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The US bishops' draft pastoral on women's concerns calls for "affirmative action" to assure women's equality in both the Church and society. Although the chapter deals mainly with social issues, it says the Church as a social institution must also assure women just wages and improve their employment opportunities. See pages 6 and 7.
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Bur au the grat1tud of the Catholic popula ron for the information provid in the qu snon of religious affiliation. Since th first census of 1848. all ntrusted with drninistranon in the Catholic Church hav u the f I ur to help them understand the situanon before them. and to plan for the future. v r before has the Statistician be n so helpful as with the census of 1986. the figures have been presented in great tail for small local areas. and they have ne r before be n so quickly produced. Religious history is an
As a result of their "private" religious beliefs, more than 70 ' of the population of ester Australia has engaged in, is engaged in, and will engage in activities which have palpable a d visible public results. Because of their religious beliefs, the citizens of estern ustralia, according to their denom-
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VATICAN CITY:The Vatican Congregation for the Causes of the Saints is about to publish an up-to-date index of the canonised and beatified. It is a full list of all causes brought to the congregation from 1588 to 1987.
A yone knows, however, that e "private" enterprise has most important ublic consequences which it would be foolish to ignore.
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Some would contend that religion is a private matter, and therefore should not form a part of public census. I do not agree that religion is a "private" matter, at least in the sense of the objection, but even if it were, the objection ignores some very public consequences of any religion.
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them}. and th rr staustics remain. It rs po s1bl th the aid of st u tics to r -cr t great deal of the stor . Much e ns has been incurred - some would say extrava ant e pens - in ord r to preserve historical record of one important facet of Australian life. If buildings are to be preserved in the name of history, so also should we preserve and continue the important summary records of those who built and used them. The series of religious statistics from census materials goes bac uninterrupted for more than 150 years. rt would be a thousand pities to discontinue the series.
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The US bishops' draft pastoral on women's concerns calls for "affirmative action" to assure women's equality in both the Church and society. Although the chapter deals mainly with social issues, it says the Church as a social institution must also assure women just wages and improve their employment opportunities. "To speak to people about justice, we must first be just in their eyes," it says. The draft "Partners in
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The draf ys th t oth r church actions in su port of women's ualitv an society should includ • Fore ful nunci ron by church le r of "physical, ual, onormc and psychological mju I ag inst worn n"
and Hispanic worn n suffer pov rty neral ev n mor than worn n in • Violence amst m n and their exploitation an pornography and prostitution. • Multiple e ctations of women, ma ing them feel "guilt if they stay at horn and guilt 1f they I ave for paid work".
• Increased "pas oral efforts throu h psychological, social n oth r services to aid women victimised nd e ploit ". • Support for m t rrutv leav nefits "which prote both n w· borns and their moth rs and provi time to create th essen I I bondi g betw n hem" and which allow mothers "to r turn to their work without financial penalty".
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ord for Australia Jorn your congr atron I h other on ational Bible Sunday to sa than you to God for the Bible. Contact Bible Society or Scripture Union rn your State - no I aterials are available to help you and your congregations ma e 7th July, 1988 a great day.
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confused, perplexed. People ask, how could thos death be allowed to happen? This must be how the first followers of Jesus felt immediately after his cruafix1on. The loss of one who meant so much for the whole course of their hves left them confused; the stmg that accompanied the death of thos companion was deeply felt. At times, forces combtne to virtually compel our contemplaoon of death's reality. The sud· den and surprising death of someone close to us as enough to accomplish this. The hngenng processes of death from a long illness also draw the spirit
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reflection The death of someone close to us seems to draw that person's entire past life into focus. We find ourselves contemplating the goodness of a lifetlme. the events that were difficult. the f11I· ures and successes. We may find ourselves asking why this person· s life took the course it did. What was the meaning of this life 7 Inevitably, the contemplataon of death leads to the contemplatJon of life.
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When Kath)' far. shall died afler a long ordeal with cancer, hundreds of people attended her funeral. It wasn't that she
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"8th, wava percm w ho for 11 ,t..ars organised and sc-rvL�I a monthlv meal al a ,lwltl'r for the homeless: "ho dropped bv th,• ollicp of a fellow parishioner on the death
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"What lies beyond death?" asks Cindy Liebhart. "It is a question that eYeryone confronts directly - most often when a family member or close friend dies, or when one faces a terminal illness."
on grounds that their belief in an aftertife - and their focus on it - has distracted them from their responsibilities in the wortd here and now. Think about this and talk it over.
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Mozart's funeral has just concluded and his body is being taken to the cemetery. A few family members and friends stand grief-stricken in the rain as the wagon bearing the casket pulls away. At the grave site, silent solemnly men lifl the simple pine box off the wagon and carry it toward an open pit filled with other corpses - a paup· er's grave. As the men tilt the casket forward, its front end swings open and Mozart's shrouded body slides out of the black box and into the grave. Before departing, a man tosses a shovel-full of lime on the body. .\s \\C \\alchmi that \{·enc on horne \ideo. m� old �t dauAhler, a �n�ilin• ll-war-old. turned "Dad. please don ·1 h,1 llwm hun me hkc that."
And on the process of contemplating Jesus' death, the awareness that Easter is near as never lost from VlfN>I The cross points beyond rtself which is not to suggest that the pain of hos death is not real, but to give rt a new context. Difficult as rt may seem, hope must wori< its way into the heart of our contemplation of death, the Church suggests Can mere mortals make sense of death anyone's death? The awareness of death makes an impact on life and how it rs led. Mysteriously. for a person of faoth. vaew,ng death in light of the resurrectK>O
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The Church's contemplation of death's mystery and pam on Good Friday has a way of pulling these questions together encouraging the contemplation of death on a way that os not d1s-sp1ritJng.
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But the death of a lowd one leads not only to questions about the meaning m the hfe that went before. There also rs the questlOn of what comes after death Can life s,mply be stamped out?
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world into a place of jusbce and peace where all people can lead fulfilling lifestyles? • Thank about the meaning of the days of Easter. This ,s time to contemplate the meamng of death and resurrection. What meaning do the death and resurrection of Jesus have for people's lives in this wortd? • What are some meanings of the word "salvation", according to Father John Castelot?
DOD ,\I her funeral, there \\'<1S thu real •n,c among participants that there "·" an <1fterlif,, fnr 1'nth} and that th,· were r elebratmg her entrance into it. Rut there wa, also the sense that 1'ath1 wasn't reallv absent from them, As an life, hr-r spirit after dr,1th seemed present, active m the community, She , a• a ign of the afterlife - but nnl a si�
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K.,thy\ lifP govc,, a due. Christians an• not callrd simpl\ to m,isl thmugh lifl' \\ilh their gazP fixed on \\'hdt con1t� after. The, are r.alled lo invol\t?mcnt commitment, !(rowlh, responsibility h,·re and nO\\, their actions. their <.hoices. their allilude,, arc of importJnre
.\s Moni�a Hrllw1gsays in her honk "\\'hat Arc The, Sa,·ang About DPath and Christian Hope•·. th,, Christian ll',u·hing c..P.Cnl'i to irnpl) that the lundaml'ntal option:-. taken 1n a human hft• 'h,·come dcfinihw al death"
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lo respond, I began by saying, "Well, honey, I don't think ..." Al that point my eightyear-old daughter who was sitting on my lap quickly clapped her hand on my mouth. "I don't want lo hear you say that," she said in an anguished voice. Her act surprised me and made me \VOnder what she thought I was going to say. When she remo\'ed her hand. I began again. ·what I meant lo sav was that I "ill probabiy die before you, and ..." Once again her hand was on my mouth. "I told vou not lo say that," she ;aid even more emphatically. Dealh is a disturbing thought for my two older children. And I don"t mind admitting I hat I am not too thrilled about it either. I kno" that part of my daughters' disturbance over death is their inabilil\ to visualise an} atiract1\'e notion of an afterlife. \\'hen I ask them what thev thin� he.a,·en will I,., lik,;, they present ima� dosel\' appm im,11ing Holln�·ood "'IS: 101, of clouds, some angPls floating here and there, and people generally sitting around b£>ing happy. \\'hen I pres., them on the subjed, the, admit that heaven seem, to appear pleasanl al lx"t and incredibly boring al
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with Ideal milk poured on from its tin. There was little improvement on the front gastronomic when Bill and his team went to Exmouth to build the RAAF base, but there were pictures once a week and the issued tucker could be supplemented by fishing. The first air raid Bil experienced was at night when the Cata ina flying boat moorinq area was the target. There was no damage on either side. All the bombs missed and the anti-aicraft fire from the shore-based e sub aguns and ri tender Peertess was ineffective.
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rniqht rain before the w roof was in place. But time was on the win and a start had to be made. Fate, however, struck a nasty b w. nd of o e of the roof beams slipped a d pi ced he ceilinq. Any rain th t might ow u could ruin the and pour ceiling hro gh into the chapel - and the PWD team had no plaster. All hands were at dil mma stations when one of the nuns made a it u at ion - saving s stion. A surgical ban age, vywith paster, was , ced and q · ck y pr stu k ov r hol i h c 'ling. A coat of white paint later and viewers from ground were none the wiser. Another problem •
arose when the time came to attack the external crucifix to the roof of the chapel. Some self-appointed authorities declared that the arms of the cross should point east and west, others p umped for north and south, and the rest including the nuns proclaimed their ignorance of the subject by their silence. Bill forgets which way the arms finally pointed, but he seems to remember that many years later the direction in which the was faced cross altered.
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The Japs cam ba the next night and tr" to c ean up the s orebased ac -ack battery, but most of their bombs fell in the ocean. About this tim PWD men, iving in white canvas t nts · the bush, were o d
PBI, were consigned to the hods. But the diggers, returned iddle East veterans, didn't mind. They reckoned that the Koolinda, with meals served to them It seems that another in the dining saloons authority had arrived and the availabilltv of on the scene. other amenities, was Proximity to sufferers Among his reasons the best troopship on from leprosy, a dread for coming to this view which they had scourge from biblical were, first, being able travelled. days and still the wondch to work for s The Koolinda's only subject of popular erful people as the nuns escort was a converted misconception in and, second, the better yacht named he lso1943, sent tremors of quality of the food bella, now f ying e nervous ess through PWD provided. some of th US Navy flag. Guns, ammunition, team. Attho h women and fuel, other stores and The perceptive isters children had been people were off-loaded of St John of God evacuated from th at Exmouth Gulf, locabomb-threate ed and q 'ckly sensed this and tion of the op-secre arran ed for a top close-at-h nd Derby, a Allied base named medical speciatist vi itfairty b·g ma populaPotshot, and th Kooi g th I prosarium to ti on remained - which i da steamed on to deliver to th m n a m nt that the local On low. 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111§
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comprehensive and reasssuring lecture. The ghost of fear was laid. Bill recalls the Derby leprosarium project as the most enjoyable of several wartime working trips to the state's north.
butcher and baker stayed on. Fresh beef and bread were available as opposed to the tinned bully beef and army biscuits that had been staples of previous diets, The regimen of the previous diets had started for Bill aboard the state ship Koolinda on a trip north in February of 1943. Army men, RAAF personnel and the PWD team comprised the passeng rs; guns, bombs and petrol were prominent on the cargo manifest. Th RAAF men and the PWD occupi the cabins. The troops, as is usually th case with
were most conspicuous from e air. In the absence of suitable paint, they q 'ckly dau ed th ir tents with mud. It was ef ective camoufl ge provided that rain, as wel as bombs, did not fall.
DOD In September of 1943 Bil was d to b married in Perth o Kate ll'ch, h w s st ck at Exmouth with seemi ly no way of g tting to t because of a of aircraft and no w y of let · ng Kate know of his predicament eca se of strict censo ip at the op· secret base.
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their inquiry into the distribution of wealth in Australia. In The Record, March 24, Dr Costigan refers to "the growth in the gap between rich and poor", and there beside his comment, raising its many iced heads and confounding figures is, the cake! A short article in The Record clarifying what was meant by the pictogram on the cake would b appreciated. If the figures have a real statistical source, such as the Australian Bureau of Statistics, then ma e due acknowledgement. If not, then say that the 60-40 split is indicative of a world wide trend in the distribution of wealth with a sm II group of p pie (10 per cent) having 60 per cent of the wealth and the remaining 90 per cent of the peopl having to share 40p ro ntofthew alth. The inquiry mi ht w II find this pattern in Austral! . P rhap th cl rif c non of th m amng ofth ca e with its h ds n fiqur s could associated with an articl
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from Agnes WARD, Shenton Park Sir, I was shocked and disappointed to read (The Record, March 17) a long article headed "Change your mind, change your life". This was a glowing account of the work of an ex-Catholic priest who teaches people to find peace and happiness by "unconditional love". He calls himself a "Godloving educator" but, according to this article, he makes no further reference to God or religion. The attitu e is the usual one of he psychologist - to o
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from Ms Christine CHOO, Leederville Sir, I thank you for your article, "TV versus the facts in priestly controversv". It has highlighted the injustice of bias reporting and the powerful position of the editor m the electronic and pnnt media. to Congratulations Archbishop Foley on the way in which he handled the interview on 60 Minutes.
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A celebration in honour of Our Lady will be held on the property of L: and L. Bove, Roy Road, Jindong, via Busse!ton on Sunday, May 1, commencing at 1.30pm. A grotto has been erected to mark the Mar"an Year and will be blessed by Bishop Quinn. Mass will be followed by Rosary, procession and Benediction. The celebration will conclude with afternoon tea.
A conference by wortd renowned speakers John and Paula Sandford from the United States, will be held next weekend at ewman Siena ,,,,..-.�!!l!:lllilllEE!Z!!Z.?:::l:::=;::�iiCS'li'::::::i::Z:::::.::S::=::z::=.C, College, Doub eview - on topics The Distribution of such as: • Healing pre-natal wounds. • Spiritual imprisonment and generational sin. oots of sexual istorical prob ems. for • Forgivene s through Je us Christ. hav T
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