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Youth on the march POPE TO GO TO 'ENDS OF THE EARTH' FOR THEM CITY VATICAN (CNS): Pope John Paul II plans to go to "the ends of the Earth" to encourage youths to build a better world and fortify their spiritual lives.

To celebrate World Youth Day more than 300,000 youths on pilgrimage will greet the pope at Santiago de Compostela.

Going to "the ends of the Earth" means visiting Santiago de Compostela.

During the centuries Europeans when thought the world was flat and ended somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic, it was the last major city before reaching the sea — thus the title.

The youths, mostly from Europe, but including pilgrims from Perth, will be travelling at least part of the way on foot. For centuries the tomb of St James the Apostle at Santiago de Compostela has been a major European pilgrimage site.

Elaborate pilgrimage routes stretch from several spots in Spain and from across the Pyrenees Mountains in France, tracing trails established in medieval times.

The pope will walk the final 100 metres to the cathedral that houses the tomb of St James the apostle.

Encouraging pilgrimages is part of the pope's strategy of reviving traditional

Another i 'mass' intake of acolytes Nearly 200 men from 56 parishes have applied to train as acolytes to be instituted by Archbishop Foley on October 14.

Last week they were pictured at the first of their four training sessions.

They make up the seventh large intake since the ministry was introduced into the archdiocese with 47 candidates in 1974 and will bring the total to well over 1000.

The 1989 intake is the first since the introduction in 1986 of special ministers of the eucharist.

forms of Christian devotions as a way of refurbishing the faith of today's Catholics.

The idea of the pilgrimage is "to underline the roots of our faith, at a moment when the Church, under the guidance of the Holy Father, is committed to a new evangelisation", said Cardinal Pironio, head of the organising body.

The pope, in his previous trips to Western Europe, has stressed the need for a re-evangelisation in the region where Christian roots are centuries old, but Church attendance and influence in contemporary life are low in the face of a growing secular culture.

In the 1989 message for World Youth Day, the pope stressed that the "world of today is a great mission land, even in countries of long-standing Christian tradition".

"Everywhere today neo-paganism and the process of secularisation present a great challenge to the message of the Gospel," he said.

The Church needs "apostles who are young and courageous" to take advantage of the "new openings" for evangelisation, he said.

The pope will probably flesh out the generalities by listing specific areas of moral and social concerns of special interest to youths.

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These include aid to "the unemployed, drug addicts, children of broken families and those who abuse their own bodies, leading the way to spiritual desperation", Archbishop said Antonio Maria Rouco Varela of Santiago de Compostela.

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The Church began celebrating World Youth Day on Palm Sunday 1986. This year will mark the first time that the world day is not scheduled for Palm Sunday and the second time the pope has celebrated it outside the Vatican.

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In 1987, the pope celebrated World Youth Day in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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E VBI S HOP industry "Education is not an industry," said Archbishop D'Arcy in Hobart recently; "not in fact, not in reality, not in truth. The educational process is totally different from any industrial process, no matter how technologically advanced."

He added: "One of the strengths of Mr John Dawkins' work as Federal Minister for Education is that he has not only worked on pragmatic problems like funding and organisation, but also made us think deeply about the intrinsic nature of education itself.

"This is very wise. If you start with a false concept, you will get a bad result.

If that false concept bears on a process which shapes children's futures, the damage could be permanent.

The Archbishop was addressing a conference of Tasmanian Parents and Friends Associations from Catholic parishes and schools all over Tasmania.

The new Tasmanian Minister of Education, Peter Patmore, and a group of State and Federal Cabinet Ministers and Parliamentar-

ians also attended the Conference.

Archbishop D'Arcy continued: "education is not an industry, because children are not the raw materials of an industrial process.

"Every human being is unique. No human being is simply a clone of another.

"The great succes of the Industrial Revolution was that it gave us the ability to turn out the same thing over and over again, every item identical with all of the myriad others.

"This is the very opposite of education. Every child's development is an individual history.

"In a true educational process, no child is merely a product; and of twenty-five students in a classroom, not one is identical with any of the other twenty-four.

"Education is not an industry, because a teacher is not a process worker on a production line, or in any other form of industrial production.

"If an industrial process fails, the spoilt material can be thrown away; there is plenty more where that came from.

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initiated more deeply into the treasures accumulated by God's people on their pilgrim journey to eternal life.

"Many of my own passions and convictions converge on these certainties.

"For thirty years I studied and taught philosophy in Seminary and University; and, ever since Plato, philosophers have studied the nature of education.

"For twenty years, as Episcopal Vicar for tertiary education in Melbourne, and then as a Bishop, education has been a prime concern in my priestly vocation.

"I have therefore been acutely conscious of the way that modern Australian developments have provided a new and a richer context for these three perennial facts about teachers and schoolchildren and parents.

"The Commonwealth has developed an entirely new role in all Australian education, primary and secondary and tertiary.

"The States have come into quite new relationships with those educational institutions which

they do not actually run: for in Australia, universities and tertiary colleges are not run by governments, as State schools are.

We Catholics welcome the fact that the Commonwealth and States have not confined their interest in universities and tertiary colleges and Church schools simply to funding and financial aspects.

"There are many other, deeper, aspects which will never be adequately met unless there is systematic and mutual collaboration between all those interested in education.

"Parents and Friends Associations have a special part to play in fostering and consolidating these relationships.

Long may they flourish and develop.

"Parliaments and governments are needed especially to provide arbitration commissions and similar bodies with conceptual frameworks which are sophisticated and specific enough to do full justice to the truth about the nature of education.

"An arbitration commission is drastically

impeded if it has to work with a concept of education which equiparates the educational process with the industrial process: if it makes no essential distinction between the industrial worker — no matter how highly developed the industry — and the teacher.

"Catholics are especially conscious of this.

Just as the numbers of consecrated Religious teaching Sisters and Brothers were proving inadequate to keep up with our growing student population, we were blessed with the coming of dedicated and professional lay teachers into our schools.

"The harmonious accomplishment of this enormous change is not just a success story; it is the work of God. "But the lay teacher has many essential needs and rights quite different from those of the consecrated Religious.

"The lay teacher in our school is following a truly Christian vocation and, at the very same time, a personal human career. `Their associations seek to develop an authentically Catholic vision of

representing those essential needs and rights as integral to the authentically Catholic character of the educational process in which they play so central a role.

"To this end it is essential that courts and commissions be equipped with adequate conceptual and philosophical resources by parliaments and governments.

"The false concept of education as an industry has gained ground because Arbitration Commissions and similar bodies have not been provided by parliaments and governments with conceptual resources rich enough, and true enough, to do justice to the authentic uniqueness of the educational process.

"The bodies which determine the salaries, rights, privileges and responsibilities of judges, or parliamentarians, do not have to arrive at their conclusions on the basis that judging, or lawmaking, is an industry.

"The vocation of the teacher is at least as important, and at least as unique, as that of any judge or parliamentarian."

"close to 700 submissions", Dr Costigan said.

"Some came from parishes and involved scores of people. We've heard of parishes that had extremely well attended meetings where people had lots to say."

In the brief statement for Social Justice Sunday the bishops' committee will outline: • The reasons for the delay in the draft statement.

• The present state of the wealth inquiry.

• The committee's hopes for the project for the next six to 12 months.

Dr Costigan said there were two other reasons why the draft statement had been delayed.

"One is that, with such a volatile economy, a

good deal of the material already prepared had had to be revised," he said.

"More revision may be needed after the August Budget. We want the statement to be as up to date as possible.

'The other is that the Catholic Social Welfare Commission has issued a revised version of 'A fair go for families'.

"It touches on at least one important issue in our draft. The bishops' committee doesn't want our draft to clash with it, to detract from it, in any way.

"I think it probable that the bishops' committee will recommend that people study 'A fair go for families' at the time of Social Justice Sunday."

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process fails a child, you can't go back and start all over again.

"Teachers are in fact immersed in a work far more delicate than that of painter or sculptor or musician.

"Even though surrounded by all the pressure and urgency which sustained contact with young human beings involves, the teacher's work by its very nature is more individual even than a dentist's.

"Education is not an industry, because parents are not shareholders. They do not invest their child in the educational process as if they were seeking dividends for themselves.

"They send their child to school, not for their own sake, but for the sake of the child's growth in personality and understanding, for the child's initiation into the accumulated wisdom and knowledge and cultural achievement of their society.

"Catholic parents send their Catholic child to a Catholic school, for all these reasons, primarily so that the child may be educated in faith and hope and charity, and

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And Dr Michael Costigan, executive secretary of the Bishops, Committee for Justice, Development and Peace, is "a little embarrassed", but also almost pleased about it.

The committee's plan was: • To publish a major statement in August — a draft response to submissions to the bishops' inquiry into the distribution of wealth in Australia.

• To make Social Jus-

tice Sunday (September 24) the occasion to invite people to discuss the draft statement and comment on it.

• To study these comments and publish the bishops' definitive statement on the wealth inquiry about six months later.

'There's been an enormous response — comments from bishops, consultants and others — to the material that's been prepared so far.

'The bishops' committee felt more time was needed to do justice to these comments and revise the text adequately.

Now, after a service of pressured meetings, the "We're embarrassed Bishops' Committee for that, because of our Justice, Development limited resources, we and Peace has can't deal with all this announced it will pub- material and keep to our lish only a brief state- schedule. ment for Social Justice "But it's a welcome Sunday. embarrassment in a way.

It will defer the release It shows how well this of the draft statement theme has resonated until early next year. with the community — "We've had an embar- and not only with the rassment of riches," Dr Catholic community."

Costigan said this week.

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Voices add touch of drama at opening Some parish councillors had been ready to throw in the towel but had been helped to carry on after attending a study and reflection day last Sunday.

This was the blunt comment of David Bouteloup of Lesmurdie as he summed up his group's findings in the James Nestor Hall last Sunday afternoon.

"We realised that it is very easy to be inactive councilors just sitting back, listening to all the arguments and then doing nothing at the end of it.

"By accepting membership of parish councils we ought to be available to our brothers and

sisters 24 hours a day," he said.

He was speaking as one of 76 members of 22 parish councils who attended the first reflection day to have been held for two years.

Redemptorist Father Frank Smith and ten of his Lay Community helpers injected a dash of drama into the opening session by showing the number of different voices and opinions that were beckoning people from every direction in the Church today.

Many were unsure if the Holy Spirit was guiding them and whether they would hear the voice of God speaking through others.

At the parish council reflection day last Sunday Redemptorist Father Frank Smith (right) put councillors through their paces on the way they see the Church: Kather Gosper (Bencubbin), Sue Butler (Mosman Park), Gerry Smith (Woodlands), Bruce Sanderson (Redemptorist Community) and Alis SanteIli (Balcatta).

To push the message home, Father Smith told the participants to go and stand by one of 30 posters each proclaiming a different attraction in the Church and to discover why others had made the same choice as themselves.

His aim, he said, was to make people compare their own vision of the Church with the wider vision of people around them and to come up with a clearer idea of their pastoral role in the Church and society today.

For one woman, the poster experience was the first time she had realised who she is and where she is going in life.

By the time the councillors wrote down their conclusions during the afternoon session, there was a strong consensus that listening to other people's points of view was the over-riding challenge facing them in parish councils.

"Listening to what others have to say is just as important as what we have to say," said Cam McPhee of Subiaco, summing up for his group.

"We need to listen with out hearts as well as our ears and listen to the fringe people and rejects, the divorced, the prisoners," commented Marie Hebble of Subiaco, speaking for another group.

Ballajura parish the winner The Battle of the Ballajura bill-boards registered a welcome result last Sunday. The Ballajura parish was a clear winner.

That's right. Good things did happen. The Ballajura parish held a mass at the State primary school and recorded an increase in attendance of 100 more people — thanks to a picture published in the last issue of The Record which showed a billboard announcing the event and a 3000 leaflet drop to local homes.

Following the Mass the congregation headed for the ceremony in which Father John Jegorow blessed the land on which will see the first parish project — a Primary school — come up in February next year.

There would have been more people at the Mass had they taken the right route. It's still new days for new people in new surroundings.

Parishioners were asked to grab a handful

of earth and hold it during the blessing.

The sharing of ideas at the Sunday program had reinforced the importance of listening to others, to be open to their ideas, problems and needs, and also listening to themselves, said Colleen Byrne of Spearwood in another summary.

There were discoveries.

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Alice Moala of Greenwood said her group had realised the importance of having a sense of humour and being able to laugh at themselves now and again.

Parish councils had to flow smoothly and the secretary was not a general dog's body, added another comment.

Another councillor had for the first time realised the importance of the environment in the order of things.

Others realised how hard it is for the hierarchy of the Church to serve all the people and how little this fact is appreciated.

The parish had to work as a team, identifying the talents of people and using them, said Robert Van Hamersveld of Mundaring.

The parish council had to be based on the people being a Church and not the Church being a building, said Rosemarie Barbour of Mundaring.

"The idea of a parish

council is one that supports and not rules.

We should include everybody in the parish so that they can feel they are part of the community."

In a concluding segment before Mass, the committee co-ordinator Jim Miolin stressed the importance of councillors being aware of the resources available to them and listed in the directory issued by the Catholic Welfare Commission.

He suggested ways of building community in a parish and urged the participants to accept the ownership of their councils even though it was only an advisory body to the parish priest.

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Guest Editorial:

The Universe London (Note: Without identifying its source one of the articles referred to below, written

by CliffordLongley, appearedrecently in The Australian newspaper.)

AUTHORITY IN THE CHURCH THE TIMES recently regaled its readers for a whole week with a series of articles claiming that the Catholic Church is undergoing an unprecedented crisis.

Recent protests by some theologians were cited as evidence of a serious challenge to the authority of the Holy See and to the position and teaching of Pope John Paul There was talk of a latter-day Inquisition and comparison was made with Gestapo interrogations. Power, it was alleged, is being abused; dissent crushed.

Few Catholics will recognise this lurid picture. Yet it is clear that any exercise of authority today is questioned. Resentment is felt by some within the Church.

Yet the world is being led to believe that religion is primarily about power, not service.

This obscures the real purpose of the Church which exists to heal and reconcile a wounded and broken world and to explore the mysteries of God. Church leaders, though, would be advised to take note of the concerns and assumptions behind the exaggeration of media comments.

Those who exercise power, spiritual or political, are subject to the same temptations. There is always need for vigilance and purification.

The best safeguards against abuse of power are openness and a willingness to involve as many as possible in decision-making.

The articles in The Times found little to criticise in the Catholic Church in Britain but that is no ground for complacency.

The heady days of the National Pastoral Congress in 1980 and of the pope's visit are now little more than a memory.

Much could be done meanwhile to develop involvement and common purpose. Some dioceses have organised their own minicongresses. Others lack basic structures of parish councils and diocesan pastoral councils.

After the national Pastoral Congress the bishops endorsed the idea of occasional national assemblies for those involved in fields like justice and peace, ecumenism and liturgy. What progress is there to report?

The Bishops' Conference has moved cautiously towards greater openness. Lay experts from its committee attend preliminary stages of each conference meeting but not its plenary sessions.

The media is firmly excluded at every stage except to be given a final communique.

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We are now 893 illion-strong VATICAN FIGURES SHOW RISE IN CATHOLIC POPULATION VATICAN CITY (CNS): The latest Vatican figures show continuing increase in the worldwide Catholic population, which reached about 893 million at the end of 1987.

The fastest growth was in Africa. The total represents a gain of about 14 million from the previous year, and Catholics now total 18 per cent of the world's population, according to the 1987 Statistical Yearbook of the Church, published in July. The statistics are normally two years old at the time of publication.

The Vatican said its figures include an estimated 15 million Catholics in countries, mostly under communist rule, where an accurate annual count is practically impossible.

The countries with the largest Catholic populations are: Brazil, 124.7 million; Mexico, 78 million; Italy, 56.2 million; the United States, 54 million; and France, 47.1 million.

The yearbook showed that the Church is growing fastest in Africa, where the number of Catholics has increased 50 per cent in the previous 10 years, to 78.3 million. In 1987, the Church there gained nearly 3.4 million new members.

In Asia, where the Church remains a tiny minority, the number of Catholics increased nearly three million during 1987.

The bull( of the Church's growth came in predominantly Catholic Central and South America, where the Catholic population increased 6.5 million in 1987.

In Europe, the Catholic population stayed virtually the same, while Oceania and North America showed small increases.

All Christians number roughly 1.6 billion, according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica Book of the Year, 1988.

Mexico's Plan to re-open green trial no surprise light for pope visit MEXICO CITY (CNS): The Mexican government has given a green light to a papal visit next May following a request made to President Carlos Salinas de Gortari by the Vatican delegate to Mexico.

The much-heralded papal visit, rumoured for months prior to the government's official announcement, will be Pope John Paul's second visit to Mexico.

In January 1979, less than four months after his election, the pope came to Mexico during the third general assembly of the Latin Ameri-

can Bishops' Council, held in the city of Puebla.

The preliminary program will follow guidelines contained in Cardinal Casaroli's letter based on the pope's desire to deliver a pastoral message to geographically diverse parts of the country and to various social sectors, such as Mexican youths, campe(small-scale sinos farmers) and workers.

The Mexican bishops want the pope to visit impoverished rural areas with mostly Indian populations. Church sources have also said the pope might visit Guatemalan refugee camps there.

Arson probe CAPE TOWN (CNS): The taken, there is a strong South African Council of possibility that such Churches has said it will attacks upon the persons investigate an arson and property of antiattack on the Catholic apartheid organisations bishops' headquarters will continue and and other cases of what it increase," it said. calls "informal represA fire set by arsonists sion" against organisa- severely damaged the to headquarters opposed tions and apartheid. records of the southern The council's action is African bishops' conferprompted by a "lack of ence in Pretoria, South faith in the ability, and Africa, last October. the apparent unwillingA white supremacist ness, of the South Afri- group calling itself the can police to bring the White Wolves was susperpetrators of these pected of the arson, but crimes to book". no arrests had yet been "Unless urgent action is made.

VATICAN CITY (CNS): The announcement that Hungary would reopen the controversial post-World War Ii trial of Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty at the request of Hungarian church officials came as no surprise to the Vatican.

Nor, for that matter, did it come as a surprise to Hungarian Catholic leaders. It was a well rehearsed confirmation of what was already known.

Vatican and Hungarian were churchmen informed in March that the government would reopen the case of the man who came to symbolise the harsh repression of the staunchly anti-communist Catholic

Church during the postwar period.

The situation also illustrates the church-state consultative process that precedes major religious decisions by one of the Soviet bloc's more relaxed governments.

This consultative process is known as "small steps" and aims at fostering signs of church-state harmony in a country where 61 per cent of the 10.6 million inhabitants are Catholic.

These signs are important not only for Hungary's international image as a communist state moving toward democratic reforms but also domestically to convince its own people that current reform policies are for real.

Spend more money on the poor plea DUBLIN (CNS): An Irish church commission has called on the government to spend more money on health care for the poor.

It said the burden of budget government reductions, prompted by Ireland's weak economy, has fallen mostly on the "insecure and frightened sick who happen to be at the wrong end of the social ladder". commission, The appointed by the Irish

bishops and superiors of religious orders, points out that severe reductions in government spending in recent years have closed hospitals and deprived rural areas of health facilities.

"These cutbacks did not cause a uniform degree of hardship across the social groups and the burden very definitely has fallen disproportionately on the poorer section of society," it adds.

Credibility would be shattered if the government were to announce a major religious decision minus approval of the hierarchy.

Cardinal Mindszenty was arrested in 1948 and convicted in 1949 on charges of spying, treason, subversion and illegally exchanging foreign currency.

He was sentenced to life imprisonment. He was freed during the brief 1956 uprising against communist rule and took refuge in the US embassy in Budapest when the Soviet army arrived to crush the revolt.

The cardinal remained in the embassy until 1971 when, under Vatican pressure, he agreed to leave. He died in Vienna, Austria, in 1975.

The defiant ones

South BOKSBURG, Africa (CNS): A Franciscan priest and Mercy nuns are defying the Boksburg city government's order to close a drug and alcohol rehabilitation clinic for non-whites.

The government said the clinic, run by the Sisters of Mercy, must be closed because it is situated in a so-called "white" area of town and violates South Africa's Group Areas Act, which segregates South Africans according to race.

The clinic is one block away from the so-called "coloured" area, Reiger Park.

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I Hand in hand towards peace VATICAN CITY (CNS): Disarmament must go hand in hand with m utual respect to achieve peace, Pope J ohn Paul II told British submarine crew.

-True peace will not be achieved merely by the process of progressive disarmament, much as this is to be welcomed," he said in a talk to the crew of the submarine Turbulent.

"Rather peace is nurtured by respecting the dignity proper to each person and promoting a spirit of brotherhood," he said.

The pope also told the crew members that "even though you undergo a strict training in defense and are taught the use of sophisticated weapons, your primary duty is to build peace and save lives".

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Nuns take vows in China church BEIJING (CNS): Seven young women took their vows as nuns in China's state approved Catholic Church on July 30, the first to enter religious life in the church since its formation in the mid 1950s.

Hundreds of people crowded into Beijing's Nantang Cathedral as Bishop Michael Fu Tieshan presided at the ceremony admitting the women into the religious life of the Church, which has no ties to the Vatican.

The novices, wearing long black veils topped with circular crowns of plastic roses, bowed their heads as Bishop Fu told them to be true to their religious training.

After the 90 minute service, one of the nuns

said she was "very become somewhat freer excited", adding that the for the state-sanctioned new sisters did not know church. Seminaries and yet what their assign- convents have been allowed to reopen and ments would be.

Another, Sister Yang the state is helping the Lijun, said she and the church regain seized others come from property.

Catholic families. She But the so-called clansaid she had "wanted to destine church, which be a nun since I was maintains its ties to the small, in order to serve Vatican in defiance of a people." government ban on It has only been since organisational links the between Chinese instituthat 1986 government -approved tions and foreign agenchurch has accepted cies, operates outside the women into training for law. religious life.

There are no statistics During the 1966-1976 on the number of nuns in Cultural Revolution all clandestine church, the churches and church have apparwomen but facilities were closed and entering relibeen ently much church property gious life in it for some was confiscated for other years. purposes.

One indicator of that In the past decade, however, the climate has was the arrest in 1984 of

an underground bishop in an apparent "sting" type operation in which a police agent posed as a candidate to become a nun. Police arrested the bishop during a ceremony in which the agent was to take her vows.

By various counts there are between 6 million and 8 million Catholics among China's 1.7 billion people.

The number of those loyal to the governmentapproved hierarchy and those adhering to the pro-Vatican underground bishops is not known. Many Catholics pledging allegiance to the pope are said to attend services conducted in s tate -sanctioned churches because that is their only alternative.

Three new Czech bishops VATICAN CITY (CNS): the full reconstruction of — Pope John Paul II Czechoslovakia's Cathn amed three new olic hierarchy in the near bishops in Czechoslova- future. kia, a major step that f ollowed years of The appointments, intense negotiation announced on July 26, between the Vatican included: and the country's com- • Father Josef Koukl, munist authorities.

62, named bishop of Vatican officials hope ongoing talks will lead to

Litomerice, in Bohemia.

He taught moral theology at the seminary in

Litomerice and has worked extensively with young people and couples.

• Father Frantisek Tondra, 53, named bishop of Spis, in Slovakia. Since 1982 he has been pastor at a Marian shrine and an official of the Spis diocesan tribunal.

• Father Frantisek Vanak, 73, named a

bishop and the apostolic administrator of Olomouc, in Moravia. A canon law expert, he has headed a parish in the Olomouc Archdiocese and served on the archdiocesan tribunal.

The Vatican said Bishop-designate Vanak would have the same powers as a residential

bishop and that his position was eventually expected to be upgraded to archbishop.

At the same time, the Vatican announced that the administrator it named last year to the Trnava Archdiocese, Bishop Jan Sokol, 54, was being promoted to the full rank of archbishop there.

in one and ••• Greater public role

MOSCOW (CNS): A top Soviet official told leaders of the World Council of Churches that new legislation will give Christians and their churches a greater public role in Soviet life.

Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov made the remarks to World Council of Churches representatives during their July 16-27 meeting in Moscow.

A Vatican observer at the meeting, Msgr. Fortino, said Ryahkov's speech was important because it expressed a commitment to recogniz-

ing the "necessary role of Christians in the public life of the Soviet Union."

Ryzhkov said the new law, which has been under consideration for months, would provide expanded guidelines for the church's role in society's renewal.

The World Council of Churches representatives were able to meet with Christians from their member churches in the Soviet Union and attend a number of liturgies there, Msgr.

Fortino said.

The Catholic Church is not a member of the council but maintains an

official liaison with the Poland organization.

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Ukraine, a Soviet repubThe Moscow meeting Pope John Paul II named a lic on Poland's eastern included a discussion on bishop for Ukrainian border, was under Polish the challenges presented Catholics in Poland, an control between 1919 to churches by biological appointment long sought and 1938.

A Vatican official said developments such as by the Ukrainian-rite one of the reasons for the genetic engineering, minority there.

Mons Ivan Martyniak, appointment was that Msgr. Fortino said.

50, was named auxiliary the Polish government A Vatican document in bishop to Cardinal Josef had dropped its former 1987 condemned in vitro Glemp of Warsaw, with opposition to such a fertilization, surrogate r esponsibility for move. The Polish governmotherhood and non- Ukrainian Catholics ment recently recognised therapeutic forms of throughout the country. the legality of the embryo experimentbeen Catholic Church. had he now Until ation.

The Ukrainian church Cardinal Glemp's vicar Participants also dis- general for Ukrainian remains illegal in the cussed the Christian Catholics in Poland, who Soviet Union, where its response to poverty, are estimated to number membership is believed evangelization and between 250,000 and to number several health care.

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They'll take their views to the top

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Black American Catholics plan to bring their concerns and perspectives to Rome next November when they attend the "Rejoice!

Conference on Black Liturgy".

More than 100 participants are expected to attend the sixth annual Rejoice conference, sponsored by the Archdiocese of Washington.

The conference will discuss evangelisation of black Catholics and the "African-American cultural contribution to the

Roman rite".

While the meeting is not sponsored by the Vatican, its Rome coordinator is Benedictine Father Cuthbert Johnson, an official with the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments.

Father Johnson said the archdiocese's Office of Black Catholics has been preparing for the conference for the past 14 months.

The congregation likes to attend or be informed about liturgical conferences which take place

around the world, he said. "But we are especially pleased that the Rejoice conference is being held here in Rome."

He praised Jacqueline Wilson and the archdiocesan black Catholics office which she heads for the work they have put into the conference.

"I have been impressed beyond measure" by its efforts and organisation, he said.

The meeting is expected to discuss religious education and evangelisation, liturgy, administra-

Second black breakaway priest

tion and leadership, Bringing black culture music and history from a into the liturgy is one of black Catholic the issues in controversy perspective. between the archdiocese According to a state- and one of its black ment released by the priests Father George A. archdiocesan Office of Stallings. Father StalBlack Catholics, "the lings charges that the US liturgy is the principal Catholic Church is racist means of evangelisation and that a separate rite is in the African-American needed to fully incorporate African-American community". culture into the church's "If a people can express life and liturgy. their Catholic faith in He formed his own their own culture and Imani Temple for black traditions, then that faith Catholics in pursuit of can be truly their own that aim and was subsewith out weakening quently suspended from either the faith or the the ministry by Washingculture," the statement ton's Cardinal James A. said.

Hickey.

WASHINGTON: A second black priest has joined breakaway black priest Father George Stallings at the Imani Temple he has founded for black Catholics.

Salvatorian Father Bruce Greening has asked leave from his order but Richmond Bishop Sullivan has withdrawn diocesan faculties and removed the priest from principalship of a school.

Father Stallings has been suspended by Cardinal Hickey of Washington for saying unauthorised Masses.

Father Greening who was ordained in 1977

moved to Richmond last year to establish a religious community of black men who would black minister to Catholics.

The breakaway group plan to start Imani Academy in Washington as a protest at archdiocesan consolidation of inner city Catholic schools.

Cardinal Hickey has said that although he was convinced his decision was right, "the thing that troubles me is the statement that this is racist".

"Is it racist to make available your best facilities, your best teachers?" he asked then.

thing of the African oral tradition of recounting events, a very vibrant style evocative of the mystery being celebrated".

The Zairian liturgy utilises a moderator or announcer, "an important role in the African community," Father Johnson explained. The moderator discreetly directs the participation and prayer of the faithful throughout the Mass.

The beginning of the Mass is meant to "put oneself in the presence of God," Father Johnson said. It begins with prayers and an invocation of the saints and ancestors.

Quoting the Zairian bishops, he said that "in Africa the ancestor involves the image of the just man who lived in harmony with the will of God."

Following this introduction are the readings and a homily. After the homily are a penitential rite, the sprinkling of holy water and a prayer for peace.

The long, long road to a nod

VATICAN CITY (CNS): The process of developing and winning Vatican approval for a Catholic liturgy that reflects African culture is a lengthy and methodical one: It took the bishops of Zaire almost 30 years.

In 1961 the Zairian bishops began the formal search for a liturgy that would be "adapted to the particular character" of their people. The fruit of their efforts, known informally as the "Zaire Liturgical Rite," won final Vatican approval in 1988.

It was the first African liturgical adaptation to be approved by the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments.

Although often called a liturgical rite, the name is somewhat misleading.

Its official name — "The Roman Missal for Use in the Dioceses of Zaire" — emphasises the fact that it was developed within the framework of the Roman order of the Mass and that it is approved for use only in the dioceses of that central African country.

approval more than a year ago.

Benedictine Father Cuthbert Johnson, an official with the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, said Father Stallings' case, is a "concern of the local church of Washington".

The Zairian liturgy has The U.S. bishops' conbeen mentioned recently in the context of Father ference "is aware of the George A. Stallings' problems that the black efforts in the United community experiences" States to develop an and has addressed these African-American rite at concerns as recently as its national meeting in his Imani Temple.

The Imani liturgies June, he said. seek to incorporate ele"Of course it will take ments of African spiritu- time to see positive ality, as does the Zairian results," he added. "The liturgy. church in Zaire, for While father Stallings example, has worked was suspended for form- intensively for 30 years ing the temple without in order to arrive at the the permission of his point at which it is. cardinal, the Zairian Surely the example of the liturgy won full Vatican patient work of our

F ather Maurice Dullard, S.J., 33 years in India.

Now Diocesan Administrator.

African brothers and sisters and their loyalty to the Holy See and the universal Church is to be followed and admired."

Zaire is "an example and an inspiration for other local churches who have yet to undertake or who are in the process of making necessary adaptations," he said.

Father Johnson said that while the Second Vatican Council's 1963 Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy called for liturgical adaption, already in 1961 the Zairian bishops had raised the issue. Zaire, formerly the Belgian Congo, was known for its African-flavoured liturgical music.

The Zairian liturgy is "one of the first examples of inculturation of the Roman liturgy according to the directives of the

Second Vatican Council," Father Johnson said.

The reason the adaptation is approved only for the dioceses of Zaire, he explained, is that it was designed to reflect the culture and needs of that particular church. In light of Africa's cultural diversity, the Zairian liturgy could not be expected to serve the entire continent.

"The whole purpose of adaptation is to meet the needs of one particular local church, in its local geographic and cultural setting," Father Johnson noted.

The Zairian liturgy expresses the "religous genius and cultural patrimony of Zaire," he said, by utilising Zaire's music, instruments, colours and rhythmic movements. The texts of the Mass "reflect some-

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Woven throughout the Mass are moments of silence as well as chants and movement accompanied by drums and other musical instruments.

The Zairian liturgy reflects the African attitude toward time, Father Johnson said. Africans "have as a natural gift the monastic spiritual tradition of having time for God," he said. With its silences, its singing and its prayers, "this is a celebration which needs time to unfold."

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(CNS): ATLANTA Black Catholics have fought too hard in the past to give up on the Catholic Church now, Archbishop Eugene A. Marino of Atlanta told black lay Catholics attending a national c onference.

"We're not going to abandon Jesus. We're not going to leave this church. Our fathers have s truggled too hard, endured too many sacrifices, to give up," he said.

"We're not going to be turned out, turned away.

We're going to stay with the Roman Catholic Church . . . We've paid too much for our membership," said Archbishop Marino, the nation's only black archbishop.

He made the comments at a liturgy during a fourday meeting of the National Office for Black Catholics. Archbishop Marino is episcopal adviser to the National Office for Black Catholics.

The conference came little more than a week after black Catholic

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clergy meeting in Milwaukee announced they would study creation of an African-American rite within the Church.

"Creating a Spirit of African-American Leadership" was the theme of the Atlanta conference, which had some 400 participants.

Discussion of a separate rite emerged after Father George A. Stallings, former evangelist for the Archdiocese of Washington, founded the Imani Temple for black Catholics in Washington. Cardinal James A. Hickey of Washington subsequently suspended Father Stallings for celebrating unauthorised liturgies.

Although some observers have suggested Father Stallings is asking black Catholics to leave the church, he has insisted Imani Temple is a Catholic church formed without the approval of the Archdiocese of Washington.

Discussion of the proposed rite and Father Stallings' actions were

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Cardinal Ratzinger VATICAN CITY (CNS): — Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the church's monitor of theological orthodoxy, often publicly denies he is the "grand inquisitor" — the figure etched in history as the paramount suppressor of freedom of thought in the name of blind faith.

The latest denial appeared in an Italian newspaper interview at the end of July.

"I'm not the grand inquisitor," the cardinal said. He rejected being Presented "as one who wants the persecution of certain persons or the restoration of a past inquisition."

The grand inquisitor conjures up images of medieval torture chambers, witch-hunts and burnings at the stake in a methodical effort to erase heresy by eliminating heretics.

not on the meeting agenda, but each mention of Father Stallings drew applause from meeting participants.

Walter Hubbard, executive director of the National Office for Black Catholics, said that contrary to news reports saying the organisation's board voted to back the proposed rite, there had been no vote taken at the meeting.

"We are asking for reconciliation. Cardinal Hickey had been a good shepherd to us in the Archdiocese of Washington. Father Stallings is a good priest. We want reconciliation.

That's all we've said.

Period," Hubbard said.

Sister Thea Bowman, a Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration and director of intercultural awareness said that "Father Stallings has all of us being taken seriously now. Some folks who didn't have anything to say to us are now ready to engage in conversation," she said to an applauding audience.

"We are called to share rid of racism in the hearts our gift of blackness with of Catholics. the Church," said Sister "We have to realise that Bowman, who is suffering from bone cancer and it is a sin, an obscenity spoke from a wheelchair. that must be driven out Baptism calls all to be of the Church," he said. leaders, she said. "Go The key issue of racism home and teach your "won't be denied", said pastor, your liturgy comCardinal O'Connor. "Of mittee . . . you might course there is racism, even have to teach your deep rooted and widesbishop. Teach your pread.

Ido not believe the babies, remind your Church is a racist instielders. . . your job is to tute. It is the body of enable to facilitate, to Christ. But many of us feed, comfort and teach," are racist," he said. said Sister Bowman.

While acknowledging All of the common excuses for not partici- more needs to be done, pating, ranging from "I Cardinal O'Connor said did it last year" to "Father the Church has done a lot won't let me," aren't to combat racism "thanks acceptable when "Jesus to our black bishops who calls you to do his work" have needled us, encouraged us and supported said Sister Bowman. us".

Effective leaders, she said, are not afraid to "Blacks must become challenge unjust policies leaders among blacks," in the parish or diocese he said. "It is time for the and refuse "to tolerate Church to grow up and rudeness, racism, for blacks to assume (the) sexism". role of leadership," he New York's Cardinal said.

O'Connor, in a keynote Black Catholic leaderaddress, said that Church ship "must be marked by leadership must do the charism of holiness everything it can to get and grace", he said.

I am not the grand inquisitor, he says again

In comparison, the to the Spanish Inquisi- ling" and "terrifying" The inquisitor visits strongest weapons used tion begun in 1478 by account of the grand Christ in his cell and

by Cardinal Ratzinger as Pope Sixtus IV. inquisitor in introducing berates him for his head of the Vatican But it quickly became Cardinal Ratzinger at a teachings.

Congregation for the independent of Rome, 1988 lecture.

"It's not the free judgeDoctrine of the Faith are under the patronage of ment of their hearts, not taking away the permis"In essence, you are the Spanish crown, sion to teach Catholic which also used it as a looking at the grand love that matters, but a theology and requiring tool for eliminating polit- inquisitor," Cardinal mystery which they must follow blindly, even periods of public silence ical heretics.

O'Connor said jokingly. against their conscience," from dissident theologiThe excesses of the Cardinal Ratzinger says the inquisitor. ans, who are not even Spanish inquisitors were retorted that the characasked to wear sackcloth "We have corrected thy criticised by Pope Sixtus. ter in question was the and ashes. work and have founded But his protests did not Spanish inquisitor. "The Why then, in interviews stem the direction estab- Roman Inquisition was it upon miracle, mystery and during public and authority. And men lished by King Ferdinand never so famous." appearances, is the cardi- and Queen rejoiced that they were Isabela, the nal frequently asked to same Who is this "chilling" again led like sheep," he monarchs that compare himself to the sponsored Christopher grand inquisitor that says. grand inquisitor?

Columbus's voyages to Cardinal Ratzinger is Christ remains silent at compared to? the end of the accusation.

The answer is partly the Americas.

His only reaction is to historical. The doctrinal The Spanish grand In the novel "The kiss the inquisitor on the congregation is traceable inquisitor as the personto the Roman Inquisition ification of religious Brothers Karamazov", forehead. established by popes in repression was ingrained Dostoyevsky has the The inquisitor releases early Renaissance times in world fiction by the Spanish grand inquisitor Christ, but warns him condemn Christ, at the to combat heresy.

19th-century Russian second coming, because never to return.

Fyodor he gave Yet, as Cardinal Ratzin- novelist "Go, and come no people the gift of ger often points out, the Dostoyevsky. free will to accept or more. . . come not at all, Roman Inquisition is not Cardinal John J. O'Con- reject him rather than never, never," says the the really infamous one. nor of New York referred use his powers to com- inquisitor as he leads The infamy is reserved to Dostoyevsky's "chil- mand obedience.

Christ out of town.

Christ's leadership was demonstrated not by his miracles, but by "hanging on a cross with people spitting in his face", said Cardinal O'Connor. "If he had come down from the cross he would have been a miserable failure," the cardinal said.

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There are people running around loose who will promise you pie in the sky", he said.

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By Father John Castelot

Compiled by NC News Service

About 10 centuries us might seem like a before Christ a woman e of the mother named Hannah had a bring the vocation. But son she named Samuel. it; /as not. For there was His birth brought her si prospect of Samuel's unspeakable happi- br orning a priest, since ness, for she had Israel priesthood was almost given up hope of editary. ever having a child. In lu be a priest, one had her joy and gratitude, k 3elong to the tribe of she dedicated Samuel and Samuel's father to the Lord's service.

YO3 of the tribe of As soon as he was old enough, Hannah brought Samuel to the Israelite shrine at Shilot and offered him as an assistant to Heli, the priest in

We all have a vocation

separate from workfilled weekdays.

Only on Sunday are Who has a vocation? they accustomed to conThe answer is that we fronting the Gospel perall do. Priest, homemaker sonally. Their orientation and police officer, wife is toward a career, not a and husband, student vocation. and teacher.

On the other hand, Every Christian is asked many embrace the galto follow Jesus Christ, to vanising truth that God's bear witness to God's work is done through the kingdom. A vocation is wordly vocation of a not the private property parent, public official, of a select few but a gift soldier, nurse, bookfrom God to all. keeper or musician.

St Paul announced the Holiness is to be found in good news: "There are the messiness and humdifferent gifts but the drum of daily living. same Spirit; there are Not long ago, Martin different ministries but Luther King M remarked the same Lord; there are to an audience of federal different works but the workers in Washington, same God who accom- that if his father were plishes all of them in alive today he would tell everyone." (1 Corinthi- them that their work is a ans 12:4-6). path to God: Priests, sisters, brothers "If it falls to your lot to and lay missionaries find be a street sweeper, their vocation as one of sweep streets as Michethe Church's "civil ser- langelo carved marble. vants". But most Chris- Sweep streets as Shakestians, as married or single peare wrote plays. Sweep laity, discover their voca- streets so well that all the tion elsewhere. hosts of heaven will have In most instances, the to say, 'Here lies a great laity's calling is to serve street sweeper who did the world directly. By his job well.' their baptism and confir- British mystery story mation, their vocation is writer Dorothy L Sayers to bring the message of wrote of the carpenter's the Gospel to the world. vocation: The worst kind of "The very first demand unemployment, in my that his religion makes view, is to be without a upon him is that he sense of vocation. Such should make good tables.

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centre of his life and occupation he is insulting God with bad carpentry?"

She continued: "No piety in the worker will compensate for any work that is not true to itself; for any work that is untrue to its own technique is a living lie."

Peter Shaffer, author of the play "Amadeus", said this about Mozart's vocation: "Wolfgang Amadeus was fitted. . . for one supreme mode of existence: to be the magic flute at the lips of God." No less singular a vocation is the calling of a busy mother of five who says: "Most of the time, my Christian vocation is lived outside the doors of the parish church — in my family, my neighbourhood or my part-time job. . . My world consists of births and deaths, deadlines and anniversaries, children seeking an encouraging word and neighbours becoming friends."

She added: "I am not very churchy although my faith is the keystone of my life. With five growing children, my vocation is titled 'mum'.

Each of us, wherever we are — behind a desk, on an assembly line, in front of a stove or in a pulpit — has a vocation that calls for a response.

For our God is a God who calls.

brusim. Moreover, no cte "has" a vocation. One rceives a vocation when (Bed by God, and only ten. al Hannah did was

place her son in an atmosphere where he would be open to God's call should God choose to call him for some purpose. And God did call, in a dramatic way.

Samuel was asleep when he thought he heard someone call his name. He jumped up and ran to Heli, thinking he might have wanted something. But the old man merely yawned and sent him back to bed.

Again this happened, in all likelihood much to Hell's annoyance.

But the third time it happened the old man

suspected someone was calling the boy and that it might be the Lord.

Accordingly, Heli told Samuel that if he heard

from God

had Samuel gotten back to sleep when he distinctly heard: "Samuel, Samuel." He replied as instructed: "Speak, for

The worst kind of unemployment, Ed Marciniak believes, is to be without a sense of vocation. Such Christians fail to respond to God's invitation. As Martin Luther King Ill once told an audience of Federal workers in Washington: "If it falls to your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven will have to say, 'Here lies a great street sweeper who did his job well.' " the call again he should answer: "Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening".

(I Samuel 3:9) Sure enough, hardly

your servant is listening."

The Lord gave Samuel a message for Heli, a most unpleasant one. For the scandalous behaviour of

Hell's two sons was about to bring disgrace on the whole family. And this was just the beginning of Samuel's illustrious career as a prophet, a bearer of God's word to his people.

Sensitive to the divine will, Samuel started to make the rounds of the tribes, instilling a willingness to put aside their rivalries and become one strong, united people — a united kingdom.

Samuel was God's agent in the selection of Saul, the first king of Israel, and in the choice of the great king David as Saul's successor.

One never knows when or how God is going to call. God does not always call one's name audibly, but he has many means of communication, persons, events, circumstances of various kinds can all be channels of God's call.

Again as in the case of Samuel, it will be wise to consult a person whose judgement one trusts.

There is never any telling what great things lie in store for one who is responsive to God's mysterious promptings.

The important thing is to be sensitive and open to God's approach. As in the case of Samuel, the call may be indistinct, uncertain and puzzling at first.

"Because of his or her union with Christ, the lay person has the right and duty to be involved in the ministry of the Church, both as an individual and as a member of organised groups." (Leonard Doohan in "The LayCentred Church", Winston Press, 1984.)

If the call is authentic, God will keep calling — in His often strange way, and in His own time.

Adventures as we live out our faith

curriculum were private conferences and counselling about our leadership roles in society and in the Church.

We went off to university convinced that the world was open to us.

Our duty was to prepare well to live out our I remember that single vocations. I look back on lay life had an aura about that foundation as the it, a bit of mystery and seedbed for my current heroism. But, the Sisters concern about the assured us, not many importance of shaping a would be called to that full theology of vocation path. Our likely voca- for all members of the tions would be marriage, Church. All are called to religious life or priest- discipleship, to use Protestant theologian Diehood, they predicted.

Later, in an all girls' trich Bonhoeffer's words. high school staffed by The overarching Chrisanother order of Sisters, tian vocation is simply a the unspoken but call to active faith — faith influential assumption that is lived out, as Father was that some of us were Edward Braxton surely called to religious suggests. life; most, however, were Interwoven with that on the way to marriage overall vocation, I am and to some kind of work convinced, is the call for in the world. Therefore it Christians to enter some behooved us to be knowl- kind of covenant — a edgeable, disciplined, relationship bonding well-mannered, articu- them with others. That late, outspoken (but means they are called to never rude), sure of our enter into community. facts and grounded in For example, there is: Church teachings.

• a priest's covenant Added to our academic

The Dominican Sisters who taught in my primary school carefully presented us with a three-part vocational outlook. There was priesthood or religious life, there was marriage and there was the single life.

By Dolores Leckey with the people he serves; • marriage as a covenant relationship between two persons; • religious life as a covenant relationship between an individual and a particular community; • a single person's network of relationships with family, friends or co-workers.

Within these various community contexts, individuals find a concrete call to some kind of work.

How will we contribute our work to the welfare of the whole community? How does work help us grow in the love of God and the love of neighbour?

Those are basic questions for all people. But the questions are especially poignant for the contemporary lay Christian who often is struggling to find meaning in

his or her work. In fact, there is growing interest in the spirituality of work today. Many Christians want to see how communion with God can be experienced in the midst their ordinary of activities.

Throughout the Christian era there have been voices alerting us to the ways the hidden dimensions of earthly labour draw us closer to God. These voices proclaim that one's work, wherever it is — at home, in the church, in society — is the site of vocation, of God's call.

The Christian tradition reminds us that we can learn to see the Lord in the clients or students or patients we serve, to listen to the Spirit who speaks through our children and friends, to touch Christ with our tools and even our word processors. Reflective self-examination and an openness to growth are important here. Learning to perceive God this way, however, presumes some spiritual formation.

From my experience, small communities of faith are likely settings for spiritual formation.

The actual work of Church ministry is another setting for spiritual development. People serving on parish liturgy teams and committees, in religious education programs, on parish councils and social concerns committees can discover that their ministry strengthens their natural gifts.

This might be seen as one way the institutional Church prepares its members for mission to the world.

If we can begin to think of each person as called

by God to some form of mission, I think we have the possibility of forging a broad vision of what the word "vocation" can mean.

Can we learn to listen deeply, to act courageously, to support one another? If so, the way is open wide to new adventures in community and ministry. Such are the ways of vocation.

Week in focus Who in the Church has a true vocation? This week we explore the vast implications in the word "vocation" and discuss reasons why it can be said that all those who are baptised have a call from God. The overarching Christian vocation is the call to active Christian living, writes Dolores Leckey. And the active Christian life is pursued in the centre of various kinds of relationships with other people. A basic characteristic of the Christian vocation is the way it leads to

community, to relationships, she explains.

Ed Marciniak writes about ways the Christian vocations are lived out on the job.

Katharine Bird, interviews a married permanent deacon who discovered his vocation bit by bit.

And Father John Castelot's scripture discussion this week is about the Prophet Samuel. The prophet's story indicates that each person's vocation is a gift from God. The Record, August 10, 1989 9

Holy Name covers many names Carlisle Holy Name primary isn't big, but it certainly has a crosssection of cultures and religious beliefs!

Among the 116 students are Aboriginals, Egyptians, Koreans, Vietnamese, Italians, MauriGermans, t ia ns.

Portuguese, Burmese and Indonesians. The school has not only Catholics and Christians generally, but also Buddhists and Muslims.

And lately they've been pretty busy with an Animal Magic Theatre, featuring (not stuffed toys!) but live horses

(with a monkey atop), pigs, goats, dogs and cats.

Years four and five were given a talk by Disabled paraplegic Olympic Games athlete, Bruce Walrodt, who explained how simple accidents can paralyse.

And further pain can be given to the disabled by insensitive stares.

In between these sort of highlights, the school runs a regular Club Day every Thursday, which gives students a chance to acquire skills in creative and specialist areas such as computers, craft, pottery and a music

program to teach instruments and heighten musical perception.

The school sacramental program is given a and high priority involves families as well as children.

Principal, Miss Meg Brough, said two physically disabled children had joined the school this year with great success. There were special ramps for them, but the other children found them so useful too, for swinging on the railings and general fun activities, that the disabled are now very much part of school frolics!

Brothers Oliver and Father John Daly on holiday from his Los Angeles Archdiocese, reminiscing and enjoying Fleadh 89 over a pint of Guinness!

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Top left: Recorders and guitars help make school work more palatable for these musically minded grades 47.

Top right: Call it what you like! This could be a pyramid of cute kids — or a stairway to heaven!

Left: Principal Meg Brough with Natalie di Pietro (left) and Tracy Hargreaves discover the joy of messing with clay.

Brothers in reunion Father John Daly of the Holy Trinity parish of Los Angeles, was nabbed while innocently enjoying Perth's Irish Fleadh. There's no such thing as anonymity (even if wearing lay clothes on the other side of the world!) for priests on vacation . . .

His brother Oliver's home in Cloverdale is his holiday venue and the reason for his coming to catch up with him, wife Maureen, and family.

Originally from Ardee, Co Leath in Ireland, Father John spent 15 years in New South Wales and the past 15 years in America.

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard His is a heavily mixed ethnic parish with about 60 languages being spoken.

Los Angeles has the heaviest concentration of Filipinos outside Manila with a solid input of Latin, and Korean Catholics.

America is a country which invites, urges assimilation, and with the Church is very much supportive of the cultures which enter the country, he said.

"The Church is full of vitality and vigour in its approach to the needs of its people, especially so with the

RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults) and the confirmation program runs on those lines."

Confirmation is really more than catechetical instruction, said Father John, it is more of an introduction into the Catholic community. "This is why children are brought into it because they are treated like adults going into the Catholic Church."

The parish communities within the Archdiocese are involved in this plus

other programs such as infant baptism and marriage preparation "And asIsee it, this is where evangelisation and catechisation are the basis for our faith programs.

"What we see from our converts and youth programs is that the Church is turning the corner with regard to what call we could leakage."

We look to the future with great hope and optimism, said Father John, knowing the Holy Spirit is with the Church, and are totally confident in His divine assistance and power.

Equality in vocations

By Fr Frank Moynihan of St Stephen's Cathedral Brisbane, writing in The Catholic Leader Can we say anything new about priestly vocations? It's not a bad question.

Australia, or anywhere else, the priests are not to be recruited from only two or three sectors of the population.

If we select the men we invite to be priests we will offend those that we don't invite.

It is nothing remarkable to say that we do have divisions of achievement and wealth and sophistication in Australia.

With all the problems involved we have to insist that the invitation to the priesthood is a general one.

The priests are not men of one class, if we leave out any class, any district, any racial group we are breeding anti-clericalism.

We are also breeding a certain boredom in men who can be ordained and not really understand that the priesthood has to be challenged to minister to the smallest corner of our population.

CanIleave you with a few things that must be brought into the light.

If all men are to be offered the priesthood all priests are not equally interested in theology and religious study.

Each priest finds his own way to be a priest.

A good priest may be a student, able to refer to his books. Or he may not. His inclination is often to practical things only.

It's also true that some men will want to be priests, but they cannot be.

Sickness or physical disability, or age, or personality may argue that it would be simply imprudent to call some men to Holy Orders.

This is the decision the bishops and seminary authorities have to make.

This doesn't impede our search for priests.

It allows us to cast the net more widely.

A candidate for the priesthood is indeed a candidate. He submits himself for training and appraisal.

Ultimately, it is the Church that calls him and articulates the "vocation."

Our task is to do all we can to see that the priesthood is recruited from the whole Church and speaks for the whole Church.

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If I preach a sermon I like to think that someone in the congregation will come alive and think, "I've never realised that before."

If I don't think I'm breaking any new ground I probably sound like someone walking the same path as last time.

That's the problem of preaching. Before I give others a few new thoughtsIhave to have some myself.

The problem of priestly vocations is bigger than we usually think it is.

That's what makes it such an interesting chapter in the Church's history.

I can only speculate, and this is what all of us have to do.

Could I suggest to you that for a moment we invent a country in our own minds, and we target the young men who are baptised Catholics, and at this moment of history their ages range from 18 to 21.

We will simplify the numbers because all examples are simpler than real life.

Just imagine that one quarter of these men have set their sights on professional careers.

They are tertiary students either fulltime or part-time and their closest friends have much the same ambitions in life.

The second quarter of this cross section of the community are white collar workers.

Some are inclined to study to improve their positions. Some are good readers but some have already succumbed to getting their studious pleasure from the television.

The more frugal and ambitious of these will become semi-professionals.

One quarter are already qualified tradesmen, and a few of these have set their

sights on being, at least, small-time businessmen.

All of this group have the status of boys who have got somewhere in society.

Their jobs, their dress and recreation have separated them from those who spent longer at school. Not completely of course because even within a family the various brothers will go in different directions.

The fourth section, as numerous as the others, contains the unskilled workers, the ones who don't yet settle to stable employment and those with health problems and a variety of physical inefficiencies.

I take my time in describing four different paddocks into which we put the young men of this imaginary country.

We can look at them and know that all of them at different times in their lives have been taught to respect the priesthood and to feel that they are all entitled to wish to be priests.

That invitation, received in various ways, is issued to the boys themselves as they grow up, but it's a barren kind of invitation if the rest of the community doesn't think it is a good idea.

The priesthood has to have the respect and admiration of the whole church, even among those who rarely go near the Church.

We look back at this group who are aged betwen 18 and 21.

Where do we meet them? What method of approach do we use to give them one more personal reminder that the church will gladly listen to them should they wish to inquire about being priests?

The invitations have to be offered at university level, through the Sunday liturgy, in popular literature and some will say even by television commercials.

Once again, the invitations must also come in day-to-day conversation among the people who are in the church.

In this fictitious land that I describe, or in

Mike McGreal of Coftesloe parish inspecting the Black Madonna by artist Vlaze Zanalis, with Brother Damian of All Saints Chapel.

Aboriginal art that's so refreshing

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard

Aboriginal art and artifacts came to Allendale Square this week with an e xhibition of 56 paintings by four Aboriginal artists, two of them full blood.

This is a first exhibition for these artists whose work is refreshing with a lot of visual appeal.

The exhibition high-

light, which was a beautiful piece of art, was undoubtedly the Black Madonna by Vlaze Zavalis, a non-Aboriginal Western Australian of Greek background, who spent a lot of time on the Forest River mission out from Wyndham on the Cambridge Gulf.

From this experience he produced 88 paintings depicting Aboriginal figures and sacred objects, and a large number of his

paintings have been bought by corporations and businesses.

Mingi Barnes, a full blood Aboriginal woman of the Wangkatjungka linguistic group, was born in the Western Desert area — daughter of renowned Aboriginal Barney s tockman Barnes. She grew up in Christmas Creek in the East Kimberleys, where traditional Aboriginal culture still thrives.

Geoffrey Lindsay (skin name Ponde) of the Narrinjirri people, is from the Gerard Mission in Berri, South Australia.

Born on the banks of the Murray River, this full blood has been painting for 10 years without any formal instruction.

His multi-talented ability, allows him to use all mediums of ink, pencil and paint, with perspective layouts and three dimensional techniques.

Warrior' by artist Tjinanginy.

Graham Taylor (skin name Tjinanginy) was brought up in the Kellerberrin district and has been painting for five years, specialising in acrylic landscapes and figure painting, plus being a skilled painter of, didgeridoos.

Christine Winmar, who was raised on an Aboriginal mission at Quairading, has been painting for three years.

She paints in a tradi-

tional style and form survival of Nyoongah using contemporary people has been ensured. medias and her work Paintings by the Nyoonreflects the distinctive culture of contemporary galls, represent the surviNyoongah people today. val of a group of people Using the versatility of and their cultural tradiacrylic on canvas, Win- tions which go back at mar has been able to least 50,000 years. reproduce stories passed Anyone wishing to view on by her family and this art which is for with this method, rein- purchase from the priforce her own vate collection of Mr Aboriginality.

Michael Macaulay, can It is because of such do so by contacting him identification, that the on 480 4026.

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Most Sacred Heart of Jesus may your name be praised and honoured throughout the world now and forever. Many thanks for favours granted. W.D.B. Thank you to Our Lady of R evelation for all the f avours you have granted me. Margaret.

Thank you St Clare for helping us to solve our problems at work. E. & M. Thank you St Clare for all the favours you have granted me. Mary.

Ask three favours, 1 business, 2 impossible, pray nine Hail Marys, light candle and let burn out on ninth day. Thank you St Clare and Holy Spirit.

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Publicise prayer. Thanks St Clare, also to the Infant Jesus, Mother Mary and St Anthony. M.D.G.

Mixed Pennants Round eight of the 1989 WACLTA mixed pennant competition potentially saw a clash of the finalists in both grades.

A Grade St Jude's reversed the result of their first meeting with Queens Park when they won 7 sets 80 games to 3 sets 61 games. Whilst the scores suggested a reasonably comfortable win for St Jude's, such was not the case. Queens Park forfeited one set following an injury to one of their players. A number of sets could have gone either way which could easily have altered the result of the match. However, it was a morale boosting win for St Jude's and should give them confidence for the finals St Joseph's forfeited to St Norbert's when three of their players could not play due to influenza.

B Grade St Benedict's continued their winning run when they defeated Pignatelli 1, 7 sets 77 games to 3 sets 66 games in another titanic struggle. This win consolidated St Benedict's position at the top of the B Grade table and are now two games clear of their rivals. The win reversed the earlier result between the two teams. Should these two teams meet in the final, then the result will probably not be known until the final game is decided.

Liwara had a confidence boosting win over Queens Park 9 sets 87 games to 1 set 45 games.

Dianella showed glimpses of the early season form when they had a close win over Pignatelli 2: 6 sets 80 games to 3 sets 69 games.

This loss has possibly

Concern over um from Brian PEACHEY, Woodlands

Sir, I agree with the sentiments and hopes for the proposed Notre Dame Australia university expressed in your editorial (Record, July 13).

There is a powerful case for Australia to establish a Catholic university or even a university, such as NDA, which will not be a Catholic university, but only a university with a 'Catholic ethos'. Such an institution could be a place of great Christian scholarship.

I write, however, with some apprehension, as a parent of eight children who were educated in the Catholic education system at schools which claimed to have a 'Catholic ethos'. If the NDA is to mirror the quality of religious education that my children received (which may not necessarily be so) then it is a matter of grave concern.

My children did receive a satisfactory education in secular subjects, which enabled them to complete tertiary studies in engineering, education, medicine and science, but there is no doubt in my mind that over the past decade none of them received a systematic education in orthodox Catholic teaching.

Dinner Dance

by TOM BRANCH

jeopardised Pignatelli 2s chances of playing in this year's final. They are currently equal on points with Pignatelli 1, but have the tougher contract in their last two home and away games.

Table A Grade 10 Queens Park 10 St Jude's 6 St Cecilia's 3 St Joseph's 3 St Norbert's B Grade 14 St Benedict's 10 Pignatelli 2 10 Pignatelli 1 7 Dianella 5 Liwara 2 Queens Park Next week's 3 matches A Grade St Jude's v St Cecilia's; St Norbert's v Queens Park St Cecilia's is the only other team with a possible chance to reach the A grade final. However, their slim hopes should be extinguished when they clash with finals contenders, St Jude's.

In the other game Queens Park should return to the winning circle when they meet St Norbert's.

Selection — St Jude's; Queens Park.

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

St Benedict's should continue with their winning sequence when they clash with Queens Park.

Pignatelli 2 had a 5 set all match with Liwara

when these two teams met in the last round.

They will be desperate to win this match, but Liwara are always hard to beat at home and this match should be most interesting. The result could hinge on the motivation of either team.

Pignatelli 1 host Dianella at home. When they last met, Pignatelli 1 only beat Dianella by a handful of games. There is more at stake for Pignatelli 1 in this match and that should be enough to ensure their unbeaten record against Dianella remains intact.

Selections — St Benedict's; Pignatelli 2; Pignatelli 1.

Kate Valmadre was crowned Miss WACLTA at the Association's annual Dinner Dance held on August 5 at Wembley Lodge. Over 120 members and friends enjoyed the evening, which is obviously the highlight of the WACLTA social calendar. Association Social Secretary, Judy Russo should again be congratulated for yet another successful function.

Kate, a former head girl of Santa Maria, will represent the Association at this year's carnival in Brisbane between Christmas and New Year.

WA has been successful in the past two years in the national competition and no doubt Kate will be a worthy representative with an excellent chance to complete the hat-trick for WA. All Association members wish her the best at the carnival.

Miss WACLTA 1989 Kate Valmadre

to the Editor What passed for religious education my children received was inadequate in frequency (number of periods) and the content was often gimmicky and unorthodox.

This was of course only my family's experience, but I believe it reflects the standards and attitudes of the Catholic Education Office, which took some five years to prepare a set of guidelines. Religious education has been the poor relation in the massive bureaucracy of the CEO. My primary concern has always been the substance of what has been taught, the paucity of which, in my opinion, is one of the contributing factors accounting for the massive fallout of young Catholics in the practise of their faith.

If the Catholic library has been the resource for Catholic teachers it accounts for much of the unorthodox teaching in Catholic schools.

The Annual Report of the Catholic Institute, referring to the Catholic library, said that 'contacts were made . . . with the Catholic University Planning Office and the Catholic Educatior Review Committee'.

The Catholic library houses most of the works of modernists such as Hans Kung, Charles Curran and Matthew Fox, all of whom have been stopped by the Vatican from teaching theol.

ogy. Other radical writers are in abundance such as Andrew Greely (whom I consider a pornographer), Edward Schillebeeckx, Bernard Haring, Raymond Brown, Richard McBrien and others. It may seem to be carping to criticise a library which has so many of these writers and it will be argued that a modern library should acquire such works to provide an adequate base for objective study. This argument may be true, but my charge against the library is its gross imbalance.

There has been positive censorship of works by orthodox theologians and social commentators.

Liberation theologists such as Boff, Sobrino, Alvares and others are there in abundance but there is no copy of the classical critical work of James Schall SJ. The monumental work 'Gethsemane' by the late Cardinal Sin, which critically analyses the work of Karl Rahner, Hans Kung Teilhard de Chardin and other modernist theologians (whose works are there in great numbers) is not

available. None of the published works of the eminent Catholic scholar and social commentator, B.A. Santamaria is there, not even his outstanding biography of Daniel Mannix.

The library has the trendy journals like Outlook and the Internationalist but does not subscribe to the orthodox publications, AD 2000 or Fidelity, not even LOsserva tore Romano.

This situation exists because the 'Catholic education system' is largely controlled by people who endorse or subscribe to the opinions of the likes of the Boffs and the Currans.

If the 'contacts were made' by the librarian to the 'Catholic University Planning Office' indicates that the emphasis, at present apparent in the Catholic library, is transmitted to the NDA, then what is now a great dream of a university as an enlightened seat of Christian learning could well become a nightmare, perpetrating even worse excesses than have come out of Fordham, Washington or Tubingen.

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Enter street kids with a difference

Youth Appeal 1989 will see a new kind of 'street kid' emerge next weekend as hundreds of young people take to the streets to keep kids off the streets.

Youth Appeal, the doorknock on Sunday, August 20, raises crucial funds for Catholic Youth Lutheran Services, Youth, and Police and Citizens Clubs, each of which seeks to prevent youth crisis and homelessness by providing personal and community formation for young people.

A recent national report on "Our Homeless Children" clearly shows that Federal and State Government programs to combat poverty and youth homelessness have met with very

limited success, and that greater emphasis on prevention is the only real answer.

While many government nonand government organisations work in the curative field by reaching out to 'street kids', Catholic Youth Services has always concentrated on prevention — helping young people grow personally and in faith, developing a sense of belonging to family and community, and so nourishing the circumstances which help youth avoid crisis.

Youth Appeal 1989 is a vital source of funding for this all-important work, so the challenge for all West Australians is to get behind Youth Appeal and give generously.

The national report shows that family con-

flict is one major reason for youth homelessness.

Family conflict frequently arises from unemployment and family poverty, and all three are often connected with increased housing costs and financial strain.

The report says that state welfare services are often overwhelmed by the sheer size of the problem, and it indicates that community-based responses to the crisis facing 'street kids' have suffered from lack of support.

The obvious answer lies in prevention at the most basic level, which means greater emphasis on the family and family values, along with genuine personal growth and formation of young people.

The report itself hints at this solution — one

person interviewed said that no young person would run away from a happy home life and a safe, comfortable, loving family environment.

Our Church has been saying as much for many years, of course, but it is gratifying to learn that the message is slowly seeping through.

Sadly, however, very little real promotion of family life has yet been achieved at government level, and it is left yet again to church and community youth organisations to fill that need.

Youth Appeal 1989 is one very practical way of helping young people to help themselves through Catholic Youth Services, Lutheran Youth, and Police and Citizens clubs.

ter than cure, and that our young people are a precious asset for our Church and community, get behind Youth Appeal 1989 on Sunday, August 20. Give generously when someone calls at your door!

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The annual Youth Ministry Training Programme, which began in March was conducted by the Redemptorist Lay Community and the Redemptorist Youth Ministry Team under the guidance of Father Frank Smith CSsR Ten full days and thirteen evening sessions provided ample opportunity to explore personal growth and leadership, different types of youth ministry, and a study of many major youth issues ranging from sexuality to social justice.

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Six-month stint ends

Youth leadership was one of the major priorities for Perth in the recent Year of Mission, and this week marks the end of a successful six-month training programme sponsored by the Redemptorist community.

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CATHOLIC PARISH YOUTH

The programme began in Melbourne in 1974 and reached Perth just last year.

Father Frank Smith was formerly Head of the Department of Pastoral Studies at the Yarra Theological Union in Melbourne, and has

worked on the Basic Youth Course at the former National Pastoral Institute.

A detailed report on the Youth Ministry Training Programme will appear on this page at a later date.

• Above: Participants of the Redemptorist-run Youth Ministry Program which ends this week. The six-month program has proved a big success.

Force can't silence voices Voices calling for change denial of truth and cannot be silenced by oppression of the people force, according to a are neither long-standing statement by the Tertiary nor desirable features of Catholic Federation of human affairs.

Australia which condemns The Government in recent violence in China. had shown it was China In a strong show of enough to force strong support for Chinese Army to kill People's the university students who strong people, the recently protested in force the law Beijing, TCFA chaplain enough to the Father Stephen Astill SJ and media to lie to according to eople, p said that the foolishness of force had given a Father Astill. short-term victory to the But it had also demonGovernment, but the strated its lack of wisdom

in not recognising the value and virtue of human life itself.

While expressing 'shock and outrage' at the treatment of fellow students in China, the TCFA called on the Chinese Government to 'listen sensitively to the voices calling for change'.

The Australian Government had made an appropriate response to the crisis, and Father Astill said that the TCFA

supported Canberra's actions in granting asylum to certain Chinese people who wished to stay in Australia rather than return to an uncertain and unfriendly homeland.

Meanwhile, the TCFA called for prayers for the repose of the souls of those killed in Beijing, and for the broken hearts of their remaining friends, loved ones and relations.

YOUTH WORKER Applications are called for the position of fulltime youth worker with the Catholic Parish Youth movement.

The position is for a term of two years with an option of a third, working with parish youth groups in Perth's eastern suburbs.

The successful applicant will assist the leaders' team in parish groups, facilitate leadership training and spiritual formation, supply resources and co-ordinate communication between groups.

Applications close TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 and should include: i)

A curriculum vitae and any relevant information regarding past or present involvement with youth groups;

ii)

Two references or names of two referees.

Applications should be marked "CONFIDENTIAL and be addressed to: CPY Neway Team, PO Box 194, NORTH PERTH 6006 Further information contact CPY on 328 8136.

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History of the Swan

As a tribute to the dead and wounded of Beijing in June, a sowl of fresh flowers was set at the entrance of the Art Gallery of Western Australia for the duration of the "Dragon Emperor" exhibition, along with a donation box. Over $1,500 was received through the generosity of Western Australians.

The Director of the Gallery, Mrs Betty Churcher, passed a cheque for these donations to Dr Eric Tan for transmission to the Red Cross in Beijing as a gesture of the deep sympathy felt by the people of Western Australia for those who suffered during the Tiananmen Square people's suppression in China.

On the Swan. A history of the Swan district of It A. Published by University of WA Press for Swan Shire Council, Middle Swan, WA. Available from Swan Shire Office, $25.

This book provides a comprehensive general history of the Swan district north of Perth, since early exploration and European settlement, with an emphasis on the area within the present boundaries of the Shire of Swan. It deals with the area's social and local government history, with

special reference to architecture and town planning.

The author, Michael J. Bourke, BA, AS (ANU), is a historian with major interests in architecture and its history. He has worked extensively on projects in the field of architectural history, including a study of buildings in the Swan Valley for the 'Swan Valley Project' of the State Planning Commission in 1985-86, and has served as a member of the Buildings Committee of the National Trust of Western Australia.

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Artist in focus CODEPENDENT,

On Location (from the Praxis Folio) 1985, linocut with red ink stamped inscription.

WA artist Mary Moore's work is well represented in the Art Gallery of Western Australia's permanent collection and there will be a focus exhibition of her work throughout August and September.

The centrepiece of the exhibition 'Via Rie' is a recently acquired portrait of Rie Heymans, who has retired as Curator of Pictures at the University of Western Australia. Supporting this is a group of fine graphic works, together with a selection of Mary's current witty constructions and a self-portrait, all exploring the theme of domesticity.

In 1982 Moore was awarded the inaugural Sir James Carruthers Fellowship and took up residence in Paretaio, Italy, using the studio funded by the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council.

She has taught part-time at a variety of institutions and is currently a tutor halftime in printmaking at Curtin University.

Many will be familiar with her Festival of Perth poster design commission in 1988 and, more recently, the poster for Western Australian Children's Week.

This year she has the major distinction of a Creative Development Fellowship from the Western Australian Department for the Arts.

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by Melody Beattie. Published by Collins Dove.

An expert guide to achieving serenity for Codependents who want to take care of themselves.

• Have you become so absorbed in other people's problems that you don't have time to identify, or solve, your own?

• Do you care so deeply about other people that you've forgotten how to care for yourself?

• Do you need to control events and people around you because you feel everything around and inside you is out of control?

• Do you feel responsible for so much because the people around you feel responsible for so little?

By its nature, alcoholism

and other compulsive disorders create victims out of everyone close to the afflicted person. Whether the person you love is an alcoholic, a gambler, a foodaholic, a workaholic, a sexaholic, a criminal, a rebellious teenager or a neurotic parent, this book is for you — the codependent.

This inspiring new overview of co-dependency by Melody Beattie, recovering alcoholic and former chemical dependency counsellor, details its characteristics, where the behaviour comes from and how it affects us and those around us. Offering hope and guidance.

Co-dependent No More discusses several options to controlling behaviour and helps us understand that letting go will set us free.

Reader's Digest Guide to the Coast of Victoria, Tasmania and Soutb Australia. Distributed through Collins. $19.95 each.

These guides provide all the information you could ever want on the Australian coast from Cape York to the Eyre Peninsula. Published in 1983 as a 480 page hardback book, it has now been divided into three handy regional guides, each of which has been augmented

with new illustrated features on popular holiday areas.

The three books are Coast of New South Wales, Coast of Queensland and Coast of Vic, Tas and SA. Stunning aerial photographs are accompanied by a thorough and up to date description of the places illustrated.

Here is all the information you need to plan anything from a coastal touring holiday to a day at the beach.

The Irish Fleadh has finished for another year but the input of theatre, song, dance, music and a combination of fun and laughter mixed with good camaraderie, has been great.

Always willing to share their special culture with others, the Irish festival saw many people through the Irish Club doors — and somehow or another, after fraternising with the Irish, one always comes away feeling that much better. . .

Top left: Seisun producer Sean Doherty playing an Irish air at this Fleadh s egment which was given over to traditional Irish music, song and dance, from slow airs to foot stomping jigs and reels.

A bove: Tom Breen entertaining with songs from far and wide.

Top right: Damien and Colm O'Doherty in an excerpt from the Tain Bo Cuailnge (the Cattle Drive of Cooley), which was part of his own play The House of the Stare, performed during the Irish Fleadh.

A splendid performance, with daughter Damien and Colm being the only actors, the play conjured up the land, myths and people during the time of William Butler Yeats.

Middle right: If anyone out there thinks that 'many years married' means romance has gone and married life is dull! — take a look at these delightful marrieds who the camera caught spontaneously at the Fleadh Review/Revue.

Agnes and Michael Keogh of Waterman were an inspiration to the jaded!

Bottom right: Up to all sorts of shenanigans! At the Fleadh Review/Revue, were (left) Maura Ducey, Tom Quinn Irish Club Manager, Lena Costello, Joe and Lotte Crozier.

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Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission

AIDS PROJECT OFFICER IVF SEMINAR

Andrew Canny and Kate Underwood outside St Joseph Pignatelli Church after their wedding Mass. Kate and Andrew met at a parish Antioch meeting. Andrew was a former leader and Kate was active with the music.

Andrew is the son of Anne and Phil Canny of Geraldton and Kate is the daughter of John and Margaret Underwood of Attadale.

DOGS' CHANCE RACE 1: Fabulous Trease 1, Estuary View 2, Chief View 3.

RACE 2: Go for Aces 1, Crown Bandit 2, Trooper's Bar 3.

RACE 3: Blue Crusher 1, Astarta 2, Trevor's Trust 3.

RACE 4: Sea Glider 1, Just George 2, Wee Mickila 3.

RACE 5: Black Patriot 1, Tar Bonus 2, Pintara Sue 3.

RACE 6: Sand Pebble 1, Top Mocka 2, Lady Harwood 3.

RACE 7: Sandy's Lad 1, Akela Rex 2, Resort Flyer 3.

RACE 8: Walk With Kings 1, Castle Special 2, Black Vader 3.

RACE 9: King's Patriot 1, Black Buccaneer 2, Smart Blue 3.

RACE 10: Supreme Bullet 1, Crown Swinger 2, Double Scotch 3.

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A three hour seminar on morality and IVF with the theme "Welcome to the Brave New World" will be held at the University of WA, Wilsmore Lecture Theatre, on Saturday August 19, beginning at 10.15am. Organised

by UWA Veritas Society students, with keynote speakers, John Fleming (Director of the Southern Cross Bioethics Institute in South Australia) and Anna Duffy, (St Vincent's Bioethics Centre, Melbourne) on "What sort of society is smorgasbord morality producing?" and "IVF — Does it liberate or subjugate?"

Admission is $2 with morning tea provided. Further information can be obtained from Tim Wallace, phone 367 5797.

A MNESTY QUIZ

Amnesty International South Perth group will hold a Quiz Night at 8pm on Tuesday, August 15, at the Manning Hotel. Quizmaster: Peter Holland. $5 per person (tables of 6).

Tickets available from 328 3144 or 459 2380.

BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE

Concelebrated Mass at 2pm on Sunday, August 20 to celebrate the Assumption of Our Lady, followed by Rosary procession, (weather permitting) and Eucharistic Blessing of the sick. For further information and bus reservations please ring 444 2285 for Perth, Highgate and Midland bus and 339 4015 for Fremantle bus.

The church "Virgin Mary Mother of the Church", at Bullsbrook is available for pilgrimages (by appointment) and is open every day. Sacri Association PO Box 311 Tuart Hill 6060. Telephone 571 1699.

BENEDICTINE OBLATES

RETREAT &WORKSHOP Father AMA SAMY SJ of the BODHI MEDITATION ASHRAM, INDIA now on his second Australian visit.

At Redemptorist Retreat House WORKSHOP: Friday, September 29 — Sunday, October 1.

RETREAT- Sunday October 1-8 Workshop and Retreat full residential under the guidance of Father Ama Samy SJ, Zen Master and Jesuit Priest,

Enquiries: Fr Douglas Conlan, Aquinas College, Manning 6152

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CARLTON HOTEL with good old-fashioned hospitality in the heart of the city B&B Single $30; Double/Twin $50 • HEARTY BREAKFAST • PAR KING FACILITIES • REFRIGERATOR • TEA & COFFEE FACILITIES

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The August meeting of St Gregory's Chapter for lay Benedictine members will be held at lona Convent Library, 2pm Sunday, August 20. The September retreat is to be planned. Other people interested in the 'Benedictine Way' are invited. Enquiries: Mrs J. Simpson, Tel 444 9305.

NORTHAM CENTENARY

For the centenary of the arrival in Northam of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Apparition on May 1, 1889, ex students of St Anthony and St Joseph convents, Northam are holding a dinner in the Lesser Town Hall on Sunday, September 10.

Further information contact before September 1, Eileen Tucker (09) 277 6065 or Doreen Bullen (096) 22 2931.

MASS FOR DISABLED

St Aloysius Parish, Shenton Park is celebrating a special Mass for disabled and seniors of the parish on Sunday, August 20, at 10am.

Members and Associates of the Assumption Christian Life Community are especially invited. The sacrament of anointing will be administered. The front seats of the church will be reserved for those wishing to receive this sacrament.

There is to be a sit-down lunch after the Mass. For more information call 381 1905, 382 2089, 381 9984, 291 8632.

DE VIALAR FAREWELL A Mass of thanksgiving and farewell as De Vialar College (formerly St Joseph's, Fremantle) comes to the end of its 133 years of existence and in 1990 amalgamates to form the new Seton Catholic College, a co-educational Archdiocesan College, will be celebrated by Archbishop Foley at St Jerome's Church, Troode Street, Munster on Tuesday, September 12 at 7.30pm.

Supper will follow. Further information 337 5179.

ENNEAGRAM COURSE

The Enneagram Part 1 process which combines psychology and spirituality for the purpose of self understanding and holistic growth will be presented by Fr Stephen Truscott and Celia Joyce on Tuesdays 7.30-9pm, August 22 to October 24 or Thursdays 9.30-11am, August 24 to October 26 in Room 8 CEO, 50 Ruislip Street, Leederville. For further information and bookings, by August 17, contact the Fullness of Life Centre, Ph 227 6883.

NEWMAN SOCIETY Mr John Fleming director, Southern Cross Bioethics Institute Adelaide, will address The Catholic Doctors Association, in conjunction with the Newman Society on Thursday August 16, at 8pm in the Senior Common, St Thomas More College on IVF The Australian Scene and Proposals for WA Legislation.

Contact No 446 1628, open to all interested.

MARIAN MOVEMENT

The monthly meeting of the Marian Movement will be held at the Little Sisters of Carmel 2 Fraser St, Swanbourne on Tuesday, August 15 at 10.30am.

The Commission is seeking a full-time Project Officer to establish in Canberra the Australian Catholic Bishops' AIDS Resource and Reference Centre; to research and to produce written and audio-visual educational material and to co-ordinate information on AIDS for the Church.

Applicants must have demonstrated ability in research and audio-visual media.

Salary: Beginning at (ASO 6) $33,000.

Written applications including names, addresses and phone numbers of three referees should be sent to: Father K. Caldwell National Director 22 Theodore Street CURTIN ACT 2605 Telephone (062) 85 1366

by Wednesday, 30 August 1989.

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1st COMMUNION & CONFIRMATION requirements

HELPER NEEDED Emmanuel Centre, a self-help centre for people with disabilities is looking for a live-in House Coordinator for their Christian community, able to accept others and willing to share their lives within a community environment.

The person may work or study (full or part time) during the day as people are out at various activities or work. Free board and rent to successful applicant.

The Emmanuel Christian Community supports the members of the community in their Christian journey, providing opportunities of Christian growth and celebrates Christ in our world.

Fr Paul Pitzen, a Servite, is presently living in the community to help to develop its spirituality.

To be a House Co-ordinator please ring Barbara on 328 8113.

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A rchdiocesan Calendar August 13 Visitation and confirmation, Gingin ' Chittering, Bishop Healy.

15 Mass for Mazenod, St Brigid's & Mary's Mount, Archbishop Foley.

16 Visitation and confirmation, Ocean Reef, Archbishop Foley.

18 Kalgoorlie Catholic Ball, Monsignor McCrann.

19 Royal School of Church Music, Archbishop Foley.

Wanneroo Catholic Ball, Monsignor Keating.

20 Our Lady of the Hills Association, Mundaring, Archbishop Foley.

Mass — North Beach for Beatification of Mary Francis Siedliska, Archbishop Foley.

Visitation and confirmation, Mosman Park, Bishop Healy.

Confirmation, Highgate, Monsignor McCrann.

22 Confirmation, Kelmscott, Monsignor Nestor.

25 Confirmation, Fremantle, Archbishop Foley.

26& Confirmation, Balcatta, Monsignor 27 Keating.

27 25th Anniversary, Manning Parish, Archbishop Foley.

Visitation and confirmation, Wilson, Bishop Healy.

Confirmation, Rockingham, Monsignor McCrann.

First Clergy Retreat, Archbishop Foley.

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