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The CEC in WA comes up with new plan to.beat teacher shortage

Scholarships bait . . .

The Catholic Education Commission of Australia Western hopes to overcome teacher shortages by encouraging highlyqualified graduates to become teachers working in special areas Catholic within schools.

ships for students undertaking Diploma in Education Studies at any of the four Western Australian tertiary institutions next year.

The scholarships will have a value of $7000, including the full cost of tuition fees charged by the institutions.

The Commission will Mr Eric Chidlow, offer up to 15 scholar- Senior Coordinator of

the Catholic Education Office's Staffing and Management section said the teacher shortage was especially noticeable in a number of specialist areas.

"There is a great need for qualified manual arts teachers — last year there was only a handful of graduates in the manual arts field in the

whole of WA," Mr Chidlow said.

He added that it also is difficult to find teachers who are suitably qualified in the mathematics and science fields.

"Catholic schools in the Kimberley region need highly qualified teachers with particular interest in teaching Aboriginal

children," Mr Chidlow said.

"This need has been increased by recent developments which have seen secondary classes begin at Aboriginal community schools at Lombadina and Beagle Bay. With other Kimberley schools about to begin secondary classes, we are in even greater need of

teachers who are quali- science, mathematics, fied and interested in business studies, manual arts and Aboriginal eduAboriginal education." cation are especially The Catholic Education encouraged to apply.

Commission scholarScholarship recipients ships are tenable for people proposing to will be required to be teach in either primary available to teach for two years in Western Australor secondary schools. ian Catholic Schools Graduates who are designated by the Education interested in a teaching Catholic career in the areas of Office.

Eager to learn.• • Balga residents know they have to be quick where St Gerard's new preprimary school is concerned.

No sooner had principal Brian Preston dropped in to survey progress on the building than Gizelle Salame was being presented to him for enrolment by none other than her St Gerard's Year 1 sister Amanda.

Gizelle is not the last to be interested in the pre-primary project. There is still Leanne, the latest arrival in the family of Tony and Debra Salame of Koondoola.

"The pre-school will give a new lease of life to St Gerard's as it celebrates its 25th birthday next year," said Brian Preston. With teacher Miss Brolese and her aide Mrs O'Neill already out shopping for equipment it looks like the youngsters are going to have a ball.

The centre will operate five days a week and only for the first term will the sessions be limited to mornings during the transition stage while the two assistants work with Year One. Fees are $95 per term for four terms with an enrolment and amenities fee of $35. Further information from the school 349 8706.

Govt spells out status of Uni BILL WILL GIVE NOTRE DAME ONLY A LEGAL STANDING The University of Notre Dame Australia Bill currently before the West A ustralian parliament gives legal standing to the proposed venture but does not guarantee its e xistence.

On the other hand the Bill opens the way for negotiations with the ViceAustralian

Chancellors Committee and other bodies and also to launch its fund raising program.

These points were made by the Minister of Education, Dr Carmen Lawrence during her second reading speech last week.

She noted that the "viability of the univer-

sity will be dependent significantly on its capacity to attract substantial financial private endowment".

Part 6 of the Bill, she pointed out, makes the university "financially independent of the government. It is not to receive direct funding consolidated from

revenue and is not to Dr Lawrence said the have any shortfalls in university has the potenoperating revenues made tial to grow from small up from the government beginnings to an outbudget". standing university in the tradition of Notre This would not prevent Dame University Indiana the university from app- whose support the lying from research government welcomed. grants, or from selling its Western Australia can services to the govern- take pride in the establishment of this first ment, she added.

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The government recognised, she said, the unique contribution Notre Dame Australia can make to WA by: • adding to WA's national and international reputation for excellence and unique-

ness in higher education; • enhancing the economic development of the state in general and Fremantle in particular, and providing a new source of much needed earnings; • contributing in a special way to Western Australia's social and cultural development.

DPC takes a break The Diocesan Pas- the council as pastoral toral Council is to go planning moved into its into recess until May third stage. and its affairs handled DPC members in small by members of its groups studied the future executive along with of the DPC and proposed representatives of the three models for the leadership group of archbishop to discuss Pastoral Planning. with other high level

The move was announced last Saturday as Archbishop Foley thanked councillors for "their willingness to be part of something new."

He referred to changes that would take place in

groups the in archdiocese.

Changes to the DPC were foreshadowed last year when the terms of some two-year members were extended a year because of developments

taking place in pastoral need for "paper" and the planning in the establishment of an appropriate bank archdiocese.

Archbishop Foley said Consultation was a progress in pastoral major area of concern at planning was taking parish level and ways place in the areas of were being studied to communication, par- facilitate this process ishes and education. between parishes and Referring to a two-day between city and country conference on informa- areas. tion processing, held at Liaison persons would Curtin University, the be appointd in the archbishop said that gathering of information although computerised and this would lift some information had its of the present load from place, there was still a priests' current responsi-

bility. Training sessions will probably be available by next May.

The pastoral planning office is currently studying adult education in the archdiocese. A research person will soon be appointed for a three month period to investigate the structuring of adult education.

This should result in the good aspects being developed and gaps filled where this is indicated.

In his report on the Goody Archbishop Award, committee chairman Dr David Harris said nine applications had been received for the $6500 award available for this year.

Some proposals had submitted estimates in excess of $20,000 for their projects and thus had virtually disqualified themselves.

Dr Harris said the project of winner Chris-

tine Choo's "Cross Cultural Understanding in Perth Archdiocese" had great relevance for today's attitudes and had been carefully planned and costed in its presentation.

Other members of the selection panel were Miss P. Whyte and Mr R Anthony of the DPC and Monsignor McCrann and Father W. Black MSC from the Council of Priests.

Carroll gives Homeless. the nod to It's no place to be most proposals

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Almost 2000 years ago Jesus was born. Soon after his birth he experienced the hardship of being a refugee, as he and his parents fled for their lives to Egypt.

That flight into the unknown, the fear and the loss of home and possessions, is shared today by the many millions who are homeless.

They have fled their homes and sometimes their countries through famine, flood, war or political turmoil.

With no home and no means of earning a living, they must depend on others for their daily needs as they await the opportunity to return and rebuild or to move to a new land and a new life.

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CANBERRA: Archbishop Carroll has accepted all but a few of the proposals put to him by the first synod to be held here for 40 years.

An estimated 6000 people took part in discussions over two and a half years leading up to the synod meeting of 200 delegates, most of them lay people.

Among the 100 proposals accepted by the archbishop are: • Educational programs to

enhance family life and protect family members who are at risk of domestic violence and child abuse.

• Each parish to consciously invite and welcome Aborigines into the parish community.

• Unemployed people to be given every possible support by parishes and church organisations.

• Develop responsible leadership through training and development of lay people for parish management, administration, pastoral, liturgical and social development of all the people of God. • A permanent Advisory Commission for Doctrine and Morals is to be established in the archdiocese. newspaper • The "Catholic Voice" to promote the understanding of doctrinal and moral teachings of the Church.

• Support for authentic spiritual movements and faith-sharing groups. Religious communities are to share their spiritual heritage with the lay faithful.

• A permanent Archdiocesan Commission for Worship, Music and the Arts is to be established.

• Pre-marriage education programs to be made more widely available.

• All couples requesting a church wedding are to be strongly recommended to participate in a marriage preparation program.

• Review support available to couples in understanding

Archbishop Carroll. and practising responsible parenthood in teaching, pastoral guidance and the provision of natural family planning services.

• Evangelising all people as the essential mission of the Church.

• Subject to a critical and sustained examination of the effectiveness of Catholic schools, the archdiocese reaffirms its commitment to the existence and development of Catholic schools.

• The Catholic Education Commission is to continue to apply the principle that no child is to be denied Catholic schooling simply because of an inability to Pay. • Particular consideration to be given to the needs of disabled Catholic children, catering for such children whose parents wish to place them in Catholic schools.

• The archdiocese commits itself unequivocally to the ecumenical movement.

• The archdiocese to help in every way possible to make the 1991 World Council of Churches General Assembly a success.

• Each parish to make sure

that welcome is extended to the spouse of inter-church marriages.

• Approved courses on the Catholic approach to ecumenism are to be an essential component of the religious education curriculum in all Catholic secondary schools.

• Ensure that moral law, sexuality, marriage and other issues identified by the Commission on the Dignity of the Human Person are addressed in adult education programs.

• Call upon all people of goodwill to recognise that Xrated, excessively violent and other objectionable videos can degrade women and men, attack the stability of marriage and family, distort attitudes to sex, may corrupt public life and are contrary to all human and social values.

• An archdiocesan Catholic Communications commission is to be established.

• Catholics and people of goodwill to phone or write to the media and advertisers to affirm the good as well as complain about objectionable programs/articles.

Abortion: Doctors have their say The Catholic Doctors Association of WA has put out the following view in the current abortion debate.

The term foetus herein means the unborn entity whatever its stage of continuous change and development.

Seeing the foetus at its earliest stage as a mere piece of tissue of no human significance or value implies a systematic disregard of the biological evidence. Even at this earliest stage of genetic and organic dis-

tinctness, the foetus is other hand are based on human. This makes the the powerful and widestaking of such life a pread belief that people simply have certain basic moral problem.

From the fact that the moral rights, certain foetus is less visible than intrinsic entitlements, us it does not follow that such as the right not to be killed, enslaved or comit has no rights. pletely dispossessed.

In this context, a right is These rights are ensha justified claim requiring action or restraint rined in various national and international constifrom others.

Legal and institutional tutions such as the rights are those that are French and American created or abolished on Constitutions and the decisions made by parli- United Nations Univeraments, committees or sal Declaration of Human Rights. dictators.

Moral rights on the The foetus' right to

continue living is such a moral right.

This right imposes on others the moral obligation to refrain from killing. When this right conflicts with what are taken to be moral rights to abortion, the matter becomes one of assigning relative weight and importance to these competing rights.

Among the many reasons given for abortion are the following: the stigma of illegitimacy, unbearable financial

Letter from Rome To the casual visitor, whether humble pilgrim or tourist, and the latter seem to be in the majority these days, Rome is a fascinating place.

It can be said also that, in the lead up to Christmas, when the emphasis may not be entirely on the Season of Advent, Rome takes on a special character.

Despite the present indifferent weather, the visitors are here in plenty, oddly enough, mostly German and Japanese tourists.

This past weekend saw an extra sprinkling of Belgian pilgrims, present for the canonisation of St Mutien Marie Wiaux, a Belgian member of the Brothers of the Christian schools, or De IA Salle Brothers, as they are known locally.

He died in 1917 and was raised to the altars on Sunday, December 10.

Speaking of causes, word has it that the cause of our own Mother Mary McKillop could be years away from such honours unless there is a widespread concerted and persistent push from the A ustralian end.

Some recent euphoria has been contributed to in no small way by the obviously successful visit of Mr Gorbachev and its implications for the "church of silence".

In a way, his encounter with the Holy Father seemed to overshadow other aspects of his visit at local level.

A friend who happened to be present at the morning Mass of the Holy Father the day after the visit, affirms that the Holy Father sounded particularly elated on that occasion.

Apparently with the intention of coinciding

with Mr Gorbachev's visit to Rome, there is in the Vatican at the moment, a magnificent and probably unique exhibition of Russian icons.

They are unique, not only in their deeply religious evocation and colourful intensely beauty, but also in that they comprise a selection of icons painted over many centuries and from emanating churches and monasteries in the region north of Moscow.

The exhibition was specially compiled for the occasion. It has proved deservedly popular with both locals and visitors alike.

During the morning Mass in St Peter's on the Feast of Our Lady's Immaculate Conception the Holy Father announced he would make the visit to the Piazza di Spagna on the afternoon.

By tradition, he comes to pay his respects to Our Blessed Lady whose statue sits high on a column in one of the most popular squares in Rome.

Despite the rain, he was most enthusiastically received, and especially by the Romans who regard this as a very special annual event.

When visiting the Russian exhibition,I noticed the Christmas tree destined to be erected beside the obelisk and the Christmas crib, in the centre of St Peter's Piazza.

It was still sitting on the trailer which took it from High Austria, a region close to Salzburg.

This region, together with the Italian Tyrol, Bavaria and Switzerland, share the privilege in turn of supplying the

Every detail of the local farmyard is included to the delight of children in the family groups who are seen to be making the rounds.

In addition to the ever present visitors, there is a noticeable showing of the local populace who come to emerge in greater numbers at this time.

The city, and Rome is no different from other cities in this respect, does dress up for commercial reasons.

Mons O'Shea The typically Roman pastime of just "walking Christmas tree which, around" the shopping with the massive crib, is districts is more in one of the outstanding evidence. features of Christmas in Encouraged by the Rome. proprietors in the shopI was able to pace out ping precincts like the the length of the tree and Via Condotti and other estimate it to be twenty- streets radiating from the eight metres tall.

Piazza Di Spagna, where normal streets are, for the Later on, during the time being, turned into Christmas days, Swiss red carpeted shopping Alpine and Tyrolean malls with an abundance troupes perform in the of decorated trees and a vicinity of the crib, profusion of the "Stella di attired in traditional Natale" (Christmas Star), costumes and complete which looks to me, with local musical awfully like miniature instruments. poinzetta.

Popular though the It is however, very celebration of Midnight much part of the local Mass is at St Peter's for Christmas tradition. Not visitors to Rome, for all promenaders are Romans, St Mary Majors serious shoppers, but it is is the place to go. evidently important to This traditional prefer- look your best, to see and ence is explained by the be seen.

Notice has already been presence there of the relics of Christ's nativity received of the annual which include a portion Australia Day Mass for of the crib of 9ethlehem. 1990.

During the Christmas It will be celebrated in days there is a tradition the chapel of the Pontifof doing the rounds of ical Urban College of the churches in the city. Propaganda Fide, where In some, the Christmas Australian students have cribs are placed in most been traditionally preartistic and imaginative pared for the priesthood.

Archbishop Edward settings.

Substitute The whole countryside Cassidy, is frequently represented Secretary of State, will in detail complete with preside as he did earlier miniature waterfalls and this year.

— Sean O'Shea fountains.

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The foetus' right to continue living and developing surely takes precedence over others' alleged rights to kill it.

Other reasons for abortion include the severe threat to the mother's physical/mental health, the probable production of a severely deformed child and the case of rape or incest. Here the moral deliberation is more difficult. But even in these cases there remains other things being equal the preferential option for supporting the foetus' right to life, even when that life is only beginning.

The violent act of killing the foetus is no solution to the problem of the unwanted child. Rather, it is a failure to look for a solution, a solution requiring compassion, justice and optimism.

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Riecord As the Vatican-Moscow summit adds to the hopes of a dawn of increased dialogue with the Orthodox churches, comes also the hope that one day the great faiths may sit down and discuss what's gone wrong with our calendar.

In the West the Church stepped in to help the Julian calendar get people back on to an even annual keel. Surely the time has come again to do something to what passes for the so-called celebrations of Christmas and Easter.

As the neo-pagan commentators in press and radio will not let us forget during this coming week, what we will celebrate next weekend may well have been a European pagan midwinter observance. In that respect, we have not let our pagan ancestors down and once again look like blowing the fuses on our cash registers accompanied by all-time records in spending and consumption.

By the time reindeers, far away substitutes for a saint, and truncated pines have obliterated any trace of what Christians are about, it will hardly surprise if 20th century humankind not only cares little about however December 25 is determined but knows even less about Whose birthday we celebrate and why He deserves even to have one.

The anaesthetic for this block-out is delivered in two forms. The painful process involves much guilt-ridden spending of money that scarcely exists or should not be spent at all. The result is that any notion of it being a religious exercise has been well and truly squelched come December 25.

The other method, quite palatable and in keeping with modern technology, consists of injections of End-Of-The-Year spirit. It comes in many forms and parades under layers of deceptive bonhomie and camaraderie hooting that summer is upon us, that we have all had enough of each other and the present year, and that another year cannot come quickly enough.

Although marketed as a 'Christmas' Party, this inoculation manages to by-pass December 25 entirely by starting the process around December 15 and leaping the religious event to actually celebrate December 31 and the arrival of January 1.

The Christmas Party, therefore, unlike the spending spree, does not have to make even a token gesture towards the event of ChristMass.

In case the ether does not completely dull the senses, any residue of religion can be sluiced away via the phenomenon of kids-atChristmas. They of course can't fathom it at all as Santa Claus and Baby Jesus tumble in and out of their vision while their avaricious hands struggle to grasp the real point of the exercise: their presents.

Adult children play best at this game, muttering to children their foggy gospel memories about which they would never dare speak to their adult friends and relatives, and all in defence of the principle that it is good for children to know these things until they are old enough to forget them, be inoculated and go to Christmas Parties etc.

To halt all this, the Western Church could consult with the East and learn how Christmas Day starts and is sustained right through to a powerful liturgical conclusion at Epiphany.

Aside from the fact that Western Christians slump in exhausted torpor after Christmas, the current calendar is in confusion with saints littering the week and the Holy Family and Blessed Mother tangled up in Sundays that can't sort themselves.

How much better if Christians then could put Christ Back Into After Christmas. The pagans would have scurried away, dreading all that had happened. Christian homes could now have a two-week bout of real religious entertainment, even inviting the pagans simply because we are actually celebrating Christmas.

A drastic cure might be to take Advent seriously, as the early church fasting intended we should do but the season has had a chequered existence and fares badly as the fourth Sunday bumps awkwardly into Christmas.

So many people worry when we try and put the true X into X- mas, so they would find it just as hard to start with A in Ad-vent.

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Bishops' stand sparks big protest

CHURCHES VANDALISED WITH PAINT POSTERS WASHINGTON (CNS): Protesters vandalised four Los Angeles churches with paint and posters accusing Los Angeles Archbishop Roger M. Mahony of being a "murderer" for his opposition to

condom use, a position the protesters said helps spread AIDS.

Archbishop Mahony said it was "both sad and ironic that those who will not accept God's revelation as taught faithfully by the Catholic Church with respect to human sexuality would attack God's houses".

He said neither he nor the archdiocese "will be intimidated by threats or attacks against proclaiming the truth as God has taught us" and that the Church will "pray for a change of heart among all peoples".

Underneath his picture, the word 'murderer' was written in large letters.

A group calling itself Greater Religious Responsibility said it was responsible for the attacks.

It is understood the Protesters splattered group believes the US red paint on the steps bishops "committed an and doorways and hung immoral act" by opposposters with pictures of ing the so-called "safe the archbishop. sex" approach of promoting condom use to comThe demonstrators said the red paint symbolised bat the sexual transmisthe blood of all who have sion of AIDS. In introducing the died of AIDS. Above the archbishop's picture bishops' statement Archthere were the words: bishop Mahony said: "Safe sex is a lie and a "We c.aution young people not to be trapped into fraud."

Ukraine rebel bishop unfrocked KIEV: The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church has unfrocked and excommunicated Bishop loan of Zhytomyr (Ukraine).

He wished to break the ties between his diocese and the Moscow patriarchate, and to reestablish the Ukrainian autocephalic Orthodox Church.

That Church, rust established in 1922 was supressed in 1929 for allegedly promulgating Ukrainian nationalism.

It was revived by the Ukrainians in World War II, but accused by Moscow of supporting the Nazi occupation.

It is at present illegal in Ukraine.

Nevertheless, according to Dr Yevhen Hryniv, head of the department of atheism at the Institute of Social Sciences in L'viv, the Ukrainian autocephalic Orthodox Church is at present acquiring "great popularity" and a "considerable number" of parishes have declared their allegiance to it.

The autocephalic principle of government in the Orthodox Church means that the Church in each country is ruled only by the church authorities of that country, without subordination to any higher authority, Vera Rich writes.

The Patriarch of Constantinople is simply primus inter pares among other patriarchs.

At present, the Orthodox Church in Ukraine is, officially, an exarchate (foreign province) of the Russian Orthodox Church. Any attempt to re-establish an autocephalic Orthodox Church in Ukraine will inevitalby be viewed

by Moscow as in effect a demand for political autonomy.

The head of the Russian Orthodox exarchate of Ukraine, Metropolitan Filaret of Kiev and Halych, has condemned the actions of Bishop loan as "subjecting the souls of believers to temptation".

From Rome, Cardinal Myroslav Lyubachivsky, head of the Ukranian Catholic Church, has expressed his fears that the bishop's breakaway could "confuse believers".

The cardinal welcomed the campaign for the renewal of the Ukrainian autocephalic Orthodox Church, but regretted that bishop loan's clergy were calling on Ukrainian Catholics to abandon this efforts to get the outlawed Ukrainian Catholic Church reinstated and to join the autocephalic Orthodox Church instead.

following the 'safe sex' myth which is both a lie and a fraud."

The protest was "kind of ironic because the thrust of the statement was compassion and caring for these people and urging others not to discriminate against them", said a spokesman.

human body as a creation by God himself".

The US bishops' statement "was a call to both compassion and responsibility", he said, adding that the Catholic community must understand and care for those suffering from AIDS and the virus that causes it as well as condemn disagainst crimination them.

The archbishop said the Catholic church "has been consistent over the centuries in calling us all But "at the same time, to follow God's plan and we must raise our voice design for the human with the same constancy person and the human in calling everyone to full family. For the human sexual responsibility" person to be fully inte- and to living "according gral he or she must show to God's call and design", total respect for the he said.

Bishops blast killings DUBLIN: Irish bishops with those responsible have said again that no and all who co-operate cause can justify the with them in any way "in slaughter carried out by the name of God stop this the IRA. violence now".

After their autumn The spokesman for the meeting at Maynorth Hierarchy, Bishop Joseph College, Dublin the Duffy of Clogher, said the bishops said the recent bishops noted with satismurders and serious faction the release of the injury inflicted on mil- Guilford Four but itary, police and civilians expressed their concern in Northern Ireland, over the suffering caused Britain and Europe as result of the injustice obliged them to say what done to the Four. they had said many times They were grateful to before that "human life is Cardinal Hume and sacred". other people in Britain They asserted that no and Ireland for their one has the right to take sustained support human life away and as throughout the cambishops they pleaded paign, said Bishop Duffy.

Call to British

BELFAST: Cardinal 0 more good at the Fiaich's call for a declara- moment than anything tion by the British Govern- else", was recognised by Protestant ment that it would not leading continue the occupation churchmen as no more of Ireland indefinitely, than a personal restatebrought predictable criti- ment of his anti-partition cism from some Northern views.

Ireland politicians, but is Ulster Unionist leader, expected to greatly affect James Molyneaux, desInter-Church relations in cribed the Cardinal's the Province. comments as "the unacceptable face of Irish The Irish Primate's nationalism," and the statement, made on Dub- Rev Ian Paisley called the lin's Mater Hospital Catholic Church "the internal radio, that such ecclesiastical wing of the a declaration "would do IRA".

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'Sexist' nuns fined by CITY (CNS): tribunal TheVATICAN spread of sects LONDON: Nuns have been fined BOO by an industrial tribunal after they refused to consider hiring a male teacher for infant girls.

The post at St Mary's convent preparatory school in Colchester, Essex, would have included the supervision of girls aged between three and six while they changed clothes.

An industrial tribunal at Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, ruled that the school had discriminated against Mr Michael Fanders in refusing him the job simply on the grounds of his sex.

threatens the Catholic Church in Latin America, said Pope John Paul II.

The pope told a group of Latin American bishops and Vatican officials involved in Latin American affairs that the activity of sects is a major "pastoral worry" of the church.

Sects spread where "living of the faith is shallow and when peopie do not receive the proper instruction to face the new doctrines being expounded", he said.

The expansion of the fundamentalist groups is "threatening the very Catholic identity of varions church communities" in the region, the pope said.

Combating sects Calls for effective "evangelisation action requiring many properly formed pastoral workers", he added.

The pope spoke to members of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America meeting at the Vatican.

Two Latin American commission members said that sects are growing rapidly in traditionally Catholic Latin America and that the bishops lack the personnel to fight the trend.

"In Guatemala, sect leaders have a goal of reaching 50 per cent. of the population within a few years," said Cardinal of Bravo Obando Nicaragua.

"We don't have enough priests and pastoral

workers. This opens the plans of groups opposed way for sects," he added. to the social activism of The cardinal said sects the Catholic Church, said are also growing in Cardinal Obando Bravo.

Nicaragua.

US interests are behind Another factor is that groups wanting to sects offer people things weaken the Church by the Catholic Church using sects, Cardinal does not, said Auxiliary Obando Bravo said. He Bishop Maradiaga of mentioned the 1969 Honduras.

Rockefeller Report on the "'They insist a lot on Americas, commissioned faith healing in areas by then-US President where people cannot Richard Nixon to set afford medicines and guidelines for US Latin doctors," he said.

American policy, as People with marriage inspiring such a plan. problems also are influThe Rockefeller report enced by sects that allow praised the Catholic remarriage, he said, Church for being in 'the The "electronic church" forefront" in the fight for is also spreading in Latin social, economic and America, said Bishop political changes.

Maradiaga, secretary general of the Latin The report, however, American Bishops' did not advocate use of Council. sects to weaken the Sects also fit into the Church.

No communion for her SAN DIEGO: A Catholic bishop in the United States has forbidden a Catholic member of a state assembly to receive Communion because of the "prochoice" position on abortion she has taken in her campaign for election.

who is running for the state senate, that her public insistence that every woman ought to have the right to make her own decision in the matter of abortion without intrusion by the state legislature placed her "in complete contradiction to the moral teaching of Bishop Leo Maher of the Catholic Church".

San Diego has informed "Pro-choice", he told Lucy Kellea, a Democrat her, was an incomplete

phrase without an object.

"One must ask: the choice to do what?"

In this case, the bishop explained, "it is the choice to take a child's life".

Earlier this month the National Conference of Catholic Bishops meeting in Baltimore affirmed that it was not open to any Catholic to take a

"pro-choice" stand when the choice involved taking innocent life, and they explicitly applied that ruling to public representatives.

They did not, however, go on to specify sanctions, a point that was emphasised by a spokesman for the conference, Fr Kenneth Doyle, in commenting on Bishop

Maher's ment.

The ordination Mass in October of Chinaappointed Bishop Joseph

Hou Jinde of Xingtai in Hebei province was celebrated in the vernacular.

The Catholic liturgy is generally celebrated in Latin. Local languages were adopted universally for the liturgy by the Catholic Church — except in China — following Vatican II reforms.

A China church watcher in Hong Kong said that Chineselanguage Masses have been celebrated in some dioceses in China in the past few years but the practice was not officially accepted until 1988. Before that, all public Masses were celebrated in Latin and in the

There was no specific conference policy on the matter of sanctions for Catholics who disagreed publicly with the Church's "pro-life" position. Fr Doyle said "a determination like this properly belongs to a bishop in his own diocese".

pre-conciliar Tridentine materials for Chinese liturgy. form.

Bishop Hou, 71, who The China church watcher said the ordina- was ordained priest in tion of Bishop Hou is a 1945 before the break breakthrough in liturgi- with Rome is said to have cal reform in the state- 26 priests and 50,000 lay sanctioned Chinese people. But the diocese church. But the observer also has an active underalso said the church still ground church led by must deal with shortages Vatican loyalist Bishop of personnel and printed Xiao Liren.

Political ties top priority WASHINGTON (CNS): Political relations between the superpowers will begin to take precedence over arms control issues as a result of the recent USSoviet summit in Malta, said the priest who was from the US bishops' chief consultant for their 1983 pastoral letter on war and peace.

The priest, Father J. Bryan Hehir, said that the meeting between

President Bush and between the superpowSoviet President Mikhail ers and between East and Gorbachev marked a West Europe" does exist, shift from a belief held he said. for the past 20-25 years As a result, he said, that "there was little political questions have chance of political pro- begun to take precedence gress between the over arms issues. superpowers".

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The big gamble that paid CITY VATICAN (CNS):— Pope John Paul II's meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev marked a time of reckoning for the Vatican's patient gamble known as "Ostpolitik."

After decades of smallstakes dialogue and negotiation with Sovietbloc regimes, the Vatican is suddenly winning a richly rewarding series of concessions for struggling Catholic churches in the East.

"I think the prevailing view at the Vatican is, let's push ahead as far as we can right now," said Father John Long, a Rome-based Jesuit and a veteran of Vatican dialogue with Soviets.

"The feeling is that no matter what happens, they'll never be able push us back to where we were (in Eastern Europe)," he said.

That belief was echoed by a top Vatican official involved in East-bloc relations: "this is a deep revolution. The changes are substantial. It's my opinion that once this movement has started it will not be turned back easily."

Some Vatican officials believe the church, in fact, is facing a historic opportunity — one

offered by the rise of a political and human rights movement in the Soviet bloc during a pontificate that has, from the beginning, looked eastward.

The stakes now could be very high, one church source said.

"We could be looking at the normalisation of church life" for more than 80 million Catholics

The strategy now in these countries, he said.

The strategy now is to keep pressing for a full slate of bishops, for religious freedom legislation and for church input into national debates, he said.

Inside the Vatican, much of the credit for this rapid progress is given to the first Slavic pope: the pope who, in public speeches and private meetings, has hammered on the theme of religious freedom as the first and most basic human right: who inspired his native

evolution Poland's toward democracy; and whose vision of a united Europe seems to match the mood of many East Europeans.

churchmen, Many however, say there is no denying that Gorbachev and his campaign for "perestroika," or social restructuring, have formed the other half to the equation.

From initial wariness and scepticism, there is now confidence among top Vatican officials that Gorbachev can be trusted to deliver on promises of religious liberty.

"There are certainly enough facts to prove that Gorbachev is serious about reform," the Vatican official said. "And there is a clear effect being felt in the churches of Eastern Europe."

Gorbachev has introduced a new "style and substance" and truly wants a fresh relationship between church and state, said Vatican press Joaquin spokesman Navarro-Valls.

But beyond these two protagonists, there is an equal awareness that today's remarkable changes owe much to Ostpolitik — the policy fashioned in the early

been contested years ago, decided to keep com- but which now are munication lines open bringing results," he said. with communist He added that because regimes. the successes follow Its chief exponent was years of wearying and then and remains the often unproductive Vatican secretary of state, meetings, they are "very Cardinal Agostino gratifying" for Ostpolitik C.asaroli. veterans today.

What these officals see The 75-year-old cardinal, speaking on the eve happening around them of Gorbachev's arrival in is, by old standards, Rome in late November, astonishing. said a combination_ of The pope's handshake with Gorbachev, then, clearly represents more than a hope on the church's part.

The Vatican is now in a position to consolidate gains and press for more.

"Freedom-of-religion laws are replacing conprovidence and policy cordats as the ideal," said decisions had brought a Vatican official. church-Soviet relations The Vatican is prepared to a "substantial turning to offer diplomatic relapoint." tions as the quid pro quo He compared it to the for such legislation, as arrival of a "real spring- demonstrated in the case time" after a long winter. of Poland last summer. "(Cardinal) Casaroli's After Hungary passes wisdom was in setting in its law next January, motion a policy which Cardinal Casaroli is foresaw that, sooner or expected to travel to later, a Gorbachev would Budapest, the Hungarian arrive on the scene," said capital, to inaugurate Father Antoine Wenger, diplomatic relations a French Soviet expert. there.

A Vatican diplomat In the Soviet Union, a agreed. similar law is expected to "The secret was conti- be enacted within 1990. nuity, patience, dialogue If and when that — things that may have happens, it will be a 1960s when the Vatican

watershed event for believers there.

That would also probably be the moment to institute permanent diplomatic relations between the Vatican and the Soviet Union, Vatican sources said.

"The draft we saw last year was good, satisfactory," one Vatican official said of the proposed Soviet law. Like the Hungarian proposal, it

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Host of thorny problems

Donation for quake

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul ll has donated SUS100,000 to the Armenian Orthodox Church's reconstruction programs to mark the first anniversary of Armenia's devastating earthquake, which cost thousands of lives and left

more homeless.

The Vatican said it was a "concrete expression of the charity which connects Christians".

The earthquake occurred on December 7, 1988.

Armenia is one of the 15

republics in the Soviet Union.

Soviet press marked the first anniversary of the quake by criticising authorities for their failure to take effective action to repair the damage and build new housing.

would give the church juridical status and widen its opportunities in areas such as religious instruction, publishing and social work.

As envisioned, it also would grant legal status to the five million-strong Ukrainian church, but leave a host of thorny practical problems to be worked out between Ukrainian and Orthodox leaders — probably with guidance from Moscow and the Vatican.

In some parts of Eastern Europe, notably Czechoslovakia and Romania, the naming of

bishops remains a top Vatican priority.

In the view of Ostpolitik, these appointments are still seen as the most necessary to rebuilding pastoral life. They are generally followed by establishment of a diocesan curia and — where possible — the building of seminaries and other formation centres.

In the past, Vatican officials sometimes negotiated for years for a single bishop, but this, too, has changed.

Over the last year, the pope has named bishops in Eastern Europe at the rate of about two per month.

Most dioceses in the Soviet bloc are now occupied by either bishops or apostolic administrators; even in worst-case Czechoslovakia, four appointments were made earlier this year, and three more are expected soon.

Vatican officials are watching Czechoslovakia very carefully at the moment.

There, too, a law on religious freedom was promised last year by the government — and the hope is that political changes will speed up the process.

In the meantime, the

Exchange of gifts VATICAN CITY: At the end of the private meeting, the pope and Gorbachev exchanged gifts.

Gorbachev received a metre high reproduction of a Vatican mosaic of Christ atop St Peter's tomb. The mosaic con-

tains a Bible open to the Gospel passage in Latin in which Jesus says: "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

This is a "memento of this historic event", the

pope told Gorbachev.

The pope received a two-volume reproduction of 14th century Slavic psalms from Kiev.

"I believe you will find these interesting," Gorbachev told the world's first Slavic pope.

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The 10 men who attended the day of enquiry for the priesthood at St Charles' Seminary last Sunday were able to draw on a variety of experiences of priestly life from the wide range of people there.

Seminarians, priests (including Father Brian Limbourn, the archdiocese's newest priest who was ordained only two months ago) and Bishop Healy were all on hand to discuss with the enquir-

ers many aspects of priesthood and seminary life.

The formal group discussions as well as the informal chats gave the enquirers opportunities to "get right down to personal issues about priesthood not normally discussed".

Rob Coombes (24), a purchasing officer from Bayswater, said he benefited greatly from the input from the priests.

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"I found the day very informative and have encountered Christ in my vocation searching in a more tangible way today."

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The Director of VocaFather Bianchini said tions, Father Justin Bian- there was always a good chini, said that the days amount of interest of enquiry were encou- shown among those who raging to those thinking attend the days of about priesthood enquiry, ranging from because they could see those who were mildly and talk with others who interested to the very were searching. keen.

Priest raps Sydney daily SYDNEY: "The Sydney The Herald mentioned Morning Herald will the historic meeting lose its reputation as a between Pope John Paul serious newspaper if it II and Soviet leader continues to ignore Mikhail Gorbachev in major religious stories," Archdiocesan just one tiny paragraph media spokesman, tucked away on page 19.

Father Brian Lucas, It rated a total of 4.5 said last week. column cms.

Father Lucas said it was deplorable that in the same issue the Herald managed to find the equivalent of 224 column cms to report a

Danish court case about a movie that "depicted Jesus as a bank robber, drunkard and woman.

iser, participating in explicit sex scenes with John the Baptist and Mary Magdalene".

Father Lucas said that the way some sections of the secular media trivialised religious issues meant that Catholics had '

even more reason to support the Catholic press. At the same time he urged Catholics to remind the secular press that ignoring religious news was a form of censorship that was unacceptable.

off Vatican is pressing the government to allow the opening of one or two more seminaries — the present two seminaries serve 670 students who "live like sardines," said one official.

If Czechoslovakia begins real collaboration with the church, Vatican officials believe governments in East Germany and Romania — which have largely resisted religious reform — might eventually follow suit.

Vatican's patience pays off In these countries, as in Bulgaria, the number of Catholics is relatively much smaller, Vatican officials point out.

The Vatican's longrange confidence is based largely on the perception that East European leaders are genuinely changing their view of religion — and that recent concessions are more than a tactical retreat. Church officials point to a Vatican-Soviet dialogue in France last October as evidence that Marxist antagonism toward religion has all

Success after decade of talks for small stakes

Pope John Paul II shakes hands with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the first ever meeting between a Kremlin chief and a Pontiff.

but disappeared in official thinking.

Looking back, the Vatican is proud that its patient persistent, approach has worked without jeopardising the fragile existing liberty of local churches.

As one Vatican veteran of Fast European affairs said, "All this has happened without anyone getting hurt."

But one risk the church now faces in the Soviet bloc is that its local leaders might support or

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Here's a diary of some of the events that took place behind the iron curtain: • In hard-line Czechoslovakia, the communist government's cultural minister led 8,000 Czechoslovakian Catholics in a pilgrimage to Rome in November to watch the pope canonise St Agnes of Prague.

• In heavily Catholic Lithuania this year, Soviet authorities first r estored several churches, then allowed the pope to appoint bishops in all six dioceses — including a bishop in exile until last year — and most recently allowed a second seminary to open.

• In Hungary, a new law has been designed that would give the pope free reign in naming bishops, remove state controls on most religious activity, increase subsidies to church institutions and allow religious orders to run social programs.

joined calls for an independent Lithuania earlier this year.

A Vatican official that acknowledged "there may be consequences" for this kind of activism, but added: "We do not oppose aspirations

for autonomy. This belongs to political life."

Indeed, from these movements "may derive a better world, a more just world," he said.

Cardinal Casaroli, who said he was disappointed that his policies have

sometimes been viewed with suspicion by local church leaders, noted that the Vatican considers local church "militancy" as an asset and as one of the cards it holds when dealing with Eastbloc regimes.

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take active roles in separatist or other political movements deemed dangerous by Moscow.

This is true not only in the Ukraine, but in the Baltic states, where, for example, Cardinal VinSladkevicius centas

One measure of the Already, limits on seminary enrolment have velocity of reform was been dropped, and some seen in an exchange of religious orders are letters between the pope and Gorbachev. operating.

• In Poland, the church In mid-1988, Cardinal last spring won an arra-- Casaroli went to Moscow and consigned a detailed of legal rights and opplist of complaints: Milan it give that tunities unprecedented social lions of Soviet Catholics were without bishops or role. places to worship, limits Meanwhile, an unpop- on seminaries stunted ular communist regime the growth in numbers of has been replaced by a clergy, religious publicagovernment led by Solid- tions were banned, and arity, the church-backed the Ukrainian Catholic movement praised by the Church still was pope and outlawed until outlawed. last spring.

By the time Gorbachev • In Byelorussia, the answered last August, pope named a young one year later, the situaapostolic administrator, tion had dramatically giving that Soviet repub- improved. lic's 2.5 million Catholics As well as the new a pastoral leader for the bishops and restored first time in nearly 50 church in Lithuania and years.

Byelorussia, limits were There is hope for future lifted on seminary stuappointments in other dents, and official meetByelorussian Sees and in ings were held with such "extinct" dioceses as clandestine Ukrainian Moscow and Leningrad. bishops.

As 97 year old Sr M. Lucille celebrated 70 years as a Sister of Our Lady of the Missions, her near blindness and frail health were no bar to her strong voice as she renewed her vows before her family, friends and Sisters in Sacred Heart Convent, Highgate.

Born in Geraldton she was 28 when she left Australia for Bangladesh a year after first vows in 1919.

Her fifty years as a missionary in Bangladesh, Burma and India included being captured by the Japanese and interned as a prisoner of war for three years in Burma.

"I don't know why! have lived such a long life," Sr M. Lucille said, "sometimes I was half alive and sometimes half dead.

However, here I am still today. God knows why — I trust him."

Typically she adds a story.

"During the war I managed to find a hen and then I would share the egg each day with others whose

suffering was much greater than mine.

"Once the Japanese officer asked if he could buy one of my chickens (poor skinny things they were!) to cook a meal for a visiting Japanese colonel.

"From then on," Sr Lucille added with a smile, "I knew that he owed me a favour, and so did he!"

Life was never easy for missionaries in Bangladesh in those pre-war days, but Sr M. Lucille was noted for her resourcefulness.

For her, life was an adventure lived for God whom she loved with all her heart.

As a young woman, God touched her life and from then on His love inspired her to fearlessly proclaim the Gospel with joyful fidelity.

She loved the orphans in her care and the people of the villages.

It was this love that gave her the energy to face great odds.

Once she got hold of a manual and worked out how to install a septic system in the convent. She had to organise for pipes and cement to be delivered from the city.

Water had to be pumped up from the river, but Sr M. Lucille personally supervised the whole process.

"It was all too much for the local La Salette priests — I was hired to install a system in their presbytery too!"

Today her mission stories are the life of the party at South Perth where she has been cared for with love and devotion by the Sisters of St Joseph in their nursing home.

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All know the stay of Jesus and the raisiig of Lazarus. It is a 'tory about life, the net life Jesus gives, a life stronger than deati.

It also is a story pout love and frien4 hip.

When Lazarus be ame ill, his sisters, Mar( and Martha, sent won' to Jesus: "Master, tilt one you love is ill."

Later the Gospekotes that "Jesus loved Nirtha and her sister and Lazarus."

Later yet, we lean that Lazarus died wheolesus declares, "Our fiend Lazarus is asleep,but I aken am going to him."

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Love has many qualities, writes Father Eugene LaVerdiere. And like a flower, love takes a while before reaching full bloom.

When Jesus sawidtary and the others we!)ing, he too began to crylrpon

too close to us to define.

Even so, we would like to understand what love really is. All that seems to be love is not necessarily genuine. Love has its half-measures and its downright counterfeits.

We may not be able to define love, but we can describe it, by showing some of its qualities

seeing him, people said, "See how he loved him."

It is plain that Jesus had friends whom he loved in Bethany. But it is only when Jesus choked up and started to cry that we understand what this means.

The scene of Jesus crying is one of the most human and moving moments in the entire New Testament.

On reading it we do not need to be told that Jesus loved Lazarus. We know what prompts the tears.

It is much easier to recognise love than to define it. But love is not alone in that. Experiences such as joy, desire. fear and life itself also are hard to define. Perhaps they are too simple and

St Paul did that when he wrote that love is patient and kind, not jealous, not pompous, not rude and not selfseeking.

I recognise those qualities and the others in Paul's lists in the love of people I know. It is hard to improve on Paul.

But we need to name the qualities of love for ourselves.

There is absolutely no greater love than this Jesus' contemporaries generally agreed that love of God was the greatest of all the commandments.

Jesus made it clear that love found practical expression in love of one's neighbour.

The legal expert who questioned him agreed with his answer, in

principle. But he had a problem: "Who is my neighbour?"

(Luke 10:29).

In the minds of most people, a neighbour was someone of the same ethnic and religious background. But in the famous Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 11:29-38), Jesus shocked

his listeners by extending the relationship to include those who did not share these ties, even those who were considered implacable enemies.

The hero of his story was a despised Samaritan.

But Jesus went further, subtly changing the

discussion to a consideration of how to be a neighbour.

He threw the question back at his inquirer "Which of these three, in your opinion, was neighbour to the robbers' victim?"

The man could only answer "The one who treated him with mercy."

Ruth prevailed upon us to raise Marilyn with the six children we then had.

She and Tom, her parents, who are all dead must be seen as well as husband, had converted now. She grew very quiet felt.

We became more con- to Catholicism when and then said with real scious of our relation- they were first married. conviction, "I'm sure they ships with each other. They raised five children are all in heaven, they had several were so good to me."

My husband and I saw and Marilyn lingered a bit as that what we were trying grandchildren. the others reached the to do carried a crucial two and Tom Marilyn, message about our rela- grandchildren were on a car. "You all were a tionship with God, for trip. Marilyn convinced puzzlement to me at first, whom race is no barrier. Tom to detour to return butIcaught on. You were In our loving we were to where she had spent with me all the way.! was important to someone for echoing God's love for us. summers. the first time.

When we no longer She must have locked a "Whenever folks talk heard from Marilyn we picture of our house and about home I tell about wondered what more we grounds in her memory could have done in for she took her family on my three years with you. preparing her for a life on a tour of every nook and It's really when my life began. The rest, before — her own. cranny with special well, it was just a mess.

Now she was back, emphasis on the mom It's almost forgotten." pouring forth her history which had been hers.

Recently I asked a of a stable, caring family She told stories to her with a modest financial grandchildren about her veteran religious educator how to teach Chrissuccess and a dedication "brothers and sisters". tian love. Her answer in involvement and Marilyn wanted to was, "You can't teach it. church. "Just like you, Mum," she proudly know about my husband You have to be it. ("Dad") and the grand- I think Iunderstand. exclaimed.

In the process Jesus made the important point that love is not a matter of relationship alone but of attitude and conduct. Love is not merely a warm feeling for someone congenial. It is a selfless attitude which expresses itself in practical service.

The two who passed by

Love in all its splendour she introduced her husband and grandchildren she kept saying, "I told you would she She stood on the remember me." porch one day this Marilyn was 18 and just summer close to the graduated from high door. There was a tall, school when she left us to man go south for a job with grey-haired directly behind her and some cousins in Georgia. two children, a boy and She promised to call a girl, holding her upon her arrival, which hand. The black wom- she did. We exchanged an's broad smile indi- some letters until ours cated she expected to came back "address be welcomed like a unknown". Our efforts to relative returning from rind her were fruitless. a trip.

Marilyn had been in a I waited until she said, class taught by my Aunt "Mum, you haven't Ruth. changed very much She was a 15-year-old except for the white in whose life had been a your hair." joyless stretch of neglect Twenty some years and abuse. My aunt disappeared and I believed that this bright blurted out, "Marilyn!" girl would be destroyed We embraced with without some experience laughter and tears and as of trust and love.

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It was a gamble. We took the risk, for Marilyn was not the first of the troubled girls who had stayed with us a year or so.

I look back now and wonder how we managed.Iguess we accepted Marilyn as part of the whole strong song of love which kept on singing in our lives in spite of frayed nerves and frustration and her early resistance to just about everything from food to curfews.

Our young family learned that love and trust are enormous mysteries to anyone who has almost never known them, so these mysteries

Briefly People agree that you can't buy love.

matter that he was a Jew; he was a fellow human being.

That was enough for him to rush to his aid at considerable trouble and expense.

Love, then, is selfless service which transcends relationship. This points up the basic meaning of love: selflessness, Selfish love is a contradiction in terms.

Another way to put it is

to say that to love is to give, not just of one's resources but of oneself.

This truth recurs frequently in the New Testament. "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son" (John 3:16).

In one of the most beautiful passages in his letters, Paul says of Jesus with touching simplicity: He "has loved me and given himself up for me" (Galatians 2:20).

Week in focus What is love? The theme of love, so appropriate in A dvent, moves into the spotlight in this edition of the CNS Religious Education Package.

Blessed Sacrament Father Eugene LaVerdiere points out that it is easier to recognise love t han to define it. Perhaps love is too simple and too close to us to define easily, he says.

Jane Wolford Hughes tells about a foster child, a teen from a minority family, that she and her family gave a home for three years. The experience taught the whole family, including the teen, what love in action means, she says.

Joe Michael Feist interviews two lay leaders, church professionals in the Diocese of Dallas, on how it is possible for Christians to love as Jesus loves. It is difficult, they tell Feist, who is editor of the Texas Catholic. But people can get glimpses of what it means to love as Jesus does.

Jesus taught in the Parable of the Good Samaritan that love is not a matter of sentiment and cosy feelings alone, Father John Castelot says. Instead, loving others as Jesus taught us is a selfless attitude of concern for all human beings.

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property of filmmakers and TV script writers who attempt to depict its ways for us.

presentations on it often suffer for their poverty.

But if you listen to people speak, you learn that love apparently can be "won" or "lost". You're also supposed to be able to "find" love — presumably if you know where to look.

The novelist, too, attempts to illustrate how love works. Should we conclude that love has to be seen to be believed?

At times the love we are shown in movies, television or books is only a masquerade. Many times true love is camouflaged from view by the very folks who say they will show it to us.

There must be a fairly common belief that you can "see" love. For in our society love so often is the

Love represents an endlessly fascinating and highly complex topic. It is a rich theme. But

Now, love draws upon human emotions and expresses them. Love isn't purely emotional.

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the fallen traveller were concerned about their own convenience.

If the victim was dead, they risked "defilement" by contact with a corpse.

This would have interfered with their work.

The Samaritan had no such scruples. All he saw was a wounded man who needed him. No

But a love stripped of emotion would be unrecognisable to most, if not all, people.

For Christians, love is at the heart of the matter.

Love is an essential dimension of Jesus' message.

A frequent problem for those who attempt to tell us about love is that love's emotional depth suffers in their translations, with pure sentimentality receiving the upper hand. Then true love drowns in a sugary concoction.

But ask yourself this: How comfortable would you feel about participating in a discussion of love?

Undoubtedly there are small groups in parishes that have taken up the topic of love. Still, for a

number of reasons, siik groups — or even fanolies at home — might away from the love toil'.

Because love is colplex. people may Or they won't be able t) share thoughts on it in worthwhile ways. Pel• haps some fear such discussion would wail' quickly down the drtli in a sea of sentiment.

What puzzles you abe love?

There could be a temptation to take love for granted — to believe subconsciously that we already know all about it.

After all, we're told a thousand times a day in songs and advertising messages "what love is".

Surely we've gotten the message by now!

But maybe we're just at thebeginning.

Jesus asked those around him to love God and to love others too.

This constitutes his most basic commandment.

The love to which Jesus calls people isn't beyond reach. There is no need to depair of it. we probably But shouldn't take our grasp of this great commandment for granted either.

Love and its special qualities not are expressed in the same Love is selfless and love in the good of others. way by all. Some people is forgiving. Those two are more expressive by Forgiving love means qualities may say it all. nature than others. Some that when someone we are more reserved. But Selfless love is not love very much has that does not mean they possessive. Its purpose is offended us, our love is so love less. Silent love, like the can put own that it not to satisfy our strong quiet water, runs deep. need to be loved. It is offence aside and go on Nor does love appear all outgoing and interested loving. at once. Like a flower, it starts as a seed sprouting.

DISCUSSION POINTS Then comes the bud. It takes a while before it The word "love" is bandied about a great reaches full bloom. deal by people in love, by TV programs and A small child's hug is magazines, by movies. How do Christians wonderful. But we are understand the term love? not amazed when the Can you think of a film or TV program that child runs off immehas depicted love well, with real meaning? diately to play. With After reading the articles by Father Eugene playmates, the little child LaVerdiere and Father John Castelot, how is oblivious of adults. would you describe love?

A little child loves with What connection do you see between a little child's love. That Christian love and the way you feel about family love is genuine, but we members and friends? do not expect it to be

By Father Eugene LaVerdiere, SSS

considerate and under- ing for their family and standing like an adult's. with achievement.

In young people, love Their love sometimes is often focuses on one mixed up with their person and becomes all- drive for success and absorbing. Everyone else ambition. practically ceases to exist.

Young people in love Then there is elderly are hurt easily by those people's love. This must they love. Their love is be the love Paul describes wonderful, but it is only when he says that love is a young bud in relation patient and kind, not rude, nor quickto adult love. tempered; nor does it In young adults we brood over injuries; love watch love take on endures all things. various responsibilities and reach out to a wider That is the love of circle of people. parents and grandparYoung adults also redis- ents. It is the love of a cover those they loved as modern Christian hero children, parents, for like Pope John XXIII. example, and learn to Such mature love was love them anew, this time also that of Jesus as he with appreciation for all approached Bethany and they did out of love. cried with his friends for But young adults also Lazarus, his friend who are taken up with provid- had died.

By Father John Castelot From whom can we learn what love really is more surely than from the one who is love itself (1 John 4:16)? Jesus' every word and act revealed the nature of love, particularly its selfgiving.

Jesus' whole career, his whole meaning, is summed up in the cross.

For those who go to school at the school of Jesus, the cross is the

supreme expression of selfless love.

How has he loved us?

"No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends."

Love may not require that one actually die for others. But every act of unselfish love involves a dying to oneself and finding more fulfilling life in the process.

Tell your own love story Love one another as I have loved you, Jesus told his followers.

A nice line, you might totally but say, impossible?

Not only is the world filled with seemingly unlovable people, how can the love we have for anyone ever begin to equal the total, unconditional love God has for us?

Yet the struggle to reach that level of allencompassing love is Christianity what demands, said Patricia LeNoir, director of the office of worship for the Dallas Diocese.

Mrs LeNoir said she isn't sure that loving one another as Jesus loves us "can be done consistently". But there are moments, "when we co-

operate enough with the Spirit inside us, that we can draw near to that kind of love".

For many parents, she said, the relationship with a child "often approaches the kind of unconditional love God has for us".

She told of an occasion with her infant daughter, Mary Teresa, last Lent.

She was making a list of all that she had to do when the baby began to cry.

"My first reaction was: 'Oh, no, not tonight,' Mrs LeNoir said.

When the baby continued to cry she went into the baby's room and patted her for a while.

Realising that this approach was not going to work, she picked her up.

With the parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus encouraged his followers to broaden their definition of the word "neighbour", writes Father John Castelot.

By Joe Michael Feist "Icould feel her begin to relax almost as soon as I held her close," Mrs LeNoir said, and soon she had fallen back to sleep.

She said that her first instinct was to put the baby back to bed and begin to work. Instead, she chose "to sit in the silence, holding my child. . . A tired mother and a sleeping child in Christ's embrace, both in need of the holding and the loving".

Mrs LeNoir views that encounter not only as Lent at its finest — choosing to fast from "all that's got to be done" — but also as a lovingly sacred moment.

"WhenI finally put her back to bed, I left the

room knowing that in Mary Teresa Jesus had come to me," she said.

Aggie Gladbac.lc, director of religious education at Holy Family Parish in Irving, Texas, said she experienced a similar moment in a most dissimilar circumstance.

She recently joined a group of Holy Family parishioners involved in jail ministry on a visit to a gaol.

"When we went in and I heard the doors clang shut, it was like cold chills just ran over me," she recalled. "And then we went in and they opened another door and we stood there" facing the prisoners.

Suddenly, she said, her fear and apprehension disappeared. "AsIlooked in the eyes of the

prisoners, not knowing whether they were child molesters or rapists or thieves, or what their crime was, it was as if that did not matter. For that moment, I experienced loving, I guess you would say unconditionally, as much as we can."

Mrs Gladbach said she kept thinking that "bars separate us now, but in the kingdom we will be one". She also was struck by being able to see in each prisoner "the 'you' that Jesus loves. It was like looking beyond the human".

"To see beyond the crime, beyond the bars, to see the oneness that Christ calls us to — for me, that's what 'love one another as I have loved you' is all about," she said.

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A thanksgiving Mass for 600 catechists A thanksgiving Mass for Perth's 600 catechists and their families was recently held at Subiaco parish, chief celebrant being Monsignor McCrann with 10 priests.

Sister Elizabeth Devine RSM — co-ordinator for Perth's 600 catechists — enthusiastic "for the role they play."

Right: Mrs Marie Hubble, a catechist of many years, receives her certificate from Monsignor McCrann. Assisting him is Religious Education Development assistant Father Nino Vinciguerra.

Above right: Dorothy Johnson of Greenmount and Peggy Nice of Subiaco, who have 15 and 25 years catechist experience respectively.

Above: Mrs Joan Hind, the conductor of the Julian Singers who appeared for the occasion, pictured with Sister Marie Therese Ryder, a catechist team member.

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These volunteer catechists work for the faith development of Catholic children outside the Catholic system, in the 77 parishes within the Archdiocese.

During the Mass 20 new catechists who had completed their 14 week t raining program, received their certificates which gives them the

right to teach in the name of the Church.

A further 25 who had been commissioned several years ago and had undertaken further studies in four required areas, received graduation certificates.

With 50 per cent of Catholic children educated outside the Catholic system their faith development is largely in the hands of volunteer catechists, men and women who give up their time to make sure these Catholic children don't miss out on a Christian education.

Sister Elizabeth Devine RSM, co-ordinator for the catechists in the Perth Archdiocese, is enthusiastic about their work "and the inspiring effort they are making for the faith development of children — which is one of the unsung songs of the Archdiocese!".

The service offered to Catholic children outside the Catholic system takes two basic forms: firstly, a Catholic program which takes place either in government schools or in the parish; the other alternative is an ecumenical program within the

government school system. This is one way of introducing Christian values but, as Sister states, where this is the situation "it is absolutely essential to have a parish based Catholic program".

a program to integrate children in the Catholic school with those in government schools, and to provide a program for parents to educate their own children for the sacraments."

On behalf of the team and catechists, Sister said she would like to express appreciation to those Catholic schools who've made their premises available, and who have supported this important work.

Sister Elizabeth is making a plea for trained teachers to assist in the skills development part of the initial training program. The next program starts on February 20. Anyone interested in volunteering for this work please contact Sister Marie Fitzgerald at the Catholic Education Office on 381 5444.

"A new and exciting initiative being undertaken in some parishes, is

End of a chapter Catholic college shuts its gate forever after 90 years

Those large iron gates must have been locked uncountable times before. But today was different.

This was for ever on the Catholic college known as St Joachim's, which was 90 years old.

It's a long history and a venerable one. And very much a success story for the Mercy Order whose sisters gave a lifetime to teaching generations of students.

Sister Michael, born in Co Limerick, Ireland in 1912, is one of those sisters, who having emigrated with her family, started at St Joachim's as a pre-schooler and joined the Order in 1924.

She was to spend the major part of her life there as a teacher and in semi-retirement, apart from a 14 year period at St Brigid's Midland.

The lock was fastened with reluctance and

Principal Mrs Anne Parker locking the gates on St Joachim's for the last time; marking the end of a 90 year history for the school and almost 60 years for Sister Michael.

sadness because it represented a large slice of Victoria Park's history, and many witnessing the event must have felt the nostalgic lump a little hard to swallow.

I was one of those. En route and nearby St Joachim's I passed the site where our huge and gracious family home overlooking Perth had been pulled down to

I remembered the sisters labouring through the heat of summer in long, heavy black robes. No airconditioners or anything fancy. But tremendously good teaching. They were great ladies who were totally committed to their vocation of teaching or otherwise. But they gave their best and spared no energy.

ria Park with shop sought out Catholic eduwindows, including my cation from the sisters mother's, covered in and walked their families black cloth to thwart the to Mass on Sunday, as enemy. my mother did.

The air raid shelters in They still strove to the local park. The maintain the values and absence of our menfolk instil Christian beliefs from the scene who were which they and their away defending our husbands believed in — homeland from those and continued in his who sought to take what absence. wasn't theirs.

Sister Michael was And the growing list of understandably sad, but

Victoria Park, and St Joachim's girls' college.

Ms Anne Parker, present principal of St Joachim's will become the new principal of Ursula Frayne.

Next year the present St Joachim's campus under its new name, will be allgirls for years 8,9 and 10.

And co-ed for years 11 and 12. Xavier will maintain its years 8, 9

Towards bigger things make way for many units.

The shorthand I used for my notes were taught to me by Sister Michael, and also the typing skill to create the article.

All my childhood had been spent there; I started at the age of three.

I remember the uncertainty of the war years, with the threat of Jap bombing coming southwards, having already bombed Darwin, and having been sent up the country to a less dangerous zone.

The blackouts in Victo-

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disabilities, whose families live in Morley, or those who live in hostels for the intellectually handicapped in the eastern region Three years ago, Sister Eileen of Perth.

"Everyone in the program will be Casey RSM came over from Victoria to work in religious led to reflect on the life experieneducation with people with ces and God's work in our lives," disabilities. Prior to this the said Sister Eileen. focus had been on sacramental "This will be in small groups, so preparation for children and even those parishioners who have adults, individuals and in had no experience with disabiligroups. ties, will be able to assist their disabled friends to share faith and However she needed a suitable joy together." location to provide integrated ongoing faith groups, It's not one group doing somedevelopment. thing for another, but rather everyone mutually supporting and And she's found it! St Jude's in encouraging development of each Holdhurst Way, Morley. she said. other," will Next year local parishioners "In this way the faith and total life come together in small groups of experience of all, will be enriched five to seven, to prepare themselves to share faith with people with . and muah more whole."

orphans who were rendered fatherless by the enemy's bullets; and we were one of these.

Through it all the womenfolk continued to raise their children with dignity, despite the worry and cares which beset them, and still

maintained an optimistic outlook: "It's not closing down as a college — just as St Joachim's."

That's so. Those gates will re-open in 1990 as the Ursula Frayne Catholic College — an amalgamation of Xavier's boys' college in East

and 10 male only streams and both colleges will maintain their present school primary structures.

Of the Mercy sisters — three currently teach in St Joachim's — Sisters Perpetua, Gerard and Casimir, and will be

joined by Sisters Ephram and Keely.

There will be some staff changes, among whom is Mrs McGowan, deputy at St Joachim's for the last 10 years, who will be taking up the position as principal of Bunbury Catholic College.

The grand finale for students and staff took the form of a Mass, assembly, during which the St Joachim's flag was hoisted and lowered for the last time, a rousing singing of their school song, and finally the locking of the gates.

But despite the seeming downer, Ms Parker said they are going out on a high.

"It is the end of one chapter and the beginning of another. And if our past achievements are any gauge — we look forward to a great future!"

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard

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Sir, the editorial, (The Record, December 7, 1989), subject — the 'good news' versus the 'bad news', is both timely and noteworthy.

The penultimate paragraph asked: "Would 10 minutes silence be better?"

Those words again DONNELLY, CLAREMONT Sir, Some years back the words coprolitic and scatological were used by me in your columns in relation to pornography.

They come from Greek words meaning dung.

Whether in Greek or four lettered Australian they are out of place in relation to a serious discussion on a statistical relationship between juvenile delinquency, youth unemployment and occupation by married women of starter, lower grade positions

My view is that the majority of Australians haven't heard a 'good news' sermon and that the preachers know in advance they would not like to hear one.

This, if true, is 'bad news' too!

Monks, and others, who have periods of silence in their daily lives know all formerly available to school leavers.

Helen Formentin, (The Record, December 7) needs to do other than be verbally abusive in a which discussion included the moral education of children.

As a personal issue, I have done much and indeed continue to strive for the financial help of families and their education; and I recently acquired an Order of Australia Medal for this and other related work.

One which is indelible on the streets of this State is the ramping down of kerbs for the passage of prams and wheeled chairs over crosswalks. This was achieved by the exercise described by Helen of me as "one who chips"; with

about the restorative powers of silence.

I suggest that, reasonably frequently, there is no homily at weekend masses. The celebrant could say something, like: "There won't be a homily today; instead we will spend 5 minutes in stillness and silence."

What about the crying babes? I don't believe it

would be difficult to provide some suitable supervision for small children at such a time.

Modern man, with the distractions and frictions of the late 20th century, could do with a bit of silence. Perhaps the Church could give its people an opportunity for stillness and silence in this manner.

the pen of course, not hammer and chisel.

Whether from pram pushers or geriatrics a mead of praise rather than the epithet "filthy" may, modestly, be claimed. Anyway, Canberra and the Queen have awarded a very handsome gong.

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Celebration attracts 600 Perfect weather, a superb venue and the promise of an exciting celebration of Catholic faith brought over 600 of Perth's young and young at heart to the 1989 Youth Rally at the Quarry Amphitheatre in Floreat on Sunday, December 3. were They disappointed!

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Organisers were delighted with the turn out, said to be the biggest yet for such an event, but were even more pleased with the prayerful atmosphere of the whole evening.

The day began early for members of Resurrection Shuffle, who provided music for the night, and for many other helpers

Mladen Milicich spent many hours making the backdrop for the evening, but getting it in place was another story!

Aft,00Andre Ghouse points out the Quarry's natural beauty to brother Trevor Ghouse, Graham Edwards, Damien McBain and Frank Tassone. who set the stage for the wide praise, and it major part in the even- came from stage manformed a perfect setting ing, leading the liturgy of ager Peter Edwards, the rally. for the Eucharist cele- the Word and providing Santa Maria Year 10 A magnificent back- brated by Archbishop two marvellous MCs in class, and many others, to drop constructed by new Foley and eight priests.

Jamie Calder and Anita whom is due a great vote CPY fulltime worker The Redemptorist com- Andreatta. of thanks for their generMladen Milicich drew munities also played a Key contributions also ous help.

AND WHAT A FINE DAY IT WAS!

Above and left: Archbishop Foley and eight local priests celebrated the Eucharist before a crowd of over 600.

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Part of the large crowd of youth who came from all over Perth for the Rally . . .

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1. Michelle Winter and Michelle Taylor having lowered the St Joachim's flag for the last time.

2. Sister Michael with St Joachim's girls preparing to finally close the gates on their old sclool.

3. Eileen Gough with the last published Year Book.

4. Sisters Gerard, Michael and Pauline watching the final assembly and farewell.

5. Catherine Moore (left) giving a rousing rendition St Joachim's school song with Tamara Dawson.

6. Contemplating the scene is Wendy O'Dea. 7. Sister Perpetua farewelling Mrs McGowan, deputy principal for the past 10 years who will be taking up a new position as principal of Bunbury Catholic College.

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by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

One of the many families taking part in Mundaring's parish Christmas barbecue, are Jan and Michael Ryan with two of their six children, Steven and Kylie.

Clare Zahra 11, holding two delightful sisters, Emily 5 and Sally Rayner 7, prior to "letting them loose" with a number of other young folk romping at the evening barbecue.

Lyn and Andrew Barr attending the outdoor Mass prior to the badman with their two children Monique 7 and Jeremy S.

Above: Russell Ryan 14, having "a terrific time!".

Left: Michael Merrifield caught his mum and dad doing a bit of canoodling at the parish barbecue, so thought he'd stay around just long enough for the photo! Maurie and Margaret Merrifield have recently returned from a visit abroad, including a trip to Medjugorje, and are one of the stalwart parish families which help make the Church grow and thrive.

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FRE MANTLE CAROLS Carols by Candlelight hosted at 8pm on Saturday. December 23 by the Fremantle Choir under the auspices of the City of Fremantle promises to be an exciting change from the t raditional.

A ppearing with the choir is a 20 strong orchestra, baritone Andrew Foote, Italian women of the Amicizia Club accompanied by Boss Bolleter on piano accordian and Los Chasquis, the much loved group playing South American Christmas music.

As well as Italian and South American Christmas music the audience will also be able to join the choir in singing familiar Christmas carols.

MARIAN MOVEMENT The monthly meeting of the Marian Movement of Priests will be held at the Little Sisters of Carmel, 2 Frazer St., Swanbourne on Tuesday December 19 at 10.30 am.

KELLERBERRIN REFLECTION Over 100 parishioners from many country centres came to St. Joseph's Church, Kellerberrin made "The Day of Reflection", not to be forgetten, both in prayer and fellowship, not to mention the singing in honour of Our Lady of The Miraculous Medal, focused on Our Lady the rosary, and enrolment in the Miraculous Medal.

Fr Greg Donovan from Bencubbin spoke on confession and reconciliation, with Fr Bruce Jones of Bruce Rock speaking on the Miraculous Medal. The day concluded with Mass, concelebrated by seven priests.

The response to this day of shared prayer was so overwhelming it was agreed that it be an ongoing event in 1990 and representatives from Merredin, Tammin and Northam will meet in the New Year to plan for 1990.

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

MAIDA VALE MOVE The Interim School Board for a Catholic school at High Wycombe consists of: Fr P.C. Turner (parish priest), Mrs K. Howell (chairperson), Mr N. Curtis (treasurer), Mr P. Glasson (secretary), Mr R. Dullard (CEO rep), Mr T. Palmer (principal, Greenmount Catholic PS), Mr B. Emmott, Sr Jeanette, Mrs M. Barton.

For a proposed opening of the school for 1991 inquiries in relation to enrolment and the school will be invited from interested persons from approximately mid-1990.

RELIGIOUS WAVES 6WN December 18-22 5.56-6am: Sacred Reading: The Christmas Antiphons. .

6WN 6-7pm December 17/24: Sacred Music: Advent & Christmas including meditation and poetry.

ABC-FM 7.05-8am December 17/24 Advent: For the God who Sings.

ABC-TV Noon December 24: Carols for a King: 8.30pm Carols from Kings; December 25 11am: Carols and readings from Christ Church College Perth.

Archdiocesan Calendar DECEMBER 20 Diamond Jubilee, Br Bernard Murphy. Bishop Healy.

21 Presentation Sisters Mass. Bishop Healy.

22 Archbishop Foley returns from Cambodia.

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

Mass at little Sisters of the Poor, Glendalough. Bishop Healy.

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

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

An invitation to all friends, past pupils and associates to join the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions at a Eucharistic celebration in

Sacred Heart Church Mary Street, Highgate on

Wednesday, December 27 at 2.30pm Archbishop Foley will be the principal celebrant.

This special Mass marks the opening of

The Assembly/Chapter of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions Followed by afternoon tea at the convent.

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CATHOLIC EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIPS 1990

Diploma in Education Scholarships Up to fifteen full-time graduate scholarships will be awarded by the Catholic Education Commission of WA to encourage graduates to enter the teaching profession. The scholarships are tenable for people proposing to teach in either primary or secondary schools.

Graduates who are interested in a teaching career in the areas of science, mathematics, business studies, manual arts and Aboriginal education are especially encouraged to apply.

Scholarship recipients will undertake a Graduate Diploma in Education at one of the following: • Curtin University of Technology: • Murdoch University: • University of Western Australia: or • Western Australian College of Advanced Education Scholarships will be available to full-time students to a total value of $7000. This will include the full cost of tuition fees charged by the institutions. Recipients will be required to be available to teach for two years in Catholic schools in WA designated by the Catholic Education Office.

Official application forms and further information can be obtained from: Mrs Barbara Maher Catholic Education Office of WA. PO Box 198. leederville 6007 Telephone: (09) 381 5444 Official application forms should be addressed to: The Director, Catholic Education Office of WA (address above) and lodged by Thursday, December 21,1989.

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