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A 1992 opening date require significant sums was to generate the for the University of of money and the Bond enthusiasm both morally Nore Dame Australia is University experience in and financially for that "not cast in solid both capital cost and the support. c oncrete", the chair- availability of students He said: "It has always been man of the planning has caused a re-focus on our intention not to make board said this week. t hose areas." this an exclusive university "It would be nice to The next decision, he for people of wealth but to open on target but if that said, was up to the attract students with date has to be deferred to meeting of the full board appropriate qualifications a later date while we which will assemble in no matter what socioassess financial support Perth in the first week of economic group they come and student demand, July. from. then that has to be Mr Horgan said the "That is very much the seriously looked at," Mr proposed university Catholic ethos and we will Horgan said. would have to attract have to find the funds to He was following up community support both support these people." press reports arising out in its capital funding and He saw legacies from wills of briefings given earlier in assistance for students. and active support for a this week by himself and He believed that this particular student's educaDr Peter Tannock. support is well within tion as possibilities. One "We always realised the means available in person had already offered that the university would Australia but the task the proceeds from their
home and another nonCatholic couple with no children of their own had expressed interest in annually assisting a student. Mr Horgan cited the $6 million bequest received by Brisbane Catholic hospitals from the estate of two persons who were not Catholics (see Page 2).
wider experience than they would otherwise receive. "It would add a great deal to the environment of Fremantle," he continued, "however the concept of the university without can exist Fremantle.
"Although Fremantle has always been envisaged for the university, the project must be able to afford to go there and needs to be complementary to the aims and objectives of the university and to the citizens of Fremantle."
In every country where Catholic universities have operated successfully they have gained the goodwill and strong financial support of the community, he said. "I would like to think that Australia, and not just WA, and the Catholic communities of South East Asia would get behind this project."
Universities have gained support from sources that have not supported other areas of Catholic education. This was because universities can shape an ethos in the country, he said. A Catholic university was a new type of institution for Australia, he noted. It was but part of the great teaching work encouraged by the Church over many years. Mr Horgan cited the strong support the religious orders had received in their early establishment of Catholic primary and secondary education in Australia. He said he would be surprised if the support given so far in the secondary areas were not forthcoming in the tertiary field.
Dr Tannock . . . deputy chairman.
'Fremantle is only a preferred location'
Fremantle is only the said. "It is a unique town preferred location for the and can offer students proposed Notre Dame excellent environment University and he is not and the opportunity to with the only one involved in inter-relate the final decision, Mr community. Horgan said. "It can give them the "Fremantle is consi- possibility of gaining dered by the board to work to cover their fees offer a great deal," he and can offer them a
Mr Horgan said the decision about the university did not rest on him but on what he called a "formidable" board of which he was only the chairman and Dr Peter Tannock, chairman of the Catholic Education Commission,
is deputy chairman. Other members are Archbishop Foley, Dr Michael Quinlan, Sister Columba Howard of St John of God Hospital, Mr John Ralph, chief executive of CRA, Mr Daniel Cardon, an international banker based in Brussels,
and from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana both the president, Father Edward Malloy, and the provost Professor Timothy O'Meara. The board meets in Perth in the first week of July to study the feasibility proposal to date.
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The CANBERRA: National Catholic Education Commission is that concerned national guidelines to be laid down by the government will put n on -government schools into a "straight jacket". "The principle of financial accountability — the next statement on the government agenda — is fine. Where we have questions is on how the principle's to be applied" said Mr Gerry Gleeson, chairman of the NCEC. "If we're to become caught up in further reporting to government it's appropriate that there be trade-offs in regard to other accountability procedures. "We accept that are governments entitled to pursue this
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concrete, if not hard cement, by the time you have a chance to have a go at them," he said. "I'm not really concerned about policy matters between us and the ministers. I'm concerned about policy matters between us and the bureaucrats. "Bureaucrats like to control events. I can speak with some experience about that." (Mr Gleeson is former head of the NSW Premier's Department). "Ihaven't critised any minister or any government," he said. 'But I must say that the bureaucrats and the ministers' advisors are excellent at introducing regulations."
Mr Gleeson has undertaken to look at the question of "resource agreements" very closely. "It has been a matter of great contention that the national government has required both the state government sector and the nongovernment sector to enter into resource agreements," he said. "In these agreements the school systems specify their objectives, how they intend to achieve them, and how they intend to apply financial resources to them. "In the case of nongovernment schools, they had to enter into these agreements or their funds would have been cut off. It was as tough as that. "This is all part of
accountability. And, as I've said accountability's fine in principle. But there's always the danger that officials will advise governments to go too far. "It's an area I'll be devoting a lot of my attention to. Enough's enough." The NCEC has already been critical of a move by Commonwealth and State minister of education to lay down national goals for schools, saying that while some of the goals were acceptable the goals did not pay enough attention to the development of the individual and the role of parents. The NCEC says that it is happy with an assurance that there will be no relationship between national goals and the funding of education.
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question of our a ccountability in financial matters. But there's a danger that these accountability measures could be pushed too far. "These provisions are already quite extensive. they take up a great deal of principals' and other peoples' time. "If we agree to national reporting system we'd expect — and we'd require — that this be a substitute for some of the accountability provisions we've already agreed to." Mr Gleeson said proper consultation was vital in the planning stages. "If you're not involved at the working parties stage, there's a tendency for matters to be set in soft
Trout estate which includes a major art collection and other property.
A Presbyterian hospital and the Salvation Army are other major beneficiaries. Both Sir Leon and Lady Trout died in Holy Spirit Hospital and a relative of Sir
Leon is believed to have been cared for at Canossa Hospital. The couple had no children from their marriage which they entered in 1937. Sir Leon, who died in 1978, was a keen gymnast in his youth and later took an interest in boxing and golf. He served in the
Punt and prayers for fine weather SALE: Sale Catholics are taking a punt and praying for fine weather for the consecration of their new bishop on the morning of Friday June 30. At 11 am they want the weather to be fine when Archbishop Little ordains Father Jeremiah Coffey as bishop of Sale in a ceremony in the St Patrick's campus courtyard of Sale Catholic College. The Sale cathedral of St Mary's can seat only 450 people and it is estimated that some 2000 will want to attend the ceremony. The alternative to the outdoor ceremony would have been to limit the attendance to two representatives from each Gippsland parish. In Townsville in 1967 Bishop Leonard Faulkner was also consecrated in a ceremony at the main sportsground so that some 5000 people could be present for the ceremony. In case of rain, a complete alternative ceremony was planned for indoors but the people were blessed with a clear warm evening.
RAAF during World War II and became a leading Brisbane solicitor and business leader. Lady Peggy Trout who died last year was an accomplished pianist and a keen gardener. A friend and execu-
tor of the will said it was no puzzle that Catholic hospitals among other charities were made beneficiaries. "They wanted to help worthy causes. This was the real reason," he said. — by Ray Owen in The Catholic Leader.
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Home away a from home It was like "home away from home" for South African priest, Fr Albert Danker at St Jerome's parish in Spearwood last Sunday. "I wish, I could take the church back with me," he said in his sermon. Fr Danker, who is the parish priest of St Anne's in Durban, South Africa was here on a private visit. Many of the people at the 8 o'clock Mass in Spearwood were former members of his parish in Durban. It was small wonder that Fr Danker had to
By Eugene Mattes remark that it was like "home away from home." Fr Danker paid tribute to the freedom that existed in this country — unlike South Africa, where segregation is the norm. He said: "What I admire most is the freedom of choice. You can send your children to the school of your choice, select the part of town where you like to live, and be buried where you wish."
The hymns during Mass were sung by the local South African choir. Most of the members used to belong to Fr Danker's parish in Durban.
Left: Frs Danker and Whitely outside St Jerome's.
At a get-together Fr Danker said there are about 450 people from his parish in Australia.
Above: Lilian Bremner conducting the Spearwood South A frican choir.
"Every week I have to say good-bye to another parish member, who is migrating," he confided. Fr Danker visited friends and old parishioners in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, before coming to Perth.
Merger No. 2 The second amalgamation of Catholic secondary colleges to be announced this year is to be named after a saintly woman educator in the USA. St Brendan's College, Hilton with an enrolment of 508 boys and girls and De Vialar College, Samson with 373 girls will amalgamate to form Seton Catholic College. The College will operate from the two established campuses with years 8-
10 at Hilton and years 11-
12 at Samson.
The Foundation Principal of Seton Catholic Collge is Mr David Heath. The College has been named after American educator and saint, Elizabeth Bayley Seton. She was the first native born American to be canonised a saint. Born in 1774 in New York she married and had five children. Following the death of her husband she became
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St Brendan's started in 1964 under the auspices of the Society of African Missions with Father O'Shea as the first superior. That society's link with the school continues today with the presence of Brother Francis, a f oundation staff member and now the college a rchivist and Father Denis Collins who along with other SMA priests is college chaplain. From its beginnings as a grade 4 and 5 primary school school the expanded until it became a full secondary college for boys in the late 1970s.
In 1973 Mr Peter Davies Moore made history by becoming the first secondary lay principal of a Catholic college in WA and continued in that post for 13 years. In 1982 the college commenced enrolling girls and phasing out the primary grades allowing it to develop into a four stream college today with 510 pupils. Two major building programs have taken place over eight years. The school has made a name for itself in soccer and cricket and last year Lui Tangiarella won the state exhibition award for accounting.
a Catholic and through interest in welfare work she opened a school for poor children in 1809. This was the forerunner of the farreaching Catholic school system in the United States. To carry on the work of education she founded a small religious which c ommunity became known as the Sisters of Charity. Today the Order operates throughout the US and the world.
It has already been announced (The Record, June 3) that, St Joachim's Primary, St Joachim's High School and Xavier College, will amalgamate in 1990. The new College which has yet to be named will have a enrolment of approximately 1200 students. Initially it will operate from the existing three campuses with a deputy principal in charge of each campus. A principal has yet to be appointed.
De Vialar College De Vialar College, since its establishment in 1968, has been the successor to the 112-year-old St Joseph's College that used to stand next to St Patrick's Church, Fremantle. Founded in 1856 by four French Sisters of Our Lady of the Apparition, the second oldest order, after the Sisters of Mercy, to come to WA, St Joseph's had some 55 boarders and boys in years one to three and
girls right through to secondary. The new campus was named after St Emilie De Vialar who founded her congregation in Gaillac near Toulouse in 1832, and the modern secondary college for girls housed some 30 boarders as well as the provincialite and novitiate sections of the order. Eight sisters are on the staff of the present college and four will take up positions in the new amalgamated Seton College.
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When the mobs stormed . Paris' rotting Bastille prison just 200 years ago, they found only a madman to release and the unfortunate governor upon whom to take their revenge. Like other populations with Bicentennaries f resh in their memory, or so called revolutionaries in Hungary or China looking over their shoulders at massacres in their main square, Frenchmen will be agonising it seems, over whether the Revolution's raw details were a good thing or bad. For the tens of thousands who went under the guillotine it was a bad thing, especially as some of them finished up victims of their own machinations and atrocities. Would the Bastille have been such a target if it had been thrown open to periodic Sunday afternoon guided tours? Would the massacres and executions of Budapest or Tienanmen Square have been avoided if the ignorance of the crowds was not contrived by shrewd orchestrators of public emotions? Probably not, because the ignorance of the masses is a convenient battering ram bereft of reason at times. Australia is either heading for its financial recession or deserves to head for one, depending on which side of the rhetoric one chooses to listen. But no-one exactly knows why, since we are supposed to live in a beautiful country where the others at least appear to have plenty to live on. The French masses thought so too, but got distracted by the Bastille. This week Australia may have been offered its own Bastille distraction: a luxury goods tax will be imposed and all injustice and inequality in our money supply will vanish . Like the French mobs, everyone will enjoy the cathartic experience of storming the Bastille of supposed luxury spending but also are just as likely to find the larder practically empty and not much richer for the experience. Storming a decrepit symbol of oppression in France in 1789 was far too late for the French. The real injustices should have been addressed in other areas and a lot sooner. Flaying luxury goods spending is far too late for Australia unable to compete with the 24 hour message over decades that we can have everything, go anywhere and return through the airport gate smugly observing that Australia is by far the best place on earth in which to live. Like the French masses we are likely to be long on the emotion of luxury goods spending but short on the reasons why and how the world should be reformed. There will be no agreement but much argument on what constitutes a luxury. Smokes, liquor and petrol are taxed mercilessly by governments not because they are luxuries but because public addiction cannot be tossed. Would the economy collapse if teetotalling, dried out stay-at-homes flicked their TV switches to avoid being seduced by the advertising? Anything neighbours buy will be declared a luxury while everything within our grasp will be an undeniable necessity. The Russians have been fed this phony morality for 70 years and now are totally sick of it. Australia for too long has given itself an extended holiday from thinking about anybody but itself and so is incapable of of discussing the morality of its spending-only its impact on our pockets. Middle Age monks foolishly bequeathed the fruit of their labour to later generations until Henry VIII and similar predators considered them luxury goods, and redistribute them to a new class of rich more filthy than could ever have been imagined. The Catholic Bishops of Australia are enquiring into how Australia's wealth is distributed but all are afraid they will say how to distribute it. The gospel says if you have two coats, give one to your friend but imagine if arbitration courts, housing loan interest rates, and takeover tax concessions were subjected to that moral philosophy and not to the shimmering mirage of taxing luxury goods spending? . . . 4
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Ballooning waste of good money STOCKHOLM: Money is "going down the drain" when used to send contraceptives to Third World countries as a way to improve socio-economic conditions and stem rising populations, said a high level Vatican official travelling with Pope John Paul to Scandinavia. "You do not solve the problem of population by handing out things to prevent birth," said Archbishop Cassidy, the Australian born Undersecretary of State. A successful program must be within an educational framework that teaches values and changes mentalities, he added.
Archbishop Cassidy mentioned Sweden and the United States as major spenders on contraception for the Third World and said his views were based on living 15 years in Asia, principally in India and Bangladesh, as a papal diplomat. "I've seen how so far you have failed to solve the problem," he said. In Bangladesh, he said, he would see "walls decorated with condoms because people use them for balloons". Many people want to have many children because "your children are your security in old age". he said, adding that
those mentalities must be changed. "If you don't have children, you are likely to die on the street", because in Bangladesh there is no pension or old age security program. Catholics in Bangladesh have solved many population programs because their birth control program is part of an overall program education teaching responsible parenthood, he explained. "You have to look at the whole question of how you bring about responsible parenthood" based on Church teachings about conjugal love and the means available to determine the size of the family, he said.
But the Church should not automatically condemn people who in dire circumstances use birth control or priests who might help them get contraceptives. The archbishop compared the situation to someone stealing because it is the only way he can feed his children. "No one should be allowed to condemn him because he has stolen," the archbishop said. "You might help him go over the fence to get food," he added. "You have to look at the situation. But the principle is still valid" that stealing is immoral, he said.
Archbishop Cassidy defended Church teachings on abortion, homosexuality and contraception, which go against the grain of modern Swedish society and government policies. This disagreement has not harmed relations between Sweden and the Vatican but is part of an ongoing dialogue, he added. The situation, however, will not prevent the pope from continuing to speak out on these issues, he said. "In the long run, it will be seen very clearly that some of the principles which today are being expounded in a moral sense too will bring about great harm."
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UPPSALA, Sweden: Two Lutheran bishops stood in line with other Catholics approaching Pope John Paul for communion but did not themselves seek to receive communion. Instead, when they reached the pope they crossed their right hand across their chest and asked for his blessing which he gave. The bishops were using the symbolic gesture agreed between Catholic and Lutheran churches in 1987 for use by members when attending each other's Eucharist or Communion services. Receiving the pope's blessing were the Lutheran bishops of
Uppsala and Stoc.kholm. Archbishop Werkstrom of Uppsala told the pope: "I am sorry we can not go to the same table of the Lord to take bread and wine, but I am here at the table of sorrow."
A t the beginning of his Scandinavian tour Pope John Paul reiterated the Catholic position on inter-communion: "The Eucharist is to be shared only by those in full communion with one another. The Catholic position on eucharistic sharing is not meant to offend our partners in dialogue. Rather it is meant as an expression of our deep conviction."
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STOCKHOLM: Pope John Paul asked Catholic women to sensitise society against the odious prospect of a dehumanisation through science and technology. Women also have the important role of protecting the dignity of marriage and motherhood, he said at the start of his three day tour. "By virtue of their specific sensitivity. women can offer an immense contribution toward promoting the future welfare of the person," he said.
—Twins ordained YAKIMA, Wash. (NC): — Twin brothers Kevin and Kenneth Minder, 28, have been ordained to the priesthood, though in separate ceremonies and for different ministries.
priest of the Diocese of Yakima on June 9 at St Paul Cathedral, and Kenneth, who has taken the name Lawrence, was ordained for the Benedictine order six days earlier Kevin will become a at Mount Angel Abbey in
St Benedict, Ore. The twins, born Jan 1, 1961, graduated in 1979 from Mount Angel Preparatory High School in St Benedict, Ore. Kevin, a 1984 graduate of Mount Angel Seminary
College, worked in parish ministry at St Joseph Parish in Kennewick, Washington, where his brother was director of liturgy and music for two years. Father
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Indonesia, here he comes VATICAN CITY (NC) — Pope John Paul II c onfirmed that he would visit the Southeast Asian country of Indonesia in October and praised the country's "extraordinary increase" in vocations. The pope told Indonesia's bishops he was coming to "preach the good news of salvation"
and to "give thanks and called attention to the praise to almighty God country's increase in for the many blessings priestly and religious which the Church in vocations, calling the 10Indonesia has received year trend a "happy over the past four situation". centuries." "These young IndoneIt will be the second sian men and women time a pope has visited offer to young people Indonesia. Pope Paul VI everywhere in the visited the country in Church a splendid and 1970. inspiring example," he In his talk, the pope said.
The pope acknowledged a continuing shortage of priests in some regions of the country and encouraged the bishops in "more equal distribution of priests". The pope called for the local replacement of foreign missionaries now serving in the "poorest and most remote area" of
the country. But he also expressed the hope that government authorities, "who show great concern for the people's welfare, will consent to allowing the ecclesiastical personnel, even if not native-born, to remain at their posts, serving the community in its spiritual and temporal needs."
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Fear of God a gift, says pope VATICAN CITY (CNS): The "gift of the fear of God" should not be an irrational anxiety but a r esponsible and healthy sense of awe in the divine presence of majesty, Pope John Paul II
said. The pope compared the fear of God to the respect
children have towards parents. "This holy and just fear, coupled in the soul with love for God, is the basis for the entire practice of Christian virtue, and especially humility, temperance, chastity and mortification of the senses," he said.
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The fear of God should include "trepidation that springs from the awareness of faults committed and from the prospect of divine punishment", the pope said. He warned that sins are still committed either "ignoring or challenging" this punishment.
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The feeling of fearful and profound respect should also be tempered with "faith in divine mercy and certainty of the paternal concern of God, who desires the eternal salvation of eve-
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Fake chaplain and altar -boy LIVERPOOL: Former altar-boy Ian Clarke knows a priest when he sees one. So when the 16-year-old Liverpool fan was faced by a fake hospital chaplain, he was quick to blow the whistle on him.
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GROSSETO, Italy (NC): Pope John Paul ll called unemployment "unjust" and urged environmental protection during a pastoral visit with miners and chemical industry workers in the industrialised lowlands of the Tuscan coast. Joblessness is an "objectively unjust situation", the pope said in his talk. With a chemical plant's smokestacks as a backdrop, the pope also urged that "every industrial activity be developed with respect for the natural environment and its resources". During the first papal visit to the Grosseto region in 850 years, the pope urged the diocese's Catholic population not to forsake the spiritual in their quest for material goods. The May 21 trip to west Tuscany, about 160km north of Rome, took the pope into one of Italy's most communist regions. The trip began with a speech to about 2000 of the region's miners and chemical plant workers in Scarlino. The pope used the occasion to recall the Church's social teachings, particularly emphasising the value and importance of work. When "man and woman dedicate the best of their years and their efforts" to work, it should provide them with the means for "not only the minimum of subsistence, but for living a life truly human", he said. "In light of these principles, he who does not have work finds himself in a situation objectively unjust," the pope said. Society must find an "adequate solution" to the problems of unemployment instead of accepting it as an "inevitable phenomenon". Unemployment wounds society, depriving it of the valid contribution of those who can and must work, he said. The pope also urged plant workers and directors to be mindful of environmental concerns. He said he hoped such plants "can become an industrial model in which relations between man and environment, between worker and director are always more human, in the sense of authentic development", he said. In the shadow of the 13th-century striped Gothic facade of Grosseto's Cathedral of St Lawrence, about 4000 people heard the town's communist mayor welcome the pope with a call for co-operation and dialogue between Church and civil society to seek solutions to the "grave problems of life in our time".
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The youngest of the Hillsborough Inquiry witnesses told The Universe how native Scouse guile got the better of a journalist who approached his hospital bed, complete with dog-collar and f alse identification card. Said Ian: "I spotted him a mile off. His identification looked a
cheap fake, and so was he. "Mine was the bed closest to the entrance door at the Royal Hallamshire, where I was being treated, so he tried his luck with me. "He showed me the so-called ID, and asked if I wanted to talk about anything. I thought I'd play him at his own game and told him I had already seen him once. "When I asked why he had come back a second time in the same day, he panicked, started mumbling a lot and rubbish, of generally gave himself
away. "I called out that he was a fake, and the registrar showed him to the door. "Another chaplain was on the ward at the time, and apart from anything else I reckon I know a priest when I see one." The Cardinal Heenan High School pupil, whose ambition is to become an ambulanceman, had tried to rescue the injured during the Hillsborough crush, and immediately after the tragic disaster he administered the kiss of life in an attempt to fellow r evive supporters.
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Ordeal of sea monk LONDON: An English monk in a rowboat drifted for more than 48 hours in Sicilian t reacherous waters before being picked up by fishermen. Brother Michael Francis McCully, of Rochdale, Lancashire, a monk of the Catholic Melchite Church of Lebanon was recovering from exhaustion and exposure at Taormina Hospital. He was on a Legion of Mary mission to Eastern
ingly, to within 200 yards of the shore. "Just as I was about to jump and swim, the boat was swept away out to sea again. It became very rough. "I became exhausttd But he was caught by and could simply lie, the currents of the praying. I had only a bottle of mineral water." Messina Straits. After two days and "There was no way of he spotted fishing nights fighting them," he said. smacks. "I took my cassock and "At one point I was it frantically." waved tantalisdriven back,
Sicily, assigned by the religious centre at Correze, France and wanted to spend his 37th birthday meditating. So he hired a boat and rowed out to sea to "pray in peace".
Vatican VATICAN CITY: Of the record $136 million allocated by the Church's central mission bodies in 1988, more than half went to mission in Africa. Asia received 31 per cent and the Americas nine per cent.
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ROME: Cardinal Ratzinger has commented on theologians and the revised profession of faith that went into effect on March 1. The profession "distinguishes well" between the three levels of the Church's magisterium or teaching authority, he said. On the first level it "defines the truths of the faith. The faith is not our hypothesis but is a divine fact". A second level concerns beliefs that "are not properly part of revealed faith, but are indispensible for realising the faith". The third level involves "decisions of the magisterium to concretise the faith". These can include doctrinal decisions of which there is "great certainty", he explained, as well as "prudential" decisions which warn that to go forward in a certain direction "could be dangerous". The revised profession of faith differs from its 1967 predecessor in that it clearly distinguishes between three levels of truth and the type of adherence expected of Catholics at each level, he said. Cardinal Ratzinger
ROME: Cardinal Ratzinger, commenting on an increasingly polarised debate amongst European theologians said theologians should maintain a "healthy individualism" rather than organise into pressure groups. He was reacting to a suggestion that theologians loyal to the Vatican get together to counter the declaration by 163 dissenting theologians. The cardinal said he was against establishing groups in theology because what "counts is the weight of the arguments and not the number of those who promote or defend them". A Cologne statement by 163 German speaking theologians strongly criticised Pope John Paul and his use of papal authority in the appointment of bishops and theologians and his opposition to contraception. French and Spanish groups later endorsed their position. In Italy 63 theologians supported the Cologne statement but were criticised by the Italian bishops' conference. The pope praised the bishops saying they were correct in not tolerating dissent that would establish "a parallel or alternative magisterium" in the Church.
Unwarranted suspicion theologian", he said, t heologians deserve praise for their daily dealings with complex issues and for the service t hey provide to bishops and the Church at large. The "attacks" on theologians are the result of fear, "and they engender an atmosphere of greater fear", Archbishop May said in a speech to the
Catholic Theological Society of America. "Very bluntly: I think that the Church in the United States suffers from too many anxious, warning voices that would divide the bishops against the theologians," Archbishop May said. The archbishop defended Catholic theologians as'a group, calling
WASHINGTON: The representatives of 28 role of religious work- Jesuit run colleges and ing at a college or universities. university sponsored The Jesuits in a Jesuit by their order is to university are there "to promote and "to gua- be consistent agents of rantee the specifically evangelisation, the guaCatholic nature of the rantors of Catholicity", Catholic university in he said. its practical existence" "Religious have a speArchbishop Pilarczyk cial relationship with the of Cincinnatti told 800 Church. They are vowed people at a Jesuit Ministry of Higher to a life dedicated to the witnessing, the richness. Education assembly. the love, the power of the "Religious ought to be Lord, and this not just for able to speak about the relevance of the Church's their own edification but doctrine and richness of for the benefit of the the Church's doctrine in body of the Church." Exercising their minisa unique fashion," he told
ST LOUIS (CNS): An unwarranted "climate of suspicion" about theologians and their work exists in the Church today, said Archbishop L. May of St Louis, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. . While "there are moments of tension between a bishop and a
some accusations against them "wanton and reckless" and saying such attacks have led to fear.
"Usually these charges are as sweeping as they
are indistinct," the arch- bishops, debilitating our attempts to support one bishop said. Most often the theologi- ' another in our diverse ans being accused are not ministries for the good of named, the work under the Church," the archbiattack is not cited and the shop said. In such a "climate of offending passages are not quoted, he said. fear", collaborative min"Nameless accusations istries can be stifled and ungrounded suspi- "unless we determine cions threaten to divide that we have had enough us from theologians and of it", Archbishop May theologians from said.
try in a university setting can help ensure the institution maintains "some obvious connection with the Church's mission". "There is no point in having specifically Catholic universities or hospitals or social science agencies if they are exactly the same as analogous state or municipal agencies." Because Christians have their own view of the world as having been created by God, he said. their approach to education and research should reflect that view.
"A university in which scepticism or agnosticism, even m ethodological agnosticism reigns supreme, in which there is no attention given to moral or ethical matters, in which questions about ultimate values are regarded as irrelevant to the academic enterprise, is simply not a Catholic university," he said. He told the assembly that the university's Catholic character must be obvious in its corporate tone, by its provision of prayer and public worship, social outreach
and religious reflection. In the area of theology, he said, religious have a "weighty responsibility". They have given their lives to the Church and religious on the theology faculty are there "to convince the students by their enthusiasm and loyalty that the study of the Lord and the Lord's revelation through the Church is not just one more academic subject, but a matter for a lifetime of commitment". And religious who teach other subjects within the university provide a "model for
Catholic intellectual faithfulness to the institution's original excellence". purpose". When a religious order The archbishop said sponsors a college or there is more than one university, he continued, guarantee to way it provides "presence and identity, Catholic power and continued through oversight by a identity". diocese, a dedicated The history of such board of trustees, a group schools as Harvard and of bishops or a religious Princeton which were order. founded by churches, "But whatever way is "seem to indicate that chosen, it must be clear, there is a law of ecclesi- effective and authoritaastical entropy at work in tive. Challenges to maineducation which leads to tain a Catholic identity , the dilution and eventual are nothing compared dissolution of an initially with the efforts of trying religious identity unless to recuperate a Catholic there is some authorita- identity which has been tive source to guarantee diluted or lost."
the world", Father Kolvenbach said. "This implies close collaboration with the hierarchial Church, even when that collaboration may seem to create difficulties." "A college or university has its own way of being and acting; it has its own specific nature and mission. But it cannot be Catholic and at the same time completely without accountability," he said. After an April meeting at the Vatican to discuss the proposed norms for Catholic higher education, it is clear the document must be one "that encourages us to the most exacting professional standards of research and teaching and of governance, while deepening the entire institution's authentically Catholic inspira-
tion," Father Kolvenbach said. When discussing the role of Jesuits living and working on campuses, he said, "we cannot ignore the autonomy of the college or university, an autonomy which is institutional and functions according to statutes and by-laws". The "apostolic discernment undertaken by the Jesuits working in the college or university has to be done in such a way that it does not interfere with or supplant the methods and procedures of decision making proper to the university itself" and described in its statutes, Father Kolvenbach said. "There can be no suggestion that the Jesuit should community become a pressure group
or a privileged group in the institution," he said. "The Jesuit Community at the university ought to exercise not power, but its authority," he said. Its role is to guarantee "the transmission of Gospel values which is the distinctive mark of Jesuit education".
the challenge is complex. "Our institutions make their essential contribution to society by embodying in our educational process a rigorous, probing study of crucial human problems and concerns" and bringing to that process Gospel values for justice. The problems facing humanity are not simple, he said. They include dilemmas about genetic research, corporate takeovers, the beginning of human life, homelessness, poverty, the environment, military technology and others. "What single academic discipline can legitimately pretend to offer comprehensive solutions" to these real and varied problems, he asked. "These require empiri-
"There are too many sweeping accusations leveled at the theological soundness and credal fidelity of the theologians," he said.
"Undoubtedly there are moments of tension between a bishop and t heologian, sometimes healthy, sometimes detrimental," but such problems are "inevitable", he said. Such tensions do not warrant stigmatising theologians "as a group who menace the episcopal office or sound belief".
Role of religious at universities
... and that of Jesuits
WASHINGTON (CNS): While their 28 US colleges and universities must remain autonomous, Jesuits should bring Gospel values to the campuses and classrooms and should have a "close relationship with the Church as educator", said the order's superior general. Making individual universities responsible for maintaining their Catholic character "places heavy responsibility upon members of the university community themselves to fulfil such trust", said Jesuit Father Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, who has headed the worldwide order since
in Washington to 900 people attending Assembly '89: Jesuit Ministry in Higher Education. participants, The mostly Jesuits, represented each of the 28 Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States as well as other Jesuit ministries in the order's 10 US provinces. The superior general said that Vatican work on a document outlining principles for Catholic higher educ,ation shows Pope John Paul H's "understanding of the universities' uniquely formative role" in influencing the outcome of changes throughout the world. Institutions sponsored 1983. by the Church or by Father Kolvenbach religious orders "must spoke on June 7 at serve the Church in its Georgetown University mission of evangelising 6 The Record, June 22, 1989
"No one should think that decisions from up high can in any way substitute for the live and active work that is being asked of you on the local scene now," the superior general said. Jesuits and the growing number of lay people working with them at US colleges and universities "are in a position to form the minds and hearts of people who will mould the beginning of the third millenium", he said. "But
cal data and technological know-how. But they also cry out for consideration in terms of their impact on men and women from a wholistic point of view," Father Kolvenbach said. Social scientists, ethicists and theologians all must contribute to the discussion and solution of those problems. The superior also encouraged Jesuits in education to work with their brothers in the social justice and social service ministries. "Jesuits run the real risk of living at a distance, or with an information gap, but especially a distance of affectivity from realities off campus," he said, adding that collaboration will make the work of the Society of Jesus more effective..
ENTER THE NEW LOOK HERMIT WHO IS . . . The Catholic Leader Special Writer BARBARA MEAD talks with a Franciscan priest who in living a secluded life of prayer has discovered "God's enormity." In the secluded mountain valley, he lives alone in a two-room, hand-hewn timber cottage, built for a priest 116 years ago. There, Franciscan Fr Ronan K ilgannon has sought solitude the better to pray for "the whole aching world." From Kangaroo Valley, a tiny community some 20km south of Nowra, on the New South Wales South Coast, Fr Ronan, 45, told me why he has gone apart to be a hermit of today "as well as one can explain. It is not a thing of logic, nor reason." "It has been a gift to me," he said, "sometimes quite strong, of being there, in prayer, as everyone's representative. "Ihave the increasing sense that in my prayer, this is the Church and the world praying. "I sense in my prayer, the world's prayer. The world's song. The world's tears. And the world's pain." Rather than hermit, he prefers to be called "a solitary — or, more truly, a semisolitary. Because I am not completley alone." And because, like Thomas Merton, he believes the Church needs new look hermits. "We should not be the old picture of dirty, half-naked, old men with long white hair and straggly beards, sitting on beds of piled-up twigs in freezing caves," he said. "No. We should be the most natural people in the world." Yet Fr Ronan also says the life of a solitary is "peculiar." "Sometimes I still have doubts but basically it seems right — to live to worship on behalf of everyone and all Creation. "I can't justify the eremitic or solitary life. I don't believe anyone has ever done that, not even Merton. "Yet since the third century; the Church has always had this tiny few . . . the clowns in the circus. "I can only say that there is something in this mystery of prayer that is not only worthwhile work, it is the most noble of work. "Sometimes still I dream — Fr Ronan a in missionary Ronan A frica . . . Fr working at the side of Mother Teresa. But then I ask myself: Could I really do that? "I don't think so. But I know Ihave this little gift — although no gift from God is little — this gift of prayer. This I can do. "I thought in a life of prayer I would come to see God more clearly. That is not so. The mystery of God instead of a bee farm as priest- "most times the public clearer caretaker and most showers in Kangaroo becoming becomes cloudier. What I recently through Israel Village have hot water" see now is God's and Europe as Chaplain — and without heat. "I feel a little guilty enormity." to pilgrims. Part of a life of solitary He looked at life in because just today I was prayer must be the hermitages in Europe given a little wood stove acceptance, he said, that and America, old style and our local plumber "you have nothing to and more modern and has installed free of show for it." tried to catch up with a charge a shower Monsigpriest, a Francis- nor Purcell bought me. brother :'r Ronan prays a long, traditional Office seven can wandering hermit But then,I truly can't see times daily. He chants who walks the roads of merit in being cold or unclean. And it's down to the psalmody, celebrates Europe . . . the Eucharist and "of "1 just missed him in 8 deg here today." He has a congregation course, there is private Rome — I think he walked through the city of 12 "with whom to prayer." celebrate the Eucharist." He has become "very very quickly." able to The need for peace and Sometimes he is much more conscious Monsignor out help now that people cannot solitude of prayer grew Purcell by celebrating live apart from the world with him. the Eucharist in other and very conscious of the Why did he choose Mass centres, he parish disruption in harmony Kangaroo Valley, a vilsaid. between human-kind lage of some 100 in a And there is Penelope and the rest of God's valley of the some name or Joe. — Creation. This is always which shelters perhaps he told me, is Penelope, in my prayer." 800 families in a crooked a Cashmere goat, given to Some 10 years ago, finger of the Great him because she was helping Franciscan friars Dividing Range? "born brown and therein research, he was It was a place he found fore meant to be Francismoved by St Francis' to be "simply the most can. But also because her Rule for hermitages, for beautiful, the most subtly kind owner wanted him "those called to live a life pleasing place in the to have some 'company'. of prayer in lonely world to be." "I had a notion that I places." Last November he was could use combings from "very her hair to weave stoles. It led him, "a child of the welcomed restlessness of the six- warmly" to Nowra par- I find I am not a weaver. ties," to his own road to ish and its 101-year-old So Penelope is my good solitude. Church of St Joseph in companion of refined Through the U.S. and Kangaroo Valley by Mon- tastes — she eats the Europe, through his Ord- signor John Purcell, the leaves off our best camellia." er's New Zealand Retreat parish priest. When Penelope goes house and in its central The cottage was withVictorian hermitage, via out running water — but home to the herd, Joe the
Franciscan Fr Ronan Kilgannon with Joe the Cashmere kid in the solitude of their mountain valley "...I thought in a life of prayer I would come to see God more clearly."
Watchman for the world If he has a vision of Jerusalem, I have set rest until he establishes Cashmere kid become Fr companion himself at all it is "as a watchmen: all the day Jersualem and makes it a Ronan's and all the night they praise in the earth. watchman. substitute. shall never be silent. You (Isaiah 62:6). speakis "Yahweh "I never knew before "Iwould be a watchman who put the Lord in . . . ing and how interesting the world." for no take remembrance 0 walls. your "Upon intelligent goats are. Better than bees. It is unFranciscan of me, I know, but in my years on the bee farm I kept a respectful distance." Prayer life aside, the growing enormity of the mystery of God aside, the life of the solitay is, he said, "very ordinary, a stripping bare to essenSt. ..littry's tials, of domestic routine. It is monotonous and Founded by the Christian Brothers in 1928, the school offers a sound Junior Secondary lonely. It is life without program in agriculture, religious education, mathematics, science, English, social withcommunity, your studies, computing, technical drawing, manual arts and physical education. There is out apostolate, without also a special education and remedial reading program in place. Tuition in piano, organ and guitar is available as an optional extra. ays off, without TV or The unique feature of the school is the training the boys receive in broadacre cereal radio." farming and stockwork as they help to run the 13,000 hectare wheat and sheep farm he said, he Sometimes, Because of its feels a guilt that comes — curriculum — smallness (90 students years 8-10) within himself, some— pastoral care program times borne of the atti— familiar surroundings (farm machinery, animals, horse riding) tude of others. — rural setting — provision of meaningful productive work "A lady, a good lady is the ideal place for students from farms and stations. City boys also find school the childwith who works challenge and fulfilment at Saint Mary's. ren, came to the cottage At the end of Year 10, graduates are well prepared for to ask me how a fit, — entry into TEE subjects — secondary graduates healthy, able priest could — TAFE justify 'doing nothing'. — apprenticeship — a return to theland "But then, praying has Fees are: Boarding $3000 pa, Tuition $800 pa. never been very popular. Some help with fees may be negotiated with the principal. Even very good Christians don't often look at a Six Christian Brothers, a Brigidine Sister, a Chaplain, as well as a devoted and competent lay staff ensure a high level of Catholic practice prayer life and say: See. Apply to: The Principal, Isn't that a wonderful Christian Brothers' Agricultural School thing? People tend to say Tardun 6628 more, but what is he Phone (099) 61 5212 doing?"
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Recently we have begun to learn that contact with our past is essential if we are to be healthy people and live in a healthy society.
We are showing greater interest in the history of our country, of our institutions, towns and cities, even our old buildings. We seem to want to understand their meaning and to preserve t hem future for
generations. Religious ritual such, the kind we celebrate the sacraments also is activity where the pi can be encountered heil fully and creatively. The sacraments, suchi baptism and the Eudi rist, always encomp4 three time zones: ti past, the present andti future. The sacraments focusi on the presence here an
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The day began with morning prayer and ended with evening prayer at an Eastern Orthodox monastery where the Reverend Robert Wilken attended a meeting of the Lutheran-Orthodox consultation. Describing morning prayer, Mr Waken, a Lutheran minister and church history professor said it fitted squarely in the Eastern tradition of spirituality. Presented in four parts, t he service was all sung, he said, lasted more than an hour and included lots of incensing of icons. In Rome several years ago, my day also began with morning prayer at the Foyer Casa Unitas, a former hostel for travellers. Held in the hostel's small jewel of a chapel. morning prayer was very short. Led by a nun who operated the hostel, it included psalms, a song. a Scripture text and a
reading from a sain , Church dignitary. It E simple, informal beautiful. People today are pra. the Liturgy of the H The Church's anc prayer, in other se besides churches and els. They are part of some liturgists see a growing trend spirituality. It is not rare to see some' flipping from section section in a prayer while saying moral prayer on the way to wj And people pray Liturgy of the Hours in homes too, using pra books developed es for home use. While the unabbreN form of the liturgy incl prayers for seven diffe, times through a 24period, the prayerbooks home use often simplified. Some include only ing and evening pra Others provide prayers readings for a number hours.
Unearthing our roo ways Jimmy's feelings were similar to those any child might feel when parents die. He felt profoundly disconnected from other people, from those who located him in the network of life.
When Jimmy was 10 years old, his parents were killed in a car accident. I was asked to tell him the tragic news. Over the next few weeks I became aware how doubly traumatic Jimmy's loss was. Jimmy was adopted. The death of his adoptive parents whom he loved dealt him a severe blow. But suddenly, too, he began to experience anxiety regarding his biological parents, wondering who they were. I am sure that in many
A similar experience can affect groups. When a founder or leader dies, the group can feel lost. Jesus anticipated this kind of reaction among his disciples at the time of the Last Supper. John's Gospel says Jesus promised, "I will not leave you orphans. I will come to
When the bishops at the Second Vatican Council were trying to come up with a clear expression of just what is meant by "tradition", they found it difficult to put into words. A bishop of an Eastern rite proposed the notion of tradition as understood in his branch of the Church. "For us," he said,
"tradition is the response of God's people to the word of God in every age". In other words, it is not something static. Rather it is dynamic, ongoing, living. One way people respond to God's word is in prayer. A prayer that exemplifies this well is the Liturgy of the Hours,
you" (John 14:18). One way Jesus keeps coming back to us is in the liturgy. The liturgy connects us to our origins. It reminds us where we have come from and who we are now. The liturgy does this by using resources familiar to all of us — stories and symbols. When my mother tells about the snow that fell the night I was born and how my father and grandfather couldn't find their car when they left
the hospital, she is rooting me in the story of my origins. I know I belong to those events. When the liturgy tells about the night the angel passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt or the morning the angel announced the resurrection of Jesus, it is rooting us in the story of our salvation. We know we belong to those events.
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I'm touching the man who wore it, who taught me to tell time by it, who was as quiet and reliable as the hands which still tick around the surface. Likewise the tangible things we use in liturgy put us in touch with our spiritual origins. Blessed The thing water renews our bapsame happens with symbols. tism; bread and wine reWhen I look at my enact the Last Supper; oil father's watch 20 years seals us deeper in the after his death, I feel like Spirit.
Sometimes we have a greater need for these stories and symbols than at other times. For example, when we experience the death of a loved one we can feel cut off from the very source of our own life. That's why the funeral liturgy and Mass of Resurrection retell stories of the life which continues after death and of new life arising
women in all walks of life.
every age". Praying the hours each day one has a real sense of being part of the universal prayer of God's people all over the world and all around the clock.
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the official prayer of the Church. With its origins in ancient monasteries, the Liturgy of the Hours has become the daily prayer of the clergy and of countless religious congregations of men and women. With some adaptation it also has become the prayer of men and
As a response to God's word, it is incomparable. The heart of each of the hours is a group of Psalms. In the Office of Readings (in the early morning), one reads a passage of Scripture. Over the course of a year, one covers just about the whole Bible.
The second of the two readings is a selection from the writings of Christian saints and scholars, from Clement of Rome in the first century up to the documents of Vatican II. Usually these selections comment on the Scripture readings — "the response of God's people to the word of God in
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A Publication of the Catholic Education Office of Western Australia Registered by Australia Post. Publication No: WBF 2526.
Catholic schools to amalgamate Three historic Perth Catholic schools are to amalgamate next year to become a new Catholic College providing for students from Preprimary to Year 12. The new college will the three schools had Initially the new result from the amalga- been made following school will operate mation of St Joachim's an extensive investiga- from the existing three Primary School and St tion by a working party campuses with a depJoachim's High set up by the Commis- uty principal in charge School, Victoria Park sion. He said the work- of each campus. A and Xavier College, ing party had consulted principal has yet to be East Victoria Park. St widely with the school appointed. Joachim's High School communities and that is a girls-only secon- its recommendation Interim board An interim school dary school. Xavier was in line with an College provides coed- established pattern of board to be appointed primary amalgamation ucational of will include representaclasses and boys-only schools to form larger tives from the existing secondary classes, coeducational schools. school boards, parish The amalgamation priests from the Victowas announced this "The new school will ria Park and East month by the Chair- cater for all family Victoria Park parishes, man of the Catholic members and provide a a representative of the Education Commis- guaranteed educa- Sisters of Mercy, a sion of Western Austra- tional path for both representative of the lia, Dr Peter Tannock. boys and girls from Catholic Education Dr Tannock said the Pre-primary to Year Office and the principal. decision to amalgamate 12," said Dr Tannock.
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Historic conference The inaugural Catholic Aboriginal Educators' Conference will be held at Nulungu Catholic College, Broome in early July. Eighty Aboriginal educators and administrators will attend the Conference which aims to provide a forum for issues including mixed race schools, secondary education for Aboriginal students and the personal and professional development of Aboriginal teaching professionals. Theme Educational Dreaming for a New Age is the theme of the Conference which is being conducted by the Catholic Education Commission of WA. The Chairman of the Commission, Dr Peter Tannock, said that Catholic education is committed to the provision of education for Aboriginal children which is equal to the highest standard offered to any child in Australia. T here are approximately 1360 Aboriginal children enrolled in Catholic primary schools and 445 in secondary schools. The largest number of Aboriginal students are in Catholic schools in the Kimberley region where eight of the eleven schools are located in Aboriginal communities. Thirteen Aboriginal teachers and approximately 70 Aboriginal Teaching A ssistants work in Catholic schools.
Sr Mary Steele was one of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Apparition who returned to Northam for the reunion and celebrations. Sr Mary, who taught at St Joseph's between 1970 and 1973, caught up on news with (from left) Bevan Raymond, Angela Wolyniec and Alicia Wladyka. March On In Trust was the theme of a special Mass held last month by St Joseph's College, Northam. The Mass was the first event in a weekend of celebrations to mark the centenary of the arrival in Northam of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Apparition. During the homily Father Hewitt said both Northam and the whole State owe a great deal to the Sisters for a century of caring and dedicated work. "Theirs has been a work of love and we express our deepfelt gratitude to the Sisters present with us today", said Fr Hewitt. Following the Mass students, parents, ex-students and friends of the College gathered for a picnic lunch in the College grounds. After lunch students presented a physical education display and guests were invited to inspect the school and students' work.
"GREAT DAY FOR THE PILBARA" St Luke's College, Karratha was officially opened and blessed on 8 June, two and a half years after the first classes began. The school opened in temporary premises at the beginning of the 1987 school year and it was not until the last term of last year that all the students were able to be accommodated at the school's permanent campus in Rosemary Road. The first stage of the school buildings, comprising classrooms, a science block, home economics and manual arts centres is already completed. The second stage, which will provide extra classrooms, computer room and library, is under construction. A third stage, which will i nclude an administration block and canteen, is being planned. Blessing The Bishop of Geraldton, Bishop Barry Hickey, who blessed the buildings, said the opening of. St Luke's College was "a great day for the Pilbara and a great day for the Diocese of Geraldton." Bishop Hickey said the school was the final stage of the Church's building program in Karratha. It had been built through the initiative of many people, including priests, Brothers and Sisters, and with contributions of the State and Federal Governments and the Roebourne Shire Council. He paid tribute to Fr Maurice Carse, formerly Karratha's parish priest "who dreamed of this secondary school", and the present priest, Fr Michael Morrissey, "who has seen this project launched and on its way to completion." "God has blessed this diocese enormously and today's opening is another example of how much he has blessed us," the Bishop said. Crucifixes made of snake wood, a Pilbara shrub, were blessed by the Bishop and placed in the buildings during the ceremony. Following the Bishop's blessing of the school, the buildings were officially opened by the State Member for Ashburton, Mrs Pam Buchanan who congratulated the college community on the appearance of the school. "The design not only blends in with the natural surroundings, but is very much in keeping with the high aesthetic standards of the the town," she said. Continued on page 5
Official guests at the opening of St Luke's College were (from left) the Director of Catholic Education, Dr Peter Tannock. Bishop Hickey, School Board Chairman, Mr Tom Oldham, the Member for Ashburton, Mrs Pam Buchanan and College Principal, Br John Bowman.
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VISIT ESTABLISHES SINGAPORE LINK A flying visit by a group of Year 12 social studies students from St Norbert College, Queens Park was the start of what is hoped to be a close relationship with St Joseph's Secondary School, Singapore. During their visit to the new $8 million school, the students were welcomed by Principal, Brother Kevin Byrne and met some of the St Joseph's students. Future plans are for a return visit during a hockey tour later in the year and for some St Norbert students to spend time with Singapore families in 1990. The visit was enjoyed by all the students. "I think the fact that we were all young and students created an immediate bond," said Michelle Carver of St Norbert College. "I hope there can be some sort of correspondence program set up since the time we spent there really wasn't enough." The 26 St Norbert students, accompanied by teachers Kevin Tutt, Br Patrick, Desiree Grzenda and John Van Nus travelled to Singapore during the April holidays to study history (the Fall of Singapore World War II and British colonization), economics (international trade, economic growth and industrial development) and geography (tropical rain forest ecology, plantation agriculture and urban studies)
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Above - Being confined to a wheelchair did not deter Xavier College student Maria Mansour from participating in the school's annual walkathon held earlier this year. "It was great fun," said Maria, "but it was hot." Maria is pictured with some of the 600 primary and secondary students of the East Victoria Park college who participated in the 10 kilometre walk. The walkathon raised more than $7000 towards the purchase of a new bus.
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The principals of all Catholic schools in the Geraldton region met this month with the Bishop of Geraldton, Most Rev. Barry Hickey and representatives of the Catholic Education Office. The meeting, which was held in Geraldton, w as described by Bishop Hickey as an historic event. Issues discussed included teacher recruitment, professional development programs for new principals and special challenges faced by schools in the Pilbara and other isolated areas of the region. Strong relationships needed The Director of Catholic Education in WA, Dr Peter Tan nock. spoke to the principals and outlined some of the challenges faced t oday by Catholic schools. He stressed the need for strong relationships between schools, school boards and parishes.
Other sessions were presented on finance and alternative methods of school budgeting and planning and procedures for Capital Development Planning. Spiritual leaders Father Peter Slattery of the Catholic Education Office addressed the meeting on Spiritual Leadership. He spoke of the complex role of the school principal today and said that the principal had to be a staff leader, a school manager and also a spiritual leader.
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Teaching career "a special blessing" Some people are born to be teachers - Mrs Hazel Bonjour, Year 1 teacher at Aranmore Catholic Primary School, Leederville, is one such person. Now in her 20th year at Aranmore, Mrs Bonjour says teaching has fulfilled her life and she has loved every minute of her career. "It gives me tremend- handled it — now we mother studying," she ous satisfaction," she teach only 30 in a said. Her daughters, said. "I feel blessed at class," she said, "and Dawn and Carol, are being able to care for we have so much more now both secondary teachers. the very young people. equipment." Teaching methods too They are so satisfying Classical music to teach. They are like have changed. The atmosphere in " slate." Teaching now is clean a which her students centred on the child Love of children learn is important to doing things. If the Mrs Bonjour believes Mrs Bonjour. that a sincere love of child does everything In her Year 1 class at for himself he learns chi ldren is an essential Aranmore the children more. The teacher now quality for a teacher. listen to classical music Patience, understand- stands back and guides while they work ("it rather than teaches. I ing and compassion soothes them and are also important. "If believe it's better for the introduces them to listening. just child than you don't have these good music") and are qual ities forget about Teachers also can use taught the courtesy their initiative more being a teacher," she and manners which now." says. their teacher believes life has Confidence S chool are part of the tradition The change in teach- and history of the changed since Mrs Bonjour began teach- ing methods has led to school. ing at Aranmore, then changes in children. They learn about their known as St Mary's, in "Today's children are religion "through much more confident teachers sharing their 1970. When she started than they were in the faith" and are taught there were only two lay early years," said Mrs scripture by learning teachers on the staff — Bonjour. "They are Bible verses as class now there are only two able to speak up and passwords. religious, Sr Catherine ask for things for Honour O 'Connor who is prin- themselves." This year Mrs Bonjour Her respect for educacipal and Sr Anne, a classroom teacher. tion has been mirrored received what she calls Other Sisters help out in Mrs Bonjour's own a great honour. One of with remedial classes life. After completing her former students her teacher training in Jane Taylor (nee Cran- Part of Mrs Bonjour's classroom technique is to encourage confidence in her students. and music. Mrs Bonjour also has India, she continued ley) brought her own "I want them to aim high. I tell them they can become prime minister if they wish. The important thing seen many changes in studying after coming daughter Ivy to Aran- is to get a good education. No one can take that away from them." the classroom in the to Australia 22 years more to be taught by Above — Even the presence of a camera in Mrs Hazel Bonjour's class did not disturb the concentration her old teacher. past 20 years. ago. of students as they worked. "I wanted to cry when "It encouraged my "We used to have classes of 65 to 72 children to study when Jane brought Ivy in," students and we they could see their she said.
New Commission Member The newest member of the Catholic Education Commission, Mr Terry O'Connor QC, has been active in Catholic education for many years. A lready serving as chairman of the boards of John XXIII College and New Norcia Catholic College, Mr O'Connor was appointed to the C ommission earlier this year. The father of two c hildren who were educated in Catholic schools, Mr O'Connor said that he became i nvolved with schools because as a Catholic he regarded it as important for children to get a Catholic education in the broadest sense. "In particular chi ldren should be given the opportunity to be taught about their faith in a Catholic environment," he said. Mr Terry O'Connor QC Responsibility time it was taking to picture. Along with the "The change from replace the religious in Church then, Catholic religious to lay teachers the teaching of Reli- education will accept in our schools has gious Education. He the changes and thrust the responsibility added that the people prosper." for Catholic education who attended the very much on to the lay recent Archdiocesan Contribution c ommunity," he said. Assembly in Perth had Mr O'Connor believes "The challenge for the obviously been that his legal and Catholic community concerned about the c ommercial backnow is to create an depth of Religious ground as well as his environment to enable Education training in c ommitment to those who are inter- the community Catholic education will ested to gain the generally. enable him to make a k nowledge and depth However, Mr O'Con- w orthwhile contribuof faith commitment to nor is optimistic that tion as a Commission p ass on to their this challenge will be member. c hildren." "I believe I can particovercome. Mr O'Connor said "Those of us who ularly bring to the these major structural lived through the Commission an apprechanges, coupled with changes in the Church ciation of how schools the expansion of the brought about by Vati- feel in their relations Catholic system, were can II became focused with the Catholic Educ reating strains such as on small issues and cation Office and the t hose indicated in the forgot to look at the big Commission."
RE SEMINAR FOCUSES ON FUTURE Year 12 students at Mercy College, Koondoola participated in an innovative Religious Education Seminar in May entitled Life Beyond the TEE. The two day seminar featured a variety of speakers on topics including marriage, meditation, family planning and the rights and of responsibilities young people in the workplace. RE Coordinator, Mr Ric High, said the seminar was a first for Mercy students. The talk on marriage — The most important decision in your life — given by Family Law Court counsellor, Mr Andrew Stout, was the most valuable part of the seminar according t o student Marissa Deniese. "It made me stop and the RE seminar were Donna Hosking, RE Coordinator. think about rushing Pictured (from left) after Peter Yong and Industrial Officer, Raelene Ormsby. Deniese, Marissa High, Ric into marriage", said Marissa. "If they are not getting Peter Yong said he the Religious Educa- Geoff Aldous, Parish these Mirrabooka. experiences at of Priest introGuidelines also found the mar- tion According to Mr High home then we have to riage talk useful. "It's a duced last year. "The RE Guidelines it is essential for the offer them", he said. situation we will probahave encouraged us to parish and the school bly all face", he said. new to work together. e xplore Donna Hosking said to and pproaches a "This is particularly the talk on young Advertise resournew establish important in the RE people in the work- ces", he said. area", he said. as valuable place was in "Now we are using most of the Year 12 resources Hope visual for the future audio Intercom students already had a as an integral part of Mr High said one of part-time job. the RE program". Call the aims of the Catholic initiatives New RE Working together school and the RE Media Two special guests at program is to give Mr High said the Services Seminar was one of the the seminar were young people hope recently Father Tom Gaine, and to give them expei nitiatives 381 5444 undertaken at Mercy Parish Priest of Girra- riences of christian community. wheen Father and to response College in
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Former staff members, parents of past students, and members of the parish community attended the Tenth Anniversary celebrations at St Jude's Catholic School, Langford, last month.
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A commemorative Mass in St Jude's Church was followed by a rose planting ceremony in the school grounds. Rose bushes were planted in a memorial garden in honour of many people associated with the school's establishment and its early years. . They i ncluded the parish priest at the time the school opened, and two St Jude's students who have died. Several of those honoured assisted with the planting ceremony. T hey included the school's foundation principal, Sr Maura Kelleher (now principal of Yidarra Catholic Primary School, Bateman), the chairman of the steering committee Mr Bill Fahie, Fr Henry Byrne and the parents of Reuben Peters and David Yoo. R oses were also planted in honour of f oundation staff members Mrs Maureen Horrocks and Sr Margaret Lipsett. Stage one of the new Langford Catholic
Foundation principal of St Jude's, Sr Maura Kelleher, and preprimary students David Lowry and Jessica Doyle admire the rose bush planted in Sr Maura 's honour. Primary School was opened to students in February 1979 and the building program, including a pre-primary wing, was completed in 1983. Mr Bill Fahie, chairman of the steering committee and later a member of the first
school board said that his involvement in the establishment of the school had been "all joy." "I still get a kick every time I pass the school," he said. "It was an educational experience for all of us. We got more from it than we put in."
Mr Fahie was particularly grateful for the assistance given the parish by officers of the Catholic Education Commission and to the Sisters of Mercy for b eing involved, through Sr Maura, with t he school's early years.
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The opening of Kolbe Catholic College was the culmination of a dream and years of hard work for the Rockingham community. In a colourful and moving ceremony on 9 April the College was blessed by the Archbishop of Perth, the Most Rev. William Foley and officially opened by the Minister for Education, Employment and Training, Mr John Dawkins. A special presentation As well as the basic classrooms, a fully students. "It's good not was made during the subjects, students take equipped computer to have big Year 12 kids including room, a kitchen for the to boss you around," ceremony by the Polish options community. They pres- woodwork, technical f ood and nutrition she said. ented the principal, drawing, art, compu- classes and science Her words were Brother Pat Carey, with ters, food and nutrition laboratories. endorsed by classa bronze medallion of and physical education mates Michelle WhiteSt Maximilian Kolbe — a popular choice led Proud students ford, Mitchell Podolski Students and staff and Ricky Butler who after whom the College by teacher and star is named. Richard alike are proud of being agreed that it was f ootballer a of the the founders of the new exciting to be in a Geary, member Building project school with new and The first stage of the West Coast Eagles and school. Fremantle Eva Mulvaney. who attractive facilities. building project, South designed to accommo- teams. Each student came to the school although the transition date Year 8 and 9 tries all the options after completing Year 7 from primary to high students cost almost during the school year. at Star of the Sea school was a little $1.5 million. Further Well equipped school, Rockingham daunting. particularly The school is well set was pleased that the the "moving around construction will take place as the current up with bright, welcoming school has only Year 8 between classes." Year 1 students Michael and Paul Van Dongen, Jarrad Sewell, Aisha Majid Year 8 students proand Timothy Clayton were happy to pose with the Minister for Education, Dr gress through the Carmen Lawrence after she had officially opened extensions to Yidarra school. Catholic Primary School, Bateman. Unit curriculum The College is already There was a joyous celebration at Yidarra Catholic Primary School, Bateman on Sunday 11 June when students, parents and parish providing an exciting members attended a ceremony to mark the completion of the final education for its 130 students. stages of the school's two-stream building. The school has More than 500 guests were entertained by a jazz version of the story of away trabroken from by 7 the and Year and by musical whale students onah items presented J class groups ditional presented by the Bateman parish choral group. Bishop Robert Healy, Auxiliary Bishop of Perth, blessed the building which and instead has divided i ts students into was officially opened by the Minister for Education, Dr Carmen Lawrence. Bishop Healy paid special tribute to the Bateman parish for the way in "pastoral care" groups which it has given top priority to the needs of the children by paying for with each group in the care of one of the six the school site and contributing financially to the building project. full-time staff members. "contributing Dr Lawrence also congratulated the Bateman community for Formal education is mightily" to the planning and development of the school. The Minister said it was very important for communities to have the provided through a unit freedom of choice of education offered by Catholic schools. "We need a curriculum model, with variety of systems and we need systems that cater for the religious and each student studying educational philosophies that are reflected in a Catholic community such the main subjects of mathematics, science, as this," she said English and social studies. Unlike most other schools, the stufrom page 1 dents are also expected Mr Dawkins unveils the plaque at the opening of Kolbe Catholic College. "Therefore the State you to work hard and to study two languages watched by, (from left) Br Pat Carey, Archbishop Foley and School Board Cooperative effort Mrs Buchanan said Government is only too make the most of it, - French and Italian. Chairman, Mr Laurie Smith. the establishment of St pleased to support the because your achieveLuke's College had establishment of the ments here will lead on been a cooperative college and in helping to success throughout effort, with the State meet the needs of the the rest of your lives." Government having a Catholic community is School flag unique involvement in mindful of the value of of Director T he the project. the college to the whole Catholic Education, Dr "This involvement is community." Peter Tannock was a Mrs Buchanan said special guest at the an acknowledgement of the the importance that the college has a opening ceremony and of providing alternative special atmosphere presented a school flag forms of education for which comes from the to the students. Despite the windy and overcast weather on 2 April a large crowd gathered at Woodvale for students, and recog- joint enthusiasm and Dr Tannock paid trib- the official opening of St Luke's Catholic Primary School. nises that without St dedication of the prin- ute to the Bishop, St Luke's was Blessed Luke's College, the cipal, staff and students parents, school board, State's secondary edu- and the solid support of working committees by the Archbishop of cation facilities in Kar- the parents. and members of reli- Perth, the Most Rev. To the students Mrs gious congregations W illiam Foley and ratha would be under e xtreme pressure Buchanan said: "You who had all come opened by the Director because of the rapid are the lucky ones. You together to make St of Catholic Education development of the have a wonderful col- Luke's a reality. He said i n WA, Dr Peter area," she said. lege in St Luke's. I ask these people had all Tannock. made "marvellous con- Mission of Christ its to Archbishop Foley said tributions" that St Luke is a great development. patron for the school as Visitors Visitors to the school in his life he expressed opening to the world the life and the f or included the Provincial mission of Christ. "St of the Christian Broth- Luke's is an appropers, Br Gerald Faulkner riate name for a new and the Superior school and new parish General of the Presen- as they establish a tation Sisters, Sr community identity". Archbishop Foley is escorted by an honour guard of students down to the Before declaring the oval where the official opening ceremony of St Luke's Primary School w.a. Burns. Gabriel Foundation staff of the school opened Dr Peter held. college included three Tannock said that C hristian Brothers, Catholic schools are particularly appropriate Building project principal. Br John Bow- places for the forma- No limits as both the school and prinfoundation Seven teachers anc The whole the of tion Pickett Oily man, Br the parish of Kingsley- five ancillary workers O'ConMary Sr cipal, erson. and Br Peter Green, p staff the school whicl" Education is espe- nor, has thirty years Woodvale are new. and Presentation Sisprimary in has 141 students in twc xperience e transthe about cially ter, Sr Perpetua Waring. Federal Member, Alan The president of mission and acquisi- schools. She was pre- Blanchard, was a spe- p re-primary classes A bove — School council leaders Steven Drew and of St two Year 1 and Year 2 Samantha Cleary received the school flag from the Roebourne Shire, Cr tion of values and the viously principal of Lawrence School, Bal- cial guest. He paid classes and one Year Director of Catholic Education, Dr Peter Tannock Betty Connell also building catta and Whitford tribute to the Catholic class. c ommunities". attended the opening. during the official opening of St Luke's College. Primary Education Commisic Cathol congratuTannock Dr The total cost of thE lated the St Luke's School, Craigie. In her sion for its foresight in Mary establishing the school f irst stage buildinc Sr school community for address their work in establish- thanked the Interim in a rapidly growing project was $545 800 ing the school and School Board Chair- area of Perth and he Half of this amount wa: Specialists in made-to-order School and College wear acknowledged the sup- man, Mr Max Pinner, had a special word for contributed by thE port of the wider com- the current Chairman, the children. "There are C ommonweal t munity. "All Catholic Mr Wally Galos and the no limits to the future Government and $6-/ schools contributed Parish Priest, Father and the skills and self- 500 was contributed confidence you will the local parish. ThE f inancially through Nick McSweeney. 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Old World Charm Tucked away behind a high brick wall in Mary Street, Highgate Is Sacred Heart Primary School. This 75-years old institution, founded by the Sisters of Our Lady Of the Missions, has an old-world charm about it, but there is nothing old-fashioned about the school and its students.
Multicultural enrolment part of school's identity
Thanh Thien Chung enjoys a typical Vietnamese lunch — rice cooked in banana leaves. Teg:v.ear-old Thien was born in Vietnam and came to Australia with his family when he was 12 months old.
COMMUNITY SPIRIT "The most important thing about Sacred Heart Primary School is its terrific sense of community spirit, of warmth and belonging which staff, parents and students all experience," says principal Christine Nolan. Christine has been principal at the school for five years. She had previously taught at Girrawheen Catholic Primary School and Majella Primary School, Balga. Christine says the community spirit of the school is evident in its exceptional level of pastoral care between staff members, from staff to students and staff to parents. "The staff have a great sense of dedication. The children always come first and they always want to do what is best for the children. They are prepared to be flexible, to update, to adapt to educational innovations and to be involved in planning and innovation." Parents echo these statements. Lynne Van Der Woude, secretary of the school's Parents and Friends Association said the family atmosphere is one of the most appealing features of the school. "There is friendship between everybody amongst parents and between parents and teachers. Everyone is very approachable and that makes it an easy school to get along in," she said. School board member Margaret Ker agreed. "You get the impression right from the beginning that the teachers are going to take a real interest in your child."
Sacred Heart Primary is truly a multicultural school. Among its 200 students are representatives of 31 different nationalities. The school enrols a "constant stream" of children newly arrived in Australia, who speak no English, and who, in many cases, have often spent years in refugee camps. " Each child who who have already expe- notices are sent home appreciate how much comes in has his or her rienced intensive Eng- in English, Vietnamese our own culture has and Italian and the been enriched by the own special needs so lish teaching. trying to develop each "Usually there is at school is attempting to benefits received from one to their full poten- least one other child in set up a communica- other nationalities. tial is our overarching the school, if not the tions network for par- Microcosm aim," said principal classroom, who speaks ents to learn what is "We are really a microChristine Nolan. a newcomer's home happening at school cosm of Australian "Our largest group is language. We use these meetings. society. The children Adult Migrant Educa- take the many ethnic Vietnamese with the channels of communiItalian children making cation to help the child tion offers classes in groups for granted and up a fairly large second feel at home in the English at the school. see Australian society group. As well we have school, to get to know Benefits generally as being G reek, Portuguese, other children, learn to The presence of so multicultural," said Spanish, Yugoslav, play games, and to many different Christine. southern Europeans know who to go to for nationalities brings Sacred Heart Primary and other Asians," said help." many benefits to the School incorporates its Christine. While the children fit school. multicultural nature in quickly, communica"Sacred Heart child- into many curriculum Language problems tion with non-English ren learn respect for areas and school The presence of so speaking parents is each person's unique- traditions. many nationalities often more difficult. Sacred Heart Day is ness and for their creates some difficulindividuality, regard- an important school ties, not the least being Interpreter less of their back- festival with lots of that of language. "We try to have an ground. They don't activities which incor"Children usually interpreter available for generalise about differ- porate facets of other cope reasonably well," interviews with parents ent groups and they cultures. International and for important par- realise children have Children's Day is also a said Christine. "We have one full-time ent meetings," said many good points big celebration for the English as a Second Christine. Some of our regardless of their school with varied said aspects of different Language (ESL) teachers speak other nationality." cultures being highteacher and one part- languages and can Christine. "The children are lighted. At the same time. The part-time help out, other parents teacher works with new sometimes offer their good at teaching adults time the school looks at arrivals who have no services and when we how to become more how the special gifts English while the full- are desperate we use tolerant of other people and talents of each time teacher works the telephone interpre- and how to respect group contribute to the with mainstream teach- ter services." people for their differ- development of a Important school ences. They also national unity. ers to help students
Unique mixture Sacred Heart Primary School has a unique mixture amongst its students. It enrols children newly-arrived in Australia, children who live in outer suburbs and whose parents work in the city, and children who are part of the local community. Goals Recently the school community adopted a set of goals which state that Sacred Heart strives to: * develop the students' appreciation, love and respect of God, self, others and the environment; • create a caring environment in which each member of the community is respected and feels fairly treated; * recognise the multiculturalism of the faith community by accepting each others' customs and traditions whilst encouraging unity; * develop each students' uniqueness to its fullest potential; * work with members of the community, particularly parents, in the education and development of students; * provide opportunities for the students to achieve their personal best; and prepare students for their future life.
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PARENTS HELP Like most other Sacred schools, Heart Primary School relies on the efforts of its parents to provide extra resources and equipment. The school's Parents' and Friends' Association makes a yearly allocation to the library for the purchase of books, as well as contributing funds for special projects. Last year the Association provided mathematics resources. This year it has turned its
Year 1 teacher, Carlton Dias shares a story with the children. Pictured below is Sacred Heart Principal, Christine Nolan.
A very special place Mgr Michael Keating, parish priest of Highgate and Vicar General of Perth, describes Sacred Heart Primary School as a very special place. He likens it to a mission school because of the way it welcomes large numbers of nonChristian children as well as the Catholic Vietnamese and other nationalities to the school. "Sacred Heart Primary School is very much a part of this parish and its endeavour, particularly in its contribution to the early life of our migrants," Mgr Keating said. Mgr Keating is a member of the School Board and attends school functions as well as conducting the regular school Mass. Dedicated, competent principal Mgr Keating says the school is fortunate to have such a dedicated and competent principal as Christine Nolan. "She is a first class principal and I have complete faith in her Catholic leadership of the school," he said. "She brings compassion and real humanity to the school."
efforts towards providing Upbeat music kits. A s wel l as fundraising the P&F arranges occasional social events to bring all parents together. "We want to bring all parents into the school and show them that they have something to offer," said Association secretary Lynne Van Der Woude. "Sometimes the language barriers make it difficult, but we have had some very good responses to our efforts," she said.
Pre-primary The school enrols about 200 students in Years1 to 7 and already plans are in hand for the school to extend its enrolment to preprimary in 1991. A recently approved Capital Development Plan will allow more efficient use of the school's facilities_ In November the school will celebrate the 75th anniversary of its founding by the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions with a day of special activities.
1 wait There's a special emphasis on music at Sacred Heart this year. R esource Colleague Carmel Suart is developing a music program for the whole school. The program, which will develop music sequentially through the school, uses Upbeat music kits purchased with funds provided by the P & F Staff at the school initiated the program because they felt that there had not been any concentration on the artistic and creative t alents of their students. It was an aspect of c ommunication which had been neglected until recently although it was an area in which reeof English speaking children very the non-English were talented. "Through music they can demonstrate e xpertise in a way which doesn't require verbal language proficiency." said Carmel.
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Angelo Melacco takes advantage of the special time set aside for silent reading in Year 7 to catch up on the history of The West Australian.
Anita Lach practises her speech for the Arbor Day school assembly before her Year 7 classmates.
Year 4 teacher. Mrs Frances Davenport assists Julia Colbert witt creative writing.
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In all Catholic schools in Western Australia parents are noticeable for their practical contributions. Parents can be seen helping out in classrooms and libraries, serving in tuckshops, making costumes for annual concerts, helping organise sports meetings and working on busy bees. Less obvious, but very much present is their support of the school within the home and the reinforcing of the Catholic values through their actions. As well, parents are active in providing the extras which add to their children's broader education. Most Western Austral- Main issues communities display- advice are sought by To achieve this vision ing a strong Catholic political bodies and ian Catholic schools t oday have well- the Federation believes ethos and to strive to education authorities. equipped computer it must continue to protect the moral and rooms. In most cases address and emphasise social environment in Information and t he computers and the importance of fun- which those children leadership The Federation assists often the buildings damental issues such were developing. which house them, as: Limited state govern- individual P&F Associwere provided through * striving to achieve ment funding became ations by providing funds raised by Par- the allocation of realis- available to WA non- assistance in manageents' and Friends' tic levels of public government schools in ment and information Associations. The list is f unding which will 1 955, gradually and leadership on edualmost endless - lands- provide the opportunity increasing until 1965 cational, funding and caping, recreational for parents and child- when recurrent per social issues, as well as equipment, musical ren to choose a high capita grants were representing members' equipment, library standard Catholic edu- made available to views in the wider books - are almost cation without undue secondary schools. In forum. It holds regional meetalways funded by financial penalty: 1967 recurrent per parents. • supporting and par- capita grants were ings to allow parents to This is the basic work ticipating in the mainte- made available to prim- discuss issues of interof individual Parents' nance of a cornplemen- ary schools. est and concerns and and Friends' tary high standard of Commonwealth recur- coordinates the activiaffiliated of r eligious education and rent and capital fund- ties Associations. associations. However, at the State faith development in ing followed. The level, parents are work- homes and schools: Federation's So effective was the ing in a much broader • protecting the social campaign by the Fed- president, Mr John way for the benefit of environment in which eration and the national Barich and Executive Ray Black and Michael McKay. fathers of students at Yidarra Catholic Primary children are develop- body, the Australian Officer, Mr Laurie East- School, Bateman have spent several weekends recently helping to build an Catholic education. ing; and Parents' Council, that wood are office bearers ornamental wall at the front of the school. The wall carries the school name Vision Statement • working for the the right of non- of the national body, and frames a large polished wood crucifix made by another father. George At its recent annual Thackray. A group of eight parents worked to complete the wall in time for conference the Par- adoption of public government children to the Australian Parents' the opening of the second stream buildings on 11 June. ents' and Friends' Fed- financial policies which receive public funding Council. support and is now not questioned eration of WA accepted w ill the following vision encourage the tradi- by governments or tional family as the opposition parties. statement: Not only are the attitudes of teachers crucial for the success of Catholic education Today the P&F FederThe vision of the basic unit of our Christian society. but also the attitudes of Catholic parents. Parents must set themselves very definite P&F has 122 ation Parents' and Friends' Associations affiliated Federation of WA is to High standard priorities, such as the determination to have schools in which their children's faith T he Parents' and with it and represents assist parents and will be respected, fostered and enriched; schools in which their children learn the schools work Friends' Federation of 127 schools and about to value and beauty of the Church's teaching. They must also see to it that their own together in providing a Western Australia was 40,000 students. homes are places in which these values are first fostered and lived. Parents' own Aside from its continCatholic education to all established in 1954. It children whose parents grew out of the concern uing involvement in practice of the faith, their own love for Christ, is of course fundamental. . • or guardians seek this. of a number of people funding, the Federation Both primary and secondary schools must work closely with the family and the and to help those regarding the need for now has other roles. parish if they are to foster effectively the Christian formation of the pupils. This is children achieve their a united push by taxAs an effective grassfull potential academi- payers/parents for roots organisation a noble work in which parents, teachers and clergy all collaborate. Parents need to cally physically, emo- "state aid" for non- representing the interkeep in close touch with their children's education through such groups as parentstionally and above all, government schools. ests of parents and friends' associations and through other means. And precisely because teachers spiritually so that they It also aimed to ensure children in Catholic represent parents, they must be aware of the limits of their authority over the students, will be able to continue that all Catholic fami- schools, the Federation the work of the Church lies would have the is now recognised and andmust work inharmony withparents. Success in this field willmean more dedicated into the next century as opportunity to educate respected as a referm embers of society and the Church, more young men and women who are deeply parents, clerics and their children to a high ence organisation committed to Christ. The extent to which Catholic schools contribute to the continual teachers. standard within school whose opinions and
renewal of the Church depends on how successfully they foster continual conversion of heart
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Federation president Mr John Barich, Mrs Barich, Opposition spokesman on education, Mrs Cheryl Edwardes, the Minister for Education, Dr Carmen Lawrence, guest speaker Fr Paul Duffy and executive officer of the Federation, Mr Laurie Eastwood at the formal dinner held as part of the Federation's recent annual conference. The theme for the conference was The Home, The School and The Parish.
is & FRIENDS "Funding important issue" Country parents work together
In many country towns, where people and resources are limited, a c ombined Parents' and Friends' Association supports both the primary and secondary schools.
The Parents' and Friends' Federation provides a range of services which are especially appreciated by country P&F Associations. "Probably the grea- Federation is doing, members, through vistest benefit for us is the funding is, for us, the its by its officers and Federation's work in most important issue." the annual conference. the political area where Ian was a Geraldton it is fighting for our fair delegate to the Federa"One of the benefits of share of funds," said tion conference held at the conference is that it Ian Harrison, a member St Norbert College, reminds us of the of the P&F Association Queens Park, in May. issues we should be of St Patrick's College, He said that the Feder- concerned with and Geraldton. ation also was a signif- shows us what we "While we appreciate icant source of infor- should be doing at a overall what the mation for country local level," Ian said.
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PARENTS IN ACTION Mr Ron Waller, president of the Karratha Combined Catholic Schools P&F Association is joined by Year 2 students on the adventure playground equipment provided to St Paul's Primary School by the P&F. President of the Karratha Combined Catholic Schools P&F AssociaRon tion, Waller believes such an arrangement benefits both schools. "By combining the parents' efforts we can achieve a lot," he said. "There is no competition between two g roups because we are all working together." Karratha has a primary school, St Paul's, established in 1978, and a secondary college, St Luke's, which opened in 1987. Often parents have children in both schools. The P&F has helped both schools to establish their grounds with reticulation (essential in the harsh Pilbara climate), gardens and p layground equipment.
The longer established St Paul's also has been provided with computers, an adventure playground and resource material. St Luke's needs "St Luke's currently has quite a few needs because it's not yet completely established. We will concentrate on bringing facilities there up to standard over the next few months," said Ron. In recent months P&F members have been busy with clean ups at the schools following Cyclone Orson, and preparation of St Luke's for its official opening earlier this month. There's also been time for some concerted money making with a recent fete which raised $10 000.
"There's never a lack of volunteers to help w ith the practical work," said Ron. "and the number of industries in the town means we have a bank of skilled tradespeople who are happy to lend their expertise to the schools." The local industries also assist the schools with loans of plant and equipment when there are jobs to be done. Ron, who has two daughters at St Luke's College, has a strong belief that P&F activities should not be all work. "This year we will be having more social events. They help to make us a more closely knit community and then it becomes easier to get people to work," he said.
VALUE IS IN STRENGTH President of the Parents' and Friends' Federation John Barich believes the value of the Federation lies in its strength. "As the representative of 40,000 children, the Federation can often achieve more than a single Association which represents only one or two hundred people," he said. "If Federation is convinced that a particular course is the right way to go t hen it can make representations to Government, the Catholic Education Office or the Church." R epresentatives of the Federation are members of Catholic Education Commission committees. At a national level the Federation joins with another 10 bodies throughout A ustralia to form the Australian Parents' Council which lobbies the Federal Government. Concerns Not all the causes taken up by the Federation concern funding. In some cases the Federation has taken up concerns of parents regarding courses which do not coincide with Catholic doctrine and don't have a great deal of value being used in schools. It is also concerned with the social environment in which children are growing up. John feels that all school associations should be affiliated with the Federation to gain the maximum benefit from its strengths. What Federation does For a fee of less than $2 per student each year, the Parents' and Friends' Federation: • arranges regional meetings which allow concerned parents to discuss issues of interest: * helps local associations with administrative functions such as setting up c onstitutions; • puts annual submissions to governments on funding for schools; * takes up with governments issues which affect families such as taxes, home interest rates, family allowances makes submissions on items such as rights of the unborn, rights to a private education; and makes submissions to governments on issues which affect the social environment, such as censorship of videos. "The Federation is really grassroots democracy at work" said John. Support from parents Part of the Federation's brief is to provide parents with the opportunity to work together and to keep in touch with their children's education. Both John and Federation Executive Officer Laurie Eastwood agree that Parents generally are involved in every aspect of school activities. "Some raise huge amounts of money, others are involved in educational and social issues," said Laurie.
The new campus of Sacred Heart Primary School in Thornlie is attractive with well ordered gardens, a broad, paved quadrangle, established lawns and neat paths linking classroom and administration blocks. To the visitor it seems that the school has been established on site for many years. In fact, just 18 months ago only the buildings existed. The rest of the site was bare black sand - dusty and sticky in dry weather and a quagmire when it rained. The difference has curtains, building a associated works had which is "very well been brought about by pergola, setting up a been cut from the supported", according the hard work of the sand-pit for the pre- school's building pro- to Margaret O'Neill. school's Parents' and primary section, and gram because of a lack R ecent innovations Friends' Association. even carrying out the of funds. have been morning Before the start of the electrical work required The parents were teas held for class 1988 school year, par- for an air conditioner to faced with having their groups and a monthly ents spent many days be installed in the c hildren attend a get together of parents. at the new site, clearing library. "Because of these school which lacked all the oval, planting lawns Why did so many but the basic amenities, activities we are finding and laying countless people spend their free or providing the extras that new parents are metres of paving slabs time - weekends and themselves. They k een to become in the quadrangle and after work - toiling in chose to provide the involved," said Maron pathways. January's heat? garet. "We always need extras. Many of the concrete "It had to be done. Fundraising new faces and new slabs had first to be There was just nothing on the The physical work, ideas lifted at the old school here for the children." however, is only one committee." site, then carted to the said P&F Association side of the P&F story. Next project new campus. president, Margaret Members are also Not a group to rest on Parents were also O'Neill. extensively involved in its laurels, the Sacred involved in making Landscaping and f undraising through Heart P&F is already chocolate drives, quiz planning its next major nights, fetes, dances, project, the provision of raffles and stalls. a hard play area for the Sacred Heart princi- children. "At present there is pal, Sr Victor Wright describes the P&F as a nowhere for the child"fantastic group. one I ren to play ball games can really depend on. except the oval," said Without the work done Margaret. For this project Assoby the P&F the school would really be operat- ciation members will ing on a shoe string. do the groundwork, There are parents help- clearing and levelling ing in the school every the site, before calling hour of every school in contractors to surface the area. day. Fundraising for this "The involvement of parents in the school is work has already reflected in the har- begun with a dinner mony, happiness and dance held earlier this good communications month and plans are we have," she said. underway for a quiz It's not all hard work night and a major raffle and fundra!sing for later in the year. To avoid putting too parents. Social activities designed to involve much pressure on parParents Mr Laurie Newbey and Mr Laurie the whole school com- ents, the Association Thompson, with help from Daniel Newbey, make munity are part of the holds only one major plans for paving the quadrangle at Sacred Heart agenda. The year beg- f undraising function Primary School, Thornlie. ins with a family night each term.
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imary schools will open at Ballajura and South Lake and a new secondary college at Hilton. The fourth new school, h will accommodate students from pre-primary to Year 12, will be formed through the amalgamation of St Joachim's ary School, St Joachim's High School, Victoria Park, and Xavier College, East Victoria Park. new South Lake Previously he has sc ol, being built in been Headmaster of Ve a Road, South the CBC Leederville Lakt, will enrol two primary school and stretims of students in Headmaster of the preiprimary and Year 1. Junior Schools at AquiThe Ballajura school, in nas College, Manning Pelican Drive will enrol and Rostrevor College, two streams in pre- Adelaide. He has also primary and Year 1 and taught at St Patrick's a single stream Year 2. Secondary College, Construction of the Geraldton. first stage of both Michael welcomes the schbols is already challenges presented un rway. This stage, by a new school. wh h includes two "I am looking forward pre primary rooms, to working with a fou permanent and developing Church two temporary class- community", he said. rooms, site developHe has been an active ments and toilets, will member of the execucost almost $700 000. tive of the Catholic Funding is being pro- Primary Principals' vided by the Common- A ssociation (CPPA) wealth Government, and served a 12 month and through contribu- term as National Secretions from the parish tary of the Australian and the Coresponsibil- CPPA. ity Building Fund. Ballajura class Challenges welcomed Some of the students The Foundation Prin- who will attend the new cipal of South Lake Ballajura Catholic Shown here with teacher Mrs Sandra Peterson are Year 1 students now at Catholic Primary Primary School are I nfant Jesus School, Morley who will transfer to the new Ballajura Catholic School, Mr Michael already working School next year. They are Rick Sobasz, Elaine Lei, Sharon Lord, Alisha Parella, Smith, has a wealth of together as a class. Paul Stagno, Stephen McQuillan and Mark Palmer. experience in both This year the Year 1 primary and secondary students and teacher Absent from the photo are Melissa Forslun and Danuta Stank°. education. Mrs Sandra Peterson Seton Seton founded the would be an inspiration as Michael is currently have been accommo- k nown Sisters of Charity, the for the college comprincipal of Queen of dated at Infant Jesus Catholic College. first American religious munity throughout its Apostles School, River- School, Morley. American Saint ton where he has The choice of name society. At the time of life. They wi ll move served since 1983. together at the begin- honours the first her death in 1821, the Principal ning of the 1990 school American-born saint. order had spread Mr David Heath will be Elizabeth Bayley throughout the USA. year. Elizabeth Seton was the Foundation PrinciThe Foundation Prin- Seton. The mother of five canonized by Pope pal of Seton Catholic cipal of the new school College. David's most will be Sr Margaret children, Elizabeth Paul VI in 1975. In announcin g his recent appointment Seton became a O'Sullivan. Sr Margaret is a Sister of St Joseph Catholic in 1805, fol- approval of the name, was as a Senior Coorof the Sacred Heart. lowing the death of her Archbishop Foley said dinator in the Catholic She was formerly prin- husband. A woman the saint and her life Education Office. cipal of St Brigid's, who placed great Midland and is cur- emphasis on education rently studying in and faith education, she established a Ireland. school for poor childSeton Catholic ren in Emmitsburg, College Maryland. This was the The new Catholic beginning of the farsecondary school to be reaching Catholic formed through the parochial school sysamalgamation of De tem in the United South Lake Foundation Vialar College, Samson States. Prinoipal, Mr Michael and St Brendan's ColTogether with some Smith. lege, Hilton is to be companions Elizabeth •
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SIGHTS ON WORLD RECORDS For the past seven years Lesley Adair has spent her Saturday mornings at Inglewood Swimming Pool assisting visually impaired young people to learn to swim. Twenty one year old swimming team will be world for Lesley is a Physical aiming Education teacher at records in Kobe and Mercy College, she will do all she can Koondoola. to help them. Her years of hard "It is a great honour to work have been recog- be chosen." said nised through her Lesley. selection as Manager/ She said that swimEscort of the Australian ming is a great sport Swimming team which particularly for the will participate in the visually impaired. South Pacific Incapac"Their times are very and itated Challenge c ompetitive Games (FESPIC) in t hrough swimming K obe, Japan in they can gain recogniSeptember. tion which helps their Lesley Lesley Adair said the self-esteem."
WA Week celebrated at Joondanna The highlight of WA Week for students of St Denis' School, Joondanna was a visit by Mrs Ruth Reid, wife of the Governor of WA, Professor Gordon Reid. Mrs Reid joined Year 6 students as they experienced a special class in the mobile Life Education Centre van W hich visited the school for three days. Mrs Reid is Patron of Learning to Live (Inc) which sponsors the Life Education Centre vans. Dangers of drug abuse T he Centres were established by the Rev. Ted Noffs of Sydney's Wayside Chapel. In 1974, after 10 years of crisis counselling , he set . up the program believing that preventative education of all Young children from 5 to 12 years was the only w ay to tackle the Problem of drug and Mrs Reid enjoys the lesson with Year 6 students in related abuse. the Life Education Centre van.
Successful Triathlon at St Norbert The increasing popularity of the Triathlon was demonstrated by the successful competition conducted in April by St Norbert College, Queens Park. More than 60 secondary students from Perth and country schools competed in the event, the second annual Schools' Triathlon conducted by the College. Because Triathlon gives students the opportunity to develop competence in swimming, cycling and running it favours the all round athlete rather than the specialist. Champion competitors The St Norbert competition, which required entrants to swim 300 metres, and complete a 12 kilometre cycle and 5 kilometre run, was hotly contested. The field included the 1988 Senior and Junior State Schools' TriathChampions, lon Richard Armstrong and Grant Wilkins who both competed in the Senior Male category. Winners On the day Grant, a Christ Church Grammar
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hails in the News • St John's School, Rangeway celebrated WA Week with a display of historical projects and artefacts. Year 2 students built models of WA while Year 7 students collected religious material including old prayer books and bibles. A special guest at the display was Dale Brooks, Regional Officer of the Geraldton Catholic Education Office.
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• A Music Festival will be presented at the Fremantle Town Hall on Friday 30 June by the Christian Brothers' College Fremantle Jazz Orchestra, Concert Band and ensembles. The Festival will be opened by former CBC old boy and Mayor of Fremantle, Mr John Cattalini. Funds raised by the Festival will be used to enable the boys to travel overseas to perform in the future. Tickets for the Festival are available from the school (09) 335 6605 between 9am and noon, Monday to Friday. • Sacred Heart Primary School, Highgate will celebrate the 75th anniversary of its establishment later this year. Although the actual anniversary date is 24 May, the celebrations will take place on Sunday 19 November. Former students and staff are invited to join in the celebrations. • Two Perth Catholic schools were successful in a recent competition conducted by ABC radio station 6WF. The choir from Loreto Primary School, Nedlands, won first place in the primary section for its interpretation of Home Among the Gumtrees. Chisholm Catholic College, Bedford, won the secondary section. The competition was judged by radio and television personality Don Burke. Each school will receive prizes to the value of $150 from the ABC bookshop. • Success in another area was gained by Year 6 students from Santa Clara School, Bentley. From a group of schools they were selected as the best prepared and best behaved class of the day to visit the Sci-Tech Discovery Centre in West Perth. The students were awarded SCI-STAR passes. • Catholic School Week was celebrated by Liwara Catholic Primary School, Greenwood in May. Students, parents and friends participated in paraliturgies, Life Be In It activities, visits to and from neighbouring schools, and service days. During the service days students visited retirement villages and special schools to help or talk to the residents or entertain them with singing. The week concluded with a Mass in St Mary's Cathedral. • Students of Japanese language at Lumen Christi College, Gosnells are planning an educational tour of Japan later this year. • St Denis' School, Joondanna is one of several Perth schools participating in a pilot study which aims to increase community awareness of childhood injuries and to reduce the high number of childhood injuries. The study, Looking after NIPPER (Neighbourhood Injury Prevention Program for Education and Research) is a joint initiative of the Child Accident Prevention Foundation of Australia and the Commonwealth and State Health Departments. Items (or your school newsletters) for the Schools In the News column should be sent to Norma Rainey. Media Services. Catholic Education Office. The deadline for the next issue of Intercom is Thursday 31 August.
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•" Aiming high are De Vialar sportswomen (from left) Claire Finucane, Jodie
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Three young sportswomen from De Vialar College, Samson have their sights set on representing Australia in their chosen sports. Year 12 student Jodie Under 16 softball carni- Claire excels. She is Payne already has vals in Sydney and also an athlete and represented Western Adelaide and the Under holds state titles for
Australia in several National Schoolgirl Softball Carnivals and has been selected as a member of the Australian Under 19 Softball squad. In April Jodie attended a week-long training camp under the auspices of the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra. The camp involved learning f itness skills and attending lectures as well as training in the sport. Jodie will play for Western Australia in the National Under 19 titles to be held in Darwin next January. She won't know until after that carnival if she will be chosen to represent Australia, however she is looking forward to the planned schedule of overseas competition leading up to the 1991 World Series to be held in Adelaide. Jodie has been playing softball for about 10 years and is a member of the Bedford Districts Club. She trains four to five times a week with the club and with the WA squad. She has represented WA in
18 competition in Canberra last month. Jodie hopes to enter University next year and plans a career in Physical Education or Sports Medicine - as well as representing Australia in softball.
Water polo Claire Finucane and Fiona Neesham, both in Year 11, also hope someday to represent A ustralia in their favourite sport, water They polo. are members of the State Schoolgirls Water Polo team which competed in the National Schoolgirls Carnival in Victoria in April. The team gained a bronze medallion in the competition. Fiona says she was almost born into the sport. Her uncle, David Neesham has been a member of four Australian Olympic Water Polo teams and now coaches the Australian Junior Men's team. He also coaches the A grade women's team at the Melville Club where Claire and Fiona play. Water polo is only one of many sports at which
throwing several events. She has competed at national level in surfing, surf lifesaving and athletics and enjoys netball. Claire took up water polo four years ago because it combined two of her favourite sports - throwing and s wimming. Recently Claire was awarded an Scholarship M LC valued at $900 which will help to fund her participation in the Western Australian Athletics team. Both Claire and Fiona hope to make their careers in sport and they "would like to make the Australian team."
Speed skating Other De Vialar stuhave also dents excelled in sport recently. Year 9 student Nicole Jones has been given a $3000 grant from the Aboriginal Sports Fund to help develop her skills in netball and athletics and speed skater Narda Tucker earned a place
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Corpus Christi College student Andrew Spratt leads the field in the early, stages of the Boys Open event, during the Associated Catholic Colleges annual Cross Country races held at Perry Lakes last month. Andrew went on to win the four kilometre event in a time of 12 minutes 19 seconds. The Girls Open event was won by Carolyn Saliba of Iona College. Carolyn completed the three kilometre run in 11 minutes 13 seconds. Nearly 1300 students representing 28 secondary schools competed in the events. John XXIII College won the team event with a score of 514 points.
3mental time zones now, and the power of the risen Christ. But the sacraments celebrate the present in the context of the past, in an atmosphere of remembrance. Christian liturgical prayer follows Jewish prayer in this regard. Most Jewish prayer began by recounting what God had done for his chosen people in the past. Jewish worship recalled
such events as the deliverance from Egypt or the giving of the covenant at Sinai by reading from Scripture. The Jews then gave thanks and praise to God for his mercy and continuing protection. The Jews also thought that as they remembered the events of the past they somehow could take part in them. Remembering made the events of the past present
By Father Lawrence Madden, SJ
for their spiritual benefit. When Christians assemble to celebrate the sacraments we also begin by reading an account of God's actions recorded in Scripture. This is done to help us
remember God's loving acts on our behalf, especially the life, death and resurrection of Jesus and the pouring out of the Holy Spirit upon the Church. But we also believe that by proclaiming the account of God's acts in this manner, Christ becomes present in a special way in our midst. So the proclamation of the record of the past is
nos home and abroad By Katharine Bird For people at home, this prayer offers advantages, once they get beyond the initial difficulty posed by learning to use an unfamiliar prayertmk. For many people, the prayer offers a few moments of much needed peace before plunging into a hectic day, or a way to unwind before going to sleep at night. The Liturgy of the Hours also brings people into contact with many of the vibrant, interesting saints and holy people who preceded them. Some, like the writer or writers of the Psalms. are anonymous. But their feelings and needs come through loud and clear in the Psalms. They speak of rage at the unfairness of life, of sorrow and of fear, and of delight and praise for the Creator. Others, like the writers of
the daily readings, are identified. Here we listen to people like St Stephen of Hungary in the 11th century. He speaks in moving tones to "my beloved son, my heart's treasure and our hope for future descent". Stephen, like parents in every age. gives his son advice. He tells him to take care of the Church because it is "young and a newcomer in our kingdom". He also tells his son to be kind to strangers. not just to important people and family. We also meet St Elizabeth of Portugal from the 14th century. Married to a king. she has come down in history with the reputation of a peacemaker. She faced the difficult trial of seeing her son and son-in-law at loggerheads. In the 17th century St Francis de Sales, bishop of Geneva, tells readers to find a devotion suited to their
lifestyle. Adding that married people have concerns different from those in religious orders, he says spiritual practices should be accommodated to the "strength, activities and duties" of each person. Reading the Liturgy of the Hours day after day. month after month, people begin to see that the saints and great thinkers of the Church had to struggle to make sense of
God and their lives, just as we do today. Like us, they too struggled with family and work and friends. We also learn that no emotion, no event, no need is so insignificant that we cannot take it to God in prayer. Gradually, we begin to see that we are part of a supportive network of friends and allies reaching back into time.
DISCUSSION POINTS Father Robert Kinast says that in the liturgy we discover our spiritual roots, our origins. The liturgy reminds us where we came from and therefore helps us to know who we are now. The Israelites always recalled their past when they worshipped God. Why do Christians also do this, according to Father Lawrence Madden? Why does Father Madden say that sacraments such as the Eucharist and baptism always encompass three time zones? How is the liturgy, with its link to the past, also linked to your future?
an occasion for a present experience of Christ in our midst. When the assembly celebrates the sacraments such as baptism or Eucharist, it remembers and performs the sacred words and actions of the past praising God for his mercy. And the effects of Jesus' saving actions in the past become present for our salvation now. Recalling the past in
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nation to the future God wants to bring about.
this way helps us to find deeper meaning in our lives in the present. It frees us into fuller life, a life enlivened by Christ. This remembrance of the past transfers life and meaning to us now.
It is a future marked with the characteristics of God's kingdom: justice for all, peace for all, love for all.
In our liturgical celebrations we remember the past, we affirm the present and we are prompted to look forward with some imagi-
All three time zones — past present and future — are integral to Christian liturgy. We must live in all those zones if our lives today are to have meaning and direction.
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How do you celebrate special holidays or anniversaries?
It is in the nature of these celebrations that they are occasions when the past is remembered. On anniversaries and birthdays, people are likely to cast a glance backward by looking at old photographs and talking over "the old days". On holidays like Easter or Christmas, old customs come into full view to give the celebration a special flavour and to create just the right atmosphere. On holidays and anniversaries we don't exactly step into the past. These celebrations are very much part of the here and now. They revitalise us, making an impact on our present existence. They restore us, giving us the energy and balance we need for tomorrow. Nonetheless, in these celebrations the past comes to
life in unique ways. The past meets the present, and the celebrations take on a quality of timelessness. That means the celebration of a special day, while linked to this present moment in our lives, is not tied down by it, not bound by it. Its meaning encompasses the past as well as the present. It is something like this whenever a sacrament is celebrated in the church. In the sacraments, we encounter a long and rich tradition in a living way that makes an impact on us now. Whenever the sacrament of the sick is celebrdted, for example, a long tradition is renewed of caring for people and expressing compassion for them, while recognising their dignity and helping to restore them. In the sacrament the healing Christ is present, as he was to the sick in the Gospels. Again, whenever the sacrament of confirmation is celebrated, the gifts of the
Spirit are shared in a special way with baptised members of the Church. Those being confirmed are part of a long tradition, intimately linked with their spiritual forebears whose hopes rested on the Spirit's gifts. Yet the Spirit's gifts are given for today, enabling us to live our lives well here and now. The Church is a living organism. And it is probably in the Sunday celebration of the Eucharist that its members realise this most profoundly. In the Sunday liturgy, the Church's members gather as its members always have gathered. In the Sunday liturgy Christians today do what Christians always have done. The Sunday liturgy is a time when Christians remember their past. But for them, the past is much more than a memory. What they celebrate is the continuing presence of Christ.
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stories do not our own. they place our )fles within this c ontext. For at the vigil the priest prays, Soo, Our Lord lost, by dying for wered death and rg again restored ay we then go eagerly to meet after our life on le reunited with 'them and sisters rverV tear will be :e
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The symbols of the funeral liturgy put us in touch with this same belief. The paschal candle helps us imagine risen life; the blessed water and white pall on the casket remind us of the life of baptism which clothes us. Another time when we feel the need for the stories and symbols of the liturgy is during a serious illness. A person who is seriously ill can be cut off — at least partially — from the people and
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rooted in the past, responding to God in the present and preparing for the future. It is an experience of fellowship with God's people in every age, with the biblical authors and the people they wrote about, with Christian writers of all centuries. All of them have something to say to us in the
events that make up that person's life. There is a danger of feeling isolated and alone, of losing contact with one's roots. The instruction before the anointing of the sick recalls the practice of the first Christians who summoned Church ministers to pray over sick members and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord (James 5:14).
The instruction situates the present anointing in
a continuous history. And the oil itself links us with our spiritual ancestors who used oil in the same way. The anointing on the head by the priest consecrates the person and the minister's touch physically connects the person with the community. Through these stories and symbols the liturgy keeps us rooted in our spiritual origins and fulfills Jesus' promise not to leave us orphaned.
By Father John Castelot
present. It is an experience of history, of our rich heritage, of continuity with the past and of intimate fellowship in the present. In Luke's "Magnificat" Mary praises God for her present blessings, for doing "great things for me" now and for looking with favour on his special friends, the pow-
erless, the poor and the hungry. It ends with "remembering his mercy, according to the promise to our fathers, to Abraham and to his descendants forever" (Luke 1:49-55). All of history is involved in Mary's prayer — past promise, present fulfilment and hope for the future. The Record, June 22, 1989
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SARC — Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Subiaco is a centre offering assistance to any person, male or female, 13 years and over, who has experienced any form of sexual assault whether recently or past.
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The centre is staffed by a team of counsellors, doctors, a social worker and a clinical psychologist and services are free and confidential. Ms Vera Farr, centre coordinator, said SARC has seen 153 cases for the first six months of last year of whom 79 have been under 20 years of age, 40 between 20-29,18 between 30-39, nine 4049, four 50 and over and three of an unknown age. Out of this number 146 were female, and seven were males. This is not counting incest cases which totalled 79 in the same period. Of these 40 were under 20, 22 were between 20-29, 11 were 30-39, three 40-49 and three were 50 and over. Seventy-eight were females and there was one male. It all adds up to a lot of enforced sex on adults and children who never wanted to be involved. But had no choice.
SARC co-ordinator, Ms Vera Farr, whose organisation is at the forefront of helping the assaulted.
These figures also represent only known cases, at this particular agency. Many sexual assault cases are not reported and the tragedy
of incest is that unless the child is effectively removed from the offender, even though the case is reported, incest will continue to the enormous detriment of the child. SARC offers counselling, short or long term depending on the client's needs. There is also medical assistance — female doctors on the support team whose aim is to treat the patient medically after an attack and take whatever therapeutic action is required for their physical welfare, and document evidence. Preventative work is also done such as taking swabs and determining if a disease has been contracted. In some instances this is the case and
although AIDS has not been a big issue in the past, it has now to be considered, said Ms Farr. Ideally a person who's been attacked (or interested parties) should contact SARC on their crisis line which is manned 24 hours a day — 382 3323 or if in the country on their toll free line (008) 199 888. If the person then comes to the centre, a doctor and counsellor are waiting to assist them and take whatever action is required for the client. Ms Farr said SARC works from a feminist philosophy, which is basically believing sexual assault occurs because of the woman's position in society and that it is not a crime of sex, but one of dominance and violence. "With a man it is even more true, because they are usually assaulted by heterosexual males who generally have a sexual relationship with a woman. "They assault men for the same reason they assault women — because they want to dominate them and have power over them." As a result, counselling is also feminist based which then focusses on
giving power back to the client. This is one reason why clients are given all the information they require, but they make their own decisions such as whether they wish to refer the matter to the police or not. SARC enjoys good relations with the police, said Ms Farr, and has contacts to facilitate this process. If the client does press charges, SARC continues to support them right through to the Court. The same choice is theirs for a medical examination — if they don't wish to have it, they are not persuaded in any way. Endeavouring to assist the client as much as possible, SARC is attempting more research into the whole area of sexual assault (which is the old term for rape but a much broader term to embrace penetration of any orifice). A psychologist from SARC has received the WA Women's Fellowship Award and will be studying work done in America and Europe on recovery and treatment of sexual assault victims. The centre is also planning to make two
Good response in crisis helps On the day of the strike, phone calls from the residents of Dalkeith and Nedlands flooded the hospital's switchboard. "They were the first ones in at 7am every morning. Sunset patients are taken under their wing at any crisis," said Mrs Wantha Bannister, Sunset's Administrative Secretary.
Students from Christ Church and Scotch College sacrificed their spare time in the afternoons to assist with the laundry, cleaning and catering. John Goodsell, administrator at Sunset, commented on the "great spirit" that accompanied the volunteers. He said: "the administration wanted to convey their appreciation to the helpers that brought with them an exuberance, enabling the resi-
dents to receive special the metropolitan area. care." The task now is to An appeal by Mrs Bannister was made to develop more prothe local radio and grammes to tap the television stations. The volunteer resources that departments' have been discovered. news responses provided the Presently there is only quickest access to the one programme relying community. solely on outside help. In addition to public The parishioners of Holy broadcasting, Mrs Ban- Rosary Church, headed nister contacted nearby by Sister Clare Walsh churches and schools for I.B.V.M. of Loreto and assistance and again the Barbara Pryor of Dalresponse was over- keith, assist Sunset whelming from all over patients to the chapel on
VATICAN CITY (CNS): A been in force for the last top Vatican official called 18 months in the occuthe forced closing of pied territories, remains Bethlehem University and an intolerable violation other schools in Israeli- of human rights," Cardioccupied territories "an nal Lourdusamy said. intolerable violation of Israel ordered the human rights". schools closed for securCardinal D. Simon ity reasons at the beginLourdusamy, head of the ning of the Palestinian Congregation for uprising in late 1987. Eastern-rite Churches, Israeli authorities feared made the comment in a the schools would be talk given to Pope John used as rallying points Paul II at the Vatican on for demonstrations. June 15. Church leaders there The cardinal was des- have protested the move cribing Vatican efforts to as well as the ban on aid local Middle Eastern private instruction churches that have been imposed by Israeli occuincreasingly caught in pation forces. the middle of regional Bethlehem University, fighting. which has served the "In the Holy Land Palestinian community especially, the forced since 1973, was closed by closing of schools at all military order on levels — including the October 29, 1987, followrenowned Bethlehem ing a student demonstraUniversity — which has tion in which one stu-
dent was shot and killed. Cardinal Lourdusamy said the Vatican was "distressed by the continuation of the dramatic situation" in the Holy Land and in Lebanon, the site of fierce factional fighting in recent months. . He said the Society for Aid to Eastern-rite churches was helping alleviate the situation for local churches. In Lebanon, the society this year will cover a $5 million deficit for the Church-run school system, which the cardinal described as "mortally threatened by the general crisis". The pope, addressing officials of the aid society, expressed his "anxiety and concern for peace and justice in the Holy Land and Lebanon".
"The land of Jesus and the regions that are the heart of the history of salvation should remain at the centre of your activities. charity because from there the hope of the civilisation of love should radiate," the pope said.
By Jane Labatut
The prayers of the administrative staff at Sunset Hospital were answered when hundreds of volunteers landed on their doorstep during a strike of hospital ancilliary workers. And the volunteers have taught Sunset staff
a lesson and now they want to develop future volunteer programmes.
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Cardinal Lourdusamy noted that the society distributed $95 million last year, most of it to Eastern rite churches. The many projects included relief aid to Ethiopia, as well as funding for several publications aimed at the Soviet Union: a catechism in the Byelorussian language, a fourlanguage missal — in Byelorussian, Ukrainian, Polish and Latin, and a Russian-language Christian magazine.
The administration is currently developing a group called Friends of
Sunset, consisting of members of the nearby community. The occupational therapy department takes its participants on shopping trips, picnics and outings on the river. Residents from the Lodge go to cricket matches, swimming and recently a weekend trip to Bunbury was on the agenda. The purpose of Sunset is to provide a home for
ton suburb, on June 8, marking the 200th anniversary of Jesuit education in the United States. Georgetown University in Washington was founded in 1789 and was the first Catholic college in the United States. "Many modern-day students seem excessively preoccupied with career training and self fulfillment to the exclusion of broader human growth," Father Kolvenbach told the crowd. Father Kolvenbach said the Jesuits want their graduates to be "leaders in service" who will bring the
love of Christ to others by seeking an end to the hunger, poverty, war and the discrimination that people plagues around the world. "From freshmen in high school to the researchers in laboratories of our best departgraduate ments, no one can be excused from our final purpose," he said. The priest praised the nation's 45 Jesuit high schools and 28 Jesuit colleges and universities. "It is remarkable that there are approximately 1.5 million living graduates of US Jesuit high schools,
site for Mass each Wednesday morning. The staff would like to make more frequent excursions and on-site activities but is limited by time and the number of people able to assist, but as a result of the expressed interest by volunteers, there are plans to co-ordinate many more functions.
The target of ROCK VILLE, Md Jesuit-run ( CNS): schools are known for rigorous academic standards, but their "final purpose" is to turn out graduates "who will be leaders concerned about society and the world in which they live," said the Jesuit superior general. "The Society of Jesus has always sought to imbue students with values that transcend the goals of money, fame and success," said Jesuit Father P eter -Hans Kolvenbach. He spoke at a convocation at Georgetown reparatory School in Rockville, a Washing-
People you can turn to videos — one aimed at doctors and other health professionals on the actual procedures to be followed if a sexual assault person consults them. And the other is looking more at the support such a person needs from professional people or family. This one will also look at the myths and attitudes towards sexually a ssaulted people in society. Unfortunately some inherit guilt, largely thrust upon them by society's ignorance, and belief in certain myths which are entirely false. SARC's 'phone service is vital, not only for initial contact, but also for those who are too nervous to come in or won't for whatever reason. Of these some maintain counselling on the 'phone and never come to the centre. SARC currently sees about 50 new clients a month which includes incest cases and receives from 500 'phone calls a month. Some of these are from the sexually assaulted who can't get in and others are from fellow professionals seeking
advice to assist patients who've disclosed they've been sexually assaulted as a child. People can be assaulted anywhere, said Ms Farr, on the street, on the job, or in the privacy of their own homes. Ages of people seen at the centre range from 13 to in the 80s, and confidentiality is guaranteed. Clients present differently after sexual assault.
given is positive and helpful. If it isn't, or if they don't tell those who could help, then their recovery process is so much longer. Although most sexual partners stick by the person, some don't and reject them. Worsening their innocent but wronged position. If a woman d-esn't tell her family, she may undergo a personality change and
The recovery process Usually they're devastated but they respond, said Ms Farr, and react according to their personality. They may be very distressed or withdrawn. "Those who appear to have it very much together may be in fact internalising their shock and trauma and still need assistance, which is something most people don't realise." The recovery process has a lot to do with whether the assaulted person tells their support or system (family friends) what has happened. This aids their recovery if the support
no one can understand why. The sexual assault can often precipitate all sorts of other life crises which makes it doubly difficult for the person to cope at all levels. The tragedy too, is that some people even in today's supposed enlightened age, still believe in the old myths which appear to have been put out mainly to deflect guilt from the perpetrator back onto the innocent victim. Such misguided individuals show no sympathy or compassion to the victim, clinging to the thought that "they must
spark ideas the elderly and disabled. Personal care and a friendly environment are stressed by members of staff to maintain the atmosphere of a home instead of a hospital. Sunset Hospital is unique in its structure. It provides long term and short term accommodation for men and women no longer able to live alone. Also, medical attention
and rehabilitation programmes are available. Sunset has had the help of the community since its establishment in 1906 as an "Old Men's Home." Throughout the years it has grown to accommodate 207 residents and patients serving their needs. Now the community and Sunset will continue to work closely with each
other to create a happy home. The ladies and men are so pleased to have this special attention that future programmes can only lead to a more fulfilling stay at Sunset. People of any age with big hearts and time on their hands, wanting to show love and kindness to lonely old people will find lots to do by phoning Mrs Bannister 386-6211.
Jesuit schools colleges and universities in the world," he said. "This large group of educated Americans works in every sector of society". Father Kolvenbach said the nation's Jesuit schools face several challenges now and in the future. He said students from all backgrounds should have access to Jesuit schools and added that parents should try to convince government officials to enact programs that would make Catholic schools more affordable. "At the elementary and secondary school level, yours is one of
the relatively few countries in the free world that does not provide government funds to enable parents to exercise their right to choose education they want for their children . . . (This) is an urgent matter of social justice," Father Kolvenbach said. He also said the Jesuit order must increasinlgy collaborate with the laity in order for its schools to continue its mission into the next century. That mission, he said, must involve opening the minds and hearts of youths. "Today it is especially difficult in the
First World to see beyond individualism, hedonism, unbelief and their effects," he said. "What we aim at in Jesuit education is therefore counter to many aspects of contemporary culture. That is why your apostolate today is more difficult and more critical in opening the minds and ears of young people to faith, truth, justice and love."
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ha e done something to unable to defend themdeserve it! And only selves as women, being certain types of women paralysed with fear, threats and shock. get raped". As regards the latter People who have been comemnt, this has no sexually assaulted, often truth in it whatsoever develop phobias afterbecause people of all wards, some for only a ages, and diverse ethnic, limited period of time. social and economic This gives them further backgrounds get sexually assaulted. And regard- problems in their own less of how they dress or lives and it can take quite where they are — out- a long time for some to doors or indoors. In effect resume normal lives. — it can happen to anyone. Some popular myths are: women enjoy being raped; it is impossible for a man to rape a woman unless he has a gun or knife; if a woman didn't scream or fight, it could not have been rape; men can't help themselves. Rape occurs when a man is sexually frustrated and becomes so excited that he can't control himself (but the obvious response to that is that rape is an aggressive and violent act and the motive has more to do with power than sex because most rapists say they could have had sex elsewhere!): And the same is true for males who are raped, because it is part of a violent attack which is aimed at domination and degradation. Men too, are often as
cies "because talking about it is part of the recovery process".
even seek the support and never say why they have. But the more sympathetic and positive help they can get, the better for a speedier recovery.
Analyses of sexual assault cases has shown that certain reactions are evidenced in the form of Another support area physical trauma; skeletal muscle tension; gastroin- for those who've been testinal irritability and sexually assaulted, is g enitourinary Survivors of Rape which operates out of WISH disturbance. (Western Institute of Self The emotional reac- Help). WISH is an tions cover a wide range umbrella organisation for a variety of self help groups, situated at 80 Railway Street, Cottesloe, 'phone 383 3188.
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"But people are remarkably resilient," said Ms Farr. "And it also depends what happens to them in the case of brutal and humiliating attack." The spouses too need a lot of support and later in the year SARC will be running a group for partners of women who've been sexually assaulted. Although sexual assault can cause permanent personality changes, SARC believes people can and do recover from this type of assault and they encourage people to contact any of the agen-
Also at WISH is the Incest Resource Centre whose aim is to provide of feelings as the person an incest resource by begins dealing with the incest recoverers. A aftereffects. These feel- spokesperson said ings range from fear, within the group they are humiliation and embar- all incest recoverers and rassment, to anger, so are able to know how revenge and self-blame; people are feeling, where predominant fears being they are at, and what fear of physical violence they are going through. and death. Fear of death She also said that their was a paramount fear felt by the victim during the use of the word incest has broader connotations attack. than that which is widely Disorganisation affects used. their lives and many opt "We use incest meaning for a residence change the perpetrator may or and a silent line. may not be family. It may A large percentage seek be a family 'friend' or out familial and friend someone the family or support with whom they child trusted and in may not have had fre- whose care the child was quent contact. Some may placed."
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McKINLEY (Leo Alexander): Peacefully at home. Beloved husband of Teresa, loved father of Donald, Frances and Jane, father-in-law of Moira and Nildaus and grandfather of James and Monika. Rest in Peace HUBERY, Percy: Passed away suddenly at home on May 29, 1989. devoted husband of Margaret and loving father of Louise and Elizabeth. Always loyal to his faith and his family. Requiescat in peace. His funeral took place at Karrakatta Cemetery on ;une 1, 1989 after a Requiem Mass was offered in Queen of Martyrs Church, Maylands. Bowra & O'Dea Funeral Directors 328 7299.
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One-sided reporting from Mrs Patricia HALLIGAN, Mandurah Sir: Such one-sided reporting as the article -Heed cries of sexual abuse" (The Record, June 15) is not fitting for a Catholic publication. Ms Nancy Rehfeldt must have been jubilant at having been given so loose a reign with a Catholic publication. What was not mentioned was her ardent support (still) for the discredited Australian doctor and feminist Dr Marietta Higgs who was directly responsible for many false accusations of child abuse in Cleveland Manchester, England, causing unnecessary trauma to children and parents. That child abuse has
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become a feminist platform, probably a last ditch stand, is obvious and it is this very fact that will cloud the whole issue. The same mistakes have been repeated here and in America causing grave concern about techniques used to detect genuine cases. Highly suspect figures have been bandied around and the sudden surge of reported unsubstantiated cases in the last few years is a matter of concern for equally qualified professionals working in the same field. They also say that children cannot always be believed and it is possible to have words put into their mouths by social overzealous
workers, teachers and doctors. Many are totally unsuited for the positions they hold but as a result of the feminist thrust for equal opportunity they now outnumber men in this public service. Currently, this issue is suffering from over exposure, a fate shared by other equally important issues and aired at every opportunity on soapies, documentaries, miniseries and news items. This overkill is producing negative results — dividing the community, families, parents and children and destroying parental authority. The Australian Women against Rape did not always behave responsibly either. They produced
Forgotten points from J. C. VESZELY, Nollamara Sir, I am surprised that no commentator of note,
has mentioned in connection with the massa-
cre of the Chinese students in Tianamen Square and elsewhere the similar massacre against the Hungarian youth in 1956. They too wanted the communist ideology to don a human face, to permit liberty, free speech, freedom of religion etc. The Hungarian youth in fact even managed to destroy the armed Soviet Union invaders too, in the initial attack on them. What was not similar between the two tragic events is the fact that in Hungary the army did not shoot at the youth and the demonstrating workers. That dishonourable massacre was started by the Soviet trained secret police and later by the Red Army The similarity does become striking now however. After the dem-
onstrators were murdered, the power flowed from the barrel of the machine guns, when people were minced by the tanks, then the state and the Party stated that the thugs, hooligans and the criminals are to be rounded up. Then the show trial will begin. The accused will be duly found guilty and shall be murdered. It may have also escaped the notice of your commentators, that 31 years after ex-Prime Minister Nagy of Hungary was executed for crimes against the state, he is now buried with honour. The highest j udge in Hungary declared that his trial was illegal, his conviction and execution was unlawful. All this seems quite irrelevant now that the man was killed with many others, murdered after those now declared illegal trials. Will the Chinese need to wait 33 years too for their martyrs to be recognised as such?
extremists who daubed our war memorials and muddied the reputations of our soldiers. Due to easy divorce, socalled "blended" families and a general moral breakdown in the community, leading to a loss of the "sense of sin" in Catholic circles it is possible that the incidence may have risen but caution is needed or more harm than good will be done. I say there are good men — plenty — whose goodness has been ignored and obscured by the negativity, prejudice and selfishness which has hallmarked the feminist movement. We are now reaping the harvest of despair of that movement the in eighties.
Where they come from from Mrs Anne Mane LEAHY, Mt Lawley Sir, The unfortunate headline "Enter the 'Concerned Catholics' of Inglewood" (The Record June 15) over an article I submitted describing the newly established group, Catholics Concerned for the Environment, and certain unnecessary changes to the wording of the article, created the false impression that the group is a local Inglewood parish phenomenon — it is not! In fact Catholics Concerned for the Environment draws members from throughout the archdiocese, whole i ncluding the country, and came into being as a direct outcome of the Archdiocesan Assembly held at Santa Maria College. Inglewood parish centre has kindly played host to our meetings, but I would emphasise that this is an archdiocesan organisa tion and not a parish group.
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TOMORROW TODAY with Father Joe Parkinson
Boost for Bunbury by Jill Mather
Many young people have changed in their awareness of God, His role in their lives, and how they communicate with Him thanks to the National Evangelisation Team which spent three weeks of the month of May in the Bunbury Diocese. Apart from visiting most parishes, conducting evening seminars, NET also conducted retreats for year 12 students in Catholic schools. The highlight, according to the Diocesan YCS fulltimer Paula Gee, was the Diocesan retreat held on the May 19-21 weekend at Busselton. Every region was represented by the 43 young people present and Paula said she was amazed at how God touched many of the young people on the camp. "Some have started personal prayer times, others have joined or started small bible study groups. "In every way, God has touched us through these young people, and it is for the better," Paula said. NET members have given 12 months of their lives to sharing their faith with other young people and have proven both popular and effective during this visit, and that of last year. Eighteen year old Anita Downes of Bunbury said after the NET weekend: "I really grew a lot in my faith, and found some direction in my life." Meanwhile, Paul Ellenberg, 16, of Bunbury described his reaction as excellent. "I now feel closer to God. He is more of a friend." The weekend consisted of NET sharing their lives; dramas, Mass with Bishop Peter Quinn, small group sharings, prayer sessions and outdoor games. The theme was "What it means to be Catholic" and many are now ready to take up that challenge.
Right: Pictured at Bunbury's NET weekend are (from left) Valerie Thompson (Harvey), Ruth Henderson (Manjimup), Daniel McGrath (Australind) and Cynthia Fenton (Perth).
Left: NET team member Patrick Gilmore at Busselton in a drama of rejection and acceptance of Jesus.
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Taking a closer look at media in China Recently the world took a leap back eighty years to the R ussia of 1905. Imagine the scene — actors in modern c ostumes, different makeup and even different speeches, yet the outcome remains the same: people are dead and w ounded due to their wish for a b etter life of freedom.
The media keep us informed of every movement and our responses alter regularly between shock, relief, horror or exultation. There is, however, another role for the media: as well as being the informant, it has the power to influence OUT thoughts. A picture of wondrous beauty can
Uni Rounds by Barbara-Rose Townsend have as lasting an effect as that desensitachieved ising through repeated images of death. At a recent gathering of the Christian Television Association the dominant idea was using media to depict the reality of our lives. Rather than dissociating someone's faith from the daily routine of their lives, c ooking, exercise, dressing, work and play — television can draw them together as interdependent units. Our individualistic
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society attempts to deny any form of divinity in everyday life. It is a challenge, therefore, to treat God as a friend who is willing to share our meals, our recreation, even out watering of the garden. The media (or our perception of them) can change merely by our adopting a particular view of the world. How many people are encouraged to experience a game of football as a divine offering of physical
strength and camaraderie, inspired by the fishermen disciples of Jesus? How many see the day's lunch as an image of celebrating the Eucharist? The Creator of our being gives us the opportunity to regard the world with refreshing vibrancy. The secular media tell us that many Chinese students and workers have died for their love of liberty and democracy. Theirs can be acknowledged as a noble sacrifice. How much more noble and loving is the sacrifice of Jesus, who gave his life for the true liberty of every person in every age?
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Redemptorist priest and author of three books, Father Luke Fay is all set to launch his latest book — From Table Mountain to the Zambesi. This will take place at the Catholic Education Centre by Mrs Angela Chaney on June 29. Father Luke's two previous books — Presence in the Desert ($4) and By the Waters of Galilee ($7) are reflective works and this latest book was born of his three months experiences in Africa.
From Table Mountain to the Zambesi by Father Luke Fay, CSsr. $8 plus $1 postage from Father tithe, Catherine McAuley Centre, 18 Barrett Street, Wembley 6014. Reviewed by Father Russell Nardiman, editor of WA Liturgical Publications. The quiet life as Chaplain to the Mercy Retirement Centre and the Catherine McAuley Centre in Wembley is both a fitting finale to and a creative opportunity in the fifty years of priesthood for Rcdemptorist Father luke Fay Few people maintain the youthful vigour and visionary enthusiasm as he does, even at the stage of Alfred E. Housman's "three score years and ten". We normally describe someone as so many years old, but in his case it should be "seventy years young". Now in the twilight years of his ministry as a priest and missioner he lives the same reflective memories as so many of the Sisters of Mercy resident in the Frayne Cottages or at Salvado and Christos Nursing Homes. But retirement seems not the time to cease but to continue a whole lifetime of service to the Gospel, not necessarily with the vigour of earlier years but rather now with the wisdom of maturity and the hope of a future beyond the present. Father Fay has made a habit of writing little books about aspects of his life and ministry Some years ago, this reviewer wrote an article for this paper on his book "Presence in the Desert" ( Wendouree: FRP Printing 1983). This was a simple yet profound reflection on Australian spirituality an analysis of time spent as a priest in some of the far flung communities in the biggest diocese in the world: in
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Ixonora, Leinster, Warburton, Teutonic Bore and other mining camps and Aboriginal settlements in the eastern reaches of Geraldton Diocese. Another publication is "By the Waters of Galilee", (Melbourne: Spectrum Publications 1985), a reflection on the Gospels. Now he has done it again. He has written a book on his time spent in a unique mission in South Africa. At the request of the Marist Brothers, he spent three months visiting their schools in Johannesburg, Durban, Port Elizabeth. Capetown, in the Kalahari Desert and in Zimbabwe. We all know that in travelling, it is far better to see things from the locals' point of view rather than to stick to the ordinary tourist haunts. Father I.uke Fay was in the unique situation of being able to visit Soweto with white Sisters of Mercy who live there, of visiting African townships with the missionaries who serve the people, of speaking to children at the Marist schools, which have led the way in challenging the apartheid system in making their schools open to black as well as white. To these unique opportunities Father Fay brings his own inimitable style of comment and reflection that makes his "From Table Mountain to the Zambesi" so readable. The title sounds like a travelogue — in fact, it starts, not with the voice over commentary of the legendary "and as the sun sinks slowly in the West", but with a description of flying from Perth into the setting sun with Qantas's direct flight to Harare. However, this book is more than a travelogue. It is also far more than a one-sided condemnation of everything
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about apartheid and South Africa, the sort of a diatribe we usually get in the press. He is certainly critical of the system, but he takes pains to explain something of its origins. Even more so, he takes pains to speak to people involved, people of vision and faith who are working for change before it is too late and the potentially explosive situation erupts in bloodshed that could well make every other horror story seem mild. The readable style is the author's great strength. He is never preachy and judgemental but simply reflects on his own involvement with people. That interest in people shines through time and time again, whether talking with one of the famous, like Archbishop Denis Hurley of Durban, or the gardener who had no hat in the sun. As well as his delightful anecdotes about the people who revealed to him the aspirations of the African people he has an informative way of inserting little asides that link up events of historic significance or things of Australian interest. For example, he casually links the 1948 legal introduction of apartheid with the United Nation's Declaration of Human Rights. In the same year appeared what he calls "that magnificent document", and the irony of the coincidence is the stronger for being downplayed in the style of its insertion. He also manages to insert many insightful quotes from all sorts of sources, from Nelson Mandela to Pope Paul H. These reflective quotes from the scriptures, especially the Gospels and the Psalms, reinforce the openness of the sensitive human spirit to the wonders
of creation. He links up his own text with comments from visionary authors as far apart as Alan Paton and Martin Luther King, on the one hand, with Cecil Rhodes and Queen Victoria, on the other. He weaves in little snippets of poetry from sources as different as Alfred Tennyson and CI Dennis. He challenges the reader to reflect on the Parable of the Two Seas by Bruce Barton. South Africa is in the news almost daily, but it scarcely seems to be acceptable in the media to be positive, even optimistic, in the posturing that goes on about sanctions and sports boycotts, where such actions are projected as the epitome of a concerned conscience about apartheid. It is a pleasant change to read something that does not paper over the injustices yet challenges us to reflect on the unity of peoples and the Gospel standard of Mt 25, "Whatsoever you do to the least of my people, you do to
A lifetime of reflecting on and living that Gospel tradition shines out in these pages, not just in the loving respect for the ordinary people of the world but in the sense of confidence and hope that justice will prevail. The release of this book will give more people the chance to enjoy his reflections. They were all originally written for "The Advocate" and published there November in December 1988, provoking many letters and comments. Earlier this year they were published in -The Catholic Weekly" front Sydney. Now, everyone has the chance to visit South Africa and love it with someone who did and loved it.
Invited there by the Marist Brothers, Father Luke spent the major part of that time in South Africa and Zimbabwe, visiting schools in Johannesburg, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Capetown and then into the Kalahari Desert (a primitive place and one of the remotest missions in the world), and Zimbabwe. From Table Mountain to the Zambesi is much more than a travelogue. It is a graphic view of human nature and also expresses deep concern for the total "wholeness" of the Africans — "a race of tall and beautiful people-, he states. The idea was to visit the schools on a motivational campaign and be a priestly presence for the students with a possible vocations spin-off. Following the Redemptorist rule of taking notes of interesting experiences and locations, Father Luke went one better and produced a book. He had been sending articles to Catholic newspapers in the Eastern States and following numerous requests for photostats of his articles in The Advocate, he thought it would be cheaper to produce a book. That he did. This book ($8 plus $1 postage), plus his other volumes, can be be pur11
chased by contacting Father Luke at the Catherine McAuley Centre, 18 Barrett Street, Wembley 6014, 'phone 382 4221. Describing his mission visitations as "a fantastic experience", Father Luke said Africa was an interesting world of diverse cultures, colours, creeds and very poignant problems. Tragically for South Africa, a prediction made a hundred years ago, has come true, that the great beasts which were hunted so ruthlessly, would be wiped out. That is now the reality and they exist only in animal parks and zoos. "I had the good fortune to spend a couple of days in Kruger National Park and could hear the lions during the night. "The bird life is beautiful and the land reminds me of Australia with its climate and productivity type. Except for the central heartland which is a great veldt 6000ft above sea level." Father Luke visited Jean Varnier's LArche community for the disabled and was delighted to be entertained by the children — "each one of whom played an instrument from the littlest legless to the deeply afflicted. Yet it was the happiest little house!". Another incident which impressed Father Luke was when he noticed a hotel gardener working out in the hot sun without a hat. When querying the man as to why he wasn't wearing one under those
conditions, the gardener said "I can't afford a hat. I have eight children! But I'm lucky to have this job." Father Luke gave him a few dollars at which the man rushed off to show his fellow workers who didn't approach Father with money in mind, but gave him a round of applause for his generous act. He visited a little African woman in her hut one day, which rapidly filled up with curious Africans. Did she want anything? Yes. Two legs, she said. "But she had such presence, such a very special air about her," said an impressed Father Luke. Africa, he said, is both a first world and a third world country. "By first world I mean it is the whites who have built up a sophisticated technology through hard work which makes them tops. "South Africa is the great sustainer of the rest of Africa; she exports her ideas, economics and all kinds of exports." But at the bottom end the black people are deprived, he said, with the huge contrast between rich and poor, white and black. "And even though some black people are millionaires, they are all deprived because none of them has an effective vote." It was a unique experience to see a nation passing through rebirth, and the resultant groans and pain of the birth experience, he said. "A beautiful opportunity to see humanity and life in the surge!" But despite constrained conditions enforced by apartheid, she stills remains a land of hope, he said. -The African people are rising up and asking for their voices to be heard.
"One day this apartheid will fall away and we will see the emergence of one of the great nations of the earth."
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From TABLE MOUNTAIN to the ZAMBESI by Father Luke Fay CSsR "I will always be grateful for the unique experience of seeing close up and at a critical hour of history, this great country, with its wealth and poverty, with its vast variety of peoples and cultures, of problems and achievements. Above all, I cherish the privilege of having spoken to many thousands of its youth . . ." From the Introduction launched at the Catholic Education Centre, June 29, 1989, by Ms Angela Chaney.
Obtainable from: L Fay, Catherine McAuley Centre, Barrett Street, Wembley 6014 Price $8 plus $1 postage. Now
Luke's Africa Well dressed and fed children at the Marist school St Joseph's at Rondebusch in Capetown, South Africa. In the background can be seen the well known Table Mountain. The Marist and other Orders have taken the lead in integrating black and white children into their schools.
And the contrast . . . Only five miles from the picturesque Marist setting is the shanty town of the black compound on Capetown's outskirts. Within this segregated area some millionaire black people live also — but they are few and far between with the majority of people living in squalid conditions.
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by TOM BRANCH WACLTA REPORT 1989 MIXED PENNANTS Similar scorelines in the two A grade games and an unfinished B grade game were the highlights of Round 2 of the 1989 WACTA Mixed pennant competition. A grade team, St Cecilia's, have changed their home venue for the remainder of this season. Would all A grade teams note that in future all St Cecilia's home matches will be played at St Mark's College, Beaufort Street, Bedford. A Grade Queens Park had a fairly comfortable win over St Joseph's when they won 7 sets 82 games to 3 sets 50 games. St Joseph's were handicapped as they were playing without their number one ladies player, Geraldine Alderman. In a similar scoreline St Cecilia's defeated St Norbert's 7 sets 80 games to 3 sets 60 games. These scores suggest that the A grade competition will be fairly even and no team can expect an easy match. B Grade The unfinished game between Liwara and Pignatelli 1 was the highlight of the B grade round of fixtures. When poor light prevented further play, the scores were Pignatelli 1, 5 sets 79 games to Liwara, 4 sets 77 games. The uncompleted set was tied up at 4 games all. This was the second week in a row that Pignatelli 1 had been involved in a very close match. It was a much improved Liwara team and they should look forward to the remainder of the season with some confidence. The remaining games were a little one sided with Pignatelli 2 defeating Queens Park 9 sets 89 games to 1 set 42 games and St Benedict's easily accounting for DianeIla 9
_ sets 89 games to 1 set 54 games.
Following their easy win over Dianella, St Benedict's have already stamped their authority on the B grade competition and look to be the team to beat for the Pennant. Table A Grade Queens Park 3 St Cecilia's 3 St Jude's 2 St Joseph's 0 St Norbert's 0 B Grade St Benedict's 4 Pignatelli 2 4 Dianella 2 Pignatelli 1 1 Liwara 1 Queens Park 0 Next Week's Matches A Grade Queens Park v St Jude's St Norbert's v St Joseph's Arch rivals, Queens Park and St Jude's, do battle in what promises to be an extremely exciting game. Over the years these two teams have had some very close games and this week's match should be no exception. St Norbert's and St Joseph's clash should provide a guide to the chances of both these teams. Neither team has won and both will be keen to get their first points for the season. Selection: St Jude's St Joseph's B Grade St Benedict's v Pignatelli 1 Queens Park v Liwara Pignatelli 2 v Dianella The match between Queens Park and Liwara looms as the closest in round 3 of the B grade competition. Pignatelli 1 should provide stiffer opposition for St Benedict's, and Dianella will look for an improvement in their performance when they clash with Pignatelli 2. Selections: St Benedict's Liwara Pignatelli 2
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THE PARIS SCENE Material submitted to The Record should preferably be typewritten or clearly and legibly handwritten, at least triple spaced with wide margins, in upper and lower case, acid in style for the section for which it is intended. NEWMAN SOCIETY Guest Speaker Discussion Group: An extra meeting will be held on Monday, June 26 at 7.30pm (not 8pm), when Father John Neill OP, will give a talk on the proposed "University of Notre Dame, Australia", in the Senior Common Room, St Thomas More College, Crawley. Open to all interested. Contact 446 1628.
COLLEGE EX -STUDENTS' The newly formed St Thomas More College Ex-Student's Association will hold its inaugural cocktail party at the College on Saturday, July 1. The function is open to all ex students. Tickets $30 or $15 single. R SVP by Tuesday, June 27 to Dr Philip King's secretary, 322 1577.
WOMEN AND DECISIONS "Without discrimination women should be participants in the life of the Church, and also in consultation and the process of coming to decisions" so says Pope John Paul in his synod document "Christifideles Laici". The 175 page document on the 1987 synod on the laity is now available from Gattos and Pellegrini at a cost of $3.
VOLUNTEERS FOR ANAWIM Volunteer workers are required for Anawim, a Catholic Church sponsored refuge providing accommodation and support for lone Aboriginal women in crisis. Volunteers with a commitment to Catholic values are currently required for night/sleepover shifts (working with experienced workers) on Friday and Saturday evenings 5pm-9am, and a Friday morning shift 9am-1pm. The work involves providing hospitality and support to the women at the refuge. Volunteers are required for general household maintenance, eg wood chopping in winter, minor repairs and carpentry, regular grocery shopping and other household tasks. For further information phone Christine Choo on 381 5689 (after 5pm) or Christine Young on 328 7562.
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.
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RACE 2: Black Buccaneer 1, Merlin's Luck 2, Spitfire Boy 3. RACE 3: Meryl 1, Early
ACOLYTES RETREAT Eastern Zone acolytes annual one day retreat will be held on Saturday. July 29 commencing at 8.50am concluding at 4pm at Infant Jesus Church and facility, 41 Wellington Road, Morley. The retreat master will be Father W. Creede CSsR. Acloytes at ending are asked to bring their own lunch and Bible, also suitable identification tag if available. Tea and coffee will be provided. For further information please phone Ken Winton 2793710.
Archdiocesan Calendar JUNE 23& Confirmation - Brentwood Willet25 ton Parish. Monsignor Keating. 24& Visitation and confirmation 25 Kambaldai Norseman. Archbishop Foley. 25 Visitation and confirmation — Qauirading Cunderdin. Bishop Healy. 27 Dinner with Co-ordinators and Chairmen of Welfare Agencies. 29 Silver Jubilee Fr Justin Bianchini. 30 Commission of new catechists. Archbishop Foley. JULY 1 Confirmation Kalgoorlie. Bishop Healy 2 Visitation and confirmation Embleton. Archbishop Foley. Confirmation Leederville Monsignor Keating. 2-4 Adult Education seminar. 4 Catholic Youth Council Mass, WA Bishops. 5 Confirmation Willagee. Monsignor McCrann. 6 Confirmation Trinity College. Archbishop Foley. Opening Priests' Units Nazareth House. Archbishop Foley. 7 Altar Servers' Guild Bentley. Arbishop Foley. 8 Diamond Jubilee -- Wyalkatchem parish. Bishop Healy. 9 Golden Jubilee Fr Samuel Rodomonti. 11 Golden Jubilee of Sisters -- lona Presentation Convent. Bishop Healy. 12 Silver Jubilee - - Bruce Rock Church. Archbishop Foley. 15 Mass for Little Sisters of Carmel. Bishop Healy. 16 State Conference of the Catholic Women's League. Army Family Church Service. Archbishop Foley. Mass for Catholic Rural Outreach — Bindoon. Bishop Healy. 19 Memorial Service at Winthrop Hall, University of WA. Archbishop Foley. 20 Meeting of zone priest chairmen, St Mary's Cathedral Presbytery. Archbishop Foley. 23 Catenian Associaton, St Mary's Cathedral Archbishop Foley. 24 South West school regional mass. Archbishop Foley. 30 Visitation and confirmation — Doubleview. Archbishop Foley. Visitation and confirmation — Queens Park. Bishop Healy. AUGUST 1&2 Sydney Central Commission meeting. Archbishop Foley.
Rise 2, Casino Lady 3. RACE 4: Yanduloch 1,
Leo Lady 2, Bold Monarch 3. RACE 5: Black Reward 1, Fiery Times 2, Lord Luscombe 3.
RACE 6: I'm Busy 1, Top Business 2, Admiral Lee 3. RACE 7: Silver Nova 1,
Tai's Wish Domino 3.
2, Chief
RACE 8: Bradeau 1, Shoe Shine Girl 2, Bouncing Star 3. RACE 9: Seventh
Avenue 1, I'm A Pharaoh 2, lady Storm 3. RACE 10: Storm Look 1. Rio Ruby 2, Darkham Will 3.
THE PASSION PLAY OBERAMMERGAU 1990
Our 27-day departure, (leaving July 4), accompanied by Father Hugh Galloway, has now only six seats remaining. Please if you are considering this departure book NOW
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TRINITY COLLEGE Trinity Avenue East Perth 6004 Telephone 3253655 Applications are invited for
GIBNEY SCHOLARSHIPS
available to boys of good scholastic ability entering Year 8 in 1990. Scholarships are tenable for 5 years. Applications close on Friday, 28 July 1989 and an examination will be held at the College on Friday. August 4. 1989 Applications are also invited for
The Old Boy's SCHOLARSHIP availabe to boys entering Year 11 in 1990. Applicants must possess good scholastic ability with special talents in some other field, such as Music, Public Speaking, Drama, Art. The Scholarship covers tuition fees for Years 11 and 12. Closing date July 28, 1989
Applications form for both scholarships are available from the College office.
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Dance Fellowship of Aust ralia
Dance classes in Jazz, contemporary, choreography, Liturgical for teenagers and adults every Friday evening in Leederville
Angela Perry 341 7026 DIP P.A.
Choreographer Entertainment Centre Mass
REMINDER Past pupils and teachers of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions who attended
Sacred Heart Convent, Highgate after 1950 are invited to attend a reunion of sisters, teachers and pupils to hear of the new development of the association of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions.
Sacred Heart Convent, Highate in the lecture room and hall Sunday June 25 at 3pm
RSVP: 271 0008
BAPTISM ADVERTS
Announce a BAPTISM FREE in The Record
Classifieds. Post or deliver (no phone advts) the candidate's name, parents' name, date of ceremony and the church.