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'During the next fire to JO years the Catholic Education Commission on behalf of the Catholic Church in WA proposes to construct four or five oth r Prendirille Colleges and ite a umber of prim ry schools in city and country areas, all of them oriented towards growing papulati s. "We inte d to ask the State Gorernment to intro ce a ew element of the present interest su sidy for ew sc ool development" See story page 2.

Bedford-Inglewood parish acksworkofYok ne miss onary wor ing in orphanag in path of Gad fl's hordes of nd Libyantroops uer Ila ... acked tory p g 6 and feaure, pages 10 and 1 .

' A Catholic school has to be different because it tries o do for its stude ts what the secular schools do no ave to do, Arc bisho Foley sai last Su day. It had o provide its students with experiences hat cater for the total person and t at are ot i eluded i any other program he old the large gathering at Prendiville College Ocean Reef which he essed at its official ening. Like other schools, he said, Catholic schools have o ca er for physica I growth, to meet c munity intellectual stan ards, to prov· entrance to tertiary education an supply emotional care for their students. But a Catholic school has o provide twu o her dimensions if it is to justify its existence.

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A rchbishop Foley writes to all parishes in a new drive To all my fellow-workers in the Priesthood, all Religious Brothers and Sisters, and all Catholic people in the Archdiocese. In the Archdiocese of Perth, I have been heartened to see the generous spirit of its people, especially in providing pastoral assista nce to those in real need. Proof of this can be seen in the many organisations and helping groups that have been established to serve the poor and those wanting to hear the Gospel of Christ. However, I wish to aw to your attention the need our Church in Perth has for an increase in the number of generous "ndividuals who are called to serve as Priests and Religious Brothers and Sisters. There ar t ose in your parish communif es who have received a call from God to share in the Priesthood or the lrfe of he Religious. What God has placed in the heart of each of hose people VIie - bishops, priests, religious, indeed all God's peop e - are called o foster. The purpose of his Pastoral Letter is to launch a campaign to foster a climate in the local church for vocations to priesthood and religious life. While doing this, I ha a special concern and responsibility that people have an adequate number of priests o minister to them. Such a vocation needs to be ost

ARCHBISHOP FOLEY has issued his first pastoral letter since taking office in December, 1985. The letter will be read in all archdiocesan churches this Sunday, known as Good Shepherd Sunday, because of the gospel reading, to mark the beginning of a two-year intensive drive to recruit more trainees for the priesthood to serve in Perth's parishes and for more men and women to take up the call of dedicated life in a religious community.

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THE FAMILY 'CALLERS' The family should bet fertile ground out of which any perso might experi nee the call to be a priest. Your fa iii will ma e the greatest contn ution if they are I I by a spirit of faith, charrty and piety. Wrth so many ot r 'NO<thwhile vocations present·aI call to priesthood that a ves, t ing t e in enoour person rn y f I ·n th ir life has to the tru I environm m of the family. THE PARISH 'CAWERS' that he pro o io , th parish must Like of vocations IS no a ''marginal actlVtty of the commun " (Jo n Paul II . Message on XX:11I Won r or Vocations 1986). Day o Pr Thin for a morn nt Your par sh d pends so much on th spImual ministry of the for s lif a priest who proclaims the Gospel in Word and Sacram r . . fo example, som thing of the Without our pri esus wou be la ing in the vvorld, and forg ness. 'Vocations are "A Community which is poor in vocations Church; but a Community th ri im which i r in vocattOnS enriches t who e Church." Day of Prayer (John Pa I II : M for Voca I ns 1986). ively foster vocations? How are you as par to Firstly, r in a fully Christi n way. (Op um t tius, 2). They who are called will come forward to serve when t comm nit tnH\Jr mmP.from are vital, alive. , be a prayi rommunrty. Vocatio are S gift g· n by God to the community an invalu whi prays. See that you pray unceasingly, especially the s· and the suff ring, for our ayers united With the Cross of Christ are most p0V11erful. an inviting community. The call of the Third , e ibili of I tting so community ha th r who is called know how to carry out G ·s p n. Finally, a rnissiooarycommunity. We must never , every parish, indeed e ry ry di forget tha individual ·s called to proclaim Christ. proclaim their Lord by forsa ing family and So friends f other lands. Others respond genero ly to serve their local communities.

Vocations will be fostered by such a m1ssio ary community. This year th Archdiocese of Perth has 13 students or the priesthood. My prayer is that over the next two years we can do le that number. This is a realisable targ t We have 100 parishes, t e majority of which are in the metropolitan area. I believe here are thirtee men, even more, ready to be called and fostered. We are all to be their "callers". For my part. with the help of Bishop Healy, I have set myself the task of visiting as many parishes as possible over these two ye rs to encourag the promotions of vocations locally. will The Vocations· Committee of the Archdi visit the Zones of Priests to support th min their roe as "Callers". It is my hope that this Pastoral Letter will m e you aware oft especial effort 'Ne need o ma e to aeate a positive climate that encourages those called to respond and latx>ur in the Lord's vineyard. Remember, a visib e sign that the Church ·s ever young and vibrant is the richness of vocati ns. On Good Sheph rd Sunday, April 20, 1986. From P rth, WA

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Archbishop Prendiville MANILA, (NC) - Church people attempting to talk Philippine guerillas into cease fires will be treated courteously, but will have little influence on t e rebels, said spokes a for communist Philippine organisatio He was commenting on the efforts of a Cat olic nun to bring a ceasefire government between troops and communist forces in Eastern Samar, a rebel-controlled area int e central Philippi es, 280 miles south of Ma ila. However the u , Sister 'o, founder of • Sisters of saids e o rin "During his term of blished 60 office he new schools, added 73 . and ·ntronew duced 650 memben! of religious orders to WA. "He became a legend • h. efforts to build up the Church. "At the 1946 P rth vi iting id Perth wa bish probably the best org •

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Teachings of the fait Th CITY: ATI A1 Church' teaching authority i "binding" on theology, but hould not be considered a "ball and chain," Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, ongr gation for th head of th Faith, said. the of D trine

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• N got"atin Sister nun Gemma Silvera talks ith communist rebel • the mountains Eastern of Samar, Philip• pin s. She was there to negoti te the surrender of N rmy P opl ' members to the av r ment of President zon Car Aquino.

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permits interfaith Communion. there ill have to be an agreement on the nature of the Church and on the priesthood. "For Catholics," the pope said. "the problem of eucharistic sharing cannot be resolved in isolation from our understanding of the mystery of the Church and of the ministry which serves unity." The pope made his remarks during an audience with Dutch Protestant leader on the last day of a series of Vatican meetings between the Dutch Churchmen and officials of the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. During the meetings. the Dutch delegation had sharp criticism for Catholic Church policy on inter· Communion, inter-mar· riage and ordination of omen to the prie thood. o aid that the The Catholic Church in the

Briefs CNATICAN CITY (NC) - Bishops in the southern African nation of Angola have called on the international community to help end a 10-year-old "fratric·c1aI war" between guerillas and the country's Marxist government. Vatican Radio has reported. The world's great powers, the bishops said, should aid Angola "not with war, but with peace." They criticised nations that have "come into our country with arms." The bishops made their appeal in a pastoral letter entitled "Firm in Hope. Pastoral Reflections after 10 Years of Independence." The letter was distributed March 16 in Angolan churches. [IlJ

OTAIPEI (NC) - Taiwan's bishops' conference has supported the suspens,on of two priests who recently won council seats in two counties. Efforts by one of the priests and his parishioners to forestall the suspensions were unsuccessful. Bishop Kupfer of Taichung suspended Father Ignatius Tsai Gewi-tsung, a member of the Atayal tribe, from clerical duties after the priest took his Nantou County Council B1shq:J Joseph Lin Thien-Chu of Chiayi, Taiwan, took similar action against DMne World Father John Yang Dian-Yi. a Tsao tnbal member on the Chiayi County Council. The standing committee of the bishops' conference in Taipei backed the two bishops' suspension of the priests but praised the priests' intentions.

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The Nicaraguan bishops have accused their nation's foreign minister, Father Miguel O'Escoto. a suspended Catholic priest. of heading a campaign to I against incrte icaraguan Catholics to r the pope and the country's hierarchy. The bishops issued their er ic1sm n a 3CX}-word statemen The statement reiterated the desire of t bishops to resolve Church-state problems through d alogue. The statement crrtiosed Father 0'Escoto. who had said bishops oW<)Sed to the government should leave the country. Such statements "put in danger the security of the bishops and of Church said personnel." the stat

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ate these divisions" or "whether we can become architects of a ne situation in hich the divisions bet een us are healed at the root." Afterward. in the Cle• mentine Hall. the pope told the Dutch group and official . s cretariat includin Cardinal Adrianu Simoni of U r cht. h d of the Outch bi hop ' conference and a unity secretariat member. he "must insi t again that ecumeni m i a pa t r I

re in pain, n priority in the Catholic Church and for all Christians." "All of us," he said. th m "must commit our elves to raid the bu· and i seeing that the goal of Oc pro• visible unity is never lost and sight of." 'd. d ath The pope said that lac regular governfa I I call.In pri of unity has led to serious fore pastoral problems. ,..., _____________ _ everthe less. added, "pastoral problems their Iu·anttop de •ed ti r can never be re olved surely or fully if e gloss over the differences in faith of which those pa toral problems are the ruit." r a pr During the four day of meetin s at the secreta· m m r riat, the Prat tant lead r complained that the th a ti ) church policy against .• I inter-Communion hurt famil life

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Perth parish es collec t to help Sri Lanka Chad and Sri Lanka are the two sponsored projects adopted by the Bedford-Inglewood parishes for 1986 under their Family Fast project. What is Family Fast? - Father Jim Petrie experienced it in England in 1964. Returning to Australia, he successfully introduced it into the Bentley parish late 1970. his transfer ~--~ Following to Bedford-Ing lewood parishes, it was started there in 1981. Many m1ss1onaries have little or no contact with individual parishes; this Family Fast program is a touch personal whereby parishioners t hrough thei r own sacrifices and endeavours are able to reach out to mission outstations and give assistance in a personal way.

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were the nominated on es this year. oorhouse, Grace Methodist nursing sister of he Chad near mission was Abeche, recently given a cheque for $2,CXX) for her sponsored mission, at All HalInglewood lows church. She is currently home on leave. The scheme hopes to forward further cheques o er the next nine months to support the mission. For t ho e parishes adoptin th Family Fast program (there are other parishes ), th re also invo is a simp e ormat. No m . tings are h A treasurer collects money after each Sunday Mass nd deposits it in an interest bearing fund, from which money orders are sent, usually every three months, eit er direct to th missi n

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talks from people personally associated. Project Compassion or Miss1 n collectio s ha been affected by these specia I programs. The Family Fast a rag i take for B ford-lnglew o o 70 and parish is figures are p I1cised • then ws ta y plus ter, e enc correspond from the nomina ed pani Recip"ents are enooura ed to wri during th year, elling how

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Shiftin g h r gears o thelev e A few months ago Dr Doris Donnelly moved with her two children to become co-director of new Centre for Spirituality. For the theologian, the move meant " hifting gear on the social, personal, career and roots levels." As he adjusted to her new life, which include • teaching and lecturing, the area that "kept surfacing for attention" was her spiritual life, M • Donnelly said. 1n prayer, she kept receiving "a recurrent, gentle urging" to find a spiritual guide, something she had not felt he needed for some years.

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.. Part of me said: 'How can P There arc so many change~ in my life now. I can't take the time'," she recounted. But she continued to pray and before long an appropriate person came along with whom she now talks regularly He helps her "to sec the movement of God in my life," ~he said. For Ms Donnelly, setting priorities is essential. "It has to do with the kind of person I am," she said "I like to look back at the end of a day, a week, to rC\.iew and measure. Without priorities, there i no way of gauging where I'm at." Setting priorities tells her "this is something I will make sure gets attention," she continued. igiung priorities for spiritual development is a highly individuali ed endeavour, M Donnelly emphasised. It isn't possible to set up a ingle "regimented schedule" for everyone. "It doesn't work that way," she said "God ha:, a panicular agenda and plan for each of us. We set our own priorities in fidelity to the invitation coming to us in prayer." At the same time, in Ms Donnelly's experience there are "three common denominators" for Christian spiritual growth. • a Eucharistic dimension: People touch base with the Eucharist, beginning with Sunday Mass; gradually they may find they desire to participate more often.

By Katharine Bird • a Chru t-centrcd clement: An individual de\-elop. a per.;onal reiati n. hip with Jesus whi h grow . • a ocial-ju tice angle: Awarenes of the misfortune of other., leads sooner or later to a de ire to help other.,. But the ,vay of helping vario enonnou,ly depending on indi\idual circumMances. When she sen·es as a guide for others, 1s Donnelly ~d. her main concern h helping people di~ ver "where God is leading them." The gre-.it gift a spiritual guide has co offer is listening .. hl· said. The theologian stressed a guide doe.n·t ha,·e to hold a Ph.D in spiritual direction Some, of course, are proi . sionally trained while other· arc compasionate pastoral assc.tants. Many times a good friend can sen-e as a spiritual guide, she beliC\.'Cl>. Friends can "ask questio from a loving, non-threatening base," Ms Donnelly said It also can happen that at some point the friend will suggest talking with someone who has more specialised kills. "People usually ha~-e a sense ofwfult God wmts," she explained. But they often doubt their ability to recognise God's voice.

ODO . "My experience, and that of others, is not that God clobbers a person," she said. Rather, God's voice usually comes in "a fleeting, non-coercivt: urge, in a gentle and recurrent emphasis" leading u:, to make a certain ded ion or to do something. That's where a spiritual guide comes in, she said. A guide helps us clarify "how God is acting in our lives." People "learn by practice" how to recognise the igns of God at work in their lives.

Jesus' word does not shock 11 affl ■ eat societies there is aotlal11 sllockiag altout J, s' w rds: "I Wll"I YOII then; do not WOffJ allOllt your liv libood, flit YN lrl tout or ri or 11H for de>thlnl" (Matthew 6:25). So many people in such societies rarely have to wonder where their Nit meal is comin& from. U11fortunately, that is st of the not tni, in world, evu some sectors of 11nerally well-to-do C

ntriH.

But for those who heanl Jesus SflHk, the w ti , have Ilea•

revolutloury. Food 1 dri WIS I top priority, not because U..y were it beca ctuttons was always ••certain whether these basic needs w Id lie met. Water WIS tile chief and co tant - preoccupation of bibliul people. I mode.-. Israel the Lake

of Galilee 1111 Ileen lltilised sci111tlfically 111d efficiHtly to ,rnide water for the entire populatloa. But I ■ bibliul times people lacked the ry experti and

IJ. Peo,le were de ndent 01 viii•&• w lls w11·c11

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could rv dry in times of drou&ht, or on cisterns in

which they CH&ht and presened rai• water. But rain 11Haliy falls o ly from Octoller to April in the Holy Land - whe■ it r iu. Th's made for an always prec.1rious slbl• tlon. Wat.- ea life. Witlteut it llffllle sufferlil fr thirst and also frolll h1111er. Without rain nothl er w. TIM ,rophet Elii.h liv duri ■ &

cala111ito ■ s

three-y ar roupt. The roupt forms tlM NCk•

crouad ad t11e 8"lsi

for a wbole series of dra atlc evtnts in bis mi •stry. TIMy lie for ltiply i eresti I nadin1 in 1 Kines 17-18.

Even in modml Israel, ost CO

Oftl of IN

slpts is tlYt of wa r sprayin& ■ p over the fields from i ■ 1111ious 4evlces irri&ation unknown to the 11eients. TIiey exercised tlleir l11enuity I ■ u1ui11 ways, but tlley wen ltlmately at the mercy f the I IH■ts. When it mi &pri people d

to deterical

chol s.

For practical renou, suniul cam first. Of course, sunival illYOIYH mont tlla life&JYin& water. In I lara:ely •&ricult■ ral society, a l1r1e fa ily was consin&, supply. dered I Ill I &a plentiful work force of for the hanl 11 wresti ■& a ■ uisteace from the roc11J seil. lso meant M y 111l nst protectio ■ marauders, or llostile rs. nei Hnin& cllildrH was h an I portant prior• was itytlaatch'ldl a curse from

parents was set fortll as a most sacred duty. "Tak1 care of y r father when he is old; &rieve Iii not as loa& as be lins. Even if his milld fails, IN considerate witll llim

(Sirach 3:12-13). II sons OIi, there w of decisiom to IN made uch llay, the necessary orderi ■ & of priorities tlYt first wlllch e thin s set doN finl B■t h1 tlle wortd f llay•to-4ay er, life, 111 set, Ii of ority:

Some people tried to hide their smiles. Others laughed openly. A four-year-old boy, weighed down with a suit of armour, marched beside his father, the Marquis of Castiglione. as they reviewed the lines of soldiers standing at attention. Little Aloysius' father was training him to follow in his footsteps as a leader in northern Italy. But Aloysius became very sick during the training sessions with the army. That was the end of his military career. A few years later, Aloysius was sent to live with his father"s friend, the Grand Duke Francisco de'Medici. Life at the Medici palace shocked Aloysius. Princes and princesses constantly were partying, drinking and using drugs. They lied oonstantly to cover up their secret lives. Aloysius found a book, "Lives of the Saints," in a relative's house. The stories of these great Christians made a ~ impression on him . He also prayed daily from a book of meditations by Jesuit Father Peter Canisius. Young Aloysius decided to become a member of the Jesu it religious order. His father was furious. He sent his son on a tour of Italian palaces. He hoped Aloysius vvould be attracted by the luxury, pleasure and povver other princes and prircesses his age enjoyed. But Aloysius came back more convinced then ever of his decision. His father finally let him go.

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Some smile, some laugh Aloysius was 17 when he entered the Jesuit community. He loved the life of prayer and study. After taking vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, he began his studies in theology in Rome. There was a terrible famine at the time in Italy. People were starving and many became sick. A very contagious disease spread through the cities and thousands died. Aloysius volunteered to care for the sick and to raise money for the poor. He went through the streets of Rome looking for sick people. He

carried them to hospitals where he washed them, fed them and prayed with them. His superiors warned him how dangerous it was to touch the sick with this oontagious disease. But Aloysius knew the sick needed someone to care for them. One day he caught the disease and became very weak. For weeks he wasted away. He continued to pray for those he could no longer help. Aloysius died on June 21. 1591. He was just 23. We celebrate the feast of St Aloysius Gonzaga on June 21 .

ime zone! I recently bumped into our building security guard. He had a big smile on his face. "You know what?" he said. 'Tm going fishing. In fact, I'm going fishing every day, all day." "How are you going to manage that?" I asked 'Tm taning a two-week vacation tomorrow. If I want to go fishing at 5 am, I'll go. If I don't, I won't. It'll be great." I wished him luck as he almo t skipped down the hall toward the exit.

Then there is the tory of the construction worker who won '30 million in a state lonery. He found out be bad "'-on m--er the weekend and was planning to continue his $450-a-wcek job oo Monday - that is, before bis family bid his clothes. 1bose tw-o stories got me thinking How do I spend my vacations? What would I do if I "'-on millions of dollars? I believe it is a great value to have freedom m-er our time, freedom to control our lives. Yet this kind of free. dom is so unusual that we can hardly imagine wm.t it means when it arrr.'CS unexpectedly, as h2ppened to the lottery winner. lost of us most of the time don't havt, this control. At v,,ork we arc told wm.t to do and when to do it We ha~ responsibilities to meet, bills to pay, food to buy and prepare, 5helter to secure :igainst the elements. We often feel pulled now this way, now that. We can lose our balance and experience frustration and depr ion, not because ·we hate a job or arc unwilling to meet our commitments to but because we feel others --, j,,Ulor, th Lib Atl..ta. • Cen-■tillll Jilffl#s •f Su ,-se, CalH • , ,radices llis skill • i t th ,.,_tieul 1 fillll thy hH "IH 11M11J Nib i,, tlle air" Mtl ur1 a MflClllt ti • tha, s.ttillt ,ri«itifl ilt wwt, ,-neNI utl v.-e ha,-e lost control of our o ,n tr,·es ..ttws ill ,-,,.ctiYe. (NC ,-to ,,._ IJl'I Ilardi JT, J } ·rmia/ lit cu hi,

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with many responsibilities and opportunities

choose their priorities? Ooes clarifying priorities help peC111le to grow as Christians? Kathari ■e Bird interviews Dr Doris Do lly about the changes she experienced in mowing from New Yor1I to South Bend, Indiana. The area that kept c,ying out ,.,. attention 111d a cha11ge in focus was her spiritual life, the theologia■ says. Ms Bini is associate e4itor of the NC religious education padlage. Dr Theodore Hengtsi.acb says that settia& priorities is a ,nmary way of gainin& freedom ower oar ti me 1114 activiti es. He s ■ uests aa uffcise to help people determine what some of their ,.-iorities rully are. Hencesbacb is an ad It educator at lndi1111 U iversity i ■ South Bend.

Freedom vvith time a boon but unusual by THEODORE HENGESBECH How can incfuiduals find ways to stretch or extend chclr freedom? One way is to set priorities. A priority is 5Qmcthing a person considers of grot personal importance, v.-orth time and energy Priorities vary from person to person. They could include relation• ships with a spouse, child· rcn, friends - and with God. A job, further education or owruog a borne may be priorities. To find out what your individual priorities arc, try the foUowing exercise: e briefly list things and values that matter most to you. What arc you willing to "spend" yourself on?

• next, run a check of how much time, energy or money, you really spend on any of the items you listed as priorities. Are there some items on which you spend a lot of time and energy? Are there two or three on ""hich you spend ,-ery little time and energy? I like this test because it can help identify some posible conflicts between what a person says and docs. It can lead to a clearer notion about what is really important to a particular person. Chances are, the items on which you spend most of your time and energy are true priorities. But some-

times people discm-er that they arc spending very little time or energy on 50DlC· thing they thought ~ a

priority. • that might mean this ISll°t really a prionty after all. • other tim , the item listed is a priority but the person needs to nuke an effort to find time and energy to reali 1t. This might mean ~ some long· and short-range goals. For example, If a ~-acation trip is important to me, I

need to SUrt now to s;r.-e money for 11.. get maps and plan, begin accumulating vacation days. Setting priorities is a way to achie,,-e greater control over life. It is a way of channeling energies and deciding what is imporunt Priorities extend our free. dom, because they prmide direction and purpose, help us organise our life and get greater satisfaction from it Setting priorities can g;,-e us 50methlng perhaps evm

S30 million cannot buy. For neitner money nor time off by themselves can equal the satisfaction of knowing what is important ,n onc·s life and >orking to achieve it. It 012y C>'Ctl help us to experience some of the glee of the fisherman off on tu.s vacation ..hen we're still back at home ourset.

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• • p rth m1ss1on ary finds orphan age work

Nort h African war

Chad! - Grace Moorhouse·s home for the past 17 years - is certainly some contrast to her family home in suburban Yokine. There's no fighting in Yokine, an abundance of food, a great climate - but for Grace, no challenge. A nursing sister by profession, she's a missionary at heart, and has combined these two callings in her work at French speaking Chad. It is this challenge that drew her there in 1967 and keeps taking her back after her home leave. Grace grew up in Yok,ne and "'1/ent to Bible (missionary training) College where she learned a lot of practical 'NOrk. She did a midwifery post graduate oourse and premature and sick nellVborn course. Grace nursed in the Victorian Warburton Ranges, then returned and did another year at RPH. After graduation she went to Paris for a year to learn French, hav,ng joined the Sudan United Mission with the French branch, her intention being to go to Chad. Arriving in 1967, Grace's role was to care for babies at their mission which in Arabic ·s called Baka As-salam which means Place of Peace. Grace speaks French, Arabic and English. Chad is situated south of Libya in between Nigeria and the Sudan. It is an autonomous country, having achieved independ• ence from France in 1960, with a Garan president. H' n Habre. "Li e a lot of countries in Africa,·· said Grace, "you have the Arabs m the north of Chad and in the south you ve Christians and Anemists (spirit worshippers. as n some parts of Papua New Guinea ) The Christian composition is mostly Catho ic and Protestant. "The climate ,s pretty hot and we ......ould have about four months or so around 40-45°C. That lasts throug unttl M rch. April, M y and June and they you and sticky with the humidity until the rains start are m mid July. 'The rains last for six to eight had famines back m 1983 1984 and part of 1985, C which "'1/ere the culm1natJ01"1 of no ram, thus no er harvest (their maior source of sustenance). no wat for the v,llages- so migratron from the villages into the towns rs. I or the nomadic gr - no ncome for t r ral and of course no ood

When he left King John School in his ative Essex. Alan Jennings worked In a number of offices. experience The heightened his interest in office and business management and led him to a number of courses part-time including one in shorthand at Pitman College, named after the modern founder of the

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re many was the vicious circle and caught in tt people who died of starvation and 75 per cent of the nomads' cattle. During the drought years. t e VIiiagers left their homes because of lack of water and came to live m the tOYYn, ·ch by early usually camping ovemIg t In the marl< ng bodies; and n strewn Withs morning could be traders they would then nse and vacate the market or ng for their and shoppers. and th themselves go income. Chad a ut half the size of Western Austr Ii and has a population of four million Two thirds of the co ntry is desert. ing The Arabs are typical noma . th c:oun ry. grazing th • nd Th

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art. e quickly reached the 140-160 words-a-minute mark. His proficiency impressed ntors who his tea him and tness subjects and shorthand I 19 6 he decided to Wilt WA to see his sister Bobbie (Mrs Pratt) who was IMng on a f rm at atanning which nd managed. her hu It was to be a tnp through all the states and a return to England via Canada, but C pid halted the JOUmey in

WA On his return from Katanning he met a girl in Perth named Anne Woods and partenered her to a ball. That was the start of the romance that led to the altar. Anne was the main reason for his decision to stay in W but there were also other the state that things a appealed to him. He had brought with him from his long-di ance ru ues m England ning col (he still runs 10 k1lometr a day) I tt s of intr uctlOO to WA athletes and he qu ly made fn nds. t climate, the lifestyle.

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A regular feature By BOB BOYLE

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r, 4, 1940.

His first job here was on the adm1n rative side of the Police Department, but the blossoming courtship of Anne was temporarily int rl4)ted in 1968. She went to the orthWest a a Church lay worker foc Bishop Jobst and, wrth ot r lay workers, founded and oonducted a c:reche for

of money to buy aIn. 1NOf118n as

Xavier (15

Aboriginal children in Broom. nee, and under In her a pr ure from nobody, he obtained ht ature from the Catholic lnfocmat1on Se and finally decided to embrace the faith. During Anne·s 12-month Alan t absence In Br instructions from Father (now

Bishop) Hickey. without The good pri saying a word to Alan, had qu·etly ta en steps to further the young man's romance withAn . Archbishop Prend1ville ad Just died and was due to be bured with all the ceremonial attached to the fu ral of a prelate. Father Hickey k w B Jobst was due to fly his O\M1 plane down to att ss and tuner I and had arra ed for him to bri nt at pr Anne down to Alan's rec ptIon into the place Church, which t a ut the same time. t • His official of n Chur

regularly with Anne,

the Highgate parish oouncd. the first to be formed in W of which he was secretary. About the only thing he had not don was go to Communion. Alan had changed his job as well as his faith. By then he had Jomed t real esta firm of Dudley and Dwyer, first as assistant accountari. m accountant He I r and company seer ary. Subsequently he spent rs with Jones La mana er and accountant, and he has n<YN worked Fox for 2½ Ptull Over the

lways to? Who had th f One Catholic m1SSIon st mil to needy babies nd at one chI1dr n daily, plus her other d i 'That was no mean featl" id Grace. The mIss100 buys its food sLW!ies n the town of ,AbeChe for purchase, but the local peq>le re food Is va1l do not have the money to buy rt. The women who vvorlc for their mission get around $5 , one bowt of grain cost a week. but during th bad tI income earning, $2.50. So although ucky enough to they still had 1nsuff1e1ent means of sust nance. The price has now dropped to 50C a koro (bowl) . meat. powdered m1 "for ourselves. we buy It , but not the macaroni and nee. We get th frills," said Gr tween he north and south m Chad The fig ting started in 1979 "and has V1rtually continued on," said Grace. rt.

h a bul piercing the out and o course we rapped up the

zone - in a Gaddafi region - a real challenge .. •

okine a long ay to war rn Chad ■

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In 1900 one house was ~letely destroyed by a bomb, but once again no one was hurt. The people ran off into the bush because they only had little straw houses for protection. "But after the fighting they returned and looked in to see if the bies and we were ol<." said Grace. "It was in er ing to note as soon as word came there was fighting in the north, the Red Cross, the UN food program and German workers digging wells for Saucf out. Only missionaries remained. The Arabia. all others returned when hosti • cea ," she said "But I thought • we had gon too," said Grace, ··our would ha gone also. We represent Christian wrt the only stabilrty m the reQIOfl in those tro ed times." s came in and ed r n In the early 80s. the took over two owns in the north France had said rn 1983 "would not stand there ~ Libya came further so ofChadwrt mto

a Wrthdr

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south,

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menaai rther f and were ntly; I don't he country

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been Grace.

to take their children ihe mothers are quite es we recie are from mothers The rna_JOrrty oft ng d rn ch1kl>irth The mortalrty rate for , birth is still very hig and also for their new born. "If the mother d th n. so will the babies because their babies are automatically breast f If the mother dies there les to feed the baby. are no othet" mil resources That's where Grace and her team come in. babies 'When I came on leave recently, 319 new had gone through the home since 1963," said Grace. ' We ta e these children and keep them throughout their childhood. The eldest girl vve have is 21 and is preparng for marriage." re are serrn-arranged marriages, but the girl does have some choice. A dowry 1s involved n marriages. "Divorce ma Mosl m soc·ety ·s very easy," said Grace. e "On the whole the woman's ro 1s no the most en posrtlOfl. Worn n tend to count more as being possessioos

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able to SituatlOl'l. Understand t "I had a Im' suffering from 8Verything

three-month-old child who had month. I had done va 1I.

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than having independent rights as we know them. 'They usually have fairly large families and seem happy enough in most cases though." But some do not have traceable mothers. ·we have some abandoned children from time to time, born of single mothers who wish to avoid the social stigma of having a child out of wedlock. It considerably reduces their obtainable dowry," said Grace. The newborn babies have been discovered in a variety of places. One was found in a cave, another in a fork of a tree, another in a dry well. "Ho-Never when a mother brings in a new baby, wishing to abandon it wrth us. we do our best to encourage her to keep it and raise it herself," Grace said. Some too will go to desperate lengths to conceal the birth. Grace told of an instance where some chikren noticed a v.,oman had spent a long time in a public toilet The toilets consist of a big pit covered by concrete at ground level. This conaete slab has an opening in it over which people squat When the woman finally emerged, the children went ·n and heard a baby crying. She had given birth and dumped the baby, complete with umbilical coro and placenta stJII attached, through the opening into the effluent pit "Next thing at my babies' house I heard 'MademotSelle, you have visitors'.' "Impatient at the thought of visitors when I was so busy, l turned around and saw the commisssioner of police standing there, plus one soldier holding the reeking baby and another holding the attached p acenta." They found the mother who had other children and had , oome in from the bush o give birth. Her husband had been away longer than nine months so hoping to hide her infidelity, sne'd d mped the baby. She is currentty serv,ng a prison term. sed by interrogators to extract informat10n are Met none oo gentle, Grace said. and they II beat the "trUth" cases ry. Grace has out of a suspect if where peopl have died through a beating from he rds of people "extracting the ruth." Ith problems Dietary deficiencies can cause obvious too. One mother broug tin her year-old twins, one of whom had huge fotanetles still open (the soft part of the baby's head over which the skull booeswould normally close after a few months). Grace gave 1t mil and grain and within t\NO months they had closed over, 1nd1cat1ng a previous vrtam·n def ncy; it was obviously malnour On the mission there are nine build station, go from the ba es' house 1n1to ot r houses on a "mother". n cared for groups of StX chi wh ica Some chi en are adopted by Europeans and easy to obtain ctuldre or adoptJOn. but rt 1s m1sst0n are ies and finance for ical s ich Grace will • uarters by the French after her departure from Australia in Augus on her way back to Chad. There are noonally t\NO other people at Ba n As-salam assisting Grace; Erica, who does the administ ation ',lll()O(, and Ph1hpe the ma1ntenanoe engineer. Two nurses have gone to replace Grace during her vacation in WA 'vVhat is the appeal for Grace at her mission? "I love 'N041<ing there," she said. " It 1s very rewarding to woric with the children and of course when you see the need, you can"t wal away from it. ''\Nh1I the Lord gives me stre h and health, I shall continue," she said.

Continued

ing thing you r up against." 'This oblems, Grace said, was wrth a lot One o to f I inadequate and helpl of childre ical supplt and facdif do more wrth the hmited available

Highlighting the unique African srtuation, Grace said , but in Afnca, e is not a often fatal d llleasles over . se n he real se ltis a killer d1 ics. "I aunomatically give a child with measles, anti child - and The European doctors say to wart and dies. "Now our chikhn very rarely get malaria because I have n for them. di~red the best preve ·on rial strains," Different areas of Africa ha d said Grace. Her role is to care Sher ived ITlother and h subsequently su • 1-300 grams and 1 "Onet1ny afterdeh When the 4 OZs) The we:s..._ vllP. Was22

the size of an aer·oaram 'We Put her in a shclippil~ Was so tiny," id Grace "If the • to care f around th Village a

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From page 10 But back to the romanceor rather the continuing romance that has seen the birth of six children to the couple. Bishop McKeon, an old friend and formerly of Highgate which has earned something of a reputation as a launching pad for bishqls, came up from Sunbury to perform the vvedding ceremony in 1969. There have been some diverting moments since Alan's official entry into the Church. Three-year-old son Anton, fOf instance, helps his father to ta e up the collection. At exactly the right mom nt the little chap leaves the pew, genuflects, walks over, picks the boxes up and hands them out to the collect0<s His 1O-year-old brot er Jeremy, new an altar used to do exactly he same thing ....-hen he was that age. Daughters l.0fetta (15)and the Dom me (13) help liturgy or the operation of the ovemead prnj or and assJSt their fat r in the money counting Alan enurel supports these 1/0lun ry actJOOS by the I if t children

Anne is o committee at she has r

rturgy e and

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tions • gives our children:· he e to •I says, ic d' ere broadens their education on life." Pillars of the Ch rch, rt seems, would be an under• stated descr pt1on of the Jennings family.

LETTERS TO EDITOR Healing statement not satisfactory from Cathy GOOD, Girra-

If the church hierarchy is to

Record March 27) says peop e can get the same healing by staying at home. If one is to follow that suggestion to i1s logical conclusion, then a I Catholics should stay at home to be healed This would do away with the need for very expensive church-building projects which have mushroomed recently. The money could be better used for the poor, the schools, and other worthy projects, Getting healed at home is an excellent idea. Mons Keating's cautious responses made for uneasy listening. The water at the shrine existed before Archbishop Foley approv d the building of the Bullsbrook church seems r nge to me that the church hierarchy, after ascertaining the facts and giving the r endorsement of shrine with a churc building approval, should p licly attempt to distance rtself from th shnne, • appurtenances and ~e miraculous cures reported.

with all aspects of this matter in a positive and lucid manner.

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tJudeO Holy t ude apo tie and m rtyr, great in virtue and rich in miracle , ne r ·in man of e u hri t, faithful interce r of all ·h invo e ·our pe ial p tr n in time of need. To you I have cau e from the depth of my heart and humbly b gyou to whom God h given uch great p wer to come to my i tance. Help me now in my pre nt and urgent need and grant my eame t petition. In return I prom1 e to make your name known and cau e ou to be invoked. ( a 3 ur ather, Hail Marv , Glori , t Jude pray· for all who honour and invoke your aid,) Publication mu t be promised. This novena never fail . In thanksgiving. R.B Pra)erto

Holy t Jude great in virtue and rich in miracle near kin man of Je u Chri t faithful interce or of all ho pecial in o e your patronage in time of need. Many sincere thanks for your help. Tere a. to he acred acred Heart Mo l Heart of Je u , may your name be prai ed and glorified, through out the •orld, now and fore er, men. ( ay nine time a day for nine con ecuti e day and promi e publito the cation). Than acred He rt for pra er an ·ered. iz.

f J u may your name e prai ed and glorified orld throughout thi no , and forever. Gratefor favou ful han recei ed. .D.iB.

nt Issu of The Record have carried concern at the detnmen al effects of social family. legislation in Anoth r mill-stone , It hung ms. i a ut o around parents and fam1hes ,n the Human Rights 8111, and as thoug I WIii it I done wrthout a fight o mention ·s made oft matters from the pulprt. Are the social engineers sacrosanct? Or Is there no fim, moral pnnc1pl left? Where t the I, drawn? or Is her oontmu I slide t II of the Catholic faith? ins to understand On why there is an attr ction to funda n als.

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egos not to his liking from George PURBRICI( Belmont Sir, I was appalled by what I saw of a selection of the American Church on the recent Encoun er.; pr ram. In no way can I identify with them. The rejection of the authorrty of the pope and the h• rarchy, so blatantly pr mme<fately brought to mind us: "EV8fY the words of kingdom divided against • can't stand". I was particularly outr by the so call d opinion ,ons put to ch11dr n t:,; q teachers of religion. The

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Washing • meaning for all from Margaret Ker, Mount Lawley. Sir: I agree with Brian Peachey (The Record April 13) that the fact that there is no gospel reco<d of there having been women present at 1lle Last Supper is a powerful argument against the ordination of women. I also agree that supportefS of the ordination of women often seem to disregard. Jesus· clear ind cation that p(iesthood involves service rather than power and authority. However. I am at a loss to understand the connection n these arguments be and the argum nt that uded vvomen should be from the Holy Thursday washing of f t. nt Surely rt Is 1rrel be ng wash owns h f r The slgnifica fact that the pr, 's Imrtat100 of Jesus symbolises h' shar• ing in Jesus· hfe and service. pl Since the pari in serv,ng the pansh e communrty It ms ppropnate f0< the to long to a cross section of that par , such a cross section naturally including women. I understand t Holy Thursday Mass is not a re-enact• nt of the Last S pper but r bv a euchanstic meal whol par communrty. Mr P chey does not argue presumably that women uded from the should be eucharist on this or any ground that ion on they were not r. Last Su I would also ta e i ue with his all atIon that the f min,st movement s ,n the main "militantly ath 1st1c". It is why m1lrtant hard to concerned should athei to bring about any changes n the Church th y reject. t suppose the movement contains approxim ly the sa proportion of atheists as the population at large. However the voicing of of opm,oos such as t Peachey may well pr • milrt· ammunrtJOn f0< t ant atheists. As he rightly points out the Church Is beirYJ by forces whidi threate seek "to wea en rt by d ision", but (as always has been the case) those forces as much from come at I within as wrthout. wanted to be a chief and nobody wanted o be an Indian. It was the complete • of what I know antrt Chri anrty. Some said they behved in d mocr cy not Jesus but monarchy, hing .

Washing only a symbol of service from Father Nicholas Punch OP, Dominican provincial superior, Dick.son ACT. Sir, I feel that Mr Peachey (The Record, April 10) has made a couple of assertions which can lead people astray. The ceremony of Holy Thursday does commemorate the Last Supper in a special way, and in John's Gospel that was the occasion when Jesus washed the feet of his apostles. He was teaching them by this sign to become servants of all. So the pnest by washing the feet of parishioners on Holy Thursday is saying by sign that he a<:ceptS this responsibility to serve others. By including women in the washing of the feet a priest is simply saying that he serves them as well as men, just as the Popes have traditionally washed the feet of the PCXll' - to emphasise that they are servants of all. n, I do not see this as a comment on the ordination of it has no relevance to that at all. I do not see that this act, which symbolises the way priests (and all baptised christians) should behave, implies any more than that. Jesus instituted the Euchanst at the last Supper, the fact that only the postles ....-ere there does not in any "Mr'f limit would the reception of the Euchanst to pl"iests Of men, yet t I feel that be the logical extension of Mr Peachey's argu this is a r latively small matter blown out of p(oportion I would rnagIne the rubric ,n the sacramentary \NOUld be ical ref em ng to propriety rather than er off overtones. We would all be ceremony o our da ly aves, since of the washing of the f the church to tra so many people I serve others

MA V WS UPSET from Mrs Mary McCOMISH, Dal, eith Sir, not undersi.a1nd;3hlfl hat Mr Bn Peachey (The Record, March 13) does no fully grasp the concerns that some women have bout their role m the prese t day Australian Church. I thin lhat he would ha a better chance of understanding these genuine concerns rt ,ng his ma he stopped 1 attitudes on these women's conduct. a male attitude which It ssumes that all people i n Instrtution are struggling to achieve po'N8f ,n that nstrtu • nds tion, and that quality are really veiled mands for supremacy. Mr Peachey should try to understand that wome in his Church may view things 1n a very drff nt way than he does. having vastly diff e t bade.grounds of education. socialisation and life experience. Things that Mr P chey may regard as important of pr' such as the bishops and popes may be less of an important issue as he thinks to Christian femimingly ummnists, while porta nt things like sexist liturgy (e.g. referring to "The than in Sons of God" ra places the more correct "Children of God") are regarded as very unportant t:,; some women. It is attitudes that women are concerned about, not power. Mr Peachey refef'S to the "insp'red wisdom of Canon that only Law which deer, baptised men can validly I ors and acolyt rtion of Canon is Juxta 1024 and Canon 230 may suggest to some people not well versed in Canon Law that I or and acolyte are aed order.. part of the h y are no (see Canon 1009)

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embrace humanity and not JUst one half of t human race.

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VATICAN CITY (NC) Pope John Paul II challenged the world's youth to work for peace as he began Holy Week observances at the Vatican.

The pope noted 1986 marks the United Nations Year of Peace, and asked youths to pray for this intention. "In this way," Pope John Pau! said, "a great moral force will grow in the world so threatened by the arms race, hate, terrorism, and violation of human rights, especially the right to life from the moment of conception until death." Earlier this year, the pope announced that Palm Sunday was to be marked by Church youth celebrations throughout the world. About 4,000 youths from Opus Dei institutions attended the Vatican ceremony, as d"d youths from several European nations. First rovv seats at the Mass were reserved for a delegation of Ethiopian youths who are touring various nations to tha them f0< aiding their famine-str'cken country. The pope addressed his Palm Sunday homily to the world's youths. The pope said that a youth cele rat on is to ta e place every Palm Sunday and called the sion "to go eve t an ho has meet God, entered human history paschal mysthro gh tery o Jesus C r"st." "He has entered in a way fro which th re is no turning back,'' the pope said, "and e wants to meet young people first. And to each o e of you e wants to say. 'fol

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The mixed tennis pennant season began last weekend. ms in the A tenn • Four grade nd six teams in the B grade are competing in what looks to be very evenly matched competitions. The format for 1he compebeen changed tition h with from previous m being mad up of each

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