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Latin flare-up over letter to Castro PERTH, WA: March 2, 1989

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Priest who spent 21 years in Soviet jails gives this tip...

During his visit to Perth, Father Alfonsas Svarinskas has recent articles on Lithuania in The Record (February 16) pointed out to him by Father Alfonse Savickas of Highgate.

'Be wary'

Soviet communism so bankrupt money can't save it Russian concessions to human rights and religious freedom are only because that country needs Western technology and capital.

That is the blunt assessment of a Lithuanian priest who over a period of 40 years has spent over 21 years in Soviet prisons and remote detention camps.

Father Alfonsas Svarinskas is free to publicise this view of recent Soviet happenings only because he must now live as a permanent exile in Germany as a condition of his release last July.

He also believes that Russian communism is so bankrupt that not even Western capitalism will be able to save it.

He is suspicious even of the moves that have taken place in his native Lithuania such as the re-opening of Vilnius Cathedral earlier last month.

Three churches have been re-opened but there are still 10 others that have not been handed back, he notes.

The Lithuanian church therefore is heading down a path but its destiny is not known, he points out.

The Russians are making it clear that further concessions to the Church in Lithuania are dependent on the Vatican conceding that Lithuania is now part of the Soviet Union.

But Father Svarinskas says that nothing but full liberation will ever satisfy his people, even if it takes three generations before the expatriate Lithuanians can go back to help rebuild their country.

In the meantime their presence as expatriates keeps the Lithuanian flame flying before the world.

Father Svarinskas was equally pessimistic about hopes for the Ukrainian Catholic Church in spite of recent public surfacing of that church in order to gain government recognition again.

He said that although there was much publicity over the release of 600 prisoners of conscience, there are still five million underground Catholics about whom nothing is seen or heard.

He said that this was the shame of the Western Church that nobody had spoken up on their behalf.

As with the Lithuanian situation, Father Svarinskas said that only through economic and technological pressure could the West put further demands on the Soviets for further rights.

Alfonsas Svarinskas was only a high school graduate of 17 when in 1943 he got his first taste of Russian imprisonment and labour camps.

But even there he became something of a leader, in his work as a medical orderly caring for the sick and as a source of information to everyone.

Only after Stalin's death was he able to take a further step in the advertised

new freedom of religion and he was ordained priest in 1954 but still in the prison camp.

By the time he was released from the camp two years later he faced the new hurdle of being accepted back both by the parishioners and by the government agents who watched him closely and had him moved to another parish before a second arrest and imprisonment, annoying his interrogators with the advice that it was now time for him (and them) to say their prayers.

He was released a second time in 1964 but by 1983 he was back under a seven-year sentence again.

The wrong question to ask this fighter for faith and fatherland is: What did you first do wrong?

"I've never done anything wrong and my only regret is thatIhave never done more", he chuckled.

The Russians said that he had spoken and agitated against the State and that can mean whatever they want it to say.

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The Christian Churches in Australia and the Philippines are continuing the battle against the infamous "bride trade".

Fr Paul Byrne, a Columban priest now working in Brisbane, and who is well known for some pioneering work in this area, told The Advocate: "We are trying to get government action to prevent a minority (of Australians) from giving the country a bad name."

Fr Byrne was commissioned by the Bishops of Queensland in October 1987 to investigate this "business" — which it literally is. It is based on the touting of women through mail order transactions.

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"What we are hoping for' is that the Philippine would Government apply similarly stringent standards as the Australian Government.

"Hopefully, this would screen out some of the minority of violent people who have given A ustralia a bad name."

Late last month, the International Affairs Commission of the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Australia launched a report on the Filipina bride trade. This report recommends the licensing or registration of introduction agencies in Australia.

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y A wrong image has been projected that the Filipino women are quite subservient. It's quite the opposite. They are quite strong characters, and they do run the home . . . Part of the problem in such marriages is due to behavioural differences that are misunderstood. The way an Australian gets angry is very different from the way a Filipino gets y angry.

He was chosen to do this investigation because he had worked in the Philippines for 14 years, is familiar with the Filipino language, and above all, because of his particular discipline, which is psychology.

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Byrne said: "While a majority of these marriages have a better record than the average Australian marriage, there are a few of them that are quite seriously disturbed.

"A wrong image has been projected that the Filipino women are quite subservient. It's quite the opposite. They are quite strong characters, and they do run the home.

"The problem with this wrong kind of publicity is that it attracts the aggressive fellow who is looking for a subservient wife.

"Part of the problem in such marriages is also due to behavioural differences that are misun-

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Following his report called Pastoral Care of Filipinos, the Australian Bishops urged the Philippines Church to discourage mail order marriages between Australian men and Filipino women.

The report mentioned that in the case of some of these marriages, the Filipino women suffered severe physical and emotional abuse.

In the Philippines, Cardinal Ricardo Vidal ordered his priests not to officiate at marriages between Filipino women and visiting foreigners.

Fr Byrne said that for several years the Church has been concerned about the various problems of the Filipino people living in Australia. For some years he has been ministering to families with at least one Filipino parent.

Commenting on the mail order marriages, Fr

derstood. The way an Australian gets angry is very different from the way a Filipino gets angry.

"Similarly their sense of humour also differs.

"Sometimes Filipino women are in tears believing that the Australian husband is (verbally) abusing them whereas he is doing it for fun."

Filipino Catholics are also being encouraged to take part in the liturgy of the Church and enrich it with their own culture.

"Filipinos love singing, and they are quite good at it," noted Fr Byrne.

"A lot of Australian parishes could do with more singing voices, so the Filipinos are encouraged to join church choirs so they can make their contribution to a multi-cultural liturgy."

Speaking of the formalities involved in the bride trade, he said: "As it is at the moment, when a Filipino woman applies to come to Australia, the Australian Government places very stringent requirements before she is allowed to come.

But Australian men who gobo the Philippines

At present there is no way of ensuring ethical practice, the report observed.

It also notes that there are insufficient services available to women who find themselves in trouble.

The need is particularly acute in rural and remote areas. Greater coordination of services is recommended in the report.

The Anglican Church "encourages and gives its support to those organisations and individuals who are conducting research on Filipina migrant women, providing services to these women in Australia, and working in the Philippines to effect social change particularly with respect to the status of women".

The report also recommends to the Commonwealth Government of Australia that the Australian Human Rights Commission examine the advertising of Asian women as brides with respect to existing antidiscrimination laws, and that services to Filipinos living in rural or remote areas of Australia be expanded.

Catholic Institute grads

During the special teachers' Mass in St Mary's Cathedral last Sunday evening Mrs Marie Heavey of St Lawrence school, Balcatta, presented Archbishop Foley with a symbolic file of teachers' programs.

Fourteen teachers from Catholic Schools in WA received their Institute Catholic diploma of Religious Education from Archbishop Foley, during the Annual Mass for Teachers on Sunday, February 16.

Thirty graduands — five from West Australia

and 11 from the Eastern States — received the diploma in absentia.

The Catholic Institute Diploma of Religious Education is conferred on the completion of a six unit graduate major in Religious Studies units taught by the Catholic Institute, within the West Australian College of

Advanced Education.

These units may be taken as a major area for a Bachelor of Education, or a Graduate Diploma in Arts, and may be studied in an internal or an external mode.

Lecturers currently involved in this work include Sr Eleanor Carter, Sr Joan Carville, Mrs

Catherine Collins, Mr Michael Fox, Fr Russell Hardiman, Sister Leonie Mayne and Fr John Prendiville.

Awarded in absentia were: Eastern States — Kevin J. Arrow, (Bathurst, NSW); Heather C. Barber, (Chapel Hill, QLD); Mark G. Bates,

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Graduands present — rant, (Randwick, NSW); Robert M. Wilson, (Woy Catherine C. Brophy Woy, NSW).

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Wherefore riches?

"Dear sons and daughters,Iplace before you, with great concern and hope, the problem of hunger in the world as the theme for your reflection and for your apostolic action in charity and in solidarity during Lent 1989. What more noble and practical exhortation could be issued as an invitation to every Christian as we approach Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent?

And from what more authoritative source, other than God himself, could such a plea emanate than Pope John Paul II? The pope, who willbegin his traditional week-long retreat on the first Sunday of Lent, has called on Catholics to use the Lenten season as a time to reflect and act on the problem of world hunger.

In his simple, direct style, Pope John Paul in his annual Lenten message, asks people to "share their goods with those who have none".

"Generous and voluntary fasting by those of you who have food will enable you to share the privation of those many others who regularly must search for food,- the pope says.

The beginning of Lent is a good time to reflect on sin, temptation and repentance. Even Jesus, while fasting in the barren mountains near Jericho, was tempted by the devil. Physically weakened by his 40 days of fasting and doing penance in a wasteland remote from all human comfort, Jesus overcame temptation, and gave us the example of how we should turn from sin.

We, of course, are not called upon to abandon our homes andhead for the desert in order to prepare for Christ's Death and Resurrection and thus render ourselves worthy of that redemption wrought by his supreme act of sacrifice and love.

But it is expected that we practise repentance and conversion as part of our Christian living.

During Lent, the Church calls us in a special way to repentance and conversion. These, which mean a turning towards God, require both a change of heart and a change of external conduct. It is not sufficient to say we are sorry and then do nothing about it in our daily lives.

It is extremely important in our day to give an unambiguous witness to others that we truly believe in Jesus Christ, that we believe in God's love for us, that we live in expectation of a future life with God in heaven.

If we obey the two commandments, described by Christ himself as the greatest, we will not only love God and each other but we will also give witness to the fact that we truly want to repent and serve God which, in turn, means helping our fellow human beings.

No doubt it is to this love of God and neighbour that Pope John Paul is referring in his Lenten message.

The pope reminds us that the second part of the prayer which Jesus taught his disciples, and which all Christians should repeat fervently every day, begins: -Give us this day our daily bread".

Pope John Paul says faith must be accompanied by concrete actions. He invites everyone to become aware of the serious scourge of hunger, to support existing initiatives andundertake new ones to help those who suffer from hunger.

This they can do as part of their practical exercise of fasting and doing penance during Lent.

Nothing impractical or impossible is ever asked or expected of the Christian. We are not expected to hike across the Birdsville Track andhalf starve ourselves in the attempt as a means of doing penance and fasting. In fact, such an exercise would achieve nothing.

There is a far more practical way of showing our real love of our brother and sister and that is simply by giving till it hurts to this year's Project Compassion appeal.

If we do this and if we strive for real repentance and conversion of heart and soul this Lent, then we might qualify to say with Pope John Paul: "Our Father who is in heaven. . . give us this day our daily bread, so that none of your children may lack the fruits of the earth, so that none may suffer any longer the anguish of not having daily bread for themselves and their own, so that all of us, in solidarity, filled with the immense love you have for us, may learn to distribute the bread you so generously give us, so that we may learn to give a place at our table to those whom the world considers little and weak, so that one day we may all be worthy to sit down together at your heavenly table. -

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Latin flare-up ... OVER CARDINAL'S LETTER TO CASTRO SAO PAULO, Brazil (NC): A congratulatory letter from Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns of Sao Paulo to Cuban President Fidel Castro has generated controversy in Brazil.

The letter, dated Christmas 1988, offered congratulations on the 30th anniversary of the Cuban revolution and said "Cuba can feel proud of being an example of social justice in our continent."

It also said that "Christian faith sees in the gains of the revolution

the signs of the kingdom of God reflected in our hearts and in the structures which transform political co-existence into an act of love."

The letter was printed in the Cuban Communist Party newspaper Granma, named after the boat in which Castro sailed from Mexico to carry out the revolution in 1959.

Cardinal Sales of Rio de Janeiro criticised Cardinal Arns' letter, saying there was no reason for praising a "dictatorial and outmoded" regime

such as Castro's.

Cardinal Sales is widely viewed as the leader of conservative bishops within the Brazilian hierarchy and Cardinal Arns the leader of the progressive prelates and proponents of liberation theology.

Two major Brazilian daily newspapers criticised Cardinal Arns for the letter.

In Rio de Janeiro, the newspaper 0 Globe said in an editorial that it was "simply unbelievable" that the cardinal could compare the kingdom of

God to "a totalitarian police state" that imposes atheism.

The newspaper 0 Estado de Sao Paulo said the letter showed that a conflict between progressive Brasilian bishops and the Vatican might be reaching a climax.

In the letter, Cardinal Arns told Castro he prayed for him and asked God "to always grant you grace to lead the destiny of your country."

He also spoke of "important moments of light and shadow" in

Brazil, where citizens have raised hopes because of democracy but suffer from high inflation and the drain of interest payments on foreign debt.

"This is a time of suffering for those who transform their religious service into an act of meaningful love for the poor," the letter said.

"However,I trust that the ecclesial base communties will preserve the seeds of our new life which have been planted."

Radio policy reminder VATICAN CITY (NC): The Vatican, acting on Czechoslovakian complaints about Vatican Radio broadcasts, has insisted publicly on the "obvious necessity" for the radio to heed Vatican policy toward the communist nation.

The unusual step followed recent Vatican Radio broadcasts that were judged too critical or provocative by Czechoslovakian officials.

The same day, the heads of the radio's Czech and Slovakian language sec-

tions said they had been cautioned by the Vatican Secretariat of State to be more careful about the content of their programs and had been told to broadcast the Vatican statement on programs beamed to Czechoslovakia.

The statement said Czechoslovakian Religious Affairs Minister Vladimir Janku, during recent talks at the Vatican, had "expressed concern about some transmission by Vatican Radio about

Czechoslovakia".

with the Vatican over the On the Vatican's part, Vatican Radio issue.

According to Jesuit the statement continued, Father Josef Kolacek, "agreement was expressed on the obvious head of the Czechnecessity for Vatican language section of Vatiradio to act in harmony can Radio, one offending with the positions of the program was a news Holy See, and the hope broadcast that was was expressed that no thought to be too sarcasnegative episodes would tic about comments occur regarding church made by Janku on and state", in church-state relations.

Another was a feature Czechoslovakia. series on Slovakian perVatican sources said the sonalities that was seen Czechoslovakian delega- as evoking and praising tion had threatened to the Slovakian separatist delay further meetings movement, he said.

BIG BUNGLE

BHOPAL, India (NC): Government mismanagement in the aftermath of the disaster in Bhopal, India, where thousands of people died or were injured following a poisonous gas leak in 1984, has made it impossible to find a just settlement to the situation today, the bishop of Bhopal said.

Bishop Eugene D'Souza said mistakes by Indian authorities in the years following the pesticide plant catastrophe had in effect limited aid to victims and created a state of confusion over indemnity.

Bishop D'Souza said he believes, in the first place, that the official government count of victims is far too low.

"Based on my own investigations, I can state that at least 12,000 people, perhaps as many as 20,000, have died. Between 60,000 and 80,000 people were seriously affected, most in the lungs and the eyes," he said.

The government estimates that about 3300 people died from the gas leak and

another 20,000 continue to suffer from its effects.

The bishop said that in addition to a poorly organised immediate relief effort, the government failed to conduct systematic research on the number of victims, their identity and the treatment they had received.

The result now is that an estimated 500,000 people are believed to be seeking some sort of indemnity for injuries, with little way of knowing how accurate the claims are, the bishop said.

Many of the real victims have never received an adequate medical examination, he said, while "cheaters" have been convinced to make claims by lawyers who promise they will receive millions of dollars in compensation.

While the Church played a key role in aiding victims of the disaster, organising relief camps and health centres. after eight months "the government turned against the organisations that were working in favour of the victims, especially Christians," Bishop D'Souza said.

Father Stefan Sencik, the Jesuit in charge of Slovakian programming for Vatican Radio, said the Czechoslovakian complaints were not new.

"They've been saying this for 40 years," he said.

He noted that the radio also regularly reports on Czechoslovakian action against Catholic activists and sometimes broadcasts the contents of letter received from members of the country's heirarchy.

Chinese Catholics HONG KONG (NC): Chinese Catholics might number eight million, more than double the estimate of a Chinese government -sanctioned Catholic association, a Hong Kong-based China watcher said.

The estimate by Anthony Lam Sui-ki, executive secretary of the Holy Spirit Study Centre, a Hong Kong diocesan bureau doing research on the Chinese church, c ontrasts with that of Chinese-appointed Bishop Joseph Huaide of Tsinan and Chowtsun, who put the number of Chinese Catholics at 3.4 million.

The bishop's estimate is the same count official records give for Catholics in 1949 when the People's Republic of China was established.

Lam said Patriotic Associa tion estimates are too conservative. He said his information from local provinces and dioceses

indicates a near-doubling of numbers in the past 40 yea Ts. He said his views are shared by a bishop in northwestern China who has noted the number of Catholics in his own diocese increased from 7000 in 1949 to 15,000 today.

Lam said some Catholics may have lost their faith during the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, when all religious activities were banned.

"But most of them have returned to the church after 1979," he said, noting that the Chinese church had also gained a significant number of new converts in the past few years.

Lam said official church figures do not always reflect actual situations and figures supplied especially by regional authorities appear to be underestimates.

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K ATMANDU, Nepal (NC): A district court has sentenced four people to prison for converting from Hinduism to Christianity in Nepal, the world's only Hindu kingdom.

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Conversion is outlawed in Nepal, and violation of the law brings a maximum six-year prison term.

Arrests for violation of the conversion law have

PLAINFIELD, Ni (NC): Poor people in the United States sometimes suffer more than poor people in India, Mother Teresa of Calcutta said during a stop in Plainfield for the dedication of a convent opened by her order.

In India, "they're contented because they've never experienced anything else", said Mother Teresa at the dedication of the 402nd house opened worldwide by her Missionaries of Charity order.

"But, the homelessness here is from people who have had. They suffer the terrible loneliness that comes from being left alone. It's a very great suffering. And that is a great poverty of the rich countries," she said.

Mother Teresa said the suffering is generally not from the lack of shelter but from the feeling of being unwanted by society.

She said one of the roles of the 13 sisters at the Plainfield house is to show charity to the suffering who may have lost faith in God because of their pain.

"They struggle with their faith because they feel so unwanted, so unloved, uncared (for)," she said. "(The sisters) make them feel wanted, loved. That's very important."

Hispanic bishop SAN FRANCISCO: A bilingual liturgy accompanied the consecration of San Francisco's two latest auxiliary bishops who have Hispanic and Irish backgrounds.

Bishop Savilla, a Jesuit, grew up in San Francisco Spanish speaking because of his Mexican background. He becomes the nation's 21st Hispanic bishop.

Bishop McGrath was ordained priest in his native Ireland in 1970, moving the same year to San Francisco where he has been judicial vicar.

increased recently. At the end of 1988, 126 people were awaiting trial and more than 100 reportedly were serving prison sentences for becoming Christians.

Despite the restrictions Nepal maintains diplomatic relations with the Vatican.

About 100 Catholic religious personnel serve in Nepal, most in jobs related to education.

Children of the royal family have attended Catholic schools.

Katmandu has one church, Catholic expected to serve expatriates. But of the nearly 1000 Catholics in the city, about 450 are native Nepales.

The country's Christian population is estimated to be 25,000 out of the total 17 million people.

Call to reject Ulster violence ARMAGH, Northern Ireland (NC): The Irish primate, Cardinal Tomas O'Fiaich, recently appealed to Catholic and Protestant paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland to reject violence if "an orgy of sectarian slaughter" is to be avoided.

The cardinal was preaching in St Malachy's Church in Armagh in the wake of a serious increase in the shooting of civilians. He said

he would be failing in his duty if he did not condemn the many murders and attempted murders of recent weeks.

The slaying of a Belfast Catholic lawyer, Patrick Finucane, in the presence of his wife and children "had been cruel", he added.

Equally atrocious was the murder of John Davey, a member of Magherafelt District Council, the cardinal said.

Consultation first VATICAN CITY (NC): A seven-month consultation with the world's Catholic bishops and bishop's conferences will precede the final drafting of a universal catechism.

The consultation will begin November 1so that the papally appointed catechism commission

can provide "a substantial report" to the next Synod of Bishops, planned for fall 1990.

Pope John Paul II established the catechism commission in 1986 after the 1985 extraordinary Synod of Bishops recommended the writing of a universal

catechism to be used as a basis for the formulation of diocesan and national catechisms.

The pope often has expressed hope that the universal catechisms will be published in 1990, the 25th anniversary of the close of the Second Vatican Council.

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MANILA (NC): Cardinal Jaime Sin of Manila has supported President Corazon Aquino's ban on former President Ferdinand Marcos returning to the Philippines.

The cardinal said that in recent months he had remained silent on political matters, but "the issue has generated so much conflict and aroused so much passion that the population is getting polarised".

He said Mrs Aquino's critics are making Marcos's return a moral issue, not just a political one, and there are rumours of another coup attempt.

"There are the new forces of darkness — meaning those who want to destroy democracy and bring back a dictatorship — facing the forces of light — meaning those who cherish the freedom and the democratic space that the present government nurtures.

"In a threatened conflict such as this,Icannot remain neutral," the cardinal said.

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This article is the third in a seven-part series on the Church in China. NC foreign editor Bill Pritchard made a 17-day tour of China in late November and early December under the auspices of the International Federation of Catholic News Agencies.

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Knowledgeable sources PEKING (NC): According to its spokesmen, say the association is the Chinese Catholic somewhere between Patriotic Association those two views. helps the governmentWhile it includes hardCatholic line ideologies and approved Church in China pro- members vehemently gress spiritually and opposed to any Vatican develop patriotically. influence in the Chinese

But its critics say the association's purpose is to keep Chinese Catholicism in lock-step with state policy and separated from the Vatican.

They say the association is the real power in the Chinese church, while the bishops, as a body, have little substantial influence.

church, it is also peppered with Catholics who want to be in good standing with the universal church and who have joined the organisation to lessen the influence of the hard-liners.

Recently a bishop of the state-sanctioned church, in an unprecedented public statement.

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An international group and conference bishops' charge of the church of Catholic journalists Bishop Aloysius lin Bishop Philippe Ma Ji, the Chinese Catholic from the Patriotic A.ssoci- spoke with several Patri70, of Pingliang in Church Administrative Luxian of Shanghai, one

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WUHAN, China (NC): Lu Shoude, 24, said he spent five years as a carpenter before deciding to enter the government-approved Wuhan regional seminary.

Speaking through an interpreter. Lu said he came from a family which had been Catholic for generations and from a village of 1200 people of

whom 60 per cent are Catholic.

Lu said his uncle, a 68year old Catholic priest, had inspired him to enter the clergy.

His father and older brother continue the family carpentry trade.

The Wuhan seminary, run by the stateCatholic approved Church, has 104 students who study for six years before ordination.

Like Lu. several students have come from other careers, said seminary officials. Also in his class were a teacher and a doctor.

On summer and winter vacations. Lu and his fellow seminarians are sent out to parishes in the region "so they can be more prepared for their ordination," said Bishop Bernardine Dong

Lu Shoude, age 24, was five years a carpenter before he entered the Wuhan regional seminary.

Guangqing of Hankow, rector of the seminary Lu, and the other seminarians are also given some medical training to put to use in their future ministry, he said.

"We find that when they preach the Gospel in the future, it gives them great help" getting the people's attention, the bishop said.

Nun remains loyal SHANGHAI, China (NC): The 75-year-old Chinese nun, speaking quietly in French, said she would rather go to prison than renounce the Vatican.

Little Sister of the Poor Eugene Marie de la Croix said that in 1958, Religious were pressured to cut their ties to the pope. It was the year the first bishop of the government approved Chinese Catholic Church was elected without Vatican approval.

Three years earlier, she said, religious orders were banned and the nuns were sent to two locations for "brainwashing".

"We were given political courses," said Sister Eugene Marie, who spent 1933-46 in a convent in Brittany, France. "Those courses were against the Church."

"We had to break ties with Europe (where the Order had its headquarters)," she said.

"But many of us refused."

China ultimately forbade contacts between nuns from religious orders and their overseas motherhouses.

In 1959, nuns from different Orders were moved to the diocsesan novitiate in Shanghai, she said. There were 100 originally. but 30 have died of old age and illness.

The surviving nuns receive pensions, Sister Eugene said.

"For what I am telling you I have to make a report," she said. "But now I'm not afraid anymore because of my age."

in step? otic Association representatives and Chinese church officials about the organisation during a seven-city look at Chinese Catholicism.

The trip, sponsored by the International Federafion of Catholic News Agencies, was organised in conjunction with the government -approved church.

Association spokesmen, who included bishops as well as lay people, said the organisation aims at promoting patriotism as well as religion, presenting church concerns to the government and encouraging Catholic support of China's economic development program.

The organisation also publishes the only Catholic publication in China, the Catholic Church in China, a magazine with a circulation of 10,000.

The body is made up of lay and clergy representatives from various parts of the country. In addition to the national body, there are branches in the dioceses throughout China.

The power and influence of local Patriotic Association officials appeared to vary among

Anthony Liu Bainian, a senior official of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, one of the most powerful church officials in China.

Bishop Aloysius Lin Luxian of Shanghai.

the dioceses.

In Shanghai, John Tang Guozhi, general secretary of the Shanghai branch, said, "Our organisation is under Bishop Jin Luxian."

In Peking, a senior association official, Anthony Liu Bainian, was described by a knowledgeable source as being more powerful than the chairman of the association Bishop Joseph Zhong Huaide.

Similar associations have been established for the other legal religions of China: Protestantism, Buddhism, Taoism and Islam.

Patriotic Association officials were present at each of the meetings between church officials and the foreign journalists and met the journalists on arrival at each city.

The Patriotic Association was launched in 1957 under the auspices of the Chinese Communist government. It mandated severing all direct ties between the church and the Vatican.

It said in its inaugural statements that the Vatican "interferes with the affairs of our country and incites the clergy and the faithful to oppose the people's government".

Bishop Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei, Vaticanappointed bishop of Shanghai now undergoing medical treatment in the US, said in aninterview in his Stamford, Conn, residence that the association's role is to "control the Catholic population and to separate their allegiance to the Holy Father".

Bishop Kung, jailed for

Veteran came from an old Catholic family

30 years for his opposition to the association, also said the organisation controls diocesan finances and administration.

Chinese church and Patriotic Association officials in several different meetings spoke critically of the Vatican's continued recognition of Taiwan.

For its part, the Vatican, in a confidential message to the world's bishops, rejected the Patriotic Association, saying it regards those of its members who spurn ties to the Vatican as nonCatholics and considers bishops ordained under its auspices as illicit.

But in the same document, the Vatican notes that some Chinese Catholics still loyal to Rome accept the political realities of China and cooperate with the Patriotic Association.

The question, it said, is "to what point cooperation is allowed with the Patriotic Association".

A Vatican official also noted that the association "is not the organisafion of 1957" and the "situation is much improved".

Chinese-elected Bishop Zhong, in an interview in

Billboards like this are posted throughout China encouraging couples to have only one child.

China's Catholics oppose the official birth control line.

Peking, described the association as a "mass organisation" of clergy, religious and laity developed to help "unify religious personnel and the faithful and work toward the Four Modernisations . and help the government implement the policy of religious freedom".

The Four Modernisations refers to the government's program to develop the country's agriculture, industry, defence and science and technology.

"Chinese Catholicism has undergone a basic change which makes the church get rid of control by foreign powers and which accords with China's situation and people's interests," Bishop

Zhong said at a celebra- "no religious contradiction in Peking of 30 years tion with the Vatican. It is of Chinese-elected not the same as with Archbishop (Marcel) bishops.

Liu, who directs the Lefebvre". association's liaison with Bishop Bernardine the government and is a Dong Guangqing of Hanformer Franciscan semi- kow, the first elected narian, says his only aim Chinese bishop, said, is to "spread the Gospel "The Catholic Patriotic in this country and to Association and the consolidate the work of church are two different the church". organisations."

He has publicly critiIt has "helped the cised the Vatican on its church a lot", he said, for relations with the "underground" Catholic instance by obtaining Church, a clandestine materials for rebuilding church maintaining ties churches. to the Holy See. Joseph Zhang Minggao, Liu said the Vatican's secretary general of the approval of underground Canton Catholic Patriochurch ordination of tic Association, said life is bishops and priests inter- improving for the church feres in China's internal in China. "Ten years ago affairs. But he also said in our country the value the Chinese church has of religion was denied."

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PEKING (NC): Yang, a tall, slim and cheerful man of 79, had been baptised a month after he was born at Peking's Immaculate Conception Church, where he had just finished attending Mass on a cold Sunday morning.

He said he came from an "old Catholic" family, which had been Catholic for "six or seven generations".

When he was a boy, the old veteran said he sang in the Immaculate Conception choir, in Latin.

Immaculate Conception was closed by the

government "soon after the liberation" of 1949 which brought Mao Tsetung's Communists to power in China.

Yang said with a smile that he was not part of the liberation, but in fact one of the soldiers in the Nationalist Army of Chiang Kai-shek, who fought Mao's Red Army for four years until defeated.

He said that after 1949 he was sent to work in a farming village to "reform" his political attitude.

When the church was closed, he said he asked an official of the govern-

ment's Bureau of Religious Affairs: "You closed our church, where can we go?"

The official replied that there were some "imperialists" in the congregation and that was why the church was closed.

Yang said he told the bureau official, "You can arrest those few" instead of denying the whole congregation their place of worship.

He attended another church until Immaculate Conception was reopened by the government in the early 1980s under a liberalised religious policy.

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Spotting signs of John ...

At the same time, we know what it is like to be in the darkness and to be A recurring symbol in in the light. When John is found in the Nicodemus comes to contrasting of light and Jesus in the night so as darkness. It appears at not to be discovered the beginning of the. (John 3), we are put in Gospel, "The light shines touch with our own

uneasiness at some of the demands of our faith.

When Jesus comes to the disciples at night during a storm at sea (John 6:16-22), we are reminded that darkness could not overcome him.

And when Jesus is arrested at night and Peter denies him before daybreak, we are faced with the fact that sometimes darkness overwhelms us.

So it is appropriate that the risen Jesus first appears to the disciples, who are locked up in fear, "on the evening of that first day of the week" (John 20:19).

The closest our culture gets to this notion of a special time is to assure us, "If you've got the time; we've got the beer" or to ask, "Isn't it time you

Symbols have great power. They have the ability to speak to us on several different levels at once, writes Father Lawrence Mick. Symbols communicate a meaning that is richer and more complex than words alone can convey.

Recently I was part of an ecumenical prayer service during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. The service was a joint celebration of three small town churches, one Lutheran, one Roman Catholic and one United Church of Christ.

The theme of the service was One Lord, One Faith.

One Baptism. Each congregation and pastor took responsibility for part of the service.

I had urged that each part of the service include some ritual element. So, after the reading and reflection on "One Lord", we shared the Sign of Peace among all gathered.

After the focus on "One Faith", we stood and renewed our baptismal

promises.

And after reading and preaching on "One Baptism", we poured together three pitchers of water, one from each church.

The children in each Church brought water from their homes to their morning worship that Sunday. That water was collected in large pitchers and carried to the common service in the afternoon.

Pouring the waters together spoke of the unity we share through baptism into the one Christ. After the waters were combined, I spoke of the need to recommit ourselves regularly to our baptismal lifestyle.

Then I invited all present to come forward, plunge their hand into the water and sign

I was walking to the parking area after Sunday Mass with a husband and wife team who had been the lectors that morning.

They were expressing their frustration with the readings.

"Some of those passages are pretty obscure," Mary said. "I guess people in our country like things clear and direct. We're not used to all this symbolism."

As we parted I noticed a small, red rose insignia in Bill's suit lapel, the sign of his pro-life support. On their car

hood was the unmistakable emblem of a Mercedes-Benz.

We all use more symbols than we realise.

But when it comes to faith, we may not recognise our symbols as such and we may miss their meaning.

Consider the Gospel of John. John's symbols are taken from the most everyday ordinary, experiences.

on in darkness, a darkness that did not overcome it" (John 1:5).

Unlike people in Jesus' time, our lives are not regulated by the light of day and the darkness of night. We refer to "a city that never sleeps" and are told that the night "belongs" to a certain beer.

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By Father John Castelot

Another symbol that John uses throughout the Gospel is "the hour". This does not refer to mere time, elegantly kept by expensive timepieces.

"The hour" in John's Gospel is special time, a time of fulfilment.

When Jesus says "I am the bread of life", we can draw upon our own experience of making, buying, warming and eating bread to appreciate further riches of his expression.

alone.

When he says, "I am the vine and you are the branches", we can feel again the intimate sharing of life in our families and loving relationships.

When Jesus says, "I am the light of the world", we can use our experience of city lights or laser shows or candlelight vigils to get in touch with his meaning.

When he says, "I a--.L the good shepherd", we can visualise all the ways people help one another when they are hungry or homeless or grieving or

John's Gospel understands that human beings of every age are people of symbols. They will be able to identify with the symbols in a Gospel that is written so that "you may (come to) believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through this belief you may have life in his name" (John 20:31).

They are the means Christ chose to help us express and experience the reality of his continuing presence among us.

One difficulty we face, however, is that our common symbols can become muted by routine. We can become somewhat numb to their impact.

Our ecumenical celebration that Sunday helped us to recover a more vital sense of the meaning of baptism and the power that our use of water can have.

Sometimes we think we are so pragmatic and scientific that we don't need symbols and rituals anymore. Yet we are surrounded by symbols and ritual behaviour all the time.

From candlelight vigils for peace to protest

marches for the homeless, from baby showers to funeral lunches, from the opening ceremonies for the Olympics to New Year's Eve traditions, we constantly use symbols and rituals.

In the Church and in other arenas of our lives, the rituals and symbols we have inherited or developed mark the significant moments of our lives and express the depths of OUT relationships.

Like anything of great value, they should be cared for and treasured.

Without them we would all be impoverished.

With them we are enriched by a -vocabulary" that enables us to share with one another the deepest and most important realities of our lives.

Louder thar words

The symbols of life Life is full of symbols.

We depend on them, like arrows on road signs.

Some symbols are rooted in universal human experience. Everyone reacts at a deep level to the symbolic value of words like light, darkness, bread, water.

Light immediately suggests joy and brightness; darkness suggests gloom and despair. Bread and water are universal symbols of life; without them there would be no life.

Authors depend on symbols to get their message across, to create their moods.

The Gospel writers were no exception, especially the fourth evangelist. You just can't understand the Gospel of John if you ignore its use of signs and symbols.

The people, places and events the fourth evangelist writes about are real people, places and

By Father Robert Kinast

moved up to. . . ?"

But before those climacFor John, "the hour" is tic events occur Jesus full of drama. Whet says that he has told the Jesus begins his public disciples of things that ministry by declaring will come to pass "so that "My hour has not ya when their hour comes come" (John 2:4), he you may remember that makes us wonder het I told you" (John 16:4). his hour will come and what will happen whet Thus, no matter what it does. time we read John's ospel, the hour of our G When his disciples urge iscipleship is always d him to go public, Jesus with us. heightens the interest 13) saying, "My time is not A third symbolic feayet here" (John 7:1-6). ture of John's Gospel is After his entry int( found in the images Jesus Jerusalem, Jesus declares uses to describe himself.

"The hour has come for These too are drawn the Son of Man to be from everyday glorified (John 12:23). experience.

supreme revelation of the truth which brings true life to humanity.

Jesus' cure of the man born blind in Chapter 9 is one of the most dramatic scenes in John's Gospel. But it is also a symbol of something much deeper than the giving of sight. It signifies the gift of the insight of faith to otherwise blind humanity.

events. But they also are Samaritan woman at the signs of deeper realities. well that he can give her In the Prologue to the "living water", she fails to Gospel, we read that "the get the point. light shines in the darShe thinks he means kness and the darkness the fresh, babbling water has not overcome it" of a lively stream as (John 1:5). opposed to the still, What light? What sometimes stagnant darkness? water of a cistern.

The light of truth, of But the water Jesus God's creative love, a speaks of is a symbol of Jesus provokes a "crilight which lies and something much more sis": A person's reaction hatred have resisted right life-giving: the water of to him either can bring from the beginning, his teaching and of the insight into life's meanthough unsuccessfully. life-giving Spirit. ing or deepen the darLater Jesus himself is When Jesus identifies kness of wilful blindness. identified as "the light of himself as "the bread of From one end of John's the world" (John 8:12). life" which "comes down Gospel to the other, we And we read, "Whoever from heaven and gives follows me will not walk life to the world", his find symbols pointing to in darkness,but will have hearers excitedly ask vitally important realities. To remain on the the light of life." him to give them this surface, to concentrate Light, darkness, life: bread always. only on the fascinating These are meaningful They are imagining people and events in symbols for the inex- ordinary bread, perhaps themselves, is to miss the pressible benefits to be vitamin enriched. But signs. As a result, we can gained from acceptance Jesus is talking about the fail to understand what of Jesus. "bread" of truth. In his the evangelist is trying to When Jesus tells the humanity, Jesus is the tell us.

By Father Lirence Mick themselves with it in symbols to express the some way. As all came deepest realities and forward, the choir sang mysteries of life. Symbols Come to the Water. have the ability to speak About midway through to us on several levels at the ritual action, a pastor once. leaned over to me and They communicate a said, "This is the most meaning that is richer powerful thing I've seen and more complex than in a long time." words alone can convey.

My response was to Because of that, symnote simply that good bols are the natural symbols have gnat language we use to power. express the mysteries of More than all the words our faith. Our central spoken or sung that day, symbols we call the that symbolic action sacraments. spoke loudly of the We immerse in water, celebration's meaning. It anoint with oil, impose "spoke" on levels words hands in a gesture of could not encompass. consecration or reconcitouching our minds, liation, join hands and hearts and spirits. speak vows of love.

This is why human These symbolic actions beings in every age and can speak powerfully to culture have employed our minds and hearts.

St John's symbols are taken from everyday, ordinary experience, writes Father Robert Kinast. When John uses the symbols of light and darkness, we can draw on our ordinary experiences of city lights or laser shows to get at his meaning.

Some pretty spectacular 3-D films still are produced occasionally.

When you enter the theatre, you are handed a special pair of glasses to wear during the film.

Without the glasses, a 3D film is a blur of images which just don't seem to work. With the glasses,

however, the imas are pulled together ei YOU step right into thecture — or it steps out YOU. Now the pictureefore you appears to boot a, flat image on a reen, but multidimensial. It has depth. Yu feel yourself drawn ir the action.

No special glas are

needed for reading the Bible unless, of course, they're your bifocals.

Something like 3-D movies, however, the images before you in the Bible are multidimensional. They also address you directly, drawing you into their action.

And while you won't have the aid of 3-D

paraphernalia to open literature that largely you to the Bible's images, addresses the mind. It is many generations of logical, rational, ordered saints and lovers of the so that one thought Bible testify that there always leads directly to are levels of meaning the next. here to be discovered The use of symbolism is over time, gradually. limited. When you finish Does this mean that in one close and attentive the Bible you are dealing reading of it, you pretty with something poetic? much have the points it We know a lot about makes in hand.

Not so with the Bible.

With one reading you'll gain something, probably a lot. But you'll realise almost instinctively that much more awaits you in the pages you have just completed.

Over the course of a lifetime, you might well read the Gospel of John 10 or 20 times, for

Of all the Gospels, John's is the most symbolic. That should not make it more difficult but easier to understand. There is nothing esoteric about symbols. Our homes are filled with them.

Take something as simple as the front door. At my family home, we hardly ever use it.

We always enter and leave through the back

door which open! ito a covered patio.

We may not the front door, but fever occurs ttohaat Tone the we ould not have one. Is a the symbolic entrant main entrance °ur home.

As I look arou our family home.Iseeral kinds of symbolOrne are obvious. most colic Like

homes, there are religious symbols — crucifixes in several rooms and images of Our Lady.

I cannot imagine our home without them.

Gifts, too, have symbolic value and continue to hold it long after they are given. In our house, for example, there are small ebony carvings and woven tablemats sent by my sister, Claudette, a Marynoll Sister who has

been teaching in East Africa for more than 15 years.

Then there is a very precious glass in our family's crystal cabinet.

Though not worth a lot of money, to us it is priceless. It is the only glass left of a set which OUT to belonged grandmother.

Everyone in the family knows what that glass means, down to the

is also obvious. In our meaning of that G. family living room, at the These are all wonderful centre of the red brick symbols. It is enough to fireplace, there is a identify them and say rectangular piece of where they came from. granite selected by our They speak volumes dad when the home was aboui the people and the built in the early 1940s. relationships behind In the centre of that piece them. of granite there is a large Some symbols at home capital G, the initial letter less obvious. Certain are of our mother's name, ooms, for example, r Gladys. symbolic become Everyone who comes to because of how we use our home knows the them.

example, and still find yourself discovering new dimensions of it. You might even find that you are asking yourself how you missed some of this before.

But it's like that with the Bible. It grows with you or you grow with it.

It can happen, for example, that you hear

part of the Gospel at Mass and discover that in the context of your current personal needs or of recent changes in your life — and in the lives of others — you are hearing it entirely afresh.

The Bible is poetic in the sense that it is filled with colourful images, that the writers set a

What you'll find at home

By Father Eugene LaVerdieTe

greatyoungest who grandchildren never knew our grandmother. It has a couple of small knicks on the edge, but no matter. It symbolises the ties that bind the generations together.

Another kind of symbol

mood and that theii words are the bearers of beauty.

The books of the Bible are layered with mean. ing. This makes their good books — better even, than one at first suspects. For there always more in them awaiting discovery 133 you.

Many families have a The dining room is dining room, but use it symbolic of special meals only on formal occasions. and calls for a special This might be Sunday ritual. dinner or Easter dinner, even a birthday dinner.

Finally, the home itself For such a meal we all is a symbol. It is because gather at the same time. of all the associations, There are special roles. past and present, that it is Dad, for example, cuts a home. A house is just a and serves the meat. And work of architecture. there is a certain order to the meal. Dessert is But a home is a symbol, served only after the witness to what its table has been cleared. people stand for.

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project ... IN GLENDALOUGH BY LITTLE SISTERS OF POOR

A building program costing $2.5 million is being undertaken at The Little Sisters of the Poor in Glendalough.

The old, long-time condemned building dating back to the Oblate Fathers in 1897 has had part torn away but the remainder with the kitchen intact has to serve a vital need until the new building is completed in May this year.

When the building was condemned 10 years ago, the male residents were transferred to their own block, but in the absence of a substitute convent, the Sisters remained until fairly recently, when they assumed other quarters.

The new complex will contain not only the kitchen, but also a large multi-purpose hall and an essential walk-way to link up and provide under cover passageway from the nursing home to the chapel.

When final demolition takes place, the vacant area will be landscaped and provide further potential for any future building development.

But it doesn't end there. The Sisters believe they have a responsibility to their residents to provide comfortable accommodation, more like a home than an institution, and allow them to maintain their dignity.

To this end, chairs are being recovered in warm attractive colours, carpet to replace lino, soft colour tones and pictures for walls, and an ultimate plan to build en-suite facilities for the ladies' home.

The latter building will commence at the end of the year.

Sister Marie Carmel LSOP, said although the Sisters are financially constrained with the huge cost involved, they believe "the Lord won't let us down and neither will the support of the people of Perth."

The care of the aged is more necessary than ever before, "and the quality of that care essential."

The original industrial school for boys built by the Oblates in 1897.

There are 40 people in the nursing home (totally dependent), 62 in hostel care (frail, needy and partially dependent) and a staff of 100 including part-timers.

Day care services offered by the Little Sisters include podiatry, occupational and physiotherapy and social outings.

For the services and social interaction, as many as 100 to 110 come daily, mostly from the surrounding suburbs of Mt Hawthorn and Glendalough "where there is a dense population because of all the flats," said Sister Marie Carmel.

With the quality of care offered, the

nursing home is highly sought after with as many as six calls a day, hoping to get on the waiting list. However, only seven admissions went into the nursing home last year plus one into the men's home and one to the ladies.

"Further on down the track," said Sister, "we hope to provide independent living quarters — small flats, but not more than ten at the most, for people who don't require hostel care.

"That is all we can foresee in the way of expansion."

The Sisters need as much financial support as they can get to assist with their building programs and on-going upgradings and are hopeful about some government support, but this has not been forthcoming as yet.

In an endeavour to help raise money for the Sisters, the Friends of Glendalough will hold a St Patrick's night dinner dance in the Vasto Club, Balcatta — 7pm to midnight.

A raffle with the prize of a trip to Ireland will be drawn and all proceeds of the night will be given to The Little Sisters.

For more information, please ring 448 2516 or 447 7155.

An artist's impression of the building program to be undertaken by the Little Sisters of the Poor in Glendalough.

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Sister Marie Carmel LSOP.

Challenge for these foursome From left: Sisters Petra, Eileen, Joan and Stanislaus.

Four delightful Presentation Sisters have recently taken up residence in quarters recently occupied by the Little Sisters of the Infant Jesus.

This is a new initiative for the Presentation Sisters who have previously been primarily with concerned education.

And Lockridge is a great place to be "missioned" to with the need for much parish work in this rather densely populated

suburb with its highrisers.

It's a rather interesting set-up with an obvious ecumenical spirit.

During my visit to the Sisters, a tall fellow in working clothes, with a handful of tools and a cross on his lapel wandered in.

It was an Anglican minister. The Reverend Peter Harrison who had come in to do a little plumbing job for the Sisters.

His dog Milo was an interesting character too,

who disappeared into a room for a bit and came out with an object between his teeth. (Well trained or naughty dog!!?)

By Colleen McGUINESSHOWARD

But on the serious side, the Anglican and the 1891, and extend as far Catholic churches stand north as Port Hedland side by side and interact and south to Boyup at the spiritual and Brook. practical level which With a solid teaching everyone believes is a Order background, these great idea. four ladies have diversified into parish and whose Sisters The Order originated in Ire- school activity, as though land in 1775, came to they'd always lived there.

Sister Joan Evans Australia in 1866 and Western Australia in (superior) has joined the

La Salle College staff, part time, and will give her counselling expertise (she has a Masters in Education and is a qualified pastoral care officer), to those who need her.

Sister Petra Lilchittam is a qualified primary school teacher and will be teaching at the Good primary Shepherd school, specialising in remedial education.

Sister Eileen Tinning is working in the parish, with the St Vincent de Paul (for whom she is

spiritual director and also with the Legion of Mary), and the Gatechuminate program.

Sister Stanislaus Ryan is the "general liaison officer" for the Sisters and any parishioners and keeps the home open and welcoming for those in need.

Sister Joan said they are "delighted to be here and we see this new venture as a challenge.

"We want to contribute our talents and in return receive all the richness

the people have to offer."

Between them, the Sisters have contributed 135 years of religious education and with their enthusiasm, are all set to notch up another century!

The Presentations Sisters on their take over day from the Sisters of the Infant Jesus, planted two gum trees between them, in the hope that their presence will send down roots through all the good works which have been initiated and will continue.

Australians help in Kampuchea

Above: Australian Catholic Relief provides equipment for digging irrigation canals.

Left: Australian Catholic Relief assists with the re-establishment of a phosphate factory in Phnom Penh.

October, the river falls.

The winds change and the dry season begins. By late November the rice is harvested and, in December, dry-season crops such as maize, beans and other vegetables are planted.

Irrigated by the water trapped in the canals, these are harvested before the floods of the is at its peak, water flows next season. into canals specially cut Since the return of the high in the river bank. villagers, only rice and a few vegetables have been The surrounding low- grown at Prey Thom. lying country becomes While the village was flooded and rice is abandoned, the canals planted. fell into disrepair and the became system In September and unworkable.

While various nations It was left abandoned by still continue discus- Pol Pot's forces, but now sions about the future life is settling back to of Kampuchea, Austral- normal — thanks to the ian Catholic Relief — work of Australian the official overseas Catholic Relief and simaid and development ilar agencies. agency of the Catholic Church in Australia — Kampuchea has two continues to assist the distinct seasons. The wet people of Kampuchea season lasts from May to as they struggle to December. The river rebuild their country. rises and, when the flood Ten years ago the name Kampuchea evoked images of starving children, mass graves, refugees and all the tragedy and horror of war.

Prey Thom, a village south of the capital Phnom Penh, is situated on the Bassac River.

Now that the village is alive again, repairs are underway on the canals.

Catholic Australian Relief helped to provide water pumps to assist in the irrigation and mechanical tillers so that more land could be prepared for planting.

Variety and nourishment can thus be added to the people's diet, bringing closer the day when the village will be self sufficient in food production.

During the Pol Pot regime, there was wanton and massive destruction of the irrigation

network throughout the country.

When Pol Pot was overthrown, Kampuchea was almost totally dependent on outside assistance for food to prevent its population from starving.

While the country is still to some extent reliant on food aid to provide adequate nutrition for its people, the work that has been done to repair irrigation canals, coupled with the rebuilding of the agricultural sector, now means that Kampuchea is able to provide much of the food its people need for daily life.

phate factory in Phnom Penh in Battambang Province.

This factory is providing Kampuchea with its own fertiliser, overcoming the necessity of importing fertiliser from An Australian expert abroad, and assisting went to Kampuchea as a Kampuchea in its efforts his and bulldozer driver to become self sufficient training has meant that in agricultural the Kampuchean people production. are now able to use the Australian Catholic bulldozers provided by is presently conRelief Australian Catholic its Annual ducting Relief.

Appeal — Project ComAnother problem has passion. Last year, been the lack of fertiliser Catholics in the Archdiin the country. Austral- ocese of Canberra and ian Catholic Relief has Goulburn provided also assisted with the re- $159,190 to the Project establishment of a phos- Compassion appeal.

One of the biggest Australian projects Catholic Relief funded in Kampuchea was deepening the canals and building up the canal banks with bulldozers.

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to the Editor

AIDS: Some of the facts ignored from Brian PEACHEY, Woodlands

Sir, Ms Kosky, (The Record, February 23) since her appointment as DEATH Executive Director of the Western Australian SPAIN, Rev Fr Keith: Died peacefully on February 27 AIDS Council in 1987, in Geraldton, aged 83. has consistently supRemembered with love' ported and defended by the thousands of homosexual practices.

Her only contribution to the fight against the most devastating disease to a ttack humanity in recent history, is to advise homosexuals to use "protected sex".

The facts which Ms Kosky seems to studiously ignore are that: • AIDS is only being spread in Australia by homosexual men practicing anal intercourse.

• It is only passed to heterosexuals by men who originally contracted the virus through anal intercourse.

• The number of suffer-

ers is increasing exponentially each year.

Ms Kosky says that "the human family is one of diversity and a mature society would accept that diversity".

What she means is that homosexual practice is a "diversity" which we should accept and approve as normal.

The Magisterium of the Church teaches in "Personae Humanae" by the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, December 29, 1975 that: "Sexual relations between persons of the same sex are necessarily andessentially disordered according to the objective moral order. Sacred scripture condemns them as gravely depraved and even portrays them as the tragic consequences of rejecting God Of course the judgement of sacred scripture does not imply that all who suffer from this deformity are by that

very fact guilty of personal fault. But it does show that homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered and may never be approved in anyway whatever."

But Ms Kosky says "that behavioural change may be to have protected sex" What she means is that homosexuals who practice anal intercourse should be educated to use condoms.

She even preaches to Catholics that the "difficulty with condoms is that parents may think that a piece of rubber may change the attitude of young people they've had in their homes since they were born".

What a colossal insult to Catholics who are bound by the teaching of "Humanae Vitae"!

One of the great frauds of the so called anti AIDS

campaign is that the condom will prevent (or even slow) the spread of AIDS. This is simply not true. Not only is the anus not meant for sexual intercourse and is torn by it, allowing the virus to enter the blood stream, but its tight dry environment is damaging to the inadequate tissue of the condom.

What Ms Kosky should be saying is that homosexual practice is intrinsically disordered and not normal. If the spread of AIDS is to be stopped, homosexual practice must stop. There is no other way. There is no cure.

If we do not teach this to t he young and use legislation that will educate and control, then we will pay the massive price, not only in billions of dollars, but more importantly in hundreds of thousands of lost souls.

A threat to health and life' from JOHN DALLIMORE Floreat

Sir, Ms Kosky's statement (The Record, February 23) "and it is interesting to note that the A ustralian Catholic Bishops put out a very good statement nationally . . . and the statement carried weight and the informing feelings were those of compassion and understanding." is, to my mind, a distortion of the message in that statement and attempt to emphasise the minor part (about 1/8 ) of the whole document.

The main thrust of the Bishops' statement was to be found in the paragraphs, "AIDS is a threat to physical health and life, and a symptom of a moral disease damaging national life. AIDS could not have spread through Australia without homosexual practices, sexual

promiscuity abuse.

and

drug

"We must not make our present national situation more serious by presenting a moral teaching that is false or ambiguous; we must not yield to the, pressure of silence. Christian moral teaching must make it clear that irrespective of their role in the transmission of AIDS, homosexual acts are intrinsically wrong. These acts are immoral and cannot be condoned or approved."

"It is also wrong to act in any way that is likely to pass on the disease to others; it is wrong to risk contracting the infection."

"To lament the tragedy of AIDS, and yet not take proper measures to arrest its spread, would be inconsistent and worse than mere foolishness. One such inconsistency is the Federal

OBITUARY A few days before his death he broke his hip in a fall, then had a slight stroke. He died peacefully in hospital

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Father Keith Spain, a priest of the Geraldton

Diocese for 49 years, died on Monday night, February 27 in the Geraldton Regional Hospital, aged 83 years.

Father Spain was born in Parkside, South Australia, and studied in Propaganda Fide College, Rome, for the Geraldton Diocese. He was ordained on March 23, 1940 in Rome.

After a year in Geraldton he spent the next eleven years in Mt Magnet and Leonora where he became famous for organising his bushies' schools for children of the outback, a work he continued for over thirty years.

Bishop Hickey of Geraldton said that Father Spain always made a wonderful impact on people through his gentleness and kindness.

"He had a special love for children that swept aside any generation gap. As a priest he was apostolic and selfless and had a deserved reputation for holiness,- he said.

Father Spain was one of only three priests in the Geraldton Diocese who served under Bishop O'Collins. The others are Father Michael Moffat and Father Michael O'Flaherty who preached the homily at his funeral.

He leaves behind him a brother, Chris, and a cousin, Sister Patricia Simms, RSM, both in Adelaide.

Government's attitude to pornography. There is no doubt the Government is strongly committed to fighting AIDS, yet it continues to tolerate a dollar multi -million industry in pornographic videos which portray the debased sexuality and promiscuity which have made our society so v ulnerable this to scourge. The necessary measures are clear."

"The truth is that certain types of behaviours must be avoided if the disease is to be avoided."

These direct statments, a direct contradiction to those of Ms Kosky, "we emphasise the right to say "No" and delay sexual activity." (Surely obligation to say "No" is what the Bishops said) and, "What I am saying is that the human family is one of diversity and a mature society would accept that diversity."

(Surely a contradiction to the Bishops' "homosexual acts are intrinsically wrong".)

The Bishops said in the c oncluding paragraph "We also commend those many people

within the Church, and outside the Church, who seek to show the face of compassionate t he Christ —" and "We encourage practical works of mercy --".

After all, these patients are nouorse or better off than those suffering from, say MS

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'YOUTH FORUM

Thank you, good-bye

After 10 years in the Catholic youth scene I have worked with 63 young full timers in the various youth movements of the state.

Through these young volunteers I have met thousands of young people and many of their parents.

Now I am leaving to work in a new parish on the eve of my departure for the Ballajura area I am both sad and happy.

The words of Keats "My heart aches and a drowsy numbness pains my sense" tell of the sadness at letting go of an important part of my life.

Were it up to me I'd have stayed forever.

A second line of poetry springs to mind at the prospect of starting in the brand new parish of Alexander HeightsBallajura-Malaga.

They are words of Gerard Manley Hopkins, which reads: "The world is charged with the grandeur of God . ."

I look forward to this new turn with excited delight.

It is a special blessing and privilege to lay the foundations of a new Catholic community.

Irenew my thanks to all the people who have assisted me so generously in the youth scene.

Some have done so in the foreground, others —

They are young people by doing. This is the basis Pam Smith, Alfreda Duticiewicz, John Foley, filled with zeal for the of Catholic youth work.

Finally I am very grateDorothy Hackett, Chris- Apostolate and committine Halais and Michael ted to the aims of their ful for financial support from Archbishops Goody Barone who are still movement.

Foley. Without their and the in and include continuing Their duties past people like Sheila visiting individual young sanctions the Perth Mazzella, Hilda Klass, people and attending Archdiocesan youth scene would not be the Dorothy Arbuckle, Val local group meetings. in equipped best Slater, Miranda Lawgroup new a starting In rence, Frank and Joan they assist local young Australia.

Johnson, Mary and Paul people in doorknocking Monsignor McCrann at With Newton and my school and recruiting new the chancery always friend Gavan Wood. smiled favourably on our members.

Fr. John Jegorow Married couples and In the Archdiocese a projects. their families have few parishes have had Dozens of business men like the Sisters of Carmel scene has been no played a big part in their own full timer, but gave generous donations establishing Antioch, generally they work with to the building of Eagle's in Nedlands and many exception.

The best run programs Choice and other groups. five or six parishes. They Nest and hundreds of other religious and lay men and women who or camps do little withThese include Arthur are professional volun- young people have been have frequently assured out prayer. and Bernadette Giam- teers. They rely on the involved in annual fund me of their prayers — are Great peoplE have bazi, Janet (RIP) and Ted support of local parish raising efforts to meet hardly ever seen. assisted me over the Watt, Anne and Ray priests and interested running costs and new projects.

Prayer achieves great years. People like Marj Lynch, Brian and Terri adults. things and the youth Downie, Sister Emilie, Conway, Michael and With more than a touch The youth movements Trisha Hegney, Ron and are run by young people of sadness I say goodbye Ellen Wallis, Bernie and in collaboration with to the youth scene and Bernadette Lawrence, adults. Many fail to wish Father Joseph ParMargaret and Terri realise to what extent kinson every blessing.

Fennessy.

See you at Ballajura on are young people The couples of the involved in the manage- Palm Sunday to mark the Marriage Encounter ment and direction of beginning of the most movement like the Piro- their particular move- exciting parish in the las, the O'Neils and ment. We all learn best world!

Dymonds kept me in touch with married people.

During my time as Are you a young worker and want chaplain accommodato make a difference to the world? tion was provided by the Nedlands parishioners and the Christian Brothers at Aquinas College.

My duties in both places MARCH 1042 were small andIreceived more than I gave in Eagle's Nest Gidgegannup return.

One of my duties has been working closely Father Brian Gore will give an address. with the full time Contact: Vince 328 9667, 339 6430 workers of the youth movements.

David 339 3430 They are commonly Cost: $18 unemployed, $25 employed known as full timers but • • little is known about them by those not familiar to the Church's youth approach.

Full timers serve their movement for two years Sean Leahy, and sometimes go on to cartoonist for the work on the Australian Brisbane Courier or even the international Mail was one of the scene. first participants in

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This week he faxed a cartoon that marks Father legorow's departure from the youth scene.

Come to the YCW camp

FAREWELL Father

John Jegorow

WEL COME Father Joe

Parkinson

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Tea and coffee provided.

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by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

FOR KIDS Florence Nightingale Her family called her "Flo". Her name was Florence. She grew up in a wealthy, proper British family, the Nightingales. She was pretty and probably spoiled.

Already as a youngster, Flo felt God calling her to something more important than a comfortable life. Btu she was not sure what God wanted her to do. She dreamed of being a nurse.

As she grew up, Florence found her luxurious life more and more boring, without any challenge. She wanted to work in a hospital, nurse the sick, especially those who were poor. But her family objected. Hospitals then were awful places, dirty and dangerous.

Florence knew how bad the hospitals were and how people looked down on nurses. She wanted desperately to change all of that. She began secretly to study nursing at home. She begged friends to help her become free to follow her call.

Finally when she was almost 32, Florence got her chance. She took over the direction of a small hospital 'being run poorly by wealthy society women. She went to work with enthusiasm and soon had a fine hospital with good nurses.

Then England went to war in Crimea in Russia.

Many British soldiers were wounded and without medical help. Florence heard of the desperate need for nurses.

She gathered together a group of trained nurses and bought bandages and medicines. The she and

her nurses travelled across Europe to the Crimean war zone.

What she found appalled her. Wounded soldiers suffered horribly. Many died needlessly. The hospital building was filthy and cold. There were shortages of doctors, nurses, medicines, even blankets and food.

Florence worked tirelessly. She nursed injured soldiers, inspiring them with courage and hope. She met with the generals and insisted on more help for the wounded. She directed her nurses and helpers.

She organised workers to clean up and rebuild facilities.

What Florence Nightingale did in Crimea made her famous. But she had sacrificed her own health in battling to help the sick and wounded. Back in England she often was unable to get out of bed.

Despite her pain she worked even harder for the sick.

Florence was determined to reform all of England's hospitals, especially army hospitals. She believed the sick and wounded were worthy of everyone's respect. She was determined to make nursing a respectable and attractive vocation.

Florence Nightingale achieved all her goals before she died at 90 in 1920. People from the Queen on down considered her a true heroine. She continues to inspire people to care about those who are hurting.

Florence Nightingale helping the sick and wounded

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Kids who are into reading Possum Magic. Written

by Mem Fox Illustrated by Julie Virus. Published by Omnibus. bb. $5.95.

Once upon a time, but not very long ago, deep in the Australian bush lived two possums.

Their names were Hush and Grandma Poss . . .

Children follow their adventures through beautifully illustrated pages and lots of fun and frolics with other Australian animals.

A delightful book and a great gift for children overseas.

The Wind in the

by Kenneth Grahame.

Published by Armada Classics. $5.95.

The Riverbank's leisurely charm is the delightful setting for the exploits of Ratty, Mole, Badger and, of course, the irresistible Mr Toad.

Grahame's Kenneth immortal classic is essential to every young reader's library.

The Bitser Book compiled by Roger Mansfield.

Published by Omnibus. $6.95.

Ever heard of a Baser Book before?

It's made from bits and pieces. Bitscr this and bitser that — tricks, games, puzzles and jokes, not to mention tongue twisters, brain teasers, lip looseners and mindbenders.

This hook is guaranteed to amuse and entertain children aged 10 and up. And it's informative, too!

I.isa Young's whimsical line drawings add just the right touch.

Birk the Berserker. Written by Robin Klein. filmtratd by Alison Lester.

Pub. by Omnibus Books $12.95.

From an award winning team comes the delightful tale of Birk, the biggest, strongest, tallest and most cowardly Viking in the village.

Birk hates fighting and gets seasick at the thought of going on a raid, but is eventually bullied by his mother into going on his first expedition with Harold the Thump, to salvage the family honour.

Left behind by his shipmates to conquer a village, Birk surrenders and is imprisoned.

14 The Record, March 2, 1989

THE BF ATRIX porn-A GIFT SHOP

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The Beatrix Potter Gift Shop published by F Warne & Co. Distributed through Penguin — $15.95.

Children will be fascinated with this superbly presented

gift shop scene, which includes press-out characters and four of the original Beatrix Potter books — The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tailor of Gloucester and The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin.

Fey Mouse written by Hazel Edwards and illustrated ky Kilmeny Published kv Nelson. Distributed through Penguin — bb $14.95.

When she was born, her family got a shock. They called her Fey because she was strange.

She grows and grows, and she purrs like a vacuum cleaner.

She prefers the cats' chorus to The Mouse Elastic Band.

'You don't look like the rest of us.' She's a cat-astrophe!' squeaked the relatives.

But in time Fey finds her own niche.

This is a wonderful book about being different.

Kilmeny Niland's witty illustrations are a perfect complement to this delightful story.

All we know. What do you do when your whole world is changing by Simon French. Published

by Puffin. $7. 99.

Arkie Gerhardt lives in Sydney She's twelve wars old and she's thinking a lot these days — about Mum and Michael and Jo, and Ian from down the road who's become part of the family About Kylic, who used to be her best friend, and her favourite teacher, Mr Clifton, who's going away.

She's taking lots of photographs, too, with the camera Michael gave her because that's a way of holding on to the things you know when so much is changing.

How to eat Fried Worms

by Thomas Rockwell. Pub

by Piper/Pan. $6.50.

I'll bet you fifty dollars you can't eat fifteen worms . . .

When Billy takes up the bet he's launched upon a nightmare feed, munching away bravely to win those fly dollars.

Creamed worms, fried worms, boiled worms, worms with peanut butter and worms with horseradish sauce. . he can eat them any way he likes, just as long as he eats them.

When it looks as if Billy's really going to manage to chew fifteen worms and win that bet . . . Alan and Joe have to try and stop him, or else he'll walk off with their tilt v dollars!

Music and literature Musical Kaleidoscope for Perth

by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

style, make the show Everyone is allowed such a success. to have an addicABC FM have come to tion if it's decent, Perth to "bring it to the clean, non-harmful and just so much more. people" and have been delightful Happy Hour to Brisbane's EXPO, with music that's just to anyone (includ- I find it "nerve assuaging". and Melbourne the week body soul, for great ing self) and it's not before Christmas and mind. f anatical!

You know, you come will be at the Sydney So that's where I home with a bodyful of For years I've listened and Show later this Royal enjoyed with absolute come in 'cos I've shattered nerves having year. dedication and pleasure last five years, got one too . . . steered the ship all day (and even gone into a Host for the through rough waters his describes Malcolm KaleidoABC FM's decline when Malcolm and aching for the — "lift being: as music Patterson's been on scope between 5 to peace and calm of pap being without leave), and then oh joy!

7pm Monday to sheltered reefs . . . that (rubbish).

Kaleidoscope came to in sort of thing.

Friday, produced is particularly a pro"It Perth last week!

Adelaide. gram which doesn't Well you'll find with this have hard edged music.

Based at Chase's BookHosted by Malcolm music you can forget Forrest Chase, "The best part of my job

Patterson with his about tranquillisers, delightful sense of meditation tapes or humour, smooth anyting else you use to flowing style and because unwind, above all — superb!

Kaleidoscope turns the neurotic into mellow, taste in music selecwarm and loveable tion, it just has to be people again! the best daily musical feast I know.

If you do indulge in the

The music covers light classical, blues, show music, favourite themes,

odd glass of vino as you prepare dinner, then it becomes the most

Our great land!

sellers, Malcolm set up turntables and provided heaps of enjoyment to Perth people between 2 to 4pm daily. He has a huge following of fans like myself and a lot of time is spent in answering fan mail plus six hours a day in selecting the marvellous material which along with his

is meeting people and in letters and 'phone calls," said Malcolm whose program attracts an audience of thousands throughout Australia, 45% who are under 40.

Which just goes to prove, there are still a lot of people with a yen for good music!

Malcolm Patterson.

Colleen McGuiness-Howard

WILD PORTRAITS

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Artist's eye

Wild Portraits. Paintings and drawings by Raymond Harris-Ching.

Text by Peter Hansard.

E AND T HE L PEOPLE LANDSCAP E Published by Angus & Robertson. bb. $65.

Raymond Harris-Ching has Australia Take a Bow: is made. he invited four of The Life, landscape and the best documentary still been called an "artist's People by Brian Morris. photographers in Australia to artist" and among bird Published by Angus & accompany him on his painters is a draughtsman Robertson. bb. $45. journeys: Carolyn Johns, without peer. A renegade genre, Australia Take a Bow is a Philip Quirk. Oliver Stewe artist in the wildlife creatures salute to Australia on the and Grenville Turner. Col- he paints wild pushed occasion of its Bicentenary lectively they are known as obsessively and has bird of boundaries the It is both a seven-pan Wildlight. ting from its familiar television documentary serpain compilavast a is book The itions to break entirely ies and the most magnificent tion of more than 200 trad ground. photographic record of new by photographs selected Australia ever published.

In Wild Portraits the book award-winning istinctive Harris -Ching Inspired by Brian Morris, designer Maree Cunnington. d seen over a range of one of Australia's leading Panoramic documentary touch is which for the portraits documentary film producwild coverage of the outback and cover his restless ers, this ambitious project time first is remote communities the Arctic has been sponsored by IBM balanced with large -format wanderings from Australia limited. to Australasia. As well as landscapes and portraits. final This book coincides with The human face of Australia works shown in their the release of the film series is presented against the vivid painted form, many sheets of sketches on Australian television. colours of a "sunburnt preparatory pencil included. nare To make the film series, see earlier country, a land of sweeping not Brian Morris and his film In the book Raymond plains, a ragged mountain curiosity covcrew explored every aspect ranges, of droughts and Harris-Ching's ignored by often of Australian life, travelling animals ers flooding rains". porcu(monkeys.

1 80,000 ainters p kilometres highesi the to Printed lizards) platypuses, ( 108.000 miles) by every pines, international standards, it volume offers a available means of transport presents to Australians, and and this of over 200 to record their impressions the world, the rich variety of cornucopia and mammals, birds of of this vast continent. plates life and landscape for which arc published which of To compile the photo 180 renowned. is country this time. first the for library from which the book here Australia — take a how!

Raymond Harris-Ching works from several studios in both Europe and the South Pacific and his paintings have been widely exhibited in Britain and Europe, USA, Australia and New Zealand. His acclaimed "Gilded Triptych", is here in print at last, every fascinating satisfyingly detail reproduced.

The glorious eccentricity of this work, its rash disregard of time and place, is such a splendid celebration of the beauty of birds and is entirely typical of this artist's valour and determination to ignore the more conventional wildlife art limitations.

The simplicity of his kangaroo paintings on the other hand, although so different in spirit, are quite as striking.

Seen too are his birds — American eagles, the curious toucans, familiar robins. wrens and waterfowl, exotic lyrebirds and kiwis — each portrait delighting anew with its depiction of the texture of feathers or the luminous patterning of water — each demonstrating a rare and idiosyncratic perception.

Classic book

The Sbiralee by D'Arcy Niland. Published by Penguin. $8.95.

Few books have captured the spirit of the Australian hush and the hardy life of the outback so vividly and as D'Arey powerfully Niland's The Shiralee.

This poignant novel has moved and entertained people all over the world — s a best selling book, a i successful film and now as a star studded television series.

Bryan Brown stars in what is perhaps his finest role as \licauley Noni Hazlehurst plays Macauley's life-long flame Lily and Rebecca Smart plays Buster who is The Shiralee.

Among the strong cast of established Australian actors are Lewis Fitz-Gerald who shot to fame in Breaker

Morant and Norman Kaye well-known for his leading roles in Loney Hearts and Man of Flowers.

You don't say?!.

Tall Tales from the Speewah. Australian stories that are bigger and better by Maureen Stewart. Illustrated by Jeff Hook. Published by Puffin. $9.99. " 'And yer know', Old Trucl went on, `by the time Crooked Mick was two years old he would demolish ten slices of toast and vegemite and three emu eggs for breakfast!'"

shearers themselves hay:: to) be seen to be believed!

Many tales have been told about the Speewah, and the odd characters who live ' TALL

there. Here are some of those tales.

But don't forget, the Specwah people never let the truth interfere with a good yarn.

TALES

FROM THE

Sit1- 1C;!11.

JET

5/0EL"--7/W/7 AlL;FRAIA

You may have heard of the Specwah. Nobody's quite sure where it is, but it's a huge outback sheep station, full of weird and wonderful, larger-than-life inhabitants like Crooked Mick.

The chooks are the size of emus, and the dogs the size of bulls. The stews for the shearers are so huge that they have to use a speed boat to skim off the fat. And the

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Ascension Pilgrimage visiting

ROME/LORETO MEDJUGORJE

by TOM BRANCH 1989 got off to a flying start for the WACLTA Tennis Club for their when over 40 association hospitality and conmembers attended the firmed that this event is annual association mass now a regular on the at John Paul in Willetton. WACLTA calendar.

Following Mass cele- Quiz Night brated by the association The next association chaplain, Father Richard social function is a quiz Doyle, members enjoyed night to be held at the an evening of tennis at Manning Hotel on Tuesthe Willetton Sports day, April 11. Compere Centre. for the evening will be Corpus Christi Presi- association member and dent, Paul Jones, did an Channel 10 Newsreader, excellent job in organis- Greg Pearce. Tickets can ing the tennis and ensur- be obtained from club ing all players had an secretaries. even number of games.

Fortunately rain held off Executive Meeting until the completion of The next executive tennis. meeting is scheduled for Members continued to Tuesday, March 7 at the socialise at the John Paul home of Peter and Kerry Centre following the Messer, 70 Coniston tennis. WACLTA presi- Way, Ferndale, comdent, Bryan Kukura, mencing at 7.45pm thanked Corpus Christi sharp.

Flags of all types Holland and venetian bl inds, canvas and aluminium awnings, flyscreens, tarpaul ins.

TUDOR HOUSE

286 ALBANY HWY, VIC PARK 361 1620 361 1539

CHRISTIAN ATTITUDES A seminar designed to investigate

the force of attitude in shaping our lives will review three basic attitudes dealing with self, others, and God, with special emphasis on the Christian outlook as found inthe life and teachings of Jesus and will be conducted by Sister Mary Berry of the Marantha Institute at "Hosea" House of Prayer, Dardanup, Friday to Sunday, March 10-12 (noon).

Booking fee $10, residential $60, non-residential $25, including fee.

Morning and afternoon tea provided — contact St Teresa. Phone (097) 28 1148.

FAITH & LIGHT Over the Easter weekend (March 23-27) at a national conference of Faith & Light some 200 people (handicapped and non-handicapped) will gather at the Ern Halliday Camp at Hillarys. The campers will travel the length and breadth of Australia to be here.

Assistance, helpers, food etc is needed. Those who can help or want more information should phone 09335 4573 (answering service).

Donations of $2 and over are tax deductible.

ST JOSEPH'S PUPILS The annual general meeting of past pupils of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart order will be held on Sunday, March 12 at St Josephs Convent, York St, South Perth commencing at 8pm.

Past pupils may attend this meeting and also to take the opportunity to learn about the Josephite Asseciateship.

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Vatican II study group will meet on Tuesday March 14, at 11am on Dogmatic Constitution On the Church," chapter 3.

The Scripture Group will meet on Thursday, March 16, at 8pm on St John's Gospel, chapter 21.

Both meetings to be presided over

by Father Dynon at 13 Dean St. For further information ring 446 7340.

EASTER BLESSING The annual Mass and blessing of the vintage will be held on Easter Sunday, March 26 at 11.30am. The Bethell Covenant Community will supply the singing ministries.

Anyone in the district is welcome to participate in the Sunday ceremony and use the BBQ and picnic facilities afterwards.

Inc! Papal Audience

Departs April 23

Contact Michael Deering

324 1234

Professional Tr-aye_ Services 38 OUTRAM ST, WEST PERTH, WA 6005 Tel. (09) 321 6211, 324 1234

BENEDICTINE OBLATES

The Benedictine Oblate Lay Apostolate will hold the first Chapter meeting for 1989 on Sunday, March 12 at 2pm at lona Convent. Anyone interested in this lay apostolate is welcome.

Archdiocesan Calendar

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March 5 Mass and procession Maria SS. Annunziata. Bishop Healy.

9 Bishops' Committee Justice Development & Peace Sydney meeting, Sydney. Archbishop Foley.

11 Installation of Father Shortis, Hilton Park. Bishop Healy.

Diocesan Pastoral Council Meeting.

Bishop Healy.

14 Bishops' Central Commission Meeting in Sydney. Archbishop Foley.

17 St Patrick's Day Mass, Subiaco.

Archbishop Foley.

Golden Jubilee, Sister Philomena Brennan, Carmelite Monastery.

Archbishop Foley.

18 Mass at Balcatta to conclude Mission. Archbishop Foley.

19 Palm Sunday Mass at St Mary's Cathedral. Archbishop Foley.

21 Mass of the Chrism, St Mary's Cathedral. Archbishop Foley.

23 Holy Thursday liturgy, St Mary's Cathedral. Archbishop Foley.

24 Good Friday liturgy, St Mary's Cathedral. Archbishop Foley.

25 Solemn Easter vigil, St Mary's Cathedral.

26 Solemn Mass of Easter, St Mary's Cathedral.

30 Murdoch University Graduation at Perth Concert Hall. Archbishop Foley.

-WOMEN'S BUSINESS-

Edwina Gately, England's Catholic Woman of the Year in 1979 and Outstanding Catholic Woman in Illinois in 1984, founder of the Volunteer Missionary Movement, and founder of Genesis House, Chicago for prostitutes, will speak on "Women's Business, The Power of Lay Women In The Church" on Monday, March 6, 2-5pm, in McAuley Centre Hall, Wembley.

Further information: Sandra Brown 325 1212.

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Arthur J. Purslowe & Co. and Associated Companies, art: fully aware of the requirements required for Catholic Funerals.

We have always carried out Funeral Masses and rosaries with dignity and decorum, whether it he a low cost Funeral or an expensive Funeral.

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ANNUAL PROCESSION

1989 EASTER

5th MARCH 1989

TO PENTECOST PROGRAM FOR SMALL GROUPS

"KEEP MY WORD" Foreword by Rev. John Thornhill SM

The President and members of the committee wish to advise that the Annual Festival of the Annunciation will be held on:

Sunday, 5th March, 1989 at St Kieran's Church, Cape St Osborne Park

A way of prayer and listening to the Word of God. Six sessions using the Sunday readings between Easter and Pentecost starting the Third Sunday of Easter.

Book (for individuals) $4.00 Recommended song tape: "Dreaming Free" — Kevin Bates SM $13.00 (postage extra)

To order, please contact:

PARISH DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES (A Marist Fathers — Laity collaboration)

PO Box 504, Eastwood, 2122

Telephone (02) 858 5228

The program of festivities is as follows:-

Triduum commences Thursday, 2nd March to Saturday, 4th March, 1989.

Mass each evening at St Kierans's Church at 7.30pm, celebrated by Rev Father C. Ross.

Sunday, 5th March, 1989 10.00am

130pm 630pm to 11.00pm

Solemn High Mass celebrated by Bishop Healy.

Procession followed on by Holy Benediction at the Church.

Open Air dance at Robinson Reserve, Royal St, Tuart Hill.

A ssociation Maria SS Annunziata Inc. President: V.M. Alessandrino 344 7799 or 349 9334