The Record Newspaper 08 February 1990

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Royal 'blue' at Ballajura Right: First pupil to arrive Paul Jones of grade two with friend Mark Palmer.

Left Jamie Barnett, year one and Kylie Falkingham, year one are all smiles on their first day at school.

... or when a nun is called a princess Few school principals are mistaken for royalty by their students but that's not the case at the Ballajura Catholic Primary School where Sister Margaret O'Sullivan welcomed over one hundred "pioneer" children to a brand new school last week.

During a formal welcome ceremony the parish priest Father John Jegorow was asked by the principal to put down his video camera and pin bright coloured name tags on all the children.

Father Jegorow first asked the children if anyone knew the name of their principal.

Young Guiseppe Graneri of year two jumped up and confidently announced.

"That's Princess Margaret."

Mums and dads burst into laughter perhaps hiding anxious feelings of leaving their precious charges in the care of teachers.

Just to record the magic moment on video tape, Guiseppe was asked to repeat his claim, which he did even more confidently.

Despite encouragement from Father Jegorow, Guiseppe would not agree that the parish priest be called "King John".

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SYDNEY: Auxiliary Bishop Geoffrey Robinson has questioned increasing links between the legal profession and whether justice is being priced beyond those who are neither very poor nor very rich.

The bishop raised the questions at the annual 'Red' Mass in St Mary's Cathedral to mark the first law term of the year and named because of the colour of the legal robes worn.

Listening to the bishop were the Federal and NSW attorney-general Lionel Bowen, the NSW Chief Justice Murray Gleeson and a large

number of Supreme and District Court judges, magistrates and lawyers.

Bishop Robinson said: "As a society changes, so must there be change in the role that law plays within that society, and it is a duty of lawyers constantly to question the conventions and assumptions on which their practice of the law is based.

"MayIthis morning ask you some of the hard questions which I feel will need to be faced during the 1990s?

"Is there cause for concern in the apparent increase in the links between the legal profession and big business?

"In the world of business it is often true that 'might is right' and it is the strongest and fittest who survive there, but does this always occur according to justice, truth, freedom and human dignity?

"Has the cost of litigation become a factor in commercial decisions, with the cost eventually being paid by the consumer?

"Is the law itself being used as a weapon in the armoury of power as some businesses seek to economic gain advantage?

"Because of the praiseworthy system of legal aid, some of the very poor

By Ron F. Robinson and Anthony Morgan in The Catholic Weekly have access to the courts, and so of course do the very rich who can write a blank cheque for the costs, but is the legal profession in danger of pricing justice out of the reach of all those who are neither very poor nor very rich?

"Is the prestige of a legal practice to be judged by the importance and size of its clients, or by its commitment to do justice for the poor, the dispossessed, the vulnerable and those who suffer injustice?"

Expressing his concern about Australia's lawsuit

mentality Bishop Robinson asked: "Are we becoming a litigious society? What part do lawyers play in fostering the spread of this mentality?

"It is obviously the responsibility of government to set up sufficient courts to overcome the delays that deny justice, but are the present courts used as well as they should be?

"Are the delays sometimes the responsibility of lawyers?

"Are some of the procedures and work practices now in place designed to

suit the convenience of practitioners rather than that of clients?

"Ibelieve that you could easily add to the list of concerns I have expressed, andI suppose that one could summarise these questions by asking: In the 1990s will the legal profession be presented to young lawyers as a vocation or as a job?

"I would add a final question: Is jurisprudence a serious subject in our universities? If not, is there not the danger that lawyers will lack the ability to question the assumptions, conventions and work practices of their own profession?

"Will they be equipped to carry on the continu-

ing examination of the role that law should play in a changing society?"

Bishop Robinson concluded by reminding the congregation: "Do not rely on your own efforts, but practise your profession in partnership with the God who 'does not judge by appearances, who gives no verdict on hearsay. but judges the wretched with integrity, and with equity gives a verdict for the poor of the land'.

"It is God who will empower you with this Spirit to do justice, to promote freedom, to serve truth and to proclaim the inalienable dignity of every human being"

'Go for gold' "Why not go for gold?" was Archbishop Foley's advice to seminarian Justin Bianchini last Sunday at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Yokine.

Justin (25), a sixth-year seminarian from Dianella, was being admitted as a Candidate for Ordination as a Deacon and Priest, a ceremony which takes place in the final years of training of a the for student priesthood.

Drawing a parallel in his homily between Australian Andrew Lloyd's courageous win in the 5000m in the Commonwealth Games and St Paul's words to the Corinthians to "run to win" in their lives like the runners in the stadium.

Archbishop Foley urged Justin to "go for gold".

"Paul is not all about just trusting in Christ and looking to Christ, though that's at the basis of a Christian life for him," Archbishop Foley said.

"But he also knows that we have to do our part.

"So Paul in our lives challenges us not only to trust in the Lord but to give all the gifts we have for his service."

Archbishop Foley said he rejoiced as bishop with the Church community in Justin's candidacy as a sign of growth for the future.

"It's when the person is confident that there is a maturity of purpose in proceeding with his

"It's a great day for the Nollamara and later to community of Our Lady Christian Brothers of Lourdes, but it's a great school Highgate (now day too for the commun- Chisholm College). He preparation that the ity of the Church of Perth completed a BA degree at Church, through the as she looks forward to WAIT in 1984, majoring ceremony of candidacy, the continued growth of in journalism. He lived at invites him to come the Church in Perth and St Charles' Seminary in forward in the midst of the need of ministers to Guildford in 1983-84, Justin her community and to minister to the people." and commenced Bianchini ... his declare his intention of Justin said his initial seminary studies in Ade- admitted as seriously progressing a Candidate towards the ministry of nervousness that day had laide in 1985. for priesthood," the Archbi- been overcome by the "I'm looking forward Ordination support of the people. shop said. during this coming year as a Deacon and Priest.

"Five years in the "I was overwhelmed at to consolidate the decimade, just have I sion seminary in Adelaide the support of my parish through study and have led Justin to come to and friends," he said. through my time workterms with life, faith and "By their presence, their ing in a parish," Justin ministry and we rejoice good wishes and congrat- said. that he is here today and ulations and their asks me as bishop to Justin has two further warmth I could feel their come to accept his years of study to comsupport and could draw declaration of his intenplete, including his strength from it." tion to prepare in these second pastoral placefinal years for the minisJustin went to school at ment in a Perth parish try in our Church.

Our Lady of Lourdes in later this year.

By Ian Esmond

Bringing back memories

The eight local Knights of the Holy Sepulchre who last September made the first visit by the local lieutenancy to the Holy Land recently renewed their memories and spiritual experiences during Mass said by their colleague Father Pat Ahern at the home of Knight Kevin Brady.

Medicare gets th mbs up THOUGH IMPERFECT IT IS ONE OF THE MOST EQUITABLE AND COST- EFFECTIVE IN THE WORLD, SAYS CHCA CHIEF Medicare should be retained in virtually its present form but many needing care, particularly the poor, are being deprived of timely access to acute care hospitals.

Scarce and valuable resources in Australia's health care infrastructure are being wasted and this is depriving many of opportunities to serve in their chosen ministry.

These were some of the points made by the Australian Catholic Health Care Association when the president, Brother Anthony Ducan told a Senate Select Committee last week.

He praised Australia's health care system, saying that though imperfect it is one of the most equitable and cost-effective in the world.

Brother Ducan said the changes needed were incremental and not radical since the latter could lead to chaos and rorting.

On claims that the poor are disproportionately represented on public hospital waiting lists because private patients are admitted preferentially, Brother Ducan called for surveys as a straightforward matter of fact to determine the truth of this situation.

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infrastructure, Brother Ducan said fostering cooperation between the public and private sectors could address the problem.

Avoidance of duplication need not impose one role on a public hospital and another on the private.

Whether the public or private sectors could best meet the needs of the rapid growth areas of Australia may depend on the availability of public or private funding. Private hospitals with high technology could share this with nearby public hospitals.

Brother Ducan also proposed that long term patients in public acute care hospitals (the so called "bed blockers") could be moved to more appropriate surroundings.

This would benefit the long term patients themselves and the economics of the system.

For nursing homes to accept such patients, extra funds might have to be allocated to provide care above what nursing homes currently provide.

Brother Ducan said that it was difficult to get information on the state of the private health insurance funds but current trends indicated they would contract down to a level where only the relatively wealthy could continue to participate.

This would lead to increased pressures on private hospitals and to a higher proportion of the population being disadvantaged.

The Catholic association supports the community rating principle.

The opposing risk rating system throws the poor risks — the aged and the chronically ill — back on the public purse, he said.

On the other hand the community rating would not be stable in an unfettered free market.

"It needs government regulation to prevent it being eroded by entrepreneurs whose primary concern is not with social equity.

"High participation and long term membership should be encouraged by tax rebates and some opting out for other than economic reasons. The funds themselves should be subsidised through reinsurance and other schemes to keep the premiums affordable."

Brother Ducan said the Catholic association believed Australia could achieve a system based on the notion of social justice with special consideration for the poor, the aged and the chronically ill.

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Help yourself and help the Church.

"That's the message Vincent Warrener aims to get across Perth parishes.

He was recently recruited by the Archdiocese Development Fund as Finance Officer.

With his inclusion in the ADF team there is every hope that the volume of business done by the ADF will increase.

Mr Warrener said taking on this new job would be a "tremendous challenge" for him.

Before he moves into top gear he plans to do a little groundwork — meeting priests and members of councils in the parishes he has been allocated.

He expects this exercise to "take some months".

Then he plans to talk to parishioners at Sunday Masses into investing their money with the ADF. Parishioners, he felt, did not know enough about the ADF. Through his talks and personal contact he hopes to generate more investments with the ADF. The ADF, an organisation under the umbrella of the Perth archdiocese, was set up with two prime aims: 1. to raise money by encouraging parishioners to invest; 2. to lend money to Church organisations so that they can participate in capital projects at a competitive rate of interest.

Projects could include Church extensions, building of schools and classrooms, just to name a few.

Said Mr Warrener: "So there are two arms, the arm of the Catholic laity contributing to the Church and at the same time earning interest on their investment and enabling the

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He added: "It is a case of people within the Church helping the Church and at the same time helping themselves."

He felt that the ADF should be promoted more actively within the parishes.

The job that he has taken up is a far cry from the ones he spent long periods with.

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He retired from the latter position less than a year ago.

Before taking up his new job he spent 10 months playing golf ("my second love") and doing household chores.

His first love? The ADF, of course.

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Australia has taken a big step to ensure that sign an AIDS-free declaration. it does not import AIDS to the country.

It is understood that the testing for the AIDS Students who intend to study in Australia and virus is an addition to the compulsory medical those who wish to emigrate will now have to tests to which all foreign students and undergo a compulsory AIDS test by one of immigrants are subject. several specialists nominated by the Australian Since the compulsory AIDS test came into diplomat offices overseas. force, it could not be ascertained whether any The new requirement came into effect on applicants had been turned down after they December 19 and will apply worldwide to all were tested positive. foreign students and potential immigrants.

Immigrants to the US have had to undergo The decision to include testing for AIDS virus such compulsory testing as long as two years ago. is believed to have stemmed from the high Immigrants to New Zealand do not have to financial and social costs of treating AIDS undergo an AIDS test. victims.

However, their applications to emigrate are Before the ruling came into force, all students still subject to their passing a routine medical and immigrant applicants to Australia had to check-up.

Vin takes up challenge with the ADF

Damien Grave of Adelaide is the 1990/91 winner of the Dr Horace Howland Travelling Scholarship awarded by the Knights of The Southern Cross.

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Damien has been heavily involved in tennis in South Australia — in State squads coaching and in administration.

Adelaide University recognised his contribution with a university blue.

His community involvement centered around work in his local parish and its related activities.

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Savage sentence Florida and its legal system know him as James Savage; the Australian Aboriginal community know him as Russell Moore.

Perhaps this neatly sums up the two realities of this sad and alienated young man who faces the electric chair, thousands of kilometres from his home?

But where is his home?

The Florida judge, who decided to ignore the decision of the 12-person jury who recommended Savage be sentenced to 25 years imprisonment, was not impressed by the defence's argument that the cultural alienation he had suffered had led him to where he was today.

Instead, Judge Lawrence Johnston imposed the ultimate penalty available to him under Florida's legal system — he sentenced him to death.

He then invoked God's name after passing sentence by saying: "And may God have mercy on your soul."

Without really knowing what God thinks on this subject, it can be stated clearly that execution, be it State sanctioned or not, is just as brutal as. the crime itself.

It is simply barbaric.

No matter how it is viewed — socially, politically, economically or morally — execution, even when clean and clinical, is an act of violence, and in the end solves nothing; the United States penal system is testament to that fact.

This young Aboriginal man will probably sit on death row for many years, if the statistics are anything to go by.

He will become another number in a system which is choking with men and women awaiting a similar fate.

In turn, like them, he willbecome faceless, voiceless and forgotten.

His brief and biased exposure under the media spotlight has only left a residual effect on the national psyche of both Australia and America.

Once again, both countries have simply shut the problem away; it will be unfashionable to be a Savage 'Moore supporter; the relatives of the murdered woman, Barbara Ann Bather, will be left to deal with their grief and desire for revenge privately.

The US legal system willgrind on in its interminable way and this young man's fate willnot be known for many years.

The fact that he will await his organised death for so long begs the question: Will he be a better person, reformed, remorseful, shaken to his senses — or will he remain the same, bitter, and in the end, hopelessly trapped man?

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from The Universe

Walking together Twenty-five years ago the Second Vatican Council gave its seal of approval to the work for Christian unity and charted its future course. Its Decree On Ecumenism was celebrated (during the Week of Christian Unity) at Westminster Cathedral by an imposing array of Church leaders. The mood was one of thanksgiving, expectation and realism.

The recent past was being recalled not just for its own sake but as inspiration for the difficult days ahead.

Archbishop Runcie generously acknowledged that Christian unity without Catholics is unthinkable.

The new stage of ecumenism that we are now entering owes much to Catholic initiative and thinking. It must not be allowed to fail. Already it has won massive support and even those who stillhesitate can clearly be won over as the interchurch process has a chance to prove its worth in the years to come.

The obstacles can sometimes appear alarming. No one objects to greater Christian courtesy and cooperation. We have already passed that point.

A rchbishop Runcie earlier this year ran into a minor storm when some Anglicans realised belatedly that some kind of universalprimacy for the pope in a future world church was being seriously discussed. On another front the issue of Anglican women priests and bishops now clouds future relations with the Orthodox churches and ourselves. It is not negative to point out the problems as Cardinal Hume has done.

In the changed situation we can now face these problems together and attempt to find a way forward. Misunderstandings and rifts now are recognised as family problems. The Christian family that has now learned to pray together, is, with God's help, going to stay together in the years ahead.

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Conscience clause a setback

LONDON: The conscience clause of the 1967 Abortion Act is failing to protect Catholics and other pro-lifers in the medical profession.

Three Catholic schoolgirls did not get into medical school because of their anti-abortion views. Department of Health Officials said that

last year there were three cases of advertisements for consultants breaching the guidelines which prohibit the mention of abortion duties.

The department is now monitoring all advertisements.

Mrs Daphne Patey, a Principal Nursing Officer, said the position

Seminary, convent opened in China BEIJING:— The Government -sanctioned Catholic Patriotic Association in south China's coastal Fujian province opened a seminary and a convent in the provincial capital of Fuzhou in 1989.

The convent, run by three of six dioceses in Fujian — recruited nine young women to undergo a two-year formation course, the report said.

Six young men are studying in the reopened seminary, which offers a three-year training in Fanchuanpu Cathedral.

A three-year course for priesthood formation is normally not enough, so those seminarians in

Fuzhou will have to seek further training in other regional seminaries in the future.

The United Seminary existed in Fuzhou in the early 1950s, and was closed in 1958. But the first regional seminary in Fuzhou was opened in 1931, together with another 10 regional seminaries all over China, and ceased to function in 1949, the year the Communists took over.

The clandestine Church in Fujian trained about 30 young priets in the past decade and some old priests of the clandestine community were ordained bishops, of whom one is in jail.

of a nurse who refused to participate in the precare and preparation of patients awaiting abortion might be "untenable." She added that doctors had a worse problem.

Dr Ian Jessiman, a former master of the Guild of Catholic Doctors, said that the con-

science clause had been a problem for the guild for many years.

He said that Catholics training to be GPs found it difficult to find posts where they could study obstetrics and gyneccology — areas vital for their qualification.

"If you're working fora consultant who insists

that you have to do abortions, you're in real difficulty," he said.

Pro-life MPs say that health authorities can still mention abortion job duties in descriptions.

Pro-life MP Miss Ann Widdccombe said: "The medical profession is becoming self-selecting."

'Masterminds' still at large in El Salvador

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (CNS):— Prominent Salvadoran Catholics say the "masterminds" of the murder of six Jesuits, their cook and her daughter are still at large, despite the arrests of nine military men in the case.

Archbishop Damas of San Salvador said last week that the case of the Jesuits' murder "will be a real trial for the judicial system of this country."

Punishment for those who carried out the actual killings is not sufficient, he said.

"We join the general clamour for punishment for the masterminds of such a brutal murder as well," he said.

"There is a long way yet to go before finding the masterminds," said Jesuit Father Estrada, whose predecessor as university rector, Jesuit Father Ignacio Ellacuria, was one of the six priests killed by uniformed men in the night-time attack campus their on residence.

Father Estrada added. however, that the arrest of military personnel in such a crime is "a novelty" that "breaks with tradition."

Two of the suspects in the murders, a sergeant and a private were reported to have said they fired the shots which killed the Jesuits on the orders of Lt Jose Ricardo Espinoza.

They and the other suspects, they said, were acting on the orders of Colonel Benavides, who was the officer responsible for security in the area the night of the murders.

Father Estrada said that Benavides, a former head of military intelligence and the director of the military's officer-training school, had a "clean record" until the murders.

"That makes one think that he is not alone," the university official said.

"I'd like to know why the military say that Colonel Benavides acted alone and that the investigation has already been completed."

Very much Military had hand at odds

PARIS (CNS): The Vietnamese bishops' conference remains "very much at odds" with the government, sources in Paris

say.

They say that the government in December prevented Archbishop Nguyen Van Thuan, coadjutor of Ho Chi Minh City, from attending the annual bishops' conference meeting to make sure he would not be elected to a responsible position within the conference.

The same sources said the conference bowed to government wishes and did not re-elect Cardinal Trinh Van Can of Hanoi and Auxiliary Bishop Nguyen Van Sang of Hanoi as conference president and vice president.

Also, the president of the Government Committee for Religious Affairs declined to receive the new bishops' conference president, Bishop Nguyen Minh Nhat of Xuan Loc, sending his deputy instead.

In other developments, the bishops' request for permission to go to Rome for their "ad limina" visits in May and September had not been approved as of midJanuary. Bishops make such visits every five years to report on the status of their dioceses.

The government, also as of mid-January, had not granted permission for three bishops to represent the conference at the world Synod of Bishops in Rome in October,

MANILA: Last month's coup attempt in the Philippines saw the participation of military units not previously identified as part of the conspiracy and some senior officers believe that most of the armed forces were involved in the plot, according to documents obtained from military sources this week.

The assessments were

contained in sworn affidavits made to military investigators probing the bloody December attempt to topple President Corazon Aquino.

In one affidavit, a rebel army captain who later defected to the government said that priests, nuns, government officials, and civilians were supposed to have joined mutinous soldiers.

repeating the 1986 people's power revolt that ousted the late Ferdinand Marcos.

He said the rebels identified military backers, including the commander of the elite Scout Rangers, Brig-Gen Marcelo Blando, who is in hiding, and the chief of the Southern Luzon Command, Brig-Gen Alejandro Galido.

re-register them with the authorities.

whether civilians or men in uniform, often shoot it out on the streets to settle scores In addition, politicians are said to have hired private armies.

The order to surrender the illegal arms also applies to soldiers and policemen, who may use the weapons for another attempt to overthrow Mrs Aquino.

Surrender arms...

President MANILA: Corazon Aquino, invoking her emergency powers in a bid to forestall future military uprisings, has ordered the surrender of all illegal firearms and military equipment in the hands of unauthorised persons.

The thousands of Filipinos who legally own firearms are required to

Mrs Aquino ordered the seizure of all firearms and explosives if the owners failed to register them within a month.

There has been no real accounting of the number of firearms in the Philippines, a country with a "wild west" image where Filipinos,

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SINGAPORE: The Singapore Government has spelt out what c onstitutes a religious institution and which act threatens religious harmony or mixes religion with politics.

These and other details are found in the Maintenance of Religious Harmony Bill, which was read in Parliament for the first time last week.

The thrust of the propaced legislation, first hinted at in the President's speech at the opening of the seventh Parliament last January, was set out in a White Paper published three weeks ago.

It is to give the Home Affairs Minister powers to serve a Prohibition Order on anyone whose words and actions threaten religious harmony to stop preaching.

Failure to do so will result in the person being jailed or tined, or both.

The proposed legislation also calls for the setting up of a Presidential Council for Religious Harmony that will deliberate on matters affecting religious harmony and advise the minister.

Since the publication of the White Paper, many religious groups and individuals have reacted, largely in support of the basic objectives of the proposed legislation.

But there have also been reservations voiced, especially on how politics is to be defined and where the Government will draw the line.

As the Bill now defines • Exciting disaffection or affecting relations to a fine not exceeding it, a religious institution against the President or between that religious $20,000 or to imprisonincludes a church, t he Government of group and the Govern- ment for a term not ment or any other reli- exceeding three years or cathedral, chapel, sanc- Singapore. or both. group tuary, mosque, surau, The people on whom gious temple, synagogue or such orders can be institution.

A district court shall Before doing that, the have the jurisdiction to other place of worship. served include any priA religious group est, monk, pastor, imam, minister shall give 14 impose the maximum includes any company or elder, office-bearer or days' notice r' his inten- penalty prescribed for an body incorporated under any other person who is tion to the person con- offence under the Act. the Companies Act, or in a position of authority, cerned and the head or All orders and decisions any other written law, for in any religious group or governing body or man- of the minister and agement committee of the purpose of promot- institution, or any the religious group or recommendations of the ing any religion, religious member of the group. council shall be final and worship or dealing with Once served with an institution, to afford shall not be called in religious affairs or prac- order, the person cannot, them the opportunity to question by any court. written tising, conducting, teach- without the minister's make The Bill says that the representations. ing or propagating any prior permission: Presidential Council for The minister must also religious belief.

• Address orally or in Religious Harmony shall In addition, the term writing, any congrega- inform a Presidential comprise a chairman also refers to any body of tion parish or group of Council for Religious and not more than 15 persons, whether or not worshippers or members Harmony, which may other members. registered as a society of any religious group or give its views within 14 They are to be either under the Societies Act, institution on any sub- days. representatives of the He shall have regard to whose object is the ject, topic or theme as major religions here or promotion of any reli- may be specified in the the council's views in persons who, in the making the order. gion, religious worship order; opinion of the Presidenor the practice, conduct, The council must con- tial Council for Minority • Print, publish, edit, teaching or propagating distribute or in any way sider the order together Rights, have distinof any religious belief. assist or contribute to with all the facts or guished themselves in The Bill empowers the any publication pro- documents tendered by public service or comminister to make prohi- duced by that religious the minister and the munity relations. representations which bition orders to prevent group; They shall be appointed he has received. religious leaders or • Hold office in an by the President, on the members of religious editorial It must make its recom- advice of the Presidential board or a groups from the follow- committee mendations within 30 Council for Minority of a publicaing acts: tion of that religious days of receiving the Rights, for a period not order and the necessary exceeding three years • Causing feelings of group. documents, and may and shall be eligible for enmity, hatred, ill-will or The minister is also recommend that the reappointment. hostility or prejudicing empowered to issue a order be continued, the maintenance of har- prohibition order against Proceedings of the Prerevoked or varied in any mony between different any other person for sidential Council for manner. religious groups; inciting, instigating or Religious Harmony shall • Carrying out activi- encouraging any reliAny person who con- be secret and no member ties to promote a political gious group Or travenes the prohibition or officer shall disclose or cause, or a cause of any institution. order shall be guilty of an divulge to any person, political party while, or He can ban the person offence and liable on other than the President under the guise of, from addressing or advis- conviction to a fine not or the minister or any propagating or practising ing any religious group exceeding $10,000 or to other member, any matany religious belief; or institution or any imprisonment for a term ter which has arisen at • Carrying out sub- member of the group or not exceeding two years any meeting unless he is versive activities under making any statement or or to both. expressly authorised to the guise of propagating causing any statement to In the case of a second do so. — Straits Times or practising any reli- be made, whether orally or weekly subsequent offence, gious belief; or or in writing, concerning the person shall be liable overseas edition

Missile scraps to help charity MOSCOW: A scheme to turn scrapped Soviet nuclear missiles into pens to raise money for charity was announced by Group Captain Leonard Cheshire in Moscow this week.

The war hero said he hoped to raise £500 million for the World War Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief — the charity he set up last year.

Metal from the

scrapped SS20 missiles will be turned into 100 million pens in the scheme, which received a fast and positive response from the Soviet Foreign Affairs ministry.

Discussions are now taking place to find a manufacturer. Most of the pens will cost around £7, and a luxury limited edition will be £100.

Group Captain Cheshire now hopes to

persuade the Americans to part with scrapped Cruise missiles.

"The pen really is mightier than the sword," he said in Moscow after pulling off the deal. And a lot easier to write with, he might have added.

The first Cheshire Home for the disabled will open in Russia later this year, 20 miles outside Moscow.

Walking on...

LEEDS: As Bishop David Konstant received three former Anglican ministers into the Catholic diaconate he told them that this admission and their coming ordination into the priesthood were ^a new grace for us in the diocese, and one to give deep thanks for".

He told ordinands Eric Thacker 66, Paul Williment 42, and David Drake-Brockman 56, that they had responded so generously to God's call over the years and "continued your journey of faith into the Catholic

Church".

"You have belonged to the Church for four or more years now, and each of you have given up much to walk this path of faith."

The wives and families of the three men were present.

Some 500 people celebrated alongside their priests-to-be. They heard their bishop speak of the "conversions both big and small in all our lives, which are all achieved under the influence of the Holy Spirit".

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Give the a fair go call Pope's tour of African states...a special N'DJAMENA, Chad (CNS): Pope John Paul II, wrapping up an eight-day trip to Africa, pleaded with diplomats to help stop war on the continent and stem the "seemingly endless sources of suffering" afflicting its people.

The pope made his remarks on February 1in Chad, a country trying desperately to emerge from nearly 20 years of civil strife and border warfare.

Speaking to diplomatic representatives in N'Djamena, the capital, the pope called for "the courage of clarity" in seeking the real causes of Africa's wars.

He said that requires looking closely at who benefits from the conflicts and who is supporting them. The role of governments, their alliances and military aid

should be openly investi- land to welcome them," he said. gated, he said.

The international com"There are seemingly endless sources of suffer- munity, he said, should ing. I am thinking of "recognise the errors, Ethiopia, of Sudan, of abuses of power, injustipeoples hurt by racial ces and exploitation" that discrimination and of may have helped cause others brought to violent the current situation. conflict by ancient ethnic He challenged deverivalries," he said. loped nations to take Contributing to the urgent steps to solve causes, the pope added, Africa's environmental are the most visible social problems and improve ills: widespread poverty, its disastrous health care Scientific poor or non-existent system. health care and the research and education "scourge of debt" that need to be shared with afflicts many African the continent's younger generations, he said. nations.

The international comThe pope said that among the tragic conse- munity should also quences of regional con- encourage the coflicts are the many operative steps recently displaced families in taken by African governments — such as Africa. regional transportation "The image that comes and economic accords, first to my eyes is that of he said. thousands of refugees The pope offered the who despair of finding a diplomats a "concrete

example" of the kind of initiative needed on the continent: the recent agreement between the Vatican and Cameroon to build a Catholic university in the capital, Yaounde.

The pope repeated what became a theme of his five-nation visit to West Africa: that "the great transformations taking place in Eastern Europe must not turn attention away from the South, and from the African continent in particular".

He said Africans need greater freedom, but noted above all that "material, intellectual and spiritual poverty prevents the full exercise of freedom among individuals, families and communities".

The pope's remarks took on special significance in Chad, where the years of stubborn fight-

ing left many dead, displaced and hungry.

The pope went out of his way to encourage Chad's tentative national reconciliation effort, saying it deserved full support. The country has also taken recent steps to settle its northern border war with Libya.

Earlier, during a Mass in the capital, the pope stressed the need for proper marriage in a sermon dedicated to the family.

It was a theme the pope had raised in each of his previous stops on the trip: Cape Verde, GuineaBissau, Mali and Burkina Faso. Polygamy and cohabitation are common in all of the countries.

"Dear friends, some people find it a very bold idea that a man and a woman can commit themselves for their

whole lives to the path of fidelity," the pope told some 20,000 people in an N'Djamena stadium.

The pope said he understood the stress brought on families by the war and economic suffering.

"But you should not give up the greatness and the beauty of matrimony," he said.

Before leaving the country for Rome, the pope made a related point about birth control in a talk to a mostly Muslim crowd at the N'Djamena race track. Birth control and abortion are growing practices in Chad, especially in rapidly growing, overcrowded cities.

"I encourage you to approach the demographic problem with discernment, respecting life and remaining faithful to your cultural traditions, which honour in particular the woman's voca-

tion to fertility," the pope said.

The pope greeted Muslim leaders before giving his talk. Chad's northern population is nearly all Muslim, while in the south about 20 per cent are Christian and 70 per cent follow traditional beliefs. Although Chad's civil war was not a religious conflict, the north's victory has left some resentment among and southerners between religions.

The pope tried to help bridge that gap, referring to the common belief that "every man and every woman is a creature of God and possesses a singular value".

"A religious people like yours can understand that I am referring to the unique value of every human person, who receives life, wisdom and love from God," the pope said.

'Forgive your enemies' N'DJAMENA, Chad (CNS):— Pope John Paul ll came to Chad, an African country worn out by civil war and drought, and encouraged its people to forgive their enemies and rebuild their nation.

"Have faith in life and each other so you can join all those of goodwill and reconstruct a Chad that is more beautiful,

reconciled and united in peace," the pope said during a prayer service.

"When you can forgive — even your worst enemy — you imitate the forgiveness of Christ, who never harboured hatred in his heart," he said.

The pope was lending moral authority to a tentative national reconciliation plan put for-

Showing respect BURKINA FASO: As Pope John arrived for the Mass, the pope greeted a group of 60 local Muslim representatives who sat next to the altar. Mama Sanou, a Muslim priest, said his community was fulfilling a traditional duty of the local Bobo people: that of "showing respect for the stranger who arrives".

"In this case, it is the pope, who already has our deep respect. He is a holy man who cares about us," he said.

Across the square from the altar, a 15 metre long banner proclaimed: "Welcome Pope John Paul II, head of Vatican City state, great friend of the Sahel."

The Mass, attended by some 20,000 people, mixed music and customs that have been worked into the local liturgy. Dancers swayed to slow melodies played on the "balafon", a wooden xylophone, keeping the beat with plastic switches that, in the Bobo animist tradition, are used to capture spirits.

The papal procession was led by a young woman bearing the New Testament, past a pile of 10 rocks to be used as cornerstones for new churches in the diocese.

The pope, pink-faced after five days in the African sun, appeared to enjoy the ceremony as much as his hosts. Here, as in other stops throughout the trip, he said the people may be "poor in material goods" but are rich in generosity and spirit.

"The Lord has given you qualities that many other pople have lost. Be sure to protect them," he said.

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ward by President Hissene Habre.

The fragility of Chad's regained public order was seen in the hundreds of heavily armed troops that guarded the pope's every move through the capital.

Habre, who holds complete political power in Chad, recently negotiated a peace accord with Libya, ending 15 years of border warfare.

The president has also called on his political opposition in exile to come back and join the country's reconstruction.

"I hope this peace is consolidated and brings joy for all, in the persistent search for forgiveness and reconciliation," the pope said.

The pope made his remarks in the capital's ultra-modern cathedral, rebuilt after the old

church was destroyed in The streets of the city dou. Terrorism was susfighting in 1980. were nearly empty for pected in the crash.

Habre, who had pushed attending the pope's arrival.

Those included religious leadThe pope said he sym- hard for the papal trip, ers and a group of French pathised with the coun- was at the airport to soldiers, part of France's try's many sufferings: personally greet the pope long-standing military drought, famine and the as he stepped off his "sad years" of civil strife charter DC-10. The pope presence in Chad. groups in north- was on the last leg of an between Sword-carrying cereChad. eight-day, five-country southern and ern monial guards welcomed The pope also recalled a trip across West Africa. the pope to the church, and a few hundred 1989 plane crash in Chad The pope said he hoped curious onlookers stood that took 171 lives, his three-day visit would outside, kept at a dis- including that of Bishop be "useful" for the tance by security forces. Gabriel Balet of Moun- country's future.

Honoured guest of Muslim folk

BOBO-DIOULASSO, Bur- the developed world kina Faso (CNS): Pope refuses to help the arid John Paul II took his Sahel and its people, it travelling social Gospel to would amount to "frathe parched scrub region tricidal indifference". of Burkina Faso, where he Vatican spokesman Joawas hailed as "a great quin Navarro-Valls said friend of the Sahel" and that later that evening, in an honoured guest of the impromptu remarks to country's Muslims. bishops, the pope The pope was nearing recalled his 1980 visit to the end of a six-day tour Burkina Faso, then called of five drought-prone Upper Volta, when he nations in West Africa, made a similar plea. where he issued repeated "Today, I was able to appeals for international renew this appeal. If I aid. had not done this, I The pope said he felt he would not be able to die "would not be able to die in peace," he told the in peace" without having bishops. pleaded on behalf of the During his sermon in region's poor and Bobo-Dioulasso, a transhungry. portation centre in the At a Mass on January 30 country's arid grasslands, in front of a freshly the pope emphasised whitewashed railway that the Catholic Church station in Bobo- was trying to imitate Dioulasso, the pope read Christ in serving the from a letter he had poor. received from a local "You are working for teacher. It prayed for the the development of your day when "no more country. I passionately babies will be dying ask the whole world to around us". support you who know The night before, the the weight of poverty," pope had insisted that if the pope said.

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"Families are built on authentic love," the pope told some 20,000 people gathered at a sports field.

"The worthy and serious commitment of marriage excludes the possibility of divorce and that of taking the life of a conceived baby," he said.

The pope emphasised that the Church also insists on the couple's "capacity to love each other faithfully their whole lives".

Polygamy and cohabitation in Chad, as in many African countries, are persistent pastoral obstacles for the Church.

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SARH, Chad: The crowd in Sarh sweltered in the 38-degree sun, and first aid workers passed out water from plastic jugs.

The pope appeared tired, seated on a raised altar platform with a tin roof.

Earlier the pope celebrated a Mass in Moundou, an extended village of straw-covered huts in Chad's humid, tropical farming zone.

About 30,000 people were there to greet him, many having walked for days from villages in the surrounding countryside.

Musicians played native instruments during the Mass, joined by a Japanese missionary nun on a Yamaha electric organ.

The pope smiled as a chief of the locally predominant N'Gambai tribe danced toward him and placed a feathered headdress on his head. Then the pontiff stood so the cheering crowd could see him.

It was a symbol of maximum respect, rarely accorded a visitor, a priest said.

Italian Father Aldo Broccato, a Capuchin missionary, said about 100 pilgrims from his parish had walked for nearly 96km over three days to reach the Mass, sleeping in the open at night.

His parish, he added, included 74 villages — a typical situation in Chad.

The pope praised the count 's 4500 catechists, who are in effect the day-to-day ministers in villages where the priest comes once a year.

"During the war years, in many inaccessible places, the faith and Church communion were preserved thanks to these apostles," the pope said.

Many catechists, the pope noted, "paid with their lives" during Chad's civil war, which ended in 1986. In most villages, Father Broccato said, catechists were killed because they were also local community leaders.

It's hard to beg but in the face of death...

Our situation is dramatic. For the third time in this it decade Tigray has been struck by famine as a consequence of drought. In some areas the plight of the people is comparable to that of the terrible years of 1984185. In the months ahead it can only get worse, indeed much worse, unless immediate steps are taken toprovide them with relief supplies. Psychologically speaking the plight of the people at this moment is much worse than that of 1984 because it conies in the wake of armed conflict. All efforts are now centred on obtaining and distributingfood to keep them alive.

It is hard to begforfood the third time in a decade but in theface of death and the suffering of thepeople,Ibeg for help andfood by whatever means may be possible.

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Adigrat. in Tigray

Australian Catholic Relief is providing relief to famine victims in the Horn of Africa. Your donation will he used to continue helping these people in their need.

Good ties underlined

N'DJAMENA, Chad: The pope underlined the generally good relations between the state and the Chad Catholic Church, which is smaller than the Muslim community.

Muslims make up approximately 44 per cent of Chad's estimated 5.7 million people, Christians about 33 per cent and followers of native

religions 23 per cent.

Catholics are said to number 306.000.

accomplishments. The constitution protects freedom of religion and maintains the secular I nature of the state.

Of Muslims, the pope said: "I greet them and assure them that I come "I hope that in this as a man of dialogue and climate of liberty, Musa messenger of peace." lim and Christian comThe pope praised munities may develop an Chad's recently adopted increasingly constructive constitution, another of spirit of co-operation," Habre's major political the pope said.

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The needs and concerns of ageing people and what the church is doing to minister to them is the topic of the CPIS Religious Education package this week.

A primary need of older people is to feel they still are valuable members of parish life, Katharine Bird writes. Maryrita Wieners, a pastoral associate, tells Ms Bird that frail elderly people have a special need for companionship, for regular visits from pastoral ministers and others.

Blessed Sacrament Father Eugene LaVerdiere tells the story of a wonderful old priest, Father Alphonse Ouimet, whose physical infirmities in his 80s did not dim the sparkle in his eye or his love of a good joke.

Jane Wolford Hughes says that many elderly people today can enjoy an extended autumn that lasts into their 80s or older. At 69, she says that she has time to savor friendship and to help others in a leisurely way not possible when she was younger. Mrs Hughes is a religious educator and writer.

Father John Castelot finds the Bible just as fascinating now that he is 73 as he did earlier.

There is always something new to learn and to communicate to the people coming to his classes, he writes.

Twi ight ... or the autumn of life

By Jane Wolford Hughes

Elder people want tole perceived as valued members of the parish, able to make decisions allot their own lives and to contribute to parish life, writes Katharine Birt

For many older people the time from 65 on can be a glorious autumn when the beauty of the moment is savoured and the future is rich with promise, writes Jane Wolford Hughes.

Elderly people and today's Ch rch At 83 Steve is an interested man who refused to let a stroke two years ago or the death of his wife last year destroy his love of life.

Independent in spirit and outlook, he lives alone in the home whose every square inch is familiar to him after 50 years.

Faced with the need to slow down, Steve created

a network of support for died 15 years ago. Dishimself with a little help abled by arthritis and her from friends and parish. failing memory, she is A neighbour takes him bed-ridden and needs to the bank; another round-the-clock care in shops for him. He seldom her home.

Her most regular visitor attends Mass because he has to conserve his is her sister, Elizabeth, strength. But he gardens, 78, an active, outgoing listens to records featur- women who spends ing his beloved saxa- three days a week with phone and watches her. games.

Also a widow and a Edna, 89, is a retired chronic worrier, Elizamajor whose husband beth fusses over her

Just keep dancing We need the elderly.

Those who are middleaged need the elderly to show how someone grows older gracefully and happily.

The fourth commandment asks that we honour our father and our mother.

I used to think it was a commandment for little children. Now that I am 53, it seems even more important.

That the elderly have much to offer I have no doubt. I would have to deny too many of my experiences. One experience is especially dear to me.

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in my early 20s at the end of my first year of novitiate. At the time, the order had a summer house.

An elderly priest used to come with us. His was Father name Ouimet, pronounced "we met". One day I was asked to watch after him while the group was away.

Let me tell you about Father Ouimet.

He was somewhere around five feet tall.

He was in his early 80s and had gotten quite bent. With a pronounced paunch, stooped shoulders and a chin that rested on his chest, he

appeared even shorter.

When Father Ouimet got into a chair his feet no longer touched the floor, something he delighted in pointing out.

With ageing, Father Ouimet's gums were shrinking and his dentures were loose. New dentures were offered but he would not hear of it.

Chuckling, he would say, "I won't use them long enough," which made quite an impression on the young novices.

Father Ouimet was always the first to introduce himself.

sister, concerned, often unnecessarily about her care.

pastoral needs of elderly people, especially the frail elderly.

What the three have in common is their parish, and the supportive, loving concern of parish ministers such as Maryrita Wieners, who visits the three regularly. She is the staff contact for the Parish Life Committee.

Iinterviewed Ms Wieners and also Sister Rose Therese Bahr about the

Asked to define frail elderly people, Sister that said Bahr researchers place people 85 or older in this group.

It also includes people younger than 85 whose physical or mental condition is such that they "always will be dependent on others," she said.

Sister Bahr stressed that

By Katharine Bird demographics about the elderly are changing dramatically.

Though churches are playing a pioneering role in creating programs to minister to aging people, many parishes are just beginning to recognize the pastoral needs of older members.

By Father Eugene LaVerdiere, SSS

Holding his hand out, and wiped the side of the side, making his way across he intoned his name, "we pot. "They will never know." the room in front of the With that Iknew it was he fireplace. met", to which he inevitwho would be watching ably got the response, "I over me, not vice versa. He When passing the door, he don't think so." I think left no doubt who was in would stoop a bit to see if I was perhaps watching. then, that was his favourite charge. that I was not, he satisfied joke.

Father Ouimet suggested continued, a big smile on his No sooner had the we make a fire in the face. novice master and the fireplace. whichIproceeded He tried to hum along with novices gone that day to do. the music, but the rapid would be thought it also He than Father Ouimet Andalusian rhythms were good to have some music. quietly took over. too much for him.

"What kind?"Iasked.

"What shall we have for I followed him to the I watched Father Ouimet lunch?" record rack and he picked dance for several minutes, I suggested soup and a out some lively Andalusian until he was ready for his stew. sandwich.

Spanish music.

"There is good stew on the stove that Brother Paul made for tonight," he replied.

Walking to the stove, he scooped some out, smoothed over the surface

I then retired to the porch I remember the scene, the and found a spot where I smile, the movement, the could see him but where he hum, to this day. And was not likely to see me. And whenever I do, I pray that when I am an old priest I he began to dance. shall be the kind who likes With small steps, he moved to dance — to Andalusian up and down, from side to music, of course.

"Tlo church's pastoral mini try to older persons is io its infancy," said Msg Charles J. Fahey.

Too( ften, the church is unat are of their needs.

Ma y programs now in piact were initiated by elder y people. Ms Wienreixa.mple, for several er;Od yew, now a group of seniors has met weekly to roptruares y, daisrciduss share concerns.

And an elderly woman was the impetus behind the parish Telefriend network. about C oncerned elderly people living alone, she suggested establishing a system where they are paired in order to phone each other at least once daily.

If there is no answer, someone follows up to make sure the person is all right.

The parish also encourages older people to take an active part in parish ministry; an 80 year-old teaches first grade catechism to youngsters.

a family member," Sister Bahr said. They need the opportunity to make decisions about their life, to be in control somehow.

three people she visits look on her as a friend and a sign that they "are not written off" by the parish.

Because so many frail elderly people are "prisoners of their home", they have a great need for occasional companionship, people who visit What are those needs? them reguarly, Ms Wien"Their No. 1 need is to ers said. always be maintained as She thinks that the

For all elderly people, but especially for the housebound, it is important that they are "accepted as a member of the community or church without being characterized or labelled as a problem or a burden," said Sister Bahr.

Noting that the parish has a growing number of aging people, Ms Wieners said. "My fear is that in a few years their needs will be much greater."

Now that I'm 73 Old age came early in biblical times.

Girls who started haying babies as soon as they were able and were burdened with backbreaking domestic and farm labour lost the poetic bloom of youth long before they were "thirty-something".

Men fared little better, and no one had the means available now of warding off disease or repairing broken bodies.

With the spectre of old age and physical disability always looming threateningly, one of the biblical people's most fervent prayer was to be spared an untimely death.

Not even kings were exempt. When Hezekiah fell ill, he cried out: "In the noontime of life I must depart! . . . My dwelling, like a shepherd's tent, is struck down and borne away from me. You have folded up my life like a weaver who severs the last thread" (Isaiah 38:10, 12).

Of course, many people retained their youthful outlook for a long time, even after the years had taken their toll. They were those we today would call the "youngold," old on the calendar but young at heart.

At 73, I count myself among today's youngold. By and largeIfeel the

way I did at 37.

Though supposedly retired, I still work as hard as ever. I am teaching at two seminaries and in four parishes this year. I also write each week.

If anything, I am more interested in the Bible now than I was as a young teacher.

Whenever I pick up a biblical periodical there is always something fresh and new to learn — and to communicate to the people coming to my classes.

Still, there are some significant differences between growing old in biblical times and today.

By Father John Castelot

The young-old in biblical times found it relatively easy to stay young.

They may have felt the generation gap keenly but they did not have to bridge a frustrating culture gap.

They spoke the same language as the young, enjoyed the same music, danced the same dances.

"Out of it" may have been on their calendar, but culturally they were "with it".

Things have changed dramatically in our day. No age has seen such rapid and cultural bewildering changes. Young people are not only younger, they are different.

The result is that today's young-old can feel a painful alienation from people in their 30s and 40s. They seem to speak a new language!

This can lead to real concerns. On the one hand, older people may feel uncomfortably anxious about where the next generation will take society.

From another point of view, we are a bit envious of the advantages enjoyed by the young, all the advances in technology that can be used constructively to create a better world.

We would love to be around long enough to see how all these advantages will be used.

Realistically, however, we find solace in the thought that we will see it all, but from a different vantage point.

Recently I rode an antique merry-goround and vanished from the world into a reverie with the child within me.

I came back to 1989 when the oom-pah-pah wound down and the mirrors of the central column stopped reflecting like a kaleidoscope.

I enjoyed myself as much as I had at 5 or 15.

In fact, more so, for at 69 I can embrace the uncomplicated joy and know how to give in to it.

Like most persons, when I was young I dreamed of what I would be when I grew up; in middle age I pedalled so fast to keep up with family and career I didn't take time always to reflect on the beauty of what I had just experienced.

Now in semi-retirement I have the gift of time — time for the unplanned, especially for the people who flow through my life: family, friends and often unexpected strangers who need to tell the stories of their gropings for meaning and for God to a gentle unhurried listener.

I see this period not as stepping back from life but stepping into it.

I am not alone. Just as pioneers sought better lives and pushed the frontiers of America farther and farther in all directions, most of today's mature people have refused to accept a preordained number of years to describe old age.

If blessed with fairly good health, the winter of life does not bring its chill until well into one's 80s, if then. From 65 on, it can be a glorious autumn when the beauty of the moment is savoured and the future is rich with promise.

By this age there is a letting go of the driving egoism that earlier damaged our perspective and most persons have been able to shed the strains of old hurts and guilts and look upon the past with benign understanding.

This enables the mature adult to cope with life's reversals and helps to heal the spirit when tragedy strikes.

I grant vou, not everyone is prepared to enter this period with grace.

We all know the grumpy, peevish person whose view of everything is fuelled by sourness.

But such people are in the minority I have found.

Let me tell you of a couple of persons whose spirit has cast a warm and tender light.

Paul was tired of reading hollow words about doing something to combat illiteracy in society.

He took a course on teaching basic literacy and now is instructing three persons on a oneto-one basis.

He met them through the clinic where he serves as a volunteer.

A smile cut across Paul's face when he explained: "This is as thrilling as delivering a new baby, for I am bringing new life and hope to three persons who have had little chance for living fully in this world."

Paul is 82 and keeps going!

My father battled cancer for 35 years. He was a formidable warrior and he did not fall until he was 76.

A successful industrialist, after retirement he poured his energies into charitable endeavors and political action, especially welfare reform.

Being in and out of his home almost daily I could see a man still growing. His interior life expanded and his life became a prayer.

When his time came he was not afraid.

Our times continually are carving new lifestyles. My Aunt Florence and a small group of longtime friends moved into a lawrise apartment for people of all ages. rather than move into an adult residence.

Each has an individual apartment. They are conscious that their separate streams of life join the others to become a caring community.

Without being intrusive. they know each other's whereabouts and state of health.

Together they can often attend church, shop and visit the beauty parlor.

Despite varying setbacks of illness and economics, they seem to will themselves anew each day for their work for various agencies and organisations. Their lives are full and their rocking chairs seldom occupied.

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Back to owners

Hungary move clears way for Vatican ties

CATHEDRAL, MONASTERY IN CATHOLIC HANDS AGAIN

KIEV, Russia: Soviet authorities have returned to Ukrainian Catholics a cathedral and monastery given to the Russian Orthodox when the Ukrainian Catholic Church was outlawed in 1946.

Cardinal Mindzenty of The action seemed to contrast with an apparent Budapest Soviet policy of leaving the issue of disputed ownership of Ukraine church buildings to be worked BUDAPEST Hungary (CNS):- The Hungarian out between the churches.

Parliament has formally buried the anti-religious The situation at the cathedral had been tense since practices of four decades of communism by late December when members of the parish declared and adopting a law on freedom of conscience themselves and the church to be Ukrainian Catholic religion. and not Russian Orthodox. and The law states that freedom of conscience The declaration took place while Russian Orthodox religion is a fundamental liberty not granted by the Archbishop Makarii of Ivano-Frankovsk was authority. state or any other celebrating the Divine Liturgy. He began a hunger law marks a final break by Hungarian

The authorities with the repressive treatment meted out to churches after the communist takeover in Hungary in the late 1940s.

It also clears the way for a full restoration of diplomatic relations between Hungary and the Vatican. Hungarian Foreign Minister Gyula Horn said after meeting Pope John Paul II in the Vatican in midJanuary that he expected full ties "within weeks."

The pope has agreed to visit Hungary in the autumn of 1991.

Under Stalinist leader Matyas Rakosi, Hungary's communist authorities seized church property, disbanded religious orders and closed church schools.

In 1949, the country's primate — Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty — was imprisoned on trumped-up charges.

Released during the uprising of 1956, he then found refuge for 15 years inside the US Embassy in Budapest, the Hungarian capital.

strike in protest, and several Russian Orthodox have made allegations that violence was involved in the takeover.

No Russian Orthodox services have been held in the cathedral since then. Ukrainian Catholics have been holding services in a courtyard outside.

The Monastery of the Transfiguration in Hoshiv was founded in 1570 and had been home to a community of monks of the Order of St Basil the Great.

The monastery was closed by Stalin's government when the Ukrainian Catholic Church was forcibly merged with the Russian Orthodox Church.

The monastery remained closed until 1988, when the Soviet government allowed the Russian Orthodox to use it.

parishes Back to normal soon Only 20registered VATICAN CITY (CNS): A Vatican official involved in Russian Orthodox dialogue has expressed hope that the situation of the Ukrainian Catholic Church will be normalised within a year after guidelines agreed at the meeting are approved.

Monsignor Salvatore Scribano, an official of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, and part of the Catholic delegation at the Moscow meeting said

several more CatholicRussian Orthodox meetings will be needed, however, to resolve the practical problems stemming from the legalisation of the Ukrainian Church.

"We cannot change ethnic and cultural tensions from one day to another. But we hope to gradually lessen them," he added.

The main problem is the status of church buildings that were

Catholic and are now Orthodox, he said.

Monsignor Scribano did not regard the number of Orthodox priests and laity in the Ukraine who want to become Catholics as a for valid problem V atican -Russian Orthodox talks.

"This is a problem of individual conscience and not an ecclesiastical problem to be discussed among churches," he said.

in Kiev

KIEV, Russia:— Only 20 of the 700 Ukrainian Catholic parishes that have applied for registration with the Ukrainian government have been registered.

The government announced in December that the communities could apply for registration. which is necessary for a public gathering to be legal.

Even though most parishes are not registered, those with access to a church building are functioning as

l;krainian Catholics.

The first Russian Orthodox church to declare its Ukrainian Catholic identity. the Church of the Transfiguration in Lvov, has begun publishing a bi-weekly newsletter, "Vira Ratkiv," ("Faith of Our Fathers"), Cardinal Lubachivsky's office said.

The first issue included a pastoral letter from Archbishop Volodymyr Sterniuk of Lvov, as well as announcements and information on feast days and spirituality.

Bible boom Opening a shop soon

YEREVAN: Armenian church leaders plan to open a Bible shop in the city of Etchmiazin, the of spiritual centre Armenia.

Young hockey stars end tour

The ACC (Associated Catholic Colleges) inaugural tour of Malaysia and Brunei from December 5 to 15 last year was a great success.

The team, led by Adrian Maher, coached by Mr Kyle March and managed by Mr Denis Rees, proved to be a credit to

juvenile Australian hockey.

The team travelled throughout Brunei, playing three games, drawing one and winning two including one against the Brunei national side.

After leaving Brunei, they flew to Kuala Lumpur where they played

two keenly contested games — and won. After three days they travelled to Penang where they downed Penang Free School 7-1.

Credit must go to Mr Rees, who organised the tour. It was an experience of a lifetime for our young players.

Pallottine lay missionaries Allan and Glenda Walker, their four children, Cathie (11), lacinda (10), Kendall (5) and Amber (3) in their red jeep truck, with Jack the dog and a trailer will be familiar faces at the Pallottine Mission, Tardun, and Rossmoyne Centre.

They sold their business and home in response to a missionary call to serve God in His Aboriginal people They received introductory training held at the Pallottine centre at Millgrove and set off next day across the Nullarbor.

Lay missionaries serve for two years.

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This is a first step to establishing a fullfledged Armenian Bible Society.

The Armenian Orthodox Church is arranging a new translation of the bible into Armenian and the archbishop had also announced that Armenian government officials have given the go ahead for a printing press which will enable the

Church to produce children's bibles locally.

The Soviet Armenian government recently legalised the teaching of religion in schools and and universities renamed the former "Institute of Atheism" the "Institute of Religious Affairs".

Allowing publication PRAGUE: New Czechoslovakian laws permit the publication of Bibles and Bible-related materials and lift limits on the importation of Christian literature.

About 180,000 Bibles and New Testaments are expected to be published by the state printing house in Brno each year, and additional Bibles will be printed by the Czechoslovakian Bible Society on

a press recently donated by the Netherlands Bible Society.

Paper for the press has been donated by Bible Societies, including the Bible Society in Australia.

First society set up VILNIUS:— The Soviet Union's first Bible Society, established by Latvian Christians last December is seeking membership with the United Bible Societies which is an international fellowship of bible societies.

While the Latvian Bible Society was organised by Lutheran and Baptist churches to make Bibles available throughout that country, founders said they hope to involve Catholics in the future.

The Latvian society will

distribute Bibles in both Latvian and Russian and will request donations to finance its work. has society The requested a total of 17,000 copies of several versions of the Bible from the UBS for distribution.

Towards co-operation BUCHAREST:— Senior officials of the Orthodox Church in Romania have visited the United Bible Societies to discuss further avenues of cooperation during the coming year.

For the past 20 years,

the UBS has supplied the Patriarchate with Bible paper, printing film and bookbinding material so it could produce Scriptures for Romanian Christians.

During that time 400,000 Bibles and New

Testaments produced.

were

The Patriarchate plans to reprint 12,000 copies of the jubilee Bible that sold out almost imme• diately when first published in 1988.

Story of bush tucker

By CLARE AHERN, RSJ

T jurpurrula sat and looked at life.

Above: Children from Ringer's Soak all painted.

His country needed water, his children needed water. His wife needed seeds to make into bread.

All life around him was suffering, in need of water, waiting for the rain.

So he got his ochres, his coloured stones and mixed them with his spittle, and he painted with a grass stem the outlines of rivers and concentric circles symbolising soaks and wells, waiting for the water of life.

Then he watched the women and the men go to the areas where they wanted the foods to grow, and he saw them dance — dance hard on the earth, their rituals, their increase rites, calling to the God they knew, to send them rains so the food would grow and the wells would be full and the rivers would flow.

And on his painting with his grass stem, he put the place of the increase rites and then he waited.

Two months passed.

The rains came and Tjurpurrula got out his painting and used a fine hair-brush to fill the empty soaks and rivers with the water of life. and Patiently joyously he filled the concentric circles with dots, and the soaks and the wells and rivers all flowed with the water of life.

And then he waited again.

More rain fell and the desert blossomed.

Bush tucker filled the

Left: Sister June Barret being painted up at the Women's Law Business at Banan Springs, 32km out in the bush from Ringer's Soak.

earth and the seeds grew.

So Tjurpurrula took his grass stems and his ochres with his spittle, and filled the rest of his painting with strokes and dots symbolising the new life and colour on the land.

And the women, they took their children and walked on the living land, collecting the harvest of wild grasses to be winnowed into flour and then damper, the bread for their people.

And they shook the seed in their coolamons and mixed the flour with the water of life and turned it into a damper, a ring shape, another bread of life.

And the new life in the land and their bodies urged the men to dance with their shining black skin covered in feathers or blossoms, and the

the gifts of the earth, they joined the men, dancing to the deep round sounds of the didgeridoo and the light hollow sounds of boomerang and clap-

turn them into beads.

Then they took the thread woven from human hair, cut at the times of grieving, and with the beads made from seeds and the

They sang to the God they knew women — they sat in circles oiling their bodies with animal fat and painting on their breasts, the circles, the waterhole, the wells of living water.

And as they painted, they sang songs like mantras, to the God they knew, and when all were painted with

ping sticks.

Then, when the dance was over, the women sat in a circle around their little fires, heating single pieces of wire.

On the ground before them, they placed seeds and with hot wire, they burnt holes in the seeds to

human hair, they made necklaces and skilfully decorated themselves with more circles made from the gifts of life.

And sometimes, as they sat in their circles of life, one of the community fell ill.

Then the women

would gather around, oiling the sick one with animal fat, painting the ochred circles of living water on the sick body and pressing hot gum leaves on the painful spot and all the time, these women, rich in healing powers, would sing their mantras, calling out to the God they knew.

The God of rains, the God of the soaks and the wells, the God of the seeds and the damper, to make them well, to make them one circle, one body, one community. and one Bread of Life.

And these sacred events are still with us today.

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from Senator Fred CHANEY, Canberra I am pleased that The Record (January 25) made it clear that the Catholic Social Welfare Commission regards the tax rebates for children and the promise to repay the effects of bracket creep which are put forward by the Opposition as desirable proposals.

You went on to point out that the Commission wants additional rebates for child care extended to all families caring for children, including single-income families providing their own child care.

There are many desirable actions which could be taken by Government. Not all of them can be taken at once as there are financial limits.

In the case of the very significant number of parents who are forced to seek a second income to meet family

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Perplexed over a view

person is exploited or not if they choose to go outside of the relationship and 'buy' an alternative, in this case the services of prostitute!

And then have the gall to complain about the price set — such price, as I believe, being set before the deed.

I do agree with Mr Ward that "men have a need for sexual release-. I would add that so do women. In the context of Mr Ward's apparent narrow view of human sexuality and taking his "only alternatives- as fact, what choice is there for the woman whose "sexual release- is not catered for? What can she 'buy? I do wonder, furthermore, how many people, both men and women, are being 'prostituted' within the boundaries of relationship and what freedom of choice is being exercised. But that is another issue or is it?

from Elizabeth KADMOS Koondoola Sir, M. Ward (The Record, February 1) leaves me, to say the least, quite perplexed — for a number of reasons.

He states: "Men have a need for sexual releaseand then goes on to say that if this need is not accommodated by, for example, "an understanding wife-, he is left with only two choices — "to masturbate or go to a prostitute". He then suggests that we must "all be honest- and admit that the man is exploited by the prostitute.

God, in Her/His great love for us, has given us many gifts — two being freedom of choice and our sexuality.

There are millions of people throughout the world whose God-given right of freedom of choice is restricted. However, I presume that Mr Ward is writing from the perspective of our own Western society where that freedom of choice is not so restricted and so my comments are made in view of this presumption.

I have not seen the editorial Mr Ward refers to as I have been on

holidays — so again, my comments are only directed to Mr Ward's letter.

If we choose, by our own free will, to 'buy' a commodity, we also are free to pay the price which is asked for before we make that choice. In other words, we have the choice whether or not we want to be exploited. If men choose to go to a prostitute, I believe they must pay the price — in more ways than one.

Thanks to our very human and loving God we have the capacity and ability and freedom to express our sexuality in relationship with others.

Physical sex is one of the many beautiful and intimate ways in which we can choose to express our sexuality and communicate with others as whole persons.

'It takes two to tango' says the words of the old time song. If either the male or female involved in a physical relationship find that aspect of their relationship is unfulfiling in some way, I would suggest that the important issue would be to look at the totality of that relationship to discover what is lacking in all areas of communication which prohibit full expression of that love in physical union.

Perhaps then we would not need to waste time on debating whether a

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Fairness to those parents does not constitute unfairness to those who are able to manage on one income and enjoy the undoubted benefits of a parent who can give full time attention to home and family.

The Bible tells us so from Brian PEACHEY, Woodlands Sir, If Mr Mark McAuliffe of the so called Resurrection Metropolitan Community Church

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Over recent years I have met many Catholic parents who have found as a matter of necessity that they have to have two incomes for much of the period when they are also raising children.

(West Australian, February 3) says the Bible does not discuss or show knowledge of homosexuality as a sexual orientation or lifestyle, he is either scripturally unread or trying to deceive.

In part of an instruction given by God to Moses (Leviticus 18:2) Moses says "Do not lie with a man as with a woman; that is despicable- (some interpretations use abominable) (Lev 18-22).

And again he further instructs "If a man lies with a man as one lie with a woman, both have done what is detestable.

They should be put to death. Their blood is on their heads- (Lev 20:13).

Mark McAuliffe's statement that "Significantly Jesus never mentioned homosexuality- is somehow supposed to show that homosexuality was acceptable to Him. Jesus did, however, say of the Judaic law "Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; . . I have come to fulfill them" (Matthew 5:17). who ". . anyone breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be least in the Kingdom of Heaven" (Matthew 5:19).

This certainly applies to the law of Moses on homosexuality.

The great apostle Paul condemned homosexuality as unnatural and shameless which deserved the penalty of death. (Romans 1:27).

If Mark McAuliffe claims to be Christian and a practising homosexual he should live in fear of what Paul spells out to the Corinthians and to Timothy, that "homosexual offenders will not inherit the Kingdom of God- (Cor 6:9) and "condemned to separation from the Kingdom of God" (1 Tim 8:10).

I feel deeply sorry for David McAuliffe and for Gordon Howell and their i nvolvement in the discredited Resurrection Metropolitan Community Church. Their roots lie in the Catholic Church which teaches that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered and may never be approved in any way whatever" (Personae humanae, December 29, 1975).

TOMORROW TODAY with father Joe Parkinson

Change of name A new national chaplain and a change of name were two major decisions taken at the recent national conference of the Tertiary Catholic Federation of Australia held at St Ignatius College in Riverview NSW on 843 January, 1990.

Over sixty tertiary students from every state attended the conference which focussed on the theme of 'Compassion' through guest speakers, workshops and small group discussions.

Speakers included Sister Veronica Green, Anne Burns from Action

By Bill Steenson,

University of Newcastle

for World Development, and Father Hugh Murray CM, who exercises a special ministry to people suffering from AIDS. At a national committee meeting held during the conference Sister Robyn Johnson RSM was appointed national chaplain in place of Father Steve Astill SJ who recently resigned the position.

The meeting also decided to change the

name of the organisation from "Tertiary Catholic Federation of Australia" to "International Movement of Catholic Students Australia", to bring the body into line with a large international association represented in most countries of the world.

The change of name is intended to highlight the international character of the organisation and to emphasise its role as one movement rather than a federation of separate bodies.

The next national conference will be held in Adelaide in 1991.

Cardijn, the laity and spirituality

One of the great modern spiritual writers claimed that the sickness of our times is the fact that those who have faith in God do not seem to have faith in people, while those who have faith in people have no faith or belief in God.

greatest figures of the 20th century Church, had an abundance of faith in both God and people.

His lifespan of over 80 years embraced many important events: two world wars, the Depression, the Papal Encyclical 'Rerum Novarum' and Cardinal Joseph Car- the whole of the Second dijn, the founder of the Vatican Council.

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In 1891, when Joseph It is difficult to speak of Cardijn's significance, was nine years old, Pope and impossible to Leo XIII published his encyclical explain his spirituality, historic without recalling his 'Rerum Novarum' (`Of background, his vision, New Things') which the YCW and my own dealt with the effects of Industrial the experiences.

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"How is the Church as a whole to grow and advance together in bringing about the Kingdom of God?" Although Cardijn was only a boy when the encyclical was published, it was to have a major effect on him for many years.

On subsequent anniversaries of Rerum Novarum' different popes have published followup encyclicals on the same theme.

The mission of the Church to reach out and embrace the working class became a personal quest for Joseph Cardijn.

He dedicated himself to the salvation of the whole working class — even the poorest, most unassuming worker was important to him.

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Luke 18 support parent couple Jim and Noelle Murphy with two of their eight children Ciara and Noel, came along to enjoy the barbecue and say farewell as they are shifting to Langford. The Murphys will be sadly missed as they have injected lots of energy and humour into this vital little band of Luke 18s.

Having emigrated from County Cork, Ireland, five years ago, the Murphys represent the best type of migrant Australia needs in their willingness to integrate, contribute and happily merge into our Australian scene.

Hosts, Margaret and Maurice Merrifield encouraging some Luke 18s to "tuck into the goodies" watched in the background by parent couple John and Wendy Schokker of Mundaring.

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Some of the Luke 18 team members (left rear) Peter, Melissa, Rob, Michael and (left front) Leanne, Geraldine, Helen and Matthew — all out having yet another great time with "their kids".

Over for a brief stay in Perth to celebrate the wedding of a former student, was Father Arthur Braithwaite MSC who hails from Sydney, where he is editor of the Missionary of the Sacred Heart's Province Newsletter. The trip also gave him a chance to catch up with his MSC brothers Father Bob Mitchell, Father Wafter Black and Brother Finbar of Lynwood.

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S The school year started off with a lot of excitement for these grade 8s entering Mercedes College for the first time. So many new girls to meet, so much to see — and so much to study! Erin Long (rear) "on top of the world looking down on the campus" with Michelle Watson (left), Nadia Katich and Marissa Wieman.

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Australian Native Plants Calendar byJobn Wrigley and Murray Fagg. Published by Collins. $16.95.

John Wrigley, author of the best selling Australian Native Plants, published by Collins Australia has put together a selection of native plants with information about where they thrive and how to propagate and prune.

Each month there's a list of hints on the tasks that need attending to in your native garden — when to take Japan Unescorted by cuttings of spring flowering James Weather!)' Pub- shrubs, when to sow seeds lished by kadansha. Dis- for a summer display and the tributed through Collins. best times to fertilise, spray and prune. $10.95.

John Wrigley's text is lively This guide has been com- and accurate as we have piled with an overriding come to expect from this concern for practicality and meticulous and dedicated budget, and is thus ideal for botanist. The colour photoadventurous visitors who graphs are by John Wrigley's want to get away from collaborator, renowned guided tours and explore botanical photographer, Japan for themselves. — Murray Fagg.

Harbour Sydney Calendar by Christopher Sweeney and Peter Solness. Pub by Collins. $16.95.

With its glistening waters, secluded bays and coves, sandy beaches, islands and rocky outcrops, Sydney Harbour has long staked a claim as the most beautiful waterway in the world. In this stunning portrait of the harbour, photographer Peter Solness has recorded its many moods and colours — early morning mist enveloping a container depot, sunlight on pristine white sails, the splashes of gold brought by the dawn, the green and gold of a sunny afternoon.

The splendid photographs in this calendar also appear in the book Sydney Harbour

by Christopher Sweeney. published by Collins Australia, a unique record of dail life on the water and around foreshores. the

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Northern Images Calendar by Gunther Deichmann. Published by Collins. $16.95.

For those who have never been there, the Northern Territory conjures up images of Ayers Rock, the Olgas and Darwin. One look at Gunther Deichmann's photgraphs will quickly dispel that point of view. Deichmann has shown the Territory in all its many moods.

The Top End in the Wet, with its flower-covered billabongs and teeming bird life.

The arid splendour of the Simpson Desert. Tribal Aborigines decorated for religious ceremonies. These pictures and many more can be found in his book Northern Images, published

by Collins Australia.

Deichmann's photographs make us aware of the great diversity of terrain, climate, vegetation, bird life and people in this vast area.

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THE BEGINNING EXPERIENCE A Beginning Experience — a weekend

program for the separated, divorced and widowed — learning to close the door gently on a relationship that has ended, in order to begin a new life, will be held at St Joseph's Convent, Safety Bay on March 10-11. For further information phone Jenny on 447 3795 or Gemma on 447 2922.

An information evening for learning more about the weekend will be held at 8pm at North Beach Pastoral Centre, 3 Kitchener St, North Beach on Monday, February 19, at 8pm.

Cooloongup — Wednesday, February 21.

Phone Gordon 527 7508.

Victoria Park — Tuesday, February 20.

Phone Jan on 361 1256.

Bassendean — Thursday, February 22.

Phone Margaret 377 2271.

Getting Married?

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THE PARISH SCENE NEWMAN SOCIETY

Guest Speaker Discussion Group: Monday February 12 at 7.30 pm in the Junior Common Room of St Thomas More College Mr James Likoudis will speak on Catholics United for the Faith and its Apostolate." Open to all interested.

Cardinal Newman died on August 11, 1890, and the Newman Society hopes to commemorate the centenary with a number of events which will be announced later, contact number: 4461628.

BURMA MISSION

The Australia Burma Mission Relief Society Food Fete takes place Sunday, February 18 at the Sacred Heart parish hall, Highgate from 9am.

For all brida4 special occasions and 1st communion.

Ring Victoria 271 5562 For expert fit and finish

PAUL1AN ASSOCIATION

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The annual general meeting of the Paulian Association takes place Sunday, February 11, following Mass at 2pm in the Redemptorist Retreat Chapel, North Perth. Afternoon tea follows and other divorced, separated, widows and widowers are welcome.

Why not include a pilgrimage in your itinerary?

PILGRIMAGES Starting and ending in London every week from April until October.

LOURDES ROME FATIMA

For details write to:

ST PETER'S PILGRIMS

C/o Mrs Ann Beard, 36 Ricketts Way, Rockingham, WA 6168. Tel (09) 527 403

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JOHN WIMBER of Vineyard Ministries returns to Perth for another great conference from March 13-16, 1990 at the Superdrome, Mt Claremont The theme is

Lent 1990 for the Diocese of Bunbury Enquiries: Phone (097) 21 1291

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BENEDICTINE OBLATES The annual general meeting of St Gregory's Chapter will be held at lona Convent, Palmerston St, Mosman Park on Sunday, February 18, at 2.30pm. Enquiries J. Simpson Tel 444 9305.

SOLO PARENTS The Solo Parent Ministry program for those interested in solo parents and their families takes place between March 24-September 27.

For further details contact Father Frank Smith 328 6600.

Archdiocesan Calendar February Bishop Healy on leave.

5 Installation of Father Jegorow at 11 Ballajura, Archbishop Foley.

Commissioning Project Compas12 sion representatives, Archbishop Foley, Bishop Healy.

14-15 Joint Conference WA Bishops and WACR I. Ecumenical Committee Mass St 19 Thomas More Chapel, Archbishop Foley.

Archdiocesan Development 20 Fund meeting, Archbishop Foley.

Catholic Library Board inaugural 21 meeting, Archbishop Foley.

Opening school year Newman/ Siena and Siena schools, Archbishop Foley.

Annual general meeting Confer24 ence of Churches of WA, A rchbishop Foley.

Catholic Teachers Mass, St 25 Mary's Cathedral, Archbishop Foley.

Mass and buffet archdiocesan 27 organisations, Archbishop Foley.

"WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT IS SAYING TO THE CHURCH TODAY"

For all enquiries and registration forms Tel: 244 1145 or write to: VMI/Perth Conference Office, PO Box 240, Doubleview WA 6018

MEDJUGORJE Only speak to the people who know

PROFESSIONAL TRAVEL SERVICES 324 1234 LIC 9TA00487

OPTIK 2000 MANDURAH E. Remedios, B.Sc., F.B.C.O.

MANDURAH 16 Pinjarra Rd 6210

Optometrist & Contact Lenses 535 7177

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No cost to give us a call at

NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING 221 3866 Country clients welcome. Phone or write. *Natural Family Planning Centre 27 'Victoria Square -

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LUXOR SERVICES

Contact Chris or Mary 451 4304

Diocesan Music Feast Musicians, singers, choirs

A day for celebrating music in the liturgy H-0 u

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Reflection, Shared Experiences, Workshop

led by Fr Christopher Willcock SJ — Australian composer Miss Trisha Watts — Australian Gospel singer.

Saturday, April 7

Full time or evenings only registrations available

Speakers include Dr John White, Jack Deere, Brent Rue, Paul Cain and Mike Bickle.

The three bridesmaids of the February 5, 1930 wedding in the bride's Wubin homestead were present again when Clem and Rita Honner celebrated their 60th anniversary at Holy Rosary church Nedlands where Clem is an acolyte.

Monsignor Nestor paid tribute to the couple's work for church and education in Dalwallinu and Narrogin where they farmed. Clem Honner is a papa/ knight.

THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME AUSTRALIA

sponsored by Diocesan Liturgical Committee PO Box 198, Leederville 6007

Phone enquiries: Fr Peter Joseph (09) 458 2729

Not re Dame Australia is Australia's first Catholic universif;i 11 is to be an independent institution in the Catholic traditi— responsible to its own Board of Governors. The University has been established by an Act of the Western Australian Parliament. The University's goal is earellence in education and research within a context of Christian values. The location of this new University, which will take its first students in 1992, is in the historic port city of Fremantle.

Western Australia.

VICE-CHANCELLOR

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The University proposes to appoint the inaugural ViceChancellor and applications are invited for this challenging position.

The knowledge and skills required for this distinguished academic position include very senior level management experience in higher education, industry or government, with a particular emphasis on the ability to motivate and manage staff. The successful applicant will ascribe to the values and ethos which lie behind the modern Catholic university. The nature of the position requires an understanding of university. administration and the role of universities in the future.

An ability to thrive on challenge, an appreciation of scholarship and research, sound leadership skills, and personal drive and vision are essential.

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An attractive remuneration package will be negotiated.

The University reserves the right to fill the position by invitation.

Further details may be obtained from the University Planning Office, 36 Cliff Street, Fremantle, P.O. Box 1295 Fremantle 6160, Western Australia. phone (09) 430 5822.

OTHER DISTRICTS

Applications should be sent to Mr Denis Horgan, Chairman of the Planning Board, at the above address. All enquiries will be treated as confidential.

The closing date for applications is Friday, 23rd March.

190 Albany Highway VICTORIA PARK (opp. Cargill St. State School)

Phone: 361 6191 or 361 3482 Armadale & Districts Phone: 398 2208.

Mt. Lawley-Scarborough Northern Districts Phone: 444 3217.

Bulkreek-Burrendah Mt. Pleasant Phone: 332 6401.