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First in line to be presented to Archbishop Foley in St Mary's Cathedral last Sunday was Sandra Calvezzi of Balcatta accompanied by her sponsors Vera Mammoliti and Denise Oates and who is one of three unbaptised catechumens and three baptised candidates who will enter the Church this Easter at Balcatta.

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Defector breaks his silence after 10 years

WASHINGTON: A KGB defector has claimed that former KGB chief Yuri Andropov made plans in 1979 to assassinate Pope John Paul, but the Vatican is maintaining its silence about any such suggestions.

Former KGB officer Victor Sheymov who defected to the USA in 1980 says he has broken his 10 year silence on the matter because "no secret lasts forever" and to contribute to discussions of Soviet-American affairs.

Sheymov says in was in a KGB general's office in Warsaw in 1979 when an aide brought in a cabled request from Andropov for "all possible information on how to get close to the pope."

Sheymov told reporters "there is only one Agca, who was captured by Italian police and reason I know to get physically close to sentenced to life imprisonment in Italy, implicated some Bulgarians in the conspiracy somebody and that's to assassinate him". but changed his story several times.

When Mehmet Ali Agca wounded the pope Italian investigators sought to try three in St. Peter's Square in 1981, Sheymov said, "it Bulgarians as co-conspirators but eventually had was absolutely clear to me" that the to drop the charges for lack of evidence. Some assassination plan was initiated by the KGB. leading experts in international espionage and Sheymov stressed that he had no information terrorism argued that the operation was directed about "the time, state, place or how" an by Andropov through the Bulgarian secret assassination might be attempted, so his police. information had very limited value for any Sheymov said he considers that scenario "very possible efforts to prevent an attack. "I only knew likely," about the plot at its inception," he said.

"The Bulgarian Secret Service was often used Following his 1981 assassination attempt, by the KGB for questionable operations," he said.

School policies get thumbs up The chairman of the National Catholic Education Commission has welcomed both the coalition's schools policy and the future proposals funding announced by the Minister for Employment Education and training.

the phase-in period of the Coalition's schools policy, non-government schools will receive recurrent funding at a level not less than that prothe posed by Government.

Mr Gleeson also welcomed Mr Peacock's Mr Gerry Gleeson, wel- promise of an extra $10m comed Mr Peacock's in capital funds in each guarantee that, during of the years 1991-1993.

The removal of restrictions which currently apply to the use of capital funds was also noted.

Mr Gleeson said it was pleasing that both major parties have recognised the need for financial security and stability for Catholic schools.

Mr Gleeson said that in responding to the 1989

Paper the Commission requested that future funding policies take account of the following principles:— • the need for stability and security of funding, • the need to maintain steady real increases in the period 1992-2000,

• retention of the twelve category system,

principles in his policy statement.

• the need to increase capital wants, • retention of the community standard for the period 1992-1996 but having it reviewed and updated for 1997-2000.

Mr Gleeson said that the Commission had sought larger increases in both recurrent and capital than those granted, but it recognises that there was a difficult economic climate.

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The Minister has recognised and accepted these

The Commission will be making detailed sub-

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missions to both the Community Standard Review and the Capital Needs Review to demonstrate the difficulties being experienced by all n on -Government schools.

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A Catholic priest who there would always be has had close contact some who would let the with sailors over the team down. last few years has The sailors were no painted glowing pic- different. "What happe ns ture of them. is no different to what is "They are a disciplined occurring in ordinary lot. What we see in the society," he said. movies is really out of By and large sailors touch these days," tackled their job as a declared Father Brian profession and were very Rayner, the newly - discipined. appointed chaplain at The requirements of a the naval base in Garden spouse in the navy, he Island here. said, were very demand"They are not all drunks ing and certainly put a and womanisers. They person under a lot of are loyal family people emotional pressu re. and faithful. You can see Father Brian then all that when you go switched his attention to away with them on the HMAS Stewart trips," added the padre. which docked at Garden Father Brian knows Lsland a few hours before what he is talking about the interview. because he has in the The ship had been away past years served as for five months and yet priest on Australian he saw wives and childNavy vessels. ren at the wharf to He conceded that there welcome their loved were exceptions. ones.

As in a nigby, footy or From his past experienbowling team, he said. ces, he was sure that most of those returning did not play up in foreign ports.

"The majority of the guys don't do the dirty on • • their wives," he said.

He pointed out that sailors by and large were strong-minded and principled individuals.

Father Brian then recounted the days when he sailed with them.

There were cases he said where sailors did worry about their wives playing up in their absence.

"You get the odd person who worries. Again that's being a bit neurotic . . . guys wondering or worrying what's happening back home. . . or whether their wives are playing up or someone is trying to cut in on his relationship.

"Its not only in the cases of the married ones. It happens, too, with guys with girl friends. Yes, these things do play on the minds of a few."

But Father Brian is always on hand to lend a ear, counsel those who He took over his cha- need it and generally plaincy at HMAS Stirling pacify those who fall into such a depressing groove. about three weeks ago.

The new chapel is close If it needs be he will make the appropriate to the sick bay. recommendation where Father Brian said that of a sailor could the 2000 personnel in flown back possibly be to rejoin his HMAS Stirling about family. one-quarter were As chaplain (he came to Catholics.

Perth from the Eastern St Paul's chapel, he said, states would eventually be able ago) about three weeks he will be at the beck to hold 120 people. and call of sailors who He said that most of the need his help. sailors went to the And he looks forward to Rockingham parish helping his "flock" at church.

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The new St Paul's the conference rooms in chapel in HMAS Stir- the base. Father Brian ling, Garden Island, Rayner, the new Catholic will make do with chaplain at HMAS Stirtemporary pews for the ling said he hoped to get time being. at least 20 pews.

The chapel to be shared "I don't know how long

by Catholics, Anglicans it will take but we will get and Protestants, is sche- there," he said. duled to be blessed and He plans to embark on consecrated on March a fund-raising campaign 15. within the base soon.

Except for six proper "We will be asking all of pews which were taken the ships posted in the from the former chapel HMAS Stirlin g area to in the base, St Paul's will donate a pew.

As an carry on with six other incentive we will put the benches borrowed from ship's plaque on each

pew donated," he said.

He also intends to contact parish priests in Perth and ask them for discarded pews. "Bit by bit we'll get the chapel going. We already have bookings for five weddings and 10 baptisms," he disclosed.

Father Brian said he was happy with the initial response from the base.

He has served in the navy for seven years and has been to sea on "fleet posting" for two years.

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A pilgrimage from the desert...

People about to enter the Church this Easter had gone through a period in the desert,

Christ's Linking period of temptation in the desert, the archbishop said that everyone goes through a desert of some sort when everything goes wrong, after car accidents, when sacked or afflicted by monotony.

"The desert means we are in a precarious position when we must let go. With moral supports gone, only God remains faithful to His word."

John the Baptist had to go to the desert and the public followed him and many find the way to Christ passing through the desert.

Even those baptised in infancy are challenged in adult life to make a personal commitment to Christ.

The catechumens and candidates, the archbishop said, had responded to voice of the Spirit urging them to take a step forward to become one in the community of Christ.

Their move had been a blessing for all and for the parishes which have gained much in the process.

All need to go out into the desert to find the Lord to break our dependence on things around us and to be dependant on Him. • See Page 15

Archbishop Foley told 66 catechumens and candidates presented to him last Sunday.

At the Rite of Election and Presentation, parish representatives presented to Archbishop Foley name scrolls vhich were later placed on the altar for the Mass which followed.

Good news, bad news on education plan AUSSIE BODY SPEAKS OUT The ALP's education funding plan has some good news and some bad news and quite a Few uncertainties for the future, according to the Australian Parents Council.

And the WA Parents and Friends Federation agrees with the APC that the freezing to the year 2000 of grants for more than 150,000 children who attend the 350 or more non —govenment category 1-7 schools is unjust and discriminatory.

"Some of these children have already had their grants frozen for eight years in the present funding system," says the APC. P & F spokesman Laurie Eastwood adds that a further 30,000 students in 179 category 8 schools will receive only 5.4% increase in real terms over the 1992-2000 period.

These schools, he notes, include Santa Maria, Trinity, John XXIII, Newman, Loreto Primary, Keaney College and St Clare's as well as 110 special schools.

This policy will substantially expand Senator Ryan's 1984 'hit list' and will cause growing divisions between Catholic and Protestant school sectors," he said.

Mr Eastwood said he believed the proposed Liberal funding policy would fund those children in so called "new" schools not being funded and would dismantle the Resource Agreements and the New Schools policy.

He said the policy was designed on a much higher basic level of funding for every

child (20% of government school costs instead of 12-13% of the Community Standard).

Mr Eastwood said the P & F estimates that real government school costs are substantially higher than the Community Standard but that even if they were equal to the standard the Liberal policy would still provide an additional $230m to $300m per year from 1995.

On the same issues the APC says Mr Dawkins' statement and the accompanying tables indicate that all non-government schools will reach an arbitrary target called the Community Standard by the Year 2000.

Does this then mean that in the year 2000 an ALP Government would freeze all nongovernment school grants because reaching the Community Standard is the rationale stated for freezing categories 1 to 7 after 1992?

In any case the APC has never accepted the Community Standard as a valid measure of the real cost of educating children in government schools because it is an arbitrary figure, not revised since 1984, and does not appear to include all nongovernment schooling costs.

This new funding plan does not appear to make provision for the hundreds of children presently in registered nongovernment schools who are being denied Federal recurrent grants under the restrictive 'new schools' legislation.

Big winners...

A Sydney Catholic Weekly story on the issue poor nons tates government schools are the big winners under the Federal Government's schools policy while wealthier schools have had their recurrent funding grants frozen from 1992 to 2000.

The policy, marketed as a needs-based document and issued by the Minister for Employment.

Education and Training, John Dawkins, is aimed at bringing the less well-off schools up to the Government-based "community standard" by the year 2000.

To do this the government has pledged an e xtra $116 million to schools that fall within the 8-12 non-government schools category, which are presently assessed as below the b eing standard.

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The Catholic Weekly Where to now for South Africa?

South Africa is a troubled land.

A fter the release from prison of Nelson Mandela a tough question is being posed for the South African government. Where to from here?

To outsiders it is obvious — South African President W. D. de Klerk, shouldpromptly put in place a policy of one person, one vote.

Unfortunately it is not so simple andhere the obvious comes apart at the racial seams.

The future of South Africa is not going to be secured only with the right words and commitment to justice and freedom — it will be secured through some deft political manoeuvering.

Whatever way the National Government turns, it still must deal with the people who can and will vote in the coming elections.

And those voters with the power are white, despite the pretence of a tricameral parliament, with its Indians and coloured members of parliament.

From the white voters' perspective, a whole life-style is being seriously threatened.

South Africa is troubledbecause its national psyche has been fed on the myths of the tough pioneers on the veldt fighting for their survival against the Zulu, the British and other "usurpers".

The myth making even found biblical justification, supplied by the Dutch Reformed Church, to practice racial discrimination.

Whites were told they had a God given responsibility to take care of their illiterate black brothers because intellectually, and spiritually they would never measure up to caucasian standards.

They were told this until recently when, at its Synod, the Church struck this belief from its teachings.

But now the myth is falling apart as a growing number of white South Africans begin to realise that the lone voices on the veldt were right, that what they and past generations had been supporting was a completely inhumane system of discrimination.

A ustralia's role in encouraging the imposition if international economic sanctions against South Africa has prompted counter claims by the South A fricans that we stillpractice systematic discrimination of the Aborigines.

An element of truth exists in these claims — we are a relatively wealthy country and, having exploited this country's resources, refused to pay the rent to its original occupants.

And if our federal and state governments decided to give the Aborigines a fair go, many of us would start thinking about the goodies we stand to lose.

It is similar for white South Africa.

It was distressing to see the image presented by 20,000 ultra right-wing protesters demanding a return to "good old days" at a rally in Pretoria recently.

They had gathered to pay "homage" to apartheid — an event with overt religious tones.

The -extremists- are not so extreme for the South African Government when their pollsters translate 20,000 whites into votes and assume that for every two protesters there is at least one white South African that sympathises with them.

South Africa has a white population of only 8.5 million people.

For President de Klerk and Nelson Mandela this poses a serious danger and it is now that the courage of these two men wi//be put to the test.

Nelson Mandela is a hero to many; but his actions and words in the days ahead will either make or break his land.

Australians, must continue to speak out at the injustice but also must continue to pray that a peaceful and just solution is found for this troubled country.

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Challenges after greater freedom VATICAN CITY (CNS): As the swift strides toward democracy in Eastern Europe bring more religious freedom, the next revolution to hit the region's Catholics may be the teachings of the Second Vatican Council.

With greater freedom comes the challenge of updating the millions of Catholics isolated from the mainstream of the universal Church since the end of World War II. Problems range from verifying the ordinations of people emerging from catacomb churches claiming to be bishops and priests to developing an adult education system for believers whose theology and spirituality have been frozen in pre-World War II Catholicism.

A related concern is converting East Europeans' current sympathy for the Catholic Church because of its strong moral and — in some cases — political opposition to communist regimes into active religious belief.

Vatican officials and East European Catholic leaders smile when they discuss these problems because it means the Church finally is

getting the freedom to openly evangelise.

But this means developing infrastructures for local churches lacking everything from missals to priests, they add.

For this, East Europeans are looking to churches in the developed world to provide needs ranging from religious literature to seminary professors.

One thing communist rule showed is that "religion doesn't die at night", said Father Antanas Liuima, president of the Lithuanian Academy in Rome, who hopes to return this spring to his native land for the first time in 25 years.

While the long night of communist rule has not killed the Church, it has become greatly weakened throughout Eastern Europe.

Primary reasons have been its physical and intellectual isolation from the rest of the universal Church, even in countries where the Church was not fully outlawed.

Symbolic of the intellectual isolation is the need to methodically educate clergy and laity to the teachings of Vatican II, the 1960s council of the worldwide hierarchy

that formed the basis of current Church thinking and pastoral activity.

Many East European bishops were not allowed to attend the council sessions.

Restrictions on domestic printing and on the importing of religious literature effectively barred council documents and commentaries on them from reaching the vast majority of the faithful.

In underground churches, people were secretly ordained, yet their seminary education consisted of several conversations with a priest educated in pre-Vatican II days.

Physically, Vatican officials have, until recently, been severely limited in travel to Eastern Europe. Coupled with travel restrictions on East Europeans, this meant little firsthand contact, making even the Vatican's information on church life sketchy and fragmentary.

This lack of contact complicates the situation in the case of u nderground churches and their secretly ordained leaders.

The opening up of Eastern Europe is enabling Church

Pope's tribute to a freedom fighter VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul II expressed his condolences over the death of former Italian President Alessandro Pertini and praised the Nazi foe as a defender of freedom and democracy.

The two men developed a friendship after 1978 when both were elected to their posts. They visited and telephoned each other frequently. The two made a highly publicised helicopter outing to a snowfield one year.

Pertini, 93, was president from 1978 to 1985.

A papal statement called Pertini "a man committed to the fight for freedom and democracy".

"From the beginning of my pontificate, he offered me his cordial friendship and was very close to me, with constant attention and solidarity on the occasion of the attempt against my life," the pope said.

Pertini was one of

the first to visit the pope in the hospital after the pope was seriously wounded May 13, 1981, in an assassination attempt in St Peter's Square.

Pertini was a strong opponent of the Fascist government that came to power after World War I and led Italy into World War IIas a German ally. He was imprisoned several times under the Italian Fascist government and under the Nazi occupation of Italy.

leaders to form preliminary assessments.

These include: • In most countries a second generation of young people is growing up without any formal religious instruction.

Attractive programs for youths must be developed soon to prevent further "lost generations".

• Widespread adult education is needed to capture the "lost generations" and to update older Catholics whose faith is strong but who lack knowledge of contemporary Catholic teachings and trends.

• In heavily Catholic places like Lithuania, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, the clergy is old and interest in vocations is promising.

But converting this potential into an active clergy requires money to build seminaries and finding qualified professors.

Finding professors means importing theologically and linguistically qualified teachers until local people can be given adequate education.

• Except for Poland, there is a need for strong bishops' conferences to be formed to give overall pastoral direction and address national issues.

• The church has a Golden opportunity of evangelise the general population because of the respect the Church has gained as a moral and political force opposed to communist rule.

But this means doing something quickly to tap the interest of the people who have been flocking to churches and religious events as a symbol of their opposition to unpopular governments.

This work of rebuilding and evangelising has the strong support of Pope John Paul H, who is expected to personally emphasise these during a series of trips to Eastern Europe during the next few years.

The pope's building block is expected to be the strong faith of the region's Catholics, which survived decades of repression.

The first stop planned is an April trip to Czechoslovakia.

"He cant wait any longer. They were faithful for 40 years.

He wants to show his appreciation," said Jesuit Father Stefan Sencik, Vatican Radio's director of Slovakian-language programming.

Right plus duty to speak out

LONDON: Heads of religious orders and congregations in England and Wales, meeting in Derbyshire recently, asserted they had "not only the right but the duty to speak out clearly on issues of justice and against all forms of oppression in our society".

They also took steps towards a more collective approach to the achievement of that end.

In a statement issued after the meeting, the Conference of Major Religious Superiors (CMRS) rejected as a deformation of the Gospel all individualistic forms of religious belief and practice that would deny that right and duty to speak out, seeking "to confine the Church to the sacristy or to purely spiritual matters".

DUBUN (CNS): Archbishop Desmond Connell of Dublin has appealed for a 25 per cent increase in donations to a special fund to help alleviate the archdiocesan debt.

The archdiocesan debt - $16 million — has decreased for four succes-

sive years. Archbishop Connell said that with the increase in weekly contributions to the special fund, the debt would be eliminated by 1998.

The archbishop made his appeal in a letter read at Masses February 17 and 18.

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WASHINGTON (CNS): Chances are good that Church-state relations will take a new turn in Nicaragua with the defeat of the Sandinistas at the voting booth.

For more than 10 years the leftist government, headed by President Daniel Ortega, and the Catholic hierarchy of the Central American nation, led by Cardinal Miguel Obando Bravo of Managua, lived uneasily together.

right hostility but sometimes settled into cooperation for an end to the civil war.

By contrast, Violeta Chamorro, the victor in the presidential elections, comes from a sector of Nicaraguan society that has supported the hierarchy.

She was publicly blessed by Cardinal Bravo at the churchman's residence two days before the elections.

The cardinal said later Their relationship occa- that Mrs Chamorro's sionally flared into out- main task is fostering

national reconciliation and improving Nicaragua's foreign relations.

Mrs Chamorro must work "for reconciliation, to unite the Nicaraguan family and to strengthen relations with its neighbours and the international community", he said.

The cardinal also invited Pope John Paul II to pay a second visit to Nicaragua.

"Iwould like the pope to return to Nicaragua because now we can give him the welcome he merits," he said.

During the pope's 1983 visit to Nicaragua, he got into a shouting match with Sandinista supporters during an outdoor Mass in Managua.

The Church itself was split by the tumultuous politics of Sandinista-run Nicaragua.

Some sectors of Nicaraguan Catholicism threw their energies behind the Sandinista program of land reform and socialism, forming what some called a "popular church" basing itself on liberation theology and alarming the bishops.

the poor in Nicaragua, a poor nation that previously had been ruled by a small class of wealthy elites.

(him) with open arms. I can say that with almost complete certitude".

Father Cardenal was one of four priests who "There is concern that accepted Nicaraguan the poor peasants who government posts after acquired lands and the 1979 Sandinista became members of co- revolution.

Father Cardenal was operatives set up under the Sandinistas might be expelled from the Jesuit reclaimed by their order. former owners" once His brother, Father Ortega leaves office in Ernesto Cardenal, and April, said the priest.

Maryknoll Father Father Mulligan, who Miguel D'Escoto were lives in the same Jesuit suspended from priestly community as Father ministry at Vatican Fernando Cardenal, orders because they Nicaragua's education refused to resign their minister, said that once cabinet posts.

Father Cardenal leaves The fourth priest, office he expected the Father Edgard Parrales, Jesuits "would welcome requested laicisation.

Father Mulligan, who has lived in Nicaragua for four years, called the victory by Mrs Chamorro "a real surprise and shock, there was no way to predict it".

He termed the vote "a vote against the Sandinistas in hopes of better economic conditions and an end to war".

"Essentially I see it as a victory of the power and force of the US government which tried everything from the contras to the economic embargo to get rid of the Sandinista government," said the priest.

Ms Gonzalez praised Ortega for his speech and his apparent decision to

New oirnortunitv now MANAGUA, Nicaragua (CNS): Opposition leader Violeta Chamorro's upset victory in Nicaragua's presidential election February 25 raised Nicaraguan exile hopes and opened questions about the future of three priests who defied Church orders to serve the Sandinista government.

Exiled Bishop Pablo Antonio Vega, head of Nicaragua's Juigalpa Prelature, said the elec-

tion provided a "new opportunity" for "equal rights and equal opportunities" for his countrymen.

In a telephone interview February 26 from Miami, where he works with other exiles, Bishop Vega said the Church's role will be to help build the new society and "correct" the "extreme attitudes" of right and left that have developed under Sandinista rule.

He also said there is

concern in the exile community that some with "extreme right" views might seek to "go back and claim old privileges".

Bishop Vega was expelled from Nicaragua in 1986 for allegedly supporting US military aid to the National Democratic Front known as the contras. When later the government relented and opened the way for his return, the churchman vowed to

stay in self-exile until the Sandinistas left power and Nicaraguans had their political rights restored.

"lam in . . . position to go (back) the day the new government takes office," he told Catholic News Service. "I am still the bishop of this prelature."

Bishop Vega had sharp words for three fellow clergymen suspended from their ministry for serving in high Sandinista government offices

Past confrontations MANAGUA: Tension between the Sandinistas and the highest level of Catholicism was made manifest in a pair of confrontations during Pope John Paul ll's 11-hour visit to Nicaragua March 4, 1983.

In an unprecedented

public display of displeasure, the pope scolded one of the recalcitrant Sandinista priestofficials, culture minister Father Ernesto Cardenal, who was in the reception line at the airport on the pope's arrival.

Father Cardenal said later in the year that he

would have rather retired into a life of writing poetry, but had followed his conscience — and the Sandinistas' request — to stay in his Cabinet job for the good of the country.

During his visit, Pope John Paul also engaged in a vigorous shouting

match with Sandinista youths who heckled him at an open-air Mass in downtown Managua.

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Smiles and some concern

WASHINGTON (CNS): The election of Violeta Chamorro as president o f Nicaragua has pleased some Catholics in Nicaragua but left others concerned about the impact on Nicaragua's poor.

Maria Luisa Gonzalez, programming director at Radio Catolica in Managua. said that she expected the election would improve conditions for the Church-run radio station which was shut down for almost two years by the Sandinistas.

But Jesuit Father Joseph E. Mulligan, Managua, noted that the 1979 Sandinista revolution had resulted in gains for

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"Radio Catolica had been wrongly treated as if it were an opposition station" during the 11 years the Sandirtistas were in office, said Ms Gonzalez.

In fact, she said, the station is a "non-partisan part of the Church that has a primarily spiritual message".

Radio Catolica, run by the Archdiocese of Managua, was forced to shut down by the Sandinistas in 1986. Almost two years later, President Ortega announced that the radio station was free to resume broadcasting.

despite Vatican orders to step down. They are Foreign Minister Father Miguel D'Escoto, a member of the Maryknoll order; Father Fernando Cardenal, education minister and a Jesuit expelled from his order in 1985; and his brother, Father Ernesto Cardenal, culture minister.

"For a long time, they haven't been thinking how to be priests, but to be dominators of the people," said Bishop Vega.

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The letter was written less than two months after Nicaragua's hierarchy protested a government crackdown on civil rights and harassment of people c onnected with the Church.

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Pope to bless controversial cathedral in Ivory Coast VATICAN CITY (CNS): church, built to resemble probably be named to Pope John Paul II plans St Peter's Basilica in oversee management at to personally bless a Rome, as a personal gift the site. huge, controversial of Ivory Coast President The papal blessing has $150 million cathedral Felix Houphouet-Boigny. long been sought by the built by the president of The church and an 84 year-old president, Ivory Coast when he adjoining office complex who says he paid for the travels to Africa next will be managed by an complex with family September. international founda- money.

The pope will consecrate the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro on the return leg of his planned visit to three East African nations.

The ceremony will take place in a less than 24 hour stopover in Ivory Coast which the pope has already visited in 1980 and 1985.

The Vatican has decided to accept the

tion, which will pay for The total cost of the annual maintenance church and office comcosts estimated at $1.5 plex has never been million. made public, but estiThe Vatican accepted mates range upward the church on the condi- from $150 million. tion that the attached Houphouet-Boigny's complex of buildings architects designed the would house social ser- marble -and -concrete vice centres. The centres basilica as a pilgrimage will probably provide centre for all African education, health servi- Catholics. ces or programs for Its interior holds a few women, the sources said. thousand fewer worA Vatican delegate will shippers than St Peter's,

VATICAN CITY (CNS): The African Synod, designed to mark a coming of age for the continent's young Catholic Church, is slowly taking shape more than a year after its announcement by Pope John Paul II. The pope talked up the synod during his recent trip to West Africa, saying he envisioned a "vast consultation" on such topics as inculturation, Christian-Muslim dialogue and evangelisation.

To group after group in five countries, the pope's message was: Let's get involved. He called for a "general mobilisation" of families and parishes, saying, "this assembly concerns all of you".

But when it came to details, the pope had to speak in fuzzy terms. He could not, for example. tell his African audience where or when the meeting would occur, or who would attend — because no one knows for sure.

African and Vatican officials have to thrash out a number of questions and 1993 or 1994 seem to be the earliest dates, considering that agenda papers will be sent out probably not till next year.

The synod could be in Rome and be seen as the Vatican imposing its stamo, or in Nairobi or Abidjan and, concluding with a session in Rome.

It is unlikely that all of Africa's 500 bishops would attend.

The present Vatican synods of bishops usually have one delegate for each 25 of the world's bishops. But with special delegates, and observers the number at such an African synod could be close to 300.

During his Africa trip, the pope did not get into these specifics, but he hinted at what he sees as the core of the synod's task: matching the Gospel to African values.

The synod process, he said, should include a "rigorous and structured theological reflection" in order to "appreciate the customs, traditions, wisdom, science, arts and disciplines of (African) peoples," and draw into church life "all that is true, beautiful and good from this inheritance".

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They have also questioned whether the pope should bless a building that in some ways is like a personal monument.

They note that the one black pilgrim represented in the hand-blown stained glass windows bears a striking resemblance to HouphouetBoigny as a young man.

It was important, they said, that the president used his own money to build the church — although some critics have asked whether that kind of personal wealth in a poor African nation should be applauded.

Critics have described According to Vatican the construction as an sources, however, the extravagance in a coun- basilica is not seen as an try where the annual per embarrassment by the capita income is about "pie. $1000, the sugar-based economy has fallen upon sources noted that hard times, the foreign the great European debt is about $10 billion, cathedrals were all built and Catholics amount to in times of economic about 10 per cent of the hardship, and said it

Vatican officiaLs say the social services that will be offered in the church complex can be a visible expression of what the pope has often preached during his African trips: that the gospel and concern for the poor go hand in hand.

According to Church

seems unfair to deny such expressions to modern Africa.

sources, most of the criticism has come from Europe and America rather than Africa.

African Catholics seem to understand that national leaders across the continent take pride in building such monuments, they said.

Privately, several Church sources — and President HouphouetBoigny — have said the basilica is an important Catholic symbol on a continent where Islamic influence is growing.

They note that Morocco's King Hassan II recently built the second largest mosque in the world at an estimated cost of $250 million.

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the largest Catholic church in the world, but its 7.5 acre plaza is bigger and can hold up to 300,000 people.

The cathedral is about 30 metres taller than St Peters, and is lavishly decorated with acres of stained-glass windows and Italian marble. The entire building is airconditioned.

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A BIDJAN, Ivory Coast (CNS): A violent clash on February 24 between police and students occupying a Catholic cathedral in Abidjan in a demonstration reforms f or reflected growing political unrest in French-speaking West Africa.

The turmoil, according to some observers, is bolstered by the example of political change in Eastern Europe.

Some 200 students demanding political and economic reform in Ivory Coast occupied St Paul's Cathedral in Abidjan, the capital, on February 23.

They demanded establishment of a multiparty state and better living conditions, among other changes.

About 100 were detained, and observers who saw the students released on February 25 said many appeared to have been beaten. In addition, a Catholic clergyman — said to be the cathedral rector — was also apparently detained and roughed up.

The incident was the latest in a series of

protests against the 30-year rule of President Felix Houphouet-Boigny — who has been in office longer than any other West African leader.

It reflected similar protests across the region, which some observers said are strengthened by the example of the freeing of Eastern Europe from 40 years of c ommuni st dictatorships.

The protesters have been encouraged to believe their leaders can be removed too, according to students, politicians, academics and diplomats in the region.

Pope John Paul II, who is widely regarded as a major inspiration for reform movements in his native Poland and elsewhere in the East bloc, visited West Africa during his January 25-February 1 trip to the continent.

He is scheduled to travel to Ivory Coast this September to bless a controversial basilica and complex built by HouphouetBoigny with a reported $150 million in family funds.

The suddenness and scale of the discontent

surprised many of the generals and tribal leaders who have ruled much of former French West Africa with an iron hand for decades.

Protests since December by government workers who have not been paid and students with uncertain or no job prospects have turned political.

Demonstrators calling for an end to oneparty rule have faced bullets in Benin and Niger and tanks in Gabon, as well as police tear gas in Ivory Coast.

In addition to the protests in Ivory Coast, opponents of Benin's President Mathieu Kerekou forced him to agree to a rewrite of the constitution which could pave the way for his removal through elections.

In Gabon, the ruling party was dissolved to make way for a new organisation which President Omar Bongo called reformminded.

Underlying the unrest and driving it has been sub-Saharan Africa's further slide into poverty during the 1980s, African observers said.

Africans are no better off now than they were 20 years ago while living standards elsewhere have risen.

All of black Africa's output of goods and services equals that of Belgium.

International Monetary Fund reforms adopted by most of the countries have caused cuts in government spending and massive layoffs.

Falling export earnings, economic mismanagement, corruption and the lack of constitutional checks and balances have brought several countries to the brink of collapse.

In Benin, for example, 15 years of Marxism-Leninism have left the former French colony virtually bankrupt and at the mercy of Western donors.

African leaders such as Houphouet-Boigny have resisted pressure for multiparty democracy. They say that in a country like Ivory Coast, with about 60 dialects and ethnic groups, party politics lead to tribal warfare and anarchy.

H ouphouet— Boigny was supported in that belief by France, which backed

his and other stable single-party governments in Gabon, Mali, Niger and Togo which served French political and business interests.

But French private investment in West Africa has declined.

At the same time France's current, socialist government has said twice since December that respect for democracy and human rights are necessary for development in Africa.

Senegal is the only West African state with multiple parties, although Englishspeaking Nigeria, with black Africa's biggest economy and population, plans to return from military rule to a two-party civilian democracy by 1992.

Since the unrest began, France has kept a low public profile but its role in the future of its old colonies and their leaders is crucial, African politicians agree.

French aid keeps many of them afloat and French troops are stationed in Ivory Coast, Gabon, Chad, Senegal and the Central African Republic.

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New rector for seminary in Adelaide Saint Francis Xavier ;eminary in Adelaide is ip and running for 990 with a new rector.

Fr Anthony Mannix ,M was appointed late ast year to take over rom Fr Rom Barry CM, low working in the Vincentian parish of Southport, Queensland.

Upon hearing of his appointment Fr Mannix remembers thinking "wouldn't it be marvellous if it was someone else".

"It's not the kind of position or ministry in the Church that you go looking for," he laughed.

Fr Mannix is no stranger to seminary life, having taught at Saint Seminary, Charles Guildford in 1964, Saint Francis Xavier Seminary in 1965-1966 and in 1969-1970 and at Holy Cross College, Mosgiel in New Zealand in 19671968 and from 1971 to 1983.

After ordination on July

18, 1959 he studied Old

Testament, Semitic languages, Greek and Modern languages at the Catholic University of America in Washington DC for a year.

He obtained a licentiate in theology from the Angelicum (now the University of Saint Thomas) in Rome before studying scripture for

By Justin Bianchini three years at the Biblical Institute in Rome.

Towards the end of the course he did more particular work in New Testament, focusing on Johannine Literature.

"That's my area of great love in the scriptures particularly the Gospel of John," he said.

For the past six years he has been Director of the Daughters of Charity.

What vision of seminary life does he bring with him?

"The whole Church is a community of disciples," he said.

"And those preparing for the ministry of deacon and priest in the Church in a very special way have to be deeply involved as disciples of Christ the Lord, "Come to that deep and prayerful union with him and be aware of the bond of discipleship that links all disciples around the world.

"In order to be able to go out and be exactly the pastor, the shepherd representing Christ the Shepherd and allowing the Os of the Spirit to be brought forth and exercised in his name."

So the seminary corn-

munity has to be conscious of that?

In as much as calling people to not only be and become evermore the community of disciples, but to experience and live that first before being able to lead others along that same path, to discover it and to live it," he said.

Fr Mannix admits that the path is exciting and challenging but also fulfilling.

Fr Anthony Mannix with new Perth student Philip Perreau of Balcatta parish.

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"It's fulfilling in ways that are probably not anticipated in the earlier stages of preparation for priesthood.

"It's the old Christian thing, the Christian paradox again, it's in giving that we redeye, it's in forgiving that we are forgiven, it's in dying that we're born to eternal life.

"We have to learn that, which is the rule of discipleship actually," he smiled.

What's an example of giving then, a candidate giving oneself?

"Yes, giving oneself and the element, I think, of risk and of vulnerability that's involved in that, because one is putting one's whole self on the line as a loved and loving person."

This semester Fr Mannix will teach Pauline Epistles.

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Director of the Daughters of Charity in the Province of Australia from 1984.

In Perth the Daughters have communities at Guildford, Highgate and Medina.

As he takes up the position of rector, how have the Daughters of Charity influenced him?

"I can best talk about that in how I think the ministry of deacon and priest is experienced and lived by

many in the Church today.

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Big poser over work

DISCUSSION POINTS

What if you don't like it, asks H. Richard McCord

What relationship do you is. What Ipray is that the see between your work love and the power of the and the action of God in Lord will come into their this world? lives through my relaSelected responses from tionship with them." — Barbara C.ascio. readers: -God helps me to be "As principal of a physically strong for long Catholic elementary hours of work, teaches school I have numerous me to find answers to opportunities to bring lifficult cases and gives life to the word and me the proper words to teachings of the Church. le loving and tender in By providing positive consoling a family in a witness of belief in sad situation . . . my Christ, I can help others profession (is) . . . a great see the hope-filled future opportunity to help and we have as his followers." serve others in his name." — Mary Thomas.

— Maria Soriano, "Our attitudes, values pediatrician. principles can influand "Living and working on ence and even inspire the farm, we get to see a simpler, more natural others to put more of way of life that I think themselves into their God is calling us to. We daily labours." — Dan can raise the kids away Jager. from the complications "My ministry within a of city life and maybe get Catholic school centres them to see more clearly around the message of how God is working in Jesus . . . The success of them." — Sandee Matz. this mission will be "Ireally do see my work judged by how well the as a vocation . . . Being in community develops its a public school I can't love of God and one witness to children another." — Bernadine openly about who Jesus St Pierre.

It is a grey, bleak and cold Monday morning.

The alarm clock buzzes intrusively. Another work week is about to begin.

Does it have to? Isn't there a better way to make a living? What's the point of this struggle anyway?

Most people ask such questions at times. Rainy days and Mondays often force us into some soulsearching about the meaning of work.

And some people hate their work. What about them? Can they gain any meaningful perspective on it?

For them, the dismal Monday morning scenario is not merely an occasional restlessness but a continuing pattern.

Studs Terkel claims that stories of work tell of violence done to the spirit as well as the body.

This violence makes no distinction between white collar or blue

collar or pink collar.

There is the advertising executive who detests a system that requires her to promote products that are useless trivialities as though they were necessities.

There is the municipal building inspector who is discouraged continually by poor quality workmanship and slides deeper into cynicism about his job.

There is the government file clerk who feels stuck in a bureaucratic maze.

There is the assembly line worker who is bored with applying spot welds 32 times per car on 48 cars per hour for eight hours a shift.

"To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us," writes Terkel in his classic book, "Working" (Avon Books, 1975).

No one takes a job or pursues a career because

tions of work suggested above.

By H. Richard McCord it promises to be meaningless. Everyone seeks work that holds some significance or promises to be satisfying. But what makes work meaningful?

In his new book, "Converting Nine to Five: A Spirituality of Daily Work" (Crossroad, 1989), Jesuit Father John C. Haughey observes: "Meaning cannot come from the work to the worker, it must come from the worker to the work."

Although it might seem that counselling or nursing is more meaningful than packaging junk foods, both situations have their share of cynical, bored, discontented workers.

So it is primarily a matter of how we interpret our jobs that determines the significance of work for us.

Interpretation is a process of drawing meaning

out of experience. The process operates with the aid of filters provided by our mind, our affections and our faith.

For those who are hard pressed to find meaning in their work,Ioffer, with the assistance of Father Haughey's book, some interpretations which people customarily draw from their experience in jobs and careers.

The pragmatic interpretation sees value in a given job insofar as it benefits the worker.

Such benefits range from feeding and clothing a family, to acquiring certain consumer goods, to financing an education, to a job advancement.

A social interpretation of work focuses not on the actual tasks or job responsibilities but on the work place environment. One finds meaning in the relationships

among workers on and off the job.

Perhaps you know someone who refused a promotion or transfer because it meant leaving a group of co-workers who had become friends.

Altruistic interpretations stress the good effect one's work is likely to produce.

Examples include taking pride in building a automobile quality because it can transport people safely or feeling that one's laboratory research eventually will contribute to finding a cure for AIDS. Finally, there is religious interpretation.

Faith is a major resource people use to make sense of who they are and what they do.

Meanings suggested by faith can build upon and enrich the interpreta-

Here are some examples of a religious interpretation of work.

A person can engage in a certain job or career with the conviction that God has called him or her to it. One's work then becomes a response to this call.

Again, work can be viewed as a way of imitating Christ who "did not c.ome to be served but to serve" (Matthew 20:28). In this perspective, work becomes the occasion to show respect for the individual dignity of each customer, colleague and boss, or the opportunity to see Christ in persons whose needs for food, clothing, shelter or healing we might serve.

Justice is associated closely with service.

To bring justice into the world is seen in our faith

tradition as a sign that God's reign is being established. It is possible to interpret one's work as a "work of justice," either in the sense of making the workplace itself more humane or equitable or in the sense of working to change unjust structures or situations in society.

The God who creates the world is depicted in the Bible as a worker. So our work also can be interpreted as bringing creation to its full potential as co-creators with God. There is no denying the fact that work can be boring or demeaning or just plain stressful. In some cases, a change of job might help.

But, in the end, any work we do will suffer impoverishment unless we bring our minds, hearts and faith to the challenge of making it meaningful.

Food for thought How can the Church counsel people who find little meaning in their work?

Jesuit Father John Haughey said in an interview that he starts by asking them to reflect on their work, perhaps using questions such as t hese: Is it meaningless in your eyes only? Are your feelings about work connected with the way you are treated on the Job? "My function is to make sure" that people have explored all avenues before concluding that a job is meaningless, said the pastor of St Peter's Church, and author of "Converting Nine to Five: A Spirituality of Daily

Work".

In reflecting on work "one of the underused treasures" many people have is their faith, Father Haughey said. Faith is "the most 'meaningmaking energy' we have".

He thinks the Church can help people evaluate the meaning in their work by applying religious categories to it. For example, is it a means of service?

Father Haughey told of a woman who stacks grocery store shelves.

She sees her work as a way to serve the people who eventually will use the products. For her, this invests the work with meaning.

Can you love those you work for?

The tiny woman with the shortcropped greying hair stood along on the stage, with no lectern, no notes, no pretense: the world renowned Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.

She concluded her stories of heroism in the world of healing with: "If you do not love your patients, you must leave the profession."

Pope John Paul II had Oven a similar message two years earlier in his 1981 encyclical "On Human Work". Human toil, he said, presents "the possibility of sharing lovingly in the work that Christ came to do".

Dr Kubler-Ross' message, fused with their own beliefs, directed the vocations of the two young nurses with me the night of her lecture.

Jim already had volunteered for assignment in

the burn centre to which the state's worst cases were flown. relentlessly Pain embraced the patients there; medical procedures were exacting and exhausting.

Asked why he continued, Jim replied: "With the need for extremely sterile conditions, the chaplain often cannot come in, so I talk to the patients about God and bring them messages from their family.It helps them fight for life.Ithink God wants me to stay here awhile."

Jim's next assignment was in the intensive care unit connected with the inner-city hospital's emergency room, where caring for the assembly line of broken bodies was a brutal grind.

"You must remind yourself that they are God's creation and treat

Therese cared for Jenny, caressed her bruised arms, told her funny stories and eventually read to her from the them respectfully even if Psalms. some have not respected Slowly, with great delithemselves," Jim said. "It cacy, Therese brought an is gratifying to see their awakening to the response, which in turn woman. helps us give more."

Jenny recovered rapidly When Therese was once she saw reasons for assigned to the interme- living. She went on to call diate intensive care unit Therese "my angel sent in a suburban hospital, by God to bring me the head nurse asked her back". to see what she could do Another patient for Jenny, 79, who had Thevivid remains in receded into herself with memory: rese's Eileen. her two companions, and the mother of a nurse bitterness friend, was in a lifedepression. threatening situation.

Jenny had suffered a But one evening Eileen heart attack after her 58- seemed stable and the year-old son's suicide. faithful family left their Wanting no more of vigil to eat. living, she tore away the Suddenly the monitor life-support systems. sounded, Eileen opened It took courage for a her eyes and smiled, and young nurse to love and the monitor indicated be rebuffed. her heartbeat had

By Jane Wolford Hughes

What's the problem with work?

Urban workers in biblical times were often artisans whose homes were their workshops.

They took understandable pride in their workmanship.

Their skills were developed on the job.

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in a "proverb" which the fourth Gospel adapts to express the relationship between Jesus and his father.

"Amen, amen, I say to you, a son cannot do anything on his own, but only what he sees his father doing, for what he does, his son will do also."

(John 5:19-20) The work was hard.

At the end of the alY, hands and arms arid legs were sore.

But every artifan was an artist of so Is. The work had ell tional rewards. So what if it was just an oil lamp or a chair or a bit of pottery Cult was created?

However, not all people did this sort of work. The majoitY

laboured simply to survive. The rewards were minimal on all levels.

Most of the country was rural, and farming is notoriously difficult, especially in a land where there was more rock than soil.

Households had to be self-sufficient, producing food, clothing

and articles used to barter for things the family could not proEveryone duce. worked.

The book of Proverbs pictures a woman who is a dynamo human engaged in production, management and marketing. Reading it, one wonders when she ever rested

(31:10-31).

In the book of Genesis, one of the earliest biblical authors wrestled with the problem of work — the mystery of work — trying to find some reasonable explanation for its difficulties and frustrations.

He found an explanation in humanity's mysterious alienation

from the Creator.

Work first is portrayed as a sort of pleasant pastime. God put the first couple in the garden "to cultivate and care for it" (Genesis 2:15). We can imagine them gleefully priming the fruit trees and trimming the rose bushes.

But after their falling-out with God

who had planted the garden in the first place, we read: "Cursed be the ground because of you! In toil shall you eat its yield all the days of your life . . .

By the sweat of your face shall you get bread to eat" (3:17,19).

It is not that toilsome labour was a punishment. The problem is

stopped.

When it became Therese's responsibility to tell the family, she stood at the door of the waiting room and whispered the news, but could not stop her own tears.

Family and nurse consoled each other.

Therese had done everything possible, but felt "unprofessional" because she cried when informing the family.

She went to the supervisor.

"Grief is an honest emotion for someone you cared about. It is more important that you are as loving as you are," the older and wiser nurse said. "The family spoke to me about your care and compassion, which helped them through their ordeal.

"You're the kind of nurse we need here."

By Father John Castelot

that they are alienated from the only one who can make any sense of the situation.

Thus, we might look upon these words as a cry for meaning and for understanding of this aspect of the human situation.

Scripture offers no simplistic answer to

the mystery of work.

Some people love it; others detest it. Most endure it until they can retire and take it easy. And then they don't know what to do with themselves.

They can't live comfortably with work and they can't live contentedly without it.

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St John of God Health Care Syste blossoms Quote ' In the past the Catholic church depended on people in religious congregations for education and health, but there is a change in the number of people coming into religious congregations. That may have been the stimulus which provoked the St J. of G. sisters into investigating the possibility of a health care system. But this is the way to go, regardless of whether there were a million sisters or not! 9

The St John of God Health Care System set up two years ago is continuing to grow having sprung from forward-looking minds who, having assessed a need and necessary course of action, have initiated a set-up which is unique in Australia.

The health care system is a multi-hospital association which enables its members to pool their resources for cost and human effectiveness, and also enables staff movement between St John of God hospitals.

It maximises the opportunity for its employees ( 2500 in Australia), and nine hospitals are currently involved — four in Victoria, one in NSW and four in WA. Other hospitals have expressed interest in joining, because to do so means no loss of autonomy or character.

A spin-off is the extra clout that Catholic hospitals now have in interacting with governments for equitable distribution of the nation's health dollars, says Sister Eugenia Brennan SJG, who has recently arrived in WA for a projected term of five years, to take up the position of Director of Mission Effectiveness.

Its function is to ensure all health c.are activities are faithful to the mission of the Church in health and healing "and that will be done by enabling our people to grow and develop, and make the attitudinal and skill changes necesary to really live our changing understanding of what it is to be Church and Christian in health care," said Sister Eugenia.

This will take place through the formation of mission effectiveness

committees and local directors in each of the facilities, by having programs to enable St J of G employees to live by the established value system and to be constantly querying whether an undertaking is according to gospel values, for the greater good of human-

ity, and specifically this particular person, Sister Eugenia said.

Irish born and Australian by adoption, Sister was attached to the St J of

G Ballarat community and this represents her second time in the West.

Her background is medical science and she's worked for 15 years in pathology with a year in Washington investigating spiritual aspects of health care, then subsequently setting up the pastoral care department in Ballarat.

Pastoral care in hospitals is being concerned with the impact that sickness and life changing situations can have on people's spirituality, Sister defined, "and so it is a religious and sacramental ministry but one especially which explores the meaning of what is happening in people's lives — and being an attentive listener in those situations".

Having been born and completed her religious formation pre-Vatican,

Sister Eugenia . . . arrived in WA to take up position of Director . of Mission Effectiveness. with convent life during the Vatican Council, Sister Eugenia believes she is a bridging person who is fortunate enough to have experienced a Church which is now history and yet did her theological formation in a post-Vatican II Church.

Vatican H spawned many new initiatives and new of channels thoughts, "and this whole mission effectiveness project in the St J of G Health Care System, comes out of the historical context of the changes which have occurred".

The historical changes mean that we now need to recognise the Christian ministry of all the baptised, she said.

"In the past the Catholic church depended on people in religious congregations for education and health, but there is a change in the number of people coming into reli-

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LOS ANGELES (CNS): The Archdiocese of Los Angeles is starting a $S million fund to help seminaries in Ireland.

The money, to be raised privately, will help restore, refurbish and endow seven seminaries in the Republic of Ireland.

"Hundreds of Irish priests have been sent here over the years, and for many years, Irish priests have been the mainstay of the archdiocese," Archbishop Roger

M. Mahony said in announcing the fund on February 16. The fund bears his name.

There are 170 Irelandborn priests serving in the Los Angeles archdiocese. The total number of priests in the archdiocese is 1340.

Archbishop Mahony's predecessor in Los Angeles, the late Cardinal Timothy Manning, also was born in Ireland.

Cardinal Tomas 0 Fiaich of Armagh, Northern Ireland, who is primate of all Ireland,

said in Los Angeles that a statue of Our Lady of the Angels would be commissioned and placed in Ireland as "an enduring memorial to the help we give each other in time of need".

The seven seminaries, where many of the priests serving the archdiocese were educated, are: All Hallows, Dublin; St Patrick's, Carlow; St Patrick's, Maynooth; St Patrick's, Thurles; St Peter's, Wexford; St John's, Waterford; and St Kierans, Kilkenny.

'Don't accept drug money' BOGOTA: The Colombian bishops have warned candidates in upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections not to accept campaign funds from drug traffickers.

Using drug money means "selling the country, its dignity, its values and its future", the bishops said.

Candidates using drug money are not worthy to hold office, they said.

gious congregations.

That may have been the stimulus which provoked the St J of G sisters into investigating the possibility of a health care system. But this is the way to go, regardless of whether there were a million sisters or not!"

Understanding our vocation, Christian means recognising everyone's Christian ministry, and the purpose of the St J of G health care system is to maximise the utilisation of resources — human and material, but always in the service of humanity in health and healing needs, said Sister. "But at the same time being aware of world needs and not letting Australia's demands for health service, be disproportionate.

Other members of the St J of G Health Care System executive are Mr Tim McDonald, Chief

Executive Officer, Mr Don Good, Finance Director. Mr Roger Veary, Projects Officer, Ms Nic.ky Buttery, Executive Assistant/Office Manager plus a support staff of two secretaries and a receptionist.

Sister Eugenia believes the system is an enormous investment of faith in the future and also in the people of Australia, and believes the Christians already in our hospital, can carry on what the sisters did alone.

There are other people, she said, emerging in the Church, ready to make a commitment to the mission of health and healing.

As for the sisters who established it, Sister said she's very proud of the courage and foresight "of the sisters who went before me; who pioneered and took this on!".

Jesuit released HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (UCAN): Father Nguyen Cong Doan, the Jesuit Regional Superior for Vietnam, was released late last month from a re-education centre three years before his sentence was due to expire.

Father Doan had been held at a government re-education centre since 1981 in Dong Nai Province, east of here.

In the past few years, the government allowed Father Doan to travel between Dong Nai and Ho Chi Minh City to purchase supplies for a cooperative he ran inside the centre. He has also been translating several books on Church history. This project is sponsored by the weekly Cong-giao va Dan Toc (Catholics and Our People) of Ho Chi Minh archdiocese. Father Doan says he plans to continue his translation work.

With the release of Father Doan, there are now no more Catholic clergy under detention in the government-run re-education centres.

However, there are still about 10 priests, sentenced for various offences, held in Vietnam prisons.

The centres differ from prisons in that reeducation detainees are not formally tried.

At the close of the Provincial Gathering each community was commissioned to carry on the Church's mission in each of the Diocese of Broome, Geraldton, Bunbury and the Archdiocese of Perth.

Above: Sr Maria Casey presents Sr Catherine Ross of Tom Price with an oil lamp as a symbol of this missioning.

Right: Leadership Team for the West Australian Province of the Sisters of St Joseph. From left: Sisters Eileen Lenihan, Maria Casey — provincial leader, Mary Dwyer, Alma Cabassi and Veronica Ryan.

Despite the huge time difference, the vision remains the same for the Sisters of St Joseph in 1990 as it was when Mary McKillop founded the order in 1866.

"We have a unity of vision," said the Congregational Leader Sister Mary Cresp at a recent gathering in WA, "and no matter what work we are doing, we are all one body.

"Our mission as Josephites is with the total mission of the Church and that is to be a sign and sacrament of God's presence in our world.

Sister Mary Cresp led the provincial generalate team bringing the results of the Chapter in NSW to the local josephite community.

"And it was exciting that 1500 sisters across Australia, New Zealand, Peru and Ireland have the same call — to be outward looking in bringing the message of Christ to the world."

Responding to the needy is very much in the spirit of our founders, she said.

"But of course the response is different through necessity. In the early days of the Sisters of St Joseph education was seen as a saviour for the poverty stricken so that they could rightfully claim justice for themelves.

"Our sisters were very involved in education, but now those educational needs are also being fulfilled by others," Sister Mary said.

"However,I see that we should be helping families live the faith by focussing on religious education, and living religion in family life."

Education was by no means the only involvement the sisters had, as from the beginning Josephites have been involved in visitation in jails, rehabilitation programs for prisoners, helping prostitutes. unmarried mothers, the destitute, the homeless, orphans and broken

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people we hoped that people would come to the realisation that God cares for them, and so help them reclaim who they were, and eventually become full members of society, and the church.

"Today, many people have those same needs, but we respond differently because the emphasis lies in different places."

From the Chapter, the sisters found it was important to meet the needs of the time.

"We have to read the signs of the times, so even though we bring the same message, people will be able to hear it, because we have adapted to the changes," Sister Mary said.

The Chapter strongly reaffirmed the sisters working with communities living on the fringes of society, and in remote areas of Australia, such as the Kimberleys.

"We especially support the work with Aborigines to uphold their dignity, and to be with them as they strive to share their understanding of God in their lives.

"Listening to their vision of God, while sharing our vision of God is so important," she said.

The Chapter also looked at extending the vision throughout the world.

A community has been established in Peru, and the sisters affirmed the work in other places "Through the sisters such as New Guinea and caring and helping these Thailand.

"We are attending to the presence of God in our world, and are striving to help others become aware of that.

The RS). Associates in Mission program, first agreed to in principle in the previous Chapter six years ago, is still developing, said Sister Mary.

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Observers from the associateship attended two days of the Chapter, sharing their vision of the Sister of St Joseph. and ways they could contribute towards the thrust of the mission.

The future holds no fear for Sister Mary.

"Iam confident the Sisters of St Joseph play a most important part in the fullness of life, and people are aware that religious life has something very valuable to offer the world.

"The Sisters are confident in who we are, and in inviting others to join us. We don't know the shape of the future, but listening to each other, and the associates is important," she said.

"The sisters must be open to the future, but continue to hold fast to the centrality of Christ.

"By adjusting to the future of the Church we will continue the mission of Christ, so people know of God's love through our lives."

As a final comment, Sister Mary wants to see the good (that is, God) encouraged in our lives.

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DEATH SALGADO: Mrs Catherine, 86 yrs (A) DAW HLAING formerly of Rangoon Burma, passed away peacefully in Christ at Glendalough Home March 6, 1990; wife of the late Mr John Bensley Salgado of Burma Raimways; mother of Rode, Elsie, Sr Marie Aimee, Emily, Freddy, Rev Fr Reggieand Giibie; grandmother of 14 and greatgrandmother of three children.

Mass for the repose of her soul will be offered by Fr Reggie at the Glendalough Home chapel on Saturday, March 10 at 930am. From thence the cortege will leave for the Karakatta Cemetery.

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ANNIVERSARY 21st Anniversary of Rev Fr Reggie Salgado in the holy office. May God grant him many more healthy years. God bless you and protect you.

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Holy Spirit you who solve all

problems, light all roads so that I can attain my goal. You gave me the divine gift to for&ive and forget all evil against me and that in all instances of my life you are with me. I want in this short prayer to thank you for all things as I confirm once again that I never want to be separated from you ever in spite of all material illusions.

I wish to be with you in eternal glory. Thank you for mercy towards me and mine.

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Sacred Heart of Jesus, St. Anthony, thanks with all my heart. Please continue to help I pray for. "Apanya"_ My most humble and grateful thanks to you St Clare for granting my petition. Please continue to hear and answer my prayers. Published as promised A L S Grateful thanks to Saint Jude for a miraculous quick response to my impossible request within only a few days of my having invoked his aid. Pray to St Jude and he will bring speedy and visible help in cases despaired of.

M.B. Thanks to Jesus, Mary and Joseph, St Rita of hopeless cases and St Jude, rich in miracles. May the Sacred Heart of Jesus have mercy on us. D.M.

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From Roger RYAN, Doubleview Paul Donnelly (the Record, February 22) proves that pernicious X-rated videos are causing great harm and injury to children, teenagers and women in the same way as drinking alcohol to excess and taking unprescribed hard drugs.

All these anti-social habits have caused death or heartache to families who have to cope with the aftermath of the traumatic experience of loved ones caught up in such life styles.

Certain federal parliamentarians appear resolute in their determination to allow the sale of the worst kind of

X-rated videos by mail order from Canberra despite positive proof from an expert psychologist, Professor Bill Marshall, who has treated 600 rapists and child molesters over a period of 16 years and whose studies showed that more than a third of rapists collected pornography at a huge rate. For child molesters the figure was about 80 per cent. A third of each group deliberately and routinely used pornography to psych themselves up before committing their sex crimes.

A number of WA's sex criminals who committed crimes of rape and child molesting including killing

their victims were reported as having violent and degrading pornography in their homes.

As a citizen concerned for the well being of women and children particularly, I put to the parliamentarians reponsible for the sale of pornography from Canberra, which has been banned from sale in all states: Can they really justify their actions on the premise that adults should be able to watch what they like when they know very well that these X-rated videos are so readily accessible to children and teenagers.

We all demand our rights and our freedoms but, how

many of us accept the responsibilities that go with them.

My opinion also is that pollution of the minds of members of our society through these harmful videos and other violent T.V. shows should be opposed at least as vigorously as pollution of our natural environment.

Being a constituent entitled to vote in the forthcoming election, I will be asking my House of R epresentatives and Senate candidates what stand they will be taking regards Xrated videos.

Getting wires crossed from Brian PEA CHEY, Woodlands Sir, Colleen McGuiness Howard's uncritical and inadequate full page article on WIRE (Womens Information and Referral Exchange) (The Record March 2) is astounding.

The Burke Government in 1 984 was forced to establish WIRE by the highly organised and well funded ferninest network, which had concentrated its energies in strategic parts of the Labor Movement.

Since its formation the fulltime administrators and most of its staff have been tough minded and dedicated feminists, who know exactly what the feminist policies are and how to implement them Most feminist policies are opposed to the teaching of the Catholic Church.

WIRE promotes abortion and refers women with pregnancy problems to the two functioning abortion clinics. It also supports the Australian Family Planning Association, which advo-

cates abortion and artificial contraception.

WIRE promotes the legalising of prostitution, which if it ever is will further degrade women_ WIRE promotes divorce.

The free legal advice given by its women lawyers to women with marital problems inevitably results in divorce proceedings being commenced. There is no genuine marriage counselling given which could resolve problems.

WIRE promotes homosexuality. Currently it is seeking signatures to a petition on behalf of The Gay and Lesbian immigration Task Force which asks for -The same rights and privileges enjoyed by all other citizens". They say that homosexual relationships "are in no way inferior, less valid or less significant than the equivalent heterosexual relationship" (i.e. marriage).

Among the pamphlets currently being distributed

...adding to the confusion from JVF GILMOUR, Claremont The Catholic Church is t he most formidable opponent against the feminist movement that advocates abortion. The feminist movement knows this and so, in the carefully structured bat-

tle plans that they draw up, they devise organisations such as WIRE. A vast number of people know this, unfortunately a vast number do not. Ms M cGuiness-Howard's article (the Record, March 1) in a Catholic paper will add to the confusion.

by WIRE in its expensive office in St Georges Tce is one which urges women to attend the "Pro-choice Rally and March" on Saturday March 10 in Forrest Place.

This demands "the right of women to choose to have an abortion or not". The rally is part of a commemoration of the German Communist Clara Zetkin.

Another pamph13t urges women to attend a breakfast in North Perth organized by the Communist Socialist Party of Australia. Yet another advocates " . sex activities that can still be fun and satisfying are Masturbation, together or alone, hugging, touching caressing, kissing, sharing sexual fantasies and erotic talk or protected sex. Use a condom". Note: If this offends don't publish.

Colleen McGuiness Howard, who has written some questionable articles in the past, in her praise of WIRE is either seriously illinformed, misled or deliberately promoting a cause which is diametrically opposed to Catholic teaching.

Productivity poser from Paul DONNELLY Claremont Is productivity a dirty word?

To produce more we need consume more of Spaceship Earths limited cargo. Thus productivity can be declared black. The message of our good Bishops should be to slow down before Mother Nature slows us down more drastically. We should give

up trying to live by selling one another washing machines and hatch back automobiles; or by taking in one another's tourists. This means a world planned global economy which is a thesis of communism. It is certainly not the kind of capitalism which uses as its yardstick profit. This, says Marx, is self destructive.

Undoubtedly a capitalism based on productivity and consumption can destroy us all. And on what is capitalism based? Largely on facilities for obtaining bank overdrafts which, when, withdrawn collapse the bubbles of Wall or Collins Sts. In brief the 10 per cent of

Project Compassion funds used up bureaucracy in Sydney would be better routed as the alms are intended to those in need abroad as subscribers commonly believe. We already have the long established National Catholic Welfare Commission informed and informing on welfare and social funding.

Some memories of Lent from R.J. KEAYS, Claremont Sir, One cannot help recalling how Lent used to be treated in the church with strict observance of fasting, abstinence from meat on

Fridays of course and each encouraged to make personal acts of self denial over the period as an offering to Our Lord.

We did so willingly because we were different to others;

we were special, we were Catholics.

Today, concerning these matters — not a peep from the pulpit, while the current whiz-bang presentation by

Project Compassion lacks only a theme song to compare favourably with the television charity drives.

I wonder what the Almighty thinks of it all.

Talking evolution from Ross JOHNSON,

created no more than 60008000 years ago

Apropos a notice (The Record June 15, 1989) on The Living Planet by David Attenbrough.

There is also ample evidence that the world was created no more than 10,000 years ago; that the light of the stars was already here; that the earth was made fit for human occupation.

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There are many Catholic authors who show quite clearly that man was

Unfortunately the evolutionist teaching of Teilhard de Chardin and his "hoandiscoveries the Piltdown man and Peking man has had a profound effect on the Catholic faith. Once one accepts that the first men and women evolved, origi nal sin goes out the window.

So also does then the need

for a Redeemer. The sacrifice of the mass, the crucifixion over again, is no longer necessary and then becomes a banquet. The tabernacle is displaced and the Eucharist is no longer the Body Blood Soul and Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ but mere bread and a sign of community belonging.

TOMORROW TODAY with Father Joe Parkinson

"This little light of mine DianeIla Antioch.

." The closing ceremony at

Continuing the series by Linda Baker.

Cardijn Joseph believed in every individual, and therefore in the masses of individuals.

The fact that God had spent Himself to create this young sheetmetal worker, the fact that God so loved this young person, was reason enough to protect this young person's dignity no matter what the cost.

Each young person, not

Priest who believed in mission of the laity

just the bright and beautiful, had their own God-given dignity, their own talents, and their own vocation in life: "I have called you by your name, you are mine" (Isaiah).

It was for this cause that Cardijn worked.

He was not an empirebuilder, a socialist or a Church politician — he was a priest who believed in the mission of the laity.

From this stemmed his philosophy of formation

and action: the Truth of Consequently, more Faith, the Truth of avenues of action and Experience and the involvement became Truth of Method. apparent to me, andIsaw action' These three co-exist, scope for and none can exist everywhere. without the others.

This is the way it should I did not come to be, as we laity are the understand Cardijn's apostles to the laity and Truth of Experience to non-Christians. through reading or pray"The Church was ing, although both founded to spread the helped.

I came to understand it Kingdom of Christ over little by little, through all the earth for the glory opening my eyes to what of God the Father, to was happening around make all people partakme and happening to me. ers in redemption and salvation, and through I saw that I could be them to establish right more involved in life, relationship of the entire more involved with God, more involved with world to Christ." (Vatican changing the world by II, Decree on Laity) opening my eyes and We are the evangelisers asking new questions of all peoples, not just about everyday believers. This is why situations.

Cardijn said that the

YCWs task was not complete until all the young workers on earth (not just Catholic Young Workers) were active members of the YCW. Cardijn knew that he should do much more than know the worker's situation: he must be able to analyse and assess it, to know where it was good and where it was had.

The best and most universal standard for such an assessment was the GospeLs, according to Cardijn's method.

Christ's values and methods are still the litmus test of what is right and wrong in most everyday situations, even if those values and methods are not always abundantly clear to us.

CATHOLIC PARISH YOUTH

YOUTH WORKER Applications are called for the position of fulltime youth worker with Catholic Parish Youth.

The position is for a term of two years with an option of a third, working with parish youth groups in Perth's northern suburbs.

Despite the heat there was still a lot of life left in these DianeIla Antiochers on their weekend from February 23-25.

The successful applicant will assist the leaders' team in parish groups, facilitate leadership training and spiritual formation, supply resources and co-ordinate communication between groups.

Applications close Friday, April 20 and should include: i)

A curriculum vitae and any relevant information regarding past or present involvement with youth groups;

ii)

Two references or names of two referees.

Applications should be marked "CONFIDENTIAL and be addressed to: CPY TEAM PO Box 194, NORTH PERTH 6006 Further information contact CPY on 328 8136.

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cypher course and can never forget being told by the instructor as they finished,: "Do you share with the gilded staff the privilege of sending thousands of men to their death with a single mistake?"

That onerous responsibility of 'getting it right' and even then with the realisation that many would certainly die in directed operations, on either side, meant 18 months in that branch of Intelligence, was enough.

Cypher is sending information in such a form that the contents can not be readily understood by the unintended. High grade cypher which Mrs Smith was involved in, is much more complex.

Cyphers are made by

very brainy people. The cyphers would often be from one general to another and translating it could result in lengths and lengths of information."

Within the cypher setup would be those who dealt with general then c ypher and another group higherup, who dealt with the top secret highest grade cypher for instance f rom someone like Eisenhower.

C ypher personnel were very much security watched and lived and ate together to maximise security.

And of course the capture of a cypher truck meant big problems, such as the one which was over -run by Rommel's Afrika Korp which then created a security risk for cypher recipients.

Kriptographers decienemy phered messages.

Based in England, Mrs Smith was then transferred to Paris and then Germany when hostilities ceased.

Mind you, even the mighty war men had a sense of romance and humour, when they

One Gunner's War by Francis G. Smith, available from the author, 36 Vincent Street, Nedlands WA 6009 $15.95.

One Gunner's War is the story of a bank clerk who joined the Surrey Yeomanry, a Territorial artillery regiment. Their training completed and equipped with 25-pounder gun-howitzers, the 144th Field Regiment (Surrey and Sussex Yeomanry) Royal Artillery sailed for the Middle East in October 1940 and took part in the spearhead thrust from the Sudan into Eritrea to Keren, where two Divisions fought the Italians for two months in what have been

described as physically the lines. In May 1942 the 144th most severe conditions of joined the 10th Army (PAIbattle of World War II. FORCE ), serving in Iraq, The story continues on to Syria and Persia. After four the fall of the port of and a half years in the Middle Massawa and the battle of East and gaining a cotrunisAmba Alagi, a 12,000 feet sion, Francis returned to the high mountain in Abyssinia U.K., married his fiancee, which the Italians held until Joan, and served with the tightly surrounded.

32nd Field Regiment RA. in Returning to Egypt, the the Hartz Mountains of regiment sailed to Tobruk in Germany until he was September 1941; two demobbed in 1946. months later it took part in the breakout and then The late Bill Williams, covered the withdrawal of Editor and Producer of the the 8th Army when Rommel 1941 army news sheet, caught the British off bal- Tobruk Truth, and profesance. The regiment operated sional writer, said of the draft from the Gazala Line in — "it was terrific, in every mobile columns, harassing way — your tremendous the enemy behind their own story"

Being conscripted into the British army meant an uncertain outlook to a six month old blossoming romance.

But then the advent of war put uncertainty into many romances and ended many more. Not to mention lives.

Mrs Joan Smith did a

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sent Mrs Smith home to England to marry her seperated sweetheart, Francis. A cable was sent from her general to his, which read "Groom on high seas.

Kindly dispatch bride."

After a six weeks honeymoon, they returned to their posts and were separated for about a year.

She was demobbed from the army in 1945 — "feeling completely lost after such a regulated life-, and was joined by husband Francis in 1946.

After starting their family in Scotland, they headed off for Africa, Tanganika, where Francis was in colonial services for 13 years.

Bound by the Official Secrets Act, Mrs Smith felt unable to tell even her children, what she did during the war, so the next best thing was to write a book for them and posterity — The Human Factor.

It doesn't give any secrets away, being more anecdotal and people-oriented, but it does give a picture of life in war time Britain and France which may be interesting for many.

He also joined the British army, like his prewar sweetheart Joan, and were then separated for four and a half years.

They married a year before the war ended and, to answer their four children and 13 grandchildren's questions of "What did you do during the war", they both decided to write a book on their respective recollections and personal experiences.

Aside from the obvious that their books are interesting, is the evidence that they are also.

It's rather unusual to find a couple in their

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The Human Factor by Joan I Smith, available from tbe author, 36 Vincent Street, Nedlands WA 6009 $14.95 (plus local and military bookshops).

The Human Factor is the story of a young woman who is conscripted into the Auxiliary Territorial Service in England in 1942 and becomes a High Grade Cypher Operator in Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, serving in

Doctor of Science, Francis Smith took Joan's fancy 50 years ago, and that love has never diminished.

So much so that although their marriage is 'only' 45 years old, they celebrated the golden anniversary of their meeting in their Nedlands parish where Dr Smith is an acolyte and Mrs Smith is a member of the Catholic Womens League.

France and Germany.

Life in a top secret headquarters in which servicemen and women of different nationalities are thrown together is vividly described.

Included are the intimate details of the induction of women conscripts into the army, the landing of a team of British A.T.S. on the American OMAHA Beachhead, and the impact on Supreme Headquarters of the German breakthrough in the Ardennes in December

seventies, enthused with the challenge of 'setting it all down'.

It also shows their togetherness of mind and obvious love for each other which has weathered so many years.

Dr Smith's book One Gunner's War is on soldiering during the war, on a personal level and tells of many locations and war time experiences which a number of people will relate to.

Dr Smith joined the Territorials in April 1939 and was demobbed in 1946.

He had

fought in Ethiopia, Libya, in Tobruk relieved the Australian Artillery and took part in the breakout there to link up with the army, with counterRommel attacking, and then from Africa, went to Persia and Iraq to protect the oil fields from possible German invasion.

It's probably a man's book, but complements Mrs Smith's which is from a feminine viewpoint. for Something everybody!

1944.

Abyssinian campaign. in Among the many poignant Tobruk and the subsequent stories is the author's con- fighting in Libya until he frontation with a mass of returns to the U.K. to marry mutinous French colonial her after four and a half years troops in Versailles, and her overseas. subsequent reaction to the After the war Joan Smith 'U.S. cavalry' who had been and her husband went to sent to protect the U.S. and Aberdeenshire while he British service women. studied for a degree in Forestry and kept bees to There is the romantic finance the expanding fambackground of her engage- ily They then lived in ment to a Gunner in the Tanganyika for thirteen years Yeomanry who then serves before settling in Perth. in the Middle East in the Western Australia.

Pilgrimage from the desert Last Sunday in St Mary's Cathedral the second of three steps of Christian initiation took place when the enrolment of 24 catechumens and the presentation of 42 candidates took place during Mass celebrated by Archbishop Foley.

This compares with 18 catechumens and 38 candidates presented last year. This year's group came from the parishes of Balcatta, Bedford, Willetton, Greenwood, Highgate, Morley, Rockingham, Subiaco, Attadale, Karrinyup.

Mark Chamberlain of Brentwood parish had the honour of presenting candidate Pamela Stratford.

Above: The senior of the group was candidate Edith Welch of Greenwood baptised an Anglican 70 years ago and now presented to the Archbishop by her daughter Tessa Morawski.

A moment to remember.

Right: Catechumen Pearl Chi Siok Choc is all smiles when presented by her sponsor Maria Mendonca of Morley parish.

Above: The last of 66 to meet the archbishop was candidate Terrence Sheriff, accompanied by Alan Jennings of Highgate parish.

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Left: Mary McArdle of Bedford is obviously delighted to be presenting catechumen Vicki Beahan.

Right: Graham Fellows of Rockingham raised a chuckle when he was presented by Alec Powell.

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by TOM BRANCH Entries are open to Catholics and members of clubs affiliated with the Western Australian Catholic Lawn Tennis Association and close at 6pm on Thursday March 22 and are to be forwarded together with entrance fee to the Tournament Organizer Mr Michael Messer, 119 Yale Road, Thornlie.

(Phone 459-8183). Play is to commence on Saturday March 31 at 2pm and continue on Sundays April 1 and 8 at 10am and on Saturday April 7 at 2pm at Trinity Playing Fields, Manning. The Committee reserves the right to cancel any event due to insufficient entries. Matches to be the best of three tie break sets. Handicaps to be one advantage set to nine games. Competitors for the junior events must be under 16 years on March 31 and age must be indicated on application forms. junior events are a round robin event.

Exemptions will only be granted to those players who have work commitments on the weekend.

Application for exemption must be submitted with entry form. Players wishing any exemptions may only enter three events. Forfeiture of

Scott Vance or Paul McGinty 383 4137 matches will result from unpunctuality of 15 minutes or more from time of play. IT IS THE PLAYERS RESPONSIBILITY TO ASCERTAIN WHEN HE OR SHE IS SCHEDULED TO PLAY. Each competitor is to lodge an entry form even if only participating in a doubles event. Competitors can enter a maximum of five events, but can remain in no more than 3 events on the final day. Saturdays draws will be available by telephoning .459 8183 on or after the preceding Wednesday. Handicap entries to indicate standard - pennant grade or social player. The committee reserves the right to rehandicap a player prior to semi-finals.

Tennis balls will be provided by the Tournament Organiser and only those supplied are to be used in play.

Entries can be lodged in the following. 1 Mens singles champ; 2. Mens doubles champ, 3. Mens handicap singles, 4 Mens handicap doubles. 5. Ladies singles champ, 6. Ladies doubles champ; 7. Ladies handicap singles. 8.

Ladies handicap doubles; 9. Mixed doubles champ; 10. Mixed handicap doubles, 11. Veterans handicap mixed; •12. Boys under 16 singles; •13. Girls under 16 singles.

•Events 12 & 13 are Round Robin.

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NEWMAN SOCIETY Mass will be said in the chapel of St Thomas More College, Crawley at 5.45pm on Sunday, March 11, to celebrate University Sunday. There will also be an interdenominational service in Winthrop Hall at 7.45pm.

Both events open to all interested.

Contact number 446 1628.

QUEENS PARK DANCE Saint Joseph's Parish - Queen's

Park will hold a gala dance on Saturday, March 17, 7.45pm-lam.

Live band - -The Wells", licenced bar, hot food on sale, at Queens Park Recreation Centre, 5-14 yrs: $5, Adults: %$10. Tickets Audrey 451 4690, Carmel 4519770.

TOODYAY ST PAT'S A St Patrick's Day fete at St John the Baptisit Church, Toodyay. On Saturday March 17, from 3pm till late. Has pickles & jams, pot, plants, books, cakes, devonshire afternoon teas, pedicar, donkey rides, games, bar facilities, music, lamb on a spit.

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We have a wide range of books and pamphlets which will appeal to the average Catholic. Topics include Marriage & Family; Prayer & Meditation; Social Issues; Spiritual & Self Growth; Bibles & Bible Readings; Children's Books & Catechisms. We can also supply greeting cards for all occasions and a range of pious objects.

All our books are reasonably priced and we offer special discounts to parishes.

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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.

SERPENTINE JUBILEE The 50th anniversary of the opening of St Kevin's church takes place with Mass at 3pm on Sunday March 18 followed by an evening meal. Advise 525 2247 or 525 2249 if coming.

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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.

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JUBILEE KARRINYUP On Sunday. March 18 Jubilee Mass 3pm at OLGC Miss 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 Of Bernise Rend 341 2895 for a dinner booking

THE JOURNEY SELF Five Tuesdays, commencing March 13.

A chance to depth the experience and symbolism in Jesus' life, and in one's own life.

At the upper room.

Enquiries and bookings 367 7847 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 cam 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

MARCH 11 University Sunday Service, Monsignor Nestor.

12 Merredin zone of priests, Archbishop Foley.

13- Bishops' Central Commission Meet14 ing, Archbishop Foley.

15 Vespers at Norbertine Priory, A rchbishop Foley.

16 St Patrick's Day Mass, lona, Archbishop Foley.

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

18 Silver Jubilee Karrinyup parish, Archbishop Foley.

18 Centenary Katanning parish, Bishop Healy.

21 Heads of Churches meeting, Archbishop Foley.

24 Blessing Sacred Heart School Thornlie, Archbishop Foley.

25 Catholic Association S. Giuseppe, Villa Terenzio, Archbishop Foley.

APRIL Silver Jubilee, Dianella Parish, Archbishop Foley.

1 Legion of Mary Acies, Archbishop Foley.

3-4 Meeting of WA Bishops.

7 Blessing St Gerard's pre school, Archbishop Foley.

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Two Scholarships at half tuition fee and tenable for five years are available for entry into Year 8, 1991. All applicants are required to sit the ACER Co-operative Scholarship testing program at the College on Saturday May 12.

One scholarship is available for entry to Year 11, 1990 at the full tuition fee, tenable for two years.

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LENTEN PRODUCTION Mirrabooka, Spearvvood and Bassendean parishes have so far bookedthe 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.

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PRIEST FAREWELL A farewell for Father Sabastian Vargas of Myanmar will be held on Sunday, March 18, at St Joachim's Hall, Shepperton Road, Vic Park from 11am onwards. Bring a plate and own drinks. Enquiries 342 1053 or 272 1379.

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• To consider ways of developing appropriate responses to our needs and the needs of others.

Friday, April 6: 730-930pm Saturday, April 7: 930am-4pm Sunday, April 8: 9.30am-lpm Catherine McAuley Family Centre. Wembley. $.30 (BYO lunch) Conomions available on request.

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