The Record Newspaper 09 November 1989

PERTH, WA: November 9, 1989

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History in the making A la carte special • A papal visit to the Soviet Union.

• Legalisation of the Ukrainian Catholic Church as part of a general relaxing of religious restrictions.

• Soviet efforts to achieve a stable peace in Lebanon and the entire Middle East.

• Vatican support for Soviet international peace and disarmament policies.

• Establishment of diplomatic relations.

But it also is a success for Vatican patience and persistence in applying its 26-year policy of willingness to negotiate problems with communist regimes, despite persecutions and long periods of being rebuffed.

"We are always ready to dialogue. What was lacking was a partner. Now a partner exists," said Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, chief architect of the Vatican's East European strategy, in referring to Gorbachev earlier this year.

In 1963 Pope John XXIII tapped then-Msgr.

The meeting is scheduled to take place Casaroli for the delicate mission of resuming between November 29 and December 1, during contacts with East European nations after the Gorbachev's state visit to Italy, and just before interruption caused by World War II and the his two-day Mediterrranean Sea cruise with US subsequent rise of communist governments.

President George Bush.

The purpose was to see if quiet diplomacy give the Church some breathing space in how could shows meeting The very fact of the rapidly the atmosphere of church-state relations hostile environments. has improved since Gorbachev came to power For the past 10 years Cardinal Casaroli has in 1985 with his domestic reform policies and orchestrated the policy as secretary of state to the flexibility on international issues. first pontiff from a communist-ruled country.

VATICAN CITY (CNS): The table is being set for the first summit meeting between the head of the Catholic Church and the most powerful man in the Soviet Union, a country founded nearly 67 years ago on the premise that an atheistic political system was the wave of the future.

The menu for the historic meeting at the Vatican between Polish-born Pope John Paul II and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev looks meaty and plentiful. (See menu on the left.)

Bishops lash out at society's cancer • Page 4

Talking in parables • Pages 8, 9

Vietnamese seminarian's

big, big occasion .

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Proposal that won Christine the Goody award This proposal earned Christine Choo (left) the Archbishop Goody award.

It reads: To develop and extend cross cultural understanding among church personnel in parish communities, particu

lady in relation to Aboriginal and other minority groups in the archdiocese of Perth, and to develop and extend my personal cross cultural community work skills and experience in rela

tion to working with Aboriginal communities and minority ethnic groups and later to draw on these experiences to raise awareness and understanding of others in the archdiocese of Perth.

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Christine the private consultant Christine Choo (left) She went to the Univercame to Perth from sity of WA and studied Penang, Malaysia in anthropology and became exposed to the 1967.

To her it was a "very significant year."

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To put it in her own words "it was the year of the Referendum. Before that Aborigines were not counted as citizens of the country."

This was the year when the Aboriginals were able to vote and have other rights.

Christine's interest in Aboriginal people started almost immediately.

traditions and background of Aboriginal people.

She did not accept "this country" until she went out on a couple of trips into the bush.

It was then she realised what a beautiful country this was and went out to learn a little more about Aboriginal life.

"That was the point that Idecided that Australia is okay for me," she said.

By then she had graduated as a social worker

and decided that she would work with Aboriginal people. Her interest in them has not waned since.

Her first job was with the Aboriginal Medical Service as its first social worker. That was in 1974.

She worked part-time because she had a child and found it a "difficult experience but rewarding." She had learnt a lot.

Now she has three children— 18, 15 and 13.

"The Aboriginal people were my boss, a reversal of the usual situation

where non-Aboriginal people are the boss," she remarked.

She got to know a lot of Aboriginal people and was afforded the chance to work alongside these people where she boosted her knowledge even further.

Since 1981 she has been a private consultant. Her work usually centres on social research.

She also does case work but not on a big scale. She has worked in hospitals and non-government organisations.

That in a nutshell is how she earns a living.

Money won't appease them For too long Aborigi- "And that is something nal people have been we have to learn from," told what to do. It is she said. about time that She felt that no amount stopped.

That's the opinion of social worker Christine Choo who feels that "we have a responsibility to listen to what they say and help them achieve what they want."

"Ihave learnt a lot from them," she admitted.

The Aboriginal people, Christine said, had a sense of relationship to each other and had deep respect for the environment.

To the Aboriginals, the individual is part of the environment.

of money would appease the Aboriginals at this stage.

In a recent research she asked Aboriginals this pertinent question: What is it you want for your children for the future?

How can you describe the proverty of your children?

Remarked Christine: "When we talk about poverty, most people talk about dollar signs. In this case, however, most of the Aboriginals talked about spiritual poverty

like lack of excess to accommodation, educaand tion unemployment . . " The deep poverty that Aboriginals face, she said, was the fact that they had lost their land.

"They are part of the land. The land is their mother."

The despair or sense of loss the Aboriginals felt, she said was just like taking a mother away from a kid.

"Aboriginals want recognition that their land has been taken away from them.

"Then there was a long history of Aboriginal

children being stolen by institutions. Generations of them have suffered this way.

"What the Aboriginals want to do now is to reestablish their links with their land."

Another side of this, said Christine, was the racism that existed in Australia.

"A lot of people don't want to admit it but Aboriginal people have been experiencing it for generations," she said.

She suggested the need to educate the Australian society about Aboriginal people and their values.

Christine (right) with Margaret who lives at Anawin Centre

$5000 boost to further her knowledge Christine Choo, winner of the Archbishop Goody award for 1990, has big plans.

in Darwin — the Nungalinya College — for a course in cross cultural community work in Aboriginal communities.

After that she hopes to spend some time in a number of Aboriginal communities in the north.

She aims to use the $5000 that comes with the award to further her knowledge of Aboriginal people.

"I am very pleased to have won the award. I In the year of Mission, wasn't sure ifI would get Archbishop Foley had it," she declared. emphasised the need for Christine intends to go inclusion and the need to an Aboriginal college for us to listen to

Aboriginal people and minority groups.

Said Christine: "I hope through this awardI can start to do that and also hopefully put it in practice."

She believed that "we lack in our liturgies a sens of linking up with what is happening in our Aboriginal communities andIbelieve that Aboriginal Christian communi-

raise the awareness one job in one spot for about cross cultural any length of time and issues. that was by choice.

"And then whenIcome The integration of the back I will be able to "It was a conscious "And if I am talking liturgy within their com- make myself available for about Aboriginal partici- decision I made because munity life, the expres- the archdiocese of Perth. pationIwould work with I had a child before I sion of their community I will share whatever I them to do that." started out. life through the liturgy have learnt with the "So therefore with whaHow does she, being a are only two of the various church comtever work I had undermother of three, cope important things which munities here. with pursuing her taken I always worked seem to appeal to her. i "For example, I would mmense interest in around my children."

The eldest — a girl — is She said: "After that I like to work with parish Aboriginal affairs. How 18 and is now in univerintend to go and spend liturgy groups or council does she find the time?

She answered: "I really sity. Her two boys are some time with these groups and even parish people, sit with them for priests. "I would like to don't know. I never had aged 15 and 13. ties can teach us a lot about it."

a little while and learn from them.

Centre which helps victims of violence Social worker Christine Her ties with the centre Choo is quick to knock started three years ago back any suggestion that when she worked there she is some sort of expert as a volunteer. Now she in Aboriginal affairs is a part-time worker despite her long links there. with them.

The Anawim Centre Even now she plays a was set up in the late big role in the Anawim 1970s as a refuge for Centre in Lane Street, single Aboriginal East Perth. women. It is now run by

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a group of people and there is "no hierarchy" in the set up.

Originally the St Vincent De Paul Society supported the centre.

The centre comes under the umbrella of the WA Catholic Social Welfare Commission.

Most of those who seek

help at the centre are violence or from those victims of violence. who have not got a home The centre is run 24 to stay in. hours a day and provides " supported "We try to give them accommodation." what they need in a limited time." Some who "We might get a knock got to the centre have on the door during the health problems and the night by somebody who centre supports them all had to run away from the way.

The aim of the centre is to provide a homely environment.

"In a practical way the workers here go with women when applying for Homeswest accommodation or go to hospital for medical treatment and help sort out things

the through bureaucracy.

"The workers also help the women be assertive about their OWT1 rights."

The centre has five fulltime workers, three of whom are Aboriginal women. There are also workers part-time volunteers.

A family reunion after eight years

HAVE YOUR SAY on the Formation of Priests

Vietnamese seminarian Minh-Thuy Nguyen (right) with his parents who have eventually joined him in Perth after eight long years.

Picture on Page 1 shows Minh-Thuy cutting the celebration cake.

Story by Ian Esmond

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

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

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

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

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VietnameseWhen Australian seminarian Minh-Thuy Nguyen had set the date for his step to the priesthood he did not plan on it also becoming a big moment for his whole family.

His Admission to Candidacy ceremony, at Sacred Heart Church, Highgate, last Saturday was made an even happier occasion for MinhThuy with the presence of his family whom he had not seen for eight years and who only arrived in Australia in September after four years of trying to leave Vietnam.

His mother, father, two sisters and a brother were reunited with Minh-Thuy and his other brother.

"I am very happy to have my family here," Minh-Thuy said, "and I thank God for giving us

this family reunion after eight years."

Minh-Thuy (31) began his road to priesthood in Vietnam in 1971 when he joined a minor Seminary. He began his major seminary training in 1977 but had to leave in 1979 when the communist government were forcing seminarians to join the army.

In 1981 Minh-Thuy escaped to Australia and in 1984 he recommenced his studies for priesthood, now for the Perth Archdiocese, at the seminary in Adelaide.

The rite of candidacy, which occurs in the latter half of a seminarian's training, is a public expression before his bishop and the Church of a seminarian's intention to complete his training and then to offer himself for ordination. The bishop also makes a

public statement of his acceptance of the seminarian.

Minh-Thuy said his candidacy was a very special occasion for him because it was an opportunity to reconfirm his vocation and to look forward to priesthood.

"I felt very supported because a lot of people came and prayed for me and encouraged me," Minh-Thuy said.

"Those who couldn't come were supporting me by their prayers."

In his homily, Archbishop Foley said that Minh-Thuy had for many years sought to listen with his heart to what the Lord might ask of him in his life.

"It was 19 years ago that he made that first decison that led him to pray and to test himself and the call, that he thought

he heard, to become a servant of the Church for the glory of God and the salvation of other souls," Archbishop Foley said.

"Today, Minh-Thuy wants to formalise, in the presence of the community of the church, his discernment of God's call and his desire to continue to develop this through to priesthood.

"As bishop,I come here to accept him formally as a Seminarian on the way to priesthood and ask God to assist him with light and grace that he may be formed well so that he might serve our local Church at this time for the glory of God and the salvation of souls."

Minh-Thuy, who is currently on pastoral placement at Spearwood parish will return to the Seminary next year for his final five months of study.

Priests, pay and value CHICAGO (CNS): Pri- is," he said. Traditionally "You can't do it all but or the value of room, ests should realize the role of the priest is people still expect that," board, utilities, housetheir small salaries are clear but "we haven't he said. "That's the thing keeping services and not measures of their reinterpreted it for our that is burning priests other benefits. value, according to the time." out — it's that most "In all the studies," he personnel director of priests want to meet all said, those items add Affected by reports of the Archdiocese of "usually $8000 to their dwindling numbers those expectations."

Chicago. $10,000 more" to a

and lowered morale, "Priests' organisations Father J. Cletus Kiley priests should must restate "our develop job dessaid a priest's salary is source of hope and criptions for priests that intended only to meet renewal," he said. could be Oven "the force personal needs.

"That's very different "There is something of some kind of diocesan from our culture," he valuable and wonderful" policy," he said.

One priest told the said. in priestly life, Father The first challenge Kiley said, which priests convention that his facing diocesan priests is as a group "need to take salary was less than that of a part-time janitor at reclaiming their identity the time to articulate." his parish. and charism, Father Priests have tr_ken on Kiley said.

Father Kiley said that new responsibilities "We need to have a without relinquishing did not take into account sense of what our place old ones, he said. compensation "in kind",

priest's annual stipend.

Many priests complain about a "lack of breathing space" in rectories, he noted. "An open rectory is a wonderful thing, but the more open it is, the less privacy it has." pastors Associate "always have the feeling they're living in somebody else's house," Father Kiley said.

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Guest Editorial

ASIA FOCUS Hong Kong Weekly

Dialogue difficult In recent times, "dialogue" has been an effective means of resolving conflict.

A willingness to dialogue is based on the belief that if the two parties to a misunderstanding, disagreement or conflict sit together and talk it out reasonably, they'll understand each other's point of view better.

To that extent, at least, they'll either resolve their conflict or come to some compromise solution.

But if one of the parties to such a conflict refuses to dialogue, or will not listen to reason, there seems little one can do.

Today the world over, we are witnessing the growth of groups that seem to listen to no reason, with whom dialogue of any form is very difficult, if not impossible.

Many such groups can be loosely clubbed together under the term "fundamentalist." We find such groups in every nation, in every religious affiliation.

Fundamentalists see themselves as having the truth. Those who do not see the world their way are in error. They are not of the truth. The scriptures, as basis for the fundamentalists' convictions, are taken literally. There is no room for interpretation or exegesis.

Their actions follow suit. In their spectrum of morality, they see only black and white, no shades of grey, no other colouring to human actions and history.

One characteristic of many fundamentalist groups that makes dialogue difficult is the anger, hatred and violent obduracy that seems to imbue their words and actions.

Faced with this, we are dumb and helpless. We want to back off and turn away.

However, one must admit that there is a basic honesty about most fundamentalists. Theirs is a stark acceptance of the ultimate, of a supreme transcendent absolute, of God. God, though, is seen as a stern, demanding, merciless power. Small wonder then that the believers take on the characteristics of the divinity they worship.

This, nevertheless, may be the key to understanding a fundamentalist group and perhaps to any dialogue — the recognition of some common ground, the acceptance and worship of an Absolute.

The Absolute we believe in is God, who is kind, loving and merciful, though no less awesome, no less transcendent. Our God keeps the doors of forgiveness and understanding — and the doors of dialogue — always open.

Faced with disagreement and conflict with a fundamentalist believer or group, we can easily stick to our beliefs and convictions, and shut the doors to dialogue.

This can have the disastrous consequences.

It can only perpetuate the cycle of violence and hatred that plagues our world today.

To do so would be to fall into the fundamentalist trap, to worship an angry, unforgiving God. It would mean a rejection of the God of love, peace and joy. ft will mean turning our backs on the God who loves us with an everlasting love and who teaches us that love conquers all.

Mission Vision Mission Sunday, on October 22, gives us an opportunity to consider our mission as Christians in today's world.

The term mission literally denotes "sending", and since every Christian is sent by Christ to extend God's Kingdom, all Christians are in mission.

Bringing the Gospel to people in a multireligious society requires respect and attentiveness to what others have to say, and the ability to engage and learn from interreligious dialogue is vital.

By virtue of dialogue with those for peace and justice, and stand alongside the poor and oppressed.

In this respect, the vision of Christian mission has never changed: We bring the Gospel to those who are poor — poor in spirit andpoor in the material sense. But there has been a sharpening of our focus and a reviewing of our methods.

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Bishops lash out at society's 'cancer' . . . including the Mafia, Govt men ROME (CNS):— The Italian bishops called the Mafia and other criminal organizations a "cancer" hindering socio-economic development in southern Italy.

But they also blamed government officials for aiding organized crime through corruption and poor administration, which create the social problems that nourish crime.

"Organized crime is favoured by lack of commitment, passivity and immorality in political administration," the bishops said in a document.

"The state must not be only repressive — even if

there is a need for a strong and decisive presence — but must be clearly promotional," said the 26-page document.

"In a Mafia-style atmosphere rights become favours, merit no longer counts but ties to political patronage do," it added.

Organized crime "contaminates social life, creating a climate of insecurity and fear, impeding every healthy undertaking, exercising a heavy influence on political and administrative life," it said.

"Using resources obtained illegally and often violently, it impedes socio-economic

development, organizes businesses and the dispensing of drugs, in collaboration with the large international crime organizations," it added.

The result is an "underground and parallel economy" that thrives because of "the lack of economic, social and civic development and in particular because of the unemployment of too many youths who are offered the delusion of rapid earnings," it said.

"The Italian church radically condemns these criminal organizations and exhorts the men of the Mafia to change their comportment," said the document.

The bishops also asked that the code of silence about organized crime, called "omerta," be overcome because "it is not in any way a ChristiLn attitude."

The Mafia was the only crime organization mentioned by the bishops.

Other major criminal organizations in southern Italy are the Naplesbased Camorra and the C alabria -based 'Ndrangheta.

The church has the "large task" of breaking the "perverse mechanisms" of southern Italian life and offering a "new logic" to aid the region's development.

The bishops pledged to do this by a "mobilization

of conscience" to restore Christian values and by developing political education programs for laity based on church social teachings.

After the document was published, the Cardinal Giordano of Naples said the bishops decided that a suggested automatic excommunication was unnecessary because canon law, the church's legal code, already spells out the terms of automatic excommunication.

In 1952, the bishops of Sicily, where the Mafia is based, automatically excommunicated people who participate in Mafiarelated crimes. They reiterated their stand in 1982.

No priests crisis

Mission Easing the Vote on in problems Ukraine Mass times WASHINGTON (CNS): The U.S. bishops this week will be asked to vote on a proposed order of Sunday worship for use in parishes in the absence of a priest.

Based on Vatican's 1988 "Directory on Sunday Celebrations in the Absence of a Priest," the proposal envisions a Liturgy of the Word or a celebration of either morning prayer or evening prayer from the Liturgy of the Hours when lack of a priest makes it impossible for Catholics in a parish to assist at Mass on Sunday.

Sunday, the faithful are encouraged to go to another church nearby in order to participate in the eucharistic mystery," says the introduction to the proposed rites.

"At the present time this solution is recommended. When and where this is not possible, arrangements should be made for a celebration without a priest, using one of the forms found in this ritual."

In a 1987 survey answered by 167 of the country's 174 Latin-rite dioceses, 51 dioceses said they had situations in which "Sunday worship A Communion service, in the absence of a priest using the Eucharist was necessary, either reserved from a previous weekly or occasionally."

Mass, may follow the service of prayers and Of the remaining 116 readings. dioceses, 91 "indicated If no deacon is available, that they foresaw such a a trained layperson may need in five to 10 years." be designated as the Many dioceses curpresiding minister at rently faced with the such services. need for Sunday worship i The proposed norms n the absence of a priest emphasise that weekly are using the rite for Holy celebration of the Euch- Communion Outside Mass, which was pubarist remains the ideal. lished in 1973 and "In places where Mass adopted for use in the cannot be celebrated on United States in 1976.

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KIEV:— Three Hungarian Franciscans have opened a mission in the Soviet Ukraine. was Permission obtained by Hungarian Cardinal Laszlo Paskai, who went to the Ukrainian capital of Kiev and suggested the idea to state officials.

The friars are living in Vinogradov, an once that area belonged to Hungary and which still has a Catholic community of Hungarian culture.

Cardinal Paskai is a Franciscan.

Cardinal Paskai, noted that the missionaries in the Ukraine were the exception to the rule for Hungary, which is suffering from a lack of vocations after years of religious repression.

Latin rite Religious are permitted to work in the Ukraine.

However, Vatican officials have been working for legalisation of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, which was forcibly merged with the RusOrthodox sian Church in 1946.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. ( CNS):— Pastoral administrators for parishes where there are no resident priests can't be viewed "as substitutes waiting for the 'first team' to come in," Bishop Sullivan told a symposium on the priest shortage.

The position of pastoral administrator must be visible in itself, with built-in expectations and rewards rather than be viewed as a second-rate proxy for a priest.

Another bishop acknowledged that some people have difficulty with the title of pastoral administrator for one who runs a parish in the absence of a resident priest.

But he said that "no other title is without difficulty," adding that in a few years a satisfactory term will emerge to "fit the experiences of people around the country."

Terms favoured by symposium participants included "parish life coordinator" and "parish collaborator."

Bishop Lawrence A. Burke of Nassau in the Bahamas said that "I can live with a lot of fuzziness, but the people in

the parishes have the problems."

To ease their discomfort, he said he and a "listening team" of laypersons visit parishes to learn about parishioners' experiences as new models of parish leadership were implemented.

"We are developing different models to suit the individual parishes," Bishop Burke explained.

Different models discussed during the symposium included: • The "indigenous" model, where the pastoral administrator would be selected from the parish. professional • The model, which means the administrator would receive formal training an that includes internship.

• A permanent deacon model, under which a be would deacon pastoral appointed administrator.

• The team model, made up of a priest along with a woman Religious, permanent deacon or layperson appointed to the parish.

• The cluster model, where a team would administer three or more parishes.

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Burden the poor have to carry

POPE TELLS EXPERTS ANALYSIS LOPSIDED CITY VATICAN (CNS):— Pope John Paul II said a close analysis of the 20th century's unparalleled prosperity shows it to be "distorted and unbalanced," leaving out most of the human race.

The pope, told economic and social experts at the Vatican that poverty had reached "catastrophic" proportions in some areas.

The massive foreign debt carried by poorer nations, he said, has become a symbol of the whose "injustices

Mentor in mind VATICAN CITY:— The Vatican Mass at which Archbishop Runcie of Canterbury prayed with Pope John Paul last month was for the beatification of Cardinal Newman's spiritual mentor.

Included in 27 Passionists beatified that day was Blessed Dominic Barberi who converted Newman but who had a conversion of his own. The other 26 were martyrs in the Spanish Civil War in 1936.

He wrote that in his early life he had a poor opinion of the Christian religion and that the world was the worse for Christianity.

But after his own conversion he set out as a Passionist missionary to become the instrument in a new conversion wave in England.

burden is often borne by the poorest."

"Mankind has never known an era of prosperity even vaguely comparable to that which the world in this second half of the 20th century has come to enjoy," the pope said.

But, he added, "it is a prosperity that benefits but a small proportion of mankind, while leaving the majority of the world's inhabitants in a of state underdevelopment."

The church has a duty, the pope said, to "awaken

consciences and invite them to the fact that today, like Lazarus at the door of the rich man, millions of people are in dire need while a great part of the world's resources are employed in areas which have little or nothing to contribute to the improvement of life on this planet."

"Christian ethics give rise to the conviction that it is unjust to squander resources which might be necessary for the lives of others," he said.

The pope quoted extensively from the encyclical

which seems at times to take on a life of its own."

In a remark that recalled his recent trips to debt-ridden African nations, he added, "The church continues to hear the plea of her pastors in those countries which labour under this enormous burden, a burden which seems without reprieve."

One reason he keeps emphasizing the debt issue, the pope said, is The pope said the that if it is resolved in an continued foreign debt equitable way, it could problem points to "an become a symbol of apparent inability to creative international reverse a baneful process collaboration.

"Sollicitudo Rei Socialis in giving the causes of the economic distorted development in recent decades: a narrow, economic-centred idea of development; financial and social mechanisms that accentuate existing wealth and poverty; an exclusive interest in profit; and, more generally, a "thirst for power" individuals, among nations and blocs.

Sound of alarm bells

TARANTO, Italy (CNS):— The only woman evident among the Taranto steelworkers held her white hard hat over her heart as Pope John Paul ll passed.

An alarm sounded, and a vat suspended from a track on the ceiling moved toward a larger pot, where it dumped its glowing liquid metal.

The pope, wearing a bright red hard hat, watched, and the workers of the IV Steelworks' Sarnesi plant cheered.

The steel plant is "an eloquent sign of the capacity of man to transform raw material to adapt them for one's needs," the pope said.

During his Oct 28-29 visit to Taranto in southern Italy, the pope said he knew of the problems facing the steel industry.

The sprawling plant, in one of Italy's poorest regions, employs 16,000 people. But Taranto also has more than 60,000

unemployed among its 250,000 inhabitants.

The complex problems facing the steel industry "justify the apprehension you show, thinking of the repercussions that every reduction of the work force has on your families and on ' the prospects of the youth," he said.

Workers not scheduled for the Saturday shift were gathered with their families in the parking lot to see and hear the pope, who arrived by naval helicopter in a clearing surrounded by stacks of steel pipes arranged by size.

As the pope's arrival time approached, a bus brought company executives to the clearing.

Behind a fence, workers ate their lunch and waited.

The pope went directly from the helicopter to the fence, then shook hands with the executives and began his tour of the plant.

The main road into town featured billboards

with red, white and green hard hats and the message, "The workers salute John Paul H." At the plant, billboards with the same design had quotes about the dignity of workers and quotes from the pope's encyclical, "On Human Work."

In his address to the steelworkers, Pope John Paul told them that "the church cannot remain indifferent in the face of this situation which involves all your children, putting a heavy mortgage on their present and their future."

"Into the social questions certainly enter factors of the economic, technical and political order," he said. "However, above all, they have direct human implications which cannot be put after the others in searching for an adequate solution."

Technical progress, production and profit should not be the only criteria for judging the success of any plant, he said. The "service to

man" and the corresponding "true dignity of labour" must be taken into account.

"The serious ecological situation with its worrisome repercussions on nature... and on the life of all people" also deserves attention, he said.

"The bells of alarm have already sounded, also here in Taranto," he said.

The environment cannot be "sacrificed to an industrial development," the pope said. 'The real victim in this case will be man, will be all of us."

He said the moral criteria that must form the basis for decisions are "the dignity of the human person created in the image of God" and "the dignity of work which is the vocation of man."

"The value of workers and the dignity of their labor must prevail in decisions, above all in moments of crisis," the pope said.

"They are people, and not numbers to be counted," he said.

'Bid to block religious tolerance' MOSCOW (CNS):- The ousted head of a Soviet government council on religion says Communist Party bureaucrats are trying to block President Mikhail Gorbachev's efforts to increase religious tolerance.

Konstantin Kharchev, in an interview with the outspoken weekly Ogonyok, said officials throughout the party apparatus were unhappy about the new policy and t hat the divisions

reached into the ruling Politburo.

"Unfortunately, 'perestroika' (restructuring) did not bring a change in the personnel responsible for religious affairs in the (party) Central committee," Kharchev said.

"In some cases even more people conservative came to power.

"Many of our ideological officials remain convinced that the current democratisation of relations between church

and state is final analysis the old policy will prevail," he added.

Kharchev was forced out of his post this summer as the head of the Council for Religious Affairs, the government body regulating churchstate relations after almost five years on the job.

In the interview, he said his attempts to implement even a moderate 1929 law on religion that gave some freedom of

worship were blocked by some members of the party hierarchy.

Official policy in the Soviet Union has for decades discouraged religious practice. Since Gorbachev came to power, official attitudes have become more tolerant, with Gorbachev saying believers should be treated as citizens with full equal rights.

The position of christians in the Soviet Union,

and particularly the status of the outlawed Catholic Ukrainian Church, is likely to dominate an expected December 1 meeting between Gorbachev and Pope John Paul II. Kharchev also supported demands for the re-legislation of the Catholic Ukrainian Church, which was forcibly assimilated with the Orthodox Russian church more than 40 years ago.

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Reporting on his September 29-October 2 visit with Pope John Paul 11 at the Vatican, Archbishop Robert Runcie of Canterbury said "we looked beyond particular arguments for and against the ordination of women. We were able to locate the issue of ordination of women in its proper place — the debate about authority, communion and church".

Archbishop Runcie spoke to the Church of England's General Synod at the beginning of a five-day session concerned largely with proposed legislation to allow women priests in Anglicanism's mother church.

The synod voted 323-180 to accept female ordination.

A final vote will follow review by church members nationwide.

The meeting with the pope "did not resolve the issue", the archbishop said. "But we did clarify the issue as ultimately about how the church judges development in the tradition."

He said that step "enables us to take a more balanced look at what still divides us". He added that "not all the obstacles come from the Anglican side".

"We know the large issues of authority which remain on the Anglican-Catholic agenda and which most Anglicans

Aussie jolt for them A ruling by the Appellate Tribunal of the Anglican Church in Melbourne has dashed the hopes of at least eight Western Australian female deacons hoping to be ordained to that church's priesthood.

That tribunal has blocked individual dioceses from performing ordinations.

The Anglican Archbishop Reverend Peter Carnley said the decision will certainly slow down

the process here in Perth where over 95 per cent of the Anglican Synod is in favour of women priests.

"Following down the track of a General Synod will take at least two or MOTE years before Perth women deacons could be ordained," said Archbishop Carnley.

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would judge as Roman Catholic obstacles to unity," the Anglican leader said.

He said the talks touched on what he called an "ecumenical primacy" for the universal church.

"This is a new thing for the pope to consider," Archbishop Runcie said. "It was also raised during his recent visit to Scandinavia by the Lutheran bishops.

"He was fascinated that other Christians should be looking to the bishop of Rome for this ecumenical leadership," the archbishop said.

"I was looking for a primacy to serve mission and unity rather than an office dependent" on Catholic-style centralised authority.

Immediately following his sessions at the Vatican, Archbishop Runcie said he envisioned primacy as a "presiding in love for the sake of the unity of the churches in the diversity of their missions".

The archbishop was immediately accused by some critics as betraying the Anglican Communion and England.

On another issue in their discussions, Archbishop Runcie told the synod that the pope "spoke sensitively of the failure of the institutional church to provide a sense of community, identity and commitment".

The pope said that failure left a vacuum for others, such as sects and new religious movements, to fill, the archbishop said.

JERUSALEM (CNS): The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has lasted "too long" said Jerusalem's Catholic Patriarch Michel Sabbah, who suggested Palestinian Christians could be a bridge between Moslems and Jews.

"The Palestinians want to live in peace:' the patriarch, a native Palestinian said. He believes that the willingness to accept the Israeli state, expressed earlier this year by Palestine Liberation Organisation leader Yasser Arafat, signals a new opportunity for peace.

Patriarch Sabbah rejected claims that the PLO is a Moslem extremist group. "There are many Christians in the Palestine Liberation Organisation," he said.

The leader of the area's Latin-rite Catholics said he believes Palestinian Christians "could serve as a bridge between Moslem and Jewish". He called the survival of Christians in the area "essential to the Jewish state" since Israel "is surrounded by millions of Moslems".

By Fr John Jegorow Deacon Susanne Watson of the Anglican parish of Fremantle/ Beaconsfield was devastated by the Melbourne decision.

"It's a major set back for me and the church," said Deacon Watson.

"Iwas stunned and rang a friend in Melbourne to make sure of the deci-

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The November 11January 30 exhibit will contain 100 religious icons.

The announcement said the exhibit has been prepared in co-operation with the Cultural Ministry of the Russian Soviet Republic. Russia is one of the 15 republics in the Soviet Union.

"The icon is, in fact, the artistic, cultural and theological expression of a civilisation formed after the affirmation of Christianity as a new religion and as a new the humanism," announcement said.

sion," said Deacon Watson.

"So close and now so far," she said.

"There is overwhelming support from people within the Anglican Church for the ordination of women and my answering machine is chokkas with messages of support," said Deacon Watson. Susanne says that lawyers are looking at how the decision affects individual diocese

and whether there may be some way round the decision.

"I feel sad for the older women deacons hoping to be ordained to the priesthood," she said.

"At lease I have time on my side at thirty four years of age," said Deacon Watson.

"The good news is that I have been accepted for a position in Melbourne as a deacon, beginning in February," she said.

Polish 'no' to Kohl BONN, West Germany (CNS): West Germany's chancellor, Helmut Kohl, wants to attend Mass in an ethnically German pad of western Poland, but the Polish government has said no.

Silesia, originally a Polish territory, had been variously in Bohemian, Austrian, Prussian and German possession since the 14th century. It was taken back by Poland after World War II. A telephone call between Kohl and Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki failed to convince Mazowiecki that the visit to St Anne's Hill should go ahead.

Kohl, who is Catholic, made a six-day visit to Poland and the German leader viewed attending a service on the site as a pilgrimage and a "gesture of reconciliation".

The site is a symbol for Poles as well as Germans. A large monument there commemorates Polish uprisings against the Germans in 1921 and other years.

1000 no's to women LONDON (CNS) — More than 1000 Anglican priests and several bishops have pledged to spend more than $60,000 annually in a campaign to oppose the ordination of women to the priesthood in the Church of England.

At the heart of the campaign is the clergymen's view of themselves as "true" Catholics who seek reunification of their church with Rome under papal authority.

The priests, who have formed a group called Cost of Conscience, also said that if legislation approving the ordination of women were passed at a Church of England early in synod November, they would set up a "shadow" church of bishops, priests and

parishes that would refuse to recognise the ordination of women.

Archbishop Robert Runcie of Canterbury recently referred to the possibility of such a move as tantamount of "institutionalised schism" within the Church of England, part of the worldwide Anglican Communion.

The main speaker at the Oct 30 meeting in London was Bishop Graham Leonard of London, who received a prolonged standing ovation after he compared the situation of the Church of England to that of England during the Napoleonic wars and told participants to prepare to wage a campaign of "resistance that would be occupied territory."

"We face an invasion here and now," Bishop Leonard said. "We must

declare ourselves so that would be to withhold we may resist it and, it is money on a parish-byto be hoped, be enabled parish basis from the to repel it." church.

Bishop Leonard said the Many of those in the Cost of Conscience Cost of Conscience group movement should be the reportedly consider standard bearers of those themselves to be part of who wish to "conserve" what they term the the church, just as "true" Catholic Church environmentalists strugin England. gle against ecological These "Anglodeterioration.

"It is not our duty to Catholics", as they often preserve the church from refer to themselves, hope damage with unforeseea- for eventual reunificable results?" Bishop tion of the Church of Leonard asked. "We are England with the Roman Catholic Church under the conservationists." papal authority, which movethe of Leaders ment said they would King Henry VIII rejected spend 40,000 British in the 16th century. pounds (US $63,000) per They believe approval year lobbying against the of legislation allowing ordination of women. ordination of women They said that if its priests would provide a w arnings were not serious obstacle to that heeded by the majority of reunification, a view clergy in the Church of confirmed by Pope John England, the next step Paul II during Archbi-

shop Runcie's recent visit to the Vatican.

While the ordination of women appears to be the immediate issue, the question of possible reunification is the crucial issue, as one priest at the Cost of Conscience meeting told a London daily newspaper, The Independent.

"It is actually a wider question than the ordination of women," said the Rev Roger Reader. He said that "eventually, the Church of England is going to have to split" over the issue of papal authority.

"What I pray for and hope for and work for is the reunion of Christendom around the Holy See," he told The Independent. "Quite clearly, that is going to be a divisive issue."

Dr Runcie . . . referred to such a move recently.

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By Father Paul J. Schmidt

Moviegoers flock to see Indiana Jones search for the Holy Grail and the Starship Enterprise journey to the centre of the galaxy to find God. Batman and the Joker carry on the age-old struggle between good and evil in a phantasmagorical Gotham City. Boxoffice receipts soar.

Are movies better than ever? Or are parables just

as appealing as they always have been?

Every one of those movies is a kind of parable. The 13th chapter of Matthew's Gospel has similar parables — and many other kinds as well.

The revised New American Bible explains that the word "parable" translates a Hebrew word that includes "a wide variety of literary forms such as axioms, proverbs, similitudes and allegories.

"In the New Testament . . . it primarily designates stories that are illustrative comparisons

between Christian truths and events of everyday life."

In other words, parables teach us and entertain us and sometimes puzzle us at the same time.

All human beings ask certain important questions: What is the goal of life? Is there anything worth believing in? Does God exist? What is God like? What is the meaning of evil?

In Matthew 13, Jesus answers some of those questions. Jesus presumes that God exists.

The answer to the longings of the human

heart can be found in something called the kingdom of heaven.

We readily think of this as life after death. But it is something that begins here on earth, as well.

The parables of Matthew 13 tell us that the kingdom has different effects on different people.

It comes in a world where it must coexist with evil. It comes gradually.

It is worth more than any other treasure on earth.

Jesus did not just assert these things. He told

One from an old Chinese tale

Ask people what a parable is and they are likely to say something 'ike, "A parable?

(Pause) It's like the prodigal son or the good Samaritan."

The answer is correct.

There is nothing like an example to help someone grasp what a parable is.

The only problem with an example is that it points us toward one kind of parable, whereas there are several kinds.

The New Testament uses the word "parable" broadly, to refer to just about any kind of comparison or figure of speech.

But perhaps this descriptive definition will prove helpful: A parable is a metaphor, a saying or a little story meant to throw light on some aspect of life or on an important religious reality such as the kingdom of God. The parable also challenges the imagination, calling for further reflection or for the adoption of a line of behaviour.

In general, parables are meant to disturb our usual patterns of thinking and acting.

Unfortunately, we may have heard the parables so often that we do not pay attention to them anymore. But imagine if we were to hear one of Jesus' parables for the first time.

Here is a parableImade up from an old Chinese story.

Once in a place far away, there lived a woman to whom nothing extraordinary ever happened.

By Father Eugene La Verdiere, SSS

One night, as she lay tossing and turning in her sleep, she had a dream. In it a serpent moved across the room silently and slowly slipped out the door on the other side.

With that she awoke and sat up, perspiring.

What did the dream mean? After a while, she fell asleep again.

The next morning she went to see her friend and told her about the dream.

Her friend said, "Oh," her eyes wide open. She thought and thought.

"Perhaps. . ." — but could not find the meaning of the dream.

That day nothing special happened to the woman and that night she went to bed and slept soundly.

The next day she consulted a wise and holy man.

"Oh,", he said, and thought for a while. "I wonder . . . " — but could not find the meaning of the dream.

That day nothing special happened to the woman and again that night she went to bed and slept soundly.

Nothing extraordinary happened to her the next day either, or the next. In fact, nothing extraordinary ever did happen to her.

I call my parable, 'The Parable of the Woman With the Serpent Dream."

Notice how everything in it is very clear,

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especially the images. We can understand it readily — and yet we do not. It gets us thinking about what is ordinary in life and what is not.

The parable puts us in touch with the mystery within us and surrounding us.

Whatever we understand in the parable shows us that there is a lot more we do not understand yet.

It would be difficult to exhaust a parable's meaning. There is no exhausting the parables of Jesus.

How, then, can we rediscover their freshness? Wouldn't it be wonderful to hear one of Jesus' parables as if for the first time, the way you just read my parable?

There may be a way, especially if the parable is read aloud to others.

This is the best way to read a parable. They were meant to be spoken, not silently read.

1. Start by focusing on the images. They usually are simple. For example, "What father among you would hand his son a snake when he asks for a fish?" (Matthew 7:10).

ARE THEY JUST AS APPEALING AS EVER, ASKS FR PAUL J. SCHMIDT stories to illustrate them.

He used concrete language filled with objects and experiences from everyday life.

Because he often taught outdoors, he probably pointed to some of the examples he was using.

His audience remembered far better than if he had given them a philosophical discourse.

But his hearers also had difficulties with some parables. Even the disciples scratched their heads. Later they would ask for an explanation.

For those of us today who no longer live in an

outdoor, agricultural world, some of his examples may require background study too.

Jesus expected that his teaching would be clear to some and unclear to others.

Some would look but not see, hear but not Others understand. would be bewildered at first, but after some thought would be able to get the message.

Though Jesus used simple language and accessible illustrations, his point often was difficult to grasp.

In the parable of the

weeds and tlp wheat, for example, Jetts tells us that we hal?, to put up with an ,mbiguous world What trenladous wisdom there is in the householder admonition to his kirvants: "If you pull uc the weeds you might iproot the wheat along with them.

Let them gnw together until the havest" (Matthew 13:29-4 But what xactly does that mean?It certainly makes you link. Does it mean we hae to tolerate some evil? bes it mean that a persn might be saintly andrifful at the

same time as the course of a lifetime unfolds?

These are difficult questions.

Jesus was a question man. His parables raise questions about ourselves, our world, our church. But the answers are there too, if we have eyes to see and ears to hear.

In the parables Jesus announces what has lain hidden from the foundations of the world. He does it all with simple little stories. What would he have done with Technicolor, Panavision and Dolby sound?

Some blockbuster films can be considered a kind of parable, writes Father Paul J. Schmidt.

Parables teach us and entertain us and sometimes puzzle us at the same time.

In focus To a Scripture scholar, a fresh look at the the Gospel parables are parables one has heard storehouses of virtually many times. One step is inexhaustible meaning. to read a parable aloud.

But are the parables Father Paul Schmidt ordinarily viewed this finds modern parables in way? Or are they sold some of the films short and read onereleased recently. The sidedly?

These questions are parables make people discussed this week in think, he says, and they the CNS Religious Edu- raise difficult questions. cation Package.

David Gibson, editor of Blessed Sacrament the Religious Education Father Eugene LaVer- Package, looks at a diere points out how familiar parable from a refreshing it would be if new perspective. It is the poeple could hear a parable in which Jesus parable for the first time, gives his followers direcas Jesus' disciples did. tives on what seats to Then Father LaVerdiere take at wedding bangives pointers for taking quets, not rushing madly

This little parable is a metaphor. It draws you into the parable, asking you to consider how a parent acts.

Focus on the snake and on the fish. Get a vivid picture of these in your imagination.

2. Focus on the parable's people, the father and the son. Place yourself in the position of Parables are meant to disturb our usual patterns of thinking and acting, writes Blessed Si rament each. Would a parent do Father Eugene LaVerdiere. They also challenge our imaginations. He tells a story of I woman you?

Would this? and a snake to illustrate his point.

3. Focus on the action expressed by the verbs, "Handing to someone" and "asking for."

Now you should be ready to read the little parable, and the others that follow in this commentary on the Our host may ask you to move You might find it Father. You should be

By Did Gibson further down the table. surprising that Jesus able to see every element took the time to give Instead, Jesus says, go in as you tell it to someone. that your views we people run the risk of his followers directions "and take the lowest Reading any parable slighted, for thinking there isn't any example, ( on what seats to take at place so that when the this way guarantees that no one knew aboi real reason to hear them wedding banquets. But host comes to you he may the important contribt freshness. or read them again. there you have it, in the say, 'My friend, move up lion you made to The images are clear. parable in Chapter 14, to a higher position.' For Though scholars insist successful project.

The parable is underVerses 7-11 of Luke's everyone who exalts that the parables are This parable, like mar stood easily and yet, Gospel. himself will be humbled, s torehouses of inexbecause it disturbs us a Gospel parables, is fanii but the one who humbles haustible meaning, they little, it leaves us jar to most Christians. himself will be exalted."

Almost anyone should can get sold short. wondering.

You've heard it min be able to identify with Even if you don't go to What can you do about I suspect that when a times, just as you'l this parable.

You many fancy wedding this?

Turn the parables parable is read aloud this heard the parable of tt remember it: Jesus banquets, you are likely i nside out and upside way, people wil find 10 the mustard seed, advises people not to to find comforting words down; attempt to see themselves thinking coin, the wedding fe., rush in and take the seats in this parable. Its promthem from a whole new about it over and over the good Samaratin, th at the head of the ise of being moved up is perspective. Peel them again. sower, the banquet table. "A more barren fig trt heartening if you've ever open layer by layer. or the prodigal son.

Once a parable has distinguished guest than felt less than exalted made its way into our you may have been Take the parable of the (Does that leave anyone Actually, the parabit imagination, it tends to invited" and if so, the prodigal son, for examout?) — if you've ever felt are so familiar th • settle there.

for the most prestigious seats.

Often the parable is read as a stern warning against arrogance and lording it over others, Gibson writes.

But there is more than one way to read a parable, he says, including a way to read this one as a source of comfort.

Father John Castelot says that to grasp the parables, one must be willing to get involved with them, to grapple with the questions they raise. Father Castelot is a Scripture scholar, lecturer and author.

More than one way to read it ple. Do you also focus on the wayward son himself when you hear it? Then try, for a change of pace, to focus on the role played by the wayward son's father or by his brother. What is to be learned from them?

Now, back to Jesus' instructions on where to sit at wedding banquets.

I find that some parables can be pretty unsettling, making strong demands.

This one is no exception.

If you're like most people, what you hear in this parable is a reminder not to be smug and arrogant, not to exalt

yourself over others.

What is this, then, about viewing the parable as a source of comfort.?

Well, it is not an attempt to water the parable down to make it more palatable. I wouldn't recommend doing that with any of the parables.

It is, however, an attempt to turn the parable inside out. If the parable is always approached in the same habitual way, its comforting aspect might get overlooked.

The fact is, there is more than one way to read a parable.

Always a hook at the end It is possible for teachers to be so clear that their lesson passes painlessly in one ear and out the other, leaving no

impression.

The parable technique used by teachers in Jesus' day was designed to prevent this.

The parable story started off harmlessly enough. It always dealt with something familiar and true to life — a farmer sowing seed, a woman baking bread.

But at the end there was always a "hook", a surprising development to challenge hearers and lead them to ask questions. What on earth is he talking about? What shepherd would leave 99 good sheep to the wolves and go looking for one stupid stray?

There always were good answers, but the hearers had to ask the questions and get personally involved. If parables leave many people cold today, it may be because they refuse to take the bait, to get involved.

People virtually know these stories by heart. But

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have they ever listened to them seriously enough to be personally challenged when, for example, Jesus says at the end of the parable of the good Samaritan, "Go and do likewise" (Luke 10:2937)? He can't possibly be talking to me.

Then there is Jesus' story of the rich farmer who didn't know what to do with his bumper crop.

The man's selfish solution was to stockpile it and sit back.

God's reaction was, "You fool, this night your life will be demanded of you; and the things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?" (Luke 12:20).

People with fat bank accounts and no concern for the hungry and the homeless may prefer not to personalise that sort of parable.

Of course, Jesus was talking to peasants, to farmers and fishermen.

We live in a different kind of society now.

But there is a common denominator; human nature.

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The peasants, farmers and fishermen of Jesus' day are today's homemakers, technicians and businesspersons.

With a little imagination we can transfer the Gospel situations to our culture.

For instance, the slick estate manager who gets caught juggling the books and lining his own pockets at the expense of the boss in Jesus' parable really is not a far cry from crooked employees or financial account managers whose exploits make headlines today.

When Jesus challenges his hearers to be as clever in developing their character as such people are in developing their fortunes, the message is unmistakably clear — if one listens.

Parables, it should be noted, were not meant to appeal to people who were all alike. The parables are open-ended.

Jesus' parable of the sower was a simple story used to illustrate the inevitable growth of the

kingdom of God. In spite of all sorts of snags, the seed, the word of the kingdom, will yield "thirty, sixty and a hundredfold" (Mark 4:8) You can just hear the gasps of the farmers of Jesus' time, for whom a good yield was sevenfold Jesus had to be talking about something other than barley.

Farther on in the same chapter of Mark's Gospel the parable is updated and applied to the later situation of the early Christian community.

It becomes a comlex allegory (a story in which people, events or things have a hidden or symbolic meaning).

Now the sower's seeds are different kinds of people reacting to the preaching of the world.

The parable is aimed at a variety of Christians, the enthusiastic, the tepid, the quitters.

That sort of updating and reapplication of Jesus' parables has been going on for 2,000 years.

The challenge of the parables must be met in every age.

DISCUSSION POINTS Since some parables are so effective with children, do you ever tend to think of them as "children's stories," not really for adults?

Pick a parable of Jesus that is memorable to you.

Now use suggestions provided by Father Eugene LaVerdiere and Father John Castelot to read the parable you have picked in a new way.

David Gibson says there is more than one way to read a parable. What might this mean in the case of the parable you selected?

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Lynwood mission top success

Lynwood parish has recently had a mission which brought with it a couple of characters — Father Patrick O'Carrigan, artist, and Father Frank Crilley, 25 years ex-patriate in Japan, now returned to Down Under.

Sometimes it's hard to know whether the delivered message on a mission is the exciting bit — or the missioners themselves! Or maybe a combination of both.

Anyway Father O'Carrigan, over here for a two week mission along with Father Crilley, conducted one with a difference.

He brought with him, from Tasmania, nine paintings of his, and painted one specifically for Lynwood's mission.

This one he leaves. It's his calling card if you like!

But on the serious side, it's also an asset because he is a well known artist so the gift is considerable.

On the religious side, it's a memento of inspiration and new resolutions.

The mission is run on a series of nightly themes with a different painting brought out each night to reinforce the theme and provide a focal point.

From all accounts the mission was a great success with parishioners staying back long after Mass discussing it

had its beginning — on Japanese wharf.

Returning to Australia from his scholarship studies in Rome, Father O'Carrigan decided to pay a fraternal visit to his MSC brothers in japan, (and his buddy Father Crilley).

It's hard to know whether they exerted a good or bad influence on him, but certainly it was an enjoyable one!

On this particular day Father O'Carrigan was and generally getting to innocently painting a know each other better.

Russian Merchant ship's Father O'Carrigan's reflection in the water, serious tackling of the art with Father Crilley who field, began with a two was stationed there at the year scholarship time and looking for a bit awarded him by the of Aussie company.

Italian Government to When the crew of the study at the famous Russian Merchant fleet Academia in Rome. noticed this artist at Unfortunately after a work, they immediately year his Missionaries of wanted their own porthe Sacred Heart Order traits done. needed him back in A particularly large Australia but his art has lady crew member, nevertheless taken off stuffed into a boiler suit, and Father now has a painting in the National thought she'd better Gallery in Melbourne, change into something a and works elsewhere in little more feminine, so the Northern Territory, she dragged out a rather private collections, and formal evening dress and the famous McClelland tiara undoubtedly from Gallery of Watercolours, her battered mariner's trunk underneath her Victoria. bunk.

He has also exhibited She too posed for a works in Kyoto and had portrait, as memorable a one man show in Nagoya, Japan. That's did the captain in his best where the true meaning regalia. of Gorbachev's Glasnost This thawing of the Big

Freeze between East and West, deserved some traditional vodka to hot up the scene, plus a big party to finally 'ice the cake'. So there they were, the MSC's and the Russians doing exactly what should be done in times of celebration — living it up!

By now Father O'Carrigan's paintings have surely sailed a lot and been seen by undoubtedly many in their world travels.

This colourful spot in Father's career wasn't the only one for an even more colourful phase was about to begin.

Pushing on with his art upon his return, Father O'Carrigan was based at an Adelaide parish when the president of the parish council started spreading the news that Father O'Carrigan

Father Patrick O'Carrigan MSC, assistant parish priest in Hobart, missioner at Lynwood, and well-known artist, with his painting of the Sacred Heart painted and presented to the parish of Lynwood.

painted nudes — in his bedroom!

At this point one can only speculate whether the 'horror' (at this revelation) was mock or real! and in particular perhaps sheer envy!! on the part of the newsspreader.

However the Adelaide newspaper got onto it and published the fact that this priest painted nudes.

Quite so! replied Father O'Carrigan. He'd painted plenty of nudes during his days at Rome's Academia of Art — but certainly not in his bedroom there or here!

Nevertheless, the truth, even if it is out of context and only half said, certainly makes great reading for some!

Father O'Carrigan paints in all mediums but is particularly well

bit's ears, or a piece of turf by a world famous artist, as being "far more beautiful than a sleek Madonna painted by a second rate contributor to religious art." Having staged one man exhibitions in most States, As a graphic artist, Father O'Carrigan's Father has illustrated water colours have many books, designed for fetched top prices. lead light glass, became Unfortunately Cyclone editor of the Victorian Tracey in her Darwin Artists' Society magazine ragings, blew away many and is a regular contrib- of his paintings during utor to the MSC's Annals his stay there, which publication. were never recovered.

As an artist within a All in all, he's a priest religious Order, Father with a God given talent O'Carrigan has been on which he wisely uses to inspiration to others to spread more beauty develop their own around God's world and talents. uses God's house during He is a very modern his mission, to convert the church into an art expressionist. gallery of biblical works But art for him doesn't to emphasise the link have to be religious. On between man's reaching the basis that all good art out for God through is beautiful, Father mind, voice, and the O'Carrigan cited a rab- visual arts. known for his water colours, with a letter from famous South Australian artist Hans Huysen telling him he was the best water colourist he'd known for 20 years.

Shock for him after Mission team member conductor, to avoid Father Frank Crilley is littering. based at St Mary's At the end of his first Towers, Douglas Park, Australian journey, he NSW, and having spent went up to a "real Aussie 25 years in Japan conductor" and offered straight after ordina- him the ticket back. tion, is relaxing back in "This is for you," Father his Australian environ- Crilley said politely, ment as of the last five mentally still in Japan. years.

The Aussie with his dry

Father Frank Crilley MSC, "taking his ease" after a hectic Lynwood mission.

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You may think in Japanese, he said "but you still think with an Australian mentality!".

Going up there was a shock, but then returning home after six years absence was a bit of a shock too!

Father Crilley returned to find the currency had changed and so had our ever evolving language.

Customs learned in Japan were a little hard to shed in a hurry too, like the day he hopped on public transport when arriving back.

It is customary in Japan to return your ticket at the end of a trip to the

sense of humour looked at the ticket, looked at him, and said "why don't you keep it for a bloody souvenir mate!"

And then the hotel episode where he dropped in to get a bottle of beer he was planning to drink with his brother later in the day.

Finding himself at the wrong bar, he was directed to the bottle department but had no idea how much it cost.

This seemed rather strange to the sales lady who gave him an odd look. As an explanation, Father Crilley said he'd "been away for awhile."

"How long for?" she identical to the product five — thus three year queried (her quizzical he needed. olds have to pa&s an appetite aroused by this That sort of innocent entrance examination to time). "Six years". mistake can get a man get into kindergarten!

Stunned! the lady into a lot of strife, priest On the negative side, he exclaimed "Good grief! or otherwise! having to cope with said, What did you do?"

In Japan there is no such competitiveness all And it took a few 'phone graffiti, vandalism or through their lives, tends calls before he dropped littering. The crime rate to turn them into workathe 'Moshe Moshe' phase is low, perhaps one factor holics and neurotics. (hello) they use in Japan. being that to bring In business they are disgrace on oneself is to But then prior to the bring it down upon the hard headed, but there is few little learning and re- whole family, with a basic honesty and decency about them. learning bits which come attendant shame. with settling in to any "Up there, you get what Because of their close country, even if it's your living proximity through you pay for. But business own after a long absence, lack of land area and tiny is business, friendship is one has to be ever-so- d wellings, everyone friendship — and you careful in choice of would know of that don't mix the two." words in foreign tongue. disgrace.

Father Crilley said the Father Crilley said there papal visit Father Crilley while made quite an still struggling with is a great emphasis on impact on Japan. "With Japanese, went into a education. only half a million There is full employ- Catholics, you would shop requesting an everyday mundane pro- ment — perhaps one have expected only minduct at which those reason being that imal visit affect, but in listening burst out laugh- because their social fact he took the place by ing, because the word he security payments are so storm, being on the TV, in used was one for a low, it is preferable to the newspapers, and it kissing machine (what- have a job. became a national thing ever that is!), but to a Inately, Japanese are rather than a little foreign ear sounded ambitious and competi- Catholic show."

Vatican plan to fight AIDS epidemic VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican is organising a major international meeting to stress that AIDS is not divine punishment and that an integrated approach — from medecine to morality — is needed to treat the disease.

Vatican officials hope to develop guidelines for fighting the AIDS epidemic while providing a variety of health and human support to AIDS patients.

Speakers at the next week's Vatican meeting include Pope John Paul II, World Health Organisation Director-General Hiroshi Nakajima, Nobel Prize-winning scientists, moral theologians, government officials and people providing care for AIDS patients.

Topics range from scientific investigations into preventative serums to specific AIDS-related problems in Third World countries.

What Vatican organisers hope will not become a topic is use of condoms as a way of stemming the spread of AIDS. This solution goes against the "very clear teachings" of the Church and is a "too cavalier" way of treating the problem, said Archbishop Diorenzo Angelini,

head of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers.

No moral theologian on the conference program will advocate use of contraceptives, said Archbishop Angelini.

Theologians listed on the program are defenders of traditional Catholic sexual morality.

The archbishop said he does not expect the issue of condoms to be raised by scientists attending the conference, although many speakers are nonCatholics.

"Use of prophylactics is not a scientific argument," he said. "Scientists should not enter areas which are not of their competence."

Archbishop Angelini called use of prophylactics "a very egotistical practical suggestion which goes against life."

Effectively fighting AIDS is "a difficult task that requires sacrifice and education and formation programs," he said.

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome is caused by a virus that attacks the body's disease defence system, making people highly susceptible to death causing sicknesses. The virus is commonly spread through sexual inter-

course and intravenous injections. The disease is widespread among drug addicts and homosexuals.

The Vatican's approach is to promote integrated solutions within the context of the church's respect for life, said Archbishop Angelini.

This is reflected in the meeting's theme: "To Live: Why?" he added.

The conference hopes "to give orientation to the entire world, not just to Catholics" on an interdisciplinary approach to fighting AIDS, he said.

"Health care fails if it does not have a spirit, a guiding force," he added.

Within the Church, the conference hopes "to encourage bishops, priests and Religious to see AIDS patients as brothers and sisters, not as people to be placed on the margins of society," the archbishop said.

"AIDS should not be considered the punishment of God. None of us should judge," he added.

One of the speeches listed for November 15 is titled "Is AIDS a Divine Punishment?" Giving the talk will be Rocco Buttiglione, an Italian Catholic philosopher who heads the International Academy of Philosophy in Liechtenstein.

Buttiglione is also

25 years...

Out of a population of

120 million, Catholics only number 600,000 but

nevertheless the Church has an influence there in the fields of education and medicine which is far out of population proportion to its minority numbers, he said.

There are three Catholic universities in Japan and at one stage Father Crilley was attached to a Catholic kindergarten for three year olds, which in fact only had about half a dozen Catholic children attending it, but despite having Catholic institutions at which there are mostly non-Catholics attending, it is considered a means of touching people with Church and christianity that would not be possible otherwise. This applies also nonwhere Catholics seek a Catholic wedding ceremony.

The only marriage

which is recognised in Japan is at the Town Hall or the civil office, as against Australia where a priest or minister are registered marriage celebrants.

Japanese people are something seeking sacred for their marriages so are turning increasingly to the Catholic Church for our ceremonies to bless their marriage.

This provides an opportunity for priests to show them the ideals of a Christian marriage — "which really grabs them," said Father Crilley. And from these incidental contacts, baptisms can come.

Initially after learning the language, Father Crilley had been in a Japanese country parish for ten years, and was then placed in a city one for 13 years outside Nagoya. (He has the distinction he says, of

having gone straight to the top after ordination because he's never been an assistant priest!).

In this parish he'd average 30 adult baptisms a year, "and considering they came from no understanding of christianity, it illustrates God at work, because they would come in off the streets."

Having returned five years ago because of his mother's ill health and subsequent death, Father Crilley plans to remain in Australia and is at present superior of the Douglas Park retreat house.

Since his return, he still receives visits from former Japanese friends on their honeymoons or holidays.

"Australia," he said, "is one of the cheapest places in the world for Japanese honeymooners to come to."

— C. McG-H

responsible for formulating the ideology of the Italian Catholic lay movement, Communion and Liberation.

The scheduled keynote speaker is Cardinal John J. O'Connor of New York, talking on "AIDS: Between Science and Conscience."

The pope will close the conference with a major speech.

The pope, during his 1987 U.S. visit, encouraged Catholic health organisations and workers to develop comprehensive care programs for AIDS patients.

He also met AIDS sufferers in San Francisco.

"God loves you all without distinction," the pope said in San Francisco, "He loves those who are sick, those who are suffering from AIDS." At the meeting the pope hugged then-4-year-old Brendan O'Rourke, who has AIDS.

A symbolic funeral WARSAW, (CNS): — Hundreds of victims of Stalinism, believed to be secretly buried in mass graves in several Warsaw cemeteries, were given a symbolic funeral. last week.

Cardinal Glemp and two Solidarity government ministers were at the ceremony at St Catherine's Church in Warsaw. Press estimates of mourners ranged 5000 among worshippers.

Between 500 and 2800 people executed between 1945 and 1956 at Warsaw's Rakowiecka prison

might be buried in mass graves at a cemetery near the church. Hundreds of others are said to be buried at other sites in the capital.

"We want to fulfil today our Christian duty, which was not fulfilled in the times of disdain and terror," Cardinal Glemp told the congregation before an urn with earth collected from the cemetery and other sites was buried in the churchyard.

According to witnesses, the victims were buried secretly at night without religious rites.

Since the new government took power in Poland, it is speeding up investigation of what happened when Soviet dictator Josef Stalin installed Communist authorities after World War II. Many Poles believe hundreds of opponents were killed without trial or after faked hearings.

"We have to find the historical truth. All traces of this crime were erased. . . but we have a right to know," Cardinal Glemp said in his sermon.

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PAULIAN MEETING HELP PREGNANCY HELP The Paulian Association (Christian divorced, Pregnancy Help requests donations of good second separated, widows and widowers) quarterly meeting hand baby clothes, maternity clothes and prams, will be held at the Redemptorist Monastery Sunday, bassinets, baskets. To help phone 3255592.

November 12 commencing with Holy Mass at 2pm and followed by afternoon tea.

PRO-LIFE RALLY The Coalition for the Defence of Human Life has organized a major Pro-life Rally on the Esplanade on Saturday, November 25, commencing at 3 pm. This will be preceded by a "Walk for Life" from Parliament House which will start at 2 pm.

The meeting will be addressed by speakers from the main Christian Churches and Mr Alasdair Webster, M.P., from the Australian Parliamentary Pro-Life Group, which is an all-party group of M.P.s (Labor, Liberal, National Parties and Independent).

PRESENTATION REUNION A Presentation get together will be held at Nagle Hall, lona College, 33 Palmerston St, Mosman Park from 2pm — 5pm, Sunday November 19.

Archdiocesan Calendar NOVEMBER Heads of Churches meeting. Archbishop Foley.

15 Fremantle zone of priests. Archbishop Foley.

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

Mass for Diocesan Liturgy Committee.

16 Archbishop Foley.

Visitation and confirmation, Spearwood.

19 Archbishop Foley.

Visitation and confirmation, Cottesloe. Bishop Healy.

Confirmation, Dianella. Monsignor Keating.

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

End of Year Principals' Mass. Archbishop 21 Foley.

Visitation, Carilla. Archbishop Foley.

22 Induction Service Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. Bishop Healy.

Conference of Churches of WA. Archbishop 25 Foley.

25th Anniversary, Holy Cross Kensington.

26 Archbishop Foley.

Confirmation, Maida Vale. Bishop Healy.

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EXPOSITION Monday -Friday 8am-5.30pm.

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MORNING PRAYER Monday-Saturday 8.10am (The Chapel is CLOSED from 12 noon Saturdays, all through Sundays and on public holidays.)

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Nominations are sought from Catholic teachers to fill a vacancy that will occur from the beginning of 1990 on the Catholic Education Commission of Western Australia in the Lay Teacher Representative category.

Criteria for nomination and further information may be obtained from Sr Joan Buckham, Executive Secretary of the Catholic Education Commission, on 381 5444.

Closing date for nominations is November 24.

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Electrical Contractor J.V. KELLY (Kibeggan), Mrs D'Esterre, 5 Vivian St, GILMOUR, Benedict Xav- Ethel deed October 18 in ier, son of John and Rivervale. 30 yrs expeKidare, Ireland, Widow of rience, expert, efficient, Frances, brother to the late Thomas Kelly, reliable. Ring 362 4646, Marissa, James and loved mother of Father after hours 385 9660. Unit Gabrielle was baptised on Peter Kelly (formerly of E, 98 President St, October 1 by Father Perth), Paddy, Tommy, Kevin Cronin from KulinKewdale.

Kondinin Parishes at St Stan, Ned and Joan. Her requiem Mass took place Painting, quality work at Paul's Church Swanon Friday 20 October in the right price. John bourne in the presence of Ireland.

Sincere sympathy Freakley. Phone 361 4349. his godmother Trudi Jansen, family, friends and is extended to Father Peter Kelly and famiy Kingdom Electrics Lic No the Carmelite Sisters. from Archbishop Foley, 003467. Prompt 24 hr Archbishop Goody, service to all suburbs, Bishop Healy and the domestic, industrial, comTHANKS priests of the Archdiocese mercial, installation and of Perth. maintenance, computer cabling installed and POWERFUL Novena of childHICKEY, Leo Gerard: At terminated.

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from Mr P Pendal, MLC, Parliament House Perth Sir, I appreciate the fact that Archbishop Foley's role — like that of our own within the parliamentary system — would be all the easier if he remained silent.

I have no quarrel therefore with you having made a stand (on current legislative proposals).

His statement contains many commendable — and supportable — propositions but in my view contains a fundamental flaw in logic.

With respect, one cannot have the luxury of saying on the one hand that the Church maintains the view that homosexual behaviour is a morally reprehensible practice, while on the other hand he says he would hesitate to support decriminalisation if this would be interpreted as publicly condoning homosexual activity.

It is indisputable that passing the Bill now before parliament signals to the community — and especially those who are young and are going through the process of sexual maturity — that homosexuality is an acceptable practice and lifestyle.

Otherwise, why have Parliament (or Church for that matter) legislate on anything?

I would point out that much of society, and certainly the Church, currently bemoans the tragic breakdown in so many marriages (currently one in three).

Why should this surprise anyone, given that a decade and a half ago Australia legislated on marriage/divorce in such a way as to signal to society that marriage was a fairly unimportant, transient matter?

Society does take a lead from the Parliament. When Parliament says something is no longer unacceptable,

it is similarly seen as saying that that activity is acceptable.

I further suggest that society and the Church began to lose the abortion debate when people were able to compromise and say that abortion is acceptable when certain circumstances exist (le when a mother's life is in danger).

We all know that the law is now interpreted so loosely that we have an unstoppable position on our hands.

Archbishop Foley further puts to members that "it is not the role of law to be a moral policeman." That is a dangerous argument to have advanced since it is capable of being turned against him and the Church in many instances, such as the abortion debate.

I note, too, that he says the law should legislate against public advertising and soliciting for homosexual practice.

I find it difficult to see how he can arrive at that conclusion when his statement says "it is not the role of law to be a moral policeman."

I also regret that no attempt was made to comment on the assertion by the sponsor of the Bill that it is a morally and politically neutral one.

Finally, I do make the observation that politicians should be permitted freedom by their parties to vote according to their own assessments.

The Archbishop should be well aware that the Liberal Party already affords its MPs that right; I understood the National Party does too — it is the A.L.P. that does not permit its members such a conscience vote.

Concession may be springboard from Mrs P FLOOD Booragoon

Sir, the Archbishop's statement on homosexuality is brinkmanship. It conveys the impression that homosexuals should be satisfied with the legalisation of homosexual activity between consenting adults in private. It is gravely mistaken.

Homosexuals are constantly warned not to get caught up in the quest for rights as opposed to the struggle for liberation.

Gay rights merely involve legal protection. Gay liberation involves changing society. Legalising homosexuality as proposed in the current Bill before Parliament is but a stepping stone to the wider aims of homosexual law reform.

The Archbishop's statement should make homosexuals optimistic in claiming that they can sabotage society with their "sexuality".

It is hard to avoid that the Archbishop's state-

ment gives the impression that homosexuals are using people of goodwill to initiate law reform, knowing full-well that those who support them in this would not support them in their other aims, the fulfilment, however, of which depend largely upon the legalising of homosexual acts.

The statement hopes that other homosexual aims will not be realised.

But it hopes in vain, considering the State ALP Platform, no free

Silence would be answer from John VESZELY, Nollamara Sir, Both the Anglican and the Roman catholic Archbishops have come out with statements concerning homosexuality. Both have said things which would have been better not to have been said at all, for the peace of mind of believers in both camps.

No matter how anyone may twist what was said, homosexuals all over the place are going to — from here on, at all times and everywhere, on all possible occasions — say "you see, how dare you criticise us, even the archbishops of Perth are on our side." Sections of what

was said will be quoted "ad nauseam."

I always believed and argued, that our criminal codes base their laws on the Ten Commandments.

On the basis of those commandments homosexuality, practised by consenting or dissenting adults or non-adults, is a sin. A sin is a crime.

Hence there is no justification whatever to decriminalise acts committed by homosexuals, be it in the public lavatories, in the darkness of the night or the bedroom.

The archbishops of Perth I fear have done a great disservice to their Instead of people. perhaps demanding more appropriate and

perhaps more stringent penalties, as their objectionable behaviour in fact is a constant danger to the community by the spreading of AIDS too, they asked for leniency where none is called for.

Had the archbishops just managed to remain silent on the issue, if in fact they were not willing to demand in accordance with christian morality a strong and consistent stand, a great deal of concern in the community could have been spared, and the respect of the believers retained intact.

I for one am very sorry, that the statements have been made.

vote to State Labour MPs, the humbug of the age question and its ammendments, the homosexual tactics and strategies.

A concession today is a springboard tomorrow.

Homosexuals are not in any confusion about this.

Leave, as they say, the confusion to the heterosexuals.

It is regrettable that the Archbishop's statement has divided both priests and people of the Archdiocese.

Right but... from Mario RAPANARO, Dianella Sir, what the Archbishop is saying may be morally correct, however ramification of such statements will have the same result as the legalisation of abortion and the easy availability of divorce which saw the multiplication of such practices without any consideration or morality of family traumas.

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from Danielle WOOL TORTON, Como Sir, Congratulations to Archbishop Foley for his open support to decriminalise homosexuality.

It is inspiring to see the Catholic Church take a positive step over such a controversial and sensitive issue.

TOMORROW TODAY with Father Joe Parkinson

Thank you, all!

Any major youth event demands a great deal of planning beforehand, steady behindthe-scenes support, and the inevitable clean-up afterwards.

Lindsay Dutton of "Resurrection Shuffle" blowing up a storm.

To all of the other adult helpers — the Lawrences in the kitchen (and many other places), the 'night patrol' for their endless patience, and to all who stayed behind to clean up In the case of Flame '89, — thank you! one of the biggest youth Special thanks to the events of the year, these demands were more Mazenod community for than met by many wil- use of their school ling helpers young and facilities, and to "Resurrection Shuffle", who not old.

Great thanks are due to only performed all weeteam leaders Damon kend but spent long Angelatos and Nicole hours moving heavy gear Syed, to all of the talk before and afterwards. presenters and parent The success of our wide couples who work - youth apostolate can be shopped talks, and to Sr assured only with this Emilie Cattalini who kind of support from all prepared the talk parts of our Catholic outlines. community.

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More than a hundred people gathered in the Benedictine's New Norcia Art Gallery recently for a cocktail party and special viewing of the recently judged Mandoorla art collection.

Set-up as a fund raiser in order to purchase more works for their gallery, the event according to co-ordinator Dom Chris Power was a -huge success!" with people coming from as far afield as North Beach and Wembley Downs to join New Norcia folk and surrounding country people.

Special guest Sir Paul Hasluck congratulated the Benedictine Monks for their existing art works which, along with various other items of historical significance, form one of the biggest private collections in WA.

1. Cocktail party coordinator Dom Chris Power chatting with (not up!) Norma Connell (seated), a college student from 1918-23, watched by another former student, Irene Hill.

2. Special guest Sir Paul Hasluck, author of 12 books, catching up with one of his previous secretaries (relieving) Adrienne Byrne and son Patrick, and Dom Bernard Rooney who shares Sir Paul's interest in Aboriginal affairs.

3. Ian Kopke (left) and Roger Sinclair, discussing art and food! with Lin Hargreaves.

4. Claire and Bill Long, parents of Benedictine Father Kevin Long, who Iheard had to lasso a passing bird to get over from Sydney to set their son!

5. Ross Forrester (left), Wendy Pearce and Richard Cropper, having a drink and a chuckle at the Benedictine cocktail party.

6. One of the organisers, Janice Coven of Alogumber (left) with Maggie Berard, Wannamal, sharing a joke under the watchful eyes of husbands Lauch and Lindsay!

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Brothers John (left) and Geoff Cooke of Wembley Downs and North Beach, tell their wives Margaret and Judy, it's time to call it a day and head back to the suburbs, having rounded off a great night at the cocktail party with dinner in the NN hotel.

Eileen and Gerry Deasy stop Geoff (left) and John Cooke for a yarn midst the glitz and glam of (right). the

Wild bird habitats

In particular for those denied ready access to f lora, fauna and birdlife.

Tony Bray, long time

member of the Irish Club and actor of the Irish Theatre Players, is delighted with his proinvolvement duct because "it's getting back to nature and helping to preserve the species."

The polystyrene twosided box, 38cms wide by 25cms high and 25cms deep which is extendable, has four perches and

an expected life-span of many years.

The idea is to affix the box with its one-sided 24 karat gold mirror, against the householder's window so while the bird is feeding or looking at himself in the mirror, he can be observed unobtrusively.

The mirror also reflects pieces of shrubbery

placed in the box and any other vegetation nearby, which serves to attract.

It's great for those who love birds but can't bear to cage them, and yet still get to experience the wonder of birdlife even in a high-rise city setting.

For more information, please ring Tony on 368 1160.

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Songs of the River During November at 47 High Street, Fremantle, Birukmarri Gallery will host an important exhibition, Songs of the River, from the Aboriginal people of the Daly River community.

A wild bird habitat introduced into Australia for the first time, through Cecelia and Tony Bray's Garrett International, is one which should have wide appeal.

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The art of the Daly River people is unique for its spirituality. It represents a rediscovery of the traditional Aboriginal heritage following the influence of the Catholic missionaries.

At the same time, the artworks of some of the key members of the community, like Miriam Rose Ungunmerr, bridge the two forms of spirituality, translating one into the other. (Miriam Rose Ungunmerr illustrated Alan Marshall's very successful book People of the Dreamtime.)

The works in the Birukmarri exhibition are princi-

pally by the women of the community, although the works of two men will also be exhibited. The work had its wellspring in the formation of a women's centre at the Daly River Community early in 1987.

The exhibition will consist mainly of acrylics on canvases and boards. There are paintings depicting the country— natural life forms, food, landscape — there are dreaming paintings, paintings of stories, paintings which depict traditional bodily markings and, as mentioned, paintings which fuse Christian and aboriginal spirituality.

The people of Daly River still maintain strong elements of their traditional relationship with the River, hunting and fishing. Some of the crafts that will be included in this exhibition reflect that lifestyle. There will be dilly bags and fish nets made from the Merrepen Palm. In fact, the art group has called itself

'Merrepen Arts out of respect for their people who have traditionally used the Merrepen Palm to make their nets.

There will also be textiles in the form of silk scarves and batik t -shirts.

This work is significant because the surge of paintings since the opening of the centre has led to a new self recognition, said Eileen Farrelly of the Daly River Community management.

'It is also a means by which these people can save their stories.

The Daly River region is rich with life, crocodile, porcupine, lizards, fish, turtles, and Songs from the River reflects this abundance. There are also mythical figures — serpents and mermaids, which appear in the paintings about the Dreaming.

There is a passion in the works that draws the viewer to look closely at each and every painting.

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LIVING WITH LOSS LIVE-IN WEEKEND WORKSHOP Presented by

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by TOM BRANCH This year's ACLTA Carnival is being held in Brisbane over the Christmas/New Year holiday period.

Tennis Venue: University of Queensland Tennis Centre.

Social Functions: Tuesday, December 26: Welcome night to be held at University of Queensland Tennis Clubhouse.

Fork Dinner to be served.

Wednesday, December 27: A great night is assured on "The Island" - rock the night away to a great D.J. and see Brisbane from its Beautiful River, on board a refurbished Vehicular Ferry - Palm Trees and all. You'll need your grass skirt for this one.

Thursday, December 28: Another great night of dancing - this time combined with a Queensland Seafood Banquet at the famous Gambaro Seafood Restaurant.

Friday, December 29: The Brisbane Travelodge

has been chosen as the venue for the formal function of the Carnival - the Dinner Dance and crowning of Miss A.C.L.T.A. Sunday, December 31: The New Year Eve Ball will be held in the Dining Room at Cromwell College.

A ccommodation: Accommodation has been arranged at Cromwell College which is located just a few minutes walk from the Tennis Centre. Rooms are mainly single student rooms and are comfortable and well appointed.

Cost of accommodation including light breakfast will be $100 for the Carnival period.

Extended periods can be arranged.

All booking or enquiries are to be done through WACLTA. Accommodation booking deposit of $30 per person is required by November 15.

ALL PAST TEACHERS & STUDENTS of

SACRED HEART PRIMARY SCHOOL HIGHGATE are invited to share in the celebrations of our 75th anniversary

at 2pm on November 19 in the school grounds.

Three weeks to go!

Professionally designed dried flower arrangements complete with five candles mounted.

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CHRISTIAN MEDITATION DAY OF MEDITATION Saturday, November 18 9.30am to 4pm

Servite Priory (Enter from rear car park) No. 2 Morgans St, Tuart Hill Program includes practical meditation. A video teaching, discussion and fellowship.

The program is for the support and encouragement of at meditators and for those who wish to know about meditation. Bring a friend Enquiries: Vesta or Sam 458 5633 Cathy or Tony 383 2002 Organised by the Mandorla Centre of Inner Peace.

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COMO/KENSINGTON PARISH To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the opening and blessing of HOLY CROSS CHURCH, Broad Street, Kensington, Mass will be celebrated at 9.30am on Sunday November 26.

Members and former members of the parish are warmly invited to join this celebration and the morning tea which is to follow in the hall afterwards.

SOUTH PERTH SONG Coming out of the Year of Mission and to praise God with music and song as part of liturgical worship, St Columba's parish South Perth will hold a festival of Church Music over the weekends of November 11-12, 18-19, 25 and finishing on the Feast of Christ the King on the 26th.

For information contact Harold Walsh 367 1526 or Father Casey at St Columba's.

XAVIER FAREWELL Our Lady Help of Christians' and St Francis Xavier Schools say farewell as they amalgamate with St Joachim's High and Primary schools and become - in 1990 - Ursula Frayne Catholic College at a eucharistic celebration at Our Lady Help of Christians church Camberwell St East Victoria Park on December 3 at 2.30pm followed by afternoon tea at 3.30pm in the school hall for adults and in the undercroft for children.

NEWMAN SOCIETY Vatican II Study Group, 11 am Tuesday November 14 at 13 Dean St, Claremont: Decree on Ecumenism, Introduction and Chapter I. Contact number 446-7340. The Scripture Group will not meet again until March 8.

The annual general meeting of the Newman Society will be held in the McAULEY FETE Senior Common of St Thomas More The Catherine McAuley Fete on College, Crawley, on Tuesday Sunday November 26 is having a November 21 at 7.30 pm. This will "White Elephant". Ean James the be followed by a talk to be given by Elephant keeper needs your surplus, Father P. Bishop S.J. on: "Jesuit bric a brac, books, clothes, ornaEducation: Where it Comes From ments and knick knacks. Call me on and Where It's Going." contact No: 381 9222 at the Centre.

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TRIDENTINE MASS Both the above meetings are open A Tridentine Mass will be celeto the public. brated each Sunday at 11am in Corpus Christi church, Myaree.

CHURCH WEEKEND Archbishop Foley has granted this Father Ron Nissen S.M. will present two Church Weekends in permission in response to requests November and December at Lesmur- from people who hitherto have attended the Tridentine Mass die and Osborne Park. celebrated first at Clontarf and most The Church Weekend is one of the recently at Myaree on the first Pastoral and Matrimonial Renewal Centre programs, primarily addressed to couples, Saturday of each month. priests and religious who have previously The archbishop's permission is experienced a Marriage Encounter given in response to that request and weekend but is also open to singles who also the urging of Pope John Paul for have already had some other renewal a "wise and generous application of experience in the church, e.g. Antioch, the directions."

Barnabus, Charis, etc.

The non-residential weekend begins on Friday evening, includes all day Saturday and concludes late Sunday afternoon.

Mass is shared on both Saturday and Sunday.

At Lesmurdie parish, November 25-27 is being offered as a full parish renewal; Osborne Park weekend takes place December 1-3. Registrations and further details phone Ron and Helen Howerd 291 6168.

Enquiries Peter and Veronica Dymond 574 2688.

QUEENS PARK PRAYER On the Solemnity of Christ the King, November 26th, there will be Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in St Norbert's Priory Church, Treasure Road, Queens Park from after 9.30am Mass until 7.30pm.

The Liturgy of the Hours will be celebrated:Midday Prayer 12.10pm, Vespers 5.45pm (evening prayer), Compline 7.15pm (night prayer). Enquiries to 451 5586 or 458 2729.

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COUNTRY PRAYER A Day of Reflection will be held on November 27th at St Joseph's Parish church, Kellerberrin in honour of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal.

Parishioners from country centres are gathering together there to share a day of prayer and reflection in preparation for Advent and Christmas.

The day is being organised by combined country centres and commences at 9.30am concluding with Mass at 2pm. There will be enrolment in the Miraculous Medal.

Those attending are asked to BYO lunch and share. For information ring (096)22 3109, (090)44 7035, (096)38 1042.

MONICA BROWN A concert/faith celebration with Monica Brown, composer of the TV song "Hello My God" will be given on Saturday December 2 at John XXIII College Graylands 8pm to 10.30 pm $12 for adults $8 concessions. Tickets available at the door or phone 3841122.

Redemptorist Retreat House Camelia Street, North Perth

November 17-19, 1989 Cost $95 (includes meals & accom) Friday evening, Nov 17: Registration and Getting To Know You Session Saturday, Nov 18: The Experience of Grief. . . Speaker: Gerry Smith. Living Through The Loss of A Marriage . . .

Speaker: Dr Denis Ladbrook. Letting Go/Moving On . . . Speaker: Carol Deppe. Healing Service . . .

Fr Graeme Manolas (Anglican Church), Fr Frank Smith (Catholic Church). Music by Harvest.

Sunday, Nov 19: Please Hear What I am NOT Saying. . . Speaker: Gerry Smith. Be Still and Know Relaxation and Meditation. . . Speaker: Sheila Bowler.

Registration forms can be obtainedfrom

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