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NO SUCH THING AS A MORAL RIGHT TO DO MORAL WRONG A statement by Archbishop Foley on homosexuality and the of a cceptance homosexuals.

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The Catholic Church has always maintained the distinction between the morally reprehensible practice of homosexuality and the welfare of persons involved.

The Church condemns the violence and the malice that some sections of society inflict on homosexuals and is concerned that homosexual persons be enabled to live as complete a life as their homosexuality permits.

Love and lifestyle The Church does not believe that a homosexual lifestyle should be treated as a valid alternative lifestyle and is against its portrayal as a possible normal lifestyle in the sexual education of young people in the schools.

In taking this position the Church reflects the view that while there is a possibility that the homosexual/lesbian condition can be an acquired preference, then the young must be protected.

It is the Church's view that the sexual expression of true love has its proper place in the family.

The Church commends those homosexuals who choose to live chastely as by so doing they confirm the personal dignity and worth of the individual.

Major studies have shown that from 30 to 50 per cent of homosexual men who have undergone psychotherapy for their condition have

been returned to comheterosexual plete normality.

It is not the role of law to be a moral policeman, and add legal veto and penalty to every kind of immoral behaviour.

The role of law The Church would never approve of legislaYet it remains true that tion that would authorise law can and should the unjust violation of forbid those moral privacy. wrongs which are a However, we believe it public threat to sound should be possible to education, to a proper have good law which. preparation of the young while condemning for a stable and strong homosexual practices, married life, to the does not condone the protection of the instituinvasion of privacy. tion of marriage and the We would hesitate to family, and to public support the decriminali- decency in community sation of homosexual life.

onlosexua it Archbishop Foley has sent a message on homosexuality to all members of the West Australian Parliament because "I believe acts in private between Law should not conconsenting adults if this done or approve homowould be interpreted as sexual practices. But publicly condoning such when such acts are acts. between consenting Our view would remain adults in private, law that the acts were need not write the immoral, even though proscribing of such not illegal, and detrimen- behaviour into the crimtal to the proper develop- inal code. ment of family life in a The law should legislate healthy society. against public advertisAt the same time we see ing and soliciting for no good purpose in homosexual practice. keeping repressive legislation on the statute It should legislate books, which even theo- against the use of the retically could be used to education system as a authorise the invasion of vehicle for homosexual of propaganda, or for advothe privacy cating homosexual pracindividuals.

you have a right to know what the Catholic Church thinks of the issues being canvassed. The statement is a summary on

the issue as the Church sees it, and I hope that it will be a useful contribution to the formation of a conscientious decision."

tice as a socially normal and acceptable lifestyle.

And even more impor- those who engage in tantly, will the legislation homosexual practices in proposed protect our the privacy of their own young people from homes. proselytisation and the Any proposed changes misuse of the education system to portray homo- in the law could achieve sexual and lesbian lifes- that limited objective tyles as normal alterna- without legalising such practices. tive lifestyles?

Law should not grant legal status to homosexual unions, or in any way regard them as the equivalent of valid marriage.

There is no such thing as a moral right to do moral wrong.

Hence all propaganda in favour of so-Galled homosexual rights is misplaced, when it envisages a claim for a right to homosexual practice, and for public and legal acceptance of such practice.

Judgement contemplating In changing the legislation it is necessary to measure the maturity of our society.

Our politicians should ask themselves whether the general public would see the legislation as society condoning the activities of homosexuals; and whether, if that were the case, the homosexual community would refrain from the more outrageous public activities already evidenced in such events as the so-called "gay mardi gras" in Sydney.

These are matters of judgement and of conscience and our politicians should be permitted freedom by their parties to vote according to their own assessments.

My own view is that no good purpose is served by making criminals of

The law must ensure that there is no question of the corruption of young people under the age of 18, and that it does not accept and condone homosexual practices as normal in any program purporting to educate young people.

Happy twist to an old story LONDON: Cardinal Hume said he is grateful the case a gainst three men and a woman in the 1974 Guildford pub bombings has been dropped.

1980 and had become "absolutely convinced of his innocence", and so he "developed profound doubts about the justice of the Maguire convictions".

The Cardinal has taken a leading part in the effort to convince the legal authorities that Patrick Armstrong, Gerald Conlon, Paul Hill and Carole Richardson were wrongly convicted and that the conviction of seven members of the Maguire family for the associated offence of preparing explosives was also a miscarriage of justice.

His doubts spread to the connected cases of the Guildford Four, and after many private representations the Cardinal led a deputation to the Home Secretary in July 1987 in which he was joined by two former law lords, Lord Devlin and Lord Scarman, and two former Home Secretaries, Mr Roy Jenkins and Mr Merlyn Rees.

He had visited Patrick Conlon, one of the convicted Maguire family, several times before his death in prison in

Their submission contained a point of law and fresh evidence.

The Home Secretary called in a deputy chief constable of another force to investigate the new evidence.

Cardinal Hume wrote again to the Home Secretary in November 1988 on behalf of the same distinguished deputation referring to further matters which had come to light, re-emphasising continuing doubts, and urging the Home Secretary to refer the case to the Court of Appeal.

In April of that year the Archbishop of Canterbury also wrote to the Home Secretary in the same vein, expressing his "deep sense of unease" at the convictions.

In January of this year the Home Secretary announced that the Court of Appeal would review the case.

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Mary a model and inspiration: Priest Mary, the Mother of God, is a women for all seasons and a model and inspiration to all people, pilgrims at New Norcia were told fast Sunday.

Father Tom McNulty, superior of the Norbetine Community at Queens Park, said in his homily that Mary was unique.

"She was unique in her role as the Mother of God and unique in the kind of courage and strength she had in taking on that role," he said.

The Christian was called to bring Christ to the world.

"Mary was certainly unique and different, but she was not isolated," he went on.

"She was always part of the community. She visited Elizabeth and so brought her son, her God, to Elizabeth's son, John the Baptist. Mary carried Jesus to others!

"This is what we are asked to do in our own vocation in life."

But Mary "carried" Jesus to others in her lifetime, as she did by her example at the Feast of Cana. She had been the first to notice embarrassing situations that the youngly newly-weds — who were probably not well off — were in, Father McNulty pointed out.

"Mary showed her concern by bringing their

plight to the notice of her Son, Jesus. She felt sure He would find an answer to their predicament, and He did.

"Like Mary, we too live in a community — family, parish or religious. As Mary did not isolate herself from her particular community, neither should we.

"We have to continually ask ouselves: do we notice the predicament, the loneliness, the struggles and the needs of those around us?

"Do we bring it to the attention of Jesus in the hope that He can find a solution — a miracle — where we can't?

"Isn't it true that mostly we don't notice because we are too absorbed in our own life and plans, and also because we do not wish to get involved.

"God calls the weak to be strong, the poor to he rich, and the 'little people' to become a great "Sometimes, we are people," he said.

Overcast skies greeted even happy to see some people embarrassed and the pilgrims, many of humiliated, especially if whom had travelled long we don't like them very distances for the annual Marian Procession in much. honour of Our Lady of "We take pleasure in seeing them made fool- Good Counsel.

Despite the showers, a ish in front of others . . . how unlike Mary we are very reverent and prayerful atmosphere pervaded when we act like this." the scene.

The Gospel narrative of Many nationalities the Pharisee and the Publican was a warning were represented as well to all of us against the as parishes and schools danger of spiritual pride in Perth. A large group and the temptation to from Keaney College, Bindoon, were noticealook down on others. ble in their uniforms as Father McNulty the open-air Mass started emphasised that God at 10.30am. loves and respects eveThe New Norcia ryone — not just the rich, Catholic College Choir, powerful and successful, under the direction of but the poor, the weak the principal, Sister and the so-called Therese-Marie Fleming "failures". won the admiration of

By Dom Francis Byrne OSB

Champs unite for Knights SYDNEY: Master trainer Johnny Lewis and his two world champions, Jeff Fenech and Jeff Harding, are assisting in a community effort to reduce road casualties in NSW over the Labor Day Holiday weekend which falls in the school holidays.

Personal messages from the popular sportsmen to

the people of NSW weekend itself, the three appear on posters which will figure prominently also feature their in a huge statewide radio photographs. campaign designed by Garry Sleeman of SleeThe messages urge road man, Whitaker, Heckenusers to take it easy and dorf & Potter. not hurt themselves or each other. The posters The campaign is an have been distributed initiative of the Knights throughout the state. of the Southern Cross.

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the pilgrims for their harmony and singing in blustery conditions.

Another Good Samaritan nun, Sister Carmel, played the organ.

One of the most impressive groups present were the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre in their magnificent white flowing robes emblazoned with a red cross. Their female counterparts, called "Ladies", were also eyecatching in their black robes and red cross.

This group led the procession around the historic township while the Rosary was recited.

Thankfully, the rain held off until most of those participating had arrived back at the Abbey Church.

A replica of the revered painting of Our Lady of Good Counsel was carried in the procession by Dom Jospeh Argus OSB. Afterwards the pilgrims made their way to see the St Gertrude's College Chapel and have afternoon tea in the College grounds.

The Mandorla Art Exhibition was open at the local Museum. There are about 30 religious paintings on display.

The original painting of Our Lady of Good Counsel hangs inside the Abbey Church and its shrine was tastefully decorated with an effluence of wild bush flowers.

thnic affairs law hailed

The ADELAIDE: Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide has welcomed new ethnic affairs legislation passed by State parliament.

"I congratulate the Australian South Government for expanding the role of the Ethnic Affairs Commission," Archbishop Leonard Faulkner said. welcome this "I acknowledgement of the vital contribution ethnic communities and individuals make to the life and culture of our State."

Archbishop Faulkner also announced the appointment yesterday of Fr Jeffries Foale CP as Director of a new Catholic Church departof ment multiculturalism.

The Catholic Multicultural Office had been established to promote the Church's multiculturalism policy and to support and collaborate with ethnic communities, he said.

"The Church has been a leader in the field of

multiculturalism," Archbishop Faulkner said.

"The new office will not only concern itself with policy but will continue to provide practical supethnic port to communities."

The following is an extract from the policy statement on multicultural Australia at the Adelaide Diocesan JusPeace tice and Commission.

Fundamental policies concerning the Australian political and social order.

1. The Adelaide Diocesan Justice and Peace Commission supports and endorses Multiculturalism as a national policy for Australia.

In this context we welcome the leadership given by the Australian bishops in their recent Pastoral Letter on Racism and the Conversion of the Human Heart, and their affirmation of a multicultural Australia.

2. The concept of multiculturalism that we SUP-

port includes the three components: • Acceptance and respect for cultural diversity; • The attitude of solidarity with peoples of diverse cultures; • The right to fair and just access to resources and to full participation in community life.

We consider it the responsibility of all Australians, from the oldest resident to the newest arrival, to strive to embrace this concept and its implications in their daily life.

3. We recognise that Australian society and culture is in fact multicultural, and that it has always been so, and that Aboriginal cultures have a unique and prior place in Multicultural Australia.

4. We believe that accepting refugees and migrants on humanitarian grounds must take priority over economic considerations.

5. We completely reject the concept that race or

Archbishop Faulkner . . . so happy. background breaks through the barriethnic should be a criterion for ers that divide peoples Australian immigration from one another. policies.

We completely reject the concept that our 6. Our position on Mul- national policies should ticulturalism is based be determined by opinupon Christian belief ion polls. Racism is about the unity of all immoral, and it can people as sons and never become moral no daughters of God and matter how many people upon the Kingdom mes- or organisations embrace sage of Jesus, which it.

Antiochers have answers to big challenge SYDNEY: A conversion to understanding those who are different is a reality that will guide the future of the Catholic Women's Leauge in Australia.

At the 34th national conference of the league, keynote speaker Father John Usher of Sydney Centrecare challenged the conference to identify three realities that would shape the future.

The first is a call to Solidarity, "where people are honest about each other and about their perceptions of the society in which they live and about the real role they play in that society".

Secondly, when you understand that our society and our Church sometimes perceives people who are different as less than equal then you are on the verge of the ultimate conversion.

Thirdly and finally, there is an ultimate conversion. It is the option for the poor. It is the option to act on your understanding of yourself, on your understanding of the society in which you live, on

your understanding of what you and I do to those in our society who are different to us. To act on this honest understanding is to discard one's blinkered sense of "charity" and to convert it into "justice".

The theme of the conference a ttended by 400 was "From Charity to Justice".

National Chaplain of the Catholic Women's League, Father Terry Ryan, addressed the Conference on "The Gospel Women Today". Father Ryan noted that Jesus' treatment of women was out of step with the norms of his day. "Jesus treated women with dignity calling them forth to discipleship and mission — and often they were called before men."

He went on to say that "it is my conviction that the whole woman, and the Gospel is about whole women, can be a most powerful witness to the gospel values in a manner appropriate to the needs of the world today".

SYDNEY: Australia has a great hunger — the hunger of loneliness, boredom, hopelessness and aimlessness, but Antioch has the answers to Australia's problems.

Bishop David Cremin said this as he praised the 36,000 youth who have done an Antioch weekend in Australia during Mass to close the second national Antioch covention.

He told the 4000 people at the closing Mass concelebrated by 45 priests in the Hordern Pavilion: "The bulk of the credit goes to you. You reached out in faith and love. You used all your warmth and charm, and you brought them in out of the cold.

"So praise be to God for

'No' to new move for homosexuals The Parents and Friends Federation of WA opposes the decriminalisation of homosexuality in WA and says the present law is an adequate deterrent without resulting in disproportionate punishment.

In a letter to all WA parliamentarians the Federation questions the claim that 10 per cent of Australians are homosexual and say a small minority of active homosexuals afe demanding new legalisation.

The letter questions why legislation was introduced only a day after the public announcement and prior to a March 1990 AIDS report by a Legislative Assembly select committee enquiry.

It will be difficult to check the ages of those over 18, the letter claims and pick-up areas may come about.

It is also questioned whether the government can stop Perth having its Sydney-style homosexual Mardi Gras with inevitable media coverage.

The Federation says it is concerned for the protection of youth and the fact that material favouring homosexual lifestyle could be introduced into schools as a result of changed attitudes following decriminalisation.

The law has an educative role and should not encourage such behaviour, especially since a person is put at the risk of infection from AIDS and other diseases.

A call now for ban on porn export

you. Only the Lord knows the influence on young people's lives that has not been recorded.

"You, by what you are doing, have more answers to this huge challenge in Australia than we of an older generation. So, in the name of the church, I challenge you to go out and tackle head on this huge mission to our young people."

Earlier some 3000 youth marched from Sydney University (where the convention was held) to the Hordem Pavilion. They included the 2200 registered at the convention.

The keynote speakers, Father Chuck Gallagher, SJ, who spoke on Steps to Maturity said: "If we're going to make a difference in our world, we have to be mature."

He added: "And if we're going to grow in maturity, we have to take steps to achieve it. It's not something that just happens once. It's a lifelong challenge for all of us." convention Three Masses had to be celebrated simultaneously

by Cardinal Clancy, Bishop Robinson, and Bishop Heaps.

Over 1000 Antiochers roared their approval when the Cardinal said "In these days of Grand Final fever, I would say that you are a winning team".

The convention topics, all presented by youth, dealt with self-image, sexuality, community, Eucharist and mission, each in the context of the Body of Christ.

One of the new developments of the Convention

was the launching of a variation in the traditional weekly Antioch programme. Entitled "Advent to Easter", it consists of a series of outlines based on the Sunday Gospel reading, and it is due to commence on the first Sunday of Advent.

Teresa Pirola, who wrote the outlines, based them on the RCIA approach. "It is not a radical change", she pointed out, "but at the same time it brings in a significant shift in emphasis."

"It will require more self-direction by both adults and youth in the movement. Our hope is to make the weekly Gospel reading become a practical factor in the daily lives of Antiochers of all ages."

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"porn capital of the Asia-Pacific region and a major world porn centre".

CANBERRA: Senator Brian Harradine wants the Prime Minister to use Federal powers to block the e xport of Australian pornographic videos in the same way the Government uses the powers to block the export of environmentally damaging materials.

Senator Harradine said that Canberra had become the porn capital of Australia because of the Government's refusal to ban X-rated videos in the territory.

X-rated video merchant John Lark's plan to produce the videos for export will make it the

Senator Harradine reiterated the words of the Joint Select Committee on Video Material which said that X-rated videos treated women as "sexual commodities to arouse the sexual desires of its target audience and reduce persons to objects or occasions of sexual pleasure".

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Fr Brian Lucas Labour Day Sermon Sydney The man who dressed in purple and fine linen and feasted magnificently each day was condemned not for his wealth but for his indifference to others.

It is a fundamental principle of Christian morality that we must concern ourselves with our neighbours.

The heresy of our affluent culture is that of privatisation — not the privatisation of public enterprises, that's another story — the privatisation of attitude that pursues individual self-interest as the absolute.

The rich man in the story was insensitive to Lazarus — that was his sin.

In the real world of business and politics and in the workplace it is inevitable that there willbe disputes.

Business will seek profits, workers will seek better wages and conditions, governments will seek to promote some form of economic or social policy, as well as their re-election. Differences of opinion are bound to occur.

There are people in our community who blame industrial disputation solely on the power of trade unions. Some would like to see unionism disappear. In his encyclical Laborem Exercens (On the Dignity of Work, the Holy Father did not accept this argument.

He acknowledged the importance of trade unions, which he called "a mouthpiece for the struggle for social justice-.

Some blame industrial disputes on the rapacicusness of "big business- whichputs profits before people. This is too simplistic.

The truth is that industrial conflict, much like any form of human conflict, can easily occur. The moral imperative is to set up structures for resolving conflict.

Reasonable conflict becomes evil when it is unresolved or when others are made to suffer or when its resolution depends on the se /fish abuse of power. ft is an evil when government becomes preoccupied with political advantage. ft is an evil to seek something that is manifestly unjust.

It is an evil when industry, or labour, or government hold the community to ransom and those who are powerless are made to bear the cost of a dispute they did not start and are unable to end.

I leave it to you to apply these principles to particular cases.

When he was in Sydney, Pope John Paul II spoke about industrial disputes. MayIread what he said: "On the national and local level industrial relations also require a spirit of understanding and co-operation rather than one of opposition andconflict. In alldisputes, a just and peaceful solution will only be possible if all parties are, and remain, ready to talk.

Always keep open the lines of communication, and remember that if disputes are not resolved quickly, it is above all the weak and needy who suffer."

Industrial harmony cannot exist, however, unless there is a clear commitment to justice.

Peace can only be sustained when it is built on a foundation of justice.

This applies to all sorts of human relationships.

"Peace at any price" may appear to satisfy the pragmatic concerns of the moment, but such a peace cannot last.

Justice willrequire that respect be given to the rights of allparties including those who are not involved in the dispute but are affected by it.

The labour movement must be congratulated for what it has achieved for workers during the past decades.

Its future and its credibility will depend on its ability to promote systems of dispute resolution that have the virtue of justice as their main platform.

The lesson that today's parable has for all of us is that we ignore the legitimate concerns of others at our peril.

Where is Lazarus sitting at this very moment?

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Cardinal: Reject death penalty WASHINGTON (CNS): Calling the increased use of the death penalty a "frightening reality", Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin of Chicago has urged a US Senate committee to reject a bill that would reinstate the death penalty at a federal level.

"We believe human life is so precious that the state should not take the life of any person, even one who has taken another life," Cardinal Bernardin said. "Society must send a message that we can break the cycle of violence, that we need not take life for life."

The cardinal, chairman of the US bishops' Com-

mittee for Pro-Life Activities wrote on behalf of Catholic the US Conference.

The bishops have declared their opposition to the death penalty numerous times, but Cardinal Bernardin said the bishops released their latest statement because they are alarmed by the "growing acceptance and use of the death penalty" and oppose further legislation permitting it.

"The rapid increase in the large number of people on death row and the increased frequency of executions constitute a frightening reality," he wrote.

The cardinal said the bishops are not only concerned about the death penalty itself, but also how it is applied. He said the criminal justice system is riddled with discrimination.

"A disproportionate number of those in prison and on death row are poor and non-white and unable to avail themselves of the best legal resources," Cardinal Bernardin said.

While the cardinal admitted that the proposed bill recognises that racism exists in criminal proceedings, he criticised the legislation, saying it did not solve the problem.

Cardinal Bernardin said the bishops are also very concerned about the victims of crime. He asked lawmakers to consider compensation for financial and other losses of victims.

"As pastors, we feel and share the suffering of families torn apart by crime," he said. "We believe there are practical steps society can take to redress the suffering and loss crime brings to its victims and to the communities in which they reside."

The death penalty is not the answer to crime, he said. The church's stand has always been to defend human life, he added.

"Ultimately the question before us should be: How do we best preserve human life and the dignity of all human persons, while at the same time ensuring respect for law and the protection of society," he said.

"Our answer to this question will determine the kind of society we choose to be," he added.

"We seek a society of justice, not vengeance and violence. We believe a determined, though compassionate, response to crime that forgoes the violence of the death penalty is more consistent with respect for all human life."

B ishops Sign of changes hail release of prisoners

CITY VATICAN (CNS) — Pope John Paul II ordained the first bishop for Byelorussia in more than 60 years and expressed hope that changes in the Soviet Union will lead to the naming of other bishops.

The ceremony is "a sign of the changes" being made in the Soviet Union which "offer hope for the good of all believers," the pope said.

The ordination gives rise to "the common hope of seeing soon the Catholic hierarchy newly reestablished in those ancient dioceses," the pope said.

It also "underlines the ties of the chair of Peter with the church

in Byelorussia," the pope added.

Bishop Kondrusiewicz, 43, was named apostolic administrator of Minsk in the Soviet Republic Byelorussia on July 25.

In announcing the appointment, the Vatican said the Soviet government had not opposed the nomination.

Byelorussia has been without a resident bishop since early in World War H when Archbishop Boleslao Sloskans was forced to leave the country.

The archbishop was ordained in 1926 and died in exile in Belgium in 1981.

Vatican officials estimate that there are about two million Latin-rite Catholics,

60 priests and 100 functioning churches in Byelorussia.

The pontiff told Kondrusiewicz, himself a Byelorussian: "The whole Church looks with such hope towards your land of Byelorussia, where a bishop returns to Minsk after 60 years to serve the people of that region."

"Is this not a sign of the changes under way which are for the good of all believers?" he asked.

The pope said he had been close to Byelorussia's Catholics 'in the long years of suffering' and he hoped to see more new bishops there, saying the republic was particularly dear to him.

... with holidays too

MOSCOW (CNS): Soviet in which the majority of authorities in Lithuania the population is have declared Christmas Catholic. and All Saints' Day official "These feasts have speholidays, making Lithua- cial meaning for the nia the first Soviet elderly people who have republic to recognise the observed them even in religious feasts. difficult times," said a Soviet leader. "These Lithuania is the only sentiments are now one of 15 Soviet republics shared by the youth, a

sign of spiritual rebirth".

He said the Nov 1 feast day of All Saints is an important ocrassion in Lithuania's popular tradition.

"The respect for the deceased is a tradition deeply rooted in our republic," he said.

CAPE TOWN (CNS): South Africa's bishops have welcomed the release of eight prominent South African politiprisoners, but cal expressed disappointment that the country's most famous prisoner was not among them.

The freed men include Walter Sisulu, a 77-yearold leading figure in the African outlawed National Congress and a father of Zwelakhe Sisulu, editor of the New Nation, an outspoken newspaper owned by the African southern bishops' conference.

The government also lifted restrictions on the elder Sisulu's wife, Albertina, an antiapartheid leader in her own right. But restrictions on Zwelakhe Sisulu remained in place In an October 11 statement the bishops said,

however, they were disappointed at "the inexplicable delay in releasing Mr Nelson Mandela, a key actor in the South African political drama".

Mandela, the leader of the ANC and the leading symbol of the antiapartheid movement, has been incarcerated for 26 years.

The statement said the release of the prisoners "is, we believe, a crucial step on the way to genuine negotiations. It has the potential to create the climate in which fruitful talks can take place."

In their statement, the Catholic bishops said that "the crucial tests of the government's sincerity about negotiations will be its handling of the overall situation, in particular the state of emergency and its draconian restrictions".

Commission plan to reply to theologians VATICAN CITY (CNS): The International Theological Commission plans to reply to a number of French theologians who have backed public criticism of Pope John Paul II

by some of their Germanspeaking peers.

The French letter endorsed several aspects of the "Cologne Declaration", an open letter by Germanspeaking theologians that

was highly critical of Pope John Paul Hand the Vatican.

The Cologne Declaration, issued in January, also picked up support from some Spanish and Italian theologians and has become a focus for the issue of

theological dissent in Europe.

The theologians contested what they said was too much centralisation in papal and Vatican actions, as reflected in the appointment of bishops and in the

approval of theologians for teaching posts. They also criticised the tone of recent papal statements on contraception, saying the pope was trying to tie the church's ban on birth control to fundamental articles of faith.

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Pope beatifies nine people French Indochina. The Catholic faith, brought to Thailand by French missionaries, was considered foreign and a threat to national unity.

to induce Catholics" to give up their faith, according to the promoter of the martyrs' cause.

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul ll celebrated World Mission Sunday by beatifying nine people who he They began with said contributed by who refused Siphong, their lives and deaths The French missionar- and was shot. Ten days to expanding the reign ies left the country, and later the two nuns and of God on earth. in the village of Songk- four laywomen also Among those beatified were seven martyrs from Thailand — two women religious, a layman, a laywoman and three teenage girls. The seven died in December 1940 after being told to give up their faith or face death.

hon, in northeast Thailand, the pastoral care of the community was taken up by Philip Siphong, a layman, and Sisters Agnes Phila and Khambang, Lucia members of the Institute of the Lovers of the Cross.

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refused and were shot by a firing squad. The laywomen were Agatha Phutta 59, Cecilia Butsi 16, Bibiana Khamphai 15, and Maria Phon 14.

"The same witness to Christ that the martyrs of Thailand offered to their youthful church is one that today, the day of their beautification, they

Nepal It's thanks jails as old five friends meet people VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pepe John Paul II, greeting an old friend who has become Poland's first noncommunist prime minister since World War II, said he hoped reforms under way in his homeland would continue.

In a private audience, the pope met Iadeusz Mazowiecki, the Solidarity leader chosen in August to lead Poland's government.

Mazowiecki became a friend of Pope John Paul when the pontiff was archbishop of Krakow.

As they were walking into the pope's private library, the Polish prime minister thanked the pope "for all the support you have given in these last few years."

"Let's hope that there's no turning back," the pope said.

"That is not possible," said Krzystof Skubiszewski, Poland's foreign minister and a Solidarity member.

Pope John Paul said that if he had done anything to help bring about reforms in Poland, "I have done it as part of my universal mission and it should be seen as this," a Vatican report on the meeting said.

"Iconsider this audience a historic and positive event. But for me it is not historic only from a patriotic point of view, because it is integrated in my mission as it is integrated in the historical evolution of the world," the pope said.

KATHMANDU: Nepal's Supreme Court has sentenced five people, including nationals from the United States and India, to six years in prison for propagating Christianity in ways harmful to Hinduism.

Two other Nepali Hindus were sentenced to a year in jail for converting to Christianity, contravening the Nepalese constitution.

The three were sentenced for proselytising and attempts to covert Hindus to Christianity in July 1983 by offering various inducements, including assurances of better jobs and education higher opportunities in the United States or Europe, sources said.

True identity for a Catholic uni

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Now that the Vatican has conducted wide-ranging c onsultations on the proposed norms for Catholic universities, the "more important and compelling" task of drafting the final document has begun, said Pope John Paul II. The document should be "a true identity card

for a Catholic university, in which is clearly defined the nature of its Catho" he said on Oct 23 to a plenary session of the Vatican congregation for catholic education.

The document should define "The relationship with pastors and the contribution which the university is called to make regarding the problems that culture and

science pose to the church," he added.

Ongoing consultations are aimed at offering recommendations for a papal document outlining the guiding rules and principles of a Catholic university.

"Now the preparation has entered its more important and compelling phase," the pope said.

offer to the church throughout the world," Pope John Paul said.

The pope also beautified Father Timothy Giaccardo, the first priest of the Society of St Paul.

He was born in northern Italy in 1896 and died in 1948, less than two weeks after the Vatican approved establishment of the Sister Disciples of the Divine Master, a contemplative community he helped form and develop.

The pope said Father Giaccardo, like his order and the related Daughters of St Paul, under-

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VATICAN CITY (CNS): — The Vatican's 1988 budget is in the black for the first time since 1983.

When income for the worldwide Peter's Pence Collection is included, 1988 income outstripped expenses by almost $9 million.

Previously, 1983 was the last year for which the Vatican said its income — including worldwide contributions from Catholics — covered the deficit.

Minus the Peter's Pence collection, the statistics show a 1988 shortfall of $44 million. The 1988 Peter's Pence collection, which the Vatican said was used to cover the deficit, totalled $52.9 million.

The figures were contained in a Vatican statement that thanked "the bishops, priests, Religious and faithful who, sensitive to the needs of the Holy See, have generously answered the appeal" to contribute to the Peter's Pence collections.

Cardinal Carter of Toronto. a member of a council of cardinals said that for the first time the Vatican budget figures are undergoing an independent audit, and the results will be sent to the world's bishops.

"It will be a certified account, meaning that these men who are very well known in the financial world have put their reputation on the line." said Cardinal Carter.

The council fought "quite a battle" for five years with Vatican officials "to send a financial report to all the dioceses of the world and the religious communities," he said.

"Every year we were pounding on the same thing, and finally we got it done," he added.

The cardinal added that the Vatican also discovered that "there were some assets which we had undervalued." Neither he nor the statement Vatican elaborated.

This is 'a source of comfort' VATICAN CITY: The pope dates for the priesthood," has praised the apostolic the pope said. visitations to seminaries "It is necessary that being carried out in philosophical and theoseveral countries and in logical formation be Rome. inserted vitally and These are needed "to organically in overall verify, a little over 20 formation," he added. years after the Second The pope said it is "a Vatican Council" how source of comfort" that council teachings are the number of major being applied "relative to seminarians is on the the formation of candi- rise.

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Vatican paves way.

MOSCOW (CNS): A top Vatican diplomat travelled to Moscow for meetings with Soviet officials to discuss Lebanon, the official Soviet news agency Tass reported.

Archbishop Angelo Sodano, secretary of the Vatican's Section for Relations with States, relayed a message from Pope John Paul II to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev about the situation in Lebanon, Tass said.

Tass also reported that the archbishop spoke with Gorbachev about the possibilities of intensifying contact between the Vatican and the Soviet Union.

The archbishop also

met with Soviet Foreign Eduard Minister Shevardnadze.

Gorbachev told Archbishop Sodano about the Soviet Union's efforts to end the conflict in Lebanon, where Christian forces and Moslem militias backed by Syria have waged an 11-year war.

According to Tass, Gorbachev said when he meets with the pope, he intends to speak about peace, the future of Europe and responsiblity for mankind's future.

The archbishop's trip took place about six weeks before Gorbachev was scheduled to visit Italy. The pope and Gorbachev are expected to meet during the Soviet

leader's Nov 29-Dec 1, stay in Rome.

The Vatican had announced that Archbishop Sodano's trip followed a Soviet official's August meeting with Pope John Paul at the Vatican.

The official, Yuri F. Karlov, a personal representative of Shevardnadze, delivered a letter to the pope from Gorbachev.

Tass said the Gorbachev's letter outlined "drastic issues", such as the threat of nuclear war, the resolution of which could be helped by improved Vatican-Soviet relations.

During his recent trip to the Far East, Pope john

Paul became the first pontiff to fly over the Soviet Union. He relayed a message to Gorbachev during the Oct 6-7 overnight flight asking God to bless the Soviet people and assuring Gorbachev of "my best wishes for the well-being and prosperity of your fellow citizens".

He also told reporters on the plane that he Gorbachev's hoped reform policies would lead to greater religious freedom in the Soviet Union.

A major point of concern for the Vatican is the status of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, which has several million adherents, although it was outlawed in 1946.

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Both sides came away satisfied and claimed mutual victory after the encounter in northern France.

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Soviet thinking, while the Soviets found an important ally in their push for cooperation between Europe's separated blocs.

Gorbachev's idea of a "European common house" involves building economic, political and social bridges between the East bloc and the West.

Many observers consider the policy essential for the survival of the soviet economy — and of Gorbachev's reforms.

The pope, on the other hand, wants to help establish effective religious freedom for believers who have known decades of repression under communism.

He also wants the church to have input into the development of these "new societies" in the East.

An important part of the pope's vision of a united Europe is the desire to repair the split between Rome and the Orthodox churches.

It was not surprising, then, to hear the Soviet side speak of a "balance of interests" in describing why the church should support Gorbachev's hopes for Europe.

That phrase was used repeatedly by Nikolai Kovalski, whose presence at the meeting was highly significant. A late addition to the list of 18 participants, Kovalski is a top adviser to Gorbachev on religious affairs. More than anyone else in the Soviet delegation, he represented the "new guard".

It was no accident that in his final statement, Cardinal Paul Poupard, head of the Pontifical Council for Dialogue with Non-Believers, singled out a remark by Kovalski as "extremely important" and hopeful.

What Kovalski had said was that Europe's civilisation has enormous spiritual potential that should be better developed. To Catholic participants, this sounded like a remarkable echoing of the pope's off-stated call for renewal of Europe's Christian roots.

Kovalski, too, won a victory when Cardinal Poupard declared "unanimous agreement" on the idea of a "European common house" and the need to break down East-West divisions.

The cardinal endorsed Gorbachev's "perestoika" or "restructuring" campaign for Soviet society, saying that it set the tone for this kind of unity.

When the pope and Gorbachev — both Eastern Europeans — hold their expected meeting in late November at the Vatican, this shared concern for Europe's future will no doubt be the foundation of the dialogue.

In the midst of the harmony that reigned at Klingenthal, a small village outside Strasbourg, there was some probing by the Christian side on the more practical issues of religious freedom.

The Soviets responded by citing proposed legislation on freedom of conscience, saying in effect: give us time, we're working on it.

The Soviets also listed a number of recent steps that have relaxed state c ontrol over church operations.

At one point, the Soviet delegation proudly cited a sermon delivered by an Orthodox archbishop on prime-time TV only a week earlier.

However, the question of the Ukrainian Easternrite church, which may

well come up in a popeGorbachev meeting, was not discussed at the dialogue.

Privately, some Catholic participants were saying the issue has been virtually resolved with a Soviet promise to legalise the Ukrainian church once the new legislation is enacted.

When asked about this in an interview, however, Kovalski was not quite as optimistic.

He said the government regards the issue as basically one between the Orthodox church and the Vatican.

Even if a law is enacted which could extend legal status to the Ukrainian church, Kovalski said, there would remain "political and legal" problems at the local level in the Ukraine.

The issue is especially delicate, he said, because it involves nationalist sentiments. He asserted that some Ukrainian church leaders were supporters of a separatist movement in the Ukrainian republic.

If the dialogue session avoided this stumbling block, it is not so clear that the pope and Gorbachev will be able to do so.

Meanwhile, both sides will refer back to their respective leaders — Kovalski jokingly compared himself to a cardinal going back to brief the pope — and will no doubt emphasise the wide areas of agreement.

Cardinal Poupard can relate that in a French chateau, beneath a portrait of Charlemagne — the father of Christian Europe — Soviet officials gave speeches praising the Christian roots of Europe.

For the church, that in itself appears to bode well for the first visit by a Soviet leader to the Vatican

Now for the Harvest Bencubbin parish is set never to be the same again with a brand new name to boost its identity and one less church building in its collective memory.

The patronal parish title of Sacred Heart which refers principally to the Bencubbin church is felt to be no longer synonymous with the areas in which parish boundaries have changed over the years and which now include four towns.

To symbolise the district's major activity of farming the title Lord of The Harvest will become the patronal umbrella title of the whole parish.

In making the change a parishioner commented: "The Lord is the only source of growth and abundance. With His help we plant our crops;

by His power they produce our harvest; may He make up for what is lacking in our efforts."

And back in the material church of bricks and mortar, Wialki had lost its 35 year old former church building whose presence is to be remembered by a commemora-

live cairn to be unveiled next year.

Bricks from the demolished church, the cement cross from the church's roof, the foundation stone and a summary of the building's history will be included in the cairn.

Busy bees usually help put buildings up but this time at Wialki a busy bee of 20 men from the centres of Beacon, Bencubbin, Koorda and Mulcinbudin made sure the building came down in one day instead of the projected two.

The building came down but the parishioners' hearts were in the right place and on the following day they gathered at the demolition site for their Sunday Mass and a social gathering to follow.

The loss of the church was a blow to some of the parishioners who had assisted in its construction but history's tide was running against the building's future.

Wialki in the central wheatbelt has seen the familiar decrease in population as farm economies change over the

decades from the days when it was a prosperous centre in the former Trayning Parish, then within the Abbey NWlius territory of New Norcia.

Father Placid Sesma OSB had the church constructed and it was blessed by Abbot Gregory Gomez OSB on December 19 1954.

Father Lance Caldwell said the last Mass there over 15 years ago.

Furniture was progressively removed and what with earthquake damage and general disrepair the time had come to bid the building farewell.

Above: The old church being demolished. Inset: The Wialki church as it once stood.

Seoul baptisms giving Vatican lots of heart Second Sunday of July, 1.30pm, Myong Dong Cathedral. "The important thing is that you come," Father Giovanni Ri said cryptically.

"You'll understand later."

Inside the large Catholic cathedral of Seoul, at the set hour, a silent procession of men and women appears. They have come to the church to receive the sacrament of baptism. There are almost 300 of them, most of them young.

The scene has been repeated each second Sunday of the month nearly 10 years, Ri says. And the number of converts is often higher.

Each month, in the parishes of the cathedral, there is an average of two new groups of catechumens, each one of 400-500 adults.

A team made up of a priest, a nun and a layman meets with

them for six months, twice a week in the evening for about two hours.

The meetings are held to learn the essential doctrines of the faith, to be introduced to the mystery of Christ and his Church. On average, more than half of the catechumens decided to seek baptism. The others are lost along the way.

What occurs at Myong Dong is typical of what has been occurring throughout the Church in South Korea for more than a decade.

Each year at the end of April the bishops' conference publishes "The Statistics of the Catholic Church in Korea." In December 1988, according to his year's figures, the number of South Korean Catholics had risen to 2,468,082,

almost double the number 10 years ago.

The real surprise is that, of the 120,000 new baptisms each year, three-quarters are adults.

There is no chance that the entire nation of South Korea will become Catholic in the next few years.

Catholics constitute only 5 percent of South Korea's 43 million people.

This percentage is far below that of the more than 200 Protestant churches (16 per cent) and of the Buddhists (20 per cent). Those who claim no religious affiliation amount to 57 per cent of the population.

The fact remains, however, that the South Korean Church is growing extraordinarily fast. There is no other country in the world with a comparof rate able conversions.

"It's God's work," says Cardinal Stephen Kim. But even dry statistics may help to highlight how it is that God is working.

The published statistics do not specify how many of the converts are men and how many are women, nor to which social category they belong. But at the Catholic Centre of Seoul, officials make clear that women are far more attracted to the Church than men.

Regarding age, Cardinal Kim says that "a good half of Korean Catholics are between 20 to 40 years old."

The majority of the c atechumens who come to seek information about the faith are about 30 years of age.

Normally this request has been preceded by long months of reflection and considerable experience of life. "Rarely is a catechumen brought

to Church by friends may bring. I was filled of the middle and or family members," with this fear; it upper middle class. says a nun who has led penetrated to my Church leaders note a catechumen group bones. It's like living two dangers. First, that constantly on the edge the large number of for seven years. an imminent catas- conversions will be too generally of "They trophe: a new war; a numerous for the come following a long new invasion from the resources of the search for meaning in North . . .

Catholic community their lives. Then, at a "This state of mind to receive them with certain moment, there is an encounter, a prevents one from the needed attention. even hearing the voice Because of this, some meeting with another of one's humanity. fall away. person, an experience, "The dark night even a book."

Second, the large comes. An existential From this expe- shortcircuit. Then I number of converts rience, the person sees saw something in my from the middle and upper classes will lead the possiblity of a wife. to elitism in the meaning hi life as become a "She had Church. something real and Christian. I noticed within reach, the nun her silent willingness, "There is a risk said. her joyful peace, even appearing, or worse, of Alberto Roh, a new though her life is no becoming, a group convert, is a bank less hard than my which defines itself as employee. He is 35, own. I am discovering somehow "better" married, with child- the explanation for than the rest," said ren. Yet in the evening this difference in the Father John Chang, who organised the he meets with a group pages of the Gospel." of friends to read and In most other Asian Pope's 1984 trip to meditate on passages nations, Catholicism is South Korea. "We are like a child that is of the Gospel. the religion of social growing too fast."

"In Korea we have outcasts and ethnic become accustomed to minorities. In South Meanwhile, the conuncertainty, to the fear Korea, Christianity is versions continue. (30 of what tommorrow becoming the religion days).

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Modern face of Mose Frances James stood at the podium facing the Los Angeles City Council.

"My people are dying in the streets," she shouted.

"Free us from drug peddlers and gangs who carry military assault rifles. I don't want to get killed and, especially, I don't want my son killed waiting for a bus to go to school."

Ms James, a divorced mother of a 15-year-old son, Michael, resides in south central Los Angeles. Six years ago she felt called by God. It

seemed that she passed community or her parbefore the burning bush ish, Holy Cross. In fact, of God's presence in her guns, drugs and gangs were destroying the community. people.

God spoke to her in a general way, saying, The average funeral age "Lead my people." at Holy Cross was 20.

Health care and unemLike Moses, she ansployment were worse wered "here I am" than before the riots.

She reluctantly at first.

Housing for the poor was not sure it was even God or how she could and working class was make changes in the almost non-existent. community.

Frances felt she had to Frances witnessed the do something, but what? violence of the 1960s In 1982 churches began riots. to organise in the area.

Following the riots, not Eventually the group much changed in her would include 40 syn-

agogues and churches of all denominations with a total membership of 80,000 families.

But in 1982 not many people knew about the committee. The pharoahs of the world of power couldn't yet recognise the power of faith in a people organised to make change happen.

I became pastor of Holy Cross in 1982. Every morning the front steps of the presbytery were filled with victims — of violence, drug wars, hunger, evictions, unemployment.

Though Frances was ' insure, she accepted the rommunity's invitation lo begin a leadership "What can I do?" Fran- j ourney. Two years ago, ces said. "I'm just one. he became co-chair of organising woman." ihe "Moses was just one I:ommittee. man," I told her. "Look There were times when what he did. The Israe- he doubted her own lites recognised God's nbilities. "Can I handle power because of Moses. his?" she wondered.

Then the people and ' WillI fail?"

Moses brought about real She faced formidable change for the good of oes. But as God guided loses through the Like Moses, Frances desert, so he guided protested, "Who am I to Frances through the lead the people?" (Exo- years of reflecting on her dus 6:11).

Faith and community

• By Father William Jansen, MCCJ

People were crying for freedom and looking for leadership from their church. In Exodus 3:16, God tells Moses, "Go, assemble the elders. Tell them that I am concerned about you and and about the way you are being treated."

My priority as a pastor was to find those in the Holy Cross community who possibly could unite the people and communicate to them God's call.

organisational training.

She was frightened at the size of the task confronting her. But who wouldn't be frightened?

Moses was nervous, frightened and reluctant.

discovered that the faith "Who is the Lord that I journey of Christian should heed His plea to leadership does not build let his people go?" Her up to one big victory after strength comes from the which one can rest. God sense of fulfillment at calls her relentlessly to being the best leader she new situations. can be.

Frances is a person of faith. Her community, where God is present, rallied around her. Hispanics and blacks came together to solve common problems. Christians of many denominations and Jews worked together for neighbourhood change.

Just like Moses, Frances

Frances has been in the midst of many committee victories. At present the organisation is working to create a model community of 600 owner occupied lowincome houses.

DISCUSSION POINTS

Briefly ...

Is there anyone in the Bible like you — anyone who feels the way you do, thinks like you, hurts like you or enjoys life the way you do?

As people dig deeper and deeper into the Bible, they begin to realise that the customs of biblical times differed from customs today.

It becomes clearer and clearer that the language,

the thought patterns and the lifestyle of biblical uniquely people reflected their times.

As this kind of understanding of the Bible is pursued, however, there is a risk to avoid. It is the risk that in seeing the Bible's cast of characters in the context of their own times, it will begin to appear that they have no place within the context

of our times.

Biblical people then could become inaccessible to us, remote, irrelevant.

The Bible, which emerges in the context of its own times, is not confined to those times.

And one goal of a better understanding of the Bible is to see just how real its characters are.

As biblical people are viewed within the context of their times — as their culture, language, thought patterns and customs are grasped — we begin to realise what they were like and that they were much like us in many ways.

Quite clearly, of course, many biblical characters strike a chord with the people of any age or time.

The urgent appeal to Jesus by a father whose daughter was dying; the rich man who sought an answer to life's meaning; the joy of Mary as she realised she was an expectant mother, the grief of the family of Lazarus at his death.

It isn't difficult to identify with these people, to envision them as real life individuals.

It is even possible to It a moment. Draw the make biblical people the Inlical character you one's lye selected into focus. of object contemplation.

Bow your imagination "paint" a picture of I I Try this method. Turn person in action. it t to the story of your favorite biblical person icture the person — someone in the Gosether with others. pels, perhaps, or in St liar the person's voice.

Paul's letters. Read the alise that this is a passage that tells of this prson with hopes and character. furs and an imagination Then, close your eyes

Among the Bible's cast of characters are many saints. Like all saints they are memorable because in some ways they are able to appeal to the best in us, to challenge us, to renew us. Though different from us in many ways, they are like us in key ways.

They are not nearly as remote as you may have thought.

Do you have a Reflection of a twin in scripture? spiritual juggler

Jesus' final remark to The Bible is full of

By Father Thomas, "Blessed are examples of people at John Castelot those who have not seen the end of their rope, and have believed." certain that no one else The woman in Scripever had to face the anything that can't be kinds of problems they verified in a laboratory is ture who suffered from a hemorrhage for 12 years are confronting. suspect. must have thought she They suffer, however, So Thomas, who lived was cursed uniquely. But from a condition we all in another culture and hope appeared on the share — humanity. time, still was one of us scene with the coming of Sometimes the impres- — our twin.

Jesus. Superstitiously, sion is created that Notice, however, that perhaps, she believed biblical people are differ- this story conveys more that if she just touched ent, something other than the dubious consohis cloak she would get than human. lation that we are not better. She touched and They are important unique if we have diffi- was cured (Mark 5:29). figures in salvation his- culties with faith. It Like Thomas, she has tory, after all. heartens us with the had many sisters and But they were flesh- assurance that we can brothers throughout those above and-blood people, flawed rise history. difficulties. us. creatures just like So many people look It can be reassuring to For all his insistence on upon religion as a sort of recognise this. It means proof, when Thomas was system of magic in which we are not alone with our offered tangible evidence troubles vanish automatproblems, that the people — the opportunity to ically by performing of Scripture are our touch the wounds of certain acts. brothers and sisters — Jesus — he did not avail But Jesus' treatment of himself of it. perhaps our twins. the woman with the The classic example of a The presence of the hemorrhage was revealdoubter in Scripture was risen Lord was quite ing. He insisted on Thomas, a name that enough for him to burst finding out who touhed out with that extraordi- him. means "twin". of faith, The fact is, he has had nary profession And when the poor, God!" my and Lord "My innumerable identical terrified woman revealed twins throughout his- That still happens. her identity, the necestory, people who have People want assurance sary, missing ingredient found it difficult to and God gives it — but was supplied: a personal accept the challenge of often not in the way they relationship with Jesus. had envisioned. faith.

Religion is not magic. It They want proof, and God enters their lives in is essentially a personal ways, relationship with God, are tortured by their unexpected inability simply to strange ways. They don't an ongoing relationship. believe. see or hear or touch him; But it is one to which he they just know he is invites everyone, even come not does But faith naturally or easily, espe- there. those who think no one cially in a scientific, And they learn for ever has faced problems technological age when themselves the truth of like theirs.

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But she also has heard so many times the words of today's pharoahs,

The unity of a supportive worshiping community on Sunday mornings tells her God is with her. The God who spoke to Moses speaks to the whole community and to Frances. She believes that God is telling her just like Moses, "I will be with you."

Mary of Bethany, sister of Martha and Lazarus, was not one of my favourite Scripture characters. I saw her as a pastel personality insulated from the reality swirling around her.

Now Martha — she with the bearing of a lioness — I saw as a woman of reds and purples, responsive to life.

There she was in her kitchen mixing the lentils and onions with olive oil, waiting on the table at the home of Simon and setting out to find Jesus when Lazarus lay dead, while Mary sat home weeping.

Both Mary, "who sat beside the Lord at his feet listening to him speak," and Martha, "burdened with much serving," loved Jesus as the Messiah and as a friend. It was evident that he loved them and warmed to their hospitality.

But when Martha came bustling with irritation from the kitchen to have Mary help her and leave the circle of those sitting at the feet of Jesus, he said: "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things . . .

By Jane Wolford Hughes Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her" (Luke 10:41-42). Why? Were they not both serving him in their own way?

When I was a young mother, the story's lesson did not resonate in my own life, filled with babies, endless meals to prepare and small wedges of volunteer service.

I was anxious and upset with many things which did not seem a matter of choice.

The feisty Martha in me felt this story was a putdown.

However, as I pursued the Scriptures further, logic burned through some of my fog. Mary had to be unusual. Jesus had called her to be a disciple. She was privileged to sit at the feet of the teacher, among the men.

Jesus consistently broke taboos about women's roles and was trying to tell Martha of the better way open to her as well.

I also was helped to discard my pale image of Mary when I connected her in John's Gospel

(12:1-4) with the worm at the banquet wi brought expensive pe fume to pour over Jes co ura geot a in testimony.

We do not know b reactions to the discipt who felt money had be squandered on perfue that might better ha been spent on the pool She must have felt well worth whatever b effort when Jesus sa "Wherever the go news is proclaim. throughout the wor what she has done be told in her memo!

(Mark 14:9).

My Aunt Ruth help reveal a greater porti of the mystery of ti story to me. She waf spiritual juggler Si tamed by divine go' and busy with ma things.

I suppose to some f' seemed a typical Mart.

She was a legend' teacher of English al public speaking in Detroit schools.

When she died in 80s, her classrooms ‘44 represented by study she had touched 30 yet earlier. She taught cs chism for 50 years.

She knew how to de

gate, for she was a leader who founded a Catholic library, the Sodality Union in Detroit and other organisations.

She had chosen to remain single. It was the Mary side of her giving the extravagant gift of herself to uniquely serve her God. Even when exhaustion crept in with age, she found new ways to serve.

After daily Eucharist, she began her pilgrimages to the hospitals and nursing homes, and to occasional funerals. She visited friend and stranger alike, stroking hands, listening, encouraging and praying.

She was an accepted, welcome, unofficial chaplain who brought the good news. Like Mary of Bethany, she will not be forgotten in our time.

Unlike mystery stories, the mysterious story of God is never revealed totally. But through the years I think I have isolated the lesson Jesus was giving about Martha, who was "anxious and worried about many things" and about Mary's better way.

It was a matter of priority Jesus. That's the Priority my Aunt Ruth lived by all along.

Sometimes it seems that the world of biblical times was so different from ours that its people must be quite unlike us as well.

Yet, as our writers suggest this week, biblical people often are like their 20th-century counterparts in more ways than first meets the eye.

Think of someone in the Bible whose feelings or dilemmas or goals you identify with. Who is that person?

What does Blessed Sacrament Father Eugen LaVerdiere mean by saying that under every ordinary story, including our own personal story, there is something extraordinary?

Like Moses Frances James doubted her ability to lead her people in the fight to improve conditions in her south central Los Angeles community. Like Moses she found that leadership meant answering God's call again and again, says Comboni Missionary Father William Jansen.

Uncovering the extraordinary in an ordinary story me, a big smile on her face.

I have given a lot of thought to Simon's mother-in-law, the first woman mentioned in Mark's Gospel. She lived at the home of Simon and Andrew. Her daughter was Simon's wife, but is never mentioned.

One day Simon's mother-in-law was sick.

When Jesus entered the home where she lay, he reached out to her and cured her. With her fever gone, she set about serving them.

That is all we know (1:29-31).

Nita answered, "Say about her. We do not even have her name. nice things."

Reading that story, eveAnd I did, introducing ryone can say, "Among my homily with the little the people in the Bible, story I have just told. I she is someone just like could see Nita looking at me."

"What are you going on preach to tomorrow?"

The question came from Nita, a Hawaiian woman of Samoan background. Nita knew a lot about sermons. Her husband Andy is a deacon in the Diocese of Honolulu.

Turning toward their son-in-law, I answered that my homily was going to be about a mother-in-law. The next day's Gospel reading was the account from Mark in which Jesus heals Simon's mother-in-law

By Father Eugene LaVerdiere, SSS

Asked why, we might answer, "She seems like such an ordinary person, and among the healing stories in the New Testais so ment, hers ordinary."

However, under every ordinary story, including ours, there is something extraordinary. In the ordinary story of Simon's mother-in-law, I see extraordinary some things.

First, the description of her cure. Our translahe say tions "approached, grasped her hand and helped her up". That translation is a

good rendering of the ordinary.

But by looking up the original Greek word for "helped her up", the extraordinary breaks through. In Greek we read that Jesus raised her up; the word used for "raised" is the same used in the Gospel to speak of the resurrection of Jesus.

People can be raised from death. But they also can be raised from illness, and this is like sharing in the resurrection from the dead.

People in Bible times viewed death as the extreme illness. For

them, illness was dying a Simon's mother-in-law little, or a lot. was not a deacon — Another extraordinary Christian deacons had thing I see comes at the not yet been established — but she shared in the end of her story. early Christian ministry. left When the fever Simon's mother-in-law, In fact, she is the first "she waited on them". pastoral minister mentiAgain translations do a oned in the entire good job in bringing out Gospel. the ordinary in the story.

She served in the home But looking up the of Simon and Andrew, original Greek word for "waited on them" we the nucleus of what was find the early Christian to be the early church. word for pastoral service. This indicates that her role was special.

The same verb appears over and over to describe Simon's mother-in-law the ministry of those who certainly was a person saw to the good health just like us — an ordiand nourishment of the nary person with an early church. ordinary story, but barely That word has entered concealing the extraordiinto our English lan- nary. Her story is an guage through the word invitation to re-examine "deacon". our own stories.

Week in focus How closely do the people in the Bible resemble people today?

This week the CNS Religious Education Package sets out to discuss this question, coming up with some interesting approaches to the people of the Bible.

Join us as we seek out the reflections of modernday characters in the Bible's cast of characters.

Frances James is a woman who was called into action by the poverty and crime in her south central Los Angeles neighbourhood. She

became a leader in her parish and community, writes Comboni Missionary Father William Jansen. In her he sees a modern reflection of Moses.

People today may get the idea that the biblical figures of salvation his-

tory had such an exalted role that they hardly could have been flesh and blood like the rest of us. In fact, the figures in history salvation endured frustrations and suffered from weaknesses much as we do, writes Father John Castelot a biblical scholar.

Blessed Sacrament Jane Wolford Hughes tells how over the years Father Eugene LaVershe has come to a new diere focuses on the understanding of Mary e xtraordinary dimensions in the story of the of Bethany and her role healing of Peter's in the Bible. For Mary, it mother-in-law. She is the was a matter of priorities. first pastoral minister Mary knew Jesus came mentioned in Mark's first, Mrs Hughes, a Gospel, Father LaVerreligious educator, says. diere says.

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New Norcia IT IS THE ONLY SECONDARY SCHOOL OFFERING AGRICULTURAL STUDIES FROM YEAR EIGHT TO 12 'Diversification' is the course are from WA rural word which readily areas along with some comes to mind when from Indonesia. noting the New Norcia Mr Terry Boyes, former Catholic College scene. instructor from Mel-

Principal, Sister Therese Marie Fleming with Craig Caldenvood, Beacon, and two of her prize-winning Australian Terriers who've won prizes in WA and interstate.

Set amid rolling hectares the college offers the usual curriculum plus a host of other subjects, options, and other aspects of education, made possible because of its location.

It is the only private secondary school offering agricultural studies from year 8-12, covering animal husbandry, crops and pastures, farm economics and management, and farm practice.

Half the students undertaking the full senior school agriculture

bourne's La Trobe University, manager of UWA's Baker's Hill farm, and currently coordinator of the College's agricultural studies, said the curriculum allowed students to combine farm orientated subjects with TEE studies, keeping their career and future study options open.

Students who wish to take their horses to college — can do so,

Speech and drama teacher Ms km Mestichelli discussing recent successes with John Curtis, Perth, Sarah Doszynski, Shay Gap, Gloria Even, Moora and Tarryn James, Mt Magnet.

because a horsemastership course is an agricultural unit offered.

There are 30 horses and ponies at the College and the equestrian art is taught by State equestrian judge, Jan Campbell who has recently established the New Norcia Pony Club and who is president of the Riding for the Disabled (RDA), which is the only such group north of the metropolitan area.

RDA is a worldwide organisation, a registered charity, with several groups in the metropolitan area and down south.

Created for those who are physically, emotionally or mentally disabled, it gives them the opportunity to learn and develop muscle coordination, lifts them up from the ground to achieve greater freedom of movement and exhilaration and through use of the horses and helpers, enables them to be taught counting and colour concepts which causes a marked improvement in their development.

graduates (male and/or female) in animal science, from England for six monthly periods.

They assist with the horses, on the farm, and in the office.

On the sports scene, year 12 student Danny Hetherington has made a name for himself in running.

From Leinster, out of Kalgoorlie, Danny builds up his stamina by training through the bush.

With no official coach, apart from the PE teachers, Danny has read books on the great runners, and largely has made it through his own Danny endeavours. recently represented the State and came second in the 1500 metres, after which he was swamped with offers from different clubs to join them, said Sister Therese Marie.

Danny runs for the love of it, and wants to join the army.

The College farm is an education in itself with their pigs fetching top prices in competition with top State producers and their sows averaging Students volunteer 20 piglets each annually.

The newly built broiler their services outside school hours as leaders pens are capable of and helpers for the producing 4000 birds per disabled riders (8-15 year and are used for yo's) who come for an teaching and study hour of riding, every groups, plus marketing Thursday, being brought to processors. over from Yallambie The farm has around hostel in Wongan Hills.

400 ewes plus replaceMs Campbell believes ments along with some this contribution by their beef and dairy cattle. students is excellent College principal, Sister because it teaches them Therese Marie is one of to think of others and WA's four Australian develops a good com- Terrier breeders and her munity spirit. dogs, which she says are The college also has on for fun and relaxation, rotation, two university afford a chance for

The dreams and nightmares of WASHINGTON: A former president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, says he had both "dreams and nightmares" of the future of episcopal conferences worldwide.

"My first nightmare is that through a series of actions," he said, "the Holy See may seriously weaken the role of episcopal conferences," said Bishop Malone who

was conference president 1983-86.

Speaking at the bicentenary of the US hierarchy, Bishop Malone said: "I believe that my nightmare has some basis in reality," the bishop said, citing signals that "some people would like to restrict the nature, scope and function of e p i scopa l conferences."

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persons Those "some included bishops, in and out of the Curia," the central church's administrative offices, who questioned the role of conferences at the 1985 extraordinary world Synod of the Bishops at Vatican.

Bishop Malone referred to the first draft of a Vatican document on episcopal conferences

released following the synod that the NCCB was asked to critique.

'To say the least, we were not satisfied with the work done thus far," he said. "It is our hope that a completely new draft will be prepared for our future consideration."

He added that some "recent random comments suggest that the whole project may be dropped on the

ground that the question of episcopal conferences is not yet theologically ripe for settlement."

Last November, by a vote of 205-59 the bishops approved a report by a panel of former presidents, which challenged the Vatican's draft statement. The report said the draft was unsuitable "as a basis for discussion."

The draft document, which would limit the authority of bishops' conferences, had been sent to the world's bishops early in 1986

by Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, head of the Vatican's Congregation for Bishops.

With wide-ranging consultations now completed, the Vatican has begun draftfinal the ing document.

As an example of his hope that the Vatican would become more confident with conBishop ferences, Malone discussed the

The original draft on universities has been Bishop revised, Malone said, "and it now appears that the Holy See may divide

Vatican's work on proposed norms for Catholic universities.

College is really unique students and herself to interact.

Despite playing down the role of her dogs, Sister's terriers win a number of prizes here and interstate.

Matermaria Seoul Gold won the perpetual trophy as best baby puppy in Sydney early this year and Sister returned home with a batch of ribbons won by her dogs at Perth's Royal Show.

Year 12 student Janita Lu won a prize in the Australian Westpac Math's competition and speech and drama students took off the Award of Excellence for year 8's at the Avon Valley Festival, plus being cited as 'Outstanding'.

All soloists received a 'Very Commendable' report from the adjudicator who is Speech and Drama President WA, and the College's speech and drama teacher, Ms Jem Mestichelli, said students came away with 'Best actor and actress award', 'Best and imaginative use of stage', 'Best costumed and best audience appeal', for the entered play in the Moora Festival, plus a speech award given for a minor part carried out particularly well, she said.

The fine art of dancing is not neglected either with veteran Ms Doreen Dawson, teacher for over 30 years of New Norcia college students, overnighting from Geraldton, to enable students to have maximum instruction.

Ms Dawson also teaches at other Catholic colleges in Geraldton, where she has her own dance studio, and Keaney College, Bindoon.

Although they may be somewhat away from the city and concentrated medical expertise, the students are fortunate enough to have a nursing sister and educator of considerable experience, St John of God Sister Cornelius.

Living at the college and thus on call 24 hours a day, Sister has at her

Adam Lambert, Calingiri, and Stacey Heath, Toodyay, with a couple of squealing piglets in their 40 sow piggery, which produces top marketable products. disposal a several bed day centre and should a student need night supervision as well, Sister's home has a special unit to maintain student supervision.

Should Sister Cornelius be away from the College, another nursing sister, Mrs Eileen Deasy fills the gap.

New Norcia boasts an ambulance with fully qualified ambulance driver Benedictine Monk Dom Peter, plus the help of the local policeman if required.

The medicos in Moora and Wongan Hills are supportive and readily available for students with back-up hospital facilities, if required.

In her capacity, Sister can be called upon by the Monks, townsfolk, staff and students, and for the latter, can find herself in the various roles of

mother, nurse, educator, counsellor and carer.

Sister Cornelius spent most of her life at St John's Subiaco hospital as a midwife educator.

She also spent many years looking after premature and sick babies and was Director of Nursing in Geelong, Victoria.

After completing three units of clinical pastoral education at Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Sister Cornelius went to Roeburne where she spent 12 months looking after Aboriginal babies, until her transfer to New Norcia.

Set in the country and being the unique college it is, New Norcia Catholic College has a freshness and diversity which gives it a lot of appeal for students who want to learn, but without the hustle and bustle of a city background.

a US bishop the document into two parts."

The parts would encompass universal legislation on how Catholic universities would relate to the Vatican, he said, and on provision for episcopal conferences to devleop norms to apply that legislation locally.

He called that a move in the right direction.

Bishop Malone said he had a "second nightmare", that the bishops' conference would "become afraid to speak out on sensitive, complex issues" because "individual bishops may use their personal power and prestige to denounce such statements."

His personal dream, however, he said, was that both the role of the individual bishop

and the responsibility of the conference to address important issues from a national perspective would be respected.

Citing the July Supreme Court decision on abortion, Bishop Malone said the conference would have to weigh carefully how it can be an effective voice in the debate on the future legislative agenda.

Sally Edwards, English university graduate on six months' work experience at the College, preparing Abigail, the purebred Arab from Kalumburu mission, for a ride, watched by Desley Hargreaves (left) and Rebekah McGrath.

Churches' role in social justice Churches and their agencies have a vital role to play in providing information to young and old about people support income issues that affect their lives, the Minister for Social Brian Security, Howe, said recently.

Mr Howe held a special press conference in Sydney for members of the religious press to talk about the Government's retirement incomes policy and measures to implement its social justice objectives for young Australians.

"The many services offered by churchbased agencies — ranging from homes for the aged to refuges for young people in crisis make an important contribution to assisting those in need.

"It is important that service providers in this sector, as well as those who use the services, are kept informed of changes

that could affect them."

Mr Howe said the Government's retirement incomes policy was important for people already receiving a pension, as well as those planning their retirement in the future.

"The Government has moved to make the social security and tax systems a lot easier to understand.

"A special task force that went around Australia to listen to the views of pensioners earlier this year found that this was an area of major concern for many pensioners.

"The first step in the change will mean that from July next year all pensioners, single and married, will not pay any tax on income they receive within the social security free area of $40 a week for single pensioners and $70 a week combined for couples.

"The second step will be the indexation of the free area from July 1990.

"The third step will mean that from 1995 income over the free area will also be tax free. That income will only be reduced by social security up to a maximum of 50%, compared with the reduction of up around 75% that can now occur."

Mr Howe said the retirement incomes policy had received widespread community support from all sectors, including major pensioner and welfare groups, as well as those associated with the retirement planning/advisory industry.

Mr Howe said all age and service pensioners would receive a copy of the new DSS paper, Age Pension News, which will explain the changes in greater detail.

"For the first time ever the government has laid down a policy to provide a fair, adequate, secure and sustainable retirement income system not just for the next

few years but into the long term."

The Budget also included a $100 million social justice package for young Australians over the next four years. support Income measures for young people that are part of the package include: An increase of $7.50 a week in the Young Homeless Allowance (YHA) rate from January 1990 and automatic annual indexation of the rate, which in total will raise YHA by about $14 to around $95 a week; Abolition of the YHA waiting period for young people considered to be at special risk and a reduction in the waiting period for others; A new rate of Independent Job Search Allowance USA) — at the higher YHA Level — for young people who do not live at home but who have clearly established their independence from their parents.

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to the Editor from Paul DONNELLY, Claremont Sir, Juvenile delinquency is not a new thing. In my youth it was corrected with six of the birch and held in check by teaching morality and the Ten Commandments in schools plus exercise and inculcation of discipline.

All this belongs to bygone and in many ways, better days. The problem today is one of explosive growth.

In WA there were 670 cases brought before the children's court in 1949. In 1961 the number had risen to 2162. For 1988-89 the number was 30,364.

The common crime of juveniles is theft. It peaks at about the age of 16 and then gratefully declines leaving a hard core of repeating offenders which in the past has been about 10 per cent; but 10 per cent of 30,000

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A major cause which he does not mention is the effect of the Devil finding mischief for idle hands in the shape of youth unemployment largely caused by women premarried empting the kind of starter jobs which in the past provided job-start entry to the workforce for school leavers. It is of course an area in which Brian is a uthoritative.

There is one short paragraph which is informative in the 1962 report: "Others see the parental generations as lacking in moral fibre, in Christianity and in a proper sense of social and community ethics and, by that lack, of failing to provide generalised models of proper behaviour to our Australian children."

At the time the report

appeared I commented that a God-less education bereft of morality and the Ten Commandments was to blame for the foregoing parental faults: if they were not taught how else would they know.

The words of Archbishop Vaughan in his pastoral of 1880 seem to be coming unhappily true that schools without Christian teaching would be "seedplots of future immorality, infidelity and lawlessness, being calculated to debase the standard of human excellence and to corrupt the political, social and individual life of future citizens".

So little notice is taken of morality, ethics and Christianity in modern education that their place in schools received no mention in the terms of reference of the now past Beazley Committee enquiry into education.

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Flame '89: Archbishop Foley joins the action. . .

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Passing on the flame ROUSING FINALE FOR THREE VISITORS AND 150 FROM PERTH Father Widada Si, an honoured guest at Flame.

Sister Emilie and some of the Perth Antioch team on their Indonesian visit earlier this year.

Antioch was shown to be a truly international youth movement during October's "Flame" w eekend at Mazenod College.

Among more than 150 local Antiochers present for the weekend were three visitors from Indonesia, for whom Flame proved a rousing finale to a ten-day stay in Perth.

Djakarta youth chaplain Father Widada and two Antioch youth, Jimmy and Tino, were returning a visit to Indonesia made earlier this year by a small team of Perth Antiochers.

Under the guidance of Father John Jegorow, the team took part in several Antioch events in Indonesia, during which they issued the invitation to visit Flame '89.

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Father Widada has responsibility for nine strong Antioch communities among his chaplaincy other duties, and he works with a team of twelve full, and part-time youth workers.

At the end of his stay in Perth, Fr Widada

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Reflecting the firm belief of all involved in Antioch in Perth, Fr Widada commented that adult participation was absolutely essential to Antioch's success.

He also reflected on the social differences between the two countries.

"I was amazed at first," he said. "I keep thinking, where are all the people?"

depend on each other just to live, and it is easier to build real Christian communities if you live in a community tight already."

"In Indonesia we live a more community style of life than you do in Australia," he said. "Here you are far more isolated from each other, and every house has a fence to keep people out!"

Naturally our adults are invovled in Antioch, since they play such a big role in our life community already."

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2. Sister Cornelius SJG checking out Caroline Slater's (Mt Magnet) health!

3. Good Samaritan Sisters Anne (left) and Margaret (right) chatting with visitors Mrs lune Sharp and her mother Mrs Mable (Carne) Martin, a student from 1916-17, who after holidaying at Williams, would be picked up from Mogumber by a Marist Brother with horse and buggy.

4. Jose Zurro from Norseman with Gertrude, the three weeks old heifer.

5. Marielle Knuvelder on a working holiday from Holland, tending roses planted by the losephites about 60 years ago.

6. Dancing instructor Mrs Doreen Dawson whose contribution to Catholic schools goes back more than 30 years, teaching Nicole Brough, Teller and Jason Hu, Perth, the finer points of dance!

7. Waiting for their disabled riders are school helpers (left rear) Johann rao, Singapore; Sandra Tilbee, Shackleton; Jillian lacusso, Shackleton and (left front) Adrian Torney, Pt Sampson; Desley Hargreaves, New Norcia; Susan Clark, Carnamah and Rebekah McGrath.

8. Taught by Sister Therese Marie and accompanied

by Sister Carmel, the choir seen practicing for the NN pilgrimage.

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UNIYA

by TOM BRANCH requested to please provide a plate. As this will be the final get together prior to Christmas, all members are urged to attend.

Medal tournament The WACLTA executives have arranged for a barbecue and medal tournament on Sunday, November 12 at the Trinity courts in Manning Road, Manning.

Play will commence at 11am followed by a barbecue lunch. Tennis will continue in the afternoon and the day will conclude with afternoon tea at approximately 4pm. Ladies are

Executive meeting The next meeting of the WACLTA executives is set for this Tuesday, November 7 at the home of Peter Quain, 161 Kew Street, Kewdale. Meeting is scheduled to commence at 7.45pm.

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C atholic Institute of Western Australia

LECTURER II RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

SENIOR CO-ORDINATOR LIBRARY Applications are invited from librarians or people with a media background for the position of Senior Co-ordinator of the Catholic Library of WA. Formal, or informal theological education and a commitment to the Catholic faith in the spirit of Vatican II are essential.

Salary Range: $35,576 — $42,970 or stipend for a Religious appointee.

Both appointments are to commence in January, 1990.

Applications close: November 20, 1989 The Director Catholic Institute of Western Australia PO Box 198 LEEDERVILLE WA 6007

(09) 381 5444.

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WEDDING BOOKLETS Typed, printed & prepared (laser printer) for your wedding ceremony.

Contact Chris or Mary 451 4304

A Prayer Vigil takes place each Friday evening at 6pm at Governor Kennedy Fountain, Mounts Bay Road, with church supporters of the Aboriginal People who are working to protect their sacred land of the Waugal. The Catholic community are invited to join in this prayer vigil for reconciliation and understanding in the Old Swan Brewery dispute. For information contact Sandra Brown, Catholic Social Justice Commission 325 1212.

NEWMAN REUNION

The Newman Sports Association gala day reunion for past members of its various sporting clubs and past students of Newman College and its predecessor schools, St Ildephonsus' New Norcia, St Joseph's Subiaco, Brigidine College Floreat, Siena College Woodlands and Marist College Churchlands, will be held on Sunday, November 12 at Newman College Churchlands commencing at 11.30am. Further details from Newman College 446 5877 or Kevin Lukey 341 1437.

MANDORLA QUERY

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Material submitted to The Record should preferably be typewritten or clearly and legibly handwritten, at least triple spaced with wide margins, in upper and lower case, and in style for the section for which it is intended.

POLICE MASS The Catholic Police Guild annual Mass and dinner takes place on Sunday, December 3 at 5pm at the Police Academy, Maylands.

Membership is open to all serving and retired Police Officers, Police Cadets, Public Servants employed by the Police Department and partners.

For further details please contact Sergeant Peter Browne or Sergeant Paul Newman on 222 1111.

HIGHGATE JUBILEE

Sacred Heart Primary School, Highgate will hold its 75th Anniversary celebrations at 2 pm on Sunday 19 November in the school grounds.

These celebrations will take the form of a paraliturgy, open day and afternoon tea.

BREWERY VIGIL

Applications are invited for the position of lecturer in Religion for teacher-training programs offered by the Catholic Institute.

Applicants are required to have appropriate tertiary qualifications, with expertise in RE curriculum theory and practice, and are required to demonstrate a commitment to the Catholic faith in the spirit of Vatican II. Salary Range: $31,259 — $35, 541 or. stipend for a Religious appointee.

Apply:

NARROGIN JUBILEE

For the 25th anniversary of the opening of St Matthews Church in Narrogin. Bishop Quinn will celebrate mass at 4pm on Sunday December 3, followed afterwards by tea, song and dancing at the school. Please bring a salad and a finger sweet plus your own refreshments. Ethnic groups are asked to bring a national dish to share. Further details: Evelyn White 098-811774 or Fr Kevin Johnston 098-811153.

Because of a theft this week of cheques and cash belonging to Mandoda Centre, those who remitted cheques since October 26 for the Laurence Freeman visit, are requested to contact Vesta Gamaltage 458 5633.

WAROONA FEAST

In honour of Our Lady of Mt Carmel on Sunday, November 12, Fathers Russell Hardiman and Tony Chiera will celebrate Mass at 10am followed by a procession with the Bunbury City Band and a barbecue after Mass and procession.

A rchdiocesan Calendar November 4 Admission to Candidacy — Minh Thuy Nguyen — Sacred Heart Highgate. Archbishop Foley.

Attend —The Mystery Plays" Servite College. Archbishop Foley.

Visitation and confirmation — 5 Kwinana. Archbishop Foley.

Confirmation — Girrawheen.

Bishop Healy.

Confirmation — Bayswater.

Monsignor Keating.

Mass and Dinner — St Charles 6 Seminary.

Graduation Mass La Salle College, St Mary's Cathedral.

Monsignor Keating.

7 Visit of Archbishop D'Almeido.

7&8 Moral Theology Seminar.

Visitation and confirmation 8 Maddington. Bishop Healy.

Confirmation --- Kalamunda.

9 Monsignor Keating.

11&12 Visitation and confirmation — Morley. Archbishop Foley.

12 Visitation and confirmation — Carlisle. Bishop Healy.

Confirmation — West Perth.

Monsignor Keating.

15 Heads of Churches Meeting.

Archbishop Foley.

Fremantle Zone of Priests.

Archbishop Foley.

15&17 Confirmation — Kenwick/ Thornlie, Bishop Healy.

16 Mass for Diocesan Liturgy Committee. Archbishop Foley.

19 Visitation and confirmation — Spearwood. Archbishop Foley.

Visitation and confirmation — Cottesloe. Bishop Healy.

Confirmation — Dianella. Monsignor Keating.

Seventy-fifth Anniversary Sacred Heart Primary School — Highgate. Monsignor Keating.

21 End of Year Principals Mass.

Archbishop Foley.

Visitation and confirmation — Carilla. Archbishop Foley.

Induction Service Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. Bishop Healy.

Conference of Churches of WA 25 Meeting. Archbishop Foley.

A community of four Jesuits will take up residence at St Canice's, Kings Cross/Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, by the beginning of 1990.

They will administer the parish and set up a centre for social research and action named "Uniya".

"Uniya" (named after the original Jesuit mission site at Daly River, NT which was established in 1886) will focus its research and action in Australia on the just claims of Aborigines, refugees and migrants and on the implementation of the Catholic Bishops' Statement on the distribution of wealth. Uniya also continues the Asian links built up by ABA (Asian Bureau Australia) and is anxious to serve Church and society in the Pacific. Uniya will provide research and administrative assistance to the Jesuit Refugee Service (Australia).

Uniya will bring together a variety of people from varying disciplines to research, write and propose policy on domestic and international issues of social justice.

Applications are invited for these positions:

(1) Director of Research This person will manage a small staff of researchers, assist the Board and Director of Uniya in setting priorities for the organisation, liaise with community and church groups in communicating the position of Uniya and actively assist in the promotion of Uniya's viewpoints to government and international organisations.

Essential Qualifications * Postgraduate qualifications in the social sciences.

• Demonstrated management experience and a capacity to define and oversee a social research program.

• Written and oral community skills of a high order.

• Demonstrated capacity to contribute to policy on a variety of positions on issues of welfare and social justice.

Desirable characteristics • Familiarity with social issues of priority concern to the Ways (poverty, international justice and rights of Aborigines, refugees and migrants).

• Capacity for theological reflection and commitment to the Church's role in social action.

• Capacity to work in a team environment.

(2) Researcher Essential Qualifications • Tertiary qualifications in the social sciences.

• Good communication skills.

Desirable characteristics • Commitment to developing the Church's role in social action.

• Capacity for theological reflection.

• Capacity for bringing theological insight to bear on social isms.

(3) Executive Officer (4) Secretary Salary packages will be negotiated.

Commencement date: early 1990.

Applications close: Friday, December 1, 1989.

A ddress applications and requests for further information to: Fr Frank Brennan SJ, Director, Uniya, 173 Royal Parade, Parkville, Vic 3052 Phone (03) 347 8211

You are invited to view

THE 1989 MANDORLA ART PRIZE for Religious Art at

Allendale Square, Ground Floor Foyer, 77 St. George's Terrace, Perth Monday to Saturday 9am-5pm

November 13-18 Theme for 1989 is "Prepare the Way" Luke 3: 4-6 Exhibition will be opened by The Most Rev. Dr Peter Carnley Anglican Archbishop of Perth and Metropolitan of the Province of Western Australia on Sunday, November 12 at 2.30pm

HARVEST PILGRIMAGES

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MEDJUGORJE EASTER departs April 9, returns April 20.

JUNE (for anniversary) departs June 18, returns June 29.

YOUTH PILGRIMAGE also organised for Easter.

Contact Eileen Radford 401 6368 all hours.

Licence No 91A00150

CARLTON HOTEL with good old-fashioned hospitality in the heart of the city

B&B Single $30; Double/Twin $50 • HEARTY BREAKFAST • PAR KING FACILITIES • REFRIGERATOR • TEA & COFFEE FACILITIES

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Australian Friends of Creation present:

MATTHEW FOX • In Perth January 1990 •

Public Lecture 7.30pm Tuesday 7 Nov The Poor the Hope of the Church in Brazil

Matthew Fox OP is a Dominican Scholar, a popular speaker and an innovative educator. He is the author of twelve books, including the best-selling "Original Blessing" and his most recent "The Coming of the Cosmic Christ". Matthew is committed to reclaiming the tradition of Creation Spirituality which, within Christianity draws particularly on mystics such as Meister Eckhart, Hildegarde of Bingen and Julian of Norwich.

Archbishop Luciano Mendes de Almeida SJ

Lecture: Christchurch Grammar School Chapel, January 18.

"Creation Spirituality as a Liberation Theology for First World Peoples"

Nestor Hall Catholic Education Centre 50 Ruislip St Leederville Cost $5 '$3 conc) Phone 385 1212

Programme:

Day Workshop: Scotch College School Hall, January 19.

"Workshop in Creation Spirituality" For further information and registration forms contact Andrew Tumell 170 Star Street Carlisle 6101. Ph 361 4990.

President of the Catholic Bishop's Conference of Brazil

Dom Luciano's visit to Perth is sponsored by: Australian Catholic Relief (25th Anniversary Celebration of ACR's work), Catholic Social Justice Commission (Archdiocese of Perth), St Thomas More College, WA Council of Religious Institutes. The Catholic Institute, Catholic Education Commission of WA, Anglican Social Responsibilities Commission, Uniting Church (WA Synod).