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• As the papal tour draws closer only eight weeks to go arrangements are coming together for the Masses and so on. See story, picture page 3. • As Australia builds up its welcome to Pope John Paul 11, his strong words on social justice and peace will remind us there is a serious side to his visit. See story page 2. • Sale of the Century TV quizmaster, Tony Barber, is again coming to WA to help Perth Youth Chaplain Father John Jegorow raise funds for valuable youth services. Story and picture page 2.
• Successful Perth businessman rose to chainnan of the Stock Exchange after serving in Wortd War II as a bomb aimer over Nazi Germany. See BOB DOYLE'S '/'.S story and pictures, pages 10 and
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The archdiocese of Perth is to introduce special ministers of the eucharist and parish priests have to select candidates by January next year. The successful applicants will be trained in time for a special commissioning in Holy Week 1987. Candidates, male or female, should be distinguished by their Christian life faith and morals. They should have a devotion to the eucharist and be examples of piety and reverence. Their selection should not cause scandal.
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At the Parliamentary Christian Fellowship dinner were (from left) Kim Beazley snr; Senator Michael Tate, fellowship president and Sir Peter Kenilorea KBE, Prime Minister of the Solomon lslands.
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The Canberra parliamentary dining room was "bulging at the seams," when the first ever national prayer breakfast was held recently. This was the verdict of Senator Michael Tate, president of the Australian Parliamentary Christian Fellowhip when describing the function attended by over 350 public figures in politics, law, church, business and the labour movement. A former minister of the Whitlam government, Kim Beazley Snr delivered the major address at the prayer breakfash which Senator Tate said "was a call to those in public life to assess their participation. "Drawing on his experience in the transition to independence in Papua New Guinea Kim Beazley recalled
the prayer and reflection which in his view averted another 'Sharpeville massacre' with all the tragedy this would have brought to our region," said Senator Tate. "Parliamentarians from every state and the Northern Territory joined their federal colleagues from all parties in this opportunity to declare a truce and share what we have in common. "In addition judges and ambassadors mingled with leaders of trade and commerce from both sides of industrial relations. Senator Tate said a highlight was the attendance of Sir Peter Kenilorea, Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands. "His presence symbolised our fellowship with Pacific nations," said Senator Tate.
The preparation of the new ministry is in the hands of a subcommittee of the Diocesan Liturgical Committee: Fathers William Fitzgerald O Praem and Donald Sproxton, Sisters Mary Berry (Maranatha Institute) and Kerry Willison, Mrs Elizabeth Chandler and Mr Owen Stanley.
Special ministers will be able to assist in the distribution of communion at Mass and to the sick at home or in hospital. Special ministers of the eucharist were first permitted in 1970 for missionary situations where there was a shortage of priests. In 1972 the faculty was extended to all dioceses.
In the same year the former clerical orders of acolyte and lector were made permanent lay ministries, with the acolyte also an becoming extraordinary minister of the eucharist. In 1974 Archbishop Goody pioneered the acolytate in Australia commissioning 334 aco-
lytes for Perth archdioceses. At present there are some 800 registered
acolytes. Bunbury diocese later introduced acolytes as did Sydney and other NSW dioceses. Other Australian dioceses did not introduce acolytes but special ministers of the eucharist.
Ecumenical day Pope John Paul II representatives of other churches and other principal religions of the world, will celebrate a day of prayer and fasting for peace in Assisi on October 27.
The celebration is within the framework of the World Year of Peace proclaimed by the United Nations Organisations. It was announced by Pope John Paul Il on January 25 at the Basilica of St Paul outside the Wals in Rome, after consultations with religious leaders He was speaking on peace in his homily at St Paul's for the closing of the Week for Christian Unity" (see also page 5).
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opportunity to put the pope's visit in some context," she said. "It gives us a sense of some of the strong statements our pope has made on justice, peace and human development, to communities all over the world." Sister Leonie is a member of the Sisters of Mercy, Perth congregation and the Catholic Social Justice Commission of the Perth Archdiocese. Having spent a number of years in Catholic schools, she now works with the Catholic Education Office as a Senior Coordinator of the primary schools services. "Founded on Justice and Peace" challenges me personally to work harder to live out my life according to the gospel if I am to call myself a follower of Christ," she said. "The first step is to know the gospel well. I can interpret what the gospel is saying with the help of this document because it places the gospel in the modem context. "I am challenged to personal conversion to peace within myself, to know my biases and preju dices, and become aware of the deeper causes of the suffering of some people.
"Locally, it would be my racist attitudes towards people who are culturally different, and towards new arrivals, who may be getting on through hard work. "People working for social justice - CCJP, Catholic Social Justice Commission, parish groups -are often 'persecuted' or labelled as 'activists' or 'extremists' perhaps out of blind conservatism. "So I am aware of the personal suffering of people who are trying to live out what the gospel is saying, what they believe is the message of Christ. "The conservative element in the Church are waiting for the definitive word.
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trict herself to laying down principles on social and economic subjects. But it is also true and follows that principles must be put into effect, and indeed this responsibility lies with the respective local Churches, with the help of researchers and experts in all fields of sociology, socio-politics and economics. Theprinciples (of the encyclical) must be reduced to practice. The absence of concrete models (in tbe encyclical) must not lead to an easy evasion of concrete adaptation with the excuse, perhaps, that practical ways and means are not in evidence.' Copies of 'Founded on Justice and Peace' are available through your local parish or through the Catholic Social Justice Commission, 459 Hay Street, Perth. Telephone: Sandra Brown, Executive Officer on 325 1212
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Visitors coming to Fremantle for the America's Cup are all part of the family of God, Bishop Healy told a special Cup congregation in St Patrick's church, Fremantle last Sunday. "The Second Vatican Council insist the Church, if it is to be true to its mission, must interpret the signs of the times in the light of the Gospel. "Population mobility is a sign of our times. In terms of our worship of God, it asks us to re-examine those things we do in the name of God. "We must offer assistance to the destitute, comfort to the suffering, and welcome and hospitality to the stranger. "Such is the message of the coming events here in Fremantle -for those who come as visitors, and for those who welcome our visitors. "They are all part of the family of God," he said. Bishop Healy went on to commend the tangible welcome being extended to the visitors by the combined Christian community of Perth and Fremantle. Ten thousand copies of a leaflet which will give the location and times of Masses and Church services are being distributed throughout the hospitality industry. A Catholic Information
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Popular TV quizmaster, Tony Barber, will be host and will entertain at a fundraising dinner for Western Australian youth at the Parmel a H lton on Monday, October 20 A feature of the d nner will be a number of giveaway prizes, including weekend holiday trips, radio and electrical and household appliances Barber, Sale of the Century quizmaster, will provide something for couples and couples can provide something for the Catholic Youth apostolate.
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Papal Visit memorabilia will be among the collectibles of the 1980's. More than 100 products have been officially approved to carry the Papal Visit logo as mementos of the Australian visit of Pope John Paul II. Royalties received from the sale of commemorative products, all licensed by the National Papal Visit Office, will help offset the costs of the pope's six and a half day visit which begins in Canberra on November 24. Prices of papal mementoes include postage and packing, and range from under $2 to nearly $500. The selection includes stationery, jewellery, clothing, tableware and decor objects. Most items feature the Papal Visit emblem, but a few, such as rosary bowls and marble bookends, bear the pope's personal coat of arms. Colour illustrations and descriptions of the memorabilia and their licensees appear in a 16page catalogue which has gone to all parishes for distribution to churches and homes. Order forms in the catalogue are returnable to marketing co-ordinators in each parish, which will receive 15% commission on the retail price of sales.
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The altar setting for Pope John Paul's Mass at Belmont Park will be a visual experience of eye catching colour drawing attention from every corner of the vast crowd. Against a blaze of red, orange and ochre, the pope's Advent vestments, specially made inWA, will make him a conspicuous figure throughout the liturgy. "It will be a big theatre, highlighting the Holy Father in the best possible way" said architect Iris Rossen describing the platform and reredos that will take up three bays of the grandstand.
'The reredos material reaching up and under the cantilever roof of the stand will be red with a vibrant glow of orange. "In front of this will be a cascade of stairs covered in ochre material. We have received special permission to design the pope's vestment which will be simple but big, lined fully in red to give vivid contrast to the purple of Advent. "The fabric will be special light weight wool," she said Three separate levels will be picked out in red for the different parts of the liturgy: for the reading of The Word,
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Architect lris Rossen one level to which the pope does not go; a second level where the pope will sit for a good part of the ceremony and the third level where he will celebrate Mass. The altar chair and furniture will be in pine made by
and not behind it, so people could have maximum view of him. Steps leading up to the chair had been designed so the people would have a side view of those bringing up the symbolic family gifts and not just the view from the rear as so often happens The visual experience will be rounded off by the sight of a massed choir of 500 in formal dress, contrasting with the red of the Fifth District Military Band. On the other side, priests in white wearing specially designed stoles, acolytes and special ministers of Communion will flank the altar scene
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The ANZ Banking Group has offered its facilities to collect cash donations for the Papal Visit to Australia. The bank has been appointed the official banker for the Papal Visit organisation, and is providing facilities in its branches Australia-wide to accept donations from October 1st for two months It is offering its support as a community project to help offset the substantial costs associated with what will be a historical event for Australia The National Papal Visit Office has estimated the cash costs of the visit to the Church at $5 million
The Papal Visit office ran an appeal in all Catholic Churches around the country on Sunday, September 14, for donations to offset the cost of staging 38 church events during the pope's visit The biggest crowds ever in Australia are expected to greet John Paul II. The most substantial costs of the visit lie in providing staging. altars, sound, lighting and barricading for those crowds at each event The National Director of the Papal Visit, Mons Brian Walsh, said he was most grateful for ANZ's continued backing for the
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European Christians who did not venture far below the equator even long after the settlement of the Americas did not anticipate a simple religious conundrum: The weather is different. The Church of the southern hemisphere continues to struggle with a Christmas theology and liturgy that would be happier announcing Light in the black depths of winter instead of searing mid summer; the spring-time exuberance of Easter is hard to match against the parched autumn days of the South. Thus the Church finds itself often at odds with the local culture over trivia which have little to do with the profound truths of life but which are time-consuming hurdles to communicating the gospel. The earnest evangelist scaling the highlands of New Guinea in search of listeners discovers an elementary gap not imagined by the bible writers: Hundreds of beautiful allusions to sheep and shepherds have little meaning to a society that has no sheep. Esperanto looked an attractive solution to a nagging problem. There would be a new world language understood by everyone and all tensions and misunderstanding would dissolve. Meanwhile. at the convention centre the rows of interpreters earn their living trying to make sense. The Catholic Church came to feel it had possibly won the day when it rose to respectability in the empire of Constantine but the marauding hordes of the Dark Ages had other ideas. So did Islam. The Catholic Church of the Middle Ages found a new security in a prosperous Europe until the Protestant Reformers became an opposition voice and wars and revolutions ripped countries apart. In the late 20th century the Church finds itself looking for a new revitalised voice with which to speak to a fast growing secularism that prefers indifference and disbelief to the outright hostility and scorn of the past.
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Within the Church the first flush of a reform that sounded sweeter under the elusive description of renewal has revealed widely diverging views on what needs to be said and to whom. The physical immensity of a Church that now reaches up to 800 million believers of all shades of faith and commitment and the vast array of over 3,000 bishops all charged with leading parts of the flock in some semblance of unity in the gospel should warn Catholics that the task is not as easy as it seems. Pope John Paul, then, has to be a complex voice in a complex Church speaking to a very complicated and mixed up wortd and yet he has to be true to a gospel whose Word breaks through when all other human wisdom fails. The collection of many of his sayings on issues of human development and social justice, issued as a preparation to his Australian visit, are not the only and final word of a man who has established a record for the vast outpourings of his writings. The selection may be incomplete but it reveals the impressive number of world situations that the pope has determinedly confronted in person and the prolific and insistent call to justice and human dignity that he has proclaimed on countless occasions. Indeed, commentators looking for strongly defined threads in the pope's statements and reflections find that conveniently packaged solutions to fashionable issues of the moment are not as easy to find as first imagined. Pope John Paul unnerves some by giving the impression he needs no help from would-be mini popes who sieze on passing paragraphs as definitive words. Like quizzical pagans hearing their first missionary the problem rests as much with the listener as with the speaker. If the Catholic Church is to be a forceful voice in tomorrow's troubled world it may first have to learn the art of listening and not least to Pope John Paul II.
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CARDIFF: A fragment of a famous mosaic in Venice has been discovered in a small Welsh church, where it has remained unnoticed for more than 100 years. The mosaic head was discovered by Reverend Martin Reynolds, vicar of St Anne's Anglican Church, Pontyclyn and Talygam. He began to wonder about its value when he compared it to pictures of Byzantine masterpieces. He alerted the National Museum of Wales which called in Dr Robin Cormack of London's Courtauld Institute of Art. "Dr Cormack had no doubts the piece was taken from the Venice cathedral of S Maria Assumta," he said. President of the Venice in Peril Fund, Sir Ashley Clarke said the mosaic "is greatly exciting Byzantine scholars."
Pilgrimage for renewal in Scotland
and beautification program for the world athletic competition and the September Asian Games got under way. Because Catholics have
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Cardinal Kim of Seoul visited a parish where the conflict was intense to talk with several families renting in the path of the bulldozers Jesuit Father John Daly, active in Seoul's housing apostolate, became a renter in the area and settled in to monitor the situation Pastors of Sanggye-dong Parish, run by the Columban order, scheduled an ecu menical prayer service in an attempt to case the conflict
Gathering Top of agenda on a beach
GLASGOW: More than 3000 Catholics huddled together on a windswept beach to hear Bishop Taylor of Galloway launch a 12month campaign to evangelise the diocese. The occasion was the annual pilgrimage to St Ninian's Caves home of Scotland's first Christian missionary 1600 years ago -and the commissioning of 3000 Renew group leaders. ·We go from this seashsore to rededicate ourselves to God as St Ninian did on this spot 1600 years said. a ago," Bishop Tylor Forty of the 49 parishes in the diocese are involved in the Renew • A program. There are 410.000, Catholics in Galloway and 3000 Special Report people have been enlisted as leaders of sub-groups. prepared by a co-ordinating
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Bishop Taylor sees the Renew campaign in the context of the Second Vatican Council. "It is not Charismatic Renewal nor revivalist but more an attempt to establish basic Christian communities like they have in Latin America and Africa," he said. "They tend to get a bad press as being political and we do not intend to be that but we are not afraid of getting involved in justice and peace issues." He emphasised the Renew would not campaign become "a never-ending treadmill of spirituality" but is intended to be put into practice in short sharp thrusts of five six week seasons As well as concentrating on
attendance at Sunday Mass thcre will be small discussion groups set up in homes throughout the diocese There will also be large events such as the pilgrimage The Renew program was
team under Father Archie Brown, parish priest at Our Lady and St Cuthberts, Maybole, and includes puzzles and quizzes for the whole family -the answers are well-known texts from the Bible. Another aspect of Renew is its ecumenical dimension. Street visits will be made by teams of "messengers"
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LONDON: Church unity must be at the top of the agenda of all Churches, Cardinal Hume said on a one day visit to the Conference of European Churches which was held in Britain for the first time. The Catholic Church is not an official member of the Council although it has sent observers to its conference since 1964. Cardinal Hume told the delegates. who included the new Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Alexy of Leningrad, that the value of Church unity could not be undervalued. "I have a passionate belief in the importance of Christian unity," he said. 'There can be no progress in unity unless we pray together. But we should not just pray for unity we should pray ourselves into unity. 'The secret of unity is trust built on mutual respect and love." The Cardinal said sometimes it was important "just to be together to forge bonds of friendship and respect."
Theologian attacks idea on neurosis
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spiritually healthy, he said.
Saints were profoundly religious but not neurotic: it was only a "onesided and exaggerated form of religion that made people ill. Those whose image of God was marked by anx-
iety and fear rather than formed by trust, love and
goodness ran the risk of being damaged by their piety. On the other hand, those who were indifferent ran the risk of becomi ng neurotic because they remained unaware
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Patriarch's comment on day of prayer at Assisi MOSCOW: The Patriarch of Moscow and of all Russians has praised the initiative by Pope John Paul to hold a day of prayer with leaders of different religions at Assisi in October. But he has also criticised the recent papal encyclical on the Holy Spirit as divisive in the search for peace. In an historic interview with Italian journalist Alceste Santini of the communist daily L'Unita, the 76-year-old Patriarch said he "deeply rejoiced at every initiative of peace that is born in the ambit of the religious groupings of the world". The Patriarch said he looked forward to the
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children are becoming caught up in the paramilitary organisation. Father Faul's comments followed what he called the "barbaric" killing by the IRA of one of its members ---28year-old Patrick Murray who, the IRA claimed, had been a police informer since 1978. Mr Murray's body was found close to Clonard monastery in West Belfast, with his hands bound and his mouth taped. He had been shot in the head. His parents, who live in the Catholic Short Strand area of East Belfast denied that he had been an informer. The RUC refused to comment on the allegation. Father Faul warned parents that the signs of IRA activity
were easy to spot. Happy teenagers interested in football, dancing and
girls become introspective and morose. He warned parents that they had a duty to act "before their children came home as corpses".
catholic Youth Serices, will run from October 22 to 30, and is limited to young people aged 16 to 25. Four coaches - with approximately 40 places for young Catholics and 10 places for young representatives of other faiths on each - will depart from Glasgow, Cardiff, London and Holyhead. The coaches will meet in Dover and travel in
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meeting to create a platform which would unite the largest religions of the world in "their service for humanity."
He praised Pope John XXIII's encyclical Pacem in Terris which invited believers and non-believers to face "the enormous task of establishing the truth -- in justice, in love and freedom, in relations of common life between individuals, citizens, and their correspon ding political societies and between the political societies themselves." He contrasted this with Pope John Paul's encyclical on the Holy Spirit saying that in his view it "contains elements that would separate and oppose Christians and Marxists regarding their approach to the problems of peace and international development."
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were They usually respected elders. Such appointees undertook to quell disorderly type behaviour, usually resulting from drunkenness within their own communities and to expel such offenders and trouble makers from public places, to police liquor outlets and assisted police officers in some instances to apprehend inveterate trouble makers within their own communi. ties. Some communities recognised liquor as being the cause of many of their problems, banned it completely and dealt severely with those who attempted to break the
Back out of the limelight, in the wings, cleaning off the greasepaint and consoling and helping the fledgelings who don't quite make it on today's stage of life. Brief though my encounter with Brother Tom was, I recognised him as "one of He has empathy with the human race. And his particular love is children. Singly or in hundreds. Individually or enmasse. And if you've got that characteristic, then you've got a lot going for you. Hence "Brother Tom".
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were not accepting tribal law and with alcohol and its abuse, were committing crimes and bringing discredit to their people. Aboriginal communities disturbed and concerned at this trend, endeavoured to right the situation by appointing "unofficial policemen", drawn from within their own
Christian Brothers use their surname, generally speaking. But this one I'm going to call Brother Tom because he's a rather special individual I discovered by accident and somehow "Brother Tom .. may help to convey to those who don't know him, the soft compassion and tenderness which all those who do know him see only too well. Priests are special but so are Brothers. And often they're there way in the background, doing all the nitty gritty tasks which take background daily grind.
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In some instances these aides cover vast areas in the Laverton subdistrict, an aide's duties would cover an area of 447,000 sq. kilometers. There are 12 aides stationed in Perth to cover the metropolitan area. The primary duties of an aide are to:
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Supt Kevin Gordon of the Aboriginal Aides Unit of the WA Police with Sgt Les Aisbett. With the loss of their previously tribal accepted authority, and the erosion of discipline principally among
Appointment prescribes they shall all have the same powers, privileges, duties and obligations of a constable,"
adolescent males, responsi- said Superintendent Gordon. ble Aboriginal community "But it places a restriction
leaders sought official sanc- upon them that any powers t1on through a Police Aide they have. can only be exerScheme to regain and reestablish lost authority, by adopting a modified and simplified system of the white
cised in respect to persons of Aboriginal descent, excepting when they are aiding, assisting or acting at the direction
man's way of disciplining of a member of the police
problem community force," he said members They operate as part of the hard to manage, were not ban and bring liquor into the Thus a common need staff of the police station they accepting tribal discipline, community. Jg 'Dong concerned Aboriginal are attached to, he said communities was recognised It has been found "that there by the police department and is not such a great need for since its inception in 1975, it all of the aides to be able to " has proven an outstanding speak the Aboriginal lan' success. guage of that area, because a With its growth over the large number of Aboriginal I years, "Aboriginal people people speak English anyand those way," said Superintendent generally
Brother Tom (Olly) Pickett had a certain "flavour" about him I felt. Was it has naturalness? His particular way of speech? His "common touch"2 I wasn't sure until he mentioned he came from Richmond, Victoria It is an earthy area and has working class people with a fabulous sense of humour you'd envy, a genuineness, a unique something that somehow other other suburbs don't seem to havel And of course rt has the Tigers of Alan Bond design andfamel Brother Tom went to The Parade (CBC) in Richmond and came over here in 1963, by then himself a Christian Brother. And has been here
since. He spent a year at Highgate and nine years at St Pat's, Geraldton. Smee then he has been at St Mark's, Bedford for the past 14 years. When he came there it was
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just a handful of buildings. No administration block, no oval, no manual arts centre - in fact very little. So like many other God motivated people, Brother Tom rolled up his sleeves and got to work. He seconded parents and kids in the area who had an interest in the school andd they all toiled day and night for 22 months initially in building a hall, oval, manual arts centre and the tennis courts The hall was built by Brother Tom and parents and kids, and so were the other ventures Mr Joe Tavelli proved a great support who brought his expertise as a builder and worked with Brother Tom on these building projects, mainly on Saturdays, for 22 months, along with other parents Brick by brick it went up with effort and love. "The kids used to arrived at 8 am and we'd level, expand, grass, reticulate and water the oval over the months and l'd drive them home at 5 pm," said Brother Tom. And up went the buildings too, one by one, all with volunteer labour. Brother Tom doesn't really have many fingernails left because he's bitten them all down with nervous tension "And he almost lost his life twice, bleeding with duodenal ulcers," said Brother Kevin Johns, the College
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members of the force who Gordon. have worked with Aboriginal The aims, and direction of aides agree that the scheme the scheme are now under is necessary and they really review to make sure desired couldn't work without it," said objectives are being met and to ensure that this underSuperintendent Gordon. Aides are generally standing of the aides' activiappointed in joint discussion ties are being followed in all between the communities places and to make any who make the request and necessary recommendathe Aboriginal Liaison Unit. tions. Each side puts up nominees "During the period it has and subject to the candidate been in operation it has successfully passing person- proved that its purpose and ality and health tests, among direction are still valid and other criteria, the mutually that rt should be continued acceptable candidate is with any necessary modificaselected to the ultimate satis- tions should they arise," said faction of both parties. Superintendent Gordon. Aides are sworn in under "In short, its value has been the same oath and conditions established and has led to as any other member of the greater understanding force. between police and Aborigi''Their Instrument of nal people," he said.
Brother Tom and 'his men' at work!
Principal
"He doesn't eat properly or allow enough time for sleep because he's too busy helping other people. "f a child hurts himself in sport, Brother's on the 'phone speaking to the child personally, asking him how he is," he said Phone calls interrupt his meals, but he insists the people are permitted to make contact whether he's eating or not (which apparently he rarely does because he hasn't time and lives on tea and coffee instead) And in the area of sport, Brother Tom is outstanding He is still the sports master of the school, has been presdent of the football club there for 14 years and has coached teams for the last 23 years straight Brother Tom has been in charge of the athletics cross country team for 14 years
except this year. "The kids have a fantastic cross country club," he said proudly. "They have won the ACC country runs for nine years out of eleven ..
He has been involved in ACC for the whole 14 years he has been at St Marks and is the longest serving team member on an ACC committee. Brother Tom is co-ordinator of the Duke of Edinburgh Award and has been associated with it for a total of seven years The Duke of Edinburgh Award has four sections whereby they do community service, pursue a hobby, a physical activity and they have camping expeditions There are about 1 700 children involved in it in WA. It is for boys and girls and open to anyone from 14 onwards. "It's worth mentioning," said Brother Tom, "there are 20 who have their gold awards which is the climax to the whole thing. These were given out by royalty," he said. For the last 12 years, Brother Tom has taught metalwork - and in the religious education area, he is qurte innovative. He gets a busload of kids with the Religious Education teacher, Toni Winrow, and they will take them somewhere outdoors, and on religious leadership camps "We go to Miami and take 22 kids at a time, with an occasional parent, leaving lunchtime Sunday and returning 5 pm Monday," he said
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tions, meditations and activities like recording situations which have made an impact on them." Brother Tom started off being bus driver on Saturday outings, (he has a special certificate given only to a few, for proficiency and competency in this field) for the slow learning people. The youngest is 18 through to 40 years old. "I take them to play netball at a centre and just love being involved," he said. "When I first volunteered I was a bus driver but it developed from there. I like doing something to help them and it gives them motivation and direction," he said. This means in doing so, he misses out on the Saturday afternoon football which is his great love. But he doesn't consider that, said Brother Johns, because he's more interested in their welfare than his pleasure. Sunday night after Bingo, Brother Tom goes to give encouragement to the helpers and then cleans up. He was on the junior football development committee representing all WA Catholic schools: has a Certificate of Merit from the East Perth football club for outstanding service and also has awards from many other sporting bodies and organisations for a variety ot achievements and
services rendered
Brother Tom has won 11 premierships. Currently he is on a working party for the State School Boys' football (he is the only one to represent the Catholic school system). "I love sport but mainly because of the involvement with the kids," he said. "T really love the kids!" Brother Tom was invited by the Directors of the East Perth Football Club to be present at the Sandover Count held at the Sheraton Ballroom. The East Perth Football Club presented him with a magnificent shield for outstanding services to the club. He was given a huge ovation by friends, parents, children and admirers in a packed hall during a ceremony which gave recognition for his great services to the St Mark's Football Club. He also used to teach youngsters how to drive on
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As Chaplain, he is available
for anyone in need and one
wonders how many people they will need to replace him. because Brother Tom is going to Karratha in January to help set up the new co-ed college being established up there. Brother John Bowman will be principal, joined by Brother Peter Green, Brother Tom and Sister Perpetua of the Presentation Sisters. His role will be in a public relations and capacity involved in outdoor activities with children. He'll be sadly missed according to Mr Rick Epis, deputy principal of St Marks. "He is the type of guy who does the work of half a dozen staff members. "He's on call 24 hours a day for anyone and it is not only the physical work you see but also the other work he does behind the scenes which makes him so remarkable," Mr Epis said
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Almost there! Busy parents and kids pitching in to build the hall. All projects at St Mark's under Brother Tom's guidance and directive energies were undertaken by parents, the kids, and Brother Tom. "Another aspect of his presence here is his genuine care and concern for the kids. 'This is manifest in the time he spends with kids, especially on the sporting field but also on weekend camps and related activities. "He relates to kids on a one to one basis and gets the best out of them," said Mr Epis "We'll really miss him and his place will be extremely hard to fill." Brother Tom has been Religious Superior of the Brothers' Community for the last six years and Brother Johns was full of admiration for his qualities. "Over the years, he has forged many links with the general community including local council, schools, government and non-government sporting bodies, and organisations for the underprivileged. "His close personal involvement in maintaining these links will now create a void with his departure," said Brother Johns. 'The school community will have to bridge that gap; thankfully many parents and
staff have worked closely with Brother Pickett and share his community spirit. "Hopefully they will carry on the work he initially inspired," he said. "But a man like that is hard to replace. "He is driven solely by his belief that God has asked him to share his life with the children and school families to which he is sent by his
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Making a sense of faith ...
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There are many fallacies preached about our faith What is faith for? Can believers speak about faith in terms of its purposes, its goals? Benedictine Father Don Talafous says
that faith offers us a way through life, but not out of it. Faith brings Christians a kind of trust that survives their own foolishness and the misfortunes caused by forces out-
side themselves, he adds. But it should not be regarded as a panacea that makes every
hard problem in life disappear. Father falafous teaches theology at St John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota. Father Herbert Weber describes faith as a relationship that draws out the best in people. Like the young man who began to act more
responsibly
because of the influence of his fiancee,
Christians find that faith calls them to become complete and whole individuals. Father Weber is pastor of St Thomas More
Parish,
Bowling Green, Ohio. In an interview, the Reverend Robert Wen, a church historian and Lutheran minister, tells Katharine Bird faith plays different roles in the lives of different people. He thinks it is noteworthy, however, that talking about faith in terms of what people can "get out of it often makes
Christians uncomfortable. Ms Bird is associate editor of NC's Religious Education Package. What is life all about really? What are people searching for? Father John Castelot says the search for meaning in life ls
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Woody Allen is probably complaining when he says "there's no religious feeling that can make any thinking person happy." A fair number of popular evangelists preach that faith or trust in God will bring financial improvement, better health or physical and mental cures, more joyous living, success in sports or the stock market. This they do despite all the faith-filled believers who lie on sick beds for years, suffer persecution or live in subhuman poverty. But taken as a simple statement of fact, Allen's comment makes more sense co a Christian. Faith in God does not assure what so often is meant by happiness: constant joy, prosperity, health. Certainly it may be accompanied by these blessings. But faith's promise is deeper. Faith brings a profound
I
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A couple of years ago, there was a commercial
that said there is no
assurance. But it can co-
exist with doubt, dis-
and couragement uncertainty; it can be
present while we agonize over seemingly impossible financial situations or harsh family circumstances. "God does not ask you not to feel anxious but to trust him no matter how you feel" (Thomas Merton ). What is faith's purpose? What is legitimate or illegitimate to ask of faith? Human experience, coupled with the life and teachings of Jesus, can cast some light on these questions.
If it were held that those who believe in Jesus are always going to be winners, what
does that mean for the contestants who are both believers and losers? How can we expect that belief in Jesus will lead to wealth, or at least financial success, when Jesus takes such pains, in Luke's Gospel for instance, to point out wealth's dangers? While we look forward to the time when God will wipe away every tear, can we really promise every believer that Jesus will here and now cure every cancer and salvage every tottering marriage? That's too simple and it insults those with great trust in him who suffer. Above all, look at the Savior himself:
His obedience and faithfulness led him to a a perennial concern crucifixion at an early of people, and that age, hardly success in the Bible clearly terms of human existshows this, ence. One doesn't read of Mary going to the neighbours to show them clippings about how well her son has done. It might be helpful to attempt to say what faith should, can and maybe even must do. 8 The Record, October 2, 1986
For
instance,
faith
should give the believer an attitude deeper than passing feelings of joy or sorrow, a kind of trust that survives our
own foolishness and the misfortunes caused by forces outside us. That deep confidence and trust should give us something "like a rock" on which to build the rest of our life. "It does not make life easy;
rather it tries to make us great enough for life.
It does not give us escape from life's burdens, but strength for meeting them when they come" (J. Christensen) Faith offers a way through life, not a way out of it. Faith can do any number of things for us. • it can get us out of
bed in the morning,
that is, motivate us with
a sense that life is worthwhile. • it can even get us
out of bed with some zest and courage -but will it always do that?
tions of ordinary human
• it can give us confidence in how matters
may summarise the rest
will turn out, an assurance that God is still in
charge though the evidence may seem very slight • it can achieve the impossible - a healing. the solution to hard problems though more often, I think,
faith makes it possible to endure the condi-
sense working for a
living if you never really live. It went on to suggest that by drinking beer, everyone could
life.
• faith can - and this
"really live".
The truth is, there are many who do not live fully. They may hold jobs that use their skills and talents, love their spouses and have fine
help us live, help us in a life which like the
Savior's may involve pain and tragedy
In other words, faith must include active love. Faith is not only belief in God's kingdom - God's reign -- but a willingness to cooperate in bringing about that kingdom for others and in our world
families,
believe faith allows people to reach a completion of what they can be. Of course, what is
meant by faith here is a relationship that draws the best out of someone - a5 happens in good relationships. I recall a young man who rather suddenly started to behave more responsibly than before and make greater com-
someone was following
they were looking for, all they could do was stammer "Where are you staying?"" That was enough. Jesus said simply: "Come and see." The men accepted the invitation and discovered in him the answer to the fundamental question of life's meaning. This is basically what people want from faith; meaning, but not just in the abstract. People who came to Jesus did not get a lecture on the purpose of life. What they did find was a person, one in whom they
could place complete trust, one who could lead them to the goal of all life's striving. People had to "come and see," and what they saw was a man who called God his Father and assured them they could address
worth, purpose, peace,
love, joy. In a famous passage in Romans, St Paul, speaking in the name of bewildered
humanity, agonises over
the trap in which people feel themselves caught. They want to do the right thing and find themselves consistently doing the opposite. he ends up with the frustrated cry: Who can free me? (7.24) But Paul goes on immediately to give the answer: Only God, through Jesus Christ our Lord, can rescue us from this maddening slavery to self, to the twisted value system of a self-centred society.
even
science, but remain two-dimensional. I
Jesus had the very definite and uneasy feeling that
the Creator of the universe intimately, confidently. In Jesus they learned of God's love for them and his intentions for their happiness. I the Bible faith is a lasting interpersonal relationship with God in Christ. From this relationship flow confidence, a sense of self-
and
develop a social con-
Important question anyone can ask
him. Suddenly he turned and, sure enough two strangers were following him. Interested, he asked them, "What are you looking for?" (John 1:38) That seems like such a natural, ordinary question to ask. But when you stop to think of it, it is one of the most important questions anyone can ask. What are you looking for, really? Why do you work, study, struggle so fiercely for advancement, for selffulfillment? One usually can answer the question easily enough by pointing to some immediate goals. But even with the attainment of those goals, one is unsatisfied, still searching. For what? What are you looking for? Like the two disciples, most people are looking for meaning in life, for some sense of purpose. What's it all about anyway? ls life worth living? The curiosity of the two men following lesus was aroused when John the Baptiser called him "the Lamb of God." So they had taken off after him, sensing that he might have the answer to their question. But when less asked what
Doctor Tom Dooley wrote a letter December 2, 1960, from a hospital bed in Hong Kong The famous young doctor who spent his career in the jungles of Laos was dying of cancer. He wrote: "How do people endure anything on earth if they cannot have God?" Similarly, many faithful followers of Christ have been known to remark, especially at the death of a spouse, parent or child, that they could not imagine how a person without faith endures such human trials; without God, there seems to be meaninglessness. Sickness and death are often the times when the real significance of faith becomes clear to people. Yet for believing men and women, faith says a lot more about living than dying.
mitments than ever. it was as if he was leading a fuller life When I commented on the
hat is faith good for? cb» liliIIID
In the Gospel of St John, why is it that the first miracle Jesus performs is to make wine at the wedding feast of Cana? Wouldn't it have been more in keeping with the seriousness of his mission for him to heal somebody? Origen, a third-century Christian theologian, wrestled with that question in his writing, recalled the Reverend Robert Wilken, professor of the history of Christianity and a Lutheran minister. The answer Origen arrived at is that Jesus comes in different
ways to different people, Mr Wilken said. Jesus comes to some as the light, to some as wisdom, to others as the Redeemer. For some, he continued, "Cana teaches that Jesus Christ is at his best in bringing joy. He builds on good situa-
tions."
Looking at what people
find in faith brings home the truth of Origen's observation that faith plays different roles in people's lives, Mr
Wilken said "For some, faith is a rock carrying them through the dark days of life." This is seen in
"Against
AIM
Hope"
(Knopf Publishers), where Cuban poet Armando Valladares testifies faith enabled him "to make his way through the degradation, the pain and the loss of hope" during the 22 years he was imprisoned in Castro's Cuba, Mr Wilken said. Successful, creative people,
riding high in their careers,
are likely to find that belief helps "them put life into perspective," the church historian continued Faith gives them a "sense of a world not simply taken up with their own selves." For example, Bach, the great composer of glorious church music such as the "St Matthew's Passion", was able to maintain a perspective on his work because of his "personal, emotional faith" and his "tender feelings for Jesus," Mr Wilken
suggested The music reveals Bach had a sense of "his need for grace and his sin." At the same time, Mr Wilken observed, even though faith fulfills various functions in people's lives, talking about faith in terms of what it does for them, what they get out of it,
father, taught "faith is in pursuit of a goal one will never reach, a goal that
eludes."
He recognised faith "has to be big enough so all can find it satisfying" a child just
beginning to believe, a person whose faith is weak, the
As St Augustine observed, in God people find "a good you love for its own sake, not
committed profoundly Christian. The Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke early in the 20th century, in correspondence with a young man having doubts about his faith, warned against thinking of faith "in finite terms, as a little stone you hold," forever the same, Mr Wilken
stand that "faith has to have
Instead, Rilke advised thinking of faith as develop-
"makes religious people feel
uncomfortable."
Asked why, he replied
belief in God is larger than
any one person's concerns or interests
for something else." People instinctively under-
an inexhaustible end," Mr Wilken continued St Gregory of Nyssa, the church fourth-century
said.
ing over time.
He pointed out "the faith of a child is embryonic and
beginning
change, he simply smiled and said that his new self came about
because of Ellen, his fiancee. Then he quickly added that she had not forced him to change, but somehow his old way of living seemed inappropriate as their relationship
grew. One reason that faith allows someone to live a fuller life is that it provides a new vantage point from which life's activities
can
be
viewed. Just as a sales-
man sometimes sees
everything from the angle of "Will it sell?"
and a teacher wonders "How will I teach this?"
even when they are not at work - so, too, faith-filled persons look at their world through new glasses. This new way of looking at self, others and the world is full of expectation and trust. Faith frees people enough that they can count on the loving involvement of God in their lives. Thus, persons of faith start to change in the way they live and love, just as the young man did because of his relationship. Often people do not say it this way, but what they are looking for when they participate at Mass, attend parish formation programs or renewal days is nothing more than a way to help their faith relationship grow. As it grows, the quality of their entire life changes too. I have noticed when couples preparing for marriage make faith a part of their relation-
ship they have an additional to ability
communicate. Their shared faith in God is a
unifying force, enabling them to pull together
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Father Henri-Dominique Lacordaire was a famous Dominican preacher in France in the last century. This week Belmont priest Father Joe Russell who picked up a copy of the preacher's Lenten sermons of 1851 decides to put a few problems of his own.
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Questions they ask! g pa0her Russell was so impressed with the Lenten sermon by
Father Lacordaire he went around to the sacristy after devotions and asked the Dominican why the Rationalists seemed to be having things their own way. The preacher said the best thing was to read what he said in his latest book of sermons published in Nancy in 1851... '
In the beginning God
created man, and He rested; Then God created woman, and since then neither God nor man has rested! l spent three hours at the eye specialist's to try to see things better; and
two hours at the nose, throat and ear specialist's to make sure l was
hearing properly, but neither could help me see God nor hear His daily voice to me; how can I know what He thinks about us? The Scriptures tell us God caused a deep and mysterious sleep to fall upon Adam, our first father. Taking the eternal order of the divine society as the pattern of human society, God listened for a moment to that heart which He had just created, and by a thought of His omnipotence removing a part of the natural shield that covered it, He formed a woman of the flesh of man, and her soul of the same breath which had made the soul of Adam. After God had led man to his companion, He pronounced over them the blessing of inexhaustible fecundity: ''Increase and multiply, and fill the earth". Mankind was founded, and the man in whom it had just become being sang the hymn of the first nuprials, the song of the
first love: 'This is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman because she was taken out of man; wherefore a man shall leave mother and father, and shall cleave to his wife; and they shall be two in one flesh''. Such is the law of family, society, civilisation. But surely you don't believe the woman is inferior to man; l've consulted the Catholic Women's League and the Country Women's Association and many a women's libber, and they are adamant a woman is just as good as a man?
Woman is not to be the slave of man; she must be his sister, bone of his bones, flesh of his flesh. Wherever she may be degraded from this rank, man himself will be degraded; he will never know the pure joys of true love. Woman would be nothing to him but an instrument of sensuality. But woman is not only to be his sister, she is to be his wife. They shall be two, but not more than two; as death dissolves the unity of the flesh, death alone also shall destroy the unity of marriage, the so.rce of life. Should the frailty of the human heart forget that order, dare to elevate adultery to the sanctity of marriage, woman would no longer exist either as wife or mother. Without this order, there is
but oppression of the woman and child, weakening of the sense of moral obligation, sensuality instead of love, selfishness instead of devotedness, barbarism or decadency. Society is but the development of family. The Family Court hasn't been able to tell me why we should all be one family; the United Nations hasn't answered my letter; and the 'Bill Cosby Show' is all negro - where do races and nations really stand? If from the community we survey the human race, we shall recognise there, notwiththe standing difference of language, customs, physiognomy, the branching out of a single stem, and shall say to each other: 'Thou art my brother; though art my sister; to all, whatever may be their colour, history, or their name: this is bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh. But the hour of the unit prepared and begun by Christ seems to draw near; the desire for peace keeps the sword in it's sheath; the negro sits down with the white man in the great assemblies of nations; everything forebodes to attentive minds an era of reconciliation as the Christian family, with the Vicar of God at it's head, urges on and, by it's superiority henceforth assured, enlightens the nations.
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From World War II bomb aimer There is a grave dearth of money and complete absence of luxury when you are one of seven children, all being educated at private schools, and the sole source of family income is the meagre wage of a tram driver father. This is the situation in Fremantle about which Bill Fuller has memories when World War I was drawing to a close and into the early 1920s. He also remembers the parental love and warmth in which he and his six brothers and sisters were enveloped. Clear in his mind, too, are his days at CBC Fremantle in which he passed through the hands of a virtual power house of Christian Brothers with names such as Joyce, Redmond, Downes, Keaney and Quilligan. He left school to seek employment at the age of 14 after having obtained his Junior Certificate, but that event represented only a slight pause in his trek along the educational trail. For years he reported to the Fremantle Technical College on three and four nights a week for studies in advanced mathematics, English and accountancy. A born learner, he attended carpentry
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Bill got his first job at the age of 15 as an office boy with Perth stockbroker, A.G. Bird. There an older workmate in a more senior position was George Newton. In 1933 George branched out to start his own stockbroking business and invited
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William John Fuller, retired stockbroker and former chairman of the Perth Stock Exchange, was born in London on March 15, 1911, and came with his family to Fremantle as an infant. He was educated at CBC Fremantle and at night school at the Fremantle Technical College. His first job was as an office boy in 1926 with Perth stockbroker AG. Bird where a more senior member of the staff was George Newton, with whom he was later to form a partnership in the stockbroking firm that ultimately became Geo H. Newton Fuller and Co. Bill, an altar boy at St Patrick's Church in Fremantle until almost the time of his marriage in 1934, joined the RAAF in 1942 and flew in 44 missions over Europe as a navigatorbomb aimer in an RAF unit. Bill and his wife Honoria (nee Hewison) are members of the Como parish. They have a son, Michael, who holds a doctorate in organic chemistry and is nowworking at Monash University in Melbourne, and three daughters Judith (Mrs Bird), Gabrielle (Mrs Barrett) and Lynne (Mrs Smith).
Bill to join him at a wage of four pounds ten shillings a week ($9) plus 1 O per cent of the profits. The development of the gold boom saved their financial bacon to the stage where Bill's 10 per cent of the profits exceeded his wages. He joined the RAAF in 1942 and for the nine months he was on the air crew reserve he worked in the service's Western Area office in what he desribes as dull clerical routine. It was therefore a pleasant change to enter the Initial Training School at Clontarf in September. It was the start of training, training, training that was to last virtually throughout his RAAF career and be an important factor in his
surviving 44 operational 'sorties' over Europe and some close shaves with death. After ITS at Clontarf his next steps along the training path were at Mt Gambier in South Australia (air navigation), Port Pirie in the same state (bomb aiming and air gunnery) and Nhill in Victoria (astro-navigation). Pre-em barkation leave in WA was followed by the long journey to Prince Edward Island in Canada's Gulf of St Lawrence for four months off urther training designed primarily to fit the navigatorbomb aimers for service with the RAF's Coastal Command. After having arrived in England and hung around the RAAF's quarters at Brighton for three months waiting for appointments to Coastal Command, however, Bill and some of his colleagues became brassed off and successfully applied to join Bomber Command. You've guessed it this meant yet more training.
over Berlin, to chairman of Perth Stock Exchange ■ ■ ■ Then Bill was posted to North Creek in Norfolk to join 199 Squadron RAF which was operating Stirlings as part of 100 Group RAF on special duties. Part of these special duties was to send a small force of eight or nine aicraft to drop aluminium foil. His bomber was hit by enemy fire in a raid on Leipzig. On the way back to England it started to lose power in a third engine and instructions were received to land at a town called Juvincourt, near Rheims.
It followed the line of an AFU (Advanced Flying Unit) in North Wales, an OTU (Operational Training Unit) on Wellington bombers at Chipping Warden, and 1657 Conversion Unit at Shepherd's Grove near Cambridge to learn about flying in four-engine Stirlings. Then Bill was posted to North Creek in Norfolk to join 199 Squadron RAF which was operating Stirlings as part of 100 Group RAF on special duties. Part of these special duties was to send a
small force of eight or nine aircraft to drop aluminium foil, known as "window," which gave the impression of hundreds of bombers on German radar. It was a diversionary tactic to draw enemy fighters away from where the main bombing attack was about to be put in. ''It certainly drew them away," Bill comments. "We lost a lot of aircraft on these jobs." When 199 Squadron was converted to Halifax bombers, another screening tac-
tic known as Mandrill came into vogue. Fitted with special equipment, a line of aircraft would fly eliptical courses adjoining each other sending out transmissions that would completely blot out German radar reception until the main Allied bomber force was over its target. The diversionary aircraft carried bombs and when they had completed their trickery they would join the main force in attacking the target.
In this way Bill flew in 1000-bomber sorties and other big raids on Berlin, Ruhr industrial complexes and numerous important targets in enemy-held territory. He certainly had some narrow squeaks. His Halifax, for instance, was once coned by searchlights over Berlin. It was almost inevitably fatal to be caught in this manner by three searchlights because they had computerised links with the antiaircraft guns which instantly revealed your
altitude, course and speed thus making you a sitting duck. But RAF skipper Tom Walford saved the day. Almost as a reflex action, he put the Halifax into a screaming power dive straight down one of the light beams for about 10,000 feet then pulled abruptly away into the blackness of the night. The aircraft, strained, survived; the crew, badly strained, survived. Tom got a DFC. Bill (flying with a cold) got chronic ear trouble
which has rendered him partially deaf today. The peripheral vascular disease now crippling him also owes its origin to a wartime episode. On one raid he was lying in the prone bomb aimer's position when the perspex in his part of the Halifax was blasted away by enemy fire. He was thus exposed at altitude to a temperature of minus 27 deg C while the badly-damaged bomber limped all the way from the target back to England for a
wheels-up landing. Both his feet were frost-bitten by the intense and prolonged cold. Young and fit, he soon recovered and thought nothing of the experience. Now it is exacting its belated and painful penalty. It was the third wheels-up landing, incidentally, in which he was involved during the war. Bill has memories of episodes pertaining to
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before had he spoken knowingly to a Catholic. his religion during his from Paul SHERIDAN, He explained his attiservice days. Bassendean tude had been shaped In April, 1945, his The founder of the Phillipine by the derogatory Communist Party, Jose aircraft lost two of its remarks his parents Maria Sison is presently four engines when it lecturing in Australia on the were always making was hit by enemy fire in communist movement in the about Catholics. a raid on Leipzig. Phillipines. The chastened critic, Mr Sison is being part sponOn the way back to who did not know Bill sored by the Catholic ComEngland it started to was an altar server at miss ion for Justice and lose power in a third Peace. Mass on the base, engine and instructions For the CCJP to be assoentered into a more were received to land at ciated with the founder of a enlightened friendship brutal left wing group is a town called Juvinwith his sole Catholic outrageous. court, near Rheims. crew-mate. Have any Catholic funds The following day, a been used for Mr Sison's In the days before Sunday, he was walkpropaganda tour? ecumenism, Bill found ing with his crewappalling the practice of mates through the Catholics not being town which had been allowed to participate in reduced al most to rubthe pre-raid service From Eric SIDOT, ble by the fierce fighting national secretry conducted by Anglican that had raged over it. Commission for Justice padres. They heard singing and Peace, Sydney "After all," he says, Sir, On Friday September 26 coming from a ruined "they were praying to I received a phone call from church and one of his our God, for our safe a senior member of the mates jokingly sugCatholic Polish Community in return and the welfare gested that Bill, as the Sydney expressing his conof all our families." only Catholic in the cern regarding material he Bill returned to WA, had received from Melbourne crew, should go into having risen from serMass. geant to the rank of He did, and it was a flying-officer, on the rewarding experience. day the Japanese sur"I was delighted," he rendered. says, "to be able to In 1950 he was the follow every word of first Catholic to become Christians today are faced not with martydom, the Mass in Latin as if hostility or contempt but with indifference and a member of the Perth amused curiosity Bishop Healy told local Vietnamese I were home in Fre- Stock Exchange. mantle. celebrating the feast of the Vietnamese martyrs. He served on its com''The sermon in "So long as we known we are facing these obstacles mittee for about 10 French, however, had to our faith we can with God's help beat them" he years and was chairsaid in Sacred Heart Church Highgate. me tossd. man in 1965-66. "Even if we are not called upon to be martyrs for "But judging from the He was elected a Felthe faith, like the Vietnamese martyrs, we are way the priest was low of the Securities nevertheless called upon to pay a price for the gift of thumping the pulpit, he Institute of Australia at faith. was giving the congrea period when the "We must expect to pay dearly for what is gation curry over somegovernment was tightworthwhile in life. Ghandi once said that we all want something of value dirt cheap and in double quick thing." ening up on the securtime. This is not possible." In an idle moment ities industry, and he Bishop Healy said that even on earth there are back at base in Eng- was also a Fellow of the rewards for those living Christian lives -happiness land, one of the close- Australian Institute of and inner peace. knit crew came out Management as well Before the Mass a relic of the Vietnamese martyrs with the statement that as serving on a number was carried in procession to Sacred Heart church. he hated Catholics. of other bodies. Of more than 100,000 Vietnamese estimated to 'Then you must hate Looking back on a have been martyred since the faith was first preached long life, he sums up: there in the 16th century, 117 have been beatified and me," responded Bill. The fellow. who had "For a fellow who left will be canonised by Pope John Paul next year. no idea of Bill's religion, school before he had was nonplussed and turned 15, I don't think Something to SAY? admitted that never I've done too badly."
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Even though WA has the most widespread and best organised diocesan youth apostolate, we suffer from the 4000 kilometres separating us from where the pope will salute the Youth of Australia. The Sydney Cricket Ground will respond with 50,000 young people on Tuesday evening, November 25 exactly five days before John Paul Il visits Perth. l am keen to find out if any enterprising young person plans to be in Sydney for this youth event. lf plane travel were cheaper or our continent smaller, l am sure many youth would fly the Western Australian flag on the east coast.
The theme of the youth celebration with Pope John Paul will be "Let our choice be Peace -a parable". The celebration will begin at 7pm. Special effects will help create a dialogue for peace. The dialogue begins with
themes of discord and tension until there is a challenge to stop and listen. Then young people, in dance and song will be expressing their choice for peace. After the pope arrives a young person will give a brief welcome and a young deacon will read a few verses from the Gospel of John. Pope John Paul will lead a prayer for peace as well as the Lord's Prayer before delivering his message to the youth of Australia. All young Australians of all denominations are invited to 'participate' in the Youth Celebration. Non-Catholics are participating in the choir of 700. The theme song "Let our Choice be Peace" was written by Monica 0'Brien and Trisha Watts. Trisha, singer and songwriter, will lead the singer and the rock orchestra will be led by Vanessa and Mark Rohanna.
Big roll up for Flame bridge, Andrew Dymond, Siobhon Dilon, Adrienne McKenzie and Scott Millard. In the final session the five members of the Conway family of East Fremantle, Brian and Terri, Paula, Matthew and Josephine took part in a panel interview with Father Jegorow. Bernie and Bernadette Lawrence of South Perth co-ordinated the adult support and logistics.
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The third annual Antioch State-wide conference, "Flame 86" attracted 150 people last weekend at Mazenod College Lesmurdie. More than 130 young people came from 17 parishes, including two Anglican Parishes. Earl Digby travelled the greatest distance, coming from Port Hedland. Two specific, attainable and concrete follow up actions were decided by participants. Namely, a renewed commitment to the weekday group Mass and writing two letters in the next week. One letter is to be written to country Antioch members and the second is to a Flame participant that was least known over the weekend. The central theme of relationships was examined from the aspects of friends, family, God and work. Among the talk presenters were Lisa Wim-
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Up it goes, down it goes, yet it stands till. Wbat is it? A road.
I occur once in every minute, twice in every moment but not once in a bundred tbousand years. What am I? The letter M. Two fatbers and two sons are served tbree barbecued cbickens, yet each bas a wbole cbicken. How is tbat?
The men are grandfather, father and son. Wbat day of the year is a command to come forward? March fourth. Wbat tbree letters frighten a thief? ICU. Wby was number six sad? Seven eight nine. Wbat is greater wben turned upside down? The number six Wbat is tbe end of everything? The letter G. Would you rather bave seven boles in your bead, or an elephant sit on you? Seven holes -- two eyes, two cars, two nostrils and a mouth. Ifyou bad a bandkercbief with four corners and you cut one off, bow
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BATTY BOOKS Ghost Stories by 1.C. Spooks Rocket to the Sun by RU. Nuts Your Book of Glamour by Q.T. Pie The Camel Ride by Major Bumsore How to Grow Shorter by Neil Down How to Grow Taller by Stan Dup Crime and Punishment by Laura Norda The Use of Natural Fertiliser by G.G. Dunnit The Way to Quick Riches by Robin Banks Holidays in Britain by A Paulin Weather Contagious Diseases by Willie Catchit Driving through Germany by Otto Mobile Broken Window by Eva Brick Monsters by Frank N. Stein Cliff Tragedy by Eileen Dover A Hole in the Bucket by Lee King
Long Walk by Miss D. Bus The Playground by C. Saw Fitting Carpets by Walter Wall Around the World by Sir Cumference FUN AND GAMES Wby is tennis a noisy game? Every player raises a racket. Tom and Bill were out fisbing and bad a marvellous catcb. So Tom said, "We sbould mark tbis spot and try it again tomor-
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cross on the side of the boat." "Don't be silly." said Tom. "We might not get the same boat tomorrow." Wbat did tbe ball do wben it stopped roling' Looked around. If an athlete gets athlete's foot, wbat does an astronaut get? Missile-toe (mistletoe). When is a cricketer rude? When he bowls a maiden
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Kirkham Street conspines; heavy or light; small tional music came to be so George and Mary are curor large; in one piece or two, stantly echoes to the interested in country music. rently planning to expand or even eight. The shells that sounds of the top Irish "I think it began when I their activities in promoting we see all have one thing in country performers. started to go to dances. Most the music which gives them common they are the "I can't remember a of the bands played country so much pleasure. Plans are houses built by animals time when I wasn't listen- music. Philomena Begley in hand for a disco system known as molluscs that have ing to country music," was getting to be known with which they hope to died and left the shell George told me during a around our parts, and I knew reach a wider audience. behind as a reminder of their "We want to make it easier recent visit. The first her quite well. And Big existence. Some had a brief Tom. .Brian Coll. . Larry for people who are interrecord I ever bought was life of perhaps a few weeks Cunningham. . . .there ested in Irish country music or months while others lived Slim Whitman's China were so many of to obtain it," said George. for decades. Walking along Doll, and Ive been buy- them... .those were great "Sure, we want to sell the beach one can only ing country records ever days for country singers. I records. But the real satisfacmarvel at the incredible since." tion is in giving others the just loved the music. And it's variety of ways in which George and his wife Mary, been like that ever since." opportunity to enjoy the these animals approach life with some help from their Back in Western Australia music." in the sea ten year old twin daughters, after their visit to Ireland, It was time to go. The few Just as the shells come in an Judith and Rosanne, run George and Mary set up Irish hours I had spent with infinite variety so do the Irish Record Supplies, Record Supplies, and took George and Mary, listening people who look at them importing their stock delivery of their first ship- to some of their records and Most simply pick up an directly from Ireland ment. An appearance on hearing them talk about interesting shell, look at it "It started during my last George Manning's Country their music, had gone very for a moment, then throw it visit home," George said. "I Music Show brought enquir- quickly and I had thoroughly back on to the beach and met Gene Stuart at a dance ies from places as far apart as enjoyed my visit. watch the waves carry it in Dungannon and we got Port Hedland and EsperAfter a day in the company away. At the other extreme talking One thing led to ance, and other customers of Irish country performers are the scientists who another Gene introduced have found their way to of the calibre of Susan devote their entire working me to his brother Ray who them through Radio 6NR McCann, Brendan Quinn, lives to studying shells and owns Rainbow Records, and "I had a call from someone Anne Byrne, Brian Coll, the animals that make them. I was hooked. I Hater went to who tuned into It's The Irish Philomena Begley, Larry In between is a variety of see Jim Gough of Outlet In Me by accident one Satur- Cunningham, Big Tom, and collectors, each with his or Records in Belfast, and when day and heard Susan many more... .favourites her own level of interest. As my sister offered to help me McCann singing Little Isle of old and new... .I came with any hobby a little financially, Irish Record Ireland," George told me. away firmly convinced that knowledge often sparks a Supplies was born." "He'd never heard of her Irish Record Supplies is an desire to learn more. In our George, a Ballymena man, before, but ended up buying enterprise which deserves area of the world there is a was brought up surrounded five of her records, just on to succeed. variety of books and periodthe strength of hearing that by music. His brother and George and Mary are icals which have informatwo sisters all play the accor- one song." always happy to talk Irish tion about Western dion, as does George himLike all enthusiasts, George country music with anyone Australian shells, usually self. Forbidden as a boy to is keen to spread the word. who is interested. Give them mixed in with shells from play his elder sister's instru- At the moment Irish Record a ring on 095-311470. Or other areas. There are few ment, he often sneaked it off Supplies is a hobby, but both write to them at P.O. Box sources of information to his bedroom to practise he and Mary would like to 156, Pinjarra, W.A. 6208. which deal only with W.A on the sly see it grow into something They'll be glad to hear from shells. The W.A. books avail"My father had a great bigger. you able deal with shells from interest in music," George "It really is excellent FOOTNOTE:Joe Crozier is the southwestern corner of recalled. "Our house was music," said Mary. "Tm sure producer and co-presenter the State and largely exclude alwrys a good place for a that it will appeal to anyone of It's The Irish In Me, those of our vast northwest session and it was mainly the interested in country music, broadcast on Radio 6NR This book presents a selectraditional tunes we played whether they are Irish or each Saturday from 5.30 to tion of the shells of all I went to school with Will not." And as an Australian 6.30pm Western Australia. Since the and George Millar of the country girl herself she is by Joe Crozier vast majority of molluscs do Irish Rovers, and I played a well qualified to speak on not recognize state boundaries the book will also be expresses or threatens the a useful source for collecconcept of individual lib- tors elsewhere in Australia." erty. 'Democracy' is a Greek word. Indeed it was the Greeks who discovered politics, the art of reaching decisions by public discussion and then of obeying those decisions as a necessary condition of civilised social existence. Today, although the aims of democracy are much the same, its methods have changed profoundly: government is conducted by professional politicians and bureaucrats, a political elite whose active Cassidy by Morris West. role on behalf of an essenPublisbed by Hodder G tially passive citizen body is Stoughton. $24.95. often thought to be benefi"He is a giant among cial. today's writers. His more Finley expressly combats than twenty novels have this elitist theory, and argues been translated into twenty the need for new forms of Democracy Ancient and brilliant study of ancient seven languages and sold popular participation in Modern by M.I. Finley. democracy both in its orig tens of millions of copies modern democracy. For this Published The inal Athenian form and as it by around th world. His best new edition Professor Finley Hogarth Press. Distrib compares with the quite kn has added two chapters, on uted through the Austral different norms of modem Athenian demagogues and asin Publishing Co. demcratic gove on censorship in cla ssical $13.95 Central to his analy ntiquity to clarify und of how I t h thi th n
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Dangerous intrigue, secrets moral debts and mortal sins Fisherman. And now from the endless stores of his imagination comes a big contemporary novel as boldly exciting as it is brilliantly told Charles Parnell Cassidy God rest his soul! - he could have been a conman or a cardinal so he became little of both. The perfect p digm of an Irish politi he w hearty breed
Now, in death, his long and haunting shadow grows ever more potent Cassidy is the story of what he has left behind. It is a story of moral debts and mortal sins, of dangerous intrigues and deadlier secrets. But most of all it is a story about Cassidy's sonin-law and executor Martin Gregory. roung man who I the legacy r the ironic pl ryed. For
become Cassidy himself, and face the same choices, chances and challenges his
extraordinary predecessor faced so many years before.
Set against the compelling backdrop of high powwred Australian politics and international crime, Cassi storytelling at its very best It brings alive one of the ost finely etched and me ble characters in m fiction and proves gain the incompa f Morris West
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TENNIS by Peter Messer What Catholic Tennis is it still going 1 I was a member 20 years ago. How often I have heard
that comment or similar since beginning to write this column. Yet believe it or not, Catholic Tennis has stood the test of time and is as vibrant as ever. Formalised club tennis began as early as 1925 in WA. The first meeting of the Association was held on March 14, 1927. By the end of the first year the association consisted of five clubs with a total membership of 184. By 1930 organised com-
petition through pennants and tournaments has proved so popular, the number of clubs had increased to 14 and membership had risen to 465. Membership hit its peak in 1937 with 13 metropolitan clubs and six country clubs affiliated with the association, a total of 700
members.
Since those heady days, membership has waned. Not one of the original dubs is still in the association. There are now five clubs actively involved in association activities. Why has Catholic tennis survived when so many other Catholic sporting and social bodies have disap-
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I believe the answer is found in the very nature of the game itself. Tennis is the perfect family sport.
It can be played for fitness, personal gratification or
social intercourse. Age is no barrier and the young the old can get as much enjoyment as those in between. Few other games
can be enjoyed by the whole
family. It is therefore an ideal opportunity to encourage a spirit of togetherness among family members. In today's world of individuality it is increasingly difficult to find activities which can keep the family together and overcome the generation gap. The Catholic Tennis Association has realised the potential of this game and provides the avenue
through which the family
can be together and enjoy a healthy outdoor activity. It encourages a spirit of family togetherness and enables tennis players of similar faith and Christian ideals to come together and interact in a relaxed atmosphere. The aims of Catholic tennis are to advance the social and sporting interests of its members and to engender a spirit of community among Christian tennis players. The five clubs are spread throughout the metropoli-
tan area.
Each organises its own tennis days and activities. The association promotes and controls the games and
provides the opportunity for
interaction between clubs. This is achieved by organising social tennis days. pennants, championships and other non sporting social functions. Any parish with tennis courts available either on site or at the local school is more than welcome to join the association. The executive of the association is more than happy to give advice and assist in the formation of new clubs. For more information, contact me on 458 5031.
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The Mandorla Centre of Inner Peace will
hold a 13 week course on inner healing commencing the week of October 6 Tuesdays 10-12.30 pm and Fridays 7.10 pm. Enquiries 447 0337.
WORKSHOP Father Reg Smith will conduct a workshop on gospel dynamics using yoga, meditation and music on Saturday, October 25, 9 am to 5pm at 1 O Scholl Avenue, North Beach. Phone 444 3631. CHRISTIAN MEDITATION
Father Chris Ross OSM directs Christian meditation on the first and third
Mondays of each month at 2 Morgan Street, Tuart Hill. The next meeting is on Monday, October 6 at 7.30 pm.
October 14 Centecare Seminar, Bunbury 19 Confirmation, Harvey. 28 Bunbury clergy golf tournament and Dinner, Busselton
FRANCISCAN THOUGHTS
On 6WN at 5.30 pm on Sunday. October 5 the feature "Troubadour of the Great King' presents an explanation of the Franciscan spirit in the words and music of John Michael Talbot, a former pop singer who is now a Franciscan brother.
BUNBURY CENTRECARE
ANNUAL SEMINAR Bunbury Centrecare will present the fourth annual seminar on October 14-16 at the new Centre 103 Clarke Street, Bunbury WA 6230. The theme will be "Making Peace Between Health/Helping Professions and Christianity." Speakers will included Sr Patrice Cooke, Rev Bruce Reddrop, Letitia Allan and John Manners. For registration ring 097-215177 or write to the above address.
ANNUAL MAJELLAN MASS
The annual Majellan Mass coinciding with the feast of St Gerard Majella will be celebrated in the Redemptorist Church North Perth at 8pm on Tuesday, October, 14. The customary social follows and those coming are asked to bring one plate of supper between two persons. Present and former Majellan are welcome. Further information from Doreen Gibson 279 4078.
CHOIR VACANCIES
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NEWMAN SUNDAY
The annual Newman Sunday Mass of the Newman Society will be celebrated in the chapel of St Thomas More College at 10.30 am on October 12. Father William Uren will preach on law and the practice of medicine. Members of the Newman Society and their friends are invited afterwards to a buffet luncheon in the Student Common Room of the College. the cost will be $10 per head.
City of Perth Coat-of-Arms. The standard of singing is high as is the morale of the girls, who, with their parents as "off-stage'' workers, combine to make a healthy and exciting organization for young singers. Those who may be interested in knowing more of the activities of the Choir School and conditions of membership, are invited to phone the Director of Music, Mr Daniel Girling. on 387 4287.
INDIAN MISSION BENEFIT CONCERT
The Australian Jesuit Mission in India presents a concert by violinist Graham Wood and pianist Father John Harte on Saturday October 11 at 8pm in the Callaway Music Auditorium, University of WA. Tickets $10, concession $5 from Mrs Peg Durack 384 5867 or door sales.
CARMEUTE PROFESSION
Pontifical Mass to mark the solemn profession of Sister Rose will be celebrated in the Nedlands Carmelite chapel at 9.30am on Friday October 10.
COLLEGE BIRTHDAY Mazenod College, Lesmurdie, is currently celebrating its 21st birthday. Special guests from interstate were the founder Father McCarthy, who took possession of the site and began the clearing and planning in 1965, and Father Don Hughes, the first rector. Father lan Mackintosh, also a foundation staff member and former rector, is once again teaching at the college and is organising a week-end of reunions and
festivities.
On Friday October 12, almost 300 past pupils return for a reunion dinner. Apologies have come from as far away as Oxford University and Japan. Then on Saturday, there was a dinner dance for parents past and present, teachers past and present, and past pupils and associates. True to their word, the students marked the birthday year by recently achieving a first ever XVIII premiership in Associated Catholic Colleges' football, the under 16 premiership in Swan Districts, the year 9 A.C.C. football and hockey premierships -all in addition to a highly successful college musical five weeks ago. Visitors to Mazenod will be surprised by the development that has taken place attractive grounds, fine buildings and the addition of excellent manual arts, fine arts and music facilities.
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At the Mazenod celebrations were (from left) Michael Derham, Year 9 student of n Father Huntingdale, Sean Soh, Year 9 boarder, of Mandurah, Father Mackitosh, McCarthy, Father Hughes (first rector) and Darren Moore, Year 9 of Pickering Brook.
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SATURDAY OCTOBER 11 8PM
anniversary Mass and dinner for Town of Northam, Archbishop Foley Festival of the Holy Rosary, Doubleview parish, Bishop Healy Central Commission Meeting, Canberra, Archbishop Foley Silver jubilee St. Anthony's parish, Greenmount, Bishop Healy Solemn profession of Sister Rose Mary Rodrigues, Carmelite Monastery Nedlands, Archbishop Foley Catenian dinner, Bishop Healy Confirmation Moora, Archbishop Foley Confirmation Kelmscott, Bishop
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Venue: DIANELLA PARISH CENTRE (A.E.C. Hall) 356 Grand Promenade, Dianella. Next to Dianella Plaza Shopping Centre.