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Raisa raises red look VATICAN CITY: Raisa Gorbachev left the Vatican with the only pair of rosary beads handed out on the occasion but she missed out on seeing the Sistine Chapel because her husband and the pope spoke too long.

Mrs Gorbachev, who toured rooms decorated by the 16th century artist Raphael while her husband spoke with the pope, impressed reporters with her knowledge of the Vatican's artworks.

There might have been a reason for that — thanks to Catherine the Great, Leningrad has a replica of Raphael's "loggia" frescoes in the Hermitage Museum, the former palace of the czars.

The bare headed Mrs Gorbachev wore a bright red two-piece suit with doublebreasted jacket closed at the neck.

Traditionally women received by the pope wear black and cover their heads with a veil or a hat.

The only black worn by Mrs Gorbachev was the colour of her jacket buttons, her pointed jacket collar and shoes with matching clutch purse.

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• Picture shows Pope John Paul II giving Vatican medallions to Raisa Gorbachev during the historic visit of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev (centre) to the Vatican.

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POPE: MEETING A PROMISE-FILLED SIGN FOR FUTURE

VATICAN CITY: The Soviet Union," the pope meeting with president said.

Gorbachev was "a Catholic compromise-filled sign for "Many are today eagmunities the future" of religious the opporliberty after "past erly awaiting tunity of re-establishing decades of painful and of being trials", Pope John Paul themselves to rejoice in the able said in an official their pasexchange of speeches leadership of said. he tors," following 70 minutes of private talks.

The pope expressed "Your visit, in fact, enables us to look with greater confidence to the future of the communifies of believers in the

hope that "the new law on religious freedom of conscience soon to be discussed by the Supreme Soviet will help to guarantee to all believ-

President Gorbachev, in off-the-cuff remarks at the end of his prepared speech, said both men talked about the possibility of a papal visit to the Soviet Union, but gave no details.

A Vatican communique afterward noted the invitation and said the pope "cordially thanked" the Soviet president for the invitation "and expressed hope that development

ers the full exercise of the express the fervent hope religious that they be able to of right freedom". practice freely their "On their behalf — religious life," he said. whether they be of the "The Holy See follows Latin, Byzantine or with great interest the Armenian rite — I process of renewal which

pledged support of Gorbachev's reform program, called "perestroika", if it helps to "protect and integrate Gorbachev's talk the rights and duties of listed establishing of individuals and peoples, diplomatic relations as so that peace may be a main agenda item of ensured in Europe and Vatican-Soviet talks. the world".

The pope said their you have set in motion in meeting "will hardly fail the Soviet Union," he to have a powerful world on impact added.

At a time of political opinion". ferment in communist- It will "be interpreted as ruled Eastern European singularly meaningful: a countries, the pontiff sign of the times that of events would make it possible for him to accept it".

have slowly matured, a sign that is rich in promise", he said.

"The Church appeals to all those who have the future of mankind at heart, to unite in the service of its material and spiritual betterment," the pope said.

"Such concern for man can only pave the way for overcoming international tensions and ending the confrontation between blocs," he added.

Historic watershed that needs to be crossed VATICAN CITY: President that needs to be crossed Gorbachev emphasised to achieve world peace. the establishing of diplo- Addressing the pope matic links with the several times as "your Vatican and co-operation holiness", he desribed the on international relations meeting as a truly "hisand East-West relations. toric event."

In his prepared speech, Gorbachev pledged that following private talks, Soviet believers "have a the Soviet president right to satisfy their described current events spiritual needs. as a "historic watershed" "Shortly, a law on

freedom of conscience Perestroika is the Rus- "positive continuation" ble art" of consolidating "Respert for the peowill be adopted in our sian word for restructur- of perestroika and attrib- their renewal program. ples' national, state, country," the Soviet ing and refers to Gorba- uted "the profound The Vatican and the spiritual and cultural leader said. chev's program for changes" it has caused in Soviet Union should identity is an indispensaSoviet Eastern Europe with 'promote solutions to ble condition for a steady "Problems between the renewing the and making his papal meet- common European prob- international environeconomy Union's state and various ing possible. institutions. social lems and create a favou- ment which Europe and churches" are being dealt But he also asked papal rable external environ- the world now need, to with "in a spirit of Vatican-Soviet dialogue democracy and huma- "has now been conse- support and understand- ment enabling nations to cross the historic nism and within the crated by this summit ing for perestroika as make their own inde- watershed and attain a Soviet leaders learn "the pendent choice," Gorba- new period of peace," he framework of peres- meeting," he added. troika," he said.

Gorbachev pledged a difficult and indispensa- chev said. said.

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Help us to help newlyarrived refugees feel at home — especially at Christmas.

That was the message Gerald Searle, director of the Catholic Migrant Centre, had for the people in the archdiocese of Perth.

The Catholic Migrant Centre (CMC) is holding a Christmas party for between 400 to 500 refugees at the Cathedral Parish Centre on December 21.

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With the party less than two weeks away, the CMC looks forward to seeing more people answering its call for cash donations and gifts.

The CMC also would welcome those who can cook and supply food for the occasion.

Those to be treated at the party come from countries like El Salvador, Cambodia, Czechoslovakia, Vietnam, Chile, Nicaragua, Iran, Hungary, Rumania and Poland.

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Attendance at these parties have swelled with each passing year. And this time there could well be 500 of them with their children.

Many of them don't have a family here.

The past practice has been to give the "real needy families" hampers and gifts to the children.

If the response to the CMC call turns out for the better the same thing will be done this year — for a bigger lot of people and children.

Bearing in mind that each hamper would cost about $50, Mr Searle said that cash donations would come in handy.

"We would like to be able to give hampers to all the families. I suppose we will have to wait and see," he said.

Planned for this year is some entertainment, too.

Because of the multicultural mix that will be present, the CMC intends to tell the Christmas Story this year in mime.

"It will help cut a long story short," remarked Mr Searle.

Lonely Christmas Iwon't forget...

A touch of nostalgia was evident when Gerald Searle spoke of his first Christmas here nine years ago.

know how it feels to be a newcomer to a country," he added.

Gerald Searle migrated here nine years ago from "I remember it too well. South Africa. He is now We had nobody here. My an Australian citizen.

When he is at Christfamily and I spent our first Christmas lunch on mas parties organised by the beach in Bunbury," the Catholic Migrant Centre, of which he is he recalled.

Bunbury was the place director, he usually that they decided to reflects with a touch of reside when they first sadness.

"Yes. Christmas is a came here. special time for family "We were by ourselves. get-togethers and when We had no family or you have nobody to relatives here we felt lost. celebrate the day with, it "It is one Christmas I can be quite disheartenwill not forget easily. I ing," he said.

He finds it very "touching" to be present at the parties where he usually gives the opening address.

"Christmas is the time when you really miss your dear ones, your friends and family. So you can imagine how the newly-arrived refugees feel.

"They are having their first Christmas here.

Because I know how it feels to be left alone, I always make that extra effort to make these people feel as much at home as possible."

Meaning of Advent LONDON: "We must reclaim Advent from presc ommercial sures," writes Bishop Patrick Kelly of Salford in his pastoral letter.

revealed in His Son Jesus born of Mary," he writes.

The Bishop warns that during the coming weeks, every trick will be used to make people desire a thousand and one things.

"The greatest evil of all is that children will be made to want;

there will be a terrible onslaught on them until they are made to think 'unless my family buy me that toy for £19.99 they don't really love me.'

"But we will not notice Christ's coming if we are only thinking about eating, drinking and work," he added.

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"Advent is not a time for a great rush of buying and shopping days; it is a time for growing in a longing to see the face of God

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"Australian Catholic Relief wants all Australians, but especially Australian Catholics, to support this appeal for special assistance to prevent starvation in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Tigre," said Mr Denis Tamplin, Deputy Director of ACR. "We have launched our appeal with a $25,000 donation, knowing that this is a minuscule drop in the ocean of need in this part of Africa," Mr Tamplin said, "but expecting that Australians will help us to make an effective response to this area of great need.

"We know, also, that Australians are asking, 'why should we give again, when it was only 5 years ago that there was a major appeal for Ethiopeans?' but to that,

we would reply that much has been achieved in that five years — famines have been averted despite the fact that rains have been scanty, storage facilities have been constructed and water conservation programmes are in place.

"It is not the fault of the poor farmers that the rains have not come this year. It is not the fault of the poor families that civil war is raging around them. But it is these poor people who suffer first in any time of emergency.

"People also are quite rightly concerned that their donation also goes to those who are in need.

"Australian Catholic Relief has continued to operate through the Church structures in Ethiopia, and as can be seen from recent film

footage, church personnel are working with the needy, without any questions being asked about religious beliefs and practices.

"And just as in 1984/5, Australians should be aware that if the rains have been scanty in Ethiopia, then other areas in this part of A frica will also be drought-stricken.

"And just as there is civil war in Ethiopia, the poeple in Southern Sudan have also been denied the ability to grow their own crops and provide for themselves because of fighting raging around them.

"So there is a great need for Australians to be generous in their donations, and there is a great need for our Government to speedily

We'll extend our hand...

ROME (CNS): The leader of the Ukrainian Catholic Church said he expects "full religious freedom" in the Soviet Union to be the outcome of Pope John Paul ll's meeting with Soviet Mikhail President Gorbachev.

The cardinal said his expression of hope for the legalisation of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, outlawed

by Josef Stalin in 1946, was made "in full awareness of the extraordinary historical significance of today's meeting".

Cardinal Lubachivsky said he expects the Soviet Union to implement the full

religious freedom that Pope conscience law being disJohn Paul H called for cussed by Soviet officials during an October meeting "will help to guarantee to all with Ukrainian Catholic believers the full exercise of bishops who minister out- the right to religious side the Ukraine. freedom".

The changes would In his speech, Gorbachev include civil authorities' said the law will be adopted.

"People of many confespublic recognition of the church, free access to places sions, including Christians, of worship, the right to Muslims, Jews, Buddhists organise a hierarchical and others, live in the Soviet structure and "the possibil- Union. All of them have a ity of maintaining free right to satisfy their spiritual contacts with the faithful needs," he said. and their communities both Cardinal Lubachivsky said within their own country Ukrainian Catholics in the and abroad", he said.

Soviet Union "wish to be In his December 1 address responsible citizens of the to Gorbachev, the pope said state and participate actively he hoped a freedom of in the process of glasnost

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MILAN (CNS): Catholic violence in Ukraine is hindering efforts to legalise the Ukrainian Catholic Church and could lead to a situation similar to that in Northern Ireland, said the leading Russian Orthodox official in dialogue with the Catholic Church.

Metropolitan Kiril said "manipulation of.

Ukrainian nationalists" was behind the action.

Violent Catholic takeovers of Orthodox churches are being used by "political extremists" and were a factor in postponing a November 19-26 dialogue session in Moscow, said Metropolitan Kiril of Smolensk, Soviet Union, head of the external affairs department of the Orthodox Russian Church.

"I am convinced that the invasion of the Church of the Transfiguration was done by political extremists," he said.

"We do not want the Ukraine to become our Northern Ireland and, from what I know, neither does the pope," he added.

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He spoke ahead of the meeting between the pope and President Gorbachev.

Catholics, wielding iron rods and clubs, occupied the Church of the Transfiguration in the Ukrainian city of Lvov, he said.

Lubachivsky, Romebased head of the Catholic Ukrainian Church has denied that violence was used in the Church of the Transfiguration incident.

Metropolitan Kiril said he is hopeful that a formula for recognising the Ukrainian Catholic Church, illegal in the Soviet Union since 1946, could be worked out once the "occupation" of the Lvov church is ended.

"Eastern-rite Catholics must have the possibility of praying as they wish," said Metropolitan Kiril.

"The issue now is to see how we can concretely formulate such a right," he added.

But this does not mean that former Catholic

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and restructuring as well as true democratisation".

The cardinal also said the Ukrainian church "extends its hand" to the Russian Orthodox Church, into which the Ukrainian Catholic Church was forcibly merged in 1946.

The Ukrainian Catholic Church "also states its willingness to establish a constructive dialogue for the salvation of souls, but asks that the Russian Orthodox Church show as much respect, love and reconciliation in the spirit of the Gospel and of justice", Cardinal Lubachivsky said.

Encounter of another kind meeting, a

During the pope-Gorbachev parallel encounter was going on between their chief aides: Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Agostino Casaroli and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze.

A Vatican press statement said the two top aides discussed specific problems of Soviet Catholic life and international affairs. But it did not list the problems.

churches currently used by the Orthodox automatically will be returned, he said.

The Vatican and the Russian Orthodox must negotiate "to define together the ecclesial and juridical concept of the Ukrainian Catholic Church", he said.

Metropolitan Kiril, when asked if Ukrainian Catholics should be included in the VaticanRussian Orthodox negotiating group, said: "For the moment, no.

"But I do not exclude this possibility in the future," he said.

C atholic -Russian dialogue Orthodox would be much easier if it weren't for the Uniate problem," he said. "But they exist."

Decade of talks pays off finally VATICAN CITY (CNS):— Pope John Paul II, in his annual message to the spiritual leader of Orthodox Christians, said 10 years of theological dialogue had brought Catholics and Orthodox closer together.

The pope encouraged the Catholic-Orthodox Theological Commission, formed in 1979, to take a close look at the main differences that still divide the churches.

The dialogue commission's work so far, he said, had produced hopes that were based on "tested virtue" and that would therefore not disappoint.

He prayed for the hastening of the day of complete unity between the churches, which have been divided since the 11th century.

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The pope made his comments in a letter to Patriarch Dimitrios I of Constantinople. It was released by the Vatican Nov 30, the feast of St Andrew, patron saint of the Orthodox church.

As in past years, a Vatican delegation met with Orthodox leaders in Istanbul, modern Constantinople, to mark the event. The delegation was headed by Cardinal Johannes Willebrands, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

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Record Calls coming from every side for increased garbage recycling and ever-cleaner waste disposal reek with the smell of guilt rising from the over-fed consumer-driven lifestyles of some sections of the First World society.

We're having too much of a good thing and it's killing us, says the unmistakeable symptom of our malingering disease.

Now from New York comes the symptom of yet another consumer disease hitting the supersaturated public palate: news broadcasts on the collapse of Eastern bloc communism are bombing to the bottom of the ratings.

The public's verdict? Thumbs down to live telecasts from the Berlin Wall, or the streets of Prague, because that is good news. But turn the cameras to massacres on Tienanmen Square or the San Francis° earthquake and the ratings swoop high.

The stations' verdict? The Eastern bloc stories are good news and lack the violent edge that attracts viewing. The stations, say commentators, have conditioned viewers to the notion that news is not a public service. Current affairs programmes have to compete for profits with entertainment. Newscasts resort to dramatisation or re-enactment when entertainment content is low.

On top of that, it would seem, younger Americans are far less interested than their elders in these events. Under 30's have abandoned newspapers. Schoolteachers find their classes unmoved by the sweep of history. Newcasts stay with basics, pointing out where Malta is . . . (remember the summit?)

We can spot the international virus now creating its own immune syndrome inside Australian media habits.

Analysts of nightly television news spot the antiimmune treatment; outrageously over-priced stations pay outrageously expensive newsreaders to pout like Old Testament prophets as the headlines roll off the cue monitors.

The most shattering events will still get 60 seconds exposure at the most and a half hour programme gobbling material at that pace cannot last the distance. Within 15 minutes newscasts sag to contrived interest in a few overseas items before flopping into sports and weather. Stunned viewers call this 'watching' the news. They are not a wit wiser on the issues or their signficance.

Before breakfast a roll of material as thick as a tree branch hurtles into homes yet in our guilt we exclaim as a party-opener that we scarcely ever read the paper and really don't know why we get it!

Has the Church anything to learn in preventative medicine for these communicative diseases?

A bare few months ago an Archbishop of Canterbury made his momentous foray into the Vatican — an event that should have shaken the fulminating Anglican-Catholic feud of 400 years to its roots.

Most people would have seen a mere 30 second television clip of the meeting and an equally abrupt radio summary. The Record on the other hand did its duty and devoted pages of analysis and comment to the event with not a flicker showing up in our sales curve. Many a parish church, we discover, did not even refer to the event. Yet for centuries this subject fuelled pulpit harangues, sparked debate and even acrimonious division amongst neighbours.

Are we too tired of the 'good' news that Pope John Paul met Runcie? Or should they have slapped each other as an opening gambit to attract attention?

Gorbachev at the Vatican got his allotted 30 seconds electronic media exposure. The West Australian newspaper on this equally momentous occasion mastered a few paragraphs of news while its religious column dallied yet again on Anglicans dithering over women's ordinations. . .

In this and our following issues we cover extensively the significance of the VaticanMoscow summit on a rift that wrenched tears from the Church's heart for 70 years. But are Catholics now too tired or too immune to know good news when they hear it?

Let preachers beware! The majority of Australians — who have never heard a 'good news' sermon — know in advance they would not like to hear one. Those who do, mutter restively on Sundays. Would 10 minutes silence be better?

Or would it drive already restless congregations insane?

The carols pour out of cash registers and Christians wonder why the world gets to know nothing of the real Christ. Perhaps we should start our story with the massacre of the innocents by Herod!

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Now AIDS n est dears the air...

LONDON: An Irish priest sufferer from AIDS has refuted reports on how he got the disease and how he protested at a recent Vatican conference.

Kiltegan missionary Father John White denied saying that he contracted AIDS working as a missionary in Africa. "Whilst I have stated that it was when in Africa I first became ill,I have never inferred that I contracted the virus in

Africa, nor through my work. I may even have contracted it before ever going to work in Africa."

tial and support centre for AIDS sufferers. "But I went anyway because I am always hopeful.

He says he does not know how, or when he contracted AIDS. He also talked about why he staged his oneman protest at the Vatican's first AIDS Conference in Rome.

"We had made representations in a letter stating it was an important milestone but that there seemed to be a lack of representation from people with AIDS. There was no direct response to the letter.

"I knew it was going to be hard," said Fr John White at the London Lighthouse, the residen-

"When the conference was opened by Cardinal John O'Connor of New

York the tone of his unfurled it when he address was about how returned to the auditoto assist people to die rium after proclaiming well. There was nothing loudly "I am living with about enabling people to AIDS. People with AIDS live well with AIDS. have no views here."

There was a heavy, Then, he says, he folded judgmental tone to it all. the banner and walked to "Professor Robert Gallo the back of the auditochallenged Cardinal rium. He never, he said, O'Connor's remarks. At ever placed a foot on the this point I decided to podium, as a Rome-based simple agency told The Universe make a statement." last week. "I made my He went to his hotel for gesture from the front of a banner reading "The the main body of the Church has AIDS" and hall."

Breakaway priest sacked WASHINGTON (CNS): Father Bruce Greening, a Salvatorian priest who in August joined the breakaway Imani Temple in Washington, has been sent a letter of dismissal from the order.

A statement from the order's North

American province gave "disobedience to the lawful orders of his superiors" as the reason for dismissal.

Father Greening has 10 days from receipt of the letter, mailed, to appeal. If he chooses not to appeal the

dismissal takes effect immediately.

A September letter Father ordered Greening to remove himself from Imani Temple and meet with his superiors.

The letter indicated disobedience of the

orders would be considered Father Greening's -first canonical warning", which starts the dismissal process.

When Father Greening announced August 2 he would join Imani Temple

and help start and Imani-affiliated school, he said he would ask for a leave from the Salvatorians and the Diocese of Richmond, Virginia, where he had been since 1988 to found a religious order for black men.

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SALVADOR SAN (CNS): Catholic and Christian other churches were ransacked and church workers detained by Salvadoran soldiers and bands of unidentified vandals during the battle for San Salvador.

The incidents occurred in the northern neighbourhoods of the city where fighting was heaviest.

Colonel Rene Emilio Ponce, of the military chief of staff office, said that the searches were conducted in order to find caches of arms and explosives used by the guerrillas in their offensive.

Archbishop Damas had written to Ponce, advising him of the church's plan to shelter people displaced by the fighting.

He provided Ponce with a list of several churches and church-run schools in the most affected areas which were to serve as shelters, including the parishes of San Roque and Jesus the Worker, which were subsequently raided.

Salvadoran National Guard troops raided the Episcopal church in San Salvador and detained six foreigners.

Soldiers from the elite Battalion Atlacatl searched the Catholic Church of St Francis of Assisi in the poor neighbourhood of Mejicanos, site of some of the heaviest fighting between guerrilles and government troops.

One of the priests at the church said that the soldiers detained and took away five young Salvadoran men who were helping to provide aid to the people sheltered in the church.

'They accused us of running a clinic for the guerrillas," the priest said.

During the fighting, he said, the church gave a shelter and medical aid to anyone who arrived seeking help, "and we never asked if they were from one group or the other".

"Our work is humanitarian, it is Christian," he told reporters, "but Ican assure you that we never

attended to any armed men that were wounded."

Franciscan nuns who operate a school in the parish of Jesus the Worker, when they returned to the school after the fighting, found the doors had been battered down and the premises ransacked by a group of unidentified men.

Maryknoll priest, Father Ron Hennessy, said soldiers had vandalised Christ the Saviour Church in a Zacamil district neighbourhood which rebel guerrillas had occupied.

Soldiers reportedly entered the church around 1.30pm and stripped it of sacred objects, including the tabernacle.

They left a sign at the front of the church reading: "This church is mined."

Government troops also searched the shelter and the Church of San Roque in the neighbourhood of San Jacinto, to the south of the city.

Some 50 people being went into hiding after sheltered in the parish receiving a death threat. church were forcibly turned out Lutheran of the shelter by army members told journalists that Bishop Gomez is in troops.

In the poor community "a safe place" but that of La Chacara, on the east they did not know where side of San Salvador, he could be located. troops also raided the The Lutheran church in Church of Mary of the San Salvador has been Poor over two days. the object of several Treasury police raided a bomb attempts in recent day care centre at the months, and Bishop same church.

Gomez has received A shelter for displaced numerous death threats. people, which was functioning at Holy Family Secondary School in the north of the capital, was also searched by soldiers.

"In all these places, the army troops were looking for wounded and VATICAN CITY (CNS): bandages stained with Pope John Paul II will blood, but they found make his sixth trip to nothing because these Africa in January, visitare not clinics," said a ing the Cape Verde spokesman.

Islands, Guinea Bissau, The Emmanuel Baptist Mali and Burkina Faso Church in the southern before ending the eightpart of the capital, day trip in Chad. harassment by government troops took place The pope visited Burfrom the start of the kina Faso, then called fighting.

Upper Volta, for four Lutheran bishop hours in 1980. It will be Medardo Gomez and the first time he has Baptist pastor the Reve- visited the other counrend Edgar Palacios tries on the itinerary.

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Top chance for humanity's future

ROME (CNS):— The reforms in the Soviet bloc symbolised by the meeting between Pope John Paul ll and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev offer a "magnificent opportunity" to improve humanity's future, said Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, Vatican secretary of state.

ings of East European catholics.

"The pope always has had spiritual divisions," he said.

These have been "above all, tens of thousands of bishops, priests, Catholics, Religious who have suffered in the different parts of the Communist world," he added.

"Ihope that men of good will, especially Christians, do not let it escape," he added.

The role of the Catholic Church in this process is to help form "a moral conscience" about world issues so that political agreements take hold, he said.

Cardinal Casaroli said one of the church's strongest assets in its decades of "Ostpolitik," the policy of negotiating with Communist regimes, has been the "militancy" and suffer-

"One of the things that saddened me the most in conducting the Vatican's Ostpolitik was to be made aware that public opinion and the interested parties themselves could have the impression that the Holy See did not value this militancy," said Cardinal Casaroli, adding that was not the case.

"One of the strongest cards," the Vatican had to play "was the religious resistance, many times at the sacrifice of prison and even death, of these

confessors of the faith," he said.

The Gorbachev meeting with the pope marked the "passage from a very hard winter, and without hope of spring, to the beginnings of a springtime," he said.

"Today, I think the idea of imposing an atheistic religion has been abandoned" by Gorbachev, he added.

There is "even an appreciation of the values that co-operation with religious can have in the formation of humanity," he said.

"For peace and disarmament, political accords are not enough," said the cardinal.

Even with disarmament accords "weapons are allowed or can be built," he said.

"Above all formation of a moral conscience is needed," he said.

VATICAN CITY (CNS):— The Vatican's desire for permanent diplomatic contact with the Soviet Union is nothing new. In fact, the first Vatican envoy to Russia was appointed in the 16th century.

18th centuries, Vatican diplomats handled "not only religious, but also political" questions said a Vatican summary document.

Some early political efforts dealt with easing conflicts between Russia and Poland and between Russia and Turkey, the Vatican history said.

The church's contemporary agenda with the Soviets includes the need to increase co-operation among European nations and the need for peace in Lebanon.

When Catherine II reigned over Russia in the late 1700s, Russia and

the Vatican exchanged ambassadors for the first time.

The first nuncio, Msgr.

Andrea Archetti, arrived at the court in Petersburg in July 1783.

Msgr. Archetti's passport, and those of his two successors read "Ambas-. sador of the Pope of Rome to the Court of Russia."

At various times during the next 120 years, diplomatic relations were broken and restored.

Some of the issues that fractured relations are similar to the religious freedom questions of

today. The major breaks occurred when one side or the other declared an impasse on negotiations for concordats, or treaties, dealing with the nomination of bishops, the creation of dioceses and parishes and provisions for seminaries.

Moscow on the grounds that he "visited Baltic states illegally".

was rescinded a week before departure.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, who intervened, was told that Bourdeaux had broken the law by attending an illegal youth meeting on a previous visit.

Between 1983 and 1987 all his applications were refused, but last year, when invited to lead an 11-day package tour for the celebrations of the millennium of the baptism of Rus, he and his wife were granted visas, after the usual initial refusal, less than 10

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cussed the status of the church in Russia.

The pope spoke about the situation of Catholics and the naming of bishops, lamenting that Russian laws contradicted church rights. The Czar promised to do whatever he could to Diplomatic contact con- change the laws. tinued intermittently This led to the signing of until the communist a concordat between the revolution of 1917, the Holy See and Russia on Aug 3,1847, which set up Vatican report said. rules for regulating One example of a Catholic life. But the Russian leader going to Czars government did Rome was when, on Dec not abide by it and the 13 and 17, 1845 Czar Holy See protested. RusNicholas I visited Pope sia abrogated the treaty Gregory XVI and dis- in 1866.

Mission cancelled LONDON: Not with- between Britain and the standing the Russian USSR, in the context of thaw towards the West the international process an official fact-finding for reviewing observance mission to the Soviet of the Helsinki Final Union was cancelled by Acts. the Foreign Office because of the Soviet It was preparatory to refusal of a visa to one British participation in human member of the team, the proposed conference in rights the Reverend Michael Bourdeaux, director of Moscow in 1991. the Keston College After some delay, all r esearch centre in members of the group, K ent. with the exception of

The cancelled mission, concerned with human rights, arose out of a bilateral agreement year r eached last

Bourdeaux, received their visas. Bourdeaux's visa was refused two days before the group was due to leave for

The Soviet charge d'affaires later explained that "Keston College represents the worst relic of the Cold War attitudes", and that the Foreign Office had been told on August 24 that Bourdeaux's participation in the group would be unacceptable.

Michael Bourdeaux has been travelling in the USSR frequently since 1959. He had no trouble until 1981 when his visa

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Even the notion of a Vatican diplomat representing more than the religious interests of the church to the Russian government is not new.

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There, all doors were opened and he was treated as a guest of honour. Since then, and despite a visit of the chairman of the Council for Religious Affairs to Keston as Bourdeaux's guest last November, several more applications have been refused.

In February this year he was allowed to travel to the USSR but was fined on a trumped-up charge of failing to register when staying with Russian friends.

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Eye-to-eye AT GORBACHEV'S REQUEST THE TWO MEN FIRST SPOKE WITHOUT TRANSLATORS PRESENT VATICAN CITY: Gorbachev arrived at the Vatican at 10.50am, 20 minutes late. His black limousine entered St Peter's Square and passed under the Gate of the Bells just to the right of St Peter's Basilica.

The limousine then drove for seven minutes around the basilica and up the winding road to the San Damaso courtyard where the Soviet president was received by several Vatican protocol officers and a 24member honour guard of Swiss Guards in billowy yellow, blue and red dress uniforms designed by the Renaissance artist Michelangelo.

Gorbachev, in a blue suit minus the medals his predecessors used to sport in public, was taken inside

the Apostolic Palace for a one-flight elevator ride to meet the white-clad pope.

Smiling, they shook hands and exchanged a few words in Russian and Italian.

The pope then accompanied Gorbachev to the papal library for their private talk, eye-to-eye across a wooden table.

At Gorbachev's request, the two men spoke without translators for the first five minutes. After that translators were present.

Gorbachev left the Vatican at 12.57pm, slightly more than two hours after he arrived.

Sidelights to keep all happy

VATICAN CITY (CNS): The Vatican closeddoor meeting was the central event in the Soviet leader's threeday visit to Italy, but there were enough public sideshows to keep Roman and Vatican observers happy when Polish-born pontiff welcomed Gorbachev, his wife and some 24 advisers in the papal office building known as the Apostolic Palace.

Inside the Vatican, Gorbachev had little chance to "press the flesh" as he did next to Rome's Colosseum a few hours after his arrival in the city.

Top security VATICAN CITY: Security was, according to many observers, unprecedented in and around the Vatican.

St Peter's Square was closed early in the morning and policemen stood every 15 metres or so along its perimeter.

That forced monsignors to take detours and caused at least two nuns to postpone grocery shopping that morning for resident cardinals.

As Gorbachev's motorcade wound its way out of the Vatican, complete with a helicopter above at St Peter's Square, things returned to normal in the world's smallest city-state.

The Page One cartoon in the daily La Repubblica perhaps reflected a characteristically Roman view of the encounter. It showed Gorbachev as Christ working his way up Calvary hill, with the pope as Simon of Cyrene, helping him carry his cress.

The chants of "Gorby!

Gorby!" that rang out in packed Roman squares were absent in the Vatican's silent courtyards — but monsignors' faces crowded the windows when his fivelimousine motorcade arrived.

At the third-floor office windows of the Secretariat of State, about 30 people peered down from behind white curtains and watched as two dozen Swiss Guards did their four-count "picchetto" drill with halberds.

Gorbachev, dressed in a plain blue suit minus the heroes' medals used by his predecessors, got out

eagerly from the limo, not waiting for the driver to open the door.

He walked over to an oriental rug placed on the cobblestones and shook hands with Bishop Dino Monduzzi, prefect pontifical the of household.

Then Gorbachev and his wife, Raisa, were led down a red carpet past a well ordered line of gentlemen" "papal attired in tuxedos and pontifical insignia. His t wo hours in the Church's nerve centre had begun.

Not quite a full minute after the Soviet leader entered the building, while all was still quiet in

the courtyard, Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, president-in-transition of the Vatican Bank, strolled by.

He greeted journalists and said he had watched Gorbachev's arrival from

a window.

Asked whether Gorbachev might be visiting the Vatican Bank later to make a withdrawal, Archbishop Marcinkus replied: "He might need it," and walked through the archway toward his office.

The Vatican's halls, rich in centuries-old religious decoration, were also studded with blinking pieces of video and radio

equipment for the occasion.

Gorbachev When marched alongside six Swiss Guards through the Clementine Hall, he walked beneath a fresco of the Virtue of Religion — but he might have been distracted by the ubiquitous digital TV monitors that were tracking his every step.

Vatican officials clustered around the monitors in room after room of the palace. Father Giovanni D'Ercole, assistant press spokesman, was especially well-wired for the occasion. He frequently spoke orders into a microphone hidden beneath his collar.

Big wait for newsmen

VATICAN CITY: For And for Gorbachev? reporters waiting in Gerasimov was asked. the Clementine Hall, "No — it's one of many," the event was largely a he said. four-hour wait for a 60second passage — no Gerasimov, like others questions, please — of in the Soviet entourage, and eyed the richly decorated pope the Gorbachev. surroundings in the

Apostolic Palace with i nterest — and perhaps spoWhen Soviet press kesman Gannadi Gera- some discomfort. simov strolled into the He told reporters he had room, he told reporters heard the Sistine Chapel that "this must be the images had been bought biggest event of the year, by the Japanese, and that if not the decade, for no one could take picyou". tures of Michelangelo's

famous anymore.

frescoes

"They aren't Christian, are they?" he asked, referring to the Japanese, a little perplexed.

Someone explained that Japan's Nippon TV had largely financed the current restoration of the frescoes and in return had been given exclusive reproduction rights.

Gerasimov made a face and shook his head.

"It's commercialisation of religion. Not good," he said.

Long time over tongues

VATICAN CITY: One reason the pope's meeting with Gorbachev might have taken so long was the number of languages spoken.

After five minutes of one-on-one conversation in Russian, interpreters were called in.

From then on, the pope spoke in Polish and, at times, Italian. Gorbachev spoke in Russian, which was

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More than 1400 journalists covered Gorbachev's trip, and an estimated 600 showed up at the Vatican.

The Vatican had to add a second press office across St Peter's Square to accommodate the overflow of reporters.

Meanwhile, Italy's state television broadcast live coverage of the event, and Vatican Radio broadcast a play-by-play in four languages, including Russian.

translated into Italian by his own interpreter.

Sometime's the pope's interpreter took over as Gorbachev was speaking, translating into Polish and at times, Italian.

"It was a bit of a tangle of languages," press spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said.

Change of heart In stages

VATICAN CITY: Gorbachev, 58, one of the few Soviet leaders baptised — his mother is still a churchgoer — joined the Communist Party in the early 1950s.

By 1980 he was admitted to full Politburo membership.

During a visit to Britain in December 1984, Gorbachev "showed his temper for the first time" publicly after a conservative member of Parliament questioned him about religious freedom in the Soviet Union, according to a New York Times report.

The Times said Gorbachev replied that Soviet citizens had to obey the law.

He reportedly told the British Parliament not to be misled about press campaigns of persecution in the Soviet Union, since the West reacted to reports of a few individuals as if the Soviet Union had no laws.

Then in a major speech to the Soviet Communist Party's 19th national meeting, on June 28, 1988, Gorbachev said that while the party viewed religion as "unscientific" that was no reason "for applying any administrative pressures" on believers in order to promote Marxist ideology.

Eighteen months later, on the eve of Gorbachev's historic meeting with Pope John Paul H, the Soviet leader said his country had

made a mistake in rejecting religion, a moral force that could help with plans for a new society.

... over religion

VATICAN CITY (CNS): The evening before th papal meeting, Gorbachev was stronger in hi praise of religion as a positive factor fa perestroika.

At a speech in Rome's City Hall, the Sovif leader called religion a stabilising force i human and international relations and sai Soviet leaders were mistaken in the past whe they tried to eliminate it.

Religion was understood "in a simplistic way he said.

"Our starting point is not only the fact thi faith is a question of conscience in which no or should interfere, but also a consideration of ti• moral values held by religion which can sen and which are serving the cause of our nation; renewal," Gorbachev said in Rome.

Communists "have renounced the monopo on truth", he said.

Marked changes VATICAN CITY: The status of the Catholic Church in the Soviet Union has changed m arkedly over the years says a Vatican study.

The report also noted that the number of remains Catholics elusive.

It said the Church in the Russian Empire before 1917 had six dioceses and two jurisdictions headed by apostolic administrators.

The empire's 131 million inhabitants included 2.2 million Catholics.

The report's description of the Church between 1917 and 1945 listed the names of the bishops and apostolic administrators, when they were arrested and when they were sent to Siberia or exiled, or both.

A footnote about the apostolic administration of Moscow said that under the 1933 accord establishing diplomatic relations between the

United States and the Soviet Union, a Catholic chaplain is stationed at the US Embassy in Moscow.

"Until 1968 those cha-

plains were appointed apostolic administrators of Moscow by the Holy See," the report said.

The report also said that because of changes in the Soviet border after World War II, all or part of six Polish dioceses are "located within the territory of the Soviet Union".

In addition, when Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia were annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940, they had seven dioceses and one jurisdiction headed by an apostolic administrator, the report said.

In 1940, 85 per cent of Lithuania's 3.3 million people were Catholic.

There were 1450 priests, 717 churches and four seminaries with 549 students.

"After the Second World War, the Church

Difficulty over freedom NEW YORK (CNS): An official of the Ukrainian mission to the United Nations says that for full freedom for the Ukrainian Catholic Church the major difficulty would come with rival claims of Orthodox and Catholics to the same church buildings, and the Ukrainian government would like to avoid involvement in disputes between religious groups.

Olexander Boutsko said final decisions should be made not just by Gorbachev, but in the Soviet and Ukrainian legislative bodies.

He said the Supreme Soviet, the principal legislative body of the Soviet Union, would soon be considering a law on religion, and the Ukrainian legislature may take freedoms established under that law even further.

Elections for the Ukrainian legislature will be held in March, he said.

Boutsko said the Ukrainian government hoped the new law on religious freedom would be enacted "as soon as possible".

His government considers the law a "necessity,"

he said, because religion is one way in which people live their lives, and law should "reflect the wishes of the people".

The number of Ukrainian Catholics, he said, is not known but could be conservatively estimated in the "tens of thousands". The figure sometimes given of five million is "very exaggerated", he said.

Boutsko said the changes taking place in the Soviet Union were "a permanent progress" arising from the overall economic, social and political situation, and would continue even if Gorbachev ceased to be the leader.

Not first time... stg ia VATsItCAw mee Ltain N ee Cies: — week was not the first time a pope has met a Soviet head of state or a powerful Soviet personage.

The first Soviet head of state to meet a pope was President Nikolai V. Podgorny. He met Pope Paul VI on Jan 30, 1967.

leader Nikita Khrushchev and editor of the government newspaper Izvestia.

Pope Paul also met five times with Andrei Gromyko when Gromyko was Soviet foreign minister. The first was a protocol meeting Oct 4 1965 at UN headquarters in New York. was the 10th papal visit The rest were substanwith a high-ranking tive encounters at the Soviet figure. All but one Vatican on April 27, have taken place at the 1966, Nov 12, 1970, Feb Vatican.

21, 1974 and June 28, The icebreaking visit 1975. occurred in March 1962 The current pope also when Pope John XXIII met Gromyko twice, Jan met Alexei Adzhubeli, 24, 1979 and Feb 27. son-in-law of Soviet 1985.

in Lithuania suffered a violent and systematic persecution, which decimated the numbers and destroyed her flourishing institutions," the report said.

"Four bishops and 330 priests were arrested, and many were deported to Siberia," it said. "Three bishops and 257 priests were exiled."

The 600,000 Catholics in Latvia fared better.

The Archdiocese of Riga continued to have a resident bishop or an apostolic administrator and its seminary has remained open, the report said. In 1983 the apostolic administrator, Bishop Julijans Vaivods, was named a cardinal.

The report said the Church in Lithuania was returning "to full normalcy" with the appointment of new bishops last March. The two archdioceses, four dioceses and one apostolic prelature have resident bishops.

"There is greater freedom for the Church in

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Latvia and Estonia also,"

it said, "however, no reordering of the hierarchy has taken place yet."

The report also said "there is some news concerning the restoration of some churches in Byelorussia and the Ukraine for worship".

While there are some Latin-rite Catholics in the Ukraine, the majority of Catholics there worship in the Byzantine rite of the Ukrainian Catholic Church.

Before the Ukrainian church was outlawed in 1946, it had three dioceses, 2156 parishes, 4.5 million members and 2211 priests.

The Vatican report estimates that despite 43 years of repression, the Church has 550 priests, more than 100 men religious, more than 500 women religious and five million faithful.

The report said Ukrainian Catholics could be

divided into three categories: • "Those who are Catholic at heart, but attend the Orthodox churches — the majority.

• "Those of the 'catacombs', firm in faith, who practice their religion in hiding, served by clandestine bishops and priests.

• 'Those who radically and officially assert the legality of the Ukrainian Catholic Church — a group born in the '50s with the name of `Pokutnyky', ie Penitents."

The Holy See estimates that there are 13.5 million Catholics in the Soviet Union: 6.5 million of the Latin rite, five Ukrainian million Catholics and two milArmenian-rite lion Catholics.

However, the report cautioned: "Communication difficulties also make statistics about the presence of Catholics in territory Soviet inaccurate."

-A day of fasting and prayers ROME: A week before the pope-Gorbachev meeting, Ukrainian Catholics here held a day of fasting and prayer at the Ukrainian ProCathedral of St Sophia in Rome.

The church in the Ukraine, Cardinal Lubanchivsky said, "before our eyes and in a great renewal, has come out of hiding and is beginning its work for immortal souls in freedom for the glory of the crucified Lord".

The more than 10-hour prayer service in Rome coincided with demonstrations in the Ukraine demanding legalisation of the church, which was outlawed under Josef Stalin in 1946.

More than 150,000 people gathered near the former Ukrainian Cathedral of St George in Lvov carrying signs with pictures of Pope John Paul II. Demonstrations were also reported in the Ukrainian cities of Chernovtsky and IvanoFrankovsk.

"When we pray for our church, for the persecuted, when we pray for its freedom, we are not praying for ourselves, for a better fate," Cardinal Lubachivslcy said.

"We are praying for the trampled glory of God, for his inheritance," the cardinal said.

"We pray that evil men may not bring shame to God's earth, that the word of God may not be desecrated or trampled upon."

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Clearing hurdles in race for faith Behind the question are two yearnings to which people continually attest.

The first is simply for more time. Few people think they possess enough of it.

In a recent national survey 46 per cent of participants admitted they didn't spend enough time with their families.

Respondents judged that the top-ranking threat to family stability was the small amount of

time family members spend with each other.

The desire for more time is related closely to an intense hunger for more depth in our experiences and relationships. Just consider how energy is much expended getting home for great family holidays.

deep down things," as poet Gerard Manley Hopkins put it.

Yet when I ask people what impedes them from reaching a desired level of depth in their lives, the answer again is time.

If I ask what prevents them as families from growing spiritually, the reply is the same.

Then what's to be done?

Here are some suggestions, first at the level of attitude adjustment and, second in the realm of activity.

For everyone, the Chrisan message of incarnaton is the same: the Iicred is discovered in through the and irdinary.

As family people, we never will find enough time to develop a spiritual life if we imagine it is something outside our

Another attitude in need of adjustment is the one which regards spiritual growth as essentially Endividualistic. Such a

I think we do this because we hope to find some deeper dimension which is missing from our everyday, hurried lives.

Similarly, when people speak of wanting to develop a spiritual life, it is but another expression of that same longing for "the dearest freshness

trdinary lives. If we t hink we can grow s piritually only by withtrawing from daily rouIme, we will be frustrated s ontinually.

Each person can live (lily one life. A spiritual Ile is the deepest dimension of our ordinary lives, he point at which our spirit rests most inti!lately with God's Spirit.

By H. Richard McCord notion can lead to the belief that one must withdraw from people in a search for holiness.

Not only does this ultimately not work, but it contradicts the truth, deeply rooted in Scripture and tradition, that God saves us in and through community. The cultivation of relationships is fundamental to spiritual growth.

Re-evaluating our attitudes about the nature of the spiritual life and about how to grow spiritually can open up practical possibilities for spiritual development as a family.

The first concerns time.

If we come to understand that spiritual life doesn't occur in a time zone outside our ordinary routine, we should be drawn to examine how we use that time we have.

How much of it do we use deliberately for communication and nurturing relationships among family members?

Dolores Curran observes that when families make time for each other, everything else improves: communication, support, friendship, sex, spirituality and the capacity for dealing with daily problems.

Making time often means we'll have to turn

off the television and actually face each other.

We'll need to rediscover how to converse, first at a more superficial level, gradually venturing a depth wherein we share what's really important to us and can feel free to speak and to allow others to speak the truth.

When we become convinced that the sacred is embedded within the ordinary, we should want to see more clearly and listen more perceptively for God's revelation — even in the most unlikely circumstances. anything Indeed, within family life can become a window to God: moments of forgive-

First to be called, first to fall

Anything within family life can be a window to God, writes H. Richard McCord. Moments of forgiveness, a loving embrace, giving or receiving an unexpected gift, sharing a laugh, a meal — all can be occasions where a family experiences growth in faith.

A superficial reading of the Gospels can give the impression that the disciples, once called to follow Jesus, did so with no difficulty.

But it is unlikely that they never experienced any problems in their growth to spiritual maturity. A more attentive reading reveals the many obstacles the disciples encountered.

Biblical movies in general leave a great deal to he desired.

The only one I have seen that even came close to capturing the real flavour of the Gospels was Franco Zefirelli's "Jesus of Nazareth". Its portrayal of the struggles the disciples endured to remain faithful was remarkable.

Peter stood out as an especially strong character, but one who wrestled with his own convictions all along.

A man of his times, he

shared contemporary ideas about what sort 01 person the Messiah would be.

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responded by telling him As he travelled with to keep quiet and then Jesus, witnessed his speaking of his coming extraordinary deeds and suffering and death. listened to his wisdom, Peter's hopes rose. When That sort of thing was he burst out with "You definitely not part of are the Messiah" (Mark Peter's view of the future.

8:29), he was sure he was His Messiah was supright. posed to be a conquering hero who would drive However, he was in for out the Roman occupaa rude shock. Jesus tion forces and raise

Israel to its rightful place.

The talk of suffering floored Peter and he "took (Jesus) aside and rebuked him". But he was rebuked in turn by Jesus: "Get behind me, Satan. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do."

What a blow! What a challenge to Peter's continued allegiance.

As Mark tells the story, Peter was typical of the disciples and by implication of many people who set out bravely on the mad to spiritual growth.

The disciples are weighed down by all sorts of baggage, intellectual and emotional.

From this point on, Jesus tries to cure their blindness, to get them to

Stumbling blocks and stepping stones

By Katharine Bird After the death from cancer of his wife, Joy British Davidman, author C.S. Lewis was plunged into an intense spiritual struggle. He is the renowned author of "The Narnian Tales" and numerous works on Christianity.

In "A Grief Observed",

Lewis told how he felt abandoned by God and how in his anger and devastation he lashed out angrily at God. "Where is God?" Lewis wrote in the book. "Go to him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and the sound of bolting and double bolting on

the inside.

"You may as well turn away," Lewis continued, hinting at the great difficulty he had praying.

"The longer you wait, the more emphatic the silence will become."

Drawing heavily on a journal he kept during the period following his wife's death, Lewis told how he continued to make an effort to pray

and to talk with God, even when prayer seemed worthless and God most distant.

Though progress was excruciatingly slow, bit by bit his bitter mood began to lift.

Gradually Lewis was able to put his experience of loss in the broader perspective of "Lord, not my will but thine be done."

Slowly, Lewis reported, he became aware again of God's presence and comfort. Lewis' spiritual struggle eased as he moved into a new stage in his relationship with God. A personal crisis can be either a stumbling block or a stepping stone to a deeper spirituality for people, Father Lawrence Mick said in a recent

interview.

Which one it will be depends on people's approach, he said, on whether the crisis "turns them away from God and makes them bitter or whether they identify with the suffering Christ and grow closer to him."

When facing a difficult spiritual problem it helps to see things "from the perspective of the

Growing spiritually as a family

By Stan Konieczny St Paul frequently employed the image of a race to describe his faith experience.

Anyone who ever laced up a pair of Reeboks to follow in the apostle's footsteps has discovered that there are a few hurdles to leap on the racecourse!

An active lifestyle and a packed appointment calendar are what challenge Lois Neary's spiritual life. She is a single, young adult in the Diocese of Belleville, who works as a secretary and volunteers time to 8

youth organisations such as the Teens Encounter Christ retreat program.

"I have a very intense personality and I face a world of busy schedules and little time. Each day brings considerable stress, unmet expectations, financial pressures and too many meetings," she explained.

"I have to remind myself of my spiritual life. Usually I don't do that untilIam frustrated and my heart is racing."

She finds even in her youth ministry ende,ayours that she must stop and remind herself exactly what she is doing and ask why she is giving

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her time in this way.

And for her prayer is essential. During a diocesan youth meeting, Ms Neary learned of a prayer attributed to Cardinal Richard Cushing titled, "Slow Me Down, Lord."

The prayer ends: "Slow me down, Lord. Inspire me to send my roots deep into the soil of life's enduring values that I may grow toward the stars of my greater destiny."

"Just reading the title of that prayer can have a calming effect," she noted. "It makes me stop and think and then the frustrations and the busy

schedules don't seem so important."

Ms Neary said she has a "standing appointment" for prayer at night. It serves as a review of the day, bringing closure and relaxation.

"I always end my evening prayer by saying, 'OK, we'll get a new start again in the morning,' and I find that I sleep better," she added.

Integrating quality prayer into hectic family activities is the challenge for Rich and Jane Friederich of Belleville, Ill. Rich teaches high school math and Jane works as a homemaker.

Together, they are

involved in Marriage Encounter and the Luke 18 retreat program for junior high school students.

"When we pray together as a couple, it is easier. Our relationship with one another makes it more comfortable to be with God," Mrs Friederich said.

"When we pray together as a couple and as a family, we get along better," Friederich added.

So they juggle their schedules to accommodate family prayer. This may mean planning a special family evening prayer to involve their three daughters, who are

19, 13 and 7.

A special time for the Friederich family is Sunday Mass, which with a few exceptions they attend together.

Parents and daughters alike alter their schedules to meet this priority.

"Sometimes we have to fight, and we fight hard, to get our children to keep the values that we try to teach them and that we try to live," Mrs Friederich noted.

"One spiritual hurdle that I encounter is 'acedia', or spiritual sloth," Jo Vallo confided with a glee which

paschal mystery, Might of Jesus' death t.nd resurrection," Fat ier Mick said.

This can help pe ple "deal with the cmssti of life as a road to resurection rather than stnething to alienate us"from God. "A lot of times people have a hard time nailing their own demon at first," Father Mick sid.

He gave the example of people who build thier lives around the acquisition of wealth, expecting it to bring them happiness and security.

Then, when it doesn't and they find themselves wondering why they are dissatisfied, they may be able to consider the possibility that their primary goal was really a stumbling block to

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betrayed her 34 yearsii the. classroom. Nov retired, she still enjOs teaching a new word, conveying ne'v a concept.

"My husband used tht term often," she sel• "Acedia' is a lazines about spiritual matters lack of caring that 01 come at anytime. As soel as you catch it, you Ilan to do something about,t or you will never mak any spiritual progreo Mrs Vallo explained.

Her best remedy is 1) get involved in helpiii others. 'Take the nesi' of people seriously. think that has to be a PO of spiritual life," sO

advised.

Mrs Vallo also depends on the sacraments and the help of friends to help her through bouts of spiritual sloth. And she has become a lay associate of a women's religious order based in Ruma, This has added another dimension to her spiritual life, she said. "I am a widow andI have found that the spirit of community gained through associate meetings help those who live alone."

The community's retreats, days of special prayer and talks "contribute to the long pilgrimage," she concluded.

growth, Father Mick said.

Asked how he helps people through a spiritual crisis, he said that he encourages them to "interpret the experience" in terms of God's call to them to grow in a given situation.

He told of a couple whose marital relationship was shaky following an instance of infidelity.

The couple came to him saying, "We're in this for life. We have to work through it."

He said that in the course of counselling he helped the couple to deal with such basic Christian principles as forgiveness and unconditional love.

They also talked about trust and how to restore trust following betrayal.

Working through these issues over time, the couple also began to deal with the underlying marital problems that had contributed to the infidelity.

Having struggled over a period of time, the couple ended up with a richer, stronger relationship, Father Mick said. And a situation that could have turned them away from God and each other became instead a step to a deeper spirituality.

ness, a loving embrace, giving or receiving an unexpected gift, sharing a laugh, a meal.

The challenge is to develop the skill of "common contemplation" whereby we step back from a certain event long enough to understand how God is acting in our lives.

To do this as a family might mean pausing at grace before meals or at bedtime prayers and letting each person tell when he or she felt close to God that day.

Prayer together is essential for developing a family spirituality.

Again, look for those opportunities within the

see and dccept the cost of discipleship.

"followed him on the way" (Mark 10:52).

Then, on the way to Jerusalem, twice more Jesus predicts his Passion.

After every prediction, the disciples change the subject, usually in the direction of their own self-interest.

The irony is deliberate.

The disciples have become progressively blinder, struggling to maintain their own views. It is the blind man who declares his desire to "see" and then follows Jesus on the way.

Then, at the end of the section, Mark tells of the cure of Bartimaeus, who once given his sight,

It was only the resurrection experience that finally brought the disciples the full courage to

rhythms of family life which naturally suggest prayer.

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Beginnings and endings of meals or projects, or a school year, or a trip, or a crisis period are such moments.

Anniversaries of births, baptisms, weddings, deaths are another.

Praying the rosary or the prayerful use of sacraments like an Advent wreath can aid a family's spiritual growth.

All of us have only so much time and most of us will have only one family. Both can be magnificent gifts for growing closer to God and each other.

pursue seriously their own individual goals of growth in Christlikeness.

It is reassuring for Christians to realise that those first called were the first to fall. Difficulties in living the Christian life must not discourage us.

They are to be expected.

It has been said that the spiritual journey is one long series of conversions, and that means struggle, repeated falling and rising.

Brief!

In the "worldview" of a monk, the entire course of a day is invested with significance in God's eyes.

For the monk, work isn't viewed as a hurdle standing in the way of spiritual goals. Nor is time spent with the monastic community — the monastic family — regarded as a barrier.

Even leisuretime has value.

Time and effort are expended in monasteries learning to look upon the day's many activities as more than necessary evils or nuisances — hurdles to jump in an effort to "get back to God".

Is there a message in the monk's "worldview" for lay people?

It is not unusual for people to feel at times that the others in their lives, their work and all their responsibilities are pulling at them, tugging at them. And, people may conclude that they are being pulled away from God.

Today, however, theologians and spiritual directors emphasise that God can be found in the midst of ordinary activities.

The tug one senses is frequently not a tug away from God but a tug toward God, many would say.

Of course, to grasp what this really means is easier said than done. Christians have struggled throughout history to understand how the ordinary settings in which tiny lead their lives can be the domain of God.

Part of the problem is that ordinary life so often is permeated by confusion. Everyday life is a mixture of positive and negative forces.

Shouldn't God be found in unconfusing, calm settings where there is little possibility of "things going wrong"?

approach to spirituality is all to the good.

What can be a problem is the attitude that God can only be found at these special times and in these special places, that ordinary activities and relationships merely get in the way.

As a result of such an attitude, family members To suggest that spiritu- may find themselves ality can develop along praying or reflecting on the path of the ordinary the Gospel alone, but is not to suggest there is rarely praying and no need to set a special reflecting with the famtime aside for God or to ily; leisuretime may be find a special place to considered wasteful; pray. To develop a plan or work may be regarded simply as the wages of sin.

Think about it: What do regard as hurdles to you Look into your own life, the people you live with and work with, your commitments in the local be jumped in the pursuit community and your leisuretime activities. What of spirituality? Do you "hurdles" do you feel you would have to leap over ever unconsciously consider your "real life" lobe in order to grow and mature in the Christian way? in the way?

Do you sometimes feel that your whole life, all your It takes practice to responsibilities, "get in the way" of spiritual discover the spiritual growth? dimcnsions of ordinary After reading J. Richard McCord's article, how do life. Like the monk, one you think people can begin to see their ordinary has to learn this "worldlives, the course their everyday life takes, as a view" through reflection domain for God's activity and an opportunity for and consultation and spiritual growth? prayer.

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"Where is the life we have lost in living?" wondered poet T.S. Eliot. His question, or a paraphrase of it, echoes through the lives of many families.

Week in focus

In this Advent season, think about the stumbling blocks people encounter in their spiritual journeys — the theme of this week's CNS Religious Education Package.

H. Richard McCord says people tell him that time is a constant threat as

they endeavor to grow spiritually. He makes some suggestions on how people can use ordinary family life as a time for spiritual growth.

their spiritual journey.

Rich and Jane Friederich tell him how they juggle their family's schedules to include some regular praying together.

Stan Konieczny interviews several people about the difficulties in

Katharine Bird interviews Father Lawrence Mick on how he helps

people turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones to spiritual growth.

Father John Castelot thinks that, like us, the first disciples of Jesus struggled mightily to grow.

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14 Balgo kids hit town

In a huddle for the ball are John Booling, Douglas Maggi, Ronald Mosquito, Basil Sunfly and Darren Mudgedell.

Fourteen Aboriginal children accompanied by two Aboriginal teaching assistants, Sister Helen Nolan RSM and De La Salle Brother Joe Gabel, have been seen buzzing around Perth and environs in a La Salle borrowed bus, to absorb the scenery and atmosphere of The Big Smoke.

They're from the traditional Aboriginal community of Balgo Hills which has around 400 people including 30 whites, and is situated at the edge of the Great Sandy Desert, 280km south of Halls Creek.

It's an annual trip for the "Luurnpa" Catholic School's secondary students, to briefly expose them to city and suburban activities and life that in their isolation they wouldn't otherwise have.

The school of 20 preschoolers and 130 enrolled students in the other grades, is named after the Luurnpa, which is an interesting folkloric tale. Luurnpa is the kingfisher — the Kukatjas' sacred bird. Folklore has it that the Luurnpa made his home in the south.

Tired of living alone, he decided he would find somebody to share his life and join him in corroborees and singing.

He travelled north into the desert in his search for people — but found none.

Pursuing his search the next day he noticed a little snake coming out of a hole no bigger than an ant hole so tiny that he could barely fit his beak in it to widen it.

When he did so he saw little people made of stone. The Luurnpa breathed into the hole and they came to life.

Pallottine Brother Joe Gabel setting out for Perth fun and frolics with George Lee, Paula Nagamara, Chris Mandigelli, Mary Darkie and teaching assistant Bede Lee.

ANNUAL TRIP FOR SCHOOL STUDENTS Selecting the strongest distinction of being perto follow him to his haps the only bi-lingual country, he took the school in WA. Wirrumanu path and led Children learn to read them from water hole to and write in Kukatja water hole, giving them before they bridge to kangaroo, goanna and English about year 5 lots of bush tucker. level.

Luurnpa looked back at Thus with 90 per cent the travellers and said, Kukatja and 10 per cent "They will be my people." English in grade one, the Finally they settled down balance gradually evens in Kukatja country and up until it is about 50/50 were happy. by the time they reach In fact, the Kukatjas did year 5. make a few moves in an Each teacher has an attempt to find the best Aboriginal teaching water source and finally assistant, whose role it is settled on their present to take the Kukatja class site, 30 years ago. and assist with general The St John of God classroom teaching. sisters, well known for The aim, said deputy their toiling up north principal Sister Helen, is with the Pallottines, ran to develop teaching the mission and school skills, moving towards until the sisters' depar- full responsibility for the ture last year. Currently education of their the school is a joint children. venture between the Food has to be flown in Mercy Sisters (ISMA) to Balgo (and is therefore and the De La Salle very costly along with brothers. diesel), but one gets the It was a government impression that the Aboschool at one stage but riginal people wouldn't the people asked to have starve to death if 'planes a Catholic school, which ceased to come — at least it became in 1984, in line for a while. with the Catholic majorAs a pastime, the seconity at Balgo. dary students go out De La Salle Brother Leo bush with their teachers Scollen was appointed, and some older folk who and remains, principal. teach them the art of The school, running traditional food gatherfrom pre-primary to year ing and hunting.

10, is designed to cater Armed with digging for the Kukatjas' Western sticks and a lcipal (coodesert dialect, so has the lamon), they hunt for

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Lull before the storming of Perth by Balgo children (left rear) Alison Gill, Katie Malarvie, Ruth Nagamara (secondary teaching assistant), Sister Helen and (front left) Christine Yugumbari and Patricia Dingle. sand frogs, the black incorporated in theirs, before and during his going as they move on to WA mission years, has attend ceremonies in headed python (not the the Christian cross. written up by other areas and visit their been poisonous snakes who It was reminiscent of are called "cheeky the first Pentecost using Benedictine author, poet original tribal areas, buggers"!), rough tailed diverse tongues, with the and editor, Francis Byrne which are generally south into the Great lizards, and add their people speaking in their OSB. Sandy Desert. vegies and fruit by own languages to explain This book, The Hard There are two Mercy hunting for bush figs, their paintings and pray Road, was released last yams, tomatoes, onions, during the Prayer of the week, published by Tara Sisters at the school, and carrots, nuts, passion- Faithful, said Sister House, PO Box 486, two in the St John's Adult fruit, sugar and bush Helen.

Nedlands WA 6009, Centre, one of whom is also a pastoral worker, seeds to grind for Traditional dancing $15. dampers.

Mass in Balgo is cele- with a further three took place by men and sisters at other communThere's nothing wrong women during different brated in Kukatja and ities, Billiluna and with bush tucker, they parts of the Mass, achiev- English with the people MuIan, outside Balgo. state! ing a blending of the two. doing the readings in Of the four De La Salle these languages.

The advent of ChrisAt the end of Mass, the Brothers at Balgo, there tianity has meant a blessing and lighting of The Aboriginal people are two in the school, one culture merging for the the fire took place with are a very artistic race at the Centre and Kukatjas with the Holy everyone holding their and art is the main another doing pastoral Spirit being a powerful fire stick up towards the source of income for the work in the community.

Balgo people. their cross in salutation. in force But Balgo didn't just Their paintings are in happen overnight — "In community.

Balgo has recently celeThe Pentecost celebra- brated its first 50 years many galleries through- fact we are building on tion is very important, and for this occasion was out Australia and over- the solid foundations said Sister Helen, and visited by the St John of seas and children during which were established this year Balgo was God Sisters and Father their Perth trip were by the St John of God joined by five surround- Alphonse, there for 19 wearing their own Sisters and the Palloting communities in what years along with fellow screen printed t-shirt tines," said Sister Helen. proved to be a very PaHotline Brother Frank designs.

"They laboured hard in As a people, the older the heat of the day to colourful and meaning- Nissl (1888-1980). ful event.

Brother Frank is a very folk in particular, are establish a relationship Ritual head-dress was well known identity quite mobile and there is with these people, which used by some, and others whose life and work a degree of coming and we now enjoy."

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By Colleen McGuiness-Howard The Disciples of Jesus is a relatively new community in Perth which came over early this year.

There are 65 Perth including members children, and an overall membership of 350.

Head office is in Sydney with branches in the Blue Mountains and on NSWs central coast.

It was set up in 1979 as an off-shoot of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, with two of the leaders deciding they wanted something more permanent than a weekly meeting. Several families met two or three times a week, became more committed, and so the movement took off.

It is structured with seven elders who are the pastoral carers of the community — 'community' as in people living in small clusters of self-ownership homes, not as in living under the one roof.

The members do not see themselves as a separate Church, but remain in submission to the Catholic Church.

They are broken up into sharing groups of five who are similar in age and with whom they meet every Tuesday night to share their faith journey with each other.

Members will sell their homes if necessary to move closer to each other and are encouraged to give a 10% tithe of their income which is used in a discretionary fund for either parish or community purposes.

Kelvin is an elder and a full time worker who with his team visit secondary schools and tertiary institutions; in the former they do drama, games, music, overnight camps and retreats as a follow-up.

Within the schools they may run missions which go from one and a half hours to three days, following them up with camps.

The team also does mercy works — for example caring for pregnant teenagers.

The Disciples of Jesus is made up of families, singles and priests who have a covenant, a Rule of Life, within which they seek to give their whole lives to the Lord to form them into a basic Chris-

tian community, sharing prayer and supporting one another practically, and also the Church in its mission to proclaim the gospel to all people, said Kelvin.

Now 31 with a wife and t wo young children, Kelvin was raised in a good Catholic home but used to 'tune out' on religion, preferring a life of fast cars, pretty girls and drinking at the pub — "everything except my faith.

"I was a typical young guy of 18 until I met up with some Christians who challenged me to think about my faith; and as I looked into my heart I found it was empty," he said.

Picking up the challenge, Kelvin committed himself to God and hasn't looked back.

His life has been 'transformed', each year becoming more fulfilled and happy, "from deep inside my heart where it counts!"

Jesus "the greatest person in the universe," has become his personal friend and that is his source_ of joy.

"To help others find this, I have tried to help people as a social worker

and through my nursing career."

Involved with drug addicts in Sydney, near Kings Cross, Kelvin found he wasn't getting anywhere and it was purely a band-aid treatment, so decided prevention was better, before they ruined their lives.

"It's not about educating them with drugs, it's about speaking on the positive, which is that there is great value in knowing Jeus Christ as a friend.

'Then you don't feel you have to do good things all the time — you want to!

"You no longer want to get drunk, sleep around, steal. You want to help people and serve others.

Now I find it easier to be myself and not put on a front to please others; and it's so easy to be a good family man."

Kelvin said he loves praying, the Mass, the Eucharist, "and I feel I have the ability to love my enemies. . . all this because I can communicate with Jesus Christ daily through the power of the Holy Spirit.

"And what I have, I want to give to others, to make it easier for people

to enter that same relationship no matter who they are. Because it's not an exclusive one. Then they'll discover the same peace I have."

During the last four years when Kelvin and his team have been spreading the gospel throughout mainstream life, he has spoken and given witness to about 20,000, and has found hundreds of young people coming to the same experience of conversion that they have.

"But it's important to keep following up these young people, making it an ongoing experience so they are `discipled' into a more permanent relationship with Jesus Christ."

This weekend the Disciples of Jesus are running a Fire of Love weekend at Santa Maria, Attadale, the aim of which is to bring people into union with Jesus Christ in a deeper and more personal way, if not for the first time.

Anyone interested in the Disciples of Jesus should contact Jani Firth on 341 6171 or Father Tom Phelan, City Beach parish 341 3131.

Register now, says Cardinal ROME: Cardinal Lubachivsky has urged in the believers Ukraine to take advantage of a newly granted right to register their congregations as a "first step" toward legalisation.

The cardinal said he a confirmed had December 1 announcement by Nikolai Kolesnyk, chairman of the Council for Religious Affairs in the Ukraine, Ukrainian-rite that Catholics could register as other religious groups do.

"We consider this the first step in continued normalisation of the life of our church in Ukraine," Cardinal Lubachivsky said.

While there is no Soviet law explicitly banning

the Ukrainian Catholic requisite to being given Church, members and permission to use a congregations have not building for worship. been allowed to register In the past year, the since the church was Soviet government has forcibly merged with the reopened some 450 Russian Orthodox church buildings at the Church in 1946. request of registered Because gatherings of Russian Orthodox unregistered congrega- congregations. tions are illegal, Ukrain"This is a joyous day for ian Catholics have been our faithul throughout arrested in the past for the world," Cardinal meeting for prayer and Lubachivsky said. "We the Divine Liturgy, she thank God for this great said. gift we received for our groups of prayers and for the When Ukrainian Catholics sacrifices of our martyrs have attempted to regis- and confessors of the ter as a congregation, faith." their names were given The cardinal also to authorities and repres- thanked Pope John Paul sion and harassment I I "for his unwavering often followed. support of our Church."

Registration as a con- The Ukrainian Catholic which church, with some 6.5 gregation, requires at least 20 million members worldmembers, is also a pre- wide, is the largest

Eastern-rite church in union with Rome.

Cardinal Lubachivsky asked Ukrainian Catholics in the Ukraine "to respect the request of the Council of Religious Affairs in Ukraine to proceed in a peaceful manner."

He also asked them "to respect churches which at this time are functioning as Orthodox and to work patiently and according to the law with authorities."

When the Ukrainian Church was merged with the Russian Orthodox, the Ukrainian Catholic buildings were closed or given to Orthodox congregations.

In October the Church of the Transfiguration in Lvov, which was one of

those given to the Russian Orthodox, became Catholic again when the associate pastor and parishioners declared they would begin using the Ukrainian Catholic rite.

Soviet officials have said violence was involved in the taking of the Church, although Cardinal Lubachivsky said he was assured that was not the case.

After the right to register was announced, the cardinal said "we have prayed for this day for over 43 years and God has answered our prayers.

"We can now begin the work of restoring our Church in Ukraine," he said. "Our suffering is coming to an end."

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Sir, I was pleased to note that the Vatican has endorsed the new United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

A rchbishop Renato Martino, the permanent r epresentative of the Holy See at the United Nations, said the Convention "will mark i mportant advances in several areas, including adoption, the rights of children to health care, and the right of children to be heard in judicial p roceedings affecting their future."

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These are just a few instances of the advances made by this Convention. Others include the rights of children with disabilities, and the rights of children who lack the protection of a family, such as Australia's homeless children.

The Holy See noted that the Convention is "significant for the recognition it gives to a child's ethnic, religious and linguistic heritage in cases where alternative family care must be provided."

I would also add that the Convention is significant for the clear recognition it gives to the role and

responsibilities of families in providing direction and guidance to children, and for its requirements of assistance to families.

I share Archbishop Martino's disappointment that more explicit protection and higher standards could not be achieved on some issues.

However, it is important to recognise, as he did, that the text "is the fruit of laborious dialogue and difficult compromise" over a period of ten years.

It is also important to stress that the Convention itself states that it is not to be used to displace

other provisions in international or national law if t hese set higher standards.

I can only agree with the Holy See that the Convention will "mark significant gains for the world's children and the cause of human rights", and for that reason hope that it will be promptly signed and ratified by Australia.

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from Helen FORMENTIIV, Booragoon Sir, we find ourselves in today did not When will Paul Donnelly (The exist in early Christian, dark and Record, November 23) cease denimiddle ages or the Victorian era? grating women and allow that we also Should we then turn our backs on have been given a brain by the today's circumstances and revert to Almighty? those existing hundreds of years ago?

He has the modus operandi of a No. Neither should we return to rabid fundamentalist who chips away methods used when Mr Donnelly incessantly until his victim is raised his family fifty years ago. converted to his own belief system, Instead of criticising mothers who and the statistics he supplies could be are forced by circumstances to work used even by Blind Freddy to reach outside the home, and those others other conflicting conclusions. who return to the community the What does he hope to achieve by benefits of the intelligence they have this? Those of us to whom he refers been given and the education they (working mothers) are trying to received, let us see him contribute to educate and rear our children the debate on the importance of according to the knowledge, life tempering this situation with the experiences and personalities our compassion and justice it deserves.

God has tailored especially for us.

Mr Donnelly should leave the If we did otherwise, i.e. raised them mums of WA alone to determine how according to the indoctrination found they, with the insight of the Holy week after week in this column by Spirit's guidance and the help of our your correspondent, we would not be Mother Mary, will handle their true to ourselves. children, before more inexperienced Does he not realise the world young women become bruised by changes as time goes by? Situations these coprolitic outpourings.

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Holy Spirit, you who solve all problems, light all roads so that I can attain my goal. You gave me the divine gift to forgive and forget all evil against me and that in all instances of my life you are with me.

I want in this short prayer to thank you for all thins as I confirm once again that I never want to be separated from you ever in spite of all material illusions. I wish to be with you in eternal glory.

Thank you for your mercy towards me and mine.

Thank you Sacred Heart of Jesus, Holy Spirit, Our Lady of Perpetual Succour and St Joseph. S.B. & M.W. Thanks to St Jude for the many favours and help during a difficult year. BJS. May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved and preserved throughout the world now and forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us.

St Jude, worker of mirades, pray for us. St Jude, help of the hopeless, pray for us. Say the prayer 9 times a day for 9 days and promise publication.

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TOMORROW TODAY with Father Joe Parkinson

Youth set eyes on 91 BIGGEST CATHOLIC MEET EVER TO BE HELD HERE

With 1989 still drawing to a close, a small group of dedicated Catholic youth has already set its sights on January 1991, when the biggest Catholic youth conference in WA history will be held at Aquinas College in Manning.

Up to a thousand young people from all around Australia will gather at Aquinas for five full days, January 11-16, to share experiences, grow in faith and generally have a lot of fun.

Over six months' planning has already gone into the event, and the prospect of a solid year's work lies ahead for 1990.

To date a national survey has been carried out with responses coming in from schools and youth groups around the nation, and these replies will guide planning of the conference program.

But many other details will also require a lot of attention and organisation.

Feeding and housing a thousand lively young people for five days and six nights will require a great deal of involvement from all sectors of Perth's Catholic community.

With so many expected to travel from the eastern states, accommodation for up to 500 will be needed in homes around the city, while catering for the crowd will be managed on-site at Aquinas.

Dozens of buses and drivers will be needed, but the central planning team is confident that these and many other details can be resolved with the help of Perth parishioners.

Earlier this year some of the team visited Aquinas College for a brief survey of facilities.

CATHOLIC PARISH YOUTH MOVEMENT

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Aquinas administrator Mr John Chilvers points out some of the college's highlights to (L-R) Mark Brennan, Virginia O'Meara and Damien McBain from the Conference planning team.

After an hour in the hands of college administrator Mr John Chilvers, all agreed that there was no better venue in Perth, or perhaps in the nation, for such an event.

The next few weeks will see great activity as the team forms committees to handle various different aspects of the conference.

Hopes are high that

most people approached will be able to give some

time and energy to the adventurous most Catholic youth project seen in Perth for many years.

Closing of a Chapter

Two years hard labour for Catholic Parish Youth came to an end on November 18 when CPY bade farewell to Andrew Mclean, who retired as eastern region full time worker.

At a farewell Mass in St Francis Xavier Church, East Perth, and later during a quiet party at the Youth Offices in North Perth, nearly a hundred friends and family helped close an important chapter in Andrew's career.

After undertaking the Leadership Youth Course in Melbourne in 1987, Andrew took up the reins at CPY and immediately launched a series of fairly spectacular projects which have brought great benefit to Perth's Catholic youth community.

The Catholic Youth Directory, a large poster listing over a hundred

local resources and youth contacts, was Andrew's idea, and he carried it through to completion early this year.

Directories have been distributed to all schools and parishes, where they have drawn great praise for Andrew's vision, drive and initiative.

Recent river cruises, youth rallies and conferences have also benefited greatly from Andrew's organising ability.

Most recently, Andrew has been in the chair of the Catholic Youth Council, for which he has just completed drafting a new constitution.

Another success was the CYC's "Meet the Bishops" evening, when Archbishop Foley and Bishops Quinn and Jobst first celebrated Mass and then socialised with Council members and their guests.

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(L-R) Andrew's mother, Mrs Judy McLean, with Brother Seaman, husband Ian, Archbishop Foley and Andrew at the farewell party.

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Andrew McLean was farewelled by Neway chairperson Chris Parrish and CPY fulltimer Cathie Allen.

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Stories and books

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In 1568 Juan and two others began the first of the monastery r eformed order in a rundown house in Duruelo. Juan took the name Juan de la Cruz — John of the Cross. Two others soon joined them. Since they wore sandals instead of shoes they became known as the Discalced (barefooted) Carmelites.

She sent Juan to a nearby school, hoping that he would learn the • weaver's trade. But Juan showed little skill at weaving. After graduat• ing he found work at a hospital and studied at the Jesuit College in •A Medina.

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Juan grew up in a poor Spanish family. He never had a chance to know his • father, a silk weaver who died shortly after Juan • was born. Juan's mother, suddenly a single parent, struggled to raise her • three children.

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With John's help Teresa quickly opened several more houses of friars and convents of nuns devoted to a stricter, more solitary lifestyle.

other students. He was spirits, sharing similar ordained a priest in 1567. dreams. Teresa wanted to Tensions soon deverestore Carmelite life to loped between the regular Soon after his first Mass its original form. Juan Carmelite communities Fray Juan met Teresa of longed for a life of greater and the reformed or Avila. They were kindred solitude and prayer. She Discalced Carmelites.

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to the Opposition reformers became so great that Juan was taken prisoner to force him to abandon the reform. He lived in a tiny cell in Toledo for nine months until he escaped. At the same time Juan experienced deep emotional and spiritual problems.

He felt everything he did was a sin and that God had abandoned him. Yet he continued to pray and to live his life faithfully.

He wrote about his experiences in poems • • • •

now known as "The Dark order he and Teresa Night of the Soul". founded.

During the next years Juan cherished his soliJuan's Carmelite broth- tary days in the remote ers elected him to leader- mountain monastery, ship positions. He gave spending hours in prayer spiritual direction to and meditation. But he many friars and nuns and soon fell ill from an lay persons. infection and fever. He In 1591 opposition to suffered greatly and died Juan surfaced once again. shortly before Christmas • He was stripped of all in 1591. leadership positions and Canonised in 1726, sent to a remote monas- named a doctor (teacher) tery in southern Spain. of the church in 1926.

There Juan learned that St John of the Cross is some were trying to have honoured as a mystic and • him expelled from the spiritual guide.

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Six of the best known nursery tales, retold, with some extremely surprising twists by that master of the comic and the bloodcurdling. Roald Dahl.

The BFG By Roald Dahl.

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Just imagine suddenly knowing you may be eaten for breakfast in the very near future; dropped like a rasher of bacon into a frying pan sizzling with fat.

This is exactly what worries Sophie when she is snatched from her bed in the middle of the night by a giant with a stride as long as a tennis court. Luckily for Sophie, the BFG is far more jumbly than his disgusting neighbours, whose favourite pastime is guzzling and swallomping nice little chiddlers. Sophie is determined to stop all this and so she and the BFG cook up an ingenious plan to rid the world of trogglehumping, bogthumping giants forever!

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Mundane to marvellous

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. Pub by Puffin. $7.99 A whole day at Willy Wonka's chocolate factory!

Charlie Bucket can't believe his luck when he finds a Golden Ticket and wins the chance of a lifetime: a magical day witnessing the miraculous creation of the most sensational, scrumptious, irresistible eatables in the world.

Join Charlie in this exciting story famous throughout the world. The Puffin edition has sold over two million copies and now has sumptuous illustrations by Michael Foreman.

Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl.

Published by Puffin. $7.99 Danny thought the world of his father. He had looked after Danny ever since his mother had died when Danny was just four months Old.

Danny loved his father very much, and his father loved him, and that's why Danny was so surprised to discover that his father had a deep. dark secret, a secret that was to lead them both into a wild and difficult scheme — and a lot of trouble!

Dizzy heights!

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl. Pub by Puffin. $7.99 Charlie has won Willy Wonlca's chocolate factory and is now on his way to take possession of it. With his parents and grandparents — and Mr Wonlca — he's travelling by a strange new means of transport: a Great Glass Elevator! But suddenly things start to go wrong. The elevator zooms higher and higher into the sky until it goes into orbit around the Earth.

So begins a hilarious and exciting adventure in which Charlie, his family and Mr Wonka — and three gallant astronauts they meet — defend themselves against a mob of vicious space monsters.

James and the Giant Peach by Rotas, Dahl. Pub

by Puffin. $6.99.

Something is about to happen, James told himself.

Something peculiar is about to happen any moment.

James had lived with his two beastly aunts ever since the day his parents were eaten up outside London Zoo by an angry escaped rhinoceros. Aunt Sponge and aunt Spiker were really horrible people. They made poor James's life a misery.

They made him do all the hard work. And they never allowed him to go further than the garden fence.

Then something very peculiar happened — something magic, that was to completely change James' miserable existence and take him on the most amazing and unbelievable journey'.

Great reading!

A Hard Road by Francis Byrne, OSB. Brother Frank Nissl, 1888-1980. A life of service to the Aborigines of the Kimberleys. Published by Tara House, PO Box 486, Nedlands WA 6009, $15.

This is a rivetting book, a human interest story of gripping proportions, from the pen of an impressive author, Francis Byrne, OSB a former journalist.

It traces the life and times of a German Pallottine Brother in his native land where he was forced out of the seclusion of his religious house to take up arms in the First World War. Having survived the horrors of The Somme he wished to devote himself to missionary work — and the lot fell to a new missionary land,

Brother Frank Nissl (centre) pictured at Mil!grove, Victoria, the Pallottine's retreat house with life-long friends Brother Joseph Kroen (left) and Brother Joseph Schuengel.

Brother Frank arrived in the Kimberley's in 1931 and from that moment on he was to dedicate the rest of his life to working among the "forgotten Aborigines" in Tardun, Beagle Bay, Rockhole and finally way out in the Simpson Desert at Balgo Hills Mission.

After the Rockhole venture failed he was among a party of pioneers who set out in search of a new mission, trekking across desert and scrub for three months until they finally pitched their

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tents in the relative silence of the desert. Their goal: to plant the Catholic faith among the tribal Aborigines of the Great Sandy Desert.

It was during his work at Balgo Mission that news reached him of his country's involvement in the Second World War. The pain and anguish it caused him — and the subsequent gaoling of his fellow missionaries at Broome Gaol — are poignantly related in this fastmoving book.

The harsh conditions under which he and his fellow missionaries lived were endured for the sake of their Aboriginal-brothers-inChrist in the vast Kimberley region.

It is a story of heroism and sacrifice in the most arduous conditions imaginable.

His fellow companion and pioneer, Father Alphonse Bleischwitz (now retired in Derby) recalled: "Despite the many years of hardship and grave difficulties — World War II, extreme poverty and deprivation, failures, discouragements, droughts, etc — nothing has been in vain.

Brother Frank left us a precious heritage. . ."

The book is beautifully illustrated with previously unpublished and historic photographs of those pioneering times.

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Slithering Creeps Bugged! by Bob Bottom.

Pub by Sun Books. dist by MacMilla n Australia. $12.99.

corruption and bribery, especially bribery of people in official positions.

BOB BOTTOM TALKS Bugged! Is the first book to ABOUT BUGGED!: "It really graphically outline the tells the story, or exposes, extent of the drug trade in the Mr Bigs and Mr Big Australia. It is an inside Enoughs of the Australian portrayal of a greedy and drug trade," says Bob seedy world.

Bottom.

"In doing so, much of it is It tells who is involved, how they go about it and how told through official Federofficials have tried to bring ally authorised phone taps, in which much of the story them to justice.

In Bugged! Bob Bottom unfolds through the mouths of the criminals themselves exposes the Mr Bigs who the people they dealt and deal in drugs. The story is with. mainly told through information gained from federally "And in the course of that, authorised phone taps and apart from outlining all the much of the information illegalities and the national comes from the mouths of and international drug deals, the criminals themselves it discloses some extraordiand the people they deal nary details of corruption with. and bribery — especially Apart from outlining the bribery of people in official national and international positions — with some drug deals, it discloses bribes being paid at figures extraordinary details of

of about a quarter of a million dollars each.

"Along with that, of course, there is a lot of disclosure of the scale of the drug trade, the millions upon millions of dollars involved, with actual details of the deals, how they did them and the like.

"It is the first time there's been a book of this nature, graphically outlining the real extent of the drug trade. As well, it outlines who is involved, how they go about it and of course also, how authorities have sought to bring them to justice.

"It doesn't just concentrate on criminals as people perceive them, that is, people of Kings Cross, or St Kilda in Melbourne, but criminals in the so-called larger bracket.

'Along with them, some of the chapters actually deal with other people who have got involved in the drug

Dom Francis Byrne OSB, journalist, poet, author and editor with his recently released book A Hard Road on the life of Pallottine Brother Frank Nissl — well known Kimberley identity.

Legal Taps Police Telephone of A Expose the Mr Bigs ustraha .Drug Trade

trade — including lawyers, police, federal officials and all sorts of people.

"In the wash up, Bugged! outlines the success or otherwise of law enforcement bodies, especially State

police drug squads, joint Federal and State police task forces, the Australian Federal Police and, as well, the National Crime Authority — the book shows they've done a pretty good iob."

Margaret Preston. A book of 22 postcards.

Published by Collins in association with the Art Gallery of NSW. bb. $14.95.

Margaret Preston ( 18751963 ) was one of Australia's foremost painters between the wars. These twenty-two cards are a selection of the best of her paintings and prints.

They show the changes in her work during her long career as she moved from postto realism, impressionism, to an Aboriginal-inspired style of art.

The Australian Year Book, illustrated by Catherine Hamilton. Published by Collins. bb. $17.95.

A year book whose pages are decorated with soft-tone drawings of plants and birds.

A great gift.

The Australian Native Plants Year Book byfohn Wrigley and Murray Fagg. Published by Collins. bb. $19.95.

Filled with beautiful colour photographs, backed-up by associated notes on plants, this book makes an ideal gift.

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Christmas Carols by torchlight, ALL WELCOME Sunday, December 17, 7pm Phone 571 8108

The annual Christmas meeting and end of year family social will be held at lona Convent on Sunday, December 17 at 2pm.

St Benedict, proclaimed patron Saint of Europe by Pope Paul VI in 1976, should be thanked that through the intervention of Our Lady of Fatima, for the dramatic changes taking place for peace at the present time.

Please bring aftertoon tea fare.

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FREMANTLE PARTY

The Fremantle Esplanade Hotel and West End Properties (the property arm of the proposed University of Notre Dame Australia) is organising a Concert for Sunday, December 17, called -The Esplanade Christmas Concert on the Park".

It will feature the appearance of Father Christmas who will arrive at 1pm by helicopter supposedly from the "North Pole".

Over 40 years ago the American Armed Forces lit a Christmas tree on the Esplanade Park in Fremantle. On Thursday, December 7, Mr Denis Horgan, the Chairman of Notre Dame Australia, Mr John Catalini, the Mayor of Fremantle and Mr Murray Ryan, the General Manager of the Fremantle Esplanade Hotel, jointly threw the switch to turn the tree into the glowing spirit of Christmas and signal the start of activities designed to help needy families in Fremantle and help make their Christmas a little brighter.

Under the tree will he a big box to accept and hold donations of packaged and canned food items to be distributed by the Fremantle City Council to needy people in the area. Three bands and two choirs will entertain the visitors in the park from 2pm to 4.30prn and foster the spirit of Christmas with delightful sing-along music.

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The Annual M.E. family Christmas gathering at St Charles on Sunday, December 17 will start with fun games at 10.30am, followed by a picnic lunch (BYO). Each child or family should bring a small gift labelled — boy or girl, with approximate age included. Santa will see to it that these parcels are distributed to children less fortunate than our own. Contact Tony and Lois Grinciri 384 1519.

Gerry Smith

MASS TIMES

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Christmas issue December 21, of the weekend Mass times for all churches in Western Australia alterations to material published last on December 15, 1988 must be lodged at this office IN WRITING no later than Friday December 15,

PRECENTOR PRECEDING The Precentor of St George's Cathedral, Fr Tony Bolt, will lead a tour to Oberamagau in July 1990. A feature of the tour will be the time spent in Italy, in Florence, Rome, Assisi, and Venice as well as Vienna and Salzburg. After the 19 day tour reaches London, members will have an open-dated return ticket, valid for one year. Further details can be obtained from Fr Tony Bolt on 325 5766,

A rchdiocesan Calendar December 11 Avon Zone of Priests, Archbishop Foley.

12 Archbishop Foley departs for Kampuchea.

14 Council of Priests.

16 Opening of Sisters of Mercy Chapter, St Mary's Cathedral, Bishop Healy.

17 St Lucy's Feast Day, Monsignor Keating.

21 Presentation Sisters' Mass, Bishop Healy.

22 Archbishop Foley returns from Kampuchea.

24 Midnight Mass, St Mary's Cathedral, Archbishop Foley.

27 Open Chapter of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, Highgate, Archbishop Foley.

28 Opening new building, Link Sisters of the Poor, Archbishop Foley.

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