CONTINUING THIS WEEK The third Instalment of the 13-part extended Pathways feature on the laity and the Church from the worldwide sources of The Record and the National Catholic News syndicate of the US appears on page 8 and 9.·
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The influx of visitors for the America's Cup could be a tonic for the Church provided it responds to the challenge of meeting the visitors and making them welcome, Father Sean O'Shea said this week.
"Ifs an opportunity to pull ourselves out of the groove we are in regarding the boundaries of parish" said the Fremantle port chaplain and director of the Stella Maris Centre.
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Father O'Shea was commenting at a seminar last Saturday at the Stella Maris Centre where shire officials and others studied the welcome the Church must provide to the visitors.
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Typical of the problem was the poor response from parishes, all of which had been invited to send representatives to the seminar. 'The information was simply not passed on to the people. It was not even put in some parish bulletins" Father O'Shea said Father O'Shea says it is time for parishes to face up to the fact the community cannot be seen only in terms of the parish because of the mobility of people, a mobility that is going to destabilise parish life unless steps are taken to reach out. Parish councils at least, Father O'Shea says, should have someone keeping an eye on the mobile people noticing who is away, who is contacting the newcomers and the visitors. Father O'Shea said last conference Saturday's emphasised the danger of parishes being too insulated and caught up only in their local interests. Mr John Cattalini, Mayor of Fremantle, told the seminar that although Fremantle would be the centre of the action and the focus of
Tourists crowd the decks of the QE II -a scene likely to be repeated on the ship and seven other liners due for the America's Cap.
Father O'Shea attention, the visitors were going to live in all parts of the metropolitan area. Visitors were not going to attendMass unless the information about the location of churches and the times of Masses was well publicised in hotels. in travel centres and in the local media, he said
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Challenge to parish resources and their personnel
Caring for the world tourists here Kiss for helps centre Cup Stella Maris director Father Sean O'Shea said a seminar last weekend on America's Cup visitors is going to make him take another look at the influx of holiday visitors to Rottnest where he regularly says Mass at the Holy Trinity church for whose construction he was responsible.
The French Kiss America's Cup challengers have loaned a nine-seat mini bus to the Fremantle Day Care Centre run by Oblate Brother Hannick.
During their stay last summer Kiss bought and leased four vehicles. When they returned to France for four months they lent the vehicles to charitable service groups. The use of the nineseater mini bus was "a
great asset" according to Brother Hannick. The bus was used mainly for transporting food for the centre's food distribution and to take people to other activity outlets and outings.
"The people may be mainly from Perth but the important fact is that they are away from home," he said. "·When people are on holidays they are different; they are more open, less structured in the way they act, less determined about their style of life". People go to Mass while on holidays who may not go normally, either because friends encouraged them or because they broke their normal Sunday routine of house chores, Father O'Shea said.
Father O'Shea told Saturday's conference tourists and mobility were increasing because of increased leisure, earlier retirement, and better health in old age. Reasons for travel included relaxation, experience, education, adventure. People holidayed with families in communities with sporting interests, social commitment, and prestige. Tourists ranged from the most active through to those
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who wanted quiet and meditation. The Vatican Council revised the Church's view of culture, Father O'Shea said. People lived and behaved as part of their culture. Tourism was part of that culture, although a by-product of the consumer society. There was now a culture of leisure. People searched for freedom and the worship of God was part of the celebration of freedom from the enslavement of society The parish feels its weakness as a base for human life because people were away for leisure periods, Fther a O'Shea said. Other parishes would welcome visitors and this made it hard to unite
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Stella Maris Centre would set up a Catholic Information Centre and a Help Line, manned 24 hours a day during the height of the cup. The Stella Maris Centre and the St Patrick's Day Care Centre would need greater strength and support from volunteer workers. Father O'Shea feels people are blase about the question of visitors because they think all the official side of the yachting event is being well looked after. "There will be a lot of casual visitors in addition to the organised tourists he said "Youth are going to drift westwards from the eastern states because the action is here and they may be looking for a job. "But they may arrive with $10 in their pocket and an empty petrol tank in an old car, and they are going to look for help" he said. Father O'Shea said it was not beyond possibility for parish halls to be pressed into service to cater for emergency overflows of visitors next summer.
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The Church should direct its message to the anonymous transients in the crowd, to weekenders and vacationers, he said. This was a task for the Sunday liturgy. "Each family and each believer must be made to feel aware in their faith they are never alone. The whole Church is with them". A lack of wider concern leaves the Church open to
the charge she is concerned with her own interests and much less concerned with people in general. Father O'Shea said that was his experience at Stella Maris Centre. Visiting seafarers preferred to worship in an active parish community rather than feeling segragated by going to Mass in the Centre chapel.
Media centre for pope The America's Cup media centre at Fremantle headquarters for an expected 2,000 journalists to cover the yachting
will almost certainly double for Pressmen covering Pope John Paul's visit at
the end of November.
The centre is probably one of the best equipped of its type anywhere in the world. Facilities include the most sophisticated telecommunications and satellite servi-
Visitors will be just as much of the Cup defence as
ces for transmitting news stories and photographs.
There are also extensive photographic darkrooms
for processing film, and terminals for transmission of TV film.
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expected off Fremantle. It's up to Perth and Fremantle parishioners to make people welcome.
Sunbury Catholic women urge change
The Bunbury diocesan Catholic Women's League wants the drinking age to be lifted to 19 years and for provisional licenses to be extended to two years. They also want increased penalties for driving offences and for the state government to support national safety instruction courses in both government and independent schools. These were some of the motions passed at annual general meeting held at Lake Grace and which will be forwarded to the CWL state conference. All diocesan branches were also urged to have a greater commitment to the growing poverty being experienced in Bunbury diocese. Bishop Quinn urged the 58 delegates to the weekend conference at Lake Grace to pray earnesty for vocations and to join the monthly Prayer Chain involving families in parishes The Bunbury diocesan president Mrs Georgie Bruce-Smith presented the bishop with $1,686 from all branches as a contribution to the training of seminarians The meeting also voted a donation of $100 towards
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JONES the papal visit in November. The meeting heard reports from 17 branches including new branches at Manjimup and Bridgetown. Other matters discussed at the conference included: • progress of the Prayer House at Dardanup; • information from Liz and Jack Stretch of Kojonup on the Engaged Encounter and Marriage Encounter weekends; • impressions of the Wagin members who attended the national CWL conference in Melbourne; ·a call from CWL state president Alice Gee for members to strive for inner peace in the Year of Peace. She also urged members to
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attend the WUCWO Asia Pacific conference in Sydney later this year, the first to be held in Australia. • an account by Georgie Bruce-Smith, the only WA woman representative to the Oceania Lay Conference in Auckland earlier this year on the impact of the confer-
ence and the workings of the Vatican Pontifical Lay Commission. The Bunbury conference included the annual dinner, catered by Lake Grace Anglican women and light lunch provided by Lake Grace women at the conclusion of the conference.
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Discussions about rights Bill proposals The Bill of Rights was discussed by the Diocesan Pastoral Council at its quarterly meeting last Saturday. Concern was expressed over the haste with which the controversial Bill was being pushed through Parliament. Council members Peter Fleay and Peter Sharkey were directed to write to Senator Chipp, requesting the Bill be rejected until adequate public debate had taken place.
Archbishop Franco Brambilla, the new papal
pro-nuncio to Australia arrived in Canberra last Saturday morning. He will present his credentials to the Governor General next Tuesday.
The archbishop was met at Canberra by Archbishop Carroll and the head of the protocol department of the Foreign Affairs Depart-
ment.
Although it is not customary for diplomats to meet other arriving members of the corps, the ambassadors of Italy and Argentine were on hand to meet the new pro-nuncio.
He noted he had met Pope John Paul recently
and also the Prime Minister Mr Hawke during
his recent visit to Rome. Archbishop Brambilla will visit next week's
meeting of the Austral-
ian Episcopal Conference,
in Sydney.
The new pro-nuncio served in Tanzania for eleven years and in Uruguay for the past four years Meanwhile in London, the former pro-nuncio, Archbishop Barbarito had the usual horse and carriage transport for his visit to present himself to the Queen.
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The DPC supports a policy of delaying the passage until implications have been examined which could endanger the personal rights of Australians. Copies of the letter will be sent to party leaders and also to Senator Peter Durack (Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate), Lionel Bowen (Attorney General), John Spender (Shadow Attorney) and Fred Chaney (Leader of the Opposition in the Senate). The DPC hopes parishes will lend their support by writing similar letters to these politicians Members felt it was not the intention of the council to reject the Bill out of hand, but to delay its passage until issues had been debated and implications made clear to the public In another segment of the meeting prominent workers for Aborigines, Bernadette Kennedy and Lorna Little spoke of the disillusionment and frustration brought about by political changes of attitude. Ms Kennedy appealed to Christians to address issues involving basic justice for Aborigines in the same way the hierarchy of the Church had taken up moral arguments In describing the work of the Yobel movement, Ms Kennedy outlined how Aboriginal people needed a voice to replace the role played until recent times by the National Aboriginal Council As an Aboriginal herself, Ms Little spoke with feeling about being a part of a "powerless minority". She described the place of Aborigines in Australian society as "a cage with invisible bars". Her own anger at the plight of her race sustained her, but many Aboriginals could not cope and turned to drink, she said. Ms Little said Aborigines were God's people too, but many were startng to think He was "only for the whites". In citing practical instances of the Aboriginal plight, she described how the only way
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of obtaining kangaroo meat was by purchasing pet food. The recent Appealathon had been noteworthy for its
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lack of one Aboriginal performer, she noted The recent demise of the NAC was another instance of
silencing the truth, she continued. All efforts had been effectively blocked and hopeless-
ness was growing under a system knowing "how to destroy without seeming to".
The first of three
meetings to promote the RCIA prowithin the gram diocese was attended by 50 priests, Laura Meyers reported at last Saturday's meeting of the Diocesan Pastoral Council. She said there had been an enthusiastic
$136,186 to the more than $1.012 million banked so far. Mr Laurie Phillips, chairman of the Knights
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prepared by her and her colleagues.
Further meetings will be held for lay persons on June 4 in the Leedervi11e parish hall, on June 11 in the Victoria Park parish hall. Both sessions begin at 7.30 pm. Several copies of the tape are available on loan to interested groups.
Western Australia is maintaining its position as a 13 per cent contributor to last month's appeal in churches for the papal visit. The state is estimated to have 10 per cent of the Australian Catholic population. At the latest count, WA has contributed
Key members of the KSC headquarters office staff (from left) James Vanpraag, executive officer; Dorothy Good, secretary; Ken Sullivan, travel.
seeking or providing information; The typing, copying, and posting of masses of written material; correspondence to parish priests and parish co-ordinators throughout the state.
Teachers' BOWRA & O'DEA obligation Funeral Directors on morals
GERALDTON: Reli-
education gious teachers have a strict obligation to communicate the Church's teaching on sexual morality Bishop Hickey told Stella Maris College teachers last week.
"It is very important in today's world where young people are growing up surrounded by attitudes and propaganda at variance with what the Church clearly taught" he said. The bishop said he was offended by events such as Sexuality Week with the obscene parading of characters like a clown dressed up as a condom. Add to such displays the impact of television and much public entertainment, and children must grow up very confused indeed. He made a distinction between the teaching of sexual morality, which the school must addres,s and sex education, which was concerned with attitudes, the undertstanding of human growth,
Bishop Hickey
relationships and marriage. Nevertheless, the school could not remain neutral about such matters. Each teacher, especially those in the fields of religious education, human biology and health education. should know his or her attitudes will be visible to the students in the manner in which sexual matters were treated. Fidelity to the Church's teaching, respect for sexuality, sensitivity to the developmental stages of children, and an awareness of the parents' primary role in these matters, should characterise the teachers' approach.
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The great feast of Pentecost is one of those moments which indicate that the clock on the town hall and that on the church tower are telling different times. Whereas the feasts of Jesus' Birth and the Resurrection of the Lord ride self-consciously, and precariously, on a burst of secular holidays, Pentecost - at least in the Australian and other new cultures - has slipped from even being accorded the tribute of a public holiday. The calendar could be reformed. Julius Caesar managed almost a perfect reform just two years before he died in 44BC but the Church came finally to the rescue when Pope Gregory XIII got rid of the troublesome 10 days a mere 404 years ago. Paradoxically, there seems to be support by most Western Christian faiths, including the Catholics, to join forces with a secular commercial world and have an internationally fixed Easter but the significant Orthodox churches are determined to stay with their traditions. The impasse highlights distinction whether Christians celebrate their feasts because the calendar says so, or whether the calendar reflects what Christians are celebrating.
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LONDON: A Catholic priest spoke this week about a development project in India which involves Christians, Hindus, Jews and Moslems. Father Sergio Mascarenhas, who was in Britain to visit members of his family, said of the project: "I did not come to feed
beggars. "When people learn to feed themselves, they gain self-respect and begin to look for
ways of helping others. "Then the gospel is heard." The Asha Dham (Haven of Hope) project in Gujarat, north west India, is the first Catholic-run scheme registered with the Khadi Village industries, Mahatma Gandhi's development plan. Their aims are education and employment. Father Mascarenhas' involvement started in 1978, when as a doctor of canon and civil law his skills were needed to untangle legal complica-
Dissenting theologians a 'violation'
VATICAN CI1Y (NO) Pope John Paul II said theologians who teach dissenting views on moral issues risk violating Catholics' "fundamental right" to learn Church doctrine instead of "the opinions of theological schools."
For the Christian, Easter and Pentecost are inseparable. Jesus said that unless He went away, the disciples would not receive the Spirit. tions. The fading glow of the Ascension had to occur For two years he lived in if the Church was to come into being. a makeshift shelter. He needed diplomacy to Easter is the celebration of the Body of the establish contacts among Risen Lord. Pentecost is the celebration of that the factory owners of the same Body, His Church. The Holy Spirit had government-backed transformed those frail disciples into His living industrial development Body, the Church. project at Vapi, and patience and perseverTo talk of Pentecost merely as the beginning ence m getting to know of the Church, or even its birth, is to reduce a the Adivasi tribal people, great mystery to a mere matter of dates, as among the poorest of the though the never-ending quibble over the date country. of Jesus' birth can ever solve the mystery of the The workshops and schools of the present Incarnation. site are evidence of his As science rolls back the frontiers of human success. and the eons of the universe, the history galactic Managers, engineers vastness of a mystery hidden in the infinity of and factory workers have God and made manifest in Jesus Christ shared their skills with the Adivasis in a DIY becomes exciting and vibrant theology bursting system. through all centuries and across the thousands The students attending of millions of human generations. evening classes work in Yet Pentecost is a birthday in tangible human classrooms they have form. The faltering steps of the infant Church built themselves, and during the day in the can be traced on the ground: Jerusalem, workshops they apply Antioch, Ephesus, Athens, Rome. The Church what they have learnt. of today treads through Delhi, Nairobi and The agricultural proLagos. jects also have a practical Birthdays purport to be about the past but aim. • The carpentry workshop gives employment The fish pond adds prothey are really a celebration of the present. and fosters training. tein to the village diet. Pentecost is not the crowded streets of touristfilled Jerusalem but the realftv otthe great. Christian presence that encircles the earth.
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anxiety with which Christianity finds itself facing the spread of secular materialism, or even of Islam and other faiths. The world that lost its nerve, if not its faith, in the Church finds that it has lost its faith in all that the Resurrection of Christ proclaims to a desparing wortd because the two should be the one and same truth. Catholics were warned by the Extraordinary Synod last year that day-dreaming and fantasising about renewal, reform or reconstruction were in vain if the grass roots theology of the documents of Vatican II were not studied thoroughly. The saddest sight facing Catholics on Pentecost Sunday is that the majority of its members won't be part of the celebration. The excuse will be that the Church is irrelevant to their lives, that they are bored. The reality is that they know nothing about the Church, its exciting vision of the unity of all mankind, of the saving presence of Christ in their midst. It's time to get on the road to Antioch and tell the world what is going on in the Church. 4
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"The Catholic theologian owes obedience" to the magisterium, the Church's teaching authority, the pope said. The Church, he said, has a duty to "unmask" theological error. The pope's talk, which did not refer to specific theologians, was one of his most strongly worded statements about theological dissent. He spoke with about 200 participants of an international moral theology congress in Rome. The magisterium's teaching on moral norms, the pope said, cannot be seen as "one opinion among others." "It enjoys the 'sure charism of truth'; therefore, the Catholic theologian owes obedience to it," the pope said. "To appeal to a 'faith of the Church' to oppose the moral magisterium of the Church is equivalent to denying the Catholic concept of revelation. "Not only that, but one can even go so far as to violate the fundamental right of the faithful to have, from whoever teaches theology with a canonical mission, the doctrine of the Church and not the opinions of theological schools," the pope said. The church's love toward the person who errs can never involve "compromise with the error," the pope said. "Error must be unmasked and judged. The love that the Church has for man obligates it to say how and when its truth is denied, its goodness not recognised, its dignity violated and its values not adequately appreciated," the pope said.
Bishops plan discussions with Government
DUBLIN --The Irish bishops' conference plans to discuss with Prime Minister Garrett FitzGerald the increasing breakup of Irish marriages and efforts to legalise divorce. Bishop's conference spokesman Bishop Joseph Cassidy of Clonfert said if such legislation was introduced, there would be conflict between the bishops and the FitzGerald government. The Irish Republic's 1937 constitution prohibits divorce. But the current government is under strong political and media pressure to call a referendum on whether the prohibition should be removed. Public opinion is divided, with a February opinion poll showing 52 per cent of the voters favoured removing the prohibition. In 1973 an Irish Anglican bishop's committee called for an end to the constitutional ban on divorce legislation. Ireland's minister for health, Barry Desmond, said recently the Catholic
from NC NEWS bishops should not have a veto over introducing divorce legislation. He said bishops in other countries had learned to come to
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example of Northern Ireland. In 1970 only one marriage in 31 was affected by divorce. Since 1978, when legislation was passed liberalising the divorce law, the divorce rate has climbed to one in five marriages
DUBLIN: A massive lottery is planned by Church authorities to raise $7 million to save one of lreland's most famous pilgrimage centres Loch Derg in Co Donegal, close to the border with Northern lreland. The top prize is $200,000 and other prizes include a racehorse from one of the Irish Republic's main stables. The money ls needed to improve facilities and replace living accommodation which has deteriorated beyond repair.
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The pope blamed a strain of "ethical-theological teaching" for "sowing confusion in the consciences of the faithful, even regarding fundamental moral questions." "It is necessary to rediscover harmony in clarity and clarity in harmony," the pope said. "It is necessary that a rigorous ethical reflection be rebuilt in the Church." The pope said the Church's ban on contraception and abortion were two arcas where "immutable" Catholic teaching had been challenged. But such teaching, he said, can be denied only by those who deny the Church's teaching on the fundamental nature of the person. The pope did not limit his remarks to theologians and ethics scholars. In society at large, he said, moral norms are frequently challenged, provoking "situations of progressive self-destruction." As an example, he cited the "contempt for human life that is conceived and not yet born" and violations of fundamental human rights.
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VATICAN CITY (NC): The pope, in a talk to a group of 5,000 Italian youths, said
young people today should resist giving in to "compromise and skepticism." The pope said the group's work, aimed at increasing job opportunities for Italian youths, fought against some "arrogant and violent traditions." He urged them to bring "new energy" to problems of unemployment and education, in order "to radically change these systems of life that are sustained by the inhumanity of many individuals and by outworn traditions that produce only a disconcerting injustice and poverty."
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TAIZE (France) (NC): A Protestant monk who is an official of the World Council of Churches says Christian churches need one spokesman to the world, and that spokesman should be the pope. "In a world which is gradually becoming unified, the Church has a need for a minister who may speak in her name to all men together," said Brother Max Thurian, a member of the ecumenical community of monks of Taize, and the executive secretary of the WCC Faith and Order Commission. "One of the major roles of the pope is to represent the whole Church in her dialogue with the world," he added.
Historic service for Jewish UK leader
LONDON: In an historic ceremony in Westminster Cathedral Hall Sir Sigmund Sternberg, the Jewish chairman of the International Council of Christians and Jews, was invested as a Knight Commander of the Pontifical Order of St Gregory the Great by Cardinal Hume. It is only the second time such a high papal honour has been conferred upon a Jew in Britain.
A new crisis
ADDIS ABABA (NC) -The Horn of Africa is about to enter another round of widespread famine, contrary to a popular view that the crisis is over, a Marynoll Missioners official said. "Millions are facing starvation again," said Father Carroll Houle, director of the order's Africa operations. "I expect it to start in May, and we will start seeing massive death from starvation in the (northern) autumn." The priest blames the resumption of the crisis on continuing civil war in Ethiopia and Sudan, plus a cutback in aid to Ethiopia. Father Houle said by far, the major efforts of the region's governments go to warfare. Half of Ethiopia's revenue was earmarked for arms, including purchases from the Soviet Union. Although long-term development programs have begun in Ethiopia, they were limited to provinces outside the guerilla war zone, Father Houle said.
Speaking after the ceremony to a large audience - which included the Chief Rabbi Sir Immanuel Jacobovits, and the Lord Chancellor, Lord Hailsham, and his wife Sir Sigmund said he regarded receiving the award as a "miracle". Sir Sigmund, who was born in Budapest in 1921, has promoted Christian-Jewish relations for many years. He is particularly noted for his efforts to improve Jewish-Catholic relations. "When I was small in Hungary I was told that the Jews had to suffer and be persecuted because they had killed Jesus," he said. "I remember coming home and crying and saying 'Why have I got to suffer?' "If somebody had told me then I would be here tonight with the Cardinal and the Chief Rabbi I would not have believed them." Cardinal Hume used the occasion to condemn anti-
semitism.
"Mindful of the long history of Christian intolerance and
Growing pressure in Netherlands
THE HAGUE (NO) -In spite of opposition from the Catholic hierarchy, pressure continues to build in the Netherlands for the legalisation of active euthanasia.
The Dutch government has postponed action on two bills seeking to legalise to varying degrees the practice of euthanasia.
In 1985 the Dutch Catholic bishops issued a pastoral letter called "Suffering and Dying of the Sick." The bishops said "passive euthanasia - allowing someone to die without intervening with extraordinary means is not really
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impression of shortening a
man's life in this way, but in our opinion this impression is not right. "It is simply allowing a man to pass away" when "his hour has come." But the bishops said active euthanasia the killing of a patient by injection, for instance could in no way be condoned.
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spokesman to the world, and that spokesman should be the pope. "In a world gradually becoming unified, the Church has a need for a minister who may speak in her name to all men together," said Brother Max Thurian, a member of the ecumenical community of monks of Taize, France, and the executive secretary of the
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IM@IiIEiRiS From Alan MITTER, Como Sir, Margaret Ker (The Record May 1 ) refers to the "complex moral issue" of in vitro fertilisation. The method is complex, but the determining of whether the method is morally valid is not so complex when it is understood that the procedure involves the foreseen deaths of numerous human persons-in-embryo. As Mons. Carlo Caffarra, consuttor of The Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith defines it, these foreseen deaths are "true abortion properly so called." (L'Osservatore Romano 30-
7-1984)
There is nothing "complex" or doubtful about the teaching of the Church on abortion. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, clearly refers to the I.V.F. procedure (The Ratzinger Report, 1985 pp 84-85), in his references to procrea-
tion without sexuality ...
Women of
Pentecost
from GEORGE PURBRICK, Belmont.
Sir, Mrs Deborah Lisson (The Record May 1) claims there is no record in Acts of women receiving the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. Acts 2:1 tells us all the community was present and that all were filled with the Holy Spirit. Acts 1:13 states there were several women in the community including Mary the Mother of Jesus Peter in his discourse affirms the inclusion of both men and women in the event. Nowhere however in Acts or elsewhere is there any mention of the ordination of priestesses. Even the self appointed teacher Jezebel (Revelations 2.20) proclaimed herself a prophetess, not a priestess. The New Testament is consistent in proclaiming the equality of men and women but at the same time offering the priesthood only to men. f that reflects God's will 2000 years ago why should we assume it to be any different now? God is unchangeable yesterday, today and forever.
Theologian tells
Validity or of the faith complexity?
The Catholic Church has not just experienced change but it has been the means of bringing about change a Catholic theologian, Father Peter Cross, told an ecumenical conference in Perth recently.
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Stressing the Church still held a basic link with revelation in the scriptures, and the apostolic succession of bishops as a guarantee of authenticity, he said the Second Vatican Council had opened up a new way of theology. Using the reply of Jesus to his questioners in Matthew 16.2 referring to messianic signs, Pope John XXIII had given a new meaning to the phrase "reading the signs of the times". Pope John read new signs in the realm of human labour, in the new search by women for equality, and the desire of all nations to be equal. Father Cross pointed out that Pope John XXIII condemned many churchmen of his time as prophets of doom because they resisted change and called everything new in the world an evil thing. The pope was saying that the world was getting better, not worse. Father Cross said this approach by Pope John XXIII and Vatican II explained the changes that had been taking place in the Church in places such as South America and recently in the Philippines.
From M. BOEHM, North Perth
An invitation is extended to Record readers to write letters to the Editor for this column. All submissions must be typewritten or in clear hand-writing double spaced. Letters may be edited. and... biologial c manipulation striving to uncouple man from nature . . . to manipulate him...as a product... and at the end of this march to shatter fundamental natural linkages, there are unimaginable consequences ...
He also states (Pages 86 and
87) moral theologins a must choose between opposing modern society and opposing the Magisterium: . . . Those who prefer the latter ... set out on a search for theories and systems that allow compromises between Catholi-
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From S F R ANDERSON, Victoria Park
Sir, in his recent thoughtful as ever letter (The Record April 17) Peter Bertola of Bremer Bay depored the pulpit silence on the iniquitous Human Rights Bill which could be foistered on an apathetic Australia. But why stop there? What about so many other vital issues that are seldom if ever mentioned from our pulpits? To name but a few at random: liberation theology, ecumenism, abortion, pre-marital sex, land rights, contraception, in-vitro fertilisation, divorce, artificial insemination, apartheid, racial segregation, the nuclear arms race, homosexuality, pornography, the nightmarish drug scene etc. I know these are contentious and potentially divisive issues m some quarters but ignoring them will not make them disappear. Thank heaven for your excellent paper and the Catholic Press which does give us from time to time the forthright news of the Church on these matters, often stated in the ringing oratory of our wonderful Holy Father. However, not enough Catholic homes contain Catholic literature. Why cannot our pulpits continue to re-inforce the guidelines established for the younger generation by our truly remarkably dedicated teaching orders of Brothers and Sisters in our Church today? This borders on the tragic. I cannot pretend to know why so many of our wonderful youth today are staying away from Mass in increasing numbers. Could we criticise them for thinking the Church has almost nothing relevant to tell them about the 20th century and its pressing problems? Must we leave it completely to the secular, humanistic and sensation loving press to guide so many into the truly sick society we live in and read about today? How much longer will the deafening sounds of silence from many -thank God, not all of our pulpits continue to sadden so many of us?
cism and current conceptions. Thus . . . the difficult alternative: either the Church finds ... ,a compromise with the values propounded by society which she wants to continue to serve, or she decides to remain faithful to her own values, as the result of which she finds herself on the margin of society . . . Today the sphere of moral theology has become the main locus of tension between Magisterium and theologins a .." In the face of conflicting views, the faithful need only to determine which shepherds, teachers and theologians are uncompromisingly faithful in their teachings. to the voice of the Magisterium in company with the Holy Father. These only are the legitimate voice of the Church. With regard to IVF., the "purveyors of error" are clearly those who make "compromise with the values propounded by society". Only humble submission and uncompromising allegiance to the Magisterium preserves from such error.
Sir, Brian Peachey cites his rationale against the Holy Thursday foot washing of women as being based on history. He cites the facts of history as being Jesus' birth, death, resurrection and ascension into heaven. Interestingly enough the resurrection and ascension into heaven are not natural phenomena upon which historians operate. t can be argued, then, that these events are non-historical, too extraordinary, too contrary to the universal experience of all persons to be admitted as a fact of scientific history. However, in the eyes of faith, the resurrection has meaning -in the eyes of faith there is hope and love. Seen from a purely historical perspective, it is not difficult to see why the washing of women's feet is so abhorrently objected to by Brian Peachey. Seen with the eyes of faith, however, the lesson of the washing of feet takes on a broader and deeper meaning, enveloping us with a message of love and service regardless of sex.
Skirting the issue
From Ms P. Lochowicz Albany
Sir, in his latest letter (The Record May 1) Mr Peachey skirts around the issue raised in his first letter (The Record April 13) by referring significantly to the Church, its magisterium, and ordination Issues. That is not the issue. Presumably most Catholics would adhere to and understand the implications of the statement of Pope John Paul he quotes. In order to label ourselves Catholic Christians we don't have a lot of choice at this moment. We live within the structure of an historical but
slowly ever-changing Church guided by the Spirit towards the fullness of Truth. Whether the Last Supper was the historical inauguration of the priesthood (I can think of other supporting instances) and or the eucharist, much of what Christ said and did during his public ministry and symbolic meaning and representation Surely the washing of the feet was one such occasion or are we to conclude literally from the event that only priests should wash each others feet and be of service to each other and others. I think this is mere pedantic
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The change in the was not necessarily good. Church was first of all a Account had to be taken sociological process, see- of the incarnation, of sin ing in what directions and of redemption The Church has a role in humanity wanted to travel. Knowing the discerning, in prophesydesires of men and ing and in saving. The first stage is to women for their lives was one way of knowing what listen to the aspirations God is saying to us, of men and women and test them against scripFather Cross said. Secular history has a ture where the Holy purpose in the plan of Spirit is speaking. Then God because God is comes the prophetic always saving. God is stage of giving a definite leading humanity step by yes or no to a course of step to greater humanisa- action. The final stage was to put all our enertion. In personal life people gies in the direction of had to read their own grace, in supporting posdesires and test them. itive efforts to bring God on the other hand about God's salvation. Father Cross cited the often pushed people by making certain desires about-face of the Church and feelings known to in the Philippines as an them. example of how sinful The second aspect of conditions cried out to change was the continual be ended and for salvawork of the Holy Spirit. tion to be furthered. Churchmen had eventuThis distinguished the work of the Church from ally moved away from a purely secular view of supporting the government to backing the history. The third dimension peaceful revolution. was that all change was linked to Christ in whom all creation existed. Father Cross pointed out that not all change
Recognising the justice • from Hugh McLERNOM, City Beach
All reasonable men should recognise the justice involved in the call of women for equality in the church. I do not possess the necessary expertise to debate the theological implications of allowing women into the priesthood. I just know it should be so. We, the Church, have arnved at a point in time where the gap in vocational commitment has become a chasm which threatens the proper pastoral administration of that church. There is an enormous pool of vocation which is yet to be tapped. As with so many things in nature when a chasm opens something else emerges to fill it. Nature has always abhorred a vacuum. Human nature is no different I have the firm conviction that there are
sufficient women interested in becoming priests to overcome any vocational problems into the foreseeable future. Why therefore, should they be prevented from becoming servants to the church?
It is out of his question that a confrontation has arisen. Positions have been adopted, views have hardened and as a result the Church has suffered. The primary criterion for the priesthood should, in my view, be the strength of the spirit of the individual concerned not the form of the flesh which encloses the spirit.
Some might think it an accident of history that God chose to send His Son amongst us at a time when the world was so dominated by men that women held the chattel position. The history of our religion has developed accordingly.
If Christ walked the world today I feel little doubt but that women would be numbered amongst his chosen disciples. I have never therefore understood the argument of those who would deny women the priesthood because all the disciples were men.
Change should not occur for the sake of
change. A token woman priest would be an abomination. No women have the "right" to become a priest, nor does any man. They should, however, have equal opportunity and should be accepted or discarded according to spiritual rather than biological criteria.
As with all questions of change it is the radical elements from both sides who should be recognised and contained. The radical feminists who demand that God be recognised as a woman are giving voice to
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their ego. God is and therefore requires no further definition or labelling. Each of us is free to visualise and articulate God as we see fit. It would be a tragedy if the Catholic Church came to the point where it was required to debate the proposition that there should be a separate church for those who recognise the claims of women to the priesthood and one for those who do not The decision on this matter should be for the Church - that is for the whole Church - and is of such moment that it requires the consideration of us all. Modern day, logical informed and caring debate will ensure the position of women in the priesthood. Having thrown off the shackles of celebrating the eucharist ma long dead language we are now debating the next great step forward.
From page 3 It was a pity, the bishop said, that so many parents did not accept their role in sex education. Sometimes, by their lifestyle, they gave a counter witness to it. Teachers should keep themselves well, informed of the Church's teaching on sexual morality, he said. Those who could not accept it should refrain from attempting to teach it ..
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Conference of basic links
Change in the Church
Many of our local churches would never have moved into the 20th century without the Second Vatican Council, Father Peter Cross told his ecumenical audience. "The renewal the council prompted would never had happened without a universal council in our Church. "It gave vision, it gave hope, it gave challenge and it also gave direction to all to help us continue with the task of preaching the good news in our time," he said in a panel discussion on authority. Father Cross pointed out the Second Vatican Council was not called in order to
make infallible statements, but to be a pastoral council looking to the good of mankind.
·Without the exercise of that sort of authority the Roman church would still be living in the atmosphere of the Council of Trent, still under the shadow of the anti-modernist decisions at the beginning of this century. "Biblical scholarship would not have advanced. "We would not have been able to renew our liturgy. "You can say it was all done by bishops but it wasn't. "The work of the council had been done in the concentration camps of Europe, in Switzerland and quiet places where theologians had vanished during the war. "It had been done in places of exile in the 1950's when Father Congar was exiled from France to Oxford to silence him for 10 years. "Rabner had been silenced. "The oppression of the Roman Church in fact brought about its renewal in a strange way. "Sin and grace were mixed up .in that process because the Church is human as well as being a sacrament of the Holy Trinity. "Without that council my Church would not be here today and none of us would be in this room. "For me this is a very real experience of how authority can work in the Church through the exercise of 'espiscope' which I believe along with all my Roman Catholic brethren to be part of God's will for His Church. "So three cheers for episcopacy -at least in its better forms. "At the same time the council ushered in a tremendous convulsion in my Pictured at the recent three day ecumenical conference held at the Redemptorist Retreat House a convulsion over the Anzac Day weekend: Father Peter Cross, lecturer in theology at Corpus Christi Church concerning authority, proCollege, Melbourne, and Rev David Gill general secretary of the Uniting Church Assembly, ducing a changed vision of both of whom were key speakers. Picture by Bill Huxley the Church, and new models IHIiiIIIuIIHIIIlIIIIIIIg
that superseded older views and left many people confused, and drove many people out of the Church. "The council got rid of the idea bishops were branch managers who took their orders from headquarters. "It also spoke for the first time in centuries of the rights of lay people. "In my Church an authoritative group has ushered in a new age of possibility and with it has indicated new patterns of authority, but they are still far from clear. "It has shown us the process of discernment is a communal exercise, a reading of the signs of the times. "It has been made very clear no bishop can do that alone, no pope can do that alone, and no parish priest can do that alone. "Certainly bishops and popes can authenticate certain insights that communities have developed because of its reflection on the gospel but basically there is a new vision of authority." Reacting to the Lima statement on church authority Father Cross continued "I don't believe a committee can be a Father in God I don't believe a committee can pastor the pastors adequately. I don't believe a committee can be an adequate focus of unity." Father Cross said that in his opinion it was doubtful if the climate or agreed theological language currently existed for an infallible statement to be produced by the Church. "I don't think it is the age of infallible pronouncements but I do think it is an age that needs guidance." Father Cross said that it was essential for the whole community to become involved in the follow up dialogue of the ARCIC agreement. True unity would not be achieved if it was left to only one
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Special extended feature The Church and the laity
In a suburban parish with over 1,900 families and a bustling activity calendar -can priests and parishioners truly become part of one another's lives? Yes, say both the pastor and a parishioner of a young, growing parish. Mons Thomas Cassidy has been St Mark's pastor for 12 and one-half years. Annette Kane, executive administrator of the National Council of Catholic Women, serves on the parish's community growth commission and is a lector and liturgy planner.
In a time of changing relationships in parishes, what do laity and priests need from each other? And how do they contrib
ute to each other's lives in a parish
community?
There needs to be a kind of partnership of loving concern between priests and laity in a parish, Dolores Leckey suggests. People need priests whose lives say, "God
is real to me," and priests need laity who are bearers of the Holy Spirit, says Mrs Leckey, the director of the US bishops' Secretariat of the Laity. Katharine Bird discovers in interviews with Father Edward Braxton and two lay women, lane Wolford Mughes and Laura Meagher, that friendship is important for both priests and laity. With friends we are accepted as persons, mot for what we do, they tell Ms Bird, associate director of NC's religious education package. Priests and laity become part of each others' lives in a number of ways, writes Cindy Liebhart. Priests do so by being
At St Mark's, one significant way priests and lay people enter deeply into the life of the community together is through participation in small neighbourhood groups of parishioners called "ecclesiolas" or "little churches". Generally the groups meet once a month for a meal, prayer and a discussion of some issue of concern to the parish. The priests try to visit each group in rum. Because of the parish's size, "realistically, priests can't just keep running around to folks' homes for dinner," Mrs Kane said. But by attending these neighbourhood meetings, a priest "can hear what people are concerned about. He is meeting people on their own turf, in their own homes."
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"Ours is a time which calls out for much higher participation by all types of vocation in the church. Some of that participation requires collaborating in actual decision making. Other forms of participa·tion rely on the need for expertise and the giving of competent advice."
Mons Cassidy too finds the small gatherings helpful as a way of "keeping in contact with our people." Both Mrs Kane and Mons Cassidy see a priest's participation in groups that are
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foster good community spirit as well as greater knowledge and appreciation of each individual's unique situation.
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and joy and prayer, Monsignor Thomas Cassidy says. It's the job of the laity to give priests a sense of what it is to struggle to
need too."
Personal friendships between priests and lay
live Christian values in a world of many
people are important too,
competing values, says Annette Kane, administrator of the National Council of Catholic Women. Leadership in the first Christian communities grew out of the need for someone to direct affairs, clarify beliefs, guide conduct and settle differences, writes Father John Castelot. Different needs led to different kinds of leaders, he adds.
both agree. "Every priest needs the caring relationship of other people who are not clergy friends, families who are
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"There is no way test can do it all alot he added. Both Mrs Kane an lons Cassidy believe tdt is much priests and lay ple can contribute tone another many way they enrich each other's in Priests "can show. emselves wanting to be zih ble, wanting to be ha din worship, in prayer,i the pains and sorrow that come," Mons Cassit sid Even though the iest's ministry "is impedt in itself, his willingness be there with the people try, can be very reassurit Lay people, on the her hand, can give pas z sense of what it is togle to live Christian vals in z world of many coasting values," Mrs Kane si hey can help him to see i ry concrete way how dit ltit can be to live as a0 tan
life. Father Braxton, also spoke of the happy times he spends with families on a day off. "t helps me as a human being" to listen to couples pray about their children and their relationship with each other, he said. Praying together "over life experiences builds bonds of understanding between us." Being part of the laity's spirituality gives an added richness to his role as presider at liturgies, Father Braxton added, "Te Eucharist then becomes the summit of ongoing prayer" between a priest and lay people, he said. l was talking with Father Braxton about the ways laity and priests relate. le and two lay women agreed that these relationships are changing today and that the going isn't ahwys easy. Jane Wolford Hughes is a consultant to the archdiocesan education department where she served for many years as director of adult education. Priests are going through a difficult and radical transition today," she said. Many "are not sure" of their job description as they adjust to the reality of fewer priests in parishes and the laity's increasing responsibilities. ]see a great loneliness and many priests don't quite know how to handle it," Mrs Hughes said. "They re reluctant to admit they have problems that are normal to all of us." Hughes thinks that laity should do more to spport priests. "A priest is human too," she said.
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caring and understanding." Ly people need to accept the fact that a priest is not God and can make mistakes" and be forgiven, she added. laura Meagher a director of religious education, said that the way she relates with priests has evolved. Today she tries to relate with priests as
Danielle Damman hugs her uncle, Father Raymond Bucon, following his ordination. Priests are going through a difficutt and radical transition today," says Jan Wolford Hughes, consultant to the Detroit archdiocesan eduction department. Adjusting to the reality of fewer priests in parishes and increased lay responsibilities, mamy priests are not sure of their role. Priests "are reluctant to admit they have problems normal to all of us," #Mrs ughes says.
individual "human beings and peers." Some are her friends. Friendship gives priests as
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still communities people living in close relationships. To void chaos, someone had to direct their affairs, clarify their beliefs, guide their conduct, settle their differen-
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So there were various types of leaders. There were, of course, the twelve apostles headed by Peter. They functioned as a body centred in Jerusalem. Priests, important as they are for the Church's life, are only one component in the Church partnership. The laity who comprise 99 per cent of the cCurch are also hearers of the Holy Spirit. The laity bring to the Church body the richness of their varied and complex experience, and they are ware of the many possibilities for responding to society's need.
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In his ministry, theologian Father Edward Braxton cherishes situations where he and parishioners can pray together on an informal basis. During Lent, for instance, he met weekly for 45 minutes with four other people to reflect on the passion narratives. Emphasising that he was a group member, not its leader, the priest said each session included quiet reading of a text and some sharing of what the suffering of Jesus means" in a person's
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While he sees the %ary role of the priest zs haristic and sacramel," Mons Cassidy said not the only role he exe, sin the community. A priest is "an eyr facilitator, someo who discovers and use(her people's talents to p ser vice to the commu" he said. A large part ering the comm tty's needs is "presence eing
ln the Jerusalem community itself there were elders headed by lames. Paul mentions overseers (episopoi) and deacons in Philippians
1:1. We were told of the "aposties, prophets, evangelists (missionaries), pastors and teachers" (Ephesians 4:11) of the second generation. Later, much attention is
given to the selection' overseers, elders and/ cons (1 Timothy } Clearly, leadership , deeply felt need. Since all New books were written by ers, one might expect"
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Church is its mission to the
world,
• flowing from this was an understanding that faith needs to be active, serving the parish's primary mission I contended that every parish needs to reflect on the kind of caring that flows among ts people and beyond them to neighbours and strangers. This caring by the parish happens, I suggested,
through a kind of partnership between pastor and people l confess my views have been shaped by past e9pe riences This past is peopled with priests. My childhood pastor comes to mind. The family lore is that our parents moved to the country to join in establishing a new parish. The relationship between my parents and their priest was significant. But it was not social My father consulted the pastor about personal, spiritual and family issues. The pastor sought my father's advice on business affairs.
For me, the priest was a presence, conveying the sense God is reliable and, by implication, so is the Church His presence spoke of a Church which honoured the people's trust, consoled them and encouraged them. I grew up expecting this of my Church. But I was to become convinced the Church is not only a comforter It is also called to be a challenger, helping people look beyond their own
concerns
Early in adulthood, two
priests pointed me toward
these horizons.
One, led students to the Catholic Worker House. With his encouragement, we were introduced to the Young Christian Workers and Young Christian Students.
I came to realise my Church was much larger than my parish. The other priest, believed the Church's liturgy could impel the laity to move into secular spheres with fresh commitment. Not only did he preach that the laity are the hight of the world. He invited people to stay after Mass for coffee and conversation, to search for concrete ways to
express the Gospel. In those gatherings were some who ran for public office, some who served on the school board. All were caught up in issues of justice. Finally, I cannot think of priests who influenced my Christian development without recalling several spiritual directors and confessors who conveyed an essential truth We are valued by God because of who we are, not what we achieve. I believe the qualities exemnplrfied by the priests in my personal history contribute to vital parishes.
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us
But priests, important as they are for the church's life,
are only one component in the church partnership. The laity who comprise 99 per cent of the Church are also bearers of the Holy Spirit The laity bring to the Church body the richness of their varied and complex experienoe, and they are aware of
the many possibilities for responding to society's need Priests who listen deeply to the people will know the challenge and the consolation of being in covenant with those they serve.
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Record Reporter COLLEEN HOWARD talks to Sue Ryan that very mobile occupational therapist in the Kimberley who is working with a team to strive for better conditions for Aborigines and the aged. Sue Ryan, occupational therapist from Derby, is on leave at her Dianella home, preparing for her forthcoming marriage to Tony Tonkin, Ansett traffic officer from Derby. Employed by the Health Department of WA, Sue finds her work "challenging". Three years ago/she set up the occupational therapy service in Derby and is still the only occupational therapist (OT) in the Kimberleys, although she does have assistants.
"There is a different cultural environment in Derby," Sue said. "About 99% of my clients are Aboriginal people and it is almost like going to another country, compared with down here." What is 0T? It is a specific type of therapy service which is different to speech therapy and physiotherapy, Sue said. "What we do is use activity as our means of therapy. "We look at three main areas of people's lives. • self care: toiletry, showering, dressing. Things you do every day. • work: We look at work in terms of the productive side of people's lives. Whether you are unemployed or not, or working at home with a child, everybody has a productive side that needs to be filled. • leisure: 0T's are concerned with independence in these areas. "f someone has a stroke or head injury or maybe a whole range of physical needs, what we do is assess them for functional skills. "We look at the skills involved and facilitate rehabilitation so they can continue to return to normal activities and if not, try to get them to adapt accordingly and maximise what abilities they do have." In some areas they do liaison work with the family but generally that is the domain of the social worker. "} am considering doing some research with an Aboriginal association in Derby. We are researching for a submission for needs, facilities and equipment for the aged and disabled in small aboriginal communities. "But I'd need three months leave without pay from the health department to be able to do it," said Sue. "I have always loved working with old people. I think they have a tremendous amount to offer. "The pace in the Kimberleys is a lot slower so you have more time to talk and attend to them," said Sue. "You might meet them on the streets or at a festival and so you can take time off to have a chat." Being the only OT in the whole of the Kimberley area which embraces Kununurra, and Wyndham down to Broome and Halls Creek, necessitates a lot of travelling for Sue. She travels a lot to Broome, Fitzroy Crossing each week and small Aboriginal communities as required, with occasional trips to ununurra. "We work with Aboriginal health workers in the community. Each community has a health sister from the Department of Health in WA and they have one or two health workers assisting them." The sisters are encouraging the health workers to take more responsibility for the health care needs of their own communities. "My work is to try and maintain these people in their own community for as long as possible, so they are not prematurely forced to go into nursing homes," said Sue. Derby was founded in 1883 and situated 2,500 km from Perth, it has a population of 5,000 people. Close to Broome and located about 80 miles down on King Sound, it is a long way from the coast. Originally a port to bring in goods to supply all the pastoral stations, big ships "have gradually discontinued comin&, through," Sue said, "because of the unsuitable marine entering facilities of the[ port." rywes.
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Queenslander met his
The Teachers' Training College in pre-war Brisbane in which Jim Molony took the first steps towards a half-century career as a schoolmaster was housed in a condemned builing, the Old Trades Hall.
Therapist's 'challenges' in Kimberley □
He contrasts the ramshackle edifice with the lavish accommodation provided for today's budding mentors of the young.
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Derby is basically a government service town now, she said, but many people are choosing to live there. t is the regional headquarters for a lot of government departments who service the Kimberleys. The population mix is about 60/40 Aboriginal to white. Food supplies are sent up from Perth and Derby is a well serviced centre, said Sue, which serves a lot of satellite communities; Fitzroy Crossing people tend to ship there too. Sue is a very 'involved' woman and says she's not happy unless on committees and 'pitching in'. She is currently secretary of the Aged Persons' Homes. "We are trying to build home units (independent pensioner accommodation) through Homes West. "We have found there is need for hostel accommodation." There is a nursing home in town, said Sue, and she has two OT assistants who work there. They provide a daily activities therapy program which Sue visits one day a week.
Derby has a 108 bed hospital and she sees some in-patients but mostly outpatients there. Sue is president of the Derby indoor Bowls Association and is also involved in the management team of the Derby Learning Centre which opened up two years ago. Learning centres are places where people can come together, the basic idea being to learn through sharing. "Sharing and Caring" is their catch cry. lt is a place where people can come together to share skills. They have volunteer teachers for their classes which can cover anything from craft, cooking or car maintenance. Teachers volunteer their time and expertise. It is low cost education and stimulation. "We rent a building and get a rostered volunteer staff together," said Sue. A group will run for say four weeks and the teachers themselves then progress on to their own learning class. The concept is entirely different to a TAFE scheme which may result in a diploma or similar.
People come together, finding some meaning and belonging and can continuously come back and relate to that place, with minimal cost incurred.
James Patrick (Jim} Molony, DFC, retired deputy-principal of the East Victoria Park state school, was born at Mitchell in Queensland on December 29, 1913. At St Edmund's CBC in Ipswich he won the gold medal by competitive examination for being the best student of his age group at any Christian Brothers school in Queensland. He completed his teacher training in Brisbane, worked in the Taxation Department for 18 months and taught at schools in south-eastern and central Queensland. He enlisted in the RAAF in 1940 and flew as a Mosquito pilot on 72 missions with No. 105 Squadron of the RAF Pathfinder Group for which he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross He resumed teaching in Queensland on his discharge before transferring to the WA Education Department in 1951. He taught for six years at Ardath and Perenjori and for the same total of years at Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie. He retired from the department in 19 78 after almost 50 years of teaching He has two nephews and a niece in religion. Fathers Patrick and Paul Molony are in Queensland and Sister Pamela is a Good Shepherd nun in Melbourne. Jim and his wife Ruth (nee Marwick) are Pius X parishioners at Manning, but they used to live in the Bentley parish where Jim was the first chairman of the parish council. The couple have three sons and they also brought up three nieces
But there was at least one diversion from contemplation of the possible collapse of the structure. Inigo Jones, renowned pioneer of long-range weather forecasting in Australia, occupied the top floor and he used to allow the students to view the skies through his telescope. Instead of being sent to classrooms immediately on graduation, Jim and some of his colleagues were seconded to the Taxation Department At that time of the tapering Depression, there had been introduced an unemployment relief tax of three pence in the pound on gross income. It seems the calculations involved in the resultant assessments, simple though they were, were beyond the capabilities of departmental officers so an SOS was sent out to the young chalkies. After 18 months of what some had pre-judged as a mathematical maelstrom, Jim was posted to classroom duty in his home town of Ipswich. There followed a period as a relieving teacher throughout Queensland until he joined the RRAAF in December 1940
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Travellers to Britain plan now to treat yourself to an autumn break in York that wonderful city that prompted King George to say - "The history of York is the history of England." It is easily accessible by coach or British Rail, the attractions are all within walking distance of each other and open throughout the year. And many hotels and guest houses offer =twonight bargain breaks. York has many old build-
ings and you can see them by walking along the top of the ancient walls that surround them.
Towering over the city is the 600 year old Minster built between 1220 and 1472 which is a joy to bcyold.
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After training at Amberley and Archerfield, he got his pilot's wings and was included in an RAAF draft which sailed from Newcastle in NSW aboard the Themosticles for England. The ship's first port of call was Albany, and she was the first World War II troopship to enter the beautiful Princess Royal Harbour which had seen so many sail for overseas in World War I. The Albany people put on a dance for Jim and the other RAAF men and among those attending was a girl named Ruth Marwick, then assistant-secretary of the Denmark Road Board. It was the start
correspondence throughout the war, leading to their marriage in 1946. Neither was to know on that night, that of the 142 airmen aboard the Themosticles only 17 would survive the war. On arrival in England the pilots were put through further training because it had been so long since they were at the controls of an aircraft. Jim flew one mission in a Whitley bomber before being transferred, to his initial dismay, to an MTU which he mistakenly took to stand for Motor Transport Unit. He soon found that MTU meant Mosquito Training Unit. When he and his colleagues got off the train at yton, near Cambridge, a porter with a grisly sense of humour pointed to a stack of coffins at the end of the platform and quipped: "We've got your
overcoats ready we've used 16 of them this month." At Bourn, also near Cambridge, Jim joined No. 105 Squadron of the RAF Pathfinder Group to fly Mosquitoes. Two of his distinguished predecessors in the squadron had been Hughie Edwards VC and Wallace Kyle, both later to become successive governors of their native state of Western Australia. "I don't know why I was never invited to complete the hat-trick." he laughs. Jim and his colleagues were trained in the then top-secret Oboe target-marking technique and, in alleged rest periods between operations, underwent a course in advanced navigation at Wigtown in south-west Scotland. His first "op" with 105 was an attack on the synthetic oil refinery at Gelsenkirchen in the Ruhr with Canadian navigator Danny Moher who
38,000 feet to get the beam to follow in to the target. We'd let go the bombs some of them weighed up to 4000 pounds when we got the drop signal which only the navigator could hear." Jim had three trips to Berlin. but one raid that stands out in his memory was the attack on Merbeck in the Ruhr. 'The oil refinery was on a 100-acre site and it had 100 anti-aircraft guns defending it. You could say that our attack was successful because it cut the refinery's production by two-thirds." It was one of the occasions, not uncommon on long trips, when the pilot could have a little nap on the way home. The navigator could keep an eye on things because he was busy all the time. Jim was half-way through the third of his 2h operational tours when he got the news he had been awarded the DFC. The system was the first tour consisted of 35 operations and the second and any succeeding of 25. Being a teetotaller, he spent little time in pubs and used his free hours to see many parts of England, Scotland and Wales and to visit relatives in the neutral Irish Republic. 'Those Irish trips were great," he recalls. "Being clad in civvies, I always kept my battle jacket with the Australia on the shoulder prominent -on top of the clothes in the suit case. On opening the case the lrish Customs men at the point of departure in the UK would spot it. "Immediately there was a warm and friendly interest.
was to accompany him on 58 of his 72 missions. The remaining 14 he flew with Pete Greening, a Belgian, beside him. After Gelsenkirchen, "where we got a hot reception because the Germans didn't like us touching their oil," the next targets were the flying bomb launch sites in France. The Pathfinder "Mossies," as they were affectionately called, carried no guns because of the weight penalty imposed by their two to three tons of radar gear. This radar was controlled from ground stations in England. Jim describes a typical operation. "We'd leave the English coast at an altitude of 26,000 feet. Once we got our call sign, OM, we'd be in the hands of the ground controller in England. 'Then we'd go up to about
York such a 'walkable' city to vi I
from SARAH GRAHA
Its architectural grandeurs include a Chapter
louse, a Roman wall, an undercroft and an east hcing stained glass window as big as a tennis court,
depicting the beginning and end of creation. During a recent visit, I strolled along the enchanting medieval streets that surround the Minster and, in nearby Castlegate, called in to the York Story Museum. Here, in a series of delightful exhibits the life, history and development of the town from early times is clearly spelt out with particular reference to the Minster and other religious influences. Close by is the famous Castle Museum, the largest folk museum in Britain where, apart from a huge collection of fascinating bygones, there's the Kirkgate cobbled street. Along it are faithfully reconstructed shops brimming with typical items that were sold during the early 19th century - ostrich feathers, render, hat pins and beaded lampshades. There are also blacksmith, printing, candlemakag and clog shops and a replica of a condemned man's cell! Don't miss number 35 The Shambles, once the Dome of St Margaret Clitherow, martyred in 1586. he was condemned for harbouring priests, and as one of the 40 martyrs canonised in 1970. The ground floor of the house is a most attractive
pel.
Open most days, just push the door.
,Ihe National Railway Museum near the station
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s, where number 35 is traditionally thought n the home of St Margaret Clitherow, one of the 40 martyrs.
ouses a collection of engines. I feared it would be boring to me! But the story of the development of railways om 1829 to 1960 completely captured my agination and is, I assure you, of interest to all ges and both sexes. One locomotive exhibited has 11 tons of metal removed from its right side to enable visitors to see how an engine works, and there's also a delightful display of royal carriages, including one used by Queen Victoria. The latest attraction in York is Jorvik Viking Centre in Coppergate. This is a splendid place consisting of restored 10th century houses and workshops. One climbs aboard a small electronically guided car which heads along a Viking Street as it would have looked in 948 AD, teeming with families in their homes and sailors unloading from ships moored alongside a wharf. There are even faithfully reproduced smells that include the stench of loos, aromatic oils, pig sty odours, woodsmoke, beef stew and fresh apples!
Jim Molony as a young pilot in the RAAF on the way to
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The mother of Pete Greening, Jim's Belgian navigator with the dog who 'hated Hitler'.
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"Questions like 'do you know my cousin Shaun O'Docherty in Melbourne,' or I've a sister, a nun in Perth' would follow. "And the meals at the Royal Hibernian Hotel in Dawson Street in Dublin and elsewhere in lreland were something to remember after having come from food-rationed England 'The only things that were in fairly short supply were tea and sugar. This led to friendly banter with the Customs men when you were boarding the ship for the return trip," he says. " 1hope you're not taking any of our tea and sugar with you,' they'd laugh and pass your case without having opened it." When Belgium was again in Allied hands Jim and his Belgian navigator Pete Greening visited Pete S mother in Brussells. She had stayed in the City throughout the German occupation, and one of her accomplishments was to have trained her little dog in tricks that would have got her into serious trouble had the Gestapo heard of them. Meat was very hard to get , and on the rare occasions " when she could spare any she would approach the dog and say 'This is an Adolf Hitler bone," or 'This is a Herman Goering piece." The little animal, hungry though he was, would growl menacingly, shake his head and refuse the offering. But when she said "This is Winston Churchill meat" the dog would gulp rt down with delight. She had to prove her assertion in demonstration before her sceptical son or hrs equally incredulous pilot would believe it. Jim took his discharge in Brisbane in 1946 but Ruth, who was serving in the AMWAS at Toowoomba in the same state. had to return to Perth for her army discharge and then go back to Ipswich for her wedding. Jim taught in Queensland for the next five years. In one of his scholarship classes six of his pupils were in the top 20 in the state. Despite a wartime injury that has left him with a bad back. at 72 the chirpy old pilot
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Sisters of Our Lady of The Mission have been celebrating the 60th anniversary of their arrival in Katanning. Pictured right at the Katanning celebration are Mrs Noel Guidera of Katanning, Sister Francis Colreavy (Perth), Isabel Magee (Narrogin), Philippa Harken (Perth). Mrs Kit White (Katanning), Sr Lucille Benny (Katanning). It is also 60 years since they moved into their Maylands convent after travelling by horse and buggy each day for 17 years.
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BURMESE MASS
The Australia Burma Mission Relief Society offer a 10th anniversary thanksgiving Mass on Sunday May 25, Sacred Heart Church, Highgate, at 9am, followed by a Food Fete and raffle at the Parish Hall. licensed bar provided. Enquiries 272 1379.
CHORISTERS NEEDED
The Wester Australia Week thanksgiving serice by the combined Churches in the
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Perth Concert Hall on Sunday evening June 8 needs 200 choir members for practices on Sundays May 18,25 June 1 in Perth Christian Centre 816 Hay Street 2.45 pm --4.30 pm. Please bring -if you have them - "The Victor" & "The Witness" "I Still call Australia Home" (music). Other music being provided. Enquiries Geoff Hammond 390 6628.
HEALING WEEKEND
The Pastoral and Matrimonial Renewal Centre will conduct a Parish Healing Weekend at the Hosea Prayer House, Dardanup on the weekend May 30-June
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The residential weekend has a limit of thirty participants, and is open to all members of the Church. Enquiries may be made to Rita and Bert Murphy at Hosea Prayer House, 097 281148 or Peter and Veronica Dymond 367 9870.
HOSPITAL QUIZ NITE
A Quiz Night is being held on Tuesday, May 20 at the Vegas Hotel, Charles
Street, North Perth, by the St John's Subiaco Hospital Auxiliary, to raise funds for hospital equipment. Starting time is 8pm with a $3 entrance fee. Tables of eight. Good prizes.
MAY ROSARY DEVOTION A Rosary devotion in honour of Our Lady of Mt Carmel will be held at Clontarf, 295 Manning Rd, on Sunday May 18 commencing at 1 .30 pm with The Joyful Mysteries, followed by hymns by the Group 50 Choir, the Sorrowful Mysteries followed by hymns, and "One day through the Rosary and Scapular she will save the world" by Father Francis Moylan, OCD. There will be a consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, enrolment in the Family of Carmel, and Benediction.
ETHNIC CONCERT
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OBITUARY
Lionel Lobstein
Lionel LOBSTEIN, 79. a convert of long standing and a well known teacher of languages was buried recently from the Swanbourne church whihc he had attended regularly after years abroad. Among those paying tribute to hi mwas his long standing friend Father TED ST0RMON SJ who travelled from Melbourne for the funeral and who penned the following tribute:
Lionel Lobstein was a man with a rare gift for languages. He spoke French. German. ltahan. Spanish and modern Greek with fluency some of them like a native and he knew some Russian and Japanese. He put his gift to good use during a long life devoted to school and university teaching and more particularly to assisting European migrants both in places where they gathered abroad and on the ships that brought them to Australia I first knew him when he was completing an honours course in French and German at the recently inaugurated campus at Crawley. He was an active member of the Alliance Francaise in the city and the Circolo Italiano at the University, and greatly in demand for acting. We used to cycle out together along Mounts Bay Road and increasingly our talk concerned the Catholic faith to which he felt himself drawn. (His parental background was Jewish and Anglican.) A Hackett scholarship took him to Germany about 1936-37 and it was the example of certain Rhineland Catholics who were not afraid to stand up to Hitler when they felt their religious practice threatened. that finally caused him to seek admission to the Catholic Church. He was received by the rector of the Jesuit college in Bonn (whose members soon afterwards had to go into exile or hiding to escape arrest).
After a course at the Sorbonne in Paris he returned to Australia in time to render valuable wartime service as an interpreter. Thereafter he taught at St Louis Jesuit School, Claremont, to which he always remained devoted. At one time he wanted to join the Society but it was thought that he was now too old to make the transition to religious life without risking a wrench to his personality. He gave himself to the great post-war migration scheme launched by the late Hon Arthur Calwell. Here his life touched with a kindly beneficence that of literally tens of thousands of others as he prepared Italians, Germans, Hungarians, Poles, Baltic peoples and others for life in their new country and often accompanied them on the ships. In later years he became particularly interested in the Greeks. He spent a year in Crete and two years in Athens and I think he was the only member of the Australian legation who mastered the spoken language of the ordinary people. From then on his letters to me were always sprinkled with Greek expressions In 1965 he felt the call of home and the need to spend his life among the familiar places and faces. He owned a house in Swanbourne in which he thereafter lived. He tutored at various times in the language departments of his old University and even into old age continued to teach Italian at St Mark's CBC Highgate. Every month he acted as lector at the French Mass for Mauritians in St Thomas More College chapel. He was a good parish man and loved by many families. In the various societies to which he belonged (among them the Alliance Francaise and the Dante Elighieri) but above all among his many close friends, his name will long stand in benediction.
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Young Christian Students are preparing a state-wide camp to take place during the
June/July holidays at Gidgegannup. Students are expected from Geraldton, Perth and Bunbury dioceses. Malcom Dix and Susanne Legena of De Veliar plan to attend the Australian Executive meeting in Adelaide in May. After a team retreat, the full timers, Malcolm Dix, Katrina Alilovic and Kathryn Butler will be visiting Catholic colleges to speak about YCS.
caught on life's roller coaster with little time to think and pray can be 'too much' at times.
Tony Dolin, Geraldton Youth Worker is offering a unique opportunity for young people to take some time out, to reflect and
spend time with God. This 'escape' is scheduled for three different dates in June. June 6-8, June 13-15 and June 20-July 6. The place is the Newmarra-
TYCS A bike rally is planned for
May 25, beginning and ending at UWA. An easy 1 hour trip is scheduled for even the slowest of riders with the promise of no traffic, no hills hopefully no spills! Bring your picnic basket. A dance will take place at the North Perth Town Hall on May 30. A champagne breakfast will introduce the lune events on Sunday, June 1, at 10 o'clock at the Cardijn Centre. Just the thing for pre-exam jitters!
carra Homestead -- Geraldton's equivalent of Eagle's Nest. Youth groups from Perth may contact Tony on (099) 21 4697 and make arrangements for the school holidays It's a chance in a life time. It could be a holiday with a difference. SERVE A program about to com-
mence in Geraldton is called
chance to serve' specifically
designed for young people aged 15-16 and is about friendship and building
A group of young Antioch members sharing their artistic talents in the poster painting session on the last Flame weekend. Flame 1986 is scheduled for September 20.
community. DISCIPLESHIP
South Perth Antioch community is preparing for its first parish weekend early in July. l am looking for prospective participants.
A second program called Towards discipleship' is for young Catholics 18-24, not necessarily church-goers but interested in finding direction and meaning to
They must be from the South Perth area. They must be in years 11 or
life.
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·Coming to a better understanding of their faith and the church Ring Tony on (099) 21 4697 or (099) 23 1475
There is no major problem obtaining such information from Catholic schools. However, contacting young
catholics in State senior high schools is another matter.
It's not a simple matter of _obtaining a list from the school.
l believe it should be. Most schools still ask prospective students which particular denomination they belong to, at enrolment time.
Catholics within the school and they will do the rest! So if you are a young person in year 11 or 12 at Como High school, Kent Street or Perth Modern and live in the South Perth area please ring me!
The Catholic Parish Youth movement didn't rest on its laurels for too long after a smashing rivercruise. Ninety lanes were booked at a City bowling alley and a great time was had by 90 young people
BAKE-A-TH0N Sunday. May 24 will be the chance for young men in CPY to show they can cook as well as the women A cake bake is planned followed by a stalls several parish Churches. Anyone able to donate flour. eggs. butter. sugar should ring the office on 328 8136
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unless of course it is to enjoy the warm hospitality of the caretakers Frank and Joan Johnson. Until recently no mail was delivered to Eagle's Nest. This added to the isolation of the caretakers at the centre. The address is 116 O'Brien Road, Gidgegannup 6555.
The matter of religious persuasion may soon take a similar track in Australia. Today the parish priest has no access to the names, addresses or phone numbers of his parishioners on the state school roll. This is regarded as confidential information. The personal approach is still open to him. The way to contact young Catholics at a state school is to advertise a meeting during the lunch break or after school.
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Albert was just 8 or 9 years old. He was riding a gentle, old borse a farmer let bim ride. Suddenly a big dog ran barking toward tbe horse. The horse reared up in fear. Albert lashed out at the dog with a long whip. The wbip stung the dog in the left eye. Tbe dog fell to tbe ground and rolled over and over yelping in pain. Albert bad not meant to burt tbe dog, just to scare it away. For weeks be could not get the sight of the injured dog out of bis mind. He made up a prayer wbich be prayed the rest of bis life: "Heavenly Father, protect and bless all living creatures." ±she grew oder, Amer became more sensitive to pain. It burt bim to see animals suffer. It burt bim even more to see suffering people. Albert loved music. He learned to play the piano and the organ, and be gave concerts. And Albert, tbe son of a Lutheran
pastor, also became a theologian and wrote a book about Jesus. He became a famous man and bad everything a young man could want. But be tbought often of those wbo bad much less, people wbo were poor and sick. He could feel tbeir pain. So in 1905 be decided to give up bis teacbing and go to medical school to become a missionary doctor. Schweitzer and bis wife, a nurse, set up a hospital in the African jungle. Sick people came from everywhere. The couple worked almost day and night to ease people's pain. People were suffering not just from diseases but from injuries caused by enemies in war. "Why is it that people hurt each other so much?" Dr Schweitzer asked bimself. "Why is there so much fighting? Why are there wars? What is needed to make
the world better?" One evening be discovered an answer wbile riding up a wide river. It was still bot as the sun dropped behind tbe bills. A herd of bippopotamuses moved slowly in the waters around the barge. Suddenly a thought flashed tbrougb bis mind, "reverence for life." That was bis answer to what the world needed most. He believed that if people bad reverence for all living things, they would not keep burting one anotber. There would be no wars. Reverence for life is wbat Albert bad felt as a boy for the dog be bad burt. It is wbat be felt later when be rescued an orphaned baby monkey in tbe jungle. It was what brought bim to thejungles to ease people's pain. After 52 years of caring for tbe sick in the African Schweitzer jungle, summed up bis deepest conviction: "If a man loses reverence for any part of life, be will lose bis reverence for all life."
Dear Captain Bob, Im sorry I have not written for a long time. Here are some jokes and Knock knocks Knock knock.
tbere? Is a bell. Is a bell who? Is a bell ringing?
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Wbat's tbe difference between a skunk and a loaf of bread? If you don't know, your Mum had better not send you to the shop. From ANN WRINGE, Boo-
ragoon.
Dear Captain Bob, I am sorry I haven't written for a long time. We may be able to go for a picnic today. I hope we can. We moved house on the Christmas holidays, to Ardross. My Mum, my two sisters and I are going to a concert this Saturday. I am playing three pieces on the piano. My pieces are called: Ecossaise by J.N. Hummel, Minuet 2 by J.S. Bach, and Minuet by W.A Mozart. My school is St Joseph Pignatelli. I have lots of friends. My best friends are Fiona and Julia. Today my Nanna and Pop are here. I read the Children's Story Hour every Sunday. Se you later. Kathryn Tuxford.
You have got to be in the club if you want to enter our competitions and win some of the super prizes.
How are you? I'm fne Thank you for putting nm
letter in the Record. I ho
you had a happy Easter. I did.
I got eleven Easter eggs a one chook. We are doin some gardening. Here a some jokes for you. What is the biggest an An eleph-ant. Wby do bees hum? Because they don't kno the words. When is a door not¢ door? When it is a jar. Wby do borns?
cows ba,
Because their bells don work. Wbat tree is never alone? A pear tree. That's all the jokes I have for you. 'Bye for now, from Donna Eva.
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The grand finale Fledh '86 Club Show -has officially ended four weeks of Irish activities, each
event fully supported and thorough I y enjoyed judging by audience response. Within the final week was an Irish gourmet evening at the Monopole restaurant, Ceili a night of traditional dance, song and music presented by An Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann, and A Tribute to Murray Jennings 10 years of folk music 6WF. Murray Jennings, aided by The Settlers musicians, hosted this night of Celtic musrc and song, providing a background history to each as to its origin and implication. A selection of Australian songs was included.
Teri De Sario and gifted producer/muso/husband Bill Purse have claimed a front row seat under the Christian music spotlight with Teri's latest album, Voices In The Wind (Dayspring, A&M).
A lyrically inspiring
recording, Voices In The Wind shines all the way through.
From the poetry of Tapestry to the resillience of Celebrate, the album exudes vitality. The title track embodies some of Teri's thoughts on the importance of selfimage and our worth in God's eyes. She communicates strongly and yet sensitively in her more serious mode of I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier and addresses with gravity the theme of computer crime in All Day Thursday.
by COLLEEN HOWARD
The Settlers are working with Murray Jennings and the ABC on an LP record to be released this year, commemorating 10 years of Folk and Beyond. A professional group with good vocals and variety of instruments, they performed such
Stephen Kujala is to be noted for his flute and recorder which thread through masterfully. Like all songs, you must listen carefully to the words to gain the full meaning, but this will give you an idea of Teri's ministry:
ballads and songs as 'Slivenamon, 'Cape Baeton' and 'Fuinary', Ewan McCall's hard
sopher and rogue.
Through thick and thin The Master weaves us in Young and old We are the colours of the rainbow Our lives are short and long But together we hold strong In this everlasting tapestry.
Landmark in Aussie literature
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music, lyrics and voice to be on the track Tapestry. As the title suggests, it is whimsical and weaving.
by SHARON MARSHALL
Teri is currently engaged in a 30-day blitz of eastern and mid-western cities in the United States with co-Day Spring artists Wayne Watson and Kenny Marks.
"Creation and Human Dynamism," by Father Joseph G. Donders, MAfr, Twenty-Third Publications, $5.95. Contends that within the African primal beliefs there is a new source for discovering a sense of the spirituality of creation. "Soul of My Soul," by Catherine de Hueck Doberty, Ave Maria Press,
$4.95. Widely known author reveals the heart of her experience with prayer and her reflections on it.
"Let's Pray Together," compiled and written by Kathleen A. Mulvey, HiTime Publishing, $4.95. Thirty-two complete prayer services for family celebrations, parish meetings and other group gatherings. "The Bible in tbe Cburcbes," by Kennetb Hagen, Father Daniel J. Harrington, SJ, Grant R. Osborne and Joseph A Burgess, Paulist Press,
$8.95. How Catholics, Evangelicals and mainline Protestants interpret the same New Testament.
"Love Bade Me Welcome," by Father Robert Llewelyn, Paulist Press,
"Diversity and Communion," by Father Yves Congar, OP, TwentyThird Publications, $9.95. Inquiry into the theological basis of the problem of ecumenicity. "Martyrs of Our Time," by the Rev William Purcell, CPB Press, $9.95. Roll of honour compiled by an Anglican priest of martyrs of the last 60 years "Jesus Claims --Our Promises," by tbe Rev Maxie Dunnam, Tbe Upper Room, $5.95. Studies by a Methodist minister of the "I Am" sayings of Jesus such as "I am the true vine." "Conversion and tbe Catecbumenate," edited by Father Robert D. Duggan, Paulist Press, $7.95. Essays dealing with the conversion experience. "I WI Lift Up Mine Eyes," by Glenn Clark, Harper and Row, $7.95. Describes the incredible power of prayer to dramatically change one's life. "Biblical and Theological Reflections On the Challenge of Peace," edited by Father Jobn T. Pawlikowski, 0SM, and Fatber Donald Senior, CP, Michael Glazier,
$4.95. Urges Christians to take the ultimate step of faith and throw themselves into the loving arms of the Father.
Such is life by Tom Collins. Published by Hogarth Press. Distributed by the Australasian Publishing Co. $10.95.
As he drives his team across the plains of the Riverina and Northern Victoria, Tom gets wildly entangled in the fate of others -- like Rory O'Halloran, the two Alfs (Nosey and Warrigal), Mrs Beaudesart and Hungry Buckley of Baroona recreating the humour, the pathos, the irony he knew as part of life in the bush.
His is that tough-talking, law-dodging world of the 1880's, where the swagmen and bullockies slept out under the stars with "grandeur, peace and purity above; squalour, worry and profanity below".
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"Such is life," said Ned Kelly as he died, kindly providing a title for this picturesque classic of the Australian outback: the splendidly farcical, tragical reminiscences of Tom Collins, philo-
To give you an idea of Teri's vocal quality and style, I would say she has a less passionate, less
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family trip, played and sang traditional music, Tony Costa sang some John McCormack melodies Mary-Attracta Connolly gave beautiful Irish renditions and there was a humourous sketch of Marrying Mary with Paddy and Very Larkin, Tony Mallon, Annette Donnolly and Fergus Farrel. A short tribute was paid to the poet Patrick Pearse, the Irish patriot, and a very funny comedy Happy Returns was staged. All in all a good night and a great Fleadhl
Outback classic
Bill Purse was responsible for the composition of the dynamic and unique music. lhope I can also attribute the extensive use of flute, horns and psaltery to his creativity.
Streisand's. It is smoother, well rounded and easier on the
hitting rouser 'The Tunnel Tigers', songs of love 'Snowy Breasted Pearl' and two excellent Australian songs written by Wendy Evans. The Irish Club staged two Club Shows, both produced and presented by Paddy Larkin of 6WN's The lrish in Me fame, for April 18 and 19, because of the heavy demand for tickets. Club Shows have proven very popular at the Irish Club and this year was no exception. Catalpa, the Waters'
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These inspired yarns, "fatally govemned by an invete r a t e truthfulness". are woven into one of the greatest books of Australian literature, a combining genius for storytelling with a wry wit and a deep feeling for the harsh sun-baked land and the people who worked it. "Tom Collins" was the pseudonym for Joseph Furphy (1843-1912) The son of Irish immigrants, he was a goldminer, labourer and farmer before following the "adventurous and profane occupation" of bullock driving for several years. He wrote his masterpiece, Such is Life (1903),
$8.95. Paper constituting a response to the appeal of the US bishops in their pastoral letter on war and peace.
while working in a foundry in Shepparton, Victoria. Furphy is writing an early version of the anti-novel, asserting his own power and presence as maker, as magician, and his own freedom, almost on a whim, to chance the ground of what he is doing whenever he wills. Asserting his freedom, as well, to disappear. Such is Life is a key work in Australian writing and in the development of Australian notions of culture and nationhood, states David Malouf in his introduction. But that isn't its only interest. It belongs as well to the tradition Furphy was writing out of. among the great books in the English language. A brilliant tease, it is also, in the reading, a unique and irreplaceable experience, speaking up as it does to oddly, eloquently, infuriatingly, and with so much anger at injustice and visionary optimism, for Life and for the delight of making Fiction.
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TENNIS
The B grade competition was injected with new life
as a result of scores recorded this week. St Benedicts defeated St George seven sets 52 games to five sets 58 games. This was the first loss for the season for St George. The game was extremely close and in fact if St George could have won one more set they would have won the match because they had won more games than St Benedicts. Willetton won an important match against Pignatelli No.111 sets 72 games to one set 28 games. The win meant Willetton are now only one win behind the leading teams. Pignatelli No. 2 also kept in touch with the leading teams by defeating Greenwood 10 sets 71 games to two sets 33 games. Next weeks matchers will begin the second round of fixtures with four teams still in the running for the finals. The A grade competition which has produced such close results over the last three weeks saw the Queen's Park teams win their matches very easily.
BAYSWATER JUBILEE
Queen's Park No. 1 defeated Pignatelli 10 sets 65 games to two sets 40 games while Queen's Park No. 2 defeated Dianella 12 sets 72 games to 21 games. lt was perhaps too much to expect the close scores to continue week after week. The pennant tables after round five are as follows: A Grade Queens Park No. 2 10. Queens Park No. 1 6. 2. Pignatelli Dianella 2. B Grade St George 8. StBenedicts 8. Pignatelli No. 2 6. Willetton 6.
Pignatelli No. 1 2. Greenwood 0. The Queens Park club has arranged a square dance to be held on Saturday June 7
at the Higgins Park Tennis Club Hall. All clubs are invited to join in the fun. Tickets are $6.00 for adults and $3.00 for school children. The admission price includes supper and drinks are B.Y.O. For further information contact Christine Messer on 459 8183.
Some 200 had to sit outside St Columba's church Bayswater when Archbishop Foley celebrated the Mass for the school's 50th anniversary of its opening in 1936 with 80 pupils. Today the enrolment is over 200 boys and girls from Years 1 to 7 representing 15 nationalities. The principal Sr lrena Kasprzyk acknowledge the support given the school not only by the Catholic community but also the co-operation from the local Anglican parish and the Bayswater Primary School. At Father Morrison's instigation, pupils were given an anniversary holiday the following day. - Jane Machin-Everill
St Columba's Bayswater principal Sr lrean Kaspryzk with guests of honour Mr Bob Pearce, Minister for Education and Senator Ruth Coleman.
ARCIC MEETINGS
Two Australian members of the Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission (ARRCIC) will hold three public meetings in Perth this week sponsored by the Catholic and Anglican churches of
Perth.
Marist Father John Thornhill of Sydney and Anglican Assistant Bishop Cameron of North Sydney will speak at St Denis church Joondanna at 8pm on: SUNDAY MAY18 "ARCIC I: A basis for Unity?" TUESDAY MAY 20 - "ARCIC 11: Steps towards Unity?" WEDNESDAY MAY 21 -'The Shape of Unity?" The series is a follow up to last year's parish discussions and anyone may attend.
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RACE SIX: Oyster Lady 1, Tn a jo Fern 2, Starport's Lass 3. RACE SEVEN: Pale Sunrise 1, Bev's Sapphire 2, Mullaloo Magic 3. RACE EIGHT: Tivessa Pride 1, Sam's Dolphin 2, Orange Lady 3. RACE NINE: Luecinder Gold I, Dashing Domino 2, Col Presto 3. RACE TEN: Golden Pieture 1, Camira Flash 2,
PEACEMAKER FILM
On Friday May 23 at 8 pm. at 37 Changton Way, Balga the Hamersley Christian Social Justice Group will show the film "Pacific Peacemaker" the story of a Perth family which set out to take a message of peace to the peoples of the Pacific. There will be a request for nominal donations of $2 per head ($1 unwaged). Light refreshments will be served after the film. Enquiries to Graham Daniell 342 3677 or Brian Steels 448 3617 evenings only please.
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ALTOS NEEDED
The West Australian Girls' Choir has been busy this year with rehearsals and engagements. The new madrigal and guitar groups, and the recorder ensemble have been working together for the past few weeks. The new repertoire being introduced for the choir has proved very stimulating for the young girls aged between 13 and 23 years who attend weekly practices. This year nearly all the new members are sopranos, so the need is for altos over 16 to fill the few vacancies left. Interested girls are asked to telephone the Musical Director, Daniel Girling on 387 4287 (anytime) or the Hon Secretary, Roberta Chapman on 293 1518.
BULLSBROK PILGRIMAGE
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The usual pilgrimage to the grotto of the Virgin of the Revelation at Bullsbrook will take place Sunday May 25 at 2 pm. For further information and bus reservations please contact P. Galea (Perth bus) 349 7135, L. Martinz (Highgate bus) 328 4631, Mrs F. lammarrone (Fremantie bus) 366 1928.
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TRINITY MOTHERS MASS In a packed early morning Mass last week each Trinity Junior School student present handed his mother a card and a flower for Mothers' Day. Year Four presented a movement illustrating the Our Father during the Mass which takes place annually. A morning tea party followed in the college grounds. During the Mass Father Peter Bianchini spoke of the role of a mother as a living communication of God's message to her children. Through the love of a mother, the children learnt to give love to
Bongabinni 3.
Emergency Relief Section Co-ordinator (Part-time) Southcare is a voluntary, community-based, nongovernment organisation providing services to disadvantaged, elderly, and disabled people in the City of South Perth. are affiliated with the Uniting, Baptist, Catholic, Presbyterian and Anglican Churches.
others, he said.
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Southcare requires someone who enjoys working with people to co-ordinate its Emergency Relief programme. This is, on the average, a half-time job. Hours are flexible and some of the work can be done at home. A Job description is available. Telephone costs will be reimbursed and the position carries a monthly honorarium of $210.00.
If you are interested and would like further information please contact by May 31st.
The Co-ordinator, Phone 450 6233. Southcare, Cnr Manning Rd and Bickley Cres., Manning.
WOMEN IN
Fr Doug Conlon with Knights helpers John McGlynn, Terry Bowen, Max Brandenberg, Ray Power and Brian Power.
PARISH ROOTS REVEALED
Lake Grace and Kukerin Knights of the Southern Cross recently spent a day picking mallee roots on a fellow member's farm at Newdegate using seven trucks, front end loaders and root rakes. "Only by community effort like this can parishes such as Lake Grace which stretches all the way to the rabbit proof fence, survive financially,"' said the pastor Father Doug Conlon. "Farmers who come from congregations of around 20 and who may have to drive 50 kilometres or more to and from Mass are traditionally very generous giving their time, machinery and produce are the heart
of rural Catholic Australia."
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I "we.s'A Trinity mother Mrs Nederspett with sons Jarred, Michael, Duncan, Warren and
READING THE BIBLE SOME BASICS
The Sunday Gospels For June & July 1986, from St Luke - a study of the text. 'No previous experience necessary' - if you are iaterested, just bring a bible. Wednesdays (from June 4) - 8.00 pm (for one hour) - St. Thomas More College Chapel Mounts Bay Road, Crawley, 6009 Fr Patrick Bishop, SJ
THE CHURCH Sister Pat Fox RRSM from Adelaide is to lead a seminar on Women and the Australian Church beginning Friday, May 23 at 3.15 pm at Loreto Primary Schoof, Webster St Nedlands. The seminar centres on the book by woman theologian, Elisabeth SchusslerFiorenza, entitled In Memory of Her and Sister Fox will lead the discussion and explore the implications of these ideas for women in Australia.
SOUTH AFRICAN BISHOP
Bishop William Napier, vice president of the South African Catholic Bishops Conference will speak in St Mary's Cathedral at 7.30 pm on Tuesday May 20. He is of Xhosa background and is from the Natal-Transkei area. He is a Franciscan and studied in lreland.