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CITY women to the ministerial VATICAN (CNS):— While it is not priesthood in some proclear how differences vinces of the Anglican dividing Roman Cathol- Communion prevents ics and Anglicans can reconciliation between be resolved, the two us even where there is progress churches will continue otherwise working toward full toward agreement in communion, said a faith on the meaning of declaration signed on the Eucharist and the October 2nd by Pope ordained ministry," the John Paul ll and the declaration said. spiritual leader of the worldwide Anglican "While we ourselves dc not see a solution to this Communion.

"No pilgrim knows in advance all the steps along the path," said the declaration signed by the pope and Anglican Archbishop Robert Runcie of Canterbury, England, during a meeting in the pope's private library.

The declaration urged ecumenists "and all others engaged in prayer and work for visible unity" not to minimise the differences between the two denominations.

"The question and practice of the admission of

obstacle," the pope and archbishop wrote, conversations and theological examinations of the issues involved "will in fact help to deepen and enlarge OUT understanding."

The declaration renewed support for the work of the Second A nglican -Roman Catholic International Commission and welcomed the Anglican Communion's acceptance of the 1982 final

report by the commission's predecessor.

-This report is currently also being studied by the Catholic Church with a view to responding to it," the declaration said.

The pope and Archbishop Runcie asked "our clergy and faithful not to neglect or undervalue that certain yet imperfect communion we already share."

Anglicans and Roman Catholics share faith in God, in Jesus, in the Holy Spirit and a common baptism in the name of Christ, the declaration said. They read the same Scriptures and recite the same creeds. communion "This should be cherished and guarded as we seek to grow into the fuller Christ communion wills," the declaration said.

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Mrs Dulcie Hollow of Belmont was all heart for a precious moment last Saturday after her fifth son Robert had been ordained priest in St Brigid's

• Vatican stories on Pages 2, 3 and 7

• Dulcie Hollow's story: Pages 10 and 11.

• Other ordination stones and pictures Pages 2, 3, 16.

Runcie: Women priests not a permanent setback VATICAN CITY: Although Anglican and Catholic ecumenists agree that the ordination of women is an obstacle to full unity, "I don't think it is permanently blocked," Archbishop Runcie said at a press conference.

He told reporters that the three private meetings he had with the pope were opportunities "to affirm so many things on which we agree, to together argue sometimes."

The archbishop said reasons for and against ordaining women were not discussed. Rather, the talks focused on more fundamental issues of how decisions are made in each of the churches and how changes are introduced.

"This meeting has absolutely not been dominated by the issue of the ordination of women," said Cardinal Johannes Willebrands, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian

Unity. may "be more a matter of The cardinal, who eventual sharing of gifts joined Archbishop Run- than a removal of cie at the press confer- obstacles."

About the delayed Vatence, said he "would never use the expression ican response to the first "blocked" to explain how A nglican -Roman the ordination of women Catholic International Commission Report, affects dialogue."

"We have said this Archbishop Runcie said created a new obstacle," the length of time given the cardinal said. "And to its study is "a measure we hope to overcome it." of the seriousness" with Archbishop Runcie said which the Vatican views that for some Anglicans, it.

Although the Council dealing with the Roman Catholic Church on the for Promoting Christian issue of women priests Unity issued its response

• Full text of the declaration on Page 7

Church Midland by Bishop Healy. Father Hollow is the third West Australian to have been ordained a Marist priest and will be returning to Sydney.

to the document, it was still being studied by the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Cardinal Willebrands apologised for the delay, but said that in a church as large as the Roman Catholic Church, serious study and overcoming "internal struggles and differences of opinion" takes time.

"I hope the quality of the answer will make you forget the delay," the cardinal said.

Good wishes after prayers...

VATICAN CITY:- After Monday's signing of their joint declaration and reciting the Lord's Prayer, Pope John Paul II and Archbishop Runcie offered personal prayers and good wishes to each other. It was their last meeting during Archbishop Runcie's four day visit to the Vatican.

The archbishop thanked the pope for "frank talk" and the opportunity "to meet in friendship around your table."

Earlier in the day, the archbishop was given a tour of the excavations beneath St Peter's Basilica and was taken to the Vatican's secret archives.

A special exhibit had been set up for Archbishop Runcie. It included love letters from King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn, who was to become the king's second wife, and Pope Pius V's letter excommunicating Queen ElizabethIin 1570.

Way to foster Christian

VATICAN CITY (CNS):— The bishop of Rome should exercise "a primacy in action and initiative" to foster Christian unity, Pope John Paul II said during a prayer service with the head of the worldAnglican wide Communion.

On the second day of the four-day visit to the Vatican of Anglican Archbishop Robert Runcie of Canterbury, the two leaders celebrated vespers at Rome's Church of St Gregory.

The site was chosen as a reminder that in 596 Pope St Gregory the Great sent St Augustine of Canterbury to evangelise the Anglo-Saxon people. Christians there

remained united with the church in Rome until the Church of England was established in the mid-16th century.

When he sent missionaries to what is now England, "St Gregory was exercising the pastoral and missionary responsibility which is proper to the office of the bishop of Rome," the pope said.

"In his own writings we discover a profound and rich appreciation for the universal primacy entrusted to the bishop who occupies the See of Peter," he said.

Pope John Paul said it was St Gregory who called the Sea of Rome the "caput fidei" (head of faith) and the bishop of

Rome the "servant of the servants of God." In his address at the service, Archbishop Runcie said that "Gregory's example of a primacy for the sake of unity and mission — which we also see embodied in the ministry of his successor, John Paul II — begins to find a place in Anglican thinking."

At the 1988 Lambeth Conference, Archbishop Runcie spoke of 'The need for a personal focus of unity."

At the Rome prayer service, he said his position as spiritual head of the Anglican Communion is partially a response to that need.

"But for the universal church I renew the plea

made at the Lambeth Conference: Could not all Christians come to reconsider the kind of primacy the bishop of Rome exercised within the early church, a 'presiding in love' for the sake of the unity of the churches in the diversity of their mission?" the archbishop asked.

The "careful theological conversation" between Anglicans and Roman Catholics must continue, he said.

"There are many things which need discussion and resolution. But there is also an urgency in the need to proclaim and reproclaim the Gospel to all the world," the archbishop said.

Pope John Paul said

work toward Christian unity must be "carried out in total fidelity to the faith in Christ that was handed on by the apostles.

"The integrity of the apostolic faith as delivered once and for all to the saints in the apostolic tradition must be fully preserved if our unity is to be that for which Christ prayed," he said.

"As we meet today, we cannot but acknowledge that events in recent years have seriously aggravated the differences between us," the pope said.

But the work of the Second Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission must continue, he said.

"I wish today to confirm the members of the commission in their arduous task as they study the roots and origins of the differences between us," he said.

Pope Gregory "knew well that there could be variety in confessing and living out the faith," Pope John Paul said.

He knew that liturgical expressions, spirituality, theology and church discipline could differ "while preserving all things in the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace," the pope said.

"It is my firm hope that our meeting in Rome will pave the way for the time when Rome and Canterbury will once more be fully able to proclaim

together the 'word of truth' as they did in the days of Gregory and Augustine."

The need to spread the Gospel message makes Christian unity more urgent, the pope said.

"We have a special responsibility to the developing countries of the world where the divisions originating in Europe have been transplanted," he said.

In many parts of the world, Archbishop Runcie said, "separated Christians are beginning to recognise and to act upon their baptismal unity, their one apostolic calling and their common obligation to proclaim the Gospel — in spite of an inheritance of

ity now established between Anglicanism and the Catholic Church are too firm for old hostilities and past misunderstandings to arise again," Archbishop Runcie said during his homily.

But, having done so, it stays."

shop said "comprehend what they cannot always be said to understand."

said.

ment of unity, the Eucharist, and to obey the Lord's command, 'Do this in remembrance of me."

Runcie: Walls don't reach heaven ROME (CNS):— While Christian denominations are separated by matters of theology and practice, most Christians recognize their unity in faith, said Anglican Archbishop Robert Runcie of Canterbury.

"In the communion of all saints, there will be no denominations. The walls of our division do not reach as high as

heaven," said Archbishop Runcie, the spiritual head of the worldAnglican wide Communion.

The archbishop presided at the Eucharist on Sunday at Rome's All Saints Anglican Church.

After the liturgy, he attended a papal Mass in St Peter's Square at the Vatican.

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"We have glimpsed the beauty of God's truth alive in each other," he said. "That truth sinks slowly into the mind.

The archbishop also said that while it is helpful to have liturgists and theologians explain the Eucharist, "in the Eucharist Christians experience God's saving grace at a level too deep for the adequacy of words."

Christians, the archbi-

As the Jesuit theologian Father Karl Rahner had written, most Christians are members of a particular denomination for historical, geographical or sociological reasons; only a small percent choose their denomination for thological reasons, the archbishop

"They recognize that their fellow Christians of other traditions share the same hope, rejoice in the same salvation and follow the same Lord," Archbishop Runcie said.

For Christians who recognise "this deeper unity", he said, "their great desire is to share together in this sacra-

The separation of Christians into various denominations must never be taken for wanted, he said.

"We should never allow our divisions to become tolerable, or worse still, comfortable."

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Christian division not of provinces in opening the their making." order of priesthood and The division was made episcopate to women in Europe, he said, and it seems to the Roman now "gravely impairs our Catholic Church to have ability to reclaim for gone beyond these Christ's Gospel a conti- bounds.

"When there is disnent which is fast losing agreement among Chrisits Christian soul."

At the same time, tians who have recently Archbishiop Runcie said, discovered how much some diversity in church they hold in common, it is time to strengthen practices are important. counsels," he said.

"The variety of ChrisPope John Paul said the discipleship tian goal of his meetings with throughout the world Archbishop Runcie and brings an enrichment the continuing work of which is true catholicity," the international diahe said. logue was "to discover "But there must be once more that common bounds to legitimate inheritance of faith diversity," the archbi- which was shared before shop said. "Realism and the tragic sequence of honesty prompt me to events which divided acknowledge that the Christian Europe four action of some Anglican centuries ago."

Ripple effect his hope...

VATICAN CITY: At a press conference Archbishop Runcie told reporters he hoped the example set by his meetings with Pope John Paul would have "a ripple effect in the world".

While theological differences prevent sharing the Eucharist, Anglicans and Roman Catholics can pray together more frequently, study the scriptures together, provide social services to the poor and evangelise together.

Archbishop Runcie said he was pleased to learn from the pope that this

week's opening ceremony of the eucharistic congress in Seoul, South Korea, was to take place in an Anglican cathedral.

He told the pope he had appreciated being able to use a Catholic church for a ceremony during his visit to Osaka, Japan.

"The way in which our conversations will bear fruit will come about gradually," the archbishop told reporters.

During last weekend's Anglican vespers service, Pope John Paul and Runcie Archbishop spoke about the evangelisation of England in the sixth century and the

Salute to Vatican

VATICAN CITY (CNS):— Christians are indebted to the Second Vatican Council and the Catholic ecumenical efforts it inspired, Anglicanism's spiritual leader told Vatican officials at the beginning of a visit to the Holy See. The involvement of the Catholic Church in ecumenical efforts since the mid-1960s "has fundamentally changed for the good what was largely a panProtestant endeavour," Archbishop Robert Runcie of Canterbury, England, said during a September 28 reception in his

honour. His visit was scheduled to last into October 2.

Earlier in the day, the archbishop, spiritual head of the worldwide Anglican commmunion, had a private meeting with Pope John Paul II. At the reception, Archbishop Runcie told Roman Curia officials: "Only the unity of all Christians can be fully true to the prayer of Christ."

The archbishop was welcomed by Cardinal Johannes Willebrands, president of the Pontifical Council for Promot-

ing Christian Unity. The cardinal said it was an important opportunity for the archbishop to meet other Vatican officials.

"The task of working for Christian unity is not a task that can simply be given to one group within the Church," Cardinal Willebrands said.

"There is no area of church life, no aspect of church government that does not have a profound ecumenical dimension," he said.

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"It is my firm hope that our meeting in Rome will pave the way for the time when Rome and Canterbury will once more be fully able to proclaim together the 'word of truth'," the pope said.

Archbishop Runcie and the pope spoke of the diversity in religious practice allowed by Pope St Gregory the Great, the pontiff who sent St Augustine of Canterbury to evangelise the AngloSaxons.

"But there must be bounds to legitimate diversity," Archbishop Runcie said. "Realism and honesty prompt me to acknowledge that the action of some Anglican provinces in opening the order of priesthood and episcopate to women seems to the Roman Catholic Church to have gone beyond these bounds."

"The integrity of the apostolic faith as delivered once and for all to the saints in the apostolic tradition must be fully preserved if our unity is to be that for which Christ prayed," the pope said.

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Record A shock-proofed sensation-saturated late 20th century can best muster only a fleeting nod at last weekend's Rome-Canterbury encounter at the Vatican, notwithstanding its massive historical implications.

The heavens really ought to have opened in 1982 when a Roman pope dared walk through a hushed and apprehensive Canterbury Cathedral, but probably not so when a Canterbury of 1989 went back to the Roman hearth from which a 'Roman' Augustine was sent by Pope Gregory to angelic Angles, but not to Anglicans.

Better that last week Catholics and Anglicans of the past 450 years were safely in their graves since the circumstances in which Canterbury would be a Vatican guest for four days would be past their understanding or patience.

A tired world palate which has to swallow images such as Gorbachev now being feted by the West would find no spice in wondering why any two church leaders might not be meeting at all, such has been the pace of change.

The credit, then, would go not to Archbishop Runcie and Pope John Paul returning their courtesies, albeit after seven years, but to the diminutive Pope Paul VI, nigh on 25 years ago, breaking the massive Anglican Catholic iceberg, with Archbishop Ramsay of Canterbury in their meeting at Rome's St Paul's Basilica. It was long before ARCIC and other events would define what truly divides and unites us.

Pope John Paul took up his predecessor's travelling with determination, as his 44th journey to Korea and Indonesia reminds us this week, and to confront not just his Catholic subjects but his separated friends as well.

Hence he has presented himself not only at the door of Canterbury Cathedral but in the Lutheran strongholds of Germany and most recently Scandinavia whose prickly welcomes he described as the best ecumenical encounter yet. The Polish pope hardly conceals his hope to plant his foot inside the vast heart of Eastern Orthodoxy.

The clasp is now being closed on a thick volume of history between Catholic and Anglican churches because the dimensions that shaped that stand-off over four centuries have rapidly dissolved, not a little to the surprise of both sides.

Theologically, at Vatican II, the Catholic Church had to re-write its attitudes and responsibilities towards church re-unification. We cannot go back on that word.

With secularism and disinterest now buff etting all Western churches the Anglicans too have to trim their image, face up to their own deficiencies and address the anomalies if not obstacles to their unity with others.

Hasty media comments comparing the weekend's meetings as between 800 million Catholics and 80 million Anglicans forgot to try to define the essence of that Anglican communion about which the recent Lambeth conference has gone vigorously in search, lest it fragment entirely.

The cosy days when Anglicanism hitched a protective ride on British colonial expansion have long since passed, and not without leaving a mass of black faces in its hierarchy. And it has exposed the risky independence with which the world's Anglican Churches now claim to be free agents about what they will or will not do, irrespective of their fellow churches.

With the Church of England no longer synonymous with the Anglican Church, Archbishop Runcie would have measured carefully the hot water into which he was dipping his foot by his primacy remarks and other actions last weekend. Did he know too well how a pilgrimage from Canterbury to his Rome roots would reveal the absurdity of the Crown and unbelieving parliamentarians being his ultimate ecclesiastical masters? He knew the welcome he would receive back home.

The question is for his Church to ponder even if the media gave its thoughtless and shallow attention to the religious oaffishness of Ian Paisley who should have been told it was none of his business.

Australians too will have to come to grips with what are the true issues, good and bad, of Anglicanism vis-a-vis Catholicism and not merely the media spectator sport over women's ordinations within a church that is now less than a quarter of the Australian population and not necessarily the pre-occupation of the rest of us.

Better to be informed whether the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, for example, would have been less than amused at last weekend's happenings and what that means to local church dialogue.

Far better though to thank God for the grace that made Archbishop Runcie and Pope John Paul dig deep, deep into their spiritual roots in search of principles to outlast quick-fix solutions that may cheer the gallery of today but leave the stands deserted tomorrow.

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Dope: pope's hope THIS WAR MUST GO BEYOND PASSING NEW LAWS

LUCCA, Italy (CNS):— The anti-drug war must go beyond passing new laws, especially in dealing with addicts and people in underdeveloped countries who, because of economic necessity, produce the raw materials for drugs, said Pope John Paul II. National and international efforts are needed "to put a brake on the expansion of the market in narcotics", the pope said in Lucca to a group of drug addicts undergoing rehabilitation.

At the same time, "drugs are fought not only with medical and judicial procedures, but also — and above all — by developing new human relationships."

The anti-drug war also involves an understanding of the interests and systems that are formed in support of the drug trade so that these can be "effectively dismantled," the pope said.

It is necessary "to work for the development of those populations which, for their existence, devote themselves to drug production" he added.

The pope also asked for a network of services to prevent youths from becoming drug addicts and to support the rehabilitation of drug users.

"To give significance to the life of a youth is already fighting drugs," he said.

The fight must include proposing moral values as alternatives to a drug lifestyle, the pope added.

"Drugs, in fact, are an evident symptom of a society which no longer is capable of living real values," he said.

"In such a climate, the goals to pursue become money, power, career and consumer goods, with people ready to pay whatever price necessary to obtain them," he said.

Bishops to plan strategy

... AS THEY WAIT FOR LEGALISATION OF THE UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH ROME (CNS): Ukrainian bishops meeting in Rome planned to discuss practical ways to stengthen the Ukrainian Catholic Church once it is legalised.

The bishops are optimistic that the Ukrainian Catholic Church, banned

by Josef Stalin, will be legalised under Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, he said.

The status of the church is expected to be discussed when Gorbachev meets the pope in

November during a visit to Italy.

One participant, Bishop Losten, said that after existing as an underground church in the Soviet Union for more than 40 years, the Catholic Ukrainian Church would need "a reconstruction period".

The faith has been passed on quietly in private homes and has not been exposed to most of the teachings of the Second Vatican Council, he said.

"Gently" introducing

council teachings is one thing the bishops were to discuss at the synod, he said.

They also were to finish plans for printing and distributing books they already have had translated, the Bible, catechisms, prayerbooks and theological works.

A seminary program and education in theology and philosophy for priests already ordained are also needed, he said.

The vast majority of priests, who serve roil-

lions believed to be clandestinely practicing the faith, were secretly ordained after studying with a local priest.

The church in the West does not plan to send people to the Ukraine to help out, he said.

"There are bishops, priests, nuns, teachers and activists in a position to mobilise very quickly," said Bishop Losten, who visited the Ukraine in July.

Bishop Losten said that although the bishops are planning carefully for

Religion not hit ROME (CNS): China's crackdown on dissent last June appears not to have affected religion, and the church's situation there can still be viewed with "quiet optimism", said an annual Vatican missionary report.

The Fides report cited signs of the gradual emergence of the "clandestine" church in China, which is loyal to Rome.

It also said there are indications of weakening in the position of the

Chinese Catholic Patrio- have left it in dissatisfactic Association, a tion, the report said. government-sanctioned The Vatican report did group at odds with the not criticise the Patriotic Vatican.

Association and instead struck a positive tone.

The underground "It is also said that the church "has lost some of majority of the Patriotic its forced secrecy and is Association's members becoming more visible," are, at heart, in communeven though it is still not ion with the pope," it officially recognised by said. the government, the "On the whole the report said. church in China can be On the other hand, the regarded with quiet Patriotic Association has optimism," it said.

"If the Chinese governrecently had defections from some bishops who ment goes ahead with its

upset when Christian Fellowship, a nondenominational group based in Los Angeles, began offering the recorded message via a 900 telephone number — thus saving callers from making an overseas call.

ITALCable, the Italian phone company handling the project for Vatican Radio, warned

The Ukrainian people also are patriotic, the bishop said. 'They will support their country hoping also to worship in freedom."

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the Christian vitality of Chinese Catholics and their service of collaboration for China's development will undoubtedly increase," it said.

The report said China's Communist Party has noticed "the considerable increase of Christians and is seeking the motives for this return to religion".

"The Catholic faith and its implications have much to offer to China's great people," it said.

Mixed feelings over phone project VATICAN CITY (CNS):— distance callers, more Five months after it began than 20,000 people have offering recorded papal listened to messages in messages via telephone, English, Spanish and Vatican Radio officials are Italian, said Jesuit Father pleased with the project's Pasquale Borgomeo, success but unhappy over general director of Vatiwhat they say is an can Radio. attempt to "pirate" the Most of the calls — as service in the United much as 85 per cent States. during the first month — Since April, when Pope originated in the United John Paul II's voice began States.

But Vatican Radio was going out to long-

the reintegration of the church in Ukraine, they are not worried that Ukrainians will resent any assitance or direction given by Cardinal Lubachivsky and the church in the West.

"They are very devoted to authority," he said.

"They have suffered 43 years for their loyalty to the pope."

Christian Fellowship to stop or face legal action.

He said the Christian Fellowship service was "a pirate system" in which Vatican Radio's papal messages were tape-recorded via telephone and a new introduction added.

The number for English messages is 39-77793020.

JERUSALEM (CNS): Vandals have damaged an ancient Carmelite monastery site in Israel in an apparent protest of the presence of a convent of Carmelite nuns in the former Nazi World War II death camp of Auschwitz in Poland.

The vandals appeared to have carefully planned the attack on the site at Haifa, breaching a fence surrounding the ruins and digging up stone after stone, Israel Radio said September 26.

The vandalism was descibred as "a great tragedy" by Carmelite Sister Damian of the Cross, an archeologist who leads a team of American nuns who have been excavating the site for the past two years.

In the United States, an official of a major Jewish organisation condemned the incident at the Carmelite site.

"Such behaviour is no less than . . . a desecration of the Divine name," a statement said.

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52,945 books returned MOSCOW: The Lenin Library in Moscow — the principal library of the Soviet Union — has returned 52,945 books to the Moscow Theological Academy, from which they were confiscated in the past, and negotiations are under way about the possible return of part of the manuscript collection.

A further 30,000 volumes are to be returned to the Optsina hermitage.

Commenting on these events, the unofficial Minsk journal of the Orthodox Church, Pravaslaunaja Dumka, wrote: "At present there are four diocesan seminaries in the country and, naturally, all of them are having difficulties with spiritual literature.

"Since, in the past, every flourishing town had its own theological seminary with an appropriate library, it would be just if all these collections of books were to be returned to the Church."

Embryos are children...

NOT PROPERTY, US COURT RULES MARYVILLE, TENN (CNS):— Saying that human life begins at conception, a judge has ruled that seven frozen embryos are children, not property, and should be given to their mother, Mary Sue Davis, who hopes to carry them to term.

Judge W. Dale Young, said in a 50 page ruling that "human embryos are not property."

"From fertilization the cells of a human embryo are differentiated, unique and specialized to the highest degree of distinction," therefore, he said, "human life begins at conception."

Mrs Davis had sought implantation of the fro-

zen embryos — fertilized through the "in vitro" process by her husand.

The embryos have been stored in a Knoxville.

Tenn, laboratory since last December.

Her husband asked for and got a court order barring his wife of nine years from using any of the embryos.

In his ruling the judge said: "It is to the manifest best interest of the child or children, in vitro, that they be available for implantation."

He awarded Mrs Davis temporary custody of the embroys "for the purpose of implantation" in her uterus.

The judge said he reserved the right to

make a final decision on custody, child support and visitation rights when and if children are born as a result of the procedure.

Richard Doerflinger of the US bishops' pro-life office called the ruling "a victory of biological common sense over attempted legal obfuscation."

"It is also a victory for both the embryonic children and the mother who wants to carry them to term," he said.

"Classifying embryonic tissue as 'property' would have demeaned the dignity of unborn life as well as the dignity of the woman who was convinced she already had

the rights and responsibilities of parenthood.

"In this case as in so many others, the pro-life stance and the prowoman stance is the same."

Witnesses at the couple's divorce trial included leading French geneticist Dr Jerome Lejeune, discoverer of the genetic cause of Down's syndrome and a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

In his testimony Lejeune said the embryos were "early human beings" and likened freezing them to putting tiny human beings "in a concentration camp."

The bad, bad days of Stalin

LENINGRAD: The pastor of the only Catholic church in reLeningrad when members Josef Stalin threw men in jail for being priests.

Now, under glasnost, the priest said he is trying to meet the demands of his growing parish.

"We still don't have any kind of religious organisation in the parish because we just haven't had the time to organise them because the opportunity to have them has been so recent," the priest told The

Progress, newspaper Seattle the for Archdiocese.

Father Pavilonis, the only priest for about 5000 Catholics, said relations between church and state have slowly improved since Stalin's death, "especially since the time of (Soviet leader Mikhail) Gorbachev.

"It doesn't mean that the situation has completely reversed itself and there's total normalisation," he said, "but it's considerably better."

As examples he noted the new religious freedoms, the

addition of a third Catholic seminary in the Soviet Union, and the stationing of more cardinals and bishops in Lithuania and Latvia.

Before the 1917 revolution, Leningrad had 13 Catholic churches and about 35,000 faithful, he said.

In later years all parishes except his, Our Lady of Lourdes Church, built by the French in 1908, were closed. His was permitted to continue because of its French ties.

"Even at that time it

would (have been) undiplomatic to wipe out completely every parish," working Father Pavilonis said.

Over the years, he said, the Soviet state had "monitored and followed" religion.

"There was a kind of repression in general toward all religious bodies because communism was officially atheistic and would not accept the reality of God's existence, and believed in the famous statement that religion is the opium of the people."

When Stalin died, the imprisoned pri-

Don't meddle in our politics, says Lee SINGAPORE (CNS): Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, giving evidence in a libel suit he brought against the Far Eastern Economic Review, said he warned the editor in 1985 to keep his magazine out of domestic politics.

The suit resulted from an article on the detention of Catholic lay workers involved in an alleged plot against the government.

"It was to put to him, bluntly, an ultimatum," Lee said.

It was absolutely legitimate for the foreign press to report on

the situation in Singapore as outsiders to outsiders, Lee said.

But the government could not permit foreign newspapers and magazines to take part in local politics debates.

Four priests — three Singaporean and one French — working in the Singapore Archdiocese resigned from their assignments and left the country following the arrests.

Lee filed a suit against writer Michael Malik's article dealing with the arrests in May and June 1987 of 22 people, mostly lay church workers, for alleged involvement in a Marxist plot to subvert the government. They were arrested under the Internal Security Act, which allows indefinite detention without trial.

Lee's counsel said the Review's article implied Lee was "intolerant of the Catholic Church, does not favour freedom of religious belief and worship, and desires to victimise Catholic priests."

The Review had refused to retract the allegations against Lee, apologise and pay damages.

ests were released, he said, and improvements evolved slowly.

Now Father Pavilonis, pastor for 23 years and a priest for 50, said he hoped that closed churches such as the giant St Catherine's would be allowed to re-open to accommodate new Catholics among Leningrad's population of 5 million.

"We just hope the relationships between church and state will perfect themselves, that is, they'll be perfectly normalised." he said.

'A rich diversity' VATICAN CITY (CNS):— The Church's universality is marked by "rich diversity" rather than "dull uniformity" said Pope John Paul II at a general audience.

The pope said the church, from its very beginning, was universal and missionary.

"The Church's universality is also evident in the different languages, cultures and social classes which she embraces in each period of her history," the pope said.

"This universality combines deep unity with rich diversity and is the result of that gift of the Holy Spirit which is the communion of all the faithful with God and with each other," he added.

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Moslems will show respect M ARYKNOLL, NY (CNS): Pope John Paul II will get not only an enthusiastic welcome from Catholics in Indonesia this week but also openness and respect from the predominantly Moslem p opulation, said a Maryknoll missionary who just completed 12 years in the island nation.

"The government is treating this like an official state visit because of the real respect of Indonesians for any international religious leader, whatever his faith," said Father William P. Heffernan.

"This reflects a basic spiritual component in the culture," he said.

Father Heffernan said the Indonesian government also wanted to exhibit a spirit of religious harmony and welcome the pope as an internationally recognised voice for peace.

Although the pope had

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chosen to stay at the nunciature in the capital city of Jakarta, he said the government offered to house him in the palace, it is used for such highranking visitors as the king of Spain.

Indonesia, an archipelago of more than 13,500 islands stretching across more than 4800km has the largest Moslem population in the world — 98 per cent of its 108 million people.

Father Heffernan described the predominant Indonesian faith, however, as an Islam poles apart from the fundamentalism of that espoused by the late Ayatollah Khomeini.

Pockets of Islamic fundamentalism exist in Indonesia, he said, but "they scare most Indonesian Moslems" and national security forces stay on the alert against them.

Consequently, he said, Catholics and Moslems live in harmony, and

practices such as inter- philosophy. marriage and converOn the annexation of sion, forbidden in some Timor by Indonesia, Islamic societies, are Father Heffernan said he accepted in Indonesia. had heard "horror stoSeveral high govern- ries" from the period of ment officials, including the military takeover, but Defence Minister Benny not from more recent Murdani, are Catholic, times.

Father Heffernan noted.

He said his limited Father Heffernan said contact with East Timor Pancasila — a term Catholics gave him the representing the five impression they were principles of monothe- traditionalist in their ism, nationalism, outlook and unrealistihumanitarianism, demo- cally fearful of the cracy and social justice Indonesian govern— no longer presented a ment's attitude toward problem to the Indone- Catholics. sian church.

The government, Father The wording of the Heffernan indicated, is original government now rather relaxed about demand that all organi- East Timor, feeling time sations accept Pancasila, is on its side, and is he said, aroused concern "overjoyed" to have the that it might be intended pope making a pastoral to supersede Christian visit there as part of his doctrine as the pre- Indonesia trip. eminent standard of East Timorese Catholics church teaching. have asked the pope to But he said a different kiss the ground when he interpretation was given visits. The gesture is and now the church usually reserved as a sign recognises it simply as of respect for a sovereign the nation's social country.

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The pope, will find a church that is winning large numbers of converts and attracting enough vocations to develop and sustain an indigenous clergy said Father Michael A. Duggan, who is concluding a term as Maryknoll regional superior in Korea, and Father Gerard E. Hammond, who succeeds him.

The Korean church has an unusually dedicated and active laity, and has in Cardinal Kim of Seoul one of the most admired citizens of the nation.

Pope John Paul will also find a country deeply marked by the "yearning" of every Korean for reunion of South and North, the priests said.

They said the social teaching of the church and its role serving as "the voice of the voiceless"

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were prinipal factors in drawing new members.

Many young people, both students and workers, are impressed by the church's message and its contribution to Korean society, they said.

Parish preparations for the eucharistic congress have included an emphasis on the social dimension of the faith.

Congress-related projects, they reported, include such efforts as collecting rice for the poor but also encouraging blood donations and donations of eyes to an eye bank, actions that many Koreans find difficult.

Father Hammond noted that the church in Korea was distinctive in that it originated in the action of laymen. Koreans visiting Beijing, China, in the 10th century to pay an imperial tax obtained Christian literature from Jesuit missionaries there.

And a Korean baptized by a Jesuit in 1783 started a Christian community that grew to 1000 before the first priest visited Korea in 1794.

"The Korean people can be proud of the fact that they established the church themselves," Father Hammond said.

Today, he said, the church in Korea does not have an extensive parochial school system, but

JAKARTA (UP): A week before Pope John Paul begins a five-day tour of the world's Moslem largest President nation, Suharto of Indonesia has cautioned Indonesia's 4.4 million Catholics not to be too "demonstrative" during the visit.

Chairman of the visit committee Dr Sods (looted President &Marto as advising Catholics: "Do not be too demonstrative when you are going home from the events."

Observers said his warning appeared to reflect official concerns that the visit could create social tension among Indonesia's diverse religious and ethnic groups.

Two weeks ago a senior Indonesian official confirmed that sections of the Moslem and Protestant communities were unhappy abaft the visit.

Last week minister for political affairs and security Admiral Salome said there was no reason for concern shoe the visit, as the Pape's tour would not be used for "religions propogaisda".

the laity assume a major share of the responsibility for religious education of children.

Father Hammond, pointed out that Cheong Ju Diocese, formerly a Maryknoll missionary diocese, began in 1953 with 8000 Catholics and no Korean clergy, but obtained its first Korean bishop in 1970 and now has about 75,000 Catholics, 45 Korean diocesan priests and a major seminarian for every 1000 members.

South Korea has four major seminaries with 1500 students. Planning is under way for major seminaries in four additional dioceses.

The priests said Korea might soon have enough clergy to supply most of its needs if the situation in the South alone is considered. But if reunion comes and the North is again open to church life, they said, many more clergy will be needed.

The priests said they did not foresee reunification occurring through one single action in the near future, but through a series of small steps extending over a number of years.

They noted, however, that recent events m Poland, which now has its first non-communist government in postwar Eastern Europe, had demonstrated that rapid changes could occur when the people were insistent.

They said North Korea had recently come to realize because of its foreign debt and other realities that it could not remain isolated, and had become somewhat more open.

They noted that it has built one Catholic church and one Protestant church in the capital, Pyongyang, although no priest is stationed there.

Father Hammond and Father Duggan said the success of the Korean church in gaining new members and vocations also brought it serious problems in giving the needed guidance and formation.

The bishops, they said, are aware of a lack of enough spiritual directors for seminarians, and are working on the problem.

But they said many of the young lay converts are being lost when they find that some traditional parishes fail to give vital expression to the social teaching that initially aroused their interest in the church.

Pope John Paul II and the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, write their signatures on a document in 1982.

Hope and patience Here is the Vatican text of the common declaration signed on October 2 by Pope John Paul II and Anglican Archbishop Robert Runcie of Canterbury, England, released in Rome.

After worshipping together in St Peter's Basilica and in the Church of St Gregory. from where St Augustine of Canterbury was sent by St Gregory the Great to England, Pope John Paul II, bishop of

Rome, and Archbishop Robert Runcie of Canterbury now meet again to pray together in order to give fresh impetus to the reconciling mission of God's people in a divided and broken world and to review the obstacles which still impede closer communion between the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion.

Our joint pilgrimage to the Church of St Gregory, with its historic association with St Augustine's mission to baptize England, reminds us that the purpose of the church is nothing other than the evangelization of all peoples, nations and cultures.

We give thanks together for the readiness and openness to receive the Gospel that is especially evident in the developing world, where young Christian corn-

munities joyfully embrace the faith of Jesus Christ and vigorously express a costly witness to the Gospel of the kingdom in sacrificial living.

The word of God is received, "not as the word of man, but as what it really is, the word of God" (1 Thes 2:13). As we enter the last decade of the second millennium of the birth of Jesus Christ, we pray together for a new e vangelization throughout the world, not least in the continent of St Gregory and St Augustine, where the progressive of secularization society erodes the language of faith and where materialism demands the spiritual nature of humankind.

It is in such a perspective that the urgent quest for Christian unity must be viewed, for the Lord Jesus Christ prayed for the unity of his disciples "so that the world may believe" (Jn 17:21).

Moreover, Christian disunity has itself contributed to the tragedy of human division throughout the world. We pray for

peace and justice, especially where religious differences are exploited for the increase of strife between communities of faith.

Against the background of human disunity the arduous journey to Christian unity must be pursued with determination and vigour, whatever obstacles are perceived to block the path.

We here solemnly recommit ourselves and those we represent to the restoration of visible unity and full ecclesial communion in the confidence that to seek anything less would be to betray our Lord's intention for the unity of his people.

This is by no means to be unrealistic about the difficulties facing our dialogue at the present time.

When we established the Second A nglican-Roman Catholic International Commission in Canterbury in 1982, we were well aware that the commission's task would be far from rosy.

The convergences achieved within the report of the First

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Catholic International Commission have happily now been accepted by the Lambeth Conference of the bishops of the Anglican Communion. This report is currently also being studied by the Catholic Church with a view to responding to it.

On the other hand, the question and practice of the admission of women to the ministerial priesthood in some provinces of the Anglican Communion prevents r econciliation between us even where there is otherwise progress toward agreement in faith on the meaning of the Eucharist and the ordained ministry.

These differences in faith reflect important ecclessiological differences, and we urge the members of the A nglican -Roman Catholic International Commission others all and engaged in prayer and work for visible unity not to minimize these differences.

At the same time we also urge them not to abandon either their

hope or work for unity.

At the beginning of the dialogue established here in Rome in 1966 by our beloved predecessors Pope Paul VI and Archbishop Michael Ramsey, no one saw clearly how longinherited divisions would be overcome and how unity in faith might be achieved. No pilgrim knows in advance all the steps along the path.

St. Augustine of Canterbury set out from Rome with his band of monks for what was then a distant corner of the world. Yet Pope Gregory was soon to write of the baptism of the English and of "such great miracles.., that they seemed to imitate the powers of the apostles" (Letter of Gregory the Great of of Eulogius Alexandria).

While we ourselves do not see a solution to this obstacle, we are confident that through our engagement with this matter, our conversations will in fact help to deepen and enlarge our understanding. We have this confidence because Christ prom-

ised that the Holy Spirit, who is the Spirit of Truth, will remain with us forever (cf. Jn 14:16-17).

We also urge our clergy and faithful not to neglect or undervalue that certain yet imperfect communion we already share.

This communion already shared is grounded: • In faith in God our Father, in our Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Spirit; • Our common baptism into Christ; • Our sharing of the Holy Scriptures, of the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds; the C halcedonian definition; • And the teaching of the fathers; our common Christian inheritance for many centuries.

This communion should be cherished and guarded as we seek to grow into the fuller communion Christ wills. Even in the years of our separation we have been able to recognise gifts of the Spirit in each other. The ecumenical journey is not only about the removal of obstacles but also about the sharing of gifts.

As we meet together today we have also in our hearts those other churches and ecclesial communities with whom we are in dialogue. As we have said once before in Canterbury, our aim extends to the fulfillment of God's will for the visible unity of all his people.

Nor is God's will for unity limited exclusively to Christians alone. Christian unity is demanded so that the church can be a more effective sign of God's kingdom of love and justice for all humanity.

In fact, the church is the sign and sacrament of the communion in Christ which God wills for the whole of his creation.

Such a vision elicits hope and patient determination, not despair or cynicism.

And because such hope is a gift of the Holy Spirit, we shall not be disappointed; for "the power at work within us is able to do far more abundantly than all we ask or think. To him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, for ever and ever. Amen" (Eph 3:20-21).

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What help is there now for fathers?

How does a father raise children by himself? What support is there? What help is at hand?

Ihad a talk with a friend on this very subject some time ago after a wedding.

I find that the priest's role at a wedding is very enjoyable but it's also a workout.

So when I arrive at the reception I usually take my ritual glass of champagne and look for a quiet corner with a comfortable chair.

At a wedding I went looking for such a corner and found it already occupied by a man I've known for 10 years, since he was a widower with three boys.

"Well, you're looking relaxed," I said as he motioned me into the chair next to him.

"I'm not just relaxed" he said, "I'm celebrating."

He went on to explain that earlier that morning he had helped his youngest son, just entering university, move from

the family home into his residential college.

Then, speaking almost in disbelief, the father said, "I've actually done it. I raised all three of them. There were times when I never thought I would make it. But I did, and they all look like they're going to turn out OK." My friend was obviously relieved and proud that he had managed to raise his three boys by himself. Ten years previously, when the boys were 8, 11 and 13, a terrible accident had left him a widower.

Now on this warm Saturday he had helped the youngest follow his brothers into university.

I knew that reaching this day had not been easy. There was, of course, the terrible and bewildering fog of the first few months 10 years back.

It began with a call from the police at the emergency room. Those first days and weeks and

By Father David O'Rourke months seemed like an eternity.

I knww that he was a man with a real faith and his faith was important to him. It gave him purpose and direction.

But even so there was the daily need to accomplish by himself the tasks that he and his wife had once divided between them.

On Satudray morning a number of years back ran into him in the supermarket. He was trying to complete the week's shopping before going home to the laundry and then planning menus and scheduling trips to the orthodontist and parent-teacher conferences.

That day he was feeling frazzled. "I've realised that Inever learned how to live alone," he said.

"I lived at home until I got married. I've never

lived without another adult in the house and, questions of loneliness aside, I just don't know how to do it."

Now, on this Saturday when we were celebrating a wedding, those worries were behind him.

"How did you do it?" I asked. "In adition to your friends, what helped?"

He though for a moment, then said: "Having structures to lean on.

Like the church, with its weekly routines and holidays.

"The first Christmas was hard. If Iliad to plan out a Christmas celebration I know I coudn't have done it.

"Thank God, there was tradition to fall back on.

We went to Midnight Mass like we always do.

We put the tree and the crib and the figures in their usual places. And then we had a big dinner for all the grandparents like we always do.

"It's a lot like this wedding," he added,

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"Chicken and dressing, sweet potatoes, okra, greens, a roast, macaroni salad ..."

Sister Thea Bowman's voice was alive with e xcitement as she described the mountains of food on Easter Sunday at Fred and Arista Otto's home.

Children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, cousins, nieces and friends had attended the meal and, in fact, come by for dinner every Sunday.

"If you want to see anyone you go over there," said Sister Bowman, a Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration.

"There's always food being kept warm in the oven or on top of the stove."

Sister Bowman is a consultant for intercultural communications. She also is the editor of a collection of articles on the black Catholic family.

"When I was a little girl my mama wanted me to learn our heritage," she explains.

"So she apprenticed me to a 'slave', a freed woman who had lived

"They may both be 23 but they don't really understand marriage yet.

How could they? But the church says they should go through its public marriage ceremonies.

"So they trust the church and they do it.

The church says it's possible to make it and they believe it.

"We need these structures," he said. "At least, I did. I needed them to rely on because there were times when I couldn't rely on myself.

I've made it," he said.

"But I don't know how I would have made it without them and without the community's support."

Then, laughing and looking relaxed, he raised a now empty champagne glass a little and looked around.

"Waiter" he called, "now where'd he go?"

An act of charity

By Father John J. Castelot

Single parents have some special needs that the parish community can address.

Dominican Father David K. O'Rourke writes this week about a widowed friend who raised three sons by himself. This man says he never would have made it without the structures provided by the church. These gave him support during a vulnerable period.

Suzanne Elesser interviews Sister Thea Bowman, a Franciscan sister of Perpetual Adoration. Sister Bowman talks about the value

of an extended family when it comes to helping single parents cope.

Katharine Bird speaks about the problems and challenges faced by single parents. Meeting with peers who are familiar with your problems helps a lot, as Ms Bird discovered from her own experience.

Father John Castelot suggests that single parents should really be called "double parents".

They have to be both father and mother to their children in many cases, he explains.

Extended family is everything

pointing to the bride and groom now dancing together.

Jesus and his friends turned off the main road and started up a dusty path that led to the village of Haim. It was a wretched little cluster of mud huts at the top of the rise.

On their left as they walked along was the well, surrounded by milling sheep and the boys and girls who had just brought them in from the pasture.

All of a sudden the children's playful laughter stopped. another sound took its place, the sound of professional mourners wailing and crying aloud.

They were escorting a funeral procession out of the village.

It was a very sad procession, for the corpse on the litter was that of a young man, "the only son of a widowed mother" (Luke 7:12).

Sensing the poignancy of the situation, Jesus, "moved with pity," said to the mother "Do not cry."

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How easy to say. Anyone in the Up could have muttered, "What a dumb remark."

Here was a widow who had Idy one son to brighten her lonely life, one son wl stood between her and utter desolation. Where cot(' she turn now?

In days when there was no SociaSecurity, no life insurance and certainly no opportutY to go out and get a job, she was at the end of t( line. And this stranger tells her not to cry.

But Jesus did more than have pit on her. First he silenced the din of the mourners a gesture that brought a collective gasp from the cy'rd. He "stepped forward and touched the litter."

Contact with a corpse brought irant defilement according to the Law. But Jesus, WI didn't hesitate . no scruples to touch lepers, the "living dead" —ad about touching a corpse. In the erring silence, he uttered an incredible command: "Young man, I bid you get up. T! dead man sat up and began to speak. Then Jesus Ve him back to his mother."

He "gave him back to his mother'

That simple statement speaks volumes in terms of compassion and sensitivity.

Perhaps Jesus, himself the son of a widowed mother, was uniquely aware of what this young man's death meant to this woman and his heart went out to her.

In any event, he did more than take pity on her.

He intervened actively, with positive, creative and practical love.

The widow in Luke's narrative might be compared to today's "single parent".

Actually, however, there is no such thing as a single parent. These people are, in fact, double parents.

They have to be both mother and father to their children. It is formidable challenge in many ways, financially, physically and especially psychologically.

Parenting is difficult even when two parents are in the picture full time. Often single parents are very much alone and need understanding and support.

This is true whether they are financially secure or not.

Christians are Christ in space and time. For Christians today, the story of the compassion shown

by Jesus to the widow of Naim is particularly timely.

By Suzanne Elesser during slavery and knew the traditions. I learned from her the stories, the songs, the great strengths that exist in families who are rooted in the African experience.

"To Blacks the extended family is everything and it can often include people who are not related by blood but who need a family to care for them," she said. "We are most successful at being ourselves when we honour the extended family and the traditional African values of co-operation rather than competition."

Sister Bowman talks with great warmth about the Otto family as examples of the kind of affection and care a family can provide.

The Ottos raised 10 children. Later Mrs Otto, whom everyone calls "Ma Dear", quit her daytime job so she could help raise her grandchildren. Now she works nights.

She says. `The job Ihad

was plenty good but if I'm going to be a grandmother, I'm going to help my children".

Three preschool grandchildren stay with Mrs Otto during the day while their mothers work. In the afternoon a school bus drops the older grandchildren at her home.

Her daughter, Myrtle Jean, is an acute-care technician. She is the single parent of 5 yearold Charlene Evette and 7 year-old James Curtis; they all live with her parents because finances are tight.

"We all help each other," Myrtle Jean explains. "What we have we share with each other. We have little fusses up and down but if someone needs food or money for utilities we all pitch in. Mama trained us to do it that way, even if we are far away. She's the sweetest thing in the world."

Years before, Myrtle Jean helped raise her younger brothers and

sisters, when her father left home for a better paying job in another city.

Her older sister, Bernadette Porter, is the single parent of 10 yearold Stacey Monique who is cared for by Ma Dear.

Ms Porter too says her closeknit family is a big help.

Working in an office allows her to have a place of her own, but she has to budget carefully. "It's not easy," she says. "Monique sees me sitting at the table saying, 'NowIdon't have money for this or that.' That's good. because when she is older and if she goes to college and calls for money, she'll know why I don't have it."

Of any loneliness she has as a single parent, Ms Porter says, "When I get depressed I come and talk to my mama." And what does Mrs Otto think she is giving her family?

"Ihope I'm giving them good understanding," she says. "I take time out to listen.I get along with a lot of love."

Special gathering At Spm they began coming into the restaurant, sitting down around the table reserved for them.

Some came hesitantly, hovering around the edges, waiting for an invitation before joining the group.

Others walked in confidently, greeting friends with a smile and handshake.

There was an Irish woman much concerned about reentering the job market after 15 years as wife and mother a young man of Italian ancestry whose demeanor revealed his devastation at his broken marriage: a middle-aged black career woman convinced that her husband's hopes for a r econciliation wouldn't work.

That gathering nine years ago brought together people of different backgrounds, e ducational levels and finances.

Their common meeting ground: All were separated or divorced.

By Katharine Bird I attended that meeting to make contact with people in similar circumstances. A single parent of four children, it had taken me some time of stumbling in the dark to recognise how crucial the support of peers was.

For single parents face some special problems as well as special challenges: • Learning to cope with children alone. At a time when one's ego is likely to be at a new low, single parents have all the normal problems of child-rearing.

Somehow they have to dredge up from within themselves the strength to deal with children alone day in and day out.

Even in a mediocre marriage, husband and wife can turn to each other for some support at critical points in child rearing.

They can make decisions concerning children together — about discipline,

schools, entertainment, allowances.

For single parents, if serious problems arise, perhaps with teenagers testing their limits, child rearing quickly can seem over-whelming.

What's a single parent do if a teen comes in with the smell of liquor on her breath?

What if a son is out with a group the parent doesn't know well and misses his curfew?

• Learning to move beyond guilt. It's easy for divorced people to blame themselves for the breakup of a marriage and for altering their children's lives so drastically.

Guilt. I think, can keep single parents focused on the past, ducking the real work now at hand. A parent then may find it hard to show children how to make

the most of their new situation, to set about making friends and a new life.

• Learning to trust again.

It's a rare single parent who doesn't doubt his or her ability to make judgements sometimes. Yet being able to trust others is a basic premise of Christianity and a neccessity for a satisfying life.

If parents can't trust themselves or others, how can they teach children it's safe to true?

Paulist Father James Young talks of how a young executive named Michael learned to trust again in "Divorcing, Believing, Belonging" (1984, Paulist Press).

First, Michael had to be willing to accept help from others, especially an alsodivorced business associate, Father Young said. Then, gradually. friends helped Michael "see that trust in God. trust in others and trust in self were all pieces of the same pie".

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Pride of a mother

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard

Many of the best stories are never written up for a variety of reasons, with many facts left untold.

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Mrs Hollow. . . sacrifice paid off

And again — it is sometimes difficult to portray the greatness of the indomitable human spirit when seen in some people.

But recently I was fortunate enough to meet an outstanding lady, the

mother of six sons, one of whom was ordained to the priesthood last weekend.

And she had every reason to be proud, because her years of selfless dedication and self sacrifice had paid off with all of them.

Money was hard to come by over the years, but Mrs Dulcie Hollow of Belmont scrimped and saved to put her sons through Catholic education and probably the last thought she ever had on

her mind, was 'self'. She's got a lot of grit, this lady, and life wasn't easy, but she made it.

Today with four sons married, (one son was killed), and Robert now a Marist priest, Mrs Hollow is taking time off from her lifetime of labour and indulging in eight grandchildren! One of her grandchildren is at La Salle College, Midland where her sons attended over the years.

Robert started there in grade four and the

youngest went through just before it went over to be a purely secondary college.

Of course when you talk about "taking time off" and "taking it easy" they're only figures of speech with some people, because she still helps out in the La Salle canteen when required and has given 31 years to that College alone, not mentioning her involvement at St Anne's primary in Belmont, (it then closed down) and later

Maria Goretti P & F, and very active parish involvement with the Majellans and other areas.

And she still shops on her bike as in all the years of her marriage.

Never driven a car.

On the subject of transport, those early years giving voluntary time in the La Salle canteen weren't easy either.

During the initial years of La Salle (then de la Salle run by those brothers), the only means of

Colleen McGuiness-Howard speaks to another three seminarians from Adelaide who are on

He chose path of God instead Rick Sachse, 25, at Mirrabooka on pastoral placement, grew up in Esperance where his family farmed there until their later shift to Perth for 18 months and subsequent shift to Bencubbin.

Rick attended Esperance primary and high school, then Rossmoyne and finally Aquinas.

Anyone can get homesick, but the country born and bred are even more prone to it because of their close-knit country community backgrounds, where towns-

folk and farmingfolk become part of one's extended family.

Homesickness is 'an unpleasant side effect', if you like, from seminary life when your home is thousands of kilometers away. And Rick's experience proved no exception.

He said you feel homesick so far away from your small country town with all the connotations of home and town activities that brings. But he looks at it not from the negative, but from the positive aspect, "You get a

great sense of community in a country town, and it's good to see how a sense of seminary, church, and small town communities may differ, but share so much as well."

The Adelaide people too have helped with the ache, with their friendliness "and when they invite you to their home, it's the best of all!"

Rick's call also started from Vocations Sunday and the awkward shifting in the seat thinking That would be ridiculous for me!'.

But you see the plan very early he said, because people challenge you to think about it, and then you come up with a thousand different reasons why you shouldn't "because there's a sense of timing in a call," Rick stated.

But then other things happen along the way to get the call moving, such as in Rick's case a series of young priests who went through Bencubbin within a five year span "and impressed me so much. They seemed to believe in what they

were offering and in the value of what they were doing, and yet had enough integrity to keep their own personalities, which was tremendous!

And so encouraging."

Each had different styles of ministry, charisms and gifts, said Rick, and watching their participation in country life and enjoying the priesthood simultaneously "was good".

The necessity to make a decision to enter the family business or not, proved the catalyst for deciding to be or not to

be. So the weeding out began of the legitimate reasons for not going into the priesthood, as against the going.

The positive won, despite his good job, and love of home and Bencubbin life.

"Imet lots of people, but then wanted to do more with people on a different level."

So faith started working again in a very strong way. "I wanted to talk about it; discuss the social and faith issues as well. So I was drawn to a more spiritual circle of

friends, and I firmly believe people you meet have a big impact on you and challenge your own values and thoughts.

"Put all these things together, plus concern about the priest shortage which I saw as a real problem, combined with my 'rescuer mode personality' of wanting to help out in a problem by rushing to the rescue like a knight in shining armour (which isn't necessarily a good move!), led me to take it seriously."

Rick's parents were

'Miracle' in South Vietna is Minh-Thuy Nguyen, 31, is based at Spearwood on his second pastoral placement and will return to the Adelaide seminary in February, study for a few months, and become a Deacon.

Born and raised in South Vietnam, Minh-Thuy entered the seminary there in 1971.

Life was relatively uncomplicated then because South Vietnam was still free. But when the communists took

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over in 1975, life became uglier, tougher and downright brutal.

The priests teaching at the seminary were jailed from one to three year periods.

This meant the 30 seminarians were without lecturers, but still tried to keep up their studies which became difficult, because most of their books were seized by the communists.

The students lived there and worked in the daytime to support themselves.

When the priests were ultimately released from prison, they were forbidden to teach, so studying was done in secret — without books, with the priest going between the dispersed little groups within the seminary.

They were unable to assemble in one body because the communists were running spot checks on everybody and would burst in on them whether at midnight or daytime.

If they were caught studying or being taught, the parties involved would be jailed.

Life generally became dramatically different in South Vietnam, because the communists insisted every person must have a certificate to enable them to reside anywhere.

They were given a certificate to reside in a specific place, and that permit was not interchangeable or able to be used for other

locations.

So whether living in institutions, establishments, or private homes, every single person had to prove their right for residency, by producing the certificate and were not allowed to sleep anywhere else without that authority.

Minh-Thuy therefore was not permitted to spend the night with his family, because his permit applied only to the seminary.

Jail under communist rule is not run on humanitarian lines one could say as a classic understatement.

Minh-Thuy's father was taken and jailed for four years and his family was unable to ascertain his whereabouts for the initial two years, not knowing where he was, or whether alive or dead.

His father was jailed because he had been a government bank manager, and anyone involved (or their relatives) with the government or politics, or even affluence, were 'suspect'.

During his prison term, Minh-Thuy's father was in the kitchen which meant he had to purchase supplies of food. While doing so he bought some medicine for a sick ex-Army captain, also a fellow captive, who was sick.

The Captain mentioned to another prisoner where he got the medicine from, not realising the 'prisoner

friend' was an informer As a result of this kindness, they were both thrown into solitary confinement in a tiny dark cell with no room to move, for a month. No visits from family were allowed.

But the communists have even 'better' cells than that for disciplinary reasons.

An associate of Minh-Thuy was held for a month in a dark cell so small he could only stand up or crouch down. Problem was, it was filled with effluent up to the hips at all times, so if he was to sit on his haunches, his chest would be wet and immersed also.

They took him out for only a few minutes each day.

At the end of a month he could barely walk and emerged with skin disorders as a result of the constant effluent immersion.

His father was released from prison in 1981.

However meanwhile back at the seminary, the communists started taking seminarians, forcing them into the army to serve in Kampuchea.

Initially it was only those with a 'clean' background whose families hadn't been involved in politics or government, but then they took anyone and 15 seminarians were forced to go.

Minh-Thuy at this point thought it was wise to disappear so departed the seminary and risked staying

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Minh-Thuy Nguyen. . . recalls the terror in Vietnam at his mother's overnight prior to moving on so as not to involve his family in his escape.

During the night their home was raided. MinhThuy's mother was trembling and told him to run — but he had nowhere logo to.

So he lay in the hammock next to the table with his mother standing in front, and "so terrified I couldn't even make the sign of the Cross."

"But I asked Our Lady to protect me," and that she did. Flicking their torch from mom to mom they never noticed him in the darkness and this, Minh-

Thuy believes, "was a miracle!"

He moved out of the town and after two years of trying to escape, was successful in 1981.

Minh-Thuy and his brother were crammed with 78 people on a boat which was 13 metres long and three and a half metres wide.

They were ultimately picked up by a German ship which took them to Palau Bidong — a Malaysian Island.

While awaiting their entry to Australia, Minh-Thuy used his four months in a

when son becomes priest

getting to the school was by being rowed by a brother across the Blackadder creek.

For warming canteen food, Mrs Hollow and her contemporaries, had to heat the food at St Brigid's school, take it by car to the creek, and then be ferried across.

An inveterate participant in parish and school Quiz nights and always ready to help when needed, Mrs Hollow reflects a truly Australian characteristic which

is to pitch in and give a hand, without asking "what's in it for me" and staying with the tough and bad times, 'no matter how rough the going gets.'

Mrs Hollow has many admirers, among whom is Belmont Redcliffe parish priest, Father John Girdauskas, who said she is a much loved parishioner who has done so much for the parish.

Another host of fans is at la Salle, where Principal, Mr Clem Mulcahy,

said she's been a long Robert is the fifth son in Marist Vocations Direcstanding member of the the family and went tor. "Although he never college community, who initially to St Anne's and mentioned to me he has been an inspiration then on to La Salle's wanted to be a priest — to staff and parents alike. fourth grade where he I always felt he had a "Her cheerful face and remained until finishing vocation. He was a good son. We never had any energy have been known year 12. problems with him" to generations of stuHe went to the Univerdents while her enthusiRobert came out of the sity for two years, travelasm and hard work have made her a mainstay of P ling daily with a young seminary for 12 months, Marist priest who proba- prior to his intended & F activities. bly influenced him, said ordination to work for a "Mrs Hollow reminds Mrs Hollow, spending while and think it over, me of the lines from any free time at the while teaching at John Proverbs on the capable Marist presbytery.

Paul College in Coifs wife: She is a hard Harbour. worker, strong, indusAnd maintained a cortrious and respected..."

He graduated from respondence with the

of business to enter St Charles' Seminary after a three month overseas trip he had planned and was advised to take. After a month at St Charles, Rick joined the 1987 Adelaide Seminary intake.

Seminary life can be stressful, it's a busy life, and you need the support of other seminarians, Rick stressed. "But seminary life is challenging and should appeal to the go aheads of today."

Rick has not experienced many weeks of pastoral placement yet but others told him it was

retold

Singaporean refugee camp parents, two sisters and a to teach Christianity to brother whom they hadn't others, and this experience seen for the past eight years. firmed his resolution to The bad news is that life continue his studies for the under communist rule priesthood. inevitably leaves a permanMinh-Thuy went to live at ent scar, he said.

St Charles Seminary, GuildIn a communist country, ford in 1982 and '83 and "you don't know who you went to the Adelaide semican trust. In fact, the people nary in 1984. can only trust the priests His first pastoral placeand that is why a lot of ment was with Highgate people convert to Christianparish in 1987 and regardity and have a stronger faith ing his first and second than many in a free society. pastoral placement expe"In a free country, people riences, Minh-Thuy has gained more confidence and take their faith and freedom for granted." People can is appreciating Spearwood. about communism learn Although his studies were broken through enemy from a book or a teacher, or intrusion, and relocation in heresay, but for those who a new country, his desire for live outside a communist priesthood has firmed. "And country, their knowledge of I remember with a special communism and all its feeling, my spiritual advisor connotations, is superficial in Vietnam who said: God and merely confined to calls you to serve all people, books and ideologies which not only the Vietnamese." the communists propound, The fate of his fellow he said. seminarians in Vietnam is However the reality of unknown to Minh-Thuy living in a communist who said that even if they country with their particucompleted studies and were lar brand of domination and permitted by their Bishop to ruthless oppression, is a become priests, official terrible, unforgettable and communist permission shocking experience. would have to be granted.

For those who have expeAnd that's another rienced the horror of it, they question... can never forget — "espeMinh-Thuy's candidacy cially when I knew what comm up on November 4 freedom was, before they and after that it's the came," said Minh-Thuy. priesthood firmly in his sights.

On the positive side howThe good news out of his ever, Minh-Thuy's priestdifficult background, is that hood path may have been last week he and his brother somewhat arduous — but it were reunited with their looks as though he'll make it

a great learning area, "one they tend to commit themselves to.

"It's a great area for commitment, because a priest has to be comitted.

"Pastoral placement has

a great impact on the

seminarians, affecting their attitudes and gives them an appreciation of what the priestly ministry is all about. So I'm really looking forward to the rest of my term here."

"All my hopes and goals now, lie towards the priesthood."

He meanwhile undertook teaching at Burnie, Tasmania, where he'd spent his pastoral year, and then taught at Aquinas Academy for two years, being involved with the catechist and Christian growth course.

During Robert's diaconate, he has married one of his brothers and

baptised another brother's child.

Appropriately enough, the church chosen for his ordination was Midland, where Robert has spent a third of his life.

It's also appropriate because it is a moment of glory, not only for Robert, his brothers, friends and school, but in particular for a mother who gave so much, but who has now received so much in return.

HAVE YOUR SAY on the Formation of Priests

pastoral placement in WA

touched by his decision and right behind him, and he credits them with having a real spiritual influence on him. "My faith awakening came from them, and a batching stint on a farm had proven I could be happy with my own company, because loneliness I realised would be a part of the priesthood."

Prayer is important and one's relationship with God has to be sustaining, said Rick, "otherwise you wouldn't be able to keep it up."

So he took the decision

Sydney College of Divinity with his Divinity Degree in 1986, but then had to wait until this year to make his final vows.

Rick Sachse who says "my faith a wakening came from my parents!"

And that's where it all began...

IT ALL STARTED AT ALTAR SERVING...

Australian bishop delegates to next year's Synod of Bishops on priestly training want to hear the views of Catholics.

Any interested person is invited to write on these or similar topics: Send replies to "PRIESTS", Catholic Church Office, Victoria Square or to any Diocesan Church Office.

1. Priests I have known have been especially effective as spiritual leaders when they seemed to possess the following qualities (name at least five): 2. I think present and future priests could be even more effective as spiritual leaders if they were taught to develop these extra qualities (name at least three): 3. What qualities in priests you know would most likely attract men to think about a vocation to the priesthood?

4. How can Catholics make the vocation of priesthood more attractive?

5. Any thoughts on the following: The recruitment and training of older candidates for the priesthood. How to involve the laity more directly in the formation of seminarians and in the ongoing formation and support of priests.

Any other issues.

Special way just for God Michael Rowe, 21, has a pastoral placement at Northam until his Christmas break when he returns to his Mt Lawley family.

Educated at St Paul's primary and then CBC Highgate, Michael won a scholarship at the Kalgoorlie School of Mines studying metallurgy where he spent six months until he came down to live at St Charles and then joined the 1987 seminarian intake in Adelaide.

Michael's desire to become a priest came through altar serving in the early days and an appreciation of the sacraments.

But he wanted to serve God in a more specialised way, free from having to be solely preoccupied with earning a living, for instance as a metallurgist.

Through the prayer group he was involved in, "I started wondering what I was doing and decided to follow a call to the priesthood.

Charles I made up my mind and entered the St Charles Seminary.

"I was on the way!"

Living there for six months, Michael undertook engineering studies at WAIT. Then to Adelaide in 1987.

Seminary life in Adelaide is "okay" but not the sort of place you'd like to live in for the rest of your "Still undecided I attended a Day of life! he said.

Enquiry at St Charles "Being Adelaide based with Wayne Davis whom you miss your family and I'd coincidentally met at friends, and the special the prayer group and support they give. who Father Donovan "Which is true for all mentioned would be interstate fellows." going down for it.

"From that day at St

Returning to Perth for

ichael Rowe — "Pastoral placement is a very worthwhile and rewarding endeavour." holidays is expensive and tion and seminary lengthy, said Michael, adjustment. and by the time you get "Them are heaps of here it's time to return. vocations out there,— he Men leave the seminary said, but many are for a variety of reasons, unwilling to take the first he said, but among them step, but once there, they is the distance factor. have to face the many challenges ahead during They return and find their training. the gap has widened between relationships.

Michael believes one of the positive challenges is "I write a lot of letters the pastoral placement which is a way of bridging the gap and it's — a good opportunity to so good to receive them learn about a priest's role, its practicalities, and from WA." parish life.

In Adelaide, Michael has met a number of It's an interesting and people through outside rewarding endeavour, activities, who've said Michael, and helpful befriended him and in preparation for the helped him in his forma- priesthood.

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Luke mark three

Perth's third Luke 18 was c ommunity launched in Willetton parish on the weekend of September 1-3, when 24 young people aged 12 to 15 years spent two days growing in faith and understanding how they belong to family and Church.

The young teenagers left a big impression on Rob co-ordinator Coombes, who led a team of 15 older teenagers and two parent couples.

"I'm learning a lot from the kids," said Rob last week as he looked back on the programme

which was held at Orana Primary School.

Luke 18, a parish based youth community for younger teens, begins with a live-in weekend and continues with weekly or fortnightly meetings in which participants are assisted by older members of the parish.

Willetton joins Osborne Park and Mundaring in the Luke 18 family, and six other Perth parishes are keen to establish communities in the near future.

A team of 15 youths aged 17 to 27, many of them from Antioch communities, ran the Willet-

ton weekend, and Rob said that team preparation is most important.

"We have to get the mentality of the weekend right to make it work for the kids," he said. "Willetton had the right people and the right programme, and it worked!"

One of the highlights for Rob was the welcome given by host families, who billeted young parthe for ticipants weekend.

"The host families were fabulous", he said. "They did more than open their houses to us — they opened their homes and welcomed us into their Catholic families."

"They welcomed us right into their family circles, and we felt that we belonged."

While the weekend was hard work it was also very fulfilling, and Rob had some words of wisdom for all Catholic adults.

"Don't underestimate the kids," he said, "because they go through life as well. They feel, and they hurt the same as we do, maybe even moreso.

"Luke 18 helps them deal with some of those things, and helps them discover how they fit into their family and their Church."

Willetton team leader Rob Coombes with Father Chuck Gallagher at the recent Empowerment weekend.

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El 1. Ex-students came from far flung parts to be at St Joachim's reunion, marking 90 years since its inception. Next year, with the primary and Xavier, it will come under a joint board of management as a step towards future rationalisation. Janet (McPhee) McGuinness, flew down from Karratha to join in the fun with Barbara (Kowalski) Dorsa.

2. Marie (Rampant) Perlini gave a big welcome to Elisa de Flores-Butler who flew down from the Great Sandy Desert to be there with much news to relate to former St Joachim's teacher, Sister Elizabeth (Mark) and Janet (Rampant) Bailey.

3. (Left) Sister Joan Phelan with Sister Michael, Sister Ephram and Sister Oliver (front).

4. Watching ex-students signing the visitors' book is Sister Gerard who has been at St Joachim's for 10 years, with (left) Joanna Davies, Patricia David and Patricia Gurney.

5. Rhonda (Hills) Algaba, seen 'living it up!' with John Palmer, Anne (Rampant) Hutchings and Joy (Rampant) Chester.

6. Heaps to talk about, say (left) Stella (Ots) Brandis, Mary (Zanin) Warnock, Frances Ots, Carmel (Ryan) Hodges and Teresa (Ryan) O'Dea. 7. Vicki (Baldock) Hansen, President of the Ex-Students' Assoc, with Sister Perpetua of St Joachim's, Mrs Ivy (Thomson) Nevill 92 yo, who started at St Joachim's in 1902, and Marilyn (Shaw) Bennett.

8. Kerry (O'Connor) Fimmel (left), listening to a 'riotous tale!' told by Diedre (Cole) Goddard (right), with Gwen (Shires) Noonan and Betty (Cartwright) Fitzgerald.

9 This group agrees reunions are the greatest! (Left) Filomena (Moro) Zagari, Suzanne (Fox) Grogan, Marisa (Farina) Copperthwaite and Carmela (Moro) Henson.

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Celebrating in style!

by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

Robert's brothers who "wouldn't have missed out on this ordination for guide (Left) Peter, Stephen, Tom and Michael Hollow.

What a contribution La Salle students have made to religious life! Former Teacher Dave Healy (left) chats with former students and Robert's school mates Sister Sharon O'Donoghue (Josephite), Robert (now a Marist priest), and Father Kevin Sheehan (Franciscan). Now that's quite a combination of Order diversity and religious femur!

Marist Lodge resident Mrs Mary McCormack (left) who came to witness the great event along with Robert's former La Salle librarian Pauline Millar, and Midland parishioners Corrie Donovan and Pat Hendry who arranged the flowers.

Two former La Salle teachers of Robert are (left) Brother Fitzhardinge, Bevan Carter and present principal Clem Mulcahy.

Admittedly it took guile and cunning to get to the West for Robert's big day, but they did it — despite the pilots' strike. Ihear tell some people even considered roping a camel or a galloping brumby — so needless to say, many couldn't make it when unsuccessful! But here to prove it can be done, are Marist Provincial Father Gary Reynolds from Sydney (left), Father Andrew Murray, Sydney, Mrs Beffe Dennison, Tooralgin, Victoria, Father Allan Connors, Director of the A quinas Academy, Sydney, and Mrs Inez Sullivan, Ballarat, mother of Marist Father Paul Sullivan who tried, but couldn't make it.

A packed St Brigid's church watched as Robert Hollow was ordained as a Marist priest.

The road to priesthood, like any other chosen path, is a long and thought filled process. One of determining with each step you take: Is it the right one.

And like every decision in life, one never knows the wisdom or otherwise of choosing a career or vocation correctly, except in hindsight. Which no one is blessed with.

But to see a person give oneself totally to God's service and to His people,

is a sacred occasion.

And one can only applaud such people for their great generosity in loving people that much — and above all God in particular — that they wish to give over their own lives to that call.

It is also a generous gesture on the part of the parents, because they simultaneously give back to God someone, who was His in the first place. They being the mere custodians of His children.

But nevertheless custodianship and the part we play in the miracle of birth,

welds and ties with lovebonds, and in that process we think of them as being 'our children'.

Wise parents treasure that magnificent gift of parenthood, and with the love that comes with it, it can be hard to 'let go'. To renIceasethehnod s o e tiny ha which is now that of a man or a woman.

And you look at this beautiful, now mature creature of God, with awe and wonder, thanking God for the joy of those years of joy and blessings He gave with the birth of a child.

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A sign of peace from Archbishop Foley in St Mary's Cathedral was a special moment for Mrs Edna Limboum after she had witnessed the ordination to the priesthood of her second son Brian.

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Masses at Ocean Reef. Archbishop Foley Antioch Flame Archbishop Foley Council of Priests Meeting Institution of Acolytes. Archbishop Foley.

Admission to Candidacy — Anthony Vallis — and blessing stained glass windows Our Lady of Lourdes, Yokine. Archbishop Foley.

Visitation and confirmation, Lockridge. Bishop Healy.

Osborne Pad( zone of priests.

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Open Exhibition Stafford Archbishop Foley.

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"Group 50" is a Prayer Group of the "Catholic Charismatic Renewal" which meets every Thursday from 7.30pm at the Redemptorist Monastery in Vincent Street, North Perth.

The format includes Prayer/Praise/ Teaching and concludes with the Eucharist f ollowed by Healing Prayer.

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Three talks on the occult by Fr Frank O'Dea. "Reality of the World of Evil -Sacred Scripture and the World of Evil" -The World of Evil, Perth, 1989"

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GOSNELLS andBELMONTparishes shared the excitement last weekend as their sons reached the priesthood and returned to offer their specialMasses in the local churches with friends galore to help them celebrate.

Father Brian LIMBOURN, who was ordained by Archbishop Foley in St Mary's Cathedral, grew up in Orange Grove and Gosnells areas, finishing his education at Armadale High School and pursuing a nine year career with AMP before his initial year at St Charles Seminary. During those years he took out an accountancy degree at WAIT and now he is about to complete his honours course in theology at St Francis Xavier Seminary where he has studied for the past eight years.

Father Robert HOLLOW, Marist, and ordainedby Bishop Healy at St Brigid's church Midland received his first schooling from the Sisters of Mercy at St Anne's school Belmont before moving on to La Salle College from which he entered UWA for two years, entering the Marists in 1979. After lecturing this year at Aquinas Academy Sydney he willnext year be appointed to Woodlawn College Lismore.

NEWMAN SOCIETY Vatican II Study Group, Tuesday, October 10 at 11am. "Constitution on The Sacred Liturgy" Chapter 2, Sections 47-52.

Scripture Group, Thursday, October 12 at 8pm. "Epistle to the Romans" Chapter 2-4:25.

Both the above meetings to be presided over by Father Dynon at 13 Dean Street, Claremont. Open to anyone interested. Contact number 446 7340.

FATIMA PRAYER

The Word Apostolate of Fatima monthly Holy Hour of Reparation will be held Sunday, October 8 at 3.30pm in St Joachim's church, Shepperton Rd, Victoria Park.

CHURCH WOMEN

WATAC (Women and The Australian church) reflection evening on "Sharing Our Hopes and Dreams" takes place on Thursday, October 12 at 7.45pm at the Old Chapel, Catherine McAuley Family Centre, Barrett Street, Wembley. Enquiries: Clare Jackson 447 8921.

HAMPTON CLOSURE

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St Jude's, Holdhurst Way, Morley, is to be closed as a Mass Centre. The last mass to be celebrated there will be on October 15 at 8.30am. St Jude's is to be used in future by the Archdiocese for the Apostolate of Special Religious Education of people with Disabilities.

An exhibition will be officially opened by Peter Holland on Friday night, October 13 with a champagne supper. Tickets $10 from college. Tel: 274-6266. Well known artists exhibiting, including Juniper, Clear, Mazzotti, Boissevain, Vander Merwe, Battley and others. Stained glass exhibits plus pottery and painted gourdes.

Open for general exhibition Saturday and Sunday October 14 and 15 from 10 am to 5 pm with devonshire teas available.

This exhibtion is one of the Spring in the Valley venues offering art, craft, wineries, dineries, and a whole host of fun activities for singles or families in the magnificent Swan Valley.

KOJONUP ROSARY The annual Bunbury Diocesan Rosary Rally at St Bernard's parish, Kojonup has been deferred from Sunday, October 8 to October 22 so as not to clash with the school holidays.

The celebration starts with Mass in St Bernard's school grounds at 11am with Bishop Peter Quinn as the chief celebrant.

From noon until 2pm a bring-yourown picnic lunch will be held, followed by the Rosary, Benediction and the Marian homily.

The rally concludes with afternoon tea at 3.30pm.

CATHOLIC DOCTORS The Catholic Doctors Association of WA will present a discussion on Faith and Medicine: Personal Viewpoints at 8pm Tuesday, October 10 in the Senior Common Room, St Thomas More College. All medical students and doctors are welcome.

Biscuits and beverages will be enjoyed after the discussion. For more info ring Tim Leahy 271 5330.

ALL NEWCOMERS ARE WELCOME

The Passion Play OBERAMMERGAU 1990 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

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This year's theme "Prepare The Way" Luke 3:4-6.

A ccommodation at Retreat House andHotel The results of the Art Competition will be announced on the weekend. Guests are invited to join in the Monastery Prayers.

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