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By A Senior Staff Writer Getting a cure for the cancerous problem of street kids is going to be a difficult one.

Healy talks of cancerous 'street kids' problem

Towards a just, decent world • Pages 10 and 11

Church split fears

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That's the view of Perth auxiliary Bishop Healy in a brief interview with The Record.

Pausing for a while during this walk-and-talk interview, Bishop Healy said with concern registered over his face: "It is a difficult and demanding job andI feel that the Church can play a bigger role."

He said that there was a greater need, too, for social workers to address the problem.

However, he appreciated the difficulties these social workers faced.

He recognised the fact that it was basically an afterhours task and hoped that something would be worked out to tackle the "sad problem" and effectively curtail it before it spread further.

The street kids problem as he saw it was a two-fold problem — a family problem and that of the individual.

"Isuppose the whole problem is one of motivation.

Getting them to see what they can do with themselves and getting them going on it would be the answer," he said.

He added: "And this is one of the things that we have to cure."

This is where the social workers would have to come in.

What about the government? "I think that the government at the moment is doing a fair job as it is.

I think what they are doing needs to be well known out there, especially among people who are working among the young."

Bishop Healy said he admired people who did "this kind of work" but felt there was a need for more committed and dedicated people.

"The person has to be a very special kind of person to go out there and tackle this job."

"They will have to be prepared to work at nights. That's the big problem."

Clearing the streets of kids meant that these workers would have to start their work as late as 9pm to 10pm.

Pages 6 and 7 "And that means they won't finish till one or two in the morning," he said.

Bishop Healy said he was very concerned with the problem.

"It is dreadful to know that there are young people out there with no homes to go to and who are preyed to so many bomb planted in his car. different evil influences Protestant extremists — drugs and what not." "have neither the right The bishop was making nor the justification to his first visit to the kill anyone," Bishop Daly Skillscare centre in Sterling Street when he gave said.

The Catholic extremists this interview.

The Perth archdiocese of the Irish Republican playing a major role in Army have "neither the is sponsoring projects at right nor the authority the centre. nor the legitimacy to kill He said he was happy anybody. with what he saw at the "All their victims are centre. He observed that there were many op_porinnocent," he said. tunities available these days to train young people and that the Skil'scare centre was so well co-ordinated.

"I only hope that it is made known to the big, wide world outside of the things that are being done and can be done," he said.

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'End Ulster violence'

DUBLIN, (NC): Irish Catholic archbishops have appealed for an end to violence in Northern Ireland and set St Patrick's Day, March 17, as a day of prayer for peace in the British province.

Archbishop Joseph Cassidy of Tuam and Archbishop Dermot Clifford of Cashel said that 20 years of violence have further divided the people in Northern Ireland.

Violence has failed completely to achieve Irish primate Cardinal what it purported to Tomas 0 Fiaich, archbi- achieve — a united shop of Armaghi; Arch- Ireland. they said in a bishop Desmond Con- statement. nell of Dublin; "Instead, it had led to

They said that 20 years distrust, suspicion and sectarian bloodshed of heartbreak," the stateresulted in the had we "Today, added. ment people call on those involved in deaths of 2700 as times 10 nearly and to any way in violence injured. been had many again. think Another 50,000 people "We said it before. and been driven from had today: it we repeat in one of the homes their violence cannot be the moveforced reatest g way," the churchmen populations of ments said. "There is only one since World War II, they way, that is the way of said. trust, of forgiveness and The day before the of reconciliation."

archbishops released their statement, Bishop Cahal Daly of Down and Connor criticised the illegal extremist paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland for killing innocent people.

"There are no legitimate targets," Bishop Daly said at the funeral of a retired Northern Ireland policeman, Gabriel Mullaly, 54, who was killed by a

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Fr Vog Enga

Father Francis Vog Enga's journey to the priesthood in Ghana 13 years ago gives a hint at the extraordinary development taking place in the Catholic Church in some parts of Africa today.

He has a nephew priest who also spent some time on the mines. Two nieces and two cousins are women religious.

Yet the first Catholic who brought the faith to the area is still alive as Catholics now approach His father was amongst 125,000 out of a total the first Catholics in population of 500,000 in what is now the Wa the area.

All this since 1929. And diocese in northwest Ghana, but the father did the Catholic faith was not not live long enough to brought from the estabsee • his motor mechanic lished mission fields in son decide after five the south around Accra years on the mines to or Kumasi but from the tackle the priesthood neighbouring Koudoubecause, he said: "I gou area in what is now wanted to give myself Upper Volta. a way."

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Australians donating money to Project Compassion will understand the value of their work when they hear it is assisting a tree planting project in north western Ghana.

"We are fighting the desert," says development director, Father Francis Vog Enga, as he tells the familiar story of people cutting down trees for firewood and not replanting them so that areas turn into dustbowls.

But planting any old tree is not attractive enough to farmers in this arid climate so the

where in Africa the colonial boundaries cut tribes in half so the Catholics of Wa have supplied priests and a native archbishop to their tribal relatives across the border and two other bishops to other dioceses.

Father Vog Enga trained as a social worker before finding himself director of development in \Va diocese but he is far from claiming that human development is a recent novelty in the Church.

The first work of he missionaries in 1929 was to introduce programs of cleanliness and hygiene

Catholic agency is they also get sick and promoting fruit trees, pick up bad habits," says citrus, mango and any- the priest. thing that will produce Instead, the Catholic food. team have identified The Catholic agency marshy areas that can be now has a seedling fenced and turned into nursery and bush production. farmers are scrambling The people are encourto get young trees to put aged to form themselves vegetation back into the into compatible groups area. so that they can work the Teaching the people dry plots together, but also be season gardening is in competition with important in a country other groups. like Ghana where the The aid programs unemployed are enticed supply fencing wire and by money to go south posts and the project is into the wetter and more under way. fertile farmlands.

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Case of being Australian "The Church has responded well to the news of the earthquake in Armenia," said Mr Michael Whiteley, National Director of Australian Catholic Relief (ACR).

"At the end of January, had been received for the Armenian appeal."

Mr Whiteley continued: "The response to the earthquake, and the floods in Bangladesh, demonstrates how wil-

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ling we all are to help those in distress. And that of course, reminds me of the focus of this year's Project Compassion — Who is my neighbour? — which concentrates on the story of the Good Samaritan.

"The editorial in the Project Compassion edition of ACR News reminds us that: THERE has never been a time in the history of the world when Good Samaritans were more in demand.

NEVER have there been so many people who have 'fallen among thieves'.

NEVER has there been a more urgent need to realise who our neighbours are and not pass b) on the other side of th( road.

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Grants to Ghana Australian Catholic Relief (ACR) has allocated $110,000 to Ghana for 1989. This money has been granted to the relief and development agency of the Ghanaian Catholic Bishops' Conference, the Department of Socio-Economic Development.

Twice a year the Diocesan Development officers from the nine dioceses come together — to allocate Block Grant funds and report back on projects alredy being funded.

In each project, the local contribution is high, usually in the form of labour or local materials.

Within Ghana, the money is allocated on a 'needs basis', so there is much discussion on the sitution within the country.

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so that people could improve their lives. But the Church could not achieve the impossible and that is why development is still on the Church's agenda today.

Father Vog Enga remembers that he learnt how to plough while at a Catholic school where students regularly competed to have the best vegetable gardens so that they would be interested in their own produce.

Now every parish is trying to set up a medical centre to help the people.

Bodies come before souls in Father Vog Enga's vision. "Without

this human development we would not have survived to have the people to go to Church," he said.

"We are not saving souls; we are saving human beings. You never see a soul walking about by itself."

This view, he says, is an outright rejection of the quaint European view that missionaries went out "to save poor souls in Africa".

"The diocese of Wa can boast that it is taking the lead in so many things in both development and Christianity because of this outlook.

"If you want only to 'save souls' you will not go far enough. We have to approach people as Christ did so that they will ask 'why are these people doing this kind of work?'."

Father Vog Enga says that as he goes around the projects people want to know who he is and why he is doing his work.

They get to know he is a priest.

"Many of the Muslims will never become Catholics but their living standards have been changed by our work. A Muslim said recently he was doing well in a

Catholic hospital not because of the medical treatment but because of the attention he received, because someone each day said good morning to him, and he asked why they should care to greet him.

That is the kind of message we are delivering. Evangelisation is not just about making converts but encouraging people to live the spirit of Christ.

"Maybe the nonChristians do it better than the baptised. Conversion is not to be measured in numbers but in the style of life,

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agency to give him a machine to weave his own fencing mesh. Only the barbed wire now has to be bought.

Women are also the target of the development programs because "the future of our society is in the hands of good mothers. There is a laxity amongst men in taking care of the children."

"We have had to find income projects for women so that they can support each other, teaching one another how to take their children to hospital, about basic hygiene and about proper clothing, teaching

one another handicrafts area was cut off from the Catholic Church a citso that a woman can feel Catholic activity in the ation for its activities in south, because the nor- the area. herself to be useful." theners had been evan"What we achieved is As a result the women gelised from the neighwill soon have looms to because of the style we weave their own cloth bouring Upper Volta use. Government efforts out of the cotton they some 60 years ago. start at the centre. We have grown themselves.

"We are in the fore front start in the hinterland are Such development is of human development with the people who neglected. b mainly ecause we are seeing northwest this to vital corner of Ghana that was the needs of humanity," "The loud mouth peoopposed, and neglected said Father Vog Enga. ple ask why we are not by every government up "The government can- working with them and until the present. not do everything and they come to my house statistics show that we with gifts.

It was low on the education priorities and have done so much more "I tell them I will eat than the government. was seen only as a source their food but they will of cheap labour for the "Recently the govern- get no favours from me. mines and forests, the ment showed its appreci- I am known as the man police and armed forces. ation of what it could not who will never take a Even the Church in the do by awarding the bribe."

good neighbours recommit ourselves to the establishment of a just world for all people.

"To do this more effectively, we must listen to the people of the Third World — because they are the ones who can show us how they are affected by the structures of their own society and international the community.

"In the light of the parable of the Good Samaritan, this should mean that we try to find

ways to make the journey between Jericho and Jerusalem more safe — get rid of situations in which people feel ambushed or have to travel alone.

"Even, in the words of Father Brian Gore in Perth at the launching of Project Compassion, 'Get rid of the robbers'.

"By doing this, ACR and the Australian Church, would be fulfilling the first objective of the Mandate given to us by

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(a) the reality and causes of poverty, hunger, oppression and injustice at home and abroad; (b) the interdependence and poverty of affluence."

Mr Whiteley concluded: "On behalf of

those in need in Armenia, I wish to thank all have who those responded to that need.I would also commend the work of, and materials produced by, ACR to the Church for prayerful support and study.

"It is only as we in Australia work together, as Agency and Church, with the people of the Third World, that we will truly begin to understand what it means to be 'neighbour'."

promoting a brotherhood and feeling for one another."

The message of development is having repercussions on the parishes also.

When they have finished a harvest, the remote farmers will call Father Vog Enga out to say Mass for them.

Sometimes he will say two or three masses a day.

Now the other priests are getting the message and are cancelling parish church masses in order to go out and celebrate with the bush people.

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OVER the past decade in Australia, Muslim immigrant communities have found themselves at the centre of legalbattles with local. State and Federal government bodies over their rights to choose their own clerics, to bury their dead according to Islamic rites and to establish mosques and Islamic schools in the suburbs.

Dr Michael Humphrey, a lecturer in sociology in Currently, each of the archdiocese's 10 SAO PAULO, (BRAZIL): A Vatican-arranged the School of Arts and General Studies at split of the Archdiocese of Sao Paulo, Brazil, auxiliary bishops are in charge of a pastoral Macarthur Institute of Higher Education, has could jeopardise existing pastoral programs in program for the whole metropolitan area. For made a specialstudy of some of the disputes that the country's largest metropolitan area, said instance, one bishop works with abandoned have arisen. children while one works with problems Brazilian Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns.

Islam, he says, is newsworthy and racism towards related to housing.

The Vatican has proposed carving the Muslim and Arab immigrants is widespread.

"We have a bishop who is always in contact cardinal's archdiocese of 9.6 million Catholics with these people so that they can have their Moreover, negative national stereotypes of into five separate dioceses — four suburban real spirit of community," Cardinal Arns said.

Muslims "abusing" the state welfare system and regions and the city centre. claiming unemployment benefits are reinforced "We wanted to go on with this pastoral by negative international ones which associate proposed areas are work done in teams," said the cardinal, the some of But Muslims with terrorism and fanaticism. extremely poor, said the cardinal, and the adding that the archdiocese was organised Dr Humphrey says the mosque building has resources of the rich are needed to help the according to a 1973 proposal by Pope Paul VI. become the primary focus for public expression The Vatican's proposal "could cut all this, poor. of racism and prejudice towards Muslims in because it's and then every diocese cannot do it," he said. be divided it must think "We Australia.

"Inter-diocesan programs depend on every too big," Cardinal Arns said. However, As Symbols of a collective Muslim presence, Brazilians have proposed a plan for 10 bishop, and now it depends only on the mosques have often been perceived as a threat "divided but not separated" dioceses to share archbishop," he added. "It's the team of the to the lifestyle and character of Australian Cardinal Arns archbishop." human, financial and physical resources. suburbs.

In Bankstown, in south-west Sydney, an application to build a mosque became a significant issue in local council elections.

In fact one candidate ran for office on a platform offered congratula"The letter was not ing ousted Parain the gains of the PAOLO, SAO demanding the exclusion of mosques from the tions on the 30th sent to be published," guayan dictator revolution the signs of (BRAZIL): A controarea and declaring the municipality a "mosque anniversary of the said Cardinal Arns, Alfredo Stroessner the kingdom of God versial letter from free zone."

Cuban revolution and archbishop of Sao and former U.S. Presreflected in our hearts Brazilian Cardinal Muslim immigration to Australia dates back to the said "Cuba can feel Paulo, Brazil. ident Jimmy Carter. and in the structures Paulo Evaristo Arns arrival of Afghan camel drivers in the middle of proud of being an which transform polPresident It "was published to Cuban He said his job as an last century, but it has not been until the recent example of social itical co-existence into only after permission Fidel Castro was archbishop is to "open arrival of large numbers of Turkish and Lebanese justice in our an act of love." of the Havana cleared with a Cuban doors" for peace and migrants that distinct Muslim communities have continent." archbishop." archbishop before "note possibilities also Cardinal Arns said emerged. publication in Cuba, for It also said that religious he has written to The letter, dated Between 1976 and 1981 the muslim population the cardinal said.

"Christian faith sees freedom." other leaders, includChristmas 1988, grew from 45,000 to nearly 80,000. Current estimates of Muslim Australians range between 110,000 and 250,000.

Many non-Muslim Australians cannot understand how mosques evolve. Frequently they start as a • • meeting place in a residence which is converted or a site is purchased for development as a BANGKOK, mosque.

(HC): Refugee Camp, also in within walking distance Loei Province, of each other."

More than 500,000 Muslims can and do pray where ritual cleanliness MOSCOW: A petition illegal, recently were Bishop Phimphisan A third clinic under can be achieved and a mosque is not an Thais are said to be mentally handicapped, diocesan sponsorship is said 170 such cases were signed by 8000 Ukrain- turned over to the Rusabsolutely essentialpart of religious life. half of them children, being planned by the found in a routine survey ian Catholics in the sian Orthodox Church Yet what decent Christian would deny the rights and the Diocese of Daughters of Charity in of 10 villages near Udon Soviet Union asks Pope for opening as Orthodox of Muslim Australians to their own places of Udon Thani said it is Bon Dung district of Thani.

John Paul II and Ukrain- places of worship. worship? Surely the hallmark of multicultural e xpanding its proCardinal Myroslav ian Thani.

Udon government the He said Australia is shelter under the tree of tolerance.

Ukrainian Catholics grams to help care for Lubachivsky to con"We are master able to get drafting a a was "have Tolerance is something we can all do more about. these children. been denied legal little donation here and plan for 1989-96 to tinue pressuring for registration" of these The current controversy over Salman Rushdie '5 legalisation of the For five years, Bishop there but you can see that improve facilities for the the churches as Catholic. book, The Satanic Verses, which uses the life of George Phimphisan of the need is so great," mentally handicapped, Ukrainian Catholic said Cardinal the Prophet for imaginary (yet offensive to many Udon Thani has sup- Bishop Phimphisan said, but he added that imple- Church.

Lubachivsky. pious Muslims) purposes should not throw ported local programs explaining the concern mentation of the plan A delegation of Ukrainobstacles in the path of religious tolerance.

"Now more of our sponsored by the Foun- that makes him consider will take much time. ian Catholics presented Intolerant and threatening Islamic attitudes abroad dation for Mentally Hanchurches are being given other this work a priority. petition and the "The church in Thaishouldnot be reproduced in Australia, nor is the dicapped People under to the Russian Orthodox An English-language land is dedicated to help information to the U.S. answer intolerant anti-Christian responses, the patronage of Queen when our people do not Moscow in Embassy Thai daily, The Nation, the poor and the most despite evidence of anti-Christian activities in Sirikit of Thailand. want to belong to that reported that "the Public abandoned," the bishop February 7 for forward- church," he said. some Muslim countries. and Under this project, part Health Ministry does not said. "We try to put this ing to the pope There are some parallels between the current of the "In this time of supcathedral parish even know how many into practice in the Cardinal Lubachivsky. controversy and the uproar over the films, Hail hall is partitioned for the mentally handicapped Diocese of Udon Thani," In Rome. Cardinal posed 'glasnost' I am Mary and The Last Temptation of Christ. use of physically and people there are in he said, citing work Lubachivsky said he deeply sorry to receive In fact, some Muslims joined in those protests in mentally handicapped Thailand."

Ukrainian this news and to know among lepers, refugees, supports defence of Jesus, whom they revere as a prophet children who are picked the Russian Catholic complaints that that and The figure, according to and the physically and frequently call for "blessings on his name." up daily by a bus and church buildings belong- Orthodox hierarchy is unconfirmed estimates, mentally handicapped.

Death threats, however, have created a more brought to the centre. could be 500,000 or more "We try to help, in spite ing to Ukrainian Cathol- not defending the rights ominous flavour to the argument over Rushdie's Called the St Gerard in the country's 55 of the fact that we hardly ics before 1946, when the of their brothers in book.

Centre, it is staffed by million people, the news- have any resources or church was declared Christ," the cardinal said.

It would be a tragedy if it led to discrimination two Maryknoll lay mis- paper said. personnel," the bishop against Muslims as a backlash. sionaries: Julie Mueller, Almost half of these are said. "We can only rely Equally unfortunate would be the forcing of an occupational thera- children, The Nation on God and the generospeople, whether Christian or Muslim, into pist, and Mike Hayes, a said, and "the situation is ity of those who share VATICAN CITY (NC): — participation in public hardline, fundamentalist postures which do not physical therapist. particularly serious in our view and our belief." Pope John Paul ll has life" and criticised those reflect the will of our loving Creator, whether About 300 handi- the provinces, where in Catholics are a tiny urged the Mexican who "pretend to reduce one addresses him as God or Allah. capped receive treatment some areas dozens of minority — 216,000 — in bishops to oppose govern- its mission exclusively to One of the Creator's gifts to his peoples on earth at another diocese-run mentally handicapped mostly Buddhist ment birth control pro- the private lives of the is wisdom and that should be preserved as the clinic in Ban Vinair children can be found Thailand. grams using contracep- faithful." great treasure it is; another is charity which tives, sterilisation and Mexico's Constitution sweetens every aspect of our life. abortion. prohibits clergy from Neither of these gifts shouldbe trampled underfoot voting or criticising the The bishops also were by religious fervor, fundamentalism, cultural government. encouraged to oppose discrimination, intolerance or wilful misinterAlthough government VATICAN CITY (NC): benefits as other authorities have a duty to international aid propretation of the viewpoints of others. officials often tolerate workers employees, Pope John set up agencies to help grams that include birth violations, the situation MulticulturalAustralia demands one thing of us all, Immigrant control methods judged Paul II told a group of immigrants settle, to and that is, certainly, maturity married to should be protected from has been used by officials Italian officials. promote their employ- immoral by the church. tolerance. to silence specific church economic exploitation

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Rome a city of two faces

AND NOT WITHOUT PROBLEMS VATICAN CITY (NC): Like many city mayors, Rome's Pietro Giubilo must deal with the problems of drugs, pollution, homelessness and unemployment in the city he heaas.

But unlike his worldwide counterparts. Giubilo also has a pope his looking over shoulder.

In an early February audience with Mayor Giubilo and the City Council, the bishop of Rome made his annual courtesy call the occasion for a blunt description of the problems facing the city he described as the "centre of Christianity".

"Rome seems a city of two faces," Pope John Paul II told the city "Beside officials. immense treasures of religious, cultural and human goods", one finds "corners of the Third World".

"Beside groups who dispose of every type of material goods exist others who have just the necessities," he said.

"There are a few who possess much and many who possess little."

The pope listed for the discomfitted politicians some of the major problems facing the city: lack of housing, neighbourhoods without essential services and the needs of the elderly, handicapped, unemployed, illegal workers, transients, AIDS sufferers, the mentally ill, drug addicts and juvenile delinquents.

Despite the stinging comparison of "bella Roma" to the Third World, the pope's description did not surprise many city residents.

From the Travertine marble of city monuments blackened by diesel fumes to the bloody, used syringes addicts leave scattered in

Last rites for Marcos MANILA: Filipino Cardi- with Marcos' wife, nal Ricardo Vidal visited Imelda, who repeated former Philippine presi- her husband's desire to dent Ferdinand Marcos in return to the Philippines. a Honolulu hospital, The Philippine governwhere he celebrated Mass ment, citing security for the deposed dictator reasons, has several and gave him the last times denied the request. rites.

Cardinal Jaime Sin of Cardinal Vidal, archbi- Manila said last month shop of Cabu, said that he supported the through a spokesman government's ban on that the decision to visit Marcos' return. He Marcos was "purely warned against "new personal and priestly". forces of darkness" that The two men discussed threaten democracy in God, according to the the country and want to spokesman. a back "bring Cardinal Vidal also met dictatorship".

city parks, signs of Rome's ill health are readily seen.

The speech underscored the pope's concern not only for the spiritual state of his diocese of more than three million souls, but its social conditions as well.

Throughout his pontificate, the Polish pontiff has made it clear he considers it his job to comment on civic affairs, even if this means giving the mayor an earful.

In past years Pope John Paul has criticised the city's housing shortage, the "deafening traffic noise" and the "terrorism and violence" which plagued Rome earlier in the decade.

His observations have spared neither the Communist Mayor Ugo Vetere nor the Christian Democrats Nicola Signorello and Giubilo.

Satanic verses: Plea to pope ROME (NC): Iran's Embassy to the Vatican has appealed to Pope John Paul ll to help stop publication of The Satanic Verses, a book condemned as blasphemous by many Moslem leaders.

Calling the work "an insult to all the prophets", the embassy said the pope should demonstrate that he is a defender of religion by acting "energetically" to prevent the book from being released in Italy.

_Getting down to root of problems In the Rome of centuries past, pontiffs themselves ruled the city and were responsible for its problems.

One can still find 18th century plaques warning Romans not to throw trash in the streets by order of the "illustrious and most reverend monsignor president of the streets".

Since 1870 the city has been the burden of secular authorities, but Pope John Paul has made it a point to know about the problems outside the Vatican's high wells and manicured gardens.

One way he has done this is by visiting individually about half of the diocese's 300 parishes.

These Sunday afternoon visits become occasions for seeing, touching and listening to the people firsthand.

Unlike the more tightly scripted international visits, the pope is oten spontaneous and informal at home.

Whether it be a wealthy but sparsely attended church in Rome's ancient centre, or a parish hall in the teeming "borghate" or slums, the pope has a chance to hear from the neighbourhoods.

He also has his own priests to fill him in on the grimmer aspects of urban life. During a recent papal encounter with diocesan clergy, Father Romano Breviario described for the pope an "ungovernable city".

"The monuments are sick, the atmosphere polluted" and the "streets are unsafe", he said, not to mention "endless garbage, drugs, purse snatchings, thefts, robberies and shootings".

Father Giuseppe Gina spoke of the elderly and the isolated in his centre city parish, many of whom are fighting evictions by landlords eager to take advantage of escalating rents.

Hospital chaplain Father Virginio Bolchini mentioned the "inefficiencies of the hospital structures and the serious violations of the rights of the sick".

What the pope can do about such problems is limited. The Vatican has opened a shelter for those homeless and transients in the shadow of St Peter's, and organisations ranging from the diocese's Caritas program to the San Egidio lay Catholic movement offer food, clothing and a place to sleep for many of the city's refugees and illegal immigrants.

"The Church is happy to be able to offer its own contribution" to the needs of Rome, the pope told Giubilo, including its educational and charitable institutions, soup kitchens, hostels, volunteer groups and other forms of assistance.

He made it clear, however, that it is up to city hall to end the bureaucratic delays and develop the political unity necessary to tackle the city's mounting problems.

For Rome's quarrelsome politicos, who left the city without a mayor for months last year because of inter-party feuds, this may be the toughest penance of all.

But should they fail, Mayor Giubilo and his council are likely to be hearing about it from their papal critic again next year.

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Be sensitive to the HONG KONG: Cardinal mainland China, says: "I Jaime Sin of Manila has am convinced that the urged the Vatican to great majority of (Chiobserve certain sensi- nese Catholics), not only tivities in its dealings in the underground with the Church in Church but also in the China. 'official' so-called

Cardinal Sin's advice is contained in a letter addressed to Cardinal Josef Tomko, prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for Evangelisation of Peoples.

The Philippine prelate, who has twice visited

and by the Vatican's Secretary of State.

The confidential eightpoint document, circulated among various episcopal conferences, directs that contacts with Church, live in their t he official Chinese hearts and want to live Church be marked by ever more openly in doctrinal and fraternal communion with the charity. But it also Holy Father." declares that the Vatican His letter is a response, rejects the governmentto an earlier advisory sanctioned Chinese prepared by Cardinal Catholic Patriotic AssociTomko's congregation ation (CCPA), regards

CCPA members who Wounding the sensibil- Holy See. flout ties to the pope as ity of Catholics who have The cardinal says that non-Catholics, and con- suffered much for their he maintains close obsersiders mainland China's fidelity to the Holy vation on the Chinese self-appointed bishops as Father, says Cardinal Church situation and illicit.

Sin, is one of two dangers that his work is supIn his response, Cardi- which challenge the ported by Chinese priests nal Sin says that the Universal Church in its in Manila who, through with the frequent home visits to theological and canoni- dealings cal problems are only Church in China.

China or regular correspart of the Chinese Another danger to be pondence, have contacts Church situation, whose avoided, he says, is with both "official" complexity is deeply further alienating those Church and underrooted in the cultures in the "official" Church ground priests and and regional differences who are actually seeking bishops. of Chinese people. communion with the CCPA officials favour-

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ing "a formal separation from the Holy Father", he adds, "are extremely few and are not supported by the large Catholic population".

Instead, he contends, enough evidence shows the underground clergy and laity, especially in China's north, "are doing much harm to the Catholics of the region" due to lack of information, training or of personal prejudices.

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They are all set to start documents are available to the students.

Bishop Tu Shihua, This is the fourth instalment in a seven-part series on the Church in China. NC foreigh editor director of the Chinese Bill Pritchard made a 17-day tour of China in late Catholic Institute of November and early December under the auspices Philosophy and Theolof the International Federation of Catholic News ogy, the national seminary, said his seminarAgencies. ians are being taught "the dogmatics of the Church The Chinese Church — and (that now includes) which dropped its links with the Vatican 30 years reforms". The Chinese seminary, which he the Vatican Council".

Vatican II was "a world ago under government bishops say they are directs, Bishop Jin said: pressure has only united in faith to world- "We are teaching the Council and we regard it recently resumed public wide Catholicism, and doctrine of the (16th as very important", Tridentine Bishop Tu said. "Its contact with foreign thus open to the Council century) teachings. importance lies in the council."

Catholics.

But seminary training The Trent gathering unity of the Church."

Masses are celebrated Bishops Tu, Zhong and in Latin with the priest's in China is dated, by defined Catholic teachback to the congregation. modern Catholic stand- ing in the face of the Jin and other leaders of Protestant Reformation, the Chinese Church There is no ecumenical ards. the bishops said.

"We are isolated for but skirted the issue of spoke about the Council dialogue with Protestants or other Chinese about 25 years from the papal primacy because and the Chinese Catholic universal church," said that was the subject of Church with a group of faiths.

Bishop Joseph Zhong Chinese-elected Bishop sharp debate within the foreign Catholic journalists during a three week Huaide of Tsinan and Aloysius Jin Luxian of Church.

Vatican II is being seven-city look at CatholChowtsun, acting chair- Shanghai.

"Several priests don't introduced in the icism in China. man of the Chinese Most of the interviews bishops' conference, said even know of the exist- regional seminary, the the conference has estab- ence of the Second bishops said, and two were conducted through Chinese-language copies interpreters accompanylished a commission to Vatican Council." look into "liturgical In the Sheshan regional of the full Vatican II ing the group. The trip

SHANGHAI (NC): The bishops of China's government -approved Catholic Church said they are ready, 23 years after the fact, to begin reforms instituted by the Second Vatican Council.

Bishop Tu Shihua, rector of the national seminary of the government-approved Church. He says Vatican Council teachings are now part of the Peking seminary's curriculum.

was sponsored by the International Federation of Catholic News Agencies. It was organised in conjunction with Chinese church officials.

Vatican II, which was c.alled by Pope John XXM in 1961, ran until December 8, 1965. It sent a ripple of change through most of the Roman Catholic world.

Its effects included Mass in the vernacular with increased participation by the congregation, a greater lay role in Church activities, and a new level of dialogue with other religions.

It also called for religious freedom, saying governments should respect the religious life of citizens and neither require nor prohibit religious acts.

The Chinese Constitution allows freedom of belief, but the government limits religious

... and their version of religious PEKING (NC): China's Constitution guarantees freedom of belief, but the practice of religion is still controlled and monitored by the world's largest Marxist nation.

For example: Government agencies may regulate religious practices; public proselytising is forbidden; Church publications are subject to government control; formal relations between Chinese Catholics and the Vatican are barred; and parochial schools are non-existent since education of children is the exclusive domain of the State.

In Guangdong province in southern China, the provincial government issued a controversial new regulation in March 1988 requiring clergy to apply for permission to conduct services and other religious activities.

Chinese priests and bishops who retain their loyalty and links to the Vatican are open to arrest and prosecution.

Vatic,an loyalist Bishop Ignatius Kun Pin-Mei of Shanghai, jailed for 30 counteryears as revolutionary for opposing government control of the church, has not been allowed to regain his See. However, there have been no recent, wholesale roundups of "underground" clergy, although many are said to be known to authorities.

Travel by Chinese Catholic clergy was effectively banned until this decade.

It was not until 1981 that the approved Catholic Church was allowed to send a delegation abroad. Two bishops, a priest and a layman travelled to Can-

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ada for a Christian conference.

Catholicism and other officially recognised religions are organised under the auspices of the government's Bureau of Religious Affairs, which has the authority to issue regulations regarding religious activity, and the United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party.

Within a new code of laws being drafted in China is a section on religion which guarantees belief and "legitimate" religious rights, but also warns that "no one can make use of religion to oppose the socialist idea of the country", said a knowledgeable Chinese official.

Additionally, followers of religions are discouraged from becoming members of the officially atheist Communist Party — still the centre of

four million Protestants, power in China.

"A Communist Party 15 million Moslems and member must be a 10 million Buddhists.

Marxist follower," said Another several million Chao Jinru, deputy direc- are believed to be Taoists, tor of the Bureau of but even Taoist officials Religious Affairs, in an could provide no statistics because Taoists can interview in Peking. practice Buddhism. also Ms Chao and other Government officials government and religious officials spoke and spokesmen for the Catholic about church-state rela- Chinese tions with a group of Church say regulations Catholic journalists look- and laws governing reliing at the Catholic gious bodies protect Church in China during believers from abuses by a seven-city tour of the the state or other country sponsored by the organisations.

International Federation They point to such of News legislation, as well as the Catholic Agencies. return of properties By official estimates, seized during the Cultuthere are at least 32 ral Revolution, as exammillion religious believ- ples of an evolving policy ers in China. However, of religious freedom.

Non -Chinese Ms Chao said no census with has been taken of the experience in the counmembers of Chinese try also remarked that faiths. there seems to be a There are an estimated growing air of official three million Catholics tolerance for religion in in the approved church, China in the 1980s,

coinciding with increasingly cordial relations with Western nations.

One example of a relaxing atmosphere is contacts increased between church officials and foreign visitors, such as the international journalists' group.

Communist officials expressed respect for officially recognised religious organisations.

They said the Marxist notion of religion as the "opiate of the people" is outdated.

Another part of the picture relevant to church-state relations, said several persons familiar with China, is China's ancient emphasis on harmony in which all elements of society are expected to act in concert.

"The pursuit of harmony between man and nature" and within the community has tradi-

tionally been the goal of Chinese life, said Zhao Fusan, an Anglican priest and vice president of the Chinese Protestant Three-Self Patriotic Movement Committee.

Since the mid-1950s. all religions in China have been required to affiliate with national organisations representing Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and Taoism, China's 700year-old native religion.

The Catholic Church is linked to the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, which was formed in 1957 to promote loyalty to the state among Catholics. Catholic officials also said the association helps present the concerns of the church to the government and otherwise aids the church materially.

Beginning in the mid1950s, however, many clergy, such as Bishop Kung of Shanghai, and

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The Church's cooperation with the government "is not a heretical doctrinal option against the principles of Catholic faith", he said and instead calls it a "pastoral decision of the local leaders" according to situations.

"In the present evolving situation of China's socialist system, to cooperate with the government and to accept in general its religious

policy does not imply rejection of the Primacy of Peter," the cardinal asserts.

Cardinal Sin refers to recent contacts by his China team and says that in 1988, the most urgent need of the Church in China perceived by both "official" and underground Church leaders has been to have some kind of formal conversations between the Vatican and Beijing started

"As far as they are deprived of an official channel of communication with the Holy See, the present conflicts, divisions and doctrinal errors will persist, the work for unity and reconciliation among the Catholics will not prosper and the many seminarians under training will grow with a rather foggy vision of the Church," he comments.

Cardinal Sin credits the

Cardinal Sin urges Vatican

work done by the "official" Church in the past few years, calling its efforts in recuperating Church's properties, building churches, opening seminaries and novitiates for sisters "monumental".

However, he also cautions that "we must not ignore the fact that a number of non-official, s emi -underground Catholic communities now flourishing in many

regions are able to operate more freely because of the silent approval and benevolent regard of the so-called 'official' Catholic authorities".

Advising that personal contacts inside and outside China are essential to solve the incumbent Chinese Catholic problems, he also encourages Taiwan's bishops to take steps to visit their mainland counterparts.

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reforms now activity.

Catholics who make up For example, public most of the Churchevangelising, parochial going laity in China. schools, foreign mission- There are by rough aries and the import of estimate three million religious materials are Catholics in the barred, as are links approved Church. between Rome and ChiAnother two million to nese bishops. million "underthree years In 1958, three Chinese Catholground" before the Council to remain said are ics began, Franciscan Father Dong faithful to the Vatican.

Bernardine Guangqing of Hankow But even while seeking to became the first Chinese maintain links and prelate elected without loyalty to Rome, they Vatican approval and were largely cut off from automatically Council reforms. was excommunicated.

For example, the Since then more than Vatican -appointed 90 bishops of the bishop of Shanghai, government -approved Ignatius Kung Pin-mei, Church have been sim- just this year began ilarly elected. learning how to celebrate There were no Catholic Mass in the new, vernacdelegates from the Peo- ular form. Bishop Kung ple's Republic of China at was imprisoned 30 years the resisting for Vatican II. Some bishops said Vat- government -approved ican II reforms should be Church and has been approached cautiously to unable to regain his See. The 87-year-old prelate avoid alienating elderly

has been receiving med- the priest only. Afterical treatment in the ward, Bishop Dong said: "We now say Mass in United States.

We have plans to Latin.

A Mass at St Joseph's, a Chinese." it in say Church in 114-year-old The Wuchang regional Hankow, showed that liturgical reforms have seminary, which he yet to touch the Chinese directs, serves five of China's 21 provinces — Church.

Hunan, GuangHubei, An aged priest bent over dong, Guangxi and several set ornate altar an yards from the front row Henan.

It opened on October of pews behind a Com18, 1983, and has a munion rail. body of 104.

His back was to the student congregation and his voice was all but inaudible as he celebrated the Mass.

The congregation, mostly old and mostly female, chanted in full voice in Chinese and Latin throughout the service.

As Mass progressed, the smell of incense and the sound of handbells filled the air.

Communion was distributed on the tongue by

freedom lay people who opposed the patriotic associations were prosecuted as "counterrevolutionary" and sentenced to long prison terms.

Several Chinese officials spoke openly and disapprovingly of the persecution of religion during the Cultural Revolution — the 10 years of political chaos and terror launched by Chinese leader Mao Tsetung in a struggle with his rivals in the Communist Party.

The Cultural Revolution is a reference point for many Chinese, religious and otherwise.

Chinese refer to it as a "nightmare", and several during the visit to China said it has made young Chinese cynical about political ideology.

"During the 10 years of confusion. some correct (government) policies were destroyed. includ-

ing the religious policy," said Ms Chao.

Since the expulsion in 1976 from the party of Mao's wife, Jiang Ching, and three other "radical" o fficials collectively called the "Gang of Four" closed the period of the Cultural Revolution, "our government has reestablished many right policies", she said.

"So the policy of religious freedom was also restored," Ms Chao added. She defined religious freedom as freedom "to believe or not to believe".

It also means, among other things, that religious groups "can print own prayer their books . . . and can train their own professional religious personnel", she said.

But China is adamant about keeping the Vati-

can out of Chinese religious affairs, Ms Chao said. "The Vatican cannot interfere into our internal affairs (and) our religion is an internal matter," she said.

Cardinal Sin

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The first class of eight seminarians graduated June 15, 1988. Six have been ordained and a seventh is scheduled for ordination.

The seminary has obtained Vatican II documents from the Catholic printing house in Shanghai, the only one of its kind in the country, said Bishop Dong.

"We want the seminar-

ians to have a wide knowledge of the Church," the bishop said.

Without such knowledge a new priest "cannot handle the pastoral life well".

Ecumenism, encouraged by the council, is at the fledgling stage in China.

Anglican Bishop K.H. Ting, the leading Chinese Protestant spokesman,

said: "We are having more cooperation, but our starting point was very low."

China," he "In explained in an interview in Nanking, "Protestantism and Roman Catholicism are considered two different religions with different names for God and therefore we are only beginning to have closer contacts."

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Li Zuomin, a Communist Party official said there is a new view of religion among party leaders.

"We think religion is like everything else in life — in a process of emerging, developing and fading out," he said.

"As religious policy is also implemented according to this line" a policy of religious freedom does not conflict with party goals.

"Faith is a matter of the mind," Li said. "It cannot be done away with by some external force. The point is when it is going to disappear," he said. "It is very difficult to predict."

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How much in Gospel is taken for granted?

Like life in general, the New Testament is full of things we take for granted, things whose meaning we don't think about.

This is true even of John's Gospel, which has the well-deserved reputation of being hard to understand.

Even so, it is in John's Gospel that we meet Jesus at his most human.

Only John, for example, shows us Jesus crying.

Jesus, we are told, had a friend named Lazarus.

Jesus, the Word made flesh, (John 1:14), the Son of God (John 11:4), had a friend. When his friend died, he wept, leading others to say, "See how he loved him" (John 11:35-36).

To see Jesus, the Son of God, crying over the death of a friend he dearly loved tells us it is

all right to cry when someone close to us dies.

It is good to be reminded of this. Too many feel guilty over their grief, thinking that if they were more religious or had more faith they would not cry.

One thing we may take for granted in the Gospel is the fact that Jesus went to a wedding. In our eagerness to explore the profound message of the wedding feast of Cana (John 2:1-11), we pass over the simplest and most obvious thing about this extraordinary event.

A wedding in a Galilean village at the time of Jesus was quite an event. All the villagers came, and so did family, friends and relatives from far and wide.

It was a joyful event, filled with hope. All

By Fr Eugene LaVerdiere, SSS

came to support the couple.

It is something to consider that the mother of Jesus and his disciples, took part in such a celebration.

Need we go further to know that it is good to celebrate the union of husband and wife?

Jesus' presence made a difference at Cana. When the wine ran out, the servers took instructions from Jesus and the water they had poured into six stone jars became superior wine.

Here was one of the great signs and wonders of Jesus' life and of the New Testament.

Beginning of Jesus' signs

Up in the hills of Galilee about nine miles north of Nazareth was a little village which is now just a ruin called Khirbet Qana.

Not much ever happened in quiet little communities like this one.

Jesus also made a of ordinary life into a difference for the people celebration of Christian who were there. As John hope and love. tells the story, everything Finally, notice how at is made new.

Cana Jesus called his Through Jesus, even mother "woman", a strikthough they did not ing title, without preceknow who he was, dent on the lips of a son, everyone at the wedding a title that seems cold had the opportunity to and formal. join in friendship with But remember, we the Son of God. Through should not take names him, their relationships and titles for granted. with each other were This one too has more changed. than meets the eye.

When the participants The title "woman" calls arrived, their joy and to mind the figure of Eve, laughter were that of the mother of all human ordinary wine. When beings including Jesus, they left, their smiles and Eve who was called love were that of a new woman from the time of and superior wine creation. created by the presence Eve lives in all of us, of Jesus. especially in every In the same way, our woman — but never so presence can make a fully as in the mother of difference at a wedding Jesus. The woman has a or at any celebration. Our great role to play at every joy and faith can help to creative moment in the transform a celebration life of the church.

Whatever excitement came into people's lives came from things that make life genuinely, not artificially, exciting: things like engagements, marriages, births and harvest festivals.

A wedding was a jubilant celebration involving all the villagers. It was, of course, a family affair. But in tiny little villages everyone was "family".

A wedding was, as it still is, an occasion for relatives who lived elsewhere to come and join in the fun.

Jesus made a difference at Cana. hen the wine ran out at the wedding feast of Cana, the servers followed Jesus' instructions and the water they poured into the x stone jars became superior wine, writes Blessed Sacrament Father Eugene LaVerdiere.

alla The Gospel of John opens with a kind of hymn to the Word: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God." What we hear in the hymn is a grand, cosmological vision. But soon the hymn fades and the reality of human history unfolds in the Gospel with the entrance of John the Baptist, a man larger than life.

Still the sweeping vista of eternity is not fully lost, for John's Gospel paints a portrait of Jesus as Christ, the one who

Meditating on the wedding feast at Cana where water was turned into the finest wine, a single mother of five children found Jesus reaching across time and culture to fill her and her children, with abundant, refreshing goodness.

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There is more than one now are reading it way to read a book. section by section, perYou can start at the haps having already read beginning and read it it all the way through. straight through to the Turn to the story of the end in one sitting. You wedding feast at Cana in can page through the Chapter 2: 1-11. How will book quickly, to get an you read this section of overview of its plot or the Gospel? purposes before going The story is very well back to read all of it known. It is so well carefully. known, in fact, that its Or you can read a book familiarity can stand in in small bits and pieces, the way, causing a underlining all the person to take it for important details as you granted. go along.

So, as you begin reading If there is more than one the Cana story, try to way to read any book, proceed as if you barely there is more than one know it at all. way to read a book of the Then some part of the Bible. Think about it. story is likely to surprise Turn to John's Gospel. you, some part you Let's assume that you barely remember hear8 The Record, March 9,1989

ing before. Or the story's tone and overall context may hit you in a way that it never hit you before.

Try reading the story in its entirety first. Then return immediately to its beginning and re-read it slowly, stopping frequently to let all the details set in.

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quantity of water that Jesus will change to wine.

Had you ever noticed before how much these jars could hold? What does this mean?

Stop and listen to the words of Jesus' mother.

What is her role here?

What are her feelings and concerns?

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The other three Gospels record many miracles of Jesus. But John's Gospel recounts only seven, the first of which is the changing of water into wine at the wedding at Cana.

The story is wellknown. Jesus, his mother, his friends and disciples are guests at a Jewish wedding at Cana.

The wine runs out and this is a potential source

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of embarrassment to the hosts.

Mary states the obvious to her son, "They have no wine."

As this conversation has been retold across the centuries, there is an undergirding assumption that Mary was asking Jesus to intervene in the unfortunate situation.

Jesus' response appears to be a rather curt refusal.

She, however, expects some kind of transforming, creative action.

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A single mothe if five who was mediting on John's Gaspel ding a recent Lenten imson, told me how she.:ncentrated on the detiof the six stone jars wIrh had

A wedding is such an ordinary part of te that people might be tempted to take it for aranted, writes Blessed Sacrament Father .0 gene LaVerdiere. But, as the account shows, presence at a wedding can make quite a difrence.

Dolores Leckey tells how a single motheof five

story. You see him, become real to you: present at a wedding parents and children, celebration with relatives widows, old and young and friends and disciples people, undoubtedly — among people at their someone enduring a long leisure. illness.

Then let your imaginaAs you read, make it a tion roam a bit. Try to goal to clear the way for picture the scene of the surprises in the Gospel to wedding feast. Imagine leap out at you. For the all the people and the Gospel is full of surprises. reason for their celebraAnd spend as much tion. Allowing them to time with the story as

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you can. For haste leaves parts of the Gospel in obscurity.

Many stories can be told of people who, moved to spend time reflecting on part of a biblical story such as this, found that it holds a power to change them, to renew their ways of thinking and acting.

been filled with what was to become a source of refreshment.

She noted that in several ways the six members of her family felt impoverished — empty — at this time.

They had little money, had experienced a loss through divorce and felt uncertain about the future.

No, her problems didn't evaporate through her meditation on the Cana miracle. But it served as a sign of hope to her and

somehow pointed her attention away from despair and toward confidence.

The story served as a reminder that the power of God could fill her too, and her children, with abundant, refreshing goodness.

In light of the story, he proposed that his group of lay leaders consider how they might refresh the rest of the body of Christ and, indeed, the world, much as Jesus the "good wine" refreshes.

Across time and culture, Jesus reached into her life, beginning the transformation of her difficult circumstances.

Recently I heard a bishop preach on the Cana miracle during a meeting of leaders of organisations and movements of the laity.

children finds new hope to face the difficult circumstances of her life by reflecting on Cana. And Mrs Leckey says the Cana story holds special wisdom for people in leadership positions.

Jesuit Father Lawrence Madden says that Cana is a story about change — the miraculous change of

And he reminded listeners of Mary's role at Cana, typical of her role throughout history. She is a pivotal figure in the actions of Jesus, bridging people and God. She embraces as her own the needs of others — truly the mother of the church.

This is what true leaders do, the bishop said.

They serve people, lighten their burdens, refresh their souls. Such leaders are "good wine" for others.

In the wedding feast of Cana, we meet Jesus of Nazareth. He is the bearer of divine power who over and over again commanded physical reality.

But we also meet the risen Lord. He still profoundly affects the course of human events.

He still attracts men and women to participate in the new order which he initiated, to become new wine in new wineskins.

water into wine, but more fundamentally, it is about how to change lives.

Father John Castelot says that the wedding feast story in John's Gospel shows Jesus offering pointers to his identity, though his full "glory" is revealed only with his death and resurrection.

DISCUSSION POINTS Try to read the story of the wedding feast at Cana in John 2:1-11 very slowly. Stop to ponder the details.

Does any part of the story hit you as if you were hearing it for the first time?

The Gospel says that the six stone jars

of water at the wedding feast each held 80 to 120 litres. What does this abundance signify, according to Father John Castelot?

If the "good wine" saved "until now" in the Cana story signifies Jesus, in what sense is he good wine?

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By Father John J. Castelot strain on the resources of the couple and their parents. But it was understood that the guests Would bring something to keep the party going.

It is just possible that Jesus got there late from around the Jordan area where John the Baptist was baptising. To complicate matters, Jesus brought unexpected guests, his new disciples.

This would have taxed the resources to the breaking point. His mother's observation that the wine had run out would have been a subtle hint that his group had caused the shortage.

Jesus remedied the situation by changing the water in the stone jars into wine — about 480 litres of it. No wonder the fellow in charge of the refreshments was astonished.

Such a celebration forms the background for the story recorded in John 2. The wedding at Cana attracted relatives from Nazareth. The This is a charming story mother of Jesus was with an exciting climax. there. Jesus, too, was But the evangelist was invited. not intent on writing Normally, the festivities charming stories. He saw lasted a whole week, it as a vehicle for bringing with much eating, drink- out some important ing, music and dancing points.

— not just a Saturday One point, for example, night dinner at the is that Jesus' "hour", the country club. hour of the ultimate selfThis put an obvious revelation of his glory, is

his passion, death and resurrection. That hour was determined by God. No human agency could advance it.

If, in fact, Jesus did "reveal his glory" at Cana, it was only as a pale anticipation of the ultimate, decisive revelation to come.

Only at the resurrection would his followers realise his full identity.

At Cana, by way of partially anticipating what was to come, "his disciples began to believe in him". But arrival at full truth is a gradual process.

Not for nothing did the evangelist call the Cana incident "the beginning of (Jesus') signs". Interesting in itself, its real importance lay in what it signified.

The fantastic amount of wine symbolised the riches of messianic blessings. Popular Jewish literature looked forward to those blessings in this precise figure of speech: a of superabundance grapes and wine.

And the change of water into wine symbolised the replacement of the old order by the new: rich, red wine taking the place of pale, thin water.

The followers of Jesus are now the beneficiaries of all those blessings, heirs to all that richness.

. and what He changes

Most Europeans say that Americans always are changing things, always ready to drop the past and try something new.

Americans may be more willing than many other people to change certain things, like where they live or what they like to eat or drink. But they find it very difficult to change ideas about the best way to live, or whom God is or how men and women relate to one another.

Yet change in such areas is sometimes necessary to live the life God dreams for us. With that thought in mind, take a look at the story in John's Gospel about the wedding feast at Cana.

On one level the story is about a miraculous change Jesus brought about, converting water into wine. This show of power, says the gospel, was a sign Jesus gave of his true identity as the Messiah.

When I hear the story I am moved to trust Jesus' power. But there's more

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By Fr Lawrence Madden, SJ to the story than Jesus' power.

This story is fundamentally about how to change one's life.

When the mother of Jesus tells him that the wine has run out, he tells that his "hour" has not yet come. He meant the hour of his sacrificial death.

That act, we are indirectly told in the Gospel, is a much more important sign than the transformation of water into wine. Jesus' death is the sign which changed the meaning of life and death.

Change. To embrace a new way of thinking and doing things means giving up old ways. It means a sacrifice, a dying of sorts to the old.

So we often don't take easily to people or situations which force us to question our old ways. If we had lived in Jesus' time, he would probably have bothered us to some extent.

Oh, he cured many sick people and even raised his friend Lazarus from the tomb. But he also criticised the insensitive, selfish behaviour of others.

In his day Jesus called on everyone to change

some basic ideas and attitudes, even some ideas about God. He also urged them to change some ideas about how they should relate to one another.

In doing so he clearly upset a lot of people. But after his death, his "hour", many received his Spirit, and this gift caused a deep change in their lives.

The most important change was in their attitudes. They no longer feared death: neither real physical death, nor the kind of death felt when sacrificing oneself for the sake of another. They found out that living for God and for others eventually filled their days with happiness and they also began to trust that physical death would be a transition to bliss, as it was for Jesus.

The Spirit of Jesus still enables us to let go of bad ideas and ways of acting.

When we feel God's call to change in a small or big way, we need not recoil in fear or in a spirit of self-protection.

We can accept it because Jesus will convert our discomfort, our pain, our sorrow into joy.

This is the "way" of the Lord. It holds the paradoxical secret to a fruitful life: Sacrifice for others yields bliss.

This is the great change Jesus brought about.

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Gately way to a more Edwina Gately has just finished a lecture tour of Perth and Kalgoorlie delivering 12 lectures in six days.

Although the subject matter varied, it's a safe prediction that she will be remembered for some time to come.

Mainly because Gately is not concerned with the airy fairy niceties of "the right thing to say" but delivers a few punches (loaded with facts), where it hurts.

And she believes it's high time that the hypocrisy in society and church was exposed.

Her background is wide and "gutsy". As a result of nine months living a hermit's existance in the Illinois woods, she emerged with a clear direction as to which of God's fields she should work in: to help the women of the streets.

Born in Lancaster. England in 1943, she worked as a teacher and lay missionary in Uganda living with the people and setting up a successful school for African girls.

Gately then returned to England and set up the Voluntary Missionary Movement which now has centres in England, Ireland, Scotland, the US and East Africa.

She graduated as a Master of Theological Studies at the Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, and as a result of her inspired direction of work, sought out, worked to help, and finally Genesis established House in Chicago, which is a house of hospitality and nurturing for

Edwina Gately . . . and author and poet, too

women involved in prostitution.

Still maintaining an active interest and involvement with Genesis House, Gately is also a published author and poet, and spends much of her time giving lectures around the world.

Gately said her prime aim is to contribute in bringing about a more just and decent world and get rid of some of the and hypocrisy oppression.

"That's what we should all be about!" she said.

On prostitution and its causes, Gately has a wealth of knowledge, and believes people should be made aware of the facts.

She states that the major root cause for prostitution is child incest with one in four families in the US being incest families.

In Australia one in four children are sexually abused, with the greater areas of abuse being in isolated communities.

Sexual abuse need not involve actual rape, but the figure is considered conservative because

many people won't openly admit to it.

Ninety-four per cent of prostitutes in the US have been child incest victims, she said, and of the one million childrunaways annually, 75 per cent immediately turn to prostitution.

"The cycle perpetuates from when they were kids," she says. "If they are molested by daddy, uncle, neighbour, stepfather I can guarantee that they will become prostitutes if they end up on the streets.

"And it all starts with 'daddy's and my secret'.

Society has to realise and admit that prostitution is a male, and not a female problem, Gately emphasises.

"It is the males who own massage parlours, are the pimps and solicit the girls." Yet it's the girls who end up in jail — not the men who started the cycle initially when the child was small, obedient and had no alternative.

And in some cases, child incest is carried on with the mother's knowledge.

"Ihad him (the father of the child), before I had you," one mother said to her daughter whom she'd watch being beaten up by the father.

This father was a senior master sergeant in the Air Force, stationed near Texas.

His authorities were aware of his mistreatment of the daughter, but rather than dismiss him "because we've invested a lot of money in you," they told him to get rid of her. So the mother and father gave her away to a truck driver they didn't

Sydney officer here Chris Hall, National Project Officer with the National Catholic Association of Family Agencies, is over from Centacare, Sydney, spending time in each diocese ascertaining current needs and assisting in the development of a State division of the association, "which will bring agencies together in a way that is sensitive to the individual diocesan needs," he said.

There are 22 diocesan agencies which are members of the association, operating in excess of 50 marriage and family counselling centres the throughout country.

Three of these are WA agencies in the dioceses of Bunbury, Perth and Geraldton.

"Their main feature is that they provide marriage counselling and education servi-

ces under the provisions of the family law act.

"The are part funded by the Federal Attorney General and are sponsored by the dioceses," he said.

"My role is to consolidate and to assist the agencies in the development of high level administration and clinical standards."

Mr Hall worked in Perth Centrecare for six years before assuming the new national position which was created in February last year, through funding received from the Federal Attorney General.

The association primarily exists to ensure that there is a network of agencies across Australia, whereby there is support and the development of common policies and procedures for the delivery of marriage and family counselling •

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services.

At this stage the development of the State division is at a comparative level with those in other States, he said, "and we are hoping to formalise the establishment of these divisions.

Margaret Van Keppel, Centrecare Coordination, said for her, one of the biggest benefits of the State division in WA, "is the sharing of ideas and resources in the development of common standards of practice."

Other issues which need to be looked at said Mr Hall, are government proposals as regards the Family Law Act. "Some of these include proposals to reduce the pressures on the family law court system through the introduction of alternative methods of dispute resolutions."

At least 40 per cent of people being seen by the agencies are non-Catholic, they said, "which has to do with their confidence in our quality of service.

"And also in a lot of cases, these agencies are the only ones which provide support and counselling over a period of time, which is an important role we play in relation to services prothe by vided government.

Ms Van Keppel said a big factor is that Centrecare doesn't charge fees, making it available to a wide community sector. has Geraldton recently been given funding which makes it the second approved Catholic marriage counselling agency in WA, they said. Its service starts this week.

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Chris Hall and Margaret Van Keppel •

just and decent world

the truth." Gately into the belief that these ing housewives, mothers, allowed the female expeknow when she was 17 of four, "Diane" is now must be a need for one. ional women and rience to be part of their saying "She'll do any- expecting her second During her Adelaide believes the church is women are violent and profess own growth and world nuns." afraid we're so criminal thing you want her to," child in the safety and talks, about 30 prosti- afraid of prostitutes, that When people's masks vision. . and left her to her warm caring of Genesis tutes came to listen. they are 'sinful women' to reach out to them.

"And if you don't "It's much easier to take are stripped away and House.

"They were nodding in and should repent (havfate. race the feminine, emb com— ing exposed, choice their made hypocrisy care of the 'safer' people "Diane", along with at agreeance with what I She had sustained, as a lack wholeness. The you act prostitutes their and for 'get passion hit back you who won't result of her last bashing least 12 women who are said when I spoke about lacks wholeness church and together'. about come and tell you to "f" off," will from her father, two now working in good incest, pimps and politiit is totally male because from freed be they'll she said.

"We don't look on them black eyes, eight broken jobs, has no intention of cians and all those who she said. ted," domina "We are very cowardly oppression, she says. dislocated returning to the streets, use prostitutes. And one as ministerial possibiliribs, a don't prostitutes Most I of But choice! degree the n i ministry is it "So shoulder and a broken because someone was woman said she was ties in the church anybody because blame I which changing. society it's think in honesty as she listened trembling to of because we are afraid thigh bone. Six months concerned enough they are so oppressed, later she was robbed, establish Genesis House because all those things their mask. Go up to a think it's the women who will lead to justice. they don't even know and forward are moving She to her. had happened "As long as cover-ups battered woman and stabbed and left for dead to show they cared. ask persist, there will not be they are oppressed! said to you'll find she's grateful beginning at a Fort Worth trucking "You're not going to left crying."

Gately. questions. justice or compassion for Gately's initial work for the comfort and cup station. solve anything by catch"They simply accept usually it's but "And the victims." her, offer Her lifestyle became ing prostitutes in a net," started in the brothels, of tea you they are. who me to Gately said she has seen one of violence against said Gately. "the system speaking to the prosti- if you go to a prostitute women who ask Iblame society and Because "But lectures. give same, so much hypocrisy, and her, prostitution and spends an enormous tutes between their and offer her the towards sense attitude a growing is its there obscenity! an get you'll seen had I've she "And oppression, that alcoholism. And then she sum of money in Amer- clients. our blame we I that women. of awareness of to range faith her whole the to on back break dollars fall of we to ica, millions parents until her "But locate tried to are women somethat be doing attitude should see her through. "It cover up the scars of the professions in there down those barriers and again . . . and objects like sex as people for thing treated she said. a is the girls," there me seeing and reassures them " in Christ see Gately said there is a disease.

God who sees all of this. second-class citizens. I Thirty per cent of "They range from doc- whole areas of margina- these." strange and sad dynamic are builders, women said policemen, we tors, Gately unless the Christian blame the church for its But then lised people, between battered child- women in US jails are and up architects, is involved long ingrained attitude to standing now carpenters, to community begun . even prostitution for have't there ren and their parents, or be exnot will and they with the cutting edge of women as being the recognise and ask the saying With each arrest, the politicians their abusers. priests." is the sex objects any longer. society, then we are part 'sensual temptress' — Who a question: deteriorates woman The children never right back to She has less These male exploiters perpetrator of the initial They will not be used (at of that hypocrisy. We are which goes fully, consciously believe little more. we basically whom Eve, will they and And to mission level). any to you called led of which job, chance of getting a are called "pillars of crime that what is happening to of self- not be treated and consi- missioning is rarely blamed for the downfall life a follow children.

Wheher said. keeping she society," them is not their fault. of humanity — who And if she doesn't want reas the girls are labelled destruction and abuse?" dered as second-class sitting in a comfortable supposedly brought They keep returning to dispensing citizens. armchair fallen and Gately said the major jail, said Gately, as "deviants the parent, and later the to go to "Their voices are being alms. Mission is the down God's wrath. denominator to women!" common fines huge are there abusive pimp or other in "Ithink it is a distortion. she can't get "Uncover the hypocrisy among prostitutes she's heard and The Institu- cutting edge of society partner, craving for affec- pay, which prois insecure, It do not believe and will I ife. l voice the of afraid is tion self-esteem. zero is for. and strip society of its met, tion and approval, just the money It radical. perpetuate and we and not phetic it is "Genesis House looks masks. The 'good guys' "It's hard enough for us, of women because the tiniest bit of affirmakingGod's not teach our about brings must who those of voice the in masks of who are accepted tion that they are not all deeper than the police, wear false than our children myths which rather — dom consitraditionally are never they've But society. the and ability social respect politicians, bad. empires. demean women! It is prostitute wears one of heard the words "I love dered second class. And own personal neighbours and workers her unjust!"

"Diane" tracked be will its there it from means who society "It calls anyone from you" to about the violence and hostility, parents down in their who complain Ever FOOTNOTE: cocoon into God's kingmeant it, nor "I care changes." mask her pain." hookers." new location but was still name the be should how we and they dom, wonder and — you" Because incest is generSo all are wearing about Conservatively there rejected. So she moved in meant it." perpetrated by men. there calling the crowd 'hooker' was coined? ally play we "and masks in prostitutes 25,000 with a man she'd met on are "it follows that into a new way of being; Historically it was said, job. she church's the It's the at look We the bus and had his baby. Chicago, Genesis House games. the men who are a new way of justice." General Hooker, who not of them, end results of child Gately said, and the it is "Her parents then took has seen 1000 it and so Gately said no amount of during the American expose to going "set to function church's "You she admits is the incest," said Gately. brought in "Diane" to court and won which don't see the five year old the captives free." Free the women are becoming rules, liturgies or sacra- Civil War, iceberg. of women to any of make loads will truck ments temporary custody of her tip the up in speaking unafraid From what? from being raped — "If the city would give who is baby "because as a oppression and dimin- and telling the truth as to difference in isolation — his men in the trenches hardened the see you to satisfy their sexual prostitute she wasn't a fit the money to Genesis hooker 15 years later." ishment. "How can these what is happening to without action. urges. And so the name mother" and soon after- House that they spend on of them. thrust basic anything The know women And unless questions of 'hooker' stuck. wards departed for Ger- jailing prostitutes — can asked as to how all about a caring God when "As they come forward, Gately's lectures are to are we work the imagine you many on another postis consciousknown women's Ironically enough, as raise ever they've all the compassion grows. this comes about, we could do?" she said. ing, with her child. oppression. sexual points out, his is about ness Gately and e violenc right is incest and Rape , she Gately is not aware of won't understand the only monument to a abuse?

Only 21, with a backacross the board and "These poor men have so said. ground of violence and any similar hospitality "But we're so afraid, includes women from diminished themselves General right outside the "But once a prostitute sexual abuse against her house for street women we've bought every walk of life, includ- that they have not White House! because trusts you, she'll tell you which started at the age in WA, but said there

Irish family of six become Australians Council which included Shire Clerk, Mr Frank Cooper.

"It was a very proud moment when we An Irish family of six received our Certificates took a memorable step of Citizenship," Mr Deasy last week by becoming said later.

Australian citizens.

"It is a moment to Mr Gerry Deasy, his remember for our childwife Eileen and four ren, too." children, John (13), FerMr Deasy emigrated to gus (12), Aidan (10) and Australia six years ago Dermod (8) took the from Ferrybank in Oath of Allegiance at the Waterford. He spent Calingiri Shire Council three years in Ballarat in offices.

Victoria before moving to Later they were enter- Western Australia to take tained to afternoon tea by up a teaching post. members of the Shire His wife, Eileen, a

By Dom Francis Byrne OSB

nurse, is from Harold's Cross in Dublin.

Mr Deasy teaches Maths, Science and Manual Arts at New Norcia Catholic College where his oldest son, John, is a Year 9 student.

Eileen Deasy is on the nursing staff at the same College.

The three other boys are at Gillingarra tudents s Primary School.

This week a party was held in the Good Samaritan Convent grounds at New Norcia to celebrate the Deasy's Australian citizenship.

Friends, members of the teaching staff at New Norcia Catholic College and Benedictine monks gathered round to wish them well.

Sister Teresa Hyland, Parish worker, spoke of the significance of the occasion and took the opportunity of congratulating the family on such an historic step. She also thanked those who turned up for the celebration.

A cross-section of Irish music formed the background to the evening's celebration.

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I had just returned from Mass and from listening to the story of the Prodigal Son. Our parish priest had suggested that one response to it was to reflect on the need we all have not only for forgiveness but also to forgive.

Then I read the front page of The Record ( March 2). No-one, myself least of all, would deny that the Church has been persecuted in Lithuania and no one, myself least of all, would treat lightly the sufferings of priests and other Catholics imprisoned for from Mrs Joy McMullan, Woodlands their opposition to the regime.

Sir, An Adelaide story What I would question, (The Record February 23) however, is the general states "people preparing thrust of your story, that for marriage, (or for a we must be governed by relationship which will what has happened in include sexual expresthe past and that every- sion), have 'a right' to thing to do with the know the standing of the U SSR including the HIV status of their future recent initiatives in partner." favour of religious toleraThat statement might tion in particular and seem good for the overall better understanding health of the community between peoples in at large, but — no-one general must be treated has 'the right' to knowlwith suspicion, if not edge of another's physihostility. cal health just so that As I read the gospel, they personally can Our Lord calls for forgive- safely, deliberately step ness and mercy, espe- into an immoral situation cially for the Prodigal with that person.

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gentile, slave nor free, male nor female" and not communist or noncommunist.

The initiative surely is God's and God certainly loves the people of Russia as he loves us. "If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring" as St Paul says, and thus also "heirs according to the promise."

It would be good if our Catholic paper were to help us learn the gospel of love, forgiveness and hope and to distance itself from the hatred and suspicion which, however understandable, do not really belong to the community of God who was crucified, partly at least for his stand on behalf of those others regarded as sinners.

Rights poser

Tone concern Fr Trevor Simons, Chaplain Royal Perth Hospital Sir, The overall tone of letters by Brian Peachey and John Dallimore (The Record, March 2) has caused me some concern.

Firstly, Mr Peachey in speaking of AIDS says "There is no cure." What a sad, negative statement. What of hope? We Christians believe in hope! What of faith?

Can we not share the faith we have in Jesus the Healer with these unfortunate sufferers of AIDS (irrespective of what their "sin" was/is?).

Secondly, Mr Dallimore states "After all, the patients are no worse or better off than those suffering from say MS." What a pathetically misinformed statement! What of charity? Does charity compare, contrast or evaluate?

In my experience in two hospitals, with many AIDS sufferers, I have come to understand that at all times and in all cases in the end I am confronted with a member of the human race, a person who is connected to God. It seems all too simplistic, emotive and subjective to debate articles written on AIDS, using the props of Church teaching and Bishop's statements.

I would respectfully suggest that perhaps we need to generate our energies into "practical works of mercy." Maybe come face to face with an AIDS sufferer, talk to him/her, hold his hand, give him a drink, hear his story then maybe we would understand more the words of St Augustine . . "Leave the past to the mercy of God, the present to his Love, the future to his providence."

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Curran's 'no' to job offer WASHINGTON (NC): After losing his lawsuit against The Catholic University of America, Father Charles E. Curran said he will not take the compromise teaching job offered to him by the university.

The university president, Jesuit Father William J. Byron, said the offer was still on the table, but Father Curran said he cannot accept the conditions the university linked with the job.

The Vatican in 1986 declared Father Curran ineligible to teach theology Catholic because of his dissent from Church teachings.

In a series of moves over the next two years the university suspended him from classes, stripped him of the Church licence needed to teach in the university's theology department, and offered him a post teaching social ethics but barred him from teaching Catholic theology the in anywhere university.

Father Curran sued the my only concern was a university for breach of job and a salary,I would have settled this long contract. ago."

In a decision on FebruHe said in his view Superior ary 28, the no Court of the District of academic freedom the at exists longer Columbia ruled that the ceruniversity's actions were university, "and I to be want don't tainly legal. associated with that. If I It rejected Father Cur- didn't think I had acaran's request for an order demic freedom at requiring the university Catholic University in to let him teach theology the 1970s, I would have there again. left then".

Father Byron said acaFather Curran said he the freedom exists at appeal demic would not the university. "If you ask decision. our 400 faculty members The theologian, cur- if they think they have rently a visiting professor academic freedom at this at the University of university, I think you'll Southern California in find that they say they Los Angeles, said he do," he said. refused the proposed The president said the ethics post at Catholic court's decision in favour University before the of the university recogcourt trial because the nises "its uniqueness in promise not to teach as a its relationship to the theologian Holy See and its selfCatholic which the university chosen Catholic characdemanded would violate ter. It also says there's his academic freedom. merit to our understand"As a matter of princi- ing that intrinsic to the ple I could not accept it discipline of Catholic then, andIcertainly can't theology is respect for the accept it now," he said. "If teaching of the Church".

Fr Curran Father Curran, who is 55, said he expects to wait a while and see what offers he receives before he makes long-term plans.

For the more immediate future, he said, he is teaching two courses this semester in the religion department of USC and has accepted a tentative offer to continue there for another year as a visiting professor.

He said that in the past he has received a number of job offers from other Catholic universities and "a

It's a wait and see game for him number of people want" him to continue teaching in a Catholic institution.

But in light of the decision Vatican against him he does any think not Catholic institution will be able to offer him a professorship now. "I think it's safe to say that for all practical purposes that is ruled out," he said.

Looking back at the last three years of controversy resulting from his disputes with Rome and Catholic University,

which he had described from the start teaching "a as moment", Father Curran said. "It turned out to be a longer moment than I thought it would be."

"Looking back, I don't regret the effort it has taken," he added. "We were dealing, at the Church level and at the academic level, with very important issues" of dissent in the Church and academic freedom in Catholic colleges and universities.

In the Church, he said, "in the future

we're going to have to learn to live with greater differences, and we have to do it with respect for one another . . . I think I've showed how that can be done."

He said that "I lost in the short run" on the academic freedom issue, and "I'm more fearful today than I was in the past about the future of academic freedom in higher Catholic education".

But his case "raised the issue to centre stage", he said.

Byron:Iregret...

Father Byron said he did not see the court decision as having great impact on US Catholic higher education in general because the whole case was so closely tied to the "unique character" of Catholic University's ecclesiastical schools and the church special licence needed to teach in them.

The broader "problem of the tension

between personal freedom and authority of the church is not resolved" by the ruling, he said. "That will always be with us."

Byron Father declined to speculate on whether contributions in the annual national collection for Catholic University will increase now that the Curran case is settled.

He said there is no way to prove the

contention that the presence of the controversial theologian at the university has hurt contributions over the years, so any speculation about an increase in donations would be based on "a presumption that can't be demonstrated."

"Ican say that there's going to be less ambiguity in the minds of people" about the university, he said. "I think the general

Catholic perception (of the university's

position on Father Curran) is going to be positive. They will know we're committed to being Catholic."

When asked for his own general reaction to the three years of controversy and the university's victory in court, he said, "I regret that this whole thing happened. I regret that something was not worked out" without going to court.

Decision based on pontifical charter

Curran is not eligible to teach Catholic theology — it could not permit him to teach Catholic theology in any other department of the university.

W ASHINGTON (NC): When a judge ruled that the Catholic University of America was within its rights in barring Father Chares E. Curran from teaching Catholic theology there, he said his decision acknowledged the university's "pontifical charter and its relationship with the Holy See".

The ruling by District of Columbia Superior Court highlighted the unique status of Catholic University as the only US university that can grant

Catholic ecclesiastical degrees.

Catholic University was founded by the US bishops more than a century ago. It is a civil institution, incorporated in 1887 by Congress under the laws of the District of Columbia. But it is also a pontifical institution, operating under a founding charter granted by Pope Leo XM in 1889.

For most of its life as a university, the Vatican had direct control over its statutes and bylaws, the appointment of its trus-

tees — all of whom were US bishops — and the appointment of its president, then called a rector.

That changed in 1970 when the Vatican approved new statutes for the university.

The board of trustees was given final say over the appointment of the president.

It received authority to change bylaws without Vatican approval.

And it became an selfautonomous, board perpetuating which selects its own

new members, although at least half of them must be priests or bishops.

At the same time, the university still maintains a special relationship to the Holy See as a pontifically chartered institution.

In addition, special Vatican requirements must be met in the university's faculties of theology, canon law and philosophy, the three which can confer ecclesiastical degrees. Such degrees can only be given

by Vatican -accredited faculties.

The university has spe- who act in the name of cial, Vatican-approved the Holy See. statutes canonical When the Holy See governing those three ruled in 1986 that Father faculties.

Curran was no longer eligible to teach Catholic Catholic professors theology, the university teaching on those facul- did not move to fire or ties are required to have dismiss him, but to take a church-granted license a way his canonical to teach, which is called mission. a "canonical mission".

It said that with his mission The mission is con- canonical ferred by the university removed, Father Curran chancellor — an office could not teach on the automatically held by the theology faculty. archbishop of Washing- It also said that in light ton — with the approval of the reason for the of the bishop members of removal — a Vatican the board of trustees, decision that Father

WASHINGTON (NC): Current tensions between bishops and theologians are "a struggle for balance", said Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk of Cincinnati.

Theologians are "primarily scholars and secondarily contributors to the pastoral endeavour of the

Church'', the archbishop said during a late February speech at the Catholic University of America in Washington.

"Bishops are primarily pastoral leaders and secondarily evaluators of the results of the labours of theologians," he said. between Tensions

bishops and theologians occur because the responsibilities of the two can overlap.

"The various elements which contribute to the teaching mission of the Church are striving to find their right relative proportions so that we will find ourselves in a

state of doctrinal health," he said.

"We are learning that it's not easy," Archbishop Pilarczyk said.

The archbishop, who is chairman of Catholic University's board of trustees, titled his lecture, "It's Hard to Be Healthy: Reflections on

Teaching in the Church". Columbia court ruled sent vs authority or the He compared the cur- that Catholic University rights of bishops vs the rent struggle for balance was within its rights rights of theologians, in Church teaching to when it barred Father he said. the challenge many Charles E. Curran, a If the work of the Americans are facing in moral theologian, from t heologian had no balancing diet and exer- teaching theology there. impact on the Church's The tensions between cise regimens. mission or ministry, there would he no reason Archbishop Pilarczyk bishops and theologians for a bishop to pass gave his speech in the have been discussed judgment on it, he said. week before a District of mostly in terms of disThe Record, March 9, 1989 13

Tension over 'struggle for balance'

Weisberg agreed down the line with the university's right to take that stance. He said an understanding of the university's special relationship with the Holy See was part of Father Curran's contract, and actions by the university in accord with that relationship were not a violation of the contract.

by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

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Sitting Bull was angry. The great Sioux Indian chief, born in what today is the state of South Dakota, sat in his camp. He was angry because white settlers from the East were taking away the Indians' land.

During the 1860s Sitting Bull decided to stop the stealing of what was sacred to his people. Sitting Bull's braves swore they would kill the first white man who stepped onto Sioux land.

Then one day in 1868 a short white man wearing a black robe walked directly into the camp and asked to see Sitting Bull. The angry faces of the Sioux braves softened into smiles. They rode up to shake the "Blackrobe's" hand.

Jesuit Father Pierre Jean De Smet was the only white man allowed into Sitting Bull's camp. He came with a treaty from the government, hoping to win a lasting peace.

That moment, on one of the last of his many trips to the Indians of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, sums up his life.

Pierre was in his teens in Termonde, Belgium, when he first heard from a visiting Jesuit missionary of the adventures and risks of missionary life of the American frontier. He would later become a Jesuit in the United States to serve the Indian.

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he and five companions traveled west to Missouri.

They settled in Florissant and built a log cabin and a mission school.

In 1827 the bishop of St Louis, Mo., ordained Pierre. Father De Smet hoped to go to the Indian missions further west, but he was sent to teach and be treasurer of St Louis College.

Six years later a serious illness forced him to return to Belgium. In Belgium he told people about the needs of the Indian missions.

In 1837 he was back in Missouri and went to found a mission among the Potawatomi Indians in Iowa. In time he founded missions from Iowa to Oregon.

He was a mediator and peacemaker between the Indian tribes and the US government. He believed negotiation was better than war.

Father De Smet did all he could to protect the Indian's rights. He forcefully protested against government officials and policies he felt were hurting the Indians. He sought to understand, respect and appreciate Native American beliefs and ways.

As a result, tribes throughout the West trusted him. That is why in the tense days of 1868 he was the only white man who could feel safe surrounded

by Sitting Bull's braves.

Father Pierre died in 1873 in St Louis.

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The Bean Book by Rose Elliot. Britain's favourite writer on vegetarian cookery. Published by Fontana. $11.95.

Beans are an invaluable part MEN AND WOMEN of our diet, for not only do IN RELIGIOUS LIFE they provide an inexpensive source of protein, but they are rich in iron, phosphorus and B vitamins. Throughout history the bean has sustained generations, and here Rose Elliot's flair and inventiveness brings us a host of delicious recipes using more varieties of beans than you ever imagined existed.

Rose Elliot is Britain's top writer On vegetarian cookery and in this classic collection of original recipes the humble bean is utterly transformed. There are spicy dais from India, crisp, tasty rissoles, delectable pates and bean salads, shiny with dressing and fragrant with herbs. Delicate bean dishes from France,. robust ones from Italy, others from the Middle East, with more than REINtIND CII.!IBE !IKILIEL a hint of olive oil, lemon and 1SSU-1470 garlic, full of earthy charm. nonor Vegetarian vegetarian, nobody can resist his "old boys". He was Reddy by Brother Max seeds shall grow? it living, the Church, society Rose Elliot's imaginative and delighted to meet with them Men and women in ReliMCAPPiOn CF(.. published and the future of religious colourful dishes, a sheer

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At the Jesuit Centre, 13 Dean Street, Claremont, Vatican II study group will meet on Tuesday, March 14 at 11am on the Dogmatic Constitution On the Church, chapter 3.

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

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BINDOON STATIONS Stations of the Cross organised by the Secular Franciscan Order take place at Keaney College Bindoon, on Palm Sunday, March 19, at 3pm.

Bring a picnic lunch around noon.

The afternoon concludes with Benediction in the College Chapel.

SANCTUARY RETREAT BOOKLET This Booklet contains the retreats and spiritual programs available during 1989 including venues available for individuals and groups for retreats as well as the names of people available for spiritual direction.

Copies available from: Retreat Committee, 100 Fern Rd, Wilson 6107. Phone 451 2144.

CHURCH WEEKEND A 'Church Weekend' will be presented in Perth by Fr Ron Nissen S.M. of Sydney on 14-16 April.

The non-residential weekend begins on Friday evening, includes all Saturday and concludes late Sunday afternoon. Mass is shared on both Saturday and Sunday. The venue is Osborne Park Parish Centre.

Further information from Peter and Veronica Dymond, 574 2688; registrations, Ron and Helen Howard, 291 6168.

The Church Weekend is one of the programs offered by the Pastoral and Matrimonial Renewal Centre. It is specifically presented for couples, widowed persons, priests and religious who have previously experienced either a Marriage Encounter or an Engaged Encounter Weekend, and explores our lives as Catholics and our relationships within the Church, beginning with the domestic church, the family.

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M ARIAPOLIS The Focolare Movement annual gathering, MARIAPOLIS, at Fairbridge Village, Pinjarra, FridayTuesday April 21-25, is open to everyone — whole families, single people, young people, clergy and religious people of all churches. Talks, workshops, and practical experiences on living the Gospel in daily life, aim to promote unity in the family, at work in the parish, with friends.

Separate programs have been prepared for children and a creche is available for babies.

For more information contact the Focolare Centres: 15 Clifton Crescent, Mt Lawley, phone 271 3222 or 5a St Columbas Avenue, Wembley, phone 381 6170 or 381 1344.

CATHOLIC NURSES GUILD Meeting Tuesday, March 21 at 7.30pm. 11 Ell Es Mere Rd, Mt Lawley. Tel 272 5471.

Archdiocesan Calendar

Ascension Thursday

March 11 Installation of Fr Shortis, Hilton Park.

Bishop Healy.

Diocesan Pastoral Council. Bishop Healy.

14 Bishops' Central Commission Meeting. Archbishop Foley.

17 St Patrick's Day Mass, Subiaco.

Archbishop Foley.

St Patrick's Day Mass, "lona", Mosman Park. Bishop Healy.

Golden jubilee, Sister Philomena Brennan, Carmelite Monastery.

Archbishop Foley.

18 Balcatta Mission Conclusion. Archbishop Foley.

Feast of St Joseph, Little Sisters of the Poor, Glendalough. Bishop Healy.

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

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

23 Solemn Mass of the Lord's Supper, St Mary's Cathedral. Archbishop Foley.

Solem Mass of the Supper, St Pius X, Manning, Bishop Healy.

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

Good Friday liturgy, Mosman Park.

Bishop Healy.

25 Solemn Easter Vigil, St Mary's Cathedral. Archbishop Foley.

Solemn Easter Vigil, Mosman Park.

Bishop Healy.

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

29& Conference of WA Institute and 30 Bishops of WA. Archbishop Foley and Bishop Healy.

30 Murdoch University Graduation.

Archbishop Foley.

31 Orientation Day for recently appointed priests. Archbishop Foley and Bishop Healy.

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CARMELITE JUBILEE A rchbishop Foley will celebrate Mass for the golden jubilee of Sister Philornena Brennan, at the Carmelite Monastery, Adelma Rd, Nedlands, on St Patrick's Day, March 17 at 5pm. All are most welcome to the Mass and to the light supper afterwards.

GROUPS FOR GROWTH Centrecare Marriage and Family Service offers a professionally conducted program of groups designed to enhance personal development, relationships and general wellbeing.

The groups will assist people who wish to:• Discover their inner strengths and move towards developing a fuller awareness and appreciation of themselves and their potential.

• Explore and develop ways of thinking which will enable them to see the positive aspects in difficult situations, thereby increasing their ability to cope with life in a more relaxed way.

• Take a look at their marriage and what they have got out of it; what they can look forward to in the future; how their expectations of marriage compare to the reality; and how this fits in with their journey in faith.

• Resolve the grief associated with the loss of a partner through separation or divorce, focus on relationship difficulties, and assist in restoring self-esteem, confidence and trust.

For further information and application forms please contact Centrecare Marriage and Family Service by phoning 325 6644.

BENCUBBIN ST PATRICK'S St Patrick's Ball at the Bencubbin Scouting Centre on Saturday, March 18: music by the "Rythmaires" band, full bar facilities and supper together with novelties. Admission $10, bookings Veronica Collins 096 851241, Ronnie Hogan 096 851239.

A combined farewell and welcome supper was held for Fathers Nino Vinciguerra and Greg Donovan with parishioners from Beacon, Koorda, Mukinbudin and Bencubbin sharing prayers and good wishes for their priests.

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YEAR 8 ENROLMENTS 1990

Applications for enrolment are now being accepted for Year 8 students wishing to attend Servite College in the 1990 School Year.

Servite College is a Catholic Co-educational day College with 800 students in Year 8 through to Year 12.

The College's facilities and grounds have been continually upgraded to the point of now possessing new airconditioned rooms and to having access to a gymnasium, ovals, swimming pool and tennis courts.

The curriculum fulfils all S.E.A. requirements and is enriched by courses of study for Academically Gifted Students, ESL Students, Special Education, Speech and Hearing Students, Instrumental Music Instruction and Band instruments.

Special attention is given to the academic, spiritual, social, cultural and sporting development of each student.

The needs of the individual students are met not only through the active involvement of all staff but also through the College Chaplain.

The Prospectus and Application for Admission Form may be obtained from the College Registrations Clerk and should be returned no later than April 14, 1989.

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