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BETWEEN four and five hundred people responded to Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB’s call to join him in Saint Mary’s Cathedral on Sunday, June 2 for a Holy Hour to mark the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of the Lord, more popularly known as the Feast of Corpus Christi. Pope Francis had asked that all the bishops of the world gather in their Cathedrals with their people on this one day so that the whole Church might be united in prayer for the needs of the Church and the world. In particular the Pope had asked that two intentions might be especially remembered: firstly, that we pray for all those people around the world who are suffering from violence, from drug or human trafficking, or from economic insecurity and for all those who have been pushed to the margins of our society. Secondly that all pray for young people, especially those who feel lost or abandoned, those who are struggling with their faith, and those who feel no hope. These intentions were included in a series of three prayers led by the Archbishop. He prayed a prayer of repentance asking that through repentance and sorrow the Church might be seen once more as beautiful, without spot or wrinkle, holy and without

blemish. He prayed a prayer of petition in which, in addition to the intentions mentioned above, he asked that all might be given the grace to listen to God’s word and to respond to it in faith as Mary did. Lastly he prayed a prayer of thanksgiving in which, on behalf of all participants, he thanked God for the gift of the Eucharist through which all are made one body in Christ and drawn into the mystery of God’s divine life. Through the hymns, the readings, the prayers and the times of silent adoration and reflection participants were able to experience something of the peace which is the Lord’s Eucharistic gift. We experienced too a real sense of communion with the Lord, with each other and with the Holy Father and the Universal Church. At the conclusion of the Holy Hour, as the Archbishop left the Cathedral, all joined in singing the hymn “Christ our Light” as an affirmation of faith in Christ who is “the Way, the Truth and the Life”. The Archbishop expressed his gratitude to all those who had supported this important initiative, especially Fr John-Noel Marie, assistant priest at the Cathedral who took charge of the arrangements and Ms Jacinta Jakovcevic, Cathedral Organist and Director of Music. - SUPPLIED

Pope Francis carries a monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament during the Corpus Christi observance on May 30 in Rome. PHOTO: PAUL HARING, CNS

All over the world: Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles carries the Eucharist inside the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles on June 2 during the worldwide holy hour of eucharistic adoration. Catholics attend a eucharistic adoration service outside St Joseph Cathedral in Hanoi, the same day. PHOTOS: LEFT: VICTOR ALEMAN, VIDA NUEVA; RIGHT: REUTERS

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Renewal coming to Doubleview Our Lady of the Rosary Parish, Doubleview, is conducting a Parish Renewal program from July 8-13 with the theme “Spirituality and Me”. It will be conducted by Sr Joan Bukrey OSF, Fr Michael Champlin OP and Fr Nicholas Punch OP from the Thomas More Centre in the United States. The Thomas More Centre for Preaching and Prayer was founded in 1979 to revitalise Catholic parishes through effective preaching. More information available at 9446 2055 or olrdview@westnet.com.au.

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Retreat to show young people who they are The Catholic Faith Renewal Group is holding a retreat led by Father Gino Henriques, the International Director for Evangelisation 2033. Held at Orchard Glory Farm, Bindoon, and the retreat themed “Who Am I Really?” aims to encourage young adults to probe the choices that they have made in their lives and to understand the motivation behind these choices. The retreat also aims to create awareness that the choices the young make not only impacts them but the people in their lives and the relationships that they have developed over the years. In addition to learning about themselves and the choices that they make the Who Am I Really retreat will highlight Christ and His power of healing and renewing through His love and mercy. The retreat, which starts on Friday, June 28 and concludes on Sunday June 30, is for anyone aged between 18

Mary Mount Primary students prepare for a great harvest after their school received a community grant. and 35. The cost for the retreat is $90 inclusive of bedding, towels, food and accommodation. RSVP by June 23 and for more information contact Thilaga Thangavello on 0433 134 570 or email whoamireally2013@gmail. com.au.

Lettuce pray, and basil and cabbage too Mary Mount Primary School in Gooseberry Hill were recipients of the Medibank Community Grant 2013. The school was awarded

$5000, which they plan to use to set up the Mary Mount Nature Garden. “We plan to widen and extend our current vegetable garden and then add a new nature playground,” Mr Sandro Conigilo, principal of Mary Mount told The Record. The Medibank Community Fund Community Grants program operates in each Australian State and across New Zealand with the main aim of supporting grassroots community programs to encourage better health and well-being. “Our vegetables will be used for class cooking and also will be used by our canteen manageress for cooking in

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Known to Syrian Christians as “the harp of the Holy Ghost,” this Mesopotamian from Nisibia was baptized at 18 and may have accompanied his bishop to the Council of Nicaea in 325. He served as head of the cathedral school and left Nisibia only after it became Persian. In 363 he moved to a cave overlooking Edessa but preached frequently in the city and wrote many poems, hymns and biblical commentaries; he organized a choir of women to sing his hymns during liturgies. About 370 he visited St. Basil in Caesarea. The winter before his death, he earned praise for managing relief supplies during a severe famine in Edessa. Ephraem is the only Syrian father declared a doctor of the church.

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the canteen.” Mr Conigilo said. “Crops such as parsley, basil, corn cabbage, lettuce, carrots and so on, when we have an abundance, will also be sold to families in the school on Friday afternoons by our year six students as part of a mini market.” “We also plan to have our grandparents within the school, and the Holy Family parishioners, involved in the upkeep of this garden.” With the assistance of Mrs Gabby Hoffman, a parent from the school, Mary Mount submitted their application for the grant. The application made it through two preliminary rounds before being selected as one of

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Shirley Ann Poulton, a parishioner of Our Lady of the Mission Church is planning on leading a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, a city in north-western Spain famous for its shrine to St James the Great. The pilgrimage can begin anywhere but on the basis of the 12th century Pilgrim’s Guide, there are four starting points and the traditional route begins in Le Puy, France. The French Way is the best-known route internationally, with thousands of pilgrims walking the path every year. The 1600 kilometre pilgrimage will take in some of Europe’s most beautiful landscapes including French and Spanish regions via the Pyrenees, country towns and large cities filled with history, the NotreDame du Port Cathedral, the Moissac Church and Abbey and many more with 71 sites listed on UNESCO’S World Heritage List. It is envisaged the Walk will take around 10 weeks starting in September 2014. An information session to be held on Saturday, June 22 2013 at 10am in the Meeting Hall at Our Lady of the Mission Church, 270 Camberwarra Drive, Craigie. For catering purposes please email your intention to attend to: Shirleyann.poulton@gmail.com by Wednesday June 19.

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Kiyshirah lines up school principalship for a day LOCAL STUDENT, Kiyshirah Ah-Thew will take over the top job at Majella Catholic Primary School, Balga, on June 6. Kiyshirah will act as “principal” as part of a national program being coordinated by Principals Australia Institute – Student Principal for a Day. Kiyshirah will take on a variety of tasks as honorary principal including speaking at an assembly, joining in a Leadership Team meeting and visiting classrooms. “I am really excited to be Principal for a

Day because I have always wondered what the principal does every day and I would like to do the same thing she does,” the student said.

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Petals precede Christ in Corpus Christi procession

PERTH teacher Richard Charlwood will be ordained to the minor orders of Lector and Sub-deacon in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church at Maylands on June 23. Bishop Peter Stasiuk CSsR will preside over the ceremony, which will be held at St John the Baptist Church. Mr Charlwood was born in Parramatta, NSW, but has lived in WA since 1991. Since 2007 he has taught Indonesian with the School of Isolated and Distance Education, and he is a registered primary teacher with qualifications in language education and religious education. Mr Charlwood has completed extensive studies in theology and has been highly successful specifically in Byzantine studies at the Byzantine Catholic Seminary in Pittsburgh. He was received into the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church five years ago, by Bishop Stasiuk on May 12, 2008. Mr Charlwood fills the role of cantor at Vespers and Divine Liturgy on Saturday evenings at St John the Baptist parish. He also has a long history of icon writing, with several examples of his work adorning the Maylands church. Mr Charlwood hopes his chosen path will soon result in ordination to the order of Deacon.

the leadership role and hopes it will give students a practical lesson in what it takes to be a great leader. “I hope that Kiyshirah will gain

Majella Catholic Primary School is one of over 90 schools taking part in Principal for a Day. “I hope that I have an awesome day being the principal of our wonderful school, Majella Catholic Primary School.” School Principal Lina Bertolini is happy to hand over

a better understanding of the qualities that are important for leadership as well as an appreciation for the various aspects of a principal’s role,” Ms Bertolini said.

Majella Catholic Primary School is one of over 90 primary and secondary schools around the country taking part in Student Principal for a Day. Principals Australia Institute (PAI) is coordinating the day to focus the nation’s attention on the value and importance of quality school leadership. “I think this event will serve as a catalyst to showcase the important role that principals play not only in our schools, but in our community,” explains Jim Davies, CEO of PAI.

Participants are also taking part in two webinars and an online community. “Our aim is to get students around the country sharing their experiences and learning from each other.” Jim believes that the day may encourage participants to consider a career in education. “Being a principal is a challenging and rewarding job. Who knows, one of our student principals may take on the job for real one day.”

Girls throw flower petals before the Blessed Sacrament during a Corpus Christi procession in Gora Kalwaria, Poland, on May 30. A eucharistic procession is a traditional feature of the celebration of the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ. PHOTO: CNS/KACPER PEMPEL, REUTERS

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A NEW e-learning hospital specially designed for students enrolled in The University of Notre Dame Australia’s Diploma of Nursing program was launched at the Broome Campus on May 13. The Maryanne Martin Hospital was developed by the School of Nursing and Midwifery on the Broome Campus in collaboration with eLearn Australia – an independent e-learning provider. The hospital offers a casestudy based program on the theory and practice of a nursing environment which can be accessed by nursing students living in regional and remote areas of Western Australia. Students also travel to the Broome Campus for clinical skills teaching and assessment during block week each semester - a period where students can apply their knowledge of nursing theory in a practical environment. The program is accessible to users around the clock and allows students, who may be juggling additional study and family commitments, to work at their own pace. The Hospital provides Diploma of Nursing students with a comprehensive nursing training experience, complete with evidenced based practice, online resources and links, workbooks, dynamic interaction, and assessments. This is in addition to receiving first-hand knowledge using the web-based classroom two mornings a week provided by academics on the Broome Campus.

PREACHER Perth priest Fr Chris Webb has to have one of the more remarkable stories of any Catholic priest in the country. His is a story of highliving, criminal charges that could have led to jail and a life-changing conversion that led him to the Catholic priesthood, reports Mark Reidy PHOTOGRAHS BY ROBERT HIINI

T WAS ONLY when Fr Chris Webb faced a long jail sentence that he began to discover true freedom. “I am a child of mercy”, he radiates as he shares his journey from darkness to new life. Now assigned to the All Saints parish in Greenwood it is difficult to imagine a time when this perpetually grinning priest’s life was not full of joy. But there was a time. Born in 1969 in Subiaco to ‘Ten Pound Poms,’ Fr Webb’s upbringing was completely alien to the Catholic identity that would one day transform his life. “I was never baptised, I attended an Anglican school that promoted philosophy and I lived in an interesting blend of step-family”, he recalls. “Although my mother had an Irish/Catholic upbringing herself, she drifted into the New Age scene and my understanding of spirituality was restricted to dancing and vegetarian beans”, he chuckles. The seed for his spiritual transformation was planted after a horrific car accident when he watched from the passenger seat as his best friend bled to death after a lamppost had crushed his head. The tragedy had deep ramifications on his outlook on life and within a short time he had fallen in love, was setting his eyes toward marriage and was baptised in the Anglican Church. However with a debt of $18,000 hanging over his head his attention was drawn to a book, “Creating Money”, and he believes he revoked the graces of his Baptism by channelling spirits promising him worldly riches. Within a week Fr Chris had met a Korean businessman who introduced him to the world of commercial Real Estate and for the next six months, a Hollywood-type lifestyle. “I was living the highlife of penthouses, parties, expensive restaurants, chauffeur driven limousines and even bodyguards”, he recalls. Caught up in this self-indulgent existence Fr Chris chose to ignore the increasingly blurred lines of legal and illegal dealings and his extravagant lifestyle was turned on its head when he found Federal Police and the Major Fraud Squad on his doorstep. It triggered a period of darkness and placed him at a spiritual crossroad. With his relationship finished and newspapers referring to him as the ‘1.2 million dollar man’ in rela-

tion to his six charges for fraud, Fr Chris’ lawyer, Robert Mazza (now Justice of the Supreme Court in WA) informed him he would likely be serving 5-10 years jail if found guilty of any charges. His Korean associate and a senior bank executive where later to receive seven and three year sentences respectively. It was to be 18 months until the court case and Fr Chris had nowhere else to turn but on his knees. In a moment of complete desolation he pleaded from the depths of his heart, “If you’re there God, I need your help”. Soon after his desperate plea he attended a Retreat weekend at the North Perth monastery and whilst staring at a statue of Mary he experienced a moment of indescribable intimacy through a vision of Jesus and His Mother and tangibly felt freed from the presence of darkness that had ensnared him. He knew he had found his home. Fr Chris’ mother returned to the Catholic church at this time and invited him to a Cenacle. His faith blossomed and he soon completed an RCIA course and began to associate with fellow believers. When he attended a conference during 1994 he stood up when participants where asked if anyone felt called to the priesthood. He knew he had the

causes”, he smiles) he knew he faced a tough judge and his prospects of freedom were not good. His slim chances dwindled further when he was found guilty on three counts. Fr Chris said that the outcome was best summed up by Judge Robert Mazza years later in reply to the invitation to his first Mass, “I’ve never seen such an impressive case of salvation”, he wrote. In delivering his sentencing the presiding judge had even questioned his own assessment. “I don’t know why I am not sending you to prison”, he said, “but instead I will apply a maximum community sentence”. He was

When sentencing Chris, the judge told him he had no idea why he wasn’t sending him to jail, instead imposing the maximum community sentence. Years later he invited his lawyer to his ordination. “I’ve never seen such an impressive case of salvation,” the lawyer wrote. possibility of a jail sentence hanging over his head, but decided he would make himself available and leave the rest in God’s hands. He began volunteering at an AIDS Hospice and when he ventured onto the streets of Perth to minister to homeless people with the Holy Spirit of Freedom Community he discovered a love for those whose lives had been traumatised. “Having been broken myself I was able to recognise the pain in others”, he said. Although many had been praying for him and he had himself been asking for the intercession of St Jude (“The patron of hopeless

also given a spent conviction so no record would be held. With a heavy burden lifted, Fr Chris realised he could start life over - this time with his eyes focused on God. He completed his 240 hours community service at a YMCA centre - very close to where his friend had died years before. Fr Chris then turned his attention to the priesthood, desiring to begin his vocation in Rome with the Family of Mary, but his probation officer had other ideas. “He informed me that I wasn’t legally permitted to leave the state for two years”, he shared. “It was another obstacle I simply had to surrender to God”.

However with continuing prayer from friends and a recommendation from Archbishop Hickey, Fr Chris found himself in Rome two months after his Probation began. “The whole ordeal was quite a shock for my Probation Officer”, he says with a laugh. “The Family of Mary had mission stations throughout Europe and it was the first time [my parole officer] had ever received probation letters from overseas - let alone Siberia or Kazakhstan”. It was a five year period of spiritual and communal joy where Fr Chris “learnt how to re-live life”. However a heavy sadness was to follow when he discovered he would not be invited to continue his priestly formation. “It was like I had fallen in love and then had my heart broken”, he reflects. Determined to fulfil a call he knew to be from God he returned to Perth and entered St Charles Seminary in 2001. His joy was short-lived, however, when it was discerned his future did not lie there. “It made me question my vocation”, he said, “and I found myself on a Pallotine Mission at Tardun, where I spent six months as a house parent for Aboriginal children and teenagers”. He eventually made his way back to Perth and supported himself through house cleaning. Unsure of where his life was heading Fr Chris initiated a project where he gathered unsold food from several cafes each day and delivered it to those living on the streets. He established a rapport with many of the young which led to their catechesis and the baptism of some. He is still in contact with his godchildren today. Still searching for long term

Fr Chris Webb, above, smiles after celebrating Mass in the chapel of Pregnancy Assistance, the archdiocesan agency which assists women experiencing crisis pregnancies. Later, at left, he enjoys sharing a moment with Pregnancy Assistance director Lara Malin, seated, and worker Mary Mantle. PHOTOS: ROBERT HIINI

direction and with the fire of priesthood not yet extinguished he approached Archbishop Hickey, who had always been supportive of his journey. The Archbishop sent Fr Chris back to Rome, this time to pursue his vocation with more mature-aged candidates. Having finally completed his training, he emerged from what he describes as “a 17 year darkness” and was ordained to the priesthood in Perth in August 2011. Despite the difficulties and obstacles he had encountered on his journey, Fr Chris can now recognise the hand of God at work throughout the tough times. “There were

moments of supernatural guidance along the way”, he recalls, also listing a series of significant moments that had fallen on feast days or days devoted to Mary. “However I came to understand that I couldn’t rely on supernatural encounters - faith is what we really need”. It is a faith that generates the joy, passion and love for Christ and others he radiates today. Fr Chris attributes his transformation to prayer, especially Mass, which he acknowledges as prayer’s highest and most perfect form. “We are able to unite in Jesus’ offering of Himself to His Father”, he says, leaning forward enthusi-

astically. “Selflessness may seem senseless but it is the imitation of Christ. It is what we are all called to do”. He believes it is easy to complicate our relationship with God, but suggests the reality is quite the opposite. “We simply need to see our relationship with God as a loving father sees his child” he says. “He is just wanting us to spend time with him”. Which is why this affable priest makes sure he spends at least three hours a day in prayer. “Complete surrender is the only way to true freedom”, he beams and that’s coming from someone who knows.

The Mar yanne Martin Hospital is named after the first Aboriginal registered nurse/midwife in the Kimberley region of WA. Maryanne Martin has devoted her life to working as an emergency relief nurse in several regional communities in WA. Sally Clark, the Assistant Dean in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the Broome Campus, said the Maryanne Martin Hospital will provide an alternative pathway for Aboriginal health workers to enhance their skills and knowledge in the Diploma of Nursing program. “This program provides students with a fresh approach to learning through an interactive toolbox of 23 units of competency for Nursing students,” Mrs Clark said. “Enrolled nurses who require further proficiency in medication or intravenous therapy will be able to complete the necessary units in the Hospital, increasing their scope of practice and opportunities for employment. “They also meet other Nursing students and educators in our web-based classroom as well as spending time in the clinical laboratory on Campus to practice their skills.” Course Coordinator Sr Jennifer Farrell SGS, said the Hospital aims to assist Aboriginal students through the Diploma of Nursing program, into a Bachelor of Nursing course, and onto a medical degree if that is their choice of career.

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New e-hospital conquers distance case by case A NEW e-learning hospital specially designed for students enrolled in The University of Notre Dame Australia’s Diploma of Nursing program was launched at the Broome Campus on May 13. The Maryanne Martin Hospital was developed by the School of Nursing and Midwifery on the Broome Campus in collaboration with eLearn Australia – an independent e-learning provider. The hospital offers a casestudy based program on the theory and practice of a nursing environment which can be accessed by nursing students living in regional and remote areas of Western Australia. Students also travel to the Broome Campus for clinical skills teaching and assessment during block week each semester - a period where students can apply their knowledge of nursing theory in a practical environment. The program is accessible to users around the clock and allows students, who may be juggling additional study and family commitments, to work at their own pace. The Hospital provides Diploma of Nursing students with a comprehensive nursing training experience, complete with evidenced based practice, online resources and links, workbooks, dynamic interaction, and assessments. This is in addition to receiving first-hand knowledge using the web-based classroom two mornings a week provided by academics on the Broome Campus. Fr Chris Webb, above, smiles after celebrating Mass in the chapel of Pregnancy Assistance, the archdiocesan agency which assists women experiencing crisis pregnancies. Later, at left, he enjoys sharing a moment with Pregnancy Assistance director Lara Malin, seated, and worker Mary Mantle. PHOTOS: ROBERT HIINI

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Family grows at Lockridge The Church grew a little younger when around 40 children made their first Holy Communion at Good Shepherd Lockridge last Sunday morning, as proud family members and parishioners looked on.

Top, parish priest Fr Francis Ly preaches. Bottom, the Year 5 choir of Good Shepherd Catholic Primary School leads the people in worship. PHOTOS: MATHEW DE SOUSA

New communicant Lachlan Barns displays his Holy Communion certificate and a symbolic Holy Communion candle, pictured with his proud parents Leanne and Nathan Barns. PHOTOS: MATHEW DE SOUSA

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Hunger a scandal to shame us all: Vatican to UN FINDING a solution to the “ongoing scandal” of worldwide hunger should be a top priority, said the Vatican’s representative to the United Nations. Addressing a UN General Assembly meeting on sustainable development goals on May 23, Archbishop Francis A. Chullikatt, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, called it “a shame that so many of the poor people in the world continue to find themselves helpless victims of chronic hunger.” He urged the UN to find “sustainable models of food security and nutrition” to end hunger for nearly 1 billion people worldwide particularly when the international community can “produce sufficient food for every human being.” He also described world hunger and malnutrition as “all the more

egregious when we grasp the reality that malnutrition remains the world’s biggest health risk - claiming more victims each year than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.” The archbishop called the lack of access to adequate nutrition “a moral and humanitarian crisis exacerbated by man made policies and practices” such as failing to provide access to markets for producers in developing countries, diverting food resources from consumption to energy, waste of food resources and armed conflicts. “In face of the world’s hungry, the grotesque spectacle of foodstuffs being forcibly destroyed in order to preserve higher market prices for producers, primarily in developed countries, constitutes a reprehensible practice which prioritises economic profit

over the needs of those starving,” Archbishop Chullikatt said. He said ending hunger - which can be addressed today - is not the same as providing better health care, which often depends on “looking toward technologies or cures yet to come or not currently available.” “Hunger is one of the world’s most solvable problems,” he added, pointing out that “per capita food

problem, he said, adequate funding and technological resources need to be given to farmers and developing countries to help them address “environmental and manmade challenges to food production, transit and distribution.” He also suggested that governments “introduce effective programs and policies that ensure food and nutritional security for

The grotesque spectacle of foodstuffs being destroyed to maximise prices is reprehensible. production has steadily risen and total world food production now exceeds what is needed to give every person sufficient food and nutrition.” The problem, he said, is not a lack of food production but the shortage of social resources. To solve that

their people” that would particularly provide assistance to children, pregnant women, the disabled, the elderly and those affected by natural disasters. “A sustainable development goal for the elimination of hunger is not only a clear necessity but it is also a

moral imperative,” he stressed. The archbishop also addressed the importance of access to water during the May 24 UN session on sustainable development goals. More than 800 million people lack access to a water resource and millions more are without a safe and sustainable water supply. He said the Vatican delegation has been advocating for more than a decade to change this situation “but collective efforts on the part of governments and international organisations are slow and hesitant in reaffirming that access to safe water and sanitation is a fundamental human right and a common good.” Archbishop Chullikatt said access to water “goes beyond national borders and requires international cooperation in governance so as to promote a harmonious, sustainable use of natural resources.” - CNS

No blasphemy in peace for Pakistan By Robert Hiini PAKISTAN will be a harmonious homeland for people of all religions if its new government follows through on the success of recent, largely peaceful elections, Australian priest Fr Robert McCulloch SSC, a recipient of the country’s highest civilian award, said recently. The Rome-based Procurator General for the Columban Mission Society made the remark in a speech given while visiting the Pakistani ambassador in Bern, Switzerland, last month. Pakistan’s democratically elected parliamentarians were sworn in on May 31, marking the country’s first peaceful transition of power from one elected parliament to another following decades of military rule. Despite pre-election intimidation, the people had rejected the politics of violence in turning out to vote, Fr McCulloch said. “They exposed the culture of death and they asserted that bloodstained distortion of the vision of the Pakistan by religious and political extremists is not acceptable,” Fr McCulloch said. While European Union observers and non-government monitors accepted the elections’ overall legitimacy, vote rigging and violence marred the results from some parts of the country. While not denying the problems, Fr McCulloch said similar problems were not unknown in Western countries. “When one remembers the significantly large percentage of electors in Pakistan who are illiterate, it makes it easier to grasp just what a success the May 11 elections have been, not just for delivering a result, but as an expression and manifestation of the maturation of the democratic process in the country.” The Melbourne-born priest, who spent 33 years in Pakistan administering hospitals and educational institutes up until 2012, said the arbitrary use of blasphemy laws against Christians remained a problem. Fr McCulloch echoed the words President Asif Ali Zardari used on August 22, last year, to describe a blasphemy allegation against an 11-year-old Christian girl with Down Syndrome, and similar allegations, as an “abuse and misuse of the blasphemy laws”. “The terminology used by the President is important. It comes from a fruitful meeting with him in Islamabad on the 17th of May, 2012 when he was explicitly requested “to use his influence and authority to prevent the abuse and misuse of the blasphemy laws by the police and the judiciary”,” Fr McCulloch

said in the speech. “Given the present ideological climate in Pakistan, it is difficult to repeal the blasphemy laws. This was mutually agreed with the president in the light of the problems that such legislative change would cause for overall civil stability and the security and safety of the people and groups most prone to false accusations.” Fr McCulloch said accusations of blasphemy are generally motivated by local disputes and are

Time will only tell if politicians will lead or provoke. Whether they will be inclusive or extremist. compounded by the use of threats and bribery. “The way to deal with this is to remove them immediately from the local jurisdictions, to put them immediately into the jurisdiction of the highest levels of the police and the judiciary on both provincial and national levels, and to impose the highest level of prosecution and punishment for anyone making false accusations. The sword of the law

can cut both ways.” Fr McCulloch also hoped the new government would eliminate the “discriminatory language” of ‘majority’ and ‘minority’ in relation to Pakistan’s 3.5 million Christians - “a disservice to the vision of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the Quaid-e-Azam, founder of the nation”. Some of the language used by political leaders in the campaign was unfortunate, he said: “[Some of the rhetoric and slogans] brought back memories of the political abuse of Islam by the military dictator in the late seventies and the eighties. “Time will only tell as to whether these political leaders will lead or provoke, whether they will provide an agenda of national and provincial harmony, whether they accept Jinnah’s national inclusivism or whether they will implement the excluding agenda of the extremists and fundamentalists,” Fr McCulloch said. There must also be no resurrecting of plans to include religion on the national identity card, Fr McCulloch said, and no attempts by political leaders to declare themselves ‘amir-ul-momineen’ – an absolutist faith leader with their own sovereign power. “The demand is that the politicians who

A family rides past the house of Rimsha Masih, a Pakistani Christian girl accused of blasphemy, last year. Above, Fr Robert McCulloch SSC. PHOTOS: CNS/R HIINI

have showed themselves capable of winning the election should also show themselves capable of governing the country on behalf of all the people and for all the people and as the representative government of all the people of Pakistan.” Fr McCulloch said he hoped the Islamic republic of Pakistan would ‘take to heart’ Pope Francis message to the diplomatic core at the Holy

See, calling for sustained and positive dialogue between the Catholic Church and Islam for the common good of all. The Pakistani election took place on May 11. The largest number of votes was secured by the Pakistan Muslim League, who fell 15-votes shy of an outright majority. The party formed a minority government with the support of independents on May 19.

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US battle now one for religious freedom By Dennis Sadowski US STATE legislatures, rather than the federal courts, are becoming the new battlegrounds over religious freedom, two state legislators acknowledged at the 2013 National Religious Freedom Conference. Citing examples of legislative proposals and the introduction of rules governing state-funded programs and schools, Oklahoma State Rep. Rebecca Hamilton, a Democrat, and Idaho State Sen. Curt McKenzie, a Republican, said they believe such efforts are intended to remove any religious influence from public life. Hamilton, who identified herself as a pro-life Catholic, told the 150 people at the conference that she has been told by at least one constituent to “go to church all you want but leave it there.” “The arrogance of telling me to ignore my religious beliefs ... is a result of the ethos of the culture in which we live, in which it’s OK to attack people because of their faith,” Hamilton said. “We’ve reached the point in

this country that bashing people because of their faith is accepted, it is tolerated. You can get re-elected doing it. You can have big ratings on your television show doing it,” Hamilton said. In response, legislators in some states have formed religious freedom caucuses, small groups of legislators committed to blocking attempts to limit religious practice. Tim Schulz, state legislative policy director for the American Religious Freedom Program at the

faith standards in forming groups and selecting their own leaders. Similar legislation has made its way to other states, he said. “Don’t underestimate the ability of this program to influence policy at the state level,” McKenzie said. “Legislators find input from you as thought leaders invaluable.” Jennifer Kraska, executive director of the Colorado Catholic Conference, expressed concern over what she described as “outright hostility” toward religious

We’ve reached the point where bashing people for their faith is accepted. It can get you big ratings. Ethics and Public Policy Centre, said nine state caucuses have been formed in the last year. He told the conference similar caucuses are being formed in nine other states. McKenzie, who spearheaded the formation of the Idaho caucus in 2012, said the group has helped protect religious freedom through the passage of a law allowing students at public universities to follow their own consciences and

belief that emerged at times in debates in the Colorado Legislature. She called for a broad-based effort to educate people about the threats to religious freedom that have emerged nationwide. “I am hopeful that in Colorado we will someday soon put an end to these senseless attacks on religious liberty,” Kraska said. “I know for the vast amount of people in Colorado, the issue of religious liberty is not

a partisan issue. Rather it is a constitutional value that must be protected and cherished.” A round-table of six religious leaders of different faiths also explored concerns about limits on religious freedom, with several speakers addressing the importance of reaching out to young adults at a time when religious practice among members of that age group is declining. “Young people in the 20-to40 (year-old) demographic don’t understand our concerns,” said the Rev. Eugene F. Rivers III, senior policy adviser to the presiding bishop of the Pentecostal Church of God in Christ. “We’re using an eight-track tape in an iPad world.” Rabbi Abba Cohen, director of the Washington office of Agudath Israel for America, urged the audience to challenge derisive comments about religion and religious practice. “This indeed creates a more secular society,” he said. “This leads to the creation of a poison atmosphere in society to weaken laws protecting religious freedom.” - CNS

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More work on image needed: Vatican bank In the popular imagination, the Vatican bank is so shady that even the German businessman appointed its president in February thought his task would be “cleaning out and dealing with improper deposits.” But Ernst von Freyberg, president of the Institute for the Works of Religion, the formal title of the bank, told Vatican Radio and several other news outlets that it turns out “our biggest issue is our reputation.” Von Freyberg told Vatican Radio in an Englishlanguage interview aired on May 31: “My dream is that our reputation is such that people don’t think of us any more when they think about the Vatican, but that they listen to what the Pope says. “When I came here I thought I would need to focus on what is normally described as cleaning out and dealing with improper deposits,” he said. “There is - until now - nothing I can detect.” The institute does not lend money and so is not technically a bank. The Institute for the Works of Religion has 19,000 customers - all of which are being reviewed - and makes a profit of 50 -70 million euros ($65 -$90 million) each year, he said. The institute’s annual operating cost is about 25 million euros.

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Syrian priest can’t believe the violence For Jesuit Father Nawras Sammour, the ongoing conflict in Syria is a professional challenge and a personal heartache. Father Sammour is Jesuit Refugee Service’s regional director for the Middle East and lives in Damascus, Syria. He was born in Aleppo, and his mother, brother and sister still live there, but his nieces and nephews “have all left.” Tens of thousands of Syrians have died and millions have been displaced in more than two years of fighting between President Bashar Assad’s government and rebels seeking his resignation. “Sometimes I can’t believe we Syrians have reached that level of violence,” Father Sammour said. “We need to step back and realise that we went too far,” he told Catholic News Service on May 31. In a situation that is so tense and so divided, particularly among different Muslim groups, Father Sammour said Syria’s small Christian communities may be frightened. But with Christian aid programs and partnerships with others providing assistance, they also enjoy a certain respect as non-partisans looking only to help others.

ITALY “When people come here they are astonished,” said Ghadeer Khoury, 28, a young Catholic civil engineer from Ramallah who has been working as part of a team building the West Bank city of Rawabi, said last week. Above, two Palestinian women look at a model of the city. PHOTO: CNS

What the Rabbi said to the future Pope On Heaven and Earth: Pope Francis on Faith, Family and the Church in the Twenty-First Century” by Jorge Mario Bergoglio and Abraham Skorka. Image Books. Reviewed by Eugene Fisher THE PUBLICATION of a book of informal yet profoundly thoughtful dialogues between a cardinal and a rabbi was a rare event when this book was first published in Buenos Aires in 1995. When the cardinal became Pope Francis, “On Heaven and Earth” became a historic document, the first such open-ended dialogue between a pope and a rabbi in the history of Judaism and Catholicism. Both, then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio and Rabbi Abraham Skorka, are scholars, not only in theology and rabbinic studies, respectively, but in science. It is nat-

ural that their discussion revolves around the classic issues of faith and reason, religious truth and scientific inquiry. The authors take a pastoral view, concerned with the day-to-day problems and dilemmas, hopes and fears shared by all of us as ordinary human beings. The result is a book rich in insight into both Judaism and Catholicism, and about how our two ancient traditions have and continue to deal with the essential issues of living a moral life of faith in a complex world. It is a book that will be of interest to the normal, active parishioners and congregants to whom the authors have dedicated their lives. The world with which these two religious leaders grapple is that of Argentina, a large, originally Catholic country that is now, much like the United States, a pluralist democracy. Like the

United States, Argentina has over the course of its history had a wide range of social and religious problems that have led to political crises and, at times, internal violence. An intriguing difference, however, is that the founding culture and dynamics of Argentinian life were, and to a great extent still are, formed by Catholicism, whereas in the US Jews and Catholics were both minorities in a largely white, Protestant society. The 29 chapters of this book cover a wide range of topics: traditional theological issues such as God and the devil, being atheist and being religious, the duties of religious leaders, and the responsibilities of discipleship. There are chapters on prayer, guilt and death. The views of Jews and Catholics on medical and moral issues, same-sex marriage, globalisation, wealth and poverty are presented and analysed

from the perspective of two living, evolving religious traditions. The histories of Catholic Argentina and the Jewish state of Israel, and the moral/social challenges each as faced over the course of time are discussed frankly. Deep questions central to the dialogue between the Church and the Jewish people, such as the Holocaust, the present state of Catholic teaching about Jews and Judaism, the future of relations between Jews and Christians, and of religion in general are probed. This is a book through which both Jews and Catholics will come to newer, deeper understandings of their own faiths. It is a book that tells us much about Pope Francis, what his papacy may be like, and how he will help to shape the future course of the Catholic Church internationally and on the local, parish level. - CNS

Are you really in Communion: Pope In the Eucharist, Jesus makes himself the food that nourishes and sustains Catholics, even when the road gets rough, Pope Francis said before leading a Corpus Christi procession through the streets of Rome. Mass and participation in Corpus Christi processions are times for Catholics to reflect on how they follow Jesus and, particularly, what the Eucharist means to them, the Pope said at Mass on May 30 to celebrate the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ. The Pope encouraged Catholics to ask themselves: Is the Eucharist a “moment of true communion with the Lord, but also with my many brothers and sisters who share at this same altar?” and “Adoring Christ truly present in the Eucharist, do I allow myself to be transformed by him?” The Pope celebrated the Mass outside the Basilica of St John Lateran, then - on foot - joined a candlelight Corpus Christi procession from St John’s to the Basilica of St Mary Major. - CNS

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Archbishop Allen Vigneron addresses the Great Grace Conference in Sydney on the Second Vatican Council, which opened 50 years ago. Modern life will become intolerable, he told listeners from around the country, if Catholics don’t embrace the Council’s essential missionary impulse. PHOTO: COURTESY OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SYDNEY

A Church for the modern era

The Archdiocese of Sydney’s Great Grace Conference, held from May 20-23, was so popular organisers ended up turning overflow crowds away. Among the speakers, Detroit Archbishop Allen Vigneron set out the authentic Vatican II agenda. By Robert Hiini

IFE will become intolerable if the Church doesn’t embrace the missionary impulse of the Second Vatican Council, Detroit Archbishop Allen Vigneron told The Great Grace Conference in Sydney last month. One of the conference’s keynote speakers, Archbishop Vigneron said the Second Vatican Council was a “brave step forward” in reminding the Church that its message was one which God wanted it to share with the modern world; and that modernity itself was not inherently disordered. Answering questions after his address on May 22, Archbishop Vigneron said it was only the Church, somewhat ironically, that could fulfil the freedom Enlightenment thinkers thought they could obtain by discarding ‘superstition’ and tradition. “This is a daring project but we have to do it for two motives: One, because we love our neighbours; and in fact without this project life will become intolerable,” Archbishop Vigneron said. “Where people seem content to act, prescinding from any point about truth, that cannot continue for very long … “We will either fall into this terribly burdensome collectivism or a kind of radical individualism of the war of each against all … “In the city where I live, there are parts of the city that are miserable … the fruit of actions which are not thoughtful, actions which are simply about the acting out of passion. “No civilisation, no culture can

continue that way,” Archbishop Vigneron said. The Council was both paradoxically new and ancient in its openness to the good in modernity. Pope John XXIII’s opening address confirmed both that the Council was to be consistent with all the prior ecumenical councils, particularly those of the modern era (Trent, 1545–63 and Vatican I, 1869–70), but also that he had expected God to be “doing something new” in their midst. The late Pope, who died less than eight months after the Council began on October 11, 1962, explicitly contradicted those who said the modern age was inherently degenerate, saying the human family was “on the threshold” of a new era. “This unpessimistic assessment of the modern age, this assessment which is required for evangelisation, often goes by the name of ‘reading the signs of the times’ … performing acts of discernment about the modern world,” Archbishop Vigneron said. There was great danger in the Church conforming itself too closely to modernity, he said, but the Council sanctioned a discernment of modernity’s “light and shadows”, with Christ as the paradigm of what it meant to be authentically human. “If it were not that we had something distinct to prevent the total conformity of the Church to the modern world, she would lose her identity; she would not have anything specific to offer the world. In

fact, she would lose Christ himself. “The world would be left to sink into ideology; the world does not need total ‘amen’ to what it is.” Nevertheless, he said, the Council saw that there was much good about the modern age: its focus on freedom and natural rights among them. “The Council Fathers affirmed that everything in the world, as it had been shaped by the French revolution, is not bad. “The Council made the Church’s peace with the French revolution and marked a moment in the life of the Church saying that we would not try to undo the world … Western culture after the Enlightenment is

foundly traditional, it was not revolutionary, and I make that assertion on the basis of the Church’s perennial doctrine about creation and the new creation established in the new Adam, Jesus Christ. “It has always been the Church’s mission to think anew about the meaning of the world in the light of understanding the world as created. God created the world by the pronouncement of his Word and so it is always legitimate for the Church to try to understand the word that is impressed in creation ... “This missionary strategy of the Council is the Church being faithful to her conviction about the world as God’s creation and the world as recreated in Jesus Christ.” Archbishop Vigneron nominated two major characteristics of modernity with which the Church had to grapple if it was to successfully engage with contemporary people: the turn to subjectivity how the truth is conceived of, and felt, by the individual; and secondly, a redefinition of nature such that it is no longer seen as gracious to human persons. Instead, it is seen simply as neutral theatre for choices of autonomous individuals, to be exploited at will. “Truth [in the modern understanding] is not given gratuitously to the thinker, but the mind has to, almost in some way, construct the truth.” The Council also identified several ‘dead ends’ of modernity, Archbishop Vigneron said, including a belief “that the human person

The Council made the Church’s peace with the French Revolution and marked a moment when the Church said it would not try to undo the world. not irretrievably evil.” The revolutionary slogan “liberty, equality, fraternity” was a case in point, the Archbishop said. Whereas there were many evils which had been carried out in the name of the Enlightenment, there was much that was “healthy and wholesome” and the Church needed to assess the “lights and shadows” in deciding what to incorporate into its missionary strategy. The Archbishop was emphatic in saying there was nothing new in the Church wanting to speak most effectively to the present age: “What John XXIII and the council fathers decided to do was pro-

is an autonomous self, an imperial self, with no capacity for solidarity or communion”. Archbishop Vigneron said there had been many positive developments in the Church in the wake of the Council: the Theology of the Body; moral theology focused on virtue; a clear sense of every lay person’s call, particularly in relation to marriage and family; the new movements; and ecumenism, among many others. Archbishop Vigneron proposed three “touchstones” for use in discerning what was worthwhile in modernity and worthy of appropriating in the Church’s strategy of missioning to (post-) modern people. “Jesus, a divine person in two natures … shows us that there is a harmony between nature and grace. “In any attempt to embrace what is modern, if in some way we jeopardise Christ, we can be confident that the strategy is erroneous. We cannot lose Christ. “Secondly, the Eucharist [shows us] that what is necessary and true about the world is disclosed in history. “Thirdly … the Church needs to continue to be the faith of martyrs, confessing the faith of martyrs. “If some element of modernity were to take us down the road where martyrdom would no longer make sense, we can be sure that we have followed a dead end. “The measure of martyrdom is a sure sign, a measure of any element of modernity, about whether or not it can be taken into this new cultural synthesis and included into the life of the Church,” Archbishop Vigneron said.

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Painful issues are new evangelisation's beginning The media are not inherently hostile to the Catholic Church, CatholicVoices founders Jack Valero and Austen Ivereigh told an international conference in Sydney last month. Most of the time journalists are just doing their jobs. Catholics could run from their difficult questions or, in the spirit of Vatican II, seize on them as opportunities to change the world, reports Robert Hiini ...

exuality and life issues are where Church and society meet, and Catholics need to embrace associated media controversy – not run from it if the missionary impulse of the Second Vatican Council is to be fulfilled. So said CatholicVoices founders Jack Valero and Austen Ivereigh when they presented their keynote address at The Great Grace: Receiving Vatican II today conference in Sydney on May 23. A faith that was not interested in engaging with difficult issues and changing the world to be more like Christ, which the Council had called for, was “not a faith worth having”, Mr Ivereigh said. Since successfully engaging the news media during Pope Benedict’s visit to the United Kingdom in 2010, both men have been much soughtafter by bishops and associations around the world, asking for their particular brand of media training. The most recent recipient of their “positive approach to the media”, as Mr Valero described it, was CatholicVoices Melbourne, with both men conducting training for lay men and women in that city, in the week preceding the conference. “The media is a place where a function is carried out. They have a role to hold people to account,” Mr Valero told the conference. “We want to know when [wrongdoing] has happened [in financial institutions and government]. We want them to ask questions on our behalf. “Those questions that are asked of the Church are asked in the same spirit. When those people are asked of us we are happy because they are being asked on behalf of the people, of myself.” There were hostile people in the media, Mr Valero said, but there were people hostile to the faith and the Church in all areas of life. “I have yet to meet a journalist who is as hostile as my own sister,” Mr Valero said, to some amusement in the audience. Both men said they believed the training they provided to Catholics around the world was an answer to the ‘new apologetics’ called for by last year’s synod in Rome on the New Evangelisation called for by Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI. The synod bishops called for a “new apologetics of Christian thought and a theology of credibility adequate for a new evangelisation”, in the synod’s final list of propositions. “The new apologetics understands that, on the whole, the people aren’t listening to the Church because, on the whole, they think that what the Church is understood to be offering is nothing new or interesting,” Mr Ivereigh said. “But the big exception is the neuralgic [painful or contested] issues. On the neuralgic issues people really are listening. They are interested because the Church’s apparent perversity in these areas makes it an endless source of fascination. “The issues we focus on are precisely those where the Church presents a scandalous obstacle to the icons of [an] ethic of autonomy; namely sexuality, abortion, and euthanasia. “It’s the ‘why’ people say to you at a dinner party; “how can you as a Catholic believe that?” They’re interested. The neuralgic issues are where the communication does happen or doesn’t happen.

'Sad bigot' to savvy evangelist: there's a frame for that How can confident lay, religious and ordained Catholic communicators grasp the opportunities presented by controversy? CatholicVoices co-founder Austen Ivereigh gave a concrete example at The Great Grace Conference in Sydney, last month.

MAGINE that Mary favours same-sex marriage because she believes it’s a way of reducing discrimination, and because she recognises the modern reality of love between gay people which is able to be expressed. Mary knows gay couples, she sees that they love each other, she knows they care about each other, in many cases they have stable relationships, sometimes they have children and she thinks it’s only right, in a pluralist society based on principals of equality that they should be allowed to marry. Now Mary was brought up a Catholic and she understands the Catholic Church has strong views that marriage is between a man and a woman. But she doesn’t think the Church has the right to impose that view on the law of the land or on others and she thinks the Church’s attitude to homosexuality is, to say the least, a bit old-fashioned. Now, I’m sure that sounds familiar, I’m sure you meet people like this everyday. Imagine she falls into conversation with Tom, a practising Catholic who tells her that the Church believes marriage is between a man and a woman – frame reinforced, Mary switches off. That homosexuality is sinful – frame reinforced, Mary switches off. That the love of a man is special or different from that between two gay people – frame reinforced, and so on. Mary soon tires of Tom whom she dismisses as a sad bigot (laughs), but then along comes Jenny, another practising Catholic. Now she tells Mary first of all that same-sex marriage is an attempt to reform civil marriage and therefore the Church’s own theology of marriage is irrelevant – mmm, reframe. Marriage isn’t defined by either the Church or State, she says – mmm, reframe. Mary’s listening at this point. Jenny explains the Church doesn’t seek to impose its moral beliefs through the law, which is why, for example, bishops in most Western countries have backed the decriminalisation of homosexual acts – mmm, reframe, Mary didn’t know that. Jenny adds that the Church recognises that love appears

in many forms, in many different relationships, and while those relationships differ, the Church believes that where love is, God is – mmm, another reframe, and Jenny takes the opportunity to invite Mary to her Taize night to sing Ubi Caritas Deus Tibi Est (laughs). By this time, Mary is engaged, she’s very interested to know why exactly then the Church does oppose same-sex marriage. So, Jenny lays it out: The State doesn’t involve itself in our love life, she says, but it makes an exception for marriage because marriage fosters the best possible environment for a child, namely, to be brought up by its natural parents. Because the results of such an upbringing are enormously beneficial to society, and indeed to the child of course, the State wishes to promote and foster marriage, that’s the basis for the whole legal support of marriage, she says. But samesex unions or indeed any other non-conjugal relationships, offer no wider social benefit and therefore have no need to be supported by the State, says Jenny. And then she goes on to say that, in fact, same-sex marriage reduces marriage to a mere domestic partnership between any two individuals, which makes marriage less coherent, less attractive, and less easy to live by, and therefore, she says, over time, it’s very likely that marriage will be reduced in importance, that means fewer children will be brought up by married couples. And so she says the issue really is not about gay rights at all, it’s about what is in the best interests of children, and we have a conversation then that takes place on that basis. Now Jenny might have used different arguments after the reframe, but the point is, and the difference between her and Tom is that she has taken the time to consider the frames and the reframes, she’s read the relevant Church documents, she knows the Church statements, she’s looked at what Mary believes, spots in it where the good is, affirms it, and then introduces the bigger picture – interests of children – which the ethic of autonomy’s fixation on the individual, has missed out.

She asks Tom who says "the Church says 'no'." Frame reinforced - Mary switches off.

Top, CatholicVoices co-founder and Press Officer for Opus Dei UK, Jack Valero speaking at The Great Grace conference. Above, the other half of CatholicVoices' founding team, journalist and commentator Austen Ivereigh. Both men were in Melbourne recently to train lay Catholic men and women for the fledgling CatholicVoices Melbourne. PHOTOS: COUTESY OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SYDNEY

“The new apologetics is about learning to be in that space and to be comfortable there … to step out of the frame,” Mr Ivereigh said. Credibility, said Austen Ivereigh, was when people of the Church spoke to people’s concerns, took into account what they believed, and understood their anxieties and the strong usually Christian values implicit in their criticism. CatholicVoices training helped Catholics understand the dominant “framing” of controversial issues, to affirm the implicit Christian value in the criticism, and to give a response which showed how the criticism had confused its meaning. Mr Ivereigh cited the work of philosopher Rene Girard in saying the “sympathy for the victim” narrative, so popular in news media, was a good example of a cultural development resulting from Judeo-Christian Revelation. “Yet, the contemporary frame sees the Church and organised religion generally, and its institutions generally, as creating victims rather than standing with them.”

“The values of liberty and equality arose because of a shared belief about the good [but the Church is] now seen as antithetical to liberty and equality; that the task of liberty and equality is somehow to emancipate people from the ‘burden’ of faith,” Mr Ivereigh said. “They are positive values but because they are tied to an ethic of autonomy which is hostile to faith and civil society in general, I would argue, [their advocacy] has become a deeply authoritarian and intimidatory movement.” If Catholics reinforced negative frames about Christianity, and Catholicism more specifically, in the answers they gave news media, people would switch off. “People are not persuaded, in fact, by argument unless those arguments speak in some way to their core moral intuition. “The core moral intuition of con-

temporary individualistic society which has not grown-up with faith and community is the autonomy ethic, so no-one has the right to impose their view on others. “If you don’t take that moral intuition into account, then you’re not

to stand up and speak in situations, often when you know you’re not necessarily going to get a friendly reception ... It’s the people in the office and the pub who turn to you and say “how can you be a Catholic?” and then go on to give you a very hard

Communication was not just about speaking to the secular world ‘out there’ but to all people who live in the world, including Catholics. Recent research in the United Kingdom on practising Catholics’ approach to controversial teachings showed worrying, if not unexpected, results. “Most people did not disagree with Church teaching [but] what they won’t be able to tell you is why the law should reflect this. “So, in other words, their faith sits alongside beliefs which have been internalised from our culture which are that those views are private, relevant to them only, and that any attempt to persuade our culture otherwise is an unwarranted imposition. “The bad news is that so long as Catholics believe that, then the missionary aim of the Council will be frustrated.

On the whole, people aren't listening to the Church except when it comes to the neuralgic or hot-button issues. On those issues they are interested because the Church's apparent perversity in these areas makes it an endless source of fascination. It's the 'why' people ask you at a dinner party: "how can you believe that?" They're interested and open to communication. going to be heard, and if you begin your sentence with “the Church believes this” or “the Church says this” then you are simply reinforce the frames and you don’t get very far.” Catholics could achieve much with “a little courage”, “apostolic zeal” and “boldness”, in addition to knowing their own faith and the communication frames of media. “It’s the willingness, the boldness

time about women, gay people, [the crisis], or whatever’s in the headlines. “But they are not turning away from you; they’re turning to you and they’re asking you to explain. They’re inviting you to communicate. To speak across the growing chasm between contemporary culture, at least university educated, elite contemporary culture, and the Church,” Mr Ivereigh said.

“The aim is to shape our culture to create a new civilisation of love, so it would be impossible to challenge the commodification of human beings; the culture of death; the dethroning of cultural marriage; or the appalling treatment of migrants, or any of the other ills that face our society. “And, of course, that undermines faith itself, because a faith which cannot challenge these ills is not a faith worth having,” Mr Ivereigh said. The Second Vatican Council was a "great breakthrough" in giving laity a clearer understanding of their own specific vocation "to be there in the secular world and to bring it to Christ", Mr Valero said. "Apostolicam Actuositatem [Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity] containded a very striking sentence, that the mission of the laity came to them through baptism, directly from Christ, not mediated through the hierarchy, but through baptism." Although the initial media framing might be intent on asking Catholics to defend themselves, Catholics could break free through reframing, and re-orientating the

question to say something positive instead. “We don’t need to defend anything if our message is really excellent, as we believe as Catholics,” Mr Valero said. “We just need to explain it in a very compelling way; so compelling that people say at the end, “I want that”. “That’s what we need to do. That’s communication. “The Catholic Church appears [in the media] a lot because what the Catholic Church does is important,” Mr Valero said. “So, rather than thinking they are attacking us, rather think “isn’t it wonderful that we are always there. Our message counts. They want to know what we think.” “That’s why we give thanks to God.” All keynote presentaions at The Great Grace conference, including the full and unedited presentation of CatholicVoices' Jack Valero and Austen Ivereigh, can be viewed on the conference website - www.thegreatgrace.org.au. Audio of conference workshops can be also be downloaded.

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Archbishop Arthur Roche is the Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. He answered questions after his presentation Actuosa Paticipatio (usually translated as “active participation”) at The Great Grace Conference in Sydney on May 23. I am an architect. I wonder if you would be able to reflect a little further on something you said about the spatial element of active participation. It seems to me there has been a great deal of confusion in how we spatially arrange ourselves in order to achieve these things.

... The new liturgical renewal envisioned that there would only be one altar in each church and that normally the priest would be facing the people. So it is even more of an amphitheatre than the form of churches we are more usually used to in our own lives. … You may be interested to know that very recently in the congregation for which i work, Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, we have created a fourth section ... to deal with matters pertaining to art, architecture and music ...

It strikes me that in our parishes, in our attempt to become more relatable and attractive to ordinary people that we have been reductionist in our approach to the liturgy. Would you make some comments about the balance between being relatable but also retaining that great beauty and richness of the liturgy?

It is a balance and I believe it is something that comes about through experience and sensitivity, both to the people to whom a pastor is appointed and, secondly, to the abilities within the congregation to actually rise and beautify the Mass. There’s no doubt, and I think that Pius X in 1903 [when he coined the term ‘Actuosa Paticipatio’], was clearly point to the importance there is in people singing in the celebration fo the mass. It is of course the great hymn of thanksgiving ...

I am a father of young children and it’s always a big challenge to actively participate with the children. Could you give us some hints and ideas to more actively participate with children?

I think there are lots of things that can be done for children, not least by the parents themselves in engaging the child during the

course of the Mass with books – there are some beautiful illustrated books these days made specifically for children – so that they grow up alongside their parents also appreciating just what is happening before them in this great drama of he Eucharist ... In some parishes .... there are children’s liturgies and there is somewhat of a divided opinion about that ... but I think that it needs the imagination of the local community, which are numerous today, and to employ those resources to give our children a very deep understanding of the Mass, not just simply to entertain them, but to allow them to enter into the prayer of the Mass, something which people of my generation had to do when it was in Latin and we had no participation whatsoever, in the sense of being actively involved but we grew up with a very deep love for what was happening in that church and we knew that we were in the presence of something astoundingly sacred. And you know, I think that prayer, one of the most fundamental elements of prayer, is something that we catch in silence ... that we enable other people to engage in through our concentrated silence that brings us actively consciously into the presence of the Lord and children are very good at that ...They have a terrific ability in engage in a very deep level of prayer with the simplest of words ... Just an example of what would happen in a school liturgy: three kids do the penitential rite, then readings divided by another five, psalms divided by another halfa-dozen, one child will then lead the Alleluia verse, the Offertory Procession will be another 25 children coming up in procession and then the remaining children, those who weren’t involved, will do a post-Communion reflection. People would probably then understand that to be “full active participation” because they’ve got 35 kids and each one of them’s got a job. Do you think there is a corrective there about what that means?

Well, of course, it’s important to involve children and young people in their own liturgy at school but it can become ridiculous of course and it clearly misinterprets, it’s a misunderstanding of what active partici-

pation is, and perhaps also creates resentment from those who are not picking up ‘whatever’ to present at the Offertory or not saying one verse within the second reading. The liturgy’s a unit and we’ve got to remember, it isn’t to do with our creativity. It’s to do with the worship of God. This is the opus dei – the work of God. This is the event which God is actively involved, as soon as we begin that sacred action God is actively involved. If we take the focus away from that, then we are making ourselves the focus and we’re doing a disservice to the growth of the Church and the understanding of people in what is really happening in a very profound depth, in many levels, whenever we come to celebrate the Mass. I’m a teacher and an organist. Augustine said “he who sings well, prays twice”. Should everything about the hymns we use, the words and the music, be beautiful?

I agree, everything about the liturgy should be beautiful. There shouldn’t be anything that’s tawdry or soiled. It should all be very, very fine; everything we do ... It should raise our eyes and our minds to the Lord. I do agree that profundity in all things is very, very important and

not least in the hymns that we sing. I was educated theologically by the Augustinians and I gained from there a very clear understanding of the popularity of St Augustine ... It is a historical fact that when he celebrated Mass each Sunday with his priests, that the vast majority of people who came to be present at his Mass were people from the fishing villages, the fishermen and their wives and their children, who came to imbibe at the feet of this very great theologian … When we read his texts today we don’t always appreciate what an attractive man he was because he gave God’s word undiluted and so beautifully expressed, in Latin, that he was a magnet for people who were not educated, in the main. I work in Catholic education. One of the recent programs developed in a couple of dioceses is the training of young people for liturgical ministries, so there are some great things happening which I would like you to be aware of where we get large numbers of young people who get very solid training in being lectors, extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion, the ministry of music, of hospitality, and we could go on. Do you have in mind some suggestions, some ideas and resources, which particularly target young people, because we do

have many who are very keen to serve and love the liturgy?

Well, as you can imagine, as a Roman congregation we tend not to write documents which are easily accessible (laughs). We tend to really write things which are of principal and which are of help. It’s one of the most fascinating experiences that I’m having in the congregation, hearing from the bishops of the world as they come in their great numbers on Ad Limina, to visit at the threshold of the Apostles Saints Peter and Paul, and to visit the Holy Father, and all those who help him in his ministry, and to listen to their concerns and the wonderful things that are happening. But those sort of initiatives [you describe] do have to take place at the local level because you know better than I [the situation in] Australia ... and you are best placed under the guidance of what is produced to assist young people. I think what you are doing is remarkable and its very laudable and I commend you for it because it’s very important that our young people feel part and welcome in the local community and that they’re not on the fringes, but again, young people don’t want to be objects either, do they, of older people’s sort of mechanisms or mechanisation of pushing them into place.

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Students got to ask key speakers such as Archbishop Costelloe questions about the Church and its outreach to the less lucky in society at the May 28 launch.

Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB and Catholic Education Office of WA Director Dr Timothy McDonald at the launch of LifeLink Day 2013.

Students launch LifeLink in style By Matthew Biddle ARCHBISHOP Timothy Costelloe SDB officially launched LifeLink Day 2013 on May 28 at Corpus Christi College in Bateman. LifeLink is an Archdiocesan organisation that supports social service agencies established or funded by the Church. Students, teachers and schools are encouraged to organise fundraising events on LifeLink Day each year to help support the work of LifeLink in WA. This year LifeLink Day takes place on Wednesday, June 5. The Day seeks to instil in Catholic students a sense of responsibility for those less fortunate, and to promote an understanding of the Church’s response to people in need. At the launch, Archbishop Costelloe announced that Holy Cross College and Aquinas College were the joint winners of the Archbishop’s Spirit Award for 2012. The award is presented to the school that best embraces the goals of LifeLink Day. Since 1994, LifeLink has provided more than $47 million in welfare services throughout the State. Archbishop Emeritus Barry Hickey established LifeLink Day in 1999. Last year’s fundraising reached $87,000 and it is hoped that $90,000 will be raised this year. The launch will be made available online on LifeLink Day.

A student raises his hand signalling he wants to ask a question, above. Hundreds of Corpus Christi College students were on hand for the event. Among the contributions from students were musical performances, at right and below, focusing on the day’s major theme of caring for those who need help. The message from Archbishop Costelloe, above at right: do your part to help.

Last year the generosity of students from Catholic schools saw a total of $87,000 donated to the LifeLink appeal which helps to fund archdiocesan agencies reaching out to those most in need in our society. This year’s goal: an even $90,000. Musical performances helped to spread the message that we can’t think only about ourselves. PHOTOS: RON TAN PHOTOGRAPHY

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Jesus went to a town called Nain, accompanied by his disciples and a great number of people. When he was near the gate of the town there was a dead man being carried out, alongside the body there were a considerable number of the townspeople who were with his widowed Mother. When the Lord saw her he felt sorry for her and said to her, ‘Don’t cry.’ Then he went up and touched the coffin and he said, ‘Young man, I tell you: get up.’ And the dead man sat up and began to talk, and Jesus gave him to his mother. Everyone was filled with awe and glorified God saying, ‘A great prophet has risen up among us; God has visited his people.’ And word of Jesus spread throughout Judaea and all over the countryside.

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APERTURE Moments of Faith in the trajectory of life

Above and Right: People hold candles during a Marian prayer service led by Pope Francis on May 31 in St Peter’s Square at the Vatican. The Pope prayed the Rosary with the faithful at the conclusion of the Marian month of May. Below: Demonstrators protesting a same-sex marriage bill on June 3 hold placards outside the parliament building in London.

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Above: Children wait in first Communion attire at a Corpus Christi procession on June 2 in Zahara de la Sierra, Spain. Left: Catholics attend an outside eucharistic adoration service in Hanoi, Vietnam, on June 2. PHOTOS: CNS/REUTERS/ JON NAZCA, REUTERS

Above: Pope Francis touches a statue of Mary during a Marian prayer service in St. Peter’s Square on May 31 at the Vatican. Right: The annual Corpus Christi procession makes its way down a street on May 30 in Rome. PHOTOS: CNS/PAUL HARING

OPINION

EDITORIAL

A different way of doing business

he US United Steelworkers Union, with headquarters based in the heart of the US rustbelt in Pittsburgh, is estimated to have approximately 860,000 members across a range of manufacturing industries in Canada and the US, making it the single largest trade union in North America. Like other American labour bodies it was forged in the era of the Great Depression and the following decades, its members going on strike on a number of occasions in the 1930s and 40s in an ultimately successful effort to win the right to collectively bargain with employers. On October 27, 2009 the Union announced it had reached an agreement with the Mondragon International SA. Co-operative based in the Basque region of Spain to explore the possibilities of establishing worker-owned co-operatives in the US and Canada, organised on the principles established by Mondragon’s founder Fr José María Arizmendiarrieta. As noted in last week’s editorial, Fr Arizmendiarrieta had arrived in Mondragon in post-Spanish Civil War Spain in 1941 to find himself confronted by widespread poverty and economic depression. Fired by the still relatively new development of Catholic social teaching contained in documents such as Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum, his solution had been to establish worker-owned manufacturing co-operatives, philosophically based on concepts such as human solidarity and the inherent dignity of the human person, and to train the first generations of their leadership. The idea behind the Mondragon co-operative movement had been the concept of employees owning the companies for which they work and participating in key decisions on the basis of one-worker-one vote. With employees owning the businesses for which they work, a range of ancillary benefits, including healthcare and education for family members come along with membership. Under the Mondragon model, management is sourced as far as possible from within the pool of employees and reports annually not to shareholders but to the worker-owners. The first small polytechnic established by Fr Arizmendiarrieta produced five graduate managers who went on to form the first Mondragon co-operative, Ulgor, which manufactured small kerosene stoves. Today the Mondragon Co-operative is a multi-faceted entity with manufacturing, retail, finance, research and education arms which in a post-GFC world last year posted an annual turnover PO Box 3075 equivalent to US$ 16.8 billion. Adelaide Terrace That the Global Financial PERTH WA 6832 Crisis of 2008 changed many previously deep-set perspectives in relation to thinking on office@therecord.com.au global economics and finance Tel: (08) 9220 5900 can be seen in the remarkFax: (08) 9325 4580 able nature of the agreement between the USW and Mondragon. On March 26, 2012, the USW, Mondragon and the Ohio Employee Ownership Centre released the detailed model for establishing sustainable jobs using the model of worker ownership and the collective bargaining process. Such a development would be previously unthinkable in a nation such as the US where many neo-conservatives see government intervention or regulation of economic processes as the practical equivalent to Cold War Communism while the psychological legacy of McCarthyism still lingers on in the widespread suspicion of trade unionism and organised labour as one step away from North Korean style totalitarianism. It is perhaps possible that one silver lining to the dark cloud of the GFC is the way in which its fallout has forced many to consider new alternatives. As on previous occasions, such as the Great Depression of the 1920s and 30s, the GFC demonstrated with transparent clarity that the central plank of unregulated market capitalism’s creed, that greed will naturally determine social harmony and social justice via the market, was always a lie. In Mondragon’s home country of Spain the cost of entrusting global finance and economies to capitalism’s financial cowboys is frighteningly clear: unemployment currently stands at 27.6 per cent while youth unemployment across Spain is at 56 per cent. The picture is more or less the same across Europe, even worse in Greece where youth unemployment is at a staggering 65 per cent and getting worse. One of the clear dangers is the potential for political previously unacceptable political extremism soaring to new heights of popularity by claiming it will put bread on tables and provide jobs. In the meantime, the USW-Mondragon agreement offers a clear alternative with an established record of economic success based on the most important philosophical principle: the primacy of the human person rather than the primacy of the market; that the market, in other words, exists to serve the human person - not the reverse. When Ford Australia announced its planned 2016 closure of its Broadmeadows and Geelong manufacturing and assembly facilities it was following the logic of unrestrained and unregulated capitalism - that, ultimately, workers, their families and their families’ futures do not count in the eyes or the interests of shareholders and executives. Both the Mondragon model and the USW-Mondragon agreement show what might be possible. Tony Abbott’s assertion that under a Liberal Coalition Geelong will be a centre of culture and education was nothing more than pre-election fantasy. Julia Gillard’s vow to provide $16 million for workers when Ford Australia closes was a wet lettuce leaf. This moment is a golden opportunity for the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union to bring to the table new possibilities no-one appears to be yet considering.

That 2008’s GFC opened up new options can be seen in the USWMondragon agreement.

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Exception taken at schools mission claim I TOOK immediate exception to the comment made by Prof Tracey Rowland in your front-page article “We are still waiting for the Council in Australia,” that: “It is very rare to find a mission statement of a Catholic school or a hospital that actually mentions Jesus Christ, let alone the Trinity.” I knew this was not true of my local primary school and suspected that it was not true of many others. Sure enough, a quick surf of the web showed that 11 out of 12 of my local Catholic school’s mission statements included the name of Christ, God, or both. I realise that this is only a small sample of the hundreds of Catholic schools in this state, but I would doubt very much that the mission of schools in this area differs very much from schools in other areas. It is disappointing to hear such negative generalities coming from a professor of a respected Catholic institute: we receive enough bad and poorly researched press from the secular media without being misinformed from within. If such accusations are to be made, then please, show me the evidence. Angela Youens MT LAWLEY WA

Hollywood insider saw many on WA visit READERS of your article on Dr Ted Baehr ‘Don’t let them have your kids’ and ‘Get back in the game for sake of kids,’ of May 29, might be interested in learning more of the background of Dr Baehr’s visit to Perth. Dr Baehr was a keynote speaker at the very successful 7th World Congress of families held recently in Sydney. He was accompanied by his son Robert (who gave a most informative address on using social media for good). Apart from his keynote address and workshops, Dr Baehr was instrumental in the launching of the premiere of the movie Return to the hiding place, as part of his promotion of movies with family and or biblical values. The Film has won three awards at the San Antonio Christian Film Festival. Both the producer/ Director, Peter Spencer and the lead actress, his daughter Rachel Spencer Hewitt, were present at the launch. Dr Baehr was approached by the group “Christian Gleanings” and the Australian Family Association to stopover in Perth, on his way back to the United States of America. His visit was generously sponsored by Christian Gleanings. Apart from his address to the Dawkins Society, Dr Baehr spoke at

several other venues and addressed a group of parliamentarians at Parliament House. On Friday May 24, approximately 100 people listened to Dr Baehr speak on “Understanding the Mass Media’s Influence on Today’s Culture” at the LJ Goody Bioethics Centre, Glendalough. Dr Baehr responded to several questions from the audience after his address. The event was hosted by the National Civic Council, Media Standards Australia, Family Council of WA and the Australian Family Association. The following day FamilyVoice and Christian Gleanings hosted Dr Baehr’s address on “Culture Wise Family” and his son Robert, spoke on ‘Media – friend or foe?’ at two different venues: The Free Reformed Church of Armadale, and in the evening at the Vose Baptist Seminary in Bentley. Parents would do well to heed Dr Baehr’s warning that whereas parents, schools and churches were once the greatest influences in our children’s lives, it is now the media by far that has the greatest influence and from which our children are getting their social scripts. Therefore it is imperative that we teach our children to be discerning in their use of media. Dr Baehr reminded us that the 12-14 year old is the most powerful person in Hollywood so it follows that if they are taught discernment they can determine what movies are produced by Hollywood. Gillian Gonzalez Vice President, Australian Family Association WA APPLECROSS, WA

Fatherless homes have implications for society THE DISINTEGRATION of traditional family life and the rise in fatherless homes is having serious social implications in Western societies, and the clamour for same-sex marriages further compounds this problem. The main purpose of marriage is for the legal protection needed for the one institution which ensures society’s stable future. All healthy societies in all times and places in history are unanimous that the orderly procreation and upbringing of children is best in a natural family, or as close as possible by relatives or surrogates in extreme necessity. As family life breaks down, so does society. The decline in marriage and the rise in illegitimacy are prime factors in the rising crime rate, in poverty and in social decay generally, i.e. decency, manners. The results of fatherlessness are even more alarming from recent studies in the United States and United Kingdom. Chaos results when communities permit a large number of young

men to grow up in broken homes (usually dominated by women) and who are never able to acquire a stable relationship with a male rolemodel to help restrain their masculine impulses and guide them into proper male roles. Crime, violence and unrestrained rebellion from the whole social structure are almost inevitable, as we see increasing today. Many studies have shown that children raised in traditional mum and dad families are more likely to finish school, to get a decent job, to socialise, marry and settle down than to resort to lawlessness from frustration. The traditional family is the best department of health, education, and welfare ever “invented”. We must nurture and protect it. Eternal vigilance is the pride of freedom within our society as well. Lest we forget! B Keogh, President AFA BENDIGO, VIC

Cardinal carried the weight at inquiry ON MAY 26 we had the appearance, much anticipated by the media, of Cardinal Pell at the Royal Commission on Child Sexual Abuse so I watched every TV station so as to see what was said only to turn off when ‘Lateline’ showed that a member of the panel on the Commission resented the fact that Catholics have their own pilgrim house in Rome and the resources should have been directed to child abuse victims. My impression was that the Cardinal’s answers were humble, positive and careful but by contrast the people on the Commission appeared to be hostile. That he had to sit through this for nearly six hours must have been a test of his patience and stoicism and I’m still not sure who ordered cover-ups by the Church, when and where. The media and united confreres some years ago tried this as a tactic against the Cardinal himself but their claims were false and could not ever have been substantiated. End of story. This problem is not endemic to the Catholic Church nor has it ever been, but Cardinal Pell now has to shoulder the burden of the miscreants in our Church past and present. I am the mother of three grownup children and have taught RE in state schools for the past 27 years so am no stranger to the lives, preciousness and subsequent development of every child. I stand four-square with Cardinal Pell both a s a priest and a s a man, as I do with all the faithful priests and self-sacrificing religious who have served Catholics and mutlitudes of others not of our faith. May God bless them all. Mrs Maureen Federico FRANKSTON VIC

Dads take note: don’t ignore an amazement of women By Joao Albano THE REVELATIONS of marriage and family life are daily. It’s just as well. We can all too easily begin to take those around us for granted, becoming inured - in the process - to the unique miracles who are our family members. As they say (I hope they’re well, whoever ‘they’ actually are), familiarity breeds contempt. Well, not necessarily true, but it can be - all too often. The amazing thing about being a father is having a daughter. Girls are also a daily revelation for fathers;

for their brothers they seem to be a daily torture. Here I think of the novelist Lawrence Durrell, the most remarkable technician of the English language I’ve ever read, who once had one of his characters coin a new collective noun for women. Some people collect collective nouns, it’s true. We’ve all heard of flocks of geese, schools of fish, herds of reindeer and bevies of... ummmm... pidgeons, I think. But this particular character in Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet of novels coined the term ‘an amazement of women.’

Honestly, I can’t think of anything more appropriate. The mother of my children will sometimes get into her head the most remarkable conviction which cannot really be opposed. It’s like being married to the Red Army. Our daughter is the same. But there is a sort of joi de vivre in the daily details of life that seems to belong to that unique unrepeatable thing we call a girl; a gravitas of focus on minute things. Perhaps women and girls get lost in the details. But of one thing I’m certain: fathers ignore such wonder at their own peril.

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Respecting yourself, respects us too In an era when men are more encouraged to think of women and girls in purely sexualised ways, women can help men be strong. I Say, I Say MARK REIDY

et me begin this column by stating that, yes, in a perfect world, women should be able to wear whatever clothes they choose – and men should be able to accept this fact without tainting it with lustful thoughts and desires. But we don’t live in this spiritual utopia and from personal experience over the past 35 years – from football clubs to church groups, – men, more often than not, have failed to be pure in their attitude toward the more revealing feminine fashions we see today. This is a difficult topic to address, but it is a reality. The women’s movement of the last century opened the doors for many freedoms in the lives of females. The problem, however, is that this ‘liberation’ was not borne from a desire to be recognised as daughters of a loving God but as a reaction to unjust treatment by men. As a result, what was intended to unleash the shackles of patriarchal oppression also opened the door to a sexual revolution that has entrapped both men and women. Males of my generation have often been raised by men who had little or no exposure to the sexualised images that have appeared increasingly on television, billboards and even in our letterboxes over the past 40 years. Such images are not explicitly pornography but are more subtle and equally damaging images normalising the portrayal of women as purely sexual beings.

Our generational training regarding explicit pornography was often limited to, ‘Don’t look.’ There was little or nothing forthcoming on the spiritual or emotional damage occurring from unbridled assent to such imagery including toward feminine fashion that became increasingly shorter, tighter and more revealing. Men were left to struggle unassisted in a wrestling match between hormonal arousal and guilty shame. Our fathers and teachers often did not have the experience or knowledge to journey alongside us and nurture us in recognising femi-

nine beauty as God intended it and not as we desired it. Consequently we stumbled into uncharted sexual territory with only our equally ignorant peers and a sexualised media as roadmaps. It was a recipe for disaster and the increased rates of sexual crimes, diseases and fatherless children since are indicative of its failure. My motivation for these observations is not to alleviate the responsibility of men; I believe the solution lies firmly on our shoulders. My point is to acknowledge our brokenness and to seek support from women on our journey to healing.

It is a journey that has already begun as a growing number of women’s groups recognise the patterns of sexualisation that have infiltrated the marketplace, even encouraging girls at increasingly younger ages, to primarily identify themselves as sexual beings. In May this year the publication of Kylie Bisutti I’m No Angel, revealed how she quit her role as a Victoria’s Secret lingerie model once she became aware she was being used as a “piece of meat paid to strip down for the titillation of men”. The mere fact that Ms Bisutti

did not possess this understanding when she entered the industry reveals the different sexual wiring between males and females; this awareness may hold a key to how women can assist men on their journey to sexual wholeness. Although studies are generalised, they indicate that men have as much as 20 times more testosterone in their systems than women and as a consequence are more focused than women on the physical aspects of sex. God, in His wisdom, has created us as such; however He has also provided us with free will and with it, the gift of self-control. Indeed the first step in a man’s journey to healing must begin with a personal decision to reorientate his desires and actions for the good of others. We must consciously choose to be aware of the attitudes of our hearts towards women, of where our eyes are wandering, of what situations we place ourselves in, of how far we allow sexual thoughts to progress. But foremost, we must always seek the presence and grace of God in our thinking and relating. It is a journey, however, that will be made easier if both men and women make choices in love for one another as brothers and sisters in Christ - through the selfdiscipline of men and the fashion choices of women. It will be a sacrifice for women, as it will be for men, but we must trust, as with any sacrifice of love, it will lead to new life. A life where men can not only re-discover and appreciate feminine beauty as created by God, but also become powerful witnesses and protectors for the generations to come. m.reidy@therecord.com.au

Policing the Vatican’s money The Vatican’s bank is improving its financial management, says the Swiss financial lawyer hired to monitor possible problems. By Cindy Wooden

he director of the Vatican’s Financial Intelligence Authority said the Vatican will further amend its financerelated laws in the coming months, increase screening of account holders at the Vatican bank and continue assessing the potential risk that accounts could be used for money laundering and the financing of terrorism. Rene Brulhart, the Swiss finance lawyer hired to monitor the legality and transparency of Vatican financial activity, presented his office’s first report at a May 22 news conference. The Vatican has “a very clear, strong commitment to fight money laundering and terrorism financing fully in line with its moral values, but also with its responsibility to become a credible partner in the international environment,” he told reporters. He said that, in 2012, he received six reports of suspicious financial activities from Vatican offices and, after studying the cases, he forwarded two of the reports to the Vatican criminal court for further investigation and possible prosecution. It is up to the Vatican prosecutor to release information about the cases, which could involve money laundering, Brulhart said. The fact that only one suspicious activity report was submit-

Rene Brulhart, director of the Vatican’s Financial Intelligence Authority, speaks at a news conference to present his office’s first report on May 22. PHOTO: MASSIMILIANO MIGLIORATO, CATHOLIC PRESS PHOTO

ted in 2011, six were submitted in 2012 and more than that in the first quarter of 2013 prove that the Institute for the Works of Religion – the so-called Vatican bank – and other Vatican offices are committed to greater transparency and strin-

gency and are learning to implement the stricter laws governing financial transactions enacted by the Vatican since 2010, he said. “Filing a suspicious transaction report is not a bad thing,” he said; it simply signals to Brulhart

and his investigators the fact that a transaction has “deviated from the ordinary behaviour” of a particular Vatican bank account holder or a person or company with whom a Vatican office does business. The Vatican’s Financial Intelligence Authority works in a similar way to financial intelligence agencies in other countries and has signed cooperation agreements with several, including the US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, a bureau of the US Department of the Treasury that investigates potential illegalities within the US financial system. In addition to investigating the reports of suspicious activities and cooperating with international finance-crime intelligence agencies, the Vatican office collects and analyses the obligatory reports filed when more than 10,000 euros (about US$13,000) in cash is brought into or taken out of the Vatican. It also educates Vatican offices on spotting potential abuses and conducts on-site inspections, including of the Vatican bank. However, he said, the Vatican’s situation differs in many ways from most countries, since “there’s no financial sector, no commercial banks, no insurance companies” and no stock exchange. At the same time, it is “a global institution with worldwide religious activities, missions, priests in the field,” he said. Things get complicated when the Church

works in countries like Syria that are under international economic sanctions, so extra care must be taken to ensure – and certify – that resources going into the country are used for religious and humanitarian activities. The Vatican also needs to collect donations from around the world and distribute them around the world, which leads to “potential risks” of financial crime. The revised Vatican laws on financial crimes, he said, are designed “to protect the Holy See” and its religious and charitable mission around the world from “abuse or misuse.” Further revisions to the laws are expected in the coming months, he said, partially in response to suggestions made by “Moneyval,” the Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of AntiMoney Laundering Measures and the Financing of Terrorism. One of Moneyval’s recommendations was that Brulhart, as director of the Financial Intelligence Agency, should have greater authority and independence. The Moneyval report, issued last July, also recommended the Vatican bank be “independently supervised by a prudential supervisor in the near future.” Brulhart said he expected both those points to be addressed by the Vatican before the next Moneyval evaluation, which is expected in December. - CNS

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Church parish priest at 1pm at St Mary’sCoffee, tea, cakes, sweets, frien : URDAY Ronconi is the Assumption in by hea 187 240 Fridayme all you SAT do d 7 pm 041 owe RTH inan s. y info 7.30 Foll . Mas Ferd FOU Gerr r her rest Fr or RY afte you EVE . Furt stairs 9 9093 Mass Lady of the d and I will give ’s Orchard Glor y Farm 5 edral parishioners sick. Enq: Madi 924 celess Healing Church of Our in need of religious items St. ship with Cath hwyd@yahoo.com.au or 041 Voice of the VoiBrigid’s Parish, 211 Aberdeen s. the He is munity. l nday at Bindoon pert Phuket, Thailand. and holy medals for his loca Holy Trinity Com Tammy on smc WEDNESDAY 11.30 am at St g a plate to share after Mas Sponsored by a: Fr Sergius Paulus CSE, EVERY SECOND help, as Rosaries . Brin 357. idge such nesi 370 cy thbr 325 ne Indo If you are able to Nor Mer 183 Elei 8 from ine the el), s Virgin of r of Carm 6 7591 or 040 sh, Dean Rd, plets of Div ation and visitors. 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