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Focus on Foley fervour CHARTING THE FUTURE
What has inspired Archbishop Foley's fervour for diocesan renewal, for a Year of Mission spirit and especially for a build-up to its crowning event — the forthcoming Archdiocesan Assembly? In this face-to-face interview with pastoral planner MICHAEL FOX, the Archbishop has given some glimpses of his zeal for charting the future directions of this Diocese, with help from its assembled delegates. • Text of interview on Pages 2 and 3 Archbishop Foley is girding himself and his diocese up for what he sees as a supreme ecclesiastical event. The Archdiocesan Assembly, pivotal point in his "awaken the spirit" drive to mark out a path for Church and diocese into the 21st Century, is designed as the summit meeting for the inspired activities and creativities of the Year of Mission. At the Assembly six hundred delegates will meet for a weekend's debate and discussion from April 28 to 30 at Santa Maria College, in Attadale. But what if the process doesn't click? What if the delegates fail to come up with a message, a determinate vision? That possibility never figured in the Foley vocabulary when pastoral planner Michael Fox interviewed the Archbishop to explore the origins and operations of his Year of Mission concept.
Archbishop Foley spoke of diocesan unity, of sharing experiences and visions, of priorities, of learning from other dioceses and of thorough consultations. Bright ideas and Ideas people" are not on his top list. What he clearly does want is a combined effort to understand "what the Spirit is moving the Church to do at this time". He hopes to see that combined effort realised at the Archdiocesan Assembly. To facilitate that process, he is importing a Mission specialist, Father Kevin Dance CP, of Sydney, who will have the daunting task of running the biggest program he has yet tackled in Australia. The Assembly will also make archdiocesan history as the first fully representative gathering of regional and Perth metropolitan Catholics. And the Archbishop is confident that every delegate will have an opportunity to contribute to the proceedings.
Symbol makes them different The cross on their emblem is a symbol that makes them different, Kolbe Catholic College students were told last Sunday. Pictured are the school representatives holding aloft the crucifixes blessed by Archbishop Foley to be placed in each classroom. • See pages 6-7
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Face to face with Other aspects and insights into the purposes of the Assembly and of the Year of Mission concept generally are contained in the following Fox questions and Foley answers at the interview in Perth on April 5. The text has been edited to meet publishing confines. Michael Fox: Where did the idea for this Archdiocesa n Assembly originate? Archbishop: The Assembly or the whole pnx:ess? Fox: Both, if you like. Archbishop: The idea of the Assembly was really (to achieve) the bringing together of the representatives of the Church. Part of that had already been done through a process within their particular organisation, or within their particular parish group or apostolic group as the case may be. (The aim was) to bring them together, enriched as they would have been through all that experience. so that together they might get a total vision of the Church. and hopefully a clearer vision of the Church's future developments. Fox: Did the idea of the Assembly itself come from other dioceses' experiences? Archbishop: Of course names are bandied about — of synods and assemblies and gatherings — and I've heard this around the other dioceses a little bit. But I think that the name was attached to the reality of bringing together these people
who had a task to do. shioners, representing That's because one of the their community. problems of the Church Priests doing special is that we think within work with the members our own apostolate or of their communities — within our own immediate community, with for example, the ethnic little or no communica- groups — will be there, tions with others. . . the aged groups will be there and so will the Fox: So we don't haw bishops. much sense of the whole Fox: How do you think — we just do our little bit it's going to work? in our own backyard...? Archbishop: Some of Archbishop: Yes. So my brother bishops were they need to hear others, amazed that we were in other areas, if they are gathering together 600 going to be able to create people for such an a realistic pattern for occasion. future development. But I'm assured that — with the kind help of Father Kevin Dance, a man well experienced in this area who sees it all as quite possible and a valuable experience — the whole weekend will be structured in such a way that everybody will have their opportunity to contribute to the final There will be about 600 vision as it is discerned. representatives of all Fox: What are the parts of the Church — attending people actually priests, religious and the going to be asked to do as lay faithful in the participants at the Church, with a special Assembly? place allocated to the Archbishop: Through youth in that group. the work of Kevin Dance But they will come also they will be guided first from the 110 parishes or towards some enlightenso, city and country. large ment on the sort of activity that has gone on and small. in smaller groups in And they will come parishes or apostolates from the various apasto- Then they will be headed lates and the agencies for towards trying to discern Church work, and cer- something of the comtainly representatives of mon vision of the the Aboriginal people. Church. But this is going to Fox: There are going to occur (as in interchange) be different multicultural groups and between small groups coming back to the big organisations? group. the plenary Archbishop: Yes. So (in groups. looking at interthe broad spectrum) the est areas, looking at the parish priests will be priorities as perceived by there with their pari- the Church.
Youth get a place
I think that somewhere along the line we have to remember that what we are doing is not looking for people's bright ideas but really trying to understand what the Spirit (whom we were given by the Lord in our Baptism) is moving the Church to do at this time. So it is not just people with bright ideas who are coming but hopefully people who have listened well, who have attuned themselves to the Spirit through their life of prayer, and who are prepared to listen and
Sense of oneness work with others in the Assembly. Became the Church is a bit of a mystery, but the core of it is the Spirit. If
we want to be in it we have to be attuned to Him. SoIthink that that's all a part of this coming together and listening and talking and praying. and so on.
Fox: What do you hope that the Assembly will achieve? Archbishop: A number of things that I feel are important will come out of the Assembly. For one thing. people will derive a sense of this oneness that the Church has, even though we work in specific areas... that we are a part of a whole.
I believe that we should be able to perceive some areas of Church life that have a need to be highlighted in our activity, both because of our own internal needs but also in response to a changing society, in which we live and in which we are called to contribute of our own richness. So besides seeing more clearly the priority areas which we have to address in more detail down the line, I think it is important that we realise too that this Assembly is in itself not going to change the world. . . that it is a historic moment that can help us in our future planning, in addressing the realities of Church and the realities of the world. But whatever the value in the Assembly itself, for those participating and
there's been nothing of I think that the priests the size of this Assembly found a great unity in this archdiocese as far themselves as they as I know. Way back in looked back on their history there may have traditions in the diocese been a synod, but what and on their realities of form they took I'm not today — the multicultural Church reflecting too sure. itself in a multicultural But the cross section of the clergy and religious clergy as well. and of lay people that But I also believe that will be assembling here the parishioners have felt is something quite that they are the Church, unique. that they do have someI think that some other thing to contribute, and dioceses have had dioce- that what they have to san assemblies as well as contribute is being clergy assemblies. accepted by the whole The size or, at least, the Church.
contributed to it. the future growth of the Church is going to depend a lot on the preparedness of people to grow in their faith, to grow in their commitment to the Lord. In other words, there's going to he no change in the diocese without change within ounelves. And therefore the future growth of the Church is going to very much depend on the way individuals, agencies and parishes in the diocese respond to a new vision
been less, but I guess that they were seeking to address the same problems. As we march forward in history we do have to take stock of our origins and address the realities of the current situation. Fox: So in some ways you are making history with this event? Archbishop: We're making history. Fox: What are your own feelings about it? How does William Foley himself feel about it? Archbishop: William Foley feels delighted at the response that the diocese has given in general terms to a process we started two years ago — three years ago? (Fox: Going on three).
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' We're making history'
Spirit's movement at this time, it will set the
number of people involved would have for the diocese which has
that has come forth.
Fox: Has anything like this happened in the past — for you — or happened anywhere else in Australia? Archbishop: Certainly
ground for development and planning and action in the years ahead. Fox: What happens next? After the Assembly? Archbishop:I hope that.
at the end of the Assembly, he able to draw together something of the vision that I've
perceived, having heard the Church. I hope to have that available and deliver it to the Church. as bishop. on Trinity Sunday. Before that happens. it will be important for all those who participated to read carefully the vision that has come forth from the process — parishes. agencies. apostolates. movements. whatever (their function) in the diocese. I think that they must then reflect upon them-
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Churches praised for stand on Aboriginal issues SYDNEY: The NSW shadow minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Mr Laurie Ferguson, recently praised the churches for their "forthright support" of the Aboriginal cause. He was speaking at the opening of new premises for the NSW Aboriginal Land Council at Liverpool. Mr Ferguson said that "the most heartening aspect of his involvement in the land rights issue was the broad. persistent action of the churches". "It has been reassuring to receive the many, thorough submissions by church groups of great diversity," he said. "The churches also played a crucial role in persuading the Premier to extend the submission period for the Government's Green Paper," Mr Ferguson said. Mr Ferguson told the large audience "to hold the line on this vital issue". He believed the new office complex typified the finer foundations for Aboriginals that were arising from the State legislations which had to be vigorously defended this year. In a further statement, Mr Ferguson has highlighted the stand of The Catholic Weekly on Aboriginal issues.
I'm convinced that the process has been of great value and will bring the diocese to a focus. And I believe that if we approach it in the spirit of prayer and listening and discernment of the
SYDNEY: A major international organisation working to end hunger has called on politicians to join homeless children on the street for a night to understand what it is to be homeless. Chief executive of The Hunger Project. Dr David Crossley, said that politicians are making deci-
sions about youth homelessness without having any firsthand experience
of being homeless.
"More than 25.000
children under
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Australia are Fourth World citizens in a First
World country," said Dr
There are currently an estimated 25-70,000 hemele s s children
on Australian streets. Is this their future?
Crossley. "Homeless kids are just like the hungry people in Third World countries
who also need opportliPities to end their MVP,
hunger.
"When hungry- pr'flple
are given access to land. improved seeds, tools and equipment. and education and skills training they take action to end their own hunger. "In the same way, when homeless kids in Austra-
lia are given access to cheap accommodation, support services, skills training and help in finding jobs. they will work to end their own homelessness. "Politicians should spend the night with the
kids so they can understand at firsthand exactly what opportunities the kids need.- The Catholic Weekly
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William Foley feels the at delighted response that the diocese has given in general terms to a process we started two years ago — three years ago?
it's probably something that's been nagging at you for a while now. You want to do something positive with your life, you want to help make the world a better place, you want to put your Christian values to practical use . . .
I think that the priests found a great unity themselves as they looked back on their traditions in the diocese and on their realities of today — the multicultural church reflecting itself in a multicultural clergy as well.
How? We Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (priests and brothers) are Catholic men who heard this same voice. We came from all walks of life, and all social and intellectual backgrounds. Together now, we are spreading God's message of love through traditional and newer ministries in Australia and overseas. As a network of modern religious communities we have so much to offer . . . we believe you have too. For information about our formation programs for
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selves.., their own activities, their own priorities.., to see how they match up to this new vision of Church. I think that there's going to be a need too for people to work closely and to guide this reflection for change. How that will work out. I'm not sure, but certain areas should appear as priorities that must be addressed. New apostolates will have to be
younger and mature-age men, contact: Fr Peter Steane MSC, Navarre House, PO Box 349. Drummoyne NSW 2047. and developed facilitated. But Iguess that, as we've grown so far through one step at a time, so likewise the future. Fox: You obviously see this as part of an ongoing process? Archbishop: Certainly, part of a process. This is just a staging camp. Fox: Do you have any message for Catholics as
we the approach Assembly? Archbishop: Well, yes, I have. There will be 600 at the Assembly, but there are more than 200,000 Catholics out there in the midst of Perth somewhere and in the country areas of the diocese. Iwould hope to feel that they were one in prayer in the weeks leading up to that Assembly, and especially over the wee-
kend of the Assembly... that they really sense a unity with those who have come together, a unity and sense too that they can support them through their prayerfulness. that they can help them to be open to the Spirit, and courageous too in discerning any change that should be made to priorities or directions in the life of the Church of Perth.
Haven needs help SYDNEY: It is one o'clock in the morning. A frightened and tired young boy is looking for somewhere to live. A crisis at home has made him one of the shadowy young human fringe. What will happen to him? The public can help so that he does not fall into the hands of those who prey on the homeless young in our city. Despite what some people think, there are ways of helping these young people. And they need donations. Guest Haven refuge in Petersham is one such place that needs your support. At Guest Haven the St Vincent de Paul Society provides special accommodation for young boys without homes and parental protection and who are in a crisis situation. The boys are aged from 14 to 18. They are, says Neville Kellett of SVDP, taken into a caring Christian family environment and assisted towards development of independent living.
"Where possible, each boy attends school or works, and learns to be selfsufficient through acquiring basic living, domestic and financial management, interpersonal and practical skills," he said. "The average length of stay is six months, but this may be extended, depending on the needs of the individual. "Despite overwhelming odds, the Society manages to improve the quality of life for 15 to 20 youths each year, and hopefully they go on to become more responsible members of the community." The Society owns Guest Haven and it is staffed around the clock by house parents, with weekend relief workers. A committee is responsible for Guest Haven's maintenance and upkeep. It is appealing for money to enable it to do up the hostel and carry out muchneeded maintenance. The Catholic Weekly
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The most notable feature, it would seem, of a large pro-abortion rally in Washington last weekend, was the gaggle of reputedly famous film stars mentioned by name and prominently photographed in the front row to be served up in Australian papers. The staggering turnout aside, — gestimated beween 300,000 and 600,000 — far off readers in Australia could wonder why they are told to bow in adoration at the presence and comment of such as Jane Fonda and daughter and other so called family friends like Whoopi Goldberg, Morgan Fairchild, Cybil Shepherd. Considering that the world — and not just the USA — has finally been relieved of neverending childish riduculing of Ronald Reagan because he once was a Hollywood actor, one wonders when the publicity machines will give equal opportunity and tear to pieces the rest of the phony parade of our screen heroines. The incestuous pre-occupation of newspapers with film idols has reached disease proportions when scarcely a weekend supplement appears without yet another screen biography or the umpteenth replay of the Marilyn Monroe story. And the shoddy, sordid tale of adultery, debauchery, drug-taking and financial manipulation pours out in a trail right down to the near destruction of 16 year old Drew Armstrong of ET fame. Hundreds of names appear at the end of any film, showing without whom no film would have been a success. The star system of Hollywood and Elstree has been debunked time and time again yet screen idols are pumped down the public throat as oracles of truth. The abortion industry, it seems, knows how to mix it with the mammon of iniquity and cash in on the children of darkness. Guest editorial THE UNIVERSE THE September visit of Archbishop Runcie to the Pope is timely and should be of mutual benefit. After the Canterbury encounter in 1982 and the positive progress of the Inter-Church Process there can be no question of turning back from the path of reconciliation and eventual Christian unity. But new and dangerous developments threaten delay and even temporary disruption. The meeting is no panic measure. It has been planned for some time and is clearly necessary in the aftermath of last summer's Lambeth Conference and what has happened since. The Archbishop and the Pope will each have their own agenda for discussion Archbishop Runcie will no doubt take the opportunity to remind the Pope how the jealously-guarded autonomy of each Anglican province leads to strengths and stresses within that communion. He needs to explain that women priests and the recent ordination as bishop in the United States of Barbara Harris are as deeply divisive within the Anglican family as they are for inter-Church relations. Not everyone in the Vatican by any means understands or appreciates the particular flavour of Anglicanism. There is little point in Catholics reproaching the Archbishop for trying to preserve the external coherence of his Communion. He was powerless to prevent the American action. To have insisted on an all-or-nothing solution would have been foreign to the Anglican way of acting. Yet the doctrinal consequences are dramatic. Catholics in the UK need to remember that the Anglican Communion is by no means the same as the Church of England. On the vital question of women's ordination the Church of England has still to make up its mind. It is important, too, that Rome does not see a mirror image of itself in Canterbury. That would be historically and theologically mistaken. Other issues too are likely to emerge. The progress of Anglican/Roman Catholic discussions is bound to come under review. Theological and doctrinal orthodoxy among Anglicans may well be seen to concern the Pope as it does many Catholics. Anglican anxieties about alleged centralising tendencies in Rome may be raised. The talks will be cordial and mutually respectful. They way ahead though is likely to be painful on all sides. 4
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Kids not in Catholic schools concern SINGAPORE (UCAN): About 51 percent of Singapore's 22,000 Catholic school-age children do not attend C atholic schools, according to recent statistics. An Education Commission of Singapore archdiocese paper express concern over the finding and raised several pastoral issues. Lasalle Brother Patrick Loh, supervisor of Christian Brothers' primary schools in Singapore, said the questions raised by the COMIllitietil011 are crucial to the Church here. One answer offered to
explain why children from Catholic homes are sent to public schools cited restrictive government policies, convenience and preference as the main reasons. Until recently, a Catholic child could not get priority for admission to a Catholic school if he or she was the third or subsequent child in the family, reflecting the government's favour of a two-child family. In addition, those who live in new satellite towns find it more convenient to send their children to nearby government schools which are often of a
higher standard than the Catholic schools.
SINGAPORE: The Government is taking a fresh look at the teaching of Religious Knowledge as a compulsory subject in schools, but will not rush into a decision on its future, Education Minister Tony Tan said. There were three choices, as he saw it: • SCRAP Religious Knowledge (Christian and non-Christian) and bring back Civics. The disadvantage: students would be put through a course be to known ineffective. • SCRAP it and
introduce a general subject on the study of various religions, even though a past attempt at devising such a course had failed.
study a particular religious subject would do so.
• CONTINUE offering Religious Knowledge, but only as an optional subject taught outside school hours and, unlike at present. it will not be considered in applying to junior colleges or pre-university centres. Dr Tan said this last choice was "less drastic" than the first two, and meant that only students whose parents wanted them to
This option could be tried out for a few years to see if it was workable, he added. noting that such a change must result in very few students choosing to study religion. He said reviewing the subject was a complex and important matter and he preferred to take a consultative approach, by discussing it with parents. teachers, principals. community and religious leaders. MPs, academics and the
It is easier to talk about teaching a general course on world religions than to implement it, the Education Ministry found out about seven years ago. But the experience will not stop the ministry from taking another look at introducing such a course for upper secondary school students, Education Minister Tony Tan.
Recounting the difficulties officials ran into in 1982 when the ministry sought to introduce world religion as the seventh Religious Knowledge option for secondary students, he said problems cropped up the moment the ministry got down to drafting the syllabus. Firstly, the various groups religious could not agree as to what religions should
be included in the course. When nine major ones were identified with the help of a lecturer on comparative religions, there were arguments over which aspects of each religion should be taught. To make matters worse, the ministry could not even find an academic who was "brave enough" to try and write a textbook
Brother Patrick pointed out that government policies have changed. "Now that the third child, and possibly even the fourth child from Catholic families can get priority of admission into a Catholic primary school, it is all the more necessary that these schools be as wellequipped and wellstaffed as non-Catholic primary schools," he said. Catholic parents used to send their children to a Catholic primary school in hope of later admission to an affiliated
secondary Catholic school, but now admission to secondary schools is based on merit and examination results. The paper questions whether Catholic children in non-Catholic schools get Catholic education by merely attending Sunday classes in the parish. Many Catholic parents apparently consider the Sunday lesson sufficient for their children.
From returns submitted by parishes, it appears that an average of 654
children per parish attend instructions
classes.
With 22,000 Catholic children of school-going age, which gives an average of 846 children per parish, the conclusion is that not all are regular receiving instruction. The commission paper also questioned the standard of Catholic education in Catholic schools. "Since most Catholic schools in Singapore have few, if any, Religious on the staff. Catholic parents rightly question the kind of Catholic education they do provide," Brother Patrick said.
Religious knowledge poser publi( He was, responding to MPs who had called for a review of the subject in view of the results of a recent Community Development Ministry study on religion and religious revivalism here. Dr Tan noted that the study had con-
cluded that in introducing compulsory
religious knowledge, the Government had not been entirely neutral in the matter of religions. "By designating only certain Religious Knowledge subjects to be made available in schools as compul-
sory subjects. the
Government had given the impression of according preferential treatment to certain religions. "This is not in accordance with the Government's desire to adopt a secular approach and he even-handed in religious matters." he said. This was an important point and the implications were such that it was now timely for the ministry to relook the whole subject. he said. — Straits Times Weekly Overseas Edition.
Easier said than done on the subject. one that was simple enough to be understood by students.
The "final blow" came when it suddenly dawned on the ministry that, even if the syllabus and teaching materials were available, it did not have the teachers who were sufficiently conversant with the different religions to be able to present a "fair and unbiased"
version of each of them. In the end. Dr Tan said, the ministry gave up and the idea was abandoned. "But never mind. we will try again", he promised the MPs who had suggested the ministry replace its current religious teaching programme with a more general course. — Straits Times Weekly Overseas Edition.
'Cautious about Islamisation' SINGAPORE: — Malaysia has been extremely cautious in dealing with its neighbours while carrying out its Islamisation process to ensure that ties with them remain harmonious, Education Minister Anwar Ibrahim said. "But Idon't think one should expect us to compromise and not do anything with the Muslim cause just because we may fear that the neighbours will get upset." he added. Mr Anwar was replying to a comment made during an interview with the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation last Friday, which quoted some political observers as saying that the Islamisation process in Malaysia has affected other Asean countries, particularly in the way they deal with their own Muslim citizens.
Mr Ibrahim stressed that Islam in Malaysia has to be seen in a modern context.
He said that no change would take place in Malaysia "if we choose to ignore the position. sentiments of the non-Muslims. . .and I think this is a radical departure from what we call traditional conventional Islam which has been talked about in Malaysia for generations." He told about 300 academics, journalists and other professionals that the future of Islam in Malaysia was not only for Muslims to decide. Non-Muslims too, he said, had a role to play — Straits Times, Weekly Overseas Edition.
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Bishop priests nuns in big run ANGELES LOS (NC): — Auxiliary Bishop Carl A. Los of Fisher A ngeles and more than 40 nuns, priests and seminarians joined some 19,000 runners in the Los Angeles and M arathon pounded the pavement to raise prayers for religious vocations. The small group represented the Los Angeles Archdiocese and used the event "for church vocation promotion and to help create a better image of priests and Religious as healthy, wholesome and alive people in ministry," said Sister Kathy Bryant. director of vocations for women Religious for the Los Angeles Archdiocese. The runners, who included two brothers, collected about 10,000 signed commitments to pray for religious vocations. Nineteen reached the finish line of the 42.5km race, held in early March. Bishop Fisher, 42, completed only 12km because he had to leave to catch a plane for Mexico City, where he is studying Spanish.
Church SOS in Mozambique
brating Mass and bantering informally afterward with parishioners. For the pope is not only the spiritual leader of the world's 840 million Catholics. He is also a diocesan bishop, directly responsible for the spiritual welfare of the people in his diocese. The pope's diocese is Rome, with 2.6 million Catholics. the oldest diocese and most important historically in the Catholic Church. It was founded by St Peter in the first century and led by him until he was martyred around AD 67. Among the pope's titles
are bishop of Rome and archbishop and metropolitan of the Rome province. The latter title reflects the growth of the ecclesial jurisdiction beyond the confines of the city of Rome. Pope John Paul. since
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SHORTAGE OF PRIESTS, RELIGIOUS , This space would cost $18 MAPUTO: The Catholic Church in Mozambique, facing an acute shortage of priests and religious personnel, has sent an SOS to African countries. Maputo archbishop Cardinal Joseph Dos Santos while visiting Uganda last week called on willing African youth to join seminaries in Mozambique so that they could help in spreading the word of God. The country has about 230 diocesan and other priests, but of which only 38 are Mozambicans while the rest are missionaries particularly from Portugal. The archdiocese of Maputo which has got a big_ concentration of missionaries serving in different congregations has 60 priests out of which, only two are Mozambicans. Presently
there are nine established Catholic dioceses in Mozambique. Cardinal Dos Santos would like to establish more dioceses, thus the need to recruit Africans from elsewhere to go and serve in his country. Explaining why the Church has few Mozambican vocations, the cardinal said the Portugese missionaries who were heading the Church in that country believed Africans were not capable of running Church affairs. Secondly, when Mozambique attained independence "the late Sarnora Machel's Frelimo administration victimised the Church, nationalised many Church projects such as schools while others were turned into community centres."
Problems in Korea Korea K WANGJU, ( UCAN): The five-year plan of Kwangju archdiocese sums up many problems facing the Catholic Church in Korea: to be a Church of the poor and to serve increasing numbers of converts.
parishes. Within the next five years, it is expected they will have about 50 new Korean priests.
13 new parishes. which
some say will still be insufficient.
Kwangju, 320 kilometres south of Seoul, has 67 Korean and 21 foreign priests working in its 60
To serve these large numbers, five new parishes have opened. The new plan calls for at least
In a densely populated country where real estate is expensive, the new parishes face a major problem. Land for an urban parish can cost about US$300.000 or more, and buildings can cost another US$500.000.
being elected in October 1978, has taken his diocesan pastoral tasks seriously and with the enthusiasm that marked his years as head of several dioceses in his native Poland. The pope has visited more than one-third of Rome's 310 parishes, usually on Sunday afternoons. His only formal, written talk during these visits is the Mass homily, usually a spiritual message based upon the Gospel reading. The rest is informal giveand-take with parish groups and individuals. Papal remarks range from comments on the day's soccer matches, as soccer is the national sport, to praise and criticism of specific parish actions. The pope prepares for these visits by meeting several days before with the parish priests and diocesan officials responsible for that part of the city. Many times, these meetings are working lunches or dinners in which the pope picks up
anecdotes about parish life he can use to make points during the visit. Parishes announce the papal visit by sending out formal printed invitations to special guests and by plastering posters of a smiling pope on walls throughout the neighbourhood inviting everyone to attend. As poster art is a popular form of advertising, the parish posters often vie for attention with circus announcements, calls to political rallys and listins of classical and pop music concerts. Whenever possible, visits are planned around a special parish event, such as the local feast day, first Communion or confirmation. Even when acting as head of the worldwide Catholic Church in ceremonies at St Peter's Square, the pope often notes the presence of Rome groups in the audience and refers to local Rome events, customs and the weather. Many Rome church groups organising pro-
test marches or outdoor social events begin or end their activities with a papal blessing in St Peter's Square. Although the pope takes his pastoral tasks as bishop seriously, his responsibilities as head of the Catholic church do not allow him the time to become deeply involved in diocesan administrative affairs. For centuries, the dayto-day affairs have been handled by a papally appointed vicar, currently 71-year-old Italian Cardinal Ugo Poletti. Cardinal Poletti is assisted by two archbishops and six auxiliary bishops responsible for different geographic areas or pastoral concerns. There are about 1500 diocesan priests, who staff about half the parishes; the rest are staffed by religious order priests. Ironically, the pope's . resident church, St Peter's Basilica, is not the cathedral church of the diocese. Vatican City, in which
In the last five years. about 60,000 people were baptised. In 1987, Catholics totalled 150,833.
This causes a big drain in Church finances, and ultimately.puts a burden on the ordinary Catholic. To deal with the influx of Church members. money is needed for buildings. But by concentrating on these material needs, some Church people say, people get the impression the Church is "on the side of the rich."
the pope lives and where the basilica is located, is a separate vicariate with its own papal vicar for the slightly more than 1000 people who live in the 108.7-acre independent state. The cathedral for the Rome Diocese is the Church of St John Lateran, located outside Vatican City. Next to the church are the diocesan offices. But the pope is still tied to the Rome Diocese through St Peter's Basilica. The basilica was built upon the site which tradition says is the tomb of St Peter, the first bishop of Rome. Even when the pope is on vacation in July and August at his summer villa in Castel Gandolfo, his pastoral work as Rome's bishop does not stop. Castel Gandolfo, though 24 miles south of Rome, is part of the diocese. Each summer the pope strolls occasionally across the square outside his walled-in villa to the town church to celebrate weekday Mass.
Work of pope never stops VATICAN CITY (NC): — On many a Sunday in Rome, Pope John Paul II can be found in a parish church somewhere, cele-
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Itolbe's apt symbol: Carey A Norfolk Island pine planted by the chairman of the Catholic Education Commission was an apt symbol of Kolbe College because it was young and different to its surroundings, the principal Brother Patrick Carey said at the opening. e have made all this effort to establish this school as an expression of our community and therein lies its difference," he said. -The tree will be a symbol of the students who are young and whose roots will venture into the figurative soil of Kolbe Catholic College. to
KOLBE CATHOLIC COLLEGE absorb and be nourished by the experience in the school in their studies and development of faith. "Like the tree they will grow into a people who will stand out in society as people for others and committed to serving others, as a people
To cement the Polish bond with Kolbe College, the Polish community presented to the principal Brother Pat Carey through the hands of Peter and Vicki Podolski of Kwinana — whose brother Mitchel attends the college — a bronze medallion of the saint acquired by Father Jerome of Maylands from the Niepokalanow Franciscan friary in Poland where St Maximilian once lived. Admiring the presentation is Father Boleslaw Smok of Maylands.
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whose foundation in life is secure." lie called on the students to "try to become people for others and people who will co-operate with others and strive especially to contribute to society in a positive and public way." Taking up the remarks of Archbishop Foley that the college's task was to enable the students to discover their talents and develop their relationship with God. Brother Carey said: "Blessed and dedicated as the school now is, with the crucifix as a powerful symbol and reminder
Two students show off their school flag at the opening of Kolbe College.
of God's loving action and presence in our lives, our school will become a source of life and faith for its students and will assist to develop a loving and lasting relationship with God."
Brother Carey paid tribute to the interim board Chairman Mr L. Smith who, he said, has the ability of attracting and channelling the energies of Mandurah and Kwinana as well as Rockingham parishes,
He paid tribute also to the community interest shown in the high attendance at the first meeting of the Parents and Friends Association. The Kolbe College crest combined a representation of the
circle of life and the cross of Christ and -therein lies our difference" Brother Patrick Carey told his listeners last Sunday. The white crown of purity, he said, he preferred to be called one of integrity, that each person is aware of the other, of their dignity as a child of God, that they are true to God and His call to love Him and others, and to be true to themselves. He pointed out that the red crown of the martyrdom of Maximilian Kolbe is "the symbol of one who is prepared to pay the price of his conviction, for living out his integrity, and is a reminder to make real efforts on behalf of others". Of the vertical bars which are a symbol of the prison of Auschwitz where Maximilian Kolbe died, Brother Carey said: "They a are reminder of the horrors of that time. I hope our students will become aware. concerned and willing to do something about the horrors of our own time, about the hunger, poverty and homelessness of so many, or the destruction and damage being done to our environment, and other issues." The motto, he explained, spelt out courage to live out our faith and beliefs, and excellence was the striving to do that little bit more, an excellence which is a courageous expression of our faith.
Man of century with vision: Foley St Maximilian Kolbe is only because he spoke an appropriate college Russian, Japanese and patron because he is a Italian but because he man of this century and formed a team of believbecause he was a man ers for implementing with a world vision, justice and peace. A rchbishop Foley said at Although his vision the Rockingham blessing could be achieved only in c eremony he performed Japan, it has nevertheless endured to this day. last Sunday. "In our society we see There are very few saints about whom we people of so many counhave so much informa- tries coming to form a tion and the man who new Australia. He is well was to be ordained in chosen as a saint from World War I and who another country, but died in World War II — with a vision to choase all buth influential world people. He was a man of events — "we can feel to vision because he was a be one of us, since he man of faith, coming died less than 30 years from a family of faith. ago". "He had a great devo"If you want to prepare tion to Mary as one of the students in the coming foremost disciples of the generation for their place Lord, the Mother of the in society, you must be Church through whom part of the real world in much grace could be which you live and brought," he said. Maximilian Kolbe can Noting that Kolbe Colhelp," the archbishop lege has been launched said. in faith to prepare stuHe explained that the dents through to the next Polish saint was a man century. Archbishop with world vision not Foley said that although
St Maximilian did not dream of the age of present technology he led the church of his day in using the mass media of print and radio to propagate knowledge of God. Of the saint's martyr
death in Auschwitz, the archbishop said: "His death has a universal and imperishable message for today. His death by starvation in place of a father of a family was the ultimate expression of the life he
relationship to extend beyond the foundation of a school. The relationship was easier to see at the primary level, he said, because primary schools are usually closer to the Church. the children smaller and the school smaller and seen to be more accessible. and more dependent on parishes than in the case of secondary schools. "That pattern is changing and schools like Kolbe College are symptoms of that change.- Dr
Tannock said, pointing out that this matter would be a priority for the Catholic Education Commission in its planning for the future. This was not just a matter of consolidating the community base of the school, he said. "The relationship between the parish and the school community is also crucial in the long term to the willingness and the capacity of the school to be faithful to its fundamental mission. "It is the parish, the
local community, that establishment of the keeps a school on the Rockingham college. straight and narrow, and He thanked the Chriskeeps them going in the direction their mission tian Brothers for providing the foundation prindictates or demands. "If the parish loosens its cipal, Brother Pat Carey, and for the preliminary relationship with the work done by Brother school or withdraws or Max McAppion last year. distances from it. the school in the long term is He also praised the in peril as a Catholic Commonwealth governschool." ment for its assistance Dr Tannock paid tribute through a capital grant of to the dedication and $570,750 and for the willingness to work of forward financial arranthe local community that gements made available. as far ago as four years He thanked the state had pressed for the government for the low
Mr Smith gives Dr Peter Tannock a hand to plant the Norfolk Island pine. had lived in the camp. ready to give his life, just as he had given way to younger men time and time again. "Only love can be truly creative, only respect for the human person can help build a society
where men and women can grow with dignity to fulfil their task in life. "This college is founded to help young men and women form themselves in faith to contribute to the life of their society.
"The saint is a reminder not only to the college community but to society at large of what human life can be. "May your lives be full and the contribution from you to society be rich."
'Parish-school ties crucial' 1 he relationship between parish and school community was c rucial to Catholic schooling and it was crucial that this relationship be extended to Catholic secondary schools in WA, Dr Peter Tannock, the director of Catholic education, said on Sunday.
Praising the strong commitment to Catholic education by the local Rockingham parish and the surrounding parishes, Dr Tannock said it was important for the
Mr Dawkins, the Minister for Education unveils the commemorative plaque watched by Archbishop Foley.
interest rate loan, at four per cent.
In officially opening the college the Federal Minister for Education, Mr John Dawkins. urged the foundation students to remain on at school until Year 12. In that way. he said, they would give themselves the best possibility to get a decent job and plan for a career made more difficult today because it was unlikely that a person would retire from the same job
in which they started on leaving school. The best way to be equipped for those changes is to gain as much as can be from the school system and to go on to further education colleges. he said. Mr Dawkins said the government was pledged to the existence of a private as well as a government school system and he praised the distinctive link that existed between the Catholic primary and secondary schools.
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Finally you hear it! How many people really know you, with all your loves and hates, anxieties, fears, h angups, hopes, dreams? Chances are that most people would have to answer: "Very few, if any." Why? Because the only way anyone could know you that intimately would be if you opened up your mind and heart, without holding hack. That is rare. In fact, one of the most touching proofs of real love is the willingness to share oneself unreservedly with another, really to share one's self. Such self-revelation requires communication, and words are our common means of communication. In astounding love, God decided to reveal himself to his creatures, and to this end he sent them a
Word. Indeed, this Word existed with God from all eternity. Thus, the Prologue to the Fourth Gospel begins: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God." But this Word was not just a means of communication; it was a divine reality. In fact, "the Word was God". But who could hear such a Word? No one. That is why, in God's gracious design, "the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us". The inaudible Word now became audible. The invisible Word became visible, lovable. We cannot see divinity, but we can see flesh and blood humanity. Jesus is the Word by which God reveals himself to us. Someone put it this
nice fuzzy word. But actually, as used in the way: "You want to know the blind, the lame, the Bible, glory means the external manifestation of what God is like? He's disadvantaged, the Jesus-like." exploited, we get a pretty otherwise incomprehensible reality. When we hear Jesus' fair idea of God's concern When we sing: -Heaven for all his children words of compassion, and earth are full of your w ithout exception. forgiveness, reassurance, That is why the Pro- glory,- we mean that encouragement, we hear God telling us, in words logue of John's Gospel everything in the uniwe can hear and under- goes on to say imme- verse is a reflection of stand, how he feels about diately: "And we saw his God's perfections. us. When we see Jesus glory." Psalm 19 begins: "The reching out to the poor, "Glory." Now there's a heavens declare the glory of God, and the the firmament proclaims his DISCUSSION POINTS handiwork." Everything in creation — the majesWhat is your idea of a moment of glory? tic mountains, the Have you ever participated in an event that pounding surf, the delicate wild flowers — you later described as glorious? everything we see is What did you mean by that? God's "glory", a revelaA fter reading the articles by Fathers tion of his majesty and Eugene LaVerdiere and Robert Kinast, where might and beauty. would you say that you might expect to So, once again, we see encounter the glory of God? the glory of the Word when we see Jesus' How is the Gospel's notion of glory strength and tenderness, different from your own notion of what glory when we hear his wisis like? dom and words of concern. • By Father John J. Castelot
The Word spoke to us most eloquently in Jesus' p assion -death resurrection. This was his "hour", and in the Fourth Gospel, it is the hour of victory, of glorification. Scholars usually divide the Gospel into the book of Signs (Chapters 1-12) and the Book of Glory (Chapters 13-21). The book of Glory is the interpretation of Jesus' p assion -death resurrection. That seems strange, until one realises that these events were the supreme revelation of God's love for humanity. "No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends." (John 15:13). The death of the Word made flesh is the eternal Word's last and most important word to all people: "I love you."
Gospel as it really is ger might make some wople feel that their noment of glory has Most people would irrived. probably like to expe. This is the glory of a rience a moment of glory noment when everything at some point in life. eems to be going right. If you ask 10 ditterent People may describe people what their notion nything from a fine of glory is, however, you i elaxing weekend to an undoubtedly will receive degant party as glorious. 10 different descriptions of The perfection of events it. i,r the joy and elation of the What is your notion of moment produce this kind glory? if glory. Some people associate a "Glory," as you can see, is moment of glory with a ne of those words whose time when personal meaning is difficult to pin achievements are piling up town. one after another and Nonetheless, most people when success seems to be lave a notion of glory of theirs. ;mile sort. They may feel that And there's a lesson in exercising influence over his for people setting out others sweetens the o read the Bible. moment. The fact is, no one comes For others, glory comes o the Bible empty-handed with an hour or a day in — or empty-headed. the spotlight. What I mean is that The companions of this People come to the Bible kind of glory are recogni- 4-ith certain notions of tion by others, even low things are, or ought to adulation. Do and what words mean. Winning the lottery or I)!ople have certain pregaining a long-sought job conceptions which aa:omBy David Gibson
pany their reading of the turning some of their Bible. preconceptions. Now, the writer of John's People read in a variety of Gospel had glory on his ways and with a variety of mind. purposes. The part of the Gospel Sometimes what we want beginning with Chapter 13 from a book is a confirmaoften is called the Book of tion of our own view of the world and the people in it. Glory. What you get from John is We may seek support for a sort of introduction to our own notions. glory. But John's notion of It is no different when it glory may bear very little is the Bible we are reading. r esemblance to your But the fact is, the Bible isn't very obliging in this notion of it. In John's depiction of regard. glory. Jesus stoops to wash To explore the Bible, one has to be open to the the disciples feet. surprising ways it views Later he is betrayed and things. others attempt to humilThis means making a iate him. He dies, a victim conscious effort to really of scorn. hear what the Bible says As you read the chapters without first imposing our of John's Book of Glory, own preconceptions on it. you might at times find That is easier said than yourself wondering why it done, of course. is called that. But it is well worth the But this Jesus, who is the effort. For when an servant of others, fits the attempt is made to realk Gospel's notion of glory hear what the Bible says, just fine. its riches open up and the This is an example of how reason why it has been the Bible stretches people considered such a treasure by expanding their notions for so many centuries of things and even over- becomes apparent.
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Some things seem absolutely clear, but By Father Eugene LaVerdiere, SSS only until someone asks about them. It is like that with the too brilliant to look upon. For example, adults word "glory." John's This cannot be what St might draw a small Gospel says that the John meant when he child's attention to a Word of God "became wrote of the glory of the flower arrangement and flesh and made his Word that became flesh say, "Isn't that beautiful." dwelling among us and John was not describing But then the child looks, we saw his glory, the the glory of an oversmiles and says, "What glory of a Father's only whelming presence that Son, full of grace and impressed people with does beautiful mean?" There is nothing like a truth." God's remoteness from It all seems clear until human life and the rest child's question to reduce an adult to utter someone asks, "Just what of creation. is glory, anyway?" helplessness. He was describing the Glory is a common glory of a person in We try to explain, thinking it is just a enough word, and we whom God drew close to matter of finding the find it often in the Old us, became like us and words a child can under- Testament, which speaks lived among us. stand. It takes awhile to of God's glory in terms of That was the glory of realise that we actually brilliance. God found in Jesus every When we think of God's day, not have no idea what the just on extraorword "beautiful" means. glory, we think of a dinary occasions. In all likelihood, we may powerful divine light Some special moments never even have thought surrounding the preshelp up to appreciate ence of God and overabout it. that glory. To find them, Eventually, we recog- whelming those who the word "radiance" is nise that we do not have look upon it. more helpful than God's glory is too much "glory." to know the meaning of beauty. We only have to for the human eye. That There is the radiant recognise beautiful is why in the stories of for example, beambride, things when we see the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, God's ing, moved along by the them. wedding We may not be able to glory was surrounded by events of her day. a cloud as it accompanexplain what we mean when we say something ied the people of God on There is also the is beautiful, but we can their journey through radiance of a young show a child what we see the desert. mother holding her newAs St Paul wrote to the born child, and of an when we point and say. "Isn't that beautiful!" Corinthians, the mere awed father picking up Little by little, the child reflection of God on the the child for the first will learn to see what we face of Moses as he came time. Those people are see. down from Mt Sinai was radiant, and what we see 8
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in them is human glory. With Jesus, people saw a human glory, a simply wonderful radiance, but his radiance was also divine. St John did not try to define that glory. But it is clear to anyone who reads his Gospel's Prologue that he saw it, admired it, contemplated it and appreciated it. John also said something about it. He said it showed the Father's only Son, Jesus, full of grace and truth. What people saw in Jesus was a person who reflected an abundance of divine gifts and blessings. That is what grace is all about. They saw, too, that his whole life was consistent with God's graciousness and goodness toward him. The way Jesus lived was true to God's grace. Jesus was a wonderful reflection of God's goodness and love. He lived what St Paul wrote about in 1 Corinthians 13, when he said, "Love is patient, love is kind . not jealous. . . not pompous . . . does not seeks its own interests." That is why Jesus was the expression of God's
God's glory is manifested in and through our world, writes Father Robert KinaS The whole of creation — beautiful sunsets, hillsides covered with flowers, human beings — is oriented to th tory which is God. life, the Word of God, radiant with God's glor‘ We may not be able to define the glory that was in Jesus. But like the adult trying to explain what the word "beautiful" means, we can point to it when we see it in his disciples. We can show others what we see, hoping they too will recognise the glory of God dwelling among us.
This Week in Focus Part of John's Gospel is called the Book of Glory. But what sort of glory does John have in mind? That question is explored in this week's NC Relgious Education Package. John didn't exactly define the word "glory," writes Blessed Sacrament Father Eugene LaVerdiere. But it is clear to anyone who reads his Gospel that he saw
David Gibson draws a hint on how to read the Bible from his discussion of the meanings people commonly attach to the word "glory". If you want to know what John wants people to cover that the glory of God God is like, writes Father John displayed in the ordinal Castelot. look at Jesus. When places of their lives. sal' we hear Jesus' words of Father Robert Kinast. RI compassion, forgiveness and example, it is God's glory that reassurance, we get some understanding of how God shines through when feels about us, the scholar km share acceptance and adds with another person. glory, admired it, content plated it and appreciated it. And so can we, the biblici scholar adds.
Tuning into the Bible is surprisingly present. It is something like tuning the goodness of God that is most overwhelming into good music. You have to learn to here. Discovering when the really hear it. You have to are speaking Gospels happens what discover when you listen carefully about God and what they for the special sounds are saying is something and recurring themes of like learning to recognise a special theme of good the music. When you listen atten- music. Tuning in to the Bible tively to well-composed music, you begin to aLso means learning to realize that there is more recognise when it is to it than you first speaking about you or about the people who though. make up the church. Perhaps what you disAt first glance, the cover is that the composer was not as casual accounts in Scripture about his work as you might seem only to be had first allowed yourself wonderful stories about to think. Your apprecia- others: about a blind man tion of his work deepens who experienced a magas you hear more and nificent cure, about a more clearly the unique friend of Jesus who died qualities invested in the and was brought back to life. music. Of course, the Gospel A similar process occurs as people tune writers wanted to pass on marvelous into the Bible. But what these accounts about others. does this involve? For one thing. it But the Gospel writers involves learning to had an audience in mind listen for what is said — communities of peoabout God. ple with real needs and The God of the Gospels questions and longings. is not a pagan god — not What was written was one curious power written for people. among many others in And it is for people now. the heavens, bursting today peoFrequently onto the scene only to the ways ple tune in and cold in ccasionally o overwhelming flourishes Scripture is addressing them and their needs of grandeur. through their participaLacking such a god, one tion in small parish study first tempted at be might where ideas and to overlook what the groups insights are freely Bible actually has to say shared. about God. The process of discoverThe God you meet in the Gospels is close at ing the Bible leads from hand. In Jesus, the one level of reading to incarnate Lord, God is further, deeper levels.
We may not be able to define the glory of God, says Blessed Sacrament Father Eugene LaVerdiere, but we can point to it in Jesus and in his disciples. Jesus showed us that God's glory is revealed when we reach out to each other with loving kindness, not when we remain boxed in and separate from others. My friend was in a cranky mood. "Why aren't there any good religious novels by Catholic authors?" he asked. I thought I'd take him on. So I asked, "Have you read Graham Greene's 'The Power and the Glory?" My friend hadn't, so I loaned him my copy. A few weeks later, I asked how he liked the book. "Not bad." he acknowledged. "I could see the power part, but I didn't get the drift of the glory." A lot of Catholics find themselves in the same predicament. Though we repeatedly invoke God's glory. we may not get the drift of what is being proclaimed. On most Sundays we pray or sing the "Gloria" after the penitential rite of the Mass. When the reader indicates it is time for the Gospel, the congregation responds, "Glory to you. 0 Lord." After the offering of gifts, the congregation prays that this sacrifice will be acceptable "for the praise and glory" of God's name. During the Mass we acknowledge that "heaven and earth are full of your glory," Again, it is said that "all glory and honour are yours." And in the conclusion to the Lord's Prayer we hear, "Yours is the kingdom, the power, and the glory." So it is obvious that "glory" is a wellestablished part of our church's ordinary vocabulary. What do all these references mean? Where is this glory to be found?
Glory all around you by Father Robert Kinast
"Glory" refers to God's self, the innerperfection most which is God. This divine life does not remain wrapped up in itself. Instead, it is made manifest. As a result it calls creation into being. This means that the whole of creation. especially human creation, is oriented to its source, the divine life. Creation has an orientation toward the glory which is God. This rather abstract truth is experienced much more concretely in our daily lives. When we view a stunning sunset, a clear, star-filled sky, a hillside covered with
autumn colours, we are moved to a sense of wonder. We are drawn into the glory of God. Similarly when we love another person, when we discover common hopes and values with different people. when we work together to solve problems to overcome obstacles in our lives, we are drawn into the glory of God. God's glory is manifested in and through our world. As a result, a neverending paradox is set in motion: The created world, which is not God, manifests the glory, which is God. Some of the earliest Christian writers expressed this by
saying, 'The glory of God is the human person, fully alive." This paradox is lived out especially in the liturgy. This is where we bring the whole of our life and allow it to be drawn into God's glory, to be transformed by closeness to God. We do this, not by leaving aside our human experience and the physical world, but by letting God's glory shine through them. In the Mass you can see that God's glory is to be discovered in ordinary events and the things of daily life. • In those who make up the assembly or the worshippers. diverse human experiences of our world are represented. • The penitential rite expresses the ways we block God's glory. • The Scriptures put us in touch with the lives of our ancestors in faith and the history which has brought us to this moment. • Our prayers of petition point to the contemporary settings in which God's glory can be manifested. • Our gifts of money express the real world in which we live and work. • Our music, vestments and art bring the world of culture and beauty into worship. • Even the gifts of bread and wine brought to the altar symbolise our world, with its vineyards and grain fields. What this suggests is that God's glory is all around us. It is closely, intimately at hand.
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A new initiative to help keep kids out of crime, has been contracted to the Y MCA for a 12 month trial period. The idea is to reduce juvenile crime in WA — so WorksYde came into operation at 162 Street. Aberdeen Northbridge early last November. It has a staff of five geographically placed officers. Program Coordinator Mr Pat Farley and a clerical support worker. "We're small hut effective." said Mr Farley who believes the $250,000 budget for running WorksYde is a much cheaper proposition than the cost of $30,000 per year per offender who is in an institution. The target area is 1518 year old male and female repeat offenders (who have been in the offending pattern for a long time), who live in the metropolitan area and who have been discharged from community based offender programs or from Department for Community Services (DCS) maxisecurity mum centres. Young offenders released from Riverbank, Nyandi and Longmore Remand and Training Centres especially are targeted. This is an extension of work already being undertaken by DCS. WorksYde believes if they can place as many recidivists as possible in employment. their life-style
Mr Farley . . . Program co-ordinator. will alter consideraemployment fields, bly and they won't are not having their have the energy or needs met; so we're time for a life of crime. adjusting our programs to accommoSo officers spend date them". time seeking work for the juveniles through Mr Farley said they door to door canvassare also looking at the ing. newspapers. CES problem of persistent and informal contact, recidivists, "because previous plus we believe every often employers young offender wants approach them. to work but may not have had good role "We want to gain models". support from employers," said Mr Farley, "Some don't know of "because it reduces anyone who works or the amount of time has ever worked! So it When they get out. spent placing a kid." isn't part of their WorksYde sets about background. The placement officassessing whether ers are geographically "But these kids are they are ready for placed so they can going to be husbands. work or need a bit deal with an early fathers and mothers, more time in preparmorning call from an and if we don't break ing for the workforce. employer if the cycle, what will the "Most kids believe employee doesn't happen to their kids? only have two they turn up for work (in "And if they start the options — dole or which case they go to role, they working employment. But we his home and find out will become role modthey have 12 tell them why), and can look els for others." Workoptions: work expeafter the teenagers in sYde have placed 118 rience, short courses that area. kids since November run by TAFE and after' 'Looking and out of that Skillshare (the old means approaching number, only four CYSS), those run by them when they first have offended. Department of Educago into an institution "If you're working tion and Training or go on Community for eight hours you (DET)," and then Service Orders and there are the fun can't steal. The next motivating them to outdoor ones such as eight hours you're too use their time on the Westrek, Western tired! and if you have Court Imposed SancVenture. The Australthe bass you want and tions constructively. ian Conservation the job you want, They do a vocational Foundation, Sailing you'll get up in the assessment and often on the Leeuwin morning ready for help the teenager through the Sail work." discover talents he Once a teenager is Training Association, never realised he had. placed in a job he Employment 2000, Within the institubelieves he'll like, Clontarf Aboriginal tions they are encourWorksYde staff visit College. pastoral aged to learn "the him at least once a industry training extremely good skills week for the first with the Pastoral and available", said Mr month at his place of Graziers Association Farley. employment. at Yanchep. traineeships. and some are "We talk with his "Such as metal work, put back to school. employer and with welding, woodwork, the boy/girl. If we feel Some kids do really cabinet making, bicythey need more supwell in long term cle maintenance and we visit more port. employment. "but repairs. letterpress regularly. there is another group on; printing, and so who through lack of "After the first we don't want them to experience in month we visit fortwaste their time."
nightly and if the young person is suitable for employment. we gradually redu( e the support." At the end of three months, a phone call is usually sufficient to see how they are. "We don't want to make the kids depend on us. We want them to be independent. "When they're working they gain selfconfidence and after their first job can perhaps find the second one themselves." Mr Farley said they've found the won't teenagers initially go looking for a job at the CES because of low selfesteem or other inhibiting factors. Employers have proven very helpful and co-operative in taking on a previous offender because they want to "give them a go", said Mr Farley. Generally speaking, the teenager won't encourage their mates to visit them in the workplace because it's "their territory". And some employers will take an active interest in the employee and take them "to the footy or other sporting activities on the weekend. For some of the them it's their first chance to get in through the gate rather than over the fence!" he said. "And some even get to pay taxes!" Anyone interested in helping WorksYde to find employment for these teenagers would be welcome on tel: 328 6188.
Peer support scheme for primary schools, too Settling into any new environment can be fraught with hassles and traumas and it's even tougher if you're an adolescent moving into secondary school and leaving the known territory of primary life. Peer group pressure can be constructive or destructive, depending who your peers are, and with the need in most normal human beings to be liked and accepted, some will strive for that acceptance regardlesr of whether the sought after admiration and approval is from a good source or bad. Eighteen years ago, a Sydney health and drug Elizabeth educator, Campbell, was shocked at the extent of the drug scene among the young which was graphically brought home with the death of a 16-year-old boy through a heroin overdose. She devised a peer support scheme which was designed to build self esteem, generate selfconfidence, establish communication skills, give positive and supportive leadership and teach caring human relationships. Advocates of the Peer Support Foundation, which has now gone into every state in Australia including Canberra and IS now going international. believe the only way to protect young people against the many destructive societal forces, is to raise a generation with enough selfesteem and confidence, and with enough hope in the future, to resist harmful life-styles and develop the purpose to live effectively. Brother Brian Clery of Aquinas saw the program in action in NSW and was so impressed he brought the executive officer to Perth to run an in-service, to train Catholic school staff. That was back in 1984, and since then it has spread into 24 private schools and 12 state schools. The need existed however, for a Foundation with expertise and finan-
BY C‘,1leen McGuiness-Howard cial backing, to be able to spread it further to schools who couldn't afford or know how, to introduce it themselves. The Foundation also offers back-up support if already implemented programs need a bit more help and guidance. The newly established Foundation also hopes to bring the scheme to as many WA adolescents as possible not only in schools but in outside areas such as the Jesus have who People accepted the Peer Support Program (PSP) with enthusiasm. In NSW the PSP has now gone into first year medicine, nursing and police training, police youth groups and into one of the defence forces "because all of these people have been PSP leaders, seen the benefits, and were keen to introduce it into the institutes they attend", said Ms Rosetta Lenzo. Italian teacher at Santa Maria, who is an executive officer of the Peer Support Foundation of WA Incorporated. The Sydney University who award scholarships, have said the calibre of students was much higher in their recent a ssessments and all chosen were PS leaders. Telecom has seen the value of giving the Foundation financial support because vandalism in areas where there had been huge damage to their installations, has now virtually stopped since the introduction of the PSP scheme. The idea of PSP is that through helping adolescents to achieve selfawareness, communication and listening skills. they are better able to make sound moral decisions on their future, and thus develop a healthy value system. This is done by training adolescents in a program which lasts for three days. It is an intensive course in all the above skills. Ms Lenzo said Catholic
schools already have in many cases, good support systems through their pastoral care which helps create sound moral values but many other youths need it, and can't get it. "With the breakdown of families and frequent severance of family ties, many have no family structure to pass on faith and moral values which was the case in the past. "Our program tries to encourage discussion and thought processes which will allow adolescents to build up a code of sound morals to stand them in good stead for the rest of their lives." A successful factor in the PSP is that it is their own peers who are the supporters and facilitators to this discussion. said Ms Lenzo. It works on a grid system with the 16 or 17year -old leaders leading six 12-year-olds through a series of activities which encourage discussion and decision making. These small family size units give a sense of warmth and family, a sense of belonging, a support system and strong friendship base and encourage a shift in emphasis from negative to positive. Typically in a school year, ten students are trained in the program and are then given the opportunity to become PS leaders of year eleven students. Ms Lenzo said it is a voluntary commitment as the PS leaders need to give up their time and invest much energy in their groups to get the results they strive for. The year eleven leaders then look after six year 8s, meeting once a week for about an hour. Most schools run the program every semester with an evaluation at the end to see how the year 8s have developed, matured, and whether they've started making decisions based on faith. Ms Lenzo said.
Rotary International is giving "tremendous support and we are looking for similar support from the community here to become involved and help". Because of its unqualified success, Sydney founder Elizabeth Campbell has written a primary school program which the Foundation is hopeful of having implemented here in WA. The Foundation has just trained 12 primary school staff and envisages the primary school program as being a great success.
Ms Lenzo . . . Italian teacher at Santa Maria.
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DEATH McTAGGART Brother Eric CSSR: Very Rev Father Owen Ryan and the Redemptorist Community, North Perth, sincerely thank all who participated
in the obsequies of their late beloved confrere, Brother Eric McTaggart and all those who have expressed sympathy in so many ways. A special word of thanks to Dr Pat Cranky and to the personnel of the various hospitals and Silver Chain Nursing Service for such loving care over so many years and to all at the little Sisters of the Poor, Home for the Aged, Glendak)911, for special care during Brother's closing days.
IN MEMORIAM KEAST Jack Francis: Treasured memories of my beloved husband jack passed away 13th April 1985, dearly loved father of Sandra and Michael, fattier in lass of special Cramps of Catherine, Paul and Angela. His love and care leaves us with a family heritage. May perpetual light chine upon him.
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Brother Eric McTaggart's arrival at North Perth had been only a month before the laying of the Redemptorist R etreat House foundations in 1 966 and for the next 13 years he was landscape artist and gardener for the surrounding grounds. When he died at the Little Sisters of the Poor on March 31 he was holding the hand of his confere Fr Frank Smith, surrounded by the community
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Sir, F X Harman (The Record March 30) makes good comment about our need to work alongside young homeless people. The Catholic Church, through its workers, provides loving and supportive care to many young homeless people. The Catherine McAuley Centre houses 50 people between the ages of newborn and 18 years. Pregnancy Help provides support and accommodation for young women; other agencies include Ave Maria, Kiah House and Anawim. Youthcare, the agency in which I work, provides supported accommodation for up to 15 young people over 16 in four suburban houses. There is no set length of stay; young people have stayed for three years. It is difficult for young people to make any positive changes to their lives unless much time and energy is spent with them to build genuine relationships and to develop trust. At Youthcare we believe that we have much to learn from the young people with whom we share our lives. It is important for us all to see that the greater majority of homeless young people are not "street kids-. Many have a roof over their heads, although it may be a different one each night. They will often move among friends and until acquaintances they've worn out their welcome. There are many reasons for youth homelessness - for example, poverty within the family of origin; a need to escape domestic violence: incest; a breakdown in the parental relationship. Another reality is that most abused children are still living in their parents' homes. I do not know of one truly homeless young person who has chosen to be so for the adventure of it. They all have been
placed in circumstances which, in their opinion, have been intolerable I know of many young homeless people who would prefer their original home situation to be healed so that they could return to it No young person wants to be on their own with little money, dealing in drugs, prostitution, or stealing things in order to survive Homeless young people are generally victims of their own history, and our response needs to come from three levels one being our personal response to the home-
less themselves - - "Welcome the stranger, clothe the naked, feed the hungry (Matt 25 31-46), the second being our response to society's structures that help to create youth homelessness - hence a need to fight for justice for these oppressed ones, -Happy are those who hunger and thirst for what is right (Man 5:6). Thirdly, we all need to pray so that the future for homeless young people is a hopeful one rather than a hopeless one, which is how they often feel
Good reading from Veronica DYMOND, Toodyay Sir, How good to read Father Barry VVhitely's comments on lay spirituality (The Record, March 30). We, the laity, need to hear that our effectiveness as missionaries and evangelisers is to be achieved primarily in our "normal- daily lives. •
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Busy Perth weekend By Fr lot- Parkinson More than a hundred young people took part in three major events in Perth over the weekend of March 31-April 2. At Queens Park, 20 recruits were among the 35 youth who attended an Antioch weekend at St Norbert's College. Parent couple Phil and Maureen Cardy were delighted when the weekend began on a high note, and Maureen was still talking about it at school on Monday. The closing ceremony on Sunday night attracted many parents who were joined by Antioch members from as far away as Balcatta.
In Greenwood another Antioch weekend drew over 50 young people to the Carine Senior High School.
The Reconciliation Rite on Saturday night was a highlight, with Frs Ossie Lewis, John Dwyer and Joe Parkinson joining local priests Fr Pat Ahern and Fr Francis for the celebration of the Sacrament. Even the occasional downpour from Cyclone Ned could not dampen spirits over the weekend! It was great to see so many young people involved in these two weekends. Meanwhile at Mt Madonna, Glenforrest, 10 members of the CRYO team met to plan the coming CRY() Conference to be held at Bindoon in July.
How can they smile at breakfast time? Pictured in the kitchen at the CRY0 Weekend are from left: Kristi McEvoy, Keetha Wilkinson and Brother Terry Casey. Taking a break at the Queen's Park A ntioch Weekend are from the left: Delwyn Henriques, Carolyn Wieman and Gemma Galipo.
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Catholic Rural Youth Outreach is a small but dedicated band of young people who work among the youth of our country areas. Recent CRY° Conferences have been great successes, and the team are trusting that 1989 will be better than ever.
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rose between two thorns? Seen here at the Greenwood Antioch Weekend are from left: Mark Brennan, Karen Jacobs and Kevin Bos.
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Birthdays occur once a year, yet the joy when friendship is displayed endures long after the day becomes a memory. A simple acknowledgement of someone's individuality in the form of a letter, card or telephone call, restores our faith in both our own worth and the love of people who surround us. At the age of five, the significance of birthday centres on the type of presents, parties and the gastronomical delights that are available. However, as the material side diminishes in importance, the value of our relationships with people is accentuated. Age gives us the wisdom to develop courage that can enrich the way we share this earth with our neighbours. Although every day is a chance to learn, the actuality of celebrating
one more year of existence can lead us to active contemplation whereby we look back over our successes and falls and new some gain knowledge. Like a traveller on a world journey, we always have a backpack to remind us of the motion of life. The experiences we accumulate all add up to a multi-imaged photo album at the end of the trip.
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Orana takes prize
Orana Catholic primary school swimming team members are delighted with their efforts in the local swimming carnival for
large schools (in the Willetton area), which gave them the handicap shield. Thirty team members were coached by Mr
Wayne Rawlinson, who also teaches swimming at the Melville Aquatic Centre and is house co-ordinator at the Emmanual Centre.
Books galore! rANs ANFCIY[ EgisiEW .‘ancy Drew Files. Case I. Secrets Can Kill by Carolyn Keene. Pub by Armada. $5.95. Posing as a high school student, Nancy goes undercover to solve a baffling series of thefts. When she meets her contact, Daryl Gray, a gorgeous senior with blueberry eyes, she knows that this cast- will be fun' Though her list of susprcis is long, Nancy is almost certain she knows who the thief is — unitl her top candidate is tound lead. ' tiddenly its a sytuilc new hall ionic — have her feelings tbr Daryl clouded her judgcmcnt?
The team's efforts impressed Mr Rawlinson too, so Coach's trophies were given o ut to say "Well done!".
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Nancy Drew Files, Case 2. Deadly Intent by Carolyn Keene. Pub by Armada. $5.95. With backstage passes to Music Hall, Nancy Radio and her friends meet the members of the country's hottest rock group Bent l'ender, But the fun is over when, minutes before the concert, the lead guitarist ‘anishes As Nancy begins her inws. t igations. her only lead takes her straight to Bess's new boyfriend. What is he hiding? With Ncd's help Nancy draws up a list of suspects that reads like a WHO'S WHO of the New Nbrk rock scene, and soon uncovers a conspiracy that could blow the lid off the music industry Nancy Drew Ries. Case .Ifurder on Ice by
Carotyn Keene. Pub by Amanda. $5.95. Nancy and Ned are looking tbrward to a romantic skiing holiday in Vermont but it's not too long tirt.ort Nancy is involved in another case. Who is the mysterious midnight prowler at the ski lodge, and why do so many inexplicable "accidents" occur? It certainly doesn't help nutters when levelheaded George falLs head oyer heels tor Nancy's chirl suspect, gtxxi-kxiking ski instructor Luke Friesen, a nun with a sccrrt past. As a blizzard threatens to trap Nancy and her friends, silt- knows sties running out of time to find the answers Nancy Dre14' Files. Case 4. Smile and say Murder by Carolyn Keene. Pub by Armada. $5.95. Yvonne Verdi, glamorous co-owner of Flash 111411.1/inc, has been receiving death threats and Nancy is called in to investigate. (lief suspect is N'yonnes partner. Mick sw:umxi. but Nancy Ls not convinced — until Mick plays some pretty sick practical jokes Could the temperamental art director have a split personality? •Thrricd, Nancy calls in her boyfriend Ned Nickerson, who promptly (ails for Mick's lovely sister. Sondra. Will Nancy uncover the killer in time — and will she lose Ncd's low in the process?
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School's Out. Compiled byfobn Foster. Illustrated by Alastair Graham. Published by Oxford l-nisersity Press. S13.50. Here you'll find poems about school dinners (yuk!), teachers (beware), bullies ( ouch!), homework ( groanwork ). biology (D- ). computers (A+), school outings (boring). reports (oh no!), going home (can't wait!). holidays ( yippee!! ). and May Zizz.ibug (who?). Alan Ahlberg. Pam Ayres, John Agard, Adrian Mitchell, James Kirkup, Roy Fuller, Brian Patten, Roger Mccyough. Max Fatchcn, and many others are here to tell rAl what they think about school. SCOO-W001. — it's the happiest time of your life ( you could've fooled me!).
The Oxford Merry Christmas Book. Pub by Oxford Unirersity Press. bb. $22.95. 'We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.' Here's a joyful present for all the family There's lots of things to make: an Advent
Calendar. a kissing bough. Christmas cards, crackers. imitations, stockings, hats, decorations, and all kinds of delicious Christmas food. There's answers to all the family's questions: Why 25 December? Who invented Christmas cards and Christmas crackers? Who actually was (or is) Father Christmas? And you'll also find games. pocms, jokes. stories and Christmas customs round the world. The book will be a constant joy to children and the whole family all through the Christmas season.
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Literature Buffs! Reader's Digest Marvels and Mysteries of the World A round us. hb. $39.95. Have you ever wondered how the earth was formed? Where life began? Why we have volcanic eruptions, cyclones and earthquakes? Now, thanks to an unprecedented era of discovery, science has the answers. Through the words and pictures of some of the world's best authors, photographers and artists, Marvels and Mysteries of the World Around Us presents an up-todate portrait of the Earth. You can see the dramatic landscape of the ocean floor, the infinitesimally slow drift of the continents across the fair of the planet, the strange radiation belts high above us and many other astonishing discoveries. • Did you know that the Sahara Desert was once The .4 ustra/opedio. How Australia works after 20 years of other people bring here. filiti•d Joan Grant. Published by Penguin Hooks. hb. $39.99. A Astralia is a weird and w onderful place unlike anyhere else on earth. The Australopedia is a guidebook to today's Australia how it is and how it got that way, the remarkable variety of things we do with
A Song in the Morning by Gerald Seymour. Published by Fontana. $9.95 Jeez Curwen. a British undercover agent in South Africa reporting on the African National Congress. has received the death penalty for his part in a job in which he should never have been invohrd He is incarcerated in the maximum security rail outside
ourselves at work and at school and in our spare time. With the help of famous and not so famous Australians, many of the things we disagree about are aired, our problems are faced and we enter the future in a magical game of choice. The Australopedia is packed with information, odd facts,
amazing details, hundreds of photographs and dazzling illustrations from design students at Phillip Institute. The Australopedia is the Bicentennial book for young Australians - especially those between ten and fourteen and it's a book which every adult will want to share with the next generation.
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where the South Pole is now? • Did you know that there is an icy glacier in the heart of Africa, close to the steaming Equator? • Did you know that part of California is drifting out to sea? While few of us are fortunate enough in a lifetime to see more than a tiny fraction of the world's great natural wonders, a small number of courageous and adventurous people have achieved so much more . . thye have climbed the highest mountains in the world, scanned the deepest abysses of the oceans, looked into the heart of a tornado.
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In Marvels and Mysteries of the Wold Around Us the people who have done these and the scierltists things who gauge their achievements - will be your guides to the great natural features of our planet.
Creativit of life
The Evolution of l.ife. Edited by Linda Gam/in and Gail Fines. Published by Collins. hb. $45. Of all the mysteries of the universe, there is none greater than life itself. Life appears to defy the laws of physics, and yet living things are made up of the same basic substances as the rest of our planet. Creatures as large as lions and whales develop from a minute egg, invisible to the naked eye, yet containing vast amounts of information. enough to fill a hundred books this size.
Pretoria. awaiting execution. By the time his son Jack. abandoned by Jecz 25 .vars ago. discovers that the British government has washed its hands of his father's case, Jeez has only three weeks to live.
All living things have the same basic chemistry, but a few bacteria can survive temperatures way above boiling point, while some snow-dwelling insects are killed by the warmth of a human hand.
But Jack. though young and untried. is determined to see the father he has never known. and to set him free.
Although biologists still cannot explain all such mysteries, the twentieth century has brought them closer than ever before to a
real understanding of life. They have unlocked the secrets of heredity, and cracked the genetic code. They have analysed the chemical reactions that make nerves fire and muscles contract. They know how hormones work, how birds fly. how eyes detect light, and how bacteria are defeated by the immune system. More than this, they can plot the evolution of life, from its earliest beginnings. 3000 million years ago, through the long ages of the past. right up to the present da!,. The Evolution of Life presents these discoveries, and many more, in a remarkably clear, readable and authoritative text, supplemented ty over 120 full-color diagrams. and 300 photographs. It is an indispensable up-to-theminute guide for anyone who wants to understand living things and the incredible modern advances in our knowledge about them.
La Salle sport and fun! Well known football identity Ron Alexander visited La Salle College. Midland recently, to present the Youth, Sport and Recreation tracksuit tops to the students participating in Sportsfun. La Salle is the first nongovernment school invited to participate in Sportsfun which is a
program involving high school students visiting nearlA primary schools t wo afternoons each week after school and coaching students in basic sporting skills. In this instance La Sallian's coach at Middle Swan, St Brigid's Midland and St Anthony's Bellevue. The program coordinated by the Depart-
ment of Youth, Sport and R ecreation covers such sports as volleyball, netball, tennis, tee-ball and cricket and is considered a positive move to introduce primary school students to the pleasures of sport while enhancing other skills such as public speaking, organisation and direction for the high students school themselves.
Mission Aid Day (MAD) took off at La Salle with its usual
dressing up. putting on skits, living it up and wearing themselves down!
De La Salle Brothers who were the original college founders.
gusto! Over seven hundred students Each year the college puts went mad (to make a fun-non . this pun, and figuratively fundraising day to give speaking!) with the money to the missions, excitement of "buytwo being Balgo Hills ing" slaves for the day, and Derby run by the
Children from St Michael's special educa-
tion centre, Bassendean, joined with visitors and students in filling the mission coffers to the tune of $2000.
Carrie Foskeff (left), Deb Jansen and Noreen Cornelius were among the year 12 coaches who received the YSR tracksuit tops.
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THE CARMELITES by TOM BRANCH Pignatelli AGM At its annual general meeting held in February this year, outgoing president, Ian Bethune, highlighted a number of achievements for the club which included the upgrading to four of their six courts, a number of excellent social functions and a very successful club championship. The following members were elected for the 1989 season: President: Robin Salter; Vice President: Ian Clynes; Treasurer Ian Bethune; Secretary: Shirley Clynes; Men's Captain: Neils Rutzou; Ladies' Captain: Libby Rutzou; Social Secretary:
Dee Nunn; Associate members: Ria Sjerp; Auditor Jim McLinden; Committee Members: Ken Hoskins, Peter O'Neill, Trish Ryan, Bill Seomas Mitchell, O'Brien. WACLTA Championships The annual WACLTA Championships have been set down for the weekends of May 6/7 and May 13/14 at the Trinity Courts in Manning Road, Manning. Entry forms can be obtained from club secretaries or phoning the tournament organiser, Mike Messer. on
BUSSELTON Rosary Pilgrimage Sunday, May 7 Rosary and mass will be celebrated by Bishop Quinn, commencing at 1prn at the Grotto on the "Dove" farm 24km south of BusseIton off the Margaret River road. All visitors welcome, come early and bring a picnic lunch. The Grotto is one kilometre along Roy Road, which is left 23km south of Busselton on the BusseII Highway. For transport from Perth contact Paul Calea on 349 7135.
Bethel community will conduct a conference on personal, family and Church growth, presented by Pastor Loren Sandford and his wife Beth at Newman Siena College on April 1417. Enquiries 388 1333 or 381 2516 A H.
459 8183.
CARLTON HOTEL with good old-fashioned hospitality in the heart of the city
B&B Single $30; Double/Twin $50
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MAJELLAN RETREAT Vacancies for any interested lady, not necessarily a Majellan member, exist for the retreat to be held on the weekend May 19-21 at the Redemptorist Retreat House. The retreat will be conducted by Fr Des Clifford CSSR. Cost $50. A deposit of $20 is required to confirm your booking. Mail only bookings to Mrs B. Townsend, 23 Daglish Street, Wembley 6014. Please make cheques to Majellan Groups of WA.
YCW QUIZ NIGHT On Monday April 24, at 7pm, at Como Hotel, Canning Highway, Como. Lots of fun, heaps of prizes! Cost: $5 waged, $3 unwaged.
WOODVALE QUIZ St Luke's parish Woodvale will hold a quiz night at the Warwick Hotel on Monday, May 22, at 7.30pm. Price $5, no other charges. Tables of six. Tickets: Kay Healy 409 9979. FAMILY GATHERS When Bill and Alice Harrington celebrate 60 years of marriage they were surrounded at their Canning Highway home by 60 family members among their two sons. four daughters, 24 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren. Alice Brown and Bill both came originally from East Fremantle where they lived for 35 years after their St Patrick's Fremantle wedding on April 9, 1929, before moving to Applecross for a further 25 years. Alice is still a member of the CWA and both have assisted the SVDP until recently.
Silver Jubilee, East Cannington Parish. Bishop Fleetly. Anniversary Mass. Bullsbrook Bishop Healy. Inter church clergy golf day 17 Final vows Sister Mary Joseph, Carmelite Monastery 18 Archbishop Foley Heads of Churches meeting. Archbishop Foley. 19 Manapolis at Fairbridge. Archbishop Foley. 22 Commissioning of Rev Les Goode at Cottage Hospice. 23 Archbishop Foley. ANZAC Day Service. Bishop Healy. 25 Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference 26 Archbishop Foley and Bishop Healy. 28-30 Archdiocesan Assembly. Archbishop Foley and Bishop
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THE HOLE IN THE WALL THEATRE
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Cathedral parish helpers got rid of their blues last week with a barbecue behind the Cathedral Parish Centre. Among them were (from left) Vincent Goerke, Michelle Goerke, Dean Orzanski, Martin Brady, Frank Power, Vince Ellul, "chef" David Gilbert and Bert Tobin.