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Responses from traditional set Most of the 122 submissions to Called To Serve were from traditional Catholic groups say analysts of the replies Peter and Marya Stewart. "It would seem that the young, those who do not belong in traditional groups and the great percentage of Catholics who are not involved in parish life, have not made submissions," they say in an introduction to their summary.

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PAT HACKETT of Applecross, international secretary for the Perth Catholic Women's League and who attended in Hunters Hill the first Australian-hosted conference of the World Union of Catholic Women's Organisations reviews the debates.

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ment to the poor and oppressed, role of women, growth of community and small groups, priesthood and the need for adult education and training of lay people,"' say the Stewarts.

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"Many of the submissions expressed excitement and joy in the fact that 'the people' had been consulted.

"Some believed that each submission would be read by the The highest number of submisArchbishop and taken to sions came from parish groups Rome. (34), followed by Christian Life Groups (20), Legion of Mary "A number of submissions (10), St Vincent de Paul and requested some sort of reply parish councils (10 each) and summary of the findings. the key issues "A small group felt the questions "Among addressed, were the role of weren't relevant or were too laity, ecumenism, commitvague."

While joy in the expanded role of the laity in the Church and a strong feeling of the presence of Jesus in life dominated replies to the Called To Serve program, by far the largest concentrated response was grief and anguish about the breakdown of morals and family life. These facts emerge in a summary of responses prepared by Peter and Marya Stewart from 122 submissions forwarded after the discussion program earlier this year. Copies of the analysis are available from the Catholic Church Office Victoria Square.

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Wider participation in the liturgy and life of the Church is one of the main joys and hopes of Perth laity in Called To Serve program.

"An increase in the role of the laity within the Church was sited as the most joyful and helpful experience," says the Stewarts The decline in vocations to the priestly and religious life had resulted in the Church accepting greater lay involvement. "It is interesting to note only 4 out of 116 submissions included this drop in vocations as a grief and anguish. "The impact of Vatican II was also recognised as a significant factor in encouraging a greater role for the laity," they said. Some 32 per cent of submissions placed the breakdown of family life as a grief and anguish. This breakdown in family life seemed linked to another of grief, namely marriage breakdown. Together they were mentioned on approximately half the submissions. Materialism was seen as an evil to be addressed by the Church. In areas such as homosexuality, pornography, promiscuity and permissiveness, many submissions put the blame for this breakdown on to the "influence of media", another major area of grief. The media was also implicated in the rise of violence. "Drugs and alcohol, the threat of nuclear war,

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Founded on prayer The 1986 Social Justice statement "Founded on Justiceand Peace" reminds us that the struggle for justice is founded on prayer, according to Christine Choo chairperson of the Catholic Social Justice Commission.

The document is a selection of statements by Pope John Paul issued in preparation for his Australian visit.

Christine Choo quoted one of the pope's statements: "It is indeed in prayer that a social consciousness is nurtured and at the same time evaluated." "Founded on Justice and Peace" is a strong and compelling document in which Pope John Paul II makes some clear

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the dignity of the human person. "It has confronted me yet again with the cry of Christian communities all over the world foe justice for the voiceless, the poor, people suffering oppression of all kinds. Christine Choo, a social worker and mother of three said the pope expressed in many ways Christ's message and model of service. "As a mother, I face daily the challenge of sharing my values with my children. "We are all part of the same community and therefore have a part in the oppression of others if we do not speak up against these injustices "As groups around the Archdiocese finish working through the discussion series 'You Are My People' we can continue to meet in our groups,

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Best help to serve groups The greatest help parishes gave people in their vocation to service were groups such as St Vincent de Paul, and Legion of Mary said the majority of responses in a section of Called To Serve. Membership of the parish giving a sense of belonging and raising awareness of others' needs was the second highest reaction. These are among the comments analysed by Peter and Marya Stewart in a summary of

1 22 submissions made after the diocesan wide discussion held earlier this year. Copies of the summary are available from the Catholic Church Office. However, to the question whether different gifts were being used for the good of the whole parish the overwhelming response was negative. "Most submissions considered that the gifts of the parish were not being fully used, if at all," says the Stewarts' summary? There are not enough people involved in the life of the parish and it always seems to be the same few doing everything so that much talent was untapped. "Possible reasons for this situation were that parish structures did not encourage active lay involvement or limited it to jobs centred on the survival of the institution. "Mention of domination by the parish priest was made in a few submissions. People's contributions were

Overcoming obstacles Catholic and Angli-

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claim to have reached agreement on those issues of salvation and justification which gave rise to deep divisions between Roman Catholics and Protestants in the sixteenth century. This emerged after the fourth plenary meeting which issued a statement that now has to be sent to the respective churches. The agreed statement acknowledges that the extent to which Anglicans and Roman Catholics have actually been in disagreement on this topic is itself a matter of debate. The commission was convinced it is necessary for the two communions to be in agreement on this issue as they make further progress towards full communion of faith and sacramental life. The document notes four areas of difficulty that surfaced at the time of the Reformation: • The proper understanding of the faith through which we are justified; • The correct understanding of the term justification together with the related concepts of righteousness and justice; • The bearing of good works on salvation; • the role of the Church in the process of salvation. The statement goes on to articulate a statement of faith on each of these topics which commands the assent

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Working at parish level rates second seen not to be recognised, appreciated or encouraged in some instances." Liturgy and financial administration were not areas needing attention it was felt. The development of a sense of community in the parish was by far the largest response of what developments people would like to see. Improvement in parish councils, adult education and spiritual formation, youth formation and using the resources of people also figured high. A greater role for women attracted only marginal response. On the contribution the Church can make to the nation the strongest feeling was by far that the Church should speak out on social, moral, economic and political issues. "It should make its presence felt at all levels of government and political life in Australia," says the summary. 'The submissions indicate that we should be taking a stand for the poor and oppressed to see they receive justice." There was a strong call for the people of the Church to make a commitment to prayer and living the Gospel. People have to see Catholics as a group that practises what it preaches What could have been the most revealing source of views turned out to be the most unsatisfactory response in the six questions of the program. Only 85 replies were received to the question of what projects, developments or changes ought to be seen in the future. Most looked forward to a growth in ecumenical developments and others in the growth of small groups and prayer movement. Commitment to those in need and more adult education also featured. No single issue dominated the search for future developments or projects. The satistically highest response (20) opted for married priests; women priests attracted eight, and a greater role for women a slightly higher vote.

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Australian Catholic ARCIC rep Father Thornhill of the members of the commission. It is their view this agreed statement is coherent with the official formularies to which each communion is committed. Moreover the commission submits any outstanding differences of interpretation or ecclesiological emphasis in this matter, arc not such as can justify continuing separation between Anglicans and Roman Catholics

world poverty and hunger and unemployment were all major areas of grief and anguish. A number submissions expressed concern about the Church's involvement with these issues. The participation of laity in all aspects of the liturgical, sacramental, administrative aspect was the highest response to a question on being a Catholic in the past five years. Others wanted more ecumenism, more equality with the clergy, less emphasis on rules and law and a greater understanding of faith. Greater involvement in parish activities, involvement in liturgical life and a sense of security through belonging feature heavily in responses to what it means to be a Catholic today.

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People may be surprised to hear Pope John Paul's entourage contains about 30 people from the Vatican. While it is tempting to say they are not all necessary, none of the papal party is on a Jaunt to foreign lands for the fun of it. The entourage, or papal suite, as it is known, ls very much a working party. The pope is the Head of the Vatican State with daily Church responsibilities and diplomatic links in almost every nation. There are, therefore, round-the-clock responsibilities of church and Government which still have to be met while the pope is travelling. The pope's personal staff Includes his private secretary and assistant, the head of the papal household, his physician and his

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One more top award LONDON: A religious documentary presented by Edna Healey, wife of the Shadow Foreign Secretary, Mr Denis Healey, has won a major

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Others travelling with the pope are the master of ceremonies, the director of Papal Visits and his assistant who are responsible for the overall planning of every detail of a visit. The Vatican Press Office, Vatican Radio and television journalists and technicians, the pope's personal photographer, and security staff make up the balance of the entourage.

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In one of four articles commissioned by the

the "narrow conservatism' of seminarians, newspaper on the their "narrow views and Catholic Church Father clerical style." Paul Collins of Sydney "This put-down of semiclaimed to identify a narians reminds us of the

Honour ANTWERP: The Catholic University of Louvain has awarded an American Jesuit professor of Christian ethics an honorary degree -the first time this has been extended to an American theologian. Father Richard McCormick, who lectures at Georgetown University, was presented with the degree during the opening ceremony of Louvain's new centre for biomedical ethics.

impertinence of the visiting American theologian, Father Richard McBrien, some years ago, who publicly denigrated Australian seminarians after 24 hours in the country," Father Pell said. "Catholic priests are outnumbered. "Some are tired, a few are dispirited "Many more are not perfect and the butt of good-humoured complaint from their parishioners. There is little new in this," he said. Reacting to Father Collins' statement that other church parishes were

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MELBOURNE: There is no crisis of morale among Catholic priests in Victoria. There are many great priests and many more good priests and strong parishes. This is the reaction of Corpus Christi seminary rector Father George Pell to a recent article in The Austral- growing crisis in the ian newspaper. priesthood and lamented

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Crash Vatican document on major themes kills Christ and crisis last hope GUEST EDITORIAL

THE CATHOLIC WEEKLY

There is a story about an Englishman who drinking with an Irishman, raised his glass and said, "here's to Mother England, where the situation is serious, but never desperate." To thi,s the Irishman countered with the toast: "To lreland, where the situation is always desperate, but never serious." Cheerful, positive attitudes are always welcomed by people and this should be borne in mind by Catholics as they move through society, particularly an Australian community which is feeling a little rattled at the moment. Many people, shaken by a crisis in their lives, are looking for a deeper understanding of what life is all about. This crisis - the separation of the wheat from the chaff - can be turned into a positive development and the discarding of things that do not really matter, while precious things are jealously guarded. The person in crisis may have relied too much on materialism, on status, on being seen as "an achiever" or may have acquired a habit of beig n n ashamed of any weakness, of hidig shortcomings. The Christian message to those who have had their foundatins o shaken (the "achiever" thrust upon the dole) is relevant. God loves you whether you are successful or unsuccessful, strong or weak, righteous or unrighteous. It is through the wonder of the Redemption that we find that, despite our human weaknesses, God loves us in an infinite and remarkable way. Despair and down-heartedness should be banished from our thinking. We are living in exciting ti es m i nAustralian Catholicism. The splendid range of cultures infused into Catholic life in this country will be on show when the Pope makes his visit. Some Australian Catholics still hunger for the old ways: we remember the Latin liturgy, the older way of sayig n Mass, the n and hearig feast days of Mary and the saints, the n thunderig n clerical warnigs. Public theological controversy. political priests and nuns and ecumenical services were almost unheard of in the old days. Today Catholics in Australia are living in a much more mature way, and despite the nostalgia, few of us would want to tum back to the old world, for despite the difficulties there is a real spirit amongst us as we contend for our slice of the public consciousness. Making Christianity relevant to today's Australian i sto speak in the language of love, the true affection that expresses itself through sacrifice, the giving of time to others, of gentle concern for those we meet. To the dispossessed, the uncertain, the "people in crisis," we say: "T understand, perhaps I can be of assistance," All great things are based upon a great and si ple m truth. The truth is that God loves us in a way that defies human logic, and that love impels us to go out into society determined to love others, come what may.

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KHARTOUM: The aircrash at Malakal, Southern Sudan in which more than 60 people died has made desperatelyneeded relief plans impossible to carry out, Cafod relief workers said this week. The Sudan Airways passenger plane was shot down by rebels of the Sudan People's Liberation Army. The rebels had warned of their intention to shoot down planes flying over Southern Sudan and since the crash, they have reaffirmed their determination to continue doing so, "without exception". "A telex sent before the crash said that Malakal was in a panic, and appealed for an airlift as the only way to get food to the famine-striken people," said Stephen King, a relief worker at the Catholic Fund for Overseas Development. "The famine meant that grain prices in the town had rocketed: a 90kg bag of grain had almost trebled in price within three weeks. But plans to fly food into the town have had to be stopped." Another relief worker Robert Rees, who returned from Sudan a month ago, explained that the airlift was the last hope of transporting 300 tonnes of supplies waiting since April to sail by barges to Malakal from Renk, 300 km away. "They have been waiting for a government military escort but, despite promises, it has never materialised. "The supplies included seeds which need to be planted in July and will now be ruined," he said. "Attempts to get food in by barge have failed, and now it looks as though it will be impossible to fly food there." Malakal alone requires some 570 tonnes of food a month to survive -and

the situation in the rest of Sudan is also getting

worse.

Thousands of villagers have fled to Juba after attacks by the SPLA, in which men were killed or beaten up, women raped

and homes looted.

BOGOTA: A Vatican document on the major themes of bioethics is to be published "as soon as possible". Cardinal Ratzinger, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said during a visit to the Peruvian bishops his department would answer the urgent need for such a declaration. It would include a discussion of the foundations of moral theol-

ogy.

Catholic experts on bioethics have generally welcomed the announcement. Mr Luke Gormally, director of the Linacre Centre, the Catholic centre for the study of ethics in health care, said "I hope the document will clarify the Church's teaching on in vitro fertilisation, about which there is a lot of debate among Catholic theologians, and on artificial insemination, about which there has been a long silence from the Holy See since Pope Pius XII's statement to midwives in the mid 1950s

ODD "It would be particularly helpful to have specific guidance on artificial insemination by husband, which a number of Catholic theologians believe to be permissable, though Pope Pius XII clearly felt it was not." Father Terence Phipps, a moral theologian at Westminster Cathedral whose thesis was in bio-ethics said: "I welcome the idea "There has got to be something said. Until now, the issues have been explored mainly in terms of the theology of sexuality, and I would like to see both the sexuality and the technology, considered together, though there are certain things you simply cannot do and remain morally coherent."

Ethics rulings coming

News of the document followed the announcement that the well-known Jesuit theologian Father John Mahoney has agreed that the diocese of Westminster should remove its Imprimatur from his book Bioethics and Belief: Religion and Medicine in Dialogue In a joint statement, Mons Ralph Brown, Vicar General of Westminster and Father Mahoney said that since the Imprimatur was bestowed two years ago, indicating that the book was "free from doctrinal or moral error", claims had been made that parts of the text did not conform with Church teaching Father Mahoney said problems had arisen with the chapter on "The Beginning of Life", in which he discusses the Church's teaching that human life begins at conception, in the light of the developments of modern science. Some of the problems he raises in that chapter include the fact that embryos can divide into twins and combine into one during the first two weeks, and that cerebral development - regarded by some as a pre-condition for "ensoulment" does not begin until about the 25th day.

Chileans' action a 'terror' SANTIAGO, (NC): The Chilean Govern-

ment's use of emergency powers to arrest political opponents is almost "a terrorist action," said the secretary of the Chilean bishops' conference. "If normal people are

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VATICAN CITY: Scientific progress was to be judged by the service it could give to humanity, Pope John Paul told the 23rd International Congress on Physics.

This century had opened with the marvels of science, but as it came to its close it had become darkened to the point of causing

anguish to thinking people. Since Hiroshima, the pope said the fear of the atom bomb had hung over mankind, increasing "as world leaders go on building up their terrifying arsenals."

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The pope referred to the disaster of Chernobyl as evidence that even the peaceful uses of the atom had their dangers It was necessary to rediscover confidence in the achievement of science. He went on to note the ethical problems aroused by scientific development and technical application required an increase of understanding and conscience.

arrested just because of their political opinions, for which they cannot be blamed ... this means that anyone is at risk of arrest for no motive,"' said Bishop Sergio Contreras Navia of Temuco.

The Chilean Government said it was holding 27 political opponents under state of siege regulations declared shortly after the September 7 assassination attempt on President Augusto Pinochet. Contreras Bishop visited some of the prisoners in Santiago on September 23 and later criticised the arrests.

"I would almost go as far as to say that it was a

terrorist action, because it seems the only motive is to cause terror in the rest of the population," the bishop told journalists. In the government crackdown after the assassination attempt, three French priests were expelled and several Catholic missionaries were detained. Smart people keep their names in front.of the best people when they

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MANILA: Ten Filipino Catholic nuns, kidnapped earlier by Moslem rebels in the Southern Philiphave been pines, released unharmed. According to the military authorities, no ransom was paid, but Princess Tarhata Lucman, a prominent Moslem enlisted by the government to help negotiate with the kidnappers, said that they were given money and guns. At one stage the kidnappers had demanded $100,000 and political autonomy for Moslem parts of the Southern Philippines. The 10 nuns spent six days in captivity. They were released in the isolated village of Lanao del Sur, about 750 kms south of Manila.

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They had to walk half a mile unescorted to a point where the government and Church negotiators were waiting, and they then travelled to the provincial capital, Marawi City, where they were welcomed by about 2,000 people, Christian

which to get close to Moslems. "We always wished that somehow, one day, we would be able to live with them, study their viewpoint, and touch their hearts with our message. "Then it all happened. "We lived with them. It was an experience long desired." According to the nuns, their kidnappers had described themselves as members of a faction of Moslem separatist Moro National Liberation Front; but military officials believe that the leader is a former employee of a local government food agency who was sacked for

and Moslem.

The nuns said they had been well cared-for and treated with respect by their kidnappers. Mother Superior Amdeleine Ledeoma said: "We have no regets. Our lives have been enriched. "As cloistered nuns, praying for an improvement in relations between Christians and Moslems, we treasure the experience. It was like a dream come true. "Me had no way by

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Protesters outside Marlborough House, the site of the Commomwealth mini-summit. LONDON: Churchmen, politicians and trade union leaders joined a three day anti-apartheid protest vigil outside London's Marlborough House, the site of the Commonwealth Summit on South Africa. A spokesman for the AntiApartheid Movement which organised the vigil said: "Its aim was to show Commonwealth leaders the extent of support for sanctions. "In her refusal to impose them Mrs Thatcher does not represent the views of the British people." The vigil was attended by Movement president Archbishop Trevor Huddlestone, Mrs Glenys Kinnock, Lord Gifford QC and General Secretary of the TUC, Mr Norman Willis.

It was launched on a Sunday at an interfaith service at St James Church, Piccadilly to which a message of supDort was sent by the South African Catholic Bishops Conference.

Summit protest

Author's school gift CHICAGO: Father Andrew Greeley, the American priest well known both as a sociologist and novelist, has set up a private fund to channel $1 million to Chicago's inner-city schools. The archdiocese of Chicago refused to handle the money, which comes from royalties on his novels, when he offered it. Father Greeley has been asked by Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, Archbishop of Chicago, to stop writing the novels.

He was warned he would not be "normalised" in the diocese until he does so. Father Greeley thought it was the first time the Church had refused to accept money. "People ask me why I don't give all my money to the Church. "I guess I have a good answer now," said Father Greeley, "they won't take it." The archdiocese has launched a campaign to raise $10 million for low-income schools.

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The World Union of Catholic Women's Organisations WUCWO (World Union of Catholic Women's Organisations) adopted the theme "love in action" for its Regional Conference of Asia and the Pacific Region held at St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill. "Love in Action," indeed. The 250 delegates and organisers laid it on in trowels. One Fijian delegate told another delegate that she admired her cardigan and ended up walking away the proud owner of the said

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delegates crammed into two taxis and drove to the nearest St Vincent de Paul store. Their purpose was to buy clothes for the women representing one of the poorer nations to distribute among the needy when they

It was that kind of conference. Canadian delegate Mrs Betty Aitken stressed the need for WUCwo to: • "Make a serious effort to study in a Christian spirit the problems of general interest in international affairs. • "To present the opinion of Catholic women before organisations; and to coordinate on the international level the activities of Catholic women's organisations and serve as a link between them."

The Australian national coordinator of the WUCwo conference, Mrs Joyce Balnaves, said that the main aim of the conference was "the affirmation of women in whatever roles they choose." Mrs Balnaves was elected a Catholic Women's League board member four years

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Two hundred and Catholic twenty women, from 14 countries, in the AsiaPacific region travelled by foot, through creeks, on horseback, raft, train, bus and jetliner, their way to the first ever Catholic Women's conference. Convened by Mrs Joyce Balnaves, board member for Australia, the World Union of Catholic Women's Organisations (WUCWO) was hosted by Catholic Women's League Australia.

It was the By PAT HACKETT of Applecross, international secretary for the Perth Catholic Women's League, who attended in Hunters Hill the fist r Australian-hosted conference of the World Union of Catholic Women's Organisations.

such efforts produced true "Love in Action" the theme of the conference, which was a week of interaction in "development", "formation" and "peace". We Australians and New Zealanders were to become enriched by these women, with such a strong purpose of doing God's will.

Some of the delegates who came to Hunters Hill had never left their Women from Hong homeland bcfore. Kong, Korea, India, The effort was worth it Malaysia, Fiji, Papua especially by those New Guinea, Japan, women who sent their Indonesia, Philippines, delegate from their triSolomon and Cook bal area in India. To Islands would have raise the necessary been equally enriched funds, each they by our culture. brought in a handful of Representatives of the rice, to swell the culture Aboriginal amount for sale and came from Queensland provide these funds for and each delegate travel and accommodalearnt deeply of this tion. culture and of their Some countries paid for deep spirituality. others to attend. All The of president

WUCWO, Mrs Betty

Aitken of Canada, said

all were envious of those present at this Asia Pacific conference. Betty Aitken is the first non-European president elected in the past 75 years Archbishop Clancy of Sydney in his homily during the opening Mass, spoke on justice and love walking hand in hand with humility not far behind. Quickly we were all becoming one. We listened, took notes and digested the addresses given by so many on leadership, women in development, women in the Church, responsibility of women, natural family planning, family and

peace, education for family life. Youth in Development

was a particularly excellent presentation by Brother Geoffrey Schwager who stressed that "love, care and support for our youth has to be continual. "It takes a long time to relate," he said and he did not leave a stone unturned in his efforts. Bioethics and medical technology presented by Nicholas Tonti-Filippini resulted in the listeners feeling strengthened in this particular area. Age was no barrier at the conference; 24 years to 70 was the range, all equally identifying with the speakers. Australian Catholic Relief spoke through Sister Mary Keegan. ACR had supported travel for the Pacific Islanders. Bishop Heather of the Sydney diocese of Parramatta referred to the 75 years of WUCWO and said it was a privilege to be among women who are taking this great opportunity to familiarise with all women in the Asia Pacific region. He said the dialogue between

Aborigines attend

Two Aboriginal delegates attended the conference, Ms Kippy Pryor and Ms Deidre Daylight. Ms Pryor spoke for everyone who attended the conference, when, in a moving introduction to a work by Aboriginal writer Miriam Rose, she said: ·Thisweek for a few short days and in God's love, we have been as one.

"Although our struggles

are different, they are the same, as, in all of us there is

the longing for a freedom, a dignity and a oneness in Christ." The swopping of experiences was a highlight of the week for many of the delegates Mrs Scholla Warai Kaka, a representative from Papua New Guinea, said it was difficult to judge which problems were universal and which were not. "But it would appear that youth problems are universal," Mrs Warai Kaka said with a wry grin Papua New Guinea has a high rate of delinquency and youth alcoholism, largely due to the influx of job-less, disaffected youths into the bigger towns. Mrs Warai Kaka believes that the ideas she has come into contact with while at the conference will prove invaluable to her when she returns to Papua New Guinca

"I have learnt a lot from the conference, especially in the area of youth and development programs." Mrs Warai Kaka is the President of the Papua New Guinea Catholic Women's Federation. Since its inception in 1982 the Federation has encouraged women to participate

more in the Church and in the community. Three Indian delegates attended the regional conference. Mrs Frances Lynn lives in New Delhi. She is the wife of an upperechelon civil servant. Mrs Lynn admits that her way of life is atypical of a normal Indian lifestyle.

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From page 3 grace of God; our families, our schools, lay involvement, the contribution of religious and, not least, the leadership " of the priests," he said. In comparison with many other ages, in comwith the parison strengths and weaknesses of the other mainline Christian 1 Churches in Australia today, the Catholic community was alive and well. In many ways the 50s and 60s were an unusual high point in Church history. "Today's seminarians will be well able to meet the challenges of tomor-

first all churches is remarkable. He asked if we will be too blind to see it, or too involved in our own affairs, to see it? Workshops, discussions, questions and answers, were part and parcel of an exciting and naturally tiring week. On the last day, Archbishop Faulkner from Adelaide and Bishop Robinson of Sydney took it in turn to speak and answer the most constructive questions by women from all countries enlightened us on the Synod which will take place in 1987. Father Mayne SJ, who spent his 80th birthday with us spoke after each session. Explaining that Jesus spoke in parables and stories, he continued: "There was a man sitting on the edge of a cliff, admiring the sun going down over the sea. He wondered where it went. Then all of a sudden it 'dawned' on him." It surely 'dawned' on all delegates, all those present, that never again would they captu re such radiance, warmth, and expertise

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PATHWAYS F THE PIRIT

..s=..= All of Mother Earth

'I can talk to God anywhere'

people have a sacramental vision? How do the sacraments change Christians' outlook on the world?

Father Lawrence Mick says that when Christians worship together they discover just how "material" their religion is. God uses and transforms created things water and bread and oil to communicate with us, Father Mick writes.

I don't need to go to church," she insisted. "1 can talk to God taking a walk in the woods on Sunday morning." She was young, in college and in love with the outdoors. in the church.

Father Lawrence Mick I cautioned myself not to seem impatient as I began to answer lit was a fresh con cern for her though I had

heard the same objection hundreds of times before in numerous variations I can find God better along the

seashore

or watching a

beautiful sunset or just being with someone I love."

I tried to explain once

God has

chosen created things (water, bread, oil) and human encounters (sharing a meal, forgiving. anointing ) as the means of divine grace It is in and through creation that God is revealed to people and that God touches, heals and nourishes people. The liturgical renewal in

the church has led us an emphasis on the importance both of deepening our appre ciation and our experience

of the rich realities we call

sacraments. In order that the symbols themselves can speak to us in all their richness, the church urges us to use them more fully and abundantly

the

world

becomes

around

To American Indians, all of Mother Earth i s considered sacred. Father Collins Jordan tells Joe Michael Feist. A Sioux Indian, Father Jordan adds that Indians, like Catholics. believe that God is present and works on our behalf through visible, material realities.

Thus, the church's worship invites people to embrace a

Elaboratig n on a homily she heard recently, Katharie n Bird imagi es n how the feeding of the 5,000 might have happened. Jesuit Father Peter Henriot tells why he thinks a wondrous aspect of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes was the change Jesus brought about in the people listening to him.

sacramental vision of the world. The sacraments we celebrate are meant to be a deep and intense experiene in which God can be met through creation and especially through human encounters Walking in the woods or watching a sunset or talking with a friend are not substi tutes for worship with the assembly that is the church but they are linked to that worship In fact, such experiences of God's presence in the world around us can prepare us to experience the sacraments more fully. What's

David Gibson reflects on God's communication with people through the world around them. Gibson, editor of the NC religious education package, thinks it isn't surprising that the church has adopted and transformed the symbols of nature with their powerful ability to communicate.

considered sacred

By Katharine Bird

o mencan ans, said Father Collins Jordan, "all of Mother Earth is considered sacred, and whatever she produces. The environment is sacred and there's a feeling that it's better not to disturb what God created. Rocks and animals are sacred, so much so that Indians will even take the name of an animal."

In a real sense, he added, the spiritual heritage of

Indians reveals a sacramental vision Father Jordan is a descendant of the famous Chief Red Cloud of the Oglala Sioux and of Chief Hollow Horn Bear of the Brule Sioux In June he became the first native American to be ordained a priest for the Diocese of Rapid City, SD A teacher and basketball coach for more than 40 years, Father Jordan, 68, ministers to the Spring Creek and Two Strike communities on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in southcentral South Dakota In an interview, the priest described the spirituality of Indians as 'almost pantheistic" the doctrine that all

again that Christian worship

is much more than simply

€;

into a community, into the

body of Christ, and we gather as that body to wor ship together and to support one another At the same time. I wanted to affirm very strongly that

especially in human beings Father Ed Hays, in a recent edition of "The Forest Let-

ter" (Shantivanam Press, Easton, Kan. ), says "Chris tianity is the only truly materialistic religion And with Christianity we would include her holy mother, Judaism." Calling Christianity "materialistic" probably would have shocked my young friend. But it is really just another way of saying that Christianity is an "incarna tional" religion Our religion is radically based on the incarnation, the astounding fact that the Son of God took on human flesh and forever united heaven and earth. The fullest revelation of God that we have been given was found in Jesus in the form of a human being. the capstone of creation Even before the coming of Jesus, the Jewish people knew that God had created the world and "saw that it was good." In contrast to other world religions, the Judeo-Christian tradition does not see to escape from the material world but to find God at the heart of creation Our tradition is not materialistic in the sense that it limits God to the material world but it does take the material, created world seriously as a primary means of encounter with God. The insight is the basis of the sacraments celebrated

never lost the feeling of mystery and awe associated with the universe.

Yes, (Indians) would see that using sacrament as a sign of divinity, seeing God in everything around them," agreed Jesuit Father Ted Zuern He is associate director of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, which represents the church in its apostolate to American Indi

That mystery, he indicated, translates to a reverence for all creation. To Indians, he said, everything is a gift that

ans

The bureau is headquar tered in a red brick house, once owned by philanthropist Katherine Drexel, in downtown Washington, DC Father Zuern, who has worked for more than 30 years in social, pastoral and

educational concerns in a

my personal relationship with God. God has called us

there is something funda mentally Christian about the insight that we can find God in the material world, in creation at all levels and

physical laws and forces and manifestations are God But in another sense, Father Jordan commented, the religious beliefs of Indians are similar to the Catholic belief in sacramentality -- the idea that God is present and works on our behalf in and through visible, material realities

number of Indian communities. noted that Indians

The more we appreciate each of these symbolic ges-

tures, the richer our worship becomes. The richer our worship becomes, the deeper our appreciation of

sacramental worship ought to make us more aware of the God who can be found at the heart of the creation So go often to the woods and share deeply with all who cross your path through life," I told my young friend "Then come and bring those rich experienees to our common worship, where together we can praise the God whom we meet in the most surprisSometimes ing places even in church."

Michael Fiest

Across the fields of wild flowers, be looked down on

the weary faces of the 5,000 who hadfollowed him onto the hillside. Some, tossing their sandals aside, leaned against each other for sup port. Their garments, stained with dust and sweat, sbowed the effects of a long day in tbe steaming

spring sun Beyond the crowd rippled the waves of the Sea of Galilee, an occasional fish

fumping up to say mockingly, 'Come Join me! It's cool bee." The sweet scent

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of orange blossoms per

fumed the air The people werefascinated by this great teacher and miracle worker They were all talking about bis power to cure the sick and heal the maimed. He taught about

tbe kingdom in simple stories tuned to the life they knew so well He knew tbe crowd was hungry and thirsty. But be also sensed tbat the people needed more than physical

nourishment, for be noticed bow each group closed ranks against the strangers all around "here shall we buy bread?" be asked bis discipies. They replied, discouragngty, 'Tr's impossible Not even 200 days'wages would be enough to feed so many."

and a couple of dried fish "These werefor my family," the boy said to the man

They are yours now." Seeing tbis, two adults near the boy reached into the folds of their cloaks, pulled out bread and figs and offered tbem to the people nearby. Soon the hillside rang with chatter as people began to share food with those who bad none

At tbe meal's end, tbe disciples gathered up wbat remained The retelling of tbe multiiplication of the loaves and fishes is a favourite ofJesuit Father Peter Herriot, wbo turned to it in a recent

homily. Recognising that

this is only one possible approach to the account, be said be likes it because it helps bim to focus on the

story's meaning

The meaning of this story that Jesus nourishes bis people, that they in turn

become nourishers like bim - bas interested tbe church in a special way for many centuries

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in a detailed way exactly bow" the multiplication

happened and have specu

lated about it in a number of ways Father Henriot tbinks it is

truly wondrous that people's bearts were changed" by this event. He is director of the Centre of Concern, a peace-andjustice research

and education group in Washington, DC Father Henriot noted that

on the feeding of the 5,000

the miracle is told in allfour Gospels. Tbis shows that the disciples and tbe first Chris tians recognised its impor

and wondrous manner

Long considered a fore shadowing of the Eucharist, it is a key toJesus ' vision for

Scripture scholar Fatber

Jobn Castelot commented Scripture scholars would agree, be said, thatJesus fed the people in an incredible

But, Father Castelot added, these scholars don't know

tance

the word, Fatber Henniot

said

hungry

munity, Father Murnion suggested, helping them to learn that a bond connects human beings a bond to one another and to God Participating in the sacra-

ture of faith and worship

nia's Alleghenies must have believed it was like the promised land that flowed with milk and honey. So they named it Canaan, after the place the Israelites settled thousands of years ago: "A land of hills and valleys that drinks in rain from the heavens, a land which the Lord, your God, looks after." (Deuteronomy 1111-12)

people

and

responded to their needs, the priest said But Jesus saw deeper than theirpbys tcal needs. He spoke to their need to grow in love of each other." Jesus satisfied their hunger to be "more fully

Society needs a "whole

new wary of thinking and acting that would amount to a revolutionary shift "in

human by being more fully loving and sharing their

gifts, " be added

our present patterns and

That vision ofJesus bolds

true for today as well We gather in the Eucharist to be fed, not simply for our own nourishment, but to go out and feed others," Fatber Henriot suggested

Celebrating as a com-

munity strengthens us to share our gifts with others," be concluded

habits of life," said Father Murnion, director of the

New York-based National Pastoral Life Centre

an talk to God taking a walk in the

s on Sunday morning." the young

et said "T can find God better along

p@shore or watching a beautiful Ator just being with someone l Rldon't need to go to church."

family" Father Murnion

stated

The "basic qualities of our

sacramental tradition offer a belief and perspective, a wary of thinking and acting that are desperately needed today." Father Murnion explained. Mere he pointed

especially to the value "There lie in the heart of placed by the church on the the church the capacities bonds among people not only to build the corr- community. munity of the church, but At boils down to a question also to help form the human of vales, he indicated low

do you evaluate the success of things? Which matters

more, relationships among

people or the acquisition of belongings? Father Murnion said he did not claim that the Catholic Church alone possesses qualities vital for today's society. But, he observed, qualities vital for society ans intrinsic to the church. Me expressed concern about some current values in society for example, a

home with a different pers pective on problems that you'd return with fresh commitment and energy? Were you hoping your spirit would be renewed? It's no wonder that in its sacramental celebrations the church draws upon and

To reach the crest of Bald

can see.

The scene is one of com

"They had a sense, no matter what they were doing, of giving thanks. There was a living with a sense of the Creator at all times And there was a relationship there between the Creator and themselves."

impact on people You can't discover all there is to know about the church's sacramental vision by sitting on the crest of a Bald Knob Mountain somewhere and allowing the goodness of God's world to make its impact on you. But you might find a clue there Does God speak back to people through the world around them?

From the crest of Bald Knob Mountain a panorama unfolds to transfix and excite you. From one end to the other, the valley below spans a distance of some I miles. From your elevated viewing point, one mountain's top yields to another and another, as far as the eye

passion Jesus bad pity on

learn much from many

aspects of Indian culture And he indicated that mis-

Also important, he added, the Indians' sense that prayer is proper at all times is

But, as you contemplate it, something more is happensomething mysteing rious. It's as if creation speaks back, making its own impact, communicating a sense of peace or a feeling of refreshment Is this what you hoped for when you left home? Were you hoping a few vacation days would leave you rested that you'd come

Gibson

Hearing that exchange, a small boy stepped up with a basket offive barley loaves

Father Zuemn indicated that the Caucasian culture could

Sioux tribe, he said, children addressed the brothers of their father as father. AII the sisters of the mother were also called mother Therefore, he continued, you had no first cousins, only brothers and sisters

The first settlers in this valley deep in West Virgi-

David

Simple stories to teach By about the kingdom Joe

"he way our modern world looks at nature is as a treasure trove that you can exploit so long as you have the technology," Father Zuern said "Indians are closer to the seasons, the cycles of life With them it's more a case of adjusting to what the Creator has provided"

The idea of family was, and

is, paramount, he said In the

Top, you ascend first past forested mountainsides and sloping fields richly decomated with millions of wild daisies. This winter paradise for skiers affords the luxury of a ski lift, even in summer But when the lift ends, the hiking begins in earnest. And just as young children begin to tire of their walk along a rocky forest trail, it opens onto a grassy field leading to the mountaintop You proceed along paths teeming with blueberries and raspberry bushes -more than anyone could magne Children quicken their pace invigorated by the fresh air and a sense of adventure Reaching the mountaintop you scan the valley setting

The religious beliefs of Indians and beliefs of Catholics are similar, says Father Collins Jordan, a recently ordained Sioux from the Rapid City, SD, diocese. Father Collins sees a similarity in the idea that God i spresent and works on our behalf in and through viible, s material realities. Jesuit Father Ted Zuern, associate director of the Bureau of Catholic Missions in Washington, adds that Indians never have lost the feeling of mystery and awe associated with the universe

should be used carefully

In addition to the reverence for all creation, he cited the importance of the extended family to Indians, the great sense of community and the respect and love for older generations

Promised land

, bread and wine; we use sweet smelling oil for anoint ing we impose hands in penance and in the anoint ing of the sick, we use water in abundance for baptism, even baptising by immersion at times

Moreover, he added, they are "a people capable of living with that mystery. In our modern world, there is something that dislikes mystery. We're always seeking a technical answer to everything."

sionaries need to know how to build on many of these religious values among the people.

trend toward radical individualism or a tendency to evaluate people and things only in light of their useful-

ness.

"What is missing"in our society, he contended, "are

the ingredients of a moral

community in terms of which we can decide how to use our capacities and resources for a common

good."

Worshipping together draws people into a corr-

now,

ments and especially the Eucharist helps us to see

that "to be distinctively Catholic is to be committed to the intrinsic ink between the individual and the commmunity," he added in the community people learn to live "within a struc-

transforms so many natural

symbols of creation: the fresh grains bread is made of the colourful grapes that become wine the flowing waters of baptism, riches of the promised land For you might say that e The world has its own language. It can speak

loudly • God's world is irresisti bly attractive. It can exert a powerful draw The world possesses a power It can make quite an

which undergirds all action and gives all life meaning," Father Murnion said Of course he added, the church community itself needs to reflect "its sacra mental condition in the many wdrys that a parish addresses the joys. problems, challenges and crises of human life, in the many efforts to bring people together in fellowship and action."

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Profile

Pictures Richard Woldendorp is well acquainted with the vast areas of Western Australia, such as most of us shall never see. He has flown over the magnificent expanses and seen our beautiful state through the eyes of a bird. He has bumped his way over rugged terrain in a four wheel drive and rowed in the watery and eerie silence of deep, narrow gorges.

Ante Loncar was born in an area of Austria that now forms part of Yugoslavia on May 12, 1903. His later childhood and adolescence were spent in an era of devastation as the contending armies of Austria and its enemies tore apart the land of his fathers during World War 1. After the war he underwent two years of national service as a medical orderly in the newly formed army of the newly-formed country, Yugoslavia. In 1927 he came to WA to join his market gardener brother lvan who had migrated here in 1910. Poor prices for the produce of the Balcatta property propelled him Into a lengthy career in occupations that included labourer, farm clearer, railway fettler and lime quarry worker before he was able to rejoin brother lvan on the market garden. Ante helped to build St Theresa's church on a site near the property in the area now known as Gwelup. He and his wife Rosie (nee Pavacich), who have a son and two daughters aged from 44 to 47, moved to the Balcatta parish in 1974. The crippled Ante has recently moved into the care of the Little Sisters of the Poor at Glendalough.

Hardship is perhaps an inadequate word to describe the circumstances in which Ante Loncar managed to survive his early years during which World War I brought devastation to his birthplace in the section of Austria that is now part of Yugoslavia. All males between 15 and 70 had been called up for military service by the Austrians as they fought their enemy in the bitter battles that raged over the farmlands where Ante was born. The women were left as almost the only able-bodied workers to till the fields, but their best efforts could barely keep the spectre of starvation at bay. The peasants were forced to eat green grass and leaves as the fighting rendered agricultural production impossible, but even this slender source of nutriment gradually disappeared under the effects of the poison gas being used by the warring sides. Morality was outweighed by hunger as the people stole from each other what little caches of wheat and other food they could find. In 1917 word came through an American ship had offloaded a cargo of potatoes at a distant port. The pain and weakness of near-starvation were alleviated by a glimmer of hope as Ante set out on the 75 kilometre trek through the snow to the port to collect the 5 kg ration of potatoes for the family. The weakened 14-year-old battled on, collected the ration and started grimly to walk the freezing 75 kilometres back home. He was waylaid repeatedly by desperately hungry parties and finally staggered into his home with only two potatoes

left.

The year 1917 also saw the start of further decimation of the area's remaining population with the outbreak of the epidemic of Spanish Influenza that was to spread world-wide.

Suffered in World War I Death claimed 1000 of the women who had worked so

valiantly in the fields, including all three who had lived in a neighbouring house. At the end of the war the new country of Yugoslavia was formed and it called Ante up for two years compulsory service in its army, most of which he served as a medical orderly in military hospitals In 1927 he came to WA to

join his brother van, who had

migrated to Australia in 1910, on a market garden at Balcatta 'The fertile land near swamps," he recalls, "was worked by Chinese. Only the poor sandy soil was left for other market gardeners. 'The swamp land cost $200 an acre but the sand country was much cheaper. "Blocks where the Karrinyup shopping centre is now located, for instance, were selling for 25 cents an acre. "van could afford to buy only the poor land at Balcatta in a place that now forms part of Gwelup." Without a word of English, Ante set to work as his brother's helper on the Balcatta property. It seemed he had swapped hardship in Yugoslavia for conditions that were little better in Australia. They carried their produce by horse and cart into the markets, first in James Street and later at the present Wellington Street location,

but often nobody wanted to buy it.

Some they left for pig feed

and the rest they took for their Cow.

Poor financial returns and the need for Ivan to provide for his growing family (he ultimately had 11 children) compelled Ante to leave the market garden. He managed to get employment clearing bush for farms. The contractor took Ante and fellow workers to the

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They never saw him or the wages he had promised again. His next job was as a labourer on the railways where he was mainly engaged in boiling the billy and carting tools for the fettlers Ante did not have sufficient English to explain his nationality to the foreman, who mistook him for a

Frenchman and entered his name as Joe French on the nominal role. "As it turned out it didn't matter much," Ante says, "but if I'd had an accident and had to claim worker's compensation there could have been complications over the false name." At least he got paid, but the money was so little that he moonlighted on bush clearing during weekends - for

which he also got paid this

time.

It was back to the market

garden for a time, but economic stringency compelled him to take other work while still living there. He was employed in a limestone quarry in what is now Wembley Downs and he walked a total of 14 miles daily to and from work, except on rare occasions when he could get a ride home on a

truck.

In addition, to get overtime payment, he worked the full weekend in the bush cutting

clown trees. This period of travail came to

an end in 1935 when Ivan was able to install the irrigation that improved enormously the viability of the market garden, and Ante rejoined him in the business. Ante installed the electric water pump on the property now containing St Theresa's church at Gwelup and helped in the building of the church under the first parish priest, Father John Molony. Father Molony later became a monsignor as did another priest of the Osborne Park

area of whom Ante also has warm memories, Father

Albert Langmead. "We who did not have much English and were confused by bureaucratic requirements," he says, "would go to Father Langmead for assistance in filling in forms. "He would help us patiently and- more often than not in those tough times - shp a pound of butter or some groceries into our hands before we left. "Father Depiazzi was another priest of the area for whom we had a high regard." Ante suffered a crippling leg injury when he fell while carrying a chaff bag full of vegetables and could work at the market garden only with the aid of a walking stick until he left the property in 1958. The injury forced him on to crutches in 1969 and has been the cause of long treatment and a number of pen-

ods of hospitalisation. Ante and wife Rosie moved to a new home and a new parish, Balcatta, in 1974.

Richard has nosed his way along 100m deep gorges whose sides barely allowed the rotar blades to turn -experienced sounds only those in the outback can - seen species of life possibly most of us never shall. But you won't get any of those details from Richard, because his only response to my question "What dramatic or exciting situations have you encountered in your travels?" was "Well nothing really." 'We got stuck in Lake Eyre once with our "plane". Well imagine that, I said, so what really happened? "Nothing", he replied. 'We just got stuck." Sum total of Richard's anecdotes I was going to get Richard Woldendorp's newly up-dated book Australia's West has just come out on to the market in its new form. He has put out six books full of photographs which demonstrate his great skill as a landscape and aerial photographer. This book is no exception It has more than 300 , colour photographs of Western Australia and Richard is aiming it towards the America's Cup market. The photographs are exciting, evocative and portray the majesty of this remarkable land we live in and is sprinkled with the people who live in it. Richard, who won Australian Photographer of the year 1982/83 emigrated out here from Holland in 1951. He is married with three children and lives in the beauty of Darlington. During Richard's first year in Australia he did "all sorts of things," started a painting contracting business and saw a lot of the bush, spending some time in it. "I was fascinated with the immense spaces in Australia and the landscape," he said. "In those days not a lot had been done on depicting it. so I started to photograph the landscape as well as the people in it," said Richard. He found photography

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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.

Richard Woldendorp's newly up-dated book Australia's West has just come out on to the market in its new form. He has put out six books full of photographs which demonstrate his great skill as a landscape and aerial photographer.

Questions they ask! (pa%her 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. .

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was a tremendous outlet for his particular talents and frame of mind "so I started doing it professionally about 26 years ago," he said. He did commercial art in Holland which proved helpful. I was interested in how Richard got all these photographs from such far flung places and how his whole artistic scene was put together to produce such commercially viable products as his books are. "If you travel through the State you accumulate photographs and look for character in certain areas you visit. There are certain things which are more prominent than other things and so you try to find a typical characteristic," said Richard. "You notice areas which have something unique about them. With this book I travelled through the state and tried to get some of the areas which are geographically and climatically different and which produce ditferent things. The Kimber.'ey is different to the Pilbara and

from other areas for instance. Each area has different geographical happenings and is quite distinct from another. I think this affects the people too," he said. The habitats are different too, said Richard, and "a cattle station up North is quite different to one down South. What I've tried to do in this book is to give a glimpse of the State as a whole, showing what the state has to offer and offering the different landscapes and its people," said Richard. "For this purpose I have deliberately marked the state in sections such as Perth, Gascoyne, Kimberley, Pilbara and so

on." He uses the same type of

cameras as anybody else. "It is never the equipment to get the effect," said Richard. "some of rt is artistic, but it is the result of observation and patience. Being a photographer you are supposed to have an idea of composition. You start to think about how people are, situations taken. And your experience guides

often do more than one assignment while on a trip." Richard often works in the heat and is prepared to work under any conditions to photograph. He prefers to camp out on material gathering expeditions "because you can get up very early to capture some beautiful scenes," Richard said. The isolation also gives you an affinity for the place, he said. "] like to be an Artist in said photography," Richard, "but rarely succeed in the perfection I seek." And the fact he now has seven books on the market doesn't overly impress Richard. "It is not important to publish a book it is only important to make a good statement about your work," he said. Richard's work will be on exhibition in the WA Art Gallery from the first week in December through until early January. From there, it is going on tour in the United States, in California initially as from March, 1987, at the invitation of the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara.

you to interest in acertain area," he said. "In journeys through the country it is still possible to see new areas with which you have a particular affinity, that you have not felt before. "It is a big land and I think basically fairly underexposed publicity-wise," he said. Up till now (because of the America's Cup) information and publicity on the West has been sparse," Richard sai.. With his freelance work, he goes overseas sometimes but generally photographs in Australia and more specifically within Western Australia. "T used to spend a third of et8 my time travelling but " I'm more deliberate with my travel these days," said Richard. "I only spend a quarter of my time now, and

The Society for the promotion of the brotherhood of man and free speech was holding its monthly meetingPRESIDENT: I take it we're agreed about why we're here. VISITOR: I disagree with your aims! MEMBER: Throw him out! I think nations are entirely different; I

mean Greeks are good at fish shops, Chinese are good at restaurants, Italians are good at fruit shops; Russians are good at ballet, and Germans are good at engineering; the British are good at community singing and the Australians used to be good at cricket! Rationalism endeavours to establish the absolute diversity of human races by the comparative study of the profound dissimilarities that mark their most important branches. These dissimilarities cannot be denied. The Malay, the Mongol, the Negro, have characteristic features which do not permit us to confound them either among themselves or with the European.

The whole question is whether the difference is substantial or only an accident. The father or mother communicate to their children the features and expression which themselves they received from their authors. If this hereditary vestige promptly disappears in families of little distinction it acquires an obstinate persistence in the more strongly marked races. The Frenchman, the Englishman, the German, the Italian, the Spaniard, who touch each other on a soil limited in extent and are invigorated by the same sun, who have been mingled by an uninterrupted communion of from 12 to 14 centuries, have a type of face personal to each by which they are instantly recognised. If it be so among nations subject to the influence of common elements, what must it be of those separated by distance, light, heat, food, customs?

how many Negros are in the South African cricket team? I mean, the West Indies are only good cricketers because they were once ruled by England!

How should the dissimilarity between the Negro and the White man manifest anything but the diversity of their religious, political and natural history? That which makes man is an intelligent soul united to a body endowed with certain proportions. Now has not the Negro the same soul as the White man and has he not the same body. Who will say the soul of the Negro is not human, and that his body is not human? If he be a man, why should he not have had the same father as yourselves! Let us, Christians, hail in them our past and our future unity, the unity which they had in Adam and that which we wait for in God. Let us stretch Yes, but I have out our hands to the heard It said that Malay and the Monto the Negro, the gol; some races are poor and the leper. All more intelligent together, in one than others. I immense and sincere mean, you don't act of brotherhood, see any Aborigines let us draw near to on Sale of the CenGod, our first Father. tury do you? And

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BIANCHINI: (Marcello) Passed peacefully away at St. Vincent's Hospital Guildford, 6th October, 1986. Aged 97 years. Loving husband of Rosa (dec'd) much loved father and father-in-law of Sr. Dorina, John and Lena, Marcellino (dee) Mary and Harry, James and Joan, Benedict and Mary, Eugene and Mary, Fr. Justin, Anne and Kym. Grandfather of 11. Reunited with Rosa. For your faithful people life is changed not ended. The funeral took place at the Catholic Cemetery Karrakatta on Thursday 9th October after concelebrated Requiem Mass in St Mary's Cathedral, Perth. Bowra & O'Dea Funeral Director 328 7299. TREASURE (Ronald Edward) at Bunbury Regional September 27 loved son of Vicky. Dear Jesus fold your arms around him, Tend him with loving care; Make up for all he suffered, and all that seemed unfair. Rest in peacefully heaven. God Bless. May perpectual light shine on him. From: Your loving Mother.

Marcello Bianchini

Marcello Bianchini who died this week aged 97 made his mark in many ways on the Catholic Church in Wester Australia. Originally from Camp Tartano in Sondrio Italy he first came out in 1913 to try his hand alongside his future father-in-law then cutting wood at Kalgoorlie. Like many a migrant of those days he returned to Italy in 1919 to marry but by 1925 he was back again paving the way to bring out his wife Rosa and their three children in 1930. They settled first at Mogumber and then at New Norcia where he was involved extensively in building tasks associated with the monastery particularly the new hostel, now the hotel, built for visiting relatives of the boarders in the two colleges. He was responsible also for the stone work in the Goomalling school. In 1937 he went to Kalumburu to start some of the stone buildings

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In 1948 the family moved to Perth where he was joined in the building trade by his four sons until he retired in 1959 at the age of 70. In 1977 the couple moved to St Vincent's Hospital where Rosa died the

following year. Over the years he was a

Benedictine Oblate, a Knight of the Southern Cross and a member of the Holy Name Society. He is survived by eight of his nine children including a sister of St Joseph and the diocesan director of vocations and two acolytes.

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Beth Corish

Mrs Beth Corish who died after a short illness in Fremantle Hospital last week had given over 30 years tireless service to the Christian Brothers. At C.B.C. Fremantle, where her two sons, Harvey and Ric, and her late husband Ray, were educated, Beth worked on many commmees. Her ability to sew made possible the many costumes which enhanced concerts held in the Fremantle Town Hall She was a member of a dedicated sewing circle which helped at Castledare Boys' Home. For six years, 1966-1971, she cared for all at Clontarf Boys' Town as matron, often doing the cooking and cleaning herself. At various times she was housekeeper at Keaney College, Tuppin House at Guilderton, St Edmund's at Collie and the Brothers' Provincialate at Manning A booklet prepared by the Christian Brothers for her funeral included the follow-

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"We pay tribute to a very fine lady, known to us all for her gentleness, kindness and generosity." May she rest in peace

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OhHoly St Jude Apostle and Martyr great in virtue and rich in miracles, near kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patron in time of need. To you I have cause from the depths of my heart and humbly beg you to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance. Help me now in my present and urgent need and grant my earnest petition, in return I promise to make your name known and cause you to be invoked. 3 Our Fathers, 3 Hail Marys, 3 Glorias. St Jude pray for all who honour and invoke your aid. Publication must be promised. This Novena never fails. Wendy. Sacred Heart of Jesus. Our Blessed Mother, St Jude, and St Anthony for favours received. Please continue your protection. Jessie.

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allowed for "extraordinary" (or "special") Ministers of the Eucharist. female or male, to be introduced when and where necessary throughout the Church. The above and more accurate time sequence (The Record, October 2) better reflects the Church's growing understanding of the possibilities of the renewed lay ministries The wise and far-sighted introduction of the acolytate in Perth in 1974 as a ministry serving the altar (its primary service) and providing for assistance with the distribution of Holy Communion when necessary (its other function) will shortly be complemented by the introduction of Special Ministers of the Eucharist It would seem that our Archdiocese is among the few which offers access to the broader possibilities for lay liturgical and eucharistic ministry provided by the Church

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May The Sacred Heart of Jesus be loved, glorified. adored and renowned throughout the world forever Amen. Repeat 6 times daily for 9 days. Ask Our Lady, St. Joseph and St Rita to intercede. Grateful thanks. Pat.

From Father B. OLOUGHLIN, Cottesloe Sir, Colleen Howard's article on her visit to the Police Child Abuse Unit (The Record, Sept 25) was all too shockingly graphic and all the more sordid, whatever the extent of the problem. The facts stated need to be better known and the care available more sought out. I hope Catholic Schools, espe cially teachers who are readily placed to note changes in

O Holy St Jude, apostle and martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near kinsman of Jesus Christ faithful intercessor of all who invoke you as special patron in time of need. to you I have recourse from the depths of my heart and humbly beg you to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance. Help me now in my present and urgent need and grant my earnest petition. In return I promise to make your name known and cause you to be invoked. Say three Our Fathers, Hail Marys and Glorias. St Jude pray for all who honour and invoke your aid. This novena has never been known to fail. Joan.

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the abused child, will be acquainted with this and other agencies. Family members and others may be aware of abuses being perpetrated. They should be less willing to protect sordid behaviour through a conspiracy of silence than to see the young despoiled In our day the Church is the undisputed champion of the dignity of the human person from the womb to the tomb. Such teaching is reinforced by the body as the Temple of the Holy Spirrt and Jesus warmng on giving scandal to little ones. How much more does this apply to despoiling the innocent and exploiting the trustfull

Emotive judgement offends from Berny BRADY,

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Sir, I was rather perturbed to read Colleen Howard's report on child abuse, and the child care unit. (The Record, September 25) I recognise that the problem of child abuse evokes strong feelings in the community, and can sympathise with Mrs Howard's anger and concern. However, I believe that to write about the problem in such a motive and judgemental manner is irresponsible journalism, achieving nothing in terms of informing the community of the causes and consequences of child

abuse As Christians, we are called

to treat all people with compassion and dignity, even those who offend our sense of what is right or wrong There are many child abusers and potential child abusers in our community (including our Church community). I believe they need our understanding and care in coming to grips with the problem. Comments such as those made by Mrs Howard only serve to increase their guilt, anxiety and alienation from church and community. I would expect a Catholic Christian newspaper to present a more enlightened and compassionate approach to the problem.

My grateful and heartfelt thanks to our Most Holy

Spirit, to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Our Lady Help of Christians. St Anne loving mother, St Joseph, St Anthony, St Jude. St Vincent de Paul. St John Bosco. St Bernard and St Dominic. Savio for favour granted. M.T. O'Brien.

Grateful thanks to Sacred Heart of Jesus. Our Lady of Health for special favour granted. Please pray for me. P.A.J. Novena to the Sacred Heart. Most Sacred

Heart of Jesus, may your name be praised and glorified throughout the world, now and forever. Amen. (Say nine times a day for nine consecutive days and promise publication.) Thanks to the Sacred Heart for prayers answered. Liz.

Praying for peace popular

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Praying for peace is popular among teenagers. More than 350 young people attended specially scheduled Rock Masses at Joondanna and Hamersley in recent weeks. At the initiative of Peter Shooter, the Catholic Youth Council has promoted a three week discussion programme for youth groups on the topic of world peace. From the response so far it seems young people are also keen to talk about peace issues. Strife in the world comes easily to mind and is often overwhelming. Aside from the major power conflicts, civil wars and racial disharmony every individual is in constant danger at home or abroad, in private or public! Changing this situation is quite a challenge. After the talking, praying and thinking the question that begs to be answered is "What can I do for peace?". Father Pat Ahern of Hamersley took one course of action and brought instead of an exercise bike that goes nowhere a racer that moves him quietly and pollution free about the parish. lt seems world peace will be achieved only by a lot of small actions by individuals on a small scale. Actions like a young person at school decides to stand up to the class bully who picks on the weaker and quiet individual. Someone else works at emptying their hearts of the anger and hate and resentment towards a fellow human being. A young motor vehicle driver promises to make courtesy and care the hallmarks of their highway code. Yet another young person joins Amnesty International in the slow but deliberate effort to bring justice to an all but forgotten individual.

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The Australian Children's Television Action Committee (ACT AC) has called for a new symbol "V to be added to present classifications of TV shows. According to ACTAC, viewers should know how much violence is in each program. The suggested symbols are:V - containing violence. W - containing considerable violence. Vv containing extreme violence. The suggested V symbol is a reaction to recent figures published by the US Violence Register.

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77 Slim Fish Cookbook by Ariane Maddison. Published by Metbuen AustraHa $12.95. mmers have long needed a book like this, one th: combines the natural low-kilojoule assets of seafood with the techniques of the gourmet cook. The Slim Fish Cookbook is not only inspirational, it is down-to-earth and full of wonderfully practical suggestions for managing your kitchen and utilising its instruments in clever ways. An additional bonus is that it deals with fish common to Australian and New Zealand waters. Every recipe in the book is an original and has been thoroughly tested in Ariane's kitchen prior to publication. She may have borrowed the bases here and there, but the interpretations are all her own and a tribute to her ingenuity and know-how. This is not a run-of-the-mill weight watchers' cookbook. It takes the enlightened consumer along untrodden and beguiling paths towards a new weight controlling gastronomy, which, as Ariane herself points out, is still in its infancy. Although this book is not written under the patronage of Weight Watchers International, and does not purport to adhere strictly to all the tenets of that organisation, followers of their program will find that the majority of the recipes given can be enjoyed with no sense of guilt.

one's vocabulary, to track down a term that has been temporarily forgotten, or just for fun -- its main use is to enable you to find just the right word for your purpose - a word that is more precise, or more vivid, or simpler, or more formal (or informal) than any you can call to mind unaided. This being so, the best thesaurus is the one that enables you to find the most appropriate word quickly and easily on the largest possible number of occasions. The Colins Paperback Thesaurus achieves this by arranging its material, like a dictionary, in a single alphabetical listing of main entry words. A thesaurus in dictionary form has a big advantage: you go straight to the word that is your starting point and there are the synonyms. This thesaurus, however, has another distinct advanage: no synonym is entered unless it is fully substitutable for the headword in a sensible English sentence.

Tbe Collins Paperback Thesaurus in A to Z form. Published by Wm. Colins.

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"The Collins Paperback Thesaurus is a slightly abridged edition of the successful New Colins Thesaurus. It gives a practical and accessible help to the writer or speaker who wants, to find a better word to replace one that is not quite right. Though a thesaurus can be used for a variety of purposes -to increase

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events and message of the Gospel, here is a belief that we can share and a book that is truly as wide ranging as the wind itself."

psalmody and the hearing of the word of God. It contains: • the complete four Week Psalter for Prayer during the Oay. • sufficient material from the Proper of Seasons to allow for seasonal variation: a week of proper material for each of the Seasons; and for Christmas Day, "Palm Sunday,' Good Friday and Easter Sunday • for the feasts of the Lord and Solemnities during the Seasonal Cycle or in Ordinary Time. and for Solemnities from the General Calendar of Saints, the whole Prayer is given • the Office for the Dead"

A Shorter Prayer Durig n the Day. The Psalter of The Divien Office. Published by Collins 'This book contains a selection of material from Prayer During the Day from The Divine Office. It may serve as a convenient pocket companion for travellers who would normally use either Daily Prayer or The Divine Office in its complete form. It may also be used when groups of Christians lay and clerical, and perhaps from various denominations meet during the day: for example as prayer before meetings. or for a period of recollection and meditation based on

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Like Wind on the Grasses by Rita Snowden. Pubisbed by Fount. $5.95. "In this, one of the deepest and most searching of all Rita Snowden's well loved books, the wind has become her inspiration -the cool breeze that refreshes us and shakes the leaves, the more turbulent gusts that bend the trees. Touching on her own memories, on the joys and sorrows around us and returning always to the

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Promise of Rain, by Gail Morgan. Published by Virago Press. Distributed tbrough the Australasian Publishing Company. $8.95. "At the age of seven Lucy Stapleton takes life in the Sydney suburbs as it comes - because she must, and because she knows the future promises more. For now. her world is centred on school, the dusty Five Dock convent at which nuns and pupils dream of sanctity and play with tyranny and acceptance, and on home, where her parents' slow war of attrition helps shape dreams of a different kind. At twenty-two, Lucy still has dreams but she is free to follow where they lead. She travels to the very heart of the country, to a teaching job at Alice Springs, the place where two Australias meet. It is here that she meets Titus, painter, pupil, healer and half-aborigine, and a man whose race and history, and love, force a tragic confrontation with their shared cultural heritage and with each other. A rich blend of reminiscence and discovery, disillusionment and hope, this wonderfully perceptive first novel moves from childhood to adulthood, city to outback, to evoke the forces which both enrich and impair the life of a young woman growing up in postwar Australia."

Outback Women by Melissa McCord. Publisbed by Doubleday Austraia $19.95. On Australia Day 1983 Melissa McCord, age 21, set out on a journey that would take her 75,000 kilometres around Australia to some of the most remote areas of our country, photographing and spending time with some of the women who live in our Australian outback. The idea was initiated by her companion, artist, Jonathan Throsby who has travelled and worked in outback areas and was ready to leave Sydney to recap through sketching outback mining areas. Melissa saw this as a perfect opportunity to also leave the city behind and to begin her journey which, she herself, had no idea would lead to publishing a book which tells of the lives of those she encountered. During the journey that took two years, Melissa kept a diary recording the landscape, the people and the stories behind those sixty women who have been chosen for the book. I am sure you will agree it is a rather unique person who travels through this countryside. The text really began when Jonathan Throsby had to return to Sydney to prepare for his exhibition. For someone who had spent little time alone it was the beginning of her solo trek with the country and its people. Twice Melissa had to delay her journey due to lack of funds. Bar-maiding, helping crutch sheep and jillarooing were just a few of the ways in which she gathered enough money to move on to the next interview. Over 100 photographs have been selected to portray these women -a way of life within our Australian culture. Their immense qualities are a celebration of unaffected womanhood. Their honesty, warmth and humour kept Melissa's spirits going against all odds -the odds of hours spent driving from station to station without a breakdown, through bulldust, over shocking corrugated or sodden roads and tracks. She would eventually drive dishevelled and drawn to record another special person's way of life. Quite often, these women would comment that it was not right for a young girl to galavant around the countryside in a motorcar, and yet, Melissa found this to be quite an amazing assumption, for more often than not. they themselves were alone by choice or fate with little or no communication and primitive housing. Melissa was looking for a cross-section of characters women who had been given opportunities, women who had created their own, women who had had good times and bad. She was looking for women with stories to tell, who had feelings and views about their lives. Melissa originally started writing to the Shire Councils, School of the Air, Flying Doctor and aboriginal organisations to ask their

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help in finding more women. They were very obliging, but eventually it was word-of-mouth that was the best method. Outback Women isMelissa's story, however, it is also the story of proud, honest, hardworking Australian women who have fought against the odds and survived and who are telling us their story through Melissa in Outback Women." Happy Families by Jean Watson. Published by Hodder & Stoughton.

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"What is a good Christian upbringing? How can you build confidence in children? What about teenage rebellion? Jean Watson has searched the Bible and asked the opinions of over thirty other families to discover how to bring up children God's way. Drawing on her own Christian and family experience, she offers timely and welcome advice for parents everywhere to put into practice.

Jean Watson is editor of Through the Year with David Watson, and has writ ten for BBC's Play School." Ive Got to Talk to Somebody, God. A woman's conversations with God By Marjorir Holmes. Published by Hodder & Stoughton. $4.95. • 'The ability to talk thing

over with God,' writes the author, 'has cleared up co fusion and led to a joyful ne awareness, self-identific tion and communion for me. My hope is that it will lead you to a renewed discover of the tremendous release and comfort there is to be found in a living, loving always listening God.' 'Here are apron pocked prayers reminiscent of Brother Lawrence's medit tions in his monastery kitchen. Ive Got to Talk to Somebody, God reveals an honest bearing of a woman s heart, simplicity of language. and immense reality,' Catherine Marshall.

WAH} ID THE LE0PAR S7? EATING 10\LIES?

Tunes for a small Harmonica by Barbara Wersba. Publisbed by Pan Horizons. "J.F. (Jacqueline Francis) McAllister is a rebel always

on the lookout for a cause. She's usually in a bad mood, refuses to study, and from the age of twelve she's dressed like a boy. All of which drives her mother round the bend. Not even Dr Waingloss, her increasingly bewildered psychoanalyst, understands J.F. The only person who does is Marylou, who gives her a harmonica to stop her chainsmoking. It works and she plays well. But J.F. still feels her life lacks purpose. Then one day she falls madly in love with her poetry teacher. He doesn't know it, and she has a lot to learn about seduction. But from now on she's going to devote all her energy to it. And J.f. has plenty of energy. Poor Harold Murth. .."

Santa's Special

TUNES FOR A SMALL HARMONICA

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The Night Before Christmas. A Michael Hague Pop-up Book by Clement C. Moore. Publisbed by

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Wm. Colins. $10.95.

Clement C. Moore wrote The Night Before Christmas in 1822 for his own six children

It was published the following year and soon became a Christmas classic. In this new pop-up edition, illustrator Michael Hague combines old world charm with colourful appeal to excite a whole new generation with the magic of dimension and movement.

THE EI'ES OF KAREN CONNORS l 0

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This is the power that her mother pretends Karen doesn't have. But she does She can find missing children and there are those who want to stop her using that power. People who are prepared to kill if they have to..." Avocado Baby by Job

Tbe Eyes of Karen Connors by Lois Duncan. Published by Pan Horiz-

ons.

"It began the day that Young Bobby disappeared. Karen was babysitting and

suddenly he was gone. When they found him, everthing was alright. ..except that Karen had known where he was before he was found.

Something like it had happened before, when she was very young. Now it was happening again. For no logical reason, she just suddenly knows things. And Ron, the good-looking Young policeman, wants her help to find another missing child

Burningham. Publisbed by Fontana Picture Lions. $4.95. Colourfully written and illustrated about a baby who got stronger and stronger and stronger. The secret?

Homecoming Cynthia V

Search Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt. Published by Fontana Lions. $5.95.

"Dicey made her announcement to James, Sammy and Maybeth: "We've going to have to walk all the way to Bridgeport." But they had no money and the whole world was arranged for peopie who had money or rather for adults who had money. The world was arranged against kids. Well, she could handle it. She'd have to. Somehow. Four children, inexplicably abandoned by their mother in a car park, need a home. So they decide to make their way across America in search of an aunt they have never met. 'The plot has pace and is exciting but the real fascination lies in the characters of the children. . A powerful book.' "

Breaking Up by Frank Willmott. Publisbed by Wm. Colins. $3.50. "Alec my dad looked straight at me: "No one has the right to own someone else. When you want to own someone, it's because you don't want to see them change. You enjoy them as they are. But human beings like to go through changes - to discover new feelings and experience new things - and people. No one has the right to try and stop them because they reckon they own them. They haven't got a friend any more -they've got a prisoner." Mark Wheeler never looked at relationships like that, but now he begins to notice signs of change all around him in the close comfort of his home and family. In his diary he tracks the year when the order of the Wheeler family life alters."

I say a bird up in the sky, Who dropped a message from on high, As I wiped it from my eye, I thanked the Lord that cows don't fly. What is one of the saddest birds in the world? A bluebird. Peter: "Our hen can lay an

egg that is ten centimetres long. Can you beat that?" Louise: "Yes, with an egg

beater."

reayang •

Wbat sings, bas four legs, is yellow and weighs 1000 kilos? Two 500 kilo canaries. Why does the sea roar? Wouldn't you if you had a crab on your bottom?

What lies on tbe bottom of the ocean and shivers? A nervous wreck. Wbat swims in the sea and kills fitsb? Jack the kipper

Which fitsb go to heaven wben they die? Angel fish. What lives under tbe sea and goes dot, dot, dot? A morse cod.

Wbat's tbe name of sbark with no teeth? Gums. Why did Cinderella get kicked out of tbe football team?

Because she ran away from

the ball. How do you start a teddy

bear race?

Ready, teddy, go!

Knock, Knock, Who's there?

Toby.

Toby who? Toby or not to be? That is the question.

Wbat is the difference between a prize fighter

and a man witb a cold? One blows his nose and the other knows his blows

Knock, Knock, Who's there?

Evan.

Evan who?

Evan's above.

Happy birthday to: Michelle Rose, Kallaroo; Travis Wohlsein, Bullcreek; Emma Read, Merredin; Gerard Guy, Balcatta; Wendy Barnes, Yelbeni; Colin Fergusson, lesmurdie; Shane Kelly, Moora; Jacinta Vinci, Wanneroo; Marie Stokes, Pinjarra; Judith-Ann Winders, Beldon; Clarke McNamara, Nedlands; Christine Jalleh, Collie; Karen Kelly, Kalamunda; Paul Miguel., Hope Valley;: Shannon Migro, Samson; Mary Fairley, Geraldton; Robert Clancy. Bayswater, Felicity Bonadeo, Manjimup; Gregory Bond, Sorrento; Damian Creedon, East Fremantle

The Record, October 9, 1986

MANDORLA WORKSHOP

Greyhounds with The Record Tipster

Father Reg Smith's workshop on the Gospel Dynamics has been brought forward to Saturday, October 18 (instead of Saturday October 25 as previously advertised. 9am-5pm. 10 Sholl Avenue, North Bech. Phone Frank. 444 3631.

Docs,

MAJELLAN MASS

CHANCE ...

RACE ONE: Echo Star 1, Benny Glider 2, Rocky

One 3.

RACE TWO: Fiery Ruth 1, Nitro Blast 2, Lazy

River 3. RACE THREE: Bernev 1,

Duchess 1, Blue Chisel 2, Cheyenne Ash 3. RACE SEVEN: Diamond

1, Quick Cygnet Applause 2, Mighty Band

RACE EIGHT: Endless Gamble 1, La Imiget 2,

The annual Majellan Mass coinciding with the feast of St. Gerard Majella will be celebrated in the Redemptorist church, North Perth at 8 pm 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 Majellans are welcome. Further information from Doreen Gibson 279 4078.

JOHN PAUL AT HERNE HILL

Express 1, Steel Monarch 2, Ducati 3. RACE TEN: Harlem Shuttle 1, Fable Rose 2,

Gail and Kieran Ryan of Herne Hill are undeterred that their eighth child, destined to be named John Paul has turned out to be a girt. The family voted that she be baptised Jonnene Paula during Mass celebrated in St Michael's church Heme Hill by Father Bob Cardin OFM.

THE MANOORLA CENTRE OF INNER PEACE Workshop on the Gospel Dynamics using Yoga, Meditation, Reflexology and Music, directed by Father Reg Smith will now be on Saturday October 18th, 9am-5pm at 10 Sholl

A multicultural peace concert including songs from China, Mexico, Vietnam, Egypt, Germany and Australia (both White and Aboriginal), sung by Mutticultural Children's Singing Group, Francis Fong, Josie Boyle, Rita Menendez, Tam Thai (recently arrived from Vietnam), Fahmi Galal, Leonard Regnier, Peta Lithgo and peace advocate Brenda Conochie, will be presented on Saturday, October 18 at 7.30 pm in the North Perth Town Hall, $6 adutt/$4 concession from The Ethnic Music Centre 328 7898.

River Echo 2, Lika Dean

RACE FOUR: Silver Tail Lad 1, Correct Weight 2,

Brendan Glider 3. RACE FIVE: Bowetzel's

Time 1, Take Control 2, Binaka 3. RACF SIX.

Go Prince 3.

RACE NINE: Byron's

« Sierra

Lassie's Girl 3.

PEACE CONCERT

Avenue North Beach. Phone Frank 444 3631

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parish Bishop Quinn called on Dr Tony

=semi several of his sons who farm in the district, living off what he grows in his own garden. He is an active acolyte in the pan1sh,

SVDPAPPEAL

The Society of St Vincent de Paul is holding the annual street appeal for Camillus House for Homeless Men, on Friday, October 17, from 7 am to 6 pm. There is an urgent need of collectors in Perth or Fremantle. If you can help, please ring 325 3474 or go to the Perth Town Hall or Stella Maris Seafarers Centre in Fremantle on the day.

COMMUNION & CONFIRMATION DRESSES & SUITS

HOLY HOUR

Recycled and new Excellent quality - affordable prices Shopping by appointment only Ring Terry on 279 3475 after 4pm 7 days per week.

The World Apostolate of Fatima will

hold a holy hour at St Patrick's Church, Fremantle, on Sunday, October 12, commencing at 3.30 pm.

PAUUAN DANCE

A dance for Paulian Solo Parents and their friends will be held on Saturday,

October 18 at Royal Park Bowling Club, corner Charles and Vincent Streets, North Perth from 7 pm to midnight. Music by

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available on display.

With every $45 purchase of these exclusive products you will receive a complimentary voucher and a chance to wi a n bottle of "superior" COYSE SALOME French perfume. BANKCARD/VISA FACILITIES AVAILABLE.

the Stack band. Bring nibbles for the table. Tea and coffee provided. Bar facilities available. Tickets at $5.00 obtainable from the Paulian Association, PO Box 147, North Perth 6006. Some tickets on sale at the door.

CATHOLIC POLICE GUILD

The Catholic Police Guild Mass will be held at the Police Academy, Maylands at 5 pm on Sunday, October 26th. Enquiries phone 341 1495.

Back Row (L-} Luke Matthews, David Robbins, Peter Newhouse, lan Wishart Chesare Morgani, Jason Belci, Jarret Hall, Matthew Dalby. Front Row: Mr Aemon Heary, Ben Cooper, Phillip Byrne, Travis Wohlsein, Jude Celedin, Simon Katich, Damien Walsh.

TRINITY VICTORY

October 14 19 28

Centecare Seminar, Bunbury Confirmation, Harvey. Bunbury clergy golf tournament and Dinner, Busselton

Trinity College Junior School 1st XI completed the Saturday Moring Schoolboys competition undefeated in scoring 200 goals and conceding only 2. The season culminated with a 7-1 Grand Final victory. Mr Eamon Heary, coach of the Trinity team, is confident that hockey will continue to grow in popularity in schools. "Boys and girls are not restricted physically to participate at the highest grade and it is a sport which children can play at a very high skills level."

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October

Confirmation Moora, Archbishop Foley Confirmation Kelmscott, Bishop Healy 14 Majellan annual Mass, Redemptorist Monastery, Monsignor Keating 15 Confirmation Newman College, Archbishop Foley Confirmation Hilton, Bishop Healy 15/17 Confirmation Nedlands, Monsig-

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nor Keating

Melbourne Cup Luncheon

A luncheon for the Little Sisters of the

Poor will be held at the Holy Spirit Parish

Mr and Mrs Roberto Cecchele after their wedding at St Kieran's Church, Osborne Park during Mass celebrated by Father Danile Foley. The groom i sthe second chid l of Giovanni and Antonietta Cecchele of Morley and the bride, Margaret Campeotto, i sthe eldest child of Ado and Gisella Campeotto of Tuart Hil.l The couple will live in Noranda

The Record, October 9, 1986

Centre comer of Brompton and Keaney Roads, City Beach, at 11 am on Tuesday,

November 4th. Both ladies and gentlemen are welcome. Tickets $10, available at Glendalough 443 3155 or 341 1495.