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Problem No. 1 PRE-SCHOOLERS CAN WATCH AS MANY AS 54 HOURS IN A WEEK
Scourge of the gog e box Recent studies claim the average person watches nine years of television by the age of 65. Most are surprised to learn that so much time can be "wasted" in front of the "idiot box". The rising popularity of video games is not about to draw youngsters and parents away from the TV screen. It is arguable television is the most powerful
ironing, dad catches up parents to redirect their with the sporting high- children's energy away lights and children are from the television. deeply engrossed with the latest video game in the bedroom. Father John Jegorow Many households have reacts to some facts one or two sets playing at he gathered in a the same time for up to research of studies seven hours per day. Premade in Australia and North America. schoolers can watch as many as 54 hours in one week. Experts tell us the most In the first seven years. important learning takes a child soaks up the place in the first seven values and beliefs of the years of life and urge people around.
mass communication force unleashed on people. Millions are instantaneously in touch with a distant event. Few adults monitor, supervise or limit the hours their children spend before the television. Television watching has changed over the years. It is no longer a family affair. Mum has glimpses of the movie from the kitchen or while she's
Too much television can mean that children will absorb a foreign culture and learn values contrary to that of the home.
The all consuming experience of watching television prevents children from creating their own fantasy world and entertaining themselves. It limits the child's real life experience and substitutes an adult create'. television fantasy. The best learning for
children should involve all the senses and enable direct involvement.
If a child spends 50 hours passively watching television, it's reasonable to expect their development to be significantly retarded. It is time that will not be given back. Teachers find children start school with unreal expectations after years of cartoons and 'exciting' television. Their expectation is "please entertain
me" otherwise "school is boring-.
Before worrying about the poor quality of television programs parents should measure the hours television robs in their home. Despite the protests. the "on/off" button should be rediscovered in favour of talking. board games. crafts, jig-saws, homework. playing, reading. walking and family night prayers!
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Problem No. 2
Straying away from faith
Just over 100 years since Pope Leo XIII made the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre open to women, Perth saw the first two Australian women join the 42-strong local section that so far is established only in WA. Helen Medina and Carmel Stefanoff were invested along with Max Bowen, Brian Fox, Chris Jansen, Denis Lane, Ken McKenna, Brian Sachse, Peter Tuinder, Vin Warrener. The 20-minute ceremony took place during Mass celebrated by Grand Prior Archbishop Foley in St Mary's Cathedral last Saturday. in the presence of the Lieutenant, Clifford Holloway. The first investiture had taken place for 14 knights in September 1985, followed by a second for nine knights including a priest in 1986, a third group including one priest in
The faith development of children can b helped enormously if they see a parent activel involved in parish life. That's the opinion of Father Gerard Holohan in a two part article on: Young people — why do theN top? The articles were published in the Catholic Education Circular recently. In his articles Father Holohan takes an in-depth look at the problem and admits that the reason for the young straying away from their faith is a hard question to answer. He appreciates that the problem has made many Catholics and parents guilty. And he realises that a lot of soul-searching takes place as a result of the young ones straying away from their faith. Father Holohan does not offer any cures but has a few suggestions. As he says: "No single group within this community has all the answers to the questions. but all have much to offer in complementary ways to each other." He concludes that the question of young people's faith, therefore, should he a cause for dialogue rather than criticism within the faith community. • See Pages 6 and 7 for articles
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Carmel Stefanoff being invested with insignia. More pictures on Page 12.
The knights support the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem in the maintenance of schools, hospitals and a seminary in the Holy Land.
Helen Medina with her insignia. With expansion the group hopes to participate in specific town projects in the Holy Land. A group pilgrimage sets out in October this year for the Holy Land and Rome. As a section of the Lieutenancy of England and Wales. office hearers are Father Pat Ahern. master of ceremonies: Kevin Rosam, chancellor, John Walsh, treasurer: Peter Maguire. lay master of ceremonies: James Kenny. councillor.
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At this week's Sci-Tech filming of Sing Me A R ainbow, Barney the Rabbit wanted more than a share of the action from producer Clifford Warne (left) and his assistants Marianne Blowes and Trevor Filewood.
TEACHING YOUNG PEOPLE SOMETHING ABOUT THE WORLD THEY LIVE IN If a national network has been wanting the Sing Me A Rainbow children's program for the past eight years, "something must be working" says its author and presenter with modesty. And it it LS working. it is htx.ause the program is a happy blend of children's entertainment and daily faith in God, according to its producer. Clifford Warne. Clifford and his Sydney Anglican Television team have been in Perth this week for the eighth time in what he describes as a "unique" cooperation between ATV and the Christian Television Association of WA that so far has resulted in 50 half-hour productions of Sing Me A Rainbow and half hour documentaries such as Changing Australia. This has resulted in Channel Seven making an outside broadcast unit available for a whole week of filming at such localities as Atlantis, El Caballo Blanco. Dizzy Lamb, Sci-Tech. Endeavour and the Railway Museum. The program which is seen on Fridays at 4.30pm appears not only in Sydney. Melbourne, Brisbane. Adelaide and Perth but nine other country stations from Mackay to Albury. Clifford Warne can sum up quickly the reasons he thinks his program is proving popular. "Firstly, we hope to entertain people. If we don't do that they won't watch. "We also have to teach young people something about the world in which they live and we have to direct their attention to God as revealed in the Lord Jesus." The program. he says, was born of a dream
to have a program that Christian people would produce and in which faith in God is seen as a natural part of life. But Clifford had his own talents to add to the formula. "As a young fellow I had a burning desire to be an entertainer. but there's got to be more to life than making people laugh. "People need to know how to cope and the only way I found I could cope was through the Lord Himself." No mean entertainer himself, he describes his magician's skills as a "mischievious pastime". It was a pastime that had him begin his career on television in 1956 with NBC in New York and CBS in Hollywood. He returned to Australia the following year to become Channel 7's resident magician and ventriloquist and to become director of Anglican Television in Sydney. Television styles change and so does the technique of Sing Me A Rainbow but that does not mean that there are basics common to all good children's programs, according to Clifford. "Children still love stories and they still love to laugh. They love songs: they have an unsatisfied curiosity. Magic, puppetry and make-believe are always part of their world." he said. Can the program last? "You have a new generation every seven years. So where you are losing them at the top you are gathering them in at the bottom," says a confident Clifford Warne.
Not just entertainment "I wouldn't be in it just for the entertainment," says Trevor Filewood about his involvement since 1982 in the Sing Me A Rainbow program and for which he has travelled to Perth eight times for local filming sessions. It has influenced his own strong interest in church music and worship as well as preaching and teaching. But it also has big benefits for adults
as well as children he says. "I have been impressed by the number of people who have benefited themselves or in their families. I have known adults without kids who have found the program gave them assurance. "It means a lot to parents that there is something on television their children can watch that reinforces what they
want to teach in their homes about following the Lord, something they can talk about and watch together. "Just as the central message of the gospel is Jesus. His life, death and Resurrection, so these ideas are re-inforced time after time through the program." Marianne illowes. too, considers herself to he
part of a unique team of — rare in the industry these days — Christian television presenters along with Clifford Warne, Trevor Filewood and their puppets. She says her seven years with the program brings her the satisfaction of being able to present the gavel to the children of Australia and being able to tell them about Jesus.
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11 Cyclone Ned threatened to terrorise Perth but bluffed and did no more than swamp Collie rowers. Cyclone Aivu hypnotised Queensland into fear and then pounced destructively where it wanted. The lesson is that in a game of bluff between canny thinking humans and their natural surroundings, the brute forces of nature can win hands down any time. There are other cyclones and potential cyclones prancing, threatening and pouncing destructively today according to alarming trends spotted amongst youth, and humankind seems powerless to halt the damage. The trail of automobile theft and destruction by youths is past the joke of fancy name-calling but more than a change of vocabulary is needed. In post-cyclonic terms, the victims of car theft would be declared a disaster area. As with cyclone protection, the alternative is to turn home and car into a fortress, or live with the merry-go-round of ever higher insurance. Tackling the cyclone by stiffer sentences and the like is futile, say the other community voices who dream detachedly of cyclone free culture. A criminology conference report this week says that beer -swilling macho Austraian relaxation has reached cyclonic proportions that will affect car driving and how many other occupations. to say nothing of hospital ward treatment expenses. In 1985, 39 per cent of dead drivers were above .08; 60 per cent of South Australia's accidents involved 16-19 year olds. The can-toting gluttons of television advertising have apparently hit their target; not to have reached paralytic drunkenness over a weekend is a lost opportunity to many youth, to say nothing of their elders. Cyclones can come in either sex, say the weather bureau labels. Women mercifully are apparently less self-destructive; they would be exempted from a proposed alcohol ban on males under 20. Even more destructive cyclones tear through our midst but we are too afraid to look. 1987 statistics reveal that the suicide rate among male teenagers has tripled in 30 years, from five to 17 per cent of deaths of males 15-19. The blame says a newspaper report has been placed on the increase in family breakdowns. greater poverty, soaring homelessness, unemployment and educational pressure. The grief and personal trauma of affected families and the need not to sow even further destruction amongst youth may be a good reason not to talk too loudly of such matters but are cyclones forbidden to be mentioned when they are not happening? In this issue of The Record, two priests closely associated with the spiritual formation of youth in Perth ask questions about other cyclones that are tearing through our lives: the uncontrollable television set, and the breakdown of any worthwhile transmission of faith practice between parents and their rising children. The facile answer is to study the Queensland coast on its balmy winter days, to say that there are vast numbers of youths who don't steel cars, booze excessively, mame themselves or others, stare stupidly at TV or stay away from church in droves. The cyclone will not r ecognise this computer signal; it knows otherwise, that every youth is a potential victim. The answer to the national rot besetting some of our children will not be found in labels, slogans or abstract discussion, just as cyclones will not be solved in weather bureaus. Instead, the youth of today have to be identified for the dignity and identity they have. They are not abstracts. They are not some problem dumped from outer space aeons ago. They are the sons and daughters of very alive parents who were very much alive when those same sons and daughters did not exist a mere 20 years ago, 1969 for example. The cyclonic moral is not to blame the youth but the crop of rotten, or rotting parents in our midst. If we cannot point the finger at ourselves and ask the hard questions, why ask the youth for the answers they cannot provide? When the existence of cyclones is accepted and their potential damage recognised, many people live happy, intelligent — if not altogether trouble-free — lives. Parents could do the same. .
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Catholic power in polls MOSCOW (NC): Catholics were among nationalist dissenters and challengers in the unprecedented Soviet parliamentary election March 26, which swept reformminded candidates to victory is many districts. In the Ukraine, the Committee for the Defence of the Ukrainian Catholic Church joined in an appeal to voters to boycott the balloting for a new Congress of People's Deputies. The committee and the Ukrainian Helsinki Association called the elections undemocratic. They opposed a provision that allowed meetings controlled by the Communist Party to decide the slates of candidates. An election official in Lvov. Ukraine, said 36,000 ballots of the 800.000 cast in the city were invalidated because voters did not mark them or had defaced their ballots.
Parishes hard hit for cash PARIS: The Church in France is in financial difficulties and appealing publicly for funds. It is to spend £600.000 on a national advertising campaign to raise cash. Most of the country's 28,000 parish priests are said to be just on. if not below, the breadline, and having to scrape together as best a living as they can from sparse collections and fees for weddings, baptisms and funeral services. Parishes are finding it tough to make ends meet, so the Church is advertising in more than 40 French national newspapers and journals, appealing to practising non-practising and Catholics alike for cash donations. The campaign is organised by 97 dioceses. A cut-out coupon seeks covenants and explains that the French Inland Revenue allows a five per cent reduction from tax for such purposes. An average parish priest in the Paris area earns £430 a month while a curate in the Dordogne, who looks after five parishes, gets only about E200 a month. .
A journalist with a reputation as a crusader for her articles on public housing mismanagement, Alla Yaroshinskaya, won 90.4 per cent of the vote in the Ukrainian city of Zhitomar. In heavily Catholic Lithuania, candidates of the largely Catholic, nationalist movement Sajudis won clear majorities in 30 of the 42 seats allotted to the republic. The movement, which is the Lithuanian version of the Popular Front movements of other Baltic republics, is also in runoff elections for nine seats in which no candidate won a majority. The movement has the tacit approval of the Lithuanian Catholic hierarchy, said a knowledgeable source. Cardinal Vincentas Sladkevicius spoke strongly for Lithuanian self-determination during a recent event organised by Sajudis.
Warning on clashes BELGRADE, Yugoslavia: Yugoslavian bishops have w arned that clashes between ethnic Albanians and Serbians in southern Yugoslavia risked becoming an "irreparable tragedy" unless leaders moved quickly to resolve the conflict. "We are convinced that it is essential to give priority to the safeguarding of human life, ahead of any political, ideological or national choices," the statement said. "In the name of the
church in Yugoslavia. we ask all those responsible to resolve this drama immediately, because any delay could transform it into an irreparable tragedy." Serbian leaders claim Albanians are persecuting the 200,000 Serbian minority in Kosovo. Serbs claim the ethnic Albanians want them to leave in order to set up an ethnically pure republic that eventually could emerge with neighbouring Albania.
Major bid to do away with death penalty on minors JEFFERSON CITY, Mo (NC): Vengeance and violence are among the "dire effects" of capital punishment which the Missouri bishops called attention to in a Good Friday statement. testis himself was "a victim of capital punLshment", said the eight bishops. Abolition of the death penalty, they said. "would bean unmistakeable sign of hope". "It would send 'a message that we could break the cycle of violence, that we need not take life for life, that we can envisage more humane . . . and effective responses to the growth of violent crime." they said, quoting from a 1980 statement by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. "As a society, we must respond to crime. For Christians, that response must be in accord with our belief in the 'Lord of Life' who creates all people in his image and clothes them in human dignity." the Missouri bishops said. Understandably, people feel angry and frustrated when a murder is committed, they said. "But to inflict pain and suffering on another because of his or her acts is not within the highest call of a Christian. This is vengeanc.e, and vengeance does not belong to the Catholics and Christians of Missouri.
We see the Iiketims ( kid and the value of life in an innocent child: the bishops said. "We must learn to see the same in a criminal even as we sin the condemn committed." The statement was issued three days before the US Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of a Missouri man sentenced to die for a crime committed when he was 16 wars old. Also, the court heard arguments in a Kentucky case involving Kevin Stanford. who was 17 when he raped and murdered a young woman. Lawyers argued that imposition of the death penalty on denfendants who were minors at the time they committed the crimes violates constitutional prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment. The Missouri Catholic Conference is lobbying the state Legislature to pass laws which would exempt minors from the death penalty. Mike Hoey, the conference's assistant director said that the state's bishops oppose capital punishment "across the board." but particularly in cases where because of age. the criminal cannot fully understand the consequences of the crime.
September talks LONDON (NC): Amid tensions between their t wo churches over Anglican ordination of women priests and the election and consecration of the first woman Anglican bishop, the meeting between the pope and Archbishop Robert Runcie of Canterbury is scheduled for September. In an ext hang() of Easter
letters, the pope and Runcie Archbishop appeared to refer indirectly to the tensions, and each renewed their commitment to the eventual their of reunion churches, which split in the 16th century. Archbishop Runcie wrote that "because of recent events within the Anglican Communion. I want to make unequivocal the renewed commit-
ment of our churches to fuller visible communion in accordance with the mind of Christ". In his letter, Pope John Paul said he prayed that the light of Easter would give them confidence "in the face of the issue; which must be addressed as we search for fuller communion between Catholics and Anglicans". The pope said the
autumn meeting should be an occasion for responding anew to Christ's command to pray for unity among his followers. The meeting will be the fifth between the two leaders and the first in Rome. Previous meetings were in Accra. Ghana. in 1980: Canterbury in 1982; Bombay. India, in 1986; and Assisi, Italy. also in 1986.
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LONDON: A father of after all this time the five has been barred ordination is to be from entering the pri- cancelled. There has esthood because he never been any concealmarried as a Catholic. ment of the truth of Former Anglican vicar David's history. The David McDonald was bishop has gone to great due to be ordained in St lengths to make all his Gregory's Cheltenham personal details clear on April 8. Now his and has checked everyfuture is uncertain. thing thoroughly. A letter from the papal "I can only assume that pro nuncio in Britain, the Congregation did not Archbishop Luigi Barba- previously not ice the rib , told Bishop Mervyn details of his marriage." Alexander of Clifton that Mr McDonald served as Mr McDonald married Scottish Episcopal a a after becoming minister for Church Catholic. years. In 1956 he three This is "contrary to the rted to Catholicism canonical discipline of convemarried his wife and the Church which Margaret, also a Catholic, excludes from the priest1958. in hood those who have bishop informed "The previously contracted the pro nuncio in Lonmatrimony". Three years ago the don with scrupulous Catholic Bishops' Con- honesty that David was ference of England and married after leaving the Wales sent to Rome proof Anglican ministry. There of the date of Mr McDo- are things about this nald's marriage and his whole matter that makes reception into the one blush for the Church," Mons Buckley Church. said. Permission for ordinaHe believes Rome is tion was granted on June and reacting to panicking 3, 1988. The pope perthe United from pressure the approved sonally Church Catholic States request after the applicaupon seized has which tion was dealt with by the Prefect of the Congre- the example of Mr gation for the Doctrine of McDonald to lobby for the Faith, Cardinal the ordination of married men. Ratzinger. Mons Buckley does not This week senior the pope is believe Church officials in the behind the ersonally p by stunned were diocese cancellation. the announcement. Ironically, last year Vicar -General Mgr when Mr McDonald was Joseph Buckley, who has told that he could take worked with Mr McDonald at the diocesan his vows, he told The marriage tribunal office Universe any objection would not just be on a in Bristol, said he was "dismayed, shocked and diocesan level, because the the pope had given his by appalled personal approval. decision". Despite the pro nuncio's "It is a mystery to everyone concerned, that letter. Mr McDonald
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visit Indonesia JAKARTA, (NC): Indonesia's bishops hope Pope John Paul ll's scheduled visit to their country in October will help strengchurch-state then relations. Catholics comprise about 2.5 per cent of the nation's 166.9 million population, which is 87 per cent Moslem. Pope John Paul is visiting the country. at
the invitation of the government. The pope will visit Jakarta and other cities and is expected to visit the Diocese of Dili, East Timor, annexed by Indonesia in an action which neither the Vatican or the United Nations recognise as legitimate. Of its estimated 600.000 people, an estimated 393,000 are Catholic.
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By Davina Payne in The Universe went ahead with a pre- con the diocese has ordination retreat at responsibility for his Prinknash Abbey in finances. It may be possible to appeal against Gloucestershire. He gave up his job as an Rome's decision. oriental linguist at the "There exists a whole GCHQ listening post in procedure for appealing Cheltenham to prepare against the decree. It can for the priesthood and be made to the highest was ordained as a per- court in the Vatican. the manent deacon last Supreme Tribunal of the autumn. Apostolic Signature. "I really don't know Although he cannot what will happen. I will appeal against the pope, continue with my work because he is supreme, as a deacon and at the he can appeal to the marriage tribunal and I still see my future in the Mons Buckley thinks it Church. may be possible for the "I'm not unduly wor- decree of invalidity to be ried about the financial withdrawn on the side of things. I'm sure grounds that the pope the bishop will take care approved the ordination of any options which on the Congregation's might be available to me. initial recommendations. We will somehow cope Already, letters of prowith these things when test have been sent to the they happen." pro nuncio. One pariMons Buckley, a scholar shioner at St Gregory's in canon law, said that as described the action as Mr McDonald is a dea- "shocking".
Bishop Alexander's press secretary, Fr Michael Saunders, said he believed the bishop might be discussing the matter in Rome during a visit to the Beda College this week. • Three other former Anglican priests have been received into the Catholic Church and s ubsequently reordained. They are all married. In August 1987, Fr David Mead-Briggs was ordained for the Arundel and Brighton diocese. He is 78, has two grown-up sons and does parish work in Weybridge. Fr Peter Cornwell, 53, was ordained for Birmingham Archdiocese in March 1988. He has two children and works at the University Chaplaincy in Oxford. Fr John Heley. 60. who has two sons and three daughters, works for the Converts Aid Society. He was ordained in June 1988 for the East Anglia Diocese.
When help brings trouble LJUBLJANA, Yugoslavia (NC): Yugoslavian church aid to families in ethnically troubled Kosovo province has been misjudged as political interference, prompting discord between Catholic and Orthodox leaders, a Yugoslavian archbishop said. The policial crisis in the region is "very serious" and will be resolved only when ethnic rivalries are replaced by dialogue and trust, said Archbishop of Alojzij Sustar Ljubljana.
The Catholic Church decided it would be "a Christian act to help the people of Kosovo, where thousands of large families have been deprived of basic supplies for months because of economic sanctions against strikers and the unemployed," Archbishop Sustar said. the Unfortunately, church's action was "misunderstood and interpreted as a demonstration of political support" for Kosovo separatists, the archbishop said.
Among the eccumenical repercussions. he said, was that the Orthodox, the vast majority in Serbia, for the first time in 25 years cancelled thier participation in a CatholicOrthodox ceremony at Ljubjlana to mark the feast of St Thomas. The atmosphere of "misunderstanding the ecumenical discord" was partly lifted when the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church sent him a personal Easter greeting, Archbishop Sustar said.
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Straying away By Fr Gerard Holohan A frequently asked question these days is "Why do our young people give up the practices of their faith?" It ts a question that troubles many Catholics, especially parents, clergy and teachers in Catholic schools. Beinga hard quest ion to answer, sometimes those troubled by it can be tempted to point to beguiling and seemingly simple solutions such as: "If only we could have a good youth program and masses that appeal to young people in every parish"; -The Church should invest more of its resources in TV and the "Catholic media"; schools should teach the old Catechism again so that young people will at least know their faith"; and -The government should stop giving social security to unmarried mothers to discourage the spread of sexual immorality". No doubt we have all heard these sorts of Young participants in a Catholic ceremony.
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Yet, as they grow older, children need to be initiated by their parents' practice into the life of a parish as a stable community of believers whose pastoral care has been entrusted by the bishop to a parish priest. They need to be initiated also into the climax of this community's life, namely, the gathering together of its members to celebrate the Eucharist. Children need to discover a parish as a flesh and blood community. Ideally, they will come to recognise and know other parishioners as they see them contributing to parish life in ways which might vary from being rectors to participating in a prayer group. The faith development of children can be helped enormously if they see a
parent who is actively involved in parish life, for this deepens the bond between the parish and the family. In practice, of course, the bond between parish and family is being broken down today as people "shop around" for the most convenient or shortest Mass, or the family breaks up and individuals go regularly to different Masses. While there may be many apparently valid reasons for this, it does nothing for children's budding faith and leads many to see Sunday Mass simply as an obligation and nothing else. The breaking down of one bond between the family and the parish is a major reason why young people eventually "stop going", for it undermines their need to know a second community of faith. Further, given their need "to belong", many young people will find it too difficult to risk peer rejection by committing themselves to a "countercultural" Catholic faith unless there is another group with the same values to which they can turn. It needs to be stressed that a parish will be as lively as its members make it by becoming involved in it. The need of young people for its
witness cannot be underestimated. .As they grow older, they ask: • If Mass is so important, why do people keep coming late? • If a parish is a community, why don't people talk to each other? • Why do the same people do everything? Frequently too they note the conflict between what they learn about liturgy and the Sacraments and parish practice. For example. having learned the Rites of Reconciliation, they have been heard to ask. "Why can't we have Penance like we learn at school?" Also, the Church. recognising the need for children to learn to worship in ways that are appropriate to their ages and ability to understand, has developed the Directory on Children's Masses. If this is ignored at the parish level, children will be deprived of the pastoral care the wider Church has learned from experience to be important. Much more could be said about how essential a flesh and blood parish life is to children's faith development. The main point here is that there is no point in people wringing their hands about the young
seeming to give up the Catholic faith while they "shop around" for Masses, have little or no parish involvement, or resist the liturgical and other changes the Church has called for. How the Church's two thousand years of faitb sharing applies to Catholic schools is explained in documents such as The Catholic School. Broadly speaking. there are two essential considerations. The first is the lived faith reflected in the school's life, curriculum and teacher's example. This very broad principle raises a host of issues that will be discussed in other articles such as worship in the life of the school, its "hidden curriculum", the values upon which its subject offerings and assessment practices are based, and the witness of its teachers. The second is its religious education program which, like any educational program, needs to have aims and objectives, by systematic in its presentation. and be well taught. If parents and families fail to develop the relationships and lived values needed for the sharing of faith; parish don't communities examine their faith lives '•'''
from faith fruit of grace and freedom, and does not ultimately depend on the one who seeks to catechise" (be he or she parent, priest, teacher, or anyone else). This statement is not one that allows us to say, however "Okay, so it's between God and the young person, and I don't have to worry." Rather, it leads us to face the question of how "grace and freedom" are nurtured in the young person, and whether each of us is playing his or her part in this. The starting point for any reflection on how Catholic faith is shared must be to recall that to inclination lying is a comChristianity blame themselves: "What religion. munity What did I do wrong? It is not simply a faith should I have done?" between God and an Yet, while it can he good individual. at times for all of us to Jesus said he would be reflect on such questions, present, for example, we need to check ourwhere ever two or three selves against any impli- gathered in his name cation that "I" have (MT 18:20), His follwers control over my child- are his flock (In 10:14), ren's faith, or the faith of and linked to him and the children in my parish each other like branches or classroom. to a vine an 15), most of Faith is a gift of God. As all, they are his Church — Church meaning "a the General C.atec.hetical assembled by people notes, 711 (par Directory Adherence (to faith) is a God" (Mt 16:18).
suggestions, or at least variations on them. They all point to the underlying concern of people who love their Catholic faith, and want young people today to share it also. Many Catholics al_so tend to feel guilty when they see young people discontinuing the practices of their faith. O ften, parents and in particular are lergy c afraid to admit an under-
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This raises the question his parents — and the As we think about these, and the host of of how well parents are problem may lie there. other New Testament seeking to develop and Fourth, as alluded to texts which reflect the deepen their own faith already, the quality of community discussion of response to God. parent-child communiSecond, children can cation is a crucial factor. Christianity, we are led to the question, "What only share in the lived As children develop, are the faith communi- faith or their family lifes. their need to discuss ties our young people are It is not the words they even the most outragehear that are so impor- ous of moral views exposed to today?" family routine should be met around The first faith commun- tant as the daily family the family table or assumes that ity young people norparticipa- elsewhere within the family prayer, mally are exposed to sabbath home. parish the in tion today is family which is and the reflecOtherwise, it will be sometimes called "the Eucharist Jesus met elsewhere by people domestic Church". Given tion of values taught such as love, a spirit of poverty, forgiveness, hospitality and generosity in its daily life and activities. Third, for parents to share faith with their children, there are two who may not reflect the its importance in child- essentials. ideals of faith. ren's lives, particularly in The first is sufficient the first five years as well parental faith, and the These points, then, RS during adolescence, second is a parent-child while not being exhausthe family has a unique relationship that is per- tive, invite parents and position in any child's sonal. secure, affective, other family members to journey of faith. intimate and is characte- consider how their home While it is not passible rised by genuine and could become more to comment in detail mutual communication. effective as a community Often you hear, "Jimmy of faith. here on how the family dynamic affects child- has wonderfully comHopefully, it will be ren's faith, a few points mitted Catholic parents, developing one as all can be offered for reflec- but has dropped his faith: involved look at the the problem must be ongoing development of tion purposes. elsewhere". their personal faith, the First, parents cannot Frequently, this kind of lived faith of their family share a greater degree of faith with their children, statement overlooks the routine and the quality of have quality of the relation- their family relationships they than ship between Jimmy and and communication. themselves.
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Do you think the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John could have been written altogether differently — less vividly, with fewer stories depicting the drama of the encounters Jesus had with people who were suffering or who wanted to pose their most critical questions to him? Might not the Gospels have been written with a good bit less passion? Did the Gospel writers really need to go to such lengths to present Jesus as a living, breathing person whose heart could ache, who enjoyed friendships and who had the courage to make himself available to those whom others didn't want to touch? Imagine, if you will. four much different Gospels, written in the style of a textbook. perhaps, or analysing activities of Jesus from the disinterested viewpoint of a nonbeliever. Imagine four Gos-
peLs whose only aim is to teach readers "about" Jesus without at all intending to help them enter into a relationship with him and to be changed by it — to really know him. imaginary Such Gospels might be interesting in their own way and well worth studying. Yet, without a doubt, are they unimaginable. It is essential in the tradition of the Church that people know the thoughts and ideas of Jesus, that they know "about" him. But it also is inherent to this tradition that people know him as a person, and vividly so. It is of this tradition that people both hear and "see" Jesus. For example: • Scripture brings Jesus into sight, allowing people to see him in a vivid way. Scripture keeps the tradition alive. the does • So Church's liturgy, which is much more
than a set of words and ideas. Each Sunday Eucharist is a celebration in which the people of the Church begin once again to really "see" who Jesus is. • Again, you catch sight of Jesus in the lives of the saints — those of the past and those alive today. In them the tradition is kept alive. They are images of the one they follow. have Christians taken root in a tradition. It is a tradition that leads to Jesus and his story. This is a story that appeals to the hearts as well as the minds of thaw who hear it. It is the story's intent that people actually "see" who Jesus is. This kind of living tradition is so much of the essence that it is impassible to imagine Christianity without it. Christians are people with roots . And without the kind of roots they have, t hings would be entirely different.
Christians are people with deep roots. And these roots, which exist in a variety of forms, make a big difference. Being a person ot roots can mean passing on the story of faith through customs and traditions, "not as empty rituals but as meaningful events in family life", Sister Carolyn Mruz says. Landregan Debbie points out that getting in touch with one's religious roots can be as easy as reading a passage from the Bible or as adventurous as travelling to Rome to tour the catacombs. She speaks with two theologians about the
Father John Castelot says that in biblical history there were constant reminders of thc people's origins. For instance, the first ninc chapters of First Chronicles in the Old Testament forms one long genealogy, starting back with Adam, he notes.
Marianist Brother Leo Willett says that he turns
to his roots because doing so helps him to feel part o f something bigger than himself and to realise that he has his own part to play. "I see that God knows me by name and he calls me," Brother Willett says. Have you done anything to record your family's history or to pass the stories from your family's history on? Why is this important to you? Why do the church and its people go to such lengths to pass on an awareness of their origins their roots? Where do Christians come into contact with their roots?
Some of St Paul's untiring at reminding psalms, a homily and a converts at Corinth t he people of their farewell blessing. became rather uppity origins. It was natural that to Ezekiel wanted the had he and straighten them out. people to remain aware Christians. even after He didn't scold them, that it was because of their separation from the but simply brought God's favour that they synagogue, should join them back to their had come so far when he this practice to the roots. wrote: "By origin and eucharistic celebration. "Consider your own birth you are of the land All in all, our unbreakcalling. brothers. Not of Canaan: your father link with our roots is able many of you were wise was an Amorite and your Christian communthe by human standards, not mother a Hittite" (Ezeity. There's not much many were powerful. not kiel 16:3). of our becoming many were of noble If there are many chance rootless, lost. We are too birth" (1 Corinthians genealogies or family solidly anchored. 1:26), trees in the bible, it is But, Paul continued, because people were "God chose the weak of anxious not to lose sight the world to shame the of their roots. strong . . . As it is writ- There are, for example, ten. 'Whoever boasts, the first nine chapters of should boast in the First Chronicles in the Lord— (1 Corinthians Old Testament, forming 1:27, 31). one long genealogy, startPaul's purpose was not ing all the way back with to humiliate the converts, Adam. but to help them realise There were so many that whatever worth they ways the people could My mother treasures now enjoyed came from trace themselves to their record made of her a God's free gifts to them. origins and in this way father shortly before With Paul around, there understand better who his death in the late was no danger the people they were and why they 1940s. A lover of would lose sight of their did certain things. poetry, he had memoroots. many poems and rised For Christians today, so The same was true of many things bring its quoted f requently God's people throughout back to the roots of our them. history. faith. Archaeological disThe record immortaTheir origins were con- coveries are always lises his distinctive stantly being recalled in throwing fresh light on "crackly" voice reciting a their liturgy and at home our origins. But it is favourite poem. where parents passed the especially in the liturgy For me it is a vivid word to children in every that we repeatedly come reminder of a grandpargeneration. into touch with out roots. ent remember fondly. The psalmist outlined It also is a reminder of of celebrations Why do the pattern: "He set it up the store he put in using with begin Eucharist the as a decree that what 4111P/a/ ON his mind to the hest of his he commanded our a Liturgy of the Word? ability — a value he original the fathers they should make Because /Ara tea •.°11 It passed on to his five obserwere Christians known to their sons; so 111111,b children. that the generation to vant Jews who attended Ilike to think that many faitlifully. synagogue come might know. . . the in the future my years / and declare to their SOILS And the structure of the children's children will that they should put synagogue service was, in want to listen to Grandpa their hope in God" outline, an opening reciting his Lonnie (Psalms 78:5-7). prayer. readings from the poems. in The prophets. too, were Scriptures, response The Record, April 6, 1989
Katharine Bird talks about the role of oral history. She points out that oral history is readily available to people who want to learn about their own families and about their religious history.
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reasons why our Christian roots make such a difference.
By Father John Castelot
In the shade of family tree For Marianist Brother Leo Willett, a self-described genealogy addict, studying his family's history makes him more and more aware that he is "part of bigger - than himself. In fact, he believes his own vocation stems from his ancestors' heritage of faith.
By Stan Konieczny
Marianist Brother Leo W illett speaks of relatives from the 18th century as casually as if he had had lunch with them yesterday, he former high school administrator admits he is an addict — a genealogy addict. Discovering his links with his Catholic post and helping others uncover their roots are consuming avocations for Brother Willett. He spends some spare
how teaching a course on r.searching census recoils for people interestei in genealogy, the stud, of famil!, histories. imily research, you staitiut with an interest in tames, dates and plat. As you go on, you ,val!o put flesh on these bone ." he explained. Bottler Willett fleshes out the story using intonation from parish rear Is, agricultural surveys ax records and the fed.il census files. 'lien I read this info lation,Irealise that the/ People were real. Tiw, had their times. Ant begin to see that I am' product of these
people and their times." ble for my vocation. "In genealogy you see he said. providence of God the his Why search for carrying you along, even roots? Brother Willett responded by pointing to if you like to think that one of Christ's miracles. you are self-made," he "Do you remember the added. -The stories of my paralysed man whom family help me to feel I friends carried to Christ am part of something in search of healing? bigger than myself and Jesus was not impressed that I have my own part with the faith of the guy to play. I see that God on the pallet. Jesus cured knows me by name and the man because the he calls me." In 1986 Brother Willett faith of those who carried completed a three-year him. "In studying my fami- project to compile the ly's history, I can see sesquicentennial history of St Jerome Parish. myself carried to the feet Included in his book are of Jesus," Brother Willett said. "I firmly believe that vignettes of 91 pioneer my ancestors' heritage of Catholic families of the ' faith is largely responsi- area.
Oral history For them this part of our family's history may be one way of getting to know an ancestor and learning something about what he held dear. The story about my grandfather's record fits into what historians call "oral history". It also illustrates the importance of the spoken word in passing our traditions, our history, from one generation to the next. And this includes religious traditions as well as family traditions. As historians define it, oral history is testimony about the past transmitted from person to person with the intent of preserving it. Oral history is the kind of history that any person. any family, any parish corn-
By Katharine Bird munity, has at its fingertips. What oral history takes is someone with stories to tell and someone to listen. It means being attentive to what has been going on in family or community life. And it takes imagination to make connections between what happened long ago and how it might have meaning for our lives today. Oral history can he quite varied. It includes the stories about family history that a family passes down from generation to generation. For instance, my second cousin Prudence, now
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81, is preoccupied Pse days with writing On the stories her gOidmother told her. To us today listen', to the stories of our tors, the messag is straightforward: tre are causes worth goi to some trouble for."rhaps even going to if 3n and dying for in ex, ne cases. Listening to the ties of our ancestors. liOhe stories of biblical and saints, allows f to identify with thoseb° have preceded us. These stories are s' ay of orienting oursehl to the people and eyed' in the past that still special value.
Oral history also can include special songs. perhaps of ethnic origin, and proverbs or sayings that have special meaning to a family or community. Think, for instance, of the greeting the Polish community gave Pope John Paul II when he visited Detroit during his 1987 trip the United States. Translated, the special Polish toast says, "May you live a thousand years." Such special greetings are a way of reminding people where they came from, of what they have in common. Yet another part of oral history is recalling significant days or events. Long before the Scriptures were written down, Jews told each other
Sister Carolyn Mruz set out to save a portion of her family's stories when she began to tape-record conversations with her mother. "Primarily I did this to preserve my mother's voice for her grandchildand greatren grandchildren, and to give them a sense of history through her stories of what happened to her as a child immigrant." Sister Mruz explained. Later she visited her childhood mother's home in southern Poland. She climbed the steep hills and saw the places around the old
family farm her mother had described so vividly. "That visit confirmed my mother's stories, and it confirmed my belief in the importance of oral history," Sister Mruz stated. "It is much like our faith. We come to know so much of the church through our traditions, which are in a sense an oral history." She added: 'To be a people of roots means to pass on the story of faith through customs and traditions, not as empty rituals but as meaningful events in family life." If Sister Mruz had to choose one custom her parents passed on to her.
it would be sharing the Christmas Eve wafer, an old Polish family ritual of peace and rec.onciliation. "It is so deep and rich with meaning to me.I try to send the wafer to every member of the family at Christmas . . as a way to pass on that story," she said. Lucille Lawler has written six historical sketches.
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to the legendary circuit priests who travelled on horseback for months at a time to minister to the frontier isolated communities. "I want our children to know the history of our family." explained the 80-year-old mother of six, a former teacher.
"1 want them to know that their grandparents and great-grandparents Her ancestors were did good things. I want among the Irish immi- them to know that these grants who settled on the were people of faith. I banks of the Ohio River think these things can more than 150 years ago. influence our children becauseIknow that such Her stories include tales stories have enriched my of her family's hospitality faith."
Inroads to tradition about the Exodus, the day God freed them from slavery. And Christians told each other the stories of the past. For us, this is an essential part of transmitting faith. Through retelling out loud the stories of our ancestors in faith, we discover that "these people fought human battles with the aid of a heavenly helper who was involved in their struggles and lives", writes V. Bailey Gillespie in "The Experience of Faith". And being in touch with our roots can enable us to identify with other Christians and to accept as our own the values and morality that come from being part of God's family.
vast number of Religious and lay followers. "Francis showed that surprise to great effect," notes Gower. "Do you realise how many followers Francis had who were not just friars?" Treading through the No matter how one in Rome. catacombs chooses to begin, howethereal the to Listening rich the ever, exploring centuries-old of strains tradition of Christianity promises to lead the church music. Sensing the continuity adventurer on a transforming journey filled of the church's life of prayer through a visit to with surprises. an area Trappist abbey. God of and story "The These types of experienhumanity is the story of surprises,- says Dr Joseph ces serve as touchstones Gower, head of a theol- for Catholics, experiences which not only bring ogy department. Take for example the history alive, but open story of St Francis of the explorer to the Assisi. His decision to tradition and religious trade riches for rags both wisdom in the church. shocked and challenged Looking for "the traces his peers, and attracted a of what Jesus did and G etting in touch with one's religious roots can be as easy as reading a passage from the Bible or as adventurous as travelling to Rome to tour the c atacombs.
By Debbie Landregan said" in Scripture is a way to touch base with our roots, says Dr Bernard Prusak, a professor of religious studies. This can be done by reading the Scripture at home, joining a study class or by cultivating within a parish a caring community which finds ways to do what Jesus would have done in our day and age, Prusak says. "I think it is important to somehow get back to Jesus who in the way he lived saw himself as being for others and offering them a new possibility," adds Prusak.
"Jesus saw the possibility of a new future emerging now in the midst of human suffering and of all the struggle that life sometimes can bring," he says. Studying the historical Jesus challenges many "to rethink their image of Jesus a little bit, to look at dimensions they didn't reflect upon earlier". Exploring religious roots means not merely observing individual historical events or personalities, but viewing them as a whole, as part of a living tradition with means for the past, the present and the future.
"It's not just memorising the past. It is precisely accepting our past with all its richness but also with all its tensions and with all its struggles- and becoming the ones who pass that tradition on to a new generation. Prusak says. "If we're in conversation with the past, then we are walking into the future," says Gower. "History again is going to tell us about opportunities taken, opportunities missed, give us some guidance to future reality.
"Now obviously it calft predict the future, nor does it determine the future. But there is And accepting one's wisdom there that vife tradition means letting it need to know in order to change you. says Prusak better enter the future." The Record, April 6, 1989 9
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Medicine with a dose of caring love... dying of AIDS and cancer and other things, said Dr Smith. "It was developed initially as a charity but we hope to give women in particular, a place to go and learn more about themselves, in addition to the medical work done on menopause." Dr Smith said it gives women a chance to 'compare notes and help each other. Although run on a commercial basis, "we Dr Margaret Smith is would like to see the an obstetrician and place available for as as people g ynaecologist, who many possible". spends a lot of her Dr Smith does all her spare time in giving free talks to various non-medical work on a groups such as church, voluntary basis. women's, mothers and Because of her gynaecod aughters and any logical background. she v enues where her is able to put a lot of expertise is sought. expertise into her She is a co-director, lectures. with Don and Patricia With Patricia Michalka, Michalka. of the Attitud- Dr Smith runs women's inal Healing Centre in groups at several !mac Wembley and is presi- where they explore the dent of the Serpentine interaction between the Falls Holistic Centre. emotions, mind and The Serpentine Centre hormones. is being developed for They run a day group weekend groups and is for some of the top intended to he made women's groups, comavailable more generally munity groups. and give for people in all sorts of talks to nurses "not just mild crises and emo- on medical aspects but tional stress, people the more spiritual
aspects on how to look Centre when officially after women as a whole opened by Dr Jerry person". Jampolsky last year, w,L, Dissatisfaction with at the Joan Watters routine methods of heal- Centre but has since ing, took Dr Smith and shifted to the Catherine Ms Michalka to Hawaii McAuley Centre in in 1986 to do a course on Wembly. psychological self-help. "1 was not sure of the I was going to play role "I thought there had to be something else. And initially and thought it something more to me, would be a teaching one, with all my life but then realised I needed to apply the experiences." The two made an principles of attitudinal unplanned visit to the healing in my own life. "So last year I just went Tiburon Centre for Attitudinal Healing inspired in 'on the floor' as a group by Dr Jerry lampolsky member, finding out for and came away with a myself what I needed in desire to set one up here my own life." in Perth: this was Dr Smith says she has achieved last year and now let go of her misconbecame an Australian ceptions and has found first. much value in the books "At this stage I had been of Emmet Fox and the doing a lot of work on lectures of Father Justin myself because I felt I Berlitz OFM. needed help to get "The centre is simply a through my own fears, place for me to be where frustrations, anxieties, I am nurtured and can apply the principles in and a lot of anger. "I wasn't dealing with it my own life and particuvery well and found a larly in my medical new way in what Don work." and Patricia were doing The point of attitudinal at the Attitudinal Heal- healing is that there are two ways of operating — ing Centre." either out of love, or out This was around the time the Serpentine of fear. Holistic Centre was "I am a Christian and formed. operate out of love and The Attitudinal Healing have learned to be the
Dr Margaret Smith. same person in every role I have.
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"I operate in defencelessness, and in my work some may attack me because of their anger with others, but I give them medical treatment and love.
It is a person to person program working in little groups where people can help each other, with facilitators who've been through in the last few years and are now ready to help others.
"And many leave my surgery with the Mini Course for Healing Relationships, and achieve peace of mind." This year Dr Smith is a support person in one of the groups going through the program on Thursday nights: recently this new course attracted 120 people on the first night.
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Dr Smith said she considered herself "a learner" in the highlands of Papua New Guinea where she was the only obstetrician for many. many years. working in isolation under primitive conditions, and later a teacher at UWA's medical school for 15 years.
She has a busy private practice and has been associated with more than 10,000 pregnancies and personally delivered more than 5000 babies over a 30 year span. many of them high risk obstetrics. The principles of attitudinal healing "1 apply in every facet of my life". she said. "In the professional role, in my everyday reactions, and hopefully in my home life." Dr Smith is a home base for some of the people from New Norcia and offers a home away from home for the New Norcia monks when in Perth.
Reason for healing centres "The centre meetings The inevitability of cia Michalka and Dr are an oasis in my life," death is a fact we are \largaret Smith, with said a mother of an eight conscious of, but facing their helpers. endeavour year old daughter with a our own, or that of our to replace this fear with serious heart disease loved one, is a piercing love and in the process from which she could die shock to most people. change their attitudes to any time. at Handling the disease is life and death. one thing — handling "If a person is afraid all "1 value the honesty, our own emotions as a the time, it does somewarmth and laughter result of the disease is thing to his whole bodily and the 'Yes!! know what another. And the latter system and doesn't proyou mean' which is part is one we have to tackle mote health." said Dr of each session. largely on our own. Smith. "I am comforted by To lift people from that The centre aims for an meeting with others who vacuum and to change emotional, spiritual and share the turmoil of their desperation into attitudinal health, not Co-directors Don and Patricia Michalka. being human. . ." hope and offer a more physical. and although The centre, which pro- for people with catastroThe groups provide a peaceful way to die, was people still die, "they die And more positive its services free of phic illness and/or their good opportunity for vides the reason why the in a different way. They results from a 41 year old go complements People families. charge those with the need to Attitudinal Healing Cen- don't see death as a mother of two, whose tres now in Perth, Syd- failure and are not conventional medicine through the 18 day Mini talk and there is a lot of multiple sclerosis was RelaHealing and isn't there to pro- Course for support and comfort for ney, Brisbane and Auck- fearful", said the mote alternative tionships and Achieving them being with others hard to deal with. land, have been set up. Michalkas. methods such as faith Peace of Mind by Dr who are facing the same "My reason for going spawned from the origiJerry jampolsky. which traumas. The centre's definition healing or whatever. was to discover inner nal brain-child of Dr Ms Michalka said they offers choices as to how Jerry Jampolsky in of health is 'inner peace': Although the focus is peace." and to cope with a in their terms and to fill the gap for we perceive ourselves, not on healing the dis- the jarring facets of the needed California. Tiburon, and the world ease, a change in attitude disease which brought Fears common to those dying person can be people needing treat- others us and the ulti- does tend to change the up such conflicts as around healthy, having achieved rather themselves ment who gather at the centre, mate one of whether we disease course. "1 believe denial of illness, determipeace. disease, and their than are of the disease itself, or fear. if people achieve inner nation to recover by "It isn't simply dying the centre has now filled choose love death, loss, the unknown, principles are peace. it must affect their herself, frustration at not need. Twelve that and the future with all its with dignity — it is dying Groups are run from taught which provide a immune system," said Dr being able to walk, uncertainties. Co- whole instead of falling isolation, loneliness, and Mondays to Thursdays structure. Smith. directors Don and Patri- apart," they said.
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of the feeling unworthiness." The group meetings brought her "an opening up to love and seeing more clearly that I was living in a world of illusion." So she let go and things started to change for the better. "I became aware of stillness inside me where everything seemed quiet and at peace. "1 learned that if I stopped for just a moment to be with that peace, I'd come from a different place." And then it all started to happen. "I was able to be with my disability and it didn't seem to bad. "1 now have a stronger faith in the power of love and joy in my life. "Through this safe and loving environment at the centre's healing group, where I can be simply me, I have found peace." — CMcGH
Wanted: Young blood to help church body Father Pat Bishop Si is a member of the Archdiocesan Ecumenical Affairs Committee, which is in need of young blood to energise, develop and advise what the next phase of ecumenism should be. There are 15 members on the committee who are calling for young people in the diocese "who think they may have a knowledge of Catholic tradition, and our committee would be a gtxid way of developing that knowledge and said appreciation", Father Pat. "We have one young person, hut need more "One of our major challenges is that many
more younger people are given a vision of Catholicism with its immense c ultural wealth and t reasures it has to offer other Christians in terms of spirituality." The committee liaises with the Ecumenical Affairs Committees of other mainline churches, specifically the Anglican, Uniting and also has connections with the Baptist, Salvation Army, Church of Christ and the Quakers. 'The committee has worked hard to set up the Western Australian Conference of Churches, the ARCIC discussion between Anglicans and Catholics and what we are working on through the Conference of
By Colleen McGuinessHoward Churches right now, is an attempt to get conference bodies in each of the churches, to liaise with one another." Father Pat said they've got them in the Churches' Committee on Education which works for catechesis in State schools and there are a number of others such as in social justice, social welfare and others. The committee runs for itself, a continuing study of ecumenical matters and is hoping to develop a greater appreciation in Catholics, of the "remar-
kable World Council of Churches Assembly to take place in Canberra in 1991. "This is actually an educational process that we are just beginning to work on now," he said. Another area the committee supports is the Perth College of Divinity and the combined teaching by means of lectures from the Catholic Tertiary Institute, the Perth Theological Hall and the Anglican Institute of Theology. "We also run each year a study weekend with the other Ecumenical Affairs Committees."
ecumenism and ministry in the Church -and we are running one by Bishop Henry Okullu, Anglican Bishop from Kenya to be held at Perth College, Mt Lawley on April 7-9. He's been in Canberra for an introductory meeting on the World Council of Churches Assembly."
They've been run at the Redemptorist Monastery on the topics of local
Each of us must collaborate, said Father Pat, because none of the Christian Churches can simply stand alone and serve the human needs of Australia. "But our efforts are severely hampered by divisions when united we can achieve so much more for the christianising of Australian society."
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Power-packed weekend One of the most striking impressions about Father Justin Berlitz OFM, is his serenity. Not that he's one of these lay-back characters who has an apparent serenity when they have in fact 'switched off' and remain distinctly uninvolved with all the tough bits in life, but his reflects an attitude of mental
ability and a strong communion with mind, which has resulted in a man very much in control of his destiny. Justin Father believes if you meditate positively for a few minutes each day, the future will be all you could want it to be. Sounds great! And to help all those who'd love to get started but
don't know how, Father Justin is coming to Perth and running a Successful Relationships Workshop at the Octagon Theatre on Saturday and Sunday. April 22 and 23. For further details contact Renee Bennett 399 3455. The workshop is for those wishing to enhance life through meaningful in-depth relationships. "Each
love relationship you have been in. are now in, or will be in, is an opportunity for personal growth. "Many of us are searching for ways to build more meaning into relationships in our lives, to deepen them and have a depth of happiness that our senses tell us is possible." he said. Father Justin says he offers a power-packed
which weekend includes meditation. movies, song. dance, and discussions group sharings. In this workshop, he says. you will learn to see the beauty in everyone: learn to perceive pain and difficulty in your own life as an opportunity for growth; learn to be a gracious receiver and many other desirable goals.
Bouquets and brick bats Father Berlitz.
WASHINGTON (NC): In a letter to the US bishops, Pope John Paul II mixed words of praise for US Religious with sharp criticisms of "radical feminism and polarisation" and other aspects of religious life in the United States. The pope blamed lack of new vocations partly on a failure of Religious to live up to their calling and identity. "A continual state of flux. . . an excessive selfabsorption and introspection, an overemphasis on the needs of the members as opposed to the needs of God's people are often stumbling blocks" to potential VOCa t ions. he said. The papal letter, 11 pages long, reflected on the results of a study of religious life begun by the US bishops in 1983 under a special papal commission headed by Archbishop Quinn of San Francisco. The pope stressed the
primacy of consecrated life and community life for Religious, warning that "in many instances the apostolate or ministry seems to have eclipsed the other values." He called for an end to the "polarisation" among women religious, urging them to "speak to one another" and "remove the causes of their division". At the same time he reaffirmed the status of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, a focal point of c omplaints, by more conservative women's orders, as the official organisation established by the Holy See to coordinate relations with the Vatican and the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. He said that other associations of Religious can legitimately be formed, but these "are distinct from" the LCWR and the parallel men's
group, the Conference of Major Superiors of Men. In recent years women superiors who have refused to participate in the LCWR have lobbied to end LCWR's exclusive representation of women superiors on joint commissions of the CMSM, LCWR and NCCB. Pope John Paul also criticised US Religious for inadequate structures and exercise of authority within some orders. He acknowledged that "a rigid and autocratic style of government" sometimes found in the past had to be corrected, but said this could not be done "by destroying authority." "The substitution of a management model of authority for a government model is not the answer," he said. He warned against "a loss of personal authority or an unwillingness to use it?' Lack of authority in religious life, he said, "leads to a self-direction
and autonomy which are incompatible with being identified with Jesus, who came to do the will of the Father". In his comments on feminism, the pope told the bishops: "I concur with you in supporting and promoting the rights of dignity and women . . . However, a radical feminism which seeks the rights of women by attacking and denying fundamental, clear and constant moral teaching does not reflect or promote the full reality and true dignity of women." The pope urged the bishops to continue meeting and talking with Religious in their dioceses, as they have been doing under the guidance of the Quinn commission. "In your role as bishops you have the responsibility to teach all your people, including men and women Religious," he said. "Related to that
teaching office is the need and obligation to present a sound theological exposition of religous life." In their local and national discussions with Religious and themselves among regarding religious life, bishops US the addressed a number of tensions facing men and women Religious today. These included tensions over the relationship between community life and apostolates. especially in orders founded for apostolie purposes, and over different approaches to authority and government in orders. The pope said that "some of the tensions cited . . . can be dispelled by a clear and unambiguous theology of the church". He urged the bishops to "promote a clear understanding" of the relationship between religious and the local bishop and
the role of Religious in the local church by meeting regularly with religious superiors in their dioceses for "a more coand effective ordinated planning for mission". He especially urged attention to the community life of Religious. "Community life is at the heart of religious life: it is a distinguishing feature of this type of consecrated life." he wrote. "Religious life is vowed life lived in community. Religious are called to be an exemplary community within the community of the church . . . The holiness of Religious is inexorably bound to the full living of their community life." He said he shared a concern of bishops about "a growing secularisation in religious life." "Religious are not merely professional persons who assist in the work of the church." he said. 'They are at the
heart of the mystery of the church: they belong inseparably to her life and holiness. They are called to a radical living of the baptismal commitment common to all." The pope described Religious as "called to be a sign of contradiction, a witness of counteculture in a world which so often seeks self-gratification and fulfilment, which alienates the poor and the powerless, which is intolerant and hostile to minorities, which is noisy and strident and frenetic". In such a world, he said, the consecrated religious commitments to poverty, chastity, obedience, community life and closeness to God "offer a viable and feasible alternative to what is and speak the promise of what is to be". He urged bishops to "encourage and exhort them as they strive to live what they profess: like us they bear the weaknesses of the flawed human condition".
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A day of knights Left: John Walsh carries the ceremonial sword at the head of the investiture procession of the Knights o f the Holy Sepulchre.
Above from left: Brian Fox, Ken McKenna, Cliff Holloway, Vin Warrener, Peter Tuinder. Left: Max Bowen, Chris Jansen, Fr Pat Ahern, D enis Lane, Brian Sachse.
Ten helping hands Among the 10 volunteers painting St Church, J oseph's A lbany, is a retired prison nurse and a member of the ill-fated vessel Orionia. Nfrs Gay Widmer (pictured) was a nurse at the Albany Regional Prison from 1976 until she retired at the end of 1987. Her husband. Karl. is a cook instructor at the gaol.
Before coming to Albany in 1976. they lived in Mt Barker and
They were charged mark decision was seen "It depends on the with allegedly stealing in the High Court where Immigration Departa habeas corpus applica- ment whether we can the boat in Israel. They now live on a tion by the community stay in Australia." said pair were April the Last small farm at Torbay, adjourned Alan Williams. "Personextradited from the Can- was west of Albany. indefinitely. ally, I would like to stay Israel prison to ning Vale Under the Extradition here. The people of Alan Williams (pic- where they were granted tured on the higher bail of $10,000 and Act. the men have been Albany have been most rung). an American. was transported from a police unable to present evi- supportive." among the group who lockup to a Vatican dence of their claim. arrived at Albany aboard property near the Mount He started painting the Eleven members of the the Orionia on January of Olives on the eastern community, all Cathol- church in August. work22. 1986. with storm side of Jerusalem. ics. remain in Albany ing alone. But just before damage. Within hours Appeals by the Orionia preparing for the forth- Christmas other parishioners joined him in the boat was seized and group against the extra- coming trial. the task including Gay two of the community dition proceeding have Hempel and Etheredge Widmer. The job is members, Arthur Hem- taken the community pel and Laurence Ethe- through the Federal and will stand trial in Beer- expected to be completed High Courts and a land- sheba. Israel, on April 6. by the end of March. redge. were arrested. worked at the Pardalup Prison.
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Street kids worry By Greg Hall in the Catholic Weekly
IT IS A PROBLEM THAT CONCERNS ALL OF US
THE street kids of tomorrow will come increasingly from nonEnglish speaking backgrounds, youth and church workers have told The Catholic Weekly. This concern was raised following a successful sleep out on Bondi Beach to highlight the growing problem of youth homelessness in Australia — estimates put the figure at 40,000 nationwide and act:ording to the Youth Accommodation Association (YAA) 15.000 of these are in NSW. Called Light in the Dark, the nationwide event was marked by the lighting of a bonfire at dusk by a 12-year-old child in every state capital as well as Alice Springs and the ACT. One of the organisers. Mr Michael Kelly of Bondi Junction Youth Centre said youth homelessness was more than just a problem for the politicians to solve — it concerned everyone of
A youngster seen igniting the light in the dark at Bondi Beach as a gesture to alert people to the problem of homeless children in Australia.
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"What we were trying to stress was that homelessness is a symptom. not a cause, by any means — the cause is family breakup,- Mr Kelly said. "Families coming apart at the seams and a lack of love and care as well as selfishness when it gets down to it." he said. But Mr Kelly sees the street kids of the future as increasingly coming from non English speaking backgrounds, due in part to pressures of a modern western culture being placed on immigrant families. "Often you get Turkish or a Vietnamese child who is running around with Australian kids or is in a gang. With this exposure, they feel their parent's culture has become outmoded and what they want it not necessarily what the family wants, so the pressure builds to conform, and the kid leaves home,Mr Kelly explained. "1 think you are going to see a huge problem there, because of the cultural difference between themselves and their families, particularly in Australia because it is a free and easy society." he said.
In the face of this growing problem. Mr Kelly said it was sad that the churches were losing the young people. "In fact anything spiritual is not seen as the solution in any form or
Perhaps churches are too inward looking
class and middle-aged:' Mr Kelly said. "We are possibly losing these kids because they don't care, they don't know anything about God or spiritual things. "Just like Mother Teresa, you just have to be a presence among them." Mr Kelly said. The Reverend Bill Cruise of the Uniting Church at Ashfield also believes the future street kids are going to come more and more from n on-Engl ish backgrounds. But the extent of the problem is difficult to gauge because homeless youth lead transient lifestyles.
He says figures are hard to come by, and since last year he has had some another, so you some- youth work students do a times have kids going survey on the problem in past the church on their the Ashfield area. way to commit suicide. He said the area has a Mr Kelly, who works large number of families closely with the Wayside from non-English speakChapel at Bondi called ing backgrounds and in Chapel by the Sea and his experience there had the Reverend Clive generally been a huge Dominish, says perhaps cultural clash between the churches are too the parents and children in some families. inward looking. These clashes had often finding are kids "The the church.to be middle- resulted in the children
being kicked out of home, or worse, he said. "A few weeks ago. we heard about a Fijian family out at Chullora who had moved there recently. After a short while, the dad shot
Sorting out cultural clash in homes
some sort of crosscultural counselling. The Commission said they had tried it before and they had no success with it. Mr Cruise said, that while migrant groups such as the Lebanese Cultural Association had tried their best to cope with the situation. they were limited because they, too, were caught up with Lebanese values. Subsequently, Mr Cruise has struck out on his own and gathered together a group comprising counsellors from the Italian Welfare Bureau and a woman who specialises in Middle Eastern Affairs and cultural and Islamic studies. "At least there is some sort of assistance for the kids and their parents. The problem will be breaking through to the parents," Mr Cruise said.
through, some months later the mother left as well and the children were being looked after by their 15-year-old sister," Mr Cruise said. Coping with providing for In trying to address the accommodation cultural clash in migrant young homeless people homes, Mr Cruise said he is the job of the Youth put all of his information Accommodation Associtogether and presented it ation (YAA). the adminto the Ethnic Affairs istration arm of more Commission and recom- than 100 youth refuges mended that there be . throughNW. . . .
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Poets. Prophets and Pragmatists. .4 .Vett. Challenge to Religious Life by Evelyn Woodward. Published by Collins Dine. $14.95. Pluralism is the phenomenon of modern society that has been both feared and welcomed by the Church. Nowhere has it brought about more change than in religious communities. It is this process of change that Evelyn Woodward discusses in Poets. Prophets and Pragmatists. In holding together the rich and potentially conflicting variety of an increasingly pluralised religious life, the leadership gifts of poetic appreciation, prophetic challenge and pragmatic programming are presented as ways of enhancing unity. Problems of formation, marginality, stress, burnout and depression can he resolved by the use of empathy, not as a mere skill, fundamental as but spirituality. Each chapter in this hook has a series of questions and themes for reflection, which help to apply the theory presented to life as it is experienced from day to day
Tapestry by Bella Plain. Published by Collins. irk $29.95. In Tapestry Reba Plain once again weaves her storytelling magic as she carries the saga of the unforgettable individuals from Evergreen and The Golden Cup into the tumultuous 1920% and 1930s, into a world at war within the 1940s. Paul Werner, married to his childhood sweetheart, Marian. has reached the pinnacle of social and financial success controlling millions of dollars as head of one of the greatest banking families in New York But he feels his life to be empty and barren: his low for Marian overshadowed by his passion for Anna — an impossible. oncein-a-lifetime love. Surrounding Paul in his private and public life are men and women rich and and successful poor. doomed. His cousin, Meg. falls under the spell of the enigmatic Donal Powers, whose involvement with the underworld brings him up against the wrath of the Werner family. With Europe on the brink of war, Paul, in Germany, experiences at first-hand the rise of the Nazi power and the horrors of anti-semitism
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The Church's Mission in Australia by Mary Rose MacGinley PBVM and Tony Kelly CSsR. Published by Collins Dote. $12.95. The Church's Mission in Australia comprises three studies, two by M.R. MacGinley and one by Tony Kelly While the focus is on the Catholic Church, comparative information and many comments are relevant to other churches.
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MacGinley's first study traces the changing patterns in Australians' religious adherence — changes triggered by waves of immigration after 1945. More recent trends, including a decline in numbers of church personnel, are scrutinised for their implications.
Ministry Among AborigCatholic Beliefs and hull People by Martin Practices by Carmel Lea. Wilson MSC, published by ' v. OP and Margaret Collins Dove. $12.95. Netherton. Published by Collins Doll-. $16.95. Ministry among Aboriginal Catholic Beliefs and PractiPeople is a new study ces is a major study of contrasting the world views religion in Australia. Central of Aboriginals with those of Maestudy, second her In to the project are in-depth • Australia's comparatively Ginley considers the social interviews with individuals, recent immigrant groups. changes in Australia since some practising the Catholic Against this background, the arrival of the First Fleet religion, some no longer Martin Wilson traces the in l'88. landmarks as,sessed doing so. story of incomprehension include the displacement of The project editors, Carmel and oppression — tempered the Aborigines. Irish migraLCA%ty and Margaret Iletherby episodes of good will and tion after the potato famine, ton. ( together with their mutual trust — that makes and the population shift from c ollaborators) sought a up the history of contact rural areas to cities in the framework for interpreting between Aboriginal people inter-war period Studies of the data from interviews. and the Catholic Church. resourcethe leadership and They explain their choice of fulness shown throughout Wilson gives a concise and James Fowler's Faith Stage Church's history in balanced account of the the Thom.. for this purpose. Australia lead Mactiinley to stages of missionary contact then proceed to make an optimistic assessment of from the late 18th century careful and critical use of mission possibilites in the onwards. Some strategies What work. Fowler's future were enlightened for their emerges is an illuminating time; none was truly attuned account of fifteen life to the Aborigines' way (if life. who people trajectories. of THE HAWTHORNE efforts at susSurprisingly travelled though significant HERITAGE were based contact tained years of their lives in on attempts at agriculture company with the Catholic rather than grazing. Had a Church. change been made, he that contend The authors argues. the undoubted good their study raises important will of many Aboriginal issues about the way in groups may have been which people are helped or rewarded, and a meeting of hindered in their developAboriginal religion with as and beings ment as human Christianity proceeded less Christians. Their findings Mary Rose Maaanie.) PRIM fitfully The contribution of challenge the reader to ask Tony Kelly OisR individuals such as Duncan perabout The Hawthorne Heritquestions new McNab, and of groups such age by Teresa Crane. sonal life experiences and as the Austrian Jesuits, is bb Collins. pastoral by of Published the strategies noted. $29.95. ministry. Jessica Hawthorne is the quest for intimacy. Britt youngest child of ambitious 1. traces the fortunes of groups and influential parents who from ranging UK. in the T. least.' Bristol for Suffolk to secular institutes to renewal escape the lingering trauma groups. She reports on of a fortune made in the various experiments in the newly-outlawed slave trade USA designed to renew In the sumptuous surroundparishes by developing ings of Melbury New Hall forms of community Among she grows up. a strange. is the Renew program. these the isolated child despite currently being undertaken trappings of wealth about in some Australian dioceses. her. In neighbouring Old Mary Maritista The central part of the Hall, the home of the . Gferry N the many of book describes rian futlisb, I Fitzbolton family for generaChristian communities in E. Britt OP tions. young Robert Fitzbol%R..) Australia, their provenance Gra. ton lives, the friend and 114.0.4 and their differences from companion of her lonely one ProCatholic, another. childhood. inter- data about families — and testant The consequences to the In Search of New Wine as especially Australian famigroups. denominational of OP. death sudden the of Britt family Skins by Mary E. well as 'home churches' and lies. Contemporary developher brother are as tragically Published by Collins scripture prayer groups, are ments are evaluated, and divisive as they are uriforsee- Dove. $12.95. described and evaluated. suggestions made about for context able. In her grief Jessica a To create Special groups, such as ways the churches and other turns to Robert — and when assessing Australian ChrisL'Arche communities for the agencies can provide IOW Britt she loses her first tender tian communities, Mary handicapped and the House improved pastoral cur. The to her elder sister, Robert begins with the house of the Gentle Bunyip, are authors outline relevant again is there with the churches of the New Testaalso given attention. demographic information 20th the friendship. In of comfort ment times. Finally the author offers her and strategies to support As the bitter struggle for century she compares Latin own answer to the key family life. control of the family fortune American Base Communities question: What is all of this Mary MacLelland surveys rages about her and Jessica with the similarly named but saying to the churches? the literature on family types grows to maturity, too late quite differently formed (nuclear. network, houseshe discovers that the frail Basic Communities of Families in the Modern hold, extended. blended. prop of his friendship is not Europe. World by Mary Macteland so on). She traces the enough. Locked in a disasIn the West, alienation — land, Mary. Gregory and development of family from trous marriage they flee to and a consequent need to Brian English. Published the Middle Ages onward. So Fkirence. searching for the belong — has given rise to movements by Collins Dove. $12.95. too is Vatican ll's The love and fulfilment each has communal Families in the Modern Church in the Modern been unable to give the among church and nonVorld is a three-part study of World. church groups. So has the other
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NEWMAN SOCIETY Vatican II study group: Tuesday, April 11, at llam: Dogmatic Constitution on the church chapter 3, section 25. Scripture group: Thursday. April 13, at 8pm: First letter of St John. Both these meetings to be presided over by Father Dynon, at 13 Dean St, Claremont, 446 7340. On Tuesday, April 18, at 8pm, in the Senior Common Room, St Thomas More College Crawley, Father Walter Black M.S.C. will lecture on: "Academic Freedom and Church Authority". Contact No 446 1628. All three events open to anyone interested.
S PIRITUAL DIRECTION A full time professional spiritual direction service is offered by the staff of the Fullness of Life Centre. Further information can be obtained by contacting the Centre at its new premises. Fullness of Life Centre, Abacus House, Suites 4 & 5, 50 Angove Street, North Perth, WA 6006. Tel 227 6883. CHURCH WEEKEND Vacancies still exist on the Church Weekend to be presented by Father Ron Nissen SM at the Osborne Park parish centre, Cape Street, April 14-16. The weekend is primarily addressed to married couples and asks questions about identity as Catholics in the Church with a strong focus on the Domestic Church, the family. Registrations and further details Ron and Helen Howand 291 6168. Enquiries Peter and Veronica Dymond 574 2688 WATAC MEETING The committee - Women And The invite all Australian Church interested to a reflection evening at 7.30pm on Thursday. April 13 at the Catherine McAuley Conference Hall, Barrett Street, Wembley. Sue and Francis Sullivan will lead with a r eflection on their experience of Feminism in the American Church. Enquiries to Mary Droste 444 6679 DAY OF REFLECTION Majellans will hold a day of reflection on Thursday, April 13 at Leederville parish centre commencing at 9am and finishing at 2.30pm approx. The daywill be under the guidance of Sister Paula Quinn, Presentation. There will be a creche for all young mums wishing to attend; take advantage of this facility. Please ring Bernadette 276 2487 or Toni 342 5741. MARIAPOLIS The Focolare Movement annual gathering, MARIAPOUS, at Fair bridge Village, Pinjarra, Friday Tuesday April 21-25, is open to whole families, single everyone 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. RN 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. VESTMENTS MADE The Carmelite Sisters of Gelorup are able again to accept a limited number of orders for vestments. Write to Carmel at Gelorup 6230 or phone (097) 95 7807
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April Blessing and opening Kolbe College. 9 A rchbishop Foley Seniors' Week Mass, St Mary's Cathedral. Bishop Healy. Parish Assembly day. 16 Silver Jubilee, St Francis Xavier parish East Cannington. Bishop Healy. 17 Inter church clergy golf day 18 Final vows Sister Mary Carmelite Monastery Archbishop Foley. 19 Heads of Churches meeting Archbishop Foley 22 Manapolis at Fairbridge ArchbishOp Foley 23 Commissioning of Rev Las Goods at Cottage Hospice. Archbishop Foy. 25 ANZAC Day Service Bishop Healy. 26 Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference (till May 5) Archbishop Foley and Bishop Healy 28 - A rchdioc esan A S_Sefllbiy A rchbi 30 shop Foley and Bishop Healy May Northam convent centenary Arch6 bishop Foley 11 Council of Priests Archbishop Foley and Bishop Healy 14 Year of Mission perish celebrations Confirmation and visitation. New
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PASTORAL TRAINING The St Peter Centre for Clergy Education in Canberra is opening its doors to parish pastoral associates. The centre has provided renewal courses for priests since 1982 However, a pilot course in September 1989 will also be available to religious and lay people. Men and women who have been ministering in parishes will be welcome at the three months course. The courses are sponsored by the Australian Catholic Bishops and are held in Canberra. The director of the course, Father Tony Loth, can be contacted for further details at the St Peter Centre, PO Box 20, Campbell, ACT 2601. CARMELITE PROFESSION Archbishop Foley will celebrate Mass for the perpetual profession of Sister Mary Joseph of the Sacred Heart, daughter of Mr and Mrs Kiteau Topui, of Nuku'alofa. Tonga, at the Carmelite Monastery, Adelma Road, Nedlands, at 6pm, on Tuesday, April 18. No individual invitations will be issued but all friends of Carmel are welcome to the Mass and the refreshments afterwards. PREGNANCY HELP Pregnancy Help thanks those who generously responded to requests for maternity clothes,
baby clothes, prams, pushers, cots, etc. More nappies and hand knitted baby clothes are needed. Phone 325 5592. BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE Anniversary Mass will be celebrated on Sunday, April 16 by Bishop Healy at 11am. Rosary Procession at 2.30pm For further information and bus reservations please ring 444 2285 (before April 13) for Perth, Highgate, Fremantle and Midland buses. SACRI Assoc Inc, PO Box 311, Tuart Hill WA 6060.
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