The Record Newspaper 29 March 1990

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QUOTE V The Catholic view on abortion is well known — no amount of trauma can justify the taking of an innocent life.

However the compassion of the Church for the defenceless unborn extends also to those unfortunate mothers driven by desperation to consider abortion an option. I

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Giving protection to a newborn babe

Dangers of having tests on embryos — Page 4

The Catholic Bishops in Western Australia have questioned certain of the recommendations of the Ministerial Task Force reviewing obstetric, neonatal and gynaecological services in Western Australia.

In a statement commenting on aspects of a

State Government Report recommending decriminalising abortion and setting up a publicly funded abortion service, they said: "The recommendations deal with the question of

unplanned pregnancy as though such pregnancy in itself was a health hazard, or at least a mere medical condition, and that the only human life needing to be protected was that of the mother."

"In seeking to repeal the laws affecting termination of pregnancy in the Criminal Code, and to replace them with regulatory provisions within the Health Act (Vol.' P26) it appears to us that the flimsy protection of the innocent unborn we now have would be lessened still further.

"It is the duty of the law to protect the innocent, and we believe that this is done more effectively through the Criminal Code than through other legal procedures."

-The Task Force report states (Vol.11 P376); Termination of pregnancy is an integral part of any fertility regulation services . . . In 1988, 7387 were terminations known to have been performed (in Western Australia); no doubt were more many reported as dilatation and curettage . . . Several larger regional hospitals

do not record the proce-

dure of termination of pregnancy in their morbidity reports although such operations are known to occur in these hospitals."

"The report also recommends (Vol.! P26) that a t ermination of pregnancy service should be available in the public sector and inlcude pre and post -termination counselling."

"The Catholic view on abortion is well known — no amount of trauma can justify the taking of an innocent life.

"However the compas-

sion of the Church for the defenceless unborn extends also to those unfortunate mothers driven by desperation to consider abortion an option."

"In the expenditure of public monies we would rather see more emphasis on the education of young people to care for and respect their own bodies and the bodies of others.

"Thus counselling for marriage and for responsible parenthood are a natural extension of an approach to life where

THERE IS A BETTER WAY, SAY W.A. BISHOPS the welfare and dignity of those in a loving relationship are of paramount importance.

"To use public money to multiply abortion facilities we would find abhorrent."

"Where no amount of help can make it possible for a mother to raise her own child then the Church and other caring bodies offer another option.

"We can arrange for the adoption of an infant into a caring family home.

Adoption can be the beginning of a new life for mother, for child and

for the fortunate family who have care of the newly born infant." `There is a special need for the pastoral care of those who have suffered an abortion, recognised somewhat in the Task force recommendation mentioned above.

"Abortion commonly leads to a mother's remorse and loss of selfrespect.

"The Church also believes that such unfortunate women must be cared for in a nonjudgemental and loving way.

Bring back the Angelus SYDNEY: One of the world's senior prelates, A ustralian, Cardinal Freeman, has suggested that it is time to bring back the A ngelus.

Cardinal Freeman, one of the world's senior

prelates.

In a statement to The Catholic Weekly, Cardinal Freeman said: "It may be justly said that the Feast of the Annunciation (March 25) is a feast that does not always receive the notice that it deserves, reminding us as it does, of the Blessed Virgin being told that she is to be the Mother of God and the awesome fact that God

with the Incarnation of of our Salvation. It began, 3. In how many parthe Son of God, the most it seems, as a prayer for ishes and religious startling event in the peace and safety, with a houses the Angelus Bell The more we consider history of the world and strong biblical character is rung even once in the the Son of God becoming she lives and moves in and was continued as a day? man, the more we con- the glow of that mystery. reminder of that moment in human history when It may be objected that sider the wondrous love that prompted him and "Everything she is, "the Word was made today there are more the more we appreciate everything she does, is Flesh and dwelt among serious questions to be event us". answered, more serious the great dignity thus enriched by that undercannot be she and bestowed on Mary.

At morning, noon and problems to be solved. it."

Down through the ages stood apart from evening the Angelus was On the other hand, is it great and saintly men One prayer that brings rung, calling the faithful not possible that in the have been enthralled, the Incarnation and Our to recite this beautiful confusion we may be overlooking some of the fascinated and inspired Lady's part in it strikingly prayer. fundamental truths of by the wonderful mys- to mind is the Angelus.

Could we not ask religion. our tery and it is to our loss It is a prayer, we are ourselves: if perhaps we have not told, that goes back into 1. How many say the Let's bring the Angelus considered it enough. back! the distant past to com- Angelus today? that reminded We are memorate the Annunci- 2. How many know the — from The Catholic Weekly "Mary is thus bound up ation and the beginning Angelus?

the Son was for love of us to become Man.

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The Shrine of the Book at the Israel Museum houses the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bar Kochba finds. Here visitors on the central platform can view a facsimile of the entire long Isaiah Scroll.

Around the platform are many of the actual scrolls, which give a vivid picture of the communal and ascetic way of life of the writers of the texts and their belief in a final, apocalyptic war between the Sons of Light (the sect) and the Sons of Darkness (the world), and the ultimate coming of the Messiah. The subterranean atmosphere in the Shrine is to create the feeling of the caves where the scrolls were found near the Dead Sea. The design also contributes to stable conditions to preserve the ancient documents.

Priest previews Dead Sea Scrolls and gives his verdict

SYNDEY: A 90 minute Dead Sea Scrolls documentary to be screened on Palm Sunday is "boring

Fr Brian Lucas television" and full of ideas that scholars world wide have already rejected.

Riddle of the scroIIs: A response On Palm Sunday next, April 8, viewers of ABC TV are going to be treated to a reinterpretation of Christian origins based upon the work of Sydney academic, Dr Barbera Thiering.

Some advance notice of the content of this programme and its startling conclusions have already been aired in the Bulletin March 13.

According to this programme the Dead Sea Scrolls found in the Judaean Desert just over forty years ago yield information on Jesus very much at odds with the picture upon which Christian belief down the ages has rested: Jesus was not born miraculously of a virgin, worked no miracles and became a bitter enemy of John the Baptist; he did not die upon the cross or rise miraculously from the dead.

He was principally a political and religious reformer who sought to break down the exclusiveness and discrimination found in the Jewish religion of his time.

The evidence of the Scrolls enables us to rediscover at long last what Christianity was all about: a heroic protest against bad religion.

The evolution of this thesis can be traced in three books written by Dr Thiering and published locally between 1979-83.

These show immense knowledge on Dr Thiering's part in the area of the Scrolls. Her erudition is not at issue.

It is in the area of interpretation that the questions arise.

The Dating The first book, Redating the Teacher of Righteousness (1979) had as its main concern to shift the dating of the chief figure mentioned in the scrolls, the "Teacher of Righteousness" from the early 2

Maccabean period (mid 2nd century, BC) to the early 1st century AD.

This substantial shift in chronology created the passibility for some controversial identifications.

Could the Teacher of Righteousness refer to John the Baptist? Could his rival, the 'Wicked Priest', be Jesus?

Crucial to this shift in chronology was a reassessment dating of the scripts in which the leading manuscripts referring to the Teacher were written — the "paleographical issue', so widely discussed in the programme.

Response to this book in the world of Qumran scholarship was by no means entirely negative.

Several reviewers welcomed the stimulus it rea provided for examination of what they was an overly felt entrenched consensus in Qumran dating.

But none, to my knowledge, found its main thesis convincing.

The central issue was — and to a large degree remains the paleographical one.

Dr Thiering has pointed out the unreliability of conclusions drawn too precisely on paleographical grounds.

In this she has received some support from scholars of a younger generation, such as P.R Davies and G. Brooke, who appear on the TV programme.

But it is important to note how far their scepticism goes It extends to saying that dating according to scripts must allow for a variation of plus or minus twenty-five years — fifty years at the most.

This is not really to give comfort to Dr Thiering, since her theory requires a chronological reassessment of at least a century or more.

The paleological issue stands.

There are also very serious historical difficulties with the Thiering reconstruction of events.

The "Kingdom of the Jews" which she reconstructs out of Essene history is no small operation.

It appears as a vast movement extending into the Jewish overseas settle-

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ments (Diaspora), at various stages it mounted a serious challenge to the Roman rule of Judea.

Yet nothing corresponding to this is to be found in the Jewish historian Josephus, otherwise so careful to catalogue the military operations of the Jews and their revolutions.

Likewise, the existence at this time of the Zealot movement which features so prominently in Dr Thiering's reconstruction, is now seriously questioned.

The Interpretation

So much for the problems concerning dating. But even if the dating question were resolved in Dr Thiering's favour, there remains the whole area of interpretation — in particular of accepting the identifications she is proposing between figures in the Scrolls and the major early of characters Christianity.

The second book, The GospeLs and Qumran (1981) set out the basis for these identifications as consisting in a distinct method of scriptural interpretation, the 'pesher-method', common to both the Scrolls and the Christian gospel material.

The method implies that such texts contain a dual meaning: an 'outer' plain sense and and encoded, special sense known only to insiders or a privileged few.

This is the basis for the extraordinary identifications proposed: e.g. that the 'Holy Spirit' represents Joseph, father of Jesus, as well as for the dual interpretation of Jesus' resurrection.

However valid this view with respect to the Qumran commentary literature, applying it to the Gospels is totally inappropriate.

Firstly, they represent a vastly different form of literature.

Secondly, they were written precisely to proclaim and spread their message rather than to encode it.

But what of the major "identifications" — that of John the Baptist with the Teacher and of Jesus with the "Wicked Priest" — both essential to the overall theory of Christian origins presented in Dr Thiering's third book, The Qumran Origins of the Christian Church (1983) and repeated in the TV programme?

From the Catholic Leader Brisbane which c ommissioned the article from Jesuit Father Brendan Byrne who lectures in New Testament at the Melbourne Jesuit Theological College within the ecumenical United Faculty of Theology.

The teacher is admittedly a shadowy figure.

Scholars will, doubtless, dispute his identity for years to come.

Quite apart from the dating question, however, there are grave difficulties about identifying him with John the Baptist.

The Teacher does not appear in the scrolls as a public prophetic figure like John but as the leader and cherished instructor of a much smaller, more intimate group.

Then, if one looks at the depiction of his adversary, the Wicked Priest, in the Habakkuk Commentary, the identification of this figure with Jesus is hopelessly far-fetched. Is there any evidence to suggest that Jesus ever "ruled over Israel", and that he "amassed riches, plundering the peoples and robbing the poor"?

However sceptically we reconstruct the gospel portrait of Jesus we could never arrive at a picture like that.

Moreover, the allusions to the death of the Wicked Priest suggest not a death by crucifixion but through a wasting disease caused by conditions of imprisonment.

As for the remaining details of the reconstruction — minute and detailed in every way, are we really to believe that Peter and Paul, the leading figures of the Christian movement after Jesus' death, spent the remainder of their lives in ignorance of the fact that he had not really died, that his "resurrection" was in fact a false claim put out for the benefit of the unlettered many.

If these figures were not really "in the know" about what really happened, who were the privileged "insid-

ers"? What happened to them?

Why have they left no mark on subsequent history — since presumably they were known to the Evangelists, who wrote in their gospels the secret as well as the plain meaning?

And could Paul, originally hostile and persecutor of Christians, have been so easily duped about the central event that caused the total turnaround in his life — especially as faith in Christ's death and resurrection (something quite other than miraculous restoration to earthly life — see 1 Cor 15:35-49) became the core of the gospel for which he lived and died.

Jesus' "Death" and "Resurrection" As regards Dr Thiering's minutely detailed reconstruction of the events surrounding the crucifixion and burial of Jesus perhaps it is best to advise readers to take up the account (see Qumran Origins 218-20) and judge from this the flavour of the whole.

Pilate, the Roman govenor, cooperatively agrees to come out to Mar Saba, not the real Jerusalem, where the execution of Jesus and the two thieves is to take place.

Because of the approaching feast, he also agrees that at nightfall the three men should be taken down from their crosses before they are actually dead and then buried alive.

The thieves, actually Zealot members of Jesus' movement, have their legs broken; Jesus has his side pierced.

The soldiers think he is dead.

But the centurion, who happens to be John Mark (Acts 12:25; 13:13; 16:38), who also happens to be a doctor, interprets the flow of blood to mean that Jesus is not dead.

While the three are entombed, one of the "thieves" who happens to be Simon Magus, who also — conveniently — happens to be a doctor, despite his six hour agony on the cross and broken-leg condition, gets to work on Jesus and revives him with the myrrh and aloes. Later the three — two crippled, one just revived — can muster sufficient combined strength to dislodge the stone to some extent.

Contact is made with the disciples; the guard on the

tomb eluded: Jesus is carried away on a litter and lives on to die in Rome at an advanced age, popping up now and then in the meantime in what the unlettered, like Paul Oh thought were real resurrection appearances.

And so the fantasy goes on, involving a modern rehash of the "rescuscitation" theories of resurrection that we all thought had run out their unpromising course in the last century.

Dr Thiering's latter-day rationalism, which wants to eliminate all aspect of the miraculous or the supernatural from the true meaning of the Gospels, actually demands of us a credulity going well beyond that which orthodox belief in the miracle-working of Jesus requires.

To impose such rationalism upon the New Testament authors, implying that the transcendent was alien to them, or at least to the privileged few, is to do violence to the sources with which one works.

Virgin Birth The same rationalist reductionism appears in the interpretation of Christ's virgin birth (which should, of course, be more accurately termed 'virginal conception'.

The difficulty of uncovering a historical basis for this tradition has long been recognised.

Here is an area where for the believer surety comes from Church teaching rather than from historical investiy: non. Yet, as Fr Jerome Murphy-O'Connor points out in the programme, what is proposed in the gospels finds no real parallel in ancient literature.

The highly intricate explanation given by Dr Thiering in the light of her analysis of Essene marital custom is, in historical terms, scarcely more convincing.

The Picture

of Judaism

Most disturbing perhaps in the TV programme is a note which comes in towards the end.

The simple reform of religion and society which is stated to have been the true historical work of Jesus is set against a very negative picture of the Judaism of his time: obsessive concern with an imaginary holiness, rejection of the outsiders,

financial exploitation in the name of religion, and so on.

Dr Thiering is here perpetuating a caricature of Judaism contemporary with Jesus that Christian scholars have finally learned to abandon — with a considerable sense of shame and repentance for the tenacity with which it hitherto held sway.

When we consider the large part that such caricature has played in the sufferings inflicted upon Jews over the centuries, we must reckon that here we have, not just nonsense, but dangerous nonsense indeed.

Conclusion It is true that Qumran scholarship, particularly in the area of publication of the texts, has had more than its share of scandals and unpardonable delays.

The older scholars as featured in the programme hardly communicate a sense of efficiency.

But to imply, as the programme seems to do, that this is because of some kind of scholarly conspiracy to hide a truth devastating for orthodox Christianity is far fetched and unfair.

Jewish scholars, who have no particular axe to grind for the resurrection of Jesus, are equally sceptical of the Thiering reconstruction.

The Dead Sea Scrolls contain many riddles. We still have a great deal to learn from them — including much about Christian origins. But the major documents have been published.

The fragmentary material still to come may call for reassessment in certain areas.

But it is most unlikely to overthrow the broad consensus The Dead Sea Scrolls give us a highly valuable insight into a movement similarto Christianity in many ways but distantas regards direct contact and allusion.

This programme, visually attractive and full of debate, is undoubtably the stuff of good television.

But it leaves one prone to echo the words of one reviewer (A.RC. Leaney) of Dr Thiering's most recent book: "The author could render great service to scholarship: but to do so she must abandon her dreamworld for the historical investi tion of which she is surely capable".

that's so boring...

This is the view of Sydney church spokesman Father Brian Lucas who previewed the documentary.

"It is likely that this documentary will be heavily marketed as controversial and the reaction of fundamentalists exploited for maximum ratings advantage," Fr Lucas said.

However, he said, it was boring television and he doubted if many viewers would persevere through the whole 90 minutes.

The publicity blurb put out by the ABC claims that this "sensational" documen-

tary "strips away the magical and supernatural elements of the bible".

Fr Lucas reacted by saying that he was confident that serious biblical scholars would completely reject Dr Thiering's theories.

"One could go on for hours ruiding fault with the content of the program," he said.

"The simple fact is that scholars all over the world have long rejected the ideas that she puts forward."

Fr Lucas said the script for the program begins with an

hypothesis "supposing new evidence . . .

"One waits in vain for this new evidence, but there is only guessing and specuallion," he said.

Fr Lucas completely rejected the statement in the ABC media release that evidence emerging from the Dead Sea Scrolls has been strenuously suppressed by Roman Catholic scholars who fear that by making the historical facts known, laymen will begin to question the authority of the Church.

"This is a serious slander," he said.

"The truth is that some of the leading scholars of the scrolls are Catholics."

The Dominican, R. de Vaux OP was among the first excavators.

Other prominent Catholic scholars such as Jerome Murphy O'Connor, J.A. Fitzmyer, and Brown Raymond would be deeply offended by such a claim, he said.

There is a comprehensive article on the scrolls in the Jerome Biblical Commentary, an authoritative

Catholic Biblical commentary.

Australian Jesuit, Fr Brendan Byrne has written a thesis on the subject.

Fr Lucas said that suggestions that people should lobby the ABC to have the program withdrawn would be counterproductive.

"We have to respect freedom of speech, although one wonders about the sense of responsibility of a national broadcaster which propagates way-out opinions that are thinly disguised and marketed as fact," he said.

In and around... ...or happenings in Perth

Father Michael RYAN of Cottesloe is to become the new parish priest of Palmyra in succession to Father James DOWLING who has resigned the parish and will take extended leave in Ireland.

Father Ryan, originally from County Tipperary, Ireland, arrived in Australia in May 1946 following his ordination in the previous June.

Early appointments to Shenton Park and the Cathedral were followed by his first term as parish priest, in Merredin in 1952, and then at Quairading-Tammin the following year, Bruce Rock 1962, East Fremantle 1969, Subiaco 1977 and Cottesloe 1985.

Father Dowling, originally from County Kilkenny arrived in WA in Feburary 1950, having been ordained the previous June.

He had early appointments to Collie, Palmyra, Maylands, Leederville and Cottesloe, then moving to South Perth.

Highgate and Guildford.

Two short periods at Cloverdale and Kenwick were followed by his first parish priest appointment, to Kelrnscott in 1963, then administemg Leederville in 1967 before becoming parish priest in 1972 and most recently taking up Palmyra parish in 1976.

Father Donald SPROXTON, parish priest of Wongan Hills, has for 12 months been seconded to the Pastoral Planning Office from which he will assist the implementation of initiatives following the Year of Mission, while residing at Highgate presbytery.

Father Gregory CARROLL, Judicial Vicar, parish priest of Beverley, has been appointed secretary of the National Marriage Tribunal and in that capacity will reside at Nedlands presbytery. His personal is phone number

A spending gap of $1620 between what is expended on government and nongovernment school children means 840,000 of the latter are saving taxpayers some $1350 million annually, according to the WA Parents and Friends Federation latest calculations.

In Western Australia non-government school parents carry over $100 million of school operating costs in addition to their normal contribution as taxpayers, said Mr Laurie Eastwood, the P &

those school communities where efforts are being made to privately fund, in most cases, over 80% of the capital expenditure required (e.g. in 1989, Catholic school communities in WA provided $13.5 million of the $17 million spent on capital).

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At a large public meeting attended by Mr Eastwood at Strathfield, NSW before the election, the Federal Education Minister, John Dawkins, agreed to review this anomaly and also stated that the Community Standard, on which ALP funding policy is based, would be currently equivalent to average Government school per pupil costs.

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Guest editorial

DAVID ALTON The Universe, London At the Royal Albert Hall some 3000 pro-

The big risk...

lifers gathered to protest at embryo legislation and to commemorate the three million unborn children killed through abortion since 1967.

M ONTECATINI, Italy (CNS): In the wake of communism's "radical failure", Eastern Europe should avoid replacing Marxism with consumerism, said Cardinal Carlo Martini of Milan, Italy.

At the end of the evening three million white petals silently fell from the dome — eloquently reminding us of what we have allowed to happen in our country.

The evening was marred by the usual intolerance and violence of our opposition.

As the audience arrived they had to run a gauntlet of abuse and obscenity. These so-called socialists then broke into the meeting and hurled abuse and mindless slogans at the speakers.

Sir Bernard Braine, the father of the House of Commons, bravely persevered with his defence of the unborn. A little later the smoke bombs and the sack of flour intended for me went wide of the mark.

But the most shameful incident occurred as Sir Bernard left the meeting. As a group of demonstrators continued their chants, the 75 year-old MP was kicked to the ground and assaulted. These cowards hit him on the back of the head and he was left with an arm in a sling and a black eye.

Knowing Sir Bernard the effect on him will be to redouble his staunch defence of the unborn. But the events at the Albert Hall pose two questions.

First, why — unlike ITN — did the BBC fail yet again to report a single word of the arguments put forward at the meeting?

And, second, when one of the most distinguished of parliamentarians is beaten up by an angry, intolerant mob why does it not even rate a mention on their news reports?

The sad truth is that there is a conspiracy of silence shrouding this supreme human rights issue. When the BBC allow a program to be shown depicting the violence which occurs at pro-life meetings and when they dare show what actually happens in an abortion, public opinion will no longer be complacent.

During the recent House of Lords debate Lord Hailsham said that concern about the embryo should be a purely personal matter — and that those who think embryo legislation is immoral are not r equired to co-operate with such activities.

But as Lord Stallard sagely pointed out, this is rather like saying that those who opposed slavery did not have to keep slaves, and therefore did not have to try to make slavery illegal.

Those who tell us they "respect" our "deeply held views" invariably take no notice of them. It is not our consciences we are trying to protect, it is unborn children.

And it is surely ironic that, while the proexperimentation lobby accuses its opponents of "forcing religious views" upon others, they themselves relied heavily upon the dubious theology of the A nglican Archbishop of York to promote their case.

The Upper House appears to have swallowed hook, line and sinker the idea that "human life starts at 14 days". But as Lord Rawlinson of Ewell, one of our most able lawyers, said "Fourteen days after what? It must be 14 days after something or 14 days into some sort of existence."

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Cardinal Hume

"The risk is one of a simple substitution of Marxism with the capitalist models of life and the so-called 'civilisation of consumerism', with all the weight of dissatisfaction that it brings," Cardinal Martini told a Christian Democrat

conference on Europe.

While the collapse of Marxist ideology has led to an easing of political tensions in Europe, the cardinal said there remained a growing skepticism about ethics and a "general indifference to values".

Those active in Christian-inspired political parties, he said, should take advantage of the recent events to install a new political culture based on religious values.

The Church, he said, has played a major

role in communism's collapse. He cited examples in Poland, Hungary, East Germany and Romania — all countries that have adopted political pluralism in the last year.

Cardinal Martini also cited Pope John Paul H's frequent evocation of a Europe united in its Christian roots. He noted that this vision is one of culture and values, not "a nostalgic or anachronistic vision of a medieval, imperial Christianity" on the continent.

Dangers of tests on embryos LONDON (CNS): Allowing experimentation on human embryos risks creating a potentially self-destructive society, said Cardinal Hume of Westminster.

"How we treat human life, in any of its manifestations and at any of its stages, is of the highest moral significance," the cardinal wrote in an article for the The Times, March 16.

It was his third public statement on the issue, which was before Parliament in the shape of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill which would allow some experimenting up to two weeks after fertilisation.

"Once we are convinced that we have the right to determine when life becomes human and when it ceases to be so, to decide whether that life is worth living and when it can and should be subordinated to any other purpose, then we stand in danger of creating a society that is potentially self-destructive," the cardinal said.

"The vital decisions we reach on human fertilisation and embryology will later affect how we regard the

status of each individual . . . the treatment of people who are handicapped, the fate of the senile and the terminally ill," he said.

Some Catholics differed with Cardinal Hume's view of embryo research.

His was one of a series of articles that The Times has been running on the experimentation question.

One contributor, Oliver Pratt, a leading Catholic layman and chemical pathologist, argued in favour of allowing research with legal safeguards.

"One cannot predict the direction of research too precisely," Pratt wrote. "It would be a pity to close off options because of incomplete understanding. This is what the Catholic Church risks by too black-andwhite an approach to embryo research."

An American, Father Richard A. McCormick, professor of Christian ethics at the University of Notre Dame, said that while there is evidence suggesting the fertilised egg up to 14 days old is not human, it must be treated as a potential person.

Approval of research at the pre-embryo stage, he said should be guided by a national policy.

Technology traps IVREA, Italy (CNS): Pope John Paul II, visiting Italy's "Silicon Valley", warned against accepting increasing numbers of jobless as the price of technological advance.

He also heard the head of Italy's largest computer company say that the drop in manual labour is compensated by a growth in jobs requiring the mental skills "intelligence, of and knowledge creativity".

High technology can "hide especially subtle traps in which human dignity can be put in jeopardy", the pope said.

"It is necessary to resist the temptation to make a new idol of

technology," he told workers and executives of Olivetti, one of Europe's most important manufacturers of computers and data t ransmission equipment.

"We cannot morally accept, nor must we remain passively resigned to increasing unemployment as an inevitable effect of the of application advanced technology," he said in a midday speech in the company cafeteria.

In spontaneous remarks after seeing the computers, the pope said they were an effort to duplicate the intelligence of humans, but could not substitute for a human being.

"Walking by these

stupendous computers, I was not able to enter into dialogue with them. I did not hear a voice, a human sentiment. I was not welcomed with love by them, as instead I was by persons," the pope said.

In the Olivetti speech, the pope said an acceptance of growing unemployment would be "to sacrifice man to the machine".

He also warned that improving technology is not an end in itself.

People must ask if improved technology, "applied to work and free time, brings in itself a bettering of the quality of life".

People must use information technology to increase

and knowledge improve control over nature, "rejecting any effort to reduce it to an instrument of irrational exploitation, unnatural manipulation or undue psychological pressure," he said.

The pope noted that a clear aim of technology is "to reduce costs by shrinking the number of persons engaged in the productive process".

Carlo De Bennedetti, Olivetti president, told the pope that the number of manual workers had been reduced from 50 per cent of the labour force in 1979 to less than 33 per cent today.

Olivetti's Ivrea plant employed 33,121 in

1970 but by 1988 the number had dropped to 16,859.

At a Mass prior to visiting Olivetti, the pope praised the region's bishops for opposing the introduction of Sunday work shifts in factories and asked for "contracts and laws" to protect Sunday as a nonworking day.

"The Christian must be committed to the respect of his right that Sunday be holy," he said.

After the Mass, the pope spoke to farmers in the town of San Benigno Canavese, 40km south of Ivrea.

"Resist the temptation of profit at all costs," especially at the expense of ecological concerns, he told them.

"The first victims of ecological abuses would be the very workers of the land," the pope said.

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Bishops challenge new Ulster law DUBLIN, Ireland (CNS): Bishops in Northern Ireland are challenging a new education law on the grounds that it discriminates against Catholic schools.

The High Court in Belfast, Northern Ireland, has granted the bishops permission to apply for a judicial review of the law, and the case is expected to be heard in that court May 30.

The new law, which took effect in February, strongly encourages integrated Protestant-Catholic schools. It enables such schools to receive 100 per cent funding for capital improvement projects from the government. Non-integrated schools, nearly all of them Catholic, receive 85 per cent government funding.

If the majority of the parents of students at a Catholic school decide it should become an itegrated school, the status of the school can be changed, under the new law.

The bishops said they were "gravely concerned" that

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VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul II appointed 12 bishops for the 11 Catholic dioceses of Romania, re-establishing in one day the country's hierarchy after 42 years of government suppression.

Three of the five bishops appointed for the country's Eastern-rite dioceses served lengthy prison terms after their rite was outlawed in 1948. Hardline communist ruler Nicolae Ceausescu — who was ousted and executed in December — continued the Romanian government policies of the 1940s, restricting the work of the Latin-rite church and banning the Eastern rite.

Until the pope's March 14 announcement, only the Latin-rite Diocese of Alba Julia had a resident bishop. An apostolic administrator oversaw the Archdiocese of Bucharest. The other dioceses were vacant or headed by a priest.

A 'first'

LOS ANGELES (CNS) — Father Andres Luevano, 35, the new president-rector of St John's Seminary College in Camarillo will be the first Hispanic to head one of three seminaries in the Los Angeles Archdiocese.

He speaks English, French, Italian and Spanish.

The son of Mexican immigrants, Father Luevano said his appointment gives "recognition to the Hispanic community" and makes him a new kind of role model for minorities.

"The evolution of the church in the Southwest is being reflected in the students at the seminary college," he said.

"There are increasing numbers of candidates from Asian and Hispanic ethnic groups."

some aspects of the new law could cause lasting damage to the Catholic education system in Northern Ireland.

"After long and anxious consideration and with legal advice, the bishops consider it their duty to challenge the legality of this legislation in the courts," they said in a March 16 statement.

They added that they did not oppose the right of the government to make laws for integrated education, and they recognised and defended parents' freedom of choice.

But they maintained that there had to be equal respect for the choice exercised by parents who wished a Catholic education for their children.

A spokesman for the Department of Education in Northern Ireland said the British government had made it clear that the new legislation did not imply any lower respect for Catholic education, and the government was willing to discuss changes in capital funding of Catholic schools.

An example to follow in Christian unity LONDON: Cardinal Newman, the Anglican vicar who became a Catholic, is an example to follow in the search for Christian unity, said the Archbishop of Canterbury at an ecumenical service to mark the centenary of his death.

Dr Runcie said that a few years ago an ecumenical celebration of the life of John Henry Newman would have been either impossible or an intolerable embarrassment.

Preaching in the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, where Newman served before becoming a Catholic in 1845, the Archbishop said: "The coming together of the churches after centuries of separation is not something which can happen overnight.

"Ideas and convictions are things which, as Newman saw, take time to mature and to be realised.

There is a need for `chronic familiarity'. The arresting phrase is his."

He added: "At many different levels, and in a multitude of ways, the broken unity needs to be slowly restored, the underlying continuity recovered. In this process the person and teaching of Newman has a special place."

If we follow Newman, said Dr Runcie, "he will surely lead us to the evangelical centre of our faith, to the Word made flesh, to Christ crucified and risen".

Dr Runcie said the Cardinal "wished the Church of England might become more Catholic and the Church of Rome more Christian".

He said Newman's vision was in part fulfilled by the Second Vatican Council: "The coincidence between his teaching and that of the Council a century later su:: z..ts that we should recognise in • • 'a sort of prophetic charisma'," he said.

London's National Portrait Gallery has mounted a major exhibition to commemorate the centenary, open until May 20.

Trail of destruction B ELEM, Brazil: The bishops of dioceses and heads of prelatures in Amazonia have deplored the devastation and destruction of their land, and the "genocide" of the native population of the virgin Brazilian imagk.

At the present rate, they warn, Amazonia will soon be transformed into steppe.

In a statement issued after their third inter-

regional meeting at Belem in the north of the country last month, the bishops issued an appeal for an end to "death projects" in the region, pointing to the tens of thousands of square kilometres of tropical forest that had been destroyed in the past few years, transformed into pasturage for cattle or just burnt, in accordance with a "ridiculous

national plan" which gave tax incentives for deforestation.

"The sowers of death," the bishop says "are those who attack nature violently and irrationally, destroy forests, poison rivers, pollute the atmosphere and kill whole peoples."

They describe as "death projects" the "Pharaonic construction of dams and

power -stations, roads human beings now and across Amazonia, char- in the future, and ask coal burning and the finance houses to grant exploitation and export credits only to projects of minerals". They blame which respect nature human cupidity, "a and human beings in doubtful understanding Amazonia. of progress" and an "We believe that a agrarian policy which peaceful but determined makes peasants into and continuous battle gold-diggers. should be fought against The bishops call on the 'death projects', they developers to limit their say, and ask local projects to those offering Churches to support the protection to the life of people in their fight.

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LVOV (CNS): Catholic bishops in the Ukraine have refused to participate in a VaticanRussian Orthodox commission charged with settling disputes over church buildings until the Orthodox recognise their church.

Archbishop Volodymyr Sterniuk of Lvov, walked out of the negotiations two days before the session was scheduled to end.

The archbishop and six otherUkrainian Catholic bishops met in Lvov and issued a statement saying "any document which emanates from the negotiations must be considered without legal value. This includes all about documents transfer of churches."

The statement reiterated a wide range of demands Ukrainian Catholics were making long before the Vatican began official talks with the Russian Orthodox.

The Vatican appointees are refusing to say anything about the Ukrainian bishops' action.

The makeup of the commission and the scope of its work were agreed to during a January meeting in Moscow led by Archbishop Edward I. C.assidy, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. He would not comment on the Ukrainian bishops' statement.

The bishops in the Ukraine said they would not co-operate with the commission's work until the Russian Orthodox Church declares "uncanonical" and invalid the 1946 synod at which the Ukrainian Catholic Church was forcibly merged with the Russian Orthodox.

The bishops said they wanted the Russian Orthodox "to recognise Greek Ukrainian

Catholic Church as a Union and throughout church" and "not just as the world. a group of Greek Cathol• Approval by both ics", another term for John Paul H and Pope Catholics of the ByzanCardinal Lubachivsky of tine rite. presented anything They also criticised the either by the Ukrainian Vatican —Orthodox com- bishops or the Vatican mission for beginning delegation. the task of dividing up of • Legalisation church buildings withreliCatholic Ukrainian out being "ready to treat the essential questions" gious orders of men and of full legalisation of the women.

• Permission for CardiCatholic Ukrainian Church in the Soviet nal Lubachivsky to take up residence in Lvov, the Union.

Ukrainian Catholics' Vatican officials viewed major archdiocese. the commission's work as a way to normalise the • Government and Vatsituation of the Ukrain- ican recognition of the ian Catholic Church clandestinely ordained even before the Soviet bishops in the Ukraine.

By mid-March eight of government legalised it. the bishops had begun October Since last exercising their ministry Ukrainian Catholics publicly.

Another two or have been reclaiming three bishops remain church buildings amid underground. Because of Orthodox accusations of the secrecy surrounding outright violence and their ordinations and the theft of the buildings. need, until recently, of In their statement, the ministering underUkrainian bishops ground, the bishops are demanded the return of not listed in the Vatican's all property owned by official yearbook. the church prior to "the "At an appropriate age of (Josef) Stalin", who earliest date, the Ukrainbegan its persecution in ian Greek Catholic 1939.

Church will be raised to "When the government patriarchal dignity." returns the confiscated Ukrainian Catholics churches", which were given to the Orthodox or have been asking for the put to other uses, "it will recognition of their be possible to discuss the major archbishop as a best way to honour the patriarch since Cardinal needs of the Orthodox Lubachivsky's predecesfaithful," the statement sor, Cardinal Josyf Slipyj, was released from a said.

Soviet prison and exiled The Ukrainian bishops to Rome in 1963. Pope also listed 14 points Paul VI and Pope John which they insist should Paul II repeatedly denied be treated in "all further the request. negotiations". The points The Ukrainian Catholic included: bishops repeated their • Orthodox recognition pledge of non-violence in of their status as a efforts to legalise their "particular church" in church and demanded communion with Rome. that "all unfounded "It is inadmissible to refer accusations of violence, to us as communities or proselytism, divisiveness groups of faithful of the and religious warfare Eastern rite." cease".

• Recognition of CardiThey also promised to nal Lubachivsky as head "respect the government of the Ukrainian Catholic as long as it does not act Church in the Soviet against divine law".

Moment to remember Twenty five years to `temporary' to permanthe day of the March ent church with refur15, 1965, opening of its bishment extensions in building that also had 1987. to serve as the original A packed church parish church, a week moved later to the later Karrinyup's Good church grounds for afterCounsel school cele- noon tea and a historical brated the event as the display. opening of a parish Father Michael Byrne, week of celebration. founding parish priest,

Mass, a display of memorabilia, the planting of a tree and an evening party on the oval rounded out the day.

On Sunday, March 19, Archbishop Foley celebrated Mass in the church that was a selfhelp parishioner project in 1969-70 and which passed from being a

was on hand for the schools dramatisation of the parish's beginnings as well as the jubilee Mass plus recounting the early days at a celebratory dinner on March 21.

Other speakers at the dinner included the parish priest Father Geoff Beyer offering flowers in appreciation

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Bishop Healy presents a candle to the Kwinana/ Medina Team.

of the efforts of Bernice Reid in motivating the celebration.

Denis Hall, a foundation parishioner spoke on the community that had been built and Jim Joseph, president of the pastoral council spoke of the present and the future.

Taking part in the school and parish celebrations were the Holy Family of Nazareth Sisters whose order taught children Karrinyup when the district was served by Father Depiazzi from North Beach and who staffed the school that opened in 1965.

At the offertory procession Archbishop Foley had a handshake for parish council youth representative Craig A sphar who had just presented a set of plans of the parish buildings at Karrinyup. The archbishop is flanked by the present and former parish priests Fathers Geoff Beyer and Michael Byrne.

The 52 participants in the new Newly Weds pilot program recently met at the end of their training and formation stages and are now contacting newly married couples in their area.

The parishes of Ballajura, Bassendean, Beaconsfield, Bedford, Embleton, Girrawheen, Kwinana, Mirrabooka and Shenton Park are taking part in a one year pilot project developed

by John and Joanne O'Neil following their receipt of the 1989 Goody Archbishop Award.

The O'Neils, with 15 years experience in marriage preparation and education behind them in the archdiocese, wrote to 200 agencies and

dioceses for information and made a study trip to the US. They spoke last year to the National Marriage Education Conference in Sydney.

Len and Lee Walsh of Nedlands are assisting in the project that will be completed in June when an evaluation will be made and the feasibility for a future program studied.

The O'Neils describe the Newly Weds Team as "listeners — people who care".

"Their goal is to try to follow-up all couples who have chosen to marry in the Church and offer them an arm in friendship.

"They want to make

Friends of newly weds contacts with newly married couples shortly after they marry. They plan to welcome them and invite them around for a cuppa.

"Hopefully the newly marrieds will want to be introduced to other young couples in the area, so there are plans for social activities and small support groups."

A resource library has been assembled and parish teams have prepared resource kits with ideas to help young couples settle into married life.

These materials are varied and include books, pamphlets, videos and sources of referral financial including advice, communication skills, local community

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Tony and Joy Dougherty of Shenton Park with the candle at Our Lady's statue.

At a Mass for Newly Weds Team members Bishop Healy presented parish representatives with a candle which was placed in front of Our Lady's statue in Shenton Park church.

Citing Pope John Paul's statement: "In order that the family may be a true community of love, it is necessary that its members should be helped," and that "Young married cou-

pies should learn to willaccept ingly. . the discreet, tactful and generous help offered by other couples that already have more experience of married and family life."

Bishop Healy continued: "You are the other couples and you are the ones who must aim to be discreet, tactful and generous in your ministry.

"When you visit young marrieds, you

are doing it in the name of the Church.

"You are demonstrating to them in a practical manner that the Church cares for them. You are leading them to live the life of the Church in all its fullness."

He said that if the Ministry to the Newly Married "is to prove its then itself, members must go out to those who need their encouragement and help".

resources, parenting, conflict resolution techniques, and family planning.

The O'Neils have received a grant of $1500 from the WA Family Foundation for the printing of brochures and for the purchase of further library reference materials.

"Newly Weds" also received one of 22 marriage education grants funded through the State Office of the Family which were announced by the premier last week.

This $3500 will be used to further expand training and resources.

Explaining their project the O'Neils said: "The premise behind 'Newly Weds' is to offer support married to newly couples.

"The divorce rate in currently Australia exceeds one couple in three and there is an extremely high rate of divorce in the first five years of marriage.

"Unfortunately, this

trend has increased three-fold in the last 10 years in Western Australia according to statistics prepared by the State Office of the Family."

This idea of parish based support for the young marrieds was the theme of the June 1989 General Assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Family — sacramental reality and the pastoral care of the young couple.

At the conclusion of this assembly, Pope John Paul II said: "Pastoral programs must help young couples overcome the 'negative phenomena' influencing contemporary family life.

"A major element of good pastoral programs is developing a strong parish environment that supports young couples during the stress-ridden period of their early years as husband and wife. . .

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Acting in a generous way often involves relatively small investments of people's time and energy, said Cindy Liebhart McCormack, a managing editor of a corporation.

Picking up a neighbour's child at school, is an example, or taking a few moments to call a friend when you are tired just because you know he is going through a difficult period.

Other times being generous means making a deliberate decision to give of yourself in some special way.

This involves taking a realistic look at your talents and interests and making a decision to put them at the service of others.

Ms McCormack told of a colleague who is fluent in a second language.

She also finds herself drawn to help recent immigrants, who often encounter difficulty adjusting to a new country, a new culture, a new language.

The young woman decided to combine her language skills and her desire to help immigrants by teaching English to newcomers, individually and in adult education classes.

Others, seeing the commitment she is making, recognise this as generosity in action.

And sometimes her example leads them to think about how they too might act generously.

DISCUSSION POINTS What does a "giving" person give?

Selected responses from readers: "Time. You give it by listening and by helping out those who need it." — Gail Clark.

"Generosity is largeness of spirit. It does not mean only the giving of money. . . but being aware of a need and being there to give of yourself, your time, your love." — Margaret Otchy.

"Time, self, money, love — but not necessarily in that order. There have to be some limitations . . . You can only give to the point that you are not damaging your own mind or body." — Mary Hersley.

"Our total self is a gift from a generous God. He wills that we share our 'gift' — spiritually, emotionally and physically — with anyone in need." — Father Dick Brunskill.

"Most of the Gospels encourage us to give in order to receive. Not necessarily monetary wealth but spiritual wealth . . We can give in time, service and give of ourselves." — Charles S. Patrick.

Can you be generous to a fault?

The world is full of generous people, men and women, young and old, who freely and cheerfully reach out to others.

We see them all the time, couples who devote many hours to their children, younger people who spend time with ageing parents, families who co-ordinate their grocery shopping to help their neighbour, people who offer others a ride to church.

The other day! saw one of the city's street people help another out in a subway station.

Yes, the world is full of generous people, and

they all have one thing in common: Generous people don't think of themselves as generous. They being simply are themselves.

Asked about it, they their shrug may shoulders, embarrassed, and say: "It's nothing."

Pressed about it, they add: "It's just being human."

They have a point.

Being generous is being human.

Sometimes generosity means being faithful to ordinary responsibilities: the teacher who is attentive to each child or the airline attendant who helps elderly people.

We call that "service with a smile".

Being generous also can mean stretching our efforts to help somebody, like a nurse, already quite tired from a day's work, who takes a little extra time to make a patient comfortable.

When you're the patient, you don't take that kind of attention for granted.

We have an expression for that too. We call it, "going the extra mile".

Being generous also can take a downright heroic form, as happens when someone saves another's life.

There are many ways to

The early Christians sometimes took one saying of Jesus and applied it to different situations. Take this saying, for example: "The measure with which you measure will be measured out to you and still more will be given to you" (Mark 4:24).

Mark puts this in the context of hearing the Lord's parables.

If people listen more carefully, they will derive more profit from them.

In Matthew 7:2 the saying is applied to judging other people: As we judge others, so will God judge us.

Luke puts the saying in the same general context as Matthew, but with a different emphasis: "Give, and gifts will be given to you; a good measure, packed together, shaken down and overflowing, will be poured into your lap. For the measure with which

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be generous, but they all come down to following one's human instincts in each situation as opportunities arise.

Normally, a person's Christian formation should sharpen those instincts and give a greater awareness of opportunities for generosity.

It is like Jesus' parable of the good and bad tree.

"Do people pick grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles? Just so, every good tree bears good fruit and a rotten

people "who have time for everybody but their own family".

When generosity is well-directed, it does not run away from primary responsibilities.

Generosity also can be exaggerated.

This happens when generous people ignore their own limitations and try to do things they are unable or inadequately prepared to do.

There are times, for example, when we ought to refer someone to a doctor or a lawyer. By playing doctor or lawyer ourselves, we can end up doing harm.

We need to remember

our limitations. That is not so easy. Deep within all of us there is that tendency to try to be God. It can move us to spend time and effort beyond our abilities.

It drives us to frustration, to a point we call "being under stress".

At that point, we are no longer being generous, faithful or heroic. We can't even focus on the people we would like to help.

When that happens, our whole effort becomes one of self-preservation.

What set out to be generosity ends up being selfishness.

"The world is full of generous people, men and women, young and old, who freely and cheerfully reach out to others," writes Father Eugene LaVerdiere.

Bri gi g out so e good out of evil

By Father John Langan, SJ Recently our city and the nation were shocked by a series of tragically interrelated events: the murder of a pregnant woman, Carole Stuart; the death of her prematurely born son, Christopher; the accusation by her husband, Charles, that he and his wife were attacked by a black man; a series of searches and interro-

gations of blacks that embittered many blacks; a confession by Stuart's brother, Matthew, that Charles had murdered his wife; Charles' suicide.

The events led to extended and passionate analyses of race relations and the conduct and attitudes of the police department.

This all may seem to be another sad story of hatred and murder, of racism and betrayal — the kind of story that reflects many of the

worst aspects of human nature.

But the Stuart case is also a story transformed by an act of generosity.

Carole's parents, Giusto and Evelyn DiMaiti, have set up a fund in her memory to provide university scholarships for students from the section where their daughter was murdered.

A firm determination to bring good out of so much evil and suffering led the DiMaitis to a decision that was hopeful, creative and generous.

WAS LUKE COMPLETELY IMPRACTICAL?

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tree bears bad fruit" (Matthew 7:16-17).

In the same way, from a generous person you get generous acts and from a selfish person you get selfish acts.

Not that everything goes automatically as it should. Generosity can be misdirected.

This happens when someone ignores ordinary responsibilities to do things that seem bigger.

For example, someone might not spend enough time with his or her children while taking a major volunteer position outside the home. In this case, we talk about

By Father Eugene LaVerdiere, SSS

you measure will in return be measured out to you"(6:38) In biblical times people tucked up the front of their loose robes and formed a spacious pocket, a "lap" into which grain or other produce could be placed.

The way Jesus' saying is applied by Luke is so typical of him, given that he wrote for gentiles, who were more interested in getting than in

This is one of those arresting Gospel paradoxes that prove so true in everyday experience.

Generous people grow; they become outgoing. expansive.

Luke appeals to their acquisitiveness: "If you

That is why therapists treating people with

want to get, then give.

And you will receive much more than you give."

People wrapped up selfishly in their own interests make a small and not too attractive package.

Their generosity enables others to express both their sympathy for

Money, of course, is welcome because it fits any recipient.

But we don't show generosity only to family or friends or persons in need. We also show generosity to organisations and causes.

the family and their hope for an improvement in the relationships of blacks and whites.

The characteristic act of generosity is to give something away.

Often people think this something is money.

But there are many cases where a gift has to be personal, something that fits the needs or the tastes of the person receiving it.

A strong tradition of charitable giving and philanthropy from foundations and corporations is invaluable to a nation.

And without generous giving from many individuals, both poor and rich, the Church's work would come to a halt.

14ot merely the Church bit universities, haspitils, schools, cultural ganisations and civic soups depend on our ulerosity.

They all welcome large ills which will make flair institutional plans r dreams a reality and liable them to carry out law projects.

Ne call these large imations "generous !Rs".

But to understand the mcial personal charac1r of generosity, we !iould look in a direction

that Jesus indicated to us long ago.

When Jesus commended the widow for giving all that she had to the temple (Luke 21:114), he put before us an example of generosity that was intended to shift our attention from the amount given to the attitude of the giver.

Jesus was familiar with the ways in which people could use public gifts to impress others and to for power gain themselves.

He teaches that gener-

osity has to be found first of all in the giver, who gives cheerfully, prudently and authentically.

St Paul's saying that the Lord loves a cheerful giver contains a paradox.

Giving something away, particularly something of value, is an act of renunciation, an act which can be painful and leave people less than cheerful, unless they have learned to look at things from more than their own viewpoint. for Sometimes, instance, children are

reluctant to pass on a gift that is intended for someone else — to give away the present they brought to a birthday party, for example.

For any of us, to be cheerful in giving is itself a moral accomplishment, not merely an expression of our feeling good about what we do.

Being authentic or honest in giving means that we give from the heart without thought of receiving benefits in return. Jesus explicitly warns against doing

favours for friends or for the powerful to receive good things in return.

Giving with generosity is a form of love. It aims at the good of another. It is one of the main ways of sharing in God's love.

Generosity often produces benefits for us, but the benefits ought not to become the reason for being generous.

Generosity also should be prudent — a statement that I admit is not easy to fit with the story of the widow's mite.

For, generosity is an expression of charity and love, which should be unlimited.

Generosity looks up to God and the infinite, but it also looks out to the neighbour to provide effective help and support.

So we have to apply our intelligence to our generosity. We have to sort out worthy causes from scams and frauds, and assess the many claims and requests we get.

We need to see how the

gifts we give to the needy and the Church and other groups fit with a reasonable financial plan for ourselves and our families.

Generosity opens our hearts, our checkbooks and, most important. our lives to the needs of our brothers and sisters in whom Christ is present.

When the DiMaitis found a way to give something beautiful in their daughter's memory, they were giving from their imagination and their sympathy.

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severe depression constantly urge them to give themselves to some community project, to forget themselves in service to those less fortunate.

Happiness, like love, can be acquired only by giving it away. And while sharing possessions is important, giving of oneself is far more effective.

One of Luke's heroines was the poor widow who "from her poverty, offered her whole livelihood" (Luke 21:4). Jesus contrasts her with the

affluent who were making token contributions "from their surplus".

They really gave nothing of themselves and so remained coldly uninvolved, while she in effect gave herself.

Evidently Luke's people needed this urging to selfless generosity. It is not likely that they received his message with enthusiasm. Getting by giving sounded just too impractical.

In the Acts of the Apostles (5:1-11), Luke contrasts the generosity

of Barnabas with the hypocritical conniving of Ananias and his wife.

They pretended to contribute everything to the community fund but secretly stashed away plenty for themselves.

A firm determination to bring good out of evil and suffering can lead to a decision that is hopeful and creative, writes Jesuit Father John Langan.

And tragedy then is transformed by generosity.

They were under no obligation to give their all. It was their lying pretense that was reprehensible (Acts 5:1-11).

Luke wants honest generosity, cheerful giving, the kind that enriches the giver beyond measure.

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'Silver' joy at Karrinyup One of the wonderful things about Australia is its newness along with its antiquity. Timewise it's an ancient land, but Anglo-Irish settlement is barely 200 years old and so more and more areas keep opening up and relatively young parishes and schools are celebrating their silver anniversaries.

Our Lady of Good Counsel, Karrinyup, celebrated her 25th recently, which is a drop in the proverbial bucket as far as old Father Time goes, but not as regards achievement since the first virgin sod was turned.

The pioneer priests and religious of all those days backs with and parents

to build and get the basis for good Catholic education and these stoics can often be found at special birthday celebrations.

Karrinyup saw a representative of the sisters who took the tough job on in those early days — Sister Helen of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, North Beach.

These original sisters, Bridget and Boniface,

Kevin Foster (an original student 1965-71), is shown the intricacies of modern construction by Mailie Shortill (yr 5). Entitled The Wizard's Palace and created out of toothpicks silver sprayed, by Clare Healy, Belinda Spiccia and Tracey Maynard, it is representative of some most imaginative student creations. together with Father Byrne set the school's historical ball rolling in

late 1964 and with a which consisted of three band of hard working classrooms under the and dedicated parents church roof. who gave their time and These classrooms energy generously and accommodated the freely, the church and grades which went from school took shape and one to six inclusive. grew to accommodate There were also quite a the 248 single stream few former students who school body of today. saw the progress of the The Sisters of the Holy school as "incredible!"

Family of Nazareth and whose parents had remained there until given so much so genertheir departure in 1975 ously to help make it all for their current North happen.

Beach school, Our Lady Principal Mrs Christine of Grace, where Sister Edwards and staff Helen is principal.

Father Michael Byrne, thought a day of celebranow PP at St Paul's Mt tion appropriate, so after Lawley, found many a Mass with a backdrop friends among those who of each child's drawing of came to celebrate, having themselves stuck colourbeen a well-known and fully on church walls, active parish identity followed by morning tea, the children got down to from 1964 to 1984. the serious business of He supervised and having fun. pitched in with the buildings, "and begged, Instead of one large borrowed and stole!" 25th birthday cake, each t from other chuches any child made one cup-cake discarded pews or any- iced in school colours of thing which could be blue or gold, set out on Former students among the first intake in 1965, who came along to browse among the memorabilia, were Jenni (Hamilton) Pougnauft (left) used to furnish the new long trestles to spell with daughter Halee 4, Lee Tonkin-Jones, Anne (Hamilton) Schoonens and Genelle (Demarchi) Picton-King with daughter Rebecca 2. church and school, Happy Birthday OLGC!

Blessing of new $4.2m complex

Michelle Bettini's background is uniquely Australian involving mustering cattle and being Camp Cook on their enormous station holdings north of the 26th parallel.

St Brigid's Lesmurdie new boarding facilities were officially blessed and opened last Sunday, watched by a crowd of 700 plus the student body.

Built at a cost of $4.26 million financed by a low-interest loan from the State Government, the new individual facilities will allow each student their own room in which to study.

The new complex is yet another achievement for the Sisters of Mercy who

were praised by Archbishop Foley in his speech as having "led the school community from the inception of the original school in 1929 to the present time."

Several St Brigid'a Lesmurdie boarders spoke at the official opening and blessing, outlining their homes and backgrounds.

Students come from intra-state, interstate and overseas. One such student who gave an interesting account of her

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Right: Karen (Letts) Hegarty (left), MaryEllen (Clinch) Purnell with baby son Ryan, Josephine (Cranley) Wedge, Alba Cinquini and Carmel (Cranley) Kinnersly with 12 weeks old Emily who were boarders during the seventies, had a chance to catch up with each other after the blessing and opening of the new boarding facilities. home territory, was of two — Roc.klea and Cattle are transported Michelle Bettini, year 12. Ashburton Downs. by road train trucks to Michelle began boardthe Midland markets.

Situated 1600 kms Michelle's cooking skills ing last year having completed her lower north of Perth and 70 as Camp Cook, are fully secondary at Paraburdoo kms south of the closest utilised at this time to towns of Paraburdoo and cook for the eight to ten district school.

Michelle's parents Tom Price, the stations employees during her chose St Brigid's because cover an area of 687,937 school holidays. of its lush hills and hectares, or 1.7 million Social life she said is natural environment, acres, running 7000 head limited, so usually takes hoping to minimise her of cattle. the form of mustering homesickness for the Raised for meat, the cattle on horseback great outdoors her family stations' busiest times are which she enjoys, and lives in. from April to October playing cards with the She lives on a station in when mustering takes station hands.

The station doesn't, the Pilbara which is one place.

receive radio but the telephone has recently become available due to technology in radio waves and solar energy, and owing to satellite, they are able to receive channels GWN and the ABC. Because Michelle lives above the 26th parallel, she is given 'plane transport each way on school holidays which takes one hour 40 minutes, or 20 hours by bus if there is an airline

problem.

Michelle said coming to boarding school was the only real option because of the subject choice she chose plus the travelling difficulties to Paraburdoo on a gravel road and doing her TEE by Distance Education.

However, it's turned out to be a rather good choice as far as she's concerned and next year Michelle is setting her sights on university to further her studies.

YEF is up and running The Youth Encourage Foundation (YEF) was born on New Year's Day but despite its infancy, is up and running!

It's for homeless kids and is based almost entirely on voluntary energy, apart from a very underpaid senior social worker who is so committed she works for $50 a week.

The idea is to provide a warm, loving home environment for homeless kids where they are not Oven a 'hand-out — but a hand-up!'

Based on that principle, the 10-member honorary committee rent a house, put in a house leader where required and offer a home to four teenagers per house.

Many need assistance of various kinds — emotional, educational, financial and general guidance and interest shown, after which YEF get them started with further education or out into the workforce where possible.

Having achieved that, they contribute their percentage of the house running costs which gives them a sense of responsibility and pride in their dwelling and family unit.

Males and females are split up into separate houses and to date YEF have provided homes for 36 homeless kids with 60 planned in the near future. The current eight homes will swell to 13.

Rental houses are selected in suburbs which can realistically allow teenagers to set up their own networks and blend in harmoniously, having become part of a family unit themselves. the Spearheading imaginative and apparently successful operation, is executive director Mr David Eastaugh, a relatively young man who is so committed to helping homeless youth, that he has invested his life savings into YEF. David is on a ten member committee, along with Mr Francis Harman, deputy chairman.

The committee mix is made up of a third "the kids", a third staff, and a third external community members. People involved in YEF have had many years experience with other charities helping youth.

David spent 15 years with disadvantaged youth, and Francis 24 in voluntary work and running a charity for their welfare. Why they have decided to opt for this style of accommodating the homeless young, is because they believe their home set-up is a much better option than being institutionalised or in many cases being fostered out.

Their direction is a combination of two concepts — the Burdekin Report and Jean Varnier's

L'Arc.he community program, whereby they live together in the houses.

Having given them support and guidance in these homes, and allowing them to achieve selfsufficiency, the house leader moves on to another home while maintaining external contact with the original.

David and Francis emphasised however that their interest in each house is on-going; that each person is regarded as a family member and they are always welcome as well as their friends.

Even though they may leave to marry and set up their own home, they will still maintain their links with their YEF home.

Some homes have a live-in worker instead of a house leader. A house leader is one who has been through the street experience but has now got things together, said David, and has set up solid networks thereby becoming a positive peer model.

YEF initiates three levels of care — the first being when they come off the streets and are given all the support they need.

The second level is where they are set up as a family member in a YEF home until they achieve self-sufficiency, under the guidance of a staff member.

The third level is where they have achieved selfsufficiency and rent a house from YEF, which means all contributing their share of the running expenses and chore load, which brings with it responsibility.

"So even though they may not need us any more, the whole idea of YEF is 'inclusion' and we become their extended family," said David. YEF believes that it isn't enough to provide food and shelter for someone — you have to give them a sense of belonging.

"We're trying to provide them with what they missed out on in their own unsatisfactory home backgrounds. Some have been abused physically or sexually or have left for other reasons and ended up on the streets with an introduction into drugs, alcohol and prostitution."

There is a clear sense of strong leadership in the homes, said David and Francis, and everyone pitches in and helps with

painting, wallpapering and housework.

"YEF aims to change their dependancy into responsibility." Teenagers come in from two main sources, through Department of Community Services (DCS) or straight off the streets.

Currently YEF is unable to bring in all the referrals because they need finance to rent more houses, and more volunteer help.

Francis, who is the chairman of the Youth Encourage Association, which has been set up as a support base for people in the community to raise money for YEF, stated YEF is not only socially effective, but economically as well, citing their ability to care for 60 teenagers annually on $200,000 as against another organisation "locked into the institution model" which receives $600,000 annually to care for an average of 20 teenagers.

Administration is totally voluntary, he said, so 100% of money raised goes directly to the kids in their formation.

YEF gets a lot of help from the St Vincent de Paul in the way of clothing, and furniture, but in order to save the drain on them, ask for any furniture or equipment, money donations, or a serviceable vehicle so donated goods can be picked up and teenagers taken to work interviews.

Francis said he'd like to see a parish adopt a YEF home and support it either financially or with volunteer help.

From the work aspect.

YEF believes their youth attain a new perspective and gain selfworth, but finding a job can be difficult with their previous background.

They battle the stigma of being homeless and lacking a supportive background which backs up a work application.

"One 20 year old has put himself through his TEE after getting himself together having come from a street life, but can't get full time work which he needs in preparation for his university entrance next year; he can only get part time or temporary," said David.

the job — hence our need for gardening and general work tools, plus a vehicle."

Anyone offering help of any kind or wanting workers for full time, part time, or the services of the Strive work party, could contact YEF on 479 1182.

On the achievement side, David and Francis believe they have gained excellent results.

In one case, a youth, drinking heavily and banned from every institution, had 97 convictions and every week was in the Courts, but since joining them he has now been working for 12 months with no convictions.

Another case was that of an 18 yo who came to Australia to find his mother, after the family split up when he was seven and the father raising him in Europe.

However he was rejected by his mother and came under David's care in a pair of jeans and shirt. They've set him up and he now belongs to his new home — the YEF community.

Other similar success stories told, have convinced YEF they're on the right track and can do much to help the young who need a helping hand 'Upwards!'

YEF bouseworker David Riddell painting one of their houses, watched by David Eastaigh (rear) and Francis Harman.

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Conflicting reports on Fatima...

From Roma MART/NO, Bassendean

Sir, Regarding 'THE FATIMA POSER" (The Record, March 22) the Italian based monthly "30 Days" states that Sr Lucia has said that "Pope John Paul's act of Consecration in 1984 satisfied Mary's request."'

A completely different report appeared in the "FATIMA CRUSADER", Sept -Oct. 1987:

One of the world's leading experts on Fatima, Father Pierre Caillon, visited Sr Lucia on September 12, 1986.

When he asked Sr Lucia about the Consecration of Russia, she stood up and solemnly declared, c hoosing her words carefully:

HAS NOT BEEN DONE." Here are two conflicting reports. I would be inclined to believe Fr Caillon more than an unnamed journalist.

After all, it is common knowledge that in being a Cloistered Carmelite, Sr Lucia is not permitted to speak to any journalist who appears at the "If you wish, I can swear convent door. it is very to you with my hand on rare that she is permitted the Gospels. THE CON- to speak to just any SECRATION OF RUSSIA priest!

'Record used' charge

from RJ KEAYS, Claremont Sir, Who cares which party Tim Leahy (The Record March 22) voted for? I am only surprised that a religious publication such as The Record, in an issue that was on sale prior to polling day, a llowed its' letters column to be used in blatant politicking, particularly for a minor party with cuckoo-land policies whose representatives' c ircus -antics in the senate and on the wharves are an embarrassment to most Australians.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Those who plead for more explicit Catholic press involvement in elections could well refer their worries to correspondents Leahy and Keays.

College marks feast of St Joseph

Shane Douglas delivers a discourse on St Joseph, Keaney College Bindoon.

For the 19th of March the feast of St Joseph, Keaney College Bindoon recalled how much the saint's prayers have sought God's blessings on the establishment's history.

Celebrations began with high tea at 6.30pm with Brother McAppion, representing the Christian Brothers provincial superior, in attendance along with the president of the P & F. The hall was decorated and prominence given by the canopy over the statue of St Joseph.

As the boys waited on tables, Jason Hamilton, Year 10, of Cranbrook gave an address of welcome.

The occasional address was given by Shane Douglas of Perth, revealing much of his knowledge on St Joseph.

Denis Blair, Year 8, from Bullfinch thanked all who had made the occasion memorable.

During the Mass he celebrated at 8.30pm the chaplain, Father Michael Gaft reflected on the life of St Joseph.

The Mass concluded with a procession carrying the large painting of St Joseph attended by altar servers N. Moorone, W. Williams, D. Van Vugt, D. Thompson, D. Connelle and W. Hamilton.

From 1939 till 1963 Bindoon educated underprivileged boys and in 1963 Keaney College became a boarding school of agriculture and is now a registered Junior Agricultural College in WA with years 8,9, & 10 boys from as far south as Esperance and as far north as Port Hedland.

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Above: Terry and Marg Fennessy, parent couple for Claremont Antioch.

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Right: Some light footwork from Mark Ratajczak of CPY, taking Annette Odak for a walk on the swimming pool at Eagle's Nest!

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Charis II set to go in '90 The first Charis weekend for 1990 gets underway on Friday, April 6, continuing the phenomenal success of this WA-based program for young adults.

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Many young people aged 18 years and over have experienced Charis and continue their growth together every second Thursday night at

the Youth Office in Claverton Street, North Perth.

Charis helps bring about a sense of belonging to Church through

addressing some of the most important needs and issues faced by youth today.

The April weekend will be held at Eagle's Nest formation centre in Gidgegannup, and vacancies still exist for this and other weekends planned for July 27 and September 14.

Interested young people aged 18 years and over should call the youth office on 328.9878 for further information or registration.

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It also provides a warm yet relaxed community life for those who continue their faith development through the Thursday night gatherings.

Charis co-ordinator Sister Emilie Cattalini said this week that, since the group has attracted such wide interest and enthusiasm, moves were underway to establish a second base for Charis south of the river.

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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.

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;

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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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The young scene

by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

I Have Cancer A

Ibare Cancer by Althea, illus. by Nicola Spoor.

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Treatment for cancer can be as painful and frightening as the disease. In this honest but unalarming book, Mthea explains some of the treatments and their side affects

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Mirabelle Mouse is amazed when she sees hcr tail growing longer and looter.

Clarence the cat tries to help her! The long tail leads

through the eyes of a chi d successfully cured of Leukaemia.

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them into hilarious adventures — with spaghetti, with knitting wool, with shoelaces, with worms.

All tales have an end though, and finally Mirabelle decides she's had enough . .

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1. This cute sisterly trio — Simone 2 (left), Marieka 5 and Laurissa Lockett 8 — snatched a little rest before rejoining the young scene at Karrinyup's 25th celebrations.

2. Delighted to catch up with each other again are (left) Our Lady of Good Counsel's principal Mrs Christine Edwards, Father Michael Byrne PP 19641984, former principal 1981-1986 Miss Anne Nolan (now principal Liwara, Greenwood) and principal of Our Lady of Grace, North Beach, Sister Helen of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth.

3. Julian Goodall 3, whose sister Bianca is an OLGC student, found there is lots to do at (or outside!) Mass . . . and balloons have such appeal!

4. Ready for the competition with stunning head-gear, are (left) Tracey Maynard (yr 5), Thomas Martin (yr 1), Michael Claydon (rear, yr 1) and Asher Hyland (yr 5).

King Louis of France When Louis was eight, continued as his trusted there until 1254. His He was committed to advice. He often was his father became king of adviser. mother died that year and education and helped invited to act as a France. Four years later King Louis IX set to he returned home. Back found one of the world's mediator because he was his father died. Twelvework to bring greater in France King Louis great universities, the honest and just. year-old Louis was now unity and peace to governed the nation with Sorbonne in Paris. Stuking, but he was too The king befriended the France. He also wanted to unusual wisdom and dents still study there. orders like the religious young to govern a great compassion .

He worked The remarkable king set bring the Holy Land back nation. out treaties with England about rooting out corrup- Franciscans and Dominunder Christian rule. and with Spain, resolving tion among officials. He icans. He chose his own His mother Blanche In 1248 he led a crusade long-standing confessors from these disputes. protected weaker, more ruled in his place until he to Egypt to drive back the King Louis believed vulnerable people from dynamic orders. He was older. Meanwhile she Moslem armies that were that a crown of thorns those more powerful and founded many religious saw that he received the taking over the Holy given him was the crown freed them from oppres- houses and hospitals. best possible preparation Land. His army captured of thorns Jesus wore sion by ruthless lords. For the 44 years of his the town of Damietta. to be a good king.

But the Egyptian army when he died on the People at the time tended reign, France remained cross. So the king had one to settle legal questions unusually peaceful and In 1234 Louis married later surrounded the of the most beautiful by going to battle instead prosperous. He is consiMarguerite of Provence. crusaders and captured chapels in the world built of to courts. King Louis dered one of France's Over the years the loving King Louis. He paid a in Paris to house the made new laws to ensure greatest kings. He died of couple had 10 children. large ransom for his crown of thorns. Thou- justice in his realm. typhoid in 1270 shortly During the first year of freedom and that of his sands of people continue Kings and princes of after setting out on a new their marriage, Louis defeated army. to visit that chapel, called other countries respected crusade. Today the great began to rule France King Louis went on to Sainte -Chapelle, each the French king so much king is honoured as a himself. His mother the Holy Land and stayed year. that they came to him for saint.

Student frolics

by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

Catholic Ed at La Sail La Salle's highlight of Catholic Education Week will be MAD (mission aid day) which by coincidence is a day away from St John la de Baptiste Salle's feast day.

Funds raised are always channelled to a missionary cause, but this year they will go to Balgo Hills where some of the original teaching de la Salle brothers are workingwith the Aboriginals, who during their annual excursion last year fraternised with La Sallians.

1. With a diabolical hairstyle in mind, Jill Young gets to work on Michelle De Nicolis' hair in preparation for MAD day's madness!

2. Anthony Valenti (left), Natasha Bonchard, John Scanlan and Adam Benaim show their teacher Ms Jan Stalley how talented they are turning out badges for MAD day which they've incorporated into Catholic Education Week this year.

3. La Sallians Davin Valenti (left), Ryan Kennedy and Andrew Houston congratulating themselves on their wins in Little Athletics.

Davin won a gold medal in the 400 and 800 metres run and a silver in the 1500m run at the State Championships.

Ryan won a silver and bronze in the high and triple jumps and Andrew won a silver medal in the 2km cross country run.

Mercedes' Luke 18' are tops! wins SWIMMING At the recent ACC interschool swimming carnival held at Beatty Park, Mercedes won the combined overall girls' aggregate by 80 points from John XXIII. Four girls were chosen to compete in the National Age Group championships representing WA. These are Nadia Burgwyn yr 10, Tamara Bruce yr 8, Misty Waters yr 9 and Belinda Lawless yr 9.

TENNIS Recent successes in tennis will see Mercedes students competing in final rounds of a number of State Tennis competitions — in the semi-finals of the Slazenger Cup run by the WA Lawn Tennis Association, in the quarter finals of the Herbert Edwards Cup, and two teams in the quarter final of the Mursell Shield.

CRICKET Under 15 cricket team defeated Swanleigh in the grand final of the Saturday morning interschool cricket competition.

R HYTHMIC GYMNASTICS continues to grow in popularity through the participation of Heidi Buller yr 11 on a national level.

Mundaring saw its first Luke 18 Youth Mass last Sunday. And there's no doubt about it, their music must have done those old stone walls a power of good.

Amazing Grace was marvellous and the vitality injected by youth into everything they do, should bring home to the world that life without the young is dead as a dodo!

Mathew Schokker (left rear), Gemma Riddell, Kara Riddell (left front) and Leanne Schokker supported by the Antiochians, helped to make the evening rock and bop!

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THE PAR I. H SCENE

by TOM BRANCH Championships cancelled

Quiz night

Insufficient entries in this year's annual championship resulted in the tournament organiser postponing the championships to a date to be determined. Obviously the executive will be extremely disappointed that this decision had to be taken and the topic will be high on the agenda for discussion at next week's committee meeting. An unfavourable trend over the last couple of years must give cause for concern and the committee must take some positive steps in an effort to reverse this trend.

Pennants

The 1990 mixed pennant competition is scheduled to commence on Saturday, May 5. Teams will be comprised of three men and two ladies. The competition will be divided into two grades. Pennant conditions and team entry forms will be distributed to club secretaries shortly.

The WACLTA quiz night will be held on Tuesday, April 10 at the Manning Hotel, commencing at 7.30pm. The quiz master is association member and Channel 10 newsreader, Greg Pearce. The cost is $5 per head, with tables of six.

Members should contact club secretaries for tickets. As in previous years, tremendous prizes will be available throughout the evening.

The function is not restricted to members of affiliated clubs. Individuals and/or table bookings can be made by phoning association secretary, Donna Ward on tel 417 2228.

Executive meeting The next association committee meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, April 3 at the home of John and Donna Ward, 28 Pelican Ramble, Yangebup commencing at 7.45pm. Given the cancellation of the championships it is most important that clubs ensure their delegates are in attendance.

PASTORAL CARE AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PASTORAL CARE IN SCHOOL SYSTEMS The International Institute of Policy and Administrative Studies of the School of Education (Western Australian College of Advanced Education) advises that a conference with a theme of international perspectives on the provision and practice of pastoral care in school systems will be held in Perth. Western Australia from April 9 to April 11. 1990.

Venue: The Perth International Hotel 10 Irwin Street PERTH 6000 Thlephone: (09) 325 0481 Facsimile: (09) 323 2902 Cost: Conference fee of $275 payable "IIPAS — International Conference on Pastoral Care" Accommodation: Available at the Perth International Hotel Participation is invited from individuals involved with policy and practice of pastoral care in schools and institutions.

The working conference will take an information sharing approach to the development of policy recommendations based on the contributions of key speakers, researchers and practitioners as well as participative group workshop sessions.

For detailed information. contact Dr Anna Lichtenberg, Nedlands Campus.

-Telephone: (09) 386 0312 Fax: (09) 386 2258 or Marguerite Davies, Claremont Campus, Thlephone: (09) 383 0345 Fax: (09) 383 1786.

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PSYCHIATRIC GROUP

The Catholic Concerns Committee on Psychiatric Issues invites people who have suffered from a psychiatric condition, their families and friends to a Mass and sharing at Emmanuel Centre on Sunday, April 1 at 4pm. Father Rodney Williams, Chaplain to Mental Health in Western Australia, will be celebrant.

The occasion will give people an opportunity to share with others and feel supported. Further information from Jo Kelly 453 6171, Barbara 328 8113, or the Pastoral Centre at Graylands 383 6666.

MISSION WORKSHOP The Mission and Justice Team presents The Mission of Jesus Today workshop, about Christian adult education and faith formation.

Friday, April 6: 7.30-9.30pm, Saturday, April 7: 9.30am-4pm, Sunday, April 8: 9.30am-1pm.

Catherine McAuley Family Centre, Wembley. $30 (byo lunch). For further details phone Mary or Margarethe on 325 1212 or 444 6679 (A/H).

GING1N CABARET

The annual Gingin-Chittering parish cabaret will be held on Saturday, April 21 from 8.30pm till after midnight in the Bindoon Community Hall featuring Mike O'Meara. Family tickets $25, Single $9, high school students $4, younger children free. For table bookings phone: Lee Kay 575 2063, Helen Corry 576 1120 or Connie Zampogna 571 8074.

CATHOLIC EDUCATION

Faith, knowledge and excellence will also be the themes of a Catholic Education Week display to be held in Forrest Place, Perth on Thursday, April 5.

Static displays indicating various aspects of Catholic education — its history, special programs, Aboriginal education and teaching in Catholic schools -- will be set up in Forrest Place from 9am. Students from St Vincent's School, Medina will conduct a computer classroom during the day; and there will be displays on religious education and outdoor education.

Between noon and 7pm there will be a continuous program of entertainment provided by school bands, choirs and dramatic groups. At 5.30pm more than 60 schools from Perth and country areas will participate in a colourful parade of school flags. The parade, led by the Trinity College Pipe Band, will proceed through the Murray Street Mall into Forrest Place where the Minister for Education, Dr Geoff Gallop will speak on the contribution of Catholic education to Western Australia.

MARIAN FEAST

The Marian Movement of Busselton will hold the annual Marian festival on Bove's Farm south of Bussetton on Sunday May 6. Mass will commence at 1.30pm followed

by Rosary in procession and Benediction. Buses will leave from various locations in Perth. For further details contact Paul Galea on 349 7135.

St Vincent De Paul

BOOKSHOP We have a wide range of books and pamphlets which will appeal to the average Catholic. Topics include Marriage & 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.

We are at 19 Bronte Street East Perth (opposite the East Perth Historical Cemetery). There is ample free on site parking or you can use the free City Clipper service (alight at Horatio Street).

St Mary's Towers Retreat Centre

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Conducted by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart

SPECIAL RETREATS ON OFFER THIS YEAR Spirituality in the Middle Years 23 April to 29 April Life's Healing Journey 4 May to 11 May lgnatian Exercises (30 day retreat) 9 November to 9 December 8 day directed retreats 6 day guided retreats prayer weekends are programmed throughout the year.

For further details and application forms for all retreats please contact: The Co-ordinator St Mary's Towers Retreat Centre DOUGLAS PARK NSW, 2569 Telephone (046) 309 159 (046) 309 232

SACRED QUARTET On Sunday, April 8 at St Columba's Church, South Perth at 7.30pm and at Holy Family Church, Kalamunda at 3pm the string quartet of Joseph Hadyn "The Seven Last Words of Christ" will be performed by the St Cecilia Quartet: Daniel Carney, violin; Barbara Colreavy, violin; Berian Evans, viola; Veronica Moylan, cello.

Each movement is preceded by an, appropriate reading. For further enquiries call 367 1526.

ENVIRONMENT MEETING At the Catholic Environment Group's monthly meeting at 8pm, April 6 at Inglewood Parish Centre, 175 Central Avenue, Inglewood, a recorded talk by Professor Paul Ertilick on the state of the world environment will issue some clear challenges to Christians the world over. The meeting is open to the public.

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BINDOON STATIONS The secular Franciscan Order, WA is organising outdoor Stations of the Cross at Ke,aney College, Bindoon on Palm Sunday, April 8 at 3pm. Bring a picnic lunch around noon. The afternoon concludes with Benediction in the college chapel.

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Bindoon Keaney College: Holy Thursday 7.30pm. Good Friday: Stations of the Cross 11am.

Celebration of the Passion, 2pm.

Holy Saturday: Vigil, 7.30pm.

Easter Sunday: Bullsbrook Church 9.45am. Guilderton Hall noon.

Lancelin Church 3.30pm and 5pm.

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Liturgical Music Day

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Both departures include a free return flight to European cities. eg London. Rome, Athens.

Other dates also available.

Scripture Group: Thursday, April 5 (not 12) at 8pm, Epistle to the Romans 5.1-7.25.

Vatican ll Study Group: Tuesday, April 10 at 11am, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, "Chapt 4, The Laity". Each of these meetings to be presided over by Father Dyson at 13 Dean St, Claremont. Contact 446 7340.

Both meetings open to anyone interested.

APRIL 3-4 Meeting of WA bishops.

5 Parade of Flags, Catholic Schools Week, Archbishop Foley.

6 Installation of Catholic Education Commission members, Archbishop Foley.

St Thomas More College Council meeting, Archbishop Foley.

Curtin Graduation, Division of Business and Administration, Bishop Healy.

7 Bless St Gerard's Pre School, Archbishop Foley.

8 Palm Sunday Mass, St Mary's Cathedral, Archbishop Foley.

10 Mass of the Chrism, St Mary's Cathedral, all priests.

11 Curtin Graduation, Engineering and Science, Archbishop Foley.

12 Solemn Mass of the Lord's Supper, St Mary's Cathedral, Archbishop Foley.

Solemn Mass of the Lord's Supper, Manning, Bishop Healy.

Celebration of the Lord's Passion, 13 St Mary's Cathedral, Archbishop Foley.

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Trisha Watts, Chris Wikock, SJ Santa Liana Theatre Arts, Moreing Rd, Attadalp Saturday, April 7, 9-4..30pm. Cost 55.

Inquiries and bookings: Tel 3815444, ask for Catholic Institute: 4431805 Sr Kerry; 4582729 Fr Peter Joseph.

This Catholic College provides an innovative and unique educational and training service for young Aboriginal men and women in the 15-18 year age group. The aims of the College are: • to provide an environment that is supportive of a positive Aboriginal identity: • to have all involved with the College responding to the needs of others in a Christian manner: • to encourage individuals to take responsibility for their own lives; • to provide individuals with the confidence and skills necessary to further their education: and • to enable individuals to more confidently and competitively seek employment.

A pplicants should have experience and qualifications relevant to Aboriginal education and training, an understanding of Aboriginal people and their culture and be able to c ommunicate and work effectively with them.

Applicants should be practising Catholics, committed to the objectives and ethos of Catholic education and have requisite administrative skills and academic and professional qualifications.

Salary and conditions are similar to those offered by the WA Ministry of Education.

Further information and application forms can be obtained from:

Eric Chidlow Catholic Education Office of WA PO Box 198, Leederville WA 6007 Telephone: (09) 381 5444

Official application forms should be addressed to The Director.

Catholic Education Office (address above) and lodged by Wednesday. April 18. 1990.

Aboriginal people with appropriate qualifications and experience are encouraged to apply.