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One-day fast protest K UALA LUMPUR: Catholic churches have urged their parishioners to observe a day-long fast to protest against what bishops said were government attempts to apply Islamic law to nonMuslims.

The fast is part of a campaign by non-Muslim groups against a controversial Selangor state law, passed in July last year, which denies parents the right to stop minors from becoming Muslims once they attain

the age of maturity under Islamic law.

Under syariah or Islamic law, girls are deemed to have reached the age of maturity once they menstruate. The age of maturity for boys is 15.

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Underclass expose BISHOPS: ABSOLUTE POVERTY DOES EXIST IN AUSTRALIA

Absolute poverty, or destitution, does exist in Australian society, the Catholic Bishops' Wealth Inquiry has found.

Australia also has an "underclass", say the bishops. It is the hidden poor, some of whom are not visible enough to find their way into surveys and statistics.

A preliminary statement issued today by the Bishops' Committee for justice, Development and Peace on some of the report findings says about Australian families: "The high incidence of marriage breakdown is having a most damaging effect on tens of thousands of children.

"This sometimes is aggravated by domestic violence and child abuse.

At the annual Teachers Mass in St Mary's Cathedral on Sunday night Father Gerard Holahan, director of religious education, proclaimed the gospel which had been carried processionally in

by Francis Douglas newly appointed arts co-ordinator for Bayswater and the central region and who *as supported with streamer bearers from St Paul's Mount Lawley, St Peter's Bedford, St Columba's Bayswater and Trinity Perth schools.

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"At the same time, it is claimed that taxation laws discriminate against parents and that the economy is evolving in such a way that both parents are often forced to take jobs outside the home — to the detriment of their children's welfare."

The bishops, in a four-page statement, say that the full draft report on the two-year consultation with hundreds of groups and individuals will be published before mid-year.

The preliminary statement says it is commonly accepted that steps should be taken to raise the living standards of all Australians — that the nation's economy must be strengthened and increased production is necessary. But questions about such assumptions will be asked in the draft document.

While the poor have the right to aspire to an improved living standard, the bishops ask if the same can be said of the rich and even the moderately well-to-do.

Special areas of poverty are identified — including Aborigines, refugees, sole-parent families, homeless and unemployed youth.

The bishops say the report will raise pointed questions about wealth and its acquisition, the easing of the tax burden on high income earners, tax avoidance, the profits of drug-trafficking and other criminal activities — and the payment of extremely high salaries to some executives and professionals when wage restraint is the order of the day for many bread winners.

Pope on debt challenge VATICAN CITY (CNS): Easing foreign debt requires international assistance that not only addresses the economic problems of a country, but also "the human and social cost" of living under such a debt, Pope John Paul II told Bolivia's new ambassador to the Vatican.

"The problem of the external debt represents a worrying challenge for the economy and the standard of living for a broad cross-section of the country's population," the pope said.

In addition, he said, "the human and social cost indebtedness brings means that the situation cannot be put in exclusively financial or monetary terms".

"New forms of international solidarity" are needed to help debtor nations find ways to deal with the debt, which frustrates "the legitimate aspirations of so many Bolivians".

"It cannot be forgotten that many of the socio-economic and political problems of the people have their roots, and great repercussions. in the moral order," the pope said.

Less° s fro commonly It is accepted in the current national debate about the economy that steps should be taken to raise the living standards of all Australians.

It is also accepted that the nation's economy must be strengthened and that increased production is necessary.

After considering the views expressed by hundreds of groups and individuals during their two-year consultation on the distribution of wealth in Australia, the Catholic bishops will ask ques-

tions about such assumptions when they report publicly on their inquiry.

The Bishops' Committee for Justice, Development and Peace is preparing a statement on wealth distribution for publication as a draft before mid-year.

Can the same be said of the rich and even of the moderately well-to-do, whose comforts and style of living already far exceed the levels experienced by the vast majority of the world's inhabitants?

The following are some of the issues and questions it is expected to raise.

• Consumerism. Pope John Paul II has often criticised this characteristic phenomenon of the industrialised nations.

• Living Standards. The poor have every right to aspire to improvements in their standard of living.

Is a radical change in attitude needed, taking account not only of the ways in which affluent consumers exploit

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impoverished peoples, unconssometimes ciously, but also considering the environmental damage caused by many industrial and manufacturing processes?

As Jeremy Rifkin, President of the Foundation on Economic Trends, has written: "Approximating a balanced budget requires that society not consume faster than nature can recycle the wastes and replenish the resources."

• Waste. Did the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dr

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• Reality of Poverty in Australia. The bishops' inquiry has confirmed that "real" poverty exists in Australia.

A few commentators query this, claiming that poverty in Australia is only "relative".

In fact, absolute poverty, or destitution, does exist in our society. Documents like the Burdekin Report on homelessness among the young and the evidence produced by organisations like the Brotherhood of St Laurence and the Society of St Vincent de Paul confirm that Australia too has its "underclass", its hidden poor, some of whom are not visible enough to find their way into surveys and statistics.

Relative poverty is more common, but it too is real and it should be combatted.

• Special Areas of Poverty. Submissions to the inquiry have identified some of the groups or areas where poverty exists.

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Mahathir bin Mohamad, have a valid point when he told other Commonwealth Heads of Government in October 1989 that those living in developed countries were wasteful despoilers of the environment?

He said: "Nuclear testing, excessive use of fossil fuels, release of CFC ( chlorofluorocarbons) into the atmosphere, massive wastage of paper, toxic waste disposal — all these and more are the direct result of the lifestyles of the rich."

• Economic Growth. It is commonly accepted that a stronger, expanding economy will necessarily benefit the poor as well as the rich. While examples of socioeconomic progress in some of the "Newly Industrialised Countries" exist, growth has to be controlled.

What are the implications for Australia of the concept of "sustainable development" — or growth which respects the finite and fragile nature of the earth's resources?

• Overseas Aid. Over the past five years, the value in real terms of Australia's Official Development Assistance (ODA) has fallen by 20 per cent.

It now stands at 0.33 per cent of the Gross National Product (GNP), less than half of the level (0.7 per cent) set as a target for developed countries by the United Nations.

Can this be justified in the light of the enormous needs of so much of the developing world?

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They include: the Aboriginal community; refugees and other newly arrived migrants; sole parent families; single income families; home-

less and unemployed youth; people queuing for public housing; some residents of outer suburbia and of remote rural locations; and students of disadvantaged schools.

While government action over recent years has improved the situation of a good number of poor people, including children, in these situations, many still lack satisfactory access to health and education services.

In many cases they are denied true access to the opportunity to participate fully in the community or to escape from their poverty traps.

• Families. Catholic Church teaching underscores the value and importance of the family unit in society.

In the course of the inquiry, the bishops heard many expressions of concern about the facing difficulties families.

The high incidence of marriage breakdown is having a most damaging effect on tens of thousands of children.

This is sometimes aggravated by domestic violence and child abuse.

At the same time, it is claimed that taxation laws discriminate against parents and that the economy is evolving in such a way that both parents are often forced to take jobs outside the home, to the detriment of their children's welfare.

• The Capitalist System. A world debate about the relative merits of planned economies and a free market has followed the collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe.

It could not be ignored in a consultation of the kind conducted by the Australian Bishops.

While the Church has traditionally rejected communism, the pope has also made it clear that many aspects of western-style capitalism are inconsistent with a Christian view of society.

As Andre Fontaine wrote in the French daily Le Monde (21 January 1990): "The logic of capitalism, which is profit, tends to make it pay the least possible attention to persons."

To the extent that capitalism depends on and fosters attitudes of greed and acquisitiveness, it is at odds with the Christian ideal of solidarity, which is central to the pope's social justice teaching.

At the same time, it has to be recognised that capitalism, like communism, is a term applied loosely to a number of dissimilar systems. Some are more acceptable than others to the social justice advocate.

• The Wealthy.

Although the bishops

made it clear from the outset that they saw themselves as viewing wealth and its distribution from the perspective of the poor, their attitude to the rich is not antagonistic.

But they will be asking some pointed questions about wealth and its acquisition. Like many other Australians, they are concerned about the prominence given in recent times to financial speculation and to the creation of nonproductive wealth.

They raise questions about the easing of the tax burden on high income earners, about tax avoidance and about the profits of drugtrafficking and other criminal activities.

Can the extremely high salaries paid to some executives and other professionals be justified when wage restraint is the order of the day for so other many breadwinners?

Are the authorities showing enough diligence in attempting to uncover and punish socalled "white-collar" crime?

Have the banks and other financial institutions been acting in a responsible way since deregulation?

• Values. The bishops are not impressed by the voices declaring that they have no business speaking on economic or social justice issues.

Theirs is primarily an ethical perspective. Reiterating the principles contained in Biblical and Church teaching, they will attempt to apply them to the situation in Australia as it has been exposed to them in the course of the inquiry.

They will give special emphasis to personal dignity. to the common good and to the virtue of solidarity, which they see as directly opposed to an individualist and selfcentred ethic.

In proclaiming the need for equity in the distribution of the goods intended by the Creator for the use of all human beings, they will not overlook the importance of such concepts as freedom and just rewards.

• Dialogue. It has not escaped the notice of those conducting this inquiry that sincere people, including economists and other experts, have widely varying opinions on the ways in which society should deal with the creation and distribution of wealth.

The bishops will be disappointed if their draft statement alienates any of the participants in this crucial national debate.

Their intention is partly to clarify Church teaching and partly to stimulate further discussion by raising quesoffering tions and suggestions.

They will be well pleased if their project makes a modest contribution to enlightened dialogue between proponents of the different schools of thought on this complex matter.

True Catholic teachers.

To be truly Catholic teachers, they had to be genuine living Catholics struggling to live fully the faith of Christ in the children's daily lives, Archbishop Foley said on Sunday night.

He asked the 1000 teachers who filled the cathedral how they reacted to the joys and pains of others.

"You need to share what is going on in their lives because this is affecting the way they receive your words."

The teacher's first fidelity was to God, he said, but their second fidelity was to the youth, to care, and to seek to understand them — neither instruction without care, without nor care instruction.

In the entry procession to last Sunday's Teachers' Mass Holy Spirit Year 5 teacher Sam Fontaine carried the diplomas of which later he was one of the graduating recipients.

Diplomas presented Among the 28 teachers from Catholic schools who completed a Catholic Institute Diploma in 1 989. 12 were presented with their diplomas by Archbishop F oley at the Teachers Mass on

Sunday They were: Rosie Botica.

Catherine Corbin. Michelle De Hui Sa m Fontaine. fames (;reen. Suzanne Grtwes.

Corinne liollingworth.

Christopher lArnb. Rosemar). Iatnhe. Anne NiacFarLIM'. Rodney McGlade.

Mary Monaghan.

Among the 16 who received diplomas in ahsentia were nine graduands from the Eastern States who did the course as external students.

They were: Linda ArmatiPearson, Gregory Auhl.

Kaye Bolwell. Julie Caldwell. Anthony Curry, Phillip Elwin, Leonard Farrugia, Colleen Lark. Jeffrey Lowndes, lam MacRae, Kathleen Moore, Mary O'Brien, Vincent Robinson.

Glenn Roff, Carmela Suart,

Denis Sully.

The Catholic Institute Diploma is conferred on the completion of 6 graduate level Religious Studies units taught by the Catholic Institute, within Arts and Education programs at the West Austrplian College of Advanced Education.

Lecturers involved in the program in 1990 include Fr Carey Burke, Sr Eleanor Carter, Sr Joan Carville. Fr John Prendiville and Fr Peter Slattery.

Teachers were asked not only to be servants of the Church but of young people; to show the servant state of Christ and thus to become a true disciple of the Lord.

Citing the document Sharing the Catholic Faith, the archbishop said a Catholic school was not an interdenominational enterprise but a Catholic school in which Catholic teachers are part of the saving mission of the Church.

This makes it an Anglican, Catholic and Protestant team.

The chaplains meet on a regular basis at the Occupational Health Safety and Welfare Unit where they have an office and they (an be contacted on 222 1566.

The police chaplains are currently involved in establishing a statewide coverage which. when completed, will comprise ef the three senior chaplains it1 the metro-

politan area and regional chaplains in the country areas.

It is envisaged that this statewide network will be completed by the end of March.

The chaplaincy will: • Provide a 24 hour on call service as required — respond to calls from members of the force for provision of spiritual and other support as appropthe in riate circumstances.

• Assess requirements and where appropriate refer members to a network of other services on the basis of providing the best available help.

• Attend at any operational incident when requested.

• Be available and assist, where appropriate in post trauma and critical incident care.

The chaplains will provide spiritual counselling on a self referral basis, counsel and support employees and their families where family crisis is identified, visit the workplace, hospitals and home visits upon request.

The chaplains will participate in police religious and civil ceremonial ftinctions including police funerals, graduation parades and special blessings.

The chaplains need to gain the acceptance of all personnel for them to

Twenty Year 12 students from New Norcia Catholic College found the historic township of Toodyay the perfect location for a religious education camp last week.

With the surrounding hills reverberating to the sound of rolling thunder and flashes of lightning, the students were asked to reflect on their unique gifts and talents.

The theme of the camp was "Leadership" within the college and the wider cornmunity.

Students and staff over the took m onastic -filled share that journey through love and care.

Linking the teachers' Mass to the forthcoming Project Compassion appeal, Archbishop Foley spoke about the Church in Cambodia which he has visited on behalf of Australian Catholic Relief and which was a Church of service.

Although a small group of Khmer Catholics meet privately and a project worker priest says Mass for them occasionally, the Catholic Church does not exist legally or publicly.

For 10 years, the Church has been present to the Khmer people through relief sent in by A ustralian Catholic Relief and other Catholic agencies.

"It was a servant Church that reached out unconditionally to improve the people's He said it was the task prospects for life, a of teachers to understand servant Church with no the journey of faith of the gain for itself but pledged young people and to to help others."

Cop this! Priest helps police The dean of St Mary's Cathedral, Father John Orzanski, was recently appointed to serve on the Police Chaplaincy Service together with Reverend Barry May and Pastor Robert McCullough.

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establish the chaplaincy service within the organisation and for them to gain the trust and loyalty that is needed for them to be effective as a service to the organisation.

The chaplains have been moving around the metropolitan area visiting police establishments and meeting with as many members over the last two months and will continue to do so on a regular basis.

They have been issued with a Police Identity Card which is easily recognisable because of its purple colour and the chaplains will be wearing the card when visiting the workplace.

By Dom Francis Byrne OSB atmosphere which hangs over the former Mercy Convent complex like a cloud.

The silence pervading the site added to the lectures and diswhich cussions involved both students and staff.

Some of those participating will, in fact, take on leadership roles within the College throughout this year.

It was an actionpacked few days with hardly any distrac-

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Staff leader Mrs Jem Mestichelli organised most of the program which was based on a Sydney model.

Head of the Agricultural department, Mr Terry Boyes, was a valuable assistant during the camp along with Dom Francis Byrne OSB who was responsible for the religious input.

The interaction of the students together with the staff is bound to bear much fruit in the coming months.

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Ribc e ord With the sacred season of election well and truly proclaimed, with the people called together and the community summoned, its hype and bluster however will operate according to rules carefully contrived by politicians.

Thus there will be no accountability for the past, no resounding confessions of guilt for monies lost, no repentance or conversion and lots of phony alms for the suffering masses whose votes are particularly important for a month or so.

Political prophets flit in and out of cities like Clark Kent, vying for the best angle from which to be filmed in a pub, frowning seriously as they listen to mums in the mall, and peering anxiously at machinery thumping in factories.

This managed and packaged video image ensures that any serious analysis of the woes of the country will be brushed aside while reporters ask the politicians for the millionth time what they think of their opponents' poll ratings.

A greater parody of Lenten soul-searching could not be imagined.

An election, some would say, is a time when the prophetic trumpets of the churches ought to be at their loudest. They forget, however, that even the most devout Christians too have their secret political loves. The merest whiff of criticism of their closet heroes brings the protest that sacred cows are being subjected by the churches to unfair and biased criticism.

Even poor Pope John Paul has to avoid national visits around election time lest a photo of an innocent handshake turns up on some schemer's political poster the following week.

Pity the Lenten churchman who like Joel this week would say to Australia: 'God help the people' for the heritage of shame as we sink into bottomless debt, and millions are squandered in share scandals or ripped off government treasuries with abandon.

Given that politics is about telling only half the truth, it is nevertheless remarkable with what fervour commentators rush to the Bible for help in their dilemma.

Hence the talk on every side of finding scapegoats for the mess into which we have been plunged, for the gaping holes in our pockets.

Scapegoats indeed. There is no nonsense about a Leviticus scapegoat. One is put to death for the sake of the sins of the people and the other does not fare much better after Aaron has laid hands on its head confessing all the sins and transgressions and faults of the citizens.

And in case the cunning scapegoat hopes to skip away unscathed someone will personally lead it to the desert place so that the sins can be well and truly purged. There's no quick path back from the desert.

Modern day plunderers of Biblical notions conveniently misunderstand what the atonement process is all about. Real atonement means getting rid of ill gotten wealth — not a popular idea today. Real atonement means more than token sorrow that in hindsight certain things should not have happened.

Just as the biblical scapegoats don't relish their task, neither are there willing scapegoats for today's mess. Victorian state bank directors sounded pained at being sacked and held responsible when another bank's single scapegoat could take all the blame for hundreds of millions that vanished under their very noses. They will conveniently retire to their superannuated comfort where the bleeding taxpayers won't touch them in the decades of r epayment ahead.

Banks both local and overseas write off colossal bad debts because profligate lenders didn't care to which risky entrepreneurs or to which Third World political opportunists they made loans for which the poor would have to carry the load for decades. Not much talk of banking scapegoats in the reeking Swiss accounts into which money vanishes.

It is a strange paradox indeed that the church had to be doing somersaults about how many slices of bread or fish made up for a good or bad Lent when the sins of wastage and decay went on all around us but there wasn't a worthy goat to send out into the desert to win back God's favour.

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Military split threat ...over prosecution in Jesuit killings MEXICO CITY (CNS): Bitter division threatens the Salvadoran military high command following the government's decision to prosecute nine officers and enlisted men charged with the November 16 murders of six Jesuit priests and two women, according to various sources.

According to some analysts, the prosecution of a highranking officer among the accused has caused a serious split between those officers who favour sacrificing one of their own to avoid possible cutoff of US military to aid and hardliners opposed to any trial of military personnel for human rights abuses.

A bitter internal struggle within the officer corps also appeared to be developing as the Catholic Church and some US congressmen continue pressing the government of President Alfredo Cristiani to name other top-ranking officers believed to be implicated in the murders.

According to some Central American political and military analysts, there also appears to be increased resistance from high command hard-liners to Cristiani's

decision to bring the accused to trial before a civilian court.

In addition, press reports that top-ranking officers participated in meetings during which the crime might have been planned reportedly have fuelled fear among the officer corps that Cristiani might name more suspects.

Particularly shaken by that prospect is the so-called "Tandona", a group of 33 officers who graduated from El Salvador's Gerardo Barrios Military School in the class of 1965-66.

Derived from the Spanish word "tanda", meaning a rotation, the Tandona is comprised of a larger-than-usual graduating class of officers who are a majority in the high command.

Christiani's cashiering of Tandona strongman Bustillos is said to have dealt a strong blow to the group's hold on power.

The prosecution of Tandona member Bonavides for the murder of the Jesuits is said to have further angered the hard-liners who dominate the group.

Doubts over 'trigger men' NEW YORK: Salvadorean authorities were "very anxious" to make a good impression, but unable to show more progress on determining who ordered the November 16 murder of six Jesuit university professors, their cook and her 15-year-old daughter said the leader of a Jesuit delegation to El Salvador.

He said extensive tech-

nical evidence such a ballistics and fingerprints had been compiled and conspicuously displayed to support cases against the lowerlevel military men who "pulled the trigger".

"And everybody assured us they will pursue the investigation no matter how far up the line it may go," he said.

But the delegation, he reported. did not feel assured officials had the will to find the "intellectual authors of the crime".

A number of Jesuits have volunteered to replace the murdered professors at Central American University and Father Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, the Jesuit

Call to oppose superficial Christianity VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul II has told Brazilian bishops to oppose "superficial Christianity" in which the general church community would replace the bishops' authority with its own.

The "people of God is not the holder of the authority inherent in apostolic succession, as if the episcopal ministry constitutes some form of popular delegation or is tied to this people in terms of duration or ways of acting", he said.

"In this case, we would have an inversion of terms and values: instead of the people of God, the God of the people," the pope said.

The ministry exercised by bishops "is of divine origin", he added. "It does not need, therefore, to be ratified by anyone."

The inversion of this authority "runs the risk of subordinating, in a certain sense, the episcopal ministry, the faith and Christian life into options made to the measure of humans", he said.

The pope said ordination "implies an authentic diversity within the people of God" with bishops having the "ministry to sanctify, to teach and to govern the very people of God".

The rest of the people of God have "the right to be able to listen, through their pastors, to Christ

himself", the pope said.

But this distinction "is not to say that the bishops should convert their sacramental uniqueness in pastoral isolation", he added.

This would reduce the people of God to only the laity rather than the entire Church, he said.

The pope also praised the Brazilian church's critical attitude toward society, but asked that it be kept within "just limits".

Avoid "the critical spirit, when it is not expressed in an attitude of service" and when its aim is "to orient others to our opinion, sometimes expressed in a very imprudent manner , he added.

superior general, has designated two from the United States, two from Spain, one from Mexico and one from Canada.

Judge Zamora. who is scheduled to preside over the trial of the accused, told the delegation he expected development of the evidence to take most of this year. The case

would then go to a fivemember jury. accused.

The announced by President Cristiani include Colonel Guillermo Alfredo Benavides, former director of the military officers' school, along with two lieutenants, a sublieutenant and four enlisted men.

Don't mess with sister

WILMINGTON: A would-be burglar at a nun's convent found out what the Catholic school kids already know: Don't mess with Sister!

Sister Kathleen Halpin, 50. who lives with six other Sisters of St Francis at St Paul's Convent, said she happened to be awake on the second floor when she heard the sound of breaking glass coming from the first floor of the convent on February 8.

She immediately dialled 911 for help on the upstairs phone.

She said she was talking with the police dispatcher as the intruder climbed the stairs and ordered her to put down the phone.

"Iyelled at him to leave," Sister Halpin said.

"When he reached the top of the stairs, he began pulling on the phone cord trying to disconnect it.

"When he couldn't," she said, "he hit the button cutting the line."

About the same time he punched her in the nose, breaking it, Sister Halpin said. Two other nuns, whose rooms also are on the second floor, pounced on the intruder and began punching him.

In the melee, one was pushed to the floor.

"Iwasn't hurt," she said. "AsIgot upIbegan yelling that the police were here. At that time, he turned and ran down the stairs."

The intruder went out the side door — the one he had broken to enter — where police were waiting for him.

Brought back in by the police, the twenty four-year -old intruder was identified by two of the sisters.

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Catechism rumpus SCHOLARS HIT OUT AT VATICAN DRAFT WASHINGTON: A Panel of Catholic scholars in Washington has sharply criticised the Vatican draft of the Catechism for the Universal Church.

The catechism's structure, its use of scripture and its use of natural law rather than Christian discipleship as the framework for moral teaching, were among their strictures.

They said it was inconsistent and selective in its use of official Church teachings from the Second Vatican Council and the Postconciliar era.

It failed to make needed distinctions between central or essential truths of faith and peripheral elements and between established doctrine and theological views.

Too much that is not a matter of faith is treated as if it were, said Jesuit Francis Buckley of the University

of San Francisco. Unless the final document makes clearer distinctions between matters of faith and those of Church discipline or theological opinion, the result will be widespread confusion, he said.

"Among all of us there was a genuine concern that this document succeed," said Sr Mary Boys, Professor of Theology and Religious Education at Boston College.

She cited a persistent use of the Hebrew Scriptures, or Old Testament, in ways that she said put it in "an unfavourable light" in comparison with the New Testament — an approach which is rejected in recent Vatican statements on Scripture scholarship and Catholic-Jewish relations.

The draft document was sent out to the world's bishops last December for consultation and comments have to be returned by May 31.

Priests died in jail BUCHAREST: When the Romanian Catholic church was banned in 1948, almost a third of its priests were sent to prison, and many of t hem died there, according to a c landest inel y ordained archbishop.

Of Romania's 1800 Eastern-rite priests, only 36 signed the declaration of a 1948

government-ordered synod that merged the Romanian Catholic church into the Romanian Orthodox church, said Archbishop Alexandru Todea.

"The priests who survived persecution secretly formed small groups of faithful, celebrating the liturgy, administering the sac-

raments and visiting the sick."

Archbishop Todea is one of three surviving Romanian Catholic bishops secretly consecrated by US Archbishop Gerald P. O'Hara shortly after their church was outlawed in 1948.

During the 41 years o f the Romanian c hurch's survival

underground, the priests had to take secular jobs in order to live, said Archbishop Todea.

Despite the difficulties and disadvantages of being a leader of an outlawed organisation, men continued to seek ordination.

The archbishop said there are now 540

priests serving an estimated 1.5 million Romanian Catholics. provisional T he government, which took over after hardline communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu w as executed in December, revoked the decree outlawing the Romanian Catholic church.

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The cardinal said he spent a short time by the young man's bedside before he died in a London hospital just over a week ago. listened Students silently as he said: "We talked and then I prayed with him. Later that night he died."

The cardinal told how he had met the man, who was speaking at a meeting on AIDS. He said: "He spoke very powerfully

about how the Church and government are not doing enough for AIDS sufferers.

"I felt uncomfortable, but went and spoke with him afterwards. We became friends," he added, during the moving tale.

He said that the man had visited Archbishop's House in Westminster where they talked further about the problems facing people with the HIV virus.

The cardinal stressed: "Our attitude must be one of compassion and assistance", in advising how Catholics should respond to AIDS.

KUALA LUMPUR ( CNS): Malaysia's bishops have asked Catholics to support protests against the imposition of Shariah, the Islamic law, in the country.

The bishops urged Catholics to support stands by the Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism and Sikhism "in standing for freedom of religious beliefs and practices, in working for peace and understanding among people of different faiths and in opposing the application of the Shariah on us".

They also recomCatholics mended observe a day of prayer and fasting on the matter, reported UCA News, an Asian church agency based in Hong Kong.

Islamic law was passed by the state legislature of Selangor in July 1989.

Leaders of non-Muslim religions say they are concerned about the growing tendency of Malaysian politicians to condone legislation and administrative orders that require Malaysian citizens to submit to laws, rules and regulations based on a religion other than their own.

The ecumenical consultative council launched a signature campaign throughout Malaysia to appeal to the government not to impose the Shariah on nonMuslims.

The law enables adolescents to convert to Islam without parental consent on reaching maturity, which is defined as the onset of menstruation for girls and age 15 for boys.

To allow a child to convert to Islam without the parent's approval, the council said, is clearly unconstitutional and causes great distress to non-Muslim parents.

The group said it rejects any attempt to impose the Shariah on nonMuslims, warning there could be further discrimination as a result — in addition to existing bias against non-Muslims.

Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on January 13 that the government has no intention of depriving non-Muslims of their religious beliefs.

Islamic groups have organised seminars to persuade non-Muslims not to fear the Shariah, maintaining that the law protects non-Muslims and is just.

Priest to contest poll R AWALPINDI (CNS): set up a new political Father Rutin Julius, Pakis- party called the National tan's minister of state for Christian Front, reported minority affairs, will run IJCA News, an Asian for election despite a church news agency recent Pakistan Episcopal based in Hong Kong.

Conference ban on clergy In the November 1988 running for public office. general elections, ChrisFather Julius told a tians elected Father public meeting in Rawal- Julius, a priest of the pindi that soon he would Lahore Diocese, to a

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He reportedly was elected on the strength of a letter written by his bishop, which did not grant him permission but tolerated his running for election. The distinction, lost in the translation, allegedly was inter-

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and justice, it should convey its views to the political leaders quietly and calmly through private channels.

Dr Tay made these remarks in an article in Church and Society — Singapore Context, a collection of essays published by the Graduates' Christian Fellowship and released last month.

He discussed where the line should be drawn between politics and religion, the role of the Church in a multireligious society, and how evangelism should

be carried out in such a society.

Dr Tay, who stressed he was speaking as a member of the Methodist Church and was not representing the Government, said the role of the Church was to preach the Gospel, minister to its members and serve the needy in society.

He painted two scenarious of what would when the happen Church got involved in politics.

Where there was one major religion in the country, it would want to

use the government to enforce its beliefs and suppress heretics, he said, citing the Inquisition in medieval Europe as an example of when the Church wielded political power.

"Today, the same thing is happening in Iran and Sri Lanka as a result of the majority religion entering the political arena," he said.

Dr Tay said Christians should not think that they have a right to be listened to by others or try to impose their values on the country by political means.

He described the current move in America Christian where preachers became presidential candidates in order to make the country Christian as "wrong thinking".

In a multi-religious society, it was even more unwise for the Church to get involved in politics as this would lead to rivalry with politicians allying themselves with different religious groups to gain support.

Dr Tay said he acknowledged that the Church had views on morality, ethics and justice and the

Runcie tells of a sad, sad day LONDON (CNS):— The British Parliament voted to lift a ban on divorced people becoming Anglican priests, paving the way for a new ecclesiastical law to be drafted on the controversial issue.

The House of Commons, the lower house of Parliament, voted

228 to 106 in favour of the motion, reversing its vote against the

move last year, which was heavily criticised by the church.

Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, spiritual head of the Church of England, said after last year's vote that it was "a sad day for relations between the church and Parliament."

The Church of England's General Synod, its policy-making body, voted last year to allow divorced men to be ordained as priests and women as deacons. Some 240 divorced people are awaiting ordination.

The measure, which also lifts a ban on ordination of those

way to present them to the political leaders was to avoid public posturing and forming pressure groups.

He said Cardinal Jaime Sin, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Manila, took the "right position" when he helped overthrow the Marcos regime in 1986 and sided with Mrs Corazon Aquino.

"But now that she is in power, he has backed away and has stated that he will leave her to run the country. I think that it is the right position."

Straits Times (Weekly Overseas Edition)

The Anglican Primate Dr Runcie.

married to divorcees, has already been approved by the House of Lords, Parliament's upper house. But, as a state church. the Church of England requires agreement from the House of Commons.

The parliamentary vote coincided with the second day of meetings by the General Synod on another controversial issue — the ordination of women.

The Church of England's leaders are also split over policy on homosexual priests. A confidential report prepared for a panel of bishops in 1988 urges recognition of homosexual couples and says homosexual priests should be tolerated.

Parts of the leaked report were broadcast on television and immediately drew fire from conservative clergy.

The Church of England's theological stance on such matters is watched closely by other leaders of the world's 70 million Anglicans, who often follow its policies.

Caught with his pants down SINGAPORE:— The father of a three-yearold girl was shocked when his daughter Inga walked out of a clothes store fitting room with a loaded gun in her hands.

Dr Ingo Nuss, a

senior teaching tellow at the National University of Singapore, took the gun from his daughter and handed it over to a security guard in the shopping complex.

Police later took

away the Smith and Wesson revolver. A check showed that it belonged to an off-duty detective from Jurong police station.

A police spokesman later said the detective had been trying on

some trousers in the Stock Mart shop when he left his gun, which had five bullets, behind.

The detective will f ace disciplinary action.

A store assistant said the detective rushed back to the shop after he realised he had left his gun behind. By then it had been taken away by the police — Straits Times overseas edition.

Vatican's 'go Daring Duarte ahead'

dies of cancer

SAN SALVADOR: The Salvadoran cent of the vote became the first president who dared name the man democratically elected president behind the assassination of in 50 years.

Archbishop Romero, has died from As mayor of San Salvador from cancer at the age of 64.

1964, he ran for president in 1972.

It was clear by the end that he had In November 1987 the then won, but the army moved in and president Jose Duarte named tortured him and sentenced him Major Roberto D'Aubuisson, to death.

Through external founder of the right-wing support, he was sent into exile for National Republican Alliance as eight years, returning to become a linked to the archbishop's 1980 military junta nominee to the assassination. presidency elections of 1984.

D'Aubuisson has been named Notwithstanding army control by many groups as linked to the of the he was able to pass death squads that have killed tens over country, his position to another of thousands. democratically elected candidate Duarte, in 1984, with 54 per Alfredo Cristiani.

VATICAN CITY (CNS):— The Vatican has given the Brazilian bishops' liturgy commission permission to begin studying ways to incorporate AfroBrazilian rituals into the Mass.

But the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the sacraments says it has not approved an experimental AfroBrazilian liturgy.

Reports from Rio say that the Vatican had given permission for experimental use of a Catholic Mass that would reflect the culture of Brazilians of African descent.

About 60 per cent of the country's population is black, and about 60 per

cent of black Brazilians are Catholic.

The Brazilian bishops say they asked only for permission to begin studying ways to adapt the Latin-rite liturgy.

In the early 1960's, the bishops of Zaire were the rust to ask permission to study ways of incorporating African cultural rituals into liturgy.

Their studies led to the drafting of an experimental liturgy, which was used, studied and adapted further.

Final approval of the Zairian rite, officially called "The Roman Missal for Use in the Dioceses of Zaire," was granted by the Vatican in 1988.

Council chairman's statement This was the mission statement made by Alan Lean, chairman of the new Parish Council:

L We are the parish of the Infant Jesus, Morley. We affirm our

w faith in Jesus Christ. He is the good news and bearer of joy that the Church announces each day and to whom the Church bears witness before all people.

We as lay faithful accept that we have a special role in making Christ present in our world as a sign of hope and joy.

As a parish we enjoy the pastoral care and ethos of the Carmelite order in our everyday parish life. We are part of the Carmelite family.

The parish pastoral council is a representative body of the whole parish, working together to build up our Christian community.

We are called to seek out and respond to the spiritual and material needs of all God's people.

We are called to be 'pastoral' which means sharing responsibility for the Church's mission.

We are called to help communication within the parish and with diocesan and other groups outside the parish.

We are called to stimulate an awareness of the problems facing humanity and the Christian principles that should help create solutions.

We are called to share with our parish priest in decision-making, so that the life and worship of the parish is strengthened.

We aim to be co-responsible and creative with other people of the parish, to share our talents and provide opportunities for participation, to initiate new ideas and challenges.

Following the archbishop's call to mission, our first priority is to encourage a warm, open and welcoming community. We am invite everyone to join us in a partnership towards this goal. 7

Alan Lean reading the mission statement.

Feeling part of the family Fr Greg Burke.

... at Morley parish

New parish councillors at Infant Jesus parish, Morley, discovered how much the parishioners value the presence and pastoral care given by the Carmelite Fathers, the parish priest Father Greg Burke ODC said when he presented the new councillors during morning Mass.

Josie Pizzolante, R osemary Gojanovich, Morag McPherson and Bernadette Nicoletto.

David Andrews and Doug Nathanielsz.

Chris Andrews and Sharon Enriquez.

"They feel part of the Carmelite family and wanted very much to express this in their statement," he said.

"The renewed parish pastoral council will have a vital spiritual role in our parish.

"We believe it will channel energies to create a more lively and faith-filled community.

"When our new church will be completed we hope to be a parish characterised by its new life as by its new buildings."

Noting that the parish had not had a parish council for some years, Father Burke traced the history of the present re-constituted council back to a parish meeting on September 21 last year when it was decided to form a new parish pastoral council.

He said Grass Roots consultation of the Year of Mission helped the formation of the council as a pastoral body with a mission for the Church in the area.

Several meetings studying the needs of the parish and the Archbishop's Call to Mission culminated in a full day of reflection on "who we were and what we were called to be", he explained.

Because it was a group growing together in faith and asking how much more the parish could become the community Christ wanted it to be, the time taken since September to establish the council had been justified, he said.

Pat Kuipers, Rob Hulbert and Bob Collopy.

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Just what is a marketplace?

Picture yourself wandering slowly through a marketplace.

What images spring to mind?

Do you imagine yourself in a setting from your favorite 18th-or 19thcentury English novel — an open air arena with everything from sheep to jewellery for sale, and merchants who invite you to come closer to examine their goods?

Or is the marketplace in your mind's eye the scene of airline mergers, real-estate deals and stock markets, the world of commerce, business or economics?

Either image of a marketplace is accurate by dictionary standards.

But there is a third definition of marketplace.

It is the place where ideas, thoughts and artis-

tic creations compete for recognition.

One can see the thread that connects the openair vendor with the 20thcentury marketing expert: convincing others of the excellence of their products.

Is it possible to be a saint of the "for-profit" marketplace?

Can the Christian calling to become holy and to do so by contributing to the well-being of the world be fulfilled there?

I think so.

Prescinding from consideration of the church's official procedure for canonizing saints — which requires that the person be dead — I have noticed a number of people marketplace whose everyday business lives reflect qualities usually identified with the kingdom of God: peace, justice, compas-

sion, righteousness and freedom.

When I saw the play "Steel Magnolias," set in a beauty parlor,Ilaughed and I cried, and my overriding feeling was that of goodness.

The play, now a movie, is the story of a young woman who dies in childbirth — having known that pregnancy was a huge risk.

The story of the people of this beauty parlor — including it's owner, the principal beautician — and how they comfort the young woman's family with their truthfulness, is well known.

What I didn't know when I saw the play was that the story and the characters are based on real people, a real town, a real death.

The shop owner, now sought after for interviews, sees nothing unus-

another, dependent on one another and mutually responsible for the world's care. developers who set aside Are Christians needed a certain number of residential units for in the marketplaces of the earth? affordable housing.

Yes, if their work is dance guided by the principles There are teachers who are taking of Christian ethics and if their skills to inner-city they follow a vision of neighbourhoods. human solidarity.

There are investors who Consumer societies help clients invest in need to undertake a ways that ultimately serious dialogue about benefit the world's devel- what constitutes a oping nations. responsible lifestyle.

Whether in small shops How can people begin or stock market firms, the this kind of reflection? marketplace world needs In one city, a group of men and women who Catholic professional have been influenced by women meet regularly the self- giving Spirit of for breakfast to discuss God. the connection between It needs writers and their faith life and their filmmakers and TV pro- work life.At another, at a ducers — people in a monthly dinner meeting, position to hold up ideas business leaders and and thoughts — who are local government officonvinced that we are cials study how to make irrevocably bound to one t heir city a better

By Dolores Leckey ual in the compassion depicted as the environment of her beauty shop.

"It's just the way we are," she says.

Yet anyone who has gone from time to time to a beauty shop knows that there is a big difference between having your hair "done" and "being there," as depicted in "Steel Magnolias."

These are people formed to believe that people matter at least as much as profit.

And the customers seem satisfied with their hairstyles too.

Others in the marketplace, people for whom the common good is basic, also keep people at the centre of their enterprises.

There are real-estate

communnity.

This forum is not explicitly religious, but it focuses on ways to promote public responsibility for the common good.

Perhaps creative initiative is needed to get this kind of reflection started in your community.

Often colleges and universities are eager to host groups that want to do this.

And what would such groups actually do?

Pope John Paul H's 1990 World Day of Peace message, with its focus on the environment, has given the world a place to begin.

Perhaps you could find a way to gather business leaders and others to become informed about the plight of the earth and what can be done about it.

;T. FICE

After our pastor discu;sed the pope's prophetic words in the evironment in our parisk , I came away from Mass asking what it will fly profit any or us if our profit margins int rease and the earth's on me layer decreases.

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Iodern society will fir d no solution the problem ec 3logica1 ur less it takes a serious look at its lifestyle," the pope writes.

"Simplicity, moderation and discipline, as well as a spirit of sacrifice, must become a part of everyday life, lest all suffer the negative consequences of the careless habits of a few."

The pope's message, aikriressed to all people of go xl will, encourages the pe3ple of the marketice to make a diferenue.

Is it possible to be a saint of the 'for-profit" marketplace? I think so, writes Dolores Leckey. Whether in small shops or Wall Street firms, the marketplace world needs men and women who have been influenced by God.

Mystics in the marketplace...

Jeremiah has been called a "mystic in the m arketplace".

He was an ordinary young man with no official standing in the community, a member of a discredited priestly family from a little village out of the mainstream.

If he was going to bring an awareness of God to a society headed for disaster because of its godlessness, he had to enter the marketplace.

He had to immerse himself in the day-to-day affairs of all sorts of people.

Many of these affairs were quite messy.

So Jeremiah had to maintain a singleminded devotion to God as he became embroiled in civic and national life.

It was not easy, but the prophet Jeremiah persevered — for 50 years. At

times he came close It there is, the world of breaking under tht human affairs. strain; his faith and pressing sense of duty St Paul was a tradesman, a tentmaker, a nonsaw him through. celebrity to whom no one Heroic? Yes, but he still would give a second look. is a realistic example of But he took seriously what all of God's people are called to be: witnesse his deeply felt responsito God in the only world bility to share the good

Food for thought My commute into the "marketplace" where I work lasted almost forever today — the fault of a broken-down, underground train.

Time was lost to the kind of inconvenience one occasionally must put up with.

Inconveniences are part of marketplace life.

But the marketplace is not something we just put up with.

Noise, interruptions and a hurry-up pace are ordinary fare in the marketplace. It is full of distractions.

So the temptation is to suspect that the marketplace can only distract you from your truest purposes.

For Christians, there is a natural tension between times of quiet recollection and the time spent in busy-ness.

But today, many in the Church want to investigate Christian life's meaning precisely for the busy marketplace.

They ask: What difference could your Christianity make there?

Do your goals there have extra dimensions because you are a follower of Jesus? Are relationships any different?

Christianity means so much during one's quieter, contemplative moments at church or at home.

But today the push is on to contemplate what the Gospel means for the marketplaces where we spend so much time and expend so many of our best efforts.

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news of Christ with everyone who would listen.

And he, too, suffered for it. But he changed the world.

When Paul attracted people and formed them into communities, he did

not organise them into cults withdrawn from the world.

He encouraged people to stay right where they were and to be a light shining in the darkness.

For the most part, these Christians went about their lives in the same old

By Father John Castelot

neighbourhoods, at the same old jobs.

But now they did so as Christians, as people who lived according to a new value system.

They transformed their society just by being Christian in whatever segment of society they

happened to be.

Jesus was a Galilean peasant scorned by the movers and shakers of sophisticated Judea.

A humble artisan whose friends were fishermen, tax collectors and others trying to make ends meet, he was

very much a part of the "marketplace".

But Jesus, too, took seriously his call to proclaim God's saving care.

Jesus did it by reaching out to all levels of society with practical, healing, empowering love.

Vocation poser When Judge Jerome Frese enters the court-

room, he tries to keep his Christian vocation in mind.

students, making an effort "to see them as whole people".

He meets with colleagues in prayer groups To him, that means study groups to Bible and being aware that his question on the onsider c decisions as a judge will work. and values be shaped by the fact that Jane Kucznski's sense of "Iam an American male, and Irish, German her vocation as a Catholic Catholic, and a husband means that her homelife and religious practice are and father". sharply divided from not to Droel tries William position as a radio her see his work as "more with the roadcaster b than just a job". For him, a Christian vocation in Voice of America.

"Iam fortunate to work the marketplace goes hand in hand with a for an organisation sense of being called to a where I think Christian goals are compatible particular vocation.

It means going beyond with my job," she said. what might be the min- "We try to build links, to imal requirements of the act in an empathetic job. He is a campus way." minister and humanities Her radio interviews instructor. and newscasts are broadHis sense of vocation cast to Africa where affects the way he treats Voice of America has A judge tells Katharine Bird where he sees a connection between his faith and religious values and

his work in the courtroom.

By Katherine Bird

care to interview those who can speak to and for

Africans.

Frese spoke of the connection between his more than 12 million values and his work. listeners.

Sometimes a judge has If she were to put a to evaluate "how he or name to the Christian she feels about particular values she employs most kinds of cases", he said. often on the job, truth A case may come up and charity would rank which "is so antithetical high. "We try to be honest to the judge's personal and authentic and ethi- value structure" that the cal," Ms Kucznski said. judge cannot function She is careful when fairly, Frese said. Then he choosing people to inter- believes the judge has to view to do more than excuse himself or herself simply look for the most from the case. convenient authority.

He said he found himFor an upcoming series self in that position in a on drugs and their effect criminal case in which a on families in Africa, for plea-bargaining agreeinstance, she hopes to ment had been reached interview a doctor from between the prosecutor Mauritius in the Indian and the defending Ocean. attorney.

To her, charity is exerThe accused agreed to cised on the job by taking plead guilty in return for

a sentence of probation.

After getting the presentencing report. Frese felt he could not agree to it because he believed the penalty was too light for the case, which involved child molestation.

But "I felt I would be imposing what was a very private, personal, complicated value" on the accused, Frese said.

Unwilling to do so, he removed himself from the case.

Droel noted that students frequently come to him with their worries about careers. When they do, he said, it's his job to help them find the connection between their work and their faith.

He encourages them to think of careers in broad terms that go beyond simply making money.

Jeremiah. Paul, Jesus and the early Christians — all were mystics in the marketplace. All took seriously their "prophetic vocation" to make God's presence felt in a uncaring confused, world, just be being what God wanted them to be, wherever they might be.

DISCUSSION POINTS Do you think you have a Christian vocation in the marWhat ketplace? does that mean to you?

Selected responses from readers: "When you see somebody who is honest, fair, just and treats everybody as equal . . . and knowing that person . . is a follower of Christ, I think it has its effect . . . Jesus used parables. Sometimes our parables have to be parables of example." — Jack Hyland.

"Yes, absolutely, there is a Christian vocation in the marketplace, and it affects all that you say and do . . You can sell all you can and make as much as you can . .

Or you can take the time to sell people what they need and give them the best value." — Al Brezna.

"I have people of all faiths who come here and buy flowers for

their churches. I feel like I am paving the way for some better understanding. They know that I am a Catholic and I hope they are understanding me and my faith better while I am getting to know more about them and their — Lil beliefs."

Giedeman.

"From the day we opened. we have trained our staff to always practice the Golden Rule in dealing with customers.

And we have had one gentleman come and tell us that he knew he was dealing with Christians by the way he was treated." — Bob Newell.

"I think the Christian vocation in the marketplace is to see Christ in each person and treat all fairly. No matter what business you're in or what job you have, you should treat each person with respect." — Claudia Jennings.

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WIRE s e rv ic e It's run by •

women for women

Ms Peta Anderson, A/co-ordinator of WIRE who witnesses the transformation that 'information which empowers' causes in 'fledgelings who didn't know they could fly!'.

What is WIRE? It's an information service run by women, primarily for women.

Situated at 32 St George's Terrace, they offer a range of services which are designed to inform women of the possibilities and options which probably many never knew existed.

It can open doors, widen vistas, allow them a choice, and above all with the possibilities presented, empower them to take positive steps in their own lives towards problem solving or life orientation.

Although WIRE women present information to the enquirer, they don't push or give their own view point, but rather listen if required, and primarily empower women to take their own initiatives.

Set up five years ago by the WA government, the service is free and provides accurate up-to-date information on almost anything.

With their wide contact network within the community and government, WIRE can offer referral to a wide range of services and groups to help individuals deal with their query.

Among the services offered is free counselling from TAFE, plus free legal advice given by women lawyers on family law, financial advice and other matters.

Widowed Alison Gallagher who discovered that starting a new life on your own in your fifties can not only bring a lot of challenge — but with positive endeavours, a lot of skills and satisfaction, not to mention greatly increased selfconfidence.

There are migrant information officers for aborigines and the disabled, and the deaf are not overlooked with the TTY machine WIRE has allowing the deaf to type in their queries.

A training program incorporates ethnic liaison workers who come from different ethnic backgrounds and speaking a second language, to go out into the community and tell others about WIRE. All their officers go out as education officers into the community, said Acting WIRE co-ordinator, Ms Peta Anderson.

Volunteers greatly assist in keeping WIRE running smoothly and a scheme which trains volunteers in two

categories is run with a dual purpose: To help for instance single mothers and others back into the workforce with the additional skills and confidence they've learned, and also to use these trained personnel to assist in volunteer duties at WIRE. There is another section of women who are also in need of help in gaining confidence in themselves and realising their abilities and the contribution they can make to the work force and society — widows. One such lady is Alison Gallagher who was widowed at the age of 54 and left devastated, wondering how she could make it alone.

Initially she went to

a TAFE course — NOW. "That was a great way to get started!" said Alison, because having achieved there, she went on to WIRE and is now a highly valued volunteer.

New Opportunities for Women (NOW) is designed to increase confidence levels and then equip women with skills which enable them to have greater choices in entering or reentering the workvocational force, training, or further education.

After a long marriage and absence from the workforce "you need a bit of a shove and direction to get out into the world again," said Alison.

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This delightful lady is now full of confidence and happy with herself and life prospects.

She gives a fair amount of time to WIRE but is doing something she thoroughly enjoys in mixing in the "mish mash" of busy city life; it's a long way from suburbia, but then that's indicative of how far Alison has come since she decided to "get started and give it a go!"

WIRE is a busy place handling around 20,000 enquiries monthly, about a quarter of which are

phone calls and the balance walk-ins.

Manned by around 24 volunteers, there are eight employees, a co-ordinator, librarian, secretary and five information officers.

"But in fact we are all information officers," said Ms Anderson who says the good news and gratification from the job, is to see women grow from the time they come until they receive information WIRE gives to empower them to go on and achieve in areas and options of their choice — having been given a choice they never realised they had.

Telephone number of NOW (TAFE) is 325 3544 and WIRE 222 0444, or for country callers toll free (008) 199174.

Silver Chain's u 'clue care service

The Silver Chain's beginnings were as romantically and uniquely Australian as only this special country could offer.

It was 1904, and a shaft of light penetrated the hut of boundary rider Arthur Grundy, reflecting strongly on a silver watch chain he'd found and hung on a post in his humble abode.

So strong was the shining shaft and gleam that it distracted his attention from his reading of "Aunt Mary's" reading corner in the Western Mail. Mr Grundy felt inspired to write to "Aunt Mary" (journalist Mrs Muriel Chase) and suggested that country children should in some way be linked to city children in a spirit of service.

"Aunt Mary" responded with a suggestion that her young readers each contribute one shilling (100 towards the distressed at

Christmas time and if there was a surplus, support a cot for a sick child in the children's ward of the hospital.

Two months later she announced it would be called the Silver Chain, with each member becoming a silver link; t he league's motto became "Little but Great". Silver Chain was thus born writes Mrs Noel Stewart, "Aunt Mary's" successor in her SC history, and went from strength to strength, aiming for more ambitious objectives.

In 1906 Silver Chain provided a district nurse and from those small beginnings, grew the unique nursing association of which WA can be proud.

By 1914 it had diversified in its work and had an established reputation as being a philanthropic body.

Initially concerned with infant health, SC moved

A Silver Chain sister instructing this patient in needle self-administration. philanthropy, government aid has enabled more ambitious undertakings and in 1987/88 the gross expenditure exceeded $30 million.

into care of the aged. A53 year span honorary stalwart from 1921 was WA Newspapers business manager, Henry Greig, under whose guidance SC saw continued growth and expansion.

The good thing about SC is that it is nonpolitical, and non-profit making, with all moneys being made available for maintenance and expanding of good quality services.

Albany was the first country town to introduce the SC nursing service in 1946 and in the sixties and seventies the Annie McKeown Lodge opened, followed by the Gwen Hardie Lodge.

The initial complement of one employee with the SC's Home Help service in 1961, has grown to 260 fulltimers, providing further assistance to those who opt to remain in their own homes rather than entering a hospital or nursing home.

The Domiciliary Nursing and Home Help Services were augmented in 1982 with a metropolitan Care Aide program and now includes Mandurah.

That year also saw the SC's involvement in the hospice care service which began in WA. Initially involved with the Cancer Foundation of WA, SC took full control in 1984 of its own Hospice Care Service.

Aided by government assistance, SC has expanded its nursing services to 23 country centres.

From initial but determined beginnings, largely based on people's

Their services are free although donations are encouraged, and fees are charged in their hostels and nursing homes.

Board of Management members are honorary.

As for Arthur Grundy, the man whose fine dream became a sterling silver reality, his longterm interest in SC, continued until he fittingly lingered for a while and then finally died in the SC's Alfred Carson Nursing Home at Claremont — named after a former Western Mail editor who served

Hospice Care providing comfort for patients in their own homes, using SC provided equipment.

as a SC president for more than 30 years.

As an elaboration of its extensive services, the Home Nursing service is a visiting 24 hour service offering a broad range of nursing care to people in their own homes, including oxygen and podiatry services under certain conditions.

The Hospice Care team is 24 hour for those at home with a terminal short and illness prognosis.

tal care to the frail, ill or disabled from physical, psychological or social causes. Once again within the metro and some country areas.

Domiciliary physiotherapists service some in their own homes, helping them to maintain their independence and life quality.

Ten country centres offer diabetic clinics with monitoring, counselling and group work.

Vital Bush Nursing Country patients are Centres (16) operate in cared for by the Home towns which lack ready Nursing staff as Hospice medical and hospital Care is restricted to the facilities and 24 district metropolitan and Man- nursing centres service 100 areas. Two nursing dumb areas. homes at Claremont and Home Help gives Hilton Park offer respite domestic and social sup- care short term. port with limited respite Two lodges in Albany care to the elderly and one in Perth have and disabled in their home accommodation and provides an option to hostel with respite care some an institution for those in beds. the metro and certain One of the best things country areas. about SC is their assistCare Aide serNice gives ance to people who wish direct and environmen- to live in their homes independently. or die there, without being forced into an institution.

This must offer great solace to those who need so much help to remain there.

The SC services are however under great strain in view of the ageing population and with the overcrowding and demand for hospital, hostel, and nursing home beds.

The government funding federally and state, is not commensurate with growing demands on stretched SC services, so fundraising is a big issue with this praiseworthy organisation which has 2000 employees (equivalent to 900 fulltimers), and 300 volunteers.

When two minds spanned the miles back in 1904. between an Australian boundary rider in the vast outback, and a city journalist, a shining glimpse of something great became a gleaming symbol of Western Australians' caring, imagination, drive and innate humanity which is an example to the rest of the world.

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from Fr Paul RAJ, Willetton Sir, As a visiting priest from South India, working at Willetton, Parish, I appreciated very much Brother Andrew's good message about India (The Record, February 22).

You have very clearly brought out his experiences in India and his life goals. I am very glad to read that all his experiences in India are to help his fellow Australians in their need — which is great according to him.

I was born and brought up in India, knowing Indian situation well and the challenge which Christianity is facing there. I worked in the rural parishes for seven years. It was really a very big challenge to work in India. I would say that I was very tired of working among the rural masses, and was much

disappointed many times, in my ministry. For a change and further studies and pastoral experience I came to WA and I have been in Willetton parish for seven months.

After experiencing the western world I feel that I miss something — not my family and friends, but my missionary zeal. Though I suffered in India many times, it was quite challenging and satisfying. Appearance wise, my ministry was a failure, but on deeper reflection, it was a great success.

I am glad that Brother Andrew has a big message to tell in Australia after experiencing India.

I have to learn aplenty here. I am learning. I am sure my experience here will help me more to work in India.

Pleased with Chaney from Fr K. CALD WELL. Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission Sir, The Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission is pleased that Senator Chaney (The Record, February 8) agrees with its view that tax justice is paramount in the taxation of families.

As readers will be aware, the commission has persistently put forward the view that a just tax system needs to recognise the cost of dependency and be based on the ability of taxpayers to pay.

In regard to tax rebates for child care expenses, the commission's view is

that if, as Senator ChaThe commission takes ney argues, these are the view that child a care costs of earning an deduction (or rebate) income, then like other should be available costs of earning an where any parent of a income, such as, busi- child pays any other ness expenses, they person to look after that ought to be fully child while he or she is deductible. earning an income In addition, child care In other words, a deducdeductions (or rebates) should be available to all tion should be available taxpayers with child care to a sole parent paying a expenses, without dis- creche to look after her crimination on the basis child, a married woman paying a relative to look of sex or marital status.

The commission main- after her child, or a tains that where there husband paying his wife are children, in a one or to look after his child. two income family or a Tax justice is, as Senasole parent family, it is tor Chaney recognises, equally "an inescapable very important. It is also cost of earning.. income in the nature of justice that child care must be that it be universally obtained-. extended .

Child poverty challenge from N. McCABE, Brookton.

Sir, The new Anglican archbishop of Brisbane, Bishop Hollingsworth recently questioned the value of church input directed towards overcoming child poverty in our lucky country.

Do we only focus on areas that attract govern-

ment grants?

Are we too underresourced to look at i nnovative welfare projects?

Have we failed to put enough emphasis on the commandment "to love our neighbour"? Do we really only deserve a rating of one out of ten?

If we're going to tackle

social justice issues with integrity then perhaps we're going to have to change our attitude, l eave our carpeted cathedrals and our plush inner-city office blocks to take up the challenge that confronts us in the street outside. He ain't h eavy . . he's , my brother .

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Say nine Hail Marys for nine days whether you have faith or not. Pray with candle lit each day, on the ninth day burn to end. Print immediately. S.M. Holy Spirit you who solve all problems, light all roads sc that I can attain my goal. You gave me the divine gift to forgive and forget all evil against me and that in all instances in my life you are with me. I want in this short prayer to thank you for all things as I confirm once agair. that I never want to lx separated from you ever in spite of all material illusions I wish to be with you in eternal glory. Thankyou fo, your mercy towards me. This prayer must he said for three days after which the favour will be granted. This prayer must be published imrne diately. M.D.

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus may, Your name be praised and glorified throughout the world now and forever.

Grateful thanks. W.D.B. My most humble and grateful thanks to you Most Sacred Heart of Jesus for prayers answered. Please continue to hear and answer my prayers.

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St Jude glorious apostle. faithful servant and friend of Jesus, the name of the traitor has caused you to be forgotten by many, but the true Church invokes you universally as the patron of things despaired of. Pray for me that finally I may receive the consolations and the succour of heaven in all my necessities, tribulations and sufferings. Particularly (here make request) and that I may bless God with the elect through eternity. Thanks St Jude for all the help you gave me and my family. Say three Our Fathers, three Hail Marys, three Glorys. Say for 9 days, this novena never fails Teresa.

St hide Thank you for all favours granted. Your guidance and granting

May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved and preserved throughout the world now and forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus pray for us. St Jude, worker of miracles, pray for us. St Jude helper of the hopeless, pray for us. Say this prayer 9 times a day for 9 days, on the 8th day your prayer will be answered. This prayer has never been known to fail. Publication must be promised. Thank has led me closer to the you St Jude. M A F Almighty. M. French.

TOMORROW TODAY with Father Joe Parkinson

The truth of experience...

Continuing the series by Linda Baker.

Shocked at the godless and hopeless world of the young worker, Joseph Cardijn decided to dedicate his life to the working class.

To have made such a mammoth commitment so early in life may seem unrealistic, but Cardijn never bothered much about what was realistic and what was not.

He just did what he thought was right.

It seems that his lack of worry paid off because, sixty years later, the

YCW still exists and is found in over seventy countries including serveral in Eastern Europe.

I mention these facts to illustrate that, although Cardijn's aspirations of saving the working class seem unrealistic, he did make a difference.

He was not a blind, idealistic dreamer but a person of effective action.

His first task in this lifetime commitment was to try to understand the situation of the young worker.

He had to identify the facts of their situation, to

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understand the causes and effects of it, before he could hope to analyse or change it.

Who were the young workers? What did their jobs entail? What were their working conditions like? Were there effective worker unions? What did workers do on their days off?

Many other questions came to his mind as he mingled with young workers, and Cardijn looked to his direct experience with workers to teach him of their lives and hopes.

He had read many books and researched the working class phenomenon in his student days, so now he tried to take his understanding further by finding out what the workers themselves felt and thought about their situations.

In later years he developed and refined this aspect of his approach and called it the -Truth of Experience".

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Each life, in its entirety. is important, and God reveals Himself to us in every aspect of life.

And, more often than not, we do His will without even mentioning His name.

I think that it is this aspect of Joseph Cardijn's life which is most beautiful and sacred, and the springboard for the rest of his thoughts, research, commitment and work.

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by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

These letters to Jesus were written by young Si Brigid's Lesmurdie students just before Christmas.

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Their teacher, Miss Margaret O'Donnell asked the question: What would you say to Jesus if you met Him? These are a sample of their replies.

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Nadia Percy,

WHAT'S ON

The UNIVERSITY of WESTERN AUSTRALIA

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On Sunday, March 11, at 5.45pm, in the chapel of St Thomas More College, Mass will be said to celebrate University Sunday. Members are also invited to attend the Interdenominational Service in Winthrop Hall, at 7.45pm Contact No. 446 1628.

Scripture Group: Thursday, March 8 at 8pm.

Epistle to the Romans chapter 3 V.21 to end of chapter 5.

Vatican II Study Group: Tuesday, March 13 at 11am "Dogmatic Constitution on the Church", chapter 3. Revision of Sections 18-27 and study of Sections 28-29. Each of the last two meetings to be presided over by Father Dynon, at 13 Dean St, Claremont. Contact No. 446 7340.

All the above functions open to anyone interested.

JUBILEE KARRINYUP

One man's journey .4 Sense of the Sacred. A biograpby of Bede Griffiths by Kathryn Spink.

Published by Collins Dote, $14.95.

Born into an English middle class family, educated at Christ's Hospital and Oxford where he became friend and confidant of C. S. Lewis, and at one time a member of the Benedictine community at Prinknash Abbey, Berle Griffiths has spent more than thirty years of his extraordinary life in India. On the banks of the sacred river Cauvery he now lives as a sannyasi. His ashram is a centre of prayer and meditation open to any who seek the universal and eternal truth at the heart of all religions.

A man of exceptional intellect who has yet been able to recognise the limits of reason, Bede Griffths found in India 'the other half of himself, a feminine, intuitive self which opened up a new sense of the sacred and of the harmony at the heart of all things. This he had rediscovered in the East and he felt it was relevant not only to his own Life hut to the Western world desperately seeking not knowledge hut wisdom.

As part of her work on this unique biography Kathryn Spink spent a period with Father Bede at Saccidananda ashram where he spoke with remarkable openness about his personal journey

Giving the message Sunday Homilies Cycle A,

by Herbert E Smith, SJ. Published by St Paul Publications. $16.95.

These brief homilies are designed to inform, form, reform and inspire the faithful to believe, celebrate and live the Good News which the liturgy of the day proclaims. In harmony with the readings, they speak firmly about faith and doctrine and the moral life

after the injunction of the Lord to speak the truth in season and out of season. whether convenient or inconvenient.

And they do so in a way that introduces the hearer to a personal, intimate relation ship with Jesus. Enhanced ti) passages by exquisite beaut) and insights which are new. these homily aids both challenge and inspire to more fruitful life in God.

sixty by John Rowland Published by Angus & Robertson. $14.95.

John Rowland seems to have been invigorated by his return home from senior diplomatic life abroad. A meditative poet of privacies, of old gardens and windy uplands, his nature writing in this collection is especially fine, and his mature contemplation of age in the poems from which the book takes its title is deeply moving.

Also, in this book he brings to a personal crux the old tension between Australian newness and European depth of culture. In this, as in its measured lucidity his verse belongs in a central tradition of Australian writing. The late Kenneth Slessor wrote of Rowland's first book: "His poems have elegance, wit, cool observation and a genuine sense ot beauty and wonder."

Poems COURTYARD

On Sunday, March 18 Jubilee Mass 3pm at OLGC Miles Street with afternoon tea after Mass (please bring a plate). On Wednesday, March 21 Jubilee dinner at 7.30pm, La Villa, Main Street, Osborne Park. Dinner $20 per head (for everything). Please phone Fr Geoff Beyer 341 1003 or Bernise Reid 341 2895 for a dinner booking.

COUNTRY REFLECTION

A Day of Reflection on March 19 (Feast St Joseph) takes place at St Mary's Church, Merredin, commencing 9.30, concluding with Mass at 2pm and is being organised by combined country parishes on the theme "St Joseph: Patron of the Universal Church who took care of the Child Jesus; he takes care of the Church." Please join us in this Day of Prayer and reflection during Lent; preparing for Easter.

BYO lunch and share. For information ring (096) 22 3109; (090) 44 7035; (096) 38 1042.

ST PAT'S DANCE The Friends of Glendalough will hold a St Patrick's Day dinner dance on Saturday. March 17 at The Vasto Club from 8pm to lam. Tickets $40. Limited tickets, book now. Bookings 448 2516, 447 7155.

All tickets must be paid for in full before Sunday, March 11.

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Women's Spirituality Conference presents

Patriarchy

Sacred & Secular to be held on

Friday, Saturday, Sunday March 30, 31, April 1 at the

Catholic Education Centre Ruislip Street, Leederville

Members of the university and the public are invited to attend the

UNIVERSITY SUNDAY SERVICE an Interdenominational Service of Thanksgiving

Sunday, March 11 7.45pm WINTHROP HALL Address: The Vice-Chancellor Professor Fay Gale, AO Values essential for education and research Musk The University Collegium Musicum The UWA Chapel Choir

K ALGOORLIE IMPORTANT

LAND AUCTION Great Eastern Highway

W EDNESDAY, MARCH 14 10.30am CECIL BROWN & Co Pty Ltd have received instructions

to submit to public auction (on site) Kalgoorlie Lot 3435 (C/G Vol 179 Folio 119A) and Somerville Suburban Area Lot 228 (C/G Vol 1746 Folio 525). The freehold land has a frontage to Great Eastern Highway of 40.24m and a total area of a little over 24 acres. Together with the freehold land is land contained in a special lease (Somerville Suburban Area Lot 229 Crown Lease 158/ 1986) granted for grazing purposes and containing over 7 acres. Improvements comprise a timber framed dwelling with iron and gyprock linings containing 3 bedrooms, lounge, kitchen, bathroom, verandahs. The land is fenced with iron and wire. An opportunity exists to acquire a valuable parcel of land with a highway frontage in close proximity to the airport.

TERMS OF SALE 10% deposit on the fall of the hammer. Balance in cash in 28 days.

For further particulars contact

STAN COLLINS Auctioneer for Cecil Brown & Co Pty Ltd Real Estate Agents, 109 Hannan St, Kalgoorlie (090) 21 2999 or A/H (090) 21 3006

with

The Reverend Susan Adams New Zealand

From the Midnight Courtyard by Elizabeth Riddell. Published by Angus & Robertson. $14.95.

Elizabeth Riddell has not been a prolific poet, but the poems of her smallish oeuvre have often stayed with readers for decades.

Several are already essential parts of the Australian literary heritage.

Raised in New Zealand, long resident in Australia, she is always a distinctive writer, her poems continually achieving fresh approaches as they move hack and forth across the Tasman. Carefully chosen and arranged by the poet herself, in an order which, rather than merely chronological, is in fact intrinsic to her writing and its inner life, this book distills the work of a lifetime, and restores to readers a wealth of finegrained achievement.

Enquiries: 367 9106 (w) 244 1512 (h)

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LECTURER II RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

Applications are in7ited for the position of lecturer in religion for teacher-training programs offered by the Catholic Institute.

Applicants are required to have appropriate tertiary qualifications, with expertise in RE curriculum theory and practice, and are required to demonstrate a commitment to the Catholic faith in the spirit of Vatican II. The appointment is to commence in July, 1990.

Salary Range: S32,197-$36,607 or, stipend for a religious appointee.

Applications close: March 26, 1990.

Apply: The Director Catholic Institute of Western Australia PO Box 198 LEEDERVILLE WA 6007 (09) 381 5444

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1 34 CAPE STREET, TUART HILL 6060

Telephone: 444 6333

YEAR 8

ENROLMENTS 1991

Applications for enrolment are now being accepted for Year 8 students wishing to attend Senate College in the 1991 school year.

Servite College is a Catholic co-educational day college with 800 students in Year 8 through to Year 12 The College's facilities and grounds have been continually upgraded to the point of now possessing new airconditioned rooms and to having access to a gymnasium, oval, swimming pool and tennis courts The curriculum fulfils all SEA requirements and is enriched by courses of study for academically gifted students, ESL students, special education, speech and hearing students, instrumental music instruction and band instruments.

Special attention is given to the academic, spiritual, social, cultural and sporting development of each student.

The needs of the individual student are met not only through the active involvement of all staff but also through the college chaplain.

The prospectus and application for admission form may be obtained from the college registrations clerk and should be returned no later than April 12, 1990.

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by TOM BRANCH Mass /Tennis Evening More than 60 members attended the 1990 WACLTA annual Mass celebrated by the chaplain, Father Richard Doyle.

In his homily, Father Doyle encouraged family involvement in Catholic tennis and said that he could not think of a better way for the association to start the year than by celebrating the annual mass. Members then enjoyed tennis at the Willetton Sports Club followed by light refreshments at the John Paul Centre.

President Bryan Kukura thanked the Corpus Christi Tennis Club for once again organising this function. Special thanks to Frank Roach for the tennis and to

Anne Warren for the social function.

Annual Tournament The 1990 WACLTA Championships have been scheduled for the weekends of March 31, April 1,7 and 8, at Trinity Playing Fields, Manning.

Entries close on Thursday, March 22. Forward together with the entrance fee to the tournament organiser, Mr Michael Merser, 119 Yale Road, Thornlie (tel: 459 8183). More details next week.

Executive Meeting The next WACLTA executive meeting is to be held at the home of John and Leonie Merser, 77 Leach Highway, Wilson on Tuesday, March 6, 1990 commencing at 7.45pm.

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Do you need answers to questions you are being asked about the Catholic faith?

Our bookshop can help you with a wide range of books and pamphlets on topics such as Marriage & Family, Prayer & Meditation; Social Issues; Spiritual & Self Growth; Children's Books & Catechisms; Bibles & Bible Readings. We can also supply greeting cards for all occasions and a range of pious objects.

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"Happy Anniversary"

Marriage Enrichment

SUNDAY, MARCH 18

A five hour program in the company of six or so couples like yourselves, to help your marriage become even better. Give yourselves a break . . . Think about your relationship.

Phone Beth or Maria 325 1859 A service of the Marriage Preparation and Education Centre, 459 Hay Street, Perth.

LENTEN PRODUCTION Mirrabooka, Spearwood and Bassendean parishes have so far booked the production 'The People vs Christ' in which three men play various roles and the congregation is involved along with a silent woman witness and none can stand aloof.

The setting is plain and a minimum of musical effect. Any money in excess of the fee of $110 for royalties is paid to the church. Contact Jude Murphy 362 4399.

COMPANION WANTED Volunteers are required on a daily basis to act as companion to a lady who is physically disabled, and with a 10 month old baby. She will live in the Emmanuel Christian Community in East Perth. Sufficient volunteers are needed on a half or full day basis seven days a week to be on hand to help lift the baby and assist in tasks that the mother is unable to do. To help in any way at any time contact Br Peter on 328 8113 or 328 9571.

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March 4 Converts rite of election, St Mary's Cathedral, Archbishop Foley.

Maria SS Annunziata Festival, Osborne Park, Bishop Healy.

7 Open Margaret McInerney Centre Sacred Heart College Sorrento, Archbishop Foley.

8 Pastoral Workers Association, St Mary's Leeclerville, Archbishop Foley.

11 Install parish priest South Lake, Archbishop Foley.

Silver Jubilee parish, Mirrabooka, Archbishop Foley.

Ministry to Newly Married, Bishop Healy.

12 Merredin Zone of Priests, Archbishop Foley.

13-14 Central Commission Meeting, Archbishop Foley.

15 Vespers Norbertine Priory, Archbishop Foley.

16 St Patrick's Day Mass, Archbishop Foley.

17 St Patrick's Day Mass, Subiaco, Bishop Healy.

18 Silver Jubilee Karrinyup parish, Archbishop Foley.

Centenary Katanning parish, Bishop Healy.

21 Heads of Churches meeting, Archbishop Foley.

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St Kieran 's Church, Cape Street OSBORNE PARK The program of festivities is as follows: Triduum commences Wednesday February 28 to Friday March 2, 1990

Mass each evening at St Kieran 's Church at 7.30pm

Sunday, March 4 10am 3.30pm 7.30pm

Solemn High Mass celebrated by Bishop Healy.

Procession followed on by Holy Benediction at the Church.

Festival Dance at the Vasto Club, 1 Vasto Place, Balcatta.

Association Maria SS Annunziata Inc. President: V.M. Alessandrino Phone: 344 7799 or 349 9334

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