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advocates ol social justice have died in this Commenting on the murder in El Salvador FOLEY violent way. women, lay two of six Jesuit priests and Archbishop William Foley of Perth, "We deplore this latest act of savagery ON Chairman of the Bishops' Committee for priests and lay people in that against Justice, Development and Peace, made this country. statement today. THE "The voices of these Jesuit priests and the murder of Archbishop Romero friends have been silenced but their their "Like MURDER nine years ago, this appalling tragedy lives and the manner of their deaths carry a message for us all. We pray that their draws the world's attention to what is OF sacrifice will not be in vain and that its fruit happening in El Salvador to so many will be a more just and peaceful society in people who defend the poor and other of thousands of Tens El Salvador." oppressed. EIGHT
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VATICAN CITY: Cardinal Ratzinger said the doctrinal congregation which he heads was correct in identifying atheistic, totalitarian regimes as the "shame of our time" in a document published in 1984. The congregation took a lot of heat for the statement at the time, he said, but its position "has been somewhat confirmed by history now". Cardinal Ratzinger said "the collapse of Marxist ideology" today was "sensational,
visible, palpable, and politically and socially effective". That is not quite so true of materialistic consumerism, he said, even though "its insufficiency is also visible". The cardinal said that "while ideologies as such or as realised in political systems are collapsing, the temptation of ideologies is still present", insofar as people are inattentive to transcendental values.
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An Irish priest AIDS sufferer was bundled out of a Vatican conference on AIDS one day but on the next day was hugged by the conference chairman in front of 1000 delegates. "The Church has AIDS" said a placard held by Kiltegan Society African missioner, Fr John White, 43, as he leapt to the podium from which he was removed. Fr White got AIDS while a health worker in Nigeria. Today he works in London helping the disease's victims, "just as missionary as being in Africa", he said. When Archbishop Angelini embraced Fr White and kissed him on both cheeks he said to prolonged applause: "They say we are holding an AIDS convention without the presence of sufferers. In fact some victims are here among us. Some have for understandable reasons asked for their identity to be concealed." Fr White replied: "Sorry for the outburst. It was done as a cry and a plea for solidarity, for when a Christian is sick, then all the church is ill and suffers with him. That's what my red-paint sign meant. I am myself suffering from the AIDS virus.I contracted it during missionary work in Africa."
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VATICAN CITY (CNS): In readiness for his meeting next Thursday with President Gorbachev Pope John Paul II met with top Vatican officials and Ukrainian church leaders to discuss improved prospects for Eastern-rite Catholics in the Soviet Union. The pope's discussions with Vatican leaders centred on the need to keep building better relations between the Ukrainian and Russian Orthodox churches — an issue considered a key to full religious freedom for the estimated 5 million Ukrainian Catholics inside the Soviet Union. The high-level encounter was called by the pope for the morning of November 15 and was continued over lunch the following day. Among those attending were Cardinal Lubachivsky, head of the
Ukrainian Catholic church worldwide, and Cardinal • Willebrands, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. The purpose of the encounter was to "promote a common reflection on the evolution of the situation" of Easternrite Catholics in the Soviet Union, especially in the western Ukrainian republic, the statement said. The statement urged "mutual and fraternal recognition and respect between the two sister the in churches" Ukraine. It concluded: "Whatever may have been the difficulties and tensions of the past, a spirit of forgiveness and reconciliation must reign which will allow Christians to witness together to their faith and its requirements."
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"These priorities are shared by progressive environmentalists in Australia and overseas, as well as by people holding what is generally regarded as a conservative position on the bioethics issues," Senator Tate said. "There is both the opportunity and a crucial need for an alliance between these forces." Senator Tate pointed to the work of renowned Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki. He linked the arrogance of scientific elites manipulating the genetic origins of life, to the arrogance of political and commercial elites who would unleash environmental destruction in pursuit of their goals. "Recognition of that relationship provides the foundation for a world alliance between all those who are concerned with the preservation of life and the quality of life," Senator Tate said.
Bias towards abortion Dr Judith Stratton's advocacy at a public health seminar held in Perth, that abortion be decriminalised and inserted into the Health Act in the interests of women's health, gives a clear indication of the motives of her findings which were published by the WA Health Department in 1987 under the heading abortion in Western Australia, says the
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Record Long before govenments and civic authorities found how to fiddle with the calendar and nominate 'weeks. . .' for their own benefit, the Catholic Church had gone even one better than legendary Roman deities whose names were given to the months and days. By naming the days in honour of those who served Christ gloriously the Church would build a folklore of its heros and heroines. Ominously, the first to fill the dates would be the martyrs — first Stephen, then James, then Peter, then Paul. Martyrs can be covered in instant glory because their deeds are easier to summarise than the hidden and complex sanctity of so many others. They walk remarkably close to their Jesus Lord who warned that what was good enough for Him would have to be their lot too. So flush has the Church calendar become with its swelling ranks of saints that the public list was sternly pruned some decades ago, leaving many to wonder if driving would get worse after the demotion of St Christopher. It did! More to be regretted in the empty calendar spaces is the loss of a chance to re-tell the stories, for saving the Church of today from forgetting the blood, sweat and tears on which the mission of Christ has been built and strengthend till today. Long before computers could go down, the liturgical calendar had its own printed backup. Page by page, day by day the Martyrology listed as many of the saints as could be remembered from anywhere. Piously, at the end, it included 'anywhere else, the other many saints, martyrs and confessors, and may God have mercy on the rest of us'. Religious houses that once obediently listened to the lists passed up the practice either because the gory details were hard on the stomach or the soup was going cold in the longer recitations. The list still expands today. The martyrologies need to be dusted off and up-dated. There are new martyrs: six Salvadoran Jesuits, their cook and her daughter. They won't make it to the top rank heroic sanctity lists for a time because the church corridors like to mull over these questions for a decade or two, just to be sure. In real life, ordinary people know they have a feel for the real saints and martyrs. Even Pope John Pual has joined the swelling chorus, processing more saints than his successors ever imagined and right into our times. The lesson being taught is that no matter how fast the world is determines to unlearn and forget its Christian past, then the more determinedly will we proclaim the heroic present. The gospel the Salvadoran Jesuits preached is hated by the death squads who murdered them and the military who allowed it to happen. They hated even the women who dared housekeep for that gospel's sake. So the savagery and anger of those who hate a gospel is not pretty and it is not new. We can say we don't want to hear the grubby politics, the greed, the violence that surrounds the Salvadoran civil war, a dirty war amongst many Third World dirty wars. But dirty too were the Jerusalem politics that slew James, or the Imperial rot that sent Peter and thousands of his successors to their Roman deaths, the corruption of England that murdered and plundered in the name of its new Church, the mobs running amok against religious in Spain, or the agendas of German and Russian death camps. Academics may debate whether Kolbe died as a martyr or simple Christian hero. In the end, the gospel that can transform so many lives becomes the greatest threat to those who so bitterly hate and destroy its practitioners. It's all the same to them. The Salvadoran martyrs have had too fleeting a moment of recognition in the world's media. Not so in even just a recent three months, two bishops in Somaliland and Colombia, a priest in Brazil, a nun in Kenya. Martyrdom has no earthly rewards. The glorification of martyrs is not for themselves but for the Christ who would stand up for the millions of today's poor who are being brutalised by the land-hungry money-hungry oppressors of today no less than the black villains who can be painted as far off shadows of the past. San Salvador and a dozen other locations are the running sores of today's rottenness. The only risk is that the human global body is too busy even to care. 4 The Record, November 23, 1989
$1. WASHINGTON (CNS): Four Catholic-affiliated organisations that promote sexual abstinence among teens shared in $1.6 million in federal grants under the Adolescent Family Life program. Secretary Louis W. Sullivan of Health and Human Services said that the supported projects "are designed to address the underlying problems that lead ado-
+ An,It pays to help keep sex out lescents into early sexual activity and out-ofwedlock pregnancy".
Among those awarded grants were the Arts of Living Institute, a department of Catholic Charities of Chicago, $152,933; Covenant House of New $145,700; Orleans, Rosalie Manor of Milwaukee, $128,645; and Northwest Natural Family Planning Services of Oregon, Portland, $116,068.
Rose Fuller, director of Northwest Natural Family Planning Services, said she had "to be careful" in discussing her agency because of the "ACLU", adding that "we cannot teach religion" under the grant but "we can teach the values". She was referring to the American Civil Liberties Union, which had challenged the 1981 Adolescent Family Life Act. In June 1988 the US
Abortion 'drama' to tail to react and to firmly defend respect for life," he said. The pope said a frequent cause of abortion was "a disorder in sexual life," which the 1968 encyclical "Humanae Vitae" ("Of Human Life") tried to address. "In married life the moral norm cannot be considered as a simple ideal to be reached in the future. Instead, it is a commandment which the church has the mission to express in the Lord's name, requiring the (couples') firm commitment in overcoming difficulties." The pope said group members should remember that when
Supreme Court upheld the role of religious organisations in the federal program to fight teenage sexual activity. The majority held in the 5-4 decision that the socalled chastity law "has a valid secular purpose, does not have the primary effect of advancing religion, and does not create an excessive entanglement of church and state". Mrs Fuller said her
Bid to keep religion out of politics
BALTIMORE (CNS): Despite an increase in registered families, overall Mass attendance in the Baltimore Archdiocese fell about 10 per cent in the last four years, according to parish reports. Total Sunday Mass attendance was down from 184,106 in 1984 to 166,297 in 1988, according to statistics collected by the archdiocese,
which has a total Catholic population of about 438,000. Attendance among the 15-19 age group was down the most, while there was increased churchgoing by those over 65. "I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn't worse," said Ennio Mastroianni, director of evangelisation and family life, whose division
has a 10-point program to increase weekend Mass attendance. The data is collected in parishes, using cards passed out at weekend Masses, usually in April or May, a method that has been used for at least the last five years. Before then, methods used to count attendance were inconsistent and sometimes resulted in overestimating.
SINGAPORE: Legislation to ensure that religion is kept out of the political arena is likely to be introduced at the next sitting of Parliament. The Bill will then be referred to a Select Committee to give an Singaporeans opportunity to share their views on the subject. This will be in keeping with the government's policy that religious groups must not get themselves involved in the political process. Notice has been the given that inGovernment tended to spell out clear and unequivocal ground rules that groups religious would be expected to follow scrupulously because if they were violated, "even with the best of intentions, our political stability will be imperiled". The Minister for Law and Home Affairs did not spell out what the precise rules would be beyond saying that it would be used to deal with individuals or
GLASGOW (CNS): The Glasgow archdiocesan newspaper has called for revision of Britain's terrorism law to protect innocent citizens from imprisonment.
conviction the govern"It should not be forgotment says was wrong. ten that their sad saga "The wrongful impri- had its genesis in the sonment of the Guildford obscene actions" of the Four can justifiably be IRA, which it called a described as a victory, "foul organisation". albeit a victory for depravity," the news"One law which should paper said. "In propa- now be brought into the ganda terms, it was arena of serious scrutiny undoubtedly a triumph is the Prevention of for the IRA (Irish Repub- Terrorism Act," the edilican Army)." torial said.
Under that act police can hold terrorist suspects for up to seven days without charging them with crimes and without judicial control. The act "has already been declared unlawful by the European Court of Human Rights", it said, "only to be met by a (British) government decision to return to the
VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul II said abortion is a modern "drama" so serious that Christians cannot fail to work against it. The pope, addressing a group of French family counsellors also strongly defended church teaching on sexual morality, saying it should be taken as a "commandment" not a "simple ideal". "We know that instead of giving life freely and willingly, many women and men today are tempted to deprive the already-conceived infant of his own life", the pope told the group. "Abortion is a drama in the face of which it is impossible for Christians
counselling married couples. "Your role is very delicate," he said. Christian marriage counsellors must listen to couples and show respect for their beliefs, he said. But they also must help couples "discover the values that are at the foundations of moral norms in married life," he said. Counsellors are doing their jobs when they help bring couples around to a "discernment" based on the Church's teachings, he said. This is especially important because "the ultimate decision, as in all moral action, is made by the subject, in conscience", he said.
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service conducts parentteen classes to help teenagers with sexual abstinence. The latest statistics, she said, showed that schoolbased health clinics "make no impact" on reducing teenage pregnancy. The US bishops have objected on both moral and practical grounds to school based clinics providing birth control services.
groups seeking to mix religion with politics and also those who or caused disharmony between the different faiths. However, he made it clear what kinds of behaviour and activities the Government considered objectionable and why. The Government, he said, took a serious view of religious leaders who strayed beyond the confines of religious activities or who exploited and manipulated religious groups. This was because if one group involved itself in political issues, others would follow suit to protect their own positions. If this happened, political parties too would also begin to look for religious groups to back them. "Inevitably, this will lead to a collision with the Government and also between religious groups. "The outcome would surely be conflict and political instability." — Straits Times overseas edition
European court to seek exemption." The editorial said that "the due process of law is an indispensable ingredient of the democratic civilised society. . . and in the wake of this scandal effort must now be invested to determine that laws are indeed just."
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ROME (CNS): The legalisation of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the Soviet Union "will require compromise on all sides — the government, local officials, the Russian Orthodox Church and ourselves", said Ukrainian Cardinal Myroslav Lubachivsky. "We are saddened that our Russian Orthodox brethren still take a hostile position toward Ukrainian Catholics," Cardinal Lubachivsky said. "We will try, however, through the principles of Christian love and understanding, to coexist peacefully with them if our church is legalised." The cardinal said that legalisation "has become a moral issue for the entire Soviet people." "We must remember that this nation has, for many years, claimed that it respects the basic human rights of its citizens. Yet, five million of these citizens have been denied their right to religious freedom," he said.
The cardinal said the opportunity for change is not only the result of Gorbachev's reform policies, but of the pope's diplomatic initiatives and continuing demands for religious freedom. While it is important to take advantage of any openings made by Gorbachev, "I want to ensure than any changes that occur are sincere and not just cosmetic," he said. "Only a sincere change without loopholes, will guarantee the freedom of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Ukraine regardless of who is in power," the cardinal said. "The issue of a Ukrainian Catholic patriarchate could be resolved positively if the church in Ukraine is legalised," he said. "The primary problem with this, up until now, has been the official non-existence of our church in its homeland. "This issue is not foremost on our agenda now," he said. "First we want our church in Ukraine to be legalised, then, we want it to be healthy and united with
our church in the West." He said that as soon as the church is legalised, he would plan a trip to the Ukraine. As the archbishop of Lvov "that is my pastoral territory", he added. After 43 years of surviving underground, the church in the Ukraine will face a "difficult task" in structuring itself, he said. "Our first responsibility is to establish seminaries and catechetical programs for our faithful," the cardinal said. "We will simply take the matter one step at a time and, with God's grace, I believe we will succeed."
When asked about the connection possible between the Ukrainian Catholic Church and the Ukrainian nationalist movement, the cardinal said "our first priority is the spiritual development of our people." "Though we have always defended the basic human rights of our faithful, the hierarchy and clergy of the Catholic Ukrainian Church believe it is best
to leave politics to the politicians," Cardinal Lubachivsky said. Cardinal Lubachivsky said Ukrainian Catholics would work peacefully and within the bounds of Soviet law to secure the legalisation of their church. The statement was issued less than two weeks after the Soviet news agency Tass reported "confrontations" between Ukrainian Catholics and Rusin Orthodox sian Western Ukraine. Tass said criminal charges had been filed against several Ukrainian Catholics after a priest and parishioners at a Russian Orthodox church declared their parish to be Ukrainian Catholic October 29th.
Cardinal Lubachivsky said the recovery of the Church of the Transfiguration in the Ukrainian city of Lvov was conducted peacefully by the assistant pastor in response to a petition signed by "all 10,000 members of the parish" the that asking
Ukrainian-rite Divine Liturgy replace Russian Orthodox services there. "Following several conversations with our clergy and faithful in Ukraine", the cardinal said he was convinced that the Tass reports of violence were false. He said the assistant pastor, Father Yaroslav Chukhnj, "was an underUkrainian ground Catholic priest serving as a Russian Orthodox priest". The church building was home to a Ukrainian Catholic congregation until 1946, when the Soviet government of Josef Stalin outlawed the Church. Ukrainian Members were told to Russian the join Orthodox Church and most of the buildings owned by the Ukrainian Catholic Church were transferred to the Russian Orthodox. During a hastily called meeting November 2 in Moscow, high-level VatiRussian and can Orthodox delegations pledged to increase their dialogue and condenmed violence.
t s i Bapt Warning on demise to new body of seminaries BALTIMORE (CNS): The US bishops have been warned of the "imminent demise" of Catholic college seminaries in the United States unless significant steps are taken to support them financially and to send students to them.
Bishop Keleher, chairman of the bishops' Committee on Priestly Formation, said that in the last two years alone college seminary enrolment dropped 20 per cent, from 2828 to 2247. "You need to be aware
of the imminent demise of what we consider a critical tool" for priestly formation, he told the bishops. He said that in recent years bishops have placed more and more emphasis on the "pretheological formation" of priesthood their candidates. "We are terribly close to losing its finest form" as college seminaries close or face ever-smaller enrolments, he said. He urged the bishops to act quickly, saying that if they do nothing about
the situation they will have made the decision on the fate of college seminaries.
Bishop Keleher said that in the past decade college seminary enrolment had dropped nearly 50 per cent, from 4355 to 2247. He said only one college seminary today has more than 100 students. "Thirty others have from 10 to 100 students. Sixty-nine programs have nine or fewer students and 12 pro-
grams report no students," he said.
"Some of these may be more properly classified as 'houses of formation' rather than college seminaries." He said a recent Vatican report based on visits to all US college seminaries generally gave them high marks, saying that "they are ably led, wellstaffed, convinced of the enterprise of priestly formation and offer prograins that are comprehensive and wellbalanced".
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UNITED NATIONS (CNS): The Vatican has endorsed a proposal that principles enunciated in a 1981 UN declaration against religious intolerance be upgraded into the legally binding form of an international convention. However. Archbishop
Martino, the Vatican's permanent observer to the United Nations, said that the convention should be written "in a more positive vein" to uphold the right to basic religious freedoms, not oppose just discrimination.
Archbishop Martino Speaking in the General Assembly committee quoted a papal address dealing with humanitar- reporting that from ian affairs, the archbi- more than one country shop placed the 1981 there continues to arrive document among the appeals from believers — "significant steps" taken notably Catholic believby the United Nations in ers — who feel oppressed dealing with religious in their religious aspirations and in the practice. rights.
GLASGOW: The Baptist Union of Scotland has rejected membership of a new ecumenical body in Scotland which is to replace the Scottish Churches Council and which will include the Catholic Church as full members for the first time.
At their assembly in Edinburgh, the Baptists voted by 345 votes to 152 not to join the new body, Action of Scottish Together Churches (ACTS), which will come into being in 1990, and also rejected associated membership. The objections voiced centred on the involvement of the Roman Catholic Church, which has moved from observer status on the Council to full membership of ACTS. The Baptist Union (18,000) was a member of the Council. The Free Church of Scotland (20,000) will not take part in ACTS.
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SAN SALVADOR, (El Salvador) (NC): Central American University, where six Jesuit priests, a cook and her daughter were assassinated, has been the scene of violence in the past. Its staff, including those killed last week, had received anonymous threats in the days preceding the killings. The Jesuit-run university is one of the most highly regarded institutions of higher education in Central America. Jesuit Father Jose Maria Toieira, Central American provincial, said that people suspected of being Salvadoran guerrillas put a low intensity bomb in a door at the university on November 11 so that they could get into a building. On
November 13, he added, members of the armed forces entered the university and inspected the campus and the Jesuit residence, despite protests by the priests Also, November 13, the Salvadoran newspaper La Prensa Grafica reported criticisms of the university by callers of a talk show on government radio. Callers said the Jesuits must be expelled from El Salvador because they had hidden weapons at the university for the past 10 years. They placed most of the blame on Jesuit Father Ignacio Ellacuria, university rector and one of the six a&sassinated.
The callers also threatened and criticised Archbishop Damas and Auxiliary Bishop
Barbarity of -top order SAN SALVADOR: The threat of death hung over Archbishop Arturo Rivera Damas this week after he accused the Salvadorean armed forces of murdering six Jesuit priests last week. The archbishop called last week's fighting "worse than the earthquake" that killed 1500 Salvadoreans in 1986. He said the slaying of the priests "puts our country in first place in terms of barbarity". Archbishop Rivera Damas said there was "a strong indication that the priests' assassins are members of the armed forces or closely tied to them". He accused the g overnment controlled media of paving the way for the murders by broadcasting charges from ano-
nymous phone callers linking the priests to left-wing subversion. Shortly after he spoke, the AttorneyGeneral, Mr Mauricio Eduardo Colorado, said that both Archbishop Rivera Damas and Auxiliary Archbishop Gregorio Rosa Chavez should leave the country because of death threats against them. The Church, claimed the Attorney-General, was responsible for most of the violence in El Salvador, and priests who were friendly with leftist activists should be prepared for the consequences. President Cristiani, who attended the funeral service for the priests, appeared shaken. He promised an investigation into the killings.
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Chavez, saying that "instead of evangelical sermons, they make communist speeches" in favour of opposition guerrillas and political parties. Five days before the March 19 presidential election in El Salvador, shots were reported fired by a group of armed men who entered the university campus. A bomb blew up the university's power plant. No injuries were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack. Some Salvadoran political analysts said they believed the assault in March was carried out by right-wing paramilitary groups because of a general belief that the university is closely associated with the oppo-
sition Democratic Convergence, whose candidate placed third in the election. The Democratic Convergence is a coalition of political parties allied to the rebel Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMNLE). Before the elections, Father Ellacuria also publicly defended a call for a negotiated political settlement to the country's civil war in a nationally televised debate with an official of the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance, or ARENA. Alfredo Cristiani, ARENA's candidate, won the presidential election. Another of the murdered priests, Jesuit Father Segundo Montes, director of the university's Institute for Human
Rights, said in March that student activism in 1978-79, which made the university a target for reprisal from the country's right-wing, had subsided since uniformed National Police first attacked the campus in March, 1980. That attack was denounced by Archbishop Oscar A. Romero of San Salvador in his final Sunday homily before his asassination March 24, 1980. The police "were shooting as they entered the campus, and a student who was studying mathematics, Manuel Orantes Guillen, was murdered", the archbishop told churchgoers who had thronged to San Salvador's Metropolitan Cathedral to hear his homily.
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The archbishop called Father Montes said the attack "an unjustifia- human rights violations ble outrage. . . a serious and political repression attack against civilisation against students, profesand legality in our sors and administrators country". at Central American According to Father University and other Montes, after the 1980 Salvadoran universities attack and a series of continued. bombings of the campus, "In the second half of which lasted through February there were 1983, "the student organ- kidnappings" of stuisations disintegrated, dents, the human rights some because of fear or specialist said at the time. repression, others "Others have had their because they joined the houses ransacked, and armed struggle, and they've been threatened." because of the terror Father Montes said the which has been imposed fact that the university in the country". had escaped direct interHe said Central Ameri- vention by government can University students troops since 1980 was who are politically active one result of a policy of preferred to keep a low the government to avoid profile "as a measure of attacks against the security for themselves." Catholic Church in order While the number of to improve El Salvador's incidents had decreased international human since the early 1980s, rights image.
Prophetic analysis... SAN SALVADOR: Just two weeks before El Salvador's presidential election last March, I visited Jesuit Father Begundo Montes at the Catholic-run Central American University in San Salvador seeking information on human rights in the country. The grey-haired Spanish-born priest, killed in a brutal attack nine months later had the task of gathering and tabulating information on human rights violations in a country where 70,000 people have died violently over the last 10 years. Many of those were civilians caught in the crossfire of the country's civil war, but many others died at the hands of right-wing death squads, which Father Montes said operate in collusion with the country's armed forces. His analysis that day of the situation in El Salvador was more than bleak, it was prophetic: Should the attempt at negotiation between the Farabundo Marti National Liberation front guerrillas and the government break down and should the right-wing ARENA candidate, Alfredo Cristiani, win the March 15 election, the war would turn from bad to worse.
The negotiations broke down, Cristiani is president of the country and — despite a brief renewal of talk of peace — the war has reached a pitch unknown during the past decade. But being a specialist in human rights, Father Montes made two keen observations that day which, because of their accuracy and their irony in the aftermath of his murder, have stayed with me.
First, he said there was an upturn in death squad activity since the ARENA party had won control of government in May 1988. He predicted that their activity would further increase under a Cristiani government. Second, he attributed the cessation of death squad attacks on Jesuits in El Salvador since 1982 to a government policy designed to improve the country's human rights image abroad. When that policy no longer became expedient for whatever reason, Father Montes said, the Jesuits could expect to come under attack again. That attack came when a group of upwards of 30 armed men in military uniform pulled Father Montes and five other
By Mike Tangeman Jesuits from the order's house on the university campus and machinegunned them to death. Also killed were the priests' cook and her 15year-old daughter. Many of the Jesuits in El Salvador said they knew this day would come again. They had known the feeling of being hunted in 1979-80 when the protection their cassocks had provided once was disregarded and the death squads adopted the slogan "Be a Patriot — Kill a Priest". The fear, which must have never really gone away, returned to share their daily bread with them in recent months with the coming to power of ARENA. The party was founded by former army Maj Roberto D'Aubuisson, the man once referred to by former U.S. Ambassador Robert White as a "pathological killer". D'Aubuisson has been alleged by White and international rights organisations to be linked to the death squads and the March 1980 assassination of Archbishop Oscar A. Romero of San Salvador. D'Aubuisson has consistently denied the allegations.
Despite that call, Father One could see that latent fear in the steel Ellacuria was immebars at the entrance of diately branded by the the Institute for Human ultra-right as a rebel Rights. collaborator, and death One could hear it in the threats against him momentary hesitation in became more and more Jesuit Father Jon Sobri- frequent. no's voice during an Salvadoran Christians interview in his office give the titles "martyrs" across the road from to those who, bearing Father Monte's when an witness to their faith, die early-evening gun battle trying to promote justice and bomb blasts across in the country. town pitched the univerWhile the list of martyrs sity campus into is long, including Archbidarkness. shop Romero, four U.S. hurchwomen murc Yet, that feat was mixed with an acceptance of the dered in 1980 and the situation springing from many Salvadoran priests, a deeply held conviction nuns and catechists who among the Jesuits in El have been slain during Salvador that in a coun- the past 10 years, the try where so many had head of the San Salvador fallen victims, not only to Archdiocese's Tutela the civil war but to the Legal human rights office cautioned in an slow death of poverty. interview earlier this The priests saw no year against concluding choice but to continue their deaths have been in being a "voice of the vain. voiceless", speaking out "The reason we can for the poor and against speak out today, the the injustices tradition- reason we have a space ally perpetrated against today is because our them by a cruel and martyrs opened up this cynical elite. space," said Maria Julia For one of the priests Hernandez. killed along with Father Their deaths have been Montes, the university largely responsible, she rector, Jesuit Father said, for the positive Ignatio Ellacturia, that human rights work of the commitment included kind she and Father making a televised plea Montes had c.arrited out last March for a nego- for several years. tiated settlement to end Today, however, the the civil war. facts are disturbing.
Worldwide outrage
Tortured first... SAN SALVADOR: The six Jesuit priests were tortured before being killed, according to sources. The bodies of all the victims were riddled with bullets. All but one of them were naturalised citizens of Spanish birth. The husband of the slain cook, university security man Julio Ramos, says neighbours saw a large number of men in military uniforms break into the Jesuits' residence, which is called Romero Centre, at the time of the killings. The centre is named after the late Archbishop Oscar A. Romero, slain by an assassin in 1980. Ramos was not at the residence during the assault. The murders occurred shortly after 3am (4am EST) during a curfew imposed by the military over the beleaguered capital where fighting had raged since November 11 between rebels, who had launched a major offensive, and government troops. The university is on the southwest side of the city, at least five miles from San Salvador's northern neighbourhoods, where the heaviest fighting was taking place. A major military barracks is located nearby and troops patrolled the streets. The assailants took some of their victims to the lawn outside the residence and shot them. Others were shot in their rooms. Spent shells of automatic rifles, said to be from US-made M-16s, were strewn about the area where the bodies lay. In one room of the residence, 25 spent shells were found. Witnesses said a bomb was detonated at the time of the attack. Some observers believe it was used to force entry to the residence.
Pope describes killings as barbaric and says he is deeply saddened SAN SALVADOR (CNS): The murder of six Jesuit priests — including the head of Central American University along with their cook and her teenage daughter has drawn international outrage. Salvadoran President Cristiani called the killings an "act of savagery". He said the killers' purpose was to "hurt democracy and stop the peace process". The US ambassador to El Salvador William Walker visited Cristiani and "made the point that there has to be the fullest inquiry and certainly a rapid one". In San Salvador, Walker said: "I have difficulty in imagining what sort of animals would, in cold blood, execute priests and other innocents." He offered to protect any witness who agreed to testify. In Washington, Salvadoran ambassador to the United States Miguel A. Salaverria said one of the victims, Father Lopez y Lopez, was the "closest relative I have on my father's side". He said the 71-year-old Jesuit was an "excellent man" who kept "away from politics". Father Lopez y Lopez ran a religious education program, Faith and Happiness, for primary school children in the city's poor neighbourhoods. The ambassador defended his government against accusations of complicity in the murders, saying the assailants were "fanatics" of the left or the "extreme right". Pope John Paul H condemned the killings as "barbaric" and "horrible" and pleaded for all sides in the country's fighting to renounce violence. In separate telegrams to the Jesuit order and Archbishop Rivera Damas of San Salvador November 17, the pope said he had been "deeply saddened" over the murders, which he termed an act of "abominable violence".
To the Jesuits, the pope expressed his "sentiments of immense pain" and said he shared deeply in the "sadness of the entire Society of Jesw and of the families of the victims". The president of the US bishops' conference, Archbishop Pilarczyk of Cincinnati, reacted to the killings with a pledge of "continuing solidarity" with the Salvadoran bishops. Archbishop Pilarczyk said "this horrible crime is another tragic example of the bloody violence an deadly denial of human rights that haunts El Salvador". Jesuit officials in Rome condemned the killings as an act of "barbarian violence" and called for respect for the lives of other Church people who have been threatened. "The order condemns this barbarian violence that has already caused so many other victims in El Salvador. It hopes and prays that the blood of these brothers was not spilled in vain," the statement said. "It trusts that the lives and rights of so many other Church people and Salvadorans who have been threatened will be respected, and that a just peace will be impressed on the conscience of everyone," it said. Archbishop Damas, successor of the slain Archbishop Romero joined the protest: "As if 70,000 dead are not enough for them," the archbishop said, without making direct accusations. At least 70,000 persons have been killed in El Salvador's 10-year civil war.
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Element of surprise and the fact that we are not in control makes them not only suitable but exciting, says Fr Eugene LaVerdiere, SSS My favourite dream in the New Testament is a dream of Simon Peter in the Acts of the Apostles. Peter had this dream at the home of Simon, the tanner, which stood by the sea in Jaffa. Tanning was a dirty and smelly business, which is probably why Peter used to spend time up on the roof terrace. On one of those occassions, when Peter was at prayer, he fell into a trance. He had been fasting that morning and that may be why in his
trance he had a vision of food. A huge cloth, like a sail, was lowered from the sky. It was filled with animals, reptiles and birds ready for the slaughter. Then Peter heard a voice: "Get up, slaughter and eat". But at that Peter balked: "I have never eaten anything profane and unclean!" The voice spoke up a second time: "What God has made clean, you are not to call profane."
This exchange was repeated twice befor the cloth, with all the a ilmals, reptiles and birlis in it, was taken back up into the sky. When I think of that dream, and of others like the time Peter dreamed he was being freed i rom prison and woke ip to find that he really had been,Ithink of Joel , Old Testament prophesy on how young men vould see visions and oldmen would dream dreaas. There is somehing special about the dams
in the New Testament, in the whole Bible for that matter. dream is approached by First, they are so clear. people in it and even Everything happens in engages in dialogue with good order and finishes them. up nicely. Those who have dreams My own dreams are far more confused, more like in the Bible are like a play in which the actors people in a theatre talking with the characignore the script. ters in the movie being Second,Inotice that the shown. person who has the dream is actually standBut in my dreams,Iam ing out of it and not really part of the picture. I see in it. myself in the dream, Biblical dreams are which is really somemore like visions, where thing when I am being the one who has the chased by a lion.
Third, dreams in the Bible are wonderful divine messages. A dream can be an experience of revelation, as when Joseph learns that Mary has conceived through the Holy Spirit. It can consist in a divine warning, as when the magi avoid returning to King Herod on their way back from Bethlehem. A dream also can be an experience of liberation, as when Simon Peter is released from prison.
Or it can announce an unexpected mission, as in Peter's dream on the roof terrace. The dream still needed to be interpreted by experience, as would soon happen in the home of Cornelius the gentile centurion. In Cornelius' home, Peter would learn that what his dream said about the profane meant that the Christian community was open to both Jews and gentiles. The Christian mission was meant not only for the Jews but for all.
These special characteristics of dreams in the Bible set them apart form ordinary dreams. Sometimes it is hard to know whether we are being told in the Bible about a dream someone has while asleep, a daydream, a vision or a trance. What is important to note is that all of these can be great experiences of divine communication. Why do the evangelists and others present revelation in the form of dreams?
The answer is in the message of the dreams themselves. Messages that come in dreams usually are unexpected and often quite astounding. This is most obvious in the dream where Joseph learns the nature of Mary's pregnancy. A special experience of revelation is a divine surprise. Ordinary dreams are much like that. In dreams we are apt to confront deeply hidden and unexpected things about ourselves.
But there is something else. While we are asleep, dreaming, we are not in control of what happens in the dream. We are not in charge. That is how it is with revelation. We are not in charge. It is not up to us to decide what is to be revealed. God is in charge. The element of surprise and the fact that in dreams we are not in control makes them not only suitable, but very exciting vehicles -for presenting divine revelation.
Telling us to be mindful of realities
Dreams, like many creatures of the night, have been kept to the outer doorways of traditional Christianity. Despite their place in
Scripture, they seem to receive a cool welcome in our current theologies.
Our theology is written in the bright light of noon, full awake, very conscious and thoroughly rational. I have to confess that I
Biblical dreams and visions bring wonderful, sometimes surprising, messages from God — as St in a vision he had at the house of Simon, the tanner, writes Blessed Sacrament Father Eugene Peter discovered LaVerdiere.
Think of a riveting dream you once had — one so vivid in its details that you later told your family members or friends about it. Did they laugh as you told about your dream? Did they look amazed? Whatever their reaction, chances are that they found your dream riveting, just as you did. For dreams have an endless capacity to fascinate.
dreaming, or at least while in the restful state related to dreaming, of suddenly achieving an important new insight into a problem or of seeing something with clarity that earlier seemed overwhelmingly complex. There are those, then, who find dreams very revealing and who say they've had dreams that Most people have had were special moments of the experience while understanding.
In modern times, psychologists have found much material for discussion in dreams. Many psychologists believe that by understanding our dreams, we can know ourselves better. Psychologists, however, are not the only ones dreams find who revealing.
If dreams are fascinating today, there is no reasons to think they weren't fascinating to the people of biblical times. Numerous dreams are recorded in Scripture and they are, indeed, spellbinding moments. When reading of biblical dreams, however, it is important to keep some things in mind. The writers of Scripture were not like psychologists, jotting down notes
in a patient's record for future reference and interpretation. The biblical writers had other goals in mind. When you read Scripture, you always are reading of God, discovering who God is. Of course, you are also reading a story of humanity and its history — its salvation history. Do you ever conceive of God as someone who in an aloof manner sits aside and
could be counted among those rational creatures who lump dreams with horoscopes and fortune telling, and look on them all with a suspicious eye.
My kind of mind wants facts and reasons, and has little tolerance for mystic messages. Yet dreams appear in the Scriptures. At important times and in prominent places dreams serve as the context in
simply watches the lives of people unfold? If so, to read that God has stolen into someone's life and spoken to that person in a dream should alter your very notion of God. This is a dynamic God, not at all indifferent. This God does not leave people alone. In fact, this God is quite determined to have a "word" with people. There is no need to minimise the importance of the dreams themselves that appear in Scripture or to
which God's mesiage is delivered.
But what abou us? What, if anything might we hear in a drean? Let me give one pssible explanation, and brill do so by telling a slay on myself. Several years age after a sabbatical year spent travelling and wriing, I suffered a heart at ac.k, a bad one. My dictors assured me I 'would
suggest that there weren't times when God actually spoke to people in dreams. But the biblical writers were up to big things, and their big picture must be kept in mind. The God who speaks in dreams is a God who has ways of getting people's attention. The stories of dreams in Scripture show that God is present and involved, and that God's word gets through by hook or by crook!
Dreamers in those Biblical days Remember how God strolled in the garden with his creatures in the beginning of Genesis, chatting with them and tending to their needs? graphically This expressed God's care for human beings, God's active, direct involvement in their lives. But as theological awareness grew that God also is transcedent — that God is "other" — new ways of describing communication with the divine emerged. God's personal interest and engagement with human beings were preserved, but a "distance" was safeguarded also. Now we begin to hear of dreams as a vehicle for
the expression of God's plans. Undoubtedly, God sometimes did speak to people in dreams. At other times, dreams seem to have been used as a literary device to express divine communication, or actual divine action. This shows God communicating, not face to face but in more hidden ways. There was Jacob, for example, who at the shrine of Bethel had a dream in which he saw a ladder stretching from earth to heaven. "God's messengers were going up and down it," we are told (Genesis 28:12). This marked the shrine as a special point of meeting between God
and humanity. While Jacob slept, you will recall, his pillow was a bed of rocks. So it is a wonder that he had such a placid dream! The call of Samuel as an empowered divine spokesman also was described in terms of a dream. In his sleep, Samuel — a young attendant at the shrine of Shiloh — heard someone calling him.
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Thinking it to be his mentor Eli, Samuel went and asked what he wanted. Poor old Eli, awakened from his own dreams and understandably annoyed, told Samuel to go back to bed. Only on the third occurrence of the dream did Eli suspect
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God was calling Samuel. So Samuel was instructed to express his readiness if he heard the summons again. The Bible is filled with dreamers: Joseph the patriarch, whose dreams of personal greatness annoyed his brothers terribly and goaded them into murderous action; Joseph, the foster father of Jesus, who was
addressed in a dream about the coming birth of Jesus; Daniel, the clever interpreter of the Babylonian king's unsettling dreams — and so many others. It is difficult for the biblical scholar to know which dreams found in Scripture are dreams in the stricter sense of the term and which are literary devices. Whatever the
dreams served the biblical authors well, helping them to express God's active involvement in human history in understandable terms. A dream of another sort seems to have been an essential element in the ministry of the prophets. This is the kind of dream in which one imagines and works for a new and better kind of society for people.
recover, and I seemed to be growing stronger. But one night, as I felt I was getting my strength back, I had a vivid and commanding dream. It was about the black outer cape and black hood called a cappa that we members of the Dominican religious order wear over our white habit on formal occasions.
mine during my sabbatical travels, probably left hanging in a closet somewhere. It is an important part of our habit because we wear it on our last public appearance — in our coffins.
cappa ready at hand because I was going to need it. It would be easy to explain this dream as midnight worries about age and health. I would have no agrument with this explanation. In fact I used it myself. But I also went hunting
for my cappa. And when One explanation is that Our dreams can tell us I was sure it was lost, I they are a plea for "equal to be mindful of realities immediately had a new time" from the corners of Of course, we can that we could forget one made. our spirit that are neg- recognise rationally, for otherwise. lected in the competitive example, that we need to Should we attend to our Not only that, I let and stressful life so many slow down or to attend dreams? Well, they can everyone know where it and people to more people lead. was kept in case it should friendship, or give more be mirrors held up to aspects of ourselves that be needed. Life in a technological attention to the poetic we do not ordinarily see. If actions speak as world requires that we and creative side of us. loudly as words I am attend disproportionChristian spirituality But we also can picture suggests that we look at afraid I would have to ately to our ability to these needs to ourselves. all parts of ourselves, and plead guilty to acting on organise and control. When we are asleep, our in an integrated way, not this dream. But that is only one part imaginations can picture in disunion. In this, our of us. Other parts of the these needs in images dreams just might play a human spirit receive and stories. role.
Isn't it surprising when, on numerous occasions, God addresses people in the Bible while they are dreaming? Blessed Sacrament Father Eugene La Verdiere says that is precisely the case. In fact, in the CNS Religious Education Package this week he calls these biblical dreams divine surprises. Father La Verdiere is senior editor of Emmanuel magazine. Father John C.astelot, says that dreams came into Scripture as people became more and more aware of God's transcendence. Can people today learn anything from their dreams? Yes, says Dominican Father David K. O'Rourke. He says dreams sometimes represent appeals from parts of ourselves that are being overlooked. Katharine Bird interviews Dr Elizabeth Dreyer on the role dreams can play in spiritual direction.
The biblical authors tell of numerous instances when God spoke to someone in a dream. Father Eugene LaVerdiere describes biblical dreams as divine surprises. What does he mean? What is the purpose of dreams in the Bible, as Fathers John Castelot and LaVerdiere describe them? Do you ever think of God as aloof from your world, someone who watches from outside as events unfold? Is the God who spoke to St Joseph in a dream aloof or uninvolved with the world and its people?
Ten years ago Rebecca was preparing to close her home and move hundreds of kilometres away. She was excited about the move, seeing it as an opportunity to start a new life in a metropolitan area with lots of advantages for her, personally and professionally. At the same time, it was wrenching. She was leaving behind the home she had lived in since childhood, the only home her own children had ever known. At times she wondered if she was making a disastrous mistake. Then one night she had a dream. In it her home was in disarray, with partially packed boxes in every room. Outside the house landscapers were digging up her favourite tree, the
walnut tree that shaded her study and fed the squirrels each autumn. As she watched, puzzled, she saw the landscapers bag the roots of the tree carefully in a great mound of dirt. Lovingly, they placed the walnut tree on their truck and drove away. When Rebecca woke up, she felt comforted. The dream's message seemed clear to her She could move with a clear because conscience "home" wasn't tied to a specific place. Home was wherever she and her children might be together. Reflecting on the dream later, Rebecca saw it as an occasion when God "spoke" to her and gave her strength and courage to do what she had to do. For some spiritual directors, dreams are a tool which can help
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Dreams can provide people with important insights and truths about themselves. "We can look at dreams as another way God is present in our lives," said Dr Elizabeth Dreyer. She teaches theology. "God wishes us well and created us with the resources for happiness and well-being," she said. Dreams can be "an avenue to find out what is going on" in people. Ms Dreyer often assists people through spiritual direction. Frequently she will ask them if they remember their dreams. Some 70 to 80 per cent do.
Ms Dreyer told of a wellsophisticated, educated professional who was very attuned to her dreams. 'The whole direction of counselling was set by her dreams," she said. For those not interested, she drops the subject. Dreams are only one aid to spiritual growth, she explained. They don't work for everyone. Asked how she uses dreams in spiritual direction, Ms Dreyer noted that dreams often provide some clues to areas people need to work on. Dreams also can be used to help people reach better balance in their lives, a goal of spiritual direction. An example would be the workaholic who dreams of his office and his supervisor. Also in the dream. however, is a person playing with a motorised model airplane. Prodded by questions from his spiritual director, the man begins to see that he is ignoring his need for relaxation and fun, a necessity for a balanced life. In working with a client's dreams, Ms
Dreyer said she encourages people to trust their own interpretation. Though spiritual directors and books on dreams can help, people don't need a special talent to interpret dreams. "Dreams belong to us," she stressed. "Those with a proclivity to look at dreams can figure out what is being said and what is going on." Ms Dreyer told of a woman she assisted who had decided to return to school to get a PhD. The woman, in her 40s, was concerned about quitting her job and worried about how she would do. One night she had a dream in which she had a reunion with a high school friend, telling her that she was going back to school. The acquaintance said, "You'll never finish." In response she shot back, "Oh, yes, I will — and ru finish in two years." For the woman, Ms Dreyer said, the dream was a communication from God telling her that she had the resources to cope and to do the work. And she did.
Cardinal O'Connor
SURVIVAL OF FITTEST IN FACE OF HIGH MEDICAL COST CITY VATICAN (CNS): The high cost of medical care is creating "survival of the fittest" conditions for AIDS patients, Cardinal John J. O'Connor of New York told a Vatican conference. "By 1991, the costs of treating AIDS in the city of New York alone will be $4.5 million (US) every single day," he said. cardinal The expressed "fear that the day will come when only a select number of persons with AIDS will be given the treatment and care they need,
and many will be denied help altogether, because of the great numbers". This means "the temptation will be to concentrate on acutecare patients, doing whatever can be done for them, applying whatever medications may possibly help, even, perhaps, those medications still in experimental stages", he said.
or worse, have already passed through an acute phase, and are discharged from hospitals?" he asked. "I fear it will be a matter of survival of the fittest," he said. "Most are hopelessly weak, can't work for a living, may not be able to feed, medicate or otherwise care for he themselves," added.
The cardinal gave the keynote talk at a Nov 13-15 Vatican on conference acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
have "Many nowhere to go but to the streets, where, if they have previously been drug users, they fall back on drugs," he said. Cardinal O'Connor
"What of those who have not yet entered,
said the situation is complicated by a growing social mentality favouring abortion and euthanasia. "What will be the temptation automatically to induce abortions of unborn babies who are HIV-positive? Indeed, what will be the temptation to destroy them even after they are born?" he said. "Many sick and elderly and helpless patients today are led to believe that they actually have an obligation to their families or to society to terminate the burden they represent by
terminating their own lives," he added. More nursing homes, hospices and "step-down units for persons with AIDS no longer eligible for acute care in hospitals" are needed, Cardinal O'Connor said. "We have done virtually nothing to develop and train a cadre of home health care visitors for people with AIDS," he added. The cardinal said that "the truth is not in condoms or clean needles" as ways of curbing the spread of AIDS. These are pragmatic,
Worrisome crisis of values... VATICAN CITY (CNS): The Church must go beyond pronouncing "a series of no's to particular behaviour patterns" in the fight against AIDS, said Pepe John Paul II, noting that the disease is widespread among homosexuals and drug addicts. The Church must improve pastoral, medical, moral and education programs aimed at curing AIDS, helping people with AIDS and prevent-
ing the spread of the disease, he said. A main component of these programs must be the Church's teachings on sexual morality and its opposition to drug abuse, the pope added during the closing address at a Vaticansponsored international AIDS conference. The spread of AIDS among drug addicts and homosexuals shows that it is tied to a "worrisome crisis of values" in today's world, requiring a
elements against AIDS and drug change of lifestyles in contain with the addiction", he said. le "incompatib added. he many people, of values l fundamenta "Statistics indicate that The pope did not menend it is the generation of only can love and ife l tion use of condoms to being contradictory as youth which is most curb the spread of AIDS, up as illicit, merely stricken by AIDS," the well but alluded to it. circling the problem pope said. "It is morally illicit to without resolving it at its He asked educators to support as AIDS preven- roots," he added in his with families to work tion any method which 3000-word speech. develop youth formation violates the authentically human sense of sexuality The pope asked govern- programs. and is a palliative for ments to undertake "Especially in Catholic those deep needs which "with timeliness and schools, prepare an involve the responsibility courage" anti-AIDS organic program of of the individuals and of initiatives. health education in society," he said. which preventative meaThis includes "a world- sures are in harmony Programs motivated by "egoistic interests" that wide plan for the fight with moral values in the
How media can help The archbishop spoke VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The mass media must not at a Vatican-sponsored promote use of condoms international meeting on acquired immune defiand sterile needles in the ciency syndrome. battle against AIDS because this is against "The media should be public health, said the supportive of sexual Vatican's top communica- abstinence and contitions official. nence outside of monogamous, hetrosexual Instead, the mass media marital relationships," should promote "sexual and this strictly from a abstinence and contipublic health point of nence" rather than view," he said. "showing, insinuating or "The tolerance of the appearing to approve the a dvertisement of half activities which are known to contribute to measures such as conthe transmission" of the doms and free needles is disease, said Archbishop self defeating and irresponsible," he added. John P. Foley, president of the Pontifical Council Archbishop Foley said Social the same logic should for qnply to advertisements Communications. 10 The Record, November 23, 1989
for condoms and free needles as applies to tobacco. "Television advertising of tobacco is banned" because it is considered injurious to health, he said. This also applies to filter cigarettes, which are considered less harmful, he said. "If the advertising of filter cigarettes is viewed as contributing to an unhealthy habit of smoking, the advertising of condoms could surely be viewed as contributing to and indeed encouraging activity which can be unhealthy and indeed fatal," the archbishop said.
utilitarian approaches that fail to deal with moral aspects, he said. The answer lies in curbing homosexuality and drug addiction, the two main means of spreading AIDS, he said. In the United States, 72 per cent of AIDS victims contracted the through disease homosexual activity and 17 per cent through drug use, he said. "The greatest damage done to persons with AIDS is done by the dishonesty of those health care
development and formation of a just and authentic lifestyle," he said. Youths must know that "necessary prevention against the AIDS threat is not to be found in fear, but rather in the conscious choice of a healthy, free and responsible lifestyle," he said. The Church's approach "a also includes greater. . . commitment to assist AIDS patients", he said.
professionals who refuse to confront the moral dimensions of sexual aberrations or drug abuse," he said. "Few of those who have acquired AIDS through sexual activity or drug absue, in my experience, had thought seriously of life as a pilgrimage to prepare us for ultimate union with God," the cardinal said. "I'm not indicting them, I'm simply observing that they haven't given much thought to what I believe is the essential purpose of life," he said.
They "are entitled to receive adequate health care, respectful comprehension and complete solidarity, just like every other ailing person", he said. "Do not feel that you are alone. The Church is with you," the pope told people with AIDS. He added that families must "assume as undeniable" their responsibility toward members with AIDS to give them 'family warmth and concern", he said.
Gay bashing. The Vatican's conferences focus on moral and medical issues was criticised by several participants, who wanted more emphasis on developing programs to help AIDS victims. Other complaints were that no one with AIDS was invited as a speaker and that there was no opportunity for floor discussion of the issues the by presented speakers. The criticisms came from the only two participants who publicly said they had AIDS and several people working in AIDS progams.
Speakers spent too much time on "all this moralistic stuff about how you get AIDS" and little about dealing with the needs of people with AIDS, said Irish Father John White, 43. Father White, a member for the St Patrick's Missionary Society, said he tested positive for AIDS four years ago.
Peter Larkin, a 34-yearold Englishman who learned he had AIDS in 1987, said he was "tired of being told by others what people with AIDS are like and think". "We are being ignored.
We are all not dying in hospital beds," he said. The meeting was a platform for "gay bashing" and did not deal with what governments, churches and private organisations must do to help AIDS patients, said Robert Kunst, executive director of Cure AIDS Now, a private service organisation in Miami. A group of about 80 people asked Archbishop Angelini to allow Larkin to speak for three minutes. archbishop The refused. Larkin, a member of the
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Catholic AIDS Link of London, said he was willing to be examined by a doctor. Archbishop Angelini also refused to allow floor discussion, saying this would be "too confusing". Cardinal O'Connor joined in the criticism of the meeting's structure. "Iwould have done two things: include people with 'hands-on' activity, including persons with AIDS, and I also would have included periods for discussion and exchange of views," he said.
'Wrath of God against certain human behaviour' SAYS SPEAKER WHO DISAGREED WITH REST AT CONFERENCE
VATICAN CITY (CNS): Is AIDS the punishment of God? While many speakers at a November Vatican conference on AIDS brushed off the question with a quick "no", one person made it the focus of his talk and answered "yes", as is all suffering and disease. But the punishment is a positive thing and is not aimed exclusively at homosexuals and drug addicts, said Rocco Buttiglione, influential in Italian Catholic circles because he is responsible for developing the ideological positions of Communion and Liberation, one of the country's largest lay Catholic movements. "It is the wrath of God against certain patterns
of human behaviour, not "Christ's death is the just sexual," he said. wrath of God," he said. "The wrath of God may "We see that calling mean that AIDS is sent to AIDS a punishment of people to call people back to truth and justice," God does not in any way imply an attitude of he added. contempt or marginalisaThe Nov 13-15 meeting tion toward those gathered more than 1000 afflicted; rather it indiparticipants from 84 cates a way in which countries for the first their suffering can international meeting on acquire a positive signifAIDS sponsored by the icance and value for Vatican. themselves and for all," A Christian prophetic he said. tradition regards "the It is a simplification to punishment of God as a consider AIDS "as a which disease physical God sends to his people punishment sent from to awaken their sleeping heaven to punish deviant conscience," said Butti- sexual behaviour and glione, pro-rector of the drug addiction", because International Academy the disease also can be in obtained "independent Philosophy of of any morally critical Liechtenstein. behaviour," he said. "This can strike the Yet AIDS seriously calls innocent who pay for all the people," said Buttigli- into question the values one. In this sense, and promiscuity fostered
by the sexual revolution, heterosexual or homo- addicts and people with rejected the ideas of especially among homo- sexual, but whether the AIDS. AIDS as punishment. sexuals, Buttiglione partner is infected. "We should reject the They said: "Without argued. Lt Col Robert Redfield idea that AIDS is a condoning self"AIDS is spread much said that in the U.S. punishment," said Father destructive behaviour or more easily through military married people Georges Cottier, general denying personal homosexual than hetero- account for more than 40 secretary of the Interna- responsibility, we must sexual contact," said per cent of AIDS-infected tional Theological reject the idea that this Buttiglione, a point people and that the AIDS C ommission. illness is a direct punishinfection ratio is higher denied by many of the scientists and doctors at among black females Terms like "the plague ment by God. At the than white males. the conference. of the century" and the same time, we recognise This destroys "the "scourge of God" to that suffering and sickButtiglione argued that consequences of heterosexual intercourse stigma that AIDS is a describe AIDS only ness are sin, which each original is more naturally dis- Caucasian male disease," "create a diffuse and confirmed by has of us of sense suffocating posed than homosexual said Redfield, chief of the personal sin." intercourse in avoiding retrovirus research panic" in the general sperm corning in direct department of the Walter public which hinders Prior to the start of the contact with the blood Reed Army Institute in understanding of the Vatican meeting on problem, said Alberto AIDS, its main oganiser, system of the sexual Washington. Italian jour- archbishop Angelini, Michelini, partner. He added that "AIDS is not a crime, homosexuals are also nor is it a punishment nalist and member of the president of the PontifiEuropean Parliament. especially vulnerable. cal Council for Pastoral sent down by God. There Recently, the U.S. Assistance to Health But doctors and scient- is no point in our trying ists at the conference said to find scapegoats," said bishops in a major Care Workers, said the important factor in Father Mario Picchi, pastoral statement on "AIDS should not be sexual transmission of president of the Italian AIDS, approved Nov 9 considered the punishthe disease is not Centre for solidarity, during their general ment of God. None of us whether the activity is which works with drug meeting in Baltimore, should judge."
Condoms not the answer CITY VATICAN (CNS): The first Vatican-sponsored conference on AIDS was a sounding board for repeating Church opposition to the use of condoms under any circumstances. The consensus of Church officials and others asked to discuss ethical aspects of the disease was that morally and medically, condoms are not the answer. They are medically wrong because condoms will only
encourage people to engage in sexual practices capable of transmitting AIDS, said Church many speakers. The medical view was disputed by some of the doctors and scientists at the November 13-15 conference who argued that while condoms do not guarantee "safe sex" they provide "safer sex" by reducing the possibilities of infection. There was general agreement, however, that use of condoms
will not stop the spread of the disease. The strongest moral condemnation was given by Mons Carlo Caffarra, dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family Studies in Rome. Use of condoms "is a true and proper anticonceptive act which is never licit under any circumstances or for any reasons," he said. If a spouse has the AIDS virus the couple "has the grave obligation of total absti-
nence" so as not to infect the healthy member, said Mons Caffarra. "The love of the sick spouse toward the other cannot express itself through an act which can cause the death of the other spouse," he said. Exceptions to the "total abstinence" rule are if it presents danger of adultery and when "prolonged abstinence gravely harms conjugal harmony", he said. In these exceptions condoms cannot be
used, but the couple can risk infection, he said. "The reason is that the good of the conjugal communion and/ or the good to help the other live the conjugal state in holiness, can reasonably induce the love of the spouses to prefer to safeguard spiritual benefits (conjugal harmony and holiness of life) rather than safeguarding the good of life," he said. AIDS education programs must not favour use of con-
doms because "it is never licit to apply the principle of the 'lesser evil' to advise use of a prophylactic", he said. The only moral option for a married couple infected with the AIDS virus is to practice abstinence, said Dutch Father Bonifacio Honings, moral theology professor at Rome's Lateran University. At the same time, for those who use condoms "pastorally, we need to show understanding", he said.
"Morality does not see a solution in sterile syringes or condoms," he added. "It has confidence in a person's capacity to use interior forces to escape the degrading comportment" of homosexuality and drug use. said Father Honings. AIDS is a moral issue because much of its transmission is due to human behaviour, Father Honings said. "Morality does not abandon people to their behaviour," he added.
Number of victims will grow Participants at the and to treating AIDS Vatican meeting said patients. the number of victims He said these must will continue to grow in include the moral, medthe immediate future ical and scientific dimenbecause there are more sions of the problem. than two million carri- Dr Edmund Pellegrino, ers of the AIDS virus director of the Georgewho have yet to show town University Centre signs of the disease. for Advanced Study of No known cure exists for the disease. Archbishop Angelini said the purpose of the meeting was to present an integral approach to solving AIDS as a disease
Ethics in Washington. Pellegrino said doctors should not offer condom information to AIDS patients unless they asked for it. Pellegrino said the
spread of AIDS also raises a series of ethical problems for "the physician at the bedside". "All these issues are complicated by the fact of the social stigma attached to the disease," he said. Specific problems include whether a doctor should refuse to treat an AIDS patient for fear of infection and the confidentiality between a doctor and an AIDS patient.
Refusing to treat an AIDS patient "is not a morally defensible position", Pellegrino said. In the United States only 26 health workers have been infected so far with AIDS, he said. A doctor's choice is "to treat the patient or leave medicine", said Pellegrino. "Treatment is the firm obligation of all physicians." Pellegrino said a doctor "must break the rule of confidentiality" with his
patient and tell an AIDS sufferer's spouse about the disease if the victim refuses. A doctor should tell the patient "either you must tell or I will", he said. This problem arises because "many patients in the United States don't want others to know for fear of discrimination", Pellegrino said. Pellegrino opposed massive testing of people for AIDS without their permission.
Carlyne Guerra de Macado, head of the Pan American Health Organisation, said that for poor countries the cost of AIDS programs and treatment makes it impossible for them to combat the disease unless they have help from the developed world. "One AIDS-confirmation test costs more in many Latin American countries than the governments have avail-
able to spend per person a year on overall health care," he said. These governments are unable to find the money to deal with simpler diseases that cause many more deaths, such as dysentery among children, he said. At the same time, AIDS is growing in poor countries, and in Latin America it is increasingly being spread through heterosexual activity, he said.
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Wheatbelt pioneer and staunch Church and community worker, Mrs Rita Honner of Dalkeith will celebrate her eightieth birthday on November 28 with family and friends at a city hotel. Rita and husband Clem farmed at Dalwallinu and Narrogin for a total of 55 years before retiring in 1985. Their four daughters and one son have made them proud grandpar-
ents of 19 children and great grandparents of 20 children. Carmel Daughter Dyball of Ballajura says her mother was a great supporter of the local clergy and religious sisters. She was a great fund raiser for both church and school. Rita had a special interest in the Wandering Mission and lent her generous support.
"My mother achieved greatness by doing all the small things well and being a tower of strength for Dad," said Mrs Dyball. Rita was a convert to Catholicism just before her marriage to Clem. The marriage ceremony took place in the grand family home at Wubin on February 5, 1930. The Honners look forward to their diamond wedding anniversary next year.
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Devotion to Blessed Virgin waning from R Hicks Marangaroo Sir, Devotion to the Blessed Virgin seems to have diminished in relevance, particularly for the youth of this so called modern world. There are three types of women who expound the virtues of womanhood. Firstly, the professional, the academic, the career woman, the one whose talents lend her to such an environment. A woman in this environment is in danger of becoming hardened by the wot Id in which she thrives, only if she loses or surrenders those feminine qualities of sympathy, kindness and tenderness. Secondly, motherhood is manifest in God by the
woman's ability to bear God's precious gift, man himself. The feminine qualities of tenderness, meekness and gentleness are manifest in motherhood, these are the very virtues that persuades man to marry a woman. The third and final description of womanhood is that of purity and virginity, those who dedicate their lives to the work of God. What greater love than for a woman who loves God so deeply and so profoundly that she will sacrifice all lesser loves for the real understanding of love. If any of us could have made our own mother we would have made her the
most beautiful woman in the world because woman is the physical preserver of life and the moral provider of t ruth. She is nature's constant challenge of deati-o, God's greatest co-operator. Our Lady, the Blessed Virgin, epitomizes, indeed she is the very essence of womanhood, the professional woman and Mother who was a virgin. What greater display of love for mankind than for God to give us his Mother incarnate. Devotion to our Blessed Mother has diminished in modern times when we all need her most. She has manifested herself on many occasions around the world.
however despite her very presence, her crying out for her a cknowledgement, messages to the world, Catholics, the many guardians of the universal church, fail to see the of the significance annunciation. The portrait of womanhood as so beautifully painted by our Blessed Mother Mary is a clear indication to all of the need for devotion to her. The Holy Father constantly reminds us all to show devotion to Our Lady. There is a begging need for increased prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary. "Lovely Lady in Blue, Mother of God, Teach us How to Pray"
Reflect on these indicators from Paul DONNELLY, Claremont Sir, In the mid 1960s there were 660,000 married women in the workforce: the number has now risen to over 2,000,000; many of whom are part-timers, two women sharing the
workplace of a possible teenager or trainee teacher. In the 1960s maternal productivity was 3.5 children per average Australian family: today it is only half that figure which is 12 per cent below the needs to
maintain even zero population. Mrs McComish (The Record, November 16) should reflect on these figures as indicators on a change from home mothering of children to women's present work forcing and their effect on
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the upbringing of the young and occupation of otherwise idle hands. It should also be emphasised that the onset of feminism is not the only factor contributory to the upsurge of juvenile lawlessness and misfortunes major present of concern. My main thesis was that ethics, morality and religion had little place in modern education and teachers and high school pupils are imbued with an existentialistic philosophy especially in English education.
Way to solve the problem from Mrs BURGES, Katanning Sir, Yes indeed, why blame mothers? (Letters, The Record November 16.) Why not blame Satan, the prince of lies? It seems to me that he is using women, as only he knows how, in his war against the Mother of God. The mother is the lynch pin of society and in this war, the victim — destroy her traditional God given role and we have our present situation. Sure this problem can be dealt with in a positive, humane and creative way. By conversion, prayer, fasting and reconciliation — there is no other way. It has happened in Medjugorje why not here?
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TOMORROW TODAY with Father Joe Parkinson
Building strong foundations for the future is a priority for the Young Workers Christian Movement in Perth, according to national YCW chaplain Father Denis Sheehan, currently concluding his annual pastoral visit Originally from Melbourne, Father Denis is now based in Sydney at the National YCW offices in Granville. He said this week that, for the leaders he had met, YCW was not so much a youth group as a way of life. "The groupsIvisited are basic Christian communities, sharing their lives in many ways at their meetings and more especially outside their meetings," he said. "The result is what I would call a committed
on future ...
friendship or learning to love in everyday ways." He said that group members supported and challenged each other in areas of everyday life, such as the use of money, credit cards and budgeting, relationships including marriage and 'going steady', working conditions and satisfaction with work, living at home or moving out. Simple things like dancing lessons, and more complex matters such as environmental issues and Australia's relationship with and responsibilities to its northern neighbours were also on the YCW agenda. "To be prepared to take action in these everyday concerns, and not to avoid them, is inspiring," Father Denis said. "But action cannot be
mindless. It must be ness at a local shopping inspired by Christ and centre," he said. the dignity of every "To see the need for this, person. to judge and to act, is a "That is why the YCW simple description of has a method called what in fact demands a 'Review of Life and lot of common trust and Worker Action'." friendship. During his visit, Father "It is important to Denis attended the recognise these achieveannual YCW Ball. ments and to be proud of National YCW chaplain Father Denis "That is a good example them." planning for the future. of an action, because in Father Denis said that it planning the ball there was important to cele- encyclical 'Rerum Nova- years ago but it still exists had to be a Review," he brate with prayer and rum' (`Of New Things'), in Australia, and the said. song, or simply to write written in 1891 by Pope YCW must Find new "What is the aim of about such actions, as Leo ways to meet young having the ball, how can part of a way of life of 'The pope wanted 'new workers, and especially that aim be achieved, and struggle and joy. things' for the working our many unemployed." who can be involved in "It was the way of life of class who were being The Perth Diocesan this action?" Jesus," Father Denis said. exploited as a result of Team's plan for 1990 is to Review of Life is a "He spent three years the industrial revolu- start YCW groups close method of formation, helping his friends to tion," he said. to one another, so as to and it can concern any understand that he must "Today, nearly 100 provide support and everyday issue or suffer and die for them. years later, new answers identity. situation. "To learn to love as Jesus must again be found for The focus is in the more "One group I met took loved is a struggle and a workers, those who find the action of promoting joy. It is a spirituality of no meaning in their lives, working class areas. environmental aware- action in everyday life." those trying to buy a "Ibelieve that this has to Father Denis pointed home, those seduced by be the continuing focus out that the founder of the easy use of credit of the YCW, if we are to the YCW, Father Joseph cards. be faithful to the vision of Cardijn, had grown up in "The working class is Joseph Cardijn," Father a society inspired by the broader than it was 100 Denis said.
fulttimer Kate Deavin "It will include workers from many different occupations, and some doing tertiary study," he said. "Pope John Paul has called work 'the key to the social question'. The YCW has promoted this understanding of work in Australia for many years. "Christ really can be met and followed in the arena of work and everyday life." Father Denis visited YCW groups in the Geraldton and Bunbury dioceses during his visit, which ends this week.
Invitation to join rally Families and friends are invited to join Perth's Catholic youth at the annual CYC Youth Rally, to be held next Sunday night at the Quarry Amphitheatre from 7pm. Sonya DaLima of Willetton and Edward Martin of Hilton at the recent YCW ball.
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1. Jenny Troy (lurica) teacher 1980-89 (left), Rosemarie Wiley (Monterosso) teacher 1980-82, Fiona Morrison (Williamson) teacher 1976-89 and Anne McKenzie teacher assistant 1985-86. 2. Raffaella Almond (Bottega) 1967-79 (left) with daughter Danielle, and Rose Girdlestone (Zinni) 1967-77 with son Christopher. 3. Year five liturgical dancers displaying the joy of dance. 4. Jerry Donovan (left) 1938-40 with his sister Joan Bianchini (Donovan) 1944-45, Denise BuIlin (Goff) 1945-53 and Lorna Moorman (Moylan) 1945-53.
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Sacred Heart Primary School, Highgate celebrated the 75th anniversary of the opening of the school buildings last Sunday (November 19, 1989). Although the school has been operating for some years before, by 1912 there were 330 pupils in the primary school and a new building was needed. It Was not until 1914 that the new building could be provided. The building cost £2600, and the main source of revenue was the Annual Bazaar. The celebrations on Sunday included a paraliturgy, a speech by Sir Fred Chaney, a past pupil, and displays of old photos and class lists. Official guests of ex-students included Sir Fred and Lady Chaney (both ex-students) and Bishop Peter Quinn of Bunbury. The school has been staffed for many years by the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions who arrived in the parish in the late 1890s, and who still have two sisters in the school. Story and pictures by tan Esmond and Vinh Deng. 14
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students, Perth teachers and concert goers are experiencing a 'first' from a Sydney enterprise, based Productions. Emmaus Director, Ms Monica Brown and her team Terry Gahan, Ursuline Sister Helen Dyson and Mercy Sister Cheryl
Fulton — are giving children's concerts at John XXIII, Graylands, Holy Spirit, City Beach and Star of the Sea, Rockingham with primary schools from all around Perth attending these venues. Emmaus have also been running teaching inservice at Liwara primary Greenwood and City Beach with teachers from many Perth venues attending, and she is most impressed with our beautiful city and delighted with the hospitality and welcome they have received from our schools and Catholic Education. Monica, a former teacher who is a composer and singer of contemporary Christian music, said the aim of Emmaus Productions is to try to provide opportunities which open children and adults up to an experience of God within them. "And we believe that the creative arts are a rich and valuable process in helping people to come closer to their God." Monica started Emmaus Productions in 1986 and since then has spent much of her time travelling throughout Australia with her team giving workshops and concerts. Perth people will have the opportunity of seeing this team in action at their John XXIII College, Gray-
lands venue on Saturday. December 2 from 810 3m. Tickets available at the door or by phoning 348 1122. $12 adults, $8 concession. The concert will be an integration of song, dance, mime and scripture story telling, using her compositions from her recording God of My Life. "Our productions — workshops, concerts and in-service are fairly unique experiences," said Monica. "In fact there is in it like nothing Australia.' Monica has made five recordings, three albums and two special projects, one for the International Year of Peace and the other for the Bicentennial celebrations. Two of her albums — Let the Children Go and Our God is Good — are of contemporary Christian music for children, including some of her -TV hits such as Hello My God and several others, and an adults and youth album called God of my Life. These are available through Gatto & Co North Perth. Pellegrinis, or Emmaus, PO Box 54, Thornleigh NSW 2120 and other Catholic and Christian bookshops throughout Australia, at $13.95. Music books $9.95 and word books $1.20, plus an additional $2.40 for handling and postage.
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by TOM BRANCH Pignatelli Tournament The following players were successful at the recently completed Pignatelli annual tournament. Mens Champion: Guy Damian°. Runner up: Bill Mitchell. Ladies Champion: Di Nunn. Runner up: Libby Rutzuo. Mens Doubles Champion: Neils Rutzuo/Peter O'Neill (Jrir). Ladies Double Champion: Libby Rutzuo/Phil Challis. Mixed Doubles Champion: Peter O'Neill/Di Nunn. Christmas Function On Sunday, December 17 the Pignatelli Tennis Club is holding a social tennis day and barbecue at their courts. Tennis will commence at 1.30pm and play will continue until late afternoon. Association members are welcome to attend. Those wishing to come should contact Robin Salter (330 5631) or Di Nunn (339 2295) as the organisers require to know the number attending.
Medal Tournament Whilst the Association's final tennis tournament was not as well attended as expected those who participated had a most enjoyable day. AnnMarie Rose won the ladies division and her brother-in-law John Ward was successful in the mens section. Michael Messer should again be congratulated for another well run tournament. Busse1ton lburnament At the recent Busse1ton tennis tournament for Clergy Association chaplain Father Richard Doyle was successful. The tournament is held in conjunction with the golf championships over two days. The visiting city clergy were well looked after by their country counterparts with a barbecue one evening and a dinner the other. It was not Father Doyle's first success as he proudly displays trophies from previous success in other country tournaments.
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MERCY MEETING To hear some of the early history of the Mercy Sisters in WA, another meeting entitled "Serving Today" has been arranged. On Tuesday, December 12 at Santa Maria College, Attadale, 7.30 to 9.30pm. Sharing their experiences in their ministries in 1989 will be Sr Claire Keating (Home Help-Wanslea), Sr Maureen McCarthy (Intellectually Handicapped), Sr Joan Phelan (Hospital Chaplaincy) and Sr M. Raphael will continue her story of one of the pioneer sisters. Please ring Santa Maria 330 7200 before December 8, and leave numbers for Christina Ryan. Open to public.
C OMMUNITY WEEKEND The Fire of Love Weekend hosted by The Disciples of Jesus Covenant Community will be held at Araluen Camp. Cost $35, from Friday 7.30pm, December 8 to Sunday 5pm, December 10. Mass will be celebrated on the weekend. Applications and enquiries: Bruce Downes, 16 Orange Place, Beechboro WA 6063. Ph 377 5793. Applications close Friday, December 1.
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headquarters near London, has been collecting and spreading, for over 20 years, information about Christians in Communist countries. Its secretary, Mr Roland Bryan, who visited Russia this year, will speak at the Redemptorist Monastery Church on Wednesday, November 29, from 7.30 'til 8.30pm. All welcome. There will be an opportunity to ask him questions afterwards.
Archdiocesan Calendar NOVEMBER 25 Conference of Churches of WA. Bishop Healy. 26 25th anniversary, Holy Cross Kensington. Archbishop Foley. Confirmation, Maida Vale. Bishop Healy. 27. Dec 1 Australian Catholic Bishops Conference. Archbishop Foley and Bishop Healy.
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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.
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BOYUP BROOK DAY St Mary's, Boyup Brook will have a special day on December 3 with a Mass of thanksgiving for the thirtytwo years of dedicated service by the Presentation Sisters in the school and parish which ends after this school year. A social gathering and family picnic follow. Tea and coffee, bbq facilities will be available.
DECEMBER 1 Commissioning of Catechists. Monsignor McCrann. La Salle College ball Monsignor Nestor. YOUTH RALLY 3 Mass at Police Academy. Bishop The annual Youth Rally on Sunday Healy. December 3 takes place at the Opening Refuge Shelter, BrentQuarry Amphitheatre in Floreat (off wood Willetton. Monsignor Keating. Oceanic Drive) beginning at 7pm and Catholic Women's League Christincludes Sunday Eucharist and will 4 mas party. conclude at 10pm. Music by Meeting of priests. "Resurrection Shuffle". Bring a 5 Presentation of certificates for blanket to sit on. Open to public. Maranatha. Bishop Healy. 6 St Brendan's College speech night. PRIESTHOOD ENQUIRY Archbishop Foley, A day of information for the Aquinas Junior School speech priesthood will be held at St Charles' 7 night. Monsignor Keating. Seminary, 30 Meadow Street, 9 Diocesan Pastoral Council. Guildford, on Sunday December 10 10 San Nicola Feast Day. Father Chris from 10.30am to 4pm. Lunch is Ross. provided and Mass will be celebrated 11 Avon Zone of Priests meeting. at 4pm to conclude the day. This is Archbishop Foley. for men or lads who are about 16 12 Archbishop Foley departs for Kampuchea. years and older. Enquiries Fr Justin 14 Council of Priests. Bianchini 09-279 1310. 17 St Lucy's Feast Day. Monsignor • More on Page 12 Keating.
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JESUIT GENERAL'S VISIT Very Reverend Fr Hans-Peter Kolvenbach, Superior General of the Society of Jesus, will be visiting Perth in December. Fr Kolvenbach's visit will not be a high-profile one: he wishes simply to meet with Jesuits and their Associates/Collaborators.
He will celebrate Mass at St Thomas More College Chapel on Tuesday, December 12 at 9.15am. Friends of the Society of Jesus and those who would consider themselves "Associates" of the Jesuits are most cordially invited to participate in the Mass and in a morning tea afterwards to meet Fr Kolvenbach. Further information: Fr Patrick Bishop SJ St Thomas More College 386 8712
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Centrecare Marriage and Family Service seeks applicaots tor the folly* posiboos
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DUTIES: Initial assessment of clients seeking marriage counselling (50%) and on-going marriage counselling (50%). This position is available for a twelve month period only.
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DUTIES: Provide a counselling service to families experiencing a wide range of difficulties. This position is available for a twelve month period, with some possibility of renewal. QUALIFICATIONS (both positions)
Recognised tertiary degree (psychology, social work, counselling) preferred and/or recognised training and experience in marriage/family counselling. Experience in group work would be an advantage. An ability to work in a Catholic setting is essential. SALARY (both positions) Approximately $25,000 per annum (pro rata for four days per week position), exact rate dependent on qualifications and experience. DUTY STATEMENT available from Delia McGuinness by telephoning 325 6644. APPLICATIONS in writing, specifying which position is being applied for, together with curriculum vitae and the names and addresses of two professional referees should be addressed
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