The Record Newspaper 07 September 1989

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WARSAW: Pope John Paul ll has asked world religious leaders to pray that "war be banished from every part of the world" and that it "disappears as an instrument for resolving conflicts."

The pope made the appeal in a taped message televised via a giant screeen in Royal Castle Square in Warsaw, Poland, September 1, to a gathering of international relgious leaders commemorating the 50th anniversary of the German invasion of Poland, which sparked World War II. "The invasion of Poland began a long and painful period of suffering for the population — for the Christians, for the Jews and for everyone," the pope said.

The war also caused "vast and tearing wounds in the entire world" which are still causing suffering, he added.

Religious leaders must work so that "this tragic event never ceases to be a warning," the pope said.

"Today, in Warsaw, tile memory of the war does not give rise to a shout of vengeance nor an incentive for hate, but to an invocation of peace," he said.

"It is necessary to continue this search for peace in dialogue and prayer," he said.

The pope noted that the end of World War II did not bring lasting peace to the world.

He cited "the conflicts which in these 50 years have been unleashed and those which are still in progress," without mentioning any specific fighting.

Religious leaders must convince people "to follow the road of dialogue and negotiations which respect the rights of everyone," the pope said.

One of the best ways to become homeless is to become a State ward," said Fr Dethlefs, "State Governments need to do much better.

They take a kid away from a parent and then the kid Is homeless."

Fr Dethlefs, currently a prison chaplain in south east Queensland, is better-qualified than most to come up with ideas on how concerned individuals and groups

can tackle to snowballing problem of homeless children.

With Jan Carter of the Brotherhood of St Laurence, he was a commissioner on the national inquiry into homeless children established by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and chaired by Brian Burdekin.

The commissioners alarmed Australia when they published their 300page report earlier this year, full of damning facts about our neglect of youth in crisis.

They found there were 20,000 to 25,000 homeless children under 18,

about 19,000 of them aged 12 to 15. Kids nightly risk violence, sexual assault and illness by sleeping in doorways, drains, clothing bins, car parks and under bridges.

Many are forced into prostitution and crime because they cannot afford their living costs and there are severe shortages of accommodation and specialist support services.

The inquiry is being reconvened in Canberra on September 11. The commissioners want to find out what State and Federal governments have decided to do about their report.

Fr Dethlefs said people should ask questions about what their State does Government because the States have constitutional most responsibility to provide major services for homeless youth.

They should ask what pre-release programs are available for children in institutions and what case-loads community youth workers have.

"There are very few prerelease programs for young people and very little follow-up and this is where kids become homeless. Many child community workers have impossible caseloads," he said.

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Focus on Bunbury • Page 7

The anniversary ceremonies were boycotted by numerous Jewish leaders because of a dispute over a Carmelite convent at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz. (See stories P.5)

Demand State answers on homeless

BRISBANE: People who want to do something about youth homelessness should demand that their State Government give its wards a better deal, according to Fr Wally Dethlefs.

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Both Fr Dethlefs and the Burdekin report emphasised that there are answers.

name to young people.

They can lock them up without any criminal offence being committed," he said.

"We need to have the political will to resource "It's escalated because those answers. Home- of housing problems and and lessness is largely pre- unemployment ventable," Fr Dethlefs because of the breakdown of local communisaid. ties and the extended Fr Dethlefs has been family. working with youths in crisis longer than some of "Another factor is the those he helps have been churches used to have alive. large institutions for He first worked in the teenagers. For very good area in 1973 when he reasons they examined became a chaplain to the what they were doing in Wilson Youth Hospital, a them and decided it wasn't appropriate any youth detention centre. more. As they pulled out, "Iwas horrified by what they left an enormous the state does in our vacuum," he said.

It's all action at the Little Sisters of the Poor • Page 10 & 11

Land grant will help Christian link A state government land grant in Duncraig will mean Catholics and Anglicans can plan cooperatively to look after more than 200 aged people.

Both Catholic Homes for the Aged and Anglican Homes, have received 1.8ha each at the corner of Warwick Road and Marmion Avenue. The grant of crown land is estimated to be worth $2.3 million.

It is the first such crown grant to the Catholic organisation.

Anglican Homes intend to start immediately on a 40 bed nursing home. They will later expand into self-contained units.

Catholic Homes will start next year on a 40-bed hostel and some 40 or 50 self-contained single and two bedroom units.

Both organisations will share access to the hostel and nursing home and there will be cooperation in the provision of laundry, transport, catering, etc.

A shared chapel is also envisaged.

In conjunction with the development Duncraig Catholic Homes intends to build a 10-15 bed unit in the Girrawheen-Marangaroo area to serve older Asian people and to involve care by the Servite Sisters.

Both Catholic Homes and Anglican Homes will receive $1.25 million Commonwealth grants for their constructions and the remainder of their $2

million costs will have to be carried by each body.

The Catholic Homes hostel is to set aside special beds for deaf aged and for Alzheimer's sufferers.

The Duncraig development will adjoin the existing Wanneroo Council development facilities that include a senior citizens centre, a library, recreation centre, basketball and tennis courts and parkland.

Catholic Homes currently has

approval tor two 40-bed hostels and other sites are being investigated for using the balance of beds held over after the Duncraig development and that is expected to be ready at the end of 1990.

Catholic Homes, which has been responsible for the building of seven aged facilities currently manages four: Two at Servile Villa where 24 selfcontained units were finished earlier this year, at Archbishop Goody Hostel at East Perth, and at Marist Lodge at Belmont.

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"Rose Winmar's sharp eye and perseverence have turned up a number of valuable copies of the Record newspaper that we had missing in the Archives," said Sister Raphael, Archdiocesan Archivist.

Rose, a volunteer at Emmanuel (a self help centre for people with disabilities), patiently sifts through a mountain of newspapers searching for any old Records that may be dropped off at Emmanuel.

The Centre is very keen to support environmental issues and is proud of their chart that indicates the number of trees saved each week. Kathy Campbell who co-ordinates the chart, said "last week we saved sixty two trees and at the same time raised some money for services of the centre".

Each week the centre recycles approximately three tonne of paper and a team of workers supervised by Rosie Winmar sort the paper.

"That's howI find the old Records," said Rosie.

Pride amongst the recent finds was a Christmas copy of a 1953 Record. Highlights in this edition were the opening of St John's Church in Scarborough, a new girls school at Leederville for a cost of 15,000 pounds and a new school at Como. The Record cost 2/, Sister Raphael and Sister Terry, who have worked in the Archives for 10 and four years

respectively, invited Rosie to visit the Archives recently to see how the papers are stored.

"We now try to have four copies of each Record," they said. "There have been times when the whole year has gone missing and we need to send one copy to the Battye Library.

"The Record was first printed in 1874 on a printing press at the boys' orphanage in Subiaco," said Sister Terry. "There have been several changes of venue since then.

"For a short time in the 1950s the Record was printed by an outside firm and there are no copies in the archives for the year 1952."

By strange coincidence, Mrs Barbara Harris, Co-ordinator of Emmanuel came across some of her own family memorabilia. She was astonished to see herself pictured in the May 29 edition for 1952 as Queen Regent of a Crowning of Mary Ceremony that was a feature of the diocese, celebrated at St Brigid's, West Perth, at that time.

"Isn't that just amazing," said Sister Terry, when handed the pages. "We now have four pages of a lost year."

Anyone who has old Record newspapers, or any newspapers can drop them at Emmanuel Centre, 25 Windsor street, East Perth, anytime day or night.

ADELAIDE: Adelaide archdiocese has drawn up a provisional policy for priestless parishes and has appointed a 10 member committee to study how the present number of priests can best serve the diocese.

The policy says that the archdiocese has to face the possibility that there may not be sufficient priests to make a suitable appointment of a resident priest.

The values to be used in making that decision state that parish is fundamentally a eucha-

creative combination of ordained and nonordained leadership, the document states.

Priestless parishes policy ristic community and the regular celebration of the eucharist and other sacraments is essential for its life.

The first and ordinary option will be to appoint a priest to a parish but when it is not possible parish structures will be adapted to promote the participation of laity as outlined in canon law.

Preference will be given to enabling parishes to continue rather than closing them.

Parish ministry in the future will need to be a

The implementation of canon 517 (which allows for a shortage of priests) may require combining parishes, changing boundaries so that a priest moderator can oversee the parish even though administered by some other person.

The appointment of a religious sister or of a deacon will be considered amongst the options.

The responsibilities of both the moderator priest and the pastoral careperson will have to be set out in a written statement and the Presbytery Fund and the Diocesan Finance Council will have to arrange suitable remuneration.

Criteria to be used by the working party include: the availability of a priest or another suitable person; the pastoral history and size of the community, and its special needs such as poverty, isolation and access to other resources.

Armadale's vocations workshop Bryan Bettis (left), Jeanette Fancote and Carol Hawker enjoying a small group discussion under the

"God made you special for a reason," was the theme of the Personal Vocations Workshop that the A rmadale Parish ran e very Sunday in A ugust, which was their Vocations month.

The six-hour workshop was put together by a Vocations Committee comprising five parishioners people led by the parish Vocations Representative.

For 18 months the group thrashed out what vocations were all about and how best to promote them. Various programs already in existence were consulted but were

rejected as being too long, too erudite, or too dull.

The team decided the need was not only to wake people up and make them look at their special gifts and talents and how they were using them (if at all), but to do it in an enjoyable and experimental way that people made feel renewed and revitalised.

As a result, a major publicity campaign was launched in June to reach as many parishioners as possible. This included visual displays, guest speakers and a "31 Club" run to provide

prayer support to ensure its success.

The workshops, at this stage, were offered only to adults, and over 50 people attended. These were hosted by four families in their homes, providing a warm atmosphere which was conducive to this type of program.

Father Jim Corcoran, parish priest, who particpated, said it was like seeing his twenty-year old vision fulfilled when people from the laity could organise and run such a successful Vocations Workshop for their own parish.

Father Justin Bianchini,

Director of Vocations for the Archdiocese, also attended one of the workshops and celebrated Mass with a special emphasis in vocations Armadale.

The committee hopes to publish the workshop program shortly as they feel other parishes may want to use the material.

When the booklet is completed a copy will be offered to the Catholic Education Office Library.

It has been suggested that a different approach could be used fora Youth Vocations Workshop, perhaps next year. But that's a lot of prayer away at this stage.

SAO PAOLO, Brazil: Indians in the north western Brazilian state of Roraima face genocide, and the Catholic Church is trying to help them survive, said Bishop Aldo Mongiano of Roraima.

"In Roraima, the only organisation that can protect the Indians is the Church," Bishop Mongiano said.

"If the Church was not there, they would all be gone."

Of the 160,000 people in the Diocese of Roraima, 30,000 are Indians belonging to 10 different tribes.

The Church is trying to "give conscience to the Indians", he said, through educational and agricultural programs.

For instance, the area's Yanomarni Indians — none of whom have been baptised — are completely primitive. However, Bishop Mongiano said, schooling for other Indians helps make them aware of the problems of the Yanomarni, "so they can stand for something has gone themselves". wrong. Compassion has Brazil's 9000 Yanodied." mami face extinction

'Something wrong with Aussie attitudes' TOWNSVILLE: Towns- compassion and rekindle ville diocese will con- interest in the plight of tinue its efforts to these people and the sponsor refugees from Mercy Sisters have taken Hong Kong's crowded the ball and run with it," closed camps, espe- said Bishop Benjamin. "It cially, said Bishop will be an issue at our Raymond Benjamin. diocesan pastoral assemBut, he said, "some- bly on September 23-24. thing has gone wrong "I have visited the in Australian aftidues". closed camps in Hong

He was speaking after the Mercy Sisters Townsville Congregation announced a commitment to the "staged" purchase of housing for needy families, including refugees.

"I've been trying to stir

Kong and seen the dreadfulness of it all and the hopelessness of many of the people there.

"Some of the refugees — many young families — have been there years.

There are children who have known nothing else

because they were born there.

"The Hong Kong Government does not seem to know what to do with them and the refugees also face the prospect of the Chinese takeover in 1997.

"I can't feel good about living in my house, sleeping in my bed, knowing the conditions under which refugees live.

'There is talk of compassion fatigue, when you compare the early generosity with the attiude now. Certainly

Bishop Benjamin said the diocese had tried — unsuccessfully — "every avenue" to bring out Vietnamese refugees, even to submitting the names of families in the Hong Kong camps they knew of and were prepared to sponsor.

"We've been saying, We'll take them; send them to us, but nothing happens," said Bishop Benjamin. "We will continue trying."

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MELBOURNE: Melbourne archdiocese has The parish is to be the prime focus of the new established a Catholic Pastoral Formation Centre structure and deaneries, because they service that will absorb the former Catholic Adult parishes, will also be a special focus.

Education Centre.

Father Peter Nicholson is the director of the The new formation centre will provide the new formation centre that will continue to be following services: based at the West Melbourne premises of the • Community development services, building Catholic Education Centre and which will on the Renew program and promoting small commence operation in 1990. groups, small Christian communities and parish Archbishop Little said the new organisation pastoral planning. was the result of a study made after the closure • Education in faith services, continuing the last year of the National Pastoral Institute. work of the Catholic Education Centre.

A report said that the archdiocese needed • Ministry education services initially for formation programs for a range of people to part-time ministries and later for more carry out the mission of the Church within the professional programs.

Church and beyond.

because gold prospectors are invading their lands, mineral-rich bringing diseases and polluting waters traditionally used by the tribe.

The Brazilian government wants total integration of the Indians, but the Church favours gradual integration, Bishop Mongiano said.

"Integration means a reduction to poverty" for the Indians because they cannot compete with most Brazilians, the bishop said.

One way in which the Church is trying to help is through the program that has come to be known as "A Cow for the Indians" Through this program, the diocese gives a group or tribe of Indians 50 head of cattle, providing "milk for the children, meat for the people". In addition, cattle help guarantee that Indians can keep their land — when white men ask to "use the land", the Indians can claim they need it for grazing.

Within five years, the cattle reproduce, and the original group must give

50 head of cattle to another group of Indians The diocese has given away 5000 cows, but hopes to give away 35,000, the bishop said.

Bishop Mongiano, an Italian-born Consolata missionary, was among 118 religious accused by Brazil's National Security Council in the mid1980s of "incitement of rural workers to land invasions, encouragement of workers to passive resistance and movements of open rebellion, incitement of Indians to kidnap people and block roads as a way of demanding immediate solutions to their problems".

The bishop also has received death threats, but — comparing the situation in Roraima to the Wild West in the United States — he writes them off as "part of the culture".

"The law is powerless, so the gun gives the solution," he said.

"You cannot kill anybody or sacrifice anybody to get money," he said.

"You cannot do evil to obtain good."

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Guest editorial KEITH O'NEILL

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Chief executive officer Australian Catholic Social Justice Council

In an interview with Bernard Levin in 1987, Archbishop Runcie quoted Cardinal Hume's reply to the question of what distressed him most about the modern world. Cardinal Hume had said: "The loss of truth."

This seems to be a worldwide problem; not only in England, in the USA (eg the IranContra affair), in Japan, but also, of course, here in Australia we have had the Fitzgerald Inquiry and other inquiries to follow.

Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen of Seattle addressed this question at the 1988 Mansfield Conference in Montana — the Mansfield Conference is so named in honour of former US Senator Mike Mansfield who was renowned for his integrity in public office.

Archbishop Hunthausen highlighted the division between the private and public spheres of ethics. He said that this division is deeply rooted in the American political culture. The virtues essential to one's private life — personal integrity, loyalty, honesty, forthrightness — are sometimes forgotten in social life.

"At worst this social life is seen as life in the jungle, where the killer instinct remains a virtue," the Archbishop said. This is the sort of scene portrayed in the film "Wall Street" and in the book "The Bonfire of the Vanities". "Greed is good!" Gordon Gekko says in "Wall Street".

But when one thinks about the revelations of the Fitzgerald Inquiry the scene is not much different here: practising Christians taking bribes and "only doing it for the family!"

Is there something wrong with our education.? Are we stressing too much success in examinations, success in sport at the expense of character building?

Geelong Grammar's Timbertop and Scots College Sydney's Kangaroo Valley camp are worth examining as character building training models.

And are we as parents and teachers setting good examples? At a recent seminar at the YWCA in Sydney entitled "Ethics: Me First. . . Moral Dilemmas of the 1990s" chaired by media personality Jane Singleton, one of the audience told a choice anecdote of a headmaster taking a cake from a children's cake stall without paying for it! This is the sort of mentality that approves of police asking for discounts at the corner store.

What is the Church in general and the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council doing about this problem?

Council Chairman, Bishop William Brennan has written to all dioceses, drawing the Bishops' attention to the matter. Public meetings are also planned. In Sydney on September 28, Cardinal Clancy will be one of two keynote speakers addressing a public meeting organisedby Knights of the Southern Cross.

In other dioceses, including Bishop Brennan's Wagga diocese, similar meetings are planned, which should see the Church demonstrating leadership in a vital social area. The Council is planning to publish an Issues Paper and hopes to distribute it in October.

Let's hope that these new approaches will lead to a grand educative movement throughout Australia so that the whole nation "lifts its game" in this area.

It is not enough to protest and condemn and set up anti-corruption measures including commissions and tribunals.

Let's take positive measures: to build for ourself a just community with ourselves, our neighbour, our environment and our God. Let us pray for the coming of social justice.

Action speaks louder than words

US BISHOP ON RACISM IN CHURCH

WASHINGTON (CNS): There has been an "articulated Catholic response against racism" over the past 40 years but "these are words only. What is needed is action by the local churches", said A uxiliary Bishop Joseph A. Francis of Newark, NJ, one of the US 13 black bishops.

Promoting a teleconference for the 10th anniversary of "Brothers and Sisters to Us: US Bishops' Pastoral Letter on Racism in Our Day" which Bishop Francis called "the bestkept secret in the Catholic church", he said:

One heart / one body...

SEOUL (UCAN): About 5000 Catholics recently donated blood during a unique liturgy in the Olympic gymnasium, as part of the Korean Church's "One Heart, One Body" campaign.

The campaign encourages prayer and sacrifice to prepare for the 44th International Eucharistic Congress schehere duled in October. A quarter of the estimated 20,000 people at the event donated blood.

Two-hundred beds and hundreds of attendants crowded the gymnasium floor.

Donors lined the aisles waiting to be examined by Red Cross workers as the congregation sang and prayed.

Several donors fainted in the hot and crowded building.

With blood donations well underway. cardinal Stephen Kim of Seoul arrived with Red Cross and government officials and a retinue of bishops and priests.

Mass was concelebrated at an altar placed among the donor beds.

"What was said 10 years ago is sadly descriptive of the experience of people of colour as if it were written this morning, as we speak."

He noted several Catholic documents about racial justice dating back to the 1940s: • the "Constitutional rights and the Black Man" section of "The Essentials of a Good Peace" in 1943; • "Discrimination and Christian conscience" in 1958; • "Statement on National Race Crisis" in 1968 and

• the 1979 pastoral letter.

"My hope is to involve more Catholics in the struggle to end racism," Bishop Francis said. "We also need to include within our parishes an agenda to escalate the struggle against racism in our society and in our Churches."

He added some parishes are "reluctant" to include blacks, Hispanics and Asians as members.

"It follows the pattern of segregated housing" in suburban areas, Bishop

said, with Catholics keeping the "same attitude of why they fled to begin with".

Francis

Bishop Francis, who grew up in Louisiana, said racism in the North is "much more vicious, much more damaging than what it is in the south".

He cited police response in northern US cities as "much more aggressive to minorities" and "racial issues" that have "sprung up" on Catholic college campuses, leading to "very explosive" situations.

Morally wrong, says the pope CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS): Pope John Paul II told a group of medical researchers that abortion and "all forms of genetic manipulation" are morally unacceptable.

New medical discoveries, the pope said, should always offer a service to life, "from its very beginnings to its natural end".

The pope made the remarks to participants in a Rome conference on twins.

He said developments in the study of multiple pregnancy "have helped curtail a certain tendency which considered the termination of pregnancy a justifiable medical procedure."

"Such developments have also demonstrated the unacceptableness, in moral as well as in strictly scientific terms, of all forms of genetic manipulation," he said.

"The defense of life and the dignity of the human person must be of paramount concern in all scientific research," the pope said.

Debate impossible, says Irish bisho DUBLIN, Ireland (CNS): A civil debate about the relationship between church and state in Ireland is almost impossible, said Bishop Brendan Comiskey of Ferns.

Bishop Comiskey said he would be sad if the situation reached the point where people abandoned courtesy and civility and coarsened the language of debate in the name of straightforward speech.

He was replying to Alan Dukes, leader of the opposition in the Irish

parliament, who referred society, tolerance is not to a Catholic bishop as "a purchased at the price of bastard" and as "utterly expelling religious and moral values from the opportunistic". public life of a nation," In an interview in the Bishop Comiskey said.

Dublin newspaper, The Sunday Tribune, Dukes, "It is precisely this a Catholic and a former expulsion that is causing minister of justice, grave concern, not only alleged that the bishop, in Ireland and not only whom he did not name, among Catholics." had tried to persuade the former govememnt to Divore is still prohibited expand the grounds for by the constitution of the civil annulment of mar- Republic of Ireland. The riage and not to pursue former government, led its plan to introduce by Garret FitzGerald, divorce legislation. arranged a referendum "In a truly pluralistic in 1986 to decide

In a letter in The Sunday Tribune Jim Cantwell, director of the Catholic Press and Information Office in Dublin, said a delegation from the Irish bishops' conference had told FitzGerald after the referendum that the law of nullity should never be transformed so that it could be used in cases of valid marriages.

VILNIUS: A second Roman Catholic seminary will be opening soon in Lithuania.

was forced to close in 1946. All except the one at Kaunas were closed by the Soviets after the end of World War H. The decision to reopen the seminary comes at a time when the region of western Lithuania known as Samogitia is facing a critical shortage of clergy — approximately 70 parishes, nearly one-half of the total in SamoOtia, are without priests.

In previous years, one

didates for the priesthood.

One of the first signals that the Gorbachev regime was easing its grip on seminary admissions came last year when a post-war record high of 46 men were allowed to enter the Kaunas seminary, in contrast to 29 the previous year.

Thirty young men have already applied for admission to the Telsiai seminary.

whether the constitution should be amended to allow divorce. The amendment was defeated by 63.5 percent to 36.5 percent.

Another seminary...

The seminary at Telsiai, Lithuania, is being reestablished after more than four decades with the blessing of the Catholic Bishop's Conference of Lithuania.

Telsiai had one of four Catholic seminaries in pre-World War II Lithuania. The Telsiai seminary was founded in 1827 and

key element of the Soviet state's strategy had been to weaken the Catholic Church in Lithuania by closing down most of its seminaries and artificially limiting the number of seminarians admitted to the remaining seminary at Kaunas, thereby gradually reducing the number of clergy.

Catholics in Lithuania had countered this move by establishing an underground seminary which prepared dozens of can-

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Glemp on convent removal 'LET'S TALK IT OVER' W ARSAW: Notwithcriticism standing mounting againt him, Cardinal Glemp wants the removal of an Auschwitz Carmelite convent renegotiated and claims Poland cannot afford an alternative centre.

The 1987 agreement was signed by people who were "not competent" in the matter and who did not represent the interests of the Polish people, he said.

"It is a scandal to ask that these sisters be put out of their convent.

What are we supposed to do — put them under tents?" Cardinal Glemp said.

Fifteen contemplative sisters occupy the present convent.

The previous accord, he said, was signed by Cardinal Macharski of Krakow and "by a group of men who are not competent" in the matter. The renegotiation, he

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Cardinal Glemp

said, should be under- thing was rushed".

Auschwitz. taken by those at the At any rate, Cardinal Cardinal Glemp said proper level of authority Glemp said, Cardinal building of the the "and not by some cardi- Macharski "represents nterreligious centre at i nals who don't under- only the church of Auschwitz was impossistand the situation".

Krakow, and the problem ble under Poland's "curOthers who signed is bigger than that". rent economic crisis". were Cardinals Lustiger The 1987 agreement, The Polish people "canof Paris, Decourtray of signed in Geneva by not allow itself to conLyons and Daneels of Catholic and Jewish struct a centre that Brussels. leaders, called for the would cost at least $2 Cardinal Glemp said he convent's relocation million", he said. did not know why Cardi- within two years, along He said he thought that, nal Macharski had with the establishment of once calm had been approved the 1987 agree- an interreligious prayer restored, Jewish groups ment, but suggested that and information centre might be able to help pay it was "because every- devoted to the victims of for the centre.

'I'm shocked at remarks' Cardinal O'Connor

NEW YORK: Cardinal O'Connor of New York has e xpressed shock at Cardinal Glemp's remarks on Jews in Warsaw but Cardinal Decourtray of Lyons has defended the Polish church leader.

"I have tremendous respect for him. Cardinal Glemp is virtually Mr Poland," Cardinal O'Connor said.

"He has been magnificent. He was tremendous

The cardinal said Jews during all the troubles of Solidarity, but I cannot controlled the media in agree with taking this many countries and told approach." them not to make heroes the seven, who were of Cardinal Glemp said

by Polish workers beaten Jewish critics of the Carmelite convent at the at the convent. former Nazi death camp Cardinal O'Connor said were anti-Polish.

Glemp's Cardinal impresthe gave s remark He also said he thought seven New York Jews sion that he no longer who attacked the con- intended to move the vent in July intended to convent.

"Normal decent people harm the nuns.

could construe from Glemp's Cardinal such a statement that the remarks drew a quick blame be shifted to the rebuttal from the SolidJews for demanding that arity newspaper Gazeta a signed accord be Wyborcza. A front-page carried out," he said. editorial August 28 In France, Cardinal expressed "sorrow and Decourtray said Cardinal regret" at the cardinal's Glemp's statements were speech. distorted by the press. cardinal, The "The primate and the "Although he might not bishops of Poland cannot have intended it, might be accused of anti- have hurt the feelings of Semitism," Cardinal the children and relaDecourtray said in an tions of the Holocaust's August 29 statement. victims," it said.

They are only asking "One should not doubt "application of the joint at all the sincerity of commitments agreed Jewish feeling and see in upon by the Jewish and their protest only a Catholic delegations," political or media manipCardinal ulation," it said. said Decourtray.

Rabbi Avi Weiss, the Kalman Sultanik, a vice rabbi from Bronx, N.Y., president of the New who led the New York York-based World Jewish Jews as they climbed the Congress, called the fence at the convent in Polish cardinal's remarks July, called Cardinal comments "grotesque and hate- Glemp's filled." He said they "something out of the revealed that "an ugly Middle Ages, a blood vein of anti-Semitism libel" and said he was runs through the Polish also considering taking legal action. church."

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Two wrongs don't make a right PNG Bishops reject capital punishment RECENT tragic and lence, particularly that premeditated violent events have led of to voices once again murder. being raised in a call for the death penalty to Such calls for legal be invoked against retribution seem despeople found guilty of tined to be renewed from certain crimes of vio- time to time as a crime of

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In introduction it is worth noting that a recent (1988) survey reported by Amnesty International of research findings on the relationship of the death penalty to the number of murders committed, concluded that "this research has failed to provide scientific proof that executions have a greater deterrent effect that life imprisonment".

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Which is the greater deterrent?

if it is a valid finding then it must surely be taken into account in evaluating any calls for the death penalty being invoked as a deterrent.

Secondly, if we are going to demand respect for human life from the criminal, we must he prepared to exercise the same respect ourselves by ensuring that if a person's life is to be forfeit to the state, we be satisfied about two things: one, that there be no shadow of doubt that the accus .d actually committed he offence punishable by death; and two, that in so doing he was responsible for his actions. With all due respect, we are so confident in the investigative skills of our police force and its fidelity to dueprocess; are we so convinced of its thoroughness in seeking evidence and the professionalism and impartiality of its presentation; are we so confident of the consistent competence of lawyers for both the defence and the prosecution, of the judicial system and of

the immunity of our judges to judicial error; and finally are we so trusting of the psychiatric services available as to be sure that we could execute in good conscience a person found guilty of capital crime?

Death is so permanent and irreversible and once the death penalty has been carried out there is no room for rectifying mistakes attributable to

Death allows no mistakes incompetence, negligence or judicial errot.

This places a tremendous weight of responsibility on all those involved.

While there may be some merit in insistence by some that the imposition of the death penalty be only at the discretion of the judge, the exercise of such discretion must surely be based on objective considerations, which are only so if rooted in facts and evidence which are true, presented in their entirety and correctly interpreted.

to condition and form the accused into the kind of person who perpetrated the kind of crime for which society judges death to be the fitting penalty?

Perhaps those responsible for such a person's education, his moral training and the formation of his attitudes to God and society share some of the responsibility.

Or perhaps governments and legislators, before rushing into new decisions, might pause to consider the social conditions that they have created, perpetuated or tolerated, and which in some cases are the breeding ground for the criminal and anti-social attitudes and behaviour whose manifestation we now wish to punish.

The example of much publicised corruption in high places and other white-collar crime can contribute to the formation in grass-roots people of attitudes to authority and the establishment which are hostile and

Hostile attitudes reflect corruption

Otherwise, the decision as to who lives and who dies might rest not on considerations of guilt or innocence, but on error, destructive, and far from misunderstanding or the the respect that we persuasiveness of legal indignantly demand for counsel. ourselves.

Similarly the acts of The question of the apportioning of moral brutality carried out by responsibility in the case that minority in the of a person who may on security and lawthe evidence have been enforcement agencies, found legally guilty of a who, by the actions crime, is a relevant one. destroy all confidence in For the fatal blow or the and respect for the pressure on the trigger positive function they are meant to exercise in society.

Violence begets violence, and society reaps the reward. The criminal, nfluences I meanwhile, might well be made the scapegoat. culminate A further point is that in any of the various ciraround cumstances which may sometimes justify the crime taking of human life, such an action must always be as a last resort, after all less extreme are but the culmination measures to meet the of a whole series of situation have failed. persons, actions, events To settle for any lesser and circumstances, all criterion would be to contributing to the final hold life cheap. effect.

So we must ask ourHow many different selves, when legislators influences and how and the public suddenly many human agents for renew their urgent calls example, have combined for the death penalty to

does legal killing do anything but brutalise the system A hich authorises it. It is the inhumanity of such a practice which argues to legalised killing being against divine natural i w, or the right order of tt ngs as established by the Creator.

Confronted with the revealation of God's love which has appeared to us Do not in Jesus Christ, the practice is seen as infihold nitely more lacking.

The teaching, direction life and example of Jesus contradicted the ethic of cheaply an eye for eye and a tooth for a tooth. He led his followers along the path of a more disciplined and carried out and a number h igher -motivated of commissions estab- response to injustice —a lished, aimed at investi- course of action which gating the law and order the Lord assured us problem with a view to would "heap coals on e recommending reform. on the head" of the The Morgan and Clifford aggressor, which surely reports, to name only means be more effective two, have sought to in bringing about his identify the root causes conversion and an overand made serious recommendations aimed at addressing not just the symptoms of society's ailments but rather the Conversion deeper causes of our ills.

Also significant in this brings regard is the law and order policy statement of better the current Justice Minister, the Honorable healing Bernard Narakobi.

This document spreads responsibility for the law and order situation across the whole spec- all healing of the trum of society and its situation.

In conclusion we may institutions, and seeks to address it at the different offer the reminder that a fundamental principle in levels.

Until serious efforts all counselling advises have been made to against taking lifeimplement this policy affecting descisions durand attack the root ing times of emotional causes of our social evils, distress. we cannot see as justified It is our belief that the the legal execution of climate of Bougainville those who are but the and the aftermath of the violent death of a government minister are not conducive to the careful consideration that needs to be given to a problem Attack with the moral and social implications of this one. causes in

be introduced, is it because all other efforts have failed and all other avenues have been explored? Or are we looking for simplistic solutions or ready applause?

Recent years have seen many serious studies

flawed system

end products of a flawed system.

Shooting, gassing, strangling or decapitating a person is brutal and inhuman. The accused may have been guilty of a similar brutality himself, but two wrongs do not make a right. Nor

Just as reasonable people will applaud the caution the government exercised and the previous many though unavailing efforts it made at other less violent solutions before committing itself to the declaration of a state of emergency in the North Solomons, so also may it use the same restraint and the same prudence in response to the present demands for action in the matter of capital punishment.

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She'll look after the young ones Cheryl Vernon has been appointed the new diocesan youth worker in the Bunbury Diocese by Bishop Peter Quinn.

Most of Cheryl's work will involve young people who have left school, which compliments the work being done by Paula Gee who handles the needs of secondary students in the diocese.

However, not many post-secondary groups are active at this stage, so Cheryl has the responsibility of the YCS groups, and other student movements in the Mandurah, Pinjarra, Waroona and Harvey parishes.

Diocesan Youth Chaplain Brother Michael Toohey said Cheryl's appointment as a diocesan youth worker does

not detract from the diocesan commitment to the YCW and YCS, but adds the dimension that other movements such as Antioch and Focolare can be more easily recognised.

"Most young people are extremely enthusiastic about the Joscist movements, but some parishes find that YCS or YCW does not meet the needs of their young people," Brother Michael said.

"Now it is more obvious that alternative programs can be offered."

As the diocesan youth worker, Cheryl will be inspiring parishioners and parish priests to support their young people, ensuring they become a vital part of the church community.

"Young people can have the tendency to leave

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things to older parishioners, feeling unwanted and unneeded in everyday church life, and yet the whole parish has to devise activities so that young people take some responsibilities, and are involved in the parish," Cheryl said.

Bunbury diocesan youth chaplin Brother Michael Toohey, diocesan full-timer Paula Gee, Bunbury parish youth worker Julian Bradford, Albany parish youth worker Rob Connor, and diocesan youth worker Cheryl Vernon.

After ten years in the banking industry Cheryl Vernon took on full-time study at the Bunbury Institute in February 1989.

Even though Cheryl had been involved in youth programs at parish level, her fust contact with the Diocesan Youth Office came about through a practical project taken up at the office in June.

Cheryl is now studying part-time, and working full-time.

Developing and defining a vision for the youth ministry was a major project undertaken at the recent retreat and training week for youth workers Bunbury the in Diocese.

Led by the Diocesan Youth Chaplain Brother Michael Toohey, the group described its vision as being: • To create a sense of belonging and community for young people in

the church; • To help older people understand the youth situation; • To develop the faith of Catholic youth; • To encourage parish involvement.

Diocesan full-timer Paula Gee said it was great to be able to reflect together on the ministry, and the need was felt that training and discussions at a Statewide level would be most useful. -

Two Perth youth workers, Warren Iannello and Kate Devlin joined the Diocesan fulltimers Paula Gee and Cheryl Vernon, and parish youth workers Julian Bradford of Bunbury and Rob Connor of Albany in the retreat at Dardanup House in August.

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Pondering the mystery of the Trinity

Mystery of the universe •

Science fiction writers look out into a mysterious, darkened, universe and compose vibrant exciting stories about it.

Space exploration is still in its beginning phases.

Nonetheless these writers are full of suggestions about what things are like out there beyond the Milky Way. Some science fiction

may be far-fetched. But in their instincts the writers may be more typical than they seem at first: they look into the universe around them and they wonder just how fascinating even wonderful it might be.

What is this mysterious universe like? they ask.

In the end they also may ask — What is the mystery behind this universe?

The mystery of the universe can never be comprehended fully. But that does not stop either the theologian or the scientist from trying to understand it: • They may be motivated by pure curiosity.

• They may hope this understanding will help members of the human family to live happier lives.

• They may even be motivated by a religious belief. To help humanity exercise its God-Oven responsibility for creation they pursue understanding of God's creation itself.

How worthwhile is scientific investigation into the workings of this

world and the universe for people of faith?

Numerous times during his pontificate Pope John Paul H has discussed the value of scientific research.

In a 1980 address in Cologne, Germany, the pope said that "through research humanity attains to truth — one of the most beautiful names God has given Himself.

This is why the Church is convinced there can be no real contradiction between science and faith . . . . The whole of reality comes ultimately from God the Creator."

In his speeches on science the pope always encourages researchers to work on behalf of human needs. Scientific researchers should not work in a vacuum, giving no thought to human values, he thinks.

The story is told of St Augustine who, contemplating the mystery of the Trinity while walking along the beach, came upon a child playing. The child repeatedly carried a small bucket of water and emptied it into a hole he had dug in the sand. .

"What are you doing?"

Augustine asked kindly.

"I'm going to put the sea into this hole," was the reply.

With that the child disappeared, leaving Augustine to understand that it was as possible for the child to accomplish the task as it was for Augustine to understand the Trinity.

Is this not proof enough that the powers of the mind are useless when it comes to faith's great questions?

Is this not proof enough that people of faith can leave the powers of reason behind?

I would answer, quite simply, no.

I remember the talk I had with a young couple

Nothing that deepens knowledge the pope said in a 1983 speech to scientists, can leave us indifferent. All scientific research pursued with honesty, he added, honours humanity and is a tribute to the Creator of all things.

Could it be that God in giving humanity the power to reason hoped we would keep struggling to understand the world and the universe?

Can it be a spiritual act and ultimately an act of faith when the human mind searches for his kind of understanding?

several years ago in a parish following an evening for parents of children about to be baptised.

Everyone else had gone home except this earnest young couple. They were intrigued by our discussion of original sin and the special gift of faith that the Christian community would share with their child.

Before that night; the couple had not given much thought to sin or grace or Christian life.

They were, I guess, doubters. But the evening's session had given them a chance to ask questions and to talk about serious matters.

In this case, their questions actually awakened faith that had been dormant for years. Their minds had been stimulated. They were drawn back into an environment where faith could be nourished.

Similarly, I had a conversation recently with a 38-year-old man who had returned to a university for continuing education classes. He

• We lose a job, or a to-day basis? How? child goes astray, or a When? Why? marriage ends in divorce.

These are age-old questions. One naturally "Is it all worth it? Where leads to another. And have we failed? Has God faith provides an answer failed us?" we ask. suddenly began to rhap- so grand and sweeping These are not doubts, sodise about how impor- — like the sea — that we openings to meaning. but tant school was for him. can comprehend it only help keep faith They It was a place where he in drops, somewhat like alive. Reason, and fresh was bombarded with the child who grasped us in touch fact, puts i n questions which led to a the sea bucket at a time. with God, like the young new perspectives which Is the power to the mind had not in turn led to new of no account, therefore, couple who seriously about thought questions. since one question leads God, church, Jesus, until He felt the entire pro- to another and we can their intellects were cess helped bring his never get to the bottom of sparked by the give-andspirit to life. our faith anyway? take of discussion.

As these examples sugFaith provides the Without reason and its gest, the questions we meaning. Our questions raise about our faith need are the inroads into that questions we run the risk not destroy it or dampen meaning. Our questions of remaining utterly passive and are in danger enthusiasm for it. Quite goad to of letting God and Christ us the contrary. understanding. pass us by with hardly a When it comes to the of recognition. nod • For example, we great questions about and suffering experience faith, one question has a The use of our powers tendency to lead to ask, "Can there be a God of reason points toward who permits suffering?" very another.

This is no doubt but a faith that is taken seriously.

• Does suffering have plea for understanding. meaning? never Augustine • Or we are disap• Is there life after wea- stopped pondering the moral by pointed death — and what is it kness or failure in our- Trinity. The incident on like? selves or another whom the beach spurred him • Does God exist? we admire. We ask if the on in a renewed effort to • Does God really influ- Christian life is worth the grasp the magnificent reality of his faith. ence our world on a day- effort.

By Theodore Hengesbach

It's ot hopeless, yoti must have faith

Almost nothing is more frustrating than the awareness that someone you care about is locked into a downward spiral of self-destructive behaviour: for example, drug addiction, alcoholism or the refusal to take any care of personal health through proper nutrition, rest and medical care.

When you try to respond to the needs of a friend or relative in such a situation, you may be left feeling helpless and ineffective.

If you begin to feel that nothing you do for the troubled person makes any difference — at least not that you can identify

yet — you may become angry. Or the situation may begin to make you ill yourself (which is why an organisation like AlAnon has come into existence for the families and friends of persons suffering from the illness of alcoholism).

Over a period of time, you may begin to feel

overwhelmed by your troubled friend's behavious. You may throw your hands up in the air and exclaim, "It's hopeless."

This is the kind of hard problem that can leave you wondering where faith comes into real life.

Does faith address pain-

ful situations like those that result from drug addiction or alcoholism?

A critic might charge that religious faith does one of two things in such situations: Either it makes you feel guilty for not being able to improve the situation through continued dedication and effort, or it finds a

by David Gibson spiritual way for you to turn away from the problem and, in effect, wash your hands of it.

But is that all that can be said for faith when it

comes to life's truly frustrating moments? St Augustine would have urged Christians in these situations to pray as t hough everything depended on God and to act as though everything depended on them. For a Person of faith, St Augustine's suggestion makes sense.

Faith does not come up empty-handed in a situation that involves a destructive addiction such as alcoholism. Just to mention one point, in the light of faith all human life is seen to have dignity and purpose — the life of the alcoholic, the lives of all affected by the alcoholic.

Thus, faith creates a context in which to approach this problem. A belief that all human life is created in God's image tends to guide one's thinking and one's hopes.

But people who have faith don't lay aside their human reason when it

comes to coping with stimulated to accept frustrating situations. In help. situations of alcoholism, The family members of for example, there are friends must put their doctors and experts to powers of reason to work consult, books to read, to achieve some understrategies for family standing of the illness of members and friends to alcoholism and how it work on together — works. They need to hoping that the addicted think through their own person, feeling their joint attitudes toward the concern and love, will be alcoholic.

A case when superstition transforms into faith Mark wanted readers of his Gospel to understand that Jesus was not a good luck charm, a magician, as the following story illustrates: A religious official falls at Jesus' feet, asking a favour of Him. And a curious crowd gathers.

Picture the scene: The official is a desperate father. His little daughter is seriously ill

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and he will do anything — anything — to save her. Having heard stories of Jesus' healing powers, the man decides to take a chance.

It may be a long shot but, in a case like this, who worries about the odds?

When Jesus and the man set out for his house the crowd follows. In the crowd is a woman who has been haemorrhaging

for 12 years. She has spent all her money on professional healers and has only grown worse.

She, too, has heard about Jesus.

Pushing through the throng, she finally gets close to Jesus and cautiously touches his cloak, there is a strong element of magic in her thinking.

She supposes that some sort of mysterious powers emanates from Jesus,

and maybe she can make contact with it.

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But the woman has to be careful. According to the law, her malady has rendered her "unclean" and her touch could defile Jesus. Better not to chance detection.

whole story. But instead of getting a reprimand she hears Him say, quite gently:

Jesus, however, does find her out, and she is terrified.

Falling down in from of Him, she blurts out her

"Daughter, it is your faith that has cured you.

Go in peace and be free of this illness" (Mark 5:34).

Superstition has been transformed into faith.

The woman had to establish a relationship with Jesus.

Mere physical contact was not enough.

Faith is not some of abracadabra. It involves a free, accepting relationship with Jesus, an intelligent act which transcends naked intelligence and engages the whole person.

Now, when Jairus, the anxious father, sees this remarkable cure, his hopes rise. The odds are now on his side.

It is precisely at this Point that messengers arrive to tell him his daughter has died. His hopes dissolve.

Seeing this, Jesus tells him: "Fear is useless.

What is needed is trust."

Like the woman, this

man too must come to realise that faith involves more than just playing the odds. He has to go beyond evidence of his senses and take faith's difficult leap.

It is not that he simply discards intelligence.

Rather, he uses it as a starting point for a higher act of knowing.

He too must commit himself completely to the

power and person of Jesus.

Apparently he does so for Jesus continues on to the house and restores his daughter. Mark tells us that "at this the family's astonishment knew no bounds".

People also seem to be amazed at what can happen if Jesus is taken at his word.

By Joe Michael Fiest This stress on education and learning has never diminished in the Benedictine order. And, like Benedictine many abbeys, St Anselm's operates a boys' school.

But, Father Vickers quickly added, learning is not solely an exercise of the classroom. the monks," he said, their "Learning is about the "fulfilment and content- whole of life," the priest ment." It wasn't until later said. "You can find Christ that he grew to under- in all that God created," stand "their way of life is he said, especialy in the a way of learning." faith of others.

Father Vickers the That belief — that prior-administrator of St Christ dwells in all Anselm's, Benedictine people — gave rise to abbey discussed the another rule of St Benespecial love for scholar- dict valued in every ship and learning that monastery: the rule of has marked the entire hospitality to all. "Let all history of the Benedic- guests who arrive be received like Christ, for tine order.

The oldest form of he is going to say. 'I came monastic life in the as a guest and you me," Benedict Western Church, the order was founded by St wrote.

Benedict of Nursia in the "The whole attitude of hospitality is tied in with early sixth century.

"St Benedict lived in an learning," said Father age when the world was Vickers, because Christ is being torn apart," Father discovered in others, in Vickers said. "His first the way they live and reaction was to turn love. away from that world. He At St Anselm's, guests did and became a check in for a few hours or a few days of quiet hermit." reflection, prayer or a abandoned that But he life when a number of walk in the shade of monks asked him to lead towering pines. them. Toward the end of Asked what he would his life he wrote a rule for tell a person who says, "I his followers. The Rule of already have faith, thereSt Benedict is the earliest fore I don't need to rule of religious disci- exercise my reason," pline in Western Europe. Father Vickers thought "The first demand of the momentarily. rule," noted Father 'Td say, 'You can do Vickers, "is that a monk that, but your life won't should truly seek Christ be very happy." in his life."

He added that "learning Due to that rule, he is a search for truth. added, "naturally the Learning isn't finding the monks felt a need to answers to everything in preserve what was good life. The great secret of in life. They became the learning is knowing we'll understand custodians of learning as never Europe was torn apart by everything. various wars and "Learning is deepening invasions. our understanding of "They were the custodi- what life is all about. ans of art, architecture, Your faith is deepened agriculture — all aspects through knowledge," of life." said Father Vickers.

Clad in the familiar black robes of his order, Benedictine Father Leonard Vickers sat in his sparsely furnished monastery room and remembered his first attraction to Benedictine the tradition.

It "was the way of life of

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Activity at L.S011" in A lot has been happening at the Little Sisters of the Poor in Glendalough.

WA Sister John Paul LSOP who was newly professed in August this year. Pictured with her is the old time capsule of the glass jar, Queen Victoria coins, and parchment which was discovered this year and had been bricked up in the Oblates building in 1897. Alongside, is the steel cylinder with old and new contents, ready to be bricked up in the new building within a fortnight.

In fact — it's a hot bed of excitement because old buildings are making way for the new — in the positive, constructive sense.

The buildings had to come down because of irreversible structural damage and the impossibility of financially maintaining deteriorating structures which, in any event, were not sufficiently modern for speci- ment roll with now alised geriatric service rapidly fading ink, giving a message from the care.

That's when the excite- Oblate founders almost a ment all started — century ago.

Several coins bearing because during the demolition, a huge rub- the image of Queen were ble removing machine Victoria scooped up amidst other unwrapped from agedebris, a beautiful sturdy tinged tissue paper — a glass jar with a glass half crown, two shilling stopper in it, tightly coin, one shilling coin, sealed by a rag. An sixpence, threepence, observant workman and a penny.

It became the oldest noticed the flash of glass, stopped the driver — and time capsule discovered a beautiful piece of in Western Australia. history was uncovered.

WA's Battye Library took Planted in the wall by an enlarged print of the workmen long since parchment which was gone, and a scribe whose then to read . . . careful hand detailed in "Laudetur Jesus Chrisparchment the facts of tus et Maria Immaculata. the matter back in 1897, In the year of Our Lord the astutely chosen glass 1894, His Eminence jar (because it was Cardinal Francis Moran, unmarked by time), was Cardinal Archbishop of opened to reveal a parch- Sydney, at the request of

his Lordship the Right Rev Dr Gibney, Lord Bishop of Perth, invited the Superior General of the Congregation of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, the Very Rev Father Soulier, to undertake two important works within the limits of his Diocese: (1) The spiritual care of the parish of Fremantle, and (2) the establishment of an industrial school at the place now called Glen-de-lough. The Congregation of the Oblates was founded at Marseilles in 1815 by Charles de Mazenod, who was afterwards Bishop of Marseilles. The motto on the arms of the Society explains the principal object for which it was established — `Evangelizare Pauperibus Misit Me' — I was sent to teach the Gospel to the Poor.

Gladly, therefore the Superior General of the Oblates accedes to the wishes of his Eminence, knowing that both in Fremantle and in the work of the industrial school, his soul could labour for the poor of Christ.

On June 29, 1894, the Very Rev Fr Gaughren, at that time Provincial of the British Province, the Rev Father Roger Hennessy, and the Rev Fr

David O'Ryan, arrived in Western Australia.

His Lordship, Dr Gibney, placed the parish of Fremantle at once under their care. Father Gaughren returned to Europe in July, 1895.

Father Thomas Ryan came to Fremantle in June 1895, and was appointed superior of that House. In December 1896, the Rev Patrick O'Reilly arrived in Western Australia, and brought with him Brothers Boland, Lalor, Howard and Nolan.

On March 16, 1897, the evening of the feast of St Patrick, the Apostle of Ireland, the foundation stone, stone of this industrial school, was blessed. The school is placed under the protection of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of Christ, of St Joseph, St Patrick and St Kevin to those especial care it is committed, being called St Kevin's Industrial School, Glen-de-lough, near Perth, Western Australia.

In the twenty-fifth year of the pontificate of Leo XIII, Pope of the Universal Church in the sixtieth year of the reign of Victoria, Queen Empress, in the tenth year of the episco-

Glendalough Mass marks 150 years

A Mass, celebrating 150 years since the inception of their Order by Blessed Jeanne Jugan, was said at the Little Sisters of the Poor at Glendalough last week.

The Congregation began in France in 1839 and spread rapidly, so that within 10 years there were 13

homes for the aged in that country. Initially, six homes were in the Provinces, and then the St Vincent de Paul approached the sisters and asked them to open up in Paris, for which they were paid 45 francs annually for each person placed in a home.

Ultimately

there

" . . . the blind can carry the stigma, which see, the lame can walk, severely restricts their the lepers are life chances. cleansed, the deaf The following are hear, the dead are quotes from interviews brought back to life with both Christian and and the good news is non-Christian sufferers, preached to the which illustrate how affects the person poor. . ." Matthew stigma who has been "labelled" 11:5. with a psychiatric Yes, Jesus certainly diagnosis: loved the despised and rejected. Two thousand Jan is a 38 year old years ago, leprosy was divorced journalist, who the most anti-social said her "label has made and despised malady of me feel like a creature from outer space". Jan the time. People with has lost a lot of jobs this insidioius, incura- through discrimination ble disease were and the chance to adopt shunned and cast off a baby. from mainstream society — not unlike A 40 year old married those suffering mental woman, Fran, has expeor emotional distur- rienced stigma — indirectly through suspicion bance in the twentieth i n paid work (although century. she has performed well),

were eight houses in Paris and a total of 100 in France. The Little Sisters work then spread to London and throughout major countries, arriving in Australia in 1884.

Here in the west in 1920, the homily at the Mass was preached by Father Liam Creede, CSsR who outlined that first small begin-

ning by Blessed Jeanne who took in a blind, destitute and aged widow.

And so it all began.

He praised the sisters for their heartfelt perception of the great need which exists for aged care and their determined efforts to meet that challenge with their special

charisms.

Society needs the Little Sisters more than ever, as do individuals, he said, especially in a humanistic society which endeavours to solve its problems of the unwanted — whether the foetus, the troublesome, the expensiveto-keep care-wise aged — by getting rid

of them through abortion, execution and euthanasia.

But Glendalough offers the faith solution — the only solution, said Father Creede, where every person is precious whether nine months or 90 years, and we have no right to belittle their importance in

God's eyes.

Australia, he said, needs many Glendaloughs to keep its attitude to human life sacred.

"The Sisters are symbols of compassion, and the most compassionate companions of one's ageing years."

The lepers of the 20th

medical history, for fear of losing credibility.

Margaret, 37 describes herself as "a struggling Christian", seeking help on many occasions from the church — she has often been told to see her doctor, when she required conselling and prayer. felt Susan has unworthy to be a human being and has often contemplated suicide, as she feels so alone. She has been refused adoption and life assurance because of her psychiatric history. "My faith and personal relationship with Christ is the only reason Iam still alive. I feel like a leper, sometimes — some christians have told me that I do not lead a Christ-centred life, because I have suffered so many breakOnce a person has a and close monitoring of downs. I don't need psychiatric history, her behaviours. Fran condemnation, just cornsociety ensures that they tries to conceal her passion and love."

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by Trish Vanderwal David is 42, single and receiving the Invalid Pension. He says he talks openly about his psychiatric history and makes jokes at his own expense in order to cope with the hurt.

Miriam is 46, married and unemployed. She cannot get a job, because, as a christian, won't lie on application forms when required to &close her medical history.

Despite her excellent references and work experience, she is often denied even an initial interview.

John is 35, divorced, and on an invalid pension. He feels most people are ignorant of the illness and become judgemental.

Fred considers himself to be one of the "lucky ones" — he has a job. He feels people are afraid of mental illness and don't understand.

The general public, and sadly, many christians, have a negative stereot e of mental/emotional illness. Stigma is very real in our society.

What can we, as Christians, do to help those suffering from mental or emotional problems?

The first practical thing we can do is read to get acquainted with the subject — knowledge helps to alleviate fear of the unknown.

Dr John White, a christian psychiatrist, has written some excellent material on mental illness, available at Christian book stores.

We can be available for people, openly and' warmly — just to listen in a non-judgemental way. Sometimes that is all a person needs — someone who will really listen. Problems in living can be severely magnified when a person is distressed, and ventilation of the problems often gets the situation back into perspective.

Although we should try to avoid advice, we can sometimes suggest options available. Simple prayer and short bible readings often brings great comfort to the person in distress, when presented in love.

If you are concerned that the troubled person will become too dependent on you, limit your contact with them to a manageable level. If you visit them you have more control over time limits,

and can remain more "detached" emotionally, while still helping them.

A short phone call is often all a person needs, to be reassured that someone does genuinely care about their welfare.

If you live with a troubled person, you need your own personal space and time away from the situation to recharge, spiritually and mentally. You should not feel guilty about your own needs at this time.

On occasions the disturbed person does need professional help, medication, or even hospitalisation. This is not the end of the world, or a reflection of failure. We must all learn to know our limits and when to seek help.

If you are unsure whether your friend or

Glendalough pacy of the Right Rev Dr Gibney, the Very Rev Father Soulier being Superior General of the Congregation of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, the Very Rev Father Miller being Provincial of the British Province and the Very Rev Father Daniel O'Ryan being Superior of this industrial school, this foundation stone was blessed by the Right Rev Dr Gibney, Lord Bishop of Perth, in the Year of Our Lord, 1897."

Someone had enough foresight back that long ago, to preserve a little bit of history for those who came after. Same as they have today — because the Little Sisters of the Poor have had made another time capsule — this time a stainless steel cylinder to tell those who come after us, a little of our happenings today.

Some time, many long years from now, they too will read, and wonder how we dressed, and talked. How we lived and loved. And the parchment will be sealed back inside along with the coins, names of current residents and some names of the present sisters, staff and architects, and current newspapers, including this one, which will tell the discoverers what took place from the time the white men first came to WA and built on Glendalough soil.

Then why it was pulled down to make way for the new — which by then will be the old . . .

And so life's circle turns and turns.

With the rapidity of man's progress — alongside his demonic urge for self-destruction, it is fascinating to visualise and speculate on society say a hundred years from now.

And this home run by the Little Sisters . . . Will the "aged" die younger — or older than they do now? Will we have so polluted our society that we'll have reversed the longevity span modern medicine created?

In the social content of WA, the fabric and moral tone of our society has changed dramatically and is hardly recognisable from that of our grandfathers.

How will we look to our descendants?

What judgements will they pass? Will their young be different from ours in their thoughts and aspirations? But their aged undoubtedly will not.

Glendalough as in Ireland.

With a change in social conditions, the Oblates withdrew to Fremantle to do pastoral work in that parish, where they are today.

Hence the arrival of the Little Sisters, who used the existing buildings to accommodate the needy aged.

1920.

Prior to its construction,

the Oblates and then the Little Sisters, had used the central area of the second level of the old arched building until the new chapel's inception.

The old chapel there featured a beautiful moulded Oregon timber ceiling, which the archiThe eastern men's wing tect who also does work was added in 1929 and for Lord McAlpine, menthe west in 1938. tioned to him.

Another change in social Lord McAlpine purconditions by the late chased the ceiling along large 1960s deemed the with three long classical eight bed wards were no windows which were on longer acceptable for the front wall of the old geriatric care. chapel and will be using A 20 year building the ceiling, windows and ten pews from the existing chapel (which made way for wheel chairs) in Regardless of the passages of time, planned construction the and the changing of our social of a non-denominational scene, love and Christian care is, church he is planning to build in Broome as part and will remain, the essential need tourist his of and cry of the aged — which one development. day we'll all become . . .

Within these external buildings now being erected, and behind the Because they, with their program thus started bronze commemorating infirmities, will always which saw the emerging plaque, will be placed — regardless of the of the ladies' hostel with this new steel capsule. century — need love and its 40 single rooms, then Present superior, Sister Christian care. the men's hostel with its Loretta LSOP, said the 20 single rooms plus It is and will most each with its ensuite. Little Sister's Kalgoorlie certainly remain, the Then later — the nursing 65 bed nursing home is also extending, creating essential need and cry of home. single rooms with the aged — which one The gradual demolition ensuites. day we'll all become. and re-phasing of the The eight sisters there And so the Little Sisters new plans began in 1988 run a 20 bed nursing are planning for the through to its current home for Aboriginal present and the future. stage. people "and do a marvelBut one should really lous job for them under start at the beginning and A new kitchen was very difficult circumunravel the history of completed this year — stances. As with us here this peaceful place, the old being nearly 60 at Glendalough, they which achieved media years of age; current never turn anyone away spotlight in November building is for the hungry from their door".

1986 with Pope John extending of the day care Sister Loretta said their Paul H's visit. centre (used by residents outsiders links with the St Vincent 90 and The Oblates who came monthly), library, recep- de Paul are very strong, from Ireland in the tion area and the walk- going right back to when 1890s, built and opened way linking up the they were invited by up the trade school, nursing home and them to open up homes mostly for orphan boys, chapel. in Paris in the mid with an associated boardnineteenth century, and ing school.

The existing chapel if those who came to The area was called (which has been briefly their door have other needs as well as food, they pass them on to the St Vincent de Paul.

century

relative requires psychiatric treatment, you can either take them to a GP or hospital casualty or call the Psychiatric Emergency Team in your city, for assistance and assessment.

There are other organisations, such as GROW and ARAFMI (Association for relatives and friends of the mentally ill), which can be found in the telephone directory.

The Body of Christ needs to define its role in the support and nurture of the mentally ill.

Support networks need to be established, and appropriate training undertaken by our spiritual leaders and their assistants.

For Jesus was, himself well acquainted with grief . . . a man of sorrows . . . despised and

closed for renovations) was completed in late

rejected.

If we are truly His disciples we will try to emulate his love. For in

ministering to the outcasts of our society, we are ministering to Jesus himself

Pray with the Mentally Ill Dear Heavenly Father, Only you know our inner most thoughts and feelings.

Please cleanse us of all impure thoughts and forgive us for any ground we may have given to the enemy.

Protect us and strengthen the armour you have given us. (Eph.6) Grant us compassion, love and understanding in this time of crisis.

We ask this in the precious name of Christ Jesus, Our Lord.

Amen.

Trish Vanderwal is a christian counsellor and serves as Co-ordinator of MIND (Mentally IIINeed Defending), working towards mental health reform. MIND can be contacted by writing to PO Box 1338, Midland, WA, 6056.

The Lotteries and Commonwealth Government have contributed financially to the Sisters' building and der-olition programs, "but th balance has been thnJugh the great generosity of the people of Western Australia", she said.

The 14 Little Sisters and staff at Glendalough currently care for 100 people, and with the increasing "greying" of the population, their services are constantly in demand.

Long term, Sister Loretta said they envisage putting in units for independent living. But that depends on an increase in vocations because they insist on maintaining their patient ratio in order to keep the spirit of their Order in caring for the aged.

Every Little Sister, regardless of age, has a

Superior, Sister Loretta LSOP alongside the bricks which will be used to wall up the new time capsule. In the background is the cleared old site, making way for the new. role to play, said Sister

Loretta, whether it be

feeding the sick or sitting and praying with and for the dying.

"The Sisters never leave the dying alone. They are on call 24 hours a day and this is one way we maintain that spirit."

And in this regard they play a unique role, giving spiritual consolation and support to people in their last hours — when it is so vital to die in peace — and at peace.

"Everyone who comes to live with us, goes to heaven," said Sister Loretta.

"In all my 40 years as a sister, I have never seen one who did not die in utter peace. That brings us such rewards . . ."

To keep the Order up front with demand, more vocations are needed as with other Orders. So with none forthcoming in 1983, the Little Sisters sent out an "SOS"! by getting people to say the Memorare to Our lady.

It worked! Twelve young women joined the Sisters in the Oceania Province — eight of whom have already devoted themselves to the care of the aged, and three novices are now completing their spiritual formation.

Sister Loretta is now asking again for people to pray the daily Memorare for more vocations, to continue their essential work in providing a Christian loving environment for the elderly.

Hope for the future?

There's plenty of that . . .

"We're very confident

that we will survive despite the difficult times when vocations are not as plentiful as before," said Sister Loretta. "But God gives us indications every day that our work is more necessary than ever.

"We will not only survive — but expand!"

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FOOTNOTE: For all history buffs and those who are fascinated with that outstanding man of Australian folklore — Ned Kelly! — you might be interested in this interesting connection.

The Oblates' buildings back in 1987, were blessed by Perth's Bishop Matthew Gibney. This was when the glass time capsule was bricked into the wall and discovered last October. Amazing how that man keeps reoccurring in history, because he has been woven into the rich and utterly fascinating fabric of our unique Australian history through his outstandingly courageous actions at Ned kelly's Glenrowan epic in Victoria, in June 1880.

While !laming through Victoria, Father Gibney's morning train pulled into the Glenrowan railway station while the siege at the Glenrowan Inn was taking place with the Kelly gang inside and the incompetent police outside.

Ned Kelly, who became the Australian legend, chose not to flee the scene (although he could well have done so because he was outside

the Inn) but decided to characteristically stay with his mates until the end.

He fell through fatigue heavy armour whict became part of hli memorable identity, an loss of blood through 2f bullet wounds.

Father Gibney gave him the last rites, expecting him to die. But the Kelly's were tough stock and didn't die easily, and so Ned survived to be hanged on November 8.

1880, despite a petition signed by 32,000 people for clemency for the man who although hanged. became, and will remain, an Australian folk hero.

Back at the Glenrowan scene, police ordered the Inn to be fired, despite a prisoner wounded inside.

Father Gibney watched in horror at the flames devouring the Inn and defying the police, rushed inside to rescue anyone he could.

This priestly hero of Glenrowan ran into the flaming building and found the bodies of Dan Kelly and Steve Hart lying side by side, serene in death. Having witnessed Father Gibney's brave and defiant action, the police then summoned up enough courage to go in and drag out the dead Joe Byrne and the wounded prisoner Martin Cherry who died an hour later.

Father Gibney later returned to Perth and continued his work in the Perth archdiocese and ultimately became Lord Bishop Dr Gibney.

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Fr Curran's views not wanted from Brian PEACHEY, Woodlands Sir, Sister Veronica Brady (The Record, August 3) obviously supports Father Charles Curran, endorses his teaching and is onside with the Professors of Arts and Sciences at Catholic University in Washington, who defended him.

Since 1968, in his writing, teaching and public politicaltype speaking, Father Curran has attacked the teaching that Pope Paul VI proclaimed in his encyclical on artificial contraception, 'Humane Vitae' (which Pope John Paull II has strongly endorsed).

He has gone on from that to oppose the Church's teaching on sex before marriage, masturbation, divorce, homosexuality, euthanasia and abortion in some circumstances. (See "Faithful Dissent P255, 256, 257.)

It took almost twenty years for the Vatican to ban him f rom teaching Catholic theology.

Pope John Paul said recently that "Orthodoxy is a primordial exigency of Christianity" (LOsservatore Romano August 21, 1989).

My deeply felt concern for the proposed 'Catholic' university is that it could employ teachers and professors of theology, philosophy and medicine who hold similar views to Father Curran and other heterodox so called theologians.

There is no guarantee that this could not happen here.

Some 600 other theologians publicly supported Father Curran's attack on Pope Paul and Humanae Vitae.

The evidence in Western Australia is that it is most probable (despite the best intentions) that the university could eventually employ heterodox staff.

If the Western Australian Catholic laity, religious, priests and bishops have allowed the Catholic Library to be flooded with heterodox publications and the Catholic Institute to teach from them, who will stop the same thing happening in a

'private' 'catholic' university?

In the twenty years since Father Curran pronounced his heterodox teachings, millions of catholics have turned away from the Church. He and thousands of other priests gave them a contraceptive dispensation, which contributed to the loss.

If NDA employs heterodox teachers it could take twenty years to get rid of them.

Satan is intelligent. He wants to undermine the Church and destroy souls.

An excellent instrument for him would be a so called 'Catholic' university staffed by heterodox teachers.

from Trevor BOARDMAN, Perth Sir, In her anxiety for liberation from the Catholic Ghetto, Sr Veronica Brady (The Record, August 31) is in fearful trepidation lest disciples of Fr Charles Curran be not permitted to lecture in theology at the proposed

Notre Dame Australia university.

One really would have thought that a university purporting to be Catholic should at least ensure that it refrains from virtual falseadvertising on that point.: but no, in the name of secular academic freedom, Sr Veronica holds that any such policy is "a regrettable reversion to the kind of Catholicism that has given fellow to scandal Christians".

John Ch. 6 shows that the Lord Jesus Christ Himself caused very similar "scandal" . . . and He did only found one Church (on Rock).

Also, "freedom" devoid of Christian social or moral responsibility results in anarchistic chaos, and/or the oppression, manipulation and exploitation of the poor, weak and uneducated by the paganistic "elite": thus it is not true freedom anyway in any sense. We are sin-prone creatures after all, and "no man is an island". Hence Catholic education, built around the Gospel.

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The Young Christian sent to us rather than to Students Movement is prison," he said, "and the heading for a very excit- programme seems quite ing future with greater successful. student involvement than "I would like to cone ver before, according to tinue with it after leaving Paul McLeod, who last YCS." week resigned after Paul said that the nearly two years working review of life method, an fulltime for YCS in Perth. integral part of YCS, had "I'm very optimistic enormous value for about the future," Paul young people. said. "YCS is growing, we "It focusses on the are being invited to work experiences of the people in new areas, and there is rather than on some increasing support from outside agenda It makes students and adults in young people's faith the movement." more applicable to their Paul (19) of Samson, lives. began working for Perth "I think that YCS and YCS in January 1988 the review of life are after finishing Year 12 at unique among youth Christian Brothers Col- groups and movements lege, Fremantle. in that they emphasise For three years prior to the need for an active that he had been a response to one's member of YCS groups environment." in Fremantle and The review method of Palmyra. `see-judge-act' is a tried As fulltime worker Paul and proven way of has assisted with YCS integrating faith and life groups in several Perth because it builds on the schools including Lumen three great truths outChristi, De Vialar, St lined by the founder of Brigids, Riverton and YCS and YCW, Cardinal Fremantle as well as Joseph Cardijn. taking part in programs Cardinal Cardijn noted at several other colleges. a conflict between young In addition, Paul has people's faith which told worked with young of their eternal destiny the and dignity, and their life offenders at Holyoake Institute since experiences which often May 1988, an involve- contradicted that dignity. ment he has found most To overcome that conrewarding. flict he initiated a "Young offenders are method of reflecting on

Catholics Concerned for the Environment

one's life in the light of One of the great signs Christian faith, and of for YCS in Perth is altering one's actions so enthusiasm for students that they better express to inform and educate genuine Christian values other students about the in the world. key issues and difficulYCS occasionally has ties of Christian life been criticised for sup- today. porting a too political This year YCS estabYCS Student Action Task Force, one of the bright hopes for the future. style of action at times, lished the student action but Paul reflected that positive sign, and a good Task Force, a group of this criticism needs to be way of stabilising the secondary students who weighed carefully. movement, helping to gather and disseminate "The fact that YCS may maintain the high level of information on such key be criticised does not enthusiasm there is at current issues as the mean that YCS is wrong. environment, education, the moment."

It doesn't mean it is right There is life after YCS peace and social justice. either, of course. for Paul, who is planning "Students are really a working holiday "Criticism needs to be evaluated according to enthusiastic and excited through Europe next the values on which that about the task of inform- year, where he hopes to Send notices to "Youth Calendar criticism is based," he ing their peers," Paul meet up with his sister P O Box 194 said. said.

North Perth 6006" at least one month Corinne, a past TYCS "If a social structure is before the event you would like listed.

"Ifeel that YCS in Perth worker. built on the opinion that is moving toward a peak And further down the SEPTEMBER the only people who time, with larger and track Paul hopes to 1 YCW National Chaplain visiting WA. matter are wealthy white more stable local groups continue his involveYCS International and National visitors arrive.

2 middle-aged males, then and much greater readi- ment with young people, 9 CPY Tenth Anniversary Mass, St Francis Xavier Church, that structure must be ness to get involved on especially students, perWindsor Street, East Perth 7pm.

YCS Regional Meeting Cathedral Parish Centre. changed because it alie- the diocesan level. haps as a school gui10 YCS Lunchtime meeting, Youth Offices. nates females, the young "The appointment of dance officer or through 12 YCS Breakfast for international visitor, Youth Offices, and the old, and people Warren lannello as eccle- exploring some alterna5pm YCS Prayer for vigil for Chinese students. of other races. sial assistant is also a tive models of education.

15-17 TYCS Rretreat/camp, Eagle's Nest.

"Real actions to change 17 TYCS Picnic/Bushwalk, Gungin Lookout 12 noon. the world must be politYCS River Cruise, Barrack Street Jetty 7.45pm.

29 ical, just by the nature of 30-Oct 1 Antioch 'Flame preparation weekend, Eagle's Nest. the social structures we October have," he said.

CYP Keyleaders Weekend.

6-8 Paul commented that Antioch -Flame- Weekend.

7-8 student action flowed 9-11 YCS Faith Camp, Eagle's Nest. out of belief in Christ and Genesis II. 14-15 Christian values, and so CPY BBG and skit night.

27 every action was an 28 YCW Annual Ball, Mt Hawthorn Community Centre. expression of the faith of the Church.

"The first step in YCS is the truth of faith, the eternal destiny of every human person, and every action has to express that truth.

"Ultimately the test applied to the early Christians also applies to YCS: if it is 'of God' it will succeed; if not, then any Retiring YCS worker Paul McLeod. action will fail."

On the ball Diary for youth

YOUNG CHRISTIAN STUDENTS

Invite you to

Picnic Bushwalk Mass in the Hills

RETREAT FOR TYCS

Every student relishes the chance to refresh body and mind, so the Tertiary Young Christian Students Movement have built plenty of recreation time into their retreat to be held at Eagle's Nest, Gidgegannup, on 15-17 September.

Sunday, September 17

"GUNGIN LOOKOUT" (Follow Mundaring Weir Road to Gungin Rd, turn off on gravel & follow the signs.)

12 noon Picnic/BBQ 2pm Bushwalk 3.30pm Mass Enquiries: Peter Porteous 335 6836 Damien Wallis 328 4071 •

TYCS worker Damian Wallis says that the retreat will not be too heavily structured since students need plenty of time at this end of the year for rest, recreation and study.

Several prayer times and sessions on faith devlopment will form central points of the program, but the emphasis will be on the whole person: soul, body and mind.

The retreat begins at midday on Friday, September 15 and TYCS can

arrange transport for anyone needing it.

The cost of the program will be $25 all inclusive, with special rates for those who can attend only part of the camp.

Damian encourages students with assignments to bring their work with them, to take advantage of the fresh natural

environment of Eagle's Nest and the retreat's unpressured atmosphere.

The camp will end on Sunday, September 17 with a bushwalk, Mass and picnic at Gungin Lookout, an event sponsored by Catholics Concerned for the Environment.

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1989 YCS RIVER CRUISE Friday, September 29 7.45pm-11pm Barrack Street Jetty For ages 15-25 TICKETS JUST $8!

Phone YCS on 227 7061 Drinks on sale — no alcohol

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Kids!

glorious kids!

by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

'Kids' is another and others are good and name for Extra Spe- sometimes end up with cial People. The the same result.

And then too, one can word describes only wonder at parents somebody who who put their careers comes into this first instead of their world as the cutest children and family. In bundle imaginable. the process, one can also Adorably innocent speculate have mothers stopped loving their and guileless — and children as much as God so desperately need- decreed with his coning to be loved. ferring of that most Toddlers create years of activity — for themselves and you!

In watching, assisting, querying, trying out new things, and generally with great awe and sense of adventure, exploring this bright and beautiful wonderland of a world.

School years are an extension of this with an impacting of knowledge at school and home.

These are also the very formative years when the damage is done or the good model created by the potter's hands as he roughly or skilfully moulds the clay. Depending largely on his dexterity, the finished product will reflect his workmanship — and the loving care he did or didn't put into it.

By teenagerhood, the clay has hardened into a work which frequently echoes the parents and the lifestyle given to the child. Then it's time for disappointment or accolades, at a job badly or well done.

Admittedly there are plenty of teenagers who have fallen by the wayside, and who turn to drugs, sex and sects, because of 'disallusionment or boredom' or so they say.

But then it's hard to know where to lay the blame. Perhaps not the kids, because some parents are lousy parents,

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sacred gift of maternity?

If some mothers have, then the child really has little hope of success.

And if bad fathers have wrought their damage too, then once again, their child has tough odds to battle against.

When you look across society's scenario and see pockets of children abandoned and ruined by their parents, succumbing to society's vices through weak will and bad guidance, it's a heartbreaking scene because regardless of who's to blame — it's often too late to break the mould and start again, or patch it up with fresh clay.

And in the final analysis it only comes back to one thing generally speaking — How well were they loved?

It's simply not acceptable for people to state "But I always loved them!" (but never said it and proved it daily), because who can state it was there if it wasn't obvious?

And it really is never good enough for so called 'adults' to put them down constantly so they have little or no self-esteem.

It's also unacceptable for parents to neglect their responsibility to their children in setting a moral example to follow.

Fact is, none of us is perfect and one can't point the finger at anyone else. But we all know what is the right

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Justine (Luke 18), Adam (Antioch) and Nana Howard (Charis) thoroughly enjoying their involvement with their youth groups. How and why these and other Catholic youth groups work, is hard to pinpoint, but essentially the reality of being in a loving, caring, warm, Christian environment with their peers — and the security that brings, is perhaps part of the answer.

And in the race which often takes place for the separated to get another replacement partner, maybe more time off should be taken to consolidate our bonds with our offspring to reassure them that despite the situation, our love for them will be unbreakable by anyone

Often kids are pushed respect which they so aside as being of no thoroughly deserve. consequence — when We might just pause they're really extremely and thank God for His gift important and vital to our to us of such fine, society because believe it upstanding, and outand face it or not — THEY standing young people to are the leaders of our be taking over the reigns Let's face it! Adults are world tomorrow. Not us. when our hands grow They will plan our too feeble. often dull, boring, unimageriatric institutions. ginative, insensitive, And then too, for the scheming, lying, cover- And push our chairs — if lucky ones, to be grateful we deserve it. ups! we had the foresight to And even more pre- love them as we should. cious, come and visit us For our day has come .

Love is not only beyond price, when we're too old to Catholic youth groups such is its incalculable worth, walk far, or perhaps even have played a great part but it also costs nothing to give. walk at all.

When life for some of us in helping our kids be united in love, showing Kids aren't like that. has become such a bore them their importance, confident and sure of their abilities and rich They're downright hon- and a burden and we've giving them reassurance background of warm est. They're alive with let it, through inactive in their togetherness, love. life. With the possibilities minds, become such a and above all, letting of what to do with this dull, dull world. them know how dearly Without that, their Then indeed the wheel great universe they are God loves them. lonely, world is cold, will have turned full inheriting. despondent, without Personally — I LOVE They plan. They're ever circle. hope, and without backKIDS! They are asboThis time we are so positive, and dynamic ground. A sure combinaI utely the GREATEST!!

HEAPS of dependant — not necestion for failure. No and have cute! sarily adorable and And among my litany of seek imagination and very — and ever so needing of they wonder reasons for which I wish vital, clear minds. alternatives. to thank God — my kids They're reminders of their love.

So maybe if we took a along with my parents, Having said all that — springtime, even in wintake another look at the ter! And they're rather look at the good things, are at the top of the list. young. The young we like spring lambs leaping the GREAT things decent

by Colleen need so badly. As adults, around a magnificent kids do, we might treat McGuiness-Howard them with a little more it's hard to know green meadow.

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where they live and how they feed, how they protect and camouflage themselves, and their courtship and mating.

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path to direct our children onto and that responsibility is a great one indeed.

Broken families are a fact of life today — regardless of causes. But it doesn't have to mean that our children are neglected.

Surely we can still be really good parents to our children, despite married separatedness if the ideal of being a married team hasn't worked.

If our marriage was a disaster, then why should the innocents suffer?

Love is not only beyond price, such is its incalculable worth, but it also costs nothing to give.

and have the strength of steel.

This would surely help the uncertainty of the times whether marriages are broken or not.

If children have constant, demonstrated, affectionate love, and are affirmed constantly, they will grow up feeling good about themselves and go out into the world self -

whether in fact we don't need them more than they need us.

Good kids are the very staff and light of life.

They're a beacon of shining in a very dull adult world.

some adult moths never eat • which butterfly migrates the length of a sub-continent • how to breed butterflies and moths.

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You can make initial contact with someone who does not speak your language with signs or smiles, hut to communicate you need words. So it is with a nation; to understand it you have to read its books.

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Watkin Tench's Sydney's First Four Years to May Gibbs Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, from C.E.W. Bean's The Story of Anzac to Patrick White's Voss, from Joan Lindsays's Picnic at Hanging Rock to A.B. Facey's A Fortunate life.

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By means of extracts, descriptive and critical essays, and biographies of the writers, the collection offers a unique opportunity to get to know classic Australian books. And, complementing and highlighting the main themes, a fine selection of Australian paintings, photographs and drawings accompanies the text.

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The Man from Snowy River There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around, That the colt from old Regret had got away, And had joined the wild bush horses — he was worth a thousand pound, So all the cracks had gathered for the fray.

A.B. (Banjo) Paterson.

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John Molony's Eureka is an extremely accessible history of the famous conflict between gold diggers and troopers at the Eureka Stockade.

Eureka was first published in Viking hardback in 1984, and was the first detailed account of the conflict.

Molony builds up a vivid picture of life on the

Goldfields through eyewitness accounts, letters, and police reports testimony.

He concludes that the bloodshed at Eureka need never have occurred; that the discontent on the fields could well have been contained by a responsive administration; and that the authorities portrayed the diggers as lawless rebels in order to mask their own ineptitude.

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Life is never dull at the Woolcot's rambling riverside house with its wilderness of a garden.

The seven children — from the smallest, grubbiest baby (known as the General) to romantic, dreaming Meg, the eldest daughter — fill the house with laughter and mischief.

With a father who doesn't understand children and a young, soft-hearted mother, the seven live in cheerful turmoil.

Among them is Judy — spirited, brave. clever Judy — the rebellious heroine who has captured the hearts of Australians, young and old.

The Family at Misrule by Ethel Turner. Published

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The seven little Australians are growing up, but life at Misrule is as chaotic as ever.

Bunty is in disgrace (again!) and Pip has a secret — and very unsuitable — romance.

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The Australian bushrangers were an unlikely mixture of wild, reckless, romantic or desperate men. Here is what is deemed to be the most comprehensive account of Australian bushranging. In George Boxall's classic history the real stories of the famous figures have been told first hand: the Kellys, Ben Hall. Martin Cash, Matthew Brady, Captain Melville, Thunderbolt, Gardiner's gang and the Clarke brothers. Here, too, are the exploits of lesser-known but equally intriguing bandits: Edward Davis, the Jewish bushranger; the Chinese bushranger of Coonabarabran; Alpin McPherson, the apprentice stonemason who terrorised Queensland; Fred Lowry, who died uttering the immortal plea: 'Tell 'em I died game'.

George Boxall was born in England, and came to Australia as a boy during the gold rushes. One of his earliest memories was of watching the bushranger Frank McCallum, alias Captain Melville, being paraded in irons after his capture.

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reality of his post and the demands made on him — by his secret bride, his Irish c omrades, his superior officers and, most often, by his conscience.

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The Australian National Dictionary is the first comprehensive, historically based record of the 10,000 words which make up the Australian contribution to the English language. Each and every entry provides its own fascinating insight into Australia's rich and diverse linguistic heritage.

It is a dictionary of Australianisms — those words and meanings of words which have originated in Australia, which have a greater currency here than elsewhere, or which have a special significance in Australian history. It records the historical development of Australian words and phrases from their earliest use to the present day, providing evidence of this history in some 60,000 dated and referenced quotations drawn from over 9000 Australian sources.

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Education Support Group Friday Sept 22 9.30-2.30pm To talk about your health, your sexuality andfertility, your emotions, your anxiety or anything that concerns you.

325 6644 * Natural Family Planning Centre 27 Victoria Square Mcmhcr of thc Australian Council of Natural Family Planning Inc.

Former Priests, Sisters, Teachers, Parents, Friends and Pupils of

Star of the Sea School Rockingham are invited to the

Blessing and Opening of the new Administration Building & Special Education Unit on Sunday, September 17 at 10.45am Sunday Mass prepared by Year 4 Class is at 9.30am.

RADIANT HEART RETREAT

Formerly held at Gracewood in Cowaramup, the retreat is now being conducted at:

AIN-KARIM House of Prayer, Cnr Steere & Roe Streets,

Bridgetown

Enquiries: Mail: Rita Murphy PO Box 184 Bridgetown WA 6255 Phone Rita or Veronica (097) 61 1753

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Marriage Tribunal of Western Australia has been established in the Bunbury diocese for new cases originating from that area.

The office is located within the Chancery at 3 Brend-tor St, Bunbury. Father William Holmes has been appointed office co-ordinator and will be available for appointments at the office on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of each month.

He may be contacted by mail to PO Box 1084, Bunbury 6230, or by phone (097) 76 1071.

Any enquiries from those in the Bunbury Diocese regarding initiating the marriage annulment process may now be directed to this new local office.

UFE IN THE SPIRIT A Life in the Spirit seminar will be given by Group 50 at the Redernptorist Church, North Perth. Starting on September 21, it runs from 7.309.30pm for nine Thursdays, finishing on November 16.

For further information please contact Dafne Jones on 364 8241.

NEWMAN SOCIETY Vatican II study group, Tuesday, September 12 at 11am: Constitution on the Sacred liturgy, 1-13 and 4752.

Scripture Group: Thursday, September 14 at 8pm, St Paul's Epistle to the Romans.

Both meetings to be presided over

by Father Dyson, at 13 Dean St, Claremont. Open to anyone interested. Contact 446 7340.

PSYCHIATRIC DISABIUTIES "A Journey in Faith — a setf portrait in melancholia" will be the topic for the next meeting of the Catholic Ministry with people with Psychiatric disabilities which will meet on Monday. September 18 at 7.30pm at Emmanuel Centre, 25 Windsor Street, Perth. lan Crowe, pastoral assistant at Grayiands Hospital will share his own journey through psychatric difficulties as well as his experiences of those to whom he ministers.

Everyone with a concern in this area of need is welcome. For further information contact Barbara Harris at Emmanuel centre. Tel 328 8113.

BUSH WALK AND PICNIC Catholics Concerned for the Environment are holding a public picnic, bushwalk and Mass in the hills on Sunday. September 17, starting at noon at "Gungin Lookout". Follow Mundaring Weir Road to Gungin Road, turn off onto gravel and follow the signs. Enquiries Peter Porteous (335 6836) or Damien Wallis (328 4071).

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MAJELLAN RETREAT Vacancies for any interested lady,

not necessarily Majellan, exist for the retreat to be held on Friday-Sunday,

October 20-22 at St Joseph's Retreat House, Safety Bay. The retreat director for the weekend will be Fr Alister McLean.

Cost $45. A deposit of $20 is required to confirm a booking. Mail only to Mrs B. Townsend, 23 Daglish Street, Wembley 6014.

A small bus will be available for travel to Safety Bay. To take advantage of this service phone 381 5757.

VIC PARK 90 YEARS

Mass will be celebrated in the grounds of St Joachim's Church, Victoria Park on Sunday, September 24 at 2.30pm to mark 90 years of Catholic education sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy.

At the end of the year the existing primary and high schools will amalgamate with Xavier College to form a new regional Catholic college.

A farewell Ex-Students Reunion will be heir! at St Joachim's high school groLnds, Saturday, September 30 from 2 to 4.30pm. Please bring a plate for afternoon tea. Memorabilia will be on sale on both occasions.

Archdiocesan Calendar SEPTEMBER Ordination to Diaconate of Bro. 8 Martin Rostenburg, St Joseph's Queens Park. Archbishop Foley.

Mass for Close of Multicultural Mission, Willetton. Bishop Healy.

Silver Jubilee, Sister Catherine 9 Brabender. Archbishop Foley.

Opening & Blessing, Charismatic Renewal Communication Centre.

Archbishop Foley.

10 Visitation and Confirmation, Victoria Park. Archbishop Foley.

11 National Conference of Australian Church Women. Bishop Healy.

12 De Vialar College Mass. Archbishop Foley.

14 Stage 6, Corpus Christi College.

Archbishop Foley.

Mass for Group 50, Redernptorist church. Archbishop.

14& Confirmation, Lesmurdie. Monsig15 nor Nestor.

16 Blessing and opening, Chisholm College. Archbishop Foley.

16& Confirmation, Midland. Bishop 17 Healy.

17 Visitation and confirmation, Mirrabooka. Archbishop Foley.

Rockingham, opening administration centre. Monsignor Keating.

19 Consecration of the WA Police Colours. Archbishop Foley.

20 Visitation and confirmation, Osborne Park. Archbishop Foley.

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The Servite Friars will be holding a Day of Prayer for young men considering the Religious Life on Sunday, October I, 1989.

Sun Sept 10: Daniel Berrigan; Sr Margaret Mines (Aids Chaplain); Buddhist Temple — Report.

Sun Sept 17: Industrial Chaplain; Mother Teresa in New York; The Mouse's Tale — Cartoon.

If you are interested in spending a quiet day in prayer and reflection to consider your vocation in life, then you would be most welcome.

Sun Sept 24: Dave Brubeck's Jazz Mass; Hindu Priest; Bill Byrne — Interview

CATHOUC POUCE GUILD The annual general meeting of the WA Catholic Police Guild will be held at the Redemptorist Retreat House, North Perth at 7.30pm on Monday, September 11, commencing with Mass in the chapel followed by the meeting and supper. Members of the WA Police Force, cadets and retired members are welcome.

PHONE (09) 321 6655

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