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As Australia celebrates her Bicentenary, the Ukraine will be celebrating the 1000th anniversary of the arrival of the Catholic faith in the Soviet bloc country. See stories and picture page 3.

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CANBERRA: The ease with which spouses in Australia can terminate their marriages and rid themselves of family responsibilities is becoming a serious social problem, says the Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission. Families who stay together are penalised and those who divorce are frequently rewarded through social security assuming responsibility for supporting children following a marital breakdown, says a recent statement. The views of the commission have been put to the Australian Law Reform Commission in connection with Discussion Paper 22 on matrimonial Property Law.

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provide ongoing maintenance is needed, says the commission. The commission does not nance orders are never want to see married couples paid. Estimates also show that drawing up contracts before or during their marriage. 70 per cent of fathers are This presumes marriages behind with payments will break-down and will reand that 70 per cent of define marriage as a temporthose who cannot rec- ary union. over maintenance fall "The majority of marriages back on social security. do not break down and the The number of supporting commitment the parties parents' benefits has risen make to each other as part of from 62,498 in 1979 to their exchange of marriage vows is the fundamental 153,589 in 1984. marriage contract which brings benefits for the individuals," says the commission. The obligation to provide For this reason the Catholic financially for children IS commission recommends owed by the virtue of parentalternative methods of hood to the children themenforcing maintenance selves and the person caring orders with possible use of for the children The commission also the taxation system against believes many people feel defaulters property settlements after The "clean break" princi ple in the break-up of a marriage-breakdown do not marriage is not an absolute take into account the convalue and the obligation to duct of the parties

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At St John the Baptist church, Maylands last Sunday, Ukrainian primate Cardinal Lbachivsky blesses the congregation with the triple candlestick representing the Trinity and the double candlestick of the Two Natures. Assisting him is the WA Ukrainian pastor, Father Wolodymyr Woloczij.

The present system which does not take the conduct of parties into account is causing deep seated anger and hostility towards the courts' officers.

DOD No fault divorce has in fact led to disadvantages, particularly for women. "It is the commission's view that if justice is to be done between the parties, the court cannot ignore the conduct and the extent to which they have been faithful to the matrimonial contract in resolving disputes over the distribution of property" The Catholic Commission believes there is sufficient flexibility in the present legislation to bring about improvements It does not support the suggestions of the Law Reform Commission

Prayer for 'papal visitor God our Father, you sent your Son to reveal to us your love, to guide us and to be the source of our life. You have richly blessed our land and the people of Australia, and we thank you for the trust you place in us. With Pope John Paul we pray for the guidance of your Spirit that we may know where you are leading us and how we may become truly one in Christ. May your Church in Australia clearly witness to the love and compassion of Jesus. We pledge ourselves to work with generosity and courage to extend your Kingdom of justice love and peace. We ask this through Christ our Lord. AMEN

A new prayer which reflects beliefs shared by all Christian churches has been approved by the Catholic Bishops of Australia for use in conjunction with the visit of Pope John Paul Il in November. The National Director of the Papal Visit, Monsignor Brian Walsh, said the Church took an ecumenical approach to the prayer _ to encourage all Australians to feel involved Jin the visit

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mittees have been set up in the Geraldton and Bunbury diocese to make arrangements for parishioners in those areas during the visit of Pope John Paul II to Perth. The committees will organise transport and so on for parishioners travelling in organised groups to the Mass at

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Doctor D'Arcy Wood, who

represents the heads of Australian churches as a special adviser to the Papal Visit organisation, said he hoped all denominations would use the prayer. "AII Australians should welcome Pope John Paul II, as an ambassador of Christian unity and of world peace, and so I urge ministers and congregations of all denominations to use this prayer,

The Bunbury papal visit committee from left Bert Angus, Tom O'Sullivan, Jim Chadd (chairman), John Mathieson and Jim Shinnick.

Members of the Geraldton committee are pictured above and Bunbury at left.

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final contribution of staff writer Roslyn Ross who has moved to Antwerp, Belgium where her husband has a permanent appointment. Originally from Adelaide, she joined The Record some five years ago and built up a strong contribution as a feature writer, as editor and reviewer of what became a very busy books section as well as a responsibility for the children's page. She was also weekly cooking columnist with The Sunday Times. Her ventures into many issues of social concern attracted attention beyond WA with some articles being requested by eastern states papers and one publisher sggesting she write a book on one issue. She has been succeeded

"Catholics should be in the first ranks of those preparing for peace." (Pope John Paul II New Year's Day 1982).

by Darlington wife and mother Colleen Howard who already has contributed many news stories and a number of feature articles to The Record.

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Ukrainians having soviets anniversary suppress church celebration The recent development of an expatriate Ukrainian Catholic Church is not unlike the massive last century migration of lrish Catholics, says Cardinal Lubachivsky, the Ukrainian primate. The lrish had to move overseas and take their faith with them because of the potato famine. The Ukrainians have had to migrate for political freedom after World War II. For that reason, the Ukrainian primate looks after not only the 4.5million members of the underground Catholic church still hanging on in the Ukraine, but two million spread through Western Europe, US, Canada, Brazil and Argentina. There are 25,000 Ukrainian Catholics in Australia. In the Ukraine 10 underground bishops and 400 priests risk persecution and banishment to labour camps if their activity upsets communist officals. One reason for the suppression of the Catholic Church and its forced merger with the Moscow Orthodox Church is to foster the myth of one united Russian nation, says Cardinal Lubachivsky. In 1946 the final blow saw the former primate Archbishop Slipyi banished to a labour camp for eight years. Ironically, the severe cold climate of Siberia may have cured his chest complaint because he died at a robust 93 years of age in Rome from where Pope John OXIll negotiated his release in a deal with Premier Krschev. Now the Ukrainian church is firmly planted alongside the Latin church in so many continents, it is essential for its identity to be maintained. If its numbers are spread too thinly it will get lost, says Cardinal Lbachivsly. Ukrainian churchmen are not altogether happy with the new code of canon law which now allows parents to choose the rite in which to have their children baptised. Many Ukrainian Catholics are accepting the Latin rite in order to avoid difficulties or because of local pressure, says the cardinal. le sees no anomaly in having many jurisdictions, such as three in Winnipeg in Canada, all being part of the one Catholic Church community.

The year 1988 may be Australia's Bicentenary but it could be the year the cataclysmic break-up of the Russian state, according to Ukrainian primate Cardinal Myroslav Lubachivsky. To back his claim the cardinal unhesitatingly refers to a French Corsican prophet who, he claims, has been right on the German invasion of France, the assassination of Kennedy, the Iran-Iraq war and the deaths of De Gaulle, Brezhnev and Suslov. The prophet's scenario, the cardinal continues, could be a war with Mongolia in which a shortage of food will cause domestic Russia to rise up and the many states will be free again. Cardinal Lubachivsky admits that not all Ukrainians, whether clergy or laity, still await the liberation of the Ukraine but for the leader of the four million Catholics still enslaved there and the two million now scattered across the world, hope burns if not for his lifetime, then at some future date. The year 1988 is critical because it marks the IO00th anniversary of the arrival of the Catholic faith into what was then the kingdom of Rus and where the faith survived for 700 years before Russians stole their name and began to put pressure on the local state and church.

Cardinal Lubachivsky "We have to permit the people to worship in their own way. "In Africa they want their own rite and they are entitled to have it, to dance, to play their drums. "Latin rite youths are

now sing their guitars at Mass and they are attending Mass and confesion in great numbers. What a difference. "The Church provides a way of worshipping God and should permit the best way for people to do

that. "The Latin church had to modify its worship after Vatican ll and the difference is as great as between earth and

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The Russian communists caused nearly seven million Ukrainian deaths by forced starvation during the 1933 famine and in 1946 the

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was subjugated and forced

to go underground. In 1988 the Russians, the cardinal says, will want to

claim that it is the Millennium of their country's faith and not the Ukraine, because it is essential to deny the independence of the former Ukraine state. He has no doubts about what is evil in communism "The evil is fighting God Why don't they permit the people to believe what they

believe?

"They deny private property and they see it is wrong because the Ukraine once

fed Europe and now they have nothing to eat, whereas China is giving people the right to private property and it is progressing"The youth of Russia is

coming back to God because the promises of the good times have not eventuated and things are getting worse.

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"How can they believe in progress when no progress is made unless it is stolen from America or other coun-

tries? "The only progress Russians make is in spying. in torturing the people, in keeping 10-20 percent in camps working for nothing

During Ukrainian primate Cardinal Lubachivsky's visit to Perth he blessed a large cross monument to commemorate the annivesary in 1988 of the official establishment of the Catholic faith in the Ukraine 1000 years ago. With the cardinal (centre) are Archbishop Foley, Bishop van Prasko, head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Australia and Father Wolocryk, Ukrainian pastor for Western Australia. Picture by BOHDEN WARCHOMLJ

Battling a great adversity "The result is everybody would escape if they had the chance, but this is possible only for Jews because they have powerful friends in America." The 72-year-old primate who has lived 48 years in exile and been refused a visa three times does not shrink from what his nation has gone through.

DOD If you see your people being persecuted all the time by Big Brother Russia you hope that God will turn the situation, not to persecute them, but just so that they will leave us and let us

live. "God wants us to live and enjoy this life as much as possible under His law.

"You cannot eradicate faith from the heart of a people. They feel that somebody is looking over them, is helping them. As scripture says: 'Only stupid people say there is no God.' "I believe God is stronger than all the Russian atomic bombs. We have hope and we believe God will not allow us to be destroyed. "God may not be in a hurry because He wants us to suffer, to imitate Christ but eventually He will come to our aid, if not right now, at least when He knows best.

"Like the unjust judge in

the gospel parable He may act if we ask him often enough,",he.said

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There was a time when smokers were rather amused to find themselves confronted by articles attacking a practice that had been of little concern outside a duchess' tea party. Their jocular solution was "stop reading!" The jest has taken a strange tum into reality. There are no smokes to be read or heard about as cigarette advertising has been mopped off most newspaper pages and television screens. Big Brother did not hesitate to find the cash to stamp out what is the cause of much respiratory medical treatment. Smokers' seats are getting closer and closer to the aircraft rear exits. The subject of smoking raises not only strong feelings. The glowing end of a cigarette is but the tip of a long chain of social and ethical questions, on hazards to health, on the rights of individuals, on the freedom of manufacturers to market possibly hannful products, on the costs of public medical services, on the heavy revenue of which media were deprived by the bans, and the still substantial truces and excise without which oil-revenue-glutted governments would find it hard to manage. These issues should not be disregarded as the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal unveils its new standards for alcohol advertising on television and which raise social questions far beyond the advertising industry or the television channels. The tribunal admitted that it did not expect all round pleasure with its policy and so far comment has been restricted to brewery reactions and the contentious link between alcohol advertising and sport.

WARSAW: Franciscan Sister Zofia Dobrowolska lays one of 600 bricks she lays every day to build a home for old people without families at Leopoldow in south-east Poland. A number of the sisters are helping the builders to erect the home for 60 people, which was planned by one of their order.

Big change for a retu r n ROME (NO) --Latin-rite Catholic priests who left the active ministry to marry should be allowed to return to their priestly functions, according to an international group of married former priests. "The priesthood and matrimony are not in opposition, and in the history of the Church they were united for centuries," said Giovanni Gennari, an Italian expriest and key organiser of the second Universal Synod of Married Catholic Priests and their Wives. Synod participants said their goals are to make celibacy optional for Latin-rite priests and to speed up Vatican processing of dispensation requests by priests who

want to leave the ministry to marry in the

Church.

They made the same requests at their first synod, in 1983. Synod organisers say there are 5,900 dispensation cases pending The Vatican does not publicise the number. "We recognise the value of celibacy just as we recognise the value of marriage. We want an optional celibacy. Some people have a vocation to the priesthood but not to celibacy," said Gennari Supporters of optional celibacy add it would increase vocations at a time when the number of priests is declin-

Beer has passed beyond being a beverage. It is a financial commodity. Other producers, it is said, will be producing a low percentage beer like the local product so that they can get around the advertising guidelines. The degree to which sport now depends on cigarette and brewery advertising and the tradeoffs to be negotiated for televising weekend sport is an ironic commentary on an affluent country which has more open space and manicured empty grassed open spaces than any country on earth but still can't get its sporting act together without massive commercial subsidy. Or is it a question of business not being able to keep its hands off the lucrative avenue of sport? The public may sit back and say that neither of these considerations is their concern although they front up expectantly and critically to a television industry that lives on advertising. But no family is exempt from the decision of the tribunal to allow alcohol advertising only after 8.30 pm or between noon and 3 pm on weekdays because of the signigicant attraction of television tc people up to 1 8 years. The tribunal's observation unfortunately is not about youths simply quaffing beer but on the attractions of lifestyle advertising to that group, described as psychological appeals to place products in various highly favourable social contexts. One brewer contended that not only beer but all advertising fits the lifestyle criteria. Double standards are at work and are rampant in every home in the country if these observations are true. Adults now have it from the top that television is a poison eating into their children's lives and probably long after childhood. If the television junk and not only the blood and guts sexual violence, but the empty headed rubbish that rolls endlessly through the nights is hanning youngsters why do they suddenly resist at 18, or are families now unstable into their early married years? Secondly, the advertised lifestyle that is so suspect in the eyes of the tribunal is being designed marketed and supported by adults. In other words, adults are openly co-operating in the marketing a shoddy and empty meaning to life to their very children. Perhaps it is time to stop the crocodile tears over rape and violent accidents that plead alcohol as their excuse, over the millions of dollars being meted out to alcohol induced illnesses and confess our individual share of the responsibility of poisoning our society to death. Smoking has copped the blame for: too long.

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Transkei to deport priest

PRETORIA: Father Dick O'Riordan, Irish born rector of Umtata seminary in South African tribal homeland of Transkei has been deported after three weeks of negotiations between church officials and the Transkei government. No official reason was given for his but deportation, Father O'Riordan said he believed the Transkei government was retaliating against the Catholic Church for winning a court case involving the killing of a rights activist by police. The Church's intervention barred the government from banishing key witnesses in the investigation of the shooting.

Archbishop Denis Hurley of Durban, South Africa, said Father O'Riordan was being expelled "because of his concern over the death of a young man under

which were legal in Transkei, claiming he had given them to the seminarians. Father O'Riordan said he found three weeks of solitary confinement "very difficult" and added he understood the horror of detention without trial.

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suspicious circumstances." Archbishop Hurley is president of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference. Other Church sources said they had been told unofficially during negotiations for the priest's release the government action was related to an incident late last year LONDON: One of Briwhen a group of Zingisa tain's top prison officers seminarians were } is leaving the service to stopped by Transkei { study for the priesthood. Mr John Morrison, deppolice who found documents in their auto uty governor of Wormwhich contained some ( wood Scrubs maximum criticism of the home-) security prison, will resign in the summer land government. after 21 years -which Authorities questioned ' included a period on the the seminary head about Home Office "think tank" the documents, all of

Vatican figures list a drop of 27,000 priests worldwide between 1973 and 1983, the last year for which figures were published

Marcos overthrow

MANILA: The Catholic Church's involvement grew more visible as the Philippines' post-election crisis progressed, while the pope and US religious leaders called for a peaceful solution and expressed solidarity with the Philippine bishops. Thousands of Filipinos - including priests and nuns - responded to a call by Cardinal Jaime Sin of Manila to keep vigil outside a camp housing military leaders who defected from the government of President Ferdinand Marcos. The cardinal made his appeal on the Catholic radio station, Radio Veritas, which later stopped broadcasting after its main transmitters were shot up by gunmen.

Station officials said the attackers caused $1.8 million in damage which would take six months to a year to repair. The station used a 10-kilowatt backup system, then temporarily suspended broadcasts that evening for repairs. At the Vatican, Pope John Paul II prayed for the second weekend in a row for "peaceful and just

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on the future of prisons - and will begin studies at the Beda College in Rome.

horror that anyone should give up a job as well paid as ours is for one paying only £800 a year," he said.

to enter a seminary but family commitments had delayed the decision. Colleagues in the prison service had greeted his decision with "a numbed

He said he knew of at least four former priests in the prison service and wished "in a small way, to make the journey in reverse."

Mr Morrison, aged 50, as early as 1973 intended

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NEW YORK (NC) A proposed homosexual rights bill for New York City has drawn the united opposition of Cardinal John J. O'Connor of New York and Bishop Francis J. Mugavero of Brooklyn. In a joint statement, they said the bill carried a "potential for grave harm to all society. "It is clear the Bill primarily and ultimately seeks to achieve the legal approval of homosexual conduct and activity, something the Catholic Church, and indeed other religious faiths, consider to be morally wrong," they said

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Gennari is head of Vocatio,

a group of 3,000 Italian

married ex-priests. He said members are priests who received Church permission to marry. Similar groups exist in other countries Under Church rules, such permission, called laicisation, can come only from the pope and includes a prohibition from engaging in the priestly ministry. A laicised priest is a Catholic in good standing, but cannot hold Church administrative office or teach theology in Catholic schools Pope John Paul II is a strong defender of mandatory priestly celibacy and has stressed it is a lifelong com mitment which cannot be discarded easily The Latin Church con tinues to wish "all those who receive the sacrament of orders should embrace this renunciation (of marriage) for the sake of the kingdom of heaven," he said in a 1979 letter to the world's priests "It is a matter here of

keeping one's word to Christ and the Church," the letter added In 1980, the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of

the Faith, which processes requests, issued tougher norms for priests wishing laicisation

The new norms said laicisations would be granted to those who should not have been ordained because they lacked freedom or the proper degree of maturity to understand the celibacy commitment when made, or because their religious superiors were not able to make a prudent judgment at the time of ordination,

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BUJUMBURA (Burundi} (NC) - A Catholic priest and eight lay people received sentences of one week to five years in early February for writing and distributing a document criticising Burundi's ban on religious activities during weekdays, All Africa Press reported. Father Barakana Gabriel, convicted of inspiring the document. was grven a fiveyear sentence. Joseph Gacukuzi, a lay man, was also sentenced to five years for writing and distributing the publication. Another priest, Father Thomas Benderembako, was acquitted in the case. The government of the Central African nation has accused the Church of interfering with economic development by holding weekday services which conflicted with people's working hours.

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LONDON. Following the death of Father William Moulding, parish priest at Ambleside on the edge of Lake Windermere, it was learnt that the dead priest left behind him the best sort of small legacy a good joke: his own epitaph no less Written over his grave, he suggested, should be written simply - "Here lies Wilham - Mould ng."

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thousands of outpatients each year. Another £35,000 will go to an Uganda Catholic Secretariat rehabilitation program for war orphans and families displaced during

The archbishop said a growing body of evidence showed "the use of sexually violent material contributes to a social climate in which violence against women is more accepted and is thus more likely to occur."

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NEW YORK (NC) - Pornography is "an attack on human dignity" that has "devastating effects,'' Archbishop John R. Roach of St Paul-Minneapolis said in testimony submitted to the US Attorney General's Commission on Pornography. "Pornography uses and abuses, denying healthy human relationships and glamorising loveless, often violent relationships," the archbishop said in his testimony.

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solution, without violence and without bloodshed, caring only for the supreme good of the nation." The pope made his remarks from his apartment window overlooking St Peter's Square, where about 1000 supporters of Philippine presidential candidate Corazon Aquino gathered. The supporters mostly Filipinos living in Rome -- wore hats, scarves and armbands of yellow, Mrs Aquino's colour. Among the supporters were priests and nuns. After Defence Minister Juan Ponce Enrile and Lieutenant Gen. Fidel Ramos, the acting chief of staff, seized control of the defence ministry and called for Marcos' resignation, Cardinal Sin referred to them as "our two good friends." Although the Philippine bishops did not directly endorse Mrs Aquino, in a statement issued February I4 they said the presidential elections were an Unparalleled fraud and "a government that seizes, assumes or retains power through fraudulent means has no moral basis." Philippine Bishop Francisco Claver, a leader of the Institute on Church and Social Issues of Ateneo de Manila University and one of the principal authors of the bishops' statement, said endorsement ofMrs quino was 'implicit'.in the statement.

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Another Philippine bishop said it was a false charge by former President Ferdinand Marcos that a post-election statement by the country's bishops was a minority document. Carmelite Bishop Julio Labayen of Infanta also denied the government's assertion that some bishops walked out of the meeting which drafted the statement which called the elections "fraudulent" and said theMarcos government had no moral basis for ruling. "There was no walkout," the bishop told about 500 nuns at a meeting in Manila, a week before the Marcos administration collapsed and the former president left the country. However, in a radio interview, Archbishop Federico Limon of Lingayen-Dagupan said only a small number of bishops believed the elections were fraudulent. He also said the statement was unofficial because a quorum was not present at the meeting. Archbishop Limon is from Pangasinan province, part of the pro-Marcos "Solid North" of the island of Luzon. Bishop Labayen acknowledged some Philippine bishops did not attend the special session. But he said that during a regular meeting those bishops had approved issuing a post-election statement The tone of the statement would be determined by the conduct of the elections, Bishop Labayen said When a political exercise is such it violates the rights of the people," Bishop Labayen said, "we have to pass a moral judgment. We should not forget that polttcs is subject to the law of God

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What sort of revoluby tion is taking place FATHER PAT when you offer CUNNINGHAM cigarettes to a heavand there was a spirit ily armed soldier of singing. praying and with yellow flowers being together as one in his top pocket people." and he replies "No thanks, I don't It was not like the last revolution she expesmoke menthol, but rienced, in Iran in I'll give it to my 1978, when a coffee friend." jar packed with gelig"AII I want to do is nite came hurtling shake your hand," over the clinic wall said the young soldwith a burning fuse that went out on ier to Western Ausimpact. The streets of tralian nurse Joan Manila were not full of Woolcock who the fanatically shoutfound herself ing people, marching in the packed with clenched raised crowds at the barrifists, she remembered cades to defend the in Iran. anti-Marcos faction at the height of the presidential crisis, CJ[JC last month. She went to the barri- ·The Catholic Church

cades because all had a great deal to do night she had been with the peaceful way listening to Radio Verin which the people itas, the Catholic stasaid they wanted a tion, broadcasting change. news, tapes of Pope "Yet they were aware John Paul's addresses that just because Cory and finally the call Aquino had won, they from Cardinal Sin for did not have to go the people to get up through some very from their beds and hard times ahead. form a human barri- "I sensed a lot of middle cade to stop the anticaged guilt that they ipated attack from had allowed martial Marcos' forces. law to be imposed and She had heard two to have carried on for members of the family the past 14 years." with whom she was Joan Woolcock's staying say as the ansmemory is of the lines wered the night call: of priests moving "If anything happens through the crowds to us, tell my sister encouraging them, that I heard the call calming them and at and it was something one stage asking them I had to do." not to hold up with It was a call over a million their greetings a people eventually anscolumn of troops wered during the coming to join the tense three days, comcompound defenders. ing and going from their homes to man the human barricade where even food and ",

J oh n Paul ing "very cordial' and said the pope had expressed his confidence in Filipino bishops. "He is just too concerned that we are engaged In too much politics," Cardinal Sin said. "] said it was not politics but a moral dimension. "He smiled because he understands becuase he came from Poland." Cardinal Sin eariier said the pope had expressed concern that the Philippines Church should not be

"powerful". Cardinal Sin, who conferred with the pope for 30 minutes at the Vatican, celebrated an emotional mass for the Filipino community In Rome. In his homily at the Mass, attended by hundreds of Filipinos, he said a peaceful victory had been won in his country "for truth, justice, freedom and democracy". He told the people, many of them close to tears, much more had to be done to change the corrupt

Judgement The first of the judgements of fact was whether or not the casting and/or counting of votes in the election had been interfered with to the degree needed to produce a verdict in favour of Marcos. The bishops firm asertion that it was is unlikely to be faulted, for they were close to large numbers of trustworthy people who had been directly concerned with all aspects of the election process, and the judgment Marcos had not be elected was based on the information provided by these perSons. The second crucial

Bishops' decision step-by-step . .

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Reprinted from the Advocate, Melbourne. Father Smith is director of the Institute of Social Order and editor of the monthly publication, Social Survey. issue was the possibility that the recommended campaign of non-violent civil disobedience would be deliberately submerged in violence by the actions of other interested parties. These could be impatient, wealthy, "democratic" opponents of

Marcos, or Marcos and his supporters intent on breaking such opposition, or persons interested in overthrowing him for reasons other than those expressed by the bishops - such as the guerillas of the Communist New People's

Army.

No one should doubt that this kind of transiADDRESS: _ tion to violence was a real possibility. The most recent events OCCUPATION: AGE: have clearly shown how near the country came to it, and observers have spoken of their constant fear that the flashpoint would be reached. On the one hand, till near the very end, Marcos could still depend on many, if not most, of those who provided him with violent support in a a« home[#MKS the namely past, donated. 1Ii, members and employees a««a« of his own and some because the pol(I · requires regular other wealthy families, in and outside of the army. Their interests are siming arms or home \ � ilar to and were largely made bombs. It was i bound up with those of This space costs $35 real people power Marcos, and they could have been used to try to ue rial eliminate opposition aalt leaders and outspoken Gentlemen's Clothing re 0nty pefen people' a clergy and to break up Tailoring & Footwear Can'Co popular gatherings, demAlso Formal Hire Available M .d' Enri eve onstrations and so on. Come and see the large selection at The recent presidential election in the Philippines fulfilled the proCorner Hay Street Mall and Plaza Arcade phecies of those who predicted that it would Telephone 325 3287 be a moral debacle with a 10% discount is allowed to readers of the Record on fraud, corruption, intimipresentation of this advertisement John Rossi WA nurse, loan Woolcock holding a copy of the Catholic Veritas newspaper in Manila in the dation and violence as its Philippines. The Record, March 13, 1986 /A/M

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direction to cardinal and sinful ways of the past. ''Our national life has been all but wrecked by corruption, injustice and falsehoods. Should we not all agree on a permanent truce so that, united in peace and reconciliation, we can rebuild our society?" Despite Lent, during which dark vestments are usually worn, Cardinal Sin's co-celebrants wore yellow, the colour of the party of President Aquino. Cardi-

nal Sin wore purple vestments. After his talks with the pope the cardinal said the pope was "very happy" some anti-government guerillas in the Philippines might lay down their arms. During the events leading up to Mr Marcos'soverthrow,Cardinal Sin, Archbishop of Manila and head of the Catholic Church in the Philippines, made it clear what he thought the 85 per cent of Filipinos who were Catholic should

of facts

do. The Church's radio station, Radio Veritas, helped rally them to the Church's banner. When Mr Marcos's minister for defence, Mr Juan Ponce Enrile, and the army chief of staff, General Fidel Ramos, set up a rebel camp against the then president, it was Cardinal Sin who asked Filipinos to come out on the steets and block Mr Marcos's tanks from attacking the rebels.

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At the time he was not the senior cardinal In the Philippines.

'Follow Me', he said. Well, I wanted to. Really I did. I almost took off right then to go wherever he was going. But I thought of all the loose ends that needed to be tied. 'Right', I said, 'Just hang on a minute

That was Cardinal Julio Rosales, who came from Mrs Imelda Marcos's home town and baptised her. Cardinal Rosales' relationship with the Marcos family set the tone for the Church.

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or maybe a couple of hours or a few days while I get things sorted out. Then I'll come. You can count on me!' And then I realised that I was talking to myself. He hadn't waited.

...late have I followed him to be a prophet of hope to our world, an instrument of healing and reconciliation; and a builder of eucharistic community in his church. And I know I shall not rest

until I find my rest in him.

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Education: ending child

exploitation. Many of us know the mixed feelings that accompany our children's first day of school. Few of us can imagine the despair of seeing children as young as five going off to work to help their family survive. For some, it's selling goods in a street; for others, cleaning shoes, minding cars, dangerous and menial work in small unregistered factories, or worse. With no hope of education they can look only to a future of poverty in which they will see

Cardinal Sin with Pope John Paul ll during the papal tour of the Philippines several years

ago.

main themes.

The crude dis-honesty After such a blatant of the election, together mockery of the demo- with the real fear of major cratic process, there was violence throughout the no real chance of an country, helped them to uneventful return to the win over the rest of their gloomy toleration of the colleagues during a sinMarcos regime which gle day of prayer and had characterised the intense discussion. The bishops' belief they population over the last decade or so. could legitimately interThe question troubling vene in the way they did was was based, first of all, on many people whether or not the next a point of established stage would be the out- Catholic doctrine, and break of civil war. then on their answers to the fact a number of questions of Paradoxically, this did not happen fact. seems to have been due The point of doctrine mainly to the rapid issu- concerns the authority of ing of the Catholic hier- a ruler or government. It is accepted teaching archy's declaration the election returns had that, while the authority been falsified, that Mar- to exercise political cos had received no man- power over a people date to continue as comes from God, the president, and that there appointment of a person should therefore be a or persons to the posifull-scale campaign of tion of power requires civil disobedience if he } the consent of the people attempted to do so. - a consent expressed This dramatic and unex through their votes in an pected intervention election, or in some offered what seemed at other acceptable way. the time to be a viable If the people's consent, alternative to shooting, formerly given, is withand many people took up drawn - for instance, by the idea 'Itrentus1asm. ith th means of the election s,, me of the bishops had process -- the authority ide long be een consterng to rule is lost also, and the possibility and the any directives issued by likely utility of such a the former ruler or rulers campaign against Mar- have no binding power cos. and may be disregarded. +

Also, an essential element of a non-violent campaign is repressive brutality should be met only with passive resistance. But this calls for a considerable degree of courage and patience on the part of ordinary citizens. There was no certainty those attacked would not be provoked into an effort of violent selfdefence. This, would have provided the excuse for even greater violence by Marcos and his supporters. On the other hand, the strategy of infiltrating the ranks of those engaged in a non-violent campaign in order to take it over and turn it into an attempt at violent revolution has been advocated frequently enough in recent times. Many of those opposed to Marcos would be familiar with the suggestion and convinced of its revolutionary potential. The Catholic bishops were certainly aware of these possible ways of bringing on a widespread lapse into violence.

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IT1I77 People live and die on the streets of Washington DC ... especially in the cold of winter

Uncertainty fails to hold down mother of four ...

I first met Olga Morris two years ago. We both had joined a delegation of Catholics taking the US bishops' pastoral letter on peace to the Soviet Union. We met

again last summer at the University of Nairobi in Kenya, Africa, while attending the UN Forum on Women.

People live and die on the streets of Washington, DC. One might believe this to be true of Calcutta, India. But of Washing-

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ton?

Unfortunately, it is true, especially when cold winter weather moves into the city. Thousands of homeless people, men and women and children, search for a place to spend the night in abandoned buildings, parked cars, public shelters, under bridges and on heating grates outside government buildings. One inner-city parish, close to the grounds of the Capital, recently decided to do something to help at least a few of the less fortunate. After considerable discussion and prayer, the parish agreed to set up a small night shelter from December to April. A

committee was formed

and a part-time co-ordinator hired People don't just grow by reading about ideas or discussing them. People also grow when they become involved in seving others, when they

take steps to foster growth in others, when

they step into the midst of

a parish community's action programs. Service in the church and to the larger community holds a hidden

benefit. It is a means of growth for today's Catholics.

One writer this week, Jesuit Father Peter Henriot, tells the story of a night shelter established by a parish in Washington, DC, not far from the Capitol. The shelter's

atmosphere and the attitude of the volunteers helped the homeless. But at the same time, the homeless had something special to offer the volum-

teers. Monica Clark, associate

editor of The Catholic Voice in Oakland, California, tells the story of a woman who stepped out into the world in new and special ways.

Cindy Liebhart, associate editor of the NC Religious Education Package, interviews adult educator lane Wolford Hughes of Detroit.

by FATHER HENRIOT

Space was found in the back of the Church basement for 10 mattresses. Fresh paint brightened the area. A shower was

put into the bathroom, along with a clothes washer and dryer. Lockers and a few tables were set up, and a small stove installed. Simple surroundings but clean, warm, safe and quiet. Real luxury for people accustomed to life on the streets Members of the parish respond in a variety of ways. Some sign up to spend a night staffing the shelter Others prepare soup for the evening

meal. Some help keep the area clean. Others offer financial and administrative help. No one is over-

burdened because jobs are shared.

Volunteers

make the effort possible

How are the guests

chosen? A nearby drop-in centre for "street people" recommends several

older men who for rea-

sons of health or temperament have great difficulty living in one of the large public shelters The men must agree to a

few simple rules - punctuality, no drinking in the shelter, co-operation in keeping the place clean - in exchange for a

guaranteed spot each evening Occasionally some hard decisions have to be made about asking a guest to leave. But everyone respects the need to provide a friendly, orderly environment The guests arrive each

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evening about seven to be greeted with a simple meal of soup and bread Conversation, television and playing cards to help to wind them down from a wearying day. A hot shower and a warm bed

with clean sheets bring welcome sleep. Morning coffee sends the men out by seven heading for a nearby soup kitchen for breakfast This shelter is easy to describe because it is easy to set up and main tain. But its most impor

tant ingredient is the clear message sent to the guests by the atmosphere and the attitude of the volunteers: You have dignity and we respect you.

That

On both occasions the 58-year-old widow told me she was trying to find her "way in the world. I come right out of the kitchen, always a homemaker, and I haven't fully found where I fit in it." Her uncertainty, however, has not held the mother of four down Recently Mrs Morris and I met again. This time we talked about the risks of venturing into unknown territories - be they foreign countries or at-home opportunities for new experiences. One of the challenges, we agreed, is remaining open to a change in attitudes toward other people. Long-held notions sometimes have to be renounced in order to take new steps in

personal growth

After I met Soviet citizens on a personal basis, how could

message

I view them solely as the enemy?" she said of her twoweek visit to the Soviet Union. She recalled that the US peace pastoral reminds American Catholics that the Soviet people and their leaders are human beings created in the image and likeness of God." When I heard from Kenyan women of their struggles to feed and clothe their families, how could I forget them when I returned to the security of my own home?" she said of her weeks in East Africa Mrs Morris believes these experiences expanded her understanding of the Church. "I saw the crucifixion still taking place and became linked with those who are suffering." she said. 'Now I see the Mystical Body as a spiritual relationship among people which transcends culture, history, politics and binds us all together in the family of God."

does

much to restore a sense

of self-worth to persons

burdened with alcohol mental problems, illnesses and feelings of rejection by society But the guests aren't the only ones affected. The parish is too. Those who get involved communicate to others a sense of

To help others expand their understanding. Mrs Morris presents slide lectures on her Soviet and African experiences to school children, college students

the rightness of the parish commitment to offer hospitality to the home-

senor ctuzens

These presentations are part of a second risk Mrs Morris

less

People coming to early

Mass notice the men

leaving the shelter --- and come to realise that the Church is truly home for a few of "the least" in our midst

Some of Washington's homeless are served in a soup line ly members of the Community fer b tire Non Violence. When weather turns cold, thousands of homeless people men, women and children seek sir for the night in abandoned buildings, parked cars, under bridges and on heating grates outside government buildipC photo by Nelson

Old wounds bring only hidden pain

The two women - one quite elderly, the other a professional woman, wife and mother - had been

friends for some time In the course of conversa-

tion one day, the older woman began to tell the younger one about all the people in her life she could

By Cindy Liebhart

now dead

Seeing the worry in the older woman's eyes, sensing the hidden pain which gnawed at her, the younger

women decided to do what she could to help She embarked on a year-

long journey with the older

woman, helping her uncover and examine the reasons behind her inability to forgive Eventually, the older woman was able to acweve peace with herself and the people

she felt had hurt her

instances in her own life when she had been hurt, the people from her past she couldn't understand or had difficulty forgiving In helping a friend come to terms with the past, the younger woman found herself achieving a new level of and self-understanding reconciliation Jane Wolford Hughes, former director of adult edu-

consultant to several archdi-

that story during a recent

t illustrates a reality. Serv-

Ing others can lead to one's own transformation Often when people get involved in service projects or parish ministries, it is

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people say they "got more out of" doing something for another person than they actually gave?

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Mrs Morris accepted the post along with her husband Nick, who died two years ago. Now district president, she is spearheading the society's guest home for single, pregnant women, called Casa Vincentia "As a society and a church we need to address the concerns of our time," she said, noting the lack of housing and other support services for single, pregnant women "If we're to be pro-life we have to offer concrete, caring alternatives to abortion." It was during that same Cursillo that Mrs Morris had another insight which helped propel her into Christian action. 'I saw that there could be a lot of love in a Catholic experience." This enabled her to take another risk relinquishing some pain, hurt and anger from past church experiences. "As a child Id always felt I was treated as a second-class Catholic citizen because of my

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identifies as part of the growth process: taking personal responsibility for making faith visible in the world That concept became a conviction for Mrs Morris when she made a Cursillo nearly 20 years ago. "I realised I was in charge of my life. I accepted responsibility for making Christianity my way of life." She credits her daughter Theresa with challenging that principle into action. "We were in the back bedroom and I told her Id been asked to serve on the district board of the St Vincent de Paul Society and that I'd

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Impatient to find a job School days, good old golden rule days as they were sometimes called, were hardly golden for young Cyril Paull. Towards the conclusion of his formal education at Boulder Central he waited impatiently for his 14th birthday so that he could leave and get a job. The need was urgent. Penury had laid its chill hand on the King Street home where his mother, without her husband and too ill to take outside employment, was battling to provide for her daughter and four sons. Times were tough, and the tiostile elements added nothing to the joy of life. Cyril remembers occasions when his mother would rush frantically into the backyard where he was playing to drag him inside and lock every door and window in the house as a vicious dust storm ripped in from the desert. Kathleen Coffey, the girl who was later to be his bride, has similar childhood recollections. Once she was playing on a swing on the back verandah when her mother rushed her inside seconds before a devastating dust storm hit the house. t demolished the verandah, swing and all, in a stroke that could well have proved fatal for the little girl There were few sealed streets in Kalgoorlie and Boulder and the penetrating dust still grates irritatingly on the memories of survivors of that era. Other things had to be survived too -like poverty in the case of Cyril Paull. At 14 he managed to get a job in Kalgoorlie in the Hannan Street grocery of Jack Hehir. The wage was 17 shillings and six pence ($1.75) a week The official working hours were 8am-6pm, but unpaid overtime was the norm. Initially he took the tram from Boulder to work and the return fare was four pence (roughly 4 cents) But every possible penny had to be saved so he would alight at the carbarn, walk the five blocks to Hannan Street and save three pence. At the grocery store Cyril started as what was known as the spud boy and his duty was to weigh up the quantities of potatoes needed for the shop. One of his perks, possibly in lieu of overtime, was to be taken home for tea most nights by proprietor Jack Hehir and given a good meal. Then it was back to the store for further work until about 9pm. Another privilege enabled him to forsake tram transport. He was permitted to ride the store bike home and back to work in the morning. In the 14 years he spent with Jack, he learnt the trade thoroughly. graduating from the potato pile to the counter and then to the position of store manager. The world-wide Depression then had Kalgoorlie-Boulder in rts grip.

'Penury' forced a decision Today's People

A regular feature By BOB BOYLE The unemployed were issued with food vouchers which were supposed to enable them to purchase the bare essentials of life an objective that was frequently not attained. 'We had thousands of dollars of bad debts," Cyril remembers, "but you couldn't let families starve." About the time the pair were parting company for Cyril to open his own store in Balfour Street, a series of events known as the Kalgoorlie riots took place. They rocked the Goldfields and drew Australia-wide attention to the area. On that January long weekend in 1934, Cyril and Kathleen were out for an evening walk round Kalgoorlie. They saw a disturbance outside the Home From Home Hotel in Hannan Street and moved closer to investi-

gate.

It turned out to be the flash point that ignited the days of rioting that followed. Harry Jordan, one of Cyril's team-mates in the South Kalgoorlie Fire Brigade, had struck his head on the pavement on being evicted from the hotel and later died of his injunes. The nots were directed against foreigners, mainly Italian, whom some Australians thought were being given preference over them for jobs on the mines.

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The Home From Home was run by an Italian family and the wine saloon opposite was also foreign-owned. On that sultry January night 52 years ago, groups of men, with minds inflamed by alcohol and the Jordan incident, wrecked and burnt the hotel and the wine saloon after having pillaged every drop of grog they could lay their hands on

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Chris Bridge is keen to see the subject of incest placed clearly on view for all to see. It is the only way, she says that anything will be done to stop this most cruellest of crimes. It is ignorance which creates victims and which ignorance allows those victims to grow up and perhaps become victimisers themselves. After years working as a clinical psychologist with the Prisons Department, with much of her time spent counselling sex offenders, she now knows that a very high number of those who commit sex offences have had traumatic sex experiences themselves.

Help for incest victims by ROSLYN ROSS

"I remember one man was traumatic because the power horror-struck by what he had is equal done," she said. "He simply couldn't believe it. It was only "I think there are a lot of when we went back into his men out there who have past, much of which was suffered in the same way, but blank before the age of seven, just aren't willing to talk," she that we discovered he had says been abused at an early age Talking about the problem, himself." says Chris, is the first step The problem develops, she toward healing the hurt said, when the child doesn't Realising others have felt "tell" what has happened or the same way and expewhen the child tries to "tell" rienced the same pain also and is disbelieved. takes people a long way on 'These are the ones who the road to emotional health are vulnerable,' she said. and wholeness 'The healthy psychological response is to tell. If a child "We organised group sesdoesn't or can't, then it will sions last year for incest have to deal with rt in another victims in a bid to let them see way, usually by blaming itself they were 'not the only for what has happened and ones'," Chris said. blocking out as much 'They all said they hated it memory as possible." but rt was good for them But the damage has been "It was a way to work done and in later years the trauma will be expressed. Either by the victim carrying out similar acts him or herself or by emotional and psychological distress. It is those in distress who Chris is trying to help now. During the past 18 months she has been constantly surprised by the number of women who have come with marriage and child problems which have ultimately been traced back to unresolved sexual trauma "One day I had six new clients and five of them had an incest background," she said. "I have also seen cases of brother and sister incest but it doesn't seem to be as

through the anger, fear and sexualrty problems 'They all thought they were the only ones, but I wanted them to see the amazing courage and beauty in survi-

val they all possessed. 'They wouldn't believe me when I told them and they couldn't see it in themselves, but they could see it in others. "They gave to each other in a way I couldn't give on a one to one basis "I can talk to them until I am blue in the face but until someone else says rt. they won't believe they are not alone," she says While people did not usually seek help until they were in distress, anytime was the right time to work through the

emotional trauma of incest. "Distress is certainly a great motivator," she added, "and very often people don't realise there is a problem until they find themselves reacting in an unusual way. 'For instance a woman might come to me because she has been suff enng from nightmares ever since her daughter turned seven, or because she has this irrational fear her daughter will be harmed, or because she can no longer respond sexually to her husband ... "For people who have suffered in this way there is much to worked through "People put it out of their minds because they believe they can't afford to look.

"f they do look at the reality then they will have to question themselves, their father and their mother. "With most of the people I see, it is the fathers who are responsible for the abuse and these women have a difficult time relating to their mother's role 'They all say, 'But she must have known'. "ht's important for them to understand the family dynamics involved in incest. "People like to think in black and white but that is not how things really are." Incest is a family trauma, like alcoholism and mental illness and therefore involves the whole family. It is too easy to single out the offender and lay the blame at his or her feet or to turn to the victim and lay the blame

there There are many reasons why incest occurs, there is much we can all do to ensure rt is stopped The most traumatic incest is between parent and child, says Chris "I have seen many cases of brother and sister incest but it doesn't seem to be so traumatic because the power is equal 'The damage is enormous when a parent abuses a child simply because of the power structure "Children perceive mum and dad as being 'good', therefore when something like this happens a child blames itself and loses a

sense of its worth

'The child is in an impossr ble situation because if it is being abused by one parent then there IS a good chance it will not be able to confide in the other parent "A woman was talking to the press recently about her incest experiences in childhood and said when she did get up the courage to tell her mother, her mother told her never to talk about it, or she would burn her face with an iron." In a report printed in Life magazine in 1984, a woman recounted her experience of sexual abuse. "It began for me when I was nine years old. "My brothers and sisters had been sent to bed I was getting a special treat by being allowed to stay up and watch TV with my stepfather.

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Statistics released last year show a staggering rise of 49 percent in the area of sexual abuse for chidren under five years old. The figures, prepared by the Advisory and Co-ordinating Committee on Child Abuse also revealed a frightening 91 percent of people who sexually abused children of primary school age or younger were either related to the child, or were friends of the family. Such statistics come as no surprise to clinical psychologist Chris Bridge who is a partner in Christian Psychological Services at Como. She has been in private practice for the past 18 months after many years working in Perth prisons, and reports one in three women have at some stage in early life experienced some kind of sexual trauma. Society in general, she says, is so shocked by sexual abuse of children that it tends to react either with disbelief or blind anger. The reality is it exists and neither blind anger nor disbelief will do much to stop it. Many of those who sexually abuse children have been sexually abused as children themselves. It is a vicious cycle which must be stopped. Neither do sex offenders present as deviates. Very often they are people from a strict religious background; pillars of the community and as respectable as you and I, she adds. In this article Chris Bridge talks to ROSLYN ROSS about the problem of incest and about what can be done to stop it and what can be done to help those involved in it.

"l was reading our smalltown newspaper and was puzzled about a word. " 'Daddy, what does assault mean? t is when the Three Stooges say: I've never been assaulted in my life?' He had a strange expression on his face. 'Ill show you what it means', he said.

"He took me into my par-

ents' bedroom -my mother

was waitressing the evening

shift. He removed my yellow PYjamas and took of his

clothes. Nothing was ever the same for me again. 'The following day I was afraid to go into my third grade classroom because I thought everyone could tell. "But I couldn't go home because he was there. "T climbed the fire escape on the side of the yellow brick school and hung to it all morning. shivering and weeping. "When my teacher discovered me there at lunchtime,

she scolded me and told me I was a bad girl.

"I already knew that. 'The nightmare that began with my innocent question was repeated again and again over the next four

years. "He once held a knrfe to my

throat and threatened to kill me if l ever revealed 'our little secret'. "For a long time I did not. I could not. If I had, perhaps I could have saved another

little girl who also became his victim," the article said. Studies carried out in the US show a child IS molested every two minutes in that country and the majority are between the ages of eight and 13. Child welfare professionals clearly define sexual abuse as any sexual touch, by force, trickery or bribery, between two people where there is an imbalance in age, size, power or knowledge. t is a crime almost always suffered in silence and shrouded in such fear that child molesters continue for or a lifetime years without being apprehended. A child who tried to talk with her teacher about the problem was reprimanded for rude language.

The reality, says Chris, is that young children do not he about such things and a sure sign of abuse is when a very young child reveals a detailed knowledge of sex and sexual language that is inapproprate to age. As in the case reported in Life magazine, of sisters Emily and Erica Butter, three and five, who were sexually abused by their father and uncle. Both men denied they were guilty but the judge and therapists firmly believed the girls were telling the truth. "ht was October 9, 1982. I was putting Erica to bed, just folding a shirt with my back to her," recalls Chris Butter,

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"She

said: 'Mummy, penises hurt my bottom.'

"T got down on my knees

beside the bed and asked her to repeat it because Mummy didn't hear. She said that penises hurt her bottom and penises hurt her vagina." Erica was three then, and her sister Emily, 18 months old. "At the time the three were living in a shelter for battered women in St Paul, Minne-

sota.

"Chris Butter had left her husband and their home six weeks earlier 'out of total

fear'.

"Over the next year four psychotherapists independently examined the girls. "Each concluded both Erica and Emily had been sadistically and sexually abused since infancy by their father Peter Butter, 38, who worked for a computer company, and

by his uncle, Charles Butter, 55, who handled military contracts for a major corporation

" You just don't believe this happens in real life, in your life. How could he do such horrible things?' Chris Butter

says.

"The court accepted the] psychotherapists findings and after questioning Erica in his chambers ruled that 'her statements relating sexual contact with her father reflect a detailed knowledge of sex that is inappropriate and beyond the ability of a four to five year old child to invent or fantasise.' "

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some time, the riots took most Goldfielders by surprise. They were ashamed of the minority behaviour that marked Kalgoorlie-Boulder's days of infamy. After the eruption the twin towns took a long hard look at themselves. The foreigners, many of whom had lived in hovels on the leases, were welcomed into the housing areas of the towns and quickly became integrated with the rest of the community. Cyril's move to his own Balfour Street store took place as Kalgoorlie was slowly emerging from the Depression and getting back onto its economic feet "Over the years the store provided us with a good living," he says, "and enabled us to give our two sons an education with the Christian Brothers in Kalgoorlie." About 22 years ago the time came to sell the business and retire and the couple moved to Hampden Street in South Perth. However the house, with its big garden area, finally became too big for the couple to handle and towards the end of last year they were happy to be able to go to the Little Sisters of the Poor at Glendalough.

Marcos would not give up easily, and the revolutionary elements in the Philippines are well armed with weapons and with keen supporters in various sectors of the community. Despite their knowledge of these possibilities, the bishops decided to go ahead With their call for a campaign of non-violent civil disobedience. That decision was a considerable vote of confidence in the people's courage and their ability to withstand the temptation to violence in whatever way it was presented. The final judgment facing the bishops concerned the likely damage to the country and its people resulting from a substantial and prolonged campaign of civil disobedience. At the least, there would certainly be large-scale disruption of various elements of industry, a shortage of many essential supplies, a notable loss of individual and public income, and probably the breakdown of some essential services. The important question was whether the damage inflicted by the use of the civol-disobedience campaign to replace Marcos with Mrs Aquino and her supporters -some of whom are far being angels -would not be greater than that which would follow an illegitimate return to power by Marcos. The bishops came to the conclusion that it would not be. They therefore made their unexpected and very unusual post-election pronouncement. The campaign was mercifully brief and a success. There were some nonviolent confrontations with soldiers led by officers loyal to Marcos, but these were handled almost in text book fashion by the people except for a little stone throwing by children and the feeling there would be no blood bath began to grow. Apart from a couple of short exchanges of rifle fire between soldiers, the weapons remained silent. There were few casualties. When Marcos and his major colleagues realised their support was eroding rapidly, he gave up, and in doing so salvaged a little honour for himself. the Undoubtedly, bishops' intervention

was of crucial importance. They provided a clear moral basis for the campaign and for the claims of Mrs Aquino and they encouraged the people to considerable bravery in demanding their right to elect or reject a president.

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However, there was in the situation one further important element. The fact Marcos remained sufficient humanity to refrain from unleashing the troops at the very beginning when massive violence might have kept his power for him. Non-violent civil disobedience can only sue-

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ceed when its target is not prepared to treat human life as totally expendable. Now, the bishops will have to use their undoubted, and strenthened, influence in trying to ensure the new regime does not follow the pattern of self-seeking and corruption that so disfigured its predecessor.

Help fo r victims

From page 11

It is important people become more aware so that they may discern the clues and understand the problems of incest, says Chris Bridge. To this end she has organised a series of workshops for people who may be likely to come into contact with incest victims. Called Responding to Incest, the workshops will be held next month and are aimed at ministers, youth workers, pastoral assistants, teachers, doctors, lawyers and anyone who feels they may benefit. 'There are signs revealing sexual abuse and the sooner we are able to pick them up the better," she said. 'The problem will not be solved by ignoring it, only by tackling it head on." She believes teachers and doctors especially are in a good position to discern signs of sexual abuse and they should be encouraged to speak out. "A child in this position is always looking for a friend and teachers very easily can fall into that category," she said. t's not good enough to keep quiet just because you 'aren't sure.' "You may never be absolutely sure, but you can learn enough to be able to make a fairly accurate assessment." It is only when incest is

explore the girls' thoughts, memories and feelings surrounding their experience. 'This process, the therapist explained, helps to alleviate the isolation, guilt and shame that even young children experience after incest. "Erica was able to talk about what happened to her little sister before she was able to tell what happened to herself. 'Two-year-old Emily would gag herself with her fist and talk about oral sex "For 18 months the girls visited their therapist every week for treatment. 'T always tell children it's not their fault, because Emily is so young, it never occurred to me she thought it was. When I did say that, she covered herself with pillows and said it was her fault. Kids that young perceive sexual abuse as punishment for being bad,' the therapist said." Offloading the burden of blame is a major part of the problem even for those who do not work through the trauma of sexual abuse until they are adults. "Children automatically blame themselves for such things," Chris said, "and they will continue to blame themselves until they are helped to realise that it was the parent's problem, not their own. 'They may take years to reach that stage but it is a vital part of the healing process. "It is only when they can see it was not their fault they can begin to work on forgiving the

person who has abused them, but that is not something that should be done prematurely, you have to know what you are forgiving them for first." In this situation everyone needs help, she says, both the victim, the offender and other family members. "People have to overcome their repulsion to the word incest if we are going to do something about stopping it "People get angry and say, 'But there's no excuse'. I'm not saying it is an excuse, but it's important to realise the anger they feel is simply because they hate it so much and want to stop it, and yet feel powerless," she said blame "Apportioning doesn't help anyone. "I've talked to both victims and offenders and know we have to continue to see the good in all people. "When l am talking to someone I pray and ask God to let me see the real person. We have to ask ourselves what each person really needs." Christian Psychological Services will hold a further seminar relating to incest later in the year. jiHied Incest Survival it is

planned for May and is open to any adult woman who has experienced incest of any sort. Details can be obtained regarding both the workshop or Group by phoning

brought out into the open that something can be done about it, she adds. 474 1711. Victims of childhood sexuai abuse require therapy, often on a long-term basis. In the case of the Butter girls (in the United2jtates Lte fa~ape) • it was to take more than two years 'Treating the girls was arduous. In addition to their explicit and bizarre sexual knowledge, both showed the cluster of symptoms most common to young victims: toilet training relapses, smearing of faeces, gagging and unexplained vomiting, speech problems, excessive masturbation, withdrawal, requires regular stomach and head pains. "In her sleep, Erica would cover her genitals with both hands and scream for her father to get out of her vagina. 'The treatment strategy included gentle debriefing to

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NYCA is also a part of the Youth Affairs Council of Australia. More than 200 people take part in discussing issues affecting students, lesbians and homosexual men, Aboriginal young women and disabled people. Peace, the environment, unions and Priority One were also discussed. Out of these discussions 70

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Many mountains of a man called Thomas Merton THE SEVEN MOUNTAINS OF THOMAS MERTON, by Michael Mott, Mifflin Houghton 1984). (Boston, $24.95. Reviewed by Father Augustine Hennessy, CP.

This biography of Thomas Merton is a product of Merton's own designing In the Thomas Merton Legacy Trust, set up a year before his death, provisions were made which denied access to his private journals to all except his trustees and his official biographer. Others would have to wait 25 years after his death to enjoy this privilege He was a man of gigantic literary stature and the restrictions on such access were well-chosen. John Howard Griffin, author of "Black Like Me, was designated as Merton's official biographer in 1968 and spent nine years of privi leged research before being forced to withdraw from his unfinished work because of ill health Michael Mott, poet, novelist and professor of English at Bowling Green University in Ohio, was named as his substitute. It was a wise and perspicacious choice. He is a man steeped in the humanities

The meticulous details searched out by these two men are striking evidence of their reverence for their subject and their devotion to the memory of a complex Involved and somewhat tor-

tured man. Merton paid the price of his genius. The Seven Mountains referred to in the title are rather arbitrary but nonetheless significant ways of tracing the odyssey of a restless spirit who wrestled with the lonlines of genius from his early childhood It is a tribute to the integrity of both Griffin's and Mott's research that in this 571-page book, there are approximately 2300 footnotes - an average of slightly more than four refcrences for every page.

The colourful and talented personality of Merton emerges from these pages glowingly and with believable authenticity. He was a man with an evocative power to engender love but nonetheless a man simultaneously glorious and miserable -- not an uncommon endowment of both saints and scholars. In his self-dramatising

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Mothers Are People Too, by Anita Spencer, published by Paulist Press (Ramsey, NJ, 1984). $5.95. Reviewed by Mary Kenny.

youth, Merton could correspond with his friends in Esperanto and macaronic; he mastered five or six languages, apart from his knowledge of Latin and Greek, and had the ambition to learn Russian so that he would be able to converse with Boris Pasternak in his own language. He correspondea and conversed with men and women of every continent. Mott emerges as a sensitive observer of Merton - the man and his moods. He manifests shrewd insight into Dom James Fox's appraisal of Merton's gifts and their byproducts. A tiny inaccuracy occurs in his referring to Dom James as a former "Redemptorist." The abbot was a Passionist before entering the Trappists and apparently directed Merton to seek counsel from two eminent Passionists, Father Cle tus Malloy, a retreat master, and Father Barnabus Ahern, an eminent Scripture scho lar. One of the joys of reading this book is encountering so many eminent peopl who have touched the minds and hearts of most well-read senior citizens: men like Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, Gregory Zilboorg J.F. Powers, and women like Claire Booth Luce, Dorothy Day and Catherine de Hueck Doherty. Merton was always indebted to enriching friendships. Robert Lax and Ed Rice were lifelong friends

Seeing such an engaging title, this reviewer, a stay-athome mother, looked forward to new insights on the changing role of women in our society and how to integrate motherhood and family with pursuits outside the home. Unfortunately, I found instead a single-minded book with a single message: the only way to produce mentally-healthy mothers and children is for mothers to get out of the house early in their children's lives and stay there

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young mothers frequently experience. When one adults is home all day with one or two children, she is frequently crawling the walls. What might young mothers do about this? How might they link up with other young mothers, older persons, teens, singles ..? Author: (quoting another) "The truth is that the traditional set-up puts all women in an impossible role." S-A-H mother: I also admire my friend who has raised four children. When her youngest started school, she wrote her resume. She found that the community work she had done while her children were growing was quite impressive. She now tutors slow learners Author: Women who stay home "run the risk of having to economically and emotionally depend on themselves at some later point in their life and finding themselves ill equipped for the

If you are a stay-at-home mother or if you contemplate staying home with your children while they are young, a conversation with this author might go like this Stay-at-home mother: I want to stay home with my babies. I love being home with my babies Author: "Having mothers be the primary caretakers of children has damaging effects that have never been considered before." S-A-H mother: If I did leave my children, who would raise them? Author: "Many of the attacks on day care in the popular press have focused on day care as it typically exists, whereas research on non-maternal care has dealt with high-quality day care." SA-H mother: In other words Im all right so long as I avoid care that typically exists. I do like your point about the isolation that

women should have a choice of whether they stay home and raise their family or go out and join the work force. I have been very reluctant to say that women did not have a choice because I didn't want to be

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TENNIS

DISABLED RETREAT

Today March 16 is the medal toumament at the Trinity College tennis courts Manning Road, Manning. All association members and their friends are invited to join in the fun. There are 12 courts so everyone is assured of playing plenty of tennis. Play will begin at 1.30 pm. Because there are no drink facilities at the courts, players are asked to provide their own refreshments. Entries for the mixed pennant competition will close

at the medal tournament. Anyone who was planning to enter a team must organise it quickly.

You do not have to be a member of an association

club to enter a team but you must be able to provide two courts for each team. A team consists of two women and four men. Each player will play for four sets of doubles in the afternoon. There are no singles played in this competition. Matches are played on Saturday afternoons at 1.30 pm. The competition begins on Saturday April 12. The association property manager John Messer has a quantity of new tennis balls available for sale to the clubs. Any club needing tennis balls for the coming pennant season can contact John on 458 1898.

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MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER is an ENRICHMENT EXPERIENCE

Sister Sue Mosteller, who has worked with people with disabilities and their families will be leading a Christian Retreat in April. The camp starts on Thursday, April 24 at 7 p.m. and finisheson Saturday, April 26th at 8.30 p.m. Live-in accomodation is available for 64 people. The organisers have deliberately kept the cost down to the bare minimum so that as many people as possible will be able to attend. The venue for the retreat/camp is Noalimba Centre on Venus Street, Bateman. Early registration is advised. Please contact Emmanuel Centre, 25 Windsor st. East Perth, 6000 or ring 09-328 8113 to reserve your place. $35 covers all costs including meals.

FMM PROFESSION

Sister Eliza beth Ann Moore of Burma will make her final profession in the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary on Saturday March 22 at 10 am at the Holy Infant Church 47 Wellington Street Morley. At 5 pm the same day, there will be a reception in her honour at Our Lady Lourdes Church Parish Hall Nollamara. Bring a Plate and your own Drinks. Thank you. Enquiries 272 1379.

GLENDALOUGH JUBILEE

A cordial invitation is extended to all

past parishioners of St. Bernadette's to

attend a concelebrated pontifical Mass at St. Bernadette's on Sunday April 6 at 9.O0am, on the occasion of the silver jubilee of the opening of the church. Morning tea will follow at the Wembley Lodge, Cambridge Street, Wembley.

KOHLER SCULPTURES

People with any information on the status and plaques made by sculptor Ted Kohler (1980-1965) are asked to contact Robyn Taylor 350 7816, 350 7410, 381 3786 who is researching his life for publication to the University of WA. Kohler's works include the Brother Keaney statue at Bindoon and the Madonna rondo in Highgate church, St Joseph the Worker at Applecross, Queen of Martyrs at Fremantle.

CHURCH PEACE SERVICE

An interdenominational Palm Sunday peace service, to be held this year in St Mary's Cathedral on Sunday 23 at 1.15pm will be addressed by the Anglican Archbiship of Perth Or Peter Carnley. Other churches will be officially represented.

The service will include liturgical dance performed by the Christian Dance Fellowship. The Cathedral will be decorated and encircled by a "'peace ribbon" prepared by parish groups, schools and individuals from

all over Perth. The Palm Sunday Peace Service is organised by the Churches Peace Coalition. For information contact the Catholic Social Justice Commission. Telephone 325 1212.

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ST JOSEPH'S MEETING

The annual general meeting of past pupils of St Joseph's of the Sacred Heart will be held on Sunday evening, March 16 at St Joseph's Convent, York Street,

South Perth, commencing at 8 pm. A cordial invitation is extended to all past pupils to attend this meeting and also to take the opportunity to learn about the Josephite Associateship.

FAMILY WEEKEND

A family experience to be held on the weekend of April 18-20 at St Charles Seminary, Meadow St, Guildford, a nonlive in program in which the whole family can participate. It is a Marriage Encounter program and is a bonding and rewarding experience for all members. Children need to be at least 5 years old to be able to participate fully. There is no upper age limit. For enquiries contact Bernie and Bernadette Lawrence on 367 1261.

Queen.

It is the duty of all active members to attend this ceremony. Al Auxiliary and Adjutor members are invited to take part affirming "I am all Thine my Queen and my Mother and all that I have is Thine." Refreshments will be available afterwards.

ITALIAN MISSION

328 6938.

Every week he will preach a short mission of five days, and on Sundays a ministry to the sick Mass, preaching, and sacrament of confession will be the main points of these short missions. These missions will give the Italian community a new preaching voice, and an extra chance to make their confession in the time of Easter. It will also be a remote preparation to the visit of the Pope in WA. Parishes which are interested in the services of Father Luigi, are asked to apply to Father Nanni OM. 211 Aberdeen Street, Perth, telephone 328 6938.

BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE

The usual pilgrimage to the Grotto of the

Virgin of the Revelation at Bullsbrook will take place Sunday March 23 at 2pm, (and not on the last Sunday of this month as it is Easter Sunday).

Mass and Benediction will be celebrated on Sunday April 6 at 11.30am. For further information and bus reservations please contact P. Galea on 349 7135 or L. Martinz 328 4631.

WOMENS MEETING

The Western Australian Committee of WATAC invites interested women and men to an evening of reflection and discussion on the theme Justice in the Life of Women at 7.30pm on Tuesday March 18, in Catherine McAuley Hall, Catherine McAuley Centre, Station Street, Wembley. For further information contact Jenny Waller 444 0064 or Clare Jackson

447 8921.

CHORISTERS WANTED

The West Australian Girls' Choir is anxious to recruit girls, particularly those

over sixteen years who sing in the contralto range. Interested girls are asked to telephone the Musical Director, Daniel Girling on 387 4287 (anytime) or the Hon. Secretary, Roberta Chapman on 293 1518.

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COMING WEEKENDS

CHARISMATIC MEETING

The Charismatic Renewal in hope for Religious will hold a day of recollection on Sunday April 13 (not March 9) from 10 am to 4 pm at the Victoria Square old novitiate. Meetings are held in the Mercedes College staff room at 2 pm on the first and third Saturdays of each month. Further information from Sister Raphael 325 4875.

McAULEY JUMBLE SALE

Catherine McAuley Centre, Station Street Wembley: The ladies' Auxiliary will be having a jumble sale on Wednesday March 19, 9 am to noon. All clothing 40 cents.

MARIAN MOVEMENT

A Cenacle will be held on Friday March 21 at the Little Sisters of Carmel, 2 Frazer

Street Swanbourne, beginning at 10.30am. Enquiries to Yolanda Nardizzi 447 8885 or Bob Wright 447 6223.

The Sisters of Our Lady of the Mission invite past pupils and friends to the launching of 'These Have l Loved" by Sr M. Sebastian Maher a book about our pioneer sisters, some of whom may have taught you Sun March 23 2.30 pm 40 Mary St, Highgate

TEACHER EXCHANGE

FIND OUT ABOUT THE WEEKEND BY PHONING COL & KATH MITCHELL 09 448 4624

Peace service organiers s show St Mary's Cathedral administrator Fr rzanski the banner for the March 23 service. The Record, March 13, 1986

ACIES CEREMONY this year at St Thomas Apostle Church Claremont (cnr Melville and College Rd) on Sunday March 23 at 2.45 pm concluding with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. This ceremony is the annual demonstration of members of the Legion of Mary, to stand up and be counted whilst making their affirmation of fealty to Mary who is

Father Luigi Viziano, of Genova, Italy, is coming to preach a series of Missions to the Italian Community of WA from April 15, until the end of July. His residence will be at the Presbytery, 211 Aberdeen Street, West Perth, WA telephone

April 11-13 PT HEDLAND April 18-21 NORTH PERTH May 2-4 TO0DYAY May 16-18 NORTHAMPTON

LEGION ACIES

The Fremantle Curia is holding its

Exchange teaching position in 1987 (6 or 12 mth period) available at St John's College, Nambour, (Sunshine Coast, Queensland), in the area of Speech and Drama and English. Swap accomodation included, 2 bedroom house at Peregian Beach (10 minutes south of Noosa.) Would prefer High School and accommodation in the western suburbs or city areas. Contact. Mr John Scott. C/O St John's College, M.S. 1096 Perwillowen Road, Nambour, 4560, Queensland Ph. 071 412906