The Record Newspaper 15 June 1989

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Land so dear to us...

Catholic parishes are putting their money where their mouths are, Bishop Healy told a big gathering attending the latest blessing and official opening of Catholic primary school facilities.

Acquiring land at a reasonable cost is one of the biggest headaches facing future Catholic schools, the bishop said.

Most developers had been helpful but "we have had problems too," he added.

Bishop Healy called on the Bateman community to reflect on the significance of what the parish had done in the development of their school.

The parish he said, has in effect given the children top priority by buying the

land and contributing to the school cost.

This priority had been put ahead of other parish priorities such as the construction of a new church he said.

The bishop said that even that amount of assistance would not have been possible without government assistance.

State Minister for Education, Dr Carmen Lawrence, officially opened the final two stages of the school constructed in 1988 and 1989 and including six classrooms, a multipurpose room, supporting teachers room and canteen.

Starting with 179 children in 1985

the school now had 489 pupils and with a second Year Seven next year would reach its full enrolment of 525.

The foundation principal, Sister Maura Kelleher, noted that the blessing and opening ceremony had been planned as a culmination of WA Week with special school projects recalling with thanks the pioneering efforts of the Bateman community over the four and a half years.

She described as fantastic the quality and the extent of involvement of voluntary labour and the expertise that had enabled the school to get off to such a start.

She said the school was particularly blessed also in its teaching staff and this sentiment was echoed by the school board chairman Mr John Vidovich.

She said the school was also grateful for the State government low interest loan which it had secured for the first time with this project.

The architect was also praised for the design which has dispensed with verandahs to the classroom blocks, combining them to make three covered atriums for school circulation and activity.

Sudden death of Pope John Paul I: Author provides many angles • Pages 6 and 12

Incest and sex abuse right in your house • Pages 10 and 11

Perth churches cater for the disabled • Page 3

Homeless kids: Act now ca NM I=

Bishop W. Brennan, Chairman of the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council welcomed the Burdekin Report on homeless children and called on the Federal, State and Territory Governments to respond to the Report's recommendations.

"The Burdekin Report identifies factors such as marital breakdown, physical neglect, sexual abuse, drug and alcohol abuse, and the inability of some children to

function in the education system as contributing significantly to homelessness amongst children and young people," said Bishop Brennan.

"Fr Wally Dethlefs, a Brisbane Catholic priest who was a member of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission's Inquiry into Homeless Children and Young People, has also identified structural injustice as an important cause of the problem of homelessness amongst the young," he said.

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"Lack of public housing, the social isolation of the nuclear family, breakdown of neighbourhood supports, unemployment and poverty, are all aspects of structural injustice emphasised by Fr Dethlefs," he continued.

"Clearly the issues of child homelessness and poverty cannot be dealt with in isolation from the social, political and economic institutions of the nation, as the Brotherhood of St Laurence have rightly pointed out," he

concluded.

"The Burdekin Report makes a number of recommendations which constitute a multifaceted approach to this complex and urgent problem. The need for a concerted effort by all sectors of the community is clear," said Bishop Brennan.

"Governments at all levels, Federal, State, Territory and local, must, as an urgent priority, respond to the recommendations of the Report and begin to act," he declared. "An effort by

the whole community would be facilitated by the consultation of community groups by governments before policies are set," he added.

"The Catholic community has made a significant contribution in seeking to reduce the risk of homelessness, and in providing services to homeless young people, as the Burdekin Report acknowledges," he said.

"It is evident, however, that much more needs to be done, especially in the preventative area," he concluded.

Enter the 'concerned Catholics' of Inglewood

Are Catholics, who are bound to be concerned for their f ellow creatures, obliged to extend that concern to other species, to the atmosphere, to the whole biosphere of planet earth itself?

A group of local Catholics think the answer is decidedly 'yes' after they met last week at the Inglewood Parish Centre to form what for the time being will be called Catholics Concerned for the Environment.

At the Archdiocesan Assembly at Santa Maria College, it became evident that a significant number of Catholics see issues of the human use and abuse of the earth as definitely a matter for Catholic faith and morals.

Encouraged by the support for greater e nvironmental awareness which Archbishop Foley expressed in his summing-up address, some 60 indicated their interest in

further contact with a view to action.

Gerard Leahy, as convenor of the inaugural meeting, said that the group would in no sense be a political movement. but would have a unique role in raising the awareness of the Catholic community about how living one's faith is connected with using the earth which God created.

The meeting touched on possible areas of interest and activity.

• Accentuating the positive, "celebratory" aspects of creation, renewing the sense of wonder and awe so easily lost in a materialistic society; • Celebrating God's creation in special liturgies; • Mini-pilgrimages in the natural environment (with perhaps input from Aboriginal spirituality) and other opportunities to get in touch with nature; • Spiritual growth of members through

POPE John Paul II has appointed the Very Reverend Father Jeremiah J. Coffey as the new Bishop of Sale.

The appointment was announced by Archbishop Franco Brambilla, Apostolic Pro-Nuncio in Australia.

Until his appointment as bishop, Father Coffey was Rector of Corpus Christi College, Clayton, Victoria.

considering the Biblical call to stewardship in Genesis and other appropriate source material; • Communication to parishes, schools and youth groups to encourage awareness of environmental issues as part of Christian life.

The office-bearers elected are: Peter Porteous (President), Sharon Aisbett ( Secretary/Treasurer), Sister Maureen McCarthy, Damon Angelatos and Gerard Leahy (Committee).

Two more groups of volunteers have undertaken to commence work in the special areas of creation liturgy and producing a newsletter.

All interested readers are welcome to attend the next meeting on Friday, July 7, at 8pm, at the Inglewood Parish Centre, 165 Central Avenue, Inglewood (next to the church). For further inquries ring Sharon Aisbett (3492779) or Gerard Leahy (2715330).

New bishop of Sale He has previously served in the Diocese of Sale as Assistant Parish Priest, Parish Priest and

Episcopal Vicar for Education.

He was born on 1 January 1933 and ordained priest on June 22, 1958.

He suceeds the Most Reverend Eric D'Arcv. recently appointed Archbishop of Hobart.

Future directions of the Church • ADELAIDE: The Church has to both make an impact on society and be at its service.

This is the key message in a new five-year plan for the Catholic Church in Adelaide to be launched by Archbishop Leonard Faulkner on Sunday.

The plan, contained in a four-page statement, Community for the World, will be presented at church services throughout Adelaide this weekend.

In the plan, Archbishop Faulkner calls for: • a reactivation of the Church's impact on society.

• the development of small groups of active Christians within existing parishes.

• the formation of lay leaders to spearhead the Church's community focus.

Archbishop Faulkner says the Catholic Archdiocese of Adelaide has to have an influence on the southern part of South Australia.

"We live in a beautiful part of this land, in a community which is diverse and lively . . .

Yet we cannot avoid wondering what life will be like for South Australians of the next generation," he says.

"There are huge issues to be faced; the unemployment of large groups within our community, the lack of respect for human life, our ageing population, the lack of hope and of a sense of meaning among many of our young.

"These are some of the more obvious issues that confront us as we face the 21st century.

"I am convinced that we need to do much more to bring the good news to bear on the culture and social order of South Australia."

Adelaide sets out the procedure ADELAIDE: Adelaide archdiocese is to establish a procedure for receiving applications from former Anglican clergy to be admitted to Catholic priesthood.

A diocesan committee made up of Fathers R Simons and R Egar and Sister M. Rea have presented criteria to Archbishop Faulkner and these are likely to be discussed at forthcoming meetings of the Council of Priests and the Diocesan Pastoral Council.

The archbishop has also asked the Presbytery Fund to look into financial and accommodation implications of the steps to be taken.

If the criteria are finalised, written applications will be received from candidates in July and later put to the College of Consultors.

If the archbishop decides to proceed with an application he will put the matter to the Australian Bishops Conference along with the question of the number of applicants he should receive.

He will then have to apply to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for the required dispensation and locally a suitable program of preparation will be drawn up in conjunction with the seminary rector and director of vocations.

Churches cater for the disabled "Fifty one churches in the metropolitan area are already accessible for people with disabilities in wheelchairs, minor with and changes to 32 others, 81 of the 89 churches would then be wheelchair accessible," said Julie Harris and Liana Dolzadelli at a recent meeting with Archbishop Foley. with 'Accessibility minor alterations means that no major structural changes are required to the facilities; all they need to do is put in ramps or rails." Liana said.

Julie and Liana, both occupational therapists, were commissioned by Emmanuel Centre with funds provided by the Servite Social Concerns Committee to carry out an access survey on all metropolitan Catholic churches, schools and halls.

Archbishop Foley welcomed the report and saw it as part of a wider church study for the inclusion of all people. "I am pleased that already goodwill and awareness has been demonstrated," he said.

"However, we need to be an inclusive Church

and take the necessary steps towards achieving that goal," he said.

Julie Harris said: "It is disappointing that only 15 churches have installed audio induction loops for hearing impaired people."

"Hearing impaired people's difficulties are not as visible and there seems to be a lack of understanding of the experiences of people with hearing loss. Parishioners are not aware that for a small additional cost an audio loop could be added to a public address system."

Fr Christopher Ross (left) with Archbishop Foley and Julie Harris, having a look at the Access to Catholic Facilities brochure.

On school facilities Liana said that while only eight of the metropolitan primary schools are presently accessible, 30 more could be made accessible with minor changes.

"Unfortunately only one out of 26 high schools was fully accessible but with minor changes, five more could be made accessible."

Both Julie and Liana said that it was pleasing to see that some schools that needed major structural change had made efforts to include units for children with hearing or learning difficulties

Call for more volunteers The Catholic Migrant Centre's chief Gerald Searle has made an urgent plea for more volunteers to help out in refugee work in

Perth.

"We are in desperate need of more volunteers," he declared, on the eve of the Refugee Week.

The CMC director said that helpers would not be required to provide or accommodation financial assistance to resettle the refugees.

"All that is needed is their moral support and practical assistance," he said.

On the waiting list are families from IndoChina, Central and South America and Iran.

He disclosed that the CMC had only 30 support groups and two individuals who were helping out.

Mr Searle added: "As you can see we need more than three times the number of support groups. I do hope that more people, especially those from parishes, will come forward."

But this was not enough in view of the fact that there were more than 100 refugee families awaiting to be resettled in WA.

Of the 30 groups under the CMC's wing only four are from Catholic parishes in Perth. Each

He will be in Perth for only a day. His next stop will be Adelaide.

The school essay competition deadline has been extended to August 31. The 50 topics offered for the competition are all refugee-related.

Other activities organised for the week are: • A public meeting hosted by the Bahai community here (on the night of June 18).

• The launching of Factsheet at the multi-

The report noted that of 29 halls, 14 were accessible, nine needed minor alterations and six needed major work.

Of 23 parish centres, 13 needed minor work and three needed major alterations.

Toilet facilities did not fare so well in the survey.

Only 11 churchs have accessible toilets and some 65 churches need major alterations in these areas. Hall toilets needed

Mr Searle . . . "We need more than three times the number of support groups."

a similarly large amount of major alteration.

Fr Christopher Ross, OSM, Vicar Provincial for the Servite Community of Australia said that the Servites were very pleased to support the survey.

"The recommendations from the report to extend the survey to country areas and church organisations and services, the need for diocesan guidelines for access for people with disabilities and the development of an awareness and educational program of the needs of people with

disabilities on a diocesan basis is a direct result of a Servite commitment to social concerns," he said.

Emmanuel Centre will provide each parish and school with a copy of the report free of charge. In addition each facility will receive a detailed description of recommendations to upgrade for fuller accessibility.

Further copies of the report and survey results outlining level of accessibility are available on request to Emmanuel Centre for $5. Telephone 328 8113.

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Set for Refugee Week The Multicultural and Australian tour to Ethnic Affairs Commis- increase public awaresion of Western Austra- ness of the global crisis of lia's Refugee Week takes 12 million refugees. off on Sunday (June 18) He will address a public with a tight program. forum the same afterThe week kicks off with noon at the same venue. a visit to the Khmer Dr Ngor has had a Ethnic School by Dr Hiang S Ngor, winner of personal experience of the Best Supporting human tragedy resulting Actor Award in The from the Khmer Rouge Killing Fields. It will be reign of terror in his held at the Atrium in native Kampuchea.

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Guest editorial THE UNIVERSE LONDON

A TERMINAL C ASE OF C OMMUNISM WORLD Communism is already brain-dead.

For some time to come certain vital functions may be artifical/y, and perhaps violently, sustained. But this is a process of irreversible death.

When great empires, cultures and religious movements lose faith in themselves and no longer inspire conviction in their followers, there is, bra time, no outward sign of disintegration but an inner void is being created.

A t a certain critical point, the power structures become a hollow shell, collapse is inevitable and sometimes awesomely sudden.

Mr Gorbachev, a consumately brilliant politicalpragmatist, is delaying the decay of Soviet Communism, but he is fighting a war he cannot ultimately win. In Poland, Hungary, Yugoslavia, the Baltic States andperhaps also in Armenia and Georgia, the people have already made up their minds.

There is no future for the authoritarian ideology that has exhausted its reserves of credibility.

The week's events in Poland and China have established beyond doubt that we are watching the end of an era and the emergence of a new age.

In Poland the tenacious faith and values of the nation are likely to inspire a relatively peaceful transition into more democratic structures and a freer society.

In China, by contrast , the barbaric suppression of popular dissent has shocked the world, discredited the Party, and made inevitable a violent end to the People's Revolution.

Events on the other side of the world have immediate consequences for our domestic politics. The fate of Hong Kong in 1997 cannot now be left to the tender mercies of ancient Chinese warlords.

The response from Downing Street and the Forgein Office to the Beijing massacre was clearly inadequate.

We cease soon to have any legal claim to the New Territories but we retain pressing moral obligations to Hong Kong residents whose British passports, until 1961, entitled them to residence in the United Kingdom.

Fears that we might be faced with an influx of three million immigrants are paranoid.

We accept with equanimity potentially greater numbers of European Community citizens seeking residence after 1992. The truth is that most people prefer to stay where they are. A change in the law wouldguarantee an escape route in crisis.

Guarantees already given by the Chinese about religous liberty, freedom of speech and travel were always paper-thin.

The Catholic Church in Hong Kong was preparing itseff for a troubled and uncertain future.

Until now the only security lay in the Colony's economic usefulness to China and the sanction of world opinon.

The events of the past week make that security seem very fragile.

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Singapore 'no' to a pardon SINGAPORE: President Wee Kim Wee has Workers' rejected Party leader J.B. Jeyaretnam's petition for a pardon on his four criminal convictions for fraudulent transfer of party funds and false declaration.

The President sought the advice of the Attorney-General before deciding that a pardon would be inappropriate in this case, the Law Ministry said in a statement.

Mr Jeyaretnam had petitioned the President for pardon on April 3, after his successful appeal to the Privy Council against the Law Society's decision to debar him from practising law here.

The British Law Lords not only overturned the Law Society's decision but, in their judgment, also stated that Mr Jeyaretnam was not guilty of the offences that had led to his debarment.

But Mr Jeyaretnam's intentions in appealing to the President came under scrutiny following statements he made to the foreign press.

In its statement, the Law Ministry said that on April 4, Mr Jeyaretnam had told the foreign press that "we've decided that we should go through this (petition) as a formal thing. There's no question of my going on banded knee".

He had aLso told the foreign press that his lawyers had advised him to submit the petition "before challenging in court the Government decision not to seek a pardon on (his) behalf".

The President's Private Secretary, Mr Sng Boh Khim, wrote to Mr Jeyaretnam on April 19 and asked if, by emphasising the unimportance of his petition as "a formal thing", he had intended the petition "merely to be a preliminary step to another stage".

"Mr Jeyaretnam was also asked whether, by stating that the Government had refused to recognise the verdict of the Privy Council, he considered a pardon to be a matter of right," the ministry said.

Mr Jeyaretnam replied the next day and said

Tabs on China

HONG HONG: The Vatican has opened a factfinding mission in Hong Kong to closely follow events in China.

The mission is being staffed by a veteran Vatican diplomate, Msgr Jean-Paul Gobel, and has been operating for about a month.

The mission does not have a diplomatic nature, but would operate as a post for observation and study of the Church in China.

The Vatican has not formally announced the establishment of the mission, but that it is not considered "a secret", according to an official.

Lefebvre Hopes wane •

ROME (NC): Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger,

head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said he did not foresee reconciliation with excommunicated Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre "in the near future".

"Last year we were close to a reconciliation," the cardinal said. "But then there was an unexpected break and a new exacerbation of his positions."

Given the present state of relations, the cardinal said, he did not see how there could be a return to unity.

that he had contemplated proceedings even before he spoke to the foreign press on April 4.

"After consulting with his lawyers he had decided to first submit a petition to the President 'before considering other avenues'.

"He said he was appealing to the President's 'sense of justice rather than his mercy'," the ministry said.

As the appeal was based solely on the Privy Council judgment, the President referred it to the Attorney-General for advice on the issues of law and justice raised in the petition.

The Attorney-General wrote to the President on May 2 and, among other things, advised that "there had been no miscarriage of justice and no injustice done" to Mr Jeyaretnam.

Mr Sng informed Mr Jeyaretnam that the President had considered the AttorneyGeneral's advice and "considered that the grant of a pardon in the circumstances was inappropriate." — Straits Times Weekly overseas edition.

Mr Jeyaretnam

Disappointed over that decision Mr J.B. Jeyaretnam said that he was disappointed that the President had decided to turn down his petition for a pardon. a A ddressing Workers' Party rally to mark Labour Day at the Bedok stadium, he said that he had been told by the President's office that his appeal was rejected because h e did not show

remorse or repentance for what he had done.

But he maintained that he was innocent of the charges on which he had been convicted and said that there was therefore no need to show remorse or repentance.

Even the Privy Council had found him not guilty of those offences, he added.

Hungary bid for Vatican ties POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT VATICAN CITY (NC): — In what Vatican officials termed a "quite positive" development, Hungary announced that it intends to create the conditions necessary for the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Holy See. The statement, coming at the end of a meeting with a special Vatican envoy on June 5, was interpreted as a pledge to adopt legislation to pro; tect religious liberties.

Hungary, a communist nation in Eastern Europe, is currently preparing such legislation with the consultation of church leaders.

A Vatican official said the Holy See would now evaluate the possibilities of diplomatic relations, carefully watching the progress of the proposed legislation and studying how it would affect the activities of the church.

"It looks quite positive," said the official, who asked not to be identified.

Hungarian The was announcement made by Foreign Minister Gyula Horn, after a meeting with Archbishop Francesco Colasuonno, the Vatican's envoy for Eastern Europe, and Cardinal

Laszlo Paskai, the primate of Hungary.

The foreign minister said the expected visit to Hungary by Pope John Paul II in 1991 would be "an event of fundamental importance for cooperation beween the Hungarian government and the Holy See." ColaArchbishop suonno, who spent a week in Hungary, visited several dioceses and a seminary in Hajdudomg. a Byzantine-rite diocese.

Catholics make up about 61 per cent of Hungary's population of 10.6 approximately million.

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Luther plague RELATIONS BEING HIT EVEN AFTER 500 YEARS ROSKILDE, Denmark (NC): The Catholic Church's 16th-century e xcommunication of M artin Luther, who launched the Protestant Reformation, continues to plague ecumenical relations 500 years later.

In a speech after the service, the pope reiterated the Catholic position that it is impossible for him to lift the excommunication, as has been suggested by some Danish Lutheran leaders.

The Catholic Church holds that "excommunication ends with death" and is a penalty that can only be applied while a person is living, the pope said.

He noted that in 1983, The task now is "a new and common evaluation the 500th anniversary of of the many problems Luther's birth, he issued which have been caused a statement praising

by Luther and his mes- Luther's religiosity and his concern for salvation. sage," he added.

The pope's chief ecuThe pope said that many of the "great menical official, Cardinal obstacles" to contempor- Willebrands, said that ary ecumenism "are calls for lifting Luther's personalised in Martin 1521 excommunication Luther and in the con- come from a lack of of demnation of some of his understanding teachings pronouned at Catholic doctrine on the that time by the Catholic issue.

Church."

Luther's excommunicaThese have produced tion endured only during deep wounds which the period of his life on cannot be cured by a earth, so automatically it is not there any longer," juridical act, he said. the cardinal said.

But today "some "Once an excommunirequests by Luther for person dies, he is in cated reform and renewal have of God," he hands the among echo found added.

Catholics of different "If he is blessed by God viewpoints, so much so that the Second Vatican and is in eternal happiCouncil spoke of the ness, the Church cannot necessity of a permanent take him from that.

"If he is condemned by reform and renewal," the God and he is in eternal pope said.

OSLO , Norway: "The best solution for ecumenism and for the r approchement of the Churches would be if the pope, the kings of N orway or Sweden could skiing go t ogether," Pope John Paul told journalists as he flew to Scandinavia.

nising Lutheran ministries and the ecclesial character of Protestant churches.

Prior to the pope's arrival, Bishop Lonning accused the pope of putting "a brake on the relations between different churches, especially on inter-Communion".

But he quickly ran into

Bishop Lonning is the only one of Norway's 11 Lutheran bishops who announced that he would not attend either of the two ecumenical meetings scheduled during the trip.

The issue resurfaced when Pope John Paul II a ttended an evening prayer service with 11 Lutheran Danish bishops.

the unhappiness, Church cannot bring him into heaven!

The cardinal said there had been progress since the 500th anniversary of Luther's birth in theological dialogue and cooperation.

"Ecumenical progress is not only determined by theological dialogue and its successes. It has to do with dealing with each other, knowing each living other and together," he said.

"The visit itself is an ecumenical happening," he continued.

But the pope's visit to Roskilde was surrounded by controversy as the Danish Lutheran bishops cancelled a plan to have the pope speak inside the historic cathedral where the c ountry's kings and queens have been buried since the Reformation.

The Lutheran bishops said their people would not understand the event and would be left with the impression that the bishops were now followers of the pope.

Instead the pope was invited to speak after the service at the residence of the local Lutheran bishop.

Lutheran Bishop Bertelsen of Copenhagen quipped in his opening welcome: "A merry soul could get the impression that Your Holiness was being received in private audience with the Lutheran bishops of Demark.

"We are grateful that you accepted our invitation and in doing so show that you do not share this impression," the bishop added.

The service and the later reception were shown on television.

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ecumenical problems when during his threeday visit to Norway where 94 per cent of the 4.2 million people are Lutherans and Catholics number only 20,000.

On his first day in the At the first ecumenical Lutheran meeting Bishop Aarflot country, Bishop Peer Lonning of asked the pope to relax Beergen refused to Catholic opposition to attend an ecumenical inter-Communion. gathering, and the head of Norway's Lutheran "In the question of a Church, Bishop Andreas common Eucharist there Aarflot of Oslo, asked the should be room for small pope to move faster but daring steps forward toward explicitly recog- toward a mutual eucha-

ristic hospitality, and eventually toward interim eucharistic sharing," said Bishop Aarflot, a member of the official International LutheranDialogue Catholic Commission.

"We are longing for the day when Your Holiness clearly and unequivocably expresses the recognition of the ecclesial character of the Lutheran and other Protestant churches," he added.

The "real ecumenical challenges" are "far removed from the study chambers of the Curia", he said.

They exist "when families are divided in their religious observance and there is a wish to worship together", the bishop said.

"We hope for more clear and inclusive language when it comes to pastoral

guidance or practical proclaim a common faith regulation or relation- in the mystery of the ships on the local level," Eucharist and of the Church," he said. he said.

The pope noted that the The pope, in his talk to the bishops, restated office of the papacy also Catholicism's commit- is an important unrement to ecumenical solved issue in ecumenidialogue, but reaffirmed cal dialogue. But he Norwegian current Church policy asked inter - Catholics and Lutherans against to recall their early Communion.

Christian roots in the "The Catholic position 11th century. on eucharistic sharing is "The Gospel was not meant to offend our brought here centuries partners in dialogue," the ago, long before the pope said. events of the 16th cen"Rather, it is an expres- tury" that caused the sion of our deep convic- Protestant Reformation, tion, rooted in our the pope said. doctrine and in accor"This early history is in dance with ancient prac- striking contrast with the tice, that the Eucharist is period following the only to be shared by Reformation, when for those in full communion more than 400 years, in with one another," he the midst of bitterness said. and suspicion, divided "Catholics and Protest- Christians closed their ants must acknowledge doors to one another," he that we cannot yet said.

Spiritual values needed: Pope OSLO, Norway: Much of the pope's first day in Scandinavia was spent a sking Norwegians to find stength in their early Christian heritage to fight moral relativism and other problems of modern, secular society.

In a talk to the Catholic bishops of five Nordic c ountries, the pope praised Norway for its social programs, accep-

tance of refugees, "generous" foreign aid programs and defence of human rights.

"These are all values which have grown out of your Christian heritage," he said to 10,000 people attending the first papal Mass in Norway.

The pope said he wanted his first visit to a Scandinavian country "to encourage a serious

reflection on the flight from God and from higher moral values which is typical of secularised society."

He noted that "even among Christians, faith has lost its force in concrete everyday life."

Religious attendance is declining, and divorce is on the rise, he added.

Spiritual values are needed today to find "the

meaning of suffering, of evil, of death, which have not been eliminated by progress," he said.

"To remember the events and influences which have shaped a nation is to understand better the sources of its present historical direction," he said.

Many of the people attending the afternoon

Mass were refugees and immigrants, who form most of the country's Catholics.

But it also was a day for breaking protocol. King Olav V escorted the pope onto the balcony of the royal palace to greet about 500 people outside. It was the first time a king had appeared on the balcony with a visiting head of state.

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TAKING A CLOSER LOOK AT A POPE'S SUDDEN DEATH Pope John Paul I, the pope who neglected his health, or the pope whose health others neglected?

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Would they really poison a pope in bed?

Would they really poison a pope in his bed? Not surely in these civilised times would say the average pious 20th century Christian . . .

Not at least until a number of writers appear to have made a lot of money and reputation for themselves by stoking the rumour that the death of Pope John Paul I after a pontificate of only 33 days was the result of a murder conspiracy.

Those who need reassuring, then, will be relieved to know that there is an entirely acceptable explanation for the pope's death, if not the circumstances.

That, however, is the least of the conclusions to which author John Cornwell wants to arrive in the latest venture into those muddy waters — his 300-page book A Thief In The Night.

Put together a 65-yearold newly elected pope with a history of poor blood circulation and inattentive to his anticoagulant medication, two secretaries trying to fit a new pope into the touchy Vatican apparatus and you have a brew more poisonous than any conspirators could have

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mixed, according to Cornwell.

If the conspiracy theory is put to rest Cornwell does not mind heaping layer upon layer of guilt upon every level of the Vatican bureaucracy he interviewed and on mysterious layers beyond.

For good measure he does not put the ghost entirely to rest and in a bold flourish in almost the closing pages of the book trots out the spectacular thesis that two priest secretaries found the pope dead, not in bed but on the floor, hastily half dressed the body as if for bed, propped the corpse replete with cushions, glasses on nose, papers in hand, and then retired to await the now verified initial discovery by Sister Vicenza on the fated morning.

If this startling conclusion to an otherwise staid and serious book has a hint of melodrama and fiction a clue may be detected in a jacket note revealing that in 1984 Cornwell was awarded the British Crime Writers Gold Dagger Award.

Not that the Vatican machine of 11 years ago does not deserve to be analysed like a crime thriller but that is not ostensibly what Cornwell set out to do if we can believe the first innocent steps that led to the book's appearance.

On an errand to the Vatican in October 1987 to enquire about Mediugorje and other matters, Cornwell is asked almost as an after thought by Vatican Social Communication director Archbishop John Foley if the time was not ripe for an objective writer of Cornwell's standing to put the

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Was the smiling figure, elected after four ballots, so overwhelmed by the task and not up to the job?

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facts straight on Pope right over the top with the pope's death being John Paul l's death. laid at the feet of no less With his reputation for trying to haul Vatican- than Marcinckus, CardiChurch public relations nal Villot and Cardinal into something like the Cody of Chicago.

Cornwell clinically sur20th century Archbishop Foley says his office veys the history of the should be encouraging popes to reveal that no less than 10 popes can this sort of thing.

As a sweetener he reasonably be suspected suggests to Cornwell that of deaths by poison and the appropriate doors most of them intended, could be opened for him. but not in modern times.

On the other hand, for And so between late the majority of Catholics 1987 and April 1988 Cornwell interviewed no outside Italy who do not less than two former breakfast on Vatican papal secretaries — one gossip it will be news to of them twice — the hear that the first murder legendary, if not notor- theory accusations surious Archbishop Mar- faced in Rome barely a cinckus several times, week after the pope's various Vatican health death, from the Archbiofficials, embalmers, a shop Lefebvre camp in former Swiss guard, Rome.

Others naturally were in fact anyone who could have thrown light on the subsequently glad to add supposed mystery of fuel to that fire.

Pope Luciani's death.

Although Cornwell's interviews Whether Foley did open detailed doors or not, readers of spend a lot of time on the Cornwell's book will be matter it seems not amazed at the loose worth quibbling anytongued candour with more over the virtual which supposedly admission as far ago as guarded and secretive 1984 by the Vatican that Vatican officials poured the dead pope was their words into Corn- indeed discovered by the well's tape recorder and late Sister Vicenza from which he quotes in when he did not respond to his usual 5.30 coffee frank detail. call.

Cornwell saw it was no There seems little doubt easy task, pointing out that according to this that there have been no version of events she less than 10 books writthen called first the ten about this sixth secretary Father Magee, shortest pontificate in then the other secretary papal history, not only by Father Lorenzi. The two unshy Vaticanologists have disconnected verlike Andrew Greeley and sions of what happened Peter Hebblethwaite but in that panicked first even more lurid Eurohour. pean writers outdoing Cornwell's investigaeach other with murder theories and tions rightly castigate the bumbling Vatican proconspiracies. cess that got itself into a It seems the season knot with clumsy, inacpeaked in 1983-84, curate and fibbing press capped of course by releases to a world that David Yallop's In God's hammers relentlessly for Name in which the facts on such major conspiracy theory goes events.

Was he so disparaged by the Vatican apparatus there to serve him, that the burden was too much for him?

One feels that Foley or no Foley the Vatican communications will not go down that horse and buggy track again.

On the other hand Cornwell seems to be remarkably gentle and almost non-critical of the games played by other sections of the media: • The fiction cooked up by a pool journalist that the dead pope was holding the Imitation of Christ — a book by the way to which he was devoted for his morning meditation.

Picked up and run world wide by Vatican Radio and others, the story was finally stamped out after a few days and not before the Vatican switchboard lit up with calls for the verse and chapter of the Imitation's opened page.

• An equally offhanded inability by an Italian journalist to substantiate his story that two Vatican embalmers had been delivered by Vatican car more than half an hour before even the dead pope allegedly was found.

The two men, far from dead as presumed, turned out to be remarkably able to eventually show how much later in the day they would have arrived for their task.

Such inconsistencies and inaccuracies of course were grist to David Yallop's thesis that it all added up, to- a massive cover up on all sides of a far more sinister plot of a murder at the top.

Notwithstanding that after the initial shock, Yallop was dismissed by any serious analysts of his work, he had of necessity become an instant success in the world of talk back,

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Did the pope neglect his health or did others neglect his health?

current affair shows and midday appearances where the bizzarre becomes a reality in the minds of millions.

For this sort of audience, no analysis like Cornwell's is likely to change their view that where there is smoke there is fire.

Curiously Cornwell manages to contribute not a little to the smoke in the final outcome of his book.

It is interesting then to see how under Cornwell's face-to-face questioning Yallop turns out to be very weak clay, inconsistent in his explanations, admitting that not all his evidence is first hand and leaving several question marks over the interviewers he used.

The sad, if amazing, commentary is how far Yallop's story got on the little evidence it contained.

With the inconsistencies aside, Cornwell devotes himself to a more sinister rationale of his own theory: Was that kind, almost innocent occupier of the papacy the unwitting engineer of his own death?

Throwing the blame even wider, was his death the result of a Vatican bureaucracy that should have known more and done more for its new pope?

Prompted by Luciani's niece who was closo .to her uncle and who is herself a doctor, Cornwell is confident enough from his investigation to say that Pope John Paul did not die straight out from a heart attack.

This was the facile diagnosis by a Vatican doctor who would appear not to have attended too closely to

the pope's medical history, who concurred in the avoidance of an autopsy, and who signed the death certificate.

Instead, says, Cornwell, the pope died probably from a pulmonary embolism, the blockage that can stop the human body in its tracks (but not sufficient to leave him sitting up placidly in bed).

There seems little doubt that Luciani had a history of circulatory problems, that the signs were apparent during his 33 days as pope, that he was not at all well on the afternoon and night before he died and that all he took was a glass of Sister Vicenza's medicine.

Did the pope, asks Cornwell, neglect his anti-coagulant medication and trigger a coagulant reacation? The Vatican pharmacy's papal register shows that not one prescription was drawn during the 33 day reign.

If the pope was in such bad health, was he deliberately brushing aside his secretaries' suggestions, at least towards the end, that a doctor be consulted?

More to the point, pleads Cornwell, was the Vatican remiss in not marshalling a thorough health program to back up and support its new pope?

There seems to be no rush by Vatican doctors or the pope's former Venice physician to be pre-occupied with his health.

Is that their fault?

Cornwell seems rather desperate to say yes.

Cornwell at this point in his hypothesis appears to lase the detached cool

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Fresh view of China THE CHAOTIC SCENES HAVE BEEN VIEWED WITH DISBELIEF

world The has and culturally more watched horrified as appealing, despite, or and troop- maybe because of, its t anks carrying trucks austerity. trundled into Tianamen "But when I think that Square and bodies, the streets which Sister carried on stretchers, Patricia Pak Poy and I park benches or wha- walked so freely, are now tever is to hand, are filled with demonstradashed out of the tors and troops, the S quare to medical injured and dead, I am attention. glad that we had the With the news of the opportunity to show suppression of the dem- some at least that we in onstrations in Beijing, Australia care about there is also much what happens to them. discussion of the contri"At a time like this, it is bution of past politics always easy for the and future prospects for visitor to leave, but the a resolution of the Chinese each day must conflict. face the reality of what is The chaotic scenes have happening around them. been viewed with disbe"I was privileged to lief by a member of the in the provinces staff of Australian travel with Sister Patricia, a Catholic Relief (ACR), member of ACR's Clare Bleakley. Clare Committee. We National recently returned from a trip to China, where she saw a people struggling the overhad the opportunity to to cope with whelming demand of a move out of the tourist increasing rapidly areas into villages in the population. provinces.

"Shandong Province, in This is what she had to Central Eastern China, say: "I went to China with a reflects the poverty and tourist image in my mind the hardship but also the — expecting bustling, emergence of renewed congested cities — and I energy, determination found that Shanghai and and unity.

Guangzhou are "In 1988, Australian extremely westernised, Catholic Relief received a complete with billboards list of projects in urgent and bright lights, com- need of funds. mercials and "This list came from the consumerism.

China International Cen"Beijing was politically tre for Economic and

Technical Exchanges (CICETE), which works through the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade.

"CICETE is concerned with economic development in poor, remote areas, working with groups at the grassroots level. The emphasis is on small income-generating projects.

"Since 1985, nongovernment organisations (NG0s) have been working in China. Australian Catholic Relief is supporting a project in Mengyin County, Shandong Province.

"Mengyin County has a population of 477,700 dispersed people, throughout 15 townships and 573 villages.

"While the word 'village' conjures up an image of something small, quiet and quaint, villages in China are densely populated. They buzz with constant activity as the people eke out a living from the fairly desolate land.

"The main crops grown in Mengyin are sweet potatoes, wheat corn, peanuts, mandarins and tobacco.

"There are small farms, coal mines, limestone kilns and markets. Most people walk from village to village, while a few

have donkeys and carts to transport their produce. Fewer still have bicycles.

"The roads are unsealed and travel is decidely uncomfortable. Trucks from the townships stir up the dust, adding to the thick cloud that constantly pervade the entire region.

"There is a shortage of drinking water in 90 per cent of the villages and only seven reservoirs have been built to date.

"Few villages have electricity. The best possible use is made of the resources available to the people however. Yellow Mountain Reservoir, for example, is also used for breeding carp and, during the dry season before the summer rains, a section is used to grow wheat.

"Seventeen small hospitals, with a total of 866 beds service Mengyin.

The need for doctors and medicines is apparent.

"Shandong Province is remarkable for its barren landscape; there is very little topsoil and the terrain is extremely rocky.

"In a typical village, the houses are built of local stone and the windowgaps are bricked up in winter against the winter cold. The houses have

It's women A s I watch news midwives. reports of the student The general aims are to demonstrations in Beij- encourage women to join ing, and the response in productive activities, by the Chinese army, to ensure that their recent memories of the children are healthy, and women I met in China to protect the rights of are triggered. women and children.

Perhaps it is because The women help one many of the students another but insist on selfvoicing their protests are reliance for the group as women, and I gained a a whole. whole new dimension to As they improve their my understanding of education and work to women through encoun- eliminate poverty, they ters with Chinese have earned the admirawomen in Shandong tion and the appreciation Province. of the male population.

They are energetic and Often quoted was Chairdetermined, well orga- man Mao's statement: nised and united in their "Women hold up half the cause and vision. sky."

For two weeks I was I noticed that the privileged to share in women are remarkably village life and witness resourceful — nothing their efforts to teach goes to waste. The leaves other practical skills and from the maize and corn, "bear each others' having been cleaned burdens" in a very real with water and sulphur, way. are for weaving baskets In Mengyin and Yishui, and seat covers for which two of the counties I there is a ready market, visited, the women have both domestic and organised themselves international. into a federation with With the temperature at branches in 460 villages. 8°C, we visited the small Those more skilled, stone buildings where train younger women in the weaving was being methods of agriculture done. and animal husbandry, Fifty girls aged between basket weaving and 15 and 16 work an eightembroidery. hour day from Monday Some are trained to be to Saturday, for the

equivalent of A$1.50 daily.

With only the natural light, and no heating, the girls worked, their faces glowing with achievement and determination.

In another village, fiftyfive women gathered in a small building to embroider bedspreads and tablecloths, using treadle sewing machines.

The cold cement floors emphasised the fact that the building was unheated. With very poor lighting, these women produce exquisite items of excellent quality.

They earn approximately 80 cents a day and take five to six days to complete one item.

A treadle machine can be purchased for A$65, and some women manage to save enough over a number of years to purchase their own machine and work from home. Quite an achievement in household budgeting!

These same articles for which the women are paid a pittance to manufacture, are sold in Australia at quite a considerble price.

There are obviously many 'mark-ups' along

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Now that the situation has changed so radically in the last week,I can only wonder what will happen to the people we met during our visit.

dirt floors and spartan furniture, and are clustered around a courtyard where the corn is ground and the animals sheltered.

"Cooking is also done outside, as often three or four generations share a two-room house.

"In what is referred to as 'courtyard economy',, the women are trained to raise pigs, plant vines and fruit trees, and breed rabbits and chickens.

"The women are aiming to increase their productivity, especially during the winter months, and working are they towards improved education and health care for their families.

"A clothing mill in Jiuzhai village, Mengyin County is being assisted

by Australian Catholic Relief.

"Already equipped with 37 treadle sewing machines, the mill expanded in February to include a knitting workshop with the machinery to spin locally grown cotton.

that we send, which is miniscule in comparison with the needs of am population, but for the opportunity to learn more about the needs and lives of the people. and stand with those who need support.

"Now that the situation has changed so radically in the last week, I can only wonder what will happen to the people we met during our visit."

"The mill will be totally self-sufficient after the next stage of funding, when dyeing equipment will be purchased.

"People have asked why Catholic Australian Relief became involved in this work.

"We saw that the presence of Australian Catholic Relief in China as vitally important, not for the amount of money

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The women I met in China are not only concerned with improving their standard of living, but see also to raise their own level of education, as well as that of their children.

Competent and efficient, the women of are active China members of society working co-operatively to raise the status of women.

Fr Charlie Burrows, together with seven other priests from Australia, is an Oblate Missionary on the Southern Coast of Java.

As violence and death have now overtaken the demonstrations in Beijing, I wonder how these resourceful women are coping.

Australian Catholic Relief would like to continue to support their efforts in the small way that we can, if it is at all possible.

As Christians we will pray for them, that there will be peace in their land and justice for them working their in relationships.

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When transition hits home

When Cindy McCormack talks about personal transition she uses terms like "uncertainty, frightening and taxing." She also sees transition as an opportunity for developing new strengths and skills.

Ms McCormack is a publications editor.

The nine-month transition she has just come through included getting

Her initial anxiety

"I went through a real period of negativity," Ms McCormack says. The whole job search and interviewing process "can be very taxing."

But though the transiBy Katharine Bird tion has been difficult, Ms McCormack says it also has been an oppurtunity to develop new together as a couple, how ordinary of actions: strengths, for instance in t ogether we can solve cleaning up the garden rubbish. But the next her relationship with her problems." husband. morning Mrs Pollack For a woman I'll call awoke in agony. Pain Having to depend on their own resourceful- Maria Pollack, a recent knifed across her back.

At first she didn't think ness has made them even transition period meant better friends, she says. lots of negatives and a much of it. At 72, she was Sharing experiences that complete reassessment used to a certain amount her customary of pain from arthritis. But are "frustrating and of as the weeks passed the funny has given us a new lifestyle. sense of how we work It began with the most pain grew no better.

Increasingly Mrs Pollack Ne that the pain would found herself unable to ke altogether anytime lie flat in bed and or that he could confined to a chair most the bone loss. of the time. unproinising diagAs the days and then le thrust Mrs Pollack weeks passed, her family Dis transition all the became increasingly irt adifficult because it insistent that she consult role ir not have a happy an orthopedic physician.

O ome, at least in terms He told her that osteo- okeing restored to her porosis, a condition in fitier lifestyle. which bones weaken and can collapse, had gotten 4 is struggling to find worse. He offered little a ;ray to accept the

Maddie and Paul's life together in their advanced years was one of mutual support. As her arthritis worsened, Maddie learned to rely on Paul's mobility. He was always there to fetch the things she needed.

As Paul's hearing and eyesight weakened, she

became his eyes and ears — reading to him, relaying to him the words of TV programs.

Maddie and Paul understood each other as no one else could. They bore with each other, and bore each other up.

Though they did not receive pensions, each

received some benefits and they had a modest nest egg for emergencies.

When Maddie died, her e xtended -family members knew how much emotional support and companionship Paul would need. Some spent so much time attending to his needs that only

dered how much longer he would be able to live alone.

married, a time when her new husband was away for special job training and a move to a new city thousands of miles from family and friends.

The transition "was a lot harder than I ever anticipated," she says. She found it especially hard to move away from several close friends she had shared things with day by day.

about moving was heightened by the need to start a job search immediately. Though she had to remain positive, there were times when she came home with her self-esteem dragging.

likelihood of sharply reduced mobility — and the possiblilty that other people will have to wait on her.

grew more important.

Both Ms McCormack and Mrs Pollack say that faith helps during a difficult transition.

"We needed to have contact with other people and to be strengthened by a faith community," she explains.

The liturgy "reminds us who we are and what's important."

At a time when so many things in her life seemed strange and frightening, Ms McCormack says, the church was solid and familiar and parish life

For Mrs Pollack, reading the Bible has taken on new meaning and new urgency. It consoles her when things seem darkest.

however, people's attention is caught by events as they occur. During a period when they feel they are groping for answers to a new need or challenge, they may feel they are being led to focus on their deepest values and to put them into action.

It is as though a small voice within keeps calling them back to the heart of the matter — keeps urging them to act out of love and conviction as each step of a long process unfolds.

Surely this is a time when God's voice is speaking and is heard.

Briefly When Paul's wife Maddie died at the age of 82, he was 87. He felt the loss of her deeply, as did her children and many grandchildren.

Maddie's death hit Paul hard. They had led long, full lives. Her absence was a source of pain to him.

much later did they find time to quietly mourn their own loss.

But no one anticipated what the loss of Maddie's financial benefits would mean. Paul couldn't afford to remain in their apartment for long. And so the transition period he entered became a time

of decision — for him and for others.

Though it became obvious that Paul intended to move to a similar apartment in a building reserved for the elderly and to maintain his independence, in their private conversations his children won-

Difficult, but graced passages Karen was a teenager the last time I had seen her. At that time she was in an ongoing feud with her mother, felt overshadowed by her talented older sister and was longing for the chance to break free from school and home.

Frankly, I don't think I knew her well because I seldom really talked to her.Iusually visited with her parents while Karen sat quietly on the periphery.

is a normal transition period for everyone, and somewhat uncomfortable for many, it had been especially hard for Karen. Yet she had emerged from it so well that I was affirmed in my belief that even difficult passages can be times of God's grace.

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Father Herbert Weber

going for them. They are dered aloud why God steady, ready and might allow such a resourceful. tragedy to happen to a The steadiness has to do man as good as her with an ongoing faith in husband. themselves and in God. It was, however, the An elderly couple who steadiness of her faith in What are the ingre- had a joyful retirement God, matched by her dients for a healthy together had frequently belief in herself, that diffithrough a passage talked about the possibil- pulled her through. cult transition? As the ity of one of them having poster says, bad times to go to the The same faith that had hospital or can make a person either nursing home as they been a source of strength Then recently I met bitter or better. earlier in her life, a became more feeble.

Karen and her husband Are there ways to Finally, that happened reminder that she was of three years at a assure that the outcome when the man suffered a not alone, was there wedding. We had plenty will be positive? during the crisis time. stroke. of time to talk adult to When I think about The normal life expeBut steadiness needs to adult. All I could do was people like Karen who marvel at the fine young have survived difficult rience of growing old be accompanied by readwoman Karen had personal transitions, I affected the woman in a iness. For me, that means very personal way as she an openness to new become. find that they usually saw her husband of 57 perceptions and new Although adolescence have at least three things years unable to care for understandings. himself.

For a number of yearsI She experienced grief, have asked the couples as if he had died. But she who come to me when also struggled with the they're getting married to reality of a confused and invite me over for a Periods of personal transition can be times of paralysed husband. home-cooked meal grace. These may be periods laced with suffering Frequently, she within the first six or frustration. Or they may be periods full of new of their doubted whether she months opportunities. Whatever the case, they are periods could go on and won- marriage. of adaptation in life, when new ground must be broken.

What are some of the reasons people find themselves experiencing a period of personal transition?

What does it mean to be resourceful at a time of transition, according to Father Herbert Weber?

Do you think everyone experiences a major period of transition at some point?

What do you think a follower of Jesus needs to remember at a time of personal transition?

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Many couples take my request seriously and invite me over.

For me this meal is a chance to keep in touch with two people I have come to know rather well during the premarriage sessions. For them, it is a chance to update me on how they are doing.

Usually it is a pleasant evening with light discussion.

But on one occasion a couple told me how much they were waiting to talk with me. They had expected that the adjustment to marriage would be hard, but they were truly surprised by the many little issues they had failed to anticipate.

There were more tears in the first two months than either had wanted.

The newlyweds were starting to worry about their marriage. But then they discovered that their adjustment required them to be more open than they had been.

In their mental images

of what marriage "should be", neither had allowed room for variations.

Their expectations and planning had been precise but rigid. Now a readiness to accept the unplanned was necessary to keep the marriage alive.

The third thing people need to have going for them at difficult points of transition is resourcefulness. Most people have more resources than they think.

These resources include personal strengths that are not called upon enough, like a sense of humour or the ability to look for new alternatives.

But resources also include external supports like friends and family members who have deep and genuine concern for what someone is going through.

Along with a steadiness of faith and a readiness to see a situation in new ways, resourcefulness can transform a crisis, or even a tragedy, into a moment of grace.

This period of transition for Paul and his family involved suffering and mourning over the death of Maddie. It involved frustrations and temporary losses of perspective as this energetic but

elirly man sought a liityle compatible with hineeds. (ristians are accustoed to saying that God silks to his people. Yet may say they have diticulty discerning G s voice in the rush of e t ts.

A a time of transition,

Transition can be faxing and difficult for couples, writes Katharine Bird. At the same time, when couples work their way through a transition it can help them to develop new strengths in their relationship.

Pay attention to this Jeannie is a lay minister should have introduced

by Father in a parish of about 1000 those two."

Kinast Robert households. Three days a Many feel anger. "Either week she visits hospita- stop the drugs or get out of lised and homebound the house." "He should their God. "Paying attention" is a basic quality in parishioners. have taken better care of the spiritual life.

"It's a 3-D ministry," she his health." How does through break Jeannie said. "Drugs, divorce and Jesus habitually drew his death. If I can help people these tough reactions? disciple's attention to the work through those crises.

"I listen a lot," she said "I world around them and I've fulfilled my ministry." let people talk themselves invited them to see it as a I asked Jeannie to tell me to a point where they're revelation of God, to treat it as a gift from God. more. Here is what she ready to reflect." said.

Becoming creative.

And when people begin Paying attention to the People never seem to be to reflect and not just react in this way prompts world to sudden changes, three prepared for the impact of a sudden shift in their things happen. They take a person to become crealess for granted. They tive. In leannie's expelives.

People are stunned when become more creative, and rience this is a transition things that happen to they rediscover the impor- from "what and why" to "where and how." Here's others also happen to tance of other people. what she means: Taking less for granted. them. Their first reactions It may not always be true The words "what" and are instinctive.

Some deny what has that you never appreciate "why" focus on the past. happened or minimise its what you have until you "What happened to our seriousness. "My son lose it, but people who marriage? Why did Billy would not take drugs." suffer a severe loss often do get into drugs?"

But the words "where" Other take on responsi- as a result pay more bility that isn't theirs for attention to their health, and "how" turn the corner what happened. "I never their friends, their world, and look to the future.

"Where do we go from here as a family? How can we grow from this shattered relationship?"

Jesus always had an eye on the future — where his Father was beckoning him. Thus, when the disciples took time off from their work to join his ministry in Galilee, he pointed them toward Jerusalem. Later, when they figured out how to explain his death and resurrection to the Jews, he moved them toward the gentiles.

Every point of transition opened a new phase of the disciples, lives with Jesus.

Rediscovering others.

When people take less for granted and become more creative, they also rediscover one another — or better, they rediscover that they are always connected to one another.

A sudden trauma can make a person feel very

alone. Feeling alone, a person can easily withdraw into isolation or strike out in self-reliance.

But talking through such feelings with someone like Jeannie brings the person back into contact with others who care, who are present, who support.

Remember that Jesus constantly reassured the disciples that no one who does good would be forgotten or lost.

As I listened to Jeannie, I was struck by her enthusiasm and spirit. She is someone able to bring great support to others facing difficult personal transition points in life.

The reflection to which she leads people causes them to refocus their attention — to see things in a different light. You could say that this reflection in itself becomes a moment of transition for the people Jeannie serves.

Rebeccah was the hood to adulthood is painful mother of Jacob, one of and the in-between period the patriarchs of Israel. of adolescence can be She must have shed stormy. Facing the prospect copious tears when Jacob of adult responsibilities can left to find a wife among be frightening. his blood relatives in Jacob is a case in point.

Haran. But he would be Rebeccah had long kept him back. tied to her apron strings. She Jacob, too, must have found was determined that he

hand of Rachel. This started an ongoing battle of wits which challenged Jacob's ingenuity and forced him to stand on his own two feet.

Growing up was hard to do, but it had to be done.

A personal transition of a different sort was faced centuries later by Peter in the first days of the Church.

It happened that the complexion of the church communities was changing.

They were no longer made up exclusively of Jewish Christians. More and more gentiles were joining them.

Peter himself had been prompted by the Spirit to baptise a gentile — the Roman centurion Cornelius — and his household. But this didn't happen without an emotional struggle.

Peter fought the Spirit's suggestion. It ran sharply counter to his ingrained convictions.

Even after he gave in he

had to endure the shocked reaction of the community in Jerusalem.

When the issue was officially settled, Peter went up to Antioch where there were very mixed communities of Jewish Christians and gentile Christians. Secure in the decision that had been made, Peter accepted dinner invitations from gentile Christians quite happily.

But then some Jewish Christians from Jerusalem arrived on the scene and Peter was in turmoil. They didn't understand eating with gentile Christians. And at first Peter dodged the problem by refusing to eat with the gentiles.

But this only made matters worse. For then Peter had to endure criticism from Paul.

As you can see, the process of making a transition in life is not only an intellectual one. Often it is an excruciating emotional one as well.

Essential turning points

noro rthKoaurgehn,adolescence Herber transition period for everyone, it had been especially hard weber. But the way she emerged from it confirmed him in his s Father writes for belief that even difficult passe can be times of God's grace. .0/

the separation difficult — bewildering, in fact. Who would tell him what to do or which of his cousins to choose as his wife? He would have to decide for himself, and that was scary.

The transition from child-

would inherit the rights of the firstborn, even though his twin brother Esau was the older of the two.

Rebeccah had devised an ingenious scheme to hoodwink their father, tricking him on his death into

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But back to Jacob's journey to Haran in search of a wife.

Once there he chose Rachel,

daughter of his uncle,

Laban. But Laban was even a more trickster than he was.

Laban substituted his older, less favoured daughter for Rachel on the wedding night and then made Jacob work for him an extra seven years for the

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are or have been victims of incest, child sexual assault or molestation, and their families. ISA also has a resource library with books, articles and videos.

To many lucky people, incest is merely a word, but not a reality. Consequently their perception of this murky area where sins are committed against the innocent, is unreal. In fact, most noninvolved would prefer to pretend it doesn't exist.

The truth is, some adults who are told by their children that they are being abused by a family member, don't want to know about it either . . .

It's often much easier in life to think the problem will go away — if you ignore it.

But for the victims of sexual abuse, there's no hiding from it because it's often happening in their own homes, which were meant to protect them from the world's evils.

No wonder incest victims usually grow up with minimal selfesteem and the belief that they have no rights, and must have done something wrong to deserve it.

They resign themselves to the belief that this is their lot in life — and all they can ever expect.

Many victims carry their burden of seeming guilt for the major part of their lives.

One particular lady

had kept hers for 60 too, often play their part years before she unbur- in protecting the abuser dened herself to her because of his line . . . spouse, who reacted with That it's okay for him to loving support and do this to the child; it's an expressed sorrow at not educatiOn about the being confided in before. body; it's alright for him ISA sees about eight to do it because 'I love new clients a week and you' (this one is to make all cases are kept strictly the child guilty about saying no to them); or confidential.

It's also committed to they threaten to punish if families the child tells; or say helping enmeshed in the suffer- they'll go to jail and then the mother will throw ing of the abused, and the child out and the sometimes distraught whole family will be split husbands. up.

Ms Ivy Rogerson, SerAnd there are other vice Administrator and ways for the abuser to be says it's a counsellor, protected — "It will stop myth that perpetrators him upsetting the family are a certain type of ifIgo along with him." Or person, and so are the "Mum mustn't be told abused. because it would upset She states you can't her." Or "We can't tell make an identikit of a grandmother about typical case, "because grand-dad — it would they come from all races, kill her!" areas, religions — nonAnd then there's the christian and christian, all socio-economic legal angle that their and all names should be supgroups, professions.

"Although there are no distinguishing characteristics, the majority of the abusers are men.

However with an incidence as high as one child in four being sexually abused, it doesn't mean that is the ratio of male abusers, "because one man may pressed to protect the go through an entire child.

Because of a conspiracy household," she said. silence, the abuser can of Just as the abusers get away with sexually differ, so do the types of abusing (as in one case) abuse. successive generations.

Not all abusers set out to One grandfather raped have intercourse with his sisters, his own the child, but many children, and his grandprogress to this extreme. children — and got away Those who stop short of with it. this, convince themselves ISA received two calls that they've done no in one day asking for harm to the child. advice because 'grandAnd those who do feel father's coming to town guilty, nevertheless con- and what can we do to protect our children?'

Incest can also make a woman more vulnerable to further sexual exploitation, according to Diana Russell's The Incest Legacy, wherein she states that its victims are almost twice as likely as other women to be sexually assaulted by non-relatives later in life. tinue because they don't history desOne case want to, or can't, stop.

And the thought of cribes a girl, then a young discovery often only adds woman, who was raped perverse and sexually abused by a to their church deacon, her excitement. brothers-in-law, a good It's often a shock too, in friend's husband, the finding out who is an police — and because abuser . . "But it can't be she couldn't bear normal him! He's such a good marital relations in view man!" Or that the 'good of her traumatised past who always — her husband, who man' repaired things around continued to rape her the house and was such over the years. a good provider — was a And just to prove how child molestor!

Some wives discovering they come in all their husband has been forms . . . one girl was molesting their children, being raped by her waste no time in evicting brother, who was also him And a small minor- raping her sister. ity just let it ride; She then found out that preferring not to believe both her brother and the child. sister had been raped as The abused children children by her father

Grandpa who got away

It's often a shock

sexual buse (whom whe escaped sirable for them to bring women who were sexu- differently. "They're ally assaulted and given a brought up tough, and because he died in her their friends home. infancy). But dad's occuISA said a lot of men get bad deal by everybody. not allowed to cry or pation? A minister of a away with it because They had to try hard to show emotion! This is conservative religion. they do it gradually prove they were "as wrong."

In one 17 year old girl's through natural affec- innocent as spring Victims may become Ms promiscuous for a while said case who insisted her tion, and step over the lambs," too. And some spend a father stop it — he broke line. Some too maintain Rogerson.

So a lot of women life in prostitution as a her jaw. Dad is a judge in they 'own' the child.

She's 'theirs' . . . to do started lobbying for a result of what was in fact the British Isles. better deal. The Austral- the offender's offence.

The real danger for what they like with. is these innocent victims, Some clients who go to ian Women Against Rape But the victim pays the that of contracting sexu- ISA were sexually was formed in the seven- price.

A researcher in a New ally transmitted diseases abused children whom ties and they lobbied and and AIDS in particular. no-one believed. But now wrote letters to people York interview said 20 Some children have been as adults they've put and behaved responsibly, high class call girls were found to have been given these diseases by forward their case and she said.

This activity drew bribed for sexual favours their rapists — with all some have achieved the ongoing health prob- successful prosecutions attention to how women and rewarded with lems, social stigma, men- through the law enforce- were being treated hav- expensive gifts as childing been sexually ren, perhaps accounting tal and emotional ment bodies. for their profession trauma. And in some Some too go to ISA, not assaulted.

The question then arose choice. cases a legacy of self- seeking a prosecution — self- but merely to find peace as a result of a 'phone-in' and disgust Many who live in in 1978 . . . What about intolerable situations at condemnation — "I must of mind. children who are sexu- home, have to eke out have deserved it."

Painful memories and Some well dressed bus- reoccurring dreams are ally assaulted? What was their own survival if they leave, so turn to inessmen whip over to so persistent and bad for being done for them?

To help turn the tide prostitution.

Northbridge in their some that they block it lunch break for a out. This is their way of and seek redress for the In Sydney's Odyssey victims, Ms Nancy Reh- House, (for drug rehabil'quickie' with young coping. boys, usually for payitation), 85% were incest So the child may go for victims, so in order to a holiday with relatives maintain their drug or friends and during it they've turned to habit, be sexually abused. In prostitution. the eradicate to order But the people seen at experience he/she will ISA have not chosen that block it out and then path, only a small perrecall nothing of the centage. However if holiday. forced out of home — For those who've rehey do turn to t bad these discovered having feldt AM did something prostitution. memories, ment of a couple of Some women feeling so blocked it for some time, about it. dollars. rejected and unlovable they say they're glad of She founded ISA in July because of their incest Probably posing as the recall, which may and is a past 1984 heterosexuals, they then have been triggered by a past, deliberately become return to their families reminder. Then every- president who maintains unmarried mothers with whatever they pick thing clicks back into a very active interest in because they need somethe organisation. And one to love them and to up, passing it on to wives place. there's a lot of work to be and in many cases their Some are grateful for done by such groups have a baby, offers them defenceless children. that because it gives because of the high security.

Not every child in an them a chance to do Incest victims with their incidence of incest in the incest family becomes a something positive about self-esteem, often low community. believe they are only victim however. Usually it.

It's also vital for men to the quiet and submissive "One thing which keeps be able to discuss their sexual objects. are chosen because of me going," said Ms More than half the problems with such their obediency, whereas Rogerson, "is that on one in refuges have women because organisations "not my sister! She would level I see people chang"males don't have the been sexually abused have told everyone!" openings which women The effects of incest are have, to talk about it," usually life-long and said Ms Rehfeldt. "Evendramatic in the lifetually women do, but for course change it causes men it is so horrible the innocent victim. As because they feel their one woman said who very masculinity is was raped by her stepbrought into question father at 14 "Everything and they are then in the that has happened to me same position which since, has been a result of women were placed in." that experience."

One male took part in a And another who was ing their lives and we can group of nine females themselves and from an sexually abused by her help them to do that. All because he was desper- early age. Thirty per cent of mothers of sexually natural father. . . "There they need is a bit of ate for support. abused children, were probably isn't one area of support and to hear Sexually abused figures also sexually abused in my life that hasn't been someone say for boys is 1 in 7, and for their childhood. touched because without understand'." girls 1 in 4. Years ago we a solid family back"They will see us and thought it only happened Because they have no ground — you don't have come into a group which with girls, and it's only effective role model, they anything." is properly structured. just been discovered how are often passive and Some victims have One client who'd come rife it is with boys too, she although perhaps intelsought help only to find from the eastern states said. lectually advanced, they nothing has been done. was looking for a group emotionally Some men are hypocrit- are retarded In some schools also to join. of the trauma because there is a protocol to be "Counselling is on a one ical, "because they experienced as a young followed where the child to one basis and then we wouldn't go with another child. has told the teacher who ascertain whether they woman. They just get at Because of their passivhad to tell the principal. need to be referred to their own kids!" Boys Then they've called the someone else. We refer who've been sexually ity, they tend to attract men. parents in to take the appropriately, depend- abused, repeat this cycle these sort of themselves. child home and the worst ing whether they have Ms Rehfeldt said we are has happened to the psychological problems Women who've been born with enduring child. or whatever." abused, tend to become abilities, but can only There's also verbal ISA has come a long over protective. Ms Reh- become good mothers by sexual harassment to way. In 1978 there was feldt suggests that we following the mother we children making it unde- adverse publicity about should bring up boys received as children.

Founder of ISA

Effects of incest

ISA has come long way

Trauma of a child

Ms Ivy Rogerson who, with her organisation, plays a vital role in providing a listening ear and giving a helping hand to those in need.

"And if our mother was a poor submissive, ineffectual woman who was herself victimised, how can she set us a good example and be strong enough to protect us?

"And decode 'stick by husband regardless'. But we're also told to love and protect our children!" she said. The woman then has to make a choice between the husband and the children.

Many support their daughters — but a percentage don't.

Sometimes incest occurs when the mother is hanging out the washing! or had to go to hospital.

ISA's involvement is not only a helping role, but also a learning process.

"It was only through listening to the poor victim's story that we could understand the diversity and implications of abused children."

Ms Rehfeldt who received the Order of Australia for her decade of work with women and children, believes that people have to be empowered to help themselves; ISA works on a 50/50 basis. "We support them but they have to

contribute their effort too!"

ISA helps them to improve their emotional and physical health; both repercussions are very real to a victim.

The good news Some women who have been victims, grow up to be childless either through STD's they've received or because they deliberately deny themselves motherhood and even pray to God not to have a girl in case she suffered the same fate as they did.

When little boys are sexually abused, they often sexually ,abuse younger children. "'hey grow up wanting to enjoy the power that was denied them," said Ms Rehfeldt.

Women may physically abuse their children and with a minority — sexually abuse their sons.

Parents in some instances are covertly sexual to

their children which also does harm, she said. "So there is covert as well as overt incest."

The good news is however, that some people make it 'over the hill' and do affect a change in their repercussive attitude. "By changing and asserting themselves.

And if the victims are we mothers, then encourage them to be strong mothers and develop a good relationship with their children, and so fortify the family environment," said Ms Rogerson.

Sexual abuse results in sexual problems, bitterness, requiring psychiatric help, emotional problems, failed marriage, hatred of men, hatred of own son, guilt and depression, suicidal, promiscuity, alcoholism, drug addiction, obsessions (like cleanliness), compulsive eating, overprotection of daughters, and low self-esteem.

And a final message from this excellent organisation? "If a child tells that they have been sexually abused — then that child MUST be believed. Because children don't make up these kind of stories . ."

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Sudden death of a pope which he has displayed in his somewhat clinical and almost tedious reporting of so much he was told.

He seems bent on believing only the worst in what will remain always the enigma of Pope John Paul I if only because the each papacy is itself an enigma.

Was that slight smiling figure, elected with remarkable speed after only four ballots on the first day August 26,1978, so overwhelmed by the task and not up to the job? Worse still, asks Cornwell, was he so disparaged by the Vatican apparatus there to serve him, that the burden was too much for him?

Not just for physically ignoring papal health symptoms, but even for intellectual and spiritual neglect of its new pope, the church needs castigating, Cornwell seems to suggest.

To that end he attaches remarkable importance to every hint of scuttlebut, irreverent comment or amateur analysis that surfaced from his interviewees.

If there are any honest, prayerful, dedicated and maturely perceptive officials anywhere in the Vatican they do not appear to stand a chance of surfacing in the network that is essential to the Cornwell thesis.

He works so hard at his conclusion that the pope was murdered by proxy — even worse than in fact — that the author falls victim to his own machinations.

Hosannas may surround a new pope but he is no more than the twothirds-plus-one choice of the cardinals. If he is the product of compromise, vision or exhaustive lobbying, there is no replay of the decision.

The conclave claims neither the foresight, still less the hindsight superior wisdom of Vatican watchers, to map the career of whom they have chosen.

If Luciani was a stop gap compromise result, it offers no insurance against health or performance.

Short-term pontiffs, notably John XXIII, need not be written off so negatively.

Built largely around 10 year old impressions of a pope probably no-one really got to know, the persona of Luciani is sadly reduced to a mediocrity whose purpose is only to fit Cornwell's implied murder by proxy and hardly lifts this work above the shallow motivation he pins on Yallop's book.

Those who think there are forces other than

Archbishop Foley, Vatican communicator who opened doors for the facts to be told. . . but who so far is silent on the result.

human logic at work in the making of a pope will take some heart from the anecdote extracted from former secretary Magee, now an Irish bishop, that Papa Luciani made vague references to his place being taken by "the foreigner" who sat opposite him at the conclave.

Only when Magee moved over to be papal master of ceremonies was he able to scan the file on the seating at the conclave and discover that "the foreigner" seated opposite Luciani was none other than Karol Wojtyla — Pope John Paul II. A Thief In The Night is ostensibly a book about the death of a pope and its attendant shambles.

On the surface the details have a potential to bore the world to death.

By way of insurance, therefore, Cornwell's book appears to have mined the other and more lucrative lode of Vaticanology, and judging by reviews so far that is where he may have pinned his hopes.

While he does not appear to attempt to demolish the Yallop version that puts Archbishop Marcinckus up as the leading suspect, Cornwell spends an extraordinary amount of his time researching in depth and recounting every minute of his interviews with the now very public Vatican banker and its operator.

For all that, Marcinckus in this book turns out to be not much different from the impressions many already have of him — a man as likeable and as unlikeable as the point of view from which one wants to judge his activities.

In the Cornwell interviews, therefore, Marcinckus is an interviewer's dream — the quips, asides, epithets and colourful backstairs imagery of Vatican life and politics make him a

first class relic to this story even if he throws little light on the Luciani mystery.

Similarly, Cornwell hangs on the lips of a very talkative Vatican monsignor enjoying a very long lunch and basking in the Roman sport of lifting the lid on the supposedly dark corner of Vatican life.

The author attaches a quite surprising credibility to these and dozens of unguarded comments on the Luciani era as if here was the unrevealed secret the world is longing to know.

The test is whether these endless Vatican yarns are ever mistaken for the truth.

Tens of thousands of outsiders who do their stint in Rome know how seductive is the sport of Vaticanology and Vaticanese — jolly entertaining at the time but not necessarily what life is really all about.

Other Vatican watchers of course will devour Cornwell's book for this very reason.

Author Andrew Greeley is in raptures in his Tablet review of the book, not because of its verdict on Pope John Paul I's death but because Cornwell has hammered more nails into the Vatican coffin that Greeley thinks cannot be buried too quickly.

He spends half his review for example on the Marcinckus questions.

The Daily News produced a syndicated review that furrowed its brows over Cornwell's so called revelations and hinted that it must indeed be a shady church to allow such things. A local Perth weekend review treks gloomily through the Vatican scene because that is all Cornwell can offer.

The problem can be sheeted home to Cornwell himself who is a minor irritant, even after confessing that his personal feelings have crept into the narrative. He does more.

As a seminarian of seven years who in 1968, aged 24, abandoned faith in either God or his church, he suggests the curious superior position that an outsider agnostic can perceive these question with a clarity denied to the apparently hopeless millions, and thousands in the Vatican itself, who appear devoted to their church notwithstanding even withering criticisms from within at every level.

He co-incidentally strikes a curious parallel with Yallop who bases his credentials partly on the fact that at all of 15 years of age he was totally put off both by the doctrine of the Assumption and a fairly heavy a from drubbing Redemptorist sacristan and has been dining out on these reasons for his apostasy ever since.

The naivete and insularity with which Cornwell surrounds himself in what would be the average seminary surroundings of Rome's English College during his period as their guest, hints that he has not quite explained why he took up Archbishop Foley's offer.

His epilogue is the all too familiar lament and lecture by the lapsed Catholic that the church must really try and get its act together. It is a truism known even better to those who actually work hard at the church from within.

Whether it will make the faithful go out and buy yet another instalment of the Vatican serial will have to be judged by standards closer to a publisher's heart, if not of the people it is all about.

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Past and present YCW members are strongly urged to take part in an important camp to be held on June 2325 at Eagle's Nest, Gidgegannup.

Fulltime workers vince Whately and Kate Deavin issued the call this week, saying that the YCW relies on past as well as present members to help discern the future of the

movement in Perth.

Just back from the National Council in Melbourne, Vince and Kate have the task of translating national decisions into the Perth scene by involving as many members as possible in reviewing and acting on national initiatives.

YCW is not simply a parish social group,

deeply and to take more control over them.

but an international movement which is committed to taking action in the world.

This starts with actions in our own lives, in our suburb, our country and finally on the international level.

YCW is a movement dedicated to changing the world and enabling all people, Catholic or not, to examine their lives more

The best positive action will come only if every available YCW member, past or present, takes part in the June camp.

Please indicate your interest by phoning Vince or Kate on 328 9667 by Tuesday June 30 at the latest.

The key to the group's future

Solid foundations and strong formation are the key to the future of YCW in Perth, according to new full time worker Kate Deavin.

Kate (21) of Edgewater took up her new role with the Young Christian Workers movement recently in place of Warren lannello, who retired after nearly two and a half years in the job.

After leaving Sacred Heart College Sor-

rento in 1984, Kate worked for a travel company for four years before coming to the YCW office in Street, Claverton North Perth.

And as an active member of Balc.atta YCW for several years, her experience in the movement is ample qualification.

By why leave a steady job to work for YCW? "Ienjoy YCW and its principles. and I

wanted to do something different. I see a need for my own personal development, and I want to help the movement develop as well."

Kate's work will focus on Perth's northern suburbs, where four YCW groups are already established with a fifth in the initiation stage.

Her overall aim is to double the number of groups in the north

and to establish close contact with more young workers in the region.

Among other key challenges, Kate recognises that developing leaders and encouraging concrete actions in YCW groups will be her top priorities.

She also sees more interaction between groups and helping older members to teachwand encourage newer ones as being

high on the list of challenges.

Environmental and unemployment issues are also growing needs, but of major importance to young workers is development of good relationships, including marriage and family ties.

Since the principles of YCW involve good leadership formation and positive action, these will figure in prominently YCWs leaders camp

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Held annually, the school explores the basics of YCW and fulltimers helps develop new ways of young reaching

workers.

Kate joined Warren lannello and fellow Vince fulltimer Whately at the school, along with workers from all other states and national YCW chaplain, Fr Denis Sheehan.

Now back at the Perth office, Kate plans to use ideas from the school as she launches into the exciting challenge of building up the YCW movement in WA.

CATHOLIC PARISH YOUTH

Diary for youth

This is a new feature for the youth page, a running list of events coming up on Perth's youth scene.

We will run the calendar every two or three weeks, depending on availability of space on this page.

Included here are some of the major events coming up in various youth movements in Perth.

All youth groups — YCW, YCS, CPY, Antioch, Charis and any other youth group — are urged to let us know of events coming up in your area.

Send notices to "Youth Calendar, PO Box

to be held in June, a follow on from the initiation March camp.

But Kate's introduction to fulltiming was hectic, for after barely a week in the office she was off to Melbourne for the full time workers' school which ended on May

194, North Perth 6006" at least a month before the event you want listed.

JUNE 23-25 YCW Leadership Camp.

30-2 July CPY Sexuality Program.

JULY 2 Catholic Youth Council Meeting, North Perth.

3-7 UCS Camp, Gidgegannup.

9 CPY bowling day.

14-16 CRY() Conference, Bindoon.

Redemptorist 'Stranger' Camp, Gidgegannup.

16-20 YCS State camp.

22 Albany Ball.

Northern Regional Meeting 1pm — 3pm Sunday, June 25, Cardijn Centre, 30 Claverton Street, North Perth * Swap ideas & information on your youth group * Ideas on starting a youth group * Meet CPY Fulltimers & Neway Team Corning up Northern Regional Camp, July 21-23 Fairbridge Farm, Pinjarra

More information:

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Little Aussie diggers

by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

Photographs by Father Doug Conic('

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Really into communication with 'the boys out there' are (left) Matthew Brown, David Onesti and Tony Berson.

during the night Jesse Newman showing fatigue caused through 'being raided ever have more home at bed a Did day!' the during enemy the combatting and appeal?

Brother John Carrigg, Headmaster, caught hiding from 'the enemy'? kids!

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Last week about 70 Aquinians took part on a three day bivouac held at the Bindoon army reserve, training in leadership, character building, self awareness, team work.

Comments from the boys were "with the beauty of the bush, we now see how important it is to preserve our Australian bushland" and "we didn't realise how quiet and beautiful it is." From others "what a great thing it is to learn how to survive on your own in the bush."

The boys learned the importance and reliance one has on 'his mate' and his on you. And the essential ingredient of 'mateship' — never to let them down.

These diggers had an exciting, if sleepless! three days with night attacks by the 'enemy', and stumbling across trip wires, which set off flares, smoke bombs and the sounds of war zone activity broadcast from strategically placed trees. And the great learning experience, being isolated in a platoon and having to get along together.

Dwayne Lindner lugging his load and contemplating the of bivoucas!

pros and cons

Alan Guice, typifying the true Aussie digger, laughs it off with "she'll be mate!"

Platoon twilight

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Literature buffs estranged son, Ian, an amateur jockey; and through him discovers a compulsive new outlet for his financial expertise.

Soon he's playing the international bloodstock market for incredible stakes.

BP FaplOre Australia.

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Hot Money by Dick Francis. Published by Pan. $9.99.

Malcolm Pembroke never expected to make a million pounds without making enemies. Nor did he expect his latest wife to he brutally murdered. All the clues suggest the killer comes from close to home — but after five marriages and nine children, that still leaves the field wide open.

When he finds his own life Pembroke danger, in entrusts his safety to his

Our Land

The Penguin History of Australia, the story of 200 years by Professor John Molony, $24.99.

The Penguin History of Australia is the paperback release of the magnificent Penguin Bicentennial History of Australia, launched in January 1988 by the Prime Minister, the Hon R. J. L. Hawke.

This critically acclaimed. best selling release is an

Gold and Typhoid Two worked so hard under the Fevers. A social history of world's worst conditions Western Australia 1891and through the typhoid 1900 by Vera Whittington fever epidemic. First hospiwith Foreword by Rt Hon tal was a canvas tent. ' Sir Paul Hasluck. Pub by These words, on a plaque in University of Western a Western Australian goldAustralia Press $36. fields museum, started the • Richly textured, meticuresearch which resulted in lously researched and splenGold and Typhoid, research didly constructed, in this which subsequently took the book Whittington has chroauthor all over the world. nicled a society grappling Previously unpublished simultaneously with two of material makes this book a the great forces of change, most valuable contribution namely, disease and mineral to Australian social history discoveries. She tells of a Romantic tales of fortunes pressure-cooker society, won and lost in high peopled fascinatingly. adventure on the goldfields A marvellous account of an Australian colony in the have been told before. This book has less glamour and 1890s.

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everyman's history; an authoritative and comprehensive blend of cultural, economic and environmental history Professor Molony is not blind to the failures and follies which have followed the white peopling of Australia; rather it is a thoughtful and timely acknowledgment of the considerable achievement of the past 200 years.

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These books will allow you to understand and interpret all the words and phrases you'll need on your trip abroad.

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Reader's Digest Atlas of the Bible, bb $29.95.

The world's most enduring work of faith and wisdom, the Bible also tells the story of great people moving through a land starkly, awesomely beautiful. Abraham travels from "Ur of the Chaldeans" down to the land of Canaan; David flees the wrath of Saul in the Wilderness of Judea; Jesus gathers his "fishers of men" on the shores of the Sea of Galilee.

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No other Bible atlas so realistically depicts the landscape of the Bible world; no other Bible atlas contains such a wealth of maps and illustrations.

At the core of any atlas are the maps. Atlas of the Bible has dozens of these, many reproduced at the generous scale of one inch to eight miles — the largest fullcolour maps ever seen in a Bible atlas. These large-scale projections were created specifically for this volume

by Reader's Digest and are based on the definitive, upto-date relief of the Holy

by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

MIR! Vera Whittington

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Land as compiled by Survey of Israel, the cartographic branch of Israel's Ministry of Labor.

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The Living Planet by David Attenborougb.

Published by Fontana, $19.95.

This book is based on a series of programmes made for BBC Television. It and they are sequels to an earlier series and book entitled Life on Earth. That project attempted to describe the way in which animals and plants developed on this planet over the past three thousand million years and traced the rise of different groups of animals which culminated in the expansion of the mammals and ultimately the appearance of man.

This new book surveys the situation as it is today. It examines the manner in which the survivors of ancient groups as well as the representatives of newlyevolved ones have together colonised and adapted to the great variety of environments that exist on earth.

Here and there, the two narratives may overlap slightly, but the variety of animals and plants is so immense that I have been able, in most instances, to

illustrate such episodes with species other than those described in the earlier book I have retained the same style as before, avoiding as far as possible technical scientific terms and not encumbering the text with Latin names. However, the index has been compiled to serve as a glossary in which each organism is given Dot only a page reference but also its scientific name, so a reader who wishes to know precisely what family, genus or species is being referred to can discover by looking it up in the index.

The book was written at the same time as the programmes were being filmed.

The one is not, therefore, the direct descendant of the other. Rather the two are cousins, both descended from the same body of research and years of travel.

They therefore have the sort of differences and likenesses that you might expect from such a relationship. I hope the one may enhance the other.

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Build or renovate your own home in earth, stone or timber. Building a weekender? Renovating at home?

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Sister Teresa Hefferman who died recently in Sydney who enriched the world with her 72 years of love and caring for the poor.

TH TOM BRANCH l b!ill, NI RAPE •

Mixed Pennants Fine but cold and blustery conditions greeted the players on the opening day of the 1989 WACLTA Mixed Pennant competition.

Five teams were represented in A grade and six teams in B grade. Two of those B grade teams were nominated for the C grade competition, however, due to lack of entries the C grade competition was unable to run.

A Grade St Jude's had a tough first up match against St Joseph's, with the latter team much improved on last year. St Jude's finally won 6 sets 78 games to 4 sets 53 games. Whilst many players had not played for some time the standard of tennis was of a high order.

The remaining match between Queens Park and St Cecilia's was not completed due to failing light. It was unfortunate as the game was at a most interesting stage with Queens Park leading 5 sets 73 games to 3 sets 69 games.

B Grade In a typic.al Pignatelli derby the underdogs got up to win with Pignatelli 2 winning 6 sets 78 games to Pignatelli 1, 4 sets 65 games. This match finished under lights at approximately 6.30pm.

Dianella had what appeared to be a comfortable win over Queens Park. 9 sets 88 games to 1 set 48 games. Dianella were able to win the important points which enabled them to gain the initiative.

However, Queens Park performed strongly throughout and the scores were perhaps not a true reflection of

the standard of tennis between the two teams.

Former A grade team, St Benedict's had a fairly easy win over Liwara, 9 sets 89 games to 1 set 31 games. On form, St Benedict's should be one of the favourites for the B Grade Pennant.

Table

A Grade St Jude's Queen's Park St Cecilia's St Joseph's St Norbert's

2 1 1 0 0

B Grade St Benedict's Dianella Pignatelli 2 Pignatelli 1 Queens Park Liwara

2 2 2 0 0 0

A Grade St Joseph's v Queens Park St Norbert's v St Cecilia's The resurgence of St Joseph's will be fully tested against the strong Queens Park team whilst the two newcomers to A grade, St Cecilia's and St Norbert's do battle for the two premiership points.

Selection — Queens Park; St Norberts.

B Grade Liwara v Pignatelli 1 Pignatelli 2 v Queens Park Dianella v St Benedict's The highlight of Round 2 in B grade will he the match between Dianella and St Benedict's. This clash should provide a hint as to the chances of both teams in the competition. Pignatelli 1 and Pignatelli 2 should prove too strong for Liwara and Queens Park respectively.

Selections — Pignatelli 1 Pignatelli 2 St Benedict's

DOGS' CHANCE RACE ONE: Red Rambo 1, Just George 2, Chief Crusher 3.

RACE TWO: Ballybeg Echo 1, Two Timer 2, Satin Bow 3.

RACE THREE: Woofie's Wonder 1, Cup of Coffee 2, Rusty Velocity 3.

RACE FOUR Endless Pursuit 1, Yanduloch 2, Leggo Lady 3.

RACE FIVE: Balama Joy 1, Randene's Image 2, Black Reward 3.

RACE SIX: I'm Busy 1, Fremantle Echo 2, Nora's Pride 3.

RACE SEVEN: Wee Mickila 1, Reigning Blue 2, Miss Goldie 3.

RACE EIGHT: Zinglemania 1, Top Business 2, White Camira 3.

RACE NINE: Tiger Cub 1, Belotti 2, Indiana Tiger 3.

RACE TEN: Royal Esteem 1, Sea Glider 2, Emwal Lass 3.

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FAMILY DUTY The family is where the duty to society begins and the lay faithful's duty to society primarily begins in marriage and the family . . . . This is contained in the document on the 1987 Synod on the Laity which speaks of the family as the primary place of 'humanisation' for the person and society.

The 175 page document "Christifideles Laici" is now available from Gatto's & Pellegrini at a cost of $3.

LIFE IN THE SPIRIT Gosnells Charismatic prayer will hold for people over 18 years, a life in the spirit seminar, (an introduction into a life of knowing Jesus personally and recognising his spirit working in our lives) for eight weeks, commencing Friday, June 23 at 8pm at St Munchins School, Gosnells. For details ring Arthur 459 6183 or Kathy 398 4973.

CATHOLIC WOMEN'S LEAGUE The state conference and annual Holy Communion of the CWL of Western Australia will be held at the Redemptorist Retreat House, North Perth on Sunday, July 16 commencing with 9am Mass to be celebrated

by Archbishop Foley in the Church of St Peter and Paul.

CHRISTMAS IN JULY The Beginning Experience Programme will hold a Christmas-in-July on Saturday July 29 from 6.30pm at Anzac House, 28 St George's Terrace, Perth. Cost: $20/head — four course meal includes roast and trimmings and 50-60's dancing. Bar facilities available (private function room). For further information contact Maureen 447 1060 or Val 364 4772. RSVP (with money) by 14 July, 1989.

AWL FILM MORNING A film morning will be held at the Piccadilly Theatre, Hay Street, Perth, on June 21 to raise funds for the education of priests who may be in need of assistance. The film "Without a Clue" stars Michael Caine and Ben Kingsley. Doors open at 10am and the film commences at 10.30am. A raffle will be held during the morning and a cup of tea or coffee will be provided at the end of the show. Tickets available at the door are $5. The morning is organised by the Catholic Women's League of WA.

VVYALKATCHEM JUBILEE

For the Diamond jubilee of the church and the golden jubilee of the Wyalkatchem Presbytery a luncheon/reunion will be held on Saturday, July 29 at the Wyalkatchem Recreation Ground from

11.30am. Those attending are asked to provide sufficient food (basket lunch) on a 'shared meal' basis.

Mass will be celebrated at Our Lady Help of Christians at 3pm.

A display of photographs and memorabilia is planned. Special care of all well-named items is assured.

Kelly Marlene Contact (096) 81 4018, Noreen Elliot (096) 811113.

MARIAN MOVEMENT

The monthly meeting of the Marian Movement will be held at the Litte Sisters of Carmel 2, Frazer St Swanbourne on Tuesday, June 20 at 10.30am.

BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE Rosary and Benediction will be held on Sunday, June 25 at the Bullsbrook Church at 2pm. For further information and bus reservations please ring 444 2285 for Perth, Highgate & Midland bus and 339 4015 for Fremantle bus.

The church "Virgin Mary Mother of the Church" is available for pilgrimages (by appointment) and is open every day from 9am to 6pm. Contact Sacri Assoc PO Box 311 Tuart Hill 6060. Telephone 571 1699.

As a Daughter of Charity, serving 5 2 years, she cared for many orphan children from the British Isles prior to them migrating to Australia in the late 1940s early 1950s under the Catholic Migration authorities.

Sister Teresa never lost touch with most of those boys as they were sent to endure the strict treatment of the Christian Brothers at Boys Town Bindoon, Casteldare, Clontarf and Tardun.

Celebrating her 50 years as a devoted Daughter of Charity, she made a historic visit to Australia in October 1986 where she again renewed her friendships with many of her former charges, now grown men with their own families.

She was born in Tisperary Town, Ireland on the 10 January 1917 and took her religious vows during 1937.

To many of us Sister Teresa was a mother figure as we did not enjoy the caring love and affection of our own true mothers of whom most of us never knew during those early days, because of her kindness and genuine interest in our well being, we continued to look upon Sister Teresa as a Mother to us all.

Many of her charges migrated to Western Australia during the late 1940s and early 1950s under the Catholic Migration Scheme to the Boys Towns at Bindoon, Castel. dare, Clontarf and Tardun.

Her kindness, is the only memory of my childhood that I ever cherished and no doubt will continue to cherish.

She is buried amongst her own community in Sydney NSW As a servant of the poor, she is now deserving of our prayers — Tony Costa

ADOPTION LEGISLATION In late 1988 Kay Hallahan 'the then Minister for Community Services' established a committee to review our State's Adoption Laws. The comittee has produced a very comprehensive Issues Paper, copies of which can be obtained by phoning Patrice Wringe or Judy Wilkinson on 222 2555. The committee is interested in submissions from any one affected by or interested in adoption.

Isabel Andrews, post -adoption counsellor with Centrecare Marriage and Family Service is interested in submitting the Catholic viewpoint and would like to hear from anyone who has been affected by adoption, either as a birthparent, adoptive parent or adoptee. All submissions must be in by June 30. Phone Isabel Andrews on 325 6644.

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Archdiocesan Calendar JUNE 16 Catholic Secondary Principll's Association Annual Mass & general meeting. Archbishop Foley.

18 Confirmation, Riverton. Archbishop Foley.

18& Visitation and confirmation. Green22 wood. Bishop Healy.

23& Confirmation, Brentwood Willet25 ton. Mons Keating.

24& Visitation and confirmation. Kam25 balda / Norseman. Archbishop Foley.

25 Visitation and confirmation, Quairading, Cunderdin. Bishop Healy.

27 Co-ordinators and chairmen of welfare agencies.

29 Silver jubilee. Fr Justin Bianchini.

30 Commission new catechists. Archbishop Foley.

JULY Confirmation, Kalgoorlie. Bishop 1 Healy.

Visitation and confirmation, 2 Embleton. Archbishop Foley.

Confirmation, Leederville. Monsignor Keating.

2-4 Adult Education seminar.

Catholic Youth Council Mass. WA 4 Bishops.

Confirmation, Willagee. Monsignor 5 McCrann.

Confirmation, Trinity College.

6 Archbishop Foley.

Altar Servers' Guild, Bentley.

7 Archbishop Foley.

Diamond jubilee, Wyalkatchem.

8 Bishop Healy.

Golden jubilee. Fr Samuel 9 Rodomonti.

11 Sisters jubilee, lone Convent. Bishop Healy.

12 Silver jubilee of church, Bruce Rock.

Archbishop Foley.

15 Mass, Little Sisters of Carmel.

Bishop Healy.

16 State conference of the Catholic Women's League.

Army family church service. Archbishop Foley.

Catholic Rural Outreach, Bindoon.

Bishop Healy.

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Dance classes in Jazz, contemporary, choreography.

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THE KNIGHTS OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS Applications for the

DR HORACE NOWLAND TRAVELLING SCHOLARSHIP is now open

This scholarship is endowed by the Knights of the Southerr Cross in appreciation of the work of the late Horace H Nowland, MB, KCSS. for the Catholic community.

The Dr Horace Nowland Travelling Scholarship shall be awarded to an Australian national lay Catholic candidate who is at present resident in Australia.

For further information contact The Administrator, Dr Horace Nowland Travelling Scholarship, GPO Box 184C, MELBOURNE Vic 3001 Applications close on 31st August, 1989