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A rchdiocesan workers were special in their fields and special to him in the work they did for the local Church, Archbishop Foley said on Tuesday night. He was speaking at Mass in the Redemptorist Church which was followed by the annual social in the retreat house grounds. Representatives came from the following agencies:
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Jan Broderick (centre) were John Hennessy Among the archdiocesan workers who sampled the hospitality of Retreat House manager MrsLane (Diocesan Pastoral Council). Deidre and Planning) (Pastoral Fox Michael (Vocations), Bianchini (Catechumenate), Fr Justin
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promote the goals of Catholic education. Teachers had a special responsibility, he said, if they taught religion, because it was directly On the other hand, he related to the informasaid it is unfair to put all tion and attitudes necesthe blame on teachers if sary for growth in faith. y oung people reject The teacher in the religion. Catholic school should "Teaching in a Catholic see herself or himself as school is a response to a representative of the the Church's invitation Church, part of the to accept an important Bishop's mandate to ministry in the Church, teach the truth, and part that of helping in the of the Catholic communChristian formation of ity's commitment to the importance of Catholic young people." It did not matter, he schools. "This is why parents pointed out, that the subject matter might not place so much trust in be religious education, as you and have such high the whole curriculum expectations of you. They should be geared to see you as their special
Teaching in a Catholic school is not just a job, Bishop Hickey told G eraldton Catholic teachers at a Mass to open the year.
young people reject attempt to discover a way religious practice and of solving it." appear to abandon the He urged teachers to be faith itself, Bishop clear in their presentaHickey said. tion of the truths of the "While this pheno- faith, to put forward the menon is unhappily too authentic teaching of the frequent these days," he Church wth conviction said, "it is quite unfair to and confidence, knowing put all the blame on that Christ himself guateachers or on the school rantees their truth, and curriculum. to back up their teaching "The rejection of with enthusiasm and collaborators in the authority is part of the personal testimony. "One proper development of spirit of the age, and cannot give what one their children. religious authority fares does not have," he said. He promised to pray for "In sending their child- no better in the turbulent and adolescence often, as he of years schools, them to Catholic ren the acknowledged they invite you into their young adulthood. family circle, in a sense, "At the same time importance of their role, because they share with teachers should join with their dignity and their you their primary role in parents, Religious and special place in the teaching their children." priests in the examina- teaching and evangelisTeachers and schools tion of this most regretta- ing mission of the are often criticised if ble situation in an Church.
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A change of heart If enthusiasm for Project Compassion is to be fired up, the biggest sacrifice will not be in our pockets but in changing our hearts. This was the message of Columban missionary Father Brian Gore to Project Compassion parish promoters at last week's launching. "Building God's kingdom is going to be hard yakka for us as well as for Third World people because the roots of the degradation, poverty and misery are in our society," he said. "Many people in those countries are waking up and saying that it need not be that way.
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"We have to bridge the gap that has occurred because of the worldwide manipulation, and oppression when the strength of the few is greater than the weakness of the many." Binding up wounds after the event is not always the
best approach, said Father Gore. He was commenting on the Good Samaritan gospel story that is the theme of the 1989 Project Compassion appeal. "In the Philippines I could have spent $1 million a year on medicines and the same amount or double the following year and the drug companies would have laughed all the way to the bank. "They think that missionaries are great people because they bring in money from abroad and pay for medicine for the poor. "But what is the good of medicine if the people are continually hungry. So we thought about that situation. Were the people hungry because one or two people owned all the land or because efforts by plantation workers to form a union were squashed? "We used money to help people educate themselves to be a community and to reflect if they could change society."
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Never in world history has there been a time when so many have needed our help. Famine, flood, political upheaval and war have left millions of our neighbours hungry homeless and living on the very edge of existence. This Lent, will you make a place at your table for them through Project Compassion? For 25 years, Project Compassion's partnership around the world has helped many in developing countries to regain their dignity and take the important first steps towards self-sufficiency. Project Compassion INN MN INN NMI NM INN NNE NEI programmes have helped with Australian Catholic Relief sanitation, health, agriculture 154 Elizabeth Street and education to bring lasting Sydney 2000 and growing relief to the needy. 1I'd like know more about the work of Project Importantly, these Compassion programmes help people to help I enclose my donation for Project Compassion $ themselves and so break the Please debit my Bankcard otherwise endless cycle of costly Please debit my MasterCard emergency aid. i Please give generously this with the amount of $ Lent.
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'Parishioners important'
The importance of parish promoters of Project Compassion was obvious, Archbishop Foley told over 100 representatives at the 1989 launching in the Cathedral Parish Centre.
"The priests cannot do everything, but they will work with you. Your presence and your ability to create opportunities to pass on the message you have heard and read will be an advantage to all parishioners and enable them to become disciples of the Lord," he said. Foley Archbishop thanked those who work for Project Compassion, "the People of the Church who have owned the project and who are working to make it a growing success now and in the years ahead".
He noted that 71 cents 'done by Australian in every dollar of Project Catholic Relief and the Compassion was going to Australian government. development to help He said he saw earthchange living standards moving equipment and that only 14 cents donated by ACR and went for emergency aid. wells dug with ACR help. Seven cents were used on A fertiliser plant has also education in Australia been built with ACR and eight cents on help. and administration "Agencies like ACR for promotion. nine years have been He quoted ACR episcopal deputy Bishop Pell's keeping the door open to discovery that very few the West, a door of light people could come up and hope showing the with the figure of $53 Kampucheans that there million that had been were others concerned given to Project Compas- besides the Russians and sion over 25 years. Most the Chinese." underestimated the In the light of present amount. peace talks, Archbishop Referring to his visit last Foley said, aid to Kampuyear to Kampuchea, chea has been a real Archbishop Foley said he conciliatory tool enacame home proud to be bling the West to enter a Catholic and to be an into negotiation and Australian on account of making a peaceful future the work he saw being passible.
is the biggest sacrifice... Father Gore dismissed the idea that this action should be avoided because it is political. "It is always political. Everything has a political dimension just as everything has a religious dimension. "A lot of people say we cannot get ourselves involved in politics but when we support bandaid programs we are being political. "President Marcos loved every child that was being supported by World Vision because it took the stress off him while he salted away his millions. But supporting the children did not change anything in that society. "Outside organisations are trying to deal with some ills but they are not getting at the basic ills. But the churches in those countries are realising they have to change society and they need help.
"We have to believe God is present and work through the churches in those countries who may not want to use the money the way we think best. "They expect us also to look at our own society and see that things are wrong here too." Father Gore said Australian governments had to be pressured to increase their foreign aid which was far below the ideal proposed by the United Nations. "We need to impress on governments to treat other nations more justly. "But these are not popular issues and they were not seen much on television during the recent election. "It is not a popular way to preach the gospel because it threatens us when we are challenged to give more and more."
Good Samaritan parable with new twist Getting rid of the robbers is one way of improving the parable of the Good Samaritan, Father Brian Gore told last Tuesday's Project Compassion audience. "The man did all he could at the time but we can do more than bind up wounds, otherwise the road from Jericho to Jerusalem is going to remain a very dangerous road. "We could build more hospitals to bring them to after being bashed, or supply ambulances as soon as the robbers hit him, improve communications to make it a great going concern." Father Gore said that. groups studying the parable in the Philippines decided on a third course: get rid of the robbers. "This didn't make us very popular because that sort of loving your neighbour is not very good for the robbers and is doing them out of a job. "If you are going to be bashed up each time you go down the road you are going to get sick of it. In many countries people are sick of being bashed up and are
taking means to defend themselves. "This may not be the best solution but it is the only one they can see unless they can see a light at the end of the tunnel." Father Gore said that in looking at the poverty and degradation in Third World countries we are doing in good faith what the Good Samaritan did, coming in after the event but a bit late. "Yes they need our support and as an affluent country we can afford to help them but we should be looking at the root causes so that they can avoid poverty year after year." He said the worst happenings were man-made disasters when wealthy nations told Third World countries how they should conduct their economies so that they can pay their debts. "Unless thinking Christians are prepared to go that step further than jthst giving money, then we will get fed up because there is no end to it. There will be another Bangladesh flood next year and the year after. "There has to be deeper thinking about the issues. But that is going to mean even bigger changes for us."
Father Brian Gore addressing more than 100 parish representatives of Project Compassion.
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Change of heart on condoms?
Having been lulled by summer lethargy into believing that life should be a perpetual free lunch, the sudden arrival of Lent this year should be the ideal pick-me-up for the soul. Why is Lent then such an unspectacular event? In the northern hemisphere where the Church seasons originated the first rays of sunlight say that there is life after the perilous cold. Easter and spring put hope back into a dark existence. The southern hemisphere has yet to endure the barren dry months. Why isn't the weather desert the ideal setting for penance? Why are we so reluctant to talk about the eternal heat of hell when there is nothing to talk about except the PARIS: In their latest ence follows closely on never ending heat waves? on AIDS the recent pronouncements statement Lent sets out from the ideal setting of Jesus' Catholic on the subject by the French prayer and fasting in the desert for forty days but bishops do not repeat cardinal archbishops of thereafter the busybodies in the Church begin to their previous unquali- Paris and Lyons. fiddle and an already complicated world seems to fied condemnation of The bishops now state be getting a very complicated version of Lent. the use of condoms. two fundamental princiWhen there was half a chance that people They affirm that victims ples, that exclusion or would drop into a church or be within earshot of and carriers of the rejection of sufferers or disease should be wel- carriers cannot be justiits message, preachers doubled the penance of comed, helped and cared fied on moral, theological their in longer pulpits even talking by listeners their for with love and or religious grounds: and and in the streets, and like the prophets of the Old that any campaign of understanding. Testament flayed every imaginable sin in sight. It based solely prevention Catholics all on call "We was the type of seasonal spiritual entertainment on "prophylactic means" a discover, or keep, to that people expected of their churchmen even if would be "questionable". sense of solidarity and listeners were slow to put the message into The bishops say that the personal responsibility: practice. let sufferers above all be epidemic is "an opporToday preachers are hard pressed to find tunity for people to assured of our friendexamine their conscienanyone who will listen to them for more than five ship," the bishops say. minutes, let alone risk being upset by hearing The statement by the ces on their own sexual bluntly about sin. Never have the means of permanent council of the behaviour". "Society," they say, "has French bishops' confercommunication been so abundant and never have the masses seemingly been so reluctant to listen. Fasting has been turned upside down in the same paradox. In ages when meat and fat were precious luxuries for the poor masses, living on corn and potatoes, never was it so popular for churches to impose even harder and harder penances abstaining from food. Yet as the shelves of the affluent 20th century got loaded with more and more surplus food, VATICAN CITY (NC): An year's celebration of the never did it seem so unreasonable to go without! of the Russian first millennium of official The Church gave up the physical penances not Orthodox Church said Christianity in the Soviet because it was going soft but because the signs of a new openness Union. majority of people could not be bothered. Among the monasteries to the church on the part The message was not getting through when a of communist authorities restored to the church meat pie on Friday was the height of sinfulness. include permission to was the "great monastery The Church would try again. open parishes, monaster- of Kiev, source of Russian Christianity", the archiies and convents. Just as the down-to-earth thunderings of the mandrite said. Radio In a Vatican pulpits were turned into polite Church lecture addition, "new In Joseph Father nterview, i series by reputed preachers on the most abstract of theology are schools doctrines as an alternative Lenten fare so the late Poustooutov, archiman- also being opened", he Patriarchate the of drite 20th century church has gone off in search of a of Moscow, said more added. new formula to get at the human soul. Russian There are "numerous 700 than The giving programs sparked off in an Orthodox parishes, mon- other signs that testify to embarrassingly prosperous post-War Germany asteries and convents an opening on the part of have captured the imagination of churches world were opened or restored the authorities in relato the church during last tion to the church", he wide. said. The few Australian Catholics who stay close to their Church in this campaign appear to donate amounts of extraordinary generosity. If the $53 million given to Project Compassion over its 25 years could be translated into 1989 real dollars, the staggering amount should be shouted at a sick and flabby society that is blase about the millions it wastes on failed hopes and expectations. Yet the message of personal sacrifice seems to ROME (NC): Pope John limit established in 1970 get lost as the futility of money and possessions Paul II will keep the rules by Pope Paul VI. is made to look foolish even more by inflation and limiting papal electors to Denying that he had the taxation system than by a conviction that cardinals under 80 years signed the request letter of age, said Cardinal was Italian Cardinal some poor person's existence is improved Agostino Casaroli, Vatican Silvio Oddi, 78, ex-head somewhere else in the world by one individual's secretary of state. of the Vatican Congregagenerosity. tion for Clergy. Cardinal The cardinal, the pope's The latest phase to hit the Church appears to Oddi added that he top adviser, spoke after be the Lenten and Advent discussion campaign Italian press reports said favoured dropping the labelled euphemistically as renewal. In theory the several cardinals for- age limit. idea cannot be faulted: If the purpose of penance "I would be willing to mally had asked the pope and prayer is the true gospel change of heart, then to erase the 80 year age sign such a letter if what better therapy than hours of discussion grappling with renewal of the spirit? Time will tell whether the post-Vatican church found the formula that had been so elusive in the past. Was the past so terribly wrong when it called SAO PAULO, (Brazil) social justice "despite the the daily grind of surviving, sinfully stumbling but (NC): Franciscan Father activities of ultraconsermercifully repenting the substance of penance? Leonardo Boff, a leading vative sectors in the In the meantime, how many Australians even Brazilian theologian, said Vatican". knew it was Ash Wednesday this week? . . . or the church in his country even cared? Don't consult the calendars or the has maintained a preferFather Boff, who serves ential option for the poor as advisor to the Brazinews bulletins. and a position in favour of lian bishops' conference, 4 The Record, February 9, 1989
too easily accepted and ot rejection the bishops even encouraged casual are sticking to the line sex and the practice of a taken in their statements sexuality far removed of February and June mutual 1987. They have, howfrom ever, modified their commitment." They go on to say, "we position on the use of would be failing in our condoms. duty if we remained The 1987 statements silent in the face of sexual forbade it yet in explicitly conduct that distorts the in very meaning of sexual- his radio talk Cardinal 1988 December ity and multiplies the Lustiger suggested that risk of the epidemic". "those who already have They recommended the disease and cannot "chastity, and respect for live in chastity" should one's own body and use condoms in order to those of others, to all avoid passing on the people, whether married disease. or single". In their latest statement In their affirmation that AIDS victims should not the bishops say "the be punished by exclusion people as a whole and the
Signs of new openness ... "We are looking at all these changes with much hope," Father Poustooutov said. "We want truly to believe that this process". now begun, "will be irreversible". Father Poustooutov said that participation by delegations from other churches in last June's millennial celebrations in Moscow was a new beginning for ecumenical relations. Relations with the Catholic Church particularly improved, he added.
Pope firm on keeping to rules asked," Cardinal Oddi said. Cardinal Oddi said he did not know if the letter mentioned in the news reports exists. Italian news reports did not offer any proof that the letter exists, but said it was signed by 10 cardinals, many of them over 80.
Option for the poor is a principal figure among proponents of liberation theology. In 1985, he was admonished by the Vatican for his views and prohibited from writing or teaching on theology for one year.
young in particular must be informed of the risk they run by having sexual relations with an infected person". They point out that "prophylactic means exist" but remark that "reducing AIDS prevention to their use alone is questionable". Taken with references to the government responsibility for public health, this appears to suggest that the bishops have at least acquiesced in the government's campaign for the use of condoms, and no longer insist on absolute prohibition of their use.
Jews give warning GENEVA: Leaders of the World Jewish Congress fear that if the Catholic convent is not moved from Auschwitz before the agreed date of February 22, there will be "serious consequences". Gerhard Riegner, copresident of the directing council of the congress, has said that there was a danger of complete suspension of relations between the Jewish community and the Vatican. An agreement that the Carmelite convent on the site of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz, regarded by Jews as the symbolic centre of the Holocaust, should be moved outside the camp area within two years was signed in Geneva on February 22, 1987. Riegner did not think that the fault lay with the Vatican, but with the Polish Church which had put up strong opposition to Cardinal Macharski over the implementation of the agreement. It was only recently, he said, that the Polish Churches had established a commission for relations with the Jews, but he feared that Vatican documents on this subject had not been translated into Polish. He thought that antiSemitism in Polish society was a contributing factor. There were only about 5000 Jews left in Poland. He believed the Polish Church was concerned to maintain itself as a fortress against the Corn-
munist government, and that is was not open to new ideas and teachings. But the Jewish community, he said, regarded Auschwitz as a symbol of the Holocaust. This was understood in Rome, but not, he feared, in Poland. Fr Jean Dujardin, secretary of the French bishops' commission for relations with Jews, said there was a conflict of two symbols. For the Poles, he said, Auschwitz was the symbol of the martyrdom of Poland, but he did not doubt that the due date of February 22 would be respected. The refusal so far of the nuns at the Carmel in Auschwitz to leave their convent has caused the postponement of an international CatholicJewish conference on the Holocaust. Rabbi Tannenbaum, chairman of the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious consultations, said that Cardinal Johannes Willebrands, chairman of the Vatican Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, had written to say that more time was needed to resolve the issue. The rabbi said the nuns at the Auschwitz Carmel, who have been there since 1984, were resisting attempts to move them. By the terms of the 1987 agreement, the Carmelite convent at Auschwitz is to become a study centre for the Holocaust.
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This message is dear to the pope, one he delivers during his many pastoral voyages and to countless groups he meets with in Rome. It is also a message he apparently believes the Church's laity and pastors still have not taken to heart. VATICAN CITY (NC): Although it was of record length, Pope John Paul II's new document on the laity, the long-awaited postsynodal exhortation, served up no surprises and followed closely the 1987 laity synod's suggestions.
tries being opened to women, awaits the clarification requested by the synod. The ecclesial status of lay spiritual movements, another source of conflict, was delegated to the Pontifical Council for the Laity. Regarding the greater But it also showed the participation of women pope to be deeply con- in the Church requested cerned with pushing lay by the synod, the pope action in the world, said simply that the which he sees as threa- "revised Code of Canon tened by spreading secul- Law contains many proarisms and other ills. visions on the participaRead as a diagnosis of tion of women", provithe state of the Church sions which "must be and the world, the more commonly document is a summary known". of the major themes of Vatican officials said the first 10 years of his particularly applied this pontificate. to countries or regions Designed to cap the slow to involve women in work of the 1987 Synod such Church structures of Bishops on the Voca- as parish councils. tion and the Mission of the Laity in the Church Instead of breaking new and the World, the ground, the pope made 40,000-word apostolic clear in the exhortation exhortation released on that what is needed is January 30 is the longest action, not theories and post-synodal document plans. published by any pope. The challenge of the It hewed closely to the 1987 synod, he said, was suggestions contained in to suggest "concrete the 1987 synod's 54 ways" that the "rich propositions, referring 'theory' on the lay state" directly or indirectly to of the Second Vatican Council "can be transnearly every one. No new programs or lated into authentic pastoral approaches Church 'practice' ". were proposed, and synThe pope's belief that odal controversies were the council continues to generally left unresolved. be a reliable guide is The particularly con- underlined by his tentious issue of the numerous references the nature of ministries was t hroughout farmed out to a commis- exhortation. sion for further study. Of its 224 footnotes, The debate over lectors more than one-third cite and acolytes, and the conciliar documents, far possibility of these minis- more than the citations
Tool of justice VATICAN CITY: The Vatican's new labour office will be a tool of justice and equity for both lay and clergy workers, says Pope John Paul. The office, announced by the pope last June, has been given experimental by-laws for a period of five years. Under the new rules workers can challenge any Vatican
work policy except those set by the pope. The office is the result of complaints about bureaucracy by some of the 230 employees of whom some 1800 are laity. The pope said the office aimed to create an atmosphere of community, responsibility and dignity among workers and promote sincere dialogue.
The laity's primary of the synodal proposimission is to and in the tions themselves. This sense that the world, the pope repeattheoretical and theologi- edly said. One of the cal issues have been dealt "temptations" of lay with is repeated in the Catholics is "being so discussion of the role of strongly interested in Church services and women in the Church. "Above all the acknowl- tasks" that they fail to edgement in theory of meet their "responsibilithe active and responsi- ties" in the world. Throughout the exhorble presence of women in the Church must be tation is woven the realised in practice," the imagery of a vineyard. The vineyard is the pope urged. world, racked by ecoIf lacking in new proposals, the exhortation nomic inequality, aborrepeats Pope John Paul's tion and other assaults frequent call for a on human dignity and general renewal of the human life, religious Church to meet the indifference or hostility. challenges of modern But the laborers in this vineyard are few, in the life. papal view. It is a theme sounded by "Whole countries and the pope since the first nations where religion day of his pontificate. In fact, the exhortation's and the Christian life most impassioned pas- were formerly flourishsage is a quote from that ing and capable of first talk: "Do not be fostering a viable and afraid! Open, indeed, working community of open wide the doors to faith are now put to a hard test" and even Christ!" subject to a "radical But the exhortation also transformation as a strikes a note of result of a constant impatience. spreading of an indifferThe state of the world ence to religion, of "calls with a particular secularism and atheism", urgency for the action of the pope observed. the lay faithful", the pope In those countries said in the introduction. where "many vital tradi"If lack of commitment tions of piety and popuis always unacceptable, lar forms of Christian the present time renders religion are still conit even more so. It is not served", they are threapermissible for anyone to tened by a "multiplicity remain idle." of process, including secularisation and the spread of sects". "A mending of the Christian fabric of
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VATICAN CITY: The rights of both parties must be protected during annulment cases, Pope John Paul told Roman Rota officials. The pope said that in cases in which a party renounced the right to defence, the tribunal should make an extra effort to obtain that party's deposition and from other witnesses. "The party may not want to present a case because he/she does not understand how the Church could ever declare null the sacred bond of marriage after so many years of living together."
society" and of "the ecclesial community itself" is urgently needed, the pope said. The solution he proposes is a reevangelisation, and the laity is to play a key role. Jesus' command is to "go and preach the Gospel", and the present state of the world "absolutely demands that the words of Christ receive a more ready and generous obedience", he said. Many people shirk the task of evangelisation, and one reason for this is the "unwarranted separation" between a person's private spiritual life and his or her life in the world. For this reason, the Church must make a priority on ongoing formation which emphasises the "unity of life", the pope urged.
This formation must be spiritual, doctrinal and social, girding Catholics to bear witness that Christianity has the "only fully valid response" to the world's problems and hopes. It is in this context then that the pope addresses other issues raised by the synod: the renewal of parishes, the role of movements, the vocations of men and women. What prepares lay Catholics to evangelise the world is to be encouraged and retained.
'Irresponsible' VATICAN CITY: Claims by Roberto Calvi's widow that Vatican officials were responsible for her banker husband's death are "irresponsible inventions" says the Vatican. Mrs Calvi, now living in Montreal has made the claim several times before and recently says those mainly responsible for her husband's "murder" were Archbishop Marcinkus and top Vatican officials.
A Milan court recently decided that Calvi was probably murdered before his body was found hanging under London Bridge in 1982. He was head of the Banco Amrosiano which was about to collapse under a $1.2 billion debt. As a shareholder the Vatican Bank made in 1984 what it called a goodwill payment of $240 million to Ammsiano creditors
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Freedom from "Evangelisation loses much of its force and effectiveness if it does not take into consideration the actual peo-
ple to whom it is addressed, if it does not use their language, their signs and symbols, if it
does not answer the questions they ask, and if it does not have an impact on their concrete life.
"But on the other hand evangelisation risks losing its power ,and disappearing altogether if one empties or adulterates its
content under the pretext of translating it; if, in other words, one sacrifices this reality and destroys
the unity without which there is no universality, out of a wish to adapt a universal reality to a local situation.
"Now, only a church which preserves the awareness of her universality and shows that she is in fact universal is capable of
Practical strategies are important in our search for identity in multicultural our society. In this chapter I will attempt the suggestion of some. They can be the beginning of a journey along which we can all meet, and with mutual cooperation new strategies, even more effective and efficient, will be found. Ours is a journey of hope: anyone is welcome to join. We must do away with prejudices resulting from a concrete historically conditioned human and spiritual education, still persisting in an unconscious way, but real enough to block understanding of the
These people care. They are seen attending a lecture on how to make refugees and migrants feel at home.
The sure way towards healthy In order to reach a healthy and compredialogue hensive between cultures, and in order to let communication become inculturation, language and modes of thoughts must be freed. We cannot impose our Western c,ategories onto the beliefs and practices of other peoples. Furthermore, applying our Western categories, be they philosophical or religious, to non-Western behaviour runs the risk of completely misunder-
standing the traditional beliefs and practices of other peoples. A label does not imply understanding of a cultural phenomenon. Understanding needs systematic thinking through discovery and assertion. Now, in dealing with eg "Asian cultures" or Aboriginal culture, if we reason with our own Western philosophical and religious mental categories, we risk to find ourselves with plenty of
pigeonholes but with no by the so-called animists. Aboriginal people and pigeons inside. Asian people are aware I will clarify with some of all the elements of examples. religion: God, spirits and "animism": This word divinities, and they are was used to classify the all part of their tradiworld's religions into tional beliefs. Certainly, polytheism. monotheism in my opinion, animism and animism (belief in is not an adequate the spirits). Yet any description of these including religion, religions. Roman Catholicism, can be called animists, "magic": Another Westbecause they all believe ern word applied to in the existence of spirits. "native" beliefs and One thing though is practices. certain: that such a To have their traditional classification is found rituals labeled as magic insulting and offensive or superstition is offen-
sive to people who see in their rituals something sacred and their personal relationship with "God". Certainly, it forfeits us the possibility of understanding what these rituals mean to a community, and so the possibility of inculturation. A question: are we Westerners so free from magic? What about the popular "touch wood!"? Or on a more religious ground what about a candle lit to St Anthony to find a lost object, as
also a St Christopher medal used to prevent accidents? If we compare the sacraments to magic, can we come to a fine cut between the Church's official doctrine and the popular form it takes? Plenty of cleaning up must be done at home, even before adventuring outside . . . "ancestor worship": The notion of death, for example among Chinese, Japanese and other Asian cultures, differs greatly
from that of a secularised Western world which frequently considers death as simply the end which must be avoided at all costs. It is certain that there is a "cult of the dead" among many cultures, but to label it as "worship" can scarcely be proved. In my opinion, the cult of the dead is a good example of a practice found in non-Christian cultures which could be easily purified and
In the beginning there were
When Archbishop Polding was asked: "Do you think (Aborigines) have such an idea of the value of the land, as to lead them to view its settlement as an act of aggression?", he answered: "I am convinced of it, and think that is the root of the evil". When the Europeans came to New South Wales, they found no towns, no trading posts, no tilled fields, no domesticated cattle. The land was unoccupied, so it seemed to them. Thus they took possession of this land in the name of the King of England. But the land was occupied. It was held by groups who could have told them to within a chain where their country ended and another clan's country began. 6
They were dealing with a people who had occupied and marked out this continent at a time when the ancestors of these Englishmen were living in caves. "When we took what we call "land", we took what to them meant hearth, home, the source and locus of life, and everlastingness of spirit. At the same time it left each local band bereft of an essential constant that made their plan and code of living intelligible. Particular pieces of territory, each a homeland, formed part of a set of constants without which no affiliation of any person to any other person, no link in the whole network of relationships, no part of the complex structure of social groups any longer had all its coordinates." The land was not held
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by individuals who could significance, a home, produce title deeds, but it belonging to all in the was held by communi- clan; on the other hand, ties whose title to the Westerners seeing the particular track of land land as an economic was conveyed in the proposition. history of their clan, and Continues W.E.H. preserved with wonder- Stanner in his considerful consistency in the ations over the meaning myths and legends of land for Aboriginal passed on from genera- people: tion to generation. "What I describe as The concept of "work- " homelessness", then, ing the land", in the means that the Aboriminds and factual way of gines faced a kind of living of the Aborigines, vertigo in living. They was different from our had not stable base of life; western notion of every personal affiliation ploughed fields and was lamed; every group herds. grazing structure was put out of Working the land kilter, no social network means more than impos- had a point of fixture left. ing our will upon it and "There was no more drawing sustenance terrible part of our 19th from it. It means "form- century story than the ing a bond" with it. herding together of Thus, the clash of values broken tribes, under comes to the surface: authority, and yoked by Aborigines seeing the new regulations, into land as something settlements and institusacred, of deep spiritual tions as substitutes
homes." This concept of sacredness is also referred to fire, water, animals (ex kangaroo, emu, snakes, lizards, birds): each has a range of concrete representations which can be touched, or handled, and observed. It is a sacredness which is alive, creative, giving today as much as it was alive, creative and giving yesterday, and as it will be in the future. The term "eternal" ("Dreaming" is a direct translation of one of the relevant native words, although it is not very precise in expressing the richness of the Aboriginal word) has this connotation. "It is a striking characteristic of the Aboriginal way of life that the religious, the cultural and the legal are all so tightly woven together.
"It is from the Dreamtime — i.e. from the mythological origins of their race — that they receive the whole pattern of life, social and religious. "And this mythology is tied into the land that has been handed down to them from the past. So Aboriginal religion and culture is not portable as is that of the West." These concepts, although presented in a brief and conceptual way, must be studied and grasped in depth by the Church. She has to be free herself from her western mental categories and let herself be "inculturated" about this modus vivendi the eternal by the Aborigines. The first step to be made, in my opinion, is not that of examining whether Aboriginal
religon is true or false, according to our western philosophical and religious principles; the point is that for them it is a religion or more a way of life, a human response to the Eternal: and we must respect it as such. The first thing to do then is to come to know it and appreciate it. Only later on, we can put the question: "How is the Good News of Jesus Christ going to reach and Aboriginal enrich culture?". As we well know, this process is a two-way road: in giving we receive. And the Church must be prepared to adjust, change, reform herself in this actualisation of the message of Jesus. The reality of the death and resurrection of Christ is a constant reminder to the Church
fears
Inculturation: Option to Multiculturalism The search for an identity By Father Dino Torresan, CS
having a message which can be heard by all, regardless of regional frontiers. "Legitimate atten-
tion to individual churches cannot fail to enrich the Church. Such attention is indispensable and
urgent. It responds to the very deep aspirations of peoples and human communities to find their own
identity even more clearly." — Paul VI, Evangelii Nuntiandi, 63
people and to damage the inculturation process. There are many problems that can be encountered along the process of inculturation. I believe that by conceiving inculturation as shared meanings and values, we can situate the problem where it should be: that is, in the human person of whatever class or culture. Any human being is afraid of change. Fear then is the main obstacle to personal conversion, which is the heart of the Gospel message. Religion is conversion, evangelisation is conversion and the evangelisation of cultures is conversion. Evangelii Nuntiandi (n.
15) puts it very beauti-
This can easily be the case of Australian-born people, trying to defend their colonial powers; or the case of minority groups overreacting against or in favour of their past, and absolutising their own cultural values. Such an attitude may influence Christians to the extent of overemphasising particulars of "their own church" and thus isolating their communities from any (or only marginal) outside influences. The extent of the damage of such an attitude can reach serious proportions of racism, social absenteeism, religious cultural schism, obscurantism. Healthy growth takes
place only through positive communion with others. (3) Freedom from dogmatism: Fear of change brings clergy (or any other person in authority) to cling to traditional, perhaps even outdated. formulas; and this dogmatism of word and symbols alienates faith and its expression in prayer and liturgy from everyday life. Meaningful Christian life and faithfulness to tradition suppose readiness to accept the possibility of reformulating Christian faith in various cultural terms, and of celebrating the joyful mystery of salvation in different rituals and symbols. Otherwise, christian symbols and formulas will become a means to defend ourselves and preserve our cultural identity as people; but as Gospel values they will be empty and inconsistent, because irrelevant to life today.
fully: "The Church is evangelised by constant conversion and renewal, in order to evangelise the world with credibility." What are then the steps to make in order to free oneself from fear? (1) Freedom from apparent incompatibilities: That is to free oneself or reconcile oneself, in a serene and healthy balance, with the dialectical tensions which arise between the contingent and the universal, between unity and pluralism, between authority and subsidiarity, between our own traditional identity and the need of conversion and purification. (2) Freedom from an emotional patriotism:
r apport ... uncultured by sound Christian doctrine. Education plays in this area a role of paramount importance. Teachers can free or enslave the minds, feelings and emotions of youth; they can manipulate and exploit historical and humanitarian facts; they can build or undermine the bases of society or of any religious movement; they can brainwash or form intellects which are selective and unilateral, or minds open
to see the world as a "global village".
Once again (and I do apologise for repeating myself) if inculturation is Of course, the subject of shared understanding of education, its positive or common meanings and negative impact on youth values of a community, it or students, the need for means that inculturation an interdisciplinary involves the person who approach to reach a wishes to communicate deeper and more critical the message, the people reflection, requires a to whom he wishes to specific analysis. communicate it, and the to be However, I will not message adventure myself in it; I communicated. will leave this analysis to In each of these elethe experts, hoping for a ments a revision of creative and healthy accepted common meancontribution to ings and values is inculturation. necessary.
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or do we have to imbue them with our mental categories? This is the challenge that multiculturalism and inculturation present to the Church today. The "Catholicity" (and consequently the "Identity") of the Church in Australia must be shown in her capacity of welcoming and sharing the different and diverse richness of the many cultures. This inner ability of reshaping herself, when Now, for black people challenged by true values "black if beautiful". and meanings, shows the Thus, we have here a true vitality of the clash of symbolisms and Church, moved by the meanings. And the logi- Spirit of Pentecost. cal question for us as One final word. Christians is: How are we The sense of sacredness, going to transmit the the feeling of the pervadmessage of light, new life, ing presence of the baptism, etc. to these Eternal, the ecological people? balance that the AboriIs there a common gines were able to keep in ground of understanding thir use of and relation-
to never lay the Message on a given culture as the only depository of salvation but to remain "transcultural", that is beyond (not aloof to) all. For instance, let us take the symbolism of the black colour in our culture. Black is associated with night, darkness. If we add a further moral dimension, it becomes associated with what is evil and bad, or unclean and dirty.
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How to teach the Bible to children
This week in focus As the NC Religious Education Package begins to explore its 1989 theme, Roots of Hope, we glance toward the past to see what it holds for people today living in such a dramatically new age. One lesson of history shows how much people have in common, despite differences in time and place, Katharine Bird discovers in interviews with church historian Mons John Tracy Ellis and theologian Lawrence Cunningham. History also helps people develop a sense of judgement about people and society, she adds.
The Church's rich tradition helps people shape the present and the future, says Father Herbert Weber. By tracing the past, one can see how the Spirit has been leading and guiding the Church and making it ready for today and tomorrow. "Remember" is one of the most important words in Church vocabulary, writes Father John Castelot. It is a constant reminder to people that the past has important lessons for the present, he says. Father Castelot is a Scripture scholar, author and lecturer.
Learning from history Athens is a city where I became acutely aware of the sweep of history. In that ancient setting, I grasped in a new way how events long past continue to affect people today. I visited Athens delighted at the thought of meeting the spirits of the Grecian city's legendary artists, philosophers, writers and political theorists whose works still influence Western culture almost 2500 years later. In imagination I walked with the statesman Pericles and the dramatist
Aristophanes along the hot, dusty pathways leading straight up to the magnificent Parthenon, the temple perched like an imperial queen high on the Acropolis above the city. Seated at an outside table of a taverna just below the Parthenon, it was easy to imagine the historian Thucydides meeting similarly with friends almost 500 years before Jesus was born. Maybe he too listened to a wandering musician and sipped something like espresso. Surely he debated ideas,
Briefly Have you ever caught throwing yourself question after question about the past at an elderly relative, utterly fascinated by the opportunity to tap into his memories of the way things used to be? Or have you, on some occasion, taken great pains to get in contact with someone in your family who is much older, someone whose accounts of life you wanted to retrieve, whether in the form of old photos, letters, diaries or simple conversation? If so, why? Why take pains to recapture an elderly 'relative's eyewitness accounts of events that happened long ago and of people who lived before your time? Why the fascination at memories of long ago? It is difficult to explain precisely what it is that makes us want to take account of the past, of history. When we turn to the past, we do so almost instinctively, suspecting that it holds something for us and hoping to unearth whatever that something is.
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What is interesting is the zest with which people on occasion pursue their past. They undertake the effort with much the same sense of exploration and discovery that they would bring along on a journey into the future. The fact is, the past can be very interesting. As retold by an elderly relative, history is full of colourful stories of our parents as kids, and of their parents and grandparents. Then, too, the past holds important lessons. We learn something from mistakes and poor decisions made in the past. You might say there's a moral in the story. And, as historians might put it, to ignore history is to condemn oneself to repeating its errors. So there are wonderful tales just waiting to be told to us and valuable lessons to be learned from the past. Still, those factors alone, important as they are, don't fully reveal why it is that we turn so enthusiastically to the past and its memories at times. There is something more. We discover that our past is tied to our future. In our history, we discover roots of hope.
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as Athenians did then — the meaning of justice and freedom, of truth and beauty. In Athens it was easy to think about the past. And one of history's lessons is how much people have in common, despite the differences of place and time. The daily activities of life go on in every age and every place. There is the need to earn a living, to obtain food and drink, to nurture friends and families. And people in every age discuss the meaning of the good life.
I always have admired By Father Eugene LAVERDIERE, SSS those who teach little children, especially those who teach them By creating an imaginToday we are seeing very basic things about God, Jesus, the Church, more and more emphasis ery world, these stories and life as a child of on teaching religion and help little children deal God. Some 25 years especially the Scriptures with real fears they experience. ago I remember trying in the home. to explain to 6-yearThe setting I have common The keys are olds that Jesus was sense, experience, love described is an excellent born almost 2000 and concern. one for teaching children years ago. In matters concerning the Bible, especially if
Like children playing on a Ao seesaw, people stand in mutual need of mutual support. Sometimes they're the ones offering help and care; sometimes they're on the receiving end.
History gives us a sense of "shared humanity". That is how historian Paul Gagnon put it in "Why Study History?" (The Atlantic Monthly, November 1988). Studying history helps to develop our sense of judgment, he said. As we come to understand earlier people and to see how they resemble us but also how we differ, we are learning how to make judgments about people and society. Judgment helps us see how hard it is to make human life better, yet that this has been done
I might as well have been talking about the genetic code.
By Katharine BIRD repeatedly in the past. Gagnon said. Knowing history leads us to question stereotypes, to distrust oversimplified answers and to weigh consequences, Gagnon suggested. Theologian and historian Lawrence Cunningham thinks history allows us to see that every age brings its own challenges. At the same time, the people of every age have to "learn to live without doing violence to
each other and to make the world a livable place", he said. Cunningham teaches at the University of Notre Dame. For Christians, history is "a great treasure house that can help us understand the Gospel today", Cunningham added.
The word "remember" is a common one in the Bible. It is a constant reminder to people that the past has important lessons for the present. For example, when Moses urged his people to be kind to the refugees who had settled in their midst, he told them to remember their own experience. "So you too must befriend the alien, for you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt" (Deuteronomy
because they are interesting in themselves. They are essential for making sense out of the present. What happens if we ignore history? For one thing, to ignore history is to ignore God. For it was precisely in the history of his people that God revealed himself.
God got involved in the lives of people. Through this experience, the people got to know him. That is why the annual Passover celebration was, and is, so important. Passover is a continuing 10:19). remembrance of God's If repeated appeals are involvement in freeing made in the Bible to past the people from Egypt. events, it is not just "This day shall be a
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memorial feast for you" (Exodus 12:14). The Passover is a constant reminder that God is a saving God — in the past, now and always. If Christians place so much stress on the importance of the Bible, it is not just because it is a fascinating old book or "inspiring", but because it is a constant remembering of God's love for humanity. The Bible is not simply past history.It establishes
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"History also helps us recover aspects of faith that have been forgotten," Cunningham said. For instance, scholars today are making an effort to recover the great mystical tradition of women in the Middle Ages and later.
History leads people to recognise that Mother Teresa "stands in the The purpose of such great long tradition of efforts "is to learn the people serving the poor", ways people have tried to live out the Gospel in the he said.
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Despite her use of electricity and flying on airplanes, "she is essentially doing the same thing people did a thousand years ago".
Paul realised this keenly. In his day, some of the Christians at Corinth were becoming dangerously complacent — "cocky" might be a better word — about their situation. They had been baptised into Christ and were nourished by his body and blood. They were saved. They could relax. Paul reminded them that they were not the first people in history
I I. who thought they had it made. Freed from Egypt, the Israelites thought so too. God had brought them out of Egypt, fed them with manna and slaked their thirst with water from the rock. They were his people. But among the people, idolatry developed, and immorality, and grumbling. And "God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the desert . . . These things happened to them as an example and they have been written down as a warning to us" (1 Corinthians 10:5-12).
past to see if there are ma els" for today, he expl lined. amingham said that Brish Cardinal John Henry Newman was a 19th-century Church figue with a superb sale of history. ng Church history, heizas able to show how t he :7.hurch continues to der4op, while also shr ving how much confine ity there is in it. CL nningham also potted to St Thomas Age inas in the 13th
century as an example of copal church services in "how you could take a Richmond, Va, after the philosopher, Aristotle, Civil War. At Communwho had lived many ion, a black person went centuries earlier and put up to the Communion him to the service of rail. Christian truth". The congregation froze Church historian Msgr and tension filled the air John Tracy Ellis spoke of until, Msgr Ellis said, Lee how historical figures calmly went forward and serve as models for knelt down next to the people in the present black person. time. He teaches at The Catholic University of Taking such a history America. lesson to heart can help He told of Robert E. Lee, people today show courthe defeated Southern age in stressful situageneral, attending Epis- tions, Msgr Ellis said.
Talking point We live on the eve of new decade, the .990s. The decade belt leads into a new century and a new millennium. The times are dramatically new and different from 50 or 100, let alone 1000 years ago. In this age of the future, what value toes the past have? Do you think that a ,)ok into the past 1 istory of Christianity c an help people preare for the future? A ccording to Father John Castelot, why was it so important for the Israelites to ' remember" their last? K atharine Bird says t hat times change creatly, but people in i very age face many imilar questions. I Vhat does she mean? AO
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With that the children's eyes opened wide, their jaws dropped and their little lungs quickly filled with air. There was amazement all around as slowly and audibly they exhaled. That day I learned that teachers need a lot more than knowledge. They must be fully attuned to the experience of those they teach and feel comfortable presenting things in language the students understand.
What had impressed him was the attentive look and the faith of his parents asIread the story to his little brother and sister seated on either side of me in the family living room. That pretty well sums it up, doesn't it?
older children and adults Along with telling are present. In this setting of children about the Bible warmth and trust, child- and its stories, we need to ren listen, interrupt with show them what the questions, make com- story looks like in our ments and ask to hear the own lives. story all over again. Extensive knowledge Stories about creation, and teaching techniques the flood, the shepherds help, but they are of no at Bethlehem and the use unless the Bible story Prodigal Son all are has become the storyteller's own story to a excellent. Read the stories simply. certain extent. Then let the child's Teachers are transparcomments and questions ent to children, espeguide the teacher. Child- cially at home where ren must hear and learn they can see us in every the story. They have a mood. whole lifetime to learn What is important is not what it means. that we be perfect but Once, in that kind of we accept our that home setting, after I had reach for inadequacies, read the story of the understanding and fuller disciples of Emmaus, the love like live and try to their parents asked Jesus did. children what it meant to We then become signs them. A teenager answered: "It means a lot to of hope for children.
Continuities The parents of the First Communion class gathered for a session with me while their sons and daughters were attending their own class. My topic for the evening was the history of the Eucharist. As the adults entered the comfortable library of our parish centre, they were greeted with the smell of incense, the sounds of Gregorian Chant and older altar decorations. Some parents, who grew up after the Second Vatican Council, were
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Then I watched as a very skilful teacher opened her eyes wide and said to the children: "Jesus was born a long time ago, so long ago that even I can't remember."
the Christian life, parents present their children with what they have personally absorbed, with what has become part of their own lives. They do this with loving concern for their children's development as Christians. Concretely, how can this be done? Here is a suggestion for the earliest years. Children love stories. And they love to have stories read to them. I have spent many hours seated on a couch with a little nephew huddled close listening to a story. Many stories are extremely imaginative and speak of strange worlds. For example, of a world with frightened little pigs that talk and a wolf who huffs and puffs.
me because I can see my parents' faith."
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the It sees that the present and the future are in continuity with the past. Others quickly started The Catholic Church talking about the memories that flowed from the has a rich tradition sights, smells and which helps to shape both the present and the sounds. future. My reason for giving the parents of the first In tracing the past, a communicants a taste of person can see the ways the past was to help them the Spirit has been trace their own story of leading and guiding the faith from where it may church, making it ready have been 25 to 30 years for today and tomorrow. ago to where it is now. A valuable exercise The church as a whole each year for people can do the same as it going through our parlooks back at its history. ish's Rite of Christian
Initiation for Adults is to chart their faith journeys. Each participant draws a simple graph: Its peaks represent experiences that brought the person closer to God, its valleys represent the times of distance. The exercise helps these people to see that their experience in the RCIA, a program preparing them for entry into the church or for confirmation, is in continuity with the bigger spiritual picture of their lives. Similarly, as people of the late 20th century take a look back at the story of
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Christ and his church, they can see that their story now is really in continuity with something bigger — something that has been unfolding for a long time. A look to the past also can help people realise that their ancestors in faith had to respond to God's call in their day just as people must do today and tomorrow. This past autumn, on the feast of All Saints, many in our university parish were overwhelmed by the great number of college students who came out on a nasty day to attend the holy day liturgies. Not only were these young adults present, they participated and really seemed to enjoy getting together for the special feast. It seemed that the image of saints captured their imagination and inspired them.
In fact, saints represent a tradition that says faith can be lived fully in any age. And it's not only the officially canonised saints who provide inspiration. So do other men and women of courage. Sometimes a look at the dedication of Dr Tom Dooley, who practiced medicine in the jungles of Laos, or the commitment of Jean Donovan, the young laywoman slain as she worked with the poor in El Salvador, provide the encouragement needed to invest oneself in similar faith responses. The church as a living organism has a life. That life includes a past and a future. A look back at the past, especially as a commitment to the future is being made, is a sound way for the Church to hold on to the best qualities that have existed and to build on them.
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Sister Maura (left) and Sister Carla.
Motoring nuns pull up ... The motoring nuns of They talked of their WA pulled up at St achievements, disapMary's Church in Lee- pointments and derville the other day. difficulties. And they were bogged Present at the seminar down for two days. too, were priests and lay They had converged at people who had a comthe church's parish hall mon interest. for a seminar in which their work was reviewed There were some 20 nuns there and they had at length. They talked and talked virtually come from all corners of WA. for hours, then broke up for a cuppa and tid-bits The "veterans" among and continued their them were Sister Carla pow-wow. Curran of the josephites
and Sister Maura Collins of the Margaret River parish. Sister Carla who works in the Esperance area clocks up about 500km a week while Sister Maura from Bus,selton does at least 600km a week. Between them they have done the job for a total of 47 years — Sister Carla with 25 years and Sister Maura with 22. While on the roads they
reach about 280 Catholic folk a week. They find their work "most rewarding". Sister Carla said: "It is rewarding in the sense that I know in my heart that this is the placeIam meant to be in." Sister Maura said:"I find it rewarding in so far as it is the type of work Icame out to Australia to do.
"I also find that the people appreciate that I am there and that Icare." She added: "As long as the Lord gives me the faith, the strength and courage I shall carry on with my work." Their difficulties?
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Sister Carla answered: "Those people things. I think it's relationships because there are always problems in that area."
Sister Maura concurred with this view.
would spend it on securing outside help.
"She said that they Now, if they were each could possibly work of cheque $1 Oven a million what would they more effectively in groups. do? She added: "I cannot do "1 would set up a mobile everything. I don't have team of people to go to answers but I feel the all the outbacks in the that we have many country areas. resource people in the "There is a great need city and if we have the for such help in these finance, we can bring them occasionally to the areas," said Sister Carla. centres. It would be Sister Maura said: "I helpful."
Growing interest in Benedictines By Dom Francis Byrne OSB In many countries there is a renewed interest in monasticism, the AbbotPrimate of the Benedictine Order said on his first visit to Australia last week. Visiting the Benedictine monks at New Norcia the Abbot -Primate, Victor Dammertz OSB told the community that he was c onfident about the future in many countries. "There is a growing interest in our way of life, especially among the young," added the AbbotPrimate. He arrived in Perth after a 30-hour flight from Europe last Tuesday and gave conferences to the monks at New Norcia on the following Wednesday and Thursday evenings. Also present were several Good Samaritan Sisters who are based at New Noricia. 10
The Abbot-Primate, 59, spoke on many aspects of monasticism and how it is practised in Europe, America and behind the Iron Curtain. He outlined the different approaches to the daily living out of the Rule of Saint Benedict and stated that monks everywhere tried to respond to the needs of the local Church. • Monks had played an important role in education over the centuries. • Monks had also been a strong missionary force in many continents. • Monks witnessed and continue to witness to the contemplative dimension of the Universal Church in the world today. • A monk's life is dedicated to liturgical worship and the Divine Office out of which flows a channel of grace for the benefit of Mankind. Abbot Victor released official figures of the number of Benedictine
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monks, nuns and sisters throughout the world today. From the period after Vatican II (1965) the number of monks was almost 12,000, but then monasteries — like most religious orders — felt a decline in vocations as well as departures. • In 1965 there were
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• In 1970 10,936 (8.58% decrease) • In 1975 10,323 (5.61% decrease) • In 1980 9,610 (6.9% decrease) • In 1985 9,453 (1.63% decreaseL Thus, in the period between 1965 — 1985 the overall percentage drop in monks worldwide is approximately 22 per cent. Abbot Victor indicated to me that while this might appear a sizeable decrease, the 1980s had shown a slowing down of the process and a healthier 'levelling-off' graph.
them to experience the monastic way of life. The list of Benedictine Nuns: • In 1975 were 8,979 • In 1980 • In 1985
Abbot-Primate Victor Dammertz. When I asked him about the figure for 1988'89, Abbot victor told me that he believed the number of monks was approximately 9,500. An official figure will be compiled in 1990. He said that it was a mystery why some communities managed to attract vocations, while others failed. Young people were searching today and had usually visited a few monasteries before choosing a particular one. He recommended monasteries to 'open their doors' for either a weekend or a week to young people in order to allow
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Abbot Victor suggested that this small percentage decrease in Nuns' statistics was due mainly to deaths in the communities. The list of Benedictine Sisters: • In 1975 were 11,992 • In 1980
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He felt that there would be very little change in the figures for the Nuns and the Sisters in the official Catholicus listing in 1990. Abbot Victor, who resides at the international Benedictine College of San't Anselmo on the Aventine Hill in Rome, is a very popular figure in the Benedictine world.
Born in the small village of Schaephuysen in the Rhineland in 1929, he first entered the Diocesan Seminary. Three years later, he says, he had a 'conversion' to the Benedictine way of life. He entered the monastery of St. Autelian, about 50km from Munich. He studied theology at San't Anselmo in Rome from 1954-'57 and was ordained priest after completion of his studies. Later on he studied Canon Law in Munich. "Australia is a beautiful vast country," he told me after been taken on a tour of historic New Norcia. "I pray that God will bless the Church in Australia and grant many vocations to serve in His vineyard," Abbot Victor added. Last Friday he was a guest of the Subiaco City Council and later that day had lunch with Archbishop William Foley. Also present was
Fr. David Barry OSB. In the evening he met informally with the Benedictine Oblates in Perth. He flew out the following day to Melbourne to visit the Good Samaritan Sisters and the Cistercian monks at Tarrawarra. On the final leg of his trip he will visit the Silvestrine community at Arcadia in Sydney. The PriorAdministrator of New Norcia, Fr. Placid Spearritt said it was a great honour to have Abbot Victor visit Australia and its monastic communities. He was glad to be able to return the warm hospitality which Abbot Victor had always displayed to Australian monks either studying in or visiting Rome and San't Anselmo. The first Abbot-Primate to visit Australia was Rembert Weakland in 1977.
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"Care, concern and practical help have been part of our life," he said. The service will initially operate from 25 Victoria Square and then move to new quarters at 456 Hay Street, next to the Parish Centre.
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Concern for Church
from Mrs Joy McMULL4IV, Woodlands Sir, The increasing influence that fundamentalist, Pentecostal groups are having on the young, and many not so young Catholics should be of as much concern to the church in Western Australia as it is to some Sydney priests, (The Record, January 5), because the same problem is very sizeable here too. The problem is not so much one of fundamentalism in the Catholic's early contact with members of such groups, (that comes later), but rather in as a here-andnow Presence/Person in their lives, as surely as they know the members of their own family exist. This experience leads to a real deepening in faith for the Catholic, culminating in a new relationship of power -filled love for Jesus as personal Saviour and Lord, as well as the clear realisation that through baptism he/she becomes a temple of the very same Holy Spirit who lived in Jesus and motivated Him. The Catholic may have previously been given much head knowledge of their faith, but, for some reason never had the initial heart experience that brought all they had been taught to life for them, and without which Church liturgy is simply a Spiritless ritual. The Catholic, now having had this tremendous experience of Jesus and the Holy Spirit, then tends to think: "I never had this sort of experience in my
Catholic background, and it's the fundamental truth! Here is where I've found it, so here must be the right place." He/she then proceeds to throw away the whole shebang of Catholicism. No-one can successfully model Jesus unless they know clearly that they too are temples of the Spirit of God. Until we give recognisable honour to this Third Person of the Trinity, we will lose many precious baptised Catholics to other sects. Despite the fact that we sign every liturgical action several times, and most of our prayer life, with: "In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit", we virtually only hear teaching about His role in the Trinity on Pentecost Sunday, whereas the other sects give constant reminders of this. It is incorrect to blame bad liturgy for most of the loss to the Church. Liturgy (no matter how good) becomes a life-giving experience only after one comes to a true inner awareness of Jesus as Personal Saviour and Lord: then, the Eucharist in a special way, and all liturgical action, becomes a real celebration of the Mystery of Faith, and a never-ending source of depthing in the Trinity as a whole — for God's love is depthless — and results also in a constant maturing in the meaning of our own baptism and confirmation.
The most neglected words from Doris MARTYR, A ttadale Sir, I assure Peter Beeson (The Record, January 26), that no utterance of mine will help solve the world's social problems unless it encourages more people to this loving obedience to the Father and to the fullness of the teachings and discipline of his Son's Church. The welter of the world's social problems is caused largely by sheer paganism, and the antidote to this is not social comment so much as Christ himself. Today's most neglected and dishonoured words are "obey" and "obedience" Peter Beeson, too, ignores them. Yet throughout his teaching life and when He became obedient even unto the death of the Cross, our Lord emphasised the absolute necessity of obedience to the Will of his Father if we
are to be his disciples He gave to Peter, first pope of his Church, the keys of the Kingdom, and our loving Catholic duty is one of obedience to that Church, for "he who hears you hears me". Changing words at Mass might seem a small thing, but Our Lord told us that the man who can be trusted in little things can be trusted in great. And does anyone today remember the greatness of St Therese's Little Way of obedience? When Rome tells us we must never change a single word of the Mass, no expert comment is needed — there is no nuance of meaning here. Creativity in the liturgy by the priest or anyone else must yield humbly to the loving duty of obedience to the legitimate voice of Christ's Church. Sherry Walker (The Record, January 26), fails to under-
stand that it is not creative liturgies, but souls freely accepting humbly the virtue of obedience even in small things that are the proper building blocks to make up the Body of Christ. Disciplined obedience to Christ and his Church is never destructive — always it gives strength and vigor, a fact well understood and insisted on by the great saints, especially those who helped rebuild a shattered Church after the Arian heresy. Sherry Walker uses the term "faith community" as apparently modern a replacement for "parish" or even for 'The Church". But what kind of faith? I am not a member of any "faith community" that is not fully Catholic in that it is fully at one with its Master in all things, including obedience to His Church. This is the
Catholic Church — not a n ebulous "faith community". Roger Ryan (The Record. January 26), can be assured that any Catholic can say with certainty that the Church will never validly ordain women priests. She has already said that Christ the High Priest was male, that he did not ordain women at the Last Supper, and this a God-given direction to is His Church. The matter is closed. Catholics should pray, not for full communion with our Anglican friends, but that Anglicans will see in the truth, unity and holiness of the Catholic Church and its members the best of reasons for becoming Catholics and sharing the only possible full communion with Christ's true Church under the pope as Successor to Peter
Cruel and untrue claim from Brian PEACHEY, Woodlands
Sir, Sherry Walker (The Record, January 26) like many modernists who preach a mushy brand of love resorts to the most uncharitable and judgmental attack on me by accusing my comments of being "pharisaical meanness of spirit and lack of vision". This is cruel and untrue. She attacked me because I dared point out the law of the Church and say that it should be obeyed. I quoted two Vatican instructions on the celebration of the Mass and gave one glaring illustration of defiance of these
instructions by a Perth priest. Ms Walker and those like her who are happy to see the law on the liturgy broken should remember the words of Christ in Matthew 5: 1820: "Remember this! As long as heaven and earth last, the least point or the smallest detail of the Law will not be done away with — not until the end of all things. So then, whoever disobeys even the smallest of the and commandments, teaches others to do the same, will be least in the Kingdom of heaven. On the other hand, whoever obeys
the Law, and teaches others to do the same, will be great in the Kingdom of heaven. I tell you, then, that you will be able to enter the Kingdom of heaven only if you are more faithful than the teachers of the Law and Pharisees in doing what God requires." They cannot change the law of the Church on what some of them are fighting for, such as women priests, married priests, contraception, abortion, divorce and other more important theological issues. Peter Beeson (The Record, January 26) who says he would prefer to hear my
utterances on some of the vexed social problems must have been deaf for a long time. I have never seen him mount the barricades with me and others in the numerous enervating campaigns against the "vexed social problems" of pornography, abortion or the legalisation of homosexuality and prostitution or the fight against the disastrous Family Law Act, the defence of the famly and the many positive economic and legal proposals for its support. I have done this at great material cost consistently for more than thirty five years.
When sin was called sin from Mrs Patricia HALLIGAN, Mandurah Sir, I joined the Roman
Catholic faith when sin was called sin and the emphasis was on the suffering and death of Jesus on the cross and His bodily resurrection. I think Mrs Martyr (The Record) was only trying to point out that the Eucharist is more than just a meal amongst friends but that same sacrifice performed instead by 'another Christ' in the person of the priest and which will always remain a mystery verified by several Eucharistic miracles down through the ages, at Lana-
ano, Santarem and as recently as 1970 in Stich in Bavaria (all have Vatican approval). That some see Mr Peachey's and her comments as 'depressing', 'negative' and 'tearing down' even to the point of wishing not to see their views aired is very unfortunate because without their contribution and others the fullness of the faith cannot be preserved. When I was a Methodist, in answer to my question why the Roman Catholic Church was the True Faith' the priest quoted me the Petrine text which I had never heard
of though I had been brought up with a bible in my hand It made sufficient sense that an infallible voice would be needed in every age to rise above the fads, fancies. fashions and fickleness of human beings who will always want to try to make the Christian religion more 'relevant' or 'acceptable' to their brothers and sisters of their own generation. In doing so articles of Faith are underemphasised, overemphasised or even abandoned sometimes to the detriment of souls As for social problems, the
two-named correspondents have been in the forefront in the fight against abortion and pornography. Both issues relate to violence, selfishness and cruelty That any individual could be successful in converting a giant propaganda machine such as the modern media is perhaps hoping for too much unless the whole Church could be imbued with the spirit that existed during the counter -reformation. The fact that personal suffering and sacrifice has been endured while still remaining cheerful and courageouS not by cannot be ignored
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Over six hundred young people are expected to rock the night away at a Valentine's Day Rivercruise on Friday Feb 17. The boat leaves the Barrack St Jetty at 7.45pm sharp. Tickets are selling fast for the Catholic Parish Youth rivercruise. Book your group tickets this week and avoid missing out. Youth aged 15-25 are welcomed but no alcohol will be allowed on board. CPY organisers say that the night will involve four hours of disco, dancing, laughter, music and fun. There are also prizes to be won. Father John Jegorow will be on board. It will be one of his final youth functions before heading for the new parish of Alexander Height, Ballajura.
Above: Chris Boyce, Greenmount, Angela Sicree, Grant O'Connor (Willetton), Lisa Smith of Applecross. Left:Sandro Ballantone, South Perth, Brigitte Zigon, Balcatta, Karen Thorns, Greenwood, Michael Skinner, Hillarys, Chris Girando, Osborne Park, Karen Matryn, Swanbourne at the last Rivercruise.
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Bunbury groups geared up By Judy Mather
All new YCS groups are likely to start soon within the Bunbury Diocese as a result of the Young Christian Student Movement introductory camp there. It was held at the Binningup Youth Camp right on the beach. Thirty students and five assistants attended the camp. They came from Albany, Australind, Brunswick, Busse1ton, Collie, Mandurah and Pinjarra.
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The weather was sweltering and the campsite gave little relief from the sun. Despite this the students attended sessions. Building Unity was the theme ofthe camp. Students did an excellent job preparing their talks. It was obvious they had put in much time and effort. Father Tony Chiera celebrated Mass with us on the Binningup Beach. Together we watched the sunset and lit our candles from the Candle of Unity. It was a truly moving
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full glory of God among friends. Friendships were made and strengthened on the camp. Students gained knowledge of YCS principles, and became aware of the world situation, particu-
larly of the persecution experienced by students in South Africa. The camp was a huge success, and credit must go to Paula Gee, the Bunbury diocesan Youth Worker, who organised it.
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CYC REPRESENTATIVES Movements, dioceses and youth organisations are encouraged to appoint their respective delegates to the Catholic Youth Council of WA. New delegates should be ready to take part in the annual Vision weekend on March 17, 18, 19 which brings together some 30 young people, their chaplains from various organisations to reflect back on the previous 12 months and make concrete plans for the months ahead.
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Champion of Indians In the West Indies, Bartolome had a large estate and Indians to do all the work. Like most colonists, he showed little respect for the rights or needs of the Indians. Bartolome de Las Casas was about 18 when he watched Christopher Columbus return to Spain after discovering America. In 1502 the young merchant's son sailed to the West Indies. About 10 years later he would be ordained a priest. In America he lived comfortably. He had a large estate and Indians to do all work. Like most colonists he showed little respect of the rights or needs of the Indians. They were treated like slaves. After 11 years he went to Cuba. There he read some words from the Bible that touched his heart: "He slays his neighbour who deprives him of his living." (Sirach 34:22). Father Bartolome changed his whole lifestyle. He freed his Indian slaves and began to speak out against all who exploited the Indians. This did not make him popular with other colonists. He insisted that as free people the Indians have basic rights to land, food, health care, education and legal representation. Back in Spain to plead the Indians' cause, King Charles I and high church leaders backed Father Bartolome's work for justice. But many Spaniards and colonists opposed him. In 1523 he joined the Dominican religious order.
He spent several years in a monastery. He wrote a history of how badly the Spaniards had treated the Indians from the very beginning of the conquest of America. Then he again took up his active work defending Indian rights. Father Bartolome continued writing about the rights of all human beings, about nonviolence and about how missionaries should respect the culture of those to whom they preach Christ's Gospel. In 1537 he began a peaceful settlement of Indians in an area of Central America called the Land of War. The Spanish authorities and soldiers laughed at his plan to use non-violent means to approach the hostile Indians. Father Bartolome was so successful that the area was renamed the Land of True Peace. In 1544 the pope made Father Bartolome bishop of Chiapas in Mexico. Almost immediately he ordered his priests to refuse absolution to all who abuse the Indians. The ruling classes were so angry, they expelled their new bishop from Chiapas. In 1546 he wrote a "Declaration of the Rights of Indians" which the first synod of Latin American bishops approved. Bishop Bartolome spent the last years of his life in Spain arguing for the rights of Latin American Indians. He died in 1566 deeply loved by the Indian peoples. His example and ideals continue to inspire people today.
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Schools Schools Schools Schools One hundred and thirty two year 8 students have started their secondary schooling at the new Catholic c o-educational college in Rockingham.
located in Dowling Street, Rockingham, has been the goal of the Catholic c ommunity for many years. Previously students have faced hours of travel each day as they attended Catholic schools in the Perth metropolitan area.
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Mr Laurie Smith, Chairman of the School Board, thanked the local community for their wholehearted support of the project. "The community in this area have a great sense of civic responsibility and this has made the Board's task a lot easier," he said. The College will be built in stages. The first stage, now completed and ready for students, cost almost $1.5 million. Further building will take place as the year 8 students
progress through the College. The principal of the College is Brother Patrick Carey. Brother Carey is a member of the Congregation of Christian Brothers who have a long tradition in school education. Brother Carey has had more than twenty years' experience in Christian Brothers schools. He has held positions including Principal of Christian Brothers' Primary School, A delaide, Master in Charge of Aquinas Col-
lege's middle school and Deputy Principal, Rostrevor College, Adelaide. He holds a Bachelor of Education degree (Flinders University), a Master of Education degree (New England University) and in 1988 completed a Master of Arts in Pastoral Ministry at Boston College in the United States. Brother Carey said one of his aims is to make Kolbe a happy place where everyone will respect and care for each other.
"I hope it will be a place where students and staff discover and develop their own self worth as children of God and their unique gifts and talents," said Brother Carey. "I hope it will also be a place where each person will value and strive for academic excellence." Brother Carey said the school will develop a broad curriculum which will provide opportunities for students to discover and follow their own interests and abilities and
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South Lake Catholic Primary School These schools will commence in 1990 with initial enrolments of approximately 150 students in preprimary and years 1 and 2. They are expected to grow to an enrolment of 480 by 1996. The successful applicants will be expected to take up a ppointments in 1989. A pplicants should be practising Catholics, committed to the objectives and ethos of Catholic education and have requisite administrative skills and academic and professional qualifications. Salary and conditions are similar to those offered by the Ministry of Education.
Further information and official application forms are available from: Eric Chidlow Catholic Education Office of WA PO Box 198, Leederville WA 6007 Telephone (09) 381 5444 Official application forms should be addressed to the Director, Catholic Education Office of WA (address above) and lodged by Wednesday. February 22. 14 The Record, February 9, 1989
St Luke's Catholic Primary School, Woodvale opened last week with 141 students: two pre-primary classes, two year one and year two classes and one year three class. Sister Mary O'Connor, Sister of Mercy, heads a staff of seven teachers, five ancillary staff and one year three class. The total cost of the building project was $ 545,800. Half of this amount was contributed by the Commonwealth Government and $67,500 was contributed by the local parish. The Catholic Education Commission's Coresponsibility Building Fund contributed $200,000. In this first stage of the project there are six classrooms, and two pre-primary c lassrooms. Two transportables are being used for a dministration and the library. The Chairman of the School Board is Mr Wally Galas.
Dr Peter Tannock, director of Catholic Education, dropped in on St Luke's school on opening day to chat with some youngsters and the school principal Sr Mary O'Connor and the parish priest Fr Nick McSweeney.
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at the same time encourage them to explore new areas. Of particular interest to Brother Carey is the development of a sense of c ommunity awareness and service. "I think it is important to develop in the students an awareness of and sense of Christian commitment and service to society and a willingness to participate and contribute voluntarily to the service of others and the community," he said.
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The Kelly Outbreak. 1878-1880 by John McQuilton. Published by Melbourne University Press. $19.95. Scholars and general readers alike will be swept along by The Kelly Outbreak and will benefit from the author's meticulous research into the story behind the legend.
McQui1ton is an historian and geographer who looks at the historical evidence of the Kelly outbreak and in the process has produced a lively narrative which has suspense, drama and facts. In so doing he fills in details and corrects popular misconceptions, giving reality to the folklore.
Understanding Computers Series. Speed and Power. Published by Time-Life Books, distributed through Angus & Robertson. bb. $28.95. This informative series continues with this book which looks at the world of computers, tracing the recent advances in computer speed and power. This book is equally well presented, packed with facts and interesting details, supported by diagrams and pictures. Of great interest to adults and children alike.
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The Broad Arrow. For the heinous crimes of murder and forgery, she is to remain in that distant and terrible place for the term of her natural life by Oline Keese. Published by Angus & Robertson — $8.95. First published in 1859, some fifteen years before Marcus Clarke's immortal tale of life in convict Van Diemen's Land. The Broad Arrow recalls the story of Maida Gwynnham, the victim of an unscrupulous lover, who was transported to Australia for infanticide — a crime she did not commit Though melodramatic and sentimental in tone, The Broad Arrow has been ranked as the most powerful piece of emotional writing Understanding Compu- by a woman in Australia last ters Series. Space. Pub- century'. Ohne Keese is the pseudolishedby Time-Life Books, distributed through nym of Caroline Leakey, who, Angus & Robertson. bb. as a young woman, came to Australia in 1848 to care for $28.95. This book examines the her sister's small children. During the five years vital role played by computer technology in the explora- Caroline spent in the cob[ties, for the most part in tion of outer space. Hobart and Port Arthur, she A superbly presented book wrote many poems and with cover to cover interestwrote home constantly ing details supported by Few comments about the diagrams and pictures. then-declining convict sysVery suitable for either tem were evident in her children or adults. writing though she was sharp nevertheless a observer of the life of the convict servants in the various households where she stayed. With facts as startling and terrible as any products of the imagination, The Broad Arrow is a stirring tale of great authenticity.
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The Natural Kitchen. No Fuss Vegetarian Cooking by Lee Windram. Published by Collins Australia, $16.95.
Good food Neu, Ways to Eat Well compiled by Susan Tomnay. Published by Bay Books. $6.95. Is it possible to eat what you like without forfeiting your waistline? Yes, according to New Ways to Eat Well. This beautifully illustrated cookbook available from newsagents and major bookshops recognises that people are more health conscious than CWT.
Food editor Susan Tomnay is not a believer in sacrifice or fad diets. She has selected over 160 recipes for life and energy that provide a delicious and varied diet based nutritional sound on principles. Today, eating well depends on having a varied diet of the right amounts of foods and right kinds of food. New Ways to Eat Well includes many fibre-rich recipes based on the complex
carbohydrates — grains, pulses, vegetables and fruits. There is also a choice collection of tasty recipes with lean meat, poultry fish and dairy foods. Susan feels that eating should fit into your lifestyle, not dominate or inhibit it. Her recipes and menu plans have been chosen for a balanced diet with plenty of enjoyment and even the occasional indulgence. The range covers soups, starters and salads, main meals for meat eaters and vegetarians plus accompaniments and fruity desserts. The final chapter includes over fifty menus for special occasions, special diets, family meals and fast snacks. New Ways to Eat Well covers basic nutrition and includes a colourful and comprehensive section on fresh, natural ingredients from grains and pulses to fruit and vegetables.
Lee Windram has been a vegetarian for eighteen years and has had wide experience in the field of health and nutrition. In The Natural Kitchen, Lee brings us no-fuss vegetarian
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Sea Stingers by Loisette Marsh and Shirley SlackSmith. Published by the Australian Western Distributed Museum. through Collins. $17.95. This handbook, says Ernest Hodgkin in the foreword, provides the public with informative and readable accounts of aspects of the local fauna. The text enables readers to recognise potentially dangerous animals, gives interesting and useful information about them and their venoms, and reactions to the many and varied poisons they produce. There are other books on such animals in Australia. but it is the authors' practical experience and their local knowledge of the animals and where they are found that makes this book particularly valuable. Museum biologists Loisette Marsh and Shirley SlackSmith have both dived widely collecting and studying the invertebrates of Australian and Indo-Pacific waters, and they have been able to provide new information on sonic of the stingers and their effects on their victims. Dr Desmond Gurry has a deep interest in the medical aspects of this field. While pointing out the limitations to present knowledge of the great diversity of poisons and the way to combat them, the book succinctly gives the best advice currently available on treat ment.
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Maryfor Today by Hans Urs von Balthasar. Published by St Paul's Publications.
What does Mary mean for today's men and women? That is the question HansUrs von Balthasar sets out to answer. Dogmatism in language and one-sidedness in Marian cult have, in many ways, shifted attention from the fulness and deepness of the Marian mystery
The distinguished Swiss theologian shows here (impossibilities to meet Mary in a more authentic was With a masterly combination of theological consider anon and spiritual meditation, he explores what the New Testament tells us about the mother of God and places Mary in the horizon of our time, portraying her as iCOfl — a model of convincing praxis of faith: Mary mother of believers: Mary the Church in origin.
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THE by TOM BRANCH The WACLTA's opening function for 1989 will be the annual Mass and tennis night at Willetton on Friday, February 24. The evening will commence with the annual Association Mass being celebrated by the Association chaplain Father Richard Doyle at Sts John and Paul Church, Pinetree Gully Road in Willetton. Mass will commence at 6.30pm. Tennis will hit off at 7.30pm at the Willetton Sportsman's Club courts in Burrendah Boulevard, Willetton. Play will run through until 9.30pm. Association members are then invited back to the John and Paul Parish Hall in Pinetree Gully Road for refreshments and nibblies. Ladies are requested to provide a plate. It is almost certain to be a hot day hence it should be a beautiful evening to unwind the week by whacking a few balls around. All Associa-
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CATHERINE McAREY RESIDENTIAL SERVICES Residential services for children are in the form of several group homes staffed by Cottage Parents. Applications are called for
RELIEF COTTAGE PARENT(S) • For irregular week -end, evening or week -day live in. • Suit single adults or couples without children. • With own transport and telephone. • In a Christian-based campus. * Enjoyment of and commitment to working with children and teenagers. A ward remuneration, training and professional support is assured.
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Following the University of WA decision that this year's Interfaith Service will be held prior to the commencement of the first semester, on February 26, due to the short notice the Newman Society Executive Committee propose holding a Newman Society Celebration during the first semester at a date to be announced.
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February 11 Re-opening Irish Club. Bishop Healy. 12 Paulian Association Mass. Archbishop Foley. Annual Charismatic Mass, St Mary's Cathedral. Archbishop Foley. PAULIAN MEETING Rite of Election of Catechumens, St At the Paulian Association supportMary's Cathedral, Bishop Healy. ing the widowed, separated and divorced, Archbishop Foley will 14 Mass at Catholic Education Centre and lunch. Archbishop Foley. celebrate Mass at 2pm on February 12 at the monastery, North Perth, 16 Australian Catholic Social Justice followed by the AGM and a social &17 Council conference, Melbourne. Archbishop Foley. get-together. New members are particularly welcome. Tea and coffee 18 Conference of Churches of WA. Archbishop Foley. provided. 19 Mass and blessing, Pastoral Centre DOUBLE VIEW FAREWELL and Counsel Care, North Beach. Our Lady of the Rosary Parish' Archbishop Foley. Doubleview will farewell their parish Installation of parish priest of York. priest Father Kevin Condon at the Bishop Healy. 6.30pm Mass on Saturday, February 21 Commissioning of chaplain, Lyn25 followed by a function at the wood High School. Archbishop Parish Hall. Foley. 22 Knights of the Southern Cross dinner. Archbishop Foley. 25 Mass for Teacher Training weekend, Natural Family Planning. Archbishop Foley. 26 Lithuanian Mass in St Mary's Cathedral. Archbishop Foley. Catholic Teachers' Mass, St Mary's Cathedral. Opening Mass for new Chisholm College, St Mary's Cathedral. Bishop Healy. University Sunday Service, Winthrop Hall. Bishop Healy. Mass 10am followed by March bring and share luncheon. 1 Silver Jubilee, Embleton Parish. BYO drinks, Archbishop Foley.
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