VATICAN CITY: Pope John Paul's long-awaited Brief on Christian Family Life affirms and confirms Catholic theological and moral teachings on marriage but baulks at specific solutions for the problems he freely admits to exist.
On Tuesday the Vatican he has entrusted the 40 The document admits released the 167-page, propositions, put forward that a number of difficult 33,000-word Apostolic by the synod, to be taken areas exist but only Exhortation, Familiaris up by ~he newly-form~d generic solutions are Consortio (The Family in Council of the Family offered or the Church is the Modern World), headf!d by Perth-born urged to double its wh ich is the papal state- Cardmal James Knox. efforts to preach its ment that traditionally In broad theological teachings in an effective has followed the Synods sweeps the pope's latest pastor_al way.
of Bishops. The 1980 document reiterates and Synod of Bishops studied expresses again the the theme of family life. theology of marriage _The pope reveals in the enunciated by the open ing pages of this Second Vatican Council present document that and Pope Paul VI.
The pope recognises the emerging role of women in society but pleads also for their being able to fulfill their
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role of mother and par- but offers no more than automatically excluded. ent, as well as an end to encouragement to pas- * Marriages of mixed discrimination against tors to continue preach- religion are to be pastorwomen. ing and pursuing the ally supported because
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The pope continues his pastoral practice laid of their difficult situa* Civil marriage by Catholics, de-facto and trial marriages are to be consistently opposed by continuing pastoral clearly stated support for down: tions.
P_ope Pau(~ _condemna- * Marriage preparation t,on of c!._'!_1~cu:rl means of is to be encouraged, and * Re-married divorcees contraception. the liturgical richness of are to be kept in union with the Church but not action. ' (FULL REPORT NEXT ISSUE.)
In the critical fourth the wedding expressed. chapter on pastoral care * Baptised non-believof f amities the pope lists ers who may be marrying a number of situations in church only for social confronting the Church reasons are not to be
APPEAL FOR PEACE IN POLISH CRISIS
VATICAN CITY
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Vatican sources said that because of a cut in communications with Poland the pontiff was unable to get in touch with Polish Church leaders.
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The servers were Graham Douglas and John McShane.
Pope bestows his blessing on Perth Mass
Archbishop Goody received a -special greeting from the Vatican Secretariate of State for the Youth Mass celebrated at the University Sunken Garden last Saturday night.
The text of the letter from Cardinal Casaroli reads: Your Grace 1:he Hot/ Father was most pleased to be mformed of the forthcoming annual Archdiocesan Youth Mass to be celebrated in the Archdiocese of Perth on 12 December 1981.
to impress on their young lives a sense of direction and of purpose in conformity with his teachings. He prays that this experience of solidarity and communion in worship will lead them to give of themselves even more generously in the service of their fell ow human beings. ! Young people must be truthful wit- -tr: nesses of the Gospel to other young peo- _. pie. They have a p_ressing responsibility to their own generation an~ to ~u~ure gen~rations to hold on to their spmtual hentage, to purify it and deepen it, and to pass -tr: it on undiminished, as a most valuable and 'indispensable contribution to the building of a better society.
As a pledge of his love and esteem, and as an invocation of God's strength and peace in Christ and through t~e. Holy Spirit on the organisers and participants
His Holiness sends his affectionate greeting to all the young people taking Pa_rt in this joyful event and prays that this celebration may encourage them to deepen their perception of what it means to follow Christ, to have faith in him and in this Archdiocesan
During the annual youth Mass held in the University Sunken Garden last
night, CPY youth worker Colin Allica (right) leads the singing of
responsorial psalm. Bishop Quinn (left) presided at the Mass celebrated by Fathers Kevin Davis, Barry Hickey, John Jegorow, Steve Truscott and John Dwyer.
LEGION PARTY AT THE PORT
DRAWS 200
The annual Legion of Mary Christmas party and concert in St Patrick's hall Fremantle hosted over 200 elderly and disabled people.
Father Ned O'Donovan of Beaconsf i eld again excelled himself as compere of the afternoon of which a highlight was 14-year - old Antoinette Caniglia, of De Via l ar College , singing Light Up My Life and Rainbow Connection. Legion of Ma ry members a rranged all t he pr iv ate transport from hosp itals and nurs ing homes from as fa r away as Claremont and Hi lton.
A popular figure who attends the Christmas party every year , is Mr Wa ll y Thorneycroft (73) of Ja Ion hosp ital, Claremont. (pictured ri ght). I
City needs of rural youth
The recent quarterly meeting of the Dioce sa n Pastoral Council continued discussion on th e needs of young people coming to Perth fro m country areas in search of emp lo y me nt opportunities.
Mr Sh aun Boy le, You th Counc il re p res e ntative, ex pla ine d th at these peo ple fe ll into two basic categories, th ose who leave home wit h p arent al bac king and ho meless youth who run away from home.
He no t ed that a subsect io n of Ce n trecare is addressing this problem an d con d ucts five homes in the metropolitan area for ho meless youth.
Though a doub le amput ee , Wall y' s go od che er a nd 1 spirit typ ifies the whole atmosphere of t hi s s
c ial ! afternoon •
He is s hown with his Leg ion of Mar y fri e nd Re ne Lake , of Claremont.
- Story & pictures by Mary Urquhart.
CZECHS' RAID ON CHURCH HOUSES
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia - In a c oncer t ed action ag ain st the Catholic Church, the security forces carried out m ass ive raids on pa ri sh hou ses and homes for retired priests and the religious t hrougho ut the co untry .
In Kadan (Bohem ia) with dogs terrorised ab out 40 policemen elder ly priests and relisearched a hu nd red gious in Moravec. While Dominican nuns and con- allegedly looking for two fisca ted two duplicators, po les hiding in the home, 19 typewriters and the the police confiscated not enti re archive in spite of only religious literature their protests that they had but- also tape-recorders, permission to duplicate radio receivers, slides and relig ious literature for their money. own use.
In another incident, In Moravia during a Father Radim Hozanka search which lasted all was arrested after a duplinight, over 120 policemen cator was found in his
presbytery. Father Hozankwho spent many years in concentration camps in the 50s, refused to answer any questions during the interrogation.
Searches continued in a number of parishes such as Steti, Becov and others throughout Bohemia. There has also been an increase in the use of"extra legal" methods by the authorities in their drive against the secret church.
Coufal, a secretly ordained priest, in Bratislava.
It seems that the summer wave of arrests, interrogations and house searches of "Catholic dissidents" which resulted in three separate trials in Septern her in which four priests received sentences ranging from 20 months to three years imprisonment, continues unabated in Czechoslovakia.
The meeting suggested that the archdiocese should endeavour to look after its own and that a network of paris h houses for boarders could be linked to a central organisa t ion to supplement the Centrecare operation.
Council workshops reviewed the impact on parishes of the International Year of the Disa bled. Many parishes had made great efforts to help the handicapped feel part of the community. All parishes were urged to continue to promote a healthy acceptance of the handicapped person and to have a continuing awareness of their needs.
Catholic schooling came under discussion following concern expressed by one councillor. The discussion ranged from places in primary and secondary schools to finances.
Archbishop Goody reported on his recent visi t to Europe and his private audience with the Pope, whom he said was "fit but thin". Archbishop Goody urged people, when visiting Europe, to "get off the beaten track" and to visit some of the more unusua l but historic areas.
Archbishop Goody celebrated Mass for the council and later councillors and their families attended a barbecue.
All councillors expresse d their thanks to Brother Daniel and his staff fort he use of the Redemptionist Retreat House during th e year.
Ov ercoming problems
,n the post - conciliar renewal, the Church had to overcome certain problems about the distribution of duties between priests and lay people," Guzman Carriquiry, a Uruguayan member of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, said in a comment on a new document issued by the Council (See Priests Not Managers, page 5.)
"Now things are more serene," he added. "But the problem still has arisen in lay organisations of a priest-chaplain leading the whole group, for example, or seeing himself as just another member."
According to Carriquiry, the groups to whom the document is directed include charitable agencies such as Caritas, Catholic professional organisations of doctors or lawyers, federations of students, teachers or workers, family and marriage movements, and spirituality movements such as Charismatic Renewal groups. Discussing democratic procedures within Church organisations, Bishop Cordes, vice president of the council said, "Anyone who is a realist knows that unanimity is never achieved But the ideal must always be unanimity. "What the document is saying is that we must not take too easily the models of society into the internal workings of the Church," he added.
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The authorities are anxious to liquidate the network of religious underground publications particularly the monthly Church Information which chronicle repress ions while giving encouragement to believers to take an active stance by disregarding limitations imposed on the Church.
In spite of the arrests in July of two Jesuit priests both of whom are suspected of collaborating with the journal, the August, September and October issues appeared. Keston College Report
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A book for disabled
Beryl Canavan's life story, The Heart and Mind, will be a perfect Christmas gift for those who have been awakened to the difficulties of the disabled during the International Year of the Disabled Person.
The 90-page booklet sively less able to control has taken two years to bodily functions. Although she was born prepare and has been with the disease, its effects pub Ii shed b Y the did not become apparent Emmanuel Centre for until the age of eight when Disabled People in she was a pupil at St BrigWindsor Street, phone id's school, Midland. 328 8113 and costs Foratimeshewasableto $3.50. manage with calipers on
Much of the book's preparation was done by Beryl herself typing with the aid of a prong attached to her forearm.
Her story is one of fighting back against Freidereich's Ataxia, a disease of the nervous system that leaves the sufferer progres-
her limbs but eventually had to resort to a wheelchair.
lished painter having staged her own exhibition but a deterioration in her vision has forced her to give up that interest.
The Heart and Mind is not a sob story nor is it a medical history. It is the unfeigned sharing of the f intimate life of Beryl as she struggled toward fulfilment.
Twelve years ago she Determination, disapmarried a supervisor at pointment, laughter and the Para-Quad centre and love are part and parcel of this means that he is able to this heartwarming story. go to their nearby Daglish The Heart and Mind leaves At the opening of the Emmanuel
home to help Beryl with the reader in no doubt as to Canavan who has just published her story, The Heart and Mind, which is available from the her lunch. the priorities of control in centre in Windsor Street. Beryl became an accomp- Beryl's life.
Catholic Care for the Intellectually Handicapped has reached its goal of acquiring a car so that the counsellor Sister Maureen McCarthy can visit the 150 families already contacted.
Father Rodney Williams, chaplain to Mental Health Services, pictured left blessing the new car watched by some of the committee members of the Catholic Care for Intellectually Handicapped: (left to right) Connie Hughes, Faye Tranter, Monica McGillivray, Jack Williams
An end urge d to racial strife
LONDON: British church leaders have asked their church members to support urgent action to end racial discrimination in Britain.
Cardinal Hume, Archbi- not "to become an shop Runcie of Canter- endemic, ineradicable disbury and Free Church ease threatening the very Council Moderator West survival of our societ}." praised Lord Scarman's "We are not the mere 168-page report on last creatures of our environyear's riots which he said ment, and the present state had a strong racial element of our inner cities is not but were not racial riots. inevitable," the three
The next goal of the CCIH is to raise funds to acquire a hostel for handicapped that will be run on a Christian-oriented basis. Information in CCIH may be obtained from Sister Maureen McCarthy, c,- Emmanuel Centre, Windsor Street, East Perth, phone 328 8113. The report called for church leaders added. "urgent action" if racial "Our churches and c0ndisadvantage, "a fact of 'gregations are committed current British life," was already in the inner cities." (chairman), Norma Pozzi, Sister Maureen McCarthy, Vicki de Haas, Beverley Fancote.
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The purchase of the car follows a four-month fund-raising campaign of which the highlight was a ladies' luncheon at Uncle Domenic's organised by orma Pozzi and attended by over 300 women which raised $2000 towards the cost of the car. There were two substantial individual donations of $1000 and $500 and the remainder a large number of smaller donations.
The purchase of the car was assisted by a favourable deal organised by John Hughes of Skipper Mitsubishi Motors.
Refugees
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Just as gastronomic excesses put acertain pressure on the spiritual joy of Christmas so the joyful prospect of Pope John Paul's message on the family appears to risk spiritual indigestion.
His long awaited response to the 1980 Synod on the role of the Christian family comes hot on the heels of his encyclical Human Labour- unfortunately delayed by the shooting, and so far barely sampled let alone digested by the Catholic body
The acceptance test of these and 20 other great statements of recent decades would be to see if they -are on prominent view in the churches, are being bought -and more importantly - are being read.
Compared with ·the previous Synod topics of justice, priesthood, catechesis and evangelisation the subject of family life was felt to be particularly relevant to most people and in Australia a massive parish consultation was conducted to soften the ground, so to speak.
In the light of that popular expectation it may only be mildlypresumptiveto say that the biggest hurdle posed by this papal exhortation is that it says everything that has been said, or needs to be said on the subject from just about every angle of the Church's view on life,
The difficulty is compounded by burying the message in an avalanche of words in a remotely leisured style of Vaticanese that is now far beyond the range of daily communication. If the Roman authorities who co-operate with the pope on these matters are not aware of this counterproductive process then better they be informed
It is not without significance that the Perth senate of priests recently pointed out to the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace that the annual social justice statements a re pitched in style beyond the comprehension of a good number of potential readers.
There is no need to be disappointed that the Holy Father surely asserts what the Church has and will continue to say about Christian marriage. It is in the pastoral application of this theology that the stresses and breakdown of Catholic catechesis are occurring.
It is to the credit of the document that it is prepared to list the areas of divorce, contraception, and de facto unions that are causing so much concern.
Wisely the pope may have refrained from practical solutions for problems that extend from bitterly poor families in slums, to affluent divorce-ridden unions of cities, from the tensions of endless dormitory suburbs to the struggling simplicity of family life in Asia and Africa
The doctrines and moral guidelines are clear and now the pastoral questions have to be asked :
Why are the marriages of so many "good" Catholics ending in divorce or sterile separation right within the web of parish and school life? Is the growing list of annulments the iceberg tip of a lot of people marrying in the Catholic Church who are in no way prepared for what the Church teaches?
Why is the rationale of Humanae Vitae so much un-read , un-preached and misunderstood and the Church known for only one thing : that it is a spoil-sport in the field of sexuality?
The pastoral truth is that a big percentage of the waves of adolescents entering marriage have not a clue of what the Catholic Church is preaching about marriage and that priests are facing the impossible exercise of a crash-course in Christianity, Catholicism, moral and spiritual theology in the rushed weeks before a wedding
Catholic catechesis has continued to live in the make-believe world of stable village life where values and attitudes were transmitted without haste and from generation to generation.
In the next few months pulpits will echo with reflection on the Holy Family and the importance of Christian family life.
Pity the poor preacher who must wonder just who is listening.
HIGH PRICE OF SPIRITUAL AID
from Miss Eileen Lalor, Sorrento.
The Record, December 17-23, 1981
Sir,
After contacting a telephone number given in a leaflet put out by the Catholic charismatic Group I was told that for the workshop day session there was a charge of $30 with a collection at night as customary.
These charismatic an institution for the well•conferences are a joy to-do? to me and I look for- I ask this question ward to them each because of the exhorbitant year. price of books on religion
Because of this I encour- and spirituality and the age my friends and fees chaq~ed for days ?f acquaintances to attend. recollect1on, Catholic However, many of them , school tuition etc. especially home buyers It makes one wonder if St with children who perhaps Joseph and Our Blessed need these spiritual talks Mother could have more than oth~rs, cannot afforded the price of extra afford them. helps to spirituality as
Is the Catholic Church in practised in this day and this country fast becoming age.
A Christmas cacophony
from A.C. Williams, Wembley
The Christian spirit of goodwill that should characterise Christmas is at risk of decibel destruction.
Stores, banks and other business houses have a frenetic compulsion to bombard the ears of hapless citizens with canned carols. The repetitive whining akin to the cacophony produced by female singers of TV commercials would be bad enough in its incomprehensibility if it were played softly.
However, the purveyors of the Yule-tide yowling seem to regard fortissimo as an obligation.
There should be a ban on public-address systems in shops in the Hay Street Mall - or shops anywhere for that matter - because they seek to inveigle people into buying their wares through sheer volume of sound.
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Sir,
We would like to thank the many people who helped us make a record success of the fifth annual World-wide Rosary Bouquet for Our Lady's birthday.
Thanks. go to our patron, St Joseph, because this year's bouquet was a magnificent success, the best yet, and indications already show that the 1982 gift will also be tremendous. As part of our apostolate for Mary we are now receiving and distributing thousands of rosaries to India, Sri-Lanka, New Guinea, Latin America etc.
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Sharing faith
from Mrs Bett y Namnick, York. Sir,
Father Holohan (The Record, December 3) was reported as sayin g "sharing faith involves much more than teac hing the verbal expressions of doctrine sharing faith also involves the preparation and sharing of experiences which give soul to the doctrinesuch as experiences of prayer and reflectio n about life."
Presumably he is referring to the imparting and sharing of the Catholic faith and I agree wholeheartedly with his views. However, in the light
from John C. Veszely, Nollamara of the above, it poses Sir, the question of what
One would expect a man of Mr Hartrey's (The Record, f~~~: 1~n c:1h~~~~ December 10) calibre and classical flair, to have pondered the Catholic or worse still an excommunicate d reasons for the u.s. decision to develop the neutron bomb. person, or one who has Instead he resorted imperative and the reasons the USSR gobbled up 150 no lively faith to shar~ to personal abuse. For w_hy some of the learned million people into their I consider that abuse bishops of our chur~hes empire - the atheist marx-
he had in mi·nd when everyw_here preach umlat- ist conglomerate
• • era! disarmament of the S1 _vts pacem para bellum:
he ~ut ~IS lit_tle sug- West while ignoring the - 1f you want peace be• Aberdeen
ge stI0 n in Latin. massive strength of the ready for war is
Readers are entitled to get USSR
the gist of what he told me In July the Patriarch classic scholars and
in Latin. Bluntly , he said, I Pimen of Moscow launch- ~artrey. He could not:
- a~d others like n_e - ed his "fight for peace" by have said it better.
mea~mg New Australians, appealing to governments There was no need for
I believe, should shut up. of the West and the to consult my parish priestt.•
He only considers me a churches there' as well, to to get his translation of
~tep-_bro_ther i:iot brother oppose the plan of the your message. My eight m faith m thetr fair land of USA Administration to years' Latin studies at the Terra Australi~ He step- have a weapon which may good Piarist teaching brotherly advice I will be used to discourage the Fathers' college in the ignore. I came here, and USSR from renewed Hungarian province was am an Australian by cho- aggression. quite adequate. ice. He may be one by " We fully support the But I did show Father chance. Supreme Soviet Council what you suggested. He I feel that truth may be and totally reject the crimi- was not impressed, neither uttered by all, not only by nal propaganda" of those with your reasons nor your those who subscribe to in the West - said the logic. Frankly he was opinions being a preroga- Patriarch - who talk somewhat appalled. tive of the select few of "about the Soviet war Did Mr Hartrey write the whom Mr Hart re y threat." little message because he approves. As so often, the detente- recalled the old classic say-
Mr Hartrey ignored the blinded play the Soviet ing: "Ad captandum vulvery valid and pressing rea- game and white-ant the gus" - to capture or to sons which make the deter- resolution and need of please the mob? I don't rent of Soviet threat defence. They forget that think he was successful.
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problems of Ireland
VATICAN CITY (NC} - Pope John Paul II has defended the rights of Iran's Catholic minority and urged the Moslem republic to work ''for the destruction of war and the abolition of hatred."
The pope made his remarks when he received the credentials of the Iranian ambassador to the Holy See Seyed Khosrovhahian who brought the pope a letter from the Ayatollah Khomeini. seek solely to enjoy,
"War and terrorism are evils that my predecessors and I have constantly denounced," Pope John Paul said in an Englishlanguage talk.
"The longing of the Holy See is for mutual understanding and reconciliation," he added. "It works for the destruction of war in itself and its causes, and for the abolition of hatred."
Pope John Paul said that members of Iran's Catholic community , who number about 20 ,000 in a total population of 35 million, "belong by full rights to the nation ."
~ogether with all their. Iran-
ID a tan brothers and sisters, full freedom of religion hits at
"They desire to work for its true good and its advancement and they and action," he added.
In the past year, several Catholic schools were closed in Iran and many foreign Catholic missionaries expelled before an agreement was negotiated allowing for the continuation of some Catholic institutions and the return of some of the missionaries.
Pope John Paul reaffirmed the Vatican's support for "national sovereignty and integrity international justice and universal non-violent freedom.
"Through its own diplomatic activity, which is inspired by those religious principles which in turn furnish a secure basis for other sacred values, including justice and peace, the Holy See is determined to pursue these aims and to support all worthy initiatives that strengthen, foster and honour human life," he added.
Religious told of obedience
VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II has told men and women religious that they are subject to the guidance of local bishops.
In the pl e nary assembly Catholics, "but especially of the Vatican Congrega- for that chosen portion tion for Religious and Sec- made up of men and ular In stitutes , the pope women religious, a healthy criticised "an erroneous and rich spiritual and docidea of exemption" which trinal nourishment, attenleads some nuns, brothers tive above all to guarding and religious order priests them from doctrinal deviato "compartmentalise" the tions and liturgical abuses church and to consider that can harm the apostolic themselves separate from fruitfulness and the existChurch structures. ence itself of the conse-
"Men and women reli- crated life." gious must develop their ---------• ecclesial sense for a better integration with the local Church and the universal Church," Pope John Paul said.
"ln this way, they can avoid a barrier which could lead to dividing the Church into compartment s, nearly without communications, for an erroneous idea of exemption ," he added. "This could cause some difficulty in relations within the local chur ches , because in the aposto lic works, religious, like all t he faithful, are placed under the jurisdiction of the bishops."
Describing the ministry of bishops as "the basis of all ecclesial service," Pope John Paul said members of the episcopacy "are ever more aware of the value of religious life and of their responsibility in this regard." The pope said that the bishops provide for all
CHINA COULD GET NUNS
HONG KONG (NC)
- Mother Teresa of Calcutta said recently that she thinks there is "every possibility" that she will be able to send some nuns to work in China.
Mother Teresa, founder of the Missionaries of Charity and winner of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize, did not say when she expected the members of her order to go to China or what work they would do there. "We are trying to send some sisters, but we must still pray," she said. "Nothing is impossible with God."
helpers of IRA
ARMAGH, Northern Island (NC) - Cardinal Tomas O'Fiaich of Armagh has condemned Catholics who co-operate with the provisional Irish Republican Army, saying participation in its ''evil deeds" constitutes ''a mortal sin which will one day have to be accounted for before God in judgment."
The cardinal issued his will one day have to be condemnation at the open- accounted for before God ing of a 40-hour adoration in judgment," he added. in St Malachy Church in "To co-operate in any Ar~agh. ways with such organisaT~1s r,rov1des the oppor- tions is sinful, and if the tumty to ~dd my voice to co-operation is substanthe. uneqmvocal cond~m- tial, the sin is mortal," he nation of the homble said.
murders ar_id attempted Cardinal O'Fiaich also murders which have taken asked parents and the place in recent weeks," he clergy to oppose IRA said. efforts to recruit young "Most of th~se murders people into the guerilla have been claimed by the organisation. IRA. Let me therefore state in simple language, "I ask parents to continue with all the authority at my to dissuade their young command, that participa- people from a course tion in the evil deeds of this which can only lead to sufor any other paramilitary fering, crime and _perhaps organisation which even deat~. Let pnests and indulges in murder, people unite to show the wounding, kidnapping, young that justice ca.n. be destruction of property achieved through pohttcal and other forms of vio- means, not through lence is a mortal sin which murder and injustice," he
said.
Equally to be condemned are the murders and attempted murders of innocent Catholics" who have been exposed to "murderous retaliation" because of the upsurge in IRA violence, the cardinal said.
"I offer sympathy and prayers to all who have been bereaved, not the least to our Protestant neighbours who have suffered such cruel losses," he added.
"I urge all people of goodwill in the community to work together for a lowering of tension" and "to pray fervently for reconciliation" before "the whole population is engulfed in an orgy of death and destruction," the cardinal said.
WASHINGTON: Progress will not be made quickly towards a resolution of the conflict in Northern Ireland but careful and deliberate steps are preferable to any sudden or illconsidered movements that could stop or impede progress, according to Cardinal O 'Fiaich of Armagh.
The Northern Ireland prelate said during a visit to the United States that he was intrigued by a recent suggestion that the six counties declare themselves totally independent of both Great Britain and the 26-county Republic of Ireland. "This is a fairly novel idea" which "reflects credit" on th ose working diligently for an end to division and strife, the cardinal said.
Not popular
The concept is "a new element in Ulster Protestant thought" but is not very popular in Northern Ireland, he continued.
"Some 10 percent of the voters" would agree that an independent Northern Ireland would prove both workable and lasting, he said, adding that one supporter of the concept is James Callaghan, Prime Minister in the last Labour government in Britain.
"But, even if tried, this scheme would require a generation and more - 25 to 30 years, minimum - to achieve," Cardinal
O'Fiaich said. "Still, it's worth considering and we are doing just that, considering and weighing the possibilities. "Some form of unified state representing both North and South seems the only long-term solution."
The cardinal said he believes Britain's own best interests and those of the Republic of Ireland would be served by a slow, methodical disengagement by Britain from Northern Ireland to make way eventually for a united Ireland. One step towards this goal, he suggested, would be replacing British troops in orthern Ireland by a United ations force that would oversee a slow but steady transition.
Despite the media's obsession with "Catholic" and "Protestant" tags to identify the opposing groups in Northern Ireland, the problems there are less religious than they are political, ethnic and economic, the cardinal said. An "outside" group, such as a U.N. peacekeeping force, would symbolise to the people of Northern Ireland more objective suervision than British troops do, he said.
Priests not ''1nanagers''
VATICAN CITY (NC) - Priests who are chapl~ins to lay Cat~oli~ ~rganisations must not be the groups' 11 managers" nor ind1v1dual members m~•.stmct fro~ the others in the group, according to a new document from the Pont1f1cal Council for the Laity.
It also said that It was published to prodemocratic methods mote discussion on issues such as parliamentary and is not a definitive docprocedures are not ument of the council. necessarily the best The document said that form of reaching deci- priests must be spirit_ual h guides for the orgamsas i o n s i n C h LI r c tions, serving as "architects organisations. of communion, educators
The document empha- in faith, witnesses to God's sised that within Church absoluteness, true apostles groups, God does not work of Jesus Christ, ministers through "agreements of sacramental life , espereached by a vote," but by cially of the eucharist common consensus "The internal construeachieved through prayer tion of the Church is not and mutual discernment of carried out in accordance the will of God with the usages of the parliIn a 52~page s~ud.Y docu- amentary system even if ment, Priests W1thm_Asso- the democratic model can ciatio.ns of the_ ~a1thful: teach us something useful Identity and M 1ss10n, the for the internal life of the council discusses the role church '' says the of ecclesiastical assista.nts, document'. who often use the titles "If members of Church "sp!ritual advisor" or"cha- communities, meeting plam," and the purpos.e together in associations, and goals of lay orgam- were to consider themsations. selves as members of a par-
liament, and if the Church communities within the local or universal Church were to consider themselves as parliamentarytype interest groups on the model of political parties, they could not but conceive their life as a church from the viewpoint of temporal power," it adds.
The document's discussion of the specific role of ecclesiastical assistants was ba ed on a December 1979 address by Pope John Paul JI to the chaplains of international Catholic associations "In the organisations and association which you serve - make no mistake about it - the Church wishes you to be priests, and the lay people that you meet in them wish you to be priests and nothing but priests," the pope said. "The priests' directive
function has to be accom- The chaplain's primary panied by a specifically pri- duty, "in any and every estly activity, if the case," is to proclaim the minister does not wish to Gospel and administer the fall into the superficiality sacraments, the council of a "manager" and if he aid. hopes to build up a com- "Priests working with munity open to the action associations are called of the spirit," the Laity upon, by turns, to work Council document states. fraternally with the faithful
"If, however, this priestly and to have a 'paternal function were to be trans- attention' for them in formed into a role of sim- Christ," the document pie social predominance in aid the Church, the mirnstr y "They should therefore ~ould deg~nerat~ mto cul- share with zeal and joy in tic functionalism nd the life of the community, would betray b1~} 1c~l without forgetting that model of mimS t ry, it they carry an irreplaceable added 'bT ,, • dd d The priest's special role responsi 1 ity' it a e • "should not be considered The Laity Council said all asarewardorasapersonal ecclesia tical assistants distinction," the document hould be appointed for said "By hi ordination, fixed terms by the Vatican the one who is called and for international organi asent is not, nor does he tions and by the local become, a better Christian bishop for the diocesan than others." units.
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Abrother
for sixty years
When Brother Jerome Levander (right) celebrated last Sunday night the 60th anniversary of his entry into the Christian Brothers he received greetings from fellow Queenslander Brother Pat O'Doherty (left).
Human factor in return to
WASHINGTON,
converting to Cat h O Ii Ci Sm Or drop-outs, the ma1onty returning to the return sometime in their church after drop- lives," the study reported. Reasons behind changes ping out, accord- in religious practice range ing to a newly- from life-style or life situabl h d d tion changes (moving, pu IS e S1U Y leaving home, marrying, sponsored by the raising children, job U.S. bishops. change) to personal reli-
"We do not diminish gious experiences or inner needs, from influences of a the impact of the friend or relative or priest preached Gospel or to moral issues. the movement of the Those interviewed gave Spirit. But human multiple reasons for conbeings are usually verting to, leaving or their mediators. returning to Catholic
age Catholic and to be more active churchgoers than the average Catholic. Among drop-outs the study found notable differences between younger drop-outs (below age 23) and older ones (23 or above).
Over half of the younger group cited parental family tensions or rejection of family pressures among influences that led them to quit going to church.
About one-fourth indicated that they found church boring or were too lazy to go , or had otherwise lost interest or
Evangelisation should practice. be vis u a I i s e d a s In all three categories of matchmaking _ indi- religious change the study motivation viduals are matched found marriage and family
About one-fourth
relationships highest expressed fear of or objec-
w i t h P a r t i C u I a r among reasons for the tion to confession or a feelgrou ps," the study change, but in different ing of conflict between concluded. ways for each group. church teachings and their
The study, Converts, Among converts, the lives. About one in six Dropouts, Returnees, a researchers found that raised objections to the Study of Religious Change engagement or marriage to church's moral teachings. Among Catholics, by soci- a Catholic spouse or con-
ologiSl Dean R. Hoge has cern for the education or Among the older group been published by the U.S. religious training of child- almoS t none suggested Catholic Conference. ren or for family religious conflict with parents or
Brother O'Doherty who is stationed He later spent 5½ years in Rome as The study notes that unity counted as primary freedo!B"from family presat Mount Isa is on a return visit to bursar general of the congregation according to other studies factors for 83 percent of sure as a reason they quit Western Australia where he spent 33 under superior general Brother Linus about 42 percent of Ameri- the conversions. attending church. The years before returning two years ago to Kelty who has now returned to his home can Catholics drop out of Sixty-three percent said a highest-ranking reasons his home state of Queensland. state of Victoria and who travelled to church attendance for two spouse or spouse-to-be was were objection to Catholic
cent) and lack of motivation or interest (24 percent).
Objection to changes in the church, scarcely mentioned among younger drop-outs, was stated as a reason for dropping out among 19 percent of the older group.
Among those who were raised Catholics but had dropped out and then returned, 55 percent said they had children being raised as Catholics and were concerned for their upbringing or for family religious unity.
About two out of five indicated that the y felt a void, spiritual need , or similar interior reason. Guilt over inacti vi ty or being away from th e sacraments was cited by 30 percent of the returnees.
In a concluding c hapter to the study Paul ist Father Alvin Illig, executi ve director of the bishop s' Committee on Evangel isation, expressed hope s th at the information provided by the research wou ld help dioceses and parishes to establish effective ev angelisation programmes to reach out to the esti mated 80 million unchurched Americans, includ ing an estimated 15 million inactive Catholics Brother Levander, originally from Perth to propose the toast at Brother years or longer at some a significant person who moral teachings (26 per- Queensland, has had an extensive Levander's jubilee celebrations at time in their lives. helped their decision. .,...____.....,__________________ career in the administration of the Aquinas College last Sunday night. "Over half the dropping Nearly half the converts send he Ip to Christian Brothers and for six years was out occurs in the teen years were between 20 and 30 Brother Levander is the archivist at f d the first provincial superior of the WA- and early 20s, and the more years o age, an another SA Holy Spirit when it was formed 15 th e WeS t court ChriS t ian Bro th ers highly educated young fourth were aged 30-40. years ago. provincialate in Manning. people tend to drop out rel- Converts tended to be bet-
A dropinlrish church-going
ARMAGH, Northern Ireland - Polls indicate a drop in regular church attendance among Ireland's young people, especially in the large urban areas, Cardinal O'Fiaich said, but he added that he doesn't worry about the future of the Church in Ireland.
"Most young people who have turned from the Church will emerge from their alienation," he said, "and the chances are that their faith will be strengthened by the experience. Even the alienated cling to such sacraments as baptism and confirmation, especially for their own children, and they invariably choose to marry at a nuptial Mass," he said.
"If 25 percent of the 18-20 age group in a few large cities have abandoned active practice of the faith, the other 75 percent is so fervent and devoted that the future seems secure," Cardinal O'Fiaich said.
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WASHINGTON (NC) Attracting young
Catholics who are inactive back to church life is 11 one of the largest challenges facing the church in our time," according to Archbishop Edward 0 'Meara of Indianapolis.
He spoke at the publication of a study, Converts, Drop-outs, Returnees, sponsored by the American bishops' Committee on Evangelisation, which Archbishop O'Meara heads.
One of the notable conclusions of the study was that most Catholics who "drop out" of active Church participation do so in their teens or early 20s, a period which Americans in general tend to undergo significant changes in their religiou life.
The study also found that nearly two-thirds of those who convert to Catholicism and more than twothirds of Catholics who return to active religious practice after a period of inactivity do so in young adulthood, between the ages of 20 and 35.
Profession Dean Hoge, a sociologist at the Catholic University of America and
author of the study, told reporters that for converts and returnees the major factor in their decision is "the human factor" of friend or relative or priest who made the person feel welcome or wanted in the Catholic community.
Hoge also said that the study gave evidence that parishes which are perceived as attractive approachable and "human" tend to be the ones that draw more convert or returnees.
The study emphasised the importance of interpero nal relationships and parish-level contacts in attracting non-Catholics and Catholic drop-outs to participation in the Catholic Church
Asked what Catholic parishes should do to reach out to young people who have dropped out or to keep them interested in the Church during the period when they tend to lose interest, Archbishop
O'Meara said the findings of the study suggested four areas to him :
• The importance of friendliness in the parish;
• The quality of the sermons or homilies;
• The way in which the liturgy is celebrated;
• Efforts in the area of providing support for (young people) in their'Iife situations and problems
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In his 1950-52 period in Sherwood conditions in the United Kingdom were not the best so Pat and his brother Louis, then a mining engineer in Afric a and now a farmer at Southern Cross, decided to emigrate to Australia.
Pat joined the department here in February, 1953, as what was technically known as a forest workman, but he spent the first 12 months at Dwellingup on research into soil microbes and published a paper on the subject before being appointed to the professional staff.
At Manjimup he was engaged on inventory and survey duties including the initial stages of air photo interpretation which is still the basis of a lot of the department's mapping.
At the department's head office and at Mundaring from 1957 he was involved in all sorts of forestry work before being made divisional forest officer at Pemberton in 1959 which preceded his appointment as senior divisional officer at Manjimup from late 1961 to 1963.
He was inspector of working plans
and later as superintendent of the northern region his area stretched from Wanneroo to Collie.
As chief of operations from 1969 he covered all the department's activities He was made assistantconservator in 1973 and deputy-conservator in 1976.
On his arrival in WA Pat was already familiar with hardwoods from his experience in the United Kingdom.
"The species are different but the forestry principles are much the same," he says. He considers that a major breakthrough in fairly recent times has been the fact that forest management is now based on the ecology of the area.
It is multiple-use management to achieve , as far as possible , the full range of benefits from the forest.
"Lots of people confuse conservation with preservation, and advocating sheer preservation is a negative approach," he says
"Conservation involves management towards achieving various desirable objectives and to ensure that individual species are preserved.
"The long time spans in forestry cause some people to forget that trees don't last for ever. Forests have be re-generated to control water yields, to provide recreation, to produce timber and to perpetuate the species.
PAT McNAMARA
introducing die back-resistant species.
Uncontrolled fires are another big enemy of the forests in WA.
Pat has vivid memories of the I 961 blaze at Pemberton in which flames from the tops of big karris leapt as
Forest management is now based on ecology of an area
"We always work with nature rather than against it."
Pat says that those who work in the bush are often maligned for abusing it, but in his experience these people have great sympathy with the forest because they know that their livelihood depends on it.
Mining companies, too, co-operate very well with the department.
As a side-light to this observation he recollected that he and fellowofficer Steven Quain in 1965 planted the first tree in the bottom of a mine pit in W.A.
J arrah die back is a very challenging problems, Pat says, and despite the enormous research effort that is going into fighting it no simple solution has yet emerged. However, the forest quarantine measures implemented by the department have certainly slowed its spread.
The aerial techniques for mapping dieback-affected areas were pioneered by the department in WA. Highly-accurate navigation is the key to the success of this operation. Dieback was first reported in WA in the mid-l920s and it is thought that it might have come in with fruit trees imported from South Australia. The fungus that causes it was not positively identified here until 1965.
The disease is prevalent from South Australia almost right around the eastern seaboard of the country. Rich soils contain more microbes that are hostile to die back. Here the soils are not so fertile and this gives the disease a better chance to spread.
The three-pronged approach to combating 'it is first to determine accurately where it is located; second, to reduce the artificial spread of the disease by the implementation of forest quarantine and hygiene; and third, to use cultural methods in fighting it such as stimulating the growth of acacias, controlling banksias which harbour it and
high again as the trees.
He was also closely involved with the disastrous Dwellingup fire in the same year.
He was part of a big team based at Harvey that undertook the "mopping up" operations.
The Dwellingup fire taught the department a lot of lessons and was
the basis of its present big firefighting organisation.
The development of strictlycontrolled fire bombing, the dropping of incendiary capsules from the air, was another world first for the WA department and it has stimulated inquiries from many parts of the globe.
"Our climate gives rise to the worst fire conditions in Australia," Pat says, "and therefore routine hazardreduction burning is essential to reduce the quantity of inflammable material in the forest when it is safe to do so.
"We have now reached the stage where we can modify the technique to cope with a variety of forest management requirements."
At the end of a discussion on forests with Pat, one concludes that he would agree with Arperican poet Joyce Kilmer who wrote : "I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree."
Nuclear arms document
VATICAN CITY (NC) - Stepping up his campaign against nuclear arms, Pope John Paul II announced plans last Sunday to present a document containing scientific evidence on 11 the disastrous effects" of nuclear warfare to world leaders.
"I am deeply convinced that in light of the effects scientifically foreseen as certain in a nuclear war, the only morally and humanly valid choice is a reduction in nuclear arms, in anticipation of their future total elimination, simultaneously by all sides, through explicit accords and the commitment to accept effective controls," he said in his noon Angelus talk on December 13.
The pope's announcement came a day after the Vatican issued a statement on the appointment of papal delegations of scientists to Washington, Moscow, Paris, London and the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
Each of the 19 scientists named to the delegations was a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences or had participated in an international conference, sponsored by the academy this October, on the effects of nuclear warfare.
"With this initiative, the pope wishes to manifest once again his own concern, and that of the Church, about the terrible threat of an atomic war," the vatican statement said.
"W~th_out enteJ:ing into the technical details of current or possible negotiations on dlsarmament, the Holy Father - placing himself on the moral and human plane, and calling on scientists to contribute with their investigations to a more mature reflection on the part of humanityintends to emphasise the total lack of an alternative to the hypotheses on nuclear war if there is not a reduction - today - and the eliminationtomorrow - of nuclear armaments," it added.
Pope John Paul said the scientific delegations would visit the world leaders in the next few days.
The Vatican did not release details of the document , which Pope John P~ul described as "the fruit of a detailed study conducted by the academy with the collaboration of other eminent scientists, on the consequences of the use of these armaments ."
The Record, December 17-23, 1981 7 .
The junior pupils of Loreto Nedlands school formed a guard of honour of "angels" as gifts were brought up during a graduation Mass at the school last week.
Some of the pupils are pictured (left) in front of the parish priest, Bishop Quinn, and the administrator, Father Bianchini, who concelebrated the Mass.
The gifts included items that were later distributed to needy families.
A larger than usual crowd attended for the outdoor Mass that was also a farewell for the principal, Sister Margaret O'Sullivan, who has been transferred to the Eastern States.
The P and F president thanked Sister Margaret for all she had done and made a presentation.
Film to tou ct the heart
Starring Jason Robards and Eva Marie Sai\1 Christmas to Remember on December 20, at 8.3~6 a touching Christmas story set during the Depr Jason Robards is excellent as David La a Minnesota farmer embittered by the death of hii,Y son in World War 1. Larson blames God for h~*t - and has little time for man as well. Mood Jd haunted by memories, Larson has isolated himsJjiat his neighbours.
Lilies blooming again in a touching tale of Lessons
ABC Radio has an extensive programme of Christmas seasonal music from this Sunday through to Christmas Day:
The Messiah by Handel will become a scarcity in Germany. Christmas Eve on ABC-FM sung by the greatest voices in the be heard on 6WN on Sunday It was supplanted almost includes lesser known carols world. December 20 from 7.30 to 10pm entirely in the 19th century by the from 7 to 8pm. Joan Sutherland, Luciano featuring the Sydney Philhar- popular music of the industrial At 8pm there will be an FM- Pavarotti, Elizabeth Schwartzmonic choir and the Sydney age. It survived only in the Alpine stereo broadcast. kopf, Richard Tauber, Kirsten Symphony Orchestra. regions and there, in particular, Sir Eugene Goossens' edition is Flagstad, Placido Domingo and Earlier on Sunday at 5.15pm on Advent and Christmas music was of Handel's oratorio, Messiah. Leontyne Price head the list of 6WN the combined choirs of the and is a religious tradition. The first performance to be stars who leave the opera stage to Canberra branch of the Royal The birth of Christ is reflected in given in Sydney for many years of sing the hymns, the carols and the School of Church Music will sing a large number of songs which, in this large-scale version took place songs of Christmas. hymns from the Australian the Alpine region, were passed on earlier this month in the Concert They're the songs Christians Hymn Book. only by word of mouth in earlier Hall of the Sydney Opera House. learn from early childhood but times. It was not until a hundred On 6WN at 8pm there will be a this stirring celebration of the On ABC-FM Sunday night years ago that they were put broadcast of A Festival of Nine season crosses the barriers separmusic at 8pm will include Ryba's down in writing and thus res- Lessons and Carols. a ting any one religion - through Czech Christmas Mass, Berlioz' cued from oblivion. Five hundred and ten years ago the international language that Shepherds' Farewell to the Holy On 6WN on Monday December the magnificent Chapel of King's conveys its message - the rnagFamily, and Bach-Gounod Ave 21 the Music Lover programme College Cambridge was corn- nificent music. Maria. at 8.30am presents Benjamin pleted, one of the last and finest At I lam ABC-FM presents More Christmas music
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from 12.30pm to Christmas Day opens with a songs which inspired the design 1pm and on Tuesday and Wed- Messiah is probably the most midnight to dawn broadcast on of Australia's 1981 Christmas nesday at the same time. performed and best-loved orato- ABC-FM of the Christmas Vil- postage stamps. At 10.15pm on ABC-FM there rio ever written. This programme lancios (Cantate Natalizie) by At 6.30pm on 6WF Hymns and will be a presentation of When investigates some of the myths Antonio Soler ( I 729-1783).
Christmas? At 7am on 6WF Bruce Menzies At 10.45pm ABC- FM presents programme written by Ekkehard Why is it traditional to stand presents The Herald Angels Sing. two Bach cantatas for Christmas Sass, translated from the German during the Hallelujah Chorus? At 11
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In other radio features By the Way on 6WN at 10.20am Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday looks at the spirit of Christmas when Canon Robert Ray of Adelaide discusses The Bible as History : Archaeology confirms the book of Books, by Werner Keller. Readings from the Bible each morning on 6WN at 7. 10am will present an Advent preparation for Christmas. On Tuesday (December 22) at 8pm ABC-FM will present The Image of God, a traditional English Mystery Play that talks of Joseph's obedience and the She-
pherds' Worship. On Wednesda y (December 23) Journal of Religion on 6WN at 7.15pm features Doctor David Coffey, principal lecturer in Systematic Theology in the Catholic Institute of Sydney at St Patrick's Roman Catholic College, Manly The Incarnation falls within one of the areas in which David Coffey lectures (the theology of Christ, or christology). He talks about difficulties people might have with the idea of the incarnation of Jesus Christ, with its mythical overtones of a god walking the earth in human guise. He discusses the view that this modern theology has some exciting approaches to this subject, which, though they do not make faith easier, at least make it more credib e. On Christmas Day the Encounter programme on 6WF at 8am is called Convergence on Bethlehem, a nativity play by Clive Sansom Two angels tell the story of the Nativity in various scenes and poems with music composed by Sidney Sager. At 10.45am on ABC-FM the story The Child King is read by the author, Edward Kelsey.
Fat Cat find · festive tre
Carols by candlelight
But when Stewart's agent gave him the script to read, he wanted the part. Through its story and characters, it tells "the real, true reason that Chr stmas is celebrated - the birt h of Jesus Christ," Stewart says And those beliefs are deep in Stewart's life
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SISTER NORAH POOLE
Her ambition still glowed
After 40 years of psychiatric nursing, Sist er Norah Teresa Poole has decided it's time to hang up her hat and close the office door behind he r.
Sister Poole recently left Heathcote Hospital, atApplecross, carrying the distinction of being that hospital's longest-serving nurse and perhaps earning the same title within the Mental Health Services department.
When she began, she was a young girl with a burning ambition to be a nursewhen she left she was general administrative nurse, with the fire of that original ambition still glowing.
"I had no idea it would be so long," she said.
"That's fate for you, but I've few regrets, it was meant to be. I've been lucky though, it has not been a mundane job."
Born in Perth
Sister Poole was born in Perth in 1920. Her parents, Joseph and Elizabeth Poole had a dairy at Osborne Park. Sister Poole was 11 when her father died, her sister Elizabeth was two and brother John, nine.
The family battled on alone but after completing eighth grade at St Kieran's Church School, run by the Sisters of Mercy, it was time to look for work.
"All I ever wanted to do was nurse," Sister Poole said. "I started at Claremont Mental Hospital when I was 17 but was only there 12 months. Then I --went to, Wooroloo as a ward maid for two years.
"My brother joined the army so I went back home to help out in the dairy. I applied at Heathcote in 1941, when I was 21. I knew what I wanted by then. I wanted to help people and felt I had the gift to be able to."
When Norah Poole went into psychiatric nursing, it was the 'Cinderella' of medical care.
There was a social stigma attached to mental illness and patients were suJfering emotionally and mentally someone had to help.
She trained for three years and then worked as a sister until 1950 when she was made administrative nurse to the female wards. In 1975 she moved into the main office as general administrative nurse a position she held until her retirement.
Heathcote Hospital now has 106 patients and conditions have change d dramatically in the last 40 years.
"When I started, treatment was hard for the nursing staff," Sister Poole said.
"It was a great physical and mental strain. It was only by the 1950's , when we began to get drugs that could relieve symptoms, that the strain began to lessen.
''The whole field has developed enormously. Now we have community care patients, we also have a day centre and many clinics.
New unit opens
"Our occupational therapy unit opened in 1962, before that it was all done in the wards."
Psychiatric nursing , says Sister Poole, requires a special kind of person. "You have to have a great understanding of individual patients to be able to give them some relief," she said. Thankfully, times have changed though. The stigma has lessened and emphasis has turned to community care rather than institutionalisation
"We only have one locked ward now and that's admissions," Sister Poole said.
"We're also getting a lot of trained nurses who are doing psychiatric nursing and that helps.
"Everyone is frightened of going into hospital and our patients especially so. It's so important that we relate to them and comfort them," she said.
Forty years ago, Heathcote Hospital had one general practitioner on staffnow it boasts a wide range of psychiatrists, occupational therapists and social wor).cers.
''I thought I
could h elp" -- Sr Poole
For Sister Poole one of the greatest satisfactions of her career has been seeing the dramatic growth of care for the mentally ill but the most rewarding thing of all has been to see patients get better.
"Our aim is to keep the patients home as much as possible," she said.
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"We try to involve the family and staff are taught to counsel relatives on how to meet various situations.
"Now we also have ministers of religion coming into the hospital. Mass and church services are provided and I find them all a great support."
Sister Poole still lives at Osborne Park and is still a member of St Kieran's parish.
Sisters share house
She and her sister share a house after caring for their mother who died three years ago at the age of 92.
There is a long list of things to be done during the days of retirement. First is to join St Vincent de Paul.
••1 think my experience could be of use there," Sister Poole said.
"I would like to do counselling work for the poor and needy. There are many such families in WA. Unemployment has made life increasingly difficult for many more people and financial problems are often at the base of 10 The Record. December 17-23. 1981
emotional problems."
After 40 years of shift work, Sister Poole is looking forward to lazy weekends, normal hours and somethi~g other than hospital food.
I'm going to take cooking lessons," she said. "Chinese and continental first, I'm really looking forward to it."
Travel next on list
Next on the list is travel. She has spread her wings a bit and been to Europe and Ireland but has an eye to seeing Hong Kong and Bali.
"I have a cousin in the United States and another in England who are planning to retire together in Ireland (the Poole family comes from the south of Ireland) and I would like to get to stay with them."
Also on the retirement list, out of necessity as much as choice, is gardening.
"We've got 40-odd rose bushes and they take a lot of weeding and spraying," Sister Poole said.
"I'm not worried about being bored, I'm sure I'll find plenty to do."
When the time came to leave the job behind, Sister Poole had plans to leave as quietly as she had come, but her colleagues weren't going to let her off so easily.
One hundred and twenty gathered to say goodbye a sign of respect for a woman who after 40 years could dismiss her career with the simple words: "I thought I could help."
Mrs Peta Garnaut (27), of Mullaloo, was named this year's winner of the Mrs Australia - WA Quest at a gala dinner held in the Sheraton Golden Ballroom recently.
The event, which was hosted by John Burgess, was televised by Channel Nine.
Ten Western Australian ladies reached the quest finals when the judging panel, which included Channel Nine's Bruce Walker, made their final choice of Peta Garnaut, a mother of a 20-month old boy.
Peta's title brings with it a 12-day European tour and a sedan.
Mrs Inez Baker, of Padbury, was
John Burgess congratulates Mrs Peta Garnaut after she won the 1982 Mrs Australia
Quest
Seeing the sights of lovely Darwin
Hi gang, we're having a bit of a look at Darwin before we head off . Rather nice place since it has all been rebuilt.
Nurse K. t hi nks I'm silly but I've been sleep i ng unde r my bed s in ce we've bee n here after all it is cycl one se ason and look what happened to the place l ast ti me Can 't be too care ful, I say
T here are around 41,00 0 pe op le li ving here alt hough so many come an d go I think t he number changes from week to week. Lots of d iffere nt nationalities too, it's a real melting pot, a licorice allsort ki nd of place
Sebastian cuts his communion cake to celebrate
EYE ON THE WEATHER
The port site of Darwin was d iscovered in 1839 and na med for the famo us na turalist, Charles Darwin. ow he was an amazing fellow. Set off on this trip
on a ship called the Beagle found and shipped literally and travelled aro u nd the millions of samples back to world looking at all the England. When he got animals, birds, insects and home it took him years and ocean life. He kept detailed years to sort it all out and records of everything he write his notes. The rest of
his life in fact. He published a number of books, incl u ding his famous theory of evolution (that got him into hot water but I d on't think he minded too much). He was so fascinated with all kinds of creatures that he would spend months, and sometimes years, dissecting and examing the little critters to try and find out how they worked.
The port of Darwin was not chosen as a site for a town unti l 1866. The town was named Palmerston unti l 1911 when its name was changed to Darwin.
The major work around here is governme nt administration, along with substantial commercial activity catering for the large proportion of the population with salaries that are higher than the Australian average. Government activity is associated with Aboriginal welfare, control of the airport and seaport, and military affairs (there is a major RAAF base at Darwin.)
The town is also a base for persons engaged in the mining business in the north (bauxite, manganese, uranium), and it has daily air services to the big southern cities, as well as
around point in northern Australia Darwin is located in a cyclone belt (you don't have to tell me) and in 1974
was partially destroyed by Cyclone Tracy. Rebuilding
was started immediately and reconstruction was
complete by the end of 1977. I can tell you it's a
pretty place now.
Well, the time has comei the walrus said we're up bright and early and on our way. Thought we'd head down smack through the middle of the country and then round the eastern seaboard. We said goodbye to the stretches of mangrove along the Darwin coast which were fairly whistling with wildlife and travelled through the Adelaide River Plains.
The Wildlife Protected area near Darwin is a fascinating place - terns and birds of prey wheel overhead, and many parrots and small birds call from the surrounding timbered country There are also lots of buffaloes (but we kept a discreet distance) introduced from Java last century.
The wildlife in this moister, warmer zone is also more prolific than the drier, harsher south where we are heading. Large flocks of magpie geese and other waterbirds, many herons and egrets and the beautiful graceful brolga could be seen along the way. Our first stop will be Katherine, but only an overnighter, it's not exactly the boppiest place to be.
ian I'd better take my turn at
It's cats at Christmas!
Christmas Cats,
For anyone who likes cats this book is a joy, for those who don't, it's still a delight.
It's a slim, little volume - superbly illustrated with sections on nativity cats, christmas card and calender cats, nursery cats, cats at the Christmas feast and Christmas for cats. The now familiar Christmas Cat, like so many pleasures of an English Christmas, seems to have develope d into a national institution a bout the mi dd le of the nineteenth century Un der the young Victoria, with her German conso rt and pretty chil d ren, everything com bined to t urn the old mid winter feast, with its robust amusements, into an altogether cosier and more sentimental domestic celebration centred on hearth and home.
The special joys of a Victorian Christmas were all on an intimate s~ le suited to a family occasion, and soon every artist, printer, manufacturer and shopkeeper involved in the Christmas trade realised that the simple
fireside cat perfect ly conveyed the season's goodwill message, at least so far as its secula r side went.
For well over a hundred years cats of all shapes and sizes, often with bows a nd bells, sometimes in improbable suits of clothes, have adorn ed greeting cards a nd chocolate boxes, gazed from the top of bulg ing stockings or explo ded out of spangl ed crackers; few of these inspired trifles were intended to be anyt hing but ephemeral, but for all sorts of reas ons many of them were treasured by lo ngforgotten lovers of ca ts , and against all the odd s they have survived. This is a fascina ting book, packed wi th information, that no doubt you never knew you wanted until you read it.
It's guaranteed to appeal to cat fanciers of all ages and to ma ke you look anew at yo ur own temperamenta l tabby.
stars
Four W estern A ustralian children will be n at ional te le vi sion stars next year acro ss the Ni ne N etw o rk.
The four youngsters were successful competitors for the chance to appear on national television show 'Matchmates' seen weekdays on Channel ine. Robin Tysoe (11) of Benrequiring them to a nswer 10 'match' questio ns and unscramble IO different words. Then groups of fo ur were asked to act out su bjects of their own choice in a mime tley, Peta Lowe (11) of routine. Kelmscott, Greg Mant ( 12) And each child was given of Myaree and Patrick a personal interview and Anderson ( 11) of Wembley marked on personali ty and Downs, were the four who appearance. successfully auditioned---.----...-....-.,_..._ recently at Channel Nine • t ' as part of a search for HAPPY BIRTH DAY national competitors for TO: PAULI E A ro Matchmates. CHRISTOPHER BRA Yof
Appearances South Hedland, PAU L DUFFY of Wongan Hi lls. REBECCA FRANK Lf'I of Swanview KEV IN Channel ine's Mrs Sta- GILDER of Bavswa ter, cia Morris accompanied DAN 1 ELLE HEN~the four children to Sydney RICKS of Hamilton Hill. to record their appearan- AMA DA JAMES of ces on the show, which will Willagee , BEVERL~Y go to air in Perth in April, JACKSO of Merre din, 1982. JUDITH KIRK of Clove r· To win the opportunity to dale, NIVETTE LOB O 0f appear on the show the Langford, STEPHA four contestants competed ERVA of Padb ur }f amongst a group of child- HYDIE PALLIER o ren from all overthe Perth Kewdale, PAULA SM IW metropolitan area. of Marmion , A NET d The auditions compri ed SHERIDA of Bed for f three parts. Firstly the and MARCO GRASS I 0 children sat a written test Morley.
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Many gather at Youth Mass '81
The 500 strong congregation arriving at th e sunk en garde ns at the W. A. University last Saturday evenin g for Youth M ass ' 81 may have been surprised to find that th e re was no a ltar ready at the beginning of the celebration. It was not an oversight by the organisers. It was pl a nned.
After the homily six you ng men Garry Hampsen (Monastery), Michael Cla re (Bentley C PY), Lynto n Burnane (Clov erdale YC W), John · H or v arth (M orley CPY), Ad rian Ba ker (Bullcreek CPY), Michael Bertinazzo (Diane lla CPY) carried in piece s of wood an d wit hin se veral minutes bu il t a stu rdy table.
A group of youn g women Ge mma Wooltort on (Subiaco YCW), Mar garet Sau nders (YCS fu ll -t imer), Be rnie Clare (M on a st er y), Ka te McAdam (Ex YCW fu ll-timer) , Michelle Phi llip s, Cathy Wilkinson a nd Lilly Be landi (Foc o lare movement) walked in wit h a large white cloth and decorated the altar with flowe rs and candles an d crucifix.
In h is homily Father Jegorow , the celebrant at the Mass said "this symbolic action was expressive of how young people must cooperate with priests and the adult lay leaders in bu ilding a better world."
"Together we have built a pl ace for God and by our ac tion we have invite d Je sus to come to the place we have built so that He ca n build us," he said
'Build a better world'
of God , Fathe'; Son and Sp irit , he said.
" The Father who give s life , the Son , the Word who is the source of all truth and the Sp irit who is the source of lo ve."
Yo ut h Mass '8 1 was the id ea of Jeff Arnold (O s borne Park ) who approa ched t he Catholic: Yo uth Council and rallied mem be rs from th e d ifferent yo uth move ments a nd groups Represe ntat ives c ame fr om a ll ov er the me tro p olitan area and in the fron t row was a con tinge nt fr om No rtha m led by the ir chaplain Fa t her Joe Walsh
Some 50 Young Ch ristian Students formed a human chain for the presentation of the gifts
The young people gave Bishop Quinn who pre.sided at the Mass a warm welcome He said that the bi s hops were delighted with the growing work of the youth apostolate. He thanked those involved and urged young people to ke ep up their commitment.
Paul II, which Bishop mentary for the Mass and taking the initiative and will be just as successful on
years of history in f later invited the congrega- cooperating with one December 4, 1982," said Australia. F ather Jegorow urge d yo ung people to go on be ing apostles to ot he r yo ung people, not j ust those in crisis but es pecially those who were not. Quinn read a ter commun-
ion. Fathers Kevin Davis
(Rockingham) , S t eve grounds the
Thomas More College plams
Truscott (Belmont), John "It was a tremendous bodies in the
Dwyer (Leederville) a nd I f
Barry Hickey (Centrecare) 11
and Tony Dolin (CPY fulltimers) provided the
Make Poland .Polish
This week the newspaper billboards have highlighted the Polish crisis.
A young recent arrival from Poland met me in the street on Tuesday and thrusting the evening paper into my hands asked me to translate the latest reports. I did so gladly although I was sharing sad news.
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My Polish friend was anxious about her family back in Poland and concerned that telephone communications had been cut. Even if the call gets through it is likely to be censored.
As the media continues to shine the spotlight on the Polish crisis the world waits and watches with anxious concern and interest. I wonder if the events of Hungary and more recently Afghanistan will be repeated. If they are , what can anyone really do that does not merely amount to angry words of di sapproval?
Public demonstration s and protests at Polish embassies are gathering momentum as angry ex patri ate Pole s, glad to be fre e,
voice their objections. In our laissez-faire western society it has become unfashionable to criticise communist governments who fundamental philosophv i,;: based on atheistic principles. The ideologies which seem to paint a picture of a workers ' paradise are now seen to be crumbling when those same workers are given an ounce of true freedom.
During my visit to Po land t wo years ago I found the faith ali ve and strong especiall y a mo ng the you th I was app a lled by t he
charades and 'lies ' that young people had to recite to their mentors in government institutions in order to participate in Church events and ceremonies so as not to lose favour with those few who may not be sympathetic. The youth I spoke with were convinced of the faith which had been passed on to them generation after generation desp ite the prohibitive strictures of civil la ws which have made lea rni ng religious truths difficu lt. As ne pr epa re to celebrate th e Bi rth of our Sa vi ou r, I wonder what
the thoughts and feelings of young people, of young apprentices and young students and workers in Poland will be this Christmas. Through the activities of Solidarity they have had a taste of speaking their minds and expressing their preferences politically. Their new found freedom seems to have been short lived
One of the recent hit tunes in Poland has been ' If only Poland was Polish'. My prayer these day s will be that those sen t iments will become fact once and for all , and for all time
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At la st Sa t urday's Youth Mass '81 , Michael Clare (left) and Jeff Arnold hold candles beside Therese Fi tzgerald who holds the Books of t he Gospe ls f rom w hich Fat her Barr y Hickey proc l aims the Gospe l.
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MARY'S MOUNT
when it was first opened and who will be celebrating her 98th birthday shortly.
Any old pupil living in the country may wish to pro-
BABY AWARD
is hoped that the participants will come to a greater understanding of their own spirituality and be able to apply this knowledge to their own lives, as students and as members of the
In 1982 the 60th anniver- mote th e celebrations in The closing date for the wider community."
Topics include The Spirituality of Jesus presented by Sister Pat Fox, An Historical Overview of Spirituality by Carmelite Father their own district. If this is b · · sary of Mary's Mount popular ba y competition Primary School, Gooseb- so th ey are asked to con- fund-raising effort for erry Hill , will be cele- tact Mr Downey at Mary's Pregnancy Help has been
Brian Pitman, and a key- •-~.,-,.,,,,n ,,, brated Mount. extended to January 31.
The school has already First prize is a framed formed a committee to Cathedral canvas portrait of the organise celebrations. This baby, by the well-known willbeassistedbytheP&F photographer, John and mothers of the school. Chr·1stmas Whitfield-King, valued at
The principal, Mr Dow- $310. This will be a family ney, is confident that a Carols at 11.25pm pre- heirloom for generations great year lies ahead. An cede midnight Mass in St to come! old pupil of the school, he Mary's Cathedral on Second prize is a Plunkett hopes that many of the Christmas Eve and Masses cot and mattress, valued at past pupils throughout the on Christmas Day are at 7, $166. state will make a big effort 8, 9, 10 (solemn Mass cele- All you have to do is send to attend its functions, in brated by Archbishop in a $2 entry fee with the particular an outdoor Goody) and 11.30am and child's name and age (up to Mass on Saturday, March at 5pm. 18 months) as well as 13,at4pmandanoldpup- Confessionswillbeheard sponsor's name and ils dinner on July 31. on Tuesday and Wednes- address, to Pregnancy
At the Mass, the old day I lam to noon, 5 to Help's new address at 7 school bell will be rein- 5.30pm and after 7.45pm. Howard Street, Perth. stalled in a new bell tower On Christmas Eve confes- Judging is on dollar which will be opened by sions will be heard 11 am to votes, which means that Sister Adelaide who was noon, 4 to 6pm and 7. 30 to the baby will be declared appointed to the school 9.30pm. the winner, if the particular ----------------------, amount raised exceeds all
ALL HOURS others. For further information please phone: 322 5655
Teachers Course
For the first time the Catholic Pastoral Institute is offering its courses by correspondence, mainly as an effort to help country teachers, most of whom PERTH
are unable to come to the BALGA
city for courses.
458 5017 The first course offered is • entitled The Christian
note address Hope, Thought, Word and Deed, by Jesuit Father Brian Steele.
Group sessions will discuss justice and spirituality, different models of spirituality and a workshop on Benedictine spirituality which will involve a day trip to New Norcia. In the final session speakers will look at how spirituality and commitment are ••••••••••••••
Masses
Gnowangerup parish Christmas Masses are as follows: Christmas Eve: Wellstead 5.30pm; Bremer Bay 8.30pm; Jerrramungup 11.30pm. Christmas Day: Ongerup 8am; Tambellup 8.30am; Gnowangerup 10.30am Bunbury parish Christmas Masses are as follows: Christmas Eve: Cathedral 8pm and midnight; St Mary's midnight ; St Thomas' 8pm
Christmas Day: Cathedral 8, IOam; St Mary's 9am; St Thomas 8.30am; Australind 8am.
Lancelin Christmas and New Year's Masses are as follows:
Christmas Eve: Lancelin 6.30pm; Guilderton 8pm. New Year and following Sundays: Guilderton noon; Lancelin 5pm.
Engaged Encounter weekend
Among 14 couples at the December Engaged Encounter weekend were:
TOP: Jill Forrest and Terry Dwyer, who will be married in Narrogin on January 9.
absence
should be made with the conveners, Tim Shanahan and Sharon Staude , 2a Unwin Crescent, Salter Point , 6152 , phone 386 7552.
Funds for the conference will be raised at a folk dance to be held at the
SO attend tennis day at Aquinas
About 50 members of the West Australian Catholic Lawn Tennis Association attended the presentation and medal day at Aquinas College on Sunday. Assoc iation chairman Monsignor Burke and Miss WACLTA Carmel Bob were on hand to make the presentations to the winners of the recent championships and last season's A and B grade pennants.
• Simon Manjonie(left) Winner of the Andy Fanowrios Memorial Trophy.
The m al tournament winners were Eric Tuene (Shenton Park) and Kerry Messer (Queen's Park). The women had a three-way tie and Kerry won a spin-off against Wendy O'Neill (Pignatelli) and Trish Klisc (St Domin ics).
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• Kerry Messer(left) 1981 Ladies ' Champion and Wayne Firns (right) 1981 Men's Champion.
Sydney carnival co~petition, but the men still need one more player to complete their team. A NSW player will fill the position if necessary.
Thirteen association members will represent WA at the carnival. About 80 interstate visitors are expected to attend.
Last-minute entries have enabled the association to field a full women's team in the The association has also fielded a team in
visit
Renowned Australian football coach and Brownlow medallist
Ross Smith will visit Perth and country districts from January 22 as an Alcoa Coach-inResidence to participate in a Keep Kids Kicking programme arranged by the W.A. Football League and the W.A. Institute of Sport.
The programme, which will last a week, will feature practical coaching seminars for coaches of players up to the age of 19 years.
Because a similar visit
was so successful early this year when he spent most of his time in the metropolitan area, it was decided to repeat it but to concentrate on coaches in country districts.
Coaches will be drawn from a 100-mile radius of each of the six centres at Pinjarra and Busselton (January 24), Mt Barker (January 25), Wagin (January 26), Cunderdin (January 27), Moora (January 28).
In the metropolitan.
area Ross Smith will conduct seminars at the W.A.F.L. on January 23 for coaches of players aged 13 and under and on January 30 for coaches of players 14 to 19 years of age.
Ross Smith is a senior lecturer in physical education
RACE FIVE: I. Gallery. 2. Supreme Octum. 3. Brilliant Akii.
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the Southern Suburb pennants, the teamKerry Messer, Sharon Gordon, Chris McCallum and Louise Hacket - is doing· very well.
The men are Ron Smith, Kevin Quain, Jonathon Messer and Les Curry. The team has won four of the five matches played.
championships
Channel Nine has announced plans to televise the two days of the $250,000 1981 Toyota Championships from Byrne Meadowlands Arena in the United States on Sunday, December 20, and Monday, December 21.
The event links 33 women's tennis titles around the world in the biggest single play-off in women's tennis as the top eight money earners from the 33 events battle for the supreme prize.
The series play-off will include Chris Lloyd, Martina Navratilova, Tracey Austin, Hana Mandlikova and Andrea Jaegar. Australia's Wendy Turnbull was informed during the
33 titles linked
recent Australian Women's Open at Kooyong that she has been selected as the alternative player in the final.
This means she will be included in the eight if one of the top eight qualifiers cannot play.
Channel Nine will provide a telecast of the event
Major trotting events
Channel Nine will televise all qualifying heats and the final of the Benson & Hedges Gold Cup to be run at Gloucester Park on December 18, December 26 and January 2.
The cup has attracted a strong field of local and interstate stars including Uncle Remus from South Australia, Willadios from New South Wales, and local champions Pure Steel and Satinover.
Channel Nine will break intQ normal programmes to cover the three qualifying heats to be run on the
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first two nights of the cup programme and then again for the final of the series on Saturday, January 2.
The first live cross on Friday, December 18, and Saturday, December 26, will be at 9. 35pm with normal programmes resuming 15 minutes later, while the second cross on each of those nights will be at 10.45pm for five minutes. Norm.al programmes will then resume. The televised coverage will include a full commentary of each event.
Channel Nine has been one of W.A. trotting's most enthusiastic supporters in recent years with sponsorship of the Australian Pacing Derby for the past two years and the highly-successful Golden Nugget series in February, 1981.
Champion WA pacer Pure Steel will be attempting to win his fifth Benson & Hedges Gold Cup this season, and if successful he will almost certainly be able to reach the one million dollar stakes earning tar~et.
from 9am on Sunday, December 20, with an hour of highlights replayed at midnight, and from 8.30am on Monday, December 21, with highlights at 11pm.
The telecast of the rich Toyota Championship final is another major international sporting telecast by the National Nine Network which has brought some of the leading sporting events to Australian television viewers during 1981.
These include Formula One Grand Prix racing, Wimbledon tennis, the French Open, the US Open tennis, the Irish Sweepstakes Derby, the United States Preakness, Belmont Stakes and Kentucky
Derby, the US Open golf, the British Open golf, the US Women's golf, the US PGA and the World
Triomphe horse race, the World Series baseball and the current international cricket season.
Excitement
However the television sports feast doesn't end there.
CHIEF TALK battled on well to finish second to Kahlua Gold in the Lamont Graduation. This galloper had to overcome a wide barrier at the 1,200 metres and although easily beaten on the line, his effort would suggest he is worth following in similar •company.
SHINJU PRINCE was also responsible for a strong performance when third to Kahlua Gold.
SHINJU PRINCE has shown plenty of ability in his short racing career with six wins from fifteen starts and will pay to keep an eye on over the coming weeks. RED Kl LT continues to
work well and put up his best performance in three starts in Western Australia, when a close up fourth behind Vortilla in the December Handicap over 2,200 metres. RED KILT ran on well in the straight and is ready to show his best when he next starts.
BRIDGE PATROL continued his very consistent form when beaten in the last couple of strides by Bomdia in the Paxton Welter. BRIDGE PATROL has been showing more stamina at recent starts and this gallopers style of front running should see him score more wins for his co1rnections.
Channel Nine also plans to bring to Perth viewers the excitement of the United States football championships with telecasts of : the NFL Divisional playoffs and the Super Bowl. The international tennis , will continue with the • Volvo Masters - the play-
off by the eight top international tennis players for 1981.
Blue-water classic race
On Saturday, December 26 at8.00 am, Channel 7 will present a live coverage of the start of Australia's premier bluewater classic, the 1981 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.
This year's Sydney to Hobart will also be the final race of the biennial Southern Cross Series.
In this year's race, 12 WA yachts have been invited, including Terry Veale's Santervea (the sister to international star Tenacious) and Apollo 5 skippered by millionaire
Other star entries from the West are Jack Cassidy's Evelyn and Parmelia race veteran Parmeha. In addition to the dozen entries from the West, the former Siska 4 will be racing under her new name Vengeance. The yacht Battle, sailed in WA waters for several seasons by Dick Murphy, has been entered by her new
Venetian
Canvas & Alllllinilm
SIX: 1. Calruin. 2. If He Could. 3. Final Smoke.
SEVEN: I. Lo mer Mercy. 2. Darling Crown. 3. All Lit Up.
EIGHT: I. Uncle Winter. 2. Satan's Ego. 3. Yvonne Monaro.
NINE: I. Ziggy Zeba. 2. Mr Mondo. 3. Tiny Scoop.
TEN: I. Mr Supadupa. 2. Wax Farewell. 3. Dynetic.
Renewa l n eed in our society
I believe that God wants us fo ·r our time - here and now.
With the whole of the Schoenstatt Movement we share the aim to assist in the spiritual and moral renewal of the world in Christ especially by helping to educate the "new man" in the "new community" or society, that is, the truly Christian personality who helps to build a new society.
Obviously this answers a basic need of our time and age.
As an explicit community of educators and of education we work in particular in the formation of girls, women a nd families.
We try to build up 'basic communities' or ' small g roups ' a ccord ing to their state in life and t ry to r e-vi t al is e their Ch ristian be liefs by leading them to a greater relisaion of their Cov enan t wi th God.
Foun ded in 1926, we vere one of the first of the ecular institutes to be ·ecognised by the Church n 1948, after the decree on Secular Institutes was promulgated in 1947 Secular Insti tutes are "lleant to be a link between the religious orders and the laity.
We may live in communi ty or alone; we may wear our uniform dress or lay dress.
We may be involved in secular professions, in public life, or in the direct evangelisation of people.
We do not take vows, instead we make a consecration through Our Lady's hands to God.
Connected with this is a contra ct with the institute which obliges us to
live according to the evangelical counsels for the time the contract binds us, which is first for one then for two for three years and then forever.
However , it remains always possible for us to terminate the contract.
This safeguards our free surrende r.
O ur ins ti tute ha s ho uses in all conti ne nts exce pt for Asia - where we are just ab out to make a foun d ation. We h ave almost 3000 members from about 30 different nations.
A ster can be sent to any foundations of the community. However normally she works in the country where she entered, unless she enters the mission section.
In Australia we work in Sydney, Toowoomba and Perth Schoenstatt institute is part of a large lay movement embracing all walks of life. The sis t ers are especially trained to attend to the needs of girls, mothers, single women and families.
Wherever we are, we try to build up small groups and attend to their spiritual needs and especially to educate strong person-
( Vocations today)
A series presented in conjunction with the Religious Vocations Council of WA.
'We work in the formation of girls, women, families'
alities who can withstand the forces of our materialised and de-moralised world. We try leading them to a covenant of love with Mary. the Mother of God, to Christ and the Father.
The word covenant is no more a strange concept as
more and more people study the Old Testament and the Bible in general.
It is also used in secular fields such as in real estate and contracts of any nature.
The history of redemption is the story of the covenant God made again and again with His people. We, too, are drawn into the covenant with God through our baptism. The Schoenstatt Covenant makes us aware of this wonderful truth. Mary helps us to be loyal covenant partners of God.
THE CO-ORDINATION ROLE IS AKEV TO THE TEACHI NG MESSAGE FOR mos,
T he Sc ho ens tatt si st ers wo rk in all fields of activity accessible to·women. In Australia we work m ainly in the pa r is h apostolate, as religious co-ordinators in parishes or schools, as k in de rgarten tea chers , nurses in hospitals or with the government public health scheme and in the migrant ap o stolate. Yo u th tr a ining p la
yed a role
Before joining th e Sc hoenstatt Institute. I trained as a kindergarten teac he r and wor k ed in thi s fi e ld for six years as well as bei ng an active membe r and leade r in the Schoenstatt Youth M oveme nt an d th e par ish yo uth in my home town Gueters loh in Wes t Germany.
I decided to be a Schoenstatt sister while I w as in the Schoenstatt Youth M ove me nt.
Through friends from my old sch o ol I took part in a forma ti on weekend at Schoenstatt, the found ation place in Ge rmany. Before th at I had never seen the sisters as I lived in a pre-dominant ly Protestan t area a nd went to sta te sc hoo ls only. I th ou gh t that the mo veme nt was a great mo vement with definite aims a nd I be came very mu ch invo lve d until I decided to j oi n the institute It was p eo ple wh o imp resse d me, the simplicity with whic h th ey offere d th eir service to me mbers of th e movement and to t heir guests at th eir formatio n ce ntr es. Al so the ideas impre sse d me. Sc hoensta tt is a moveme nt of ide as and ideals 16 The
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The founder, Father Kentenich, fostered education through ideals and they are very much apparent in our schools, the groups of the movement and in our sisters' community.
All I have done so far has fulfilled my life.
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I ha ve been able to see that I can hel p the Churc h in troubled times wit h wh at I am doing at prese nt an d th roug h my te ach ing at sc h ools, t hr oug h the migrant apostolate or working in the movement.
I have been very happy because I always felt I cou ld help people and in th at way help the Church , even if only in a sma ll way.
We conduct a religious formation centre in Sydney and assist as inspirational resource persons in the various branches of the movement.
Smee we were founded for this century there was no need for a change according to the norms of Vatican II.
Our constitutions were first tried out in life before they were finalised. It was only as recent as 1976 that we applied for the final approval of our constitutions and received it.
The needs of the Church have changed and our approaches have changed accordingly.
Vatican II promulgated the 'mature' Christian who can decide for himself and is not influenced by adverse forces of materialism or any other modern 'ism'.
the unique Marian education and formation in Schoenstatt is geared towards educating such a Christian personalitywhom our founder called the "New Man in the New Society''.
Education is a slow process and we can do this only if we co-operate wit h O ur Lady and Chris t.
In one day or one week this would be impossible.
Only when we listen to the needs of the people are we able to lead them to a deeper realisation of their covenant.
In other words, we meet them where they are and then try to inspire them and lead them on.
I suppose this is a unique approach in the way that we base our whole life and apostolate on this covenant of love.
The covenant of love with Our Lady, as an expression and a security for our covenant with God, is the guiding idea of our whole spirituality.
I am convinced that the Church needs the variety of the Orders and institutes in order to fulfill its mission.
We believe that we have a special mission for this time, the post-conciliar time of the Church. However, other institutes have a similar task to fulfi l with another emphasis.
Each institute is mean t for a specific task accor ding to the founder's intention.
Somehow we are a sign of God's and Mary's presence in the world, even if it is not always understood in its fullness. We remain a mystery; for it is a life for God a nd with God, and God is a mystery that has to be ap p roached in fa ith.
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Ten steps to reduce burglary during the holidays:
1. Cancel all papers, milk and mail deliveries
Arrange with neighbours Jo clear pamphlets and a other items which may be left during your absence
2. Take your key with you or leave it with a friend Do not leave keys under mats, in meter boxes or other obvious places.
Do not leave notes advertising your absence
Request your neighbours not to inform callers to your house that you are away on holidays.
A "lived-in" appearance for your home is essential. Do not draw blinds or close venetians Keep lawns mown by mutual agreement-with a neighbour.
Lock away garden tools and ladders. They could provide means of entry to your home
Record the description and serial numbers of valuable items such as antiques, and, if possible, photograph items in colour. Remove ALL money and valuables to somewhere safe, i.e. bank. Attach to your insurance policy photographs of valuable items.
Consider updating your door locks and remember to lock all doors and windows.
Request that neighbours notify police if they see suspicious persons at your premises.
