The Record Newspaper 26 January 1989

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At their A quinas College celebration on Monday night, convalescent heart patient Brother Vincent Duffy (right) got some good advice on how to cut the jubilee cake from diamond jubilarian Brother Baptist Healy (left) and the other two local golden jubilarians Brothers Bruno Doyle and Patrick O'Doherty.

Long periods of service to Clontarf, Castledare, Bindoon and Tardun establishments were praised at Monday night's jubilee celebrations for local Christian Brothers.

BROTHER BRUNO DOYLE, with a younger brother already a Christian Brother and another brother to become a priest, had spent three years at Melbourne's St Vincent's Orphanage before starting his 10 year stint at Clontarf. six of them as superior.

It was at the height of the Christian Brothers migrant youth program and he was to follow many of them to his next six-year posting as superior of Keaney College Bindoon.

Three years later he would pick up the threads again when he became superior for six years at Tardun agricultural college, returning to Bindoon yet again for another three year term as superior.

In his retirement in 1989 he will be back at his familiar Clontarf surroundings again.

BROTHER PATRICK O'DOHERTY who has spent only four later

years in his native state of Queensland got his early start at Clontarf in 1948, moving six years later to become head of Castledare, returning to Clontarf in the wake of Brother Doyle in 1960

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and following him again as superior in Bindoon in 1966.

For seven years he was director of vocations before returning to Mount Isa for three years as superior.

In 1989 he returns again to Clontarf as superior with teaching duties at Trinity where he has taught for the past four years.

BROTHER VINCENT DUFFY has been att-

ached to St Pat's Gerald- The other years were ton for 17 years with an spent at a number of States earlier 12 years at Aqui- Eastern nas College and two appointments. years at Fremantle as BROTHER BAPTIST part of his Christian HEALY, who has taught Brother service to his in several Western Ausnative Western Australia. tralian schools is on a

diamond jubilee visit from his posting at the order's Rome generalate house.

Next month he celebrates in his native Adelaide his 60 years as a Christian Brother.

CATHOLICS ATTACK EXECUTION OF MOST HATED MAN ORLANDO, (Florida).

(NC): Although many cheered Florida's execution of notorious sex murderer Theodore R. Bundy, a Florida Catholic Conference official said no crime deserves the death penalty.

The strong statewide support for Bundy's execution underscored the fact that the 42-yearold former law student was "probably the most hated guy on death row", said Thomas A. Horkan Jr, executive director of the Florida Catholic A Cathedral priest Conference.

But, said Horkan, even spokes man said it was no reason for elation but "the terrible nature of his time to kneel down and crime doesn't make the death penalty right". The pray.

When serial killer Catholic bishops of FlorBundy was executed at ida have repeatedly Florida State Prison in stated their opposition to Starke shortly after 7am, the death penalty.

Officially, the reason a crowd waiting at the prison gate cheered and Bundy was put to death was for the 1978 sex applauded. of 12-year-old murder Drivers of passing cars Leach in Lake Kimberly honked their support for the execution, and a City, less than 90km smaller-than-usual con- from the prison in tingent of capital punish- Starke.

But he was also under ment opponents gathered for a protest death senxtence for the savage beating-murder of vigil.

two Florida State Univer- rage over the nature of sity coeds that same year, Bundy's crimes led to a and he was accused or carnival-like atmosphere suspected of similar sex in the days before his murders or disappearan- death. ces of 35 young women Father Robert Baker of in the West and St Augustine Cathedral Northwest. in St Augustine said the Over the weekend "sideshow" surrounding before his execution, he the execution "alarms confessed to more than me personally. I don't 20 murders and said his find this. . . execution a spree of violence in the reason for elation".

1970s had its origins in a Rather, he said, "it teenage fascination with pornography. should be a time to get Bundy's death by elec- down on our knees and trocution was the 20th pray". execution in Florida "A man's death is a since 1979, when use of sacred experience," said the death penalty the priest, who had been resumed in the state with Jeffrey Joseph following changes in Daugherty, a Catholic, capital punishment laws shortly before Daugherty mandated by the US was executed at Starke Supreme Court. last November.

In a state where as Horkan said it did not much as three-fourths of the population supports s urprise him when capital punishment, out- Bundy, in an interview

before his execution, said that a teenage addiction to pornography had led him to explore more violent pornography and then murder.

He said that however horrible Bundy's crimes were, the state could serve justice and protect society by instituting life imprisonment without parole as a substitute for the death penalty. Such an approach would foster greater respect for human life, he said.

"It was wrong when Ted Bundy killed his victims.

It is wrong when society kills Bundy," Horkan said.

"We kill criminals to teach other people not to kill," he said. "So we kill them, and they kill us, and we kill them, and they kill us. And everybody seems to like that."

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Monsignor John Thomas McMahon walked this earth for the best part of a century and almost 70 of those years as a Catholic priest.

Yet he had scaled the heights of his most acclaimed accomplishments within the first two decades of his career and comfortably basked in that reputation for the decades that followed.

Not without an eye to posterity, his claims to justifiable fame are fortuitously chronicled by no less than himself in snatches of his prolific writing.

With elfish modesty he did not shrink from turning stories of his times into appealing

Fuel for zeal yarns around himself as the engaging central character.

His 28 yews of colourful memories of places and personalities in his loved Ireland became fuel for the zeal with which he would tackle his causes in his adopted Australian setting after arriving in 1921.

After his appreciated schooling by the Christian Brothers in Ennis he pressed his mother for a chance at the university life after which he hankered and a year at University College Dublin in 1912-13 gave him his tastes for learning and letters with a special bent for education and especially religious education.

During his All Hallows seminary theology course he crammed what

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Four years Editor Church appeared to be doing little.

The Castledare venture was born.

As editor of The Record (for four years) Dr McMahon turned the project into the fundraising "cause celebre" of the Catholic community and on the opening day 5000 people crowded the distant Cannington sandplains.

It was unfortunately an idea 50 years ahead of its time.

Few Catholics wanted to admit their children needed such care, dubbed rather curiously as for "sub-normals".

The archdiocese had to cut its financial losses and pass the project over to the Christian Brothers who had partnered its early idealism at the

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being the first Australian to study there.

It opened doors into that university's graduate school of social studies to which he obtained scholarships for three West Australian women who made their later mark nationally in their fields.

Now with his new American degree, "Doctor" McMahon was not shy about what he had achieved for these women and for another West Australian Goldfields discovery, the world class pianist Eileen Joyce.

Returning from the USA he brought yet another concern, for the Catholic retarded children for whom the

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he admitted was a gruel- own education — a new man Society within the ling try at the Diploma of professional confidence University of WA. Higher Education even in what they were doing. If there were rumblings to scurrying back and It went through the in the Protestant estabforth across Dublin to annual conferences, lishment at this precoput in the necessary seminars and eventually cious gesture, they had practice teaching. to the admission of been swept aside by McMahon's It was the springboard religious to the state Father developing friendships for his post-ordination teaching colleges.

Masters degree with first He spotted immediately with university personalclass honours and which the religious teaching ities at every level. subsequently that Catholic children he From the first Newman unblushingly persuaded were not getting in the Society Sunday obserthe fledgling University wheatbelt and timber vance in 1924, the forof WA to re-confer on towns and he coaxed tress was surely him shortly after his hard worked nuns into broached in 1930 on the arrival in Perth. providing religion cor- first -ever University respondence courses but Sunday as the gowned He confesses that his Fremantle arrival during even these he found were senior ranks of the UWA marched behind a a mid-February heat short of their goal. wave, the barren vista of A personal touch was Catholic archbishop in the drive along Stirling needed. cappa magna, into the Highway, the hot sleepCatholic cathedral for He admits the temerity less nights and mosqui- with which in 1924 he Solemn High Mass. toes at Victoria Square brought a hundred counThere was yet another told him he was now far try "Bushy" children, as string to his university from his soft, loved bow. The Newman Ireland, and homesick.

Society would support But his irrepressible the establishment of a spirit immediately took Catholic Newman resiheart from the wide dential college. network of Irish priests, A site acquired from the brothers, nuns and laity university slipped once with whom to exchange through the Catholic his banter and repartee. fingers before it was He was at home. acquired again and What the embattled turned into the St Thonuns and brothers in the mas More College proschool thought of this ject dear to McMahon's young priest fresh out of heart.

Dublin and ready to He was now riding high teach them how to suck old as 16, to the delion the honour he had Hotel Brighton cenced eggs in religious educaof being tion is not recorded but (on the present Sun- secured appointed to the UWA site) downer for an can be imagined.

As the newly appointed intensive religion course Senate in 1934 and to be inspector of schools, he at the nearby Loreto held for 27 years before being finally crowned plunged first into the campus. with an honorary D.Litt.

A better idealist than nest of Christian BrothNot everyone in the ers, Mercy and Loreto manager, he depended schools in the Cathedral on his many benefactors university today will parish to which he was to foot the bill and later appreciates the subtlety Bushies Schools would with which he finally attached.

His wit, charm and be based in schools and donated to the university charisma were winning convents closer to their a commemorative plinth bearing none other than the day when in 1924 the local parishes.

But he was also to find the emblem of the Holy first conference of reliSpirit in conjunction gious teachers, at Loreto. that the Perth effort put Adelaide Terrace, would his ideas in the vanguard with its motto Seek be photographed with of what was happening Wisdom. inspectors from the state in places such as the After only five years in outback of the US. education department.

WA, Archbishop Clune had secured for the rising Father McMahon had With his Dublin-found McMahon a free place at his own ideas on how love of Cardinal Newthe Washington Catholic religion should be taught man in his heart Father University graduate to youngsters but his McMahon set his sights School of Education. He deeper concern was on what he claimed was made every opportunity clearly to give the his other most rewarding of the doors that were Catholic religious — achievement, the creaopened to him and of his struggling with their tion of a Catholic New-

CAIRNS: The Aboriginal and Islander Catholic Council (AICC), at its inaugural national conference, set up a working party to plan an Australiawide lay organisation in response to challenges to them by Pope John Paul.

The 200 delegates, from all States and Territories,

By Chief Reporter RAY OWEN in The Catholic Leader also left the Cairns conference with commitments to concrete action to help their people at home, with the problem of alcohol on top of their agenda, along with black deaths in custody, described as "a blight on Australia".

Ms Rosemary Graham, of Brisbane, president of the AICC in Queensland, said the pope had challenged Aboriginal and Islander Catholics during his 1986 visit to participate fully in the life of the Church.

"We responded this

week by setting up a working party to plan for a national Aboriginal and Islander Catholic organisation by 1991," she said.

In reports to conference from diocesan and other groups, the most consistent theme was the spirit-

A first for Sister Patronai

WEWAK, (Papua New Guinea): Decked first in grass skirt and shell decorations, Sister Patronai Gawi became the first Papua New Guinean to be finally professed as a Sister of Mercy as she changed into religious garb during a ceremony in her village of Avatip.

The ceremony took place in a church built of bush materials in East Sepik province by the villagers specially for the occasion. More than 50 of them took part in a four-day retreat preparing for the ceremony.

Guests had to travel in a convoy of canoes to reach the village.

Sister Patronai was 12 before she met her first nun, an inspector who visited the village's community school. During her time at Mercy College at Yarabos she became a Catholic.

She will continue teaching at one of the largest schools in Wewak.

The Mercy Sisters' PNG superior said nine other PNG women had made their profession this year and four more had asked to become postulants.

— The Catholic Leader

SENSE OF HUMOUR John of behest McMahon.

Faces were changing at the Victoria Square cathedral presbytery where a young Redmond Prendiville — only a first year All Hallows seminarian when McMahon had been ordained — was administrator and seemingly on an upward path.

In 1932 it was time for McMahon to look parishwards — to South Perth that was still a backwater reached by ferry or long tram rides but close enough for his many interests.

Within the first five of his 47 years there as parish priest Dr McMahon had not only built an enviable presbytery but his showplace church of St Columba.

He would defy the gothic and pseudo-gothic styles that entrapped Perth church buildings and borrow some of the Californian Mission ideas he had picked up in the United States.

The soon-to-be-built Clontarf chapel would borrow some ideas from South Perth.

The South Perth church and the university would become yet another vehicle for McMahon entrepreneurship; the introduction to Perth of the stained glass of Dublin artist Richard King.

In a happy conjunction McMahon's lifelong friend and sparring partner Edward Moss of Nedlands fame had secured the funds for an otherwise ordinary brick chapel at St Thomas More College and McMahon's vision had found the inspiration to turn its windows into one of Australia's artistic highlights.

Assuming more the role of the patriarch than the impatient achiever Monsignor McMahon was now out of the school system that had been rapidly expanded under

the regime of Archbishop Prendiville, but the name of Dr McMahon had given an enduring colour and flare to education Catholic across two decades both in the minds of the teachers and the thousands of pupils who had experienced him in the classroom.

He watched the phenomenal sales across Australia and overseas of Pray The Mass, an idea he launched in WA schools as early as 1923 and which produced probably the most literate missal-users that could have been found anywhere in those days.

Monsignor McMahon used his own love and reverential recitation of

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name dropping the Mass as the centrepoint of making this complex theology simple to understand by both teacher and pupil alike.

At the funeral homily Archbishop Foley noted Monsignor McMahon's skill at meeting people of every walk of life, and his taking special joy in making contact with the great.

It was with an innocent vanity with which he would drop the names of a De Valera from whom he learned Maths, a Mannix he met during the Irish trouble of 1920, a Murdoch of UWA fame, or even an autographed photograph of Bing Crosby.

A family connection through his mother brought him close to his fellow Clare-man Archbishop Clune with

The late Monsignor McMahon with a late edition of his legendary Pray The Mass. whom he travelled widely and famously in the 1920s and later.

McMahon was relish to the full opportunities that came from living in an archbishop's house and entourage for the first 10 years of his life.

With just a hint of seriousness he would jest to priest friends that he had been overlooked as the up and coming future archbishop of Perth.

By standards of educational flare, creativity, oratory affability and all round urbanity John McMahon was probably entitled to aspire to the task but providence was to decide otherwise.

Instead, he cultivated

publicly the friendships he enjoyed with the succession of archbishops under whom he served and of dozens of other famous clerics and others whose photographs littered his study.

Monsignor McMahon at 95 proves to be no less mortal than any other but he will one day be an interesting chapter in a remarkable period of change and development in the Church of WA. In his writings he was too cautious to tell the real warts-and-all version of the struggles that went on behind the scenes.

He was, and wrote as the perpetual optimist

challenge uality of Aboriginal people and its importance to them.

Alcohol also emerged as a major issue, with deaths in custody and police violence to Aboriginal and Islander people.

Groups reporting to the plenarysession on their plans for action at home said they would attempt to set up Alanon and

other alcohol programs.

Others committed themselves to monthly Masses, incorporating Aboriginal culture, reflecting the emphasis on spirituality.

Black deaths in custody and police violence came up throughout the conference, said Ms Graham.

"Throughout the con-

and thus went into his twilight convinced that the best one could do for God was to put a good face on all He allowed us to do.

May he rest in peace.

GOROKA, (Papua New Guinea): Next month the new bishop of Goroka will be ordained by the same Divine Word Missionary who ordained him a priest 12 years ago.

Father Ntarai. 39, will be the first local bishop from the Papua New Guinea mainland. He will be ordained by Archbishop Leo Arlcveld SVD, who "put him to school" and supported him the seminary.

Father Marai has been vicar general of Wewak diocese since 1985 and has been heavily involved in the renewal of the church there.

He has played a large role in the diocesan pastoral plan launched in 1982, emphasising the church as a "communion".

He said this would help him in Goroka diocese which has more than 40 religious denominations and where Catholics are in a minority.

— The Catholic Leader

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"The result was that all delegates and the four bishops and the many priests and Religious there pledged united support for eliminating this blight on Australia."

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Guest Editorial The TABLET London (For the northern hemisphere Church Unity Octave January 18-25) Some of those prominent in the ecumenical movement today, from various Churches, speak of a dark night of the soul now afflicting the big ecumenical dialogues.

The most sustained effort since the Reformation to bring the Churches back together is encountering huge difficulties.

A t the local level the spirit of ecumenism is alive and well: the danger here is of a split between parishes and leaders, between formal theory and informal practice.

In the present papacy a landmark has been the interest taken by other Christian Churches in the potential of the Petrine ministry, aroused in part by an awareness of John Paul II's power as an evangelist.

This should surely now be a focus of attention in Rome: it would be tragic if at the very moment that such a response was gathering, a centralism which is not in accord with Vatican II were to torpedo it.

In this papacy the focus of ecumenical endeavour is on the East, but however far East Rome may look, the problem is the same: the Orthodox are more resistant than anyone to Rome centralism, and the dialogue with them is not going well.

Unless Catholic authority can be clearly perceived to be exercised collegially — and at present it is not thus perceived — ecumenism will fatter.

The setback to the dialogue with the Anglican Communion arises from equally deepseated causes. Archbishop Ramsey's pledged commitment to the recovery of full organic unity has not yet been followed by any modification of Henry VIII's principle of the autonomy of each province — but this makes that sort of unity structurally impossible.

The role of Anglicism as a bridge Communion between Rome and the Reformation was recognised in Vatican ll's decree on ecumenism which stated that among the Churches which issued from the Reformation with some Catholic traditions and institutions intact, -the Anglican Communion occupies a specialplace-.

That is not in Rome's eyes a perpetual guarantee, and if, as seems certain, parts of the Anglican Communion now proceed to ordain women bishops, it could be set aside.

That would have the effect of evening out the level of Rome's negotiating approach to all the Western Churches, which would not be without its advantages in bringing the challenge of the Reformation heritage right into the centre, but a bitter blow wouldhave been struck to the hopes raised by the pathfinding work of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission.

A lternatively, the rate of progress in the Anglican-Catholic dialogue could be different places, with the consequent danger of detaching parts of the Anglican Communion and threatening its continued existence as a whole.

A t local level, however, the development of communion, koinonia, now a key concept for Catholic understanding of the nature of the Church, runs strongly.

This is more than negotiation: it is a joint discovery of Bible and tradition, a joint reception of the gifts of grace and faith. In recognition that the way forward lies through this process, the British Council of Churches is to be recast in new shape as an enabling instrument — a very rare example of a bureaucracy prepared to go out of existence to advance its fundamental objective.

The prejudice of division has to be met with fellowship in devotion, bringing alive Christ's promise that "where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am Iin the midst of them".

Ecumenism moves ahead wherever that experience is being furthered and shared, so as to witness to a divided world.

"Lead Thou me on. I do not ask to see the distant scene", Newman said. "One step enough for me."

However clouded the ecumenical prospect there is always everywhere that one step to take, and the great achievements of the past 20 years enable it still to be taken.

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Bingo! When you know the lingo OR HOW CHURCH PLAYED PART IN QUAKE VATICAN CITY (NC): When a devastating struck earthquake Armenia in early December, Vatican officials wanted to help but didn't know how. For them, as for most of the Catholic Church, the Caucasian republic was a largely unknown and inaccessible place on the far side of Soviet bureaucracy.

But just one week later, members of a Catholic relief team, including a Vatican official, were hiking through the muddy streets of Spitalc, Armenia's worst-hit city.

After witnessing the destruction firsthand, they sat down with local authorities to help plan a rebuilding effort.

Their eight-day visit highlighted what might be one of the most unexpected results on the tremor: a new chapter of Catholic cooperation with the Armenian church and government.

Much of what happened, and the speed at which it happened, depended on the personal efforts of a 33-yearold Italian priest, Father Claudio Gugerotti, who heads the "Armenian desk" at the Vatican's for Congregation Eastern-rite Churches.

Because he speaks Armenian fluently, and

because he was friends with the Soviet consul in Rome — who is, by coincidence, an Armenian — Father Gugerotti was able to cut through the usual red tape with a single phone call to the consul.

He lined up entry permits for himself and t wo officials of Caritas, the Catholic charity and relief organisation.

In the end, the Soviet Embassy in Rome picked up the tab for most of the trip, Father Gugerotti said.

Mons Giuseppe Pasini, the director of Italian Caritas who made the trip, said the group was operating without its usual "point of reference" — a local Catholic Church in the stricken area.

In addition, it was the first emergency relief effort directed toward the Soviet Union.

In setting up a relief program he said, Caritas had to first address the delicate problem of who would distribute the funds.

To their surprise, Mons Pasini said, the group received guarantees from local government officials that the Armenian Orthodox Church would have complete control over the aid.

The pope's donation of $100,000 was one of the first things mentioned by the Armenian Orthodox patriarch, Vasken I, when he greeted the Catholic team.

"He thought at first that this was all we were able to give," Mons Pasini recalled.

Caritas now plans to have about $20 million ready by the time the Armenian delegation shows up at the Vatican in February, much of it from special collections taken during Christmas time.

In fact, one Armenian official, mindful of possible corruption at other bureaucratic levels, told them that using the church as a direct channel was "the safest way for us, too".

"The authorities themselves insisted that aid go through the Armenian church," Father Gugerotti confirmed.

"This is important. The Soviet policy in general is to keep religion isolated inside the church buildings. But with a main role in the rebuilding effort, the Armenian church will become a protagonist in social life," Father Gugerotti said.

"It opens up very interesting prospects," he added. Ironically, the Armenian church might have to put off the scheduled reopening of some closed churches, a recent concession under the Soviet restructuring policy of "perestroika", in favour of the relief efforts for an estimated 500,000 homeless.

The current plan is for the Armenian church, with its own lay architects and engineers, to draw up specific reconstruction projects — for homes, schools, hospitals and churches — and submit them to Caritas Intemationalis during a meeting at the Vatican on February 24.

Caritas will then decide which projects it can fund.

The Catholic experts will no doubt make more trips to Armenia as the rebuilding goes ahead.

It would be nice if they could some day make contact with the tens of thousands of Catholics still believed to live in the Republic, Father Gugerotti said.

"But that would never be a condition for aid. We would never want relief to turn into blackmail," he said.

Soviet Meanwhile, openness to church help

was seen in related episodes.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta, in Moscow to open a home for the sick after a 13-month waiting period, was given permission to open a similar centre for children in Armenia in a matter of days, said Mons Pasini, who spoke with Mother Teresa there.

"A month ago, these kinds of contacts would have been impossible," said Father Gugerotti.

"One sees clearly that it is always charity that wipes out every form of division," he added. "In the midst of tremendous suffering, the doors opened up."

Pope John Paul II has taken a keen interest in all this, according to those involved.

In a dinner meeting with Father Gugerotti and Mons Pasini. the pope asked detailed questions about their trip and wanted to know how he could do more to help, Father Gugerotti said.

The pope also met with Mother Teresa at the end of December when she came to Rome from the Soviet Union.

"In a way, this is a seen as opening up the whole country to the concept of 'solidarity', which is so dear to the pope," said Mons Pasini.

Priestly formation the theme VATICAN CITY (NC): Priestly formation is the theme selected by Pope John Paul II for the next world Synod of Bishops.

The title of the 1990 synod will be Priests and Their Formation in the Modern World.

The month-long synod will take place at the Vatican from Sept 30 to Oct 28, 1990. It will be the eighth ordinary synod since the gather-

trigs were instituted by tives of local bishops' Pope Paul VI in 1965. conferences and papal The last ordinary synod, appointees. in 1987, dealt with the Synods are collegial mission of the laity in the gatherings which make church and the world. non-binding recommenAn apostolic exhortadations unless otherwise tion by the pope on that instructed by the pope. theme and reflecting the Themes are chosen recommendations of the which are of universal 230 synod delegates is interest and pastoral in expected to be published. nature.

Ordinary synods occur Past synod topics have every three years and are attended by representa- been:

• The preservation and strengthening of the Catholic faith (1967).

• The priesthood and justice in the world (1971).

• Evangelisation (1974).

• Catec.hetics (1977).

• The family (1980).

• Penance and reconciliation (1983).

• The mission of the laity (1987).

In addition, two extraor-

dinary synods were also called. In 1969 an extraordinary synod discussed pope-bishop relations and collegiality.

In 1985 an extraordinary synod examined the fruits of the Second Vatican Council 20 years after its conclusion.

Later this year a preparatory document for the 1990 synod will be sent by the Vatican to the bishops' conferences.

CHICAGO: A Chicago court has ordered FEL Publications to restore more than 50 copyrights to composer Ray Repp, noted for his liturgical songs of the 1960s.

FEL are contesting the decision and an injunction ordering them not to accept money from parishes for Repp's songs.

"My music was probably 95 per cent of the songs involved," Repp said, "so a lot of people assumed that Ray Repp was pursuing the lawsuit.

"The one good thing about the Chicago lawsuit," he said. "was that it raised consciousness of people about the rights of church musicians to protect and he paid for their work."

The copyrights in question cover 1965 to 1969 and include such as Allelu,I am the resurrection, Peace My Friends, Here We Are, and Here 0 Lord.

Repp said his efforts to introduce new songs over the past 10 years had been a struggle partly because his name was associated with the action FEL brought against Chicago archdiocese in 1976.

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VILNIUS (Lithuania): The widely reported and unprecedented arrangement for a Vatican Christmas telecast to Lithuania ROME: The Ukrainian did not materialise on Catholic Church may be local channels and no one legalised in Russia in seems to know why. three to five years The program had been according to a Rome requested by the Soviets based Ukrainian Vatican official. the and announced that midFather Ivan Dacko bases night Mass from St optimism on recent his Peter's and next day's between gs meetin Urbi Et Orbi address by and bishops ian Ukrain the pope had been . authorities Moscow beamed into Lithuania He pointed out that and transmitted there. five Catholic when However, only Lithuaeight priests and bishops the near nians living outlawed the from Polish border got the ministry a met rch chu television broadcasts, official for three hours he from Polish television. look to mised The only program on pro iously into grievances ser Lithuanian television they put in front of him. was a Christmas Eve Two of the bishops have Mass celebrated at the church of St Therese in since had further meetVilnius by an archdioce- ings and other meetings are planned. san official.

On the other hand, The Catholic bishops references by Pope John have made it clear that Paul to the Armenian although they are loyal to earthquake in his Urbi the Soviet regime they do and Orbi speech were not recognise the 1946 reported on Soviet news synod that forced their along with television church underground by pictures of him speaking c ompulsorily uniting from the balcony of St Catholics into the Peter's.

Orthodox church.

The Italian network "The overwhelming RAI, which handles the majority of Ukrainian Vatican transmission Catholics remained loyal only beams to East to their church. These European countries believers demonstrate specifically when that their faith is alive requested to do so. and deep by gathering

UKRAINIAN CHURCH MAY BE LEGALISED possible long-term solution reportedly being discussed was a Soviet decision to allow the Ukrainian church a special status in western Ukraine, but not the eastern part of the republic.

The Ukrainian Catholic Church was never strong in eastern Ukraine, he said, but has been so in the West.

In the meantime, he said, Some Ukrainian bishops are moving more freely, traveling to other "Catholic" republics like Lithuania and Latvia.

Ukrainian Eastern-rite Catholic liturgies, officially illegal, are now Gorbachev . . . wants to preserve system. celebrated by bishops local the of aware fully a for prayer even without semipriests priest," the bishops' problem." Father Dacko and to according publicly, said. declaration said. sources other Ukrainian that noted Dacko The declaration corn-. Father in Rome. plained that while local in November several met "I do not idealise MikOrthodox communities Ukrainian bishops are routinely registered, in Lvov, the Ukrainian hail Gorbachev," Father Ukrainian Catholics are church's major archdio- Dacko said. "He is a "fined and persecuted." It cese, in a planning communist and he wants offered to present evi- session for the future but to preserve the system. dence to back up the local authorities came But I think that in three into the house during the to five years the Ukrainassertions. meeting and disbanded ian church will be "The officials in Mosit. legalised," he said. cow said they never the ting Complica He emphasised that heard of this discrimination before. I don't think Ukrainian church's sta- pressure from the West is that's true, but it's very tus is the opposition of seen as having a real important to point out some Orthodox leaders effect on Moscow's attitude toward the Ukrainthat the authorities in to legalisation, he said.

Father Dacko said one ian Church.

Moscow are not always

Soviets praised 'SIGNIFICANT POLITICAL CHANGES'

ROME (NC): The Vatican's No. 2 official has praised the political changes in the Soviet Union, saying they have produced significant progress in establishing meaningful Church dialogue with the communist superpower.

"We are always ready to dialogue. What was lacking was a partner. Now a partner exists," said Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, Vatican secretary of state, referring to Soviet Mikhail leader Gorbachev.

The cardinal also spoke of situations in Cuba, Czechoslovakia and North Korea.

• He said a "de facto channel" has existed for Soviet-Vatican contacts, but no formal channel has been established yet.

He did not say what the "de facto" channel is.

its ideological isolation "We have a channel Gorbachev plans a restrictions, but it is of maintaining its while the analyse to difficult visit.

November before existed which framework of overall on have could this effect which can still be of Regarding Cuba, Cardicreating a Marxist service, a 'de facto' nal Casaroli said advan- Catholics.

"The Catholic presence society. channel," he said. ces are being made He said the Church dialogue is not very big. I believe Prospects for the future through a critical approach the takes to went many that "are not negative" between the local little to capitalism and regarding Vatican-Soviet bishops and Cuban south. We have com- communism. news of Catholic authorities. talks, he said. munities in North The question the in , "The episcopacy Italian news stories Korea," he said.

Church asks is: "In what have speculated that the accord with the Holy See, The cardinal spoke in measure are these two "de facto" channel could is the most concrete hope Rome's Holy Apostles systems open to transforbe the Soviet Embassy to we have for advancing Church at the end of a mation and updating so things," the cardinal said. Mass celebrated for the as to favour or promote a Italy.

Cardinal Casaroli said Union of Italian Catholic true and integral develDuring a June meeting concluded Businessmen. opment of mankind and in Moscow, the cardinal recently and Gorbachev agreed to V atican -Czechoof populations in conthe is Cardinal Casaroli study the possibilities of slovakian talks were organisation's spiritual temporary society?" he establishing a formal "informative, explora- adviser. said. channel for Vatican- tory" and it is still too "Transformation and n the homily, the I early to say if they will cardinal praised the updating are urgent and Soviet talks.

The cardinal added that lead to meaningful Soviet Union for "almost indispensable for the Pope John Paul II is negotiations. unexpectedly" accepting cause of a development "We will see what the importance of private common to all," he "always available" for a meeting with Gorbachev happens," he said. initiative, an economic added.

Development, "to proif the Soviet leader visits The cardinal also noted principle of Catholic duce the fruits necessary, Italy. that there is "a wind social teachings.

He said this was a sign cannot be limited to only Italian news reports blowing" in North Korea have quoted Italian and that could signal a of the Soviet leadership's one of the two systems," Soviet officials as saying loosening of religious willingness to break out he said.

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Europeans in an If Europeans coming to Australia had been a well compacted, united and unifying group of people, with an identical cultural background, probably the history of European presence in Australia would have been a little different.

But Europe was — as it is still today — a mixture of cultures; and Irish and English people brought with them, into the Australian continent, the spiritual, intellectual and

English came as ruling class social luggage already acquired at home.

Our Irish and English forefathers did not come to Australia as migrants: that is, both on an equal ground of duties and rights.

The English came as the ruling class (at least, the majority of them); the Irish and other minority groups as the underdogs.

beginnings Wrong indeed, that created a constant confrontation among the groups.

In particular, the climate of continuing hostility to the Irish did indeed induce conformity, but also generated as a reaction an Irish determination to assert a separate and distinctive identity.

And religion became its primary reason for such an attitude and effort of identity.

Iam not examining and evaluating in this work of mine the pros and cons of historical this phenomenon.

This is not my purpose, I would only like to point out that "the Irish" came from three very different traditions, culturally and religiously: Gaelic Catholic, AngloUlsterand Irish Protestant.

The Catholics brought with them the "Irish" Catholicism before the Famine, which was a bewildering mixture of formal Catholicism, debased Catholic practices, family piety, superstition, magic and Celtic mythology.

Into this "Catholic" world were supposed to

fit the Catholics of other European cultures: the English, the Dutch, the Germans, the Italians.

Being numerically the biggest and better organised group among the Catholics, the Irish did (deliberately or unconsciously, I don't know!) in the religious field what the English ruling class was doing in the political scene: "Assimilate!".

In other words, there has been for nearly one hundred and seventyodd years a subtle

A clash of cultures, not faith

Inculturation: Option to Multiculturalism The search for an indentity

By Father Dino Torresan, C.S.

(although historically understandable and excusable) religious and political colonialism, of course to the spiritual and psychological detriment of the locals ("the Aborigines") and of the migrants' different Euro-

pean and Asian cultures.

And unfortunately because a specific culture and a specific religious expression tried to impose itself on to the others, it met rejection or at least resentment.

In looking at the Church of the past and looking at the Church today, my assumption is

a faith which has not become a culture is a faith which has not been fully received, not thoroughly thought through, not fully lived out.

Now, if this assumption is correct, the real problem of yesterday — as it is today — was not a problem of faith, but a clash of cultures.

Faith was identified with a particular culture, be it Irish or English: and such a faith, unfortunately, was out of touch

Questions to ask ourselves with the land and its inhabitants.

I think that we can at this stage duly ask ourselves two questions: 1. a historical one: is the above the reason why Salvado's plan of evangelisation among the

• More instalments in this series will be continued in two weeks' time

Aborigines failed? Was not the dream of evangelisation confused with colonisation? 2. an upto-date question: is youth today dropping out of the system rather than of the faith?

I am convinced that the durability of Christian faith in Australia will not depend on its network of schools and parishes, hospitals and other institutions.

Economic strength and even political support will not guarantee its future.

The reality of Christianity will stand or fall on the question whether it has become truly Australian; whether Australians feel that the Christian vision of life fulfils their own needs, whether the Christian world view has become part of truly Australian aspirations.

Indeed, this process involves a dynamic interaction between society and the Church, participation in the life of the wider community and a discerned response to the myths, symbols and meaning systems of the land culture or cultures. lam also convinced that the Church in Australia

has to change from an Irish styled Church to a Church whose composition is increasingly multicultural with varying attitudes to religious practices and rituals.

We need, in order to achieve this, mental and practical flexibility: firstly, interaction between Asian cultures as well; then, through a process of narrative, remembrance and welcoming, both worlds — Asian and European — moving forward into the

Move from static view Church of the future.

In other words, we must move from a static view of Church and suspicion of world values into the spirit of "Evangelii Nuntiandi" and "People on the Move".

Nothing can ever be valued or appreciated, if the aims of inculturation are misunderstood or misinterpreted.

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Looking at the present situation of church and society in Australia, we realise that we have a long "journey to freedom" to make, a journey to becoming Australia and Church, today.

We do not have a community interacting with non-Western cultures: but we have plenty of people willing to do so.

We do not have a typical "Australian Theology", born out of the richness and variety of the many carry out an "Australian Incarnation of the Faith".

We are not "community" as yet; but its becoming is already very promising: we are trying hard to be "agape". \ laterial and tools are here: it is up to us to make it happen!

Another consideration. The process of evangelisation of cultures and inculturation of the Gospel does not dismantle the central doctrine of our faith (= the Gospel message) and lower the Christian standards established at such a high cost of lives and efforts.

It will not divert Christian growth by introducing in it superstitions long condemned, elements of paganism long forgotten and creating thus a syncretistic Christianity.

Again, it will not make the Christian challenge any easier.

And, above all, it will not create an unhealthy imbalance between the local and the universal Church.

In my opinion, if well directed and guided. this process of evangelisation of cultures and inculturation of the Gospel will establish the uniqueness of the Australian cultural and religious identity, and the healthy creativeness of the Gospel message, alive within it.

In the OT "brother" is the fundamental attribute of the members of Israel.

The Israelite conceives himself as inseparably linked to the community, and the community in turn feels itself as "a people of brothers".

Israel feels herself as such in structure and is characterised as such in her history.

What precisely is the nature of this brotherhood? Spiritual yet at the same time profoundly practical.

The very crises which act as a stimulus to the

And In Christ Jesus all men become brothers.

This new brotherhood is rooted in faith and enacted in charity. The earliest Christian reflection saw implemented the teachings of Jesus, that those who do the will of God constitute his true family (Mk. 3:33; Mt. 12:46-50; 21:28-32), and that those who follow him and his message belong to a new lineage (Mk. 10:29-30).

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meaning of brother, stranger development of Israel often derives from a pattern of conflict and reconciliation between brothers (see the stories of Cain and Abel, Ishmael and Isaac, Jacob and Esau, Joseph and his brothers, etc.).

It seems that against the background of this tendency to conflict, the fraternal bond unites the chosen and the excluded, the accepted and the rejected: the latter indeed normally end up by being restored to a high level, as it is exemplifed by the story of Joseph.

But the figure of the brother is not a static one, confined to a closed category. The brother exists side by side with the neighbour (Dt 15:2); and neighbours are those with whom one shares the living environment, those with whom one must live, irrespective of family unity.

If they are considered members of the people, this does not derive from Unship ties, from any relationship to the tribe in question, but from the living community which destiny has brought them to share.

This concept of brotherhood is broadening when we move from Deuteronomy to the other books of the OT; but it never leads to the depreciation of the same.

And what about the "stranger"? I am not taking into consideration the passing stranger, the wanderer; but the "ger", the needy, deserving particular attention.

People must love him because he is loved by God (Dt 10:18); the people themselves were once strangers in Egypt (Dt 10:19).

The book of Leviticus connotations.

Amos, Hosea, Isaiah, goes even further, making them partakers in the Jeremiah — in the direct feast of atonement, the confrontation between fast and the sabbath (Lv Israel and the major pagan peoples of the time 16:29-31). and The stranger is one of — present a clear universalistic explicit the community: he is part of the family of message: Isralites and Gentiles are united in a Israel. single destiny of salvaIt is the dawn of tion (Is. 2:2-5); 19:21ss). universalism.

Jeremiah goes on to say Israel's encounter with the pagan nations reveals that the state itself was a dawning sense of destined to disappear and a new people was to universalism. formed precisely in a be The prophets are coming across beautifully, foreign environment (Jen stripping Israel's election 299:5-7).

This new people would of all nationalistic

take definitive shape single offering to the one outside of any kind of true God. This openness towards nationalistic, civil or religious mould, and others is exemplified by would be ruled on the the active proselytism basis of a wholly inward and hospitality towards law by which each the stranger which are individual would be increasingly enjoined in directly related to God the period immediately before Christ.

(Jer. 31:31-34).

Total universalism and Micah (4:1-3) is the first brotherhood without to openly prophesy the limits are indeed latent; destruction of the temple but we remain at the of Jerusalem (3:12), the ideal, doctrinal level.

A constant dialectic basis of Israelite particularism. Later, the last of between ideal universalthe prophets would ism and de facto particulherald (Mal. 1:11) a new arism is what moves the form of worship destined Chosen People in the to unite all people in a period just before Christ.

the New Testament views 21:23; 3 Jn. 3:5,10; Acts 2:29 etc.), irrespective of every kinship tie and every social condition (Philem.v.15).

The precept of faith is inevitably developed in the precept of mutual love (1 Jn. 3:23).

Imparted to man by the Holy Spirit, it is through this love that man himself loves with the love of God: "Let us love one another, for love is of God" and further "If we love one another, God

abides in us" (1 Jn.4:7-8,

not only to avoid dissen- 4:16ss; Is.61:1-2), Jesus sion, but to support and turns his whole attention serve each other. to those who are differThe love for God and The ent from ordinary peobond of brotherthe brother are inseparable (Mt. 22;37-40; Mk. hook makes them mutu- ple: the underprivileged.

In Lk. 14:21-24, when 12:28-34; Lk. 10:30-37). ally responsible.

Thus the norm and the natural guests Thus, in God's family any form of legalism is measure of generosity refused, the attention excluded from such a towards one's brother is and call were turned to none other than Christ the others, the excluded. relation. himself, who laid down And the parable of the It is also an eminently his Samaritan life for us (1 Jn. 3:16). Good practical and active (Lk.10:27-37) teaches This brotherhood is brotherhood. dynamic and not one of that it is not up to man to Following the example class. In defining his decide who is his brother mission or neighbour. of Jesus, the centre of the liberating Finally, the vision of the new brotherhood, the through the text of the (Mk. Last Judgment (Mt. faithful are committed Deuteroisaiah 11-12, 20).

25:31-46) considers all those who do their utmost to help the needy as the true ministrants of brotherhood.

Brotherhood then is not a meeting of class or ideals, but simply a tension of love for the other.

And unity is the outcome of a gradual overcoming of brotherly discords, destined to be resolved at the end, when Christ will be "all and in all". (Col. 3:11).

If we examine now the meaning of "stranger" in the NT, we find that the meaning of stranger as a class, or a category, has been eliminated from the Christian view of life: the distinction between citizen and stranger or brother and stranger is only made to be rejected (Eph. 2:11-12,19).

treating strangers as brothers we reach God himself (Mt. 25:31-46).

Thus the practical brotherly welcome of the stranger becomes an essential aspect of Christian life, because for believers in Christ there is only one true country: the one to come.

The stranger too will In Christ, we have find his true place within become -fellow citizens" and have entered into the it, and Christ himsell single brotherhood of would become the host those re-born in Christ. welcoming the stranget as a guest (Lk. 12:37). who taught that by The Record, January 26, 1989 7

To tell of Faith

This week in focus Everyone knows what it is like to be misunderstood.

Maybe in an effort to explain yourself to another person your words are misinterpreted, mis-taken.

Frustration is the inevitable result for you. Or even anger.

It is no wonder that people sometimes are reluctant to put their deepest thoughts and feelings into words.

But the fact is, there are times when it is necessary to put faith into words.

The words we choose to express our faith hardly ever measure up to the faith we really want to share.

Yet there are times when putting faith into words makes a difference. How people speak of their faith is the topic of our Religious Education Package this week.

Father Herbert Weber distinguishes between speaking "about" faith and really "sharing" faith

in his article. He reflects on his experiences with university students who begin by speaking about faith, but later reach the point of needing to truly express their personal faith.

Jane Wolford Hughes tells two stories of people who had stories of faith to tell — stories that became a means to express and share faith

with others.

Not everyone is comfortable with the idea of sharing personal faith.

Some people don't even think it is a desirable thing to do, as Debbie Landregan shows in an article this week.

Father John Castelot's

God is indeed alive in people's lives. In a sense, this keeps God 'alive' — keeps God from the near-

Scripture article illustrates how vital it was to the people of biblical times to express and share their faith. "When people share faith, their action proclaims that

death of silent, he writes.

I sometimes wonder if there isn't more talk of religion in the university residence rooms late at night than there is at our Christian campus centre.

Frequently I hear reports from students that they were up well into the night discussing — or arguing about — religion.

Sometimes these discussions come to my attention because the participants are troubled by what was said.

Talk about religion has never ceased to be a major topic for young adults.

It backs up the religion talk, but is much harder for most to enter into.

It is, therefore, much less common.

A student stopped me last year at the university recreation centre.

Recognising me from church, he wanted to talk about his experience during break when he went to Mass in a large cathedral.

The Mass had intrigued him, and he was totally taken up with discussing formalities of worship style.

Later in the year, as Lent rolled around, this same young man was in a

By Father Herbert WEBER

to Opportunities But when people find that faith talk can be a express faith are not means to spiritual always present. Nor can growth for themselves, they happen with just and not simply a source anyone. of inspiration or chalThere has to be a lenge to others, then the profound level of trust so question is how to get that risks can be taken. started in this type of A member of one communication. prayer group told me she When Paul and Jean likes the group because were dating, they disco- "unfinished thoughts" vered that coming from were accepted. two different denominaShe felt comfortable tions led them into trying to express herself frequent talks about without feeling judged religious practices. by how it sounded.

They respected each Often prayer groups, other enough to really weekend retreats or listen to each other's discussion sessions can expression of back- provide occasions for ground and heritage. faith talk to happen.

But both were drawn to At our parish, we use something deeper than the shotgun approach

By Jane WOLFORD HUGHES

Wonder stories

Daisy was rightly named. She required little attention from her sickly mother or her overworked father.

She roamed the fields around her small town and found her identity among the grasses and small creatures. Daisy worked as a cashier in the supermarket after high school, but longed for more knowledge.

In an evening literature course at the community

technical school she met Michael — older, more educated — who was impressed by her journal, so in touch with the earth.

cated and better able to express themselves.

She was the last of the group to speak. She began haltingly to talk of God's presence in all created things and in her life; of their shared laughter at the comic antics of the horny toad and their admiration for the genius of the beavers at the dam, and of her sense of confidence in God's protection as lightning splintered the tree on the hill.

He became attracted by Daisy's simplicity and goodness.

As they saw each other more often, their age and educational differences melted with the warmth of their feeling.

They had been married five years when Michael was elected to their parish council's education commission. When the council sponsored a day of recollection for members and their spouses, Daisy went but was not prepared for the day's faith-sharing part.

She felt inadequate to speak before people she regarded as better edu-

As she spoke, she was what her past taught her to be: a transparent window to God. Her peacefulness was visible. The

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group saw a vision of creation their eyes had not known.

Telling our stories of faith is part of our tradition.

The stories of Scripture were told huddled about a cold night's fire, in upper rooms and fishing boats. They are part of our heritage.

Our stories are directly connected to those stories.

Today, in places where faith stories are shared, the group leader should try to assure that what unfolds is more than a free-flowing conversation.

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But guarded about hi self, he revealed only t essentials until a ti came for the grou members to share w prompted them to lx there.

The leader should help to create a climate of prayerful reflection, freed as much as passible of smugness and selfimportance.

Every story is a wonder story. Each provides a

glimpse of God among US.

Eric approached the catechetical sessions of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults like a starving man invited to a banquet.

At his turn he asked tlx group's understanding d what he called a "mysti cal experience".

"My life was a hapha zard blur of work, phl and no serious commit ments. One night I wa

Doing what comes naturally Nobody talked much about faith when I was growing up. Since everyone I knew was Catholic, faith simply was understood.

was handily dealt with.

We talked about the parish school, the pastor, the Christmas bazaar, bingo or the upcoming bridge party, but not our faith. If it did come up, it

Not that faith was unimportant. It was seen as private, with no place in back-fence chats.

"You Catholic?"

"Yes." "Me too. So, are you going to the parish bridge party?"

But faith is more openly discussed now by people of

all denominations and is more likely to come up in daily conversation.

Yet, while some Catholics embrace this new openness, others still squirm or clam up when the topic pops up in conversation.

Why? That's what I asked several people.

Maureen O'Connor is

more than happy to talk 'Catholic. But personal faith "about" religion, the many to her is different. social justice causes she is "Yes, it is awkward and I active in, even politics. don't think it's even necesHowever, she draws the sary to be talking about conversational line at faith personal faith anymore than — personal faith. it is to talk about a lot of "If your religion is vital, it personal things." says Ms becomes a part of you and it O'Connor, an advertising becomes sort of natural to copywriter for a religious talk about it," says Ms publishing house. "I think O'Connor, a lifelong this business of TV evange-

Like all such relationships it has its ups and downs.

Ordinarily people feel an almost uncontrollable need to share these ups and downs; the communication increases their joy and helps to ease their anxieties.

Their many-sided relationship with God cries out for expression, for

communication.

The Bible is made up,in large part, of just such expression.

In biblical times faith grew and flourished over the generations through telling and retelling the people's story of faith.

And so the psalmist writes: "What we have heard and know, and what our

fathers have declared to us, we will not hide from their sons; we will declare to the generation to come the glorious deeds of the Lord and his strength and the wonders that he wrought."

(Psalm 78:3-4)

Unabashedly the people shared their experiences of God not only within the circle of the

driving home in a bad rainstorm. I skidded off the road, hit something and blacked out.

"I dazedly awoke to a woman rapping on my window. She could see I was bleeding and asked me to open the door. She pulled me out of the car, dragged me up to her car, tied something around my head.

"All I remember is that she was young and dressed in white. Before

I passed out again, I asked who she was. She laughed and said, 'Just call me Miss Samaritan'.

"When I awoke in the hospital she was gone.

The emergency people had not found out who she was, other than that she was a nurse.

"I investigated but found no trace of her. It bothered me. I began to think about what she had called herself.

"I read the Bible and even started to pray for the first time since I was a child. I saw God's goodness in the presence of the yong woman. She saved my life — physically and spiritually.

"That's why I'm here. I believe I was touched by God's hand," Eric said.

Then he added softly, "I didn't care about God, but thankful that God cared about me."

By Debbie LANDREGAN lists talking about how they found Jesus — really doesn't need to be discussed."

Ms O'Connor's feelings aren't shared by everyone, but they are shared by others who, while willing to field questions about their church or to talk about religion in general. shy away from personal discussions of the workings of faith in their

lives.

For some people thilmaY be a holdover fret an upbringing where alth wasn't much discusse They may he rt against a stereotype t hey hold of the sort of /Non who openly expresso aith in conversations.

Whatever the ca1 for parish group lead and

Saving God from the near death of silence

One psalm opens with come to his aid. the chilling cry: "My God, Rather than simply my God, why have you thanking God, the person forsaken me?" But its shared this good news second part shifts gears with everyone. and we hear: "I will That was typical of proclaim your name to my God's people. They were brethren; in the midst of not reluctant to talk the assembly I will praise about God, to communiyou" (Psalm 22). cate their faith to others.

God had not forsaken Faith is, after all, an the distressed person but interpersonal relationhad heard his cry and ship with God. 8 The Record, January 26, 1989

• As a child, Daisy roamed the fields around her small Midwestern town, finding her identity among the grasses and small creatures. When pressed as an adult to share her faith, it was natural for her to speak of God's presence in the antics of the horny toad and in the genius of the beavers at the dam.

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family and the faith community.

They proclaimed these experiences to the world at large: "I will give thanks to you among the people, 0 Lord; I will chant your praise among the nations, for your kindness towers to the heavens, and your faithfulness to the skies."

(Psalm 108:4-5)

others, it is worth noting that at a time when many people openly make personal faith part of group discussion and private encounters, this doesn't just "comes naturally" for everyone.

"It's awkward for me because it wasn't something I was trained to do — talk about my faith," says Robert

Koenig, a communications professional who works for a non-denominational health care organisation.

"My faith was a given with the peopleIwas surrounded by, but now it's not.

"I've never been the type of person who's been out to convert the rest of the world.

However,I think I do try to show by example," Koenig adds.

"It's certainly not my style to talk about God," says Ann O'Neill, a homemaker and mother of three. "Yet I certainly don't mind talking about my faith at all.

"I don't think as a whole that we Catholics talk about our faith very much," Mrs O'Neill says. "I don't think it's a question of timidity. I think it's more the way we are raised."

By Fr John CASTELOT The Gospels, too, are filled with examples of people who quite spontaneously communicated their experiences to others.

When Jesus cured a demoniac on the gentile side of the lake, the man "pleaded to remain with him".

"But Jesus would not permit him but told him

Actions speak more t nod, 'Go home to your fad, and announce to loudly than words. then 411 that the Lord in Paul frequently speaks his has done for you.' to his converts about the off This the man went powerful sign that their andtgan to proclaim in lives can be. x;apolis what Jesus ht haeethne for him; and all He urges the Philippiwell amazed." (Mark ans to live in such a way "That you may be . . .

5:16 (aju) rse, verbal corn- without blemish in the in ;ation is only one midst of a crooked and o share one's faith. perverse generation,

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among whom you shine like lights in the world."

(Philippians 2:15) When people share faith, their action proclaims that God is indeed alive and active in people's lives.

In a sense, this keeps God "alive" — keeps God from the near-death of silence.

• Coming from two different religious denominations, the young couple often talked about religious practices.

But both were drawn to something deeper than that. As they began to express their images of Jesus or to talk about how they perceived God acting in their lives, they realised just how much faith they had in common.

Church traditions, styles of worship or ways that the Bible is used continue to attract attention.

But talk about religion does not necessarily mean there is talk about faith.

Even though religion discussions can become emotional, they usually focus on issues outside oneself such as codes of behaviour, structures of the church or points of doctrine.

On the other hand, faith discussion centres on the internal connection one makes with those codes and structures.

discussion group that I the initial level of joined. Again the talk discussion. centred on worship Soon they began to experiences. express their images of his Jesus or talk about how shared Scott experience. they perceived God actBut he also began to talk ing in their lives. about his own story of Paul, the Catholic party, faith — how he longed told me that his love for for a sense of mystery in Jean increased as he life, how he wanted realised how much they desperately to make his had in common. And he church heritage his own felt that his appreciation and how he was refocus- of his own church meming his image of Jesus. bership grew because he Scott had moved from a had been putting into discussion about religion words the inner workto one about faith. ings of his heart.

It is not easy for many to As a young adult, he articulate their faith. was for the first time In fact, for some it does making the faith of his not even seem desirable. parents truly his own.

and offer many programs in which people can come together.

In each of these, we try to foster mutual respect and trust.

But with the right setting and a little courage, there is no reason why other gatherings — families coming together, roommates chatting late at night or friends spending a day together — can't also become opportunities for faith talk.

All that is needed is a willingness for the participants to attempt to put into words what their relationship with their God is all about.

DISCUSSION POINTS There are times when it is important to speak of your faith, but that doesn't make it easy to do.

Awkwardness and discomfort are common feelings for people who attempt to put their faith into words — even at home among family members.

What are some occasions when you think "putting

faith into words" is important?

Our writers distinguish between speaking "about" faith or religion and "expressing" or "sharing" faith in words. What do they mean?

What are some activities — some ways — for people to "share" faith at home?

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Education should be your choic The Liberals believe parents have the right to choose the education system their children deserve.

Our policy gives a clear commitment to the dual system of government and nongovernment schools.

A strong non-government school system helps reduce the cost of education to the state and provides a competitive environment which raises standards in both government and non-government schools.

To foster a strong private school sector, we have announced a range of initiatives on funding, capital works, per-capita grants and support from the ministry.

The Liberals have also announced their support for the proposed Catholic University in Fremantle.

This progressive policy contrasts with Labor's covert efforts, via the recent referendum, to reduce grants to private schools.

For more information on the Liberal Education Policy, call the Liberal Education Line on 0055 33522 (STD rate).

For results, vote Liberal on February 4th.

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The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart Society (MSC's) was founded in France by Father Jules Chevalier in December 1854.

From the tiny beginnings of yesterday, there are now 2500 members throughout 38 nations with a heavy concentration in Third World countries.

Establishing themselves initially at Botany and Randwick, Sydney, in 1885 and from its beginnings as primarily a supply base for Papua Niu Gini, it went on to become a Province which now boasts 300 priests and brothers.

On the overseas frontiers, they have about 60 locations with one third of their members living outside Australia.

Their initiatives run to high schools, seminaries, parishes, hostels, and in Japan have an English Academy and Cultural Centre in Nagoya.

In Australia the MSC's also run centres of spirituality retreat and Brother Finbar (right) telling a few "off the record" jokes to visiting MSC deputy provincial to the Australian province, Father renewal and at their Daly Jim Fallon, watched by Lynwood PP Father Bob Mitchell (left) who's "heard 'em all before!".

River Centre. actively

Since their arrival in Perth last year, the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart have been noticeable, not only through their work in the Lynwood parish, but also with the "exciting doings" some MSC's have been into, which The Record has delighted in recording.

Father Jim Fallon, deputy provincial based in Coogee, NSW, who is also the Executive for the missions and justice ministry, has recently returned from visiting Aboriginal communities up north — Bathurst Island, Pt Keats, Daly River, Darwin, Santa Theresa and Alice Springs — and decided to drop in on his Lynwood based men, Fathers Mitchell, Black and Brother Finbar.

As a result of visiting the Aboriginal communities, Father Fallon is very hopeful about the movement towards sobriety and preparing the people to accept Aboriginal ministry of all kinds.

The Lumko program devised by the Lumko Institute in South Africa, is a multifaceted program to train suitable ministers drawn from Aboriginal ranks to selfadminister and equip them to take up their own leadership reins.

By Colleen McGUINESSHOWARD

It was introduced by a Franciscan into the communities early last year and according to Father Fallon been well has accepted.

During 29 years in Papua New Guinea, he was principal of the MSC's teachers' college for four years at Milne Bay then became rector of their seminary college in Port Moresby and later deputy provincial to the PNG province.

A breakthrough in was education during achieved Father Fallon's time in PNG when he was a member of the National Catholic Education Board which negotiated with the government to introduce a national educatibn system in which all teachers in Catholic schools were to be government paid as well as materials required.

The system is considered ideal because Catholic schools retain their identity but must accept all students who apply if they have the qualifications, and teacher positions have to be nationally advertised.

The churches can stipulate however that base grade teachers be Christian and higher grades can advise and oversee religious curriculum for that church.

"PNG has now the best education system in the world with complete freedom of education," said Father Fallon.

On vocations, there are 25 students for the priesthood in PNG with a number already ordained.

"In the central Pacific we've also quite a number of Kiribatians (Gilbert Islanders) with a number of brothers from there and Fiji.

"Fijian students are studying for the priesthood and becoming brothers, some of whom are currently in Canberra training."

In 1982 Father Fallon returned to Australia to undertake work with Vietnamese refugees, having spent six months in a Malaysian refugee camp on the island of Pulau Bidong.

"I returned to work among the Vietnamese in Sydney (he speaks it), and in early 1987 became deputy provincial to the Australian province.

"Since then my main work has been to visit our missions in Japan, PNG and the central Pacific."

prepare Aboriginals to undertake their own ministry, aiming to develop a Christian Aboriginal spirituality and liturgy.

MSC's in the Northern Territory live and work with Aborigines in five isolated communities within Alice Springs, Darwin and the mining town of Nhulunbuy, and engage in alcohol recovery support programs. As with other Societies, they have men in special ministries covering a wide range of specialist areas.

Media-wise the Australian MSC's publish three journals: Annals; CornpaKs Theological Review; Nelen Yubu Missiological Quarterly and a rather dynamic Province from Newsletter Kensington.

With the arrival of Father Mitchell as parish priest of Lynwood, in February last year, ably assisted by Brother Finbar and later joined by Father Black, the MSC's are now in every Australian State including the Northern Territory.

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Cardinal Hume it is tragic

tution on the Sacred Liturgy may best be delayed until after some comment is obtained from an expert.

The total celebration of the Eucharist around the central and essential matter of it, finds individuals in all stages of spiritual growth according as the Lord wills for each in the provision of the gift of faith and thereafter the Holy Sacrifice is many things to different souls.

My experience is that the variations in the

words and actions of different celebrants is as refreshing and vital as is the Liturgy itself and I say more strength to their arm for this.

Your two correspondents have proved themselves thinkers and crusaders over a long period and I would much prefer to hear their utterances on some of our vexed social problems. Just for a start have they any thoughts on how to tackle a television media which at such times as Christmas and Telethons etc., can so ably bring out

the love and respect between humankind and in between resort to continuous witch hunts, character assassination, robbery of the entitled privacy of public figures. etc?

To my mind the person or group capable of convincing all the media that it is about time it started to educate and renew the knowledge of people in principles of honesty and integrity which may turn the tide of violence, cruelty, small and major crime etc., will be national heroes.

'Always in a negative vein' are used. As a parent and teacher I have been blessed to participate in many such celebrations of the Eucharist and have found them to be special, as I've appreciated the spirit and meaning of the words anew.

I begrudge buying The Record each week to find letters which seem to feature a few people who special ise in tearing down rather than building up the Body of Christ,

who critisise and hurt my brothers and sisters by their pharisaical meanness of spirit and lack of vision, who would have us all sing the one note (whatever happened to the song and to the harmony where differences enrich?)

I pray that these wellintentioned and highly energised writers, part of our faith community, will be like St Paul who was

transformed by his encounter with the Risen Lord on the road to Damascus; from a man of God and the letter of the law to a man of God with new vision and understanding — where the spirit of the law and the building up of communities of faith was important. Like Paul may they be able to encourage, affirm and to thank God for their brothers and sisters.

We will hope and pray, too

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that the decision of the Anglican Communion to ordain women priests should come at such a "delicate moment - for ecumenism. However his main concern about women priests was based on sacramental theology. He goes on to say "when I take the

bread and say This is my body' at the consecration, I know that I have changed, through the power of Christ, the bread into the body of Christ-.

To me this truth of changing bread into the body of Christ as instituted by Jesus Himself at the last supper and through the power of Christ carried on by his validly ordained priests is of much greater impor-

tance than the possibility of the ordination of women priests.

Who can say for certain that the present pope or one of his successors and the Church will not validly ordain women to the priesthood in the future?

Ecumenism by Catholics with other christian churches or organisations should always be held in perspective,

always keeping in mind that God not only sent His only begotten Son, but He left us his Son truly present body and soul in the eucharist to be received at Mass, and outside of Mass by bringing the Eucharist to the sick.

With Cardinal Hume we hope and pray for the day when we will. have full communion with members of the Anglican Church.

Press on for total victory from Trevor BOARDMAN, Northbridge Sir, The Lords who dismissed the appeal of Mrs Barbara Janaway (The Record January 5) because she was administrative not medical

staff doubtless deem mere secretaries to be jolly irrelevant anyway to what doctors and surgeons do.

However, the sort of sacrifice made by Mrs Janaway shall defeat the

satanically horrific evil of abortion in the end. All adult "ex -foetuses" of goodwill on earth should unite around this sacred cause and press on to total victory — the price of defeat is continued

mass-martyrdom of Holy Innocents, primarily because they most closely resemble Christ in pleasure a worshipping and (ipso facto therefore) Godhating world.

Italian prayer group

An Italian all-women prayer group which was started a year ago at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Highgate parish is proving to be very popular.

Since it was started attendance has seen a marked increase.

There are now 25 "regulars".

The group was started

by Mrs Teresa Montenegro and meet every Tuesday.

Besides saying the rosary the group also holds discussion sessions after the reading of a passage from the Bible.

Frequently at these sessions is spiritual director, Fr Alfonsas Savickas.

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Day divided will sit together...

By Jenny Barnard told stories of hopeless situations wherein people had hope.

He reminded us that Christ had already won.

We often sing and pray about Christ already being the victor, but this has to be believed. One must know that one must have hope and act in courage.

In a world that seems violent and cruel and evil, we cannot despair because Christ has already won over death and darkness.

Jim Wallis and his friends merely moved the geography of their worship in prayer to be where the poor were. As well as in the churches they were in the streets, outside nuclear installations and they hoped and acted towards making a better world.

One interesting point was made in reference to Central American Refugee camps. When these were established, three committees were set up.

One was for construction, one for education and lastly, but no less importantly, one called the Committee of Joy. For people who have suffered and lived on the edge and lost all, cannot afford not to play, not to laugh, not to celebrate..

Weeping may, as in the bible, endure the night ... but joy comes in the morning.

Wallis used the metaphor of a door to explain hope as the opening of one reality into another

and that we had to see beyond the door, even though this seemed impossible.

History taught us that what seemed impossible at the time became possible in retrospect.

Things inevitable in hindsight are not so in foresight. The door to possibility, in Wallis' eyes, is hope.

Hope can see things which seem nonsense transformed into reality and thus is history changed.

Wallis sees the epoch we live in as a dying era, even though it seems ever-powerful.

The Resurrection at first unbelieved by Christ's own followers shook the framework of an empire, the nonsense of black slaves became freedom, the nonsense of the rabble became unions, the nonsense of women became a feminist movement, the nonsense of Luther King's bus actions became a Civil Rights Movement. The impossible became possible.

There have to be those first brave ones to walk through the door, to be prepared to suffer, maybe die because they see behind the door.

We forget when the door's been crossed how hard it was and we forget those who died for us to progress. But the evidence of the grace of God is that things do change and that there are people willing to walk through that door.

Jim Wallis knows, that, given the hope of Easter morning and the promise of the resurrection it is not nonsense that

POST VALENTINES CRUISE

Murdoch University Catholic Community mucc are holding an

ORIENTATIONDAY

THE FORECAST OF JIM WALLIS The National Chris- witness to the gospel in a tian Youth Convention practical, spiritual way.

This demands difficult was held at the Perry actions. He, and others Lakes Superdrome, have had to go to gaol for January 7 to 14. the poor and homeless.

I ventured to the Night They've ventured inside Rallies not quite sure war zones to help the what I was in for. I had oppressed; laid across heard of Jim Wallis, of the railway tracks to stop the Sojourners Community, traffic of nuclear mateand wanted to hear him rials and given sanctuary speak. to illegal aliens fleeing I waded through the the torture of countries youthful and ebullient like El Salvador. preludes to his talk and They risk their lives, was rewarded by an their reputations for the important reminder of true Christ. what Christianity was all Some might call this about. madness, but Wallis The young people were explained their actions in refreshing in their cele- a way that was totally bration, but Jim's call was believable within the for something more. framework of Christian I had come across his belief. books, Call to Conversion The Perth Convention and Agenda for a Biblical invited Eastern staters to People, and so was "cross the desert". expecting something Over four nights Jim special. He did not let me outlined "the call of the down. desert," the pain of the Jim's background is one desert . . . that if people of being brought up in an were to follow Christ evangelical church in they had to count the cost Detroit. He grew up of discipleship. seeing the gaps between He reminded his his Christianity and the audience of the "hard" people it ignored; the gospels, one had to recall poor, the homeless, the the rich young man who oppressed. couldn't give up his For a while he lived in riches to follow Christ, darkness, in his meta- the rich man and parable phorical desert, going of the camel and the eye away from the church of of the needle, the belief his childhood because of behind Matthew 25 what he saw as its "WhenI was hungry". hypocrisy.

We were indeed a Yet he returned to God chosen people but in with new eyes and a new Jim's words "to enter the vision. joy of Christ one must These days he is part of first enter into His the Sojourners Christian suffering".

Community with people The message was sobersuch as the Jesuit priest ing but just as it seemed and radical Daniel Berri- too difficult, too depressgan and many other. ing, Jim spoke about the As part of this commun- hope of the desert. Jim ity they are called to bear spoke of various people,

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people WILL be healed of their hurts and pains, families CAN be restored and reconciled; peace will come to Central America; freedom WILL come to South Africa; justice WILL come to the Philippines; white Australians and Aborigines WILL come together in justice and mutual respect; the poor WILL have decent and affordable housing; drugs and alcohol and crime WILL cease their grip on our young; the arms race ISN'T necessary; war is NOT inevitable.

All races, sexes, creeds and classes CAN be equal and DO have a future. The divided will sit together. With Easter eyes our community will overcome all barriers. It will not be able to exist without justice and compassion.

These are the beliefs of Jim Wallis and others behind him. In our hearts we know its our dream too, of a better world for our friends, our families and the people with whom we share the world. And this is regardless of which creed we live by.

Young Christians today can take hope in the words of the Angel on Easter Morning, "Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, brothers and sisters, He is risen.

Amen"

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Stories and books

An English Martyr Draw a picture of Jesuit Father Edmund Campion in a disguise he might have worn while travelling about 16th-century England.Why did he travel in disguise?

Today, in light of the ecumenical movement, Anglicans and Roman Catholics in England have friendly relations. What is the ecumenical movement?

Four hundred years ago By that time Edmund secretly in the homes of it was a crime to live as a had taken the Oath of Catholic families.

Catholic in England. Supremacy recognising In 1581 he returned to Catholics faced punish- the queen as head of the London. He wrote a small ment, prison and even Anglican Church in Engbook called "Ten Readeath. land. He was also sons" in which he invited Edmund Campion grew ordained a deacon in the Protestant leaders to up as a Catholic in Anglican Church. But he debate him about the London during those still had doubts about his Catholic Church. On difficult years, which decision to reject his graduation day at Oxford, with today's ecumenical Catholicism.

40 copies were placed spirit of friendly relations In 1569 he went to secretly on the benches of divided Ireland to help found a between the University church. churches, seem distant. university. After returnThe authorities were His father was a book- ing to England, he furious. They set in seller and young Edmund decided to return to the motion a massive manquickly developed a love Catholic Church and hunt. Searches fanned of books and reading. become a Jesuit priest. So out all around London At age 15 he received a he went to France and and nearby towns. scholarship to St John's then to Rome. The One, posing as a devout College at Oxford Uni- Jesuits welcomed him.

Catholic, managed to get versity. Two years later The Jesuit superior into the home of the Yates he was teaching there. chose Father Campion to family in Berkshire.

Edmund was popular as open a new, dangerous Shortly after Mass a a teacher. He was so Jesuit mission in England search party broke in and eloquent a speaker that to minister to persecuted captured the priest. the university chose him Catholics.

They took him into the to give the address In 1580 Father Cam- Tower of London prison. welcoming Queen Eliza- pion arrived in England After three days, Father beth to Oxford in 1566. disguised as a jewel Campion was brought The queen offered him a merchant. He changed out to meet the queen. high government posi- names and disguises She promised him a high tion, but he preferred frequently as he went to position in the Anglican teaching. celebrate the Mass Church if he would give

Sam and the Firefly.

Written and illustratedby P.D. Eastman. Published

by Collins. $3.95.

"I can read it all by myself' is the Beginner Books motto, and behind it is an understanding of how important it is for children to take pride and pleasure in their early reading.

Beginner Books have been designed to appeal directly to children through the use of humour, rhyme, and bright pictures that can be "read" even by the nonreading child.

Some Beginner Books are simple stories, others are hilarious nonsense: both types have been designed to give children confidence and make them want to go on reading.

Beginning readers will enjoy following Sam and the Firefly, Gus, who learns to write words in the sky with his light.

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Campion, Oxford, teacher, queen. Anglican, d sguises

Project Draw a picture of Jesuit Father Edmund Campion in a disguise he might have worn while travelling about 16th-century England. Why did he travel in disguise?

Today, in light of the ecumenical movement, Anglicans and Roman Catholics in England have friendly relations. What is the ecumenical movement?

up his Catholic faith. He refused.

He was condemned to die by the court on the false charges of treason and conspiracy to kill the queen. He died Dec 1, 1581. Pope Paul VI canonised him in 1979.

Jack and the Beanstalk

by Sue Cony. Published by Picture lions. $5.95.

A simple, delightful version of the traditional tale of Jack and the Beanstalk.

Clear, bright illustrations and simple text.

Young children will find this version easy to read and great for reading aloud.

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They may be ver• Oa* horizontal or diagonal. All the words ore found in this week's story.

of this satisfying story he has shown his friend Sam just how bright he can be.

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by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

Time for a Rhyme and Time for a Number Rhyme. Published kv Nelson. bb. $16.95 ea.

In these two delightful hooks several talented young Australian artists have combined to present traditional nursery rhymes in a way which will delight both young children and their parents.

The full colour illustrations one each page are fresh, new and imaginative.

Time for a Rhyme: Fifteen rhymes, including such timeless favourites as 'Little Miss Muffet', 'Humpty Dumpty' and 'Hey, Diddle, Diddle', have been brought together in Time for a Rhyme. This would be a perfect gift for the very young child learning to read.

Time for a Number Rhyme: Time for a Number Rhyme makes a terrific aid to parents who are interested in reinforcing mathematical concepts and vocabulary in their children. All containing numbers, these nursery rhymes are particularly enjoyable because of the rhyme and rhythm of the language. The illustrations make a good talking point with the child.

Jeffrey Allen & Jams Marshall

NOSEY MRS RAT Reading Games. Early Learn Together Series for ages three to five years okl. Four titles by Jean Morrison and Dominic Poelsma. Published by Piccolo.

Now you try!: Spin like a top, dance on your toes, jump up, fall down.

First read the words, then see how Poppy and Dan do it. Now you try!

Fly like a bird!: Read the simple words, look at what Poppy and Dan are doing,

then clap, hop, jump and fly like a bird!

Row, row, row the boat!

Can you make a boat? Can you make a drum? Can you make a face? Read the simple words, then copy the actions of Poppy and Dan. Yes it does, no it doesn't!

Help Poppy and Dan decide: Does an egg have legs? Is the sun red? Can a dog see?

Answer these and lots of other amusing questions, using the special Yes and No cards.

Nosey Mrs Rat byJeffrey Allen & fames Marshall.

Published by Pan Books.

$5.95.

A riotously funny tale about Shirley Rat, the specialised town snoop who manages to nose her way into everything in a multitude of disguises.

She reads other people's mail, listens in on telephone conversations and pokes into her neighbour's rubbish bins.

However, Brewster Blackstone has had enough and decides to get his own back.

He makes a film about her and plants an invitation to come and see it.

The film called "The Nosey Neighbour" humiliates poor Shirley Rat but doesn't defeat her.

People and books Here's how

by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

Dr Andy LePage, Ph.D. is a personal, marriage and family teacher therapist, trainer, and author, involved in a private practice for over twelve years.

Serving as the founding director of the Center For Family Life, he also directs Oakmore House Press, and the Transforming Education Institute.

He provides staff and development inservice to management, education and industry and is an

adjunct teacher at several colleges and universities.

Dr LePage completed advanced training in Systematic Training for Effective Teaching (STET) under Don Dinkmeyer Sr, Ph.D. and has been a student of Matthew Fox, Ph.D. at the Institute of Culture and Creation Spirituality.

He is known for his and real" "very friendly approach to effectively teach people various methods of interaction at home,

work and school.

His book Transforming Education has been endorsed by

twenty-six educators from the United States and Canada, including Robert Muller, former Assistant SecretaryGeneral at the United Nations.

Dr LePage will be presenting two workshops on: Cooperative Discipline on Thursday, February 9,7 - 10 pm and How to Build and Maintain Consistently High Self-Esteem in Students on Friday

February 10,7- 10 pm at John XXIII College, John VCIII Avenue, Mt Claremont. Cost $35, each workshop.

Bookings 399 3455, 361 4530 or 309 1049.

Play those blues! The EXPLORATION How to do anything of AUSTRALIA Reatier Digest

Mention the blues and immediately B.B. King comes to mind. The finest advocate of rhythm and blues, he is acknowledged as the "King of the Blues".

Performing for over 40 years and with more than 50 albums to his credit, B.B. King is the single most popular of all blues artists, with four Grammies and more top-selling blues and R & B recordings to his credit than any other performer in modern times.

His performance on the Live Aid concert broadcast and the release of his first music video, "Into The Night", brought an entirely new audience in touch with the remarkable talent of a definitive artist in contemporary blues.

Born on a Mississippi cotton plantation, B.B. King sang in local gospel choirs before acquiring his first guitar in his early teens.

(By now, B.B.'s guitar Lucille has her own identity as the bestknown guitar in the world).

From performing on local street corners to earning tips on weekends, he moved to Memphis in 1946 and launched the career that eventually won international him recognition. it was there that he became known as B.B. King, the "Bealer Street Blues Boy", named after that city's theatre and nightclub district.

He recorded the first of his many hit records in Memphis, and has worked hard to build his present success by performing more than 300 nights a year.

He has received worldwide acclaim whether he plays before royalty or music fans, including an extensive tour of the USSR in 1979, where he toured five provinces inside Russia, playing 27 concerts

in 30 days and seen by over 100,000 people.

He has played in over fifty-four countries, from England, Finland, Zaire, Yugoslavia, Uganda, Chad and Nigeria, to Israel, Italy, Spain, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, ArgenBrazil and tina, Mexico.

Little wonder, then, that B.B. King is considered America's unofficial of "Ambassador Music" to the world, and is one of the most beloved and popular performers in the entire entertainment field.

According to his manager, Sidney a. Seidenberg, a recent description of B.B. King by The London Sunday Times called him "The Louis Armstrong Of The Blues", and that about sums it up.

B.B. will be performing at the Perth Concert Hall on Saturday, February 11 and Sunday, February 12.

Mums in need A complete support service is now available for new mothers and parents with difficult or unsettled babies.

Bernadette Costello, a registered midwife herself, has set up a mother and baby care service, offering total support services throughout the metropolitan area.

"From my years of hospital experience, I saw a need for a personal home v isiting service after mother and baby (or babies) had gone home," said Bernadette.

Some of the areas her 50 or so, qualified staff can offer assistance and prac-

tical advice with are, breast feeding problems, lack of sleep, post-natal depression, continual crying, post-natal relaxation courses, respite nannies and home helpers.

A 24 hour crisis help line is another invaluable service offered by Sister Patricia's.

The service is named in memory of Bernadette's aunt, Sister Patricia O'Barn of the St Joseph of Orange Order, a midwife who devoted 12 years of loving care to mothers and babies in the Solomon Islands.

Since its inception, Sister Patricia's has been inundated with requests for help and can now offer

limited-time assistance in some country areas.

Another innovation is the commencement of a post-natal support group which will run on a weekly basis in Mt Yokine from January, 1989.

Further support groups to be set up in different suburbs are planned for 1989.

Many parents feel isolated, with no extended family close by, or are experiencing problems families are not equipped to cope with.

Sister Patricia's Mother and Baby Care can provide that professional help and support.

For further information please contact Bernadette Costello on 480 94%.

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Reader's Digest. Tbe Exploration of Australia kv Michael Cannon. Distributed thmugh Collins. bb- $39.95.

Stories of great courage and adventure, of greed, ambition and, sometimes, of tragic blunders, reveal how we discovered the truth immense our about continent-country, how we charted its shores and became aware of its daunt-

ing nature. Original drawings and painting record our first encounters with strange birds and animals and with curious places that are now familiar. Photographs and drawings show the explorers themselves and bring their experiences dramatically to life. Over 60 maps trace their routes and show where we fiillow in their footsteps as we move about the country today

The Reader's Digest Doit-yourself Manual. Distributed through Collins.

Plastic bard covered manual $49.95.

Book 1 Techniques: With modern materials and tools, keeping a home in good repair is simpler today than it has ever been — even for the man who boasts of not being able to hammer a nail in straight.

This guide to the skills and equipment of do-it-yourself is firstly a maintenance manual, explaining how to cope with plumbing emergencies. broken windows. and the many iobs in which a little common-sense practicality can bring big saving; in money and convenience.

But the mnanual is something more than a handbook of repairs: It is a graphic encyclopaedia of the techniques, crafts and tricks of the trade which can increase immeasurably the satisfaction of making things with your own hands.

It has sections on decorating; using hand tools; power tools; all about timber; fixing

and fastening: handling concrete; brickwork and stonework; upholstery and soft furnising; glass and glazing; metalwork; home maintenance and repairs; first aid and emergencies.

Book 2 Projects: This portfolio of projects describes more than 200 improvements you can make to your home and garden.

Colour photographs show how finished projects appear, a parts list gives the dimensions of the components, an exploded drawing shows how they fit together and construction notes give the order of the work.

The projects vary in the demands they make on your skill; some are simple, others are less so. Whatever the skill required. it is explained in the Techniques Section and cross-references are made to techniques pages.

Sections include kitchen. bedroom and bathroom projects; furniture for living areas, garden and workshop improvements; conversiom storage; soft furnishings and toys and children's furniture.

Spelling's easy!

The Collins Concise Dictionary Australian Edition. bb. $29.95.

This fully revised new edition provides an up-todate and wide-ranging survey of contemporary international English. With 1.6 million words of text it sets out with exceptional clarity the essential information likely to be needed by users of a single-volume dictionary Some of its main features are: • Over 15(X) additional words and senses with new items like AIDS, CD-ROM, designer drug, Filofax, playlist.

• Important current meanings precede older, rare, or technical meanings — as at the entries for hospice, monitor, sponsor.

• Australian English clearly identified and extensively treated, with entries like ankle biter. Moomba, native

dog. Paterson's curse, Nam' cricket, Vegemite.

• Excellent coverage of today's science and technology with specialist treatment of subjects like — electronics, computers, medicine.

• Usage notes provide guidance on over 250 disputed or difficult points — compare with or compare to? comprise or include? due to or owing to? flaunt or or practical flout? practicable?

Alphabet.

• Many combining forms (prefixes and suffixes) included, enabling the user to construct the meanings of

hundreds of additional words.

• Generous coverage of irregular forms gives maximum help with spelling.

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• Entries in full, explanatory language, with numbered definitions, and many examples.

• Etymologies show word development and give the century of entry into English, where known.

• Pronunciation given for every word, in a transcription specially adapted from the International Phonetic

NosisP‘IIP's NEW EDITION

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INDEPENDENT

THE PARISH S CENE

CITIZENS' INITIATIVE & REFERENDUM Group

Archdiocesan Calendar

program for the widowed, separated and divorced — learning to close the door gently on a relationship that has ended, in order to begin a new life.

Will be held at St Joseph's convent, Safety Bay, February 25-26. For January Staff mass and meeting, further information please phone 31 Chisholm College. Archbishop Jenny on 447 3795 or Noelene on Foley.

447 9725.

AN INFORMATION EVENING for those interested in learning more about the weekend will be held at 8pm.

North Beach Pastoral Centre, (448 4888) 3 Kitchener St, North Beach on Monday February 6.

Cooloongup, (phone Gordon on 527 7508,) on Wednesday, February 8.

S wanview, (phone Claire on 294 4818) on Thursday, February 9.

John MASSAM Greenwood 343 1649

• Exposed PUBLIC TRUST selling up friend • Won ex-gratia payment from TRUST

• Exposed EDUCATION MINISTRY injustice • Won transfer back from YILGARN

Both worked for victories over • The AUSTRALIA CARD (70,000 WA people signed our petition') • The September 3 trick Referenda which attacked R ELIGIOUS FREEDOM, Local Government freedom, JURY TRIAL, etc (66% of voters said NO1) The Swiss have voted themselves • TAXATION BELOW 10°/0 And they enjoy • INTEREST BELOW 4 0, • UNEMPLOYMENT BELOW 1%

SIX WEEKS THEOLOGY Balcatta parish — Theology Course — conducted by Sr Marie Therese Rhyder, for 6 weeks, commencing Tuesday. February 14 at 9.45am.

Catechists and interested people from nearby parishes, are invited to

O n February 4, NORTH METRO, Upper House, Vote [1], pink ballot, left side, TOP BOX, 'Independent' (the WeygersMassam group). t*. kTht, /whim Age,tro, 45 Cobol* Wirf lanisowned. .14 .14-I 1449

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Four voyagers en route to the Orient become enmeshed in another journey altogether where the world of the senses and the world of the spirit battle for dominance as a beautiful woman becomes the focus of three powerful men — husband, lover and would-be priest. The four are cast into a high noon of passion, adultery, choice and betrayal where their lives must be divided and shared.

Sensual and erotic, spiritual and austere, Claudel's autobiographical drama of grace and redemption is an apocalyptic theatrical vision of overwhelming Wagnerian splendour. This is its first major production in Australia.

Set and lighting designs by Serge Tampalini and Jake Newby take us on the epic voyage from ship to shore, from high noon on the Indian Ocean, through total eclipse in Hong Kong to radiant midnight in China. A momentous work to salute the French Republic's Bicentennial celebrations.

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PROPERTY RESOURCES SUBIACO STEAKHOUSE DINNER & THEATRE SPECIAL — ONLY $35

381 2403 BOCS 325 3399

THE PASSION PLAY OBERAMMERGAU 1990

THE BEGINNING EXPERIENCE attend. Contact Pat Meek on A Beginning Experience weekend 349 1474, for registration.

will move in Parliament: If 5% sign a PETITION for a REFERENDUM, it must be held, and the MAJORITY decision will bind Parliament 3 years.

Peter WEYGERS, JP Claremont Mayor 384 1196

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Launch Project Compassion, Cathedral Parish Centre.

Archbishop Foley.

February 5 Open and bless Vietnamese Centre; Mass for Chinese New Year and Confirmation.

Archbishop Foley.

7 Mass for diocesan workers and tea. Archbishop Foley and Bishop Healy.

9&10 Council of Priests. Archbishop Foley and Bishop Healy.

12 Paulian Association Mass.

Archbishop Foley.

Annual Charismatic Mass, St Mary's Cathedral. Archbishop Foley.

Rite of Election of Catechumens, St Mary's Cathedral. Bishop Healy.

Choose a 15 or 27 day

tour departing May 20 or July 4.

All with Spiritual Directors. `tbu can extend it you wish Send coupon or ring

ATTENTION all Northern Suburbs Mt Lawley Inglewood

Dianella Bedford Yokine

Is your home • in need of repair?

Does the garden take up too much of your leisure time?

Let us show you how you can change all that by getting you top price for your home — and buying a maintenance f ree villa that will offer you all the modern comforts.

M & C GREALISH 275 5052 We guarantee a quick sale with maximum price for your area.

CSA REALTY 276 1333

DOGS' CHANCE RACE ONE: Tropicana 1, Scott A Run 2, Karinya Flash 3. RACE TWO: Indian Lady 1, Firetwist 2, Fabulous Trease 3. RACE THREE: Shy Cindy 1, Spin Attack 2, Orchid Girl 3. RACE FOUR Moon Dreamer 1, Blazenka's Will 2, Trifari 3. RACE FIVE: Black Review 1, Dreamy Bill 2, Key Grip 3.

RACE SIX: Red Rambo 1.

Have you met Valentine's fate?

Satisfy your cavorting curiosity on Saturday, February 11, corner of Welwyn Avenue and Griffin Crescent, Manning.

Leave your cheerful children at our creative creche, do your shopping just up the road, then enjoy Valentine's Fate!

Maranatha Institute ADULT FAITH FORMATION PROGRAM

Commences February 21 This program is for those who wish to update their knowledge of the Catholic faith and also for those who wish to qualify for the Diploma Course in Pastoral Ministry.

The program begins in February and concludes in November and is held on Tuesdays and Fridays from 9.30am-3pm: Part-time or full-time.

Cost $450 — full program.

For further information and registration form contact: Sister Mary Berry Catholic Education Centre 50 Ruislip Street, Leederville 6007 Telephone: (09) 381 5444

_ Top Business 2, Nora's Pride 3. RACE SEVEN: I'm Busy 1, Cheating Charmer 2, Lady

Marwood 3. RACE EIGHT: Super Zute 1, Ghetto's Glider 2, Blue Crusher 3.

RACE NINE: Sandi's Me Mum 1, Tern Niki Lock 2, Cup of Coffee 3. RACE TEN: Barstool Boy 1, Seventh Avenue 2, Judge Dred 3.

CHRISTIAN MEDITATION Sessions will recommence at

Cathedral Parish Centre: Wednesday, February 1, 1.10pm-1.45pm Servite Priory, 2 Morgans Street, Tuart Hill: Monday, February 6, 7.30pm All are welcome Sponsored by Mandorla Centre of Inner Peace Inquiries: Vesta or Sam 277 3799 Tony or Cath 383 2002

ELLIOTT & ELLIOTT Opticians and Optometrists CONTACT LENS CONSULTANTS

Perth Picadilly Arcade Cottesloe 19 Napoleon St Fremantle 30 Market St

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