."

children of God and accept their mission in the workplace ."

Tom is based at the YCW Office at 29 Victoria Square (Ph 325 4055) and his work includes visiting groups , contacting individual leaders, writing letters , and administering the office. He says he finds all this exciting, challenging, tiring and even fun. My vision is to see the YCW in Perth reach all

It would be carefully scrutinized by my parents; measured with the previous year's report and particular attention paid to the little column that included qualities such as, manners, neatness , application and conduct.

Then , after the few cryptic remarks from the class teacher about my overall performance were examined, quite a performance followed at home. I used to think at times that my father expected me to achieve 110% for some subjects. I wondered if the teachers ever realised the repercussions of their seemingly casual ticks in the excellent to very poor column describing conduct and manners. I can imagine that some family discussions will take similar lines to this in the following weeks: -

F ATHER : "Jane, did you study your maths this term?

JANE: "Yes Dad."

FATHER: "Are you sure?"

JANE: "Of course I'm sure."

FATHER: "Then why did you get such a low mark? It must be the lowest in the class. That's terrible!"

JANE: "But I did study. It's just that "

FATHER: "Don't just me. You call that studying with the transistor blaring. Do you think you can go through life without really trying.

Next year there will be less going out on wee-

Testing times

kends and more study without the transistor. You'll never get the job you want at this rate."

And so the argument becomes a flaming drama It may have been handled like this:-

F ATHER: "Jane, I see you've done well in all your subjects except maths. That will need some more working on. JANE: "I did try , Dad, but I just don't seem to understand it.

FATHER: "Could you ask your teacher for some extra help?"

JANE: "That's the hassle, I don't like the maths teacher and feel she is picking on me." Perhaps, along this vane of discussion the real reason why a student is not doing so well in a particular subject is discovered. Criticism and unreal expectations are most destructive in a relationship between parents and children. And when it's all said and done, and our life is at its end, there will be one final report card which will have nothing to do with maths, literature and history. Christ our King will simply ask and examine if we: visited the sick and those in prison, fed the hungry, clothed the naked, welcomed the stranger and ca red about others.

The o-aughters of Charity NEED YOUR HELP for their work for the development of the underprivileged URGENTLY NEEDED Clothing,

Young hopefuls match

A group of Perth children recently proved that television quiz shows are as popular with the younger members of the community as they are with the adults when they gathered at the studios of Channel Nine to audition for 'Match Mates.'

wits for show

Aged between JO and 12 years, the boys and girls travelled from all over the metropolitan area, including Mandurah and Rockingham, to vie for the opportunity of travelling to Sydney later this month

to appear on Channel Nine's popular afternoon show.

The auditions comprised three parts. Firstly the children sat a written test requiring them to answer 10 'match' questions and

DEAR CAPTAIN BOB, Sorry for not writing but with exams I haven't had enough time.

With this letter I have sent "Find the Hidden Message" competition

I would like to have a pen pal who enjoys disco dancing, roller skating, stamp collecting and swimming. I am 12 years old.

Marie-Helen Fleuriot 17 / 6 Hampton Street VICTORIA PARK WA 6100

TO NURSE KERRY, Thank you for the Smarties. They were yummy! Here is a joke especially for you.

JOKE

Q. When you catch a fish, what is the quickest way to tell its weight?

A. By the scales!

P. S. Say hello to Captain Bob for me , and also I was sick the day you sent the Smarties.

Bye for now, Danielle Sullivan PEPPERMI T GROVE WA 6011

DEAR CAPTAIN BOB AND NURSE KERRY, How are you both? I hope you are fine. I am sorry that I have not been writing in for quite a long time Here are a few jokes: RIDDLES

Q. What is useful when it goes up?

A. An umbrella!

Q. What goes up but never comes down?

A. Your age!

Q. If one of your toes fell off in the street, what would you do?

A. Call a toe-truck!

Q. If martians live on Mars, and Venetians live on Venus , what lives on Pluto?

A. Fleas! From Leonie Rosielle DIANELLA WA 6062

HAPPY BIRTHDAY r------------------------------------ ..

TO: JOANNE CARROLL of Hyden, CHRISTOPHER CASSIDY of Riverton, DAMIAN HALL of Gosnells, ANDREW HYMAN of Karrinyup, VANES SA

KISS of Morley, FREDERICK LEAF of Bunbury, JODIE NAISBITT

Name Address P/code of Corrigin, ELIZABETH Age Birthdate i ROBERTS of Gooseberry L-------------------------------------1,

unscramble 10 different words. Then it was mime time. Groups of four were asked to act out subjects of their own choice which ranged from eating spaghetti to rescuing a drowning person from a swimming pool. PEN PAL Danielle Sullivan 148 Forrest Street PEPPERMINT GROVE WA 6011

Hobbies: Listening to music , Entering competitions, Swimming , Reading. Age: 9 years Would prefer someone who lives close to me.

Hill, and MARK TAYLOR of Balga.

Pupils learned basic skills in the midst of beauty

In 1948 the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions opened a house at Point Peron and it was here that Stella Maris, or as our times prefer the vernacular, Star of the Sea School. at Rockingham had its birth.

In February 1949 the first pupils, a tiny group numbering less than 20, assembled for lessons.

The class rooms, though solidly built, lacked many of the basic qualities considered necessary in modern education. However they had aids that very few schools could boast of.

The corridor, a very wide one, had a railway line running down the centre and the greater part of the playground was the sandy beach and the sparkling blue waters of the Indian Ocean.

Environment

extra class rooms were pupils are receiving a added the school outgrew sound, academic educatits quarters and finally on ion.

March 25 1973 moved to One of the disadvantages its present site in Farris of the school at Point Street. Peron was the distance

Thus Star of the Sea between church and school was transplanted to school. The Lady of lovely spacious class Lourdes Church was siturooms where th e open plan ated in Parkin Street, at system was inaugurated. some considerable dis-

Perhaps the freedom to tance from the school. On grow, experienced by the August 6 1978 a beautiful pupils at Point Peron, was new church, architecturecaptured in class rooms ratly in harmony with not enclosed by the usual school buildings, was four walls. For certainly blessed and opened. Rev.

the original spirit was Finbar Walsh, the parish

for coaching and attending sporting activities shows their interest and involvement in school life.

A school depends for its spirit and efficiency on the calibre of its teaching body. Star of the Sea is very blessed in its teachers. They are a vital group.

Each member takes a personal interest in the welfare of his/ her pupils.

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d d I All staff members will- Com

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passe on an as sure y priest, must have rejoiced mums mayor

exists today as in yester- h. • h ingly participate in extra- th f" t

rn ac ,evmg sue a monu- curricular activ1·t1·es. There e lrS ime recen Y· year to the visitor. One t t G d d M b So the pupils learnt their walks into an open, sunny men ° O an ary Y is no dearth of teachers to Cardinal Ugo Poletti, Pope Petroselli, who had been re-elected to basic skills in the field of area where the various his organisation a nd ha rd staff school camps and the John Paul 11's vicar for the Dio- the post shortly before he died. learning, amid the great groups are working to work. variety of excursions in cese of Rome, spent 45 minutes The discussions centred on what natural beauty of their capacity in a quiet but busy The school children's which pupils partake is with Mayor Ugo Vetere, who Vetere called "the ills of the city" - the envi·ronment and thus atmosphere. daily lives are centred extensive. Church activi- d housing shortage, inadequate social serd h · f h recently succee ed the late Luigi imbibed a certain spirit aroun t e hturgy o t e ties, too, find teachers p A vices, violence, terrorism and poverty with affinity to the waves Q Church. A vital feature of ready to participate. etroselli. lso a member of the - and on the assistance work of and winds of the sea. pen Plan the weekly assembly is con- Italian Communist Party, Petro - Catholic agencies. In summer time at lunch cerned with the activities of One attractive venture, selli died in office. "These are evils which concern us and hour the first half was If one has an aversion to the Church's year, while called "Midget Mass which we know concern the Church" spent in the water while the the open plan system one each class takes it in turn to Goers" is appreciated by C It was • th e firS t time m/~ year\ of Vetere said "It was a meeting of forc~s remainder of the time the would only have to visitthe prepare th e liturgy for th eir all, and a staff member ommu~ist governance O ome t at that want the good of this city " Mass each week. • h' • • h the cardinal and the mayor met on A • f . • . pupils had their lunch, school and see it at work. orgamses t is activity eac Church property rather than at City com!Ilumque r~m the Vicanate of surely an ideal way to grow The pupils follow the sylla- A lively factor in the life week. H 11 • 'h.

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DALY (R.L.) Passed away peacefully on November 17, 1981, Ruby Louisa aged 89 years, loved wife of John James ( dee), loving mother of Eileen and Patsy, mother-in-law of John and Irwin, loved nanna of eleven grandchildren.

Her funeral took place at the Catholic Lawn Cemetery Karrakatta on Friday

November 20, 1981, after Service MWSS & B license TO LET Requiem Mass celebrated No 518 Plumbing mainte- in the Chapel of The Little n~nce and drain cleaning House fully furnished to Sisters of the Poor, with latest power driven rent from December 14 to Glendalough. cleaning machine Phone end of January. Colour BOW RA & O'DEA 381 1057. TV, BBQ, reticulation. 328 7299

_M_A_S_T_E_R_P_A_I_N_T_E_R_fo_r_'Close to bus route, 8 min- 1------------• all painting requirements. utes from city. Phone 272 IN MEMORIAM George Hickey, Reg. No 5084 in evening. McINTYRE, Laurentia. Please pray for the repose 897, 444 1707.

PAINTING quality work at the right price. Johr. Freakley, Phone 361 4349 Carpenter. Wants work.

FOR HIRE of the soul of our loved ..,,.....1 Mother whose anniversary

PALMER'S HIRE occurs on November 23. SERVICE May her soul rest in peace.

A marriage in Poland

Just arrived in Australia is this wedding photograph ( right) of Elizabeth Szymanska, formerly ·of Claremont, who was married in September to Henryk •Pisarek in the Warsaw Cathedral of St John the Baptist.

Elizabeth trained in music at Loreto, Claremont, and the University of WA and was a member of the Perth A.rts Orchestra.

All party equipment, GRANT. In loving glassware, etc memory of our dear parCrockery, cutlery, ents, Edward Thomas Cabaret tables, chairs Grant, died November 25,

49 Kent Street promises of Christ. May Cannington they rest in peace. Phone 458 2891 Sister M. Gemma, Brother WE CAN DELIVER P. Grant, Fr. T. Grant.

No job too small. Will do •carpentry, plumbing, painting, bricklaying, and tiling. Patios, gutters, cleaned and roof repairs. Doors and windows eased. All areas Ph. 367 4065. trestles, coloured lights ' 1978, and Ellen Grant, elec. urns, pie warmers died December 2, 1976. Pray for them, 0 Holy ---------~ cold plates, dance floors, Mother of God, that they marquees, etc. may be worthy of the Backyards cleaned, rubbish removed, trees \opped, gardening, odd Jobs, garages cleaned out. 277 8780

RETREAT

PRAYER DAYS

She is at present studying violin in Poland and her husband is also a violinist and a student of conducting. His home is in Katowice, South

and ending at 7pm on

The last weekend retreat pri~:~Zf~ 41i:

FILM

NEW NORCIA

ORDER NOW FOR CHRISTMAS GIFTS and communal prayer will be held at the Franciscan Retreat House on Tuesday, December 8, (Immaculate Conception) and Thursday , December 17. starting at 9.30am and ending at 3.30pm. Anyone interested in spending some time in prayer with the Lord and searching for assistance in prayer through Mass and the sacrament of reconciliation is invited to attend. Phone 361 3459.

Art Collection PRINTS

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IN THANKSGIVING

Past and present parishioners of Our Lady of Grace Church, NORTH BEACH, are invited to join in a Thanksgiving Celebration commemorating the TENTH anniversary of the opening of the parish church. WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 9 at 7.30pm

MAINlY ABOUT PRAYER

by A.M. NIGRO, S.J.

A collection of over 40 of Fr Nigro's excellent short articles on prayer. $2.45 ($3.00 posted) from MESSENGER, 333 Church St., Richmond, Vic. 3121

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§ Clothes, kitchen tables and chairs, I single and double beds and mat-~

§ tresses, kitchen untensils, cutlery, 5 s wardrobes, dressing tables, cots, § § prams, pushers §· i Anything useless to you § may be useful to us § IGIVE US A CALLI

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for the year at the Franciscan Retreat House, Victoria Park, will be presented on the weekend December l 1-13 starting at 7.30pm ancl ending at 4pm on SUnday. The retreat is open to any person. Bookings: 361 3459.

Prayer days that include silence, private reflection Encounter team here

On Mondays during Advent successive episodes of the renowned Zeffirelli film Jesus of Nazareth will

RELIGIOUS RETREAT

Australia Marriage be screened at St Joseph's Encounter executive team, parish hall, Subiaco (opp Christopher and Trisha St John of God Hospital, Harkin and Father Dan on Salvado Road). Winters arrive in Perth. The film focuses square!~ from Melbourne on Fri- on the strength of Jesus day, November 27. teac~ing and ministry_ and All are welcomed to meet provides a wealth of sttmuthe team at a family picnic !us of. Advent prayer and

A three-day retreat for religious in preparation for Christmas will be given by Father Bob Carden OFM at the Franciscan Retreat House, Victoria Park, starting at 7.30pm on at ewman College, reflectl~n. Churchlands, on Sunday, Ther:e 1~ no_cha_rge, and an November 29, beginning at open mv1tat10n 1s ext~nded 12 noon. Father Dan will to a_ll. who. would h~e. to meet priests on Monday part1c1pate m the act1v1ty. ovember 30 at Kala~ The screening lasts from munda Chur;h Hall at 7.30 to 9.30pm each night, 10.00 am. All inquiries 293 concluding with tea and 2214. coffee.

GREAT WISH FULFILLED

Brother Brendan Kelly, who died this week while on a jubilee holiday trip to his home town of R utherglen in Victoria, had fulfilled his determined wish to see out 50 years of religious life.

A chronic asthma sufferer all his !ife, Brother Kelly felt fit enough a fortnight ago to tackle a trip to the Victorian farm where he grew up, following the celebration at Bindoon last month of the jubilee of his entry into the Christian Brothers in 1931 at the age of 20.

He spent 40 of his years at St Mary's Agricultural Tardun which had been opened up and to which he went as one of the pioneers in 1933 along with the late brothers Conlon and Dawe and where his skill in water-divining was a significant contribution.

He also served for short periods at Castledare, Clontarf, Geelong and Goulburn and latterly at Bindoon where he had earlier spent four years. But he was a bushman at heart and the climate and the open countryside of the northern areas were his interest and love. His hunting dogs were his faithful companions on long forays into the bush which he knew intimately.

He used to fondly quote an anonymous priest's opinion that it was not beyond the bounds of theology that a human being in heaven would not be deprived of the company of animal pets he had loved on earth. Brother Kelly was buried in Karrakatta cemetry after Mass at Clontarf. May he rest in peace.

MASS TIMES

The Sunday Mass time-table for parish churches in Western Australia will be printed in the December 24 issue of The Record.

Alter~tions to the times published m the Chris-tmas issue of 1980 must be submitted in writing no later than Thursday December 3 to The Editor, The Record, PO Box 50, Perth Aberdeen Street, 6000. No information will be taken by phone.

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We emph,1 s 1se that the claims of new funerc1l directors of having initiated low cost funerals are not true Mead , Son & Co. have alw,1ys provided low cost facilitie5 upon request and have in fact supp,lied spenally low cost funerals where h<1rdship was observed.

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Golf Classic's close finish

Lake Karrinyup Golf Club member, Tom Matyear, battled against very stormy conditions to become the 1981 winner of the Channel Nine Amateur Golf Classic recently.

Tom, who plays with a handicap of 24, won the competition with 36 Stableford points. Close behind him was runner-up, Mike Bartels, of Royal Fremantie Golf Club, who scored 35 points.

Finalists from metropolitan and country golf clubs met at Royal Fremantle Golf Club for the 18-hole playoff.

Tennis on all week

Day 1 of the Australian Women's Open tennis championships begins on Channel 7 at 8am Monday, November 30 in a live, exclusive coverage from Melbourne.

LOWANNA ROSE caught my eye with her fast finishing third to Dargin Lass in the Parmelia Handicap (2D). This 2 year old Medal filly is sure to be improved by her first race start and will pike up a two year old event very shortly if Saturday's run is any indication of her ability.

SHARNE'S GIRL returned to racing on Saturday and put up a creditable performance to finish fourth behind Anna Queen. As SHARNE'S GIRL was having her first start since May, she may have lacked solid racing and is worth following on an each way basis.

PORTINARI was most impressive in winning first up since a spell in the Har-

ridan Handicap (2D). PORTINARI was sent to the front in the early stages of the race and was never in danger as she scored untouched by 1½ lengths. Trainer Ross Payne has set this filly for the Railway Stakes and she is sure to be very hard to beat next start.

PEARL LOVER continues to shape up well for his tilt at the Perth Cup. In the Premier's Cup at Ascot he ran on strongly from midfield on the turn to finish second - less than three lengths from the winner. Pearl Lover has been heavily backed in prepost betting on the Cup and I expect him to be very hard to beat in the 3,200 metre event.

Cricket

International cricket is again one of the major features on Channel Nine for the week.

On Sunday the direct telecast from Brisbane begins at 9am with highlights of the day's play at I 1.05pm, while the telecast starts at 8.50am on Monday and Tuesday with highlights at 11.30pm.

On Thursday the action switches to the intra-state one-day McDonald's Cup series when New South Wales and South Australia clash in a match which begins at 11.25am Perth time and will finish under lights.

Ramdene Queen. Calruin.

RACE TWO: 1. Queen RACE SEVEN: I. Lee

Canon. 2. Temstone. 3. Lana. 2. Sheba's Crown.

downed Vicki Lally

Pictured after the 1981 Channel Nine Amateur Golf Classic are (left to right): Max Binning (Captain of the Royal Fremantle Golf Club), Laurie Sullivan (Co-ordinator of the competition), Tom Matyear (winner of the Classic), and Bruce Walker (Channel Nine's director of sports).

Coloncl Snoopy. Mary~ Luck. RACE THREE: I. Vin- RACE EIGHT: l. Stripy. cent's Fury. 2. Raid The 2 Idellic Dream. 3. Bulga Devil. 3. George's Million. Boy.

RACE FOUR: l. Plymp- RACE NINE: 1. New Santon Flyer. 2. Vencourt dringham. 2. Final Point. Flash. 3. Dingaling Lass. 3. Hasty Typhoon.

RACE FIVE: I. Surfing RACE TEN: I. Lord RanAlfred. 2. T1vessa Prince. ford, 2. Wax Farewll. 3. 3. Willy Buck. Honky Tonk Boy.