The Record Newspaper 27 July 2011

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My Vocation

Archbishop Dennis Hart tells The Record’s Debbie Warrier about why he chose Priesthood. - Page 16

Notre Dame invites all to Open Day

INSPIRED by the overwhelming success of the Mary MacKillop Festival held in 2010, Notre Dame is opening its doors once again for its inaugural Open Day Festival on Sunday, 31July.

Whether you are a prospective student, parent, researcher, former staff member or student, community member, family or group, or just someone curious about how much Notre Dame has grown, this is a chance to come and experience what makes The University of Notre Dame Australia so unique.

The streets will come alive with music and entertainment including a kids’ corner, animal farm, rock climbing and lots of delicious food on offer. Along with Campus tours offered every Please turn to Page 2

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John Zmirak on the passing of Otto von Hapsburg - Page 10

South Perth couple follow in their footsteps

BY MGR BRIAN O’LOUGHLIN Vicar General

THERE were extra family ties when Lisa Murray-Smith and Garth Brooks married at St Columba’s Church, South Perth recently.

Lisa’s uncle, Fr Ted Miller

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celebrated the nuptial Mass.

When he opened the marriage register he discovered Lisa’s brother Colin and his wife Fiona were the first couple recorded in the leather bound volume.

Fiona, who was Lisa’s matron of honour, and Colin

had married at the same church almost eight years earlier.

Lisa, of Yangebup parish, is a teacher at St Emilie’s Catholic Primary School in Canning Vale. She married Garth Brooks, of Eden Hill, on 16 July.

Archivists to come to grips with new Parish software

BY PETER ROSENGREN

AN AFTERNOON for Parish archivists will be held on 27 August to introduce a new software programme written especially for those who archive parish documents and records.

The afternoon session, running from 1.454.45pm, will be held at the Pastoral Centre of Our Lady of the Missions at 40A Mary Street in Highgate.

Archdiocesan Archivist Sr Frances Stibi PBVM told The Record the Archdiocesan Archives had received a grant from LotteryWest to develop a small database programme enabling parish archivists to put parish collections on computer.

17-page booklet especially for par-

ish archivists which gives a step by step guide to using the software,” she told The Record

On the day, we will be demonstrating that. There will also be a visit to the Archdiocesan archives; and acid-free archival materials will be on sale for those who need them,” she said.

A guide to sacramental record keeping would also be launched, she said. “We want everyone to know how to use it – and to use it,” she told The Record

Those wishing to attend should RSVP to Sr Frances on 9228 8020 by 22 August.

This would greatly assist gaining access to materials in parish archives. “We have written a

There will be a charge of $20 to cover afternoon tea and related expenses. The archives house extant records and artefacts from the earliest period of the Catholic Church in Perth.

Salvado wanted an ‘Indigenous faith’

Former Abbot of New Norcia, Bernard Rooney OSB, gives hands-on insight into his ministry to Indigenous at a Catholic Social Justice Council meeting

BY TERRY Q UINN Catholic Social Justice Council

The inspiration for retired Abbot of New Norcia, Bernard Rooney’s work was the forward-looking methods of Bishop Salvado working with the local people in the 1840s. Salvado’s missionary methods were “born of a determination to respect and understand the culture of the Aboriginal people” Abbot Rooney said.

“Bishop Salvado believed the Catholic faith should be built on the cultural conditions and understandings of the indigenous people themselves.  As history has shown, Salvado’s ideas were to bear fruit.”

Abbott Bernard began by reflecting on the influence of Darwinian evolutionary theory on missionary perspectives and policies with the Catholic Church. This perspective underpinned the words addressed by Pope Gregory XVI to Doms Salvado and Serra on the eve of their embarkation for Western Australia on 5 June, 1845.

‘Civilise and Christianise’ was the directive issued by His Holiness. But, Abbot Bernard asked, how was this to be interpreted? Should Indigenous cultures be set aside and replaced by the Christian cultures of England and Europe? In many missions such policies had proven disastrous.

The mission to be established in Western Australia by the banks of the Moore River in 1846 was to prove Rosendo Salvado to be a man well ahead of his time. Salvado believed that conversion of his people to the Christian faith, as indeed their so-called ‘civilisation’, should begin within their cultural community, not simply as a system of belief and practice imposed from the outside.

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Sr Frances Stibi

Bishop Rosendo Salvado

All will be welcome at the University of Notre Dame Australia’s Open Day on 31 July. PHOTO: COURTESY UNDA

Sisters land at Notre Dame

Documentary set to screen

Following on from the canonisation of Josephite founder, St Mary of the Cross, the Travelling Sisters Roadshow – Australian Disaster Recovery Projects visited Notre Dame’s Fremantle Campus on Friday, 15 July.

Leading the national Roadshow is Sr Julianne Murphy from the congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph.

The Roadshow is funded by the Mary MacKillop Foundation. Its aim is to provide relief from suffering and give hope to others through small community-based projects. It was developed as a way of continuing the legacy of St Mary MacKillop after her canonisation on 17 October, 2010. As the idea of the

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Roadshow began to mature, the Australian mainland was hit with several natural disasters. This inspired the Sisters to raise funds for people in disaster affected areas. Since March, Sr Julianne has travelled more than 15,000km to spread the message of Australia’s first saint and the plight of Australians affected by the natural disasters.

“We don’t just preach about St Mary MacKillop’s legacy, we live out her message,” Sr Julianne said.

“I have found that the personal stories bring out a profound sense of compassion in high school students and how fortunate they are to be given the best opportunities in life.”

two anniversaries in one year at Julian Como concert

A COALITION of anti-trafficking groups are inviting all to a screening of a new documentary on the global phenomenon of human trafficking as it relates to prostitution and sexual slavery to be screened in Perth on 17 August at the Mount Pleasant Baptist College.

Nefarious, Merchant of Souls, is described as a hard-hitting documentary that exposes the disturbing trends in modern sex slavery.

Although slavery and human trafficking have periodically become major social problems for centuries, the documentary Nefarious investigates the growing modern phenomenon which is estimated to affect millions around the world.

Human trafficking is generally defined as the illegal trade in human beings for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation, forced labour, or a modern-day form of slavery; it differs from people smuggling where people voluntarily request or hire smugglers to covertly transport them from one location to another.

While the shadowy and illegal nature of trafficking is hard to statistically measure, Nefarious reports that the practice is now a major battlefront of the 21st century.

Victims are systematically stripped of their identity, battered into gruesome submission, and made to perform humiliating sexual acts on up to 30 strangers every night.

In many parts of the world, victims are held in makeshift jail cells, forced to take heavy doses of illegal drugs, and closely monitored. On average, victims are thrown into ghastly oppression at 13 years of age.

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In the 1960s and 1970s, arguments raged over the place and shape of liturgical music after the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.

Some people took the view that all the sacred music of the past should be thrown out and replaced with new music that was more in keeping with the understanding of the liturgy expressed in the Council’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy.

Fr Ernest (“Chappy”) Rayson was a member of the Blessed Sacrament Fathers who felt strongly that the music of the past was of value and should not be neglected and forgotten.

In Melbourne, he formed a choir to sing at the 1973 Eucharistic Congress.

After the Congress, the choir continued to meet and took the name of The Julian Singers.

In 1976, Fr Rayson came to Perth, and established a choir here, which also took the name The Julian Singers.

The frst two public appearances of the choir were at the Golden Jubilee celebrations of two Good Shepherd Sisters in July 1976 and at the opening Mass of All Saints

Chapel in Allendale Square in August 1976. Since then, both the choirs in Melbourne and Perth have continued their work.

The current Musical Director of The Julian Singers in Perth, Chris deSilva, describes The Julian Singers as a liturgical choir whose work is to keep alive the sacred music of the past while setting an example of musical best practice in liturgy. The choir sings by invitation at liturgical celebrations in Perth.

The Julian Singers take their name from the founder of the Blessed Sacrament Fathers, St Peter Julian Eymard.

This year marks both the 200th anniversary of his birth and the 35th anniversary of the establishment of the choir in Perth.

To mark the occasion, The Julian Singers will hold an Anniversary Mass at Holy Family Church, Como, on 3 August. Archbishop Hickey will be the celebrant and past and present members of the choir will join in the celebration.

For further information about The Julian Singers and the Anniversary Mass, contact the Musical Director, Chris deSilva (9276 2736).

Some are abducted, others are lured out of poverty, romantically seduced, or sold by their families.

From the very first scene, Nefarious ushers viewers into the nightmare of sex slavery that hundreds of thousands experience daily.

First-hand interviews with real victims and traffickers, along with expert analysis from international humanitarian leaders, are featured.

From initial recruitment to victim liberation – and everything between – the previously veiled underworld of sex slavery is uncovered in this groundbreaking documentary which has been highly praised.

All welcome at UNDA Open Day

Continued from Page 1 half hour, course information sessions, demonstrations and workshops will be held throughout the day.

Festival coordinator, Mrs Rommie Masarei, says planning for the Festival has been in the true Notre Dame spirit.

“We have built on our Open Day which has been traditionally offered to prospective students and created a program which reflects the University’s commitment to the wider community,” explains Mrs Masarei.

“We have extended an invitation to a number of community organisations and social justice groups who will also be participating on the day.

“This is an important event in our 2011 calendar - it’s not just an Open Day, it’s a Festival and everyone’s invited!”

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Sunday, July 31 2011 10:00am – 4:00pm

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The Jospehite Travelling Sisters Roadshow - with a message - arrives at UNDA on 15 July.

Priest with healing reputation to return to Perth

his brain.An MRI confirmed the growth had disappeared.

Fr John also prayed for a young father of five who was about to have an operation to remove a tumour from his shoulder.

Soon after, she went to her doctor who was amazed that there was no longer any trace of the disease.

The young woman underwent conversion of heart and with God’s help has turned her life around.

Since 1974, Fr John has been praying with people for healing and he has been covered by programs such as Sixty Minutes and A Current Affair

A particular healing brought Fr John’s healing ministry wide media exposure. It involved a 10 year old New Zealand ‘child prodigy’ violinist who had her left hand crushed in the door of a people-mover.

Her hand was so severely damaged that doctors told her she would never play the violin again.

Just two days after Fr John and

from 1 August.

The New Zealand Marist priest has been in Perth previously, and there are numerous testimonies of healings. In one instance, Fr Rea prayed for a man who had a cancerous growth on the right side of

To the surgeon’s surprise, when he operated two days later, the cancer had disappeared. The patient has had no recurrence of the problem. A 21 year old woman had been a prostitute with an incurable STD. She came forward for prayer at one of Fr John’s healing services.

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a friend prayed with the girl, specialists told her they could find no damage to the hand and no scar tissue.

The hand had fully recovered and she could play again.

One television reporter put it to Fr John that sceptics would say that he is someone who has ‘just got lucky’ with healings from prayer.

‘When it happens so frequently, you can hardly call it luck,’ was his reply.

Fr John always emphasises that he is not the one responsible for the healings.

He says, ‘I just pray with people for healing - the rest is up to the Lord. It is He who gets the glory’. Fr John has no set formula for his prayers.

‘They are always short and sim-

ple and spontaneous.’

He says the one constant in cases where people had been healed was that someone must have faith whether it was the faith of the person being healed; the faith of a parent, loved one or friend, or the one praying for healing.

Fr John Rea says the Lord seems to use him mainly in physical healings, people come with all kinds of conditions.

“I have more prayers for fertility than anything else, probably because of the TV programme which featured the couple who were healed of infertility. Cancer is probably the next.”

Also the Lord has used me a lot with children who have learning difficulties”.

Maryville Downs, Lower Chittering, WA

Is seeking applications for the positions of:

ACTING PRINCIPAL

For Term 4, 2011 and the whole of 2012 (with the possibility of extension).

The successful applicant will be a practising and committed Catholic with the ability to lead the school in its foundation years. A secondment from another school may be possible.

This is an Independent School, teaching the Catholic Faith. It will open in February 2012 with classes from Kindergarten to Year 3, expanding to Year 6 over the next three years. The school will be situated next to the new Divine Mercy Church in Lower Chittering.

EARLY CHILDHOOD TEACHER

For January start in 2012.

The successful applicant will be a practising and committed Catholic, with early childhood teaching qualifications.

Applications for these positions close on Wednesday, 17 August 2011 and salary and terms will be negotiated. For more information, please contact Fr Paul Fox (08 9571 1839) or Doris Anastasiades (08 9317 4019). Address applications to Fr Paul Fox PP, Immaculate Heart College, PO Box 8, Bullsbrook WA 6084.

www.ginginchitteringparish.org.au

Fr John Rea, a New Zealand priest with a widespread reputation for healing, concelebrates Mass in St Mary’s Cathedral in Perth with Redemptorist Fr Hugh Thomas CsSr and Glendalough parish riest Fr Doug Harris

Gone more than

A retired English couple living in France were so drawn to the story of Bishop John Brady through their involvement helping Perth researchers, they decided to eventually become Catholics. 

Archbishop, clergy, welcome new Indonesian chaplain

ARCHBISHOP Barry Hickey welcomed the long-awaited chaplain for the Indonesian community in Perth on 20 July.

Fr Siriakus Ndolu OCarm, who arrived in Perth on 9 July, was welcomed at a morning tea on 20 July at the Catholic Office in Cathedral House, Victoria Square.

The West Australian Indonesian Catholic Community had been

without a chaplain for almost a year since the departure of Fr Ari Pawarto OCarm in August 2010.

In attendance were Fr Robert Cross, the executive assistant to the Archbishop; Cathedral Dean Monsignor Michael Keating; Vicar General Monsignor Brian O’Loughlin and Auxiliary Bishop Donald Sproxton.  WAICC

OFFICIAL ENGAGEMENTS 2011

JULY

29 Opening Mass of Performing Arts Festival, St Mary’s Cathedral – Archbishop Hickey Confirmation, Karrinyup – Archbishop Hickey Opening and Blessing Sacred Heart College –Mgr Brian O’Loughlin VG

29-31 Parish Visitation, Greenwood – Bishop Sproxton

31 Minor Orders, St Anne’s, Belmont – Archbishop Hickey

AUGUST

1 Bishop Brady Reinterment Procession and Vespers –Archbishop Hickey

2 Reinterment of Bishop Brady, St Mary’s Cathedral –Archbishop Hickey

Visit Hollywood Medical Centre – Bishop Sproxton

3 Mass to celebrate 35th Anniversary of Julian Singers, Como – Archbishop Hickey

4 Mass for Year 12s, Sacred Heart College, Sorrento –Archbishop Hickey Visit Confirmation candidates, Lesmurdie –Archbishop Hickey

4 & 5 Council for Australian Catholic Women – Bishop Sproxton

5 Catholic Faith Renewal Evening, Willetton –Archbishop Hickey

6 & 7 Confirmation, Lesmurdie – Archbishop Hickey

7 World Youth Day Commissioning Mass, St Mary’s Cathedral – Bishop Sproxton Golden Jubilee Mass, Mgr Sean O’Shea – Mgr Keating

7-28 World Youth Day Madrid – Bishop Sproxton

8 Civic Reception for Ambassador of United States of America – Archbishop Hickey

9 National Marriage Day Mass, St Mary’s Cathedral –Archbishop Hickey

11 Council of Priests – Archbishop Hickey Catechists’ Commissioning Mass, St Mary’s Cathedral –Archbishop Hickey

150 years

from Western Australia,

My Spiritual Journey

BY BOBBY HOYLE

Ifelt the first intimations of my spiritual journey when I was only 7 years old, over 65 years ago. Born into a Jewish family, my father had brought me up to believe in a multicultural world and, on a family holiday in North Wales, he had taken me to Morning Service in a local chapel. When it came to the beginning of the Eucharist, I remember feeling a need to kneel with the other members of the congregation, but when I

knelt, my father very gently told me that this was not appropriate since we did not truly belong in this particular House of the Lord.

Many years passed – we were not particularly orthodox Jews, but we celebrated the various High Holidays (Passover, Jewish New Year, Yom Kippur) and I even learnt to read Hebrew. However, I was aware of something “lacking” in me that I was unable to identify until I attended a service with a friend at our local church.

From then on, I began to understand where I was going, and I sought the advice of the minister

of the local church in the area to which John and I had moved. After several months of instruction, I was baptised and confirmed into the Church of England.

John and I moved to France in 2000, to a small mountain village in the Eastern Pyrenees, where the only place of worship is the beautiful Abbey of Arles sur Tech. Despite our being Anglicans, we were welcomed by the incumbent priest, Père Hennecart, to worship at the Abbey. Over the years, we have become increasingly involved in the life of the church, to the extent that I was asked to be part Please turn to Page 5

Abbot Bernard recounts the inspiration he received from Salvado’s pioneering example

Continued from Page 1 Abbot Bernard explained how Salvado’s missionary method was born of a determination to respect and understand the culture of Aboriginal people. He believed the Catholic faith should be built on the cultural conditions and understandings of the Indigenous people themselves. As history has shown, Salvado’s ideas were to bear fruit.

Abbot Bernard was inspired by Salvado’s methods. After his appointment as parish priest of Moora, he began working with the local Aboriginal community.

He instituted a monthly outdoor

‘Campfire Mass’ (Mass with barbeque), in an area of bush on parish grounds, with a view to helping the people of Moora renew connection with the Catholic faith. He initiated programmes of cultural awareness with the assistance of local elders in several schools.

To provide regular employment for the adults, he obtained government funding for establishing an ongoing artefacts manufacturing project (Yuat Artefacts) in the church hall. He also began research into local culture and language, which eventually led him to the preparation of two books on these subjects. Returning to New Norcia

in 1988, he spent five years with Moora TAFE, teaching Indigenous Art, Yuat language and culture.

He also organised regular monthly beach excursions for the benefit of disadvantaged local Aboriginal children and conducted safaris for them to remote missions.

While completing a PhD at Curtin University, he established at New Norcia a permanent exhibition devoted to Aboriginal culture and the history of the mission.

He pointed out that even now in the 21st century, New Norcia can continue to fulfil the commission entrusted by Pope Gregory XVI to its Benedictine founders.

Welcome: John Hoyle signs the register in the the Abbey of Arles sur Tech, France, watched by his wife Bobby. The couple, who became involved in assisting Perth researchers who visited France to exhume the remains of Bishop John Brady, took the decision to become Catholics. Bobby has no doubt Bishop Brady played a part in the couple’s conversion.

BRADY RETURNS

Founder-Bishop John Brady is still busy evangelising

Continued from Page 4 of the programming team and I also help with the parish accounts. I had spoken several times with Père Elie, our parish priest, about the possibility of converting to Roman Catholicism, reading and reflecting on how to move towards conversion.

Then, earlier this year, Père Elie mentioned to John and me that Archbishop Hickey and Father Robert had visited the cemetery at nearby Amélie les Bains where, unknown to us, the first Bishop of Perth, John Brady, was buried.

We were due to visit Perth on holiday, where we met the Archbishop and Fr Robert to whom we offered any help we could give the team who were coming to France to exhume the remains of Bishop Brady in order that he could return to Perth to rest in the Cathedral crypt with his successors. Little did we realise that we were moving forward in our spiritual journey at this time.

In March, we spent a great deal of time with the team, helping as much as we could, and also getting to know everyone.

To our delight, the team came up to our home on the evening that Bishop Brady’s remains were recovered, and we had the honour of welcoming the Bishop to our home, where he rested comfortably in the van outside our house.

It was from this time that it became clear to me that there was only one direction in which to move, and that was towards Rome.

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Bishop Brady has been instrumental in this part of my spiritual journey and I owe him a great debt. It is also through him that I have come to know and love many wonderful people in Perth, who have unknowingly helped me to reach where I find myself today.

I now feel I have come home and can proceed further on this extraordinary journey.

One of the younger members of our congregation came up to me after yesterday’s Mass, following my Profession of Faith in St Mary’s Abbey at Arles sur Tech, to tell me how encouraging it was for her to witness an older person still open and ready to move forward, with

so much more to learn. I could only respond by telling her that life is enhanced by learning, to which there is no end.

BOBBY ’S HUSBAND, JOHN, WRITES:

Ichose to become a member of the Anglican Church as a child, and was confirmed in that church in 1956. This was a commitment that I followed until July 2011.

As a mature student in the 1960s, I can still remember studying the issues being discussed in the Second Vatican Council, which opened in October 1962. As a qualified teacher, I worked at St Mary’s Primary School, near Oxford, and I was the only non-Catholic on the staff.

The Sisters and lay teachers were a fantastic team with whom to work, and it was at that point in my life that the seeds were sown which would grow into my thinking about joining the Catholic Church.

These were thoughts that did not take root until Bobby and I moved to France some 11 years ago. We began attending services in the

Doctor wins prize for majority approach

Innovation inspired new marking model

A UNIVERSITY of Notre Dame academic has taken out first prize at an international medical education conference.

Dr Michael Wan, from the School of Medicine, Sydney Campus, was awarded First Prize for Best Poster Presentation by a panel of international judges at the Congress of Asian Medical Education Association (AMEA) held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, earlier this year.

Dr Wan submitted an abstract to the Congress entitled: Using script concordance testing as a new modality of assessment for graduate entry medical students – a pilot study.

Script concordance testing is a new way of assessment in medical education where third and fourth year medical students are given a clinical scenario.

They are then provided with additional background information to determine the likelihood of a particular diagnosis or the appropriateness of various investigations and management options.

Prior to the assessment, a panel comprising several medical professionals will provide individual answers to the same questions given to clinical year students. Should the

US Catholic doctors say no

WASHINGTON (CNS) -

A recommendation that all US health plans be required to cover contraceptives without a patient co-payment “fails the tests of logic and sound science” and “does not constitute good clinical medicine,” according to the US Catholic Medical Association. In a 20 July statement, the Association criticised the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Preventive Services for Women for recommending that the US Department of Health and Human Services include “the full range of Food and Drug Administration-approved contraceptive methods, sterilisation procedures and patient education and counselling” as mandated services for all health plans under the new health reform law.

students’ answers to an assessment question concur with the majority of specialists in the panel (who provide a response to the same question), they are given full marks. If their answer reflects a minority of specialists with a different opinion, students are still given a fraction of the total mark for that question. Notre Dame’s Sydney Campus is one of the first universities in Australia to trial these types of questions in the assessment process for medical students.

“So far, the feedback from students has been positive since they love the style of questions being asked as they relate to the clinical encounters that they would see every day in the ward,” Dr Wan said.

“The questions are more realistic, but they are also more difficult to answer as there is no absolute right or wrong response and your answer must concur with the views held by the majority of medical specialists.”

Abbey at Arles sur Tech and, after some time, spoke with the priest, Père Hennecart, about our taking a fuller part in the church.

Père Hennecart saw no reason against this happening, an opinion that was later confirmed by the Bishop of Perpignan.

Now the journey was beginning, but it was to be another seven years before my total commitment. We had told our present priest, Père Elie, about the visits we had made to St Mary’s Cathedral and to New Norcia, and about the impression both communities had made on us.

Earlier this year, Père Elie told us that he had met Archbishop Hickey and Fr Robert, who were visiting the grave of Bishop Brady in Amélie les Bains.

Shortly after this, we visited Perth – a holiday that had been planned many months before – and we contacted Archbishop Hickey, who very kindly agreed to meet us.

We were greeted by Fr Robert, who introduced us to the Archbishop and also to Odhran O’Brien. On hearing about the exhumation that was to take place

in Amélie les Bains, we offered any help that we could give the team when they arrived in mid-March.

I began reading and, following Odhran’s offer to be involved in the research of Bishop Brady’s European life, both in Ireland and in France, I was brought back to those seeds of thought that had been sown many years before in England.

I now knew that to join the Catholic Church was a decision that I felt compelled to make. I also knew, but I don’t fully understand how, that Bishop Brady was profoundly involved in helping me to make the decision, as were Père Elie and Fr Robert, although at the time, they were quite unaware of my feelings.

On Sunday, 17 July 2011, those seeds, sown so long ago, bore fruit and I made my Profession of Faith during Mass in St Mary’s Abbey at Arles sur Tech.

The kindness and support of so many friends in both Australia and France have helped me to complete my journey into the Mother Church.

The World. THE RECORD

UNDA academic, Dr Michael Wan, at right, receives his award at the Congress of Asian Medical Education Association meeting in Kuala Lumpur after he submitted a thesis on new approaches to marking medical students.

The Parish. The Nation.

Young teacher does his family and people proud

The National NAIDOC Awards pay tribute to the outstanding contributions that Indigenous individuals make to their communities, to their chosen fields of endeavour and to broader Australian society.

The National NAIDOC Committee received a flood of nominations from across the country. The award winners were honoured at the National NAIDOC Awards Ceremony and Ball in Sydney on Friday 8 July.

Twenty-four-year-old Kiel Williams-Weigel of Clontarf Aboriginal College was awarded NAIDOC Youth of the Year for 2011. Kiel was born and raised in Brisbane and is a proud descend-

ant of the Mununjali people of the Beaudesert region in Queensland. After immersing himself in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, Kiel developed a strong desire for a better life for Indigenous people in contemporary Australia. He was the first in his family to attend university, graduating with a Bachelor of Education from Griffith University. He is now the Literacy Co-ordinator at Clontarf Aboriginal College in Western Australia and a sessional lecturer at the University of Notre Dame, where he helps other teachers understand the needs of Indigenous school students. Kiel is keen to undertake further study and hopes one day to be a principal of a Catholic Aboriginal school.

in brief

Truth must inform conscience for legislators: Pope

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS) - Pope Benedict XVI said the proper formation of conscience requires the ability to listen to “the voice of truth,” which is particularly important for people in positions of governing.

The Pope, meeting with pilgrims at his summer residence outside Rome 24 July, spoke about the biblical figure of King Solomon, who prayed to God at the beginning of his reign for “an understanding heart.”

The king’s prayer was motivated by the responsibility of guiding a nation, but is valid for everyone, the Pope said.

Essentially, Solomon was praying for “a conscience that knows how to listen, that is sensitive to the voice of truth and for this reason is capable of discerning good from evil,” he said.

Formation of a moral conscience requires this openness to the truth and the willingness to conform one’s action to the truth, he said.

“The people called to the task of governing naturally have an additional responsibility and therefore - as Solomon teaches - have even more need of God’s help. But each person has a part to play, in various concrete situations,” he said.

Duplicity in new name: Vatican officials

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Two Vatican officials said the newly formed International Catholics Organisation of the Media is simply a new name for a group that lost its official recognition as a Catholic organisation.

Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko, president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, and Archbishop Claudio Celli, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, issued a joint statement on the name change of the International Catholic Union of the Press.

The statement, posted on the social communications council’s website on 21 July, said the new group has “misappropriated the intellectual, economic and historical patrimony” of the former International Catholic Union of the Press, known by its French initials, UCIP.

“After many decades of effective service to evangelisation through print media...[UCIP] in recent years has experienced a progressive crisis management.”

The statement also said: “The Holy See has repeatedly expressed to the authorities of UCIP its bewilderment at the unacceptable lack of transparency and accuracy in the management of this association, under the control of its secretary general. These facts led the Pontifical Council for the Laity on 23 March to revoke the canonical recognition of UCIP as a Catholic association.”

Cardinal Rylko and Archbishop Celli said UCIP’s only reaction to the Vatican’s move was to transform UCIP into the International Catholics Organisation of the Media, keeping the UCIP logo and website. The clerics said the councils of the laity and social communications were “studying new ways of forming an association of journalists who wish to remain in communion with the Catholic Church.”

Left: Clontarf teacher, Kiel WilliamsWeigel, 24, receives his NAIDOC Youth of the Year 2011 award.

SOMALIA CRISIS

Caritas Africa appeal offers Australians a way to help

Caritas Australia has launched an appeal for drought-stricken east Africa where millions are threatened by famine

The worst droughts in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and across East Africa in 60 years have left at least 10 million people in need of food, water and basic facilities. Half of those are children. Tanzania and the new state of South Sudan are experiencing serious food and water shortages too.

With no rains expected until October the situation will get considerably worse.

Bishop Peter Kihara, the Bishop of Marsabit in one of the worst-hit areas of Northern Kenya said:

“There is no question that we have a very desperate situation and it is deteriorating rapidly. We urgently call to our brothers and sisters across the world to help us in this time of need.”

Across the region, the International Caritas Network is providing that help but with at least 10 million in need of assistance we need your donations to assist us in reaching more families with life giving support. Caritas is:

• providing supplementary feeding and food relief

• ensuring people have access to clean water to drink

• assisting families to maintain their livelihoods.

In Kenya the network is:

• providing food relief to 40,000 people in the worst affected areas in Eastern and Coastal Kenya

• ensuring children and new mothers are being reached first with aid

• instigating veterinary programs in the hope to keep 15,000 cattle healthy.

In Somalia the network is:

• reaching 7000 people through Operation Lifeline with food aid. This includes over 1400 children and the elderly

• providing supplementary feeding to over 4000 people, targeting new mothers and children and the elderly

• providing 70,000 semi-nomadic people with access to clean water in Eastern Somaliland.

In Ethiopia the network is:

• reaching over 80,000 people in Haraghe and Meki with food

distributions

• supporting livestock programmes in the southern Borana region, helping 25,000 households to maintain the health of their cattle.

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Papal foundation plans to expand AIDS assistance

BY JOHN T HAVIS

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - A papal foundation dedicated to AIDS patients may expand its services to include a global programme of distributing anti-AIDS drugs, a Vatican official said.

The initiative would respond to the shortage of antiretroviral and other drugs in poorer countries, where the vast majority of AIDS patients receive no adequate treatment, Mgr Jean-Marie Mupendawatu, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Ministry, said in a 21 July interview with the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano

Mgr Mupendawatu is a delegate to the Good Samaritan Foundation, established by Blessed John Paul II in 2004 to provide economic support to the sick who are most in need, particularly those suffering from AIDS.

Mgr Mupendawatu said the foundation planned to strengthen its activity, especially in Africa, by increasing its promotion of donations of pharmaceutical and medical material, and by working more

closely with local Catholic leaders to place the Church in the forefront of the care for AIDS patients.

To favour these efforts, he said, the foundation may open offices on every continent, which would function in coordination with the central office in Rome.

“The foundation is also studying the possibility of creating its own ‘pharmaceutical centre’ which would allow the collection and distribution of medicines in poor countries,” he said.

The centre would work in cooperation with other Church agencies.

Mgr Mupendawatu said that while more than 25 percent of the global health care to AIDS patients is provided by Catholic institutions, the Church needs to do even more in the face of the epidemic, which infects about 7,000 additional people each day.

One of the Church’s priorities is to help make “universal and free access to treatment” a reality for all those infected with AIDS, he said. Today, only about 5 percent of

Pope urges global aid for drought-struck Africa

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS) - Pope Benedict XVI urged the international community to deliver urgent humanitarian aid to the drought-stricken Horn of Africa, especially Somalia, where tens of thousands have fled drought and famine.

The Pope, addressing pilgrims at his summer residence outside Rome on 17 July, said he had been following news of the region’s humanitarian catastrophe with “deep con-

cern.”

UN experts say the prolonged drought, combined with a rise in food prices, have forced many families to make long and often deadly overland treks to reach refugee camps.

“Innumerable people are fleeing from that tremendous famine in search of food and assistance. I hope the international community will increase its efforts to quickly send aid to our sorely tested brothers and sisters, among them many children ...Our solidarity and the concrete assistance of all people of good will should not be lacking,” he said.

people with AIDS patients receive adequate care, he said.

“It’s enough to realise that the majority (of AIDS patients) in Africa live on a dollar a day and cannot afford any treatment. Therefore, it’s necessary to reach the essential goal of no-cost drugs,” he said.

Mgr Mupendawatu said the Church’s insistence that education in responsible sexuality be part of any anti-AIDS strategy has found appreciation in scientific circles.

The Church’s position is that effective prevention of AIDS must include the abandonment of highrisk behaviour and the adoption of a “balanced sexuality” based on premarital chastity and marital fidelity, he said.

He noted that Pope Benedict XVI’s monthly prayer intention for July evoked the Church’s commitment to AIDS sufferers: “That Christians may ease the physical and spiritual sufferings of those who are sick with AIDS, especially in the poorest countries.

On 16 July, the Vatican announced it was making an initial aid contribution of 50,000 euros ($70,000) for the victims of the crisis in Somalia. The funds were sent in the Pope’s name from the Pontifical Council Cor Unum to Bishop Giorgio Bertin of Djibouti, who also serves as apostolic administrator of Mogadishu, Somalia.

Most of those fleeing Somalia have headed toward refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya, walking across a barren landscape in journeys that have taken more than a month. Many mothers arriving in the camps have described losing children along the way to disease and malnutrition.

The drought in eastern Africa has been reported as the worst in 60 years, and UN officials say it has placed the lives of 11 million people at risk. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on 17 July that UN.agencies have requested $1.6 billion to pay for life-saving programmes in the region, but so far have reached only half that amount.

A woman, above, holds her malnourished child at the Wajir district hospital in northeastern Kenya on 13 July. The Horn of Africa is in the grip of a major food crisis with millions of people severely affected in drought-stricken areas of Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Uganda, according to the United Nations. A woman holds her baby outside a tent serving as a medical clinic established by the African Union peacekeeping operation in in Mogadishu, Somalia, on 16 July.

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Pope Benedict XVI waves from a balcony at the papal summer residence, Castel Gandolfo, Italy.

HIV-positive orphans pose for a photo at the Assunta Ashanilayam (House of Hope) run by a Franciscan congregation in Warangal, India.

The assassin

In the photographs nothing that can be read into his features other than the empty stare of a narcissistic young man who developed bizarre theories about the society in which he lives and is convinced that only he knows the truth.

But if Anders Breivik, the Norwegian man who has admitted to killing 76 people last weekend in the Oslo bombing and the Uttaya Island shooting massacre is not insane then he is far closer to going to hell than he realises. Hell is where, Christians believe, those who definitively turn away from God in their lives send themselves. What Anders Breivik did last weekend in Norway is evil. His actions were evil. The convictions he formed in his thoughts were evil and his conclusions were also evil. It is strongly tempting to conclude that he had been thoroughly seduced by an evil which found the chink in his personality among his various insecurities and vanities and which led him not only to the ending of all those innocent lives but also, in the process, far, far down the path of his own eternal damnation.

It is not, of course, too late (if he is sane) for Anders Breivik to come to his senses and ask God to forgive him for the crime against humanity he admitted. But even if he did, what he has done would haunt him for life. One glimpse, in passing, of the feckless stupidity of Mr Breivik is that, having convinced himself he was starting a revolution against the Islamisation of Europe, in two hours he handed radical Islamists around the world the greatest piece of propaganda for which they could ever have hoped - the evil crusader Christian who would willingly massacre Allah’s faithful regardless of any moral law or constraint.

It is when we witness the horror of such events that our minds and our spirits often reel. Some are led to ask how a loving God intimately concerned for the happiness and fulfilment of each and every human life could ever allow such a thing to happen. The same, not stupid, question can be asked of many other current aspects of life in our world. The current drought threatening millions in eastern Africa is another situation that invites the same searching scrutiny.

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One point that can be made quite validly about such a thing as the Norwegian massacre and bombing, however, is that if one examines history, even peremptorily, one can quickly conclude that even though many people profess not to believe in a loving God or a creator of all that is, or in the relevance of belief in a loving God, at the end of the day an entity which is evil has simply been unable to hide the evidence of its activity in human affairs. When evil sets out to destroy what is good, innocent, pure, beautiful and true, it inevitably betrays its real face, as it did in Norway. There is too much evidence of the reality of evil, by which one means an entity malignant towards human beings and empty of any goodness at all, to be able to doubt its existence. The most spectacular examples of this seem to be found in the Twentieth Century with its world wars, genocides and famines, to name only a few.

But hell is not only reserved for people far away from ourselves who do terrible things. As this editorial is being written millions are threatened by drought and famine in the Horn of Africa. Interviewed by leading Catholic affairs journalist John R. Allen earlier this week for the US paper, The National Catholic Reporter, Archbishop-elect Chaput of Philadelphia had this to say about helping the poor: “...I don’t think you can be an evangelist, or part of this evangelical movement in the Church, without being as clearly committed to social justice as the Church has been in the past. We can’t preach the Gospel and not live it. If we don’t love the poor, and do all we can to improve their lot, we’re going to go to Hell.”

Archbishop Chaput’s words are very confronting. There are many contemporary theologians who would find his comments unsatisfactory on the grounds that they are not nuanced enough or, one imagines, expressed in liturgical dance but, basically, Archbishop Chaput was right. If one regards the current situation in Africa one sees millions on the brink of starvation. The situation there is heading towards what most of us would casually call a hell on earth. If one casts one’s gaze in other directions around the globe including towards countries such as Australia, one would find self regarding societies living luxuriously by comparison and often apparently obsessed with issues that are, in comparison, utterly unimportant. If the current situation in Africa develops into the same sorts of situations that have been seen in that continent before, what one can expect to see is much outpouring of distress on the part of many in the affluent socities as they witness the unfolding of another human tragedy but, at the same time, a conglomeration of wealthy societies around the world who, while entirely capable of intervening decisively, will not do anywhere near enough to save the lives of famine’s victims.

One hopes, one prays, that this will not happen, but one fears that it could. A world that is divided into societies addicted to conspicuous consumption and another world of societies living in conspicuous squalour where drought, famine and plague kill millions is a situation that cries out to heaven.

It invites the observation, already made by someone else, that our moral progress over the last century or so has not, apparently, kept pace with our technological progress. But hope springs eternal. As millions face death in Africa before the eyes of a watching world it is also a moment, an opportunity, for societies such as Australia to unilaterally act, if necessary, to honour the humanity of others in mortal need. But if we do not act significantly then it becomes much harder to see how we can avoid the charge that we also are on a path to Hell.

For Christians the solution to the problem of evil is love, for love casts out all evil, conquers it, replaces it with God. This is always a hard lesson to learn and to live, one that much of our affluent societies find impossible to believe - hence our own unique problems. But the pure, burning fire of God’s love is the only thing in this world that conquers evil - the only thing. And when we refuse to love, when we refuse the love of God, we also begin to walk down the path to Hell.

Letters to the editor

Seeking stained glass windows

My name is Susan Kellett and I am a doctoral student at The University of Queensland.

I am requesting the assistance of Parishioners and Clergy in locating stained glass windows that depict nurses in Australian public buildings, such as churches, as part of my research examining the commemoration and memorialisation of nurses.

If you are aware of any window that (a) contains an image of a nurse – such as Florence Nightingale, Service nurses from the wars or other nurses, or (b) memorialises a nurse/s – I would love to hear from you. Please contact me with the name and location of the church or building the window is located in by one of the following means:

Email: susan.kellett@uqconnect.edu.au

Phone: 07 3346 5269 (please leave a message if no answer)

Post: Susan Kellett

School of Nursing and Midwifery, Edith Cavell Building, The University of QueenslandHerston Campus, Herston, Queensland, 4029. I very much appreciate your help.

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US diocese bids for Crystal Cathedral

ORANGE, Calif. (CNS) - The Californian Diocese of Orange has made a formal bid of US $50 million to buy the Crystal Cathedral complex in Garden Grove, once the home church of the Rev. Robert Schuller, a noted television preacher. The cathedral property was put up for auction earlier this year as part of the cathedral ministries bankruptcy proceedings. Crystal Cathedral Ministries founded by Rev. Schuller, who is now retired, filed for bankruptcy last October. It was facing debt amounting to more than $50 million.

Opening in 1980, the 2,900-seat Crystal Cathedral was one of the nation’s first megachurches. It is made up of more than 10,000 panes of glass. The cathedral “underscores the vitality of faith in our modern society and with our offer we will enable this beacon of faith to continue to influence others as an important place of worship,” Orange Bishop Tod Brown said in a statement. The diocese’s bid, announced 22 July, has been presented to the Crystal Cathedral Ministries board of directors and the organisation’s

Thanks for lecture

The Schoenstatt Family Movement of Western Australia extends its congratulations to our Archbishop Rev. Barry James Hickey on the delivery of his lecture at UND Campus Fremantle “The Church and the Modern World”

The lecture is a must for discussion in all families, lay movements and should also be discussed in all Catholic Senior High Schools. His request “Go where I cannot go, transform the World and bring it to Christ” is a reminder to all, of our responsibility to evangelise by carrying the Gospel to those we encounter.

Our young people ought to be encouraged more strongly to do this and be quietly proud of being Catholic as part of their religious education particularly in Catholic schools. The Archbishop’s request is the same for us as the request Jesus made of His disciples.

We also wish to publicly thank our Archbishop for the guidance and inspiration he has given and the leadership shown by him over the term of his presiding as Archbishop and teacher of the Catholic Community of Western Australia. We wish him many blessings and good health in the future.

John Doherty Chairman of Co-ordinators Committee Schoenstatt Movement of Western Australia

Would you defend...?

Noel Bourke (But would you defend an atheist’s talk? 13 July ) questions whether “we can expect further celebrations of Notre Dame University ‘s intellectual independence” by allowing Richard Dawkins to preach on atheism at the Fremantle campus, “ followed by other speakers provid-

counsel. Under the terms of the cash offer, the diocese would make an immediate deposit of $250,000, followed by a second payment of $750,000. The diocese said that if Crystal Cathedral Ministries decides it needs to use some of the campus facilities for a period of time, it could lease back an area “at below-market rates.” The diocese added that once that arrangement came to an end, it would help the organisation relocate some of its ministries to other diocesan property. The Orange Diocese does not currently have a cathedral to serve its 1.2 million Catholics. Based on the size of its Catholic population, Orange is the 11th largest diocese in the nation. The diocese covers all of Orange County, which has a total population of 3 million.

Church leaders criticise Hindu school scriptures

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- Church officials in southern Karnataka state have joined growing protests against the compulsory teaching of Hindu scripture in government-run schools. The vocal demonstrations have developed since 9 June when the state’s education department announced it would allow Hindu groups to conduct classes on Bhagavad Gita, one of the Hindu scriptures. The Karnataka government is ruled by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party. “A secular government should never try to impose or promote one religion alone,” Archbishop Bernard Moras of Bangalore, who heads the Catholic church in Karnataka, told Catholic News Service 20 July. The Archbishop also criticised state-

ing positive insights into gay marriage and abortion.”

Lord Monckton’s address was about questioning the science of climate change, and had nothing to do with the tenets of the Catholic Church. Some scientists who seem to rely on recently recorded weather patterns believe the world is warming due to our carbon emitting lifestyle.

Others who analyse the rock strata going right back in time, claim there is evidence that the earth’s temperature rose well above our present alarmist prognostics, long before human activity emitted carbon, therefore demonstrating that it is natural for ice ages and warm climate conditions to alternate, devoid of human interference.

Science isn’t a faith, although some scientists seem to think it is, and that we must take their theoretical assertions as Gospel truth. Thrashing the scientific facts so as to arrive at the truth is particularly appropriate for a Catholic university, since Christ came to proclaim the Truth.

It would, therefore, definitely not be appropriate for any speaker to be allowed to use any Catholic institution to attack any tenet of the Catholic Church. Every other venue in town seems available for that very purpose, and it would be a direct insult to our Faith, if that were allowed to occur.

G Aquilina LYNWOOD

ments from Karnataka government officials who disparaged protesters opposing the introduction of Bhagavad Gita into the schools. The first statement came 13 July from Vishweshara Hegde Kageri, Karnataka’s minister for school education, who told protesters “to quit India” following demonstrations by secular student organisations and their supporters in front of several schools where Gita classes were being held. Dhananjay Kumar, the Karnataka government’s representative in New Delhi, escalated the conflict 19 July by saying that Christianity and Islam are “foreign” religions and those who believe in them are not Indians but “outsiders.” Archbishop Moras said: “These statements show that they even do not care about the constitution under which they assumed the government office.”

Cathedral stands again

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CNS) - With the blessing of the bells and the anointing of the walls and the altar with holy oil, church officials rededicated the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in St George’s, Grenada, 16 July, nearly seven years after a powerful earthquake nearly leveled the landmark church. Hundreds joined the three-hour liturgy and ceremony led by Bishop Vincent Darius of St George’s and Archbishop Thomas E Gullickson, papal nuncio to Ukraine and the former papal nuncio to the island nations of the eastern Caribbean. The cathedral’s roof collapsed, destroying large sections of the church’s interior when Hurricane Ivan battered Grenada in September 2004. Only the walls, tower and apse remained.

A window into eternity

Thousands will have seen it over the years, attending Mass in Perth’s St Mary’s Cathedral, but few will have known who gave it and how much it cost them.

Depicting the Last Supper and the Crucifixion, the great stained-glass window above the high altar in the cathedral is inscribed in the bottom right hand corner: “The gift of the McArdle family.”

The last of the McArdle family, Miss Susan McArdle died in the Victoria Square Convent on Sunday 22 February 1948 at the age of 90. She is believed to have given away in her lifetime, in conjunction with her brothers and two sisters, all of whom predeceased her, about £70.000 in charity to the poor and in gifts to churches and convents.

In the late 1920’s Archbishop Patrick Clune was building his new Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.

When he took over the Diocese of Perth it was heavily in debt. He struggled to pay it off and then took the courageous step of commencing the building of a grand new Cathedral.

He still had financial worries but on the day of the opening £17,000 was donated by the assembled crowd. Susan and Annie added to that amount by donating the

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enormous sum of £10,000, the largest single donation towards the building of the Cathedral. Indeed, it is understood that they gave away the whole of their considerable wealth during their lifetime.

Miss Susan McArdle was born in England of Irish parents on 8 June 1857 and came to Western Australia as a child.

Her father Michael was a Pensioner Guard who came out on the Clyde in May 1863 and her mother was Ann who died in 1894 aged 66 years.

Susan and her sister Annie were educated by the Sisters of Mercy at Victoria

Square. Susan was an early President of the Children of Mary Society and a member of the St Mary’s Cathedral choir.

She was a foundation president of the Society of St Anne which was founded by Bishop Matthew Gibney in November 1894 for the relief of the sick poor. Part of its work was to sit with sick persons throughout the night. She was a regular visitor to the Old Women’s Home in Murray Street, Perth and the old Men’s Home. She spent her life in giving and working for the welfare of the poor. The title of “Dame” was conferred on her by the Holy Father.

With her younger invalid sister, Annie, she went to live with the Sisters of Mercy, Victoria Square. When Annie died on 21 October1932, aged 67 years, her Solemn Requiem Mass was held in the St Mary’s Cathedral. Archbishop Clune, Mgr Verling VG, Fr R Prendiville, Administrator and all the priests of the Archdiocese attended the funeral.

She is buried in the family grave at Karrakatta Cemetery.

The other members of the family were: Mary Jane, who was born in 1854 and died

on 7 April 1922 aged 68 years and Robert, who was born in 1863. He operated a horse letting and express carriage business in Murray Street Perth. He made several trips to Mauritius, trading horses. He died on 2 June 1921 aged 58 years. Another brother, Michael, was born in 1864.

He worked for the Government Printing Office and travelled to Ireland with one of his sisters in 1906. He died on 29 October 1924 aged 60 years.

In 1904 the family acquired land in central Perth which was subsequently acquired by the Government for the building of the Post Office in Forrest Place. This may have been the source of their wealth.

After Annie’s death Susan continued to live with the Sisters and was cared for by them until her death. Neither Miss Susan McArdle nor her brothers and sisters married and they left no relatives.

Her solemn Requiem Mass was held in the Chapel of the convent at Victoria Square. Fr O’Callaghan was the celebrant assisted by Frs. J Depiazzi, M Byrne and R Kelly.

She is buried in the family grave at Karrakatta Cemetery.

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Good Night, Good Pr

BY JOHN ZMIRAK

Independence Day fireworks in the US flashed for me beneath a long, sad shadow. On the birthday of my motherland died my fatherland’s father: Otto von Habsburg, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne and son of Blessed Karl I (the last man to serve that Catholic empire as its steward).

It was Karl who reigned when my grandfather left the Austrian province of Croatia, and however patriotic an American I am, by the time I was twelve I had read enough (in the work of Catholic political philosopher Erik von Kuenhelt-Leddihn) of the many services done by that monarchy for Europe and for the Church that I’d developed another loyalty: to the vanished empire and its dynasty.

As I tried to explain it to my understandably baffled (Texan) girlfriend, I have always felt that I was really in some sense Otto’s rightful subject. “If he told me to do something that wasn’t a sin, I’d pretty much do it,” I told her.

“Well, then. It’s a good thing you haven’t met him,” she said. And while some friends of mine did have that honour, I never did. The next time I’m in Vienna, I will pray at his tomb in the Capuchin crypt. Eternal rest grant unto him O Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon him.

Why should I, an American right-wing libertarian, pay attention to the death of a throneless Austrian royal? First of all I should as a Catholic, since it was the House of Habsburg that for centuries helped preserve my ancestors’ faith in the face of Muslim invasion, Protestant preaching, and squabbles with neighbouring Orthodox.

After the mutual violence of the Reformation era, the Habsburgs proved to be tolerant rulers of folk of every faith; the Jews of Austria-Hungary had the most cause to miss them in the 20th century, but Catholics under Yugoslav rule, and Orthodox under the heel of fascist Croatian nationalists, would each have fared far better had the monarchy never fallen.

So would all of Europe: Almost every inch of the Austro-Hungarian empire would fall first to Adolf Hitler, and then to Josef Stalin, whose Iron Curtain only excluded western Austria. Torn apart by the first great plague of the 20th century, the idolatrous cult of nationalism, the monarchy’s crownlands would later be drowned by the second: socialism — which, in its democratic guise, drained postwar Austria of energy and life, and in its more consistent, dictatorial form, tyrannised the Hungarian, Czech, south Slavic, and Polish peoples for 40 more years. I also care as someone who tries to steward the intellectual heritage of the great humane economist

Wilhelm Röpke, who befriended Otto von Habsburg and joined his postwar efforts to promote a wholesome Christian internationalism — a pan-European order that leaned not on structures of bureaucratic oligarchy, but rather on the spiritual heritage that formed the civilisation of the West.

It was only within the friendly shadow of Christendom, Röpke believed, that free institutions and a free economy could long survive. A brilliant student, scholar, and advocate of the market economy, Röpke believed that it was the only one that respected the dignity proper to man.

He also knew that true human dignity such as we treasure is only plausible in a Judeo-Christian culture. Remove the underpinning of revelation, and you soon will come to agree with evolutionary biologists who reason that the “sanctity” of human life is (like crowns and kings) a superstitious fetish from the past.

You will have no guard in your heart against economists who promise better living through “rationalised” collectivism, racialists who wish to “purify” human breeding stock, or any other wave of persuasive utopians who love man so much that they wish to remake him as another species entirely. Against such empty pomps that intoxicate the second-rate intellectual, there really is no stronger defense than the intuitive peasant piety that leads men to cross themselves when they pass by a church, to honour a distant emperor as in some sense their earthly father, to leave wreaths (as I observed some still do) at the Kaisers’ crypt in Vienna.

Röpke differed from his more dogmatically libertarian colleagues in seeing that conservative, patriarchal institutions such as the papacy, hereditary monarchies, and the traditional family served as indispensable buffers against the friction produced by the dynamism and blind efficiency of the market. Marx was a monster, not a fool.

He knew that the unfettered strength of human cooperation made possible by free markets could undermine every humane institution that stood in its way — if men made money their measure. When popes fell prey to this, the indulgences they sold cheaply cost Christendom dearly. Shorn of moral restraints, the market found it efficient to traffic slaves — and many Yankee fortunes were built on the trade that resulted.

The market is the most moral means by which men can work together to steward their talents and earth’s bounty; but it knows nothing of ends. Unlike coercive systems that yoke men to building pyramids for Pharaoh, the market frees men to follow their hearts–which are shadowed by sin so many will choose to worship golden calves. Remove the

internal restraints of Christian conscience, and soon enough men will trade in women, in children, in drugs, and in human organs. If socialism is a bus that takes us slowly but surely to prison, the market is a flock of Maseratis racing nowhere in particular. The faster the car, the more sober must be its driver.

Precisely because of its greater power and precision, a market economy needs the constant infusion of non-economic values; it needs firm barriers beyond which trade may not intrude; it demands of us deference to inherited pieties, lest it tear down all

the cathedrals and Roman ru towers of Babel.

On 4 July, one of our hol zealous Catholic who strove Austria in 1938, who helped in 1989 and in the West tried based on Christian humanis of Austria was a worthy so Let us pause to mark Otto’s ourselves to defending thos founders brought here from

US parish musicians gather by the thousands to trial new s

BY MARNIE MCALLISTER

More than 3,100 Catholic pastoral musicians from around the United States, Canada and Mexico gathered at the Kentucky International Convention Centre in downtown Louisville to prepare for the implementation of the new English translation of the Roman Missal.

Parishes around the United States will begin using the new text - and some new music with it - for the celebration of Mass 27 November, the first Sunday in Advent.

“Whether we will sing new words to old tunes or new words to new tunes, the upcoming changes will affect all of us,” Dominican Father Paul Colloton told the crowd during the opening of the National Pastoral Musicians Convention

Singers perform on 18 July during the US National Pastoral Musicians Convention in Louisville, Kentucky. The convention drew more than 3,100 pastoral musicians and liturgists from the US, Canada and Mexico.

on 18 July. Father Colloton is th organisation’s director of continu ing education.

Then he called on the crowd - o as it seemed at times, the 3,000 voice choir - to sing with him th line, “Sing to the Lord a New Song the theme of this year’s convention Father Colloton acknowledge that the new missal translation wi bring changes in the Mass but sai it also offers Catholics an opportu nity to find a “deeper relationshi with Jesus Christ” so that “we ca sing to the Lord with new words and he directed the crowd to sin the latter in unison.

The crowd did nearly as muc singing as listening during th opening programme.

Keynote speaker Mgr Ray Eas wove music intermittently into hi speech.

He opened the address with passionate delivery of “Give M Jesus,” an African-American spir itual, thrilling the crowd with hi velvety baritone. Spontaneousl throughout his address, he drew the crowd into song, too.

Singing the Magnificat at on point, Mgr East told the crowd “That ‘yes’ Mary said changed th history of the world.

“I also believe that your ‘yes’ t everything that (is changing in th liturgy) will change our worship fo the better,” he said.

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Mgr East, pastor of Teresa of Avila in Washington, noted that some people came to the convention “with anger” and some came “sad.”

A variety of emotions have animated responses to the new Roman Missal, he said.

“All of us came here with questions, panicking about the advent of Advent,” he said, as the crowd murmured with comments. “But I hope that somebody came here to Louisville with an open mind ... with an open heart to listen, to learn, to study. And I hope somebody came to ‘Sing to the Lord a new song.’”

Pastoral musicians, who will find themselves teaching congregations about the new text as they introduce new music, will play a key catechetical role in the changes, he noted.

“We have a new role, and we have to be converted in our hearts to expand this role,” the Monsignor told them.

Camilla Gehring, who travelled to the convention from her parish in Columbus, Indiana, said she and her fellow choir members at St Bartholomew Church hope the convention helps to prepare them for this new role.

BY MARK S HEA

Areader wrote in to ask what I think about this story, where a young boy underwent monstrous “reparative therapy” because he exhibited feminine behaviourr, only to end up killing himself at 38.

As you may have gathered, I think it monstrous. This will no doubt confuse people who have noted that I think homosexual acts to be sinful and believe much homosexual agitprop to be militant, intolerant, and totalitarian in intent.

So why do I think this particular “therapy” monstrous? For the same reason I oppose totalitarian attempts and acts of violence calculated to force me to approve of homosexual acts: because I believe in human freedom and dignity.

Here’s the thing: Grace builds on and cooperates with nature. Some males, beginning at a very young age, behave in feminine ways. Who knows why. But whatever the origin, such behavior does not necessarily signify a homosexual orientation, much less homosexual acts — which are the only thing that the Church reckons as sinful.

But this “therapy” began with the assumption of absolute contempt for the victim — a fiveyear-old boy. It saw his nature (whatever that might have been) as an enemy to be destroyed, not as it is for all of us: a gift of God damaged by the effects of the Fall and intended for glory. It’s a deeply Calvinist take on nature.

ful. It is merely the “tinder for sin.” So what? Well, if you believe that sin is the reality of who we are — in short, if you subscribe to some sort of half-baked notion of Total Depravity — and you believe that virtue is the mask, then every temptation will be seen not as a moral battlefield upon which we are to work out our salvation with fear and trembling, with the help of a loving Father, but as further proof of what scum you are. If you believe that every time you are tempted, God is standing there saying, “And you call yourself a Christian! If you really loved me, you wouldn’t feel tempted! This just shows what you really are!” you are going to react differently than you would to a God who is rooting for you, interceding for you, and supplying you with grace to help you in your hour of trial.

If every temptation is seen as further proof of “what you really are,” then every repentance will be dismissed as one more phony attempt to deny who you “really are.” If every temptation is seen as the field of battle upon which you are being given the chance to join with Christ in the great struggle for holiness, then you will see your struggles in a very different light.

Understanding concupiscence makes the difference between seeing God as a Father who is pleased with the heroism of his Spirit-filled children or as an impatient, exasperated Critic who never has a good word to say to losers like us.

rience with disordered appetite has taught me three things. First, neither concupiscence nor sin is a “gift of God.” They are things that the gift of God (grace) is ordered to help us overcome and triumph over. Therefore, while concupiscence is not sin and sin is not unforgiveable, we cannot deal with it by pretending it is a “gift” or demanding that everybody affirm us in our okayness and pretending that our disordered appetites are peachy.

They aren’t. They are disordered. I don’t need somebody to offer me a donut in order to make me feel better about my gluttony. I need them to support me as I try to eat less and move more. It seems to me that somebody struggling with other disordered appetites needs much the same combination of support and firmness.

Second, you’d be surprised how often people, inclined to harshness toward human weakness, tell themselves that their brutality is “tough love.” It’s one thing when somebody is trying to make ridiculous justifications for sin and even attempting to threaten those who rightly maintain that sins are sins. Christians have an obligation to defend the truth about the Church’s moral teaching even when they are unpopular.

“The new liturgy is a big draw for a lot of people,” she said. The convention “gives us a chance to

be exposed to the new arrangements ahead of time.” During the convention, attendees have had the opportunity to listen to and purchase music for new Mass settings written for the new translation.

While the convention focused on the new missal, it also drew liturgists looking for professional development, camaraderie and a little inspiration for their ministry.

A group from Louisville’s Church of the Epiphany said they came for the fellowship and the opportunity to meet the big names in Catholic pastoral music.

“It’s like a shot in the arm, being in the presence of other musicians,” said Cindy Simpson, a cantor at Epiphany. “It’s just so exciting.”

Faith Murphy, the parish’s choir director, said she attended the convention to develop her skills as a director.

Among the thousands at the convention centre were about 400 volunteers, primarily Catholics from Archdiocese of Louisville parishes, who kept the convention running behind the scenes.

Organisers said this year’s convention is largest in its history.

republic rests not on toxic Enlightenment ideology but Anglo-Saxon liberty and Christian common law — whose cornerstones are the dignity of the person and the sanctity of the family. Such inherited institutions and notions, which can be defended intellectually but cannot be “proved” true, are the flags for which we should rally to fight; they are the fruit of Christian faith and its best earthly defense against aggressors. Without them, men will not long stay free. That is the expensive lesson of the terrible 20th century  CRISIS MAGAZINE he uor 0he g,” n. ed ill id uip an s,” ng ch he st is a Me ris ly w ne d, he to he or

That’s in part because of the upcoming changes in the liturgy, said Judy Bullock, director of the Louisville archdiocesan Office of Worship and the chair of the convention.

The goal was to beat a presumed homosexuality out of the poor kid, rather than find out who the poor kid was. Small wonder he eventually committed suicide.

Christ does not redeem us from the effects of the Fall by brutalising us. My take on homosexuality (to which I feel no temptation) is the same as my take on gluttony (a temptation with which I have struggled all my life). Both are disordered appetites that we may, but do not have to, express in actions. Depending on where we are in the cultural spectrum, we will tend to be excusing or merciless.

On the cultural Left, homosexuality, both in temptation and act, is relentlessly excused, while gluttony is vilified as disgusting and immoral. Indeed, even people (such as those struggling with hypothyroidism) who are overweight through no fault of their own tend to get written off as pigs in that milieu.

Meanwhile, on the cultural Right, gluttony is a peccadillo, while even the whiff of homosexual orientation is treated as contemptible. What few tend to do is treat disordered appetites as disordered appetites or distinguish between temptation and act, concupiscence and sin. Indeed, many Christians no longer even know what concupiscence is. So: a brief refresher.

Baptism removes original sin and confers the life of the Trinity. But it is grace, not magic. And because of this, the Church teaches that the effects of original sin remain, much as we can still have a “trick knee” after the knee surgery is finished and healed. Baptism gives us the life of grace to strengthen us. But precisely why we need strength is that we are still left to struggle with the darkened mind, weakened will, and disordered appetites — in a word, concupiscence — that result from original sin.

The reason this matters is that concupiscence is not, in itself, sin-

If we do not grasp the Church’s teaching on concupiscence, there are two equal and opposite errors into which we can fall when dealing with disordered appetites. We can pretend the appetite is not disordered and demand everybody else pretend that a disordered appetite is a “gift from God.” This is what I object to in much homosex agitprop: It aims to force people not merely to bear with a sinner in his weakness, but to celebrate the sin and muzzle those who will not comply with the lie.

Or we can err by going all Calvinist and identifying nature as essentially sinful — as though sin constitutes our humanity and redemption consists of smashing and annihilating our human nature. This was the approach taken in the “Sissy Boy” therapy, and it is just as contrary to Catholic faith as the embrace and affirmation of homosex as a virtue.

Not being homosexual myself, I don’t presume to say how homosexuals should cooperate with grace in order to confront this disordered appetite. For that, I would talk to a same-sex-attracted person who is a devout and holy Catholic. They do exist, after all. Personally, I suspect there is no one-size-fits-all way to cooperate with grace in redeeming our disordered sexual appetites (and everyone, not just homosexuals, has disordered sexual appetites).

That’s because, being a glutton, I know there is no one-size-fits-all remedy for disordered appetites of the stomach. One thing I do know is that disordered appetites are not intended by God to define us, nor are they a license for me to demand that everybody in the room celebrate gluttony as a gift of God (except in satire).

Not being a therapist or a spiritual director, nor spectacularly successful at the long, slow slog of taming disordered appetites myself, I will not presume to hand out free advice to people grappling with temptations that I have never felt. I will simply conclude by remarking that my own expe-

Sometimes we have to say hard things and even to offer rebuke to intransigent sinners. But many is the time that Christians indulge the sins of anger or violence against innocents or penitents while congratulating themselves on their “courage” or, in a tedious and overworked strategy, comparing themselves to Jesus versus the moneychangers. Indeed, I have little doubt that the architects of the Sissy Boy Experiment perpetually congratulated themselves on their “tough love.”

Certainly, I have had any number of Christians write me and say things like, “Hey fatso! Gluttony is a sin! Why don’t you lose some weight, piggy? You’re disgusting.” Such folk may lie to themselves that they are “rebuking” in Christian love, but, of course, they are simply speaking in malice by stabbing a penitent in the rawest spot of his conflicted heart. They mean to be cruel. They are the reason so many people struggling with concupiscence give up and embrace their sin. After all, if even penitence is rewarded by Christians with a vicious kick in the teeth, then why believe in all that mercy stuff Christians go on about?

Nonetheless, bad and abusive Christians are not a reason to give up on the grace of God. They are not the voice of God, merely sinful people living out the consequen ces of sin through their big mouths. The truth is, we are created in the image and likeness of God and redeemed by Jesus Christ. Because of this, the deepest truth about us is not our weakness, concupiscence, or sin, but Jesus Christ. He is even the truth about big-mouthed and abusive people who kick the penitent when they are down.

When we are tempted or sin, we are not stripping off the mask and revealing the awful truth about who we really are. We are putting on the mask and obscuring the truth about who we really are. It doesn’t matter how often the accuser lies and tells us that our disordered appetites or sins constitute the truth about us. The accuser is a liar and the father of lies. Don’t listen to him. Listen to God, who loves you, delights in you, gives grace and mercy in your weakness, and wills your

harles I. Crown Prince Otto’s father was beatified in 2004 by Pope John Paul. Of Crown y decent man to come out of WWI in a leadership position, yet he was a saint and no ole world. It was a wonderful chance that was lost.” Many around the world believed

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Vatican Letter

By Cindi Wooden

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope Benedict XVI has put his own stamp on the Church’s celebration of World Youth Day, and it’s especially clear in the gathering’s moments of prayer.

In Cologne, Germany, six years ago - Pope Benedict’s first WYD as Pope - he surprised the youths at the Saturday night vigil by urging them to quiet down.

The Cologne event was where he started a major new WYD tradition: Instead of ending the vigil with a boisterous musical finale, he ended it with Eucharistic adoration - with tens of thousands of young people kneeling silently in a field. The scene was repeated in Australia in 2008.

During World Youth Day 2011, scheduled for 16-21 August in Madrid, Eucharistic adoration, again will cap the Pope’s participation at the vigil. Adoration and prayer also will continue throughout the night on the edges of the military airport where many of the young people are expected to camp overnight.

In fact, organisers are planning to have 17 tents set up as chapels for all-night adoration.

The visual focal point when the Pope leads the adoration and Benediction will be a monstrance set into a towering 16th-century gothic structure of silver and gold usually housed in the Toledo cathedral.

The traditional, solemn sense communicated by the Toledo monstrance will be echoed in the papal liturgies throughout the trip, organisers said.

“The point is to highlight that the central person of World Youth Day is Jesus Christ, and the Pope is coming to proclaim Him,” said Father Javier Cremades, Madrid coordinator of the liturgies.

However, not all of Father Cremades’ plans emphasise the formal.

“We’ll wake the young people with mariachi music” the morn-

ing of 21 August, hours before the Pope arrives to celebrate the final Mass at the Cuatro Vientos military airport, he said.

“Young people will come to World Youth Day to celebrate with the Holy Father,” he said. “If they did not want to attend a liturgy in the Pope’s style, they wouldn’t be coming.”

Young women and men will

proclaim the Scripture readings at the Mass and read the prayers of the faithful; seminarians will fulfil the role of altar servers. Up to 6,000 singers 25 years old and younger - members of choirs from around the world - will sing the hymns at the Mass.

Blessed John Paul was the Pope with the reputation for rallying and energising thousands of young

Catholics and particularly for drawing energy from them.

But in a passage that sounds like he was surprised about the impact that the celebration had on him, Pope Benedict told an interviewer, “these youth days have actually turned out to be a genuine gift for me.”

In the book “Light of the World,” he told Peter Seewald that he was

struck by the “intense joy” and “the spirit of recollection that, amazingly, pervades the actual World Youth Days themselves.”

Talking about the experience in Sydney at WYD 2008, he said, “It was quite simply the common joy of faith that carried us through and that made it possible for hundreds of thousands of people to remain in silence before the sacrament and so to become one.”

Pope Benedict has insisted that real, even prolonged moments of silence be added to every liturgy he celebrates.

Visiting Sulmona, Italy, in 2010, he said, “We live today in a society in which every space, every moment must be ‘filled’ with initiatives, activities and sound,” so that there is no time for listening and dialogue.

“Dear brothers and sisters, don’t be afraid of silence outside and inside ourselves, if we want to hear not only the voice of God but also of those who are close to us, the voices of others,” he said.

Yago de la Cierva, executive director of World Youth Day Madrid, said that while organisers, priests and even the Pope cannot control what the Holy Spirit does in the lives of the young pilgrims, they must be serious about preparing an atmosphere where the Spirit’s action can be recognised.

“One important thing is to take great care with the liturgy, so the young will say, ‘Wow, the Mass is beautiful,’” he said. SENIOR

Founding father of Catholic university responded to liberal arts decline

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- Warren H. Carroll, founding president of Christendom College in Virginia and a leading Catholic historian and author, died on 17 July in his sleep at his home.

Carroll, who was 79, had suffered several strokes and was in a weakened condition from a recent bout of pneumonia when he died, said College President Timothy O’Donnell.

O’Donnell said Carroll was given last rites a week before and he had received holy Communion the day before he died.

Growing increasingly concerned that American Catholic colleges were abandoning Christianity during the early 1970s, Carroll envisioned establishing an institution of higher learning dedicated to teaching the truths of the Catholic faith.

“Amid chaos, he brought a beautiful sense of the faith,” said O’Donnell.

Fewer than 10 years after he joined the Catholic Church, Carroll joined four other Catholic laymen

to found Christendom. But Carroll attributed the college’s success - as he did all successes in his life - to the grace of God. “I always tell my students that God will never allow any enterprise he favours to fail for lack of money,” said Carroll in a 2008 interview with the Arlington Catholic Herald, newspaper of the Arlington Diocese.

While growing up in Maine, Carroll was influenced more by his mother’s faith than by his agnostic father. As a boy, he read the writings of C.S. Lewis, who was well-known for his faith journey from atheism to Anglicanism to Catholicism. But Carroll put thoughts of Christianity aside until years later while attending the University of Colorado law school where he met his future wife, Anne, a Catholic.

The couple married in July 1967, and Carroll was baptised before Christmas 1968.

O’Donnell said his friend and colleague “brought a freshness, a newness to the faith; his enthusiasm for the faith was the deepest thing in him.”

After abandoning the idea of law

Milestone: Warren Carroll, founder and former president of Christendom College in the US, died at his home on 17 July, aged 79. Carroll established Christendom College in response to what he saw as a decline in religious identity and commitment to the liberal arts at US Catholic colleges and universities.

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school, Carroll became involved in the political arena, eventually moving to Washington, where he worked for a California congressman. When the congressman failed

to get re-elected, Carroll combined his religious fervour and his love for history (he had earned a master’s and doctorate in history from Columbia University in New York) and writing by obtaining full-time employment with the Catholic magazine Triumph

Eventually, he became known as a Catholic historian and author, publishing numerous articles and books, including “The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution” and a major multivolume work titled “The History of Christendom.”

The final volume, completed with the help of Anne, will be published later this year, according to O’Donnell. Carroll served in the CIA’s anticommunism division during the 1960s and wrote “Seventy Years of the Communist Revolution.”

“I was always anti-communist, but that deepened the strength of it,” Carroll said of his experiences as an analyst of communist propaganda. Carroll was the college’s president until 1985, then chairman of the history department until he retired in 2002. Carroll still maintained

ties at Christendom by presenting monthly lectures on historical figures. After the lectures, he could be found joining undergraduates at the dinner table - a practice Anne said not only inspired the students but him, as well.

O’Donnell reflected on the special relationship between Carroll and the undergraduates. “He had a kind of intellectualy paternity with his students,” he said.

“He touched literally thousands of lives,” said O’Donnell. He did so as founder of the college, “but also as a beloved teacher. Students never forgot years later taking his lectures or forgot his goodness,” he said.

Both Carrolls were strong supporters of Catholic education. In 1975, concerned that there was no Catholic high school in the area, Anne founded Seton School in Manassas.

The duo was passionate about education and the Church and also deeply committed to each other. “The couple displayed “the beauty of Christian marriage; both lived unselfishly as a witness to each other,” said O’Donnell.

Young people gather for a Mass and concert in May at an arena in Madrid, preparing for World Youth Day 2011. Preparations for the international event are heating up and organisers

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Cardinal’s second World Youth Day does not spark deja vu

MADRID (CNS) - For Cardinal Antonio Rouco Varela of Madrid, there’s no deja vu in hosting his second international World Youth Day. The Cardinal, who will be 75 in late August, was the Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela in 1989 when Pope John Paul II met young people there for World Youth Day. It was only the second time that World Youth Day was held outside Rome; the first was in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1987.

“We had no experience. Now we’re part of a tradition,” he told reporters on 19 July as he discussed plans for hosting World Youth Day, 16-21 August, as Archbishop of Madrid. Twenty-two years ago, he said, only half of Spain’s dioceses sent young people to the event in Santiago, and now the whole country is mobilised to participate. Back then, “it was something new. We didn’t know what an impact it would have on young people. Now we know.”

The Cardinal has changed dioceses and he’s quite a bit older. In fact, he said, “in Santiago when I got into the Popemobile with Pope John Paul, he said, ‘You’re a young Bishop.’ I was 53. The young people also have changed,” the Cardinal said, explaining that many of those who attended in 1989 were the children of parents who were part of the cultural revolution that swept Europe in the years surrounding 1968.

“For the Bishops, it was a shock that there were so many young people involved or wanting to be involved in the life of the Church,” he said. Many just assumed that young people in 1989 were not introduced to the faith by their parents and had no interest in Catholicism.

Christian leaders: Pilgrimages must change to help Holy Land peace

LONDON (CNS) - Catholic and Anglican leaders have challenged Christians to find new ways to establish lasting peace in the Holy Land, including changing the nature of pilgrimages. International Christian, Jewish and Muslim delegates at the two-day Conference on Christians in the Holy Land, at Lambeth Palace, on 18-19 July, considered concrete steps that might be taken by ordinary people to help to resolve enduring tensions that have forced millions of Palestinian Christians to flee their homeland in the past 50 years.

Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury, leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion, told a 19 July news conference at the palace, his London residence, that the delegates had looked for a “bit of a step change in Christian involvement here with the situation of Christians in the Holy Land, a step change that will allow us to identify and support specific projects more effectively. As this is not just for the churches in the Holy Land but for the communities those churches are embedded in, we don’t see this as an exclusively Christian project,” he said.

He added that the “approach to pilgrimages” needed to change beyond a “tourist venture” to allowing visitors “to engage with the reality on the ground.”

Pope will have busy schedule during September trip to Germany

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope Benedict XVI will address the German parliament, meet with Jewish and Muslim groups, hold a prayer vigil with youths and celebrate Mass in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium during his 22-25 September visit to his homeland. It’s a heavy schedule for the 84 year old Pope, who will preside over 28 events and deliver 17 talks during the visit.

‘What you see is ... what you get,’ Archbishop Chaput tells Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA

(CNS) - Archbishop Charles J. Chaput told a crowd of reporters and guests at a 19 July news conference that “what you see is pretty much what you get. I don’t know why the Holy Father sent me here. But I do trust his heart, and I believe in his judgement,” he said, commenting on his appointment as Archbishop of Philadelphia announced earlier that morning. He will succeed Cardinal Justin Rigali. Pope Benedict XVI accepted the 76 year old Cardinal’s resignation and appointed the Denver archbishop, who is 66, to replace him. He will be installed 8 September. “I know other Bishops would have been smarter than I am, or more talented, or more connected with Philadelphia’s past,” Archbishop Chaput continued. “I know that Cardinal Rigali is one of the great churchmen of my life. He has served the Church with enormous dedication and in ways I will never be able to duplicate. “But I do promise that no Bishop will love the people and priests of this local church more than I will. No Bishop will give more of himself than I will give,” he added. “And no Bishop will try to work harder to help persons who have been hurt by the sins of the past, or work harder to strengthen and encourage our priests and renew the hearts of our people.” Many of the questions put to the Archbishop by the press centred on the current turmoil in the Archdiocese caused by the child abuse scandal and how he would respond to it. Archbishop Chaput said he has not yet read the Philadelphia grand jury reports detailing the situation, but he intends to do so. “It would be unfair and foolish to comment on things I do not yet know about,” he said.

Vatican recalls Irish nuncio

BY CINDY WOODEN

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - In an exceptional move, the Vatican recalled its nuncio to Ireland so that he could participate in meetings aimed at drafting the Vatican’s formal response to an Irish government report on clerical sex abuse. Following the publication 13 July of the so-called Cloyne Report “and, particularly, after the reactions that followed, the secretary of state has recalled the apostolic nuncio in Ireland, Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza, for consultations,” the Vatican said in a statement on 25 July.

Passionist Father Ciro Benedettini, vice director of the Vatican press office, said recalling the nuncio “denotes the seriousness of the situation, the desire of the Holy See to face it with objectivity and determination, as well as a certain note of surprise and disappointment over some excessive reactions” to the report and its accusations against the Vatican.

The Cloyne Report, which examined how the Diocese of Cloyne handled accusations of clerical sexual abuse, said the Bishop paid “little or no attention” to child safeguarding as recently as 2008 and that he falsely told the government his diocese was reporting all allegations of abuse to the civil authorities.

The report also accused the Vatican of being “entirely unhelpful” to Irish Bishops who wanted to implement stronger norms for dealing with accusations and protecting children.

Addressing parliament on 20 July, Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny said the Cloyne Report “exposes an attempt by the Holy See

Ireland’s President Mary McAleese poses with Italian Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza as he is received in Dublin as papal nuncio to Ireland in 2008. In a rare move, the Vatican recalled Archbishop Leanza to participate in meetings aimed at drafting the Vatican’s formal response to an Irish government report on clerical sex abuse.

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to frustrate an inquiry in a sovereign, democratic republic as little as three years ago.”

“And in doing so, the Cloyne Report excavates the dysfunction, disconnection, elitism and the narcissism that dominate the culture of the Vatican to this day,” the prime minister said.

After the prime minister spoke, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, issued a statement calling for greater objectivity in discussing “topics so dramatic” because the first concern of all

should be “the safeguarding of children and of young people and the renewal of a climate of trust and collaboration” between Church and state.

In announcing the recall of the nuncio, Father Benedettini said the Vatican Secretariat of State wanted to ensure its response to the Cloyne Report was serious and complete, and to do that it was necessary that “the person on the scene,” Archbishop Leanza, take part in drafting discussions along with officials from the congregations for the doctrine of the faith, Religious, clergy and Bishops.

He said the Vatican expects to forward its formal response to the Irish government before the end of August.

In a statement on 25 July, Irish Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore said, “The decision to recall the papal nuncio to the Vatican for consultations is a matter for the Holy See. The government is awaiting the response of the Holy See to the recent report into the Catholic Diocese of Cloyne and it is to be expected that the Vatican would wish to consult in depth with the nuncio on its response.”

A day earlier, Kenny told a crowd during a visit to County Donegal he had received “thousands of messages from around the world” supporting his comments.

“The numbers of members of the clergy who have been in touch in the last few days, to say it is about time somebody spoke out about these matters in a situation like you are, has astounded me,” Kenny added.

“I have haven’t made any other comments except to say that we await the response from the Vatican,” he said.

Campaigners go to war against porn

Many see pornography causing societal decline, but say solution elusive

BY MARK PATTISON

WASHINGTON (CNS)Pornography is being blamed for the deterioration of values in American society. A recently launched campaign, War on Illegal Pornography, contends as much, citing divorce, violence against women, increased sex trafficking and porn addiction as just some of the unhealthy results.

But someone declaring porn to be illegal does not work in and of itself. Prosecution of pornography purveyors is required for porn to be found illegal. But even that definition is hard to corral, since no new charges on pornography trafficking have been brought by the federal Justice Department in more than two years, according to Patrick Trueman, president of Morality in Media.

One need not be exposed to porn to be degraded by it. Families where only one person watches pornography can be adversely affected, said Mary Anne Layden, a psychotherapist and researcher on the staff of the medical school at the University of Pennsylvania.

Trueman, who was the chief enforcement officer for the Justice Department’s child exploitation and obscenity section in the last year of Ronald Reagan’s presidency and for all four years of the George H.W. Bush administration, said that, before he became Morality in Media’s president, he was asked by its board chairman two years ago why pornography had become less of a priority.

“It’s easy to see why,” Trueman said he replied. “The Justice Department has moved this way down” on its priority list.

Thus began the War on Illegal Pornography, a coalition of 110 organisations that want existing laws to be enforced. Among coalition members is the Catholic Family Institute, which monitors United Nations issues.

“The reason we started the War on Illegal Pornography was to get the Justice Department to prosecute cases. But we never expected the Obama administration to be our champion,” Trueman told Catholic News Service.

“The administration might take on a couple of cases, but the next administration - he or she, if it is a Republican - might be persuaded to take cases.”

Trueman said he sees the rate of porn addiction rising, not only among men but children as well, because their curiosity is not met with blocking software.

“Marriages are breaking up because of one spouse or the other being addicted to pornography. You’ve got violence against women increasing, he said.

“Men are watching porn movies that are very violent and they want their wife or partner to repeat out what they see in the films. There’s an increase in sexual trafficking, because as men see pornography they’re hiring prostitutes.

“Of course, many prostitutes are sexually trafficked. There are websites that feature women who will do what the consumer wants. You put in a credit card (number) and the consumer gets that film and the porn industry can sell that film as well.”

Trueman said pornography has contributed to a coarsening of society.

“Men who are involved with porn, as consumers, discard their spiritual life. They have no spiritual life. They have no family life. Their wife doesn’t look good to them,

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The Vicar of Christ prays for shattered Norway

Pope decries terror attacks in Norway, calls for end to violence, evil

BY CAROL GLATZ

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - In the wake of two terror attacks in Norway that left at least 93 people dead, Pope Benedict XVI called for an end to hatred and ideologies that promote evil.

“We are all deeply saddened by the serious terrorist acts,” the Pope said after praying the Angelus with pilgrims at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo on 24 July.

The Pope launched an appeal “to abandon once and for all the path of violence and avoid principles of evil.”

As a further expression of his condolences and prayers for those affected by the attacks, the Pope sent a message to Norway’s King Harald V. Written on behalf of the Pope by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican secretary of state, the Pope said he was praying for all those affected by “the acts of senseless violence perpetrated in Oslo and Utoya.”

The Pope asked that the country “be spiritually united in a determined resolve to reject the ways of hatred and conflict and to work together fearlessly in shaping a future of mutual respect, solidarity and freedom for coming generations.”

Explosives ripped through Norwegian government headquarters in Oslo on 22 July, leaving seven people dead and dozens

injured. Shortly after the bombing, witnesses said a man dressed as a police officer shot at people attending a summer youth camp run by the country’s governing Labor Party on the island of Utoya. Police said at least 86 people died at the camp, but authorities were searching the island and the waters just offshore for several missing people.

At least 96 other people were injured in the twin attacks. The suspect, 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik, has admitted to carrying out the killings but has

as enforcement falters

after watching Internet pornography where the models are always young and in perfect shape with their airbrushed bodies,” Trueman said, “so marriages break down and fall apart.”

Layden told CNS that the harmful effects of pornography are widespread. “It depends on what negative influence you want to look at,” she said.

Among them are sex addiction, pornography addiction, connections to criminal behaviour, rape, incest, sex trafficking, domestic violence, relationship damage, marital infidelity, callous attitudes, and the impact on children either through exposure to porn or sexualised media and the ill effects of their early sexual activity.

“We’re talking about consumers at this point,” Layden said. “We haven’t even talked about the (sexual) partners, the performers, the individuals who are performing in pornographic activities, whether it’s video, strip clubs, the sexual exploitation industry, where sexual exploitation is what we’re selling. “And I haven’t even named all the damage. I’m just touching the surface here.”

Layden pointed out an ironic conundrum: “The increasing amount of research that indicates that pornographic imagery is damaging makes it harder to do any research on it. For those of us who are in academic institutions, our research has to be cleared by an institutional review board,” she said.

“You’re mandated not to hurt your subjects. ... What institutional review board is going to give you permission to do your study?”

She pointed to a 1984 study by Dolf Zillmann and Jennings Bryant in which three groups of subjects watched four hours and 48 min-

utes of video. One group saw no pornography, one group spent half of the time watching porn, and the third group watched all porn. Afterward, members of each group were asked a series of questions on issues of the day.

“Layden pointed out an ironic conundrum: “The increasing amount of research that indicates that pornographic imagery is damaging makes it harder to do any research on it.”

“They were asked questions like: How much time should a rapist spend in jail? What do you think of the women’s liberation movement? How many people do you think are having sex with animals? Group sex? Violent sex? Middle group was still in the middle.

People who had seen the pornography reduced their support of the women’s movement by 50 per cent,” Layden said. In response to another question, she added, “Rapists would spend about 50 per cent less time in jail; that was true of the (pornwatching) females as well.”

Layden said she is doing a longitudinal study of the consequences of pornography over time, noting that researchers are limited to certain kinds of studies and research has to be cleared by an institutional review board to make sure a researcher doesn’t harm his or her subjects.

She added she would never make her subjects watch porn knowing what she knows now, because “it would be unethical,” noting that it is inevitable that some therapist or researcher will be sued or investigated for encouraging patients, clients or subjects to watch pornography.

not admitted any criminal wrongdoing. He pleaded not guilty in an Oslo court on 25 July after being charged under the country’s terrorism act.

His lawyer told journalists on 24 July that his client thought “it was gruesome having to commit these acts, but in his head, they were necessary. He wished to attack society and the structure of society,” said the lawyer, Geir Lippestad.

The suspect is believed to have links to far-right groups and to have produced materials espousing anti-Muslim and anti-immigration

in brief Legionaries reform slowed

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The reform of the Legionaries of Christ is being undermined by members who believe the current leadership needs to go and that more drastic measures are needed, said the Cardinal appointed by Pope Benedict XVI to oversee the reform.

Cardinal Velasio De Paolis, the papal delegate with authority over the Legionaries, said there was “a very small” group of members who, focussing “on the so-called ‘structural contamination’ of the congregation, have shown a radical lack of trust in the continuation and renewal” of the Legionaries and have influenced others, especially young seminarians, to leave.

The Cardinal’s remarks on 2 July were made to Legionaries gathered in Rome for the ordination of new deacons.

In July 2010, the Pope appointed the Cardinal to oversee the reform of the Legionaries and the rewriting of their constitutions in wake of confirmation that Father Marcial Maciel Degollado, the Legionaries’ founder, had sexually abused seminarians and had fathered children.

Legionaries Father Andreas Schoggl, spokesman for the order in Rome, told Catholic News Service that Cardinal De Paolis’ remarks on 2 July were made during “an in-house meeting, and we shared a Spanish transcriptiontranslation with the Legionaries worldwide.”

The text was leaked to the Mexican news site Milenio, he told CNS on 13 July, confirming

Bishop Eidsvig said in the interview that people were shocked the prime suspect was Norwegian saying, “Of course in all countries, there are disturbed and misled persons. I am quite sure he is one of them. He must be mentally disturbed. I don’t think ideology is sufficient to explain this.”

The Bishop said he expected a traditionally lax approach to security around government buildings would be quickly reversed, saying they had already been planning to block off the street where the suspect allegedly parked a car with a bomb inside.

“In Oslo, you’ve practically been able to drive your car to the prime minister’s office or to the king’s palace if you pretended to have business there. But I think all this will come to an end fairly soon,” he said. “I think we are waking up to reality.”

views, and a desire to bring about a revolution against the government in Norway. Meanwhile, Bishop Bernt Eidsvig of Oslo told Vatican Radio on 25 July that the country was united in mourning for the victims and still in shock over the killings.

“It has affected every one of us. Despite political differences or other differences, this is a tragedy,” he said. “We do not know anything like it in our history, that 100 people are killed in cold blood. So it is creating unity, and in spite of the grief, also strength.”

the accuracy of the transcript.

In an email message, Father Schoggl said Cardinal De Paolis was not objecting to differences of opinion within the congregation. “Actually, he loves debating and promoted a culture of sound debate in the Legion during the last year,” Father Schoggl said.

Iraqi nun says faith blossomed amid devastation of war

you’ ... and we Christians have a responsibility to speak and preach about peace; I wanted to become a missionary of peace.”

The 4-foot-10-inch Iraqi woman - dressed in the simple blue habit of her order - addressed a crowd in the cavernous Georgia International Convention Centre hall, telling her listeners how she came to embrace the Catholic faith, enter religious life and start a religious order - the Missionaries of the Virgin Mary.

COLLEGE PARK, Ga. (CNS)Iraqi Sister Olga Yaqob grew up in a war-torn nation wondering if her country would ever see peace.

“I prayed for peace every day,” she said. “I thought, there has to be a way to stop the war, as I witnessed one funeral after the other. I thought this shouldn’t be the reality of how we treat each other. God says, ‘Peace be with

She was one of four speakers who, during the Atlanta Archdiocese’s recent Eucharistic congress in College Park, shared a similar message: that the “abundant harvest” of faith starts with just a small seed planted in the wild garden of life’s trials and tribulations.

Young Olga could have been shielded from the carnage of war because of her family’s wealthy status. But she didn’t shy away, even when she saw the devastation caused by war up close as a teenager. She helped prepare the bodies of the war dead for funerals. As she washed and cleaned the bodies, many horribly disfigured because of their injuries, she wept. She grew up in the Assyrian Church of the East, an ancient Christian church that broke with the Catholic Church in AD 431, but that began a fruitful theological dialogue again with Rome starting in the 1990s.

Her own young seeds of faith - and that desire to become a missionary of peace - were cultivated by a Catholic family who invited her to Mass and showed her how to pray the Rosary. It was while visiting a Catholic church that she also learned about Mary and her role in the Church.

“I thought, who can teach me to be closer to God than Mary,” Sister Olga said.

Shock: People place flowers near Norway’s Utoya Island July 24. At least 93 people were dead after a gunman opened fire at a youth camp on the island hours after a bomb blast in the government district in the capital of Oslo. A right-wing zealot taken into custody admitted to the bombing and a gun rampage.

PHOTO: CNS/FABRIZIO BENSCH, REUTERS

Iraqi Sister Olga Yaqob shares how her faith flourished despite growing up in a war-torn country, surrounded by death and devastation. PHOTO: CNS/MICHAEL ALEXANDER, GEORGIA BULLETIN

Un-married: no such thing

Foolish Wisdom

“a foolishness wiser than human wisdom” (1 Cor 1:25)

By Bernard Toutounji

It was recently reported that Hollywood actress Liz Hurley had been granted a divorce from her husband, Arun Nayar. The report stated that the divorce was number 17 on a list of 28 couples being granted “quickie divorces” that day. We have become so used to our near 50% divorce rate, and celebrities who have made divorce and remarriage an art form, that sometimes it needs to be stated quite clearly: divorce makes a mockery of marriage and it actually makes no sense.

Divorce is an unnatural reality that has been sold as a normal and necessary part of life. I must emphasise here that this is not a criticism of any person who has sought a divorce but rather a brief consideration of the concept of divorce.

Marriage, the commitment of one man and one woman united as husband and wife, is as old as humanity. Marriage is not the invention or the property of Church or State. The Church, following Christ, raised marriage to the level of a Sacrament. The State, desiring good social cohesion, regulates marriage. Neither can control what marriage is. Marriage can no more

be adjusted to unite two men than it could be adjusted to exclude fidelity from the vows. What makes marriage something is that it is not everything, it has parameters. Divorce, on the other hand, is certainly a man-made invention. And it must rank as one of the most foolish ideas we have come up with. Foolish, because divorce attempts to change reality, attempting to say that what did exist, no longer exists. The concept of divorce is synonymous to the way that we might decide that instead of two and two totalling four, it should now total five. To do such a thing would be illogical, it would go against truth.

I am looking out the window right now and it is raining. Would it make a difference to the real-

ity if I was to declare that the rain was instead a fine sunny day? No. Because the rain is the reality; it’s not my reality, it is the reality.

When a couple marries, they publicly make free vows to enter into a life-long and exclusive relationship. Would the State ratify a marriage if the bride turned up with two grooms or if the groom only wanted to sign up to marriage for five years? It would be impossible to sanction such a ‘marriage’.

Yet, in a bizarre and nonsensical twist, a man and woman who have vowed to enter into marriage and have had that marriage ratified, can turn around in five months, five years or 25 years and request that the State no longer see them as married. How is this possible?

When a couple is married, they are married. One cannot un-marry. Just as I cannot eat my lunch and then un-eat it. What is consumed has been consumed. And then as if that is not illogical enough, once ‘un-married’, the parties involved can find another person they wish to marry and the State will allow them to declare vows of permanency once again.

Now there may be reasons that a couple can no longer live together in marriage, they may need to physically separate and seek out some sort of civil declaration of separation for the good of children etc.

This, however, is very different to the State declaring that their marriage no longer exists. There are some realities that are beyond

human manipulation. Mathematics and marriage are two of those realities. Two and two always equal four and a validly contracted marriage remains a validly contracted marriage.

There are instances when people appear to make vows to marry and yet it becomes obvious later on that they were not able to properly make those vows. Perhaps they were coerced or perhaps they had no genuine intention to honestly keep the vows. In that case, there has been no objective marriage even though they may have cut a very nice cake and danced the bridal waltz.

Those examples form the work of the Catholic Church’s marriage tribunals which examine the actual validity of a marriage if it is called into question. The work of the tribunals, however, is completely different to the State declaring that a marriage was existent but now is not.

This is the reason that the Catholic Church cannot not recognise divorce; it makes no sense, and it makes even less sense to un-marry someone and then have them re-marry. The Church is the servant of reality; she is the servant of the truth.

Pontius Pilate said to Christ before he had Him condemned Quid Est Veritas, what is truth? Pilate was not asking a genuine question as much stating that truth was what he would declare it to be. It seems in regards to divorce, society joins Pilate in also declaring what truth will be.

b_toutounji@optusnet.com.au

Jesuit parish priest ‘tactfully’ fostered the seed of priestly vocation

My Vocation

with Debbie Warrier

How Archbishop Denis Hart got where he is today, as told to Deb

Warrier

Nearly 44 years after priestly ordination, I have never ceased to wonder at the nearness and love of God and what He asks us to do. I am conscious of His protecting and forgiving love, as I have sought to be the instrument of that love, teaching and goodness to people.

I was born in 1941, the eldest of three children of Kevin and Nancy Hart. I was very fortunate to have a family with faith-filled parents who worked hard and loved God. I grew up in the Jesuit parish of Hawthorn and attended Saint John’s Primary School under the Marist Brothers before going on to Xavier College, Kew. It was a parish with a strong spiritual life. I became an altar server at the age of nine and regularly took my turn serving weekday Mass. I came to know the priests and, as a teenager, I could see the influence they had with people, how they cared for their parish-

ioners, and how they were men of prayer leading people to God.

As I grew up, I wanted to do something that really made a difference to people, and because of the example of the Jesuit priests and the strong prayer life of the parish, I felt that it was natural to be a religious person.

Father Bill O’Collins, SJ, whose brother was Bishop James O’Collins of Ballarat, became my parish priest. When I was 13 he asked me to read the story of St John Baptist Vianney by Trochu. I was very impressed and now know he was tactfully sowing the idea of priesthood.

When I turned 14 I felt I would like to start to go to Mass myself every day. My parents encouraged that. Somehow I felt the nearness of the Lord and His love.

As I listened to the Scripture readings, I started to wonder whether there might be an opportunity for me in the priesthood. Because of what I had seen of the work of priests in a parish, I decided I wanted to be a diocesan priest.

When I had finished Year 12 at school, I applied to enter the diocesan seminary and was accepted at Corpus Christi College, Werribee in 1960. I enjoyed the studies and companionship of the seminary. When we went home on holidays we were urged to continue our prayer life and attendance at daily Mass.

This strengthened in me a deep sense of the call to the priesthood as a great grace from God and

as a wonderful invitation to care for people. I spent four years at Werribee doing a preparatory year and three years Philosophy and four years at the Theology Seminary at Glen Waverley. I was ordained as a sub-Deacon in 1966, a Deacon in 1967 and a priest in 1967. In 1997, I was consecrated a Bishop and made an auxiliary Bishop to the Archdiocese of Melbourne. In 2001, I was appointed Archbishop of Melbourne.

My parents taught me about the reality and love of God. Through them, I came to see Mary and the saints as friends who helped me along the way.

Through my training as an altar server, I gained great respect for the beauty of the Mass and for the importance of preparing and praying well. The priests in my parish, at Xavier and in the seminary have provided a love of learning, a commitment to truth, a depth of faith and prayer which have stayed with me.

God has enabled priests to become other Christs called to holiness, committed to the teaching of the Magisterium and with a mission to search out and find those who have gone astray, as well as nourishing God’s faithful in His love for them.

I committed myself to the priesthood with confidence and joy. This joy has never been abated or diminished despite the subsequent challenges and sufferings. I remain in deep wonder at the call that God has provided.

Melbourne Archbishop, Denis Hart has occupied his current post since 2001. He was inspired to embrace his priestly vocation by his family and the example of Jesuit priests.

Everyone is free to walk into Hell

By Fr John Flader

Does anyone go to hell? In recent years I have heard people say no one goes there, that a good God couldn’t send anyone to eternal torment. What does the Church say about this?

You are not the only one confused about the matter. I too have heard many conflicting ideas about the subject. Let us begin by looking at what Jesus himself has to say.

In His description of the Last Judgement He speaks of the Son of man coming in His glory and gathering before Him all the nations, separating them as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. After describing the reward of eternal life to be given to the righteous, He says to those on His left hand, “Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink ... And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life” (Mt 25:31-46).

So it is Jesus Himself, the Son of man, who speaks of eternal punishment. Moreover, He makes it clear that it is not easy to go to heaven: “Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is easy, that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those who find it are few” (Mt 7:13-14).

By these words, Jesus seems to be saying that it is much easier to go to hell, to “destruction”, than to heaven, to “life”. If we think about it, we would all agree. Given the effects of original sin such as pride, selfcentredness, laziness, self-indulgence, etc, and the fomes peccati or inclination to sin, we know well that unless we struggle to resist temptation and to do good, it is easy to lapse into a way of life that is grievously sinful and offensive to God. If we died unrepentant, we would go to hell.

Because of Jesus’ preaching in this way, His hearers understood that it was not easy to go to heaven. For that reason, on one occasion someone asked him, “Lord, will those who are saved be few?” (Lk 13:23) Given the widespread notion today that hell does not even exist or, if it does, few go there, people would probably rephrase the question: “Lord, will those who go to hell be few?” Jesus’ teaching, then, is clear. But does the Church still

Looking for a few good men

BY JANET SMITH

A recent lament appeared in the 19 February Wall Street Journal article “Where have all the good men gone?” by Kay S Hymowitz. The story she tells is of men who don’t seem to want to grow up: sports, video games and electronic gadgets seem enough to satisfy them.

Sexual encounters come easily, so marriage is not a pressing need. It is also an obstacle that the most desirable women are more accomplished than they are, not that they care much to be accomplished – as long as they have enough income to satisfy their whims. The fact that some of the most successful men in our time seem to love their success largely because they can wear T-shirts and jeans all the time speaks volumes. It wasn’t always thus. Men used to wear hats and suits and ties. And liked it. They felt manly doing so. Certainly, it is easy and wrong to romanticise the past, but there is reason to miss at least some elements of days gone by.

My dad died two years ago at the age of 88. He was, in many ways, a man typical of his generation. He was manly, responsible, dutiful and faithful. He told me that when he was a boy, boys quite desperately wanted to be men. And they knew what it was to be a man. They knew they had to acquire a skill to be able to get a job, and they needed to learn how to court and respect women. These accomplishments enabled them to win the women they wanted as mothers for their future children and to provide well for them. They had a strong sense of responsibility and wanted to make a contribution to the common good. That was pretty

believe in hell? Of course it does. It has always believed in hell. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, “The teaching of the Church affirms the existence of hell and its eternity” (CCC 1035).

The Second Vatican Council declared, “Since we know neither the day nor the hour, we should follow the advice of the Lord and watch constantly so that, when the single course of our earthly life is completed, we may merit to enter with Him into the marriage feast and be numbered among the blessed and not, like the wicked and slothful servants, be ordered to depart into the eternal fire, into the outer darkness where men will weep and gnash their teeth” (LG 48).

But, we might ask, how can a good God sentence anyone to eternal punishment? The answer is simple. God doesn’t sentence anyone to hell. Rather, He wants all to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth (cf 1 Tim 2:4), and he gives everyone sufficient grace to be saved (cf 2 Cor 12:9).

It is the person who sends himself or herself to hell. The Catechism explains: “To die in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God’s merciful love means remaining separated from him for ever by our own free choice. This state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed

is called ‘hell’” (CCC 1033). But couldn’t God take everyone to heaven if He wanted? He could. But it would mean not respecting the freedom he gave us, and God is too much of a father to do that.

The then Cardinal Ratzinger explains: “God never, in any case, forces anyone to be saved. God accepts man’s freedom. He is no magician, who will in the end wipe out everything that has happened and wheel out His happy ending. He is a true father; a creator who assents to freedom, even when it is used to reject Him. That is why

God’s all-embracing desire to save people does not involve the actual salvation of all men. He allows us the power to refuse. God loves us; we need only to summon up the humility to allow ourselves to be loved.” (God is Near Us, Ignatius 2003, pp. 36-37). If we make use of the graces God gives us through His Church, if we struggle to avoid sin and go frequently to the sacraments of the Eucharist and Penance, we can be very confident of going to heaven. And we do very well to remind others of these important truths.

much the script of my dad’s life.

As a young boy, he worked in his dad’s grocery store and developed a strong work ethic. He told me when he was in 10th grade he was expected to ask a girl to the regular Saturday night dance at the high school. He would ask her on Wednesday as a matter of courtesy, but also so they would have the time to practise their dance steps. (An otherwise somewhat clumsy man, my father was smooth as silk on the dance floor.)

He would have to walk up to the door of her house and shake her father’s hand, who would look him in the eye and tell him, “I expect you to take good care of my daughter, son” (said with a deepened voice). The next week, he would ask a different girl out; maybe the first girl’s sister or best friend, but never the same girl twice, since it was considered very wrong to “go steady.” After his service in WWII, Dad came back ready to settle down. He met my mom working in the university cafeteria and married her because she was beautiful, hardworking and good. Their letters to each other when they lived apart for a few months are as chaste and sweet a correspondence as can be found.

My parents raised six children, first on a shoestring and then quite comfortably as a result of his careful planning and my mother’s frugality. He was very active in the Jaycees, a group that did civilservice projects such as building tennis courts and ball diamonds; he coached athletic teams; he was president of the PTA and the sports boosters club and more.

He also loved to play; he bragged that he never worked more than 40 hours a week (38 1/2 during the

summer for the purposes of golf); and he used up every vacation day. Duty first, but as much play as possible. For much of his life, he practised his Catholicism in a fairly routine fashion, driven largely by his gratitude.

Then, as he aged, his faith matured to be a quiet and strong force. With his death, it has become clearer and clearer what an exemplar he was of the highest values for his children and grandchildren and all those blessed to know him; indeed, he continues to exercise a strong influence on us.

I have been reading these columns on the sad state of modern manhood combined with the memories of my admirable dad and his generation against the background of rereading Kristin Lavransdatter a book that should be read at least once in one’s youth and again in adulthood.

Like Augustine’s Confessions, it seems to strike a note of authenticity about the role that passions and relationships play in most people’s lives. Kristin was a woman whose motherhood enabled her to undergo a steady and true maturation, but who nevertheless still made unwise decisions, driven by unbri-

dled passion or smoldering resentment. Despite her seriously sinful actions and attitudes, Kristin’s faith ultimately carried her through a life of profound sorrows and intermittent ecstatic joy and shaped her soul into one truly devoted to God.

While Kristin and her fateful choices dominate Sigrid Undset’s superb novel, the title is apt not only because it carries her moniker, but because she is very much portrayed as Lavransdatter, the daughter of Lavrans. Lavrans was an upright man, kind, generous, forgiving, pious and wise. He was imperfect, in a way understandable for a man in an arranged marriage to a woman who had loved someone else. That he was imperfect surely makes him a more believable character, but his moral excellence was such that, in the end, it served to assuage the harm done by his inability to fully love his wife.

Throughout the book, Lavrans is referenced as a person who lived in accord with God’s will and who ordered all of his affairs justly, though he could also engage enthusiastically in immoderate drinking and tale-telling. After his death, they discovered his flagel-

lant, which suggests he had unruly passions that he struggled to subdue. In 14th century Norway, a country shaped by noble pagan ideals and elevated by Christianity, but still inhabited by those who easily settled a dispute by swordplay, Lavrans stood out as one who brought Christian civility to all.

In contrast, Erlend, Kristin’s husband, was never able to achieve the manliness of her father. He was a fine shipbuilder and swordsman, had dash and elegance, a sly seductive smile, and an irresistible joie de vivre, but he could not develop the virtues necessary to be a responsible steward of his possessions, a supportive husband to his wife, and a worthy role model for his sons. The story of Erlend indicates that boys who fail to become men have always been with us; it also shows how that failure wreaks havoc on their wives and seriously short changes their children. The story of men like my father and Lavrans serve to show what beautiful things men can do when they strive to be men, the men God meant them to be.

Janet E Smith is a moral theologian and a speaker on Theology of the Body.

Hell, as imagined by the creators of popular US cartoon, The Simpsons.

A still from the 2009 film The Boys Are Back in which the male protagonist (played by Clive Owen, centre) has to come to grips with single fatherhood when his wife dies.

FRIDAY, 29 JULY

Medjugorje Evening of Prayer

7-9pm at St Vincent’s Parish, 114 Parmelia Ave, Kwinana. Includes Eucharistic Adoration, Rosary, Benediction and Holy Mass. Free DVD’s distributed: Fr Donald Calloways testimony, and Ivan’s visit to St. Mary’s Cathedral. Enq: Eileen 9402 2480 , 0407 471 256 or medjugorje@y7mail. com.

MONDAY, 1 TO FRIDAY, 5 AUGUST

Fr John Rea Healing Mass - Charismatic Healing Mission

7.30pm at the Gosnells Catholic parish, 175 Corfield St, Gosnells. Fr Rea, renowned internationally for his healing ministry, will be conducting Prayer and Praise, Mass and Healing Service. Cost: collection. Enq: Dan 9398 4973 or dhewitt@aapt.net.au.

TUESDAY, 2 AUGUST

‘Being Church in the 21st century in the light of Vatican II’ Course - Mater Christi Community

7.30-9.30pm at Mater Christi Parish Centre, Yangebup Rd, Yangebup. Follows for 8 consecutive Tuesday evenings. Learn about faith communities in the past and present and envision new ways to be a faith community. Enq: 9241 5221 or www.maranathacentre.org.au.

FRIDAY, 5 AUGUST

Pro-Life Witness

9.30am at St Brigid’s Parish, 69B Morrison Road, Midland. Begins with Holy Mass , followed by Rosary procession to the nearby abortion clinic, led by the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate. To end abortion and the conversion of hearts. Enq Helen 9402 0349.

SATURDAY, 6 AUGUST

Day With Mary

9am-5pm at Sacred Heart parish, cnr Ovens Rd and Discovery Dr, Thornlie. Day of prayer and instruction based on Fatima message. 9am video; 10.10am Holy Mass; Reconciliation, Procession of Blessed Sacrament, Eucharistic Adoration, Sermons on Eucharist and our Lady, Rosaries and Stations of the Cross. BYO lunch. Enq: Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate 9250 8286.

Vigil for Life

8.30am at St Augustine’s, Parish, Gladstone St Rivervale. Begins with Holy Mass followed by Rosary procession and vigil at nearby abortion clinic, led by Fr Paul Carey. Weekly prayer vigils: Monday, Thursday and Saturday: 8.30 -10.30am. For conversion of hearts and an end to abortion. Enq. Helen 9402 0349.

WEDNESDAY, 10 AUGUST

Fr John Rea Healing Ministry for Women

8pm at Disciples of Jesus Centre, 7 Howe St, Osborne Park. Fr John will be discussing healing, and praying individually for the ladies.

Cost: collection. Enquiries Lucy 0405 841 498.

THURSDAY, 11 AUGUST

Fr John Rea Ministers in Fremantle

7.30pm at St Patrick’s Basilica, 47 Adelaide St, Fremantle. Prayer, Mass, and Healing service.

Cost: collection. Enq: Michele 0450 457 887.

FRIDAY, 12 AUGUST

Youth meeting with Fr John Rea

7.30pm at 67 Howe St, Osborne Park. For young people 13-18 yrs old. Discussion and prayer for healing. Cost: collection. Enq: Mike or Simone 9202 6868.

SATURDAY, 13 AUGUST

Men’s Breakfast with Fr John Rea

7.30-9am, at 67 Howe St, Osborne Park. Great opportunity to fellowship and individual prayer for healing and other needs. Cost: $10. Enquiries: Reg 0429 777 007.

Divine Mercy –Healing Mass

2.30pm at St Francis Xavier Parish, 25 Windsor St, East Perth. Main celebrant: Fr Marcellinus. Reconciliation in English, Maltese and Italian. Divine Mercy prayers followed by Veneration of First Class Relic of Sr Faustina Kowalska. Refreshments afterwards. Enq: John 9457 7771.

St Padre Pio day of prayer

9am at Holy Spirit Parish, 2 Keaney Pl, City Beach. Begins with DVD. 10.30am – Exposition of Blessed Sacrament, Rosary, Divine Mercy, Silent Adoration and Benediction. 11.30am – Holy Mass, St Padre Pio Liturgy, Confession available; 12.30pm – bring plate to share. Enq: Res 6278 1540.

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SUNDAY, 14 AUGUST

Fr John Rea Healing Service

3-5pm, at 67 Howe St, Osborne Park. Fr John has an internationally acclaimed healing ministry. He will be ministering through prayer and worship and a Healing Service. Cost: collection. Enq: Michele 9202 6868.

Eucharistic reparation

3pm at St Pius X Parish, Paterson St, Manning. The World Apostolate of Fatima Aust inc invites you to attend a Eucharistic Hour. Enq: 9339 2614.

WEDNESDAY, 17 AUGUST

Fr John Rea Healing service

7.30pm at St Bernadette’s parish, 5 Rennes Lane, Port Kennedy. Experience Fr John Rea and experience his healing ministry. Cost: collection. Enq: Gaye 9593 4670 or Sharren 0434 581 372.

THURSDAY, 18 AUGUST

Fr John Rea Healing Mass at the Cathedral

7.30pm at the Cathedral, Victoria Sq, Perth. Fr John culminates his time in Perth with Prayer and Praise, Mass and Healing prayer. Enq: Michele 9202 6868.

SATURDAY, 20 AUGUST

“Youths and Peer Pressure”

2 Hour Youth Workshop

3.30-5.30pm at Lesmurdie Parish Centre, cnr Lesmurdie and Glyde Rds, Lesmurdie. Young people aged 13-17. Concludes with Rock Mass at 6pm. Speaker: Fr James Fanning. Coffee and tea available. Enq and RSPV: Gina Price on lesmurdieyouthgroup@hotmail.com or to the parish office on lesmurdie@perthcatholic.org.au.

“Meditation as Liberation” Community Day

10am-3.30pm at St Mary’s Parish, Yule Ave, Middle Swan. Led by Rev Stuart Fenner. Cost: $10. BYO Lunch. Enq: Secretary 9444 5810 or christianmeditation@iinet. net.au.

TUESDAY, 22 AUGUST

Spirituality and The Sunday Gospels Seminar

7-8pm at St Benedict’s School Hall Alness St Applecross. Jesus asks us to come as we are and to offer what little we have. Mt 14:13-21, First miracle of the loaves. CEO Accreditation- Faith Formation. Presenter: Norma Woodcock. Cost: collections. Enq: 94871772 or www. normawoodcock.com.

SATURDAY, 27 AUGUST

Healing retreat for couples

9.30am-5pm at Holy Family Parish, Lot 375 Alcock St, Maddington. Inner healing prayers for couples: a day for couples to understand themselves in the light of God’s Word by Vincentian Fathers. BYO lunch. Enq and registration: Melanie 0410-605-743 or m.fonseca@curtin.edu. au.

WEDNESDAY, 5 TO WEDNESDAY, 19 OCTOBER

Pilgrimage to Rome – San Giovanni Rotondo –Medjugorje

Spiritual Director: Fr. Ronan Murphy. 3 nights Rome -2 nights San Giovanni Rotondo (Padre Pio) Monte Gargano and Lanciano (Eucharistic Miracle) and 7 nights Medjugorje (alleged apparition of our Blessed Mother) Cost $3,990 includes: flights (Emirates), bed, breakfast, evening meals, transfers, guide, taxes and tipping. Enq: Eileen 9402 2480, 0407 471 256 or medjugorje@y7mail. com.

FRIDAY, 11 TO TUESDAY, 22 NOVEMBER

Pilgrim Tour To The Holy Land

Jordan, Israel and Egypt. Spiritual Director: Fr Sebastian Kalapurackal VC from St Aloysius Church, Shenton Park. Enq: Francis – Coordinator, 9459 3873 or 0404 893 877 or Skype ID: perthfamily.

SATURDAY, 25 FEBRUARY 2012

A reunion for Holy Cross Primary School, Kensington

Any ex-students or family members please contact Julie Bowles (nee O’Hara) on 9397 0638 or email jules7@iinet. net.au.

EVERY SUNDAY

Gate of Heaven Catholic Radio

Join the Franciscans of the Immaculate from 7.30-9pm on Radio Fremantle 107.9FM for Catholic radio broadcast of EWTN and our own live shows. Enq: radio@ausmaria. com.

Pilgrim Mass - Shrine of the Virgin of the Revelation

2pm at Shrine, 36 Chittering Rd, Bullsbrook. Commencing with Rosary followed by Benediction. Reconciliation is available before every celebration. Anointing of the Sick administered during Mass every second Sunday of the month. Pilgrimage in honour of the Virgin of the Revelation, last Sunday of the month. Side entrance to the church and shrine open daily between 9am-5pm. Enq Sacri 9447 3292.

EVERY FIRST SUNDAY

Divine Mercy Chaplet and Healing Prayer

3pm at Santa Clara Church, 72 Palmerston St, Bentley. Includes Adoration and individual prayer for healing. Spiritual leader: Fr Francisco. All welcome. Enq: Fr Francisco 9458 2944.

Divine Mercy

1.30pm at St Francis Xavier Parish, 25 Windsor St, East Perth. Main celebrant: Fr Alphonsus. Homily on St Maximilian Kolbe. Includes Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and Reconciliation, Holy Rosary, Chaplet of Divine Mercy and Divine Mercy prayers. Followed by Benediction and Veneration of First Class Relics of St Faustina Kowalska. Upcoming date: 7 August. Refreshments afterwards. Enq: John 9457 7771.

EVERY SECOND SUNDAY

Healing Hour for the Sick

6pm at St Lawrence Parish, 392 Albert St, Balcatta. Begins with Mass, Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and prayers. Enq: Fr Irek 9344 7066 or ww.stlawrence. org.au.

EVERY THIRD SUNDAY OF THE MONTH

Oblates of St Benedict Meet

2pm at St Joseph’s Convent, York St, South Perth. For all interested in studying the rule of St Benedict and its relevance to the everyday life of today for laypeople. Afternoon tea provided. Enq: Secretary 9457 5758.

EVERY FOURTH SUNDAY OF THE MONTH

Holy Hour for Vocations to the Priesthood, Religious Life

2-3pm at Infant Jesus Parish, Wellington St, Morley. The hour includes Exposition of the Blessed Eucharist, silent prayer, Scripture and prayers of intercession. Come and pray that those discerning vocations to the priesthood or Religious life hear clearly God’s loving call to them.

St Mary’s Cathedral Youth group – fellowship with supper

5pm at Mary’s Cathedral, 17 Victoria Sq, Perth. Begins with Youth Mass followed by fellowship downstairs in parish centre. Bring a plate to share. Enq: Bradley youthfromsmc@gmail.com.

EVERY MONDAY

Evening Adoration and Mass

7pm at St Thomas Parish, Claremont, cnr Melville St and College Rd. Begins with Adoration, Reconciliation, Evening Prayer and Benediction, followed by Mass and Night Prayer at 8pm. Enq: Kim 9384 0598, claremont@ perthcatholic.org.au.

EVERY TUESDAY

Bible Teaching with a difference

7.30pm at St Joachim’s parish hall, Shepparton Rd, Victoria Park. Exciting revelations with meaningful applications that will change your life. Novena to God the Father, followed by refreshments. Bring Bible, a notebook and a friend. Enq: Jan 9284 1662.

Novena to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal 6pm at the Pater Noster Church, Marmion and Evershed Sts, Myaree. Mass at 5.30pm followed by Benediction. Enq: John 0408 952 194.

EVERY WEDNESDAY

Holy Spirit of Freedom Community

7.30pm at The Church of Christ, 111 Stirling St, Perth. We are delighted to welcome everyone to attend our Holy Spirit of Freedom Praise Meeting. Enq: 0423 907 869 or hsofperth@gmail.com.

Holy Hour at Catholic Youth Ministry

6pm at 40A Mary St, Highgate, Catholic Pastoral Centre. 5.30pm Mass followed by $5 fellowship supper. Enq: Stefania 9422 7912 or www.cym.com.au.

Bible Study at Cathedral

6.15pm at Mary’s Cathedral, 17 Victoria Sq, Perth. Deepen your Faith through reading and reflecting on Holy Scripture by Fr Jean-Noel. Meeting room beneath Cathedral. Enq: Marie 9223 1372.

EVERY FIRST WEDNESDAY

Holy Hour prayer for Priests

7.30-8.30pm at Holy Spirit Parish, 2 Keaney Pl, City Beach. All welcome. Enq: Linda 9341 3079.

SECOND WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH

Chaplets of the Divine Mercy

7.30pm at St Thomas More Catholic Parish, Dean Rd, Bateman. A beautiful, prayerful, sung devotion accompanied by Exposition and followed by Benediction. Enq: George 9310 9493 or 9325 2010 (w).

EVERY THURSDAY

Divine Mercy

11am at Sts John and Paul Church, Pinetree Gully Rd, Willetton. Pray the Rosary and Chaplet of Divine Mercy, and for the consecrated life, especially here in John Paul Parish. Conclude with veneration of the First Class Relic of St Faustina. Please do come and join us in prayer. Enq: John 9457 7771.

St Mary’s Cathedral Praise Meeting

7.45pm every Thursday at the Legion of Mary’s Edel Quinn Centre, 36 Windsor St, East Perth. Includes Praise song and healing ministry. Enq: Kay 9382 3668 or fmi@ flameministries.org.

FIRST THURSDAY OF THE MONTH

Prayer in style of taize

7.30-8.30pm at Our Lady of Grace Parish, 3 Kitchener St., North Beach. Includes prayer, song and silence in candlelight –symbol of Christ the light of the world. Next service: Thursday 4 August. Taize info: www.taize.fr Enq: Secretary 9448 488 or 9448 4457

FIRST FRIDAY OF THE MONTH

Holy Hour for Vocations to the Priesthood and Religious Life

7pm at Little Sisters of the Poor Chapel, 2 Rawlins St, Glendalough. Mass, followed by Adoration with Fr Doug Harris. All welcome. Refreshments provided.

Catholic Faith Renewal Evening

7.30pm at Sts John and Paul Parish, Pinetree Gully Rd, Willetton. Songs of Praise, sharing by a priest followed by Thanksgiving Mass and light refreshments after Mass. All welcome to attend and bring your family and friends. Enq: Kathy 9295 0913, Ann: 0412 166 164 or catholicfaithrenewal@gmail.com.

Communion of Reparation All Night Vigils

7pm-1.30am at Corpus Christi Church, Lochee St, Mosman Park. Enq: Vicky 0400 282 357 and at St Gerard Majella Church, Ravenswood Dr and Majella Rd, Mirrabooka. Enq: Fr Giosue 9349 2315, John or Joy 9344 2609. The Vigils consist of two Masses, Adoration, Benediction, Prayers and Confession in reparation for the outrages committed against the United Hearts of Jesus and Mary. All welcome.

Healing Mass

7pm at St Peter’s Parish, Wood St, Inglewood. Reconciliation, praise and worship, Eucharistic Adoration,

ACROSS

2 ___ Noster

6 US state in which the Diocese of Nashville is found

8 “…___ this day be at my side…”

9 Confirmation gesture

10 St. Peter ___

11 Arianism and Gnosticism

13 Paul was this kind of Jew (Acts 23:6)

15 Patron saint of Scandinavia

17 Adjective for 32A

19 Joshua brought down the walls of this city

22 Hometown of Simon

24 One of the Minor Orders of the church

27 A diocese in Virginia

29 “___ Ergo”

31 Sacre ___

32 Brother of Jacob

33 Original and actual

34 Song of ___

DOWN

1 “I fear no ___ for you are at my side….” (Ps 23:4)

2 Wisdom book

3 The Crown of ___

4 An archangel

5 One of the seven

6 Hometown of St. Paul

7 Moses was floated down this river in a basket

31 S

Gr Isa 55:1-3 Good things to eat

Ps 144:8-9, 15-18 Food in due time

Rom 8:35, 37-39 Love of Christ

Mt 14:13-21 Jesus provides food

1 M St Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop, doctor of the Church (M)

Wh Num 11:4-15 Nothing but manna

Ps 80:12-17 Feed with finest wheat

Mt 14:22-36 Lord, save me!

2 Tu St Eusebius of Vercelli, bishop (O)

Gr St Peter Julian Eymard, priest (O)

Num 12:1-13 Listen to my words

Ps 50:3-7,12-13 Blot out my offence

Mt 15:2-1, 10-14 Pharisees shocked

10 “When we eat this bread and drink this ___…”

12 Title for Catholic actor Guinness

14 See 17A

16 What Catholics receive on the first day of Lent

18 Parable of Jesus

20 Perfumes the altar

21 Lectors

22 Abbr. for two OT books

23 Morality

25 ___ for the poor

26 Catholic newsman Russert former

3 W Num 13:1-2, 2514:1, 26-29, 34-35 They shall die

Ps 105:6-7, 13-14, 21-23 We have done wrong

Mt 15:21-28 You have great faith

4 Th St John Vianney, priest (M)

Wh Num 20:1-13 The waters of Meribah

Mt 16:13-23 Who do you say I am?

5 F St Dominic, priest (M)

Wh Deut 4:32-40 The Lord is God

Ps 76:12-16, 21 Your ways are holy

Mt 16:24-28 Reward each one

6 S THE TRANSFIGURATION OF THE LORD (Feast)

Wh Dan 7:9-10, 13-14 Eternal sovereignty

Ps 96:1-2, 5-6, 9 The Lord is king

2 Pet 1:16-19 It was no myth

Mt 17:1-9 Listen to him!

Coninued on from Page 18

Benediction, Anointing of the Sick, special blessings and fellowship after the Mass. Celebrants, Fr Dat (parish priest) and specially invited priests. All welcome. Enq: Priscilla 0433 457 352, Catherine 0433 923 083 and Mary-Ann 0409 672 304.

Healing and Anointing Mass

8.45am Pater Noster Church, Evershed St, Myaree. Begins with Reconciliation followed by 9am Mass of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Anointing of the Sick and Prayers to St Peregrine. Enq: Joy 9337 7189.

EVERY FIRST SATURDAY

Healing Mass

12.35pm at St Thomas Parish, cnr Melville St and College Rd, Claremont. Spiritual leader: Fr Waddell. Enq: Kim 9384 0598, claremont@perthcatholic.org. au.

EVERY THIRD SATURDAY

Voice of the Voiceless Healing Mass 12pm at St Bridgid’s Parish, 211 Aberdeen St, Northbridge. Upcoming date: Saturday, 23 July. Bring a plate to share after Mass. Enq: Frank 9296 7591 or 0408 183 325.

FREE DIVINE MERCY IMAGE FOR PARISHES

High quality oil painting and glossy print –Divine Mercy promotions Images are of very high quality. For any parish willing to accept and place inside the Church. Oil paintings160 x 90cm and glossy print -100 x 60cm. Enq: Irene 922 11247 or 9417 3267 (w).

LAWN MOWING

WRR LAWN MOWING & WEED

SPRAYING Garden clean ups and rubbish removal. Get rid of bindii, jojo and other unsightly weeds. Based in Tuart Hill. Enq 9443 9243 or 0402 326 637.

OPPORTUNITIES

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY

Work from Home - P/T or F/T, 02 8230 0290 or visit www.dreamlife1.com.

FURNITURE REMOVAL

ALL AREAS. Competitive Rates. Mike Murphy Ph 0416 226 434.

FOR SALE

BUSINESS FOR SALE

DONGARA PIZZA BAR

Ph 08 9927 1389 after 3.30pm or MOB 0400 579 117.

SETTLEMENTS

ARE YOU BUYING OR SELLING

real estate or a business? Why not ask Excel Settlements for a quote for your settlement. We offer reasonable fees, excellent service and no hidden costs. Ring Excel on 9481 4499 for a quote. Check our web site on www.excelsettlements.com.au.

BOOK BINDING

NEW BOOK BINDING, General Book Repairs; Rebinding; New Ribbons; Old Leather Bindings Restored.Tydewi Bindery 0422 968 572.

ACCOMMODATION

HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION

ESPERANCE 3 bedroom house f/furnished Ph 08 9076 5083.

EDUCATION COUNSELLING

SELF AWARENESS & RELATIONSHIPS COURSE

Deadline: 11am Monday

For singles, couples, marriage prep 12 Mondays, first on JULY 25th, 5-7pm At the RCPD, Fremantle, cost $288 or $240 conc Web<http://members.dodo. com.au/~evalenz/>

TRADE SERVICES

BRENDAN HANDYMAN

SERVICES Home, building maintenance, repairs and renovations. NOR. Ph 0427 539 588.

PROPERTY MAINTENANCE.

Your handyperson. No job too small. SOR. Jim 0413 309 821.

BRICK RE-POINTING Ph Nigel 9242 2952.

PERROTT PAINTING Pty Ltd

For all your residential, commercial painting requirements. Ph Tom Perrott 9444 1200.

PICASSO PAINTING Top service. Ph 0419 915 836, fax 9345 0505.

RELIGIOUS PRODUCTS

CATHOLICS CORNER Retailer of Catholic products specialising in gifts, cards and apparel for Baptism, Communion and Confirmation. Ph 9456 1777. Shop 12, 64-66 Bannister Rd, Canning Vale. Open Mon-Sat.

RICH HARVEST YOUR CHRISTIAN SHOP Looking for Bibles, CDs, books, cards, gifts, statues, Baptism/Communion apparel, religious vestments, etc? Visit us at 39 Hulme Ct (off McCoy St), Myaree. Ph 9329 9889 (after 10.30am Mon to Sat). We are here to serve.

KINLAR VESTMENTS

Quality hand-made and decorated vestments: Albs, Stoles, Chasubles, Altar linen, banners, etc. 12 Favenc Way, Padbury. By appointment only. Ph Vickii on 9402 1318, 0409 114 093 or kinlar.vestments@gmail.com.

OTTIMO

Convenient location for Bibles, books, cards CD/DVDs, candles, medals, statues and gifts at Shop 41, Station St Market, Subiaco. Fri-Sun, 9-5pm. Call Eva on: 0409 405 585

POSITIONS AVAILABLE

IMMACULATE HEART

COLLEGE Maryville Downs, Lower Chittering, WA is seeking applications for the position of ACTING PRINCIPAL for Term 4, 2011 and the whole of 2012. This is a an Independent School teaching the Catholic Faith. It will open in February 2012 with classes K to Year 3, expanding to Year 6 over the next 3 years. The school will be situated next to the new Divine Mercy Church in Lower Chittering.

The successful applicant will be a practising and committed Catholic with the ability to lead the school in its foundation years.

Salary and terms will be negotiated. Secondment from another school may be possible. Closing date for applications 29/7/11.

For more information, please contact Fr Paul Fox (08 9571 1839) or Doris Anastasiades (08 9317 4019).

Address applications to Fr Paul Fox PP, Immaculate Heart College, PO Box 8, Bullsbrook WA 6084.

IMMACULATE HEART

COLLEGE Maryville Downs, Lower Chittering, WA Is seeking applications for the position of EARLY CHILDHOOD TEACHER for January start 2012. This is an Independent School teaching the Catholic Faith. It will open in February 2012 with classes K to Year 3, expanding to Year 6 over the next 3 years.

The school will be situated next to the new Divine Mercy Church in Lower Chittering. The successful applicant will be a practising and committed Catholic with early childhood teaching qualifications. Salary and terms will be negotiated. Closing date for applications 29/7/11.

For more information, please contact Fr Paul Fox (08 9571 1839) or Doris Anastasiades (08 9317 4019).

Address applications to Fr Paul Fox PP, Immaculate Heart College, PO Box 8, Bullsbrook WA 6084.

ACROSS

2 ___ Noster

6 US state in which the Diocese of Nashville is found

8 “…___ this day be at my side…”

9 Confirmation gesture

10 St. Peter ___

11 Arianism and Gnosticism

13 Paul was this kind of Jew (Acts 23:6)

15 Patron saint of Scandinavia

17 Adjective for 32A

19 Joshua brought down the walls of this city

22 Hometown of Simon

24 One of the Minor Orders of the church

27 A diocese in Virginia

29 “___ Ergo”

31 Sacre ___

32 Brother of Jacob

33 Original and actual

34 Song of ___

DOWN

1 “I fear no ___ for you are at my side….” (Ps 23:4)

2 Wisdom book

3 The Crown of ___

4 An archangel

5 One of the seven

6 Hometown of St. Paul

7 Moses was floated down this river in a basket

31 S

Gr Isa 55:1-3 Good things to eat

Ps 144:8-9, 15-18 Food in due time

Rom 8:35, 37-39 Love of Christ

Mt 14:13-21 Jesus provides food

1 M St Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop, doctor of the Church (M)

Wh Num 11:4-15 Nothing but manna

Ps 80:12-17 Feed with finest wheat

Mt 14:22-36 Lord, save me!

2 Tu St Eusebius of Vercelli, bishop (O)

Gr St Peter Julian Eymard, priest (O)

Num 12:1-13 Listen to my words

Ps 50:3-7,12-13 Blot out my offence

Mt 15:2-1, 10-14 Pharisees shocked

10 “When we eat this bread and drink this ___…”

12 Title for Catholic actor Guinness

14 See 17A

16 What Catholics receive on the first day of Lent

18 Parable of Jesus

20 Perfumes the altar

21 Lectors

22 Abbr. for two OT books

23 Morality

25 ___ for the poor

26 Catholic newsman Russert former

3 W Num 13:1-2, 2514:1, 26-29, 34-35 They shall die

Ps 105:6-7, 13-14, 21-23 We have done wrong

Mt 15:21-28 You have great faith

4 Th St John Vianney, priest (M)

Wh Num 20:1-13 The waters of Meribah

Mt 16:13-23 Who do you say I am?

5 F St Dominic, priest (M)

Wh Deut 4:32-40 The Lord is God

Ps 76:12-16, 21 Your ways are holy

Mt 16:24-28 Reward each one

6 S THE TRANSFIGURATION OF THE LORD (Feast)

Wh Dan 7:9-10, 13-14 Eternal sovereignty

Ps 96:1-2, 5-6, 9 The Lord is king

2 Pet 1:16-19 It was no myth

Mt 17:1-9 Listen to him!

Coninued on from Page 18

Benediction, Anointing of the Sick, special blessings and fellowship after the Mass. Celebrants, Fr Dat (parish priest) and specially invited priests. All welcome. Enq: Priscilla 0433 457 352, Catherine 0433 923 083 and Mary-Ann 0409 672 304.

Healing and Anointing Mass

8.45am Pater Noster Church, Evershed St, Myaree. Begins with Reconciliation followed by 9am Mass of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Anointing of the Sick and Prayers to St Peregrine. Enq: Joy 9337 7189.

EVERY FIRST SATURDAY

Healing Mass

12.35pm at St Thomas Parish, cnr Melville St and College Rd, Claremont. Spiritual leader: Fr Waddell. Enq: Kim 9384 0598, claremont@perthcatholic.org. au.

EVERY THIRD SATURDAY

Voice of the Voiceless Healing Mass 12pm at St Bridgid’s Parish, 211 Aberdeen St, Northbridge. Upcoming date: Saturday, 23 July. Bring a plate to share after Mass. Enq: Frank 9296 7591 or 0408 183 325.

FREE DIVINE MERCY IMAGE FOR PARISHES

High quality oil painting and glossy print –Divine Mercy promotions Images are of very high quality. For any parish willing to accept and place inside the Church. Oil paintings160 x 90cm and glossy print -100 x 60cm. Enq: Irene 922 11247 or 9417 3267 (w).

LAWN MOWING

WRR LAWN MOWING & WEED

SPRAYING Garden clean ups and rubbish removal. Get rid of bindii, jojo and other unsightly weeds. Based in Tuart Hill. Enq 9443 9243 or 0402 326 637.

OPPORTUNITIES

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY

Work from Home - P/T or F/T, 02 8230 0290 or visit www.dreamlife1.com.

FURNITURE REMOVAL

ALL AREAS. Competitive Rates. Mike Murphy Ph 0416 226 434.

FOR SALE

BUSINESS FOR SALE

DONGARA PIZZA BAR

Ph 08 9927 1389 after 3.30pm or MOB 0400 579 117.

SETTLEMENTS

ARE YOU BUYING OR SELLING

real estate or a business? Why not ask Excel Settlements for a quote for your settlement. We offer reasonable fees, excellent service and no hidden costs. Ring Excel on 9481 4499 for a quote. Check our web site on www.excelsettlements.com.au.

BOOK BINDING

NEW BOOK BINDING, General Book Repairs; Rebinding; New Ribbons; Old Leather Bindings Restored.Tydewi Bindery 0422 968 572.

ACCOMMODATION

HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION

ESPERANCE 3 bedroom house f/furnished Ph 08 9076 5083.

EDUCATION COUNSELLING

SELF AWARENESS & RELATIONSHIPS COURSE

Deadline: 11am Monday

For singles, couples, marriage prep 12 Mondays, first on JULY 25th, 5-7pm At the RCPD, Fremantle, cost $288 or $240 conc Web<http://members.dodo. com.au/~evalenz/>

TRADE SERVICES

BRENDAN HANDYMAN

SERVICES Home, building maintenance, repairs and renovations. NOR. Ph 0427 539 588.

PROPERTY MAINTENANCE.

Your handyperson. No job too small. SOR. Jim 0413 309 821.

BRICK RE-POINTING Ph Nigel 9242 2952.

PERROTT PAINTING Pty Ltd

For all your residential, commercial painting requirements. Ph Tom Perrott 9444 1200.

PICASSO PAINTING Top service. Ph 0419 915 836, fax 9345 0505.

RELIGIOUS PRODUCTS

CATHOLICS CORNER Retailer of Catholic products specialising in gifts, cards and apparel for Baptism, Communion and Confirmation. Ph 9456 1777. Shop 12, 64-66 Bannister Rd, Canning Vale. Open Mon-Sat.

RICH HARVEST YOUR CHRISTIAN SHOP Looking for Bibles, CDs, books, cards, gifts, statues, Baptism/Communion apparel, religious vestments, etc? Visit us at 39 Hulme Ct (off McCoy St), Myaree. Ph 9329 9889 (after 10.30am Mon to Sat). We are here to serve.

KINLAR VESTMENTS

Quality hand-made and decorated vestments: Albs, Stoles, Chasubles, Altar linen, banners, etc. 12 Favenc Way, Padbury. By appointment only. Ph Vickii on 9402 1318, 0409 114 093 or kinlar.vestments@gmail.com.

OTTIMO

Convenient location for Bibles, books, cards CD/DVDs, candles, medals, statues and gifts at Shop 41, Station St Market, Subiaco. Fri-Sun, 9-5pm. Call Eva on: 0409 405 585

POSITIONS AVAILABLE

IMMACULATE HEART

COLLEGE Maryville Downs, Lower Chittering, WA is seeking applications for the position of ACTING PRINCIPAL for Term 4, 2011 and the whole of 2012. This is a an Independent School teaching the Catholic Faith. It will open in February 2012 with classes K to Year 3, expanding to Year 6 over the next 3 years. The school will be situated next to the new Divine Mercy Church in Lower Chittering.

The successful applicant will be a practising and committed Catholic with the ability to lead the school in its foundation years.

Salary and terms will be negotiated. Secondment from another school may be possible. Closing date for applications 29/7/11.

For more information, please contact Fr Paul Fox (08 9571 1839) or Doris Anastasiades (08 9317 4019).

Address applications to Fr Paul Fox PP, Immaculate Heart College, PO Box 8, Bullsbrook WA 6084.

IMMACULATE HEART

COLLEGE Maryville Downs, Lower Chittering, WA Is seeking applications for the position of EARLY CHILDHOOD TEACHER for January start 2012. This is an Independent School teaching the Catholic Faith. It will open in February 2012 with classes K to Year 3, expanding to Year 6 over the next 3 years.

The school will be situated next to the new Divine Mercy Church in Lower Chittering. The successful applicant will be a practising and committed Catholic with early childhood teaching qualifications. Salary and terms will be negotiated. Closing date for applications 29/7/11.

For more information, please contact Fr Paul Fox (08 9571 1839) or Doris Anastasiades (08 9317 4019).

Address applications to Fr Paul Fox PP, Immaculate Heart College, PO Box 8, Bullsbrook WA 6084.