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The purposes of further co-operation between denominations taking part in the ecumencial movement would have to be made clearer if reconciliation is to result from the unity that already exists. This was one of the points outlined by Archbishop Foley last Saturday to the Diocesan Pastoral Council which studied a draft constitution put forward by the Diocesan ecumenism committee. He told the councillors that there was a difference between having broad Christian beliefs as a basis for wider co-operation and a clearer definition of purposes. Archbishop Foley traced developments since Archbishop Goody and his Anglican counterpart the late Archbishop Sambell had co-operated in an unstructured association in which the heads of churches had been happy to work together.

Holy Family model My visit to you here in Western Australia thus coincides with the preparation for Christmas, which is a special day for families in Australia and in many other parts of the world. The family in God's plan for humanity and for the Church is the theme of this eucharistic celebration. The Son of God, in becoming man, began that special family which the Church venerates as the Holy Family of Nazareth: Jesus, Mary and Joseph. The family is the domestic Church. The meaning of this traditional Christian idea is

that the home is the Church in miniature. The Church is the sacrament of God's love. She is a communion of faith and life. She is a mother and teacher. She is at the service of the whole human family as it goes forward towards its ultimate destiny. In the same way, the family is a community of life and love. It educates and leads its members to their full human maturity and it serves the good of all along the road of life. Pope John Paul Il Belmont Park November 30, 1986

The draft document outlined nine areas in which wider participation by denominational groups has been hindered. Among these are: • respect for each Church's independence when comment is made on contentious issues; • the composition of a proposed secretariat; • the provision of an ecumenical affairs committee for each member denomination; • definition of the terms of membership; • funding. Last Saturday's meeting was the last for the present council and 12 new members are to be appointed before an orientation day is held for the new council in February. A special tribute was paid to the retiring chairman, Mr Frank Campbell and the secretary Mrs Jane Murphy. The final meeting of the present council spent an afternoon on lengthy review of its goals and methods in line with the enquiry being conducted throughout the archdiocese. The council examined the discussions that had been held over the past ten years and the value of the advice tendered by the council to the archoishop. One area of concern was communication with parishes through the Catholic Press and newsletters.

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"No one has a simple and easy solution to all the problems connected with human work. But I offer for your consideration two basic principles," Pope John Paul said on his tour of Transfield's plant in Sydney. "First, it is always the human person who is the purpose of work. "It must be said over and over again that work is for man, not man for work. "Man is indeed "the true purpose of the whole process of production" (l.aborem Exercens, 7.) "Every consideration of the value of work must begin with man, and every solution proposed to the problems of the social order must recognise the primacy of the human person over things. "Secondly, the task of finding solutions cannot be entrusted to any single group in society: people cannot look solely to governments as if they alone can find solutions; nor to big business, nor to small enterprises, nor to union officials, nor to individiuals in the work force. "All individuals and all groups must be concerned with both the problems and their solutions," he said.

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"Economic problems cannot be separated from the ethical and social aspects of life in society," the pope said "On the national and local level industrial relations also require a spirit of under-

standing and cooperation rather than one of opposition and conflict. "In all disputes, a just and peaceful solution will only be possible if all parties are, and remain, ready to talk. "Always keep open the lines of communication, and remember that if disputes are not solved quickly, it is above all the weaker and needy who suffer. "Fortunately for Australia, your most cherished traditions place great value on equality and mutual support, especially in difficult times 'The word "mate" has rich and positive cannotations in your language. "I pray this tradition of solidarity will always flourish among you and will never be looked upon as oldfashioned," he said "Australia also has a long and proud tradition of setling industrial disputes and promoting cooperation by its almost unique system of arbitration and conciliation. "Over the years this system has helped to defend the rights of workers and promote their well-being, while at the same time taking into account the needs and the future of the whole comthe munity," pope concluded

Pope John Paul ll in a worker's hard hat at the Transfield works in Sydney.

The pope made a special appeal to you workers to be always honest In your work and generous in your collaboration with others. He said: "I appeal to you to be especially conscious of all those in need, to give them practical help and to offer them your solidarity. "] have been told that you have an

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"For this I congratulate you, and I thank you. "But you must be

active too in helping the needy in your own midst, who include the unemployed, many young people, Aboriginal people, the sick, the disabled, the refugees and the new settlers," he said.

New questions and problems, fears and dangers surround us because of the development and rapid use of the new technology. The technotogy is part of the accumulated wealth of the human family and a part of it belongs to you too. It is to be judged by the help it gives you in your work and lives. Always remember that the worker is always more important than both profits and machines, the pope said.

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Admiration for Aussie workers "One of my reasons for coming here is to tell you, and all the workers of Australia, how much I admire faithfulness and dedication to ordinary work," Pope John Paul told workers in West Sydney.

"Australia is a great country because working people like yourselves go about their tasks day after day with both cheerfulness and seriousness, earning their bread by the sweat of their brow, producing goods and services for their fellow-citizens, and thus gradually bringing to perfection a world that was created by a good and loving God," he said.

"No doubt many of you have reflected from time to time that Jesus Christ himself, although the Son of God, chose to be an ordinary worker for most of his earthly life, toiling away as a carpenter in Nazareth.

People need work 000 to z live People need to work, not just to earn money for the necessities of life, but also to fulfil their calling to share in the creative activity of God, the pope said. The human satisfaction

that comes from work well done shows how profoundly the Creator has inscribed the law of work in the heart of man. The goods of the world belong to the whole human family. Normally a person will need to work in order to have a necessary share of these good things. In the early Christian community, Saint Paul insisted that willingness to work was a condition for being able to eat: " a man will not work, let him not eat" (1 Thess 3:10). In special situations, society can and must assist those who are in need and cannot work. Yet even in these special circumstances, people still have a desire for personal fulfilment, and this can be achieved only through some form or other of worthwhile human activity. Thus those who are forced to retire early, as

well as those who are

young and strong but cannot find work, may experience profound discouragement and feel that they are useless. These feelings may lead some to seek consolation in alcohol, drugs and other forms of behaviour harmful to themselves and to society. We all need to feel that we are truly productive and useful members of our community. t is our right. And since the pace of technological change is likely to increase, it is

vital for us to face all the serious problems that affect the well-being of workers.

light on the whole area of human work, an important subject where there are always fresh hopes but also fresh fears and dangers," John Paul said "Among the many new elements that affect human work I wish to mention today the rapid of development technology.

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"There is an aspect of this we can admire: in technology we can see ourselves as more than ever "subduing the earth" (Gen l:28) and gaining dominion over it. "Technology itself is the work of human hands and human minds, and it

in a factory. "These were important and useful years in my life. "I am grateful for having had that opportunity to reflect deeply on the meaning and dignity of human work in its relationship to the individual, the family, the nation, and the whole social order. '7hose years allowed me to share in a specific way in God's creative activity and to experience work in the light of the Cross and Ressurection of Christ," Pope John Paul told the Transfield workers.

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"There is no shortage of lessons to be learned from the life of Jesus the Worker. "It is only right, then, that His Church should bring his message into the working world and to workers. "In the past, the Church has consistently opposed ways of thinking which would reduce workers to mere "things" that could be relegated to unemployment and redundancy if the economics of industrial development seemed to demand it.

"The students among you can consult the writings of my predecessors - going back to Leo XIII almost a hundred years who treated at ago length topics such as the rights of workers, ownership, property, working hours, just wages and workers' associations. "Perhaps you have heard that five years ago I, too, wrote an Encyclical Letter on Human

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enables us to produce other beautiful and useful things. ·This is admirable if the human person is clearly the master. "But in large factories or on extended work-sites, the number, size and complexity of the machines used can make the worker seem merely a part of the machine. just another cog in the whole process of production," he said.

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days require operators with specialised training. "But after being trained for a highly skilled job, the worker may suddenly discover that a new invention has made his machine obsolete and uneconomical. "He may be too old to be trained a second time, or perhaps the firm employing him may go out of business. The result is that whole industries can be dislo-

cated, and individuals and families reduced to poverty, suffering and despair," the pope said.

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"Despite the complexity of the problem we cannot give up. "All the resources of human inventiveness and good will must be brought to bear, in order to help solve the social problems of our day connected with work. "It is important to have clear ideas of the principles and priorities to be followed.

□□□ "In this context I wish to proclaim again my own profound conviction "that human work is a key, probably the essential key, to the whole social question, if we try to see the question really from the point of view of man's good" (Laborem Exercens, 13).

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In late November the ever-jolly author Thomas Kenneally was yet again trotted out as a knowledgeable commentator on sundry things Catholic. He is never shy about offering his views and in fact has dined out well on a book he wrote on his experiences in Manly seminary, although mercifully his contemporaries, now parish priests, don't follow up with their own memoirs. In the television documentary A Shifting Heart, Kenneally talked expansively and patronisingly about some misguided nun's attempt to quell a bit of toilet larrikanism in which Kenneally and his young companions were indulging at a Catholic primary school. Geraldine Doogue, obviously sheltered from knowing about the toilet games that little boys are wont to play even in Catholic schools, was positively agog at the revelation and pursued the drama to its final definitive ending. Given that every second is precious in a television program that was endeavouring to take a serious look at the Catholic Church, viewers could be excused for wondering what this Kenneally story - his version, at least really proved. There may be a new angle to such revelations now that no lesser person than the Governor of Western Australia, Professor Gordon Reid has revealed what happened to him when he could not get his wood work dove-tailing right. The headmaster was so angry he threw the wood joint at him, he told a group of youngsters in the hope that things were a little more humane. Now, surely, in the interest of better communication we can have a comprehensive series on other horrible things that happened to all sorts of horrible students under other horrible teachers at other horrible schools so that we can prove something or other that has got nothing to do with the Church.

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More recently, when a noise abatement order was served on a hotel because patrons were making too much noise at a strip show the publican was understandably upset and explained why. The objectionable noise was made by some 200 "mainly working class men whose natural reaction was to whistle and applaud" he said

Debate over birth rates LONDON: A heated argument erupted this week over the latest government figures on teenage births and abortions, with Mrs Victoria Gillick saying they vindicate her campaign to stop doctors prescribing the Pill to under-16s without parental consent. Her conclusions, however, are being strongly challenged by some family planning organisations.

The Appeal Court Ruling in Mrs Gillick's favour two years ago barred doctors from prescribing the Pill to under-age girls unless they had their parents' consent.

000 The ruling brought claims from the British Medical Association and family planning organisations that under 16s would be frightened from seeking contraceptive advice and this would inevitably lead to an increase in teenage pregnancies. The ruling was overturned by the House of Lords in October last

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under-age pregnancies rising sharply while the Gillick ruling was in force, they appear to have fallen.

0cu Abortions on girls aged under 16 fell to 2870 between January 1985, and September 1985 -- a fall of 187 on the same period of the previous year. But the corresponding rise in live births to under 16s, which the family planning organisations had predicted, appears not to have happened. Instead, the figures show that live births to under 16s were down by 66 to 928 between September 1985 and June 1986, the period in which babies conceived during the Gillick ruling would have been born. Cont page 16

LONDON: Help The Aged. That's the message TV cop Makepeace wants to spread. Actress Glynnis Barber was in Trafalgar Square to help launch Help The Aged's Christmas Carol Appeal. With her in the artificial snow, under the watchful eyes of a friendly lion, were (left to right) Amanda Walton, Julie Dingivan, Tom Roberts and Adam Stokes.

HONG KONG: Church groups are trying to ensure that religious freedom is maintained once the British territory reverts to Chinese sovereignty in 1997. Catholic and Christian organisations have called for a formal guarantee written into the basic laws being prepared for the first 50 years of Chinese rule.

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LON DON: THE BBC say they received "roughly 50"calls last Sunday night complaining about an explicit sex scene in the serial The Singing Detective. The episode began at 9pm, the acknowledged watershed of family viewing on television. The controversial scene featured the central character, a small boy, watching his mother having sexual intercourse with her lover. Mrs Mary Whitehouse, of the Viewers' and Listeners' Association, said that the scene was "more explicit than anything seen on TV before at this hour when many children would still be watching." "It reinforces our view that broadcasting should be brought under the Obscene Publications Act," she said. She said she had written to the Home Secretary, Douglas Hurd. A Home Office spokesman said that the matter was essentially for the BBC, but that Mr Hurd had received the letter and was "considering it".

Call to guarantee church freed om

cally opposed to the atheism of communism. It is not a sufficient guarantee if the basic law merely mentions religious freedom," stated the report of the Catholic diocesan committee on the basic law.

"AIthough, at present, Chinese religious policies are very open, an article in the Constitution might enable the Chinese government to tighten religious policies."

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The Hong Kong Church acts to ensure its future.

A later newspaper report, this time by reporter Tony Hewitt sought to introduce better communication into the story. The villains were now a"small crowd of middle aged men". It is part of the invented myth of Australia that a bunch of yobbos boozing in a pub are "Religion is diametrisupposed to typify the occupation of "workIng",Those who don't have the time to lounge [wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww ODO in pubs might use the word differently. The Chinese governThe publican really meant to say that some ment allows its people to 200 husbands, sons and brothers were drinking practise religion, but beer noisily watching some other men's wife, under its authority. It daughter or sister take off her clothes. Simple LONDON: A German-born priest, less, escaped from Germany as a does not recognise the and clear. driven into exile for helping Jews student in 1939. authority of Rome. during Hitler's persectuion, has been At the West German Embassy last The last word could have been given to the The Hong Kong Church honoured by the country of his birth. week he received the Officer's Cross women who work at home cooking, washing have called for: groups of the Order of Merit of the German and ironing so that the 200 can spend their time e a statement in the Father William Kahle, now based at Federal Republic for his "work in the working at the pub. Then the meaning of work basic law that there will Westminster Cathedral and wellservice of others" and as a "sign of would be clear. known for his work as a prison reconciliation and renewed contact" be freedom of religious chaplain and among London's homewith the country of his birth. belief under the new Cont page 16 4

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• freedom to practise what you believe; and • freedom to publicise what you believe. A clear legal provision is needed so that it can never be alleged that the exercise of religious free dom is contrary to the Chinese Constitution. However, there are fears that this might be resisted. "The holding of reli gious belief inevitably entails the rejection od atheistic belief. There fore, those professinf religious belief must be free to reject the teach ing of communism, oth erwise true religio' freedom will not exist, the committee said.

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Stella Carmody has been a resident at Glendalough for

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occasions.

Stella played for the Julian Singers on the dais for the pope's visit. Sister Martha is a Mercy Sister from Salvado Villa and was delighted with her experience. "It was terrific. "Such a thrill to see him and although it was cold, it was worth any inconvenience we may have had,"

said Sister. "I had read a lot about him beforehand and he was just like I imagined him to be. "But he must be terribly tired and would be glad to get back to Rome after such a rigorous few days, she said.

I Maria Borkowski, of the Maylands parish said: "T was so excited about seeing the pope because he is Polish, and Polish people like him very much. "We always pray for him at

Mary Andrews celebrated her 73rd birthday at Glendalough and considers herself lucky to get a ticket to see the pope. "I couldn't think of a better birthday presentl" she said. Mary is originally from Limerick, lreland and has been a Darlington resident for the past few years.

Victor Ryan is a resident at

Glendalough, as of the last 4 years. "T used to come here to do Sunday work for 25 years. I would help to feed the people and so on," he said.

Mr Ryan had a motor repair shop which he ran for 36 years and used to belong to the Leederville parish. He was thrilled about seeing the pope.

"It was absolutely wonderful," she said. "A magnificent experience and I would never have dreamed it could have happened to me. "He is such an approachable person and has such humility."

church and I am so happy coming here and being so close to our countryman. "I saw him at the Polish Hall in Bellevue when he came out here as a cardinal in 1973

have been residents at Glendalough for the last 18 months. They have been married for 54 years. Their children threw a surprise party for their golden wedding anniversary and invited all their old friends they had not seen for years. Hannah and Bill seem to be as much in love as ever. When the nurse came in offering Bill tablets for the night, he said: "I don't need them -I have a wifel" Having seen the pope, Hannah said: "It was wonderful! And I think the Sisters deserve credit the way they organised everything. They did a marvellous job." Hannah and Bill previously from the Shenton Park parish said: "The pope was everything we expected him to be. We were most impressed with him."

"I have been a musician all my life and was an organist at St Mary's Leederville for over 45 years," said Stella. "I am a trained musician, a singing and piano teacher. "To see the pope {and play there), was wonderful and something none of us expected. His personality, his messages, his sermons were so much 'on the ball' and just what we needed. "We were all very happy to meet him. It was the thrill of a lifetime. His visit has flowed over into your younger families. It must surely consolidate the faith of people," she said.

Carmen Mercado originally from the Philippines, was one of two people selected from Albany, to attend the Glendalough venue. She is 68 years old and was very excited about her exerience in seeing the pope. "It was terrific to see him," she said. "I was going up in the clouds and almost cried when I was able to shake hands with him. And then my tears coursed down. "You have faith in God and

then to see our pope was just marvellous." Kathleen Stewart (Brother Robert Stewart's mother) is 70-years-old and from the Mirrabooka parish. "I kissed his hand," she said. "It was the thrill of a lifetime. "I had been waiting in anticipation and then I just leaned over the rail as he moved along, grabbed his hand and kissed itl He smiled in my face. "I think he is beautiful. So compassionate," she said.

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What causes changes?

When I was 17 I became a Catholic.

One day in the hospital I met a Benedictine seminarian whose late vocation led him into a monastery in his early 30s. By then my own father had become seriously ill with the cancer that would later take his life.

I tell that here because, for me, it recalls so much about the roles other people have taken in my life. Sometimes it is the dif. ficult or painful events in As I recall it now, this life that become a source Benedictine made a speof change or that cause cial effort to get to know faith to deepen. But, with- me -perhaps because out queston, people he had learned of my were influential in chang- father's illness and was ing the entire course of wondering what effect it my life. was having on me. In any I was a senior in high event, he became a school when I decided to friend. become a Catholic. At that time I didn't A year earlier, I had really know what a mongotten a part-time job in astery was. But I've the Catholic hospital a always been a curious block from my home. person, so when my new The Bernardine Sisters friend invited me to visit who ran the hospital his monastery - his I accepted were warm and caring home women. enthusiastically. I don't recall what I There we visited for thought sisters would be hours and I came to sec like. But I didn't expect what the Benedictine life them to become friends was. I ate with the monks or to take an active inter- and, though not a est in me. Perceiving Catholic, went to the them as people who chapel when they were at really cared about me prayer. When my friend made a great difference. took vows, I was invited

to attend. I was impressed with the dedication of those monks with their friendliness and their seriousness about life's meaning. I was changed by all that - and, I hope, by God Through my Benedictine friend, I was drawn toward the Church. This story must include mention pf the pastor

who gave me instruc-

tions in Catholicism. Throughout my senior year in high school, I went each week to his rectory. The instructions, how-

ever, took more weeks

than I thought they would. I couldn't understand why things were not moving ahead much faster. After all, my mind was made up to join the Church. Little by little I gained an impression that the pastor didn't want to rush ahead too fast. Today I think he used good judgement. Guiding a 17-year-old boy, he probably was concerned that a big decision not be made too quickly and regretted later. He might have been concerned that the decision would

be made under the emotional pressure of my father's illness. But believe me, I couldn't understand all of this back then. We lived in a small city and the pastor knew my parents. One day, coming home from school, I saw his car parked outside our home. Later my mother told me he had come to discuss my becoming a Catholic. And he had been told it was all right with my parents. Still, things didn't rush ahead. Somewhere along the line, through some

The road goes ever on and on. Down If I were to map my life from the road where it began. Now fa from childhood to the ahead the road has gone. And I mu¢+ Present moment, the ~ important signsalongthe p,, folllow, r jf f can. Pursuing it with eager way would be the people feet. Untilitjoinssomelargerway. Where and experiences and many paths and errands meet. An4 Pools that changed me. •

The signs mark the

whither then? I cannot say. (Sung by crossroads, large and Bilbo the iobbit, in J.RR.R. Tolkein's small, when I had to make decisions, had to "Lord of the Rings"series.) change.

An awareness of God comes ito n the life of each child in accordance with an inner timing, and the privilege given parents and teachers is to nurture faith toward that time." (lris Cully in

"Christian Child Devel-

opment", 1979.)

"Compassion Ministry: St Thomas of Villanova, Palatie, n III." by Lenore Kelly in the July-August 1981 issue of the newsletter, "Parish Ministry", published by the US Bishops' Parish Project, 11 Park Place, New York, NY 10007, single issue,

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Development", by iris

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age.

Supportive atmosphere? I immediately began to seek one out. With fairly typical teenage resolve to take care of things quickly, I applied to a Catholic college, St John's in Minnesota, and was accepted. That school was to have a permanent influence on me -- on my attitudes, my goals, my way of think.

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ing Without my pastor's committed but careful approach to me as a teenager, I doubt I ever would have stepped into that school. Except for my parents, the people mentioned in this article didn't set out to play a large role in my life. They must have thought they were carrying out their everyday roles. That's the message. The little ways we enter someone's life can change that person in large ways. You might tread lightly and leave a large imprint You just never know.

I have not always welcomed the turns in the road in a calm way. But when Ilook back -- from a safe distance -I see them as points when growth began, growth in faith and in personal maturity.

Each time I look I see more clearly tharGodhas been with me on the journey. So it is, I suspect, for most people. Ten years ago a close friend, an Episcopal priest, took a three-month sabbatical. He spent much time working in the field of urban social action. the three During months away from work, my friend explored the meaning of spirituality. He became convinced that his future journey would follow a new path. He wanted to combine the interior life with his work for justice. He has been faithful to that conviction and now many others, clergy and lay, have joined him in this creative undertaking at the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation. One docs not always deliberately choose to change. Sometimes the need to change and adjust comes upon us uninvited. Perhaps, without much warning, we must change jobs and move to another part of the country. In the process we are forced to give up the pleasure of having our dose friends Countless nearby. numbers of mobile peo pie today could testify to the pain this can cause and to how they've been changed by it. A woman I know came upon a crossroad in her life when her daughter for a time, joined a reli-

O'Callaghan SJ "I don't want to be 90!" my 89year-old friend protested. There was a twinkle in her eye as she said it. but her voice had the ring of conviction. "I'm hoping for a call from up there before September," she said, gesturing toward the sky."I've lived 10 years without Dad and that's long enough. So I'm asking the Lord to bring me along too!"

Dolores Leckey

I smiled at her priestson, one of my dearest friends. He winked back.

life she knew awaited over the years I have seen her faith grow and her. I live in a distant city. My develop. Through her brief visit over, I kissed fidelity to the sacraher goodbye and left, not ments, to prayer and to certain that we would other religious devotions, her faith has Whether she would meet again in this life. become more serene and ever be 90, neither of us Afterward, I reflected more pronounced as the knew. But, it was very on her faith. It wasn't years passed. or other-worldly. clear that, whenever it sugary In the 35 since her years came, death would be a I thought, then, of Dick welcome visitor for her. son and I were school Cavett's televised interNot because she didn't mates and I spent as much time at his house as view with Katharine Hepenjoy life, however. I did at my own, I had burn some years ago, when that wonderful, Though she lived alone, never known her to be she got around to her accomplished, honest pious about God. Just children's homes often woman professed not to very sure about Him and believe in an afterlife. I and hosted a steady easy. remember feeling sadstream of grandchildren Possessed of a terrific ness that her life lacked who called and came by to chat, to tease and to be sense of humour, she the assurance of my teased, to recite their could sprinkle her con- friend who doesn't want latest accomplishments, versation with references to be 90. to ask her advice that showed God was in So many people lack seriously about small charge of her life. I suppose she struggled that assurance. It's the problems and large sometimes with doubts great gift Time magazine And then there was baseand anger; that's not unus- writers found in the Mexball! The major leagues ual And, not unlike other ican people they did a had no more avid or parents, she certainly story on some years ago. knowledgeable fan! She experienced difficulties The magazine reported had grown old with the now and again with her in amazement, "The peautmost grace. But she sants bury their dead family. looked forward with tranBelief clearly has been with the same attitude quility and growing with which they plant expectation to the new central to her life. And seeds. ..so confident are they in a resurrection to new life."

We both knew that she meant what she said, and that she was more than ready to go, even though her health was still spectacular.

Meaning matters

gious cult and abruptly left home for a couple of

By Father John Castelot

vears. The mother was

taxed physically and emotionally - in every way. For her it was a virtual calamity. Yet, she knows she grew in inner stature as she coped with the situation. The circumstances did not make the mother feel happy and carefree, but they did pull her toward growth. For me, books often occasion change. They can affect the way I see the world, myself or God Some authors are able to direct my attention in new ways. I was raised in New York City and was always more "into" mass transportation than "into" nature. So a few years ago, when I was introduced to the contemporary writer, May Sarton I felt like I was touching nature for the first time. Ms Sarton unlocked a door for an urban dweller like me. On the other side of that door are winter trees and stars, patterns of sunrise and sunset • . . and signs of God's presence that for me were blurred before In faith we continue down new and perhaps langer paths even when, like Bilbo, we cannot say where they will lead. For who can fathom the mind of God?

By Father

...

John

The road goes ever on

"Faith is interactive and social; it requires lancommunity, gage, ritual and nurture. Faith is also n shaped by iitiatives from beyond us and other people, initiatives of spirit or grace." (James Fowler i n"Stages of Faith", 1981.J

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process of osmosis, I discovered that the pastor was concerned that I might need a supportive atmosphere for a while after a becoming Catholic at such a young

Tbe story of bow Jesus fed the multitude with a few loaves and two fish is one of the most significant accounts in tbe gospel tradition. It can be found in all four Gospels.

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Mark, followed by Matthew, preserved two interpretations of the event. In Mark, the disciples have just returned from the first missionary journey. Jesus is concerned to find an out-of-the way place to relax. The desert setting wilplay an important role in Mark's interpretation of the feeding of the multitude. As in so many instances, it is impossible to recover the original happening entirely. For it is the meaning of wbat bappened tbat preoccupied the followers ofJesus. Tentatvely, we may say that on one occasion Jesus

furnished food for a "here can I get meat considerable group of to feed all these peopeople in a miraculous pie?" way. How many peoIn tbe book of ple? Tbat is not really Numbers, tbe people the point. Tbe fact tbat are described as "Zike the numbers vary from sheep without a sbeaccount to account pherd."

suggests that tbis detail was not of primary

concern.

Evidently this story

was told and retold as the Christian communities looked back on

Again, there is the Old Testament story about Elisha's feeding of 100 men with a few

barley loaves in the second boo.let of nge. the original event and "And when they had reflected on its signif- eaten, there was some icance in the light of left over." As the first Cbristhe Old Testament and of tbetr Christian expe- tians told and retold the story, and as they rience. In the light of Psalm reflected on it in light 23, "Te Lord is my of the Old Testament Jesus texts, they saw more shepherd", emerges bere as tbe and more meaning in good sbepberd giving it. The most important His people repose in verdant pastures. aspect of the story, In Marke's account, however, was its euchJesus bids bis disciples aristic aspect. The to bave the people sit Christians came to down on tbe green view the feeding of the grass. Like the she- multitude as a sort of pberd in the psalm, be pre-sacramental Euch"spreads the table arist. It is interesting tbat, before" the multitude. Tbe story is also just as their worship reminiscent of bow included the elements God fed His people of word and sacrawitb manna in tbe met, so too in tbis desert, as told in the account, the first reacOld Testament book of tion of Jesus to the sbepberdless crowd is Numbers. Tbe dialogue to "teach them at great between the disciples length." Then He proand Jesus recalls tbe question of Moses: ceeds to feed them

"I am the resurrection and the life," the Lord said. "The one who lives and believes in Me shall never die." Thank God for the gift which enables us to take Him at His word!

Thank God, too, for the example of old friends whose faith enables them to go gently from life to life.

Properly understood, our personal experience of faith is as unique as our fingerprits. n Our faith i s being continually transformed because of the multiplicity of factors that make up our personal lives." n 1982 (Neil Parent i a Know Your Faith series article.) The adolescent needs mirrors. .. He or she needs the eyes and ears of a few trusted others in which to see the image of personality emerging and to get a hearing for the new feelings, insights, amxieties and commitments that are forming." (James Fowler in "Stages of Faith, 1981.)

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Message scrawled on a truck As I walked toward the presbytery on that warm spring day 10 years ago, I spotted the parish's old pickup truck parked in the driveway. Having hauled countless tons of food, clothing and furniture to needy families over the years, its dull-white body wore its scrapes and dents like campaign ribbons. Drawing closer, I noticed the truck was marked with graffiti. In bold, black letters starting at the rear of the cab on the passenger's side, and extending onto the door, someone had written: "Drugs is the answer."

000 But someone else had obviously not liked that sentiment and had drawn a thick line through the words. Above them the new author wrote: "Sex is the answer". Alas, he fared no better than the first, for his message was similarly crossed out. And across the bottom of the big hood was scribbled: "Jesus is the answer." As I gazed at the truck, my feelings seesawing between amusement at the youthful competition and irritation at seeing an old friend defaced, I was reminded of all those "Jesus saves" bumper stickers. "Jesus is the answer" and "Jesus saves" are the kinds of expressions that say both everything and nothing at the same time They crystallise some core truth of our faith; they reflect one of the Bible's great themes; yet they are so unnuanced and overused they can be virtually devoid of meaning. What does it mean to be saved? In the New Testament salvation is presented with a variety of meanings. It is deliverance from sin (Acts 5:31); it is the attainment of immortality (2 Timothy 1:10);it is entrance into the kingdom of God (Matthew 19.25, Mark 10.26, Luke 13:29). Jesus does not say much

about what salvation finally holds for us. But he

does emphasise that it will differ significantly from our present experience of life (Matthew 22.30)

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Balgo Hills

Kevin George Langdon is the Westpac Banking Corporation's regional manager South-West. From his Norfolk Street headquarters in Fremantle, he Is responsible for a bankin g bailiwick extending from Canning Bridge to Augusta with Fremantle and Bunbury two of its major centres. Kevin was born at Kalgoorlie on September 13, 1941, and educated at St Joseph's convent In Boulder, CBC Kalgoorlie and St lldephonsus College at New Norcia. He joined the Bank of NSW (now Westpac) at Kalgoorlie In February, 1957, and in his three decades In the organisation he has held a variety of city and country appointments In addition to having had two years' service In FIJI. He was promoted to his present position in mid-

It was quite a night for these dusky skinned artists from the desert. But they weren't intimidated by the 250 people gathered at the WA Art Gallery to hear the opening address by the Governor, Professor Gordon Reid nor the focus of media attention. The three women with 'beads' of naturally coloured beans strung and used as headbands and bracelets, sifted through the curious crowds their looking at refreshingly different art, as did the four male artists.

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Kevin and his wife Laurel (nee Ennis) have two daughters, Catherine (15) and Joanne (12). The one-mile walk from his father's Boulder Block Hotel at Fimiston to St Joseph's convent in Boulder was an interesting trek for Kevin Langdon in his first year at

school. His

young

eyes

keenly noted the various happenings en route and, after heavy rain in winter, there was a touch of adventure. Then flood water swirled

the

pedestrian subway under the railway line at Boulder and traversing it was quite an event. He learnt the piano at the convent, hallowed musical halls where Eileen Joyce had studied

the

same instrument. The ab initio days of education inevitably concluded and he transferred to CBC Kalgoorlie to benefit from the tutelage of Christian Brothers with names like Smith and Faulkner. To this day he has kept his school reports signed by such men. During this period his father took over the licence of the historic Denver City Hotel at Coolgardie, and for a year Kevin travelled

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From Boulder to the bank Today's People

A weekly feature -

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By BOB BOYLE the 80 kilometre return journey by bus each day to CBC Kalgoorlie. It was a wearying experience he did not enjoy, so in 1954 his seat of learning for the next three years became St lldephonsus College at New Norcia. Boarding there was a happy segment in his education. He entered zestfully into the scholastic and sporting life under the care of Brothers Calixtus, Oswald, Tarcissius and others.

A highlight was living with boys from countrydistrictsalloverthe state, many of whom he is still pleased to meet in the day-today course of his duties. With the golden rule days over, he joined the staff of the Bank of NSW {now the Westpac Banking Corporation) at Kalgoorlie in February, 1957. After only four months there, however, he was posted to Merredin as junior ledger keeper. At that time the capital

of the eastern wheatbelt was a bustling place. It was a big railway centre, wool prices were good and farming generally was a prosperous enterprise. Kevin reports, with some pride, that in his 2 years there he was a member of the Towns football team that won the premiership. Golf and cricket were also among his sporting activities. His first Fremantle banking tour of duty started in the early 1960s at the main branch in High Street. The port city had not then entered into the temporary decline from which it has now emerged so triumphantly. The wool trade was buoyant, the wharf was alive with shipping and business was brisk - not as brisk as it is today, of course. After 18 months there, Kevin was appointed to the relieving staff, a job that took him all round the state for two years before he was transferred to the James Street branch in Perth. Here he derived great pleasure from his association with eth-

nic businessmen and the Wanneroo gardeners who used to bring their produce into the city markets. In the late 1960s fortune smiled on him. "From the many applicants," he says, "T was lucky enough to be selected to work with the bank in Fiji for two years." It was certainly an unforgettable experience. "I did a lot of touring," Kevin continues, "and I found the local Fijians to be simple, dignified and very attractive people. 'The bank's staff there came from all over Australasia and as a result I now have good friends in every state and New Zealand. 'There was plenty of social life in Fiji, and the swimming and fishing were excellent." His return from the tropical paradise saw him start on a variety of jobs in WA -including working in the state manager's office, being accountant at East Victoria Park for two years, chief clerk of administration in head office and manager of the York branch for three years from 1976.

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They seemed very much at home - and why not, it was their own art and paintings from fellow artists in their Balgo Hills community. With them, and very much looking after their interests, were Sister Alice Dempsey SJG and Eileen Farrelly of Perth who is a friend of the community and their liaison person down here. Eileen, an exadministrator from John XXIII College has spent more than a year up there in 1985 and promotes their art from this end. Sister Alice has spent several hard working years, aiding these people in every way she can and opening night saw the fruition of her vision. Principal of the adult centre at Balgo Hills, Sister Alice has worked on her dream of having an art exhibition of the desert people's paintings because as she said: "it was too good not to be seen by a wider population.

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"I believed there were too many desert flowers out there blooming, born to blush unseen and waste their sweetness on the desert air," said Sister Alice quoting a famous bard. "It has taken a year to get all this together and judging by the response we have received in Penh, the exhibition has proven to be an unqualified success. "Professor Berndt assured us that the art was of sufficient quality to warrant an exhibition and his encouragement and judgement were invaluable. "So too John Stanton, also of the University of WA's anthropology department, who gave freely of his time, and Brother Nick Bilich arrived at Balgo just in time to organise

cataloguing-

"Without such people, this vision would not

artists express an affinity with their community and environment.

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Balgo is a traditional community he said and a lot of this art would have been considered a "no, no" in the past, as it was usually done with a temporary medium using sand or paint. "It is only recently that the elders have given permission for some of the art to be more widely shown. Stories are associated with their art, either of a simple nature or importantly authentic," he said. Mr McLeod said a new policy adopted by the federal government is to encourage Aboriginal enterprises. "We try and get people from remote areas to visit an existing similar enterprise to see if they can produce a viable enterprise themselves. In this instance it is to stimulate interest in marketing desert art," he said.

The idea is to get more people in the enterprise. People down here will see what sales would be likely and which would or wouldn't sell. Mr McLeod said the troupe has been taken to the galleries to exhibit their work and ascertain the viability of their product and how to market it, meanwhile checking out other galleries and public response.

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Among the interested viewers of the 107 art pieces, was Sister Pat Rhatigan of the CEC. Most impressed with their work, Sister said she hoped an exhibition like this, "will serve to enhance the talents of the Balgo community and it may also promote an awareness of their culture to this society as a whole. "I hope it will stimulate Australians to explore their culture and origins." Sister noted the affinity these artists have displayed between their community and the environment in which they live.

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have been brought to fulfilment," she said. The Balgo Hills community is grateful also for financial help given by the Aboriginal Rights Board and the Department of the Arts. Credit goes to Lee West of the Catholic Education Commission for her support and the party was thrilled with the splendid presentation Curator of Aboriginal Art, Michael O'Farrell gave to their work in the WA Art Gallery. Don McLeod who is with the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations in Kununurra has been fully involved with the project and his department assisted financially their stay in Perth.

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"An exhibition like this is an opportunity within the Church to promote greater understanding between the mainstream white church and the Catholic Aboriginal church," she said. "It is now apparent that the Aboriginal people have really imbibed the Christian message through their art as depicted in Matthew Gill's religious works." This artist who came down with the party, is

Matthew Gill, whose works featured in the exhibition takes a breather outside the WA Art Gallery.

outstanding for his religious paintings which are becoming well known. These people have expressed their Christianity in their own cultural medium and with success. ''The mainstream Catholics should respect and understand it; the exhibition provides this opportunity and it should be promoted within the church and schools. People will then see the good work that Aboriginal people are doing," said Sister. The three women rather intrigued me. Gracie was pretty and Bye Bye had the loveliest black pools for eyes; Nancy looked most womanly with her ebony skin and colourful 'beads' of beans in her curly hair. They, with their menfolk, had a most relaxed, 'at ease' air about them. Natural and unaffected, these full blood Aborigines have considerable talent as well as charming personalities. Bye Bye is the wife of a very important elder named Sunfly. In her head, said Sister Alice, is a veritable storeroom of all the dreamings of her people.

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□□□ This has been handed down to her from her parents. She is one of the leaders of dance and song in her Kukatja language. Nancy is a custodian of women's law in Balgo and is an authority of the women's dreaming story and advises them on which they could use for paintings. Both Bye Bye and Nancy share a similar role as keepers of their culture and have the authority to tell and relate stories and pass them on to their people. Gracie shares the white and the Aboriginal cultu re and understands English plus her own t

One of the works displayed in the exhibition. language which is Kukatja. She is an intermediary between the old people. She puts their stories into English. Gracie helps her people develop their art and how to use modern painting mediums. She is an art teacher for her people. Now Mick Tjakamarra is an elder and a very impressive looking personality who has a certain air of devilment and great good humour about him. A ready laugh. He is an important person and is a tribal law and

culture custodian and like each one in the group, is an artist in lis own right.

bited and his mother is an artist too. Kenny Gibson is a very keen artist and meticulous in his work, apparently excelling in the larger 'pdintings. This is the first time their works have been brought down and exhibited in a large public setting, said Sister Alice.

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Matthew Gill, whose religious banners hang in the Balgo church and like others, are used on religious festivals and sacramental ceremonies, has just finished his Stations of the Cross painting which will then go to the printing press. Bruce Njamme belongs to a family of artists. His father's and brother's works were also exhiA4

DOD "It is unique because it comes from the western desert and is more recently developed than the Northern Territory 4

paintings. And yet, although becoming modem in trend, it is still based on their cultural dreamings. "It is again unique because there is this Christian spirituality which has become evident, as depicted by Matthew Gill's art," said Sister.

That aspect alone must give a feeling of elation for all Christians and with it too. create a sense of affinity for our Catholic brothers of a different skin colour.

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Novena to the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit you who solve all problems, light all roads so that I can attain my goal, you gave me the divine gift to forgive and forget all evil aginst me and in all instances of my life you are with me. I want in this short prayer to thank you for all things as I confirm' once again that I never want to separated from you ever, in spite of all material illusions. I wish to be with you in eternal glory. Thank you for your mercy towards me and mine. This prayer must be said for three days after which the favour will be granted. The prayer must be published immediately. M.T. O'Brien. 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 Marvs and Glorias, St Jude pray for all who honour and invoke your aid. Published as promised in thanks for answering my prayers. Errol.

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Father John Orzanski recently told a police audience that included Police Commissioner Mr Brian Bull that he was keeping working hard at keeping fit and had no demerit points on his license. "I hope these two qualities will give me some acceptance amongst the members of the Catholic Police Guild" he said at the annual Mass in the Police Academy at Maylands In his homily Dean Orzanski acknowledged the great work of the police and accorded them bouquets rather than the customary brickbats they usually have to wear.

"Being a member of the HOLY SPIRIT you who solve all problems, light police force entails a all roads so that I can public profile and with attain my goal. You gave that comes a responsibilme the divine gift to ity," he said. forgive and forget all evil aainst me and that in all Police personnel should instances of my life you be men and women of are with me. I want in this short prayer to thank you integrity both in their rural and private lives," for all things as I confirm once again that I never he said. want to be separated Noting that the Catholic from you ever. In spite of Police Guild supports all material illusions I wish to be with you in members upholding eternal glory. Thank you their Christian values and for mercy towards me Dean and mine. This prayer ,principles, must be said for 3 days Orzanski acknowledged after which the favour the tremendous pressure will be granted. The that is placed on police prayer must be published persons, yet at the same immediately. Coral

time they must not judge others, but lead by example with compassion.

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has

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from the Church than self-righteousness in supposedly model christians," he said.

The pharisees of the gospel typified this malaise. The garb we wear or the station of life we're in make us no better than anyone else. "Let's always be sensitive to that reality and develop our relationships well, with God and

our neighbour."

As chaplain of the Guild Dean Orzanski acknowledged the contribution of past chaplains, in particular the late Monsignor O'Reilly and assured his continued support. He said he had a keen interest in the Police Department having its own chaplaincy service in the future.

Father John Orzanski Chaplain to the Catholic Police Guild had a special greeting for the 99 year old former commissioner John Doyle.

Some 75 Catholic Police Guild members and their wives attended the annual Mass celebrated by the chaplain Dean John Orzanski at the Maylands Police Academy. Other celebrations were Redemptorist Fathers Ryan and McGill, assisted by Brother Dan Stafford. The Minister for Police was represented by Dr Geoff Gallop MLA at the mass. Mr Bull and Mrs Bull were present, also Assistant Commissioner Laurie Gibson and Mrs Gibson, Max Marshall and Mrs

Marshall,

and

Frank

Peters and Mrs Peters. The Federal Police were represented by Inspector Phelen. Mr Terry Siddell accompanied by Mrs Sidell represented the judiciary.

In the absence of the president of the Guild, Sergeant Val Doherty, Sergeant Peter Brown, vice president, welcomed all the visitors and members to the annual

mass and tea, and a»o.[pm- thanked them for their

ooi shad. 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. M.A.F.

Grateful thanks to the Holy Spirit for favours granted. E.S.

support for the Guild.

Several retired members attended, including the retired Commissioner John Doyle (99 years) and retired Assistant Commissioner Bernie Clarke, who conveyed him to the Mass.

At the social which followed the Catholic Police Guild Mass Mrs O'Mara, Alan Davis and Jack 0Mara

The St Denis singing group provided the music for the Mass. The Catholic Police Guild is interested in enrolling the young people in the force, especially in Catholic members becoming involved in the Guild activities. further information is available from Sergeant Val Doherty at Police Headquarters.

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Who Speaks for God by Charles Colson. Published by Hodder G Stoughton. $6.95. "In Charles Colson's first book, Born Again, the former presidential aide recounted his conversion to faith in Jesus Christ. His second book, Life Sentence, chronicled his own growth as a Christian and his first years of prison ministry. His third book, Loving God, issued a compelling call to Christian discipleship and action. Who Speaks for God? reveals specific implications of biblical truth for contemporary life and issues In a day when the Christian gospel is mocked, when moral absolutes are denied, when evil is rampant and even welcomed, God calls His people to speak bravely on his behalf. These reflections by Charles Colson will inspire courage and stimulate action as we face the moral and social issues of our day. CHARLES COLSON, formerly special counsel to President Richard M. Nixon (1969-73), is now chairman of Prison Fellowship Ministries, an international prison out-reach."

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The George Bernard Shaw Vegetarian Cookbook. Menus and recipes by Alice Laden. Pubisbed by Angus and Robertson. $9.95. "George Bernard Shaw lived very healthily to the ripe old age of 94, and he attributed his vigour to his very strict -- albeit lavish -vegetrian diet. The task of maintaining his fastidious food habits fell first to his wife during the 45 years of their marriage, then to his housekeeper, Mrs Alice Laden, whose recipes for her crusty employer are presented by Angus & Robertson Publishers in this book. Vegetarian he certainly was, but stinting he was not. G.B.S. insisted on the very best of ingredients, the best butter and cream, varieties of excellent cheeses and the finest nuts. He was also very partial to sweet things, biscuits and cakes covered with sugary icing. The book contains recipes for pies and souffles, curries and casseroles, puddings, icrecreams and water-ices, all thoroughly tested by a very and particular extremely partial judge."

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$12.50 "Memory Be Green is an intimate and fascinating recreation of the adult years of Connie Miller's remarkable life. The final volume in a delightful three part autobiography, Memory Be Green has all the charm, vitality and lyricism of both Connie Miler's childhood recollections, After Summer Merrily, and her account of adolescence and early adulthood, A Season Of Learning. Beginning in 1932, Connie Miller tells of her early teaching experiences in country and metropolitan schools during and just after the Depression, of learning to fly and service Gipsy Moth aircraft, and travelling in South-East Asia in the early 1940's. After completing her Master of Arts degree under Walter Murdoch and teaching for a time in Albany, in 1943 she moved to Melbourne to work for Australian Naval Intelligence. Connie Miller married soon after the war and she vividly describes living and raising two children in Kalgoorlie in the late 1940's and Perth in the fifties and sixties, her travels in Australia and Europe, writing and broadcasting, teaching ballroom dancing and creative writing, and becoming a grandmother.

God Reigns in China by Leslie Lyall. Published by Hodder & Stoughton. $5.95. "An eye witness account of the shaping of history under God's hand. In China, perhaps more than in any other nation, Christianity has constantly been under attack. And yet the Chinese Church has not only survived but flourished. Today, the number of professing Christians is claimed to have reached a staggering 50 million. Where did it all begin, and how was the spark of life maintained through years of torture and persecution? Leslie Lyall, recalling his missionary in years as China, charts the extraordinary growth of the Chinese Church, looks objectively at the present situation under an atheist government, and indicates the way ahead. These are exciting times. God is working a miracle in China, and the Western Church stands in awe." a

Five to Eigbt by Dorothy Butler. Published by Tbe Bodley Head Publisbing Co. Distributed through tbe Australasian Publishing Company. $12.95. "Drawing on extensive first-hand experience, Dorothy Butler, author of Babies Need Books, has written this second downto-earth guide on sharing books with young children. Covering the early school years, Five to Eight takes over where Babies Need

Tbomas More by Richard Marius. Publisbed by Fount. $22.95. "Thomas More seduces biographers, says Richard Marius in his Foreword. We all end by liking him. That in itself is one of his mysteries. The present book is yet another effort to explore that character and to fit the disparate pieces together to provide a coherent picture of the man and his times. I have never supposed that the tantalizing gaps in the evidence and the general ambiguity of the sources, writes Marius, can be so mended that any biographer may write a book about Thomas More that will provide agreement in every particular. Nor has my purpose been to include every detail known about More. The best biographers try to take into account the various kinds of evidence and to shape a portrait that arises from a discerned unity, although inconsistencies must

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On Consulting the Faithful in Matters of Doctrine by Jobn Henry Newman/ Edited by Jobn Coulson. Published by Collins Dove. $7.95. "The year when the Roman Catholic Church is holding its Synod on the Laity is a fitting time for reprint of this classic statement. The lay person in the Church has received more attention and played a more active and important role in the twentieth century than ever before. This essay of Cardinal Newman's was extremely influential in preparing the way for the cirange in emphasis and development of theology that has taken place in our time. First published in July 1859, this essay was the immediate cause of great controversy. It was frowned upon both in Rome and in England. Newman did not withdraw his views, but the article was not reprinted or published in English until 1961, when John Coulson prepared the edition which is here reprinted. For new and established readers of John Henry Newman, for all interested in the theology of the laity in the church and the development of doctrine, this is a basic document of great importance."

The evidence, says Marius, has not led me to suppose

that I can shape a Thomas More without spot or wrinkle or one who fits the image that most students have cast of him But it has made me suppose that I can provide readers with a man of flesh and blood and mind, able to take a place in his real world and in ours."

Live by the Spirit by John

Gunstone. Published by Hodder & Stoughton. $15.95.

'The reality and practice of living in the fullness of the Holy Spirit.

Drawing from his personal experience and knowledge of the Bible. John Gunstone takes us through the rich and majestic inheritance we possess in Church tradition, and relates it to our every day situation. He contends that 'Church tradition is regarded as a stumbling block to discipleship. We get confused by tradition instead of being enlightened by what it represents: Christians' response to the Word of God in their own times and circumstances as they believed the Spirit was leading them.' Live By the Spirit is a caring. practical guide, enabling the reader to tap the sources of a fuller life."

The Cyclades. The travellers' guides. By Job Freely. Published byJonathan Cape Ltd. Distributed.through Tbe Australasian Publisbing Co. $27.95. "The Cyclades are the historic and incomparably beautiful Greek islands that encircle sacred Delos, the birthplace of Apollo, the other well-known isles being Mykonos, Santorini (Thera). Naxos, Paros, I1os, Melos and Syros. Although several of these islands have become very popular summer resorts, most notably Mykonos, they

remain largely unspoiled, with the hardy islanders still clinging to their archaic customs and their unique way of life. This new guide describes the Cyclades and their topography, mythology, archaeology, history, architecture, folklore, folkways, and festivals. It also contains all of the practical information that one will need for a holiday on the Cyclades, including transport, formalities, accommodation, food and drink; as well as maps, plans, and a chart of suggested excursions."

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Hot drive for those attending

Santa by any name

Bishop Jobst called a by meeting on November Sister CLARE 18 and 19 in Broome, at the Kalam Warijal AHERN RSJ Layibaboor Spirituality Centre, of clergy and religious who were the ways they are develinvolved in pastoral oping in Kimberley communities; work in the diocese. • justice issues within The participants the lives of the Kimberley came from all around peoples. the Kimberley, travelSister Theresa Bulatao ling many miles to OSB and Father Chris attend. Saunders organised the Some drove for 12 team ministry section of hours in temperatures the program. They led the group into reaching the 40s and beyond, to get to the activities which focussed meeting and others on: • role of pastor and travelled by plane. pastoral worker; Bishop Jobst, himself, • shared commitment; flew to the Balgo-Halls • w o r k in g Creek area, to enable relationships. the participants from Sister Angela Slattery that area to attend. IBVM and Sister Marie

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The bishop called the meeting because he felt there were two very important issues to discuss, at this point of time: • evangelisation with particular emphasis on adult education in the Faith and the training of catechists and

• consolidating Church policy on the problem of alcoholism. The group worked solidly and in communion with each other for

you'd better not cry.

You better not pout, Im telling you why. Wangkalnal is coming to Warmun.

He's making a list and checking it twice, Going to find out who's naughty and nice, Wangkalnal is coming to Warmun.

Suddenly, however, a new reality would startle you. The Wangkalnal is the important one for the Turkey Creek children, not Santa Claus.

He is the unknown one in Warmun because he belongs to another era, another place, another heritage. Christmas time for the

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Marron RSJ focussed the group's attention on a draft policy for alcohol and drug abuse in the diocese of Broome. They concluded by leading a discussion which showed many Kimberley teams were already committed to a plan of action and were prepared to take further action on some proposals.

The final session focussed on pastoral planning. two days. This session was lead by The first task for each member of the group was Sister Francis Crow OSF. The groups worked to share the dream that motivated and inspired enthusiastically, utilising each in the work of evan- various group dynamics, gelisation in the diocese. to establish some direcThis session was very tives and models for encouraging to all pres- working at local level. ent as each one realised The key event of the that in spite of difficulties seminar was the celebraand hard times, there tion of the Eucharist. were wonderful sucThe team from Wyndcesses and great hopes ham, Sister Rosemary and that the Spirit was Farington RSJ and Father very much part of the Paul Boyers planned the in the Eucharistic Celebration. journeying It was a wonderful and Kimberleys. prayerful experience of God's presence with the group throughout their Various teams within deliberations and rethe diocese were asked to facilitate different sec- inforced an unspoken reality, that all knew that tions of the agenda Jesus was the source of Father Kriener SAC and their unity. Sister Clare Ahern RSJ

conducted the workshops on evangelisation. Topics discussed were: • faith education amongst the laity and ways of encouraging new ministries amongst them; • ways of involving the laity since they are church too and it is their right to be involved; • new approaches to sacramental programs; • Basic Christian Cornmunities, their values and

elder who told the story of the wangkalnal and the legend from the time. BEL0W: a close-up view of the wangkalnal.

If you happen to be in Warmun Community, Turkey Creek, a little remote Aboriginal Reserve in the Kimberley, during the days of November and December, you would from Sister hear a little tune on CLARE AHERN the lips of the children RSJ in the which would carry Kimberley you back to your childhood days and the excitement of ChristYou might be one of mas and Santa Claus. those fortunate adults Then, if your memowho had not lost the ries caused you to lifegiving sense of forget your adult inhiwonderment and bitions and you began excitement so you to join in the familiar would listen again to tune, you would sudthe song and discover denly realise the the reasons for the words were strange, of changing of the words a different language and the excitement and were not part of and anticipation in the your personal history beautiful brown eyes and heritage but of the children. belonged to someone ODO else's.

Like all get-togethers in

the Kimberley this occasion was a joyous one too. Whenever the priests and sisters meet they

appreciate the company, the sharing of ideas and the wonderful support. Here in the Kimberleys, because of the mutual interdependence on each other, the sisters and priests are almost like one Religious community.

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children of Warmun is the time of the Wangkalnal.

They forget they are Mercy, Pallotine, Loretto, Josephite, Franciscan, Benedictine, John of God, Conossian and diocesan.

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They met for the first time, some of the unsung heroes of the history of the Catholic Church in Australia. They met gentle Father Francis Hugel SAC, an 84 year old, who arrived in the Kimberley in 1929. They heard from others present, about his foundation work in the Kimberley; about his suffering during the war years in the isolation and remoteness of the area and about the love and respect Aboriginal people hold for this man, who has stayed with them through all the

years.

They also met Father Alphonse Bleischwitz SAC and listened in awe to his first Christmas on the claypans at Tjaluwan, in the deserts near Balgo. And they heard from the younger missionaries at Balgo, that the older Aborigines remember that occasion and say: "We saw Jesus that day." It was good for the younger missionaries to be in the presence of those who were the first to bring Christ to the original Australians. They felt blessed to be touched by those who gave all, so that others may also "be one in Christ."

And of course, behind the scenes were three efficient Aboriginal women, Esther Bevans, the secretary at the Spirituality Centre, Mary Djagween, the librarian assistant, also at the centre and Tina Howard, the secretary at the Catholic Education Office, in the Kimberley Region. These women organised all the material in preparation for the conference and during it. They typed and photocopied and anticipated all needs and problems. They drew and illustrated area maps to give us a pictorial presenta-

tion of the Kimberley diocese. So the combined meeting ended, a meeting that had been organised by Sister Stella Bryant SSJG and Father Michael McMahon SAC. A tired group left the sea-air of Broome, some to return to the hot desert temperatures and the bishop refuelled his plan to take his coworkers back to the places, where amidst the lives of the Kimberley peoples, they experience the love of the one who was the greatest evangeliser, the one who had come to tell them about the Father.

The Wangkalnal goes back a long way for the Turkey Creek people. It goes back to the Dreamtime, back into the time when the birds, fish, insects and animals were shaping Australia and the Aboriginal story.

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The Wangkalnal comes from that era, the era that gave the myths to Aboriginal people, the stories that explained to them. the meaning of life and why things are the way they are, for Aboriginal people. Way back in 1979, when Sister Theresa Morellini and I spent our first Christmas in Turkey Creek, we sat with the chairman of the community and his people while they decided how to indigenise Santa Claus. They listened with interest, to our stories of Santa Claus and the Christmas Tree and told us they had their own Santa Claus, their own Dreamtime character. who had the spirit of Christmas, a spirit that meant sharing and deeply caring for others. They told us of the Wangkalnal, the black crow with the long black hair and they told us of the eagle, the eagle of many bird wives, the eagle who killed many kangaroo but never shared the meat with his wives. They told us of the hardworking wives, looking for bush foods and returning to a greedy husband, who was

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hungry for bush foods but too selfish to share his meat with his wives They dramatised the action of the crow and the curlew, who prevented the eagle from finding the bush honey. They pierced his throat with sharp sticks, punishing him for his greedy ways and causing the Adam's apple to protrude in his throat and in all future males. Sorrowfully they told us of how the curlew stole the only son of the crow and how the Wangkalnal found it inside the body of the curlew.

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"This Wangkalnal", they told us, "is a good Ngaringkani (Dreamtime) wangkalnal. He wanted everyone to have plenty of meat and bush foods. He shared with everyone and he loved his only

son."

So the Wangkalnal was chosen as the indigenised Santa Claus for the Turkey Creek area

Now every year in the days of November and December the children of Warmun await his flight into Turkey Creek and his time of appearing They huddle together, mixed with feelings of joy and fear, the feelings all children experience as they wait for their own particular Santa Claus. One day, late in the afternoon, when the hot summer sun goes slowly down behind the hills of Turkey Creek, the elders dress two of the men in long black cassocks and large black masks with huge beaks They decorate the school Toyota Landcruiser with

branches and leaves so that it looks like a mobile nest. The Wangkalnal and his son ride in the nest to the schoolyard, the place of the children and the elders sing and dance to the crows, coaxing them out of the nest.

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This Wangkalnal, the good spirit from the Dreamtime, gives the toys of another age to the wanganukki (children) of Turkey Creek. He dances the wangka (traditional Aboriginal dance form) with the adults until he can no longer endure the heat of the masks, in the high summer temperatures. Then he disappears into his mobile nest while the children, the inheritors of the Dreamtime, play with toy cars, balloons, books and jigsaws and forget about the Wangkalnal and his ties with the past. This coming of the Wangkalnal begins the Christmas season in Turkey Creek. It opens the atmosphere of festivities. The men who have worked on the cattle stations return to the community, in time for the festivities and the children who have boarded at various secondary schools are happy to be home.

a0G The night air is often interrupted with the earth music of clapping sticks, boomerangs and corroborrees and the lore of the cattle men, the country and western music from tape-recorders or the band of the young people. One night in the midst of

this holiday feeling, when the sky is full of stars and there is no danger of rain, the second major celebration of Christmas happens spontaneously. The Turkey Creek Christmas corroboree takes place. The Christmas corroborree belongs to old Dinah, who is close to go, so Dinah's son-in-law manages it. Dinah told us the Christ-

mas corroborree came to

her husband in a dream before they were Christians She heard him singing in his sleep and she learnt the tune. When he awoke he was amazed to hear his wife singing the tune he was given with the corroborree, in his dream. Dinah's husband had dreamt about this young woman who had a baby, about the white dingo (sheep) that slept near her baby, about the voices from the sky and the travellers coming to visit.

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While Dinah and her husband were telling their friends the new corroborree and the accompanying dances and songs, another man had another story to tell This man stated the dream was important because he had also heard the corroborree. He had not heard it in a dream but he heard it, as a group of stockmen were sitting around a camp fire, near a boab tree. They heard the story coming from a high radio mast. A voice had said, "A baby has been born to a young woman. It is a Spirit baby, a

special baby, a baby that is great." These two stories are the stories woven together for the Christmas story, a story re-enacted according to the manner in which the revelation of Christ came to the people of Turkey Creek God, in His great wisdom, had told them about the coming of His Son through the dream and possibly, what was a radio story of the birth of Jesus. Through these two mediums the hearts of the people were being prepared to receive the message that they were to receive later, the message that God has sent his Son. Dinah's daughter, Queenie, also a pensioner, takes con-

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trol of the props for the corroborree. She has made three effigies, one of Mary, one of the baby and one of the white dingo. The men decorate themselves with white earth paint and gum-tree bushes and they dance in with the effigies. The rest of us sit together on blankets on the ground and join in the rhythm of the music. Sometimes there is a cafuffle, as a centipede joins us on the blanket or dogs get muddled up in a fight, but for all of us graced to be there, it is a beautiful presentation of the Christmas story. The third major celebration of Christmas in this community Aboriginal occurs somewhere close to Christmas Day, but never on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.

Unfortunately this community does not have a priest yet, even though many of the elders have expressed the wish to "grow-up a young boy for a priest".

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Warmun has to share a priest, who serves many outlying areas on terribly rough long roads so Warmun always misses out on Christmas Day Mass. However this little community is always glad to see the priest and when he arrives, close to Christmas Day, they sing the liturgy in their own language, the Kija language, and give praise to the new born baby. Of course, in between the three major celebrations of Christmas, there are lesser celebrations Those who have stayed at the Derby Leprosarium with the Sisters of St John of God, or those who have been away to school, like to gather on the basketball court to sing Christmas carols.

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Young teenagers come and visit and ask to sit with us and watch Christmas videos and the teacher assistants and language assistants and various helpers meet together, at the convent and join in a Christmas party with its fun. The artists like to celebrate too and almost every year someone paints a scene depicting again the now familiar story. The baby and his mother are always in the painting Sometime Joseph is there but more often there is the mother and the child and

Dream time some connection. And one may ask, "What does happen on Christmas Day?' The day is usually hot well over 40°. The earth is burning with the heat of the sun and all living creatures seek the shade --but a walk around the family groupings shows various families trying to celebrate the birth of Christ. Some tie balloons to the closest tree or children may be playing with toys or someone may have bought some cool drinks or cakes.

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Some may offer you a drink,

a cool drink, heated in the

sun!! I often feel as I walk around, that Christmas Day is just another day because the celebrations are over. This is the land of no calendars, no clocks and few watches The celebration makes the event, not the day making the event. I usually walk back to my home and reflect on how I have indigenised" become. We cooked our turkey days ago and now on Christmas Day, are left with a little.

ODO The ham and the pork were small to begin with and now smaller. The cake and plum pudding are too heavy to eat in this hot weather. Like our friends we began our celebrations, days before and Christmas Day is the culmination.

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The few sisters who are left, usually have a paraliturgy together and listen to whatever we can receive on the radio, but we are not nostalgic or miserable for cooler places. We are happy to be with the Warmun people, grateful to have experienced the various cultural expressions of an aged-old realty. l

Jesus belongs to us all, Jesus came for us all so that the gospel, the good news, could be in all cultures and with all peoples.

Some of the happy children at the Warmun party earlier this month.

It is great to be part of a group -a group neither politically or economically important to white Australians -but a group that is spiritually important to all Australians

I like to think of Scriptures's salvation theme as somehow addressing all those aspects of life that leave us feeling incomunfulfilled, plete, fragmented. Take relationships, for example. As we go through life we come to know many people who share important moments with us: childhood friends, sweethearts, trusted confidants. Yet we are able to retain only a few of those relationships. The rest vanish with the years, leaving us with only faded memories. Salvation in some way has to address this void; it has to turn absence into presence, isolation into union. Another example would be all those who experience life filled with injustice, pain and sorrow. In some way salvation must right this seeming imbalance in life's fortunes. Need all such hopes and dreams wait until the next life? According to the New Testament, no. The salvation Jesus brings can and does begin now. Salvation begins when we seek to build loving relationships, when we offer forgiveness, when we care for the needs of others. The salvation Jesus offers begins like a newly planted seed in our hearts. It sprouts and grows as we strive to model our lives on Jesus. Thus we should have the hope and courage not only to await salvation but actively to seek its beginning for ourselves and others. Jesus is indeed the answer. The message scrawled on the white pickup truck had it right.

Serious blow

BELFAST: The plan to axe 800 jobs at Belfast shipyard early next year because of a dwindling order book is a serious blow to hopes that Catholics could gain a serious foothold in the engineering sector in Northern Ireland. A variety of official surveys have shown that Catholics still hold only a tiny share of jobs in the shipyard, aircraft factory and general engineering, despite repeated prodding by the Fair Employment Agency.

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Knihts g make honour guard At St Mary's Cathedral recently Archbishop Foley inducted nine new Knights of the Sepulchre of Jerusalem.

au0au000Lu00000 Pictured are the new Knights with their Chaplain Father Pat Ahern of Hamersley and their commander Cliff Holloway wearing cap and sword- Kevin Brady, Reg Newman, Bob Peters, Rod Willix, Frank Pimm, Jim McNulty, Gerry Barnard and John Foss.

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BELOW· The Knights of the Sepulchre form a guard of honour at the Papal Mass at Belmont Park.

Let's say what we really mean!

From page 4 But the Church too had its communication problems, at least in Adelaide. Some insiders could contain themselves no longer over the closure of the Southern Cross newspaper and the story was leaked to the secular press and radio just two days before the Pope's visit when everybody obviously had a lot on their minds. But like Mark Twain who noted that rumours of his death were grossly exaggerated, the poor old Southern Cross was not allowed to announce its death . . . yet. leaks there had been to the media, it admitted, but "a decision 'had not been made". Fortunately for the Catholics who were holding their breath and who depended on the Catholic press. the next issue put them out of their agony with the revelation that instead of bad communication, there would be no communication at all! Communication could be better in 1987, the soothsayers tell us.

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From page 10 Then he was appointed the bank's premisesproperty manager, a job that embraced tasks such as supervising contracting of new buildings, leasing of premises and their maintenance and security. "We had about 400 buildings under management from Broome to Esperance," he says, "and I became very involved with builders, leasing agents, contractors and all sorts of people. "On staff at our Osborne Park workshop were 10 carpenters, three painters, two air conditioning mechanics and two electricians. "We have these sort of tradesmen as staff members for security reasons. "About the only thing for which we employ outsiders is to design the buildings. "The job gave me a good background for com-

mercial dealings." Kevin's present position makes him responsible for 27 branches and the bank's business in an area that stretches from Canning to Bridge Augusta. A total of 35 managers report to him and he divides his working time between the city and the country from his Fremantle base. "The America's Cup has had a big impact on business in Fremantle," he says.

DOD "Great projects are now under way that otherwise would not have been contemplated and there will be a continuing beneficial effect for Fremantle." Westpac is a major sponsor of the America's Cup and 12 of the 13 contending syndicates bank with it, largely the result of a prescient overseas marketing exercise

started two years ago. No other bank has its own America's Cup office in Fremantle. Vying for the cup involves the expenditure of staggering amounts of money. "One of our overseas syndicate customers told me," Kevin says, "that from the time it arrived here in September until it leaves in January the syndicate will have spent $30,000 a day.

"Several of the other syndicates will have spent $20 million each. "But what benefits to Fremantle and the state have accrued. The waterfront facilities, for instance, will benefit this and future generations for years to come." Kevin has to fit the hectic America's Cup activity in on top of a normal busy program, but he's enjoying every minute of it. It's a once-in-alifetime chance," he adds.

Abortion stats prove her point From page 4 Mrs Gillick told The Universe: "These figures vindicate my campaign. According to government figures, the number of under-age girls going to National Health Service clinics for contraceptive advice - namely the Pill - in 1985 dropped by 30 per cent compared to 1984. "As this has resulted in fewer abortions and fewer births, it must mean fewer girls were sexual having relationships. "It shows that if you stop pressuring girls to enter sexual relationships and encourage them to say no, a greater proportion of them do so." The Brook Advisory Clinic, however, said that the figures "prove , nothing of the sort". Alison Hedley, the centre's spokesperson said: "The drop in abortions during the first three quarters of 1985 was

followed by a rise in abortions in the last quarter of 1985, and early 1986, and we believe this accounts for the drop in births.

"However, we are talking about very small numbers, and we prefer to look at the trend in which. conceptions since contraception was made available in 1974, has steadily declined," she said. A spokesman for the Family Planning Associa-

tion's statistical office admitted that both birth and abortion rates appear to have fallen, but said that the figures were very small and may not be statistically significant. The figures that should finally settle the argument are the OPCS statistics on conception rates, due in July next year. Mrs Gillick told The Universe that she is confident they will endorse her interpretation.