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Bishop Hickey, the chairman of the Commission

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BISHOP SAYS COMMISSION'S ADVICE WILL HELP BEAT POVERTY PROBLEM "If the government takes the Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission's advice ( and it probably won't), it will be able to solve Mr Hawke's problem," Bishop Hickey of Geraldton said this week.

"Mr Hawke does not want any child to be living in poverty by 1990.

We've got the solution

here," Bishop Hickey said prior to the launching of a revised A Fair Go For Families.

Bishop Hickey is chairman of the Catholic Commission which first published Fair Go in 1986.

Bishop Hickey said that the Commission's proposals will make families better off economically, save the government the

cost of social security benefits and will make sure children do not have to live in poverty.

The Catholic Commission wants the government to work towards full family income splitting for taxation purposes and not just income splitting between spouses.

In this proposal, tax thresholds would be set

for a spouse and a further disintegration." threshold set for dependBishop Hickey also ent children. criticised the poverty "It is certain our propos- trap into which many als will cost the govern- families were falling ment money. It will because the taxation and mean less tax from social security systems families but the benefit were overlapping and will be the spin-offs, in crashing into each other. taxpayers "Some savings on social security payments, on family receive social security breakdown payments, benefits, and some beneand the network of ficiaries pay tax. The expenses around family government gives with

one hand and takes with the other. This is costly and ineffective."

Bishop Hickey said the family had emerged as t he most important group in society but it had been under attack for the past 10 years.

Now, he said, political parties were coming out with family packages and "that's a marvellous reversal of the trend".

"We're looking to help all families, not just the poorest because the social security even they receive is being eroded by inflation.

"Pope John Paul told us in Familiaris Consortio to have political lobbies on behalf of families and urged us to get together and put the case for the rights of families."

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thil 'go ahead' It's full steam ahead and target date has been set for 1992, says planning chief

Professor Kiel pictured in front of one of the historic Fremantle commercial buildings that is a preferred site for the Notre Dame University of Australia.

The University of Notre Dame Australia is to go ahead. the making In announcement Archbishop Foley said the State Government will be a pproached for the enabling necessary legislation.

The project will then be put to the community to enlist support and generate financial interest in the university.

"It's full steam ahead," said Professor Geoffrey Kiel, after the archbishop's announcement.

Professor Kiel is planning Vice -Chancellor and Chief Executive of Notre Dame Australia and is on one year's secondment from his position as head of the Graduate School of Management of the University of Queensland.

The WA Government's enabling legislation is anticipated in the August session of Parliament

and the university hopes to open its doors to its first students in January 1992, Professor Kiel said.

He said that the planning board which held a week of discussions before the announcement, had determined that the university is highly desirable for WA and for the Catholic community in Australia.

The board also considers that provided the university can raise the funds for its establishment, it can in the longer term be viable and stand on its own feet without being a drain either on the state or the Catholic community.

Professor Kiel admits that a major factor for the university will be the raising of its funds.

"All we can say is that it is a huge task never before attempted in Australia but we are at the point where no amount of consideration

will answer the question.

"The only way now is to go out into the community and say 'here is the vision and here is what we need to make it happen'."

The planners have had to also consider whether there was a real need for the university, whether it could attract students, whether there was support in the Catholic community and in the larger community.

A key factor in attracting students, he said, will be an endowment fund to be used to fund students.

and bursaries to students with ability to pursue a further education.

Professor Kiel said Notre Dame Australia would not just be for the "leftovers" from enrolments at other institutions.

"We very much see this as a university of excellence and will seek to attract its share of the very top students. Also, over the next 10 years, Western Australia is going to need about

double the number of places it has today.

"We can look as traditionally to the state to provide those places but Notre Dame Australia there is value also in the would not function like pluralist model of educaother private universities tion, providing both state where places are only schools and independent available to those who universities. can afford it.

"In its nature NDA will Although Notre Dame be different from UWA, s tudents would be Curtin and Murdoch expected to pay fees the because of its Catholic endowment fund will ethos, and because of its make loans available and Catholic basis." also offer scholarships • More on page 2.

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Notre Dame Australia will attempt in its first 10 years to establish five colleges of studies, according to the Planning Vice Chancellor Professor Geoffrey Kiel.

It plans:

• A College of Arts and Sciences in which all students coming into their first year will take a

good slab of general education.

This college will have a department of theology and will probably contain a major in arts, in theology and a major in computer science.

• A College of Business and Management, providing undergraduate degrees in accountancy, management, specialisamanagement tion

including management of non-profit organisations such as hospitals and schools.

has been briefed during present planning discussions and further detailed discussions will be held over the next few weeks with a view to a formal submission at the end of July.

Professor Kiel noted that the current Dawkins Ministry proposals put universities private within the National Unified System but Notre Dame Australia was not seeking to be

part of that system and will not be seeking recurrent funding, and t herefore would not anticipate direct government intervention in its activity.

The university will have its board of governors from different walks of life and professions, and they, like other university senates, will regulate the university and see that it is responding to the needs of society and

• A College of Law. • A College of Medicine and Health Sciences. This will be a later development moving into areas such as social work, nursing and certain postgraduate medical specialties in association

• A College of Education concentrating along with the College of Business and Management on education administration not just for the Catholic but the whole school system as well as providing a post graduate teaching qualification for graduates in

any discipline who wish to take up teaching.

Professor Kiel noted that there has been a major need identified for more teachers just for the Catholic system let alone the state schools.

Notre Dame Australia hopes to start with 400 students in 1992 building up to around 2000 students in the year 2000.

Own enabling law plan

Under Australian and West Australian law universities cannot be established except by an act of parliament because education is a state responsibility under the constitution.

Therefore, like every other university in Australia, Notre Dame Australia will have to have its own enabling legislation from the West Australian Government.

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So different Notre Dame Australia will be a university with a difference.

"It will place a lot more emphasis on the pastoral care of students and the interaction between students and faculty and those looking after students," according to Professor Kiel.

To this end, he explained, NDA would have dean of student life, or dean of undergraduate affairs, a position that is very well established in American universities

but is not found in Australia.

All students at the Notre Dame Australia would be required to take two subjects in theology and two subjects in philosophy, to give them an academic approach and appreciation of religion, morality, and ethics he said.

"It will be different because its actions and its support of students will place an emphasis on service to the community which, because of their secular nature, I don't think the state universities should or can do."

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with the Catholic hospital system.

The preferred location of Fremantle will make Notre Dame Australia different from other Australian universities which are merely enclaves on the fringe of cities or in greenfield areas, according to its planning vice chancellor.

"Australia has no real city university where the city and the university interact.

In this way are benefits not only for the university but also for the city, such as Fremantle whose west end currently lacks an economic base."

He said the university intended to preserve wha-

tever is deemed to be of historical interest not only externally but internally.

"Fremantle would not be of use to us if we destroy the very thing that brings us here."

On the other hand community agreement and support would be needed.

Full plans will be presented to the Fremantle City Council and to the State Government and will be available for community advice. A social impact study is being conducted by the UWA. Professor Kiel said it was hoped a decision would be made on Fremantle by late September.

to the needs of the Church.

Professor Kiel outlined a number of ways in which the quality of Notre Dame Australia would be safeguarded.

Secondly, he said, "if a university does not do a good job, it is simply not going to get students, especially since they are on average going to pay more than to attend the state system.

The first was the link with Notre Dame University Indiana which will provide advice and assistance and guidance as well as a review of what the Australian university will do.

"The ultimate test of the quality of universities, in my mind, are the market forces. Unless we are providing something extra in education we are not going to get students."

Delighted with the sampling Professor Kiel said the planning stages for Notre Dame Australia had included a small sampling of students at Catholic schools and their parents about their thoughts on a proposed university.

"We were very heartened by the results. It was more positive than we expected. A significant number said, This is a good idea, you will have to make it possible for us to attend because of high fee levels'."

Professor Kiel said it was significant for the Catholic Church to be associated with the university because worldwide there are over 900 tertiary institutions associated with the Catholic

Church, some 200 of them in the US. He said the Church in its long history has founded some of the oldest and most prestigious universities such as Cambridge and Oxford, so there is nothing new in the proposal on this basis, except that it is happening in Australia.

Professor Kiel supports the idea of Notre Dame Australia being established in Perth, because it is a major city with a strong tradition of Catholic education and is also much closer to Asia from which a good proportion of the 20 per cent of overseas enrolment will come.

Its mission The mission of the University of Notre Dame Australia is the advancement of learning, knowledge and the professions within the context of Christian faith and values.

It proposes to carry out its mission by teaching, engaging in a process of formation of young people, encouraging the development of ideas and the spread of independent thought, emphasising the value of service to humanity, supporting research and scholarship, promoting the professions and their skilful dedicated practice and being an influence for good in the local and national community.

Workshop churns new ideas After a two day Adult Education Workshop at St Thomas More College this week, representatives of some 50 organisations will take ideas back to their groups.

At the same time Catholic Education Commission members of a review committee will feed the experience into their second report in December and their final report in April next year that will close a two year process of investigation.

The committee had followed a consultative process and after a pilot study earlier this year it was decided to approach a wide cross section of groups.

Convenor of the workshop, Sister Mary Ronanyne, said there had been a lack of clarity about the meaning of adult education but the view had been taken that all organisations working with adults have some influence on the education role.

She said many of the findings echoed results of the Dicoesan Assembly and many participants had sought a greater co-ordination of those already involved in adult education.

The groups that participated in the Adult Education Workshop:

All WA dioceses were represented at this week's education seminar. Looking over the stories each organisation told about their education activities are Father Tony Chiera of Bunbury, Mrs Verna Lockyer of Derby, Mrs Paula Slater of Geraldton and Eloise Hicks of the Perth Catholic Youth Office.

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Balance in mind NOT AN ABUSE OF TAX SYSTEM: COMMISSION

The family income splitting proposed by the Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission will be neither an abuse of the tax system nor tax avoidance, the Commission says in its latest r evision of A Fair Go For Families.

"It will simply correct the inequities of the present system which fails to treat families as the economic sharing units they are," says the document which is being published as a booklet and in a magazine condensation.

Family unit taxation is already part of the A ustralian tax system and is available to family members through company and business partnerships, the document says.

"There is no reason, then, why a family unit t axation by splitting

In making its radical proposal, the Catholic Commission admits that initially the proposal will cost the government money in lost taxation on existing families, and therefore says the policy should be introduced in stages.

A tax threshold of $4000 for a spouse and $1500 for each child would be a beneficial "Many breadwinners first step, it says. would be in a better The thresholds would position to support their help people realise the aged and invalid relatives additional costs of having if proper recognition for dependents in today's their efforts were availasociety. and tax the within ble social security systems.

The philosophy of the present taxation rebates "Dependency need not not be changed would always be public depenare dependents because dency. Voluntary private considered for already dependency can be levy, Family much more efficient for Medicare the community and at Allowance, Austudy, pre-school the same time can bring child care and exemptions. a greater sense of self-

income among family members should not be available to PAYE taxpayers with dependents," it says.

The Catholic Commission's latest proposal does not stop only at immediate dependents but in time sees the extension to dependents outside the nuclear family.

respect than automatic public dependency."

Those with incomes below the tax thresholds

would have their income brought up to the level they need.

The Commission also criticises the fact that in Australia today oneincome families with two children are paying tax at a higher rate similar to t wo income families, notwithstanding the use of the Dependent Spouse Rebate to try and reverse this trend.

In one case an average tax rate of 23.7% is being paid compared with the t wo-income average rate of 15.42%.

Commission The attacks those who argue that a tax system should be 'neutral' with respect to marriage and the decision to have a family.

"Neutrality means not distorting a pattern of behaviour. A tax system that does not recognise the legal and moral obligations to support dependents is not neu-

Dependents important Measuring a family's ability to pay tax, should always take account of the number of dependents s ays the Catholic Commission.

A family with a high income earner is not necessarily an affluent f amily.

"It is hard to understand why discrimination a gainst dependents and devaluation of them has grown recently.

"Perhaps dependency is felt to be an unnatural status, one not deserving social recognition.

"This view seems implied when it is claimed that all married women should be in the workforce. Such a view of dependency is to be rejected.

"The care of children and the aged, and of disabled and invalid relatives, is a natural and necessary part of the process linking generations.

"If the costs of supporting aged, disabled or invalid dependents is not acknowledged, relatives may choose simply to direct them to the nearest

Social Security Office to claim a pension.

"Discrimination against dependents ranges from a reduced birthrate to desertion of dependents.

"Marriage counsellors often say that financial worries are an important factor in conflicts between spouses, and ultimately in separation and divorce.

"We agree with the 1989 Burdekin Report about the need to assist homeless children. What is needed is 'a network of support services to

strengthen families, and reduce the need for welfare intervention leading to substitute care arrangements.'

"Financial problems can lead to so-called early independence among the young.

"Many young people are leaving home at an age when they would formerly have been supported at home.

"Some schemes, such as AUSTUDY, can actually promote early departure from home."

tral but is biased against families.

or discourages women from paid employment.

"All persons have a right to choose whether to marry or remain single. Therefore adults have the right to establish a family without discrimination."

In 1986-87, it notes, 39,496 female taxpayers claimed rebate for a male spouse.

As for female participation in the workforce the tax system should be neutral — neither favouring nor discouraging such participation, it says.

The Commission denies that the Dependent Spouse Rebate encourages female dependency

Life Gmups. Australian Catholic Relief. Bethel Covenant Community, Catholic Charismatic Community, Broome Diocese. Bunbury Diocese.

Catholic Aboriginal Apostolate.

Catholic Association for Deaf and Hearing Impaired People. Catholic Care for Intellectually Handicapped.

Catholic Education Commission of WA, Catholic Institute of WA. Catholic Library of WA. Catholic Social ApostolateiChristian Life Communities. Catholic Social lustice Commission.

Catholic Social Welfare Commission, Catholic Women's League.

Council of Priests — Perth. Diocesan Pastoral Council — Perth. Ecumenical Affairs Committee.

Emmanuel Centre — Disabilities.

Engaged Encounter. Focolare Movement. Fullness of Life. Geraldton Diocese. Institute of Human Development.

Knights of the Southern Cross.

Ntaiellan Groups of WA. Mandorla Centre for Inner Peace. Maranatha, Pastoral Workers .Association. Marriage Encounter. Marriage Preparation & Education Centre.

Ministry to Newly Married. Mission & Justice Education. Multiculture.

Natural Family Planning. Newman Society. Pallotine Centre.

Parents & Friends Federation.

Pastoral Planning Office. Perth A rchdiocese. Redemptorist Lay Community. Schoenstatt Family Movement. Special Programs for Religious Education Development ( SPRED). University Chaplains.

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Guest Editorial

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The Catholic Weekly It would be a mistake for the Indonesians to interpret the Holy Father's visit in October as an endorsement of their 1975 invasion of the island territory of East Timor.

As this newspaper has already pointed out, the speech of Pope John PaulIIin Dilicould well have some surprises for the Indonesians who have been applying pressure for Vatican endorsement of their annexation. The Holy See has never endorsed the invasions which has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.

Locally there are great differences of opinion in Church circles. The Jesuit Archbishop Julius Darmaatmadja, of Semarang, Central Java, who is chairman of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Indonesia has defended the Indonesian Church against charges of being "voiceless or fearful of speaking out".

His defence was that the Church there "gets many things done through the wisdom of silence . particularly with regard to the development of the Church in East Timor".

On the other hand, there is growing sense of unease among East Timorese Catholics who fear that they have been "betrayed" by some of those arranging the papal visit.

This week they released a tract alleging that the political interest of the Vatican is being put ahead of the people's interest and for that purpose it is willing to sacrifice a people who have ever since the invasion, been through allsorts of anguish just for the sake of preserving their dignity and the identity of their ethnicity, culture, religion and politics.

Great anguish is expressed in the statement, which conveys the fear that the doctrine of the Church on social issues is "only applicable in other places", while the local Church in East Timor is forced into servility.

The East Timorese Association of Catholic Students and a group of local clergy have issued statements filled with anxiety and anger over the papal visit.

They must be disturbing reading for Vatican diplomats.

The Vatican diplomats have faced further problems with East Timorese students, fearful over a wave of arrests in the territory, arriving on the steps of their Jakarta embassy — only to go away with a question mark hanging over their future safety.

This leads, however, to the observation that many people — the Indonesian propagandists, their East Timorese opponents and international activists for selfdetermination may have overlooked one critical factor.

It is the John PaulII factor.

This remarkable man will doubtless have some very important things to say during his visit.

Those looking for a holy endorsement of invasion may almost certainly look forward to disappointment.

Equally those who think the way of the gun is the only path to freedom may be made to think again.

Meanwhile, East Timor's Christian population is wondering what the pope will say in reference to the genocide of 200,000 people.

It seems obvious that the Holy Father will point to the path of peace, one which leads to mutual recognition of human rights and advance through dialogue, not destruction.

Local priests report that the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces in Timor has harshly reproached the localchurch, saying it has always been against integration "but in being able to bring the pope here we have succeeded".

That general would do well to recall that in the Philippines the pope delivered a famous speech in defence of the enslaved sugarcane workers.

The pope spoke only in spiritual terms.

Spiritual values, however, can sometimes produce remarkable results.

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Lay folk to run the Vatican Bank now

VATICAN CITY: For the first time there will be no churchmen in an executive role in the Vatican Bank, otherwise known as the Institute for Works of Religion.

But five cardinals will serve on an oversight commission for the bank.

Longtime bank official \ tons Donato De Bonis will hold a non-executive liaison position between the two groups, the Vatican said on June 20.

The administrative

council will later select a director and vicedirector — both laymen — to handle day-to-day operations of the bank, three with along auditors.

The changes were due to take effect July 18.

They represent the first major reform of the bank since its founding in 1942.

US Archbishop Paul Marcinkus will leave the institute after serving as bank president for 19 years — including a

stormy period in the early 1980s in which the Vatican paid out $240 million to creditors of a collapsed bank with which it was involved.

The thrust of the bank reforms, first announced in March after years of study, was to provide closer, continual supervision of the bank's operations. The bank will still be considered as an entity separate from the Holy See, however.

The members of the lay council are:

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Archbishop Marcinkus' long and controversial presidency of the Vatican Bank may be drawing to a close.

• Thomas Macioce,

70, chairman and chief

executive officer of the New York-based Allied Stores Corp and a financial consultant to the Archdiocese of New York.

• Angelo Caloia, 50, professor of economics at the Polytechnic.al Institute in Milan.

• Philippe de Weck,

70, a Swiss banker and

currently president of the administrative coun-

cil of the Union of Swiss Banks in Zurich.

• Theodor E. Pietzcker, 64, a German expert in legal economic affairs and an adviser to t he West German church, and is a member of the administrative council of the Deutsche Bank in Essen.

Jose Angel Sanchez Asiain, 60, co-president of a major Spanish bank in Bilbao and a past government adviser on a number of financial projects.

Sacking comes under fire

EDINBURGH: Church leaders on all sides have condemned the expulsion of the Lord Chancellor from the Presbyterian Free church because he attended Mass.

The tiny Church with around 6000 members has now split over the decision. Some 14 of its 28 ministers and congregations, including Lord Mackay's own parish,

have formed the new Associated Presbyterian Church.

Lord Mackay said he "remained of the view that my attendance at a memorial service for Lord Russell of Killowan was right".

He could "never give an undertaking" not to attend another Mass and therefore he regarded himself as "no longer a

member" of the Free Presbyterian Church.

Archbishop O'Brien of Edinburgh condemned ministers who called the pope the anti-Christ and described the Mass as "idolatrous blasphemy".

"I do not believe this affair will affect the cause of Christian Unity in Scotland among the main Christian churches as the Free Presbyterian

Church has not been involved in any meaningful dialogue," he said.

Cardinal Hume said of the Synod's decision: "It is bad news when so many people are striving to work for Christian unity that there should be still in this land intolerance and prejudice."

Bishop Rawcliffe of the

Scottish Episcopalian Church said: "Ihaven't come across a single person in any Church who has supported the decision. The tragedy is that many English Christians might believe we are talking about the Church of Scotland. They should be assured that ecumenism is strong here and that the Free Presbyterians are only a tiny group."

Open-air ordination sparks row

Welcome for this convert

Iris McIntyre.

LONDON: An Anglican woman deacon has decided to become a Catholic. McIntyre, 28, is the first woman deacon to leave Anglican orders for the Catholic Church.

She was ordained in 1987, the year she was elected to the Church of England's General Synod. She is now a producer of religious programs for BBC. Iris says that she leaves "the church which nurtured her with much heart-searching and a sense of loss".

She sees the move as part of a spiritual journey, helped by the fact that her father is a Catholic, although the rest of her family remains Anglican.

Her decision was also helped "by the Catholic Church's openness, liturgy and great sense of spirituality".

She feels deeply "the sense of disunity which has split the Church of England over women priests". She says she is also disheartened by Catholic refusal to recognise Anglican orders.

MEXICO CITY (NC): The ordination of a new bishop for the central Mexican Diocese of Queretaro has sparked a political controversy because it was held in an open-air venue in violation of the Mexican Constitution. officials Church secured the consent of the governor of the state of Queretaro to hold the ordination of Bishop Mario de Gasperin in the 40,000-seat La Corregidora sports stadium, built especially for the 1986 World Cup soccer tournament.

But the governor's decision violates the Mexican Constitution's Article 24, which dictates that all

public liturgical services must be held in a church, and Article 130, which reserves for the federal government the right to legislate and enforce the laws on religious matters.

Historians say the ban on open-air liturgical services was written at a time of tense churchstate relations and was designed to prevent public gatherings of Catholics from turning into anti-government political demonstrations.

President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the party's winning candidate in 1988 elections, has recently taken steps toward smoothing Mexica n church -state relations.

Successful

1.00,000 in day of prayer KIEV: More than 100,000 Soviet Ukrainian Catholics participated in a special day of prayer for the legal r ecognition of their Church.

Some clergymen were reported to have been arrested and one beaten in connection with the event, held in towns throughout the Soviet Union.

The largest reported crowd was in the town of Ivano Frankovsk, where an estimated 100,000 of the town's 275,000 people participated, accord-

ing to a statement released by the Church in Rome on June 22.

Bishop Pavlo Vasylyk as saying.

"Our people came to show that they are Ukrainian Catholics and that they want their Church to be legalised."

Bishop Vasylyk lives in the Ukraine and has been a leader in actions calling attention to the Church's status as an outlawed organisation in the Soviet Union.

Theme for world day of Peace ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Ecological problems r eflect "a moral crisis" in understanding the relationship between human beings and the environment, said the Vatican in announcing the theme for the 1990 World Day of Peace.

The theme is Peace with God the Creator — Peace with All of Creation. The Catholic Church celebrates World Day of Peace on January 1.

"Today a new challenge to peace confronts the governments and peoples of the international community. It is the challenge to respect the environment that supports all life," the Vatican said.

The peace day theme "is an invitation to reflect together on some of the deeper questions underlying the present ecological crisis, precisely from a moral perspective", it said.

"There is an order to the universe which must be respected. Human beings are not absolute masters who can use the universe in whatever way they wish." it added.

"The use that people make of the earth and its goods is a direct reflection of their understanding of life, of relations among people, and the world itself," it said.

The earth and its

resources are given to people and nations "in trust" to be used for "their own good and the good of future generations", said the Vatican.

"They should not be used for selfish ends, for profit or power alone." it said.

Personal and governmental decisions about the environment should be guided by a sense of solidarity with others to preserve a "common heritage" of humanity. it said.

"A sound environment cannot be achieved without . . . morally inspired and concerted effort on the part of all," it said.

It also reported that Bishop Vasylyk and three priests were detained by authorities before they could participate in the ceremony at Ivano Frankovsk.

One priest who officiated at the ceremony was later charged with creating a public disturbance. A priest in the Ukrainian city of Kiev reportedly was beaten and detained during a service there, the statement said.

Catenians in a round of friendship EDINBURGH: The first Mass to be said in a former Catholic Cathedral in 450 years took place last Sunday — thanks to a game of golf.

Over 200 Catenians from all over Britain had arranged to meet in the tiny village of Dornoch, Sutherland, in the far North West of Scotland for their annual golf tournament when they discovered the area did not have a Catholic church.

However, the minister of Dornoch Cathedral, which was taken over by the Church of Scotland in the Reformation, invited the Catenians and Bishop Conti of Aberdeen to have it back for the day.

The bishop said that the occasion had "deeply moved him" and the entire Christian community.

"I made the point in my sermon that there was a sense of coming home, not to repossess but rather to join in faith with those with whom we share one household."

Minister Simpson said he and his parishioners were delighted to offer the use of the Cathedral to the Catenians who raised £900 in a special collection during the Mass for the minister to donate to a charity of his choice.

Fish-shaped church soon T,Tiv:irodnsy SINGAPORE: Construction of the Church of the Holy Trinity here is now at the roof level and is e xpected to be completed

by October this year.

Work on the church which began about eight months ago, immediately after its ground breaking is progressing very smoothly.

But according to its Parish Priest Fr Paul Tay only $2.4 million have so far been raised.

He appeals to Catholics in Singapore to donate generously.

Fr Tay still goes on tirelessly during the weekends to churches in Singapore to campaign for funds to raise $6 million.

The fish-shaped threestorey church which will serve some 10,000 Catholics in east coast areas when completed, will have the main church, a chapel, a columbarium and a waterfall altar.

The land was acquired in 1984 from the Housing and Development Board by the Archdio-

cese for more than 42 million, on a 60-year lease.

The estimated cost of building the church is $6 million.

"Nothing is too expensive for the Lord. If it is the house for the Lord, we have to make it as beautiful as possible. As one heart and one mind, we should contribute according to our means," said Margaret Chan, a parishioner from the east coast district, when

asked about her impression of the church.

"Six million dollars is not too costly for the Lord. Besides, it is for the people as well," said Mrs Ignacia Goh, another parishioner.

"I don't think it is spending. excessive There should be more style in adoring the Lord — a congenial environment to pray better," said Richard De Roza, a resident from Tampines — The Catholic News, Singapore

BELFAST: Irish Presbyterians meeting at their General Assembly in Belfast recently were urged to. "go the second mile" in extending friendship and understanding to their Catholic neighbours.

The Moderators Advisory Committee said Presbyterians should examine their own hearts and lives to see if they are fulfilling the dictates of the Gospel in their attitude to those of different religious denominations.

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Homelessness in UK A MATTER OF JUSTICE, SAYS LIVERPOOL ARCHBISHOP

LIVERPOOL (CNS): Homelessness — which affects a quarter of a million people in England — is a matter of justice, not charity, said Archbishop Derek Worlock of Liverpool.

Speaking to the annual Institute of Housing, the archbishop said home-

lessness was "what we may call structural injustice, not merely the result of recklessness or unrelated circumstances."

Archbishop Worlock said there was "scant evidence" to support the "trickle-down theory" that promoting the prosperity of a few

people would benefit those with less money.

"If we are dealing with justice and not charity, then attention must be given to the distribution of wealth as well as wealth creation; and through taxes and rates, benefits and resources have to be increased to

the less fortunate, the poor," he said.

"That is not to be condemned as the promotion of dependence," he added. "It is corporate justice. One body with mutual responsibility for its members: that may not be the basis for economic theory, but for

me it is Christian belief." sectors to give a moral Archbishop Worlock lead to the nation," he said his speech probably said. would unleash a flood of criticism of the Church "Evidently, it is for interfering in politics. required in a quite "It is interesting that restricted sphere. In fact, this should happen at a we are being asked to time when the churches indulge in selective morin this country are being ality: to condemn sexual called upon in certain immorality, the laziness

of those reluctant to move home to find a job, and, of course, violence and football hooliganism.

"But lay off issues of social and economic justice, or you will be branded as an ecclesiastical politician or political ecclesiastic," he added.

Dedication to band of lamb's wool VATICAN CITY (CNS): Since 1984, the June 29 feast of Sts Peter and Paul has been a day dedicated by the pope to a five centimetre wide circular band of white Iamb's wool.

The band is called a pallium, and its usage has evolved over 16 centuries.

Currently, it is given to archbishops who head the principal archdioceses called metropolitan Sees, and the pallium is a symbol of the archbi-

shop's authority and unity with the papacy. It is worn around the neck and has back and front pendants.

Embedded in it are six black crosses.

Archbishops wear the pallium on important liturgical occasions. Lamb's wool is used to symbolise Christ, the Lamb of God and the Good Shepherd.

In 1984 Pope John Paul II decreed that he would give palliurns to metropolitan archbishops on June 29, the feast day

wearing it as a symbol of episcopal dignity and of their pastoral office.

dedicated to the first pope and the apostle primarily responsible for the early spread of Christianity. The feast day also has come to symbolise the unity of the episcopate with the papacy.

The pallium is conferred on archbishops during a Mass in St Peter's Basilica, built over the tomb of the first pope.

But use of the pallium began informally in the fourth century when Eastern-rite bishops and popes started

In the sixth century, popes began giving palliums to selected Latin-rite bishops, especially heads of metropolitan Sees.

Pope John VIII, who headed the Church from 872 to 882, commanded all metropolitans to petition the pope for their palliums within three months of their nomination. current Under

Church practice, if a newly named archbishop cannot travel to the Vatican to receive his pallium from the pope, it is given to him by a papal representative in his country.

The pallium is also linked to St Agnes, who was martyred in Rome early in the fourth century. She is symbolised in Christian art by a lamb, representing her virginal innocence.

Agnes also is a derivative of the Latin word for lamb, "agnus."

Each January 21, the feast of St Agnes, the pope blesses the lambs that will be shorn for the pallium wool.

St Agnes was a young girl from a wealthy Roman family and was noted for her beauty. A Christian, she consecrated her virginity to God and rejected a series of influential suitors.

During the persecutions under the Roman Emperor Diosuitors cletian, denounced her to

Roman authorities.

According to tradition, she was sent to a house of prostitution, where she maintained her purity by overpowering men with her beauty and innocence.

One story says that before execution, at the age of 12, authorities tried to humiliate her by exposing her naked in Rome's Stadium of Domitian, but she was immediately covered by a miraculous growth of her hair.

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The statement said some members of the Philippines military have accused the threatened missionary and fellow mission workers of being communists.

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while driving his car, Father Wapano had worked with Father Schmitz.

Repeated death threats have been made against a third Passionist missionary, Father Rex Mansmann, who has been accused of belonging to the communist-led New Peoples' Army.

The statement said that "there seems to be a plot" involving units of the military as well as illegal wood exporters to "eliminate or expel the missionaries, the only ones who block their sinister interests and defend the poor" of the region.

"It is absurd that all this is happening in the only Asian nation which can call itself Catholic," the statement concluded.

Father Mansmann's mission has brought schools, medical care and other social benefits to the poor local tribes it serves in the Diocese of Marbel.

However, the military have arrested some members of the mission and made raids on the mission's premises, the statement said.

Reports at the time of the shooting death of Father Schmitz in April 1988 said the killer was angry that the priest would not help his wife get a teaching job in the parish school.

US Passionist officials had criticised efforts to put "a political taint" on the case.

A rchbishop Naidoo.

CAPE TOWN: Cape Town's first non-European archbishop has been buried here following his death from a heart attack at the age of 51.

Archbishop Stephen Naidoo died in England where he was staying with his brother on three months leave of absence because of angina.

He was born to an Indian family in Durban in 1937 and moved with them to Cape Town the following year.

He was ordained a Redemptorist priest in 1961 and served in England, Scotland and India before returning to South Africa in 1968.

He had spoken out frequently against apartheid, calling for its "total, and not merely rhetorical" abolition in 1985.

In 1986 he opened archdiocesan doors to SOO black refugees from violence on Cape Town squatter camps.

Tax: Fair go call Australian The Catholic Social Welfare C ommission believes that the survival and prosperity of Australia as a nation depends on and survival the its of prosperity families.

Australia is not reproducing itself and the structure of its tax system is clearly biased against investment by couples raising the future generations of Australians.

The decline over many years in the economic recognition of the family by successive governments through changes in the Australian tax and social security systems has subjected all types of families, especially sole parent, low income, single income and large families to increasing hardships, both financial and social.

Families do not exist to serve the economy. The economy is and ought to be the means by which families support themselves and support each other.

Living standards of

Australians have fallen over many years.

The high cost of housing, escalating costs of raising children, unemployment, separation and divorce, and increasing tax burdens have contributed to the deteriorating economic position of the family.

The commission is concerned that failure to afford proper tax equity to all families is leading to increased demands for means-tested welfare for families with adult members in the paid workforce.

The Commission welcomes Family Allowance Supplement as an important poverty alleviation measure.

However, in the longterm, FAS creates significant disincentives for its recipients to provide for themselves because these benefits are reduced by one dollar for every two dollars eamt over the FAS threshold.

The increases in and indexation of FA in the April 1989 Economic Statement are also welcomed.

Under the present tax system, the tax and social security systems do not complement one another but overlap in such a way that poverty traps and disincentives discourage people from trying to escape the social welfare net.

It is inequitable that those with lesser ability to pay tax, because they have the moral and legal obligation to support dependants, should be taxed on the same basis as those who have no dependants to support.

The Commission opposes any Government policy that would expect both spouses to be in paid employment in order for the family to be self-sufficient.

A fair and just tax system should be based on the ability of the taxpayer to pay, that is, it should take into consideration the number of dependants that are the by supported taxpayer.

Commission The recommends that the Federal Government

seriously consider a Family Unit Taxation system in which the taxpayer would be able to split his/her income with all members of his/ her family for taxation purposes.

Such a system would be more equitable and more efficient than the present individual unit system and, in addition, it would encourage taxpayers to work harder and become self-sufficient since it would reduce disincentives and poverty traps characteristic of the present system.

The Commission believes that by passing legislation to provide Li \ equity for families, the Australian Parliament would enable them to perform their true role of caring materially, emotionally and spiritually for their members without undue difficulty.

When this happens, a federal government will be supporting its citizens by giving them a fair go in the social group they know and value most — the family.

Woice of families being heard' also increased and indexed.

Bishop Hickey called the latter "amazing" because many government documents were against the dependent spouse rebate.

"It appears to be 'tennis money', for well off non-working wives to have a good time.

"We saw that as quite wrong, that if the wife is not working she is either looking after the children or she is nevertheless contributing to the household economy — and that hasn't been valued by the economy yet —

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Under the present tax system, the tax and social security systems do not complement one another but overlap in such a way that poverty traps and disincentives discourage people from trying to escape the social welfare net.

It is inequitable that those with lesser ability to pay tax, because they have the moral and legal obligation to support dependants, should be taxed on the same basis as those who have no dependants to support.'

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APPENDIX B: PROBLEMS OF A BROAD BASED CONSUMPTION TAX There are people who argue that some personal income tax should be replaced by increased taxation of all goods and services — a broad based c onsumption tax.

The Commission is opposed to substituting indirect for direct taxes because of the regressive effect of indirect taxation.

It would place a heavier burden on the poor than on those with higher incomes even though the revenue so generated could be much greater from the more affluent people.

Eric Mayer, a proponent of a consumption tax, admitted in a recent submission to EPAC that 'a consumption tax in itself if regressive!'

Taxation liability must be based on capacity to pay, which among other t hings depends on income, wealth, and the number of dependents.

There is a world of difference between lux-

ury consumption on a mink coat and spending on the care of children.

If a broad based consumption tax is used to finance reductions in company tax, fringe benefits tax, capital gains tax or personal income tax for high income earners, then the taxation burden on middle and low income families will increase.

This is not equitable given the massive increases in taxes that Australian families have paid over the last 40 years.

The tax system is already creating social problems by failing to recognise the reduced capacity of taxpayers with dependants to pay tax.

Some contend that a broad based consumption tax could be introduced without changing the progressivity of the current system by compensating the poor through increased social security benefits.

In effect, this means taxing more people into the social security net.

This attitude expresses an over confidence in the tax and social security systems.

Problems in interraction between these systems, seen most clearly in high EMTRs, create great disincentives for those receiving such benefits to provide for themselves.

Commission The strongly opposes taxing more people into welfare.

Forcing people or families into dependency on Social Security benefits fails to respect their human dignity.

A broad based consumption tax, as it is generally understood, would be contrary to the principle of subsidiarity.

Taxing large sections of a population into relative poverty has occurred previously under different circumstances.

In Great Britain in the 18th century, for example, consumption taxes had forced labouring families to seek relief under the Poor Law. William Pitt, realising that taxing the masses of the population into poverty was not only creat-

ing social unrest but was also economically inefficient, introduced an income tax in 1798.

Likewise, here in Australia in the early part of the 20th century, the Labour Government under Prime Minister Andrew Fisher opted for direct land and income taxes because the existing indirect taxes placed such a heavy burden on labouring families.

It is sometimes argued that a broad based consumption tax will encourage saving. But there are other forms of encouraging saving that do not conflict with distributive justice.

An example- would be the indexation of the taxation system for inflation.

and is able to do a tremendous amount of the in work community.

"It is not putting the wife in a secondary dependent situation but simply a recognition of the unpaid c ontribution made mainly by women at home."

• the sole parent rebate was indexed.

Bishop Hickey said the Catholic Commission was not the only body lobbying for these changes "but it means we have gained confidence and that the voice of families is being heard".

Many of the recommendations made in the 1986 Fair Go For Families were in the 1989 April Statement, Bishop Hickey said this week.

He was urging families and parishes to bring the document to the attention of politicians and advisers, because in his opinion they certainly are listening.

Benefits he enumerated were: • family allowances only not w ere increased, they were indexed; dependent • the spouse rebate was

encourage people to work harder and earn more money since they would be paying less personal income tax.

But disincentives to work are not measured merely by personal income tax burdens but by the total EMTRs created by all taxes.

This rate includes taxes on earnings and savings and the phasing out of social security benefits on the basis of means testing.

Finally, one of the Commission's main concerns in this area is that families with children are likely to be the most severely affected.

Compensation for a tax c onsumption through the social security system would require a large expansion of the family allowance system.

A consumption tax would allow high income earners to save but this would be at the cost of an increased taxation burden for less affluent Australians.

A consumption tax does not recognise the cost of maintaining dependants and it would penalise the family supporting them.

A major argument for a broad based consumption tax is that it would reduce disincentives and

The Commission would prefer to see the cost of dependency recognised in the tax system.

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Briefly.

At 72, Rachel's deafness was bidding fair to isolate her completely in a world of her own.

Though she wore a hearing aid, its effectiveness lessened as the years passed. And the hearing aid was useless when it came to hearing over the phone.

But thanks to a technological advance, Rachel's isolation has been moderated somewhat.

One form of liberation for Rachel is a telecommunications machine for the deaf which attaches to telephones.

In practical terms, the machine allows her to "talk" whenever she wants with family members far away. In case of illness, the machine could be a lifesaver, allowing her to communicate with specially equipped pharmacies and hospitals.

One fact about the current age of transition is that its developments influence people in basic, key areas of their existence — their capacity to communicate with each other, for example.

In Rachel's case, the age of transition meant a new sense of security, a new freedom, even a new happiness.

The field of electronic telecommunications is an area having far-

reaching effects in people's lives.

Electronic marvels make it possible today to create far-flung networks in a way not possible at an earlier time, theologian Virginia Finn said.

She said that her experience with today's electronic means of communication comes from the National Association for Lay Ministry.

As head of the organisation, she frequently uses conference calls to contact other members. She also transmits messages via the telephone from her computer to other members' computers.

Being able to interact directly and immediately with people far beyond her local region stimulates growth and the exchange of ideas, Mrs Finn said.

Improved modes of communication ought to give hope not only to individuals, but to the whole of society — hope that better relationships and even a better world can be built.

But obviously, it takes more than improved modes of communication to improve communication itself. In an age of transition and rapid change, it still requires people who truly desire and are willing to give of themselves.

In focus Society is said to be in the midst of a major transition.

Any such transition is bound to touch people's individual and family lives in many different ways, this week's NC Package says.

But what are some of those ways?

Father Robert Kinast notes that one transition in today's society is the emergence of high technology, with the computer at its centre.

From the computer age comes a large service industry. This leads Father Kinast to reflect on the parallels of this phenomenon with the service which is at the heart of Christian life.

David Gibson, editor of the NC Religious Education Package, says it is tempting to think the age of transition occurs only on the grand scale in

society. But personal life is directly influenced, as shown by the wide range of options open to people today.

In some sense, our lives are in perpetual transition, writes Theodore Hengesbach.

But, entered into with hope and with courage, transitions can take Christians to new heights of accomplishment and new depths of personal and religious understanding, the theologian says.

Father John Castelot says that the Israelites faced a painful transition when they were making the move from being a nomadic, desert people to an agricultural nation settled in Canaan.

In the process of transition, the Israelites ran the risk of transiting into a new religion worshiping the gods of the Canaanites.

DISCUSSION POINTS The lives of Christians, in one way or another, are influenced by the changing life of the society around them.

Today society is changing in some astonishing ways, as witnessed by high-speed computers and medical breakthroughs.

Have any recent developments made you aware in a personal way that changes in society touch your life in basic ways?

Father John Castelot says that as the Israelites went through an age of transition, they risked beginning to worship false gods. What would you call a false god of your society?

In our age of transition, a wide range of options are opening up to people. But people cannot pursue all these options and must choose among them.

Becoming good decision makers is a demand placed on people by this age. What do you call a good decision maker.

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Reflections

Born with the help of high-technology and into alife of high-tech change.

On my last birthday my sister sent me a page from a magazine which listed changes in society since we both were born in pre-World War ll days.

Some changes were minor, like touch-tone telephones, hairspray and instant coffee.

Others were more significant, like heart transplants, nuclear energy and space satellites.

The list did not discriminate: It simply put as many changes as possible on one page. But some changes are more important than others; they can influence the way we live as well as the way we perceive and practice our faith.

Three transitions in modern society have had this kind of effect for me.

First is the emergence of high technology. At the centre of the high-tech age is the computer which does everything from tuning auto engines to composing music.

A big part of the hightech boom is the deluge of information available on just about any topic.

This can benefit a young family planning its financial future, a business that wants to expand its market, a college projecting future enrolment or a diocese that faces the prospect of opening new parishes with fewer priests to staff them.

In each instance, computer technology can provide extensive information and a range of options for action.

But for this to be useful,

someone familiar with each group and its situation must present the pertinent information, help the group study the options, make recommendations and think through the implications.

In a high-tech society, this service role is not that far removed from the Christian notion of ministry.

A Christian ministers by relating to another person, identifying that person's need, helping the person to see the spiritual value in different choices and supporting the person in carrying out decisions.

Those in the service industry of a high-tech society often can use

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their skills explicitly in the church.

For example, a financial planner who learns to listen to a young family's dreams also can become an effective youth minister helping teenagers envision their future.

A marketing specialist who le,arns how to judge the conditions for introducing a new business product can be helpful on the planning team of a parish.

A high-tech society provides many oppor• tunities for Christians to serve, both in their professional and their church lives.

A second major transition in society concerns people's roles.

When my sister and I were born, men and women, fathers and mothers, labourers and managers, teachers and students were all clearly defined by their roles.

Now they often share functions. Fathers and mothers at home even reverse traditional breadwinning and nurturing roles at times.

This kind of development not only alters the way people live, but the way they bring faith to bear on their lives. In this case, Christians are being challenged to see each Person as a unique individual with special gifts and potential, not to be stereotyped by gender, race, age or vocation.

What people must do to establish a sense of community — in a parish, for example — is to enter each other's experience, find out who they really are and what they really do, and create relationships on this basis rather than on the assumption that all Catholics or all parents or all teenagers think and act in just one way.

A third transition area gaining is slowly momentum. It is our the for repsect environment.

Nuclear accidents, acid rain, the greenhouse effect and pollution of all types proclaim that the planet must be treated carefully.

This entails a transition from habits of consumption to conservation. It

also sheds new light on the Christian practice of and self-discipline simplicity.

In the past, selfdiscipline and simplicity usually had a private goal — to do penance for sins or to strengthen one's virtue for doing good.

Today the goal of such practices often is seen in global terms — to repair the damage to the environment and to replace harmful habits with constructive ones.

Prompted by concern for the environment, Christians are rereading the accounts of creation in Genesis, rediscovering a creation-centred spirituality and preparing to make the next great transition — into the third millennium.

Grand Canyon perspectives

I'm writing this from my outdoor "office" — sitting in a back-yard lawn chair.

The temperature is a warm 24 degrees, but I just heard on the radio that evening frosts are predicted for tonight.

I realise that I'm experiencing a transition — between winter and spring.

As this experience shows, transitions are unpredictable: sun one minute, cold the next.

Transitions also are hopeful — perhaps

something better lies on the horizon — the prospect of spring flowers.

But transitions are melancholic too — the many good and pleasant things about the former season soon will depart.

And soIpack up my skis until next season.

We're surrounded by transitions of all kinds.

Just yesterday morning a neighbour had a stroke.

While tests were conducted on him, his wife andI talked about all the changes that this event would have for them.

Unpredictability. Hopefulness, Melancholia.

This is the stuff of transitions.

Those thoughts lead me to remember staring into a forest chasm recently with my wife Rose Marie.

Packs on our backs, hiking boots on our feet and new broadbrimmed hats on our heads, we were about to hike down to the river, spend the night and hike out the next day.

As I think about it now, that hike was like an unfolding transition.

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at nature's beauty and, yes, survival.

Melancholia. It was pleasant on the canyon's rim. But there were other things we could do that also would be fun and challenging Did we want to forsake civilisation for the wilderness of the winding trail below?

The memory of that hike brought the full meaning home to me.

For five hours and eight kilometres, we climbed 500m, inching our way to the top.

When I looked back I

saw that we had covered the same ground as when we hiked down, moving a little at a time and steadily higher.

ings of life's meaning can be provided.

And this leads me to the realisation that our lives are perpetual transitions.

Though the terrain was much the same, there always were new vistas and changes of colour as the dust on my boots showed, turning from white to green to red.

Life seen as transition can make us melancholic about things that may be lost and apprehensive about an unpredictable future.

But entered into in hope and with courage, a t ransition can carry Christians to new heights of accomplishment and new depths of personal and religious understanding.

This is another element of transition. Transitions take us over the same ground of our lives again and again. But in the process, different perspectives and understand-

The world out there is changing, sure enough.

Scientific and technological wonders are setting society into motion in previously unheard of ways.

Policy-makers and leaders of all kinds have their work cut out for them.

They must wrestle with the fall-out of a great many discoveries.

Clearly, on the grand scale society is changing.

But does this have anything to do with life on a more intimate scale — with me?

In the daily course of events, life appears to continue on its ordinary course. People go to work. Children spend the day in school. There are bills to pay, errands to run. Plans are laid for a vacation not all that different from the vacation you took 10 years ago.

On a day-to-day basis, you might not feel that you are living in an age of dramatic social transition or that very much actually is happening to you.

Therein lies one risk of an age of transition.

Since its impact on personal life can occur quietly, it is easy to be somewhat passive about developments, barely

By David Gibson recognising them or subjecting them to the human powers of reflection.

In an age of transition, however, the human powers of reflection are called upon to play a special role.

Presently, these powers are kept busy reflecting on the many new options available to people.

Many commentators cite the wide range of options open to people in the latter half of the 20th century as one of the period's unique features — a way that change on the grand scale enters into personal life.

Of course, there are options of every kind: bad good, and indifferent.

To an unprecedented extent, people have the option of choosing where they will live or be educated, a result of rapid travel.

Entirely new kinds of careers are opening up to people, a result of electronic communications or computerisation.

The drug culture holds out an option of a particularly devastating kind.

And people's options include an array of philosophies, some proposing the most selfish of lifestyles.

Today, people not infrequently feel that they have the option of launching an entirely new kind of career at the age of 50 or even later.

This is a sign that people have an openended view of the future, expecting to be of sound mind and body at a fairly advanced age.

And the options now open to women in society — actually the changing roles of both women and men — help to explain why people sometimes find that their very selfperception differs from that of their parents and grandparents.

The list of options could go on and on. But it is a fact of life that people cannot pursue all the options open to them.

They have to choose among the options. Often their decisions have a moral dimension.

You could say that the modern age of transition challenges people to become good decision

makers — to make decisions well.

Many people find this exhilarating, at least much of the time. It represents a new form of freedom to them. But the need to make difficult decisions can also lead to fear and stress and anxiety.

And when choices are not made with care, people run the risk of new forms of enslavement to forces around them.

So the ability to make decisions with care is a specific need of people in the current age of transition. In the Church, it is one reason why adult education efforts, Scripture and prayer groups, are popular.

People are seeking a basis for the decisions they must make, along with the community's guidance and support.

Christians always interact with their society.

Upon reflection, they find they are the beneficiaries of some social developments while others make them shudder.

Without reflection, however, Christians simply are carried along by society — a changing society whose impact is bound at some point to be felt close to home.

Costly transitions Settling down to a new culture, a totally new and strange lifestyle, can be unsettling.

For a whole generation the Israelites had known nothing but the free life of the desert.

But they dreamed of having a land they could call their own, a land "flowing with milk and honey," rich in dairy and agricultural products.

When they finally gained control of the land of Canaan, they divided it into tribal districts and started the painful process of transition to an agricultural economy.

The trouble was, they had no practical experience of farming.

First, they had to stay put and build houses.

This was something new, much different from just setting up a tent somewhere.

Then they had to figure out how to plow the stubbornly rocky soil,

By Father John Castelot what seeds to plant, how to nurture the seedlings and 101 other problems.

The Israelites looked with envy at the flourishing farms of their Canaanite neighbours and wondered what the secret of their success was.

Why not ask? The answer was given readily. These people worshiped the fertility gods — Baal and his consort Asherah. The Canaanites said these gods ensured the fertility of the crops, herds and flocks.

The countryside was dotted with shrines where the Canaanites practiced the fertility cults, largely by imitating the supposed sexual antics of their gods.

To the Israelites it looked like these gods would make up for a lack of agricultural expertise.

The attraction was strong and the people suc-

cumbed to it in alarming numbers.

The transition to a new culture threatened to become a transition to a new religion.

There was real danger that the Israelites would abandon the God who had freed their progenitors from slavey and led them through the desert.

The price of transition to what should have been a promisisng life for the Israelites was perilously high.

There always were those who remained faithful to their saving God. These Israelites made regular pilgrimages to his shrine at Shiloh.

They guided their lives by his directives, observed his feasts. But it was a struggle, against the backdrop of an ongoing conflict of cultures.

When circumstances

dictated the move to a centralised form of government for the Israelites and the selection of a king, another unsettling transition began.

It meant the move to a more urban type of life, with the emergence of builders, merchants and bureaucrats.

The prophet Samuel is portrayed as warning the Israelites what this would cost them. The king would levy taxes. He would take their sons and press them into military sevice. Their daughters would be put to work as "ointment makers, as cooks and as bakers".

And pay this price they did.

Cultural transitions are costly, painful, unnerving. They are not necessarily changes for the worse, but they have to be made prudently and realistically, with a sharp ey on the possible consequences.

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Tragedy of South Africa ...

Fr Danker Visiting South African Oblate Father Albert Danker has just completed his first Australian trip to see family and also former parishioners from his St A nne's parish in Durban.

It was also a chance to renew acquaintances with Australian Oblates he'd studied with in Natal where originally Oblate seminary students were sent.

Arriving in Perth May 7, Father Danker celebrated Mass for 140 of his former parishioners, "mostly coloured, because my parish is a coloured parish. It's not an enforced separation of parishes, but because of the government policy to segregate people into areas of black, Indian, coloured or white, that is what your parish becomes."

Within his parish there are two main ethnic groups of Indian and coloured.

Father Danker said he estimates there must be about 700 of his former parishioners now living . in Australia.

They've come, he said,

because of the social situation in South Africa, particularly the Group Areas Act, which stipulates that races are to live apart, and which also prevents them from finding suitable land on which to build their homes.

"They also want a better life for their children" and better education, because in Africa, apart from Catholic Order schools, white and black are separate schools.

However, Catholic education is expensive because some schools are subsidised by the State, but a non-white child is not. "So the schools can't afford to take more than a certain number. In order to try and subsidise the child, the parish makes every effort to pay its fees, and I'm hoping that South Africans out here will financially assist a bursary fund.

"We're also encouraging our kids to enter University and get into the disciplines which have been denied them in the past."

Some universities in South Africa are open

and some are closed to non-whites.

One fund-raising group for the cause was Jabulani (be happy!) which is a pop group in Melbourne made up of five members of one family who are former parishioners of his. Younger members of their family (four) have formed a junior pop group called Lipstique.

Father Danker said the Oblates are very prominent in Natal (the first missionaries there), and there are currently 95 Oblates in the Natal province, so many South A fricans come from Oblate parishes.

"They therefore find great affiliation with the Oblates here; it's a home away from home for them."

Most of his former parishioners have settled down well in Australia, he said. "They generally work very hard to establish a beautiful home which they have always longed for but couldn't get in South Africa."

But he expressed concern for their future quality of family life with both parents working.

Choosing to live with families rather than in presbyteries, Father Danker said he came to appreciate family problems, hassles and challenges in Catholic families because of the long faith tradition his people have had, nurtured by community parish life.

"The parish had to provide everything in the past because non-whites were restricted from entertainment facilities, and thus a good community spirit evolved.

"This is what the people notice when they come here — everything is so vast and spread out. They

also miss the lack of lovely liturgy with good singing. This they consider is a drawback and hence the emergence of an enthusiastic group which Spearwood has.

"I have told my people that Australia with its diversity of ethnic groups, where harmony is shown to be possible and people can live together, is a vision of what God would like us to be. You appreciate each other.

"South Africa has that potential if only our schools were open at the pre-primary and primary levels. The children would overcome the problem of separatedness — of apartheid."

In general, Father Danker found the younger people had settled in well and were very happy here. But older people had more difficulty, one reason being they were forced to leave their financial security behind because the currency laws are so stringent, one can't get their money out of South Africa.

South Africans, he believes, constitute one

of the biggest single groups in Australia, approxinumbered mately 30,000. Despite certain changes in South Africa with the abolition of the Mixed Marriages Act and many apartheid signs removed, one of the key foundations to the apartheid system remains — the prevention of any kind of participation in real government by blacks.

And there is the Population Registration Act which defines people according to their racial origin.

"Unless these are abolished and everybody has the freedom to vote on government, I don't see fundamental real change.

"This is the big difference between Australia and South Africa — here there is freedom of choice in every single sphere.

"But in South Africa there is very little freedom of choice and also racial discrimination is enshrined in the law.

"This is the big difference between South Africa and the rest of the world."

The tragedy is that there is a tremendous possibility for the growth of a nation if only people would recognise the dignity of everyone.

"What Australia has achieved with its diverse population, South Africa could achieve.

"And although I'm sure South Africans have nostalgia for their homeland and miss it — they've opted for freedom in Australia!"

Father Danker said he also sees the South A frican situation as representing a great challenge for the Church.

He recalled the famous South African Bevers Naude, the Dutch Reformed Minister who founded the Christian Institute.

"He was defrocked because of his long battle against discrimination and once said to me when I commented on how many people were leaving South Africa: I wouldn't consider leaving because I consider South Africa to be one of the greatest challenges to Christianity today!"

Silver anniversary get-together

Father Justin Bianchini with eldest sister Doreen, Josephite, with brothers, sisters and spouses of the big Bianchini family celebrating 25 years of Father Justin's priesthood.

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Celebrating 25 years of priesthood was not a solo event for Father Justin Bianchini who had a solid gathering of more than 60 relatives to help him mark the event in style.

After a Mass celebrated

by Father Justin for his family, the large gathering had lunch at St Charles Seminary, Guildford, where Father Justin is Director of Vocations and also Director of the Ministry to Priests program.

The Seminary is more than 'home' to Father Justin for the last four years, because he went

by Colleen McGuiness-Howard there as a young lad to the junior seminary, where he completed his secondary education and studied philosophy for the priesthood. He then studied theology in Genoa where he was ordained in 1964.

Returning to Perth, Father Justin spent six months in Highgate, followed by a term at the Cathedral, supplying for two years in various Perth parishes, plus periods at Kuhn and Kalgoorlie where he

spent seven years as parish priest.

Just looking at Father Justin with his quiet. easygoing and warm personality, it's easy to guess his background which is obviously Italian with a true family identity.

One of eight children whose parents (now deceased), came out in the 1920's, Father Justin became a priest, his eldest sister Donna a Josephite religious, one

nephew became a priest (Father Peter Bianchini, South Lake Parish), and another nephew (Justin), is studying at the Adelaide seminary.

The other six brothers and sisters married and between them have 33 19 and children grandchildren.

Of these, Father Justin has performed nine weddings as well as that of his youngest sister.

It all adds up to quite some contribution two Italian migrants made in the early part of the century, to Catholic life here in Perth.

Saint-making slowdown CITY VATICAN (NC): At the Vatican, making where saints is sometimes jokingly referred to as an "industry," there are hints that a boom cycle that began in the 1980s might be winding down.

In mid-March, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger suggested that the Church should reflect more on the universal quality of candidates before raising them to the ranks of the blessed or saints.

His remarks came as other churchmen predicted that the numbers may soon level off anyway because of technical factors.

But if a cutback in sainthood production is on the way, Pope John Paul II's schedule doesn't show it yet. In April he was slated to canonize a 19th-century Italian nun, beatify five others from four coun-

tries two weeks later, then head to Africa, where he would beatify a Madagascar lay woman and a French priest who worked in Reunion.

They are the latest additions to a fastgrowing list of blesseds — those declared by the Church to have exemplified Christian virtues — and saints — those recognised to be in heaven and whose lives are deemed worthy of honour and imitation.

In his 10-year pontificate, the pope has made about 250 new saints and some 300 blesseds — about as many as were elevated by all previous popes combined.

Pope John Paul's numbers are somewhat inflated by several large groups of martyrs. But the pope himself has made it clear that he enjoys expanding the album of saints to include

more lay people, young people and missionaries, including many with little previous claim to fame.

"All are called to sanctity, no one is excluded," the pope said in a beatification ceremony early in his pontificate.

Beatifications have also become a standard event on his foreign trips, and local churches have picked up on the trend. At the Vatican, new sainthood causes are now submitted from dozens of countries each year.

"When he travels, the pope likes to bring a blessed in his pocket," said Archbishop Traian Crisan, secretary of the Congregation for Sainthood Causes. To local Catholics, he said, the impressive beatification ceremonies are "like something from another world."

But often these

"blesseds" are virtual unknowns outside their native region, and remain so after this ceremony.

That's one point alluded to by Cardinal Ratzinger, the head of the Vatican's doctrinal congregation, in remarks during a question-andanswer session in northern Italy. His comments were reported by two Italian newspapers.

Cardinal Ratzinger suggested it would be "opportune in the future to reflect more on the message proposed by certain figures who are elevated," differentiating among those who have something to say to a "limited group" and others who are truly figures for "the great multitude of believers".

Asked to name examples of more universal figures, Cardinal Ratzinger came up with two northern

canonization were reduced from two to one.

"Initially, we had a rush of causes, those which had been waiting for that second miracle," Archbishop Crisan said. "But that is subsiding, and a year or two I expect the numbers to go back down."

Europeans: Blessed Edith Stein, a German nun who converted from Judaism and died at the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, and Blessed Niels Stensen, a 17thcentury Danish scientist, also a convert, who is considered the father of modern geology.

Is there a risk of putting too many saints and blesseds in circulation?

According to Archbishop Crisan, the danger does exist.

"It's like anything that's done every day — it can lose some of its value. We need to be careful," he said.

But he added that the main reason for the growth in the saintly population is not the pope, who he said "never pushes" the congregation, but a technical change made in 1983, when the number of miracles needed for both beatification and

In the meantime, a pool of blesseds has been created all over the world — raising hopes among local churches that their native hero or heroine will eventually be declared a saint.

An official at the congregation said he has seen the "great good" that can come out of canonizations and beatifications for local and national churches. He said the trend toward elevating figures who have specific meaning for their native churches may better reflect our complex, highly specialised world — in

which it is difficult to find one saint who speaks to everyone. myself "I ask whether these highly localised messages don't tend to weave a pattern," he said. He compared them to patches of a quilt which together form a beautiful whole.

Vatican officials are quick to dispel the notion that standards are being relaxed in order to make more saints. Candidates' lives are sill painstakingly researched — which is one reason why the congregation staff has grown to include nerly 100 officials and consultors, more than any Vatican other department.

These days, about 1500 active sainthood causes are keeping this "quality control" team extra-busy. Even if the production pace slows, the Vatican's saint-makers aren't likely to run out of work for a long time.

New row over old cover-up?

VATICAN CITY: As Vatican experts prepare to restore Michelangelos' monumental masterpiece The Last Judgement, a 425-yearold Vatican cover-up may be the art world's newest controversy.

In 1564, Daniel of Volterra, acting on orders from Pope Pius IV, discreetly veiled many of the nude figures adorning Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel apocalyptic fresco.

Volterra's figurative airbrushing of the masterpiece earned him the nickname of "The breeches maker", but his c ensorious additions have adorned the climatic portrayal of Christ's final judgement for all but two decades of the frescos' life.

The of question whether to robe or disrobe Saints Catherine, Bartholomew and others of the heavenly host has arisen with plans by the Vatican to restore the 28m high fresco.

Critics of the Vatican's restoration of the Sistine ceiling, like the Italian painter Toti Scialoia are just as caustic about any efforts to leave Volterra's loincloths.

"Shame continues to win, despite everything," commented Scialoia.

Francesco Mancinelli, the Vatican Museum's scientific director replied that there are historical

and technical reasons to leave well enough alone.

Technically, if Volterra simply painted over Michelangelo's fresco as restorers did in the 17th and 18th centuries, such additions could be removed. But studies suggest Volterra painted "affresco" — that is, like Michelangelo, he first applied wet plaster, then painted it before it dried.

If so, there is no chance of restoring the naked splendour of Michelangelo since the added coats of plaster would have destroyed it.

But another consideration is historical. Volterra's additions were completed before Michelangelo had died, barely 20 years after the altarpiece had been completed.

"I have to respect the laws of (art) conservation," Mancinelli explained. "the norm is to conserve all that is historical, that documents the past."

Mancinelli links the dressing of Michelangelo's nudes with the Council of Trent and the reformist fervour of the C ounter-Reformation.

As such, Volterra's additions are part of the historical record, he said.

Other additions painted by would-be restorers in later centuries will likely be removed, Mancinelli said, because they used colours matched to by-

then smoke-darkened fresco surfaces, not to the original.

Mancinelli said no final decision has been made.

The Vatican is planning to proceed carefully, first by discovering what method Volterra used, then by consulting an international collection of art experts at a Vatican sponsored conference on the Sistine restorations, to be held next April.

But the debate is likely to receive more attention than it might warrant because of the Vatican's past reputation for artisitically clothing the naked.

A stroll through the museums Vatican reveals dozens of classical statues, bare but for what one author called the ludicrous disfigurement of a plaster fig leaf.

For example, one statue of Hercules in the Charamonti Gallery dates back to ancient Rome.

The original muscleman, posed holding his son Telephos, once wore only a lion skin draped over this shoulders. But for the last few hundred years he has worn a fig leaf plaster, a comical badge of tastefulness he shares with many other Mercurys and Bacchus.

Such coverings were not only for secular statues. In the apse of St Peter's basilica is the tomb of Pope Paul III the pope who commissioned

Michelangelo to paint The Last Judgement.

Built in the latter half of the 16th century, the tomb is flanked by the allegorical figures of Justice and Prudence.

The model for the naked statue of Justice is said to have been the pope's sister, Giula Bella.

But evidence for what one commentator called an "unhealthy fatuation" with the statue's beauty led to her being swathed in metal draperies.

Today only her bare feet lies what suggest beneath.

Despite these examples of Counter-Reformation prudishness, the Vatican and its popes did not always believe such cover-ups necessary.

Other statues in the Vatican Museum were left as unadorned as their makers made them.

Even in the Sistine, Michelangelo's many nudes reclining on the Sistine ceiling were never covered.

But the terrible and overpowering The Last Judgement done 30 years after the ceiling, immeprovoked diately outrage.

Michelangelo's youthful beardless Christ was particularly shocking for some churchmen.

But the most horrifying of all was the nakedness of the saved who joined Christ in heaven and the

Painting of the Last Judgement. damned being pushed and pulled down into hell.

Pope Paul IV who initiated the Roman Inquisition, labelled the fresco a "stage of nudes" and Pope Pius IV wanted the entire altarpiece to be whitewashed before he settled on Volterra's additions.

Even as Michelangelo was painting The Last Judgement, an adviser of

Pope Paul III objected to the indecency.

Michelangelo's revenge was to paint in the curial official's face, decorated with Ass's ears, as Minas, ancient mythology's judge of the damned.

But perhaps the Curia had the last laugh when Volterra painted the coverings ordered by Pope Pius IV. In most cases, he merely added whispy bits of cloth draped strategi-

cally, though he gave naked St Catherine of Alexandria a completely new dress.

The planned restoration of the chapel wall is to be completed in 1993.

Whether Volterra "breeches" stay or come off, the cleansed work should reveal Michelangelo's intention, says Mancinelli: a window through which the viewer glimpses a moment of humanity's final judgement.

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Family -wise the increase for the one child is 71% on present payments; for two children, 41%; for three or more child families only 24%.

The Allowances should be kept in step with Consumer Price Index rises. The last time this was done in 1980-83 under Senator Fred Chaney as Minister for Social Security. Since then the CPI has increased almost exactly 100%.

As a parameter it can be seen that the present increases are inadequate and lag markedly on CPI. R egrettably the 24% increases for larger families are given a new

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Novena to the Sacreo Heart. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, may your name be praised and glorified throughout the world now and forever. Amen.

(Say nine a day for nine consecutive days and promise publication.)

Thanks to the Sacred Heart for prayers ans.wered. Liz. Thanks giving, as promised to St Clare, St Christopher, St Benedict, Padre Pio, Green Scapular, St Martin De Porres, Our Lord Jesus Christ, Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Our Lady of Revelation, Our Lady of Health, Our Lady of Lourdes, Mother Seton, St Martha, St Joseph, St Jude, Sacred Heart of Jesus, Infant Jesus of Prague, all the angels, and saints for special favours granted and recovery of good health. I place all my trust in you and may your name be praised and glorified. Amen. E.D.G. Thanks St Jude. Thank you for favours received. S.G.

TOMORROW TODAY with Father Joe Parkinson

'Hands' wanted for cloorknock The Year of Mission is o ver, but where do we go from here? Both closing events — the Archdiocesan Assembly at Santa Maria and the Entertainment Centre Mass — saw many young people playing a c entral role in discerning our future as a Catholic community.

"Surprised and delighted" was the way Andrew McLean described youth reaction to the Assembly and to the

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And thousands were witness to the very lively participation of many young people in the closing eucharist.

But while we wait for the next step in our Year of Mission journey, what can we do to maintain the momentum built up in the last 12 months?

Listening and reflecting together are not com-

plete unless they lead to some form of united action aimed at achieving those mutual hopes and dreams.

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people as they throw themselves willingly into the life of the Church.

But the invitation to participate can only come from those already sharing fully in parish life, and that will only happen if we take seriously the common call to reach out to youth.

Inclusion in parish life seems to mean more than simple participation.

It seems to imply tailoring our plans to include more young people, not simply inviting youth to join in established activities.

Whether it is in the style

of music played at a parish Mass or social, or in timing events to avoid clashes with examination times, inclusive planning can encourage our young people to play a more active part in their Church.

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And while the education question may be a hot potatoes at times, we must not fall into the trap of believing that educa-

tion is the responsibility of our schools alone.

If we sincerely treasure the present and the future of our Church, we must recognise that we all share that responsibility.

And this is nothing new, for we are reminded regularly that parents are the first and most important teachers of their children in the ways of faith.

Which raises two final issues, both of them vital

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to achieving our hopes and dreams for youth.

Our youth may well reply, "We are here, in your homes and parishes, your colleges and schools.

First, an increase in youth participation in our Church calls for a proportionate increase in adult involvement with youth groups.

Every parent wants a vibrant, active parish youth group for their children, but how many parents are prepared to involve themselves in those youth groups?

Second, adult participation is only part of the story, for genuine care and prayer are also necessary. One of the questions asked often in the Year of Mission was "Where are our young people?"

Youth groups are for the young, and young people must run their own groups, but their success will depend on active support offered by more of our adult parishioners.

But if we are not in your hearts and minds, and in your prayers too, then all of our efforts will come to nothing."

It is with prayer and personal commitment that we must begin to answer the challenge.

Mission challenge charitable Every organisation knows how difficult it is to make ends meet in today's economic climate, and Catholic Youth Services is no exception.

Andrew McLean . . CYC chairman

Government funding and private fund raising are absolutely vital if we are to continue to provide essential services for our young people.

Recent years have seen a steady growth in number of young people reached by youth workers and movements based at the Catholic Youth Office in Claverton Street, North Perth.

Ten years ago a mere handful of groups reached fewer than two hundred youth, but today over fifty parish and school groups regularly involved more than

a thousand young people in weekly or fortnightly meetings and camps.

Catholic Youth Services, the brainchild of Father John Jegorow, provides a wide variety of group formation and leadership training services through the efforts of Catholic Parish Youth, Young Christian Students, Young Christian Workers, Antioch and Charis, to name just a few.

Add to these the dozen or more groups under the Catholic Youth Council umbrella and it is obvious that the Catholic youth scene, with its emphasis on personal and community formation, is alive and well in Perth.

Where other youth organisations work in the curative field by reaching

out to youth in crisis, more and more for Catholic Youth Services operating finances. concetrates on prevenYouth Appeal 1989, to tion — helping young be conducted on Sunday, people grow personally August 20, is vital to the and in faith, developing a immediate future of our sense of belonging to youth services. family and parish, and so Schools, youth groups nourishing the circum- and many individual stances which help collectors are slowly youth avoid crisis. gearing up for this vital Inevitably, however, campaign under the these services are costly. guidance of appeal coGovernment grants ordinator Pam Smith. help cover only a small While most schools and portion of the cost, which groups have already includes the youth indicated that they will worker's wage — the rest support Youth Appeal must come from other 1989, there is still a great sources. need for more volunteers Youth Appeal, the to collect in most areas of annual doorknoc.k cam- Perth.

And as preparations paign conducted jointly

by Catholic Youth Servi- enter their last few ces, Lutheran Youth, and weeks, the need for more Police and Citizens collectors is increasingly Clubs, is a major fund urgent. raiser on which our It is crucial to realise youth movements rely that just a few hours of

your time can make all the difference.

Willing helpers can call the youth office anytime on 328 9878 with offers to help.

Meanwhile, a special Sunday eucharist and social will be held at Willetton parish on the evening of Youth Appeal, August 20.

Beginning with Mass at 5pm, this will be open to everyone who has helped with this year's appeal, and Damien McBain, whose group 'Resurrection Shuffle' will play for the Mass, hopes that every collector will help us celebrate this important event.

More details will appear on this page soon, but meanwhile help our young people to help themselves — support Youth Appeal 1989 now.

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Woman who prays The Potawatomi Indian girls at Sugar Creek, Kansas, called her Quah-kah-ka-num-ad. In their language that means "Woman Who Prays Always".

By then in 1841, Sister Rose Philippine Duchesne was 72 years old. The young Indian girls at the mission school knew she loved them even if she could not speak their language. She spent her days caring for sick Potawatomi and praying.

The young Indian girls hardly could have imagined what their beloved sister's life had been like before she came to them in Kansas. They knew little more about her than that she was old and wise, loved them a lot and prayed often.

Rose grew up in Grenoble, France, where she was born in 1769. Her parents were wealthy and well-known. They sent Rose to school at a Visitation Convent so she would have a good education. But they were not happy when she wanted to become a nun.

Rose joined the Visitation Sisters but had to leave the convent four years later during the Reign of Terror in France when the revolutionary government closed all convents.

Rose returned home. For about 10 years she cared for the sick and taught children. She risked arrest sheltering priests who were being persecuted by the government.

In 1801 the Emperor Napoleon ended the religious persecution. Rose joined a new

community, the Society of the Sacred Heart. Soon she became a superior and began the first Sacred Heart Convent in Paris.

Then her community sent her with four sisters to the United States. They arrived in New Orleans in 1818. They would be sent to St Charles, Mo, not far from St Louis, to begin the first free school west of the Mississippi.

Sister Rose and her companions lived in a log cabin, the first Sacred Heart house in America. It was a different way of life from the one they had known in France. There were difficulties of all kinds, but Sister Rose would not give up.

A year later she started a new convent at Florissant, Mo, near St Louis. She began a free parish school there as well as an orphanage, an academy for boarders and a novitiate for young women wanting to become sisters.

People admired Sister Rose Philippine Duchesne's compassion for anyone in need, her courage, her leadership qualities and her closeness to God. In 1840 she resigned as superior of the Sacred Heart Sisters in America and moved to Sugar Creek. About a year later poor health forced her to move back to St Charles. Quah-kah-ka-num-ad died in 1852.

She was canonised July 3, 1988.

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Joey finds Northern Ireland very different from Australia.

Yet even in such a troubled place, the message of hope comes through.

What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge. Published by Armada Classics. $5.95.

Katy Carr was a tomboy.

She hated sewing and darning, her hair was forever in a tangle and her clothes would go and "tear tflemselves."

But secretly Katy longed to be beautiful and patient, to be as kind and gentle as her beloved Cousin Helen.

The story of the dreadful accident that gave Katy the chance to achieve her aim, and how it affected her family — Clover, Elsie, Dorry, Johnnie, Phil and Papa — is an enchanting classic which has delighted millions of readers.

The Red Mitten by Tilde Michels. Illustrated by Winfried Opgenoortb.

Published by Oxford University Press bb $16.95.

What can happen to a little red mitten lost by a child in the woods?

So many things that you'd hardly believe it!

Told in lively and humourous rhyme, this charming picture storybook tells the adventures of the red mitten.

Many creatures find the mitten but only in the end is it put to a satisfying and suprising new use.

This hook will appeal to any young child who has ever lost a mitten or a glove.

And who hasn't done that!

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by David Hicks. Illustrated by Margie Chellete.

Does the earth have a heartbeat?

Does it suffer when we quarry deep into its side?

Does it harbour secrets of its own?

What is Andrew's secret?

Six Australian Picturemac bookspublished by Macmillan Australia. $4.95 each.

Titles are: Longneck the Tortoise by Ann Coleridge, illustrated by Marg Towt; The Kitten who Wouldn't Purr by David Martin, illustrated by Mark Payne; Moona Park by Alastair Sharp illustrated by Bruce Rankin; The Mount Martha Monster

by Joan and John van Loon; The Old Woman and her Pig, retold by Mary O'Toole, illustrated by Chris Meadows and Red Jack by Mary Durack, illustrated by Michael Wilkin.

These stories, poetry and prose are interesting and exciting with colourful illustrations to hold attention and interest, and details to stimulate the mind and imagination.

Making Faces by Peter Firmin. Published by Picture Lions. $5.95.

Easy glove puppets for children to make at home and at school.

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Is arthritis an inherited disease?

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How can dc.yression that inevitably comes with arthritis be treated and coped with?

Does acupuncture therapy work and. if so, how?

With its practical questionand-answer format, this book brings the doctor to the patient and explains simply and in reassuring terms everything both patient and family need to know.

This hook is a practical guide designed to help those with arthritis to adapt more easily to their various degrees of handicap.

The aim of this book is to answer all the questions you never have the time to ask your doctor at the time of owtsultation.

Arthritis helps everrme understand all aspects of their problem. It emphasises various treatments available — both orthodox and ' alternative'.

Treatment in itself can sometimes be of little value if it is not seen in conjunction with other forms of help.

Arthritis has a special glossary of drugs and medical terms and a section of useful addresses.

This book has been thoroughly checked and adapted to the Australian market by Dr Phillip Sambrook, Garven Institute, St Vincents Hospital, Sydney

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Our Schools and Our Faith. A pastoral concern and challenge by Jim Gallagher SDB. Published

by Collins. $5.95.

What is distinctive about the Catholic school?

Our Schools and Our Faith approaches this question within the focus of the school as a setting for 'living and Sharing our Faith'. which is the concern of the National Project.

The Challenge of Secularisation by Rowan Ireland. Published by Collins Dore. $12.95 In The Challenge of Secularisation, Rowan Ireland surveys the literature of religious stwiology, bringing its insights to bear on pastoral questions facing the Churches in Australia.

He confronts such questions as: • Is secularisation a mere myth?

• If there is such a process, is it unstoppable, or can it be reversed?

• Was there ever a Golden Age of religion from ‘‘ hich we have fallen away?

Dr Ireland helpfully distinguishes various meanings of 'secularisation' before probing the phenomenon itself He then suggests points of dialogue between modernisation and religion.

Both experience and scholarship play major roles in this study Ireland notes that 'in the lifetime of Australians now in their forties. religion has lost its function in shaping national and personal identity'. He cites evidence of 'a lack of sensibility toward the transcendant sacred'. and of private feeling replacing public responsibility as a basis for decision-making.

Craftline Series, by Margaret Kennedy Scott and Mary Beazley. Making Pressed Flower Pictures.

Published by Batsford. through Distributed Oxford University Press, Australia, $14.95.

Pressing flowers is something most people try at one time or another, and one of the most attractive ways of using pressed flowers is to create a picture from them.

When you can fashion a picture with skill and an awareness of design, shape and colour, the result is an extemely satisfying and longlasting piece of decoration — but you will always need a little help in developing your skills.

This guide to the art of pressing flowers gives the advice you need, with hints on selecting your plants and flowers and on constructing picture frames.

There are also some related projects, like making greeting cards and bible markers.

This is the first and bestknown work by these two authors, who have now written a number of hooks on the subject, all published

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Babies' Names by Louise Nicholson. Illustrated by Ian Beck. Published by Conran Octopus. Distributed through Angus & Robertson. bb. $8.95.

What shall we call our baby?

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This beautifully illustrated book contains over 700 boys and girls' names.

It includes all the most popular choices as well as many more unusual names.

For each name, the author gives its meaning, its history, any interesting association and common variations and nicknames.

Rage by Wilbur Smith. published by Pan. $10.99.

There are heroes and there are monsters. But most of us arc ordinary mortals caught up in events too turbulent for any of us. Perhaps when the battle is over, all we will inherit are the ashes of a once beautiful land.

It is 1952. Guided by the ruthless hands of Sham Courtney and Centaine Malcomess. the Courtney family empire has come to dominate the lives of white and black South African alike.

But the winds of change are fanning the fires of revolution. In his deadly quest for power Sham will be tested far beyond the battles of the boardroom, forced to betray his ideals for a misguided dream of national unity.

Rage is Wilbur Smith's impassioned account of post-war South Africa. It is also the work of a master story-teller at the zenith of his powers: an unforgettable blend of passion, power, history and intrigue.

Happiness — It's up To You. Easy steps to selfacceptance and good relationships by Sabine Beecher. Published by Collins Dove. $14.95.

The key to happiness is in the way you think. One style of thinking leads to doubts and misery, while another leads to self-acceptance and happiness.

Happiness — It's Up to You! shows you how to master the logical thinking that brings happiness. It shows that you don't need success or the approval of others for good feelings about yourself.

The message of the book is: You can't change others, so it's up to you to make changes. Your thinking gives you the power to control your own life and happiness.

When you have learnt to depend on yourself, you will actually get on better with others.

Sabine Beecher clearly sets out easy steps to: Make yourself feel remarkably good • protect yourself from criticisms and hurts • master unwanted feelings • be secure. relaxed and within contented yourself • cope with stress by forestalling it.

Build better relationships • get on well with family, friends, co-workers and others • choose a partner who's right for you • keep your couple relationship close and loving • be confident as a parent

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The First Aid Manual is a comprehensive guide for treating casualties of all ages in any emergency It is the essential book to keep accessible at home, at work or in the car.

Contents include: basic lifesupport techniques • Clearing the airway • Expired air resuscitation cardiac • External compression • The lateral recovery position • Controlling bleeding First aid treatment for • Suffocation and choking • Heart attacks and strokes • Fractures and muscle injuries • Burns and scalds major with Dealing emergencies.

Family — The Ties that Bind. . . and Gag! by Erma Bombeck. Published by Pan. $9.99.

A grown family comes home to spend the weekend . . . a group who share the same genes. the same last name. But they've never eaten the same breakfast cereal, watched the same TV show, liked the same people. . or spoken the same language.

Theirs is the story of a strange little band of characters trudging through lik, sharing disease and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo. borrowing money. inflicting pain and kissing to heal it, loving, laughing, defending. and trying to figure out the common thread that binds them all together.

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by TOM BRANCH MIXED PENNANTS • Round 4 of the 1989 St Joseph's 2 WACLTA mixed pen- St Norbert's 0 nants competition produced two close matches B Grade 8 and three one-sided Pignatelli 2 St Benedict's 6 encounters. Both the 5 close games occurred in Pignatelli 1 Liwara 3 B grade.

Dianella 2 A Grade Queens Park 0 The scores did not provide a true reflection Next Week of the clash between St A Grade Jude's and St Cecilia's, St Joseph's v St Cecilia's which St Jude's won 10 St Norbert's v St Jude's set 61 games to St The clash between St Cecilia's 0 sets 34 games. Joseph's and St Cecilia's It was an important win is extremely important for St Jude's as it gave with the winner remainthem second spot on the ing in touch with the top ladder. two teams. The loser of In the other match, this game will find it Queens Park had a extremely tough to make comfortable win over St the finals.

Norbert's; 9 sets 87 Second team St Jude's games to 1 set 46 games. clash with bottom side St St Norbert's remain the Norbert's. After their only team in A grade morale boosting win without a win. As a result against St Cecilia's, St of their win, Queen's Jude's should be able to Park have consolidated account for St Norbert's their position at the top and retain a hold on of the table. second position.

B Grade Selections — St Joseph's Pignatelli 2 retained St Jude's their position as B grade B Grade leaders when they won a Pignatelli 1 v Queens Park very exciting game Pignatelli 2 v St Benedict's against Liwara, the Liwara v Dianella scores being Pignatelli 2 The clash between the 5 sets 67 games to Liwara top two teams will be the 5 sets 54 games. highlight of Round 5 in The match between the B grade competition.

Pignatelli 1 and Dianella Pignatelli 2 have yet to be was even closer when beaten this year. St Pignatelli 1 won by only Benedict's, following two games, the scores their percentage boosting being Pignatelli 1 5 sets win last weekend, should 48 games Dianella 5 sets provide a strong chal64 games. lenge and this match In the remaining game, should be very close.

St Benedict's had a Liwara and Dianella percentage boosting win were unlucky losers in over Queens Park with Round 4 and both teams the final scores being St will be keen to made Benedict's 10 sets 90 amends and keep their games to Queens Park 0 finals' hopes alive. sets 19 games.

Pignatelli 1 should be Table successful in the game A Grade with Queens Park.

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TEE PARISH SCENE NEWMAN SOCIETY Vatican II study group, Tuesday July 11, at 11am, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, chapter 3. Section 26.

Scripture group, Thursday July 13 at 8pm First Epistle of St John chapters 4 & 5. Both these meetings to be presided over by Father Dynon at 13 Dean St Claremont. Contact no.

446 7340.

Guest speaker discussion group: Tuesday July 18 at 8 pm in the Senior Common Room, St Thomas More College a talk will be given by Focolare members on The Spirituality and Life of the Focolare Movement.

Contact no. 446 1628.

All three meetings open to anyone interested.

LAY PART Lay people have an active part to play in the life and activity of the Church.

The post-synodal document "Christifideles Laici" states that the call comes from our sharing in the Mission of Christ, Priest, Prophet and King. The 175 page document on the 1987 Synod and the Laity is now available from Gatto's and Pellegrini at a cost of $3.

CARMELITE FEAST Archbishop Foley will celebrate a solemn Mass for the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, at the Carmelite Monastery, Adelma Rd, Nedlands, on Saturday, July 15 at 9.30am. All are most welcome to the Mass and to the morning tea afterwards.

NEW BOOKSHOP After 12 months of trading, the Catholic Bookshop run by the Society of St Vincent de Paul at its headquarters in East Perth has shown a slow but steady increase in business.

When the Australian Catholic Truth Society stopped producing pamphlets, the St Vincent de Paul had the choice of either going out of business or else branching out into something bigger and brighter. Its decision to continue operating and to obtain good cheap books from many sources has been justified in the greater demand from existing church racks and new outlets.

MERREDIN REFLECTION Catholic Women's League Merredin will hold a Day of Retreat on Wednesday, July 26. Cost $5. Fr Michael McCann will lead the day in St Mary's Church Merredin at 9.30am. If attending please phone Mrs Lois Jefferys, Wandalea, Burracoppin 6421 (090) 44 7035 or Mrs Clare Napolitano, 12 French Ave, Merredin 6415 (090) 41 1517.

GOODS AVAILABLE Tom Price parish has available two altars, one vestment press, one mobile confessional; all in fairly good order and all — or any — could be had on application, making arrangements for delivery.

LEBANON PRAYER The weekend of July 14-16 has been chosen for this national day of prayer for Lebanon, that God will grant the country a peaceful, just and lasting solution.

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Golden Jubilee of Fr Samuel Rodomonti.

Golden Jubilee of Sisters lona Convent. Bishop Healy.

Silver Jubilee of Bruce Rock Church. Archbishop Foley.

Mass at Carmelite Monastery, Nedlands. Archbishop Foley.

Mass for Little Sisters of Carmel.

Bishop Healy.

State Conference of the Catholic Women's League.

Army Family Church Service, at Salvation Army Citadel. Archbishop Foley.

Catholic Rural Outreach Mass, Bindoon, Bishop Healy.

Professor Saint Memorial Service at Winthrop Hall. Archbishop Foley.

Meeting of Zone Chairmen. Archbishop Foley.

Catenian Association at St Mary's Cathedral. Archbishop Foley.

South West Regional Mass.

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Diamond Jubilee - Wyalkatchem Parish. Bishop Healy.

Visitation and confirmation -Doubleview Parish. Archbishop Foley.

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The 15 day tour departing May 20 and led by former youth chaplain and experienced pilgrimage leader Father John Jegorow now of Ballajura, is intentionally shorter than similar tours to allow for pilgrims to make later optional extensions from London to places such as Lourdes, Fatima, Mediugone etc

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Application forms and further information are available at the college — 274 6266.

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The Irish Theatre Players presents "The Freedom of the City"

by Brian Friel. Directed by Bill Motherway.

Dates: July 13, 14 and 15 at 8pm Admission: $8, conc $7

THE CONVICT PRIESTS The story of the first priests transported to Australia.

Wed, July 12, 8pm. Irish Club $8

Gaelic Football — Fleadh Cup Finals: Sunday, July 9 at Crimea Park, Morley Enquiries: Michael Morgan 451 9586

GOLF DAY Seaview Golf Course over 18 holes.

Prizes and a trophy.

Followed by a refreshing drop and food.

Book early, numbers strictly limited.

Inquiries & bookings: The Irish Club 61 Townshend Road, Subiaco Mon, Wed, Fri 9am-3pm 381 5213

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The Scholarship covers music tuition and school fees.

Application forms are available from the College office and auditions will be held at the College on Thursday.

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Applications close on Friday, July 28.

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