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It is not hard to find reasons for self-destructive behaviour of many Aboriginal people. If death at one's own hand is a macabre form of protest, I want the Aboriginal community
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We stand by you Hickey's assurance to Aborigines in wake of latest death Until the questions of by taking his own life. self-worth have been "My first reaction was to addressed the problem pray for the repose of his of Aboriginal deaths in soul. May he rest in God's custody will not be peace. solved. "My next reaction was This is the view of to pray for our communBishop Hickey of Gerald- ity, bewildered and conton following the recent fused by a string of death there of yet similar tragedies. Why another Aboriginal in Geraldton? Why us? custody. "We are in danger of Bishop Hickey calls for becoming a deeply accelerated programmes divided community, susfor employment, health, picious, resentful of housing and education critics from outside. without fear of electoral troubled, secretly guilty. backlash. "If suicide is linked with He calls also for more profound depression and love and reconciliation loss of self-esteem we do between blacks and not have to look far to whites and praises the find plenty of reasons for self-destructive work of the Aboriginal the Catholic community to behaviour of many Abodevelop understanding riginal people. between the races. "It is not pleasant to His statement reads: know you are on the "It was with great outer as a group, not sadness that I heard that liked much, not given yet another Aboriginal credit for much. man had died in custody "You feel it when you in Geraldton. apparently try to rent a house or
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apply for a job or wear second-hand clothes, or listen to remarks that children bring back from school. "When you are told so often that you are no good you begin to believe it, so you fight, or you drink or you damage property. At times you feel close to despair. "There is a close parallel here with the depression and hopelessness of so many teenagers who tend to react in much the same way. "Thank God so many people have stood firm and courageous in the face of the destructive pressures on them. "Let us by all means do all that is possible to prevent deaths in custody, but until the questions of self-worth have been addressed the problem will not be solved. "Governments need to accelerate programmes
of training for employment, health, housing education and the causes of alcoholism without fear of electoral backlash. "But there is something else that must happen at a much more basic level, at the level of Christians seeking to be One. We are called by Christ to live as brothers and sisters and to respect and love one another because human dignity has been given divine endorsement. "Unless love becomes very personal it will be little more than a general feeling of benevolence. "Each one of us, black or white or whatever, is called to promote harmony, not division. "There is a danger in the present unrest that groups will move into hostile positions, each one blaming the other for the present situation.
"As followers of Christ we must move beyond mutual recrimination to tackle the problems together, drawing on the reconciling power of Christ. "The symbol for the Hiroshima Peace Movement is a fist raised in anger. The symbol for the Nagasaki Peace Movement, begun by a Japanese Catholic convert, is a picture of hands joined in prayer. "Our answer as Christian people at the personal level is one of mutual understanding and friendship, not hostility. not even the silent withdrawal that says the problem is too big. 'There are plenty of friendship groups around, such as the A ustralia/America, Australia/Italy, Australia/ China societies. "Is the gap too wide for us to hope for similar
groups between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people? "The Holy Father has asked us in his New Year's message to take seriously the legitimate political, social and religious aspirations of minorities, adding that terrorism often has the denial of these rights at its source. "I urge people to work not only for social justice for the Aboriginal minority but also for ties of friendship that promote understanding. "Such groups can exchange greater awareness of one anothers traditions and values and the history of interaction that has given rise to the problems that face us today. "It is perhaps not widely known that the day after the much publicised "riots" in Geraldton last year, members of our
Catholic Aboriginal community called on some of the shopkeepers whose windows had been broken to express regret at the behaviour of a few. "This gesture earned respect and admiration. "Iam very pleased to see that the weekly Aboriginal Mass in Geraldton has become a place where others also attend, forming a unity around the Eucharist that transcends ethnic divisions. "If death at ones own hand is a macabre form of protest, I want the Aboriginal community to know that there are plenty of us willing to stand beside them in their quest for a better life. "Only violence and division will result if we allow the gap to widen. In Christ we have both the inspiration and the means to bridge that gap."
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A journey to peace.
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After the dust of the Olympic Games will have well and truly settled, there will be another event in Seoul which ought rightly to claim especially the attention of the Christian world.
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The significance of this theme across the world scarcely needs to be emphasised. Peace is desperately sought, especially by Koreans. It is ironic that their beautiful nation, whose very name means 'land of the morning calm', should be so divided by
• The official logo for the 44th Congress (left) was designed with a distinct Far Eastern feel — brush on rice paper; and the bread and fishes of the Bible miracle (above).
the politics of conflicting ideologies, economic theories, and religion. It is tragic that peace doesn't have a home in Korea, despite its fine Buddhist temples, palaces, and spacious parks which are havens of tranquillity and almost monastic in peaceful simplicity amid the bustle of big business. So Seoul was chosen as the venue for a Congress which focuses on the Eucharist as the source
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Like our own martyrs, witnesses to Christ are drawn from a cross-section of life: 11 priests (including Kim/ Andrew Tae-Gon, the first native priest) and 92 lay people, among whom are many women (housewives, widows, and unmarried girls). The story of how Korea came to hear of the Gospel and first received the "sacraments' through the initiative of lay people is heartwarming. Under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, certain scholars came across the Christian teachings while visiting China. In 1784 they sent one of their members to Peking to be baptised. Korea's
This event is the 44th International Eucharistic Congress to be held 5-8 October 1989. The Pope has left us in no doubt that we must strive for peace and he has asked us to prepare spiritually for this event. Even though for the majority of people it will be entirely out of the question to think of going on pilgrimage to this Eucharistic Congress, everyone is called by the pope to join our sisters and brothers of the Korean Church in a journey spiritual towards deepening our understanding and devotion to Christ in the Eucharist as the source of peace. For, the theme of the Congress is: 'Christ Our Peace' (ct. Eph. 2:14).
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and centre of the Christian community's contribution to peace, for other, deeper reasons than merely for the practical consideration of having the facilities available as a result of the Olympic Games. As recently as 1984, Korea celebrated 200 years of Christianity. The Korean people can be rightly proud not only of this distinction, but also for the gift of faith to which their martyrs- the
On his return the first "house church" came into being - on the site where Seoul's MyongDong Cathederal now stands. They carried out the "sacraments" following the liturgical books they brought back 1,vuth them. Only years later, when properly ordained privisible Body of Christ and signifies the Bond of Peace. with the whole Church . That's why the Eucharist is called the Sacrament of Unity.
Official Congress Prayer Br Andrew tells of his experiences in Korea and Finland. est* were allowed to enter the country first from China, then from France, did they realise that, though acting in good faith, they needed the ordained ministry to become truly an eucharistic community and fully part of the Church. For the Eucharist, celebrated by ordained priests, integrates us into the
Cardinal: Truth will be healer SEOUL; (NC): — Cardinal Stephen Kim of Seoul said during a nationally televised Christmas midnight Mass that South Korea's social wounds would heal only after the truth behind the bloody 1980 Kwangju uprising and corruption in the government of former President Chun Doo Hwan is revealed. In May 1980, a violent antigovernment protest in Kwangju City, about 320 km south of Seoul, led to the death of hundreds of civilians as the Chun-controlled military crushed the demonstrations. Cardinal Kim also asserted during the Mass that fully forgiving Chun is needed before South Korean society can be truly peaceful. The cardinal also noted in the
Mass at Seoul's Myongdong Cathedral that the ruling Democratic Justice Party and the government itself were responsible for corruption of the Chun government. But he warned that any reprisal by the populace would prolong the cycle of violence that has afflicted South Korea since the early 1970s under the Park Chung Hee regime. The cardinal also said the International Eucharistic Congress to be held in Seoul October 7-9, 1989, would be a time for healing on the Korean peninsula, divided between the Communist North and the Western-allied South. He also referred to Pope John Paul II's description of Korea as a symbol of a divided world.
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"I am hoping that through inculturation we will come to know But Father Dino was each others' cultures. quick to point out that what he meant by the Knowledge will bring term ignorant was not better appreciation of that "they were stupid" each other," he said. but that "they did not Hence the book! know". He spent six months in Europe last year doing "The majority of the intensive studies and Australians are trapped research. in the reality that they don't know their neighHe makes no apology bours and they judge for his harsh stand at their neighbours. That's times because he says his where the real crunch sentiments are based on comes about. facts.
Inculturation: Option to Multiculturalism is an enlightening, easy-toread book. Except for a few backgrounders which may tend to be a little heavy, the reader will find the book pretty straightforward and sometimes hard-hitting. Yes. No punches are pulled!
Five hundred copies of his booklet have been produced and they will be distributed to priests and Catholic organisations, the university of WA as well as the MultiCultural Affairs department. Some have already been distributed. For Father Dino this is just the start. He plans more follow-up booklets.
But Fr Dino said in a matter-of-fact fashion that his book was not intended to create .-esentment.
Father Dino has worked as a journalist for a Scalabrinian publication in Sydney — the Messaggero.
Journey Starting from next week The Record will publish a series of articles from Father Dino's book. His work is a Compendium of ideas, suggestions, thoughts and reflections, to guide those who are interested to make a journey into Inculturation for a positive solution of Multiculturalism. He says Inculturation is indeed an option: a free choice with an ideal to pursue. This ideal may require a few more years to be
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achieved; however, he believes it is not an impassible dream. "What matters in this challenging option is to be free from scepticism or a sense of failure even before starting," he stresses. He says his book will try to examine the question: we will never reach unity in diversity, unless we firstly come to know each other's culture (= inculturation). In accepting a common brotherhood as the basis of our relationships, we
move forward to truly form one family, he says.
"My first assumption is that multiculturalism is not the solution but only the recognition of the presence of many cultures in a country; and that such a recognition, based solely on political, economic or even humanitarian reasons, is not solid enough for the proper building up of a harmonious society. "My second assumption is that only the Gospel message of Jesus Christ, if
rightly understood in its transculturality, is the true basis of a multicultural community where understanding. appreciation, mutual respect and encouragement to give the best as persons are the basic reasons of our relationships," he says.
He adds: "Our Australian identity will emerge out of this common effort; and as a Church, we Christians will truly be universal in the sharing de facto of the transculturality of Christ's message."
Enlightening — that Psalms it all By Dorn Francis Byrne OSB
A spiritually-enlightening weekend on the Psalms was held in the comparative peace and silence of the Benedictine Monastery at New Norcia last week. Twenty laity from Perth and Sr Agnes O'Connor, of the Sisters of the Infant Jesus in Lockridge, entered into the world of
the Old Testament to discover once again the depth of richness contained in the Davidic Psalms. Benedictine monk, Fr Kevin Long, who recently completed a degree course at Trinity College in Dublin, elucidated on the various types of Psalms, their wide-ranging emotional impact and their historical tradition in Jewish and Christian usage. Drawing on his own monastic and scholastic
background, Fr Long outlined to those attending the weekend how they could use the Psalms in their prayer life and in their approach to the world. The Monastery appeared the perfect backdrop to any discussion of the Psalms. The entire group took part in the chanting of the Psalms with the monks during the Divine Office. Fr Long outlined the role the Psalms played in
Jesus' own life and, especially, Psalm 22. The weekend was organised by the Mandorla Centre of Inner Peace, an
organisation which is having an incisive role to play in our twentiethcentury Church. Committee member, Mrs Pat Toohey, summed up the feelings of all the participants: "The weekend proved a most moving and spiritually-benefitting weekend."
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The Magi visiting the Christ Child for an epiphany do not get a media reception from a society exhausted from celebrating everything but the Birth of Jesus Christ. The Church nevertheless swims against the tide and elevates this curious event into the culmination of Jesus' Birth — the Epi-Phania, the presence of the Lord Jesus that has shattered the frontiers of history for two millennia. The Magi have an unfortunate title, suggesting that they are mixed up with trickery or deception practiced by magicians. The scriptural Magi, however, are the very opposite; they are the searching soul of humanity looking heavenwards for the pointers to human happiness. History has proven the Magi to be right. No matter how crass the commercialism, how superficial the partying, the restless nations have been celebrating not just the Birth at Bethlehem, but the Epiphany, the revelation of this event to us and our times. Across Western society, de-spi ritualised and de-spirited by its materialism and secularism, there is a Christmas cry from the heart that the message of Jesus' Birth is what the world needs, if only it could be make to stick — and without pain. Across the tracts of Asia to our north where Christianity has only a tenuous foothold so far, non-Christians look with curiosity at the antics of their Christian neighbours and join in with a bit of "christmas" jollity themselves. Have the Christians perhaps seen the star that they themselves have been searching the heavens for so long? Epi-Phany is the gospel signal that any childish piosity about the Manger of Bethlehem has to be put aside to face the reality of life. The platoons of Herod are on the march; there is no smooth ride for the message of Christ. The Holy Family will learn the sad truth of being refugees, exiled from their country, not wanted wherever they turn up. Twenty centuries later there are millions of refugees looking for a hovel in which to hide and nobody wants to know them. The Epiphany is a signal for the Church to study carefully the false and misleading stars that beckon modern society down paths that lead to nothingness and despair. The signals are seductive. With an election in the breeze politicians suddenly announce their own version of the good news that will gladden the hearts of the electors. As politics and business resumed last Tuesday we were hit with a barrage of announcements and decisions suggesting that over the Christmas and New Year break the government and public service had worked like beavers to make us so happy. Off stage a somewhat cynical public relations machine merely pinpointed the moment when announcements are likely to have the best impact. In the commercial world, the masses were softened up with blitz-like advertising suggesting that people are happiest when scrambling over each other to spend their money at department store sales — money, it is said, they don't have because tax cuts are delayed; money, it is said, they do not have because housing interest rates are too high . ! Yet commercial sales break all records. In the courts and marriage bureaus of the nations the families that were hailed at Christmas as the source of national richness will line up to be broken apart, and rematched; the children will be re-spliced with new step-parents, starting new trails of rejection and hopelessness amongst youth already confused about the happiness life is supposed to present. Epiphany was a symbolic seed that would later inspire the New Testament Church to break out of its Jewish ghetto and become a truly world religion across the reigning Roman empire. Across Australia's doorstep have come the products of that Christian diaspora — dozens of nationalities that have to be made welcome and part of the native parish communities. Epiphany 1989 is a call to the Church to announce that it has fixed on the true star of God's revealing love and to become ever more conscious of the number who do not yet know what Christ's message and love is all about.
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VATICAN CITY (NC): Pope John Paul II is the first non-Italian pope in 455 years, but this has not lifted papal responsibilities for directly guiding the Italian church. Besides being head of worldwide Catholicism, the Polish-born pope is also primate of Italy. He heads the country's oldest diocese, Rome. When Italians seek spiritual guidance and moral leadership, they still turn their ears towards St Peter's Square, even though the voice they hear is heavily accented. The same is true of Italian politicians and government leaders.
While they must deal directly with local bishops and officials of the bishops' conference on thorny problems, they know it is the pope they must ultimately convince. Italian bishops also are aware of the pope's influence. Their clout with the government and their own faithful is limited unless the pope is clearly behind them. The pope, during his 10 years in office, has relished his role as spiritual and moral leader, parading through Italy's major cities and hilltop villages to personally preach and teach the Gaspe!.
He has also tried to downplay his role -in Italian church-state issues, turning over more responsibilities to the bishops. However, circumstances in a country where 98 per cent of the 57 million population professes Catholicism often work against him. Also working against him is the unique situation in which Italy and the Vatican recognise each other as separate countries, although the Vatican is de facto nestled in the heart of Rome. This means that the pope periodically finds himself face to face with top Italian officials as
'No' to abortion appeal LONDON: A Catholic medical secretary who was dismissed from her job for refusing to write abortion referrals has lost her appeal in the House
of Lords. Mrs Barbara Janaway (pictured left), a mother
of three from Cadishead near Manchester, was asking for the right to be covered by the conscience clause of the 1967 Abortion Act, which allows medical staff to be exempted from taking part in abortions on religious grounds. The Lords rejected her appeal, saying the conscience clause is only applicable to medical, and not administrative, staff. She is considering appealing to the European Court. Mrs Janaway was dismissed by the Salford Area Health Authority for 'gross misconduct' for refusing to write letters referring women who wanted abortions to consultants. She said: "It might sound petty to some people, but having worked at the health centre and having seen people going off to have abortions and then seeing the same girls a couple of months later, full of guilt, coming to see the psychiatrists,I can see the harm it does.I am not trying to stop people having an abortion. That is their decision, but I think I should have the right to choose if I don't want to be involved in helping them do it." Procuring or helping to procure abortions is considered an excommunicable offence by the Church. Father Brendan Callaghan, principal of Heythrop College, said a medical secretary would not fall within the categories of those directly involved like nurses or doctors. "As far as I can see in Mrs Janaway's case, she followed her own conscience and in that her conduct was exemplary."
Price paid for faith LONDON: Young almost a dying race. The Catholic doctors are majority of young being forced out of the Catholics who want to fields of gynaecology, make a career for thempaediatrics and geriat- selves in medicine will rics because of their steer clear of obstetrics faith, according to the becii use they know they Master of the Guild of are going to be frustrated Catholic Doctors, Dr in getting on. John Gallagher. Dr Gallagher said: "The Abortion Act has made the Catholic gynaecologist and obstetrician
"It is also becoming more difficult for Catholic doctors to get into paediatrics because of the way new-horn
handicapped babies are often treated. Geriatrics may be becoming more difficult too as the idea of euthanasia becomes more popular." Latest figures reveal that 43,752 abortions were performed in England and Wales between April and June.
This marks an increase of 3.5 per cent (1,484 abortions) on the pre-
vious three months. For the last three years. every quarter has shown an increase in the number of abortions in England and Wales. The highest rate was in the age group 20-24 with 14,177 abortions. The next highest groups were aged 16-19 with 9,723 abortions and aged 25-29 with 9,111. There were 877 abortions performed
on girls under 16. More than 66 per cent of the women said they were single. Just over half of the abortions were performed between nine and 12 weeks of gestation and a third under nine weeks. The figures also reveal that 1,650 abortions were performed over 18 weeks, including eight at 25 weeks and over.
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cameramen and reporters wait to record the square-off between Italy's political and moral leadership. Usually, neither side avoids the temptation to get their views across. The latest occasion took place when new Italian Prime Minister De Mita made a protocol visit to the Vatican. The public exchange of speeches also highlighted the friendly, but often uneasy, relationship between the Church and De Mita's Christian Democratic Party. The Christian Democrats have dominated the Italian government since the end of World War IL While drawing their
inspiration from Catholic social teachings, the party also has had to respond to the growing secularisation sweeping Western Europe and the developed world in general. The result has been a party which generally protects Church moral and institutional interests, but which also bucks the Church to satisfy a clear political consensus. Under the Christian Democrats, Italy has legalised divorce and abortion. In each case the Vatican and the Italian bishops unsuccessfully fought the measures tooth and nail.
De Mita took the opportunity to outline the dilemmas faced by the Christian Democrats when secular values do not coincide with Catholic morality. There are people who, while fighting to save babies from starvation, favour legalised abortion, he said. At the same time, De Mita agreed with the pope that "politics cannot remain neutral or impartial when confronting the right to life of every person". "It is true that the decisions of persons should be respected and that science should be free. But to choose the road that these problems
are merely a private matter is not just," De Mita said.
The prime minister noted that under his leadership, Parliament has blocked efforts to legalise experiments on human embryos and established an Interdisciplinary committee to recommend legislation combining "scientific progress with respect for freedom and human dignity". The pope acknowledged the shifts on "moral questions" in a country where values no longer reflect the country's Christian history. Less than 25 per cent of Italian Catholics fulfill
the weekly Mass obligation. But he pledged to continue Church defence of "the sacredness of human life". He also pledged to continue working with government officials to promote national wellbeing based on "Christian values which belong to the spiritual and cultural patrimony of Italy". The exchange indicated that relations between the Church and the Christian Democrats will remain friendly, but uneasy. Even when the pope is Polish, Italy continues to be his parish.
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owners are personally reluctant to come in on Sunday. they fear they will lose business if they do not. This year, permission to open was even extended to the Immaculate Conception feast day, marking the first time the On the feast of the pope's Marian ceremony Immaculate Conception, was accompanied by the a state holiday, the sound of store grates Roman streets were full being opened. as crowds passed Opposing the movebrightly lit and crowded ment are clerks. many of stores full of Binori them young women, ceramics, leather jackets who recently appealed to by "Skin" and Benetton the pope for an "immesweaters. diate intervention" to Shopping bags bore protect the "right to such familiar fashion Sunday as a day of rest." names as Fendi and So far, neither the Cucci. Even McDonald's Vatican nor the local was doing a fast business. Church has given any To the cheers of some sign that it wants to store owners but to the become involved. dismay of clerks, holiday "For us, Christmas has shopping has arrived in become a time of division the Eternal City. from the family," the On Sundays, merchan- clerks complained. Some dising is winning out said the feast of the over Rome's sacrosanct Immaculate Conception habits of rest, the soccer was traditionally the day games and a family meal. when the Christmas A grass-roots move- creche and tree were put ment of shopkeepers has up at home. convinced city officials to "The religious issue is a make Sunday opening pretext," said Gianni optional during Riposeti, a leader of the December and four other Sunday opening months of the tourist movement. year. "We live in the 20th While many shop century. Today, nobody
ROME (NC):- On his way back to the Vatican from Rome's Spanish Steps, where he laid a traditional basket of flowers at a statue of the Madonna, Pope John ll might have noticed something odd through his limousine window.
thinks we're committing a sin by opening on Sunday. Let's not mix the sacred and the profane," Riposati said. Riposati, who runs a food store near the Trevi Fountain. said he counts among his Sunday customers US seminarians who, he says, are grateful to find his shop open.
His association is pushing to make Sunday opening a possibility all year long, instead of only during the Christmas and tourist seasons. Officially. Sunday opening is optional. But as one shoe store owner put it, "It's not really optional if the shoe store across the street is open." In a city where competition is fierce and many shops are still family operations, this often means that a few people must put in longer hours. Vatican officials, however, might be less than scandalised at the development. For years. religious souvenir shops around Vatican City have taken advantage of a special city law enabling them to do business on Sundays, when thousands of visitors come to hear the pope's Angelus.
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MOSCOW: A Soviet mag-
azine has begun publishing the New Testament as a serial insert. The monthly magazine The World of Books recently ran its initial instalment, the first eight chapters of St Matthew's Gospel.
The insert can be detached and later bound with the other parts to make a complete book of the New Testament.
In a preface to the first part of the series, noted Soviet philologist Sergei Agrintzev said knowl-
edge of the life of Christ was essential in order to understand European culture. He also said that the country's museum visitors were incapable of understanding many works inspired by the Gospel tradition.
VATICAN CITY: The world's bishops are growing older and more numerous with the median age rising to 64. A Vatican statistical portrait of the ageing of the world's bishops aLso reveals that the number of bishops under 50 is declining in -relation to the number over 65. The 14-page survey compares the statistics for the two years 1987 and 1978. It shows that in the past 10 years Africa's bishops have remained the youngest and that Europe and North America have the oldest bishop populations. In the 10 years surveyed the number of bishops rose 10 per cent from 3708 to 4071. Whereas the median age was previously 61.6 years, it is now 64.1. The median age is the point where there is an equal number of bishops on either side. The African median age was 56.5 in 1978, rising to 59.5 in 1987. Europe's rose from 64.8 to 67. Oceania, including Australia, rose from 59.4 to 61.5.
The Vatican report noted however, that the median age for bishops in charge of dioceses was lower than for bishops as a whole. In 1978 the median age for ordinaries was 58.9 and in 1987 60.9.
It showed that in the first nine years of John Paul II's pontificate the age of bishops at the time of their appointment rose slightly.
Pope's new appointment COLOGNE: Notwithstanding alleged opposition from the cathedral chapter, Pope John Paul has appointed Cardinal Meisner of Berlin to be archbishop of Cologne. It is 14 months since Cardinal Hoffner died and reports say that the 16 member chapter could not agree on the names submitted by the Vatican and which included Cardinal Meisner at the top. By terms of a 1929 concordat with the Vatican the Cologne chapter has the right to vet the names proposed by Rome. All three names proposed were supposed to be too conservative for Cologne's progressive tastes. The matter was further complicated by Cologne archdiocese including the Federal capital Bonn and the appointment having some political implications. Cardinal Meisner, 55, was in charge of the difficult Berlin diocese, covering East and West. since 1980.
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Set for the big move
The Centre care offices which will be taken over by the CMC.
The present office of the Catholic Migrant Centre. The Catholic Migrant Centre is getting ready to move into a bigger office — just next door.
So come March 1989 the CMC will occupy Nos 25 and 27 Victoria Square.
The current office at house No 29, Victoria Square, has been found to he a little too small for the centre's operations.
Nos 25 and 27 are now being used by Centrecare, another Catholic Church service, which will move to Hay Street.
The CMC has been running its business for the last six years at No 29. With the workload increasing and with a new computer system installed, it was felt that a bigger office will help enhance the working
conditions of the staff as well as provide a better service to migrant and refugees.
Gerald Searle, said: "It will be just a few paces away from where we are currently operating from 7pm.
CMC's services to migrants and refugees has increased tremendously over the years. CMC director, Mr
"The move. to a bigger office is necessary. We have found space in our present office a little tight."
C ATHOLIC MIGRANT Mr Gerald Searle, said the report gave "too much CENTRE support to the dissident voice, the racists, antiAsian, anti-migrant, anti-multicultural IS HALF advocates." The Catholic Migrant Centre accepted just 47 HAPPY, of the 73 recommendations listed in the Fitzgerald Report. SAYS ITS Observed Mr Searle: "The Fitzgerald Report DIRECTOR commits a grevious sin of omission by not
highlighting enough the benefits of immigration
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In a foreword of the CMC's annual report he said:
"I compliment the staff for their continued commitment and dedication to the welfare of all those who approach the centre seeking their assistance." He particularly thanked Mr Searle for the direction and initiative he has provided to his staff.
Fitzgerald Report The Catholic Migrant Centre is just about half happy with the recommendations of the Fitzgerald Report. In his annual report, the director of the CMC,
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Meanwhile, Mr David McKenna, chairman of the CMC's board of management paid tribute to the work done by the centre.
and multiculturism. "The Fitzgerald Report should have shown clearly the tremendous contribution, economically, socially and culturally that migrants have made to Australia." Mr Searle said he was deeply saddened and angry at the recent display of racial prejudice against Asians. "The Catholic Migrant Centre's staff are very concerned with the apathy with which racist movements are allowed to incite racial hatred and get away with it." He agreed with Prime Minister Hawke and others who have condemned an immigration
A year of growth and development, he says The foreword by Mr David McKenna, chairman of CMC's of Board Management: "The past year has again been one of growth and development for the Catholic Migrant Centre. "During the year there has been a focus in the community on and immigration multiculturalism and this has resulted in a number of consultaand tions submissions. Catholic "The Centre Migrant through its staff has
responded in participating in the consultations and contributing to the submission. "The submission to the committee to advise on Australia's immigration policy (CAAIP) is but one example of the contribution made by the centre. "It is a contribution which land my Board members consider to be particularly important having regard to the immigration debate which has been raging in the general community. "The staff of the
Catholic Migrant Centre have also continued to respond to the needs of its clients and communities in the provision of welfare services. 'The annual report demonstrates that the workload has again grown and I compliment the staff for their continued commitment and dedication to the welfare of all those who approach the Centre seeking their assistance. "The acquisition of a computer system and the impending relocation to the new and
larger premises in Victoria Square will greater enhance the working conditions of staff and improve the quality of their services to migrants and refugees. "I would like to particularly thank the director of the Catholic Migrant Centre, Gerald Searle, for the direction and initiative that he has provided to his staff and the centre generally. "Iam also pleased to note the arrival during the year of the Scalabrinian Fathers,
Father Dino Torresan and Father Luigi Serena. "Father Dino is a member of the Board and has worked closely with the director of the Catholic Migrant Centre in ensuring the spiritual as well as the material needs of migrants and refugees are satisfied. "The Board acknowledges the patronage of His Grace, Archbishop W.K. Foley under whose mandate we operate and to whom this report is submitted."
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comes under fire policy that discriminates on the grounds of race. He said much needed to be done to educate "ourselves to acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to live satisfying lives in a culturally diverse society." He called on both the Government and the churches to be more deeply involved in community education. CMC made a number of submissions during the year regarding multiculturism. The one to the Office of Multicultural Affairs was for the National Agenda for a multicultural Australia.
The CMC endorsed the policy of multiculturalism and the submission was based on the following principles: • Equality in dignity and worth of all cultures. • Each individual, regardless of colour or culture is of intrinsic worth. • Acceptance of and respect for cultural and religious diversity. • Everyone has the right to cultural expression and maintenance. • Social cohesion in a multicultural society will call for compromise, give and take, and mutual respect between cultures.
Hectic year for staff Members of the Catholic Migrant Centre staff were up to their necks with work last year. Besides their normal duties of counselling and helping migrants and refustaff the gees, attended a total of 174 meetings. It meant that they attended meeting related to their work once every two days. Some of the meetings attended were
the Catholic Social Welfare Review Committee, Migrant Welfare Workers AssociaCentral tion, Employment Services Migrant Advisory WA Committee, Council of the Aged, just to mention a few. Besides, the staff was also involved in several community projects such as: a • Organising Christmas Party for over 300 refugees, setting up refugee accomodation.
• Assisting the Filipino Welfare Committee with it community projects. • Coordinating migrant chaplaincies. • Providing consultancy for small communities such as Koreans, South Africans, Cambodians, etc. • Translating CMC's brochures into SpanVietnamese, ish, Khmer and Farsi.
• Providing a personal loan fund for migrants and refugees who cannot get access to banks and financial institutions. • Employment training courses such as curtain making, sewing and data entry. • Spanish ethnic school. A few members of the staff did personal development courses while some attended workshops, seminars and conferences.
Network for 'war' children The Catholic Migrant Centre has developed networks both locally and internationally to assist them in tracing parents and relatives of many "war" children. After the war, many children, some orphans.
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Celebrating the fact that we are By Fr Robert KINAST I was visiting a classmate on my way back from a Christmas vacation. We were comparing notes about our first years in the priesthood and somehow we got around to the next day's feast — Epiphany. I still remember what he said, laughingly but with a weary sigh. "Epiphany, the anticlimax of Christmas. Thank God we don't make as much out of it as the Eastern Rite Catholics do.I just couldn't take another major celebration on the heels of Christmas."
When I asked why, he replied: "After weeks of watching third-graders trying to be angels and deciding whether one more poinsettia plant could fit around the crib in the sanctuary, I don't need three kings and their camels. There's enough going on at Christmas." His comment got me to thinking. And I have the feeling that if there's enough going on at Christmas, there's not enough going on when we celebrate Epiphany. In our Western liturgical tradition, as my class-
mate pointed out, Epiphany has become a kind of anticlimax to Christmas. That's unfortunate. The
Eastern Rites give more importance to Epiphany
because they remember what it means. Epiphany celebrates the fact that Jesus' birth is also for the sake of the gentiles — and that's what most of us are. Epiphany is really our Christmas. It is our time to rejoice that Jesus, who
came to fulfil promises made to the Jewish people, includes us in that fulfillment. Like the visiting magi, at Epiphany we are invited to take our place in the presence of the Saviour. Where do we find Jesus? That's where the magi have another lesson to teach us.
If they wer really astrologers, as is frequently believed, hey were drawn to Jesus by following thEir own profession. The) r knowledge of the stars led them to the Saviour.
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xi,$ONS Epiphany suggests that Jesus is available to us and draws ta.; to him through the very occupations which mike up our lives and our v-orld.
Briefly...
Factory workers and corporation executives, soldiers and homemak-
ers, clerks and entrepreneurs, teachers and artists, social workers and doctors, inventors and farmers, recreation workers and government officials, union leaders and athletes — all can come streaming to the Lord along the path of
their own profession. Like the astrologers, we do not come emptyhanded. We bring the fruits of our labour, the value of our efforts, the meaning of our lives. These are not primarily material objects (like gold and incense and myrrh) but precious achievements like: Love between spouses or between parents and children.
Justice between workers and employers. Truth between teachers and students, elected officials and citizens, artists and audiences. This doesn't happen automatically. We can be thrown off course, lose sight of our purpose, be distracted by other demands. The astrologers faced these challenges too and they must for prayed have guidance. They were certainly helped by their colleagues in Jerusalem and warned to avoid Herod. But they never lost
confidence in their profession and knowledge and skill as a vehicle through which the Lord would draw them to himself. When the Lord "appeared" (the literal meaning of the Greek work "epiphany"), it was within a definite time and place and culture and people. But his appearance was intended for all and was meant to draw from every way of life we can create. The Epiphany is not just for kings or astrologers. It certainly isn't an anticlimax to Christmas. It celebrates the fact that we are taking our places, in the context of our own lives, in the presence of the Saviour.
taking our places in His presence
Epiphany may seem a little anticlimactic, coming as it does on the heels of Christmas. But Epiphany "celebrates the fact that Jesus' birth is also for the sake of the Gentile — and that's what most of us are," writes Father Robert Kinast. "Epiphany is really our Christmas."
All about Epiphany
I arrived in Rome the day before Epiphany to discover the local residents were still doing their Christmas shopping — complete with slender Italian versions of Santa Claus.
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By Father Herbert WEBER
scene — that is, if the crib The place was staffed by hasn't already been put volunteers and provided after-school programs for away until next year. For those who have the children of the After a few moments observing the holiday made this year's Christ- neighbourhood. It also festivities, I recalled that mas a spiritual event, was a gathering place for for much of the world, however, this celebration adults who were preparincluding Rome, the day on the Church's c.alendar ing for the high school graduate exam, a clearof gift giving is Epiphany, is filled with meaning. inghouse for possible job not Christmas. Epiphany, marking the openings and the place to Although there was a manifestation of Jesus to order grocery items for a time when Epiphany the world, is symbolised food co-op. was viewed as the "little by the three magi. But The little centre, operatChristmas" or the finale their task of making Jesus of the 12 days of Christ- visible to others goes on ing on the lowest of mas, for most Americans through efforts by people budgets, was a vital part of the life of all those the feast of Epiphany is of goodwill. now little more than the Some years ago I visited trying to improve their day to put the magi a small storefront, drop- situation. figurines into the manger in centre of a large city. As an outreach pro-
gram of the local Catholi(. Church, the centre also was the primary place where many people came into contact with the church. As a volunteer indicated, the centre was a reminder that Jesus was just as much among today's poor as among the poor of New Testament times. His presence was manifested in the message of hope that the storefront centre delivered to those who help wanted to
DISCUSSION POINTS The magi who visit the newborn Jesus lay eyes on the Saviour, writes Father Robert Kinast. But how do people today "lay eyes on" the Saviour? At the time of the feast of Epiphany, think about how Jesus is manifested to people today. What does the word "epiphany" actually mean? Frequently on the Epiphany attention turns to the magi who brings gifts to the newborn Jesus. Why are they recalled at this time? What is their significance? What are some ways people make Jesus present in the lives of others, according to Father Herbert Weber and Jane Wolford Hughes?
themselves.
...and living in that spirit
Susan was 37 when she began to study nursing. She left her beloved husband to live in a room in our neighborhood. It was a short walk to the hospital, which had awarded her a study grant.
ability to fix anything with moving parts. For two years the couple wrote each other daily and spaced their phone calls to once a month. She journeyed home only for Christmas.
Steve, her husband, To many their life seemed remained in a small town strange, almost harsh. That halfway across the coun- is, it seemed that way until try perfecting his skill you understood that their with engines. He was rare generosity of spirit was considered a legend of fueled by a dream: to sorts in his own com- become missionaries. "Steve and I are just munity because of his 8 The Record, January 5, 1989
ordinary people." she explained to me. "we've done nothing special with our lives but we know God's people need help." "It's up to us to be the best we can," she added. "Steve is a natural 'fixer' and I think I'm a healer, but I need to be able to do more than hold the suffering person's hand." Susan's practically took her into nursing. But prior to her courses, Susan's education had been sketchy. So it was necessary for her
The secret is out that is the message of Epiphany: There is good news and it should be shared with everyone. The circumstances of Jesus' birth were quiet, secluded in an unimposing stable. Yet, we are told, his birth will quickly be made known — to simple shepards near at hand and visiting dignitaries from far away places.
to immerse herself in study. To save money she ate her meals at the hospital and she was Spartan about hospital social activities. In the beginning, her younger classmates dismissed her as a fanatic. But as they came into closer contact, her sweetness of spirit drew them. They would tutor her before tests in subjects where she was weak. But working directly with patients it was their turn to observe.
Susan's compassion and selflessness tucked those who were ill into a sense of security and hope. She had the capacity to totally concentrate on her patients. As soon as Susan graduated, she returned to Steve to sell their house and possessions. Sixteen years ago they went to remote islands of the South Pacific to work. They were to serve with the Peace Corps as well as with
Not every manifestation complained, he k pad of Jesus is as dramatic as Jesus' presence woul -1 be the drop-in centre. But, conveyed througl a as in the case of the message of cornpass )n. strong individuals running that program, it is So hope and corn )asoften people who help sion manifest the presmake Jesus visible to the ence of Christ to this world. But so toes world. acceptance. A man told me he became a physical thera- Our parish has begun pist in order to work with an effort by which the crippled and injured university students who are with us nine months people in the spirit of "adopted" Jesus' physical healings. of the year are residents. by year-round What he soon learned in interacting with patients Families invited the was that the restoration college men and women of bodily wholeness was to be with them for only part of what many Sunday worship, selool needed. events of their children or whatever activities can By trying to be a good listener and offering be done together. patience when his clients In the same way. the
By Jane Wilford HUGHES various religous orders. They still are there. Susan's life is a lovesong to her husband as well as to her God. Four years ago Steve was incapacitated by a stroke which robbed him of his gift to repair broken-down, chugging, hissing motors. Though confined to a wheelchair, he accompanies Susan on her rounds. "He is a wonderful listener and is always surrounded by people wherever I work," Susan writes. "Sometimes.
the elders invite him to their meeting." "We do not think we will ever come back," she wrote in her last letter. "This is our home and these are our people." The couple's dream has been realized. They are living in the spirit of Epiphany — manifesting Jesus to thousands of people. Susan and Steve. who refused to be shackled by what they considered their ordinariness, have achieved a grandeur few can match.
university students share their programs, introduce their new "families" to roommates and friends or invite the families to football and basketball games. Often the students are proud to introduce their surrogate families to their real parents who are delighted to know there is someone for their sons and daughters while they are away from home.
From the moment of his birth, we discover that we are dealing with someone whose reach is long. This is someone who cannot be confined. He makes himself known, makes himself available to all. Here is someone whose message, and more than a message, his very life, are to be shared beyond the usual limits we might attach to our sharing. Jesus is one who will unsettle our customary notions of sharing. He will expand our sights and firm up whatever grasp we had of the bonds that exist among the members of the human family. In the yule season of gift giving, we realise — perpaps a bit unconsciously at times — that it is Jesus who is the real gift given to us. we accept this gift as "ours". Actually, Jesus will topple our images of what a gift ought to be. For though this gift is ours, it is not our pocession.
Jesus is a gill of another kind — a gift meant to be shared broadly. In light of Jesus, we realise that this is the purpose of all our best gifts. Jesus — whose manifestation to the world is celebrated on Epiphany — is one who cannot be tied down by geography or language or customs or class or color. So, while the members of his body gather together to celebrate their life in Him, and truly have their life together. the purpose of their gatherings is not to shut themselves away from others. They always depart from these celebrations to go into the world and make Jesus known. Because of Jesus. people find that their view of "others" is changed. The people of another culture or class are people who have the capacity to hear the good news about Jesus and, having heard it, to reflect it back to us in fresh ways that may enrich our own understanding. So, the secret of Jesus is out. Actually, it is meant to be out — to be gotten out to the whole world. Jesus. manifested to the world, is drawing people toward himself. As he does so. they are discovering that the ties among them are deeper and firmer than they ever imagined.
one another — including those at different stages of life development — that is developing from this effort. In a tangible way, Epiphany is a manifestation of Christ as one who unifies through acceptance. The magi brought gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh, as they arrived and laid eyes on the Saviour of the world.
In the modern-day celebration of Epiphany, even more valuable commodities, like hope, compassion and acceptance, open the doors for much Even more important, of the world to lay eyes however, is the renewed on Jesus made visible in sense of acceptance of his people.
The program has brought together many members of the two important bodies of our parish.
The feast of the Epiphany is symbolised by the three magi. people of goodwill" today, writes Father Herbert Weber.
task of making Jesus visible to others goes on through efforts by
Bringing Jesus to the Gentiles
Petm. and Paul had a rathcr heated encounter at Antkich. It iccurred right after the so-called Jerusalem Conference where Paul was dven the green light to ac :ept gentiles into the Chriitian communities with )ut requiring that they become Jews as well
Sholly thereafter Peter visited Antioch, a culturally mixed community and cen10 of the gentile mission.
Being highly esteemed, Peter received and accepteo all sorts of invitations to dine, both with Jewish and gentile Christians. But then some diehard Jewish Christians showed up and Peter stopped accepting gentile invitations. Paul was furious, saying publicly to Peter: "If you, though a Jew. are living like a gentile and not like a Jew. how can you compel the gentiles to live like Jews?" (Galations 2:14).
At issue in Antioch was a basic question, one which almost tore the Church apart before it even got started. All the first Christians, including Paul. were devout Jews. Even after committing themselves to Christ they frequented the synagogue, the Jewish observed calender, ate a Kosher diet. Then, in the city of Antioch. Greek-speaking Jewish Christians reached out to the gentiles. This was disturbing to some back in
By Father John C ASTELOT Jerusalem. so Barnabas was dispatched to investigate the situation. Fortunately Barnabas. a rock -solid member of the community, gave the venture his blessing (Acts 11:1926). Still the problem persisted. The original Christians could not even imagine a non-JewishChristianity, a Christianity apart from
Judaism. Many vigorously demanded that gentiles become Jews if they wanted to be Christians. They failed to take into account the deep cultural differences betweeen themselves and other peoples. They also failed to recognise that gentiles could worship the God of the Jews and become Christians because the basic truth of Christianity transcended all cultures. The transition from a strictly Jewish church to a
multicultural one was painful, traumatic even for the early Christians. But Paul stuck to his guns, insisting on the freedom of Christians from cultural restraints: "There is neither few nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free person. there is not male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" (Galations 3:28). A peaceful and respectful coexistence of the two main groups in one community seems to have been achieved
'by the time a disciple of Paul's wrote the letter to the Ephesians. Speaking of Christ, he wrote: "For He is our peace, He who made both one and broke down the dividing wall of enmity, through His flesh He came and preached peace to you who were far off and those who were near, for through Him we both had access in one Spirit to the Father" (Ephesians 2:1418).
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Focus on the ACR
Big 'thank you' to the Australian Church
"As 1988 draws to a close, the work of ACR and its Partner Agencies continues," said Whiteley, Michael National Director of Australian Catholic Relief (ACR). "ACR is very appreciative of the support from the Australian Church this year, not only in responding to news of disasters, but the regular month-bymonth support of our activities," said Mr Whiteley. "The floods and cyclone in Bangladesh were a major disaster. But there were also the floods in Pakistan, and in cyclone the December affected millions of people in India also," he said. "Disasters certainly provide a focus to which people can respond — exercising true compassion in recognising in those that suffer, our brothers and sisters. This was done not only for the people of Bangladesh, but also for those affected by severe storms in the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Tonga; floods in Kenya and Sudan; droughts in
Northern Africa, and of course the victims of the earthquake in Armenia. "Aside from the disasters, ACR's regular work continues, and for this ACR needs funds not allocated specifically to any geographical area. Of great concern to us has been the plight of the people of Mozambique, millions of whom have had to leave their homes to find a place of refuge. "During 1988, refugees from rural areas and towns arrived in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique or travelled to neighbouring countries. Our major program for Mozambican refugees has been through CADEC, the relief and development agency of the Catholic Bishops' Conference in Zimbabwe. "A recent report from CADEC indicates that a variety of programs are being conducted in the refugee camps. While food was in short supply in April, CADEC has managed to ensure that shortfalls have been covered in the following months. CADEC
has initiated supple- This war is continumentary feeding pro- ing, but at long last grams for children, as there are signs of hope. most arrive in the "While no cease-fire camps at 80% or less has yet been declared, than their ideal it has been agreed by weight. The Zimbab- the opposing forces Associated that a settlement must wean Womens' Clubs have be negotiated. War of helped to organise any kind is not only a various activities for tragedy for human the children, includ- beings, but is debilitating music, dancing ing for the national and games. economy, and the civil "Access to water is a wars of Northern major problem, and Africa are no excepthe Mozambicans are tion. There are at last doing the labour to signs that some food is construct a water being airlifted into reservoir and piping to Southern Sudan, and the camps. Sanitation for this we are very facilities are gradually thankful as all news being made adequate. reports to this office As well as the provi- indicate that this has sion for material needs been a tragedy of of shelter, food and immense proportions. clothing, CADEC have "But aside from the also sought, and response to disasters found, staff to care and crisis situations pastorally for the ACR and our Partner refugees. agencies continue our "For a short time, our regular activities. news focussed on the Throughout Africa, floods in Khartoum, Asia and the Pacific Sudan, as millions people are working were made 'shelter- together to achieve less' — and I say common goals. shelterless, as most already were refugees "And within Austrafrom the war in the lia, ACR is very consouth of Sudan and scious of the need to they had already lost continue its developeducation their homes and most ment of their belongings. activities.
Brother's stopover
During a recent stop- by the many letters over in Australia, that I received, Brother Anthony Rogers expressing in such visited the offices of meaningful words the "In 1989 we mark Australian Catholic that came from your 25th Anniversary of Relief (ACR). Brother hearts, your solidarity. Project Compassion Rogers has been The many readers of Australian recently released from the ACR News mentiand Catholic Relief, and we detention in Malaysia. oned that they had hope to use this Anninewspaper read about my predicThe versary time as an headline of October, ament and felt moved occasion to be thank- 1987 — "Malaysian to share with me some ful for what has been arrests" told of the words of consolation. achieved, but also to inclusion of Brother It is unbelievable reflect on how we Anthony in a sweep of how messages of love move into the next 25 detentions in transcend borders years. Malaysia. and bring hearts "During these 25 In all, 119 people together. years our understand- were detained at that For me, these were ing of the nature of time. Brother Anthony all signs of the Auspoverty has changed, is the Assistant Direc- tralian Catholic as has our working tor of ACR's partner, Response — a sign of with the National Office for the Church becoming relationship overseas agencies. Human Development/ alive and sensitive to "ACR has recently Catholic Welfare Ser- the world that lacks participated in the vices and is Secretary compassion and love. General Assembly of to the Federation of My conviction that the Pacific Partner- Asian Bishops' we can help each ship for Human Devel- Conferences. other to live out the opment. At this Approximately one Gospel has been conAssembly, it was year after his arrest. firmed through my repeatedly noted that Brother Anthony has association with the it is only that as we been released, his Australian Church, develop close working freedom curtailed by via ACR's solidarity relationships with some restrictions. with the Asia Partnereach other, do we for Human ship Brother Anthony begin to understand Development. that he was each other's problems. indicated My stay here in very moved by the "All the staff at ACR letters, prayers and Australia has been are thankful for the expressions of concern very fruitful and I opportunity to work from the Church in have begun to underfor the Church in Australia. stand the signs of hope Australia, and with alive in the Church. letters that said He the Church overseas, especially in my confor still arriving were and we thank all tact with the staff and him at the prison, and Australian Catholics members of ACR. as to were passed on they who support us in him by the authorities. well as the members these activities." Many letters, he said, of the Australian contained stories of Catholic Social Justice suffering and were a Council. real "reaching out" of A very special percompassion. Letters sonal "thank you" to from children were all of you. also very moving, he Brother Anthony has over the last three said. now returned to years . . . The counBrother Anthony left Malaysia. Michael tryside has become the following letter Whiteley, ACR's totally without life. with ACR Director National People have been notes: "It is good that Dear Friends. dislodged from their I would like to take the Church in Austrahouses and villages . . . houses have this opportunity while lia has had an opporbeen burnt down . . . being here in your tunity to share in this properties looted or country to share with ministry of love to destroyed . . . In fact, you a few thoughts. Brother Rogers. We to attempt to live in First of all my sincere should continue to the countryside is to thanks to the many support him, and the expose oneself to persons in your coun- work of the Church in death, either by who have shown Asia, in our prayers try bullets or of actions such care and con- and starvation . ." solidarity." cern.Iwas so touched
Help for displaced people Recent press and TV coverage from the Sudan highlight the latest tragedy that has struck this beleaguered nation. The floods, caused by 200mm of rain in less than 24 hours, are only the latest in a series of problems that have faced the Sudanese in recent years. The effects of drought, locusts and civil war in the South
have meant that Church agencies in the Sudan have been busy for a number of years. In a report received by ACR in June, it was estimated that, at that time, there were 1.5 million refugees living in squatter camps around the capital city of Khartoum. It is now reported that half of these camps have been swept away in the
floods and over a million people have been made homeless. People made homeless by the civil war have now been made shelterless by the floods. Even before these floods, the Archdiocese of Khartoum was requesting assistance to cope with the
constantly-increasing number of refugees, people who had fled the civil war in the
South. The Archdiocese had taken responsibility to provide food, clothing, medicines and some schooling for the children. A report, with a request for assistance, from the Archdiocese notes: "The civil war in the Southern Sudan has caused untold damage there, especially
$800,000 channelled to Sudanaid
The Australian Catholic Relief has channelled over $800,000 to Sudanaid over the past five years — including $150,000 in 1988 — to purchase medical supplies and food. Sudan's problems were compounded by disastrous floods in the capital, Khartoum, in August. Virtually the
entire city, which is located on the Nile, was inundated. A recent report to ACR from Khartoum reveals that Sudanaid has been active in helping flood victims with temporary housing and blankets. In addition, 4500 tonnes of grain have been
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distributed to the neediest families — mostly refugees from the South. A "breakfast feeding program" has been organised for pre-school age children, and plans are being drawn up for assistance with the construction of low-cost housing.
The worst effects of the flooding have now disappeared from Khartoum, except in the outlying areas populated by refugees. The steady supply of clean drinking water by Sudanaid has been invaluable in preventing the outbreak of disease. Assistance for the com-
munities in the South. cut off by the war, is more difficult. Relief convoys by road and by river-barge have been attacked. At present a barge-train. laden with 2000 tonnes of Sudanaid food, is waiting for an opportunity to steam southward to
Malakal, which has been cut off since March of this year. Against this background, the peace agreement, however limited, has been greeted with acclaim. Some elements in the Government are still opposed to it, but the
majority have agreed that there is a need for a negotiated settlement of this dispute.
The priority now is for a cease-fire to be established. If this can be arranged and sustained, then relief supplies will be able to be taken into the south.
Priest who cheated death
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THANKS TO HIS SEAT BELT Saved by a seat belt in a roll-over car accident en route to Broome near the Derby turn-off, Father Dan O'Donovan is lucky to be alive. Being unconscious for a week hasn't dimmed his mental alertness either, although accident details will remain buried in the past. That was the last week in September. Expert attention by the Derby medical team produced excellent results, according to Father Dan's Perth orthopaedic surgeon and shipped down here a week after the accident. Father Dan has spent quite a bit of time in Sir Charles Gairdner hospital. He may be down — with a severe leg injury — but he's not "out" by a long shot. Author of two books already, both published by Spectrum, The Well (1980) and The Wedding Feast (1984), he is writing yet another. It is a spiritual book on the significance of the wounds of Padre Pio, which he sees as a meditation on the Church, and should be ready for publication in two to three years time, he said. After a recuperating period here in Perth, Father Dan will return to Fitzroy Crossing (an outpost of the Derby parish) in his capacity as Administrator. Originally from West Cork, Ireland, Father Dan came to Australia in 1962 and lived as a Cistercian Monk teaching theology until 1972 when he answered an appeal put out by the Benedictines, to help in Kulumburu. During this time a Benedictine Union was being organised as it was considered they were all brother monks following the Order of St Benedict. "So I went to New Norcia for a month and then on to Kulumburu until 1974, under the New Norcia regime." Answering another call for help as a supply for the Pallotine's La Grange mis-
sion, he relieved there for four months, onto Halls Creek for a similar period, back to La Grange and then on to Derby. In late November 1976 while supplying at Lombardina, Father Dan decided to have a look at the hermitage of his late friend Father Richard Crotty. It was a little paperbark hut overlooking Thomas Bay on the Dampier Peninsula, slightly north of Lombardina Mission. Built by the Aboriginal people for Father Crotty in 1967. it was now ravaged by time and its paperbark covering was brittle from the elements. Despite its aescetic sparseness, it drew Father Dan "and I felt God was calling me to spend a few years of quiet there as a hermit, which is in line with our monastic tradition". Permission to live as a hermit was obtained and given by Bishop Jobst and he moved there in March 1977. The first week there was memorable not only because of the feast of the Immaculate Conception — but he was hit by a cyclone. The hut remained intact but the roof was torn off and he was deluged by torrents of rain. There wasn't much left (apart from Father Dan), with only the paperback walls and the sandy floor. The next morning tramping over the sand hills was Father Peter Murray with his big bushy beard and four other people, all carrying supplies on their shoulders, and relieved to find Father Dan unscathed, apart from hungry, wet and relatively homeless! With the help of a lay missionary friend, a new bloodwood roof was put on, the humpy restructured and ultimately galvanised discarded sheeting put around the walls. It now consisted of a sleeping room, a little laundry and a tiny side room. Cooking took place on an open fire out-
side but with a spartan existence and thus very little food, not much cooking took place. The water supply wasn't good and consisted of dirty water drawn up by a windmill in a disused cattle yard, in which frolicked frogs and anything else which happened to drown there. Guided by Aboriginal advice that there used to be an old soak they used to use down near the beach, Father Dan started digging with the aid of an old rusty shovel head he'd found. He dug steadily for three weeks to a depth of three metres with the constant threat of the sand tumbling in again down the makeshift shaft of galvanised iron sheets bolted together to hold the sand back. Spurred on by hope for cleaner water and faith, his shovel scraped up against metal. "The sand became wetter and sloppier and then with the metallic sound, I became excited and gradually found the outline of an old drum which the Bardi people had sunk years and years ago. "I worked on and found another. And after cleaning them both out from accumulated sand, I tasted such sweet water with a slight taste of leaves." This then became Father's water source and also for irrigating his vegetable garden. During the time of Father Crotty's hermit years. he had with him the original tabernacle brought out from France by the Trappists who were the first missioners to Beagle Bay in 1892. Upon his death. Bishop Jobst had reclaimed it and given it to the Christian Brothers who installed it in their college at Nulungu, Broome. Prior to its installation, it was brought down to Perth for a clean up and a lock test. vis The lock
deemed to be such perfect workmanship, that a replacement was considered unnecessary, despite its antiquity. A visit from Bishop Jobst suggested Father Dan could help out at Kulumburu if he wished, so returning to the people he had always loved, he went back and then onto Fitzroy Crossing in late 1984, where he has been ever since. Some of his Aboriginal friends from there have visited him during his lengthy hospitalisation in Perth and he also is deeply grateful to the St John of God Sisters "who have been like Angels of Light to me and visited daily.
Fr Dan O'Donovan resting in hospital. opinion in which Father Dan contributes articles and poems. "I am attempting to compose a theological idiom; which is at once Aboriginal and Christian. "Of course it is only Aborigines themselves who are able to accomplish this work." he says, "but we others can still suggest avenues in understanding."
"Sister Ita in particular, who used to be in the north in the infant health field." Father Dan believes the main effort of his life "is in the inter cultural area of Aboriginal religious culture and the Gospel. Where and how the t wo meet." He writes in the quarterly MSC's review Nelen Yubu, published in Darwin, which is a forum of
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There had been a significant swing in attitudes in 1988 against abortion, the , Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide said on the feast of the Holy Innocents, December 28.
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right to life and love and care in our community." Archbishop Faulkner also said statements by the SA Health Commission consistently ignored the fundamental right of the unborn baby to life and love. "A spokesman for the Health Commission said in November (The Advertiser, Nov 26, 1988) a wide range of services
sure from the consequences of an unwanted pregnancy. "The resources of our community should be at their disposal. "But abortion is not the answer," Archbishop Faulkner said.
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Purely Protestant... from Mrs Doris MARTYR, Attadale Sir, The article "Community Feeling", (The Record December 15) ought not to be allowed to pass without comment, lest readers be misled into liturgical practices outside the mind of the Church. It refers to the celebration of home Masses as "friends and neighbours coming together to share a meal in remembrance of our Saviour." This is a purely Protestant concept, and devalues the majesty of the Catholic Mass. Our Mass is not merely a meal or a memorial service. It is a sacred representation, a making present on our altars, of the total Paschal Mystery. It cost the Lord his life on the terrible altar of the Cross, and only at that price do we celebrate and share his resurrection. It is his eternal Gift to us, and to ensure it is celebrated for all time, Our Lord instituted for his Church the sacrament of a sacrificing, ordained priesthood.
The article also says, "Idiosyncracies of a particular home are emphasised during the sharing of the home mass, including the wonders present in the room or garden — whether this be pictures, window design or the floral arrangement." Reference is also made to the use of "home made bread-. In the same issue Archbishop Foley says in his Christmas message, "Making their 5 yearly visit to Rome, the Australian Bishops expressed their communion with the Successor of St Peter . . Presumably this communion with Rome extends into the proper disciplinary jurisdiction of the Vicar of Christ, including rubrical matters about the celebration Mass. (Incidentally these include the prohibition of female altar servers and liturgical dancing for Mass, and excessive use of special ministers of the Eucharist). So our Bishops would wish the use of "home made bread" to be taken with
great care, for the Church has prudent requirements for the type of bread that will become Christ's living body. As to the "idiosyncracies . being mentioned in the Mass, these raise a similar problem. There is a specific instruction from the Vatican that no one can, without permission, change one word of the Mass as laid down. This must limit the inclusion of such matters only to the Prayers of the Faithful. The reason for all this is in the basic theology of what the Catholic Mass is. Our Mass — Christ's Paschal sacrifice and sacrament — does not "belong" to the parish or group present, to be celebrated ad lib. It belongs to Christ's Church. The parish community is only fully with its Lord when it is entirely at one with the Church in this, her official act of worship of her Lord and Redeemer. It is to guard this wholeness that the Church lays down liturgical and rubrical norms for us all, and when we
depart from them, even for devout reasons, we break this wholeness of Catholic worship. Properly celebrated, the whole of the Mass, from the formality of the procession and liturgical greetings to the final blessing, emphasises this ageless universality. Improperly celebrated, it is no longer universal or one. Cardinal Ratzinger has written some magnificent, luminously beautiful material on the Mass and the Blessed Eucharist. Perhaps if some of our schools and study groups could study it, we would be led to an enrichment of understanding of what we Catholics have in the Mass and our Catholic priesthood. Hopefully this would stop the noticeable trend among Catholics to disregard the need for a state of grace for the proper reception of Holy Communion, to treat the Mass as a meal, the Blessed Eucharist as bread and our priests as social workers.
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University There has always been a place for the disabled in Catholic youth groups. This has been so and will always be the case as far as I am concerned. It is indeed pleasing to note that we have always opened our doors to the disabled. Of course, I can only speak for the Catholic youth — they being part and parcel of my current religious involvement as chaplain of the Youth Apostolate. I dare say that real efforts have been made to integrate the disabled and the normal in social activities. We will continue to strive towards this end. However. I am not disputing the often heard comment that we (the Perth folk) are far behind most advanced countries where integration of the normal and disabled are concerned. Working toward this "mix" is really not an easy task. The disabled can pose problems for others. But with patience and understanding we
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should overcome these hurdles. Loving, caring and sharing are the key words. With these three little words in mind everything should fall into place. The disabled are sometimes difficult to handle and could well upset a top evening. But if we succeed in making them comfortable and wanted the benefits derived will far outweigh the inconvenience caused to the rest. Ido not think it is a good idea locking up all the disabled in one building with someone to keep an eye. In fact I think that is a negative approach and somewhat selfish. We have often heard people saying that the degree of civilisation of a society is measured by the degree of care that is shown to those unable to look after themselves. I'm delighted that many local groups of CPY, Antioch, Charis and the Jocist movements do encourage and care for
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Cynthia Fenton, Andrea Bradford, Mark Gee, Phil Morellini and (front) Anita Downs, travelled all the way from Bunbury to take part in the CYC Youth Rally. young people that do not fit the 'norm'. I was pleased that earlier this year the people from Emmanuel were involved in the Youth Catholic Conference. In the very first Antioch group that started in 1982 there was a young person who was mentally disabled. That
young person found companionship and acceptance from his peers to a level that really surprised me. • Young people can be very generous. Jesus asks us to look after the broken and injured. I hope your group is among those who will respond to this call.
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1. New Year's Eve at the Irish Club in Subiaco was a rip roaring affair! So much so, it was downright difficult to get photographs (with a body of more than 600 souls bent on living it up), let alone names! However people on these pages are representative of those who had a ball and sang, danced and drank the New Year in with great gusto. All without discord, an ugly scene or trouble of any kind which is great credit to the standard of staff and patrons. 2. One cute dancer among many was Cathy Ross dancing with her mother. 3. More friendly folks! 4. Special vote to Judy, this lovely young lady who although blind, brought her dog along, both undaunted by the large crowds. Top marks for courage Judy!! 5. Between the advertising, the Irish palate and the reason to celebrate, Guinness and Murphy's breweries did very well indeed!
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"Nick was terrified of that chain. In his delerium he tossed and turned and the chain pulled him up short and bit into his leg," she said. "He begged me to get it off and when I had to tell him all my efforts failed, he said in despair: 'No hope'." Mrs Searcy aims to bring hope to other prisoners: to ensure all prisoners — Aboriginal and white alike — get immediate medical care, which she sees as the right of any person, and that they be protected from wilful ill-treatment. Mrs Searcy, an executive member of the Christian Justice Association in Western Australia, has counted deaths in Western Australia of 35 whites and 34 blacks in custody in the last eight years. A former senior lecturer in maths and science, she has become a cult figure for those who believe in better treatment of people in custody.
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lonely campaign over the death of her son. The death of Nicholas Searcy is now the centre of national attention. As Nicholas Searcy, an outstanding student of Murdoch University, lay dying at the age of 25 years, chained to a hospital bed with a prison warder guarding him, his mother Jennifer promised that she would change things so no one would have to undergo what he had to endure. Mrs Searcy had dedicated her life since Nicholas died, on January 4, 1987, to a remarkable one-woman campaign to stop jails continually flouting the UN Convention on Human Rights by abusing prisoners even to the point of death. Nicholas, a brilliant scholar who had qualified for medicine at the age of 14, a poet and sculptor, was arrested in late 1986 when rushing to get medical help for a severe acid burn. He was charged with driving without a licence and jailed for 14 days. He contracted encephalitis in jail, was untreated for days and was thrown solitary into confinement. When he was finally sent to hospital dangerously ill, the superintendent ordered he be chained to the bed and guarded.
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