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Revival of saving art Ballajura parish's six and seven year olds have piloted a student banking service run by Archdiocesan Development Fund.

The new scheme, called the Junior Builders Club, began recently at the new Catholic Primary School in Ballajura 67 boasts and members from a possible 105 students.

Des Dwyer, ADF Director of Marketing, said the scheme provides students with the nearly forgotten art of saving.

He said: "We hope to offer the facility to all Catholic primary schools by the end of 1990."

Two further pilot programs are listed for Holy Spirit School

City Beach and Padbury Catholic School.

The school provides one volunteer for the weekly banking day to assist with counting of money and documentation.

"There was no difficulty in finding a mum with banking experience and eager to help," said Mr Dwyer.

Students receive a c omplimentary sticker and set of colour pencils on their first deposit.

The Archdiocesan Development Fund provided bridging finance for the Etallajura school project and is best known for funding the last seven churches in the Archdiocese.

Des Dwyer, ADF Marketing Director faces some tough questions from larad Canty (year I) and Chinthi layasekera (Pre-primary) when he visited the Ballajura Catholic Primary School.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS): Christian rights in Jerusalem must be respected in any resolution of the controversy over Jewish settlers in the city's Christian Quarter, said Pope John Paul II.

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The pope said he sympathised with the decision of Christian leaders to temporarily close the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and other Christian Shrines to protest the Jewish occupation of a building in the Greek Orthodoxowned St John's Hospice complex.

The pope spoke on April 29, a day after Patriarch Latin-rite Michel Sabbah of Jerusalem said the settlement was part of a plan to take over a large part of the Christian sector.

The patriarch said that would endanger the

continued presence of Christians and Muslims in Jerusalem.

The "grave incidents" in Jerusalem leading to the "painful decision" to close the religious sites "are even for me cause for suffering and deep worry," the pope said.

The pope prayed for peace in Jerusalem which is "holy" and "dear" to Christians, Jews and Muslims.

The Vatican wants international guarantees that safeguard Jerusalem's status as a holy city open to Christians, Jews and Muslims.

Christian leaders in the Holy Land closed all Christian sites in Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Nazareth on April 27 to protest the continued pressure of 150 Jewish settlers in a building owned by the Greek Orthodox Church.

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The Israeli Supreme Court ruled on April 26 that the settlers must evacuate the building.

But it said the Panamanian company through which the lease was arranged could keep 20 representatives at the site until the courts rule on the legality of the lease.

Patriarch Sabbah and other Christian leaders protested the financing of the settlers by the Israeli government.

He said the Jewish settlement was part of a plan to control a large part of the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem and put "in danger the future of the non-Jewish population."

He aLso criticised the Israeli government for refusing to enter peace talks with Palestinian leaders. The patriarch said peace is the "only

guarantee for the future of the Hebrew people."

The situation "is not a banal dispute between owner and tenant." he said.

The settlers represent a radical faction in Judaism which "would like to take control of the entire city," he added.

Their presence in the Orthodox-owned complex "is a violation of the 'status quo— and they are "strongly supported by the government," the patriarch said.

But Israel has "two faces" and there is "a moderate Jewish religious movement".

Its leaders expressed solidarity with Christians and "condemned the settlers," he said.

"It seems to me, though, that the other face of Israel, an aggressive one, is emerging," said the patriarch.

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"Domestic violence is not simply a 'women's issue.' Violent crime is a matter of concern to the whole community, whether it occurs inside or outside the home. All of us can do something about it." said Bishop William Brennan on Stop Domestic Violence Day on April 26.

"Let's break the silence, let's talk about the reality of the domestic violence, and act together to prevent it," said the chairman of the Bishops Justice Social Committee.

"Them are many myths

surrounding domestic violence: that it is not widespread; that it is a private matter; that it is a simple thing for a woman to leave a violent situation; that it is usually caused by drunkenness or that it is caused by nagging and other annoying behaviour" said Bishop Brennan.

"There seems to be a perception in some sectors of the community that the Church condones, or fails to condemn, domestic violence.

This is also untrue.

"To condone domestic violence is an anti-family

stand. Such violence is a parody of the Church's ideal of the family as a school of love, so obviously the Catholic Church does not condone or accept verbal, emotional, psychological, physical or sexual abuse within a family. Physical or sexual assult is a criminal matter no matter where or when it occurs," he declared.

"The Catholic Church values human life very highly, and affirms the particular responsibility that parents have for the lives of their children. In violent homes children

of short acutely families Sister Germaine

and education The lack of water storage facilities in many areas must be rectified. The monsoons saturate the land for 3 months filling wells and dams and overflowing rivers and creeks. But far too much water flows eventually out to sea. Four months after the monsoon, many wells and dams have dried up, and families face about 4 months with very little water available during the hottest time of the year when the temperatures range up to 47°C. For most families water must be conserved for drinking purposes only.

To add to their problems. cooking and eating utensils have to be 'cleaned' in the dirt, clothes are not washed, people are unable to bathe for long periods.

And for many, this leads to infections including scabies, yaws. leprosy. trachoma, etc.

But the water problem does not end there. About 70% of all available water for these people is unsafe for drinking.

About half the world's population — The water is polluted. Children are some 2.000 million men, women and raised on polluted water. Vast numbers children - do not have reasonable die every year due to water borne access to a safe and adequate water diseases such as diarrhoea, dysentery, supply. Few people in developed cholera, typhoid and jaundice. Most societies could comprehend their deaths could be prevented IF deplorable existence.

PARENTS KNEW WHAT TO DO. In Jesuit Asian Mission regions. the And this is where we hope you can acute water shortage for most of the help us. The welfare of the family year is an endless problem contribut- depends to a great extent on an eduing to severe hunger and malnutrition. cated mother. It is amongst the sickness and chronic illness and many poorest, and the most uneducated, deaths. that the needs are greatest. The poorer Every drop of water for household use the family, the greater the risks of poor has to be carried in from water wells. growth and early death. dams, creeks or rivers. Several times a Without education mothers are powerday, in all weathers, women walk long less to improve their own or their distances, some up to two kilometres. children's lives. They need to know carrying heavy loads of water back to how to combat the many threats to their dwellings for family use. the health of their children. Many The climate is harsh - 3 months mon- illnesses and much childhood malsoon. 9 months virtually without rain. nutrition can be prevented by health and eight months of devastating heat. education. The obstacles that uneduWhen the monsoons are good, families cated mothers face must be overcome. grow two crops a year which provide Parents worry about their children. two meagre meals a day for perhaps Half of them do not survive five years.

4-5 months. When that food runs out, they are down to one meal a day for 7-8 months, consisting of nuts, roots. berries and anything they can find.

Fr. Hans Henoriks, SJ.

Help us drill for clean water, build safe wells near dwellings, build dams for irrigation.

In many areas water is available in vast quantities 100-150 feet (30-50 metres) below the ground. We have to hire a drilling rig to reach it. It costs about S1,600 for drilling, piping, hand pump and ground work. The result is a tube well which will supply many families with CLEAN WATER ALL YEAR ROUND. and enough water to grow crops during the long, hot periods.

It is truly a great blessing for families in dire need.

T his tube well provides clean and abundant water all year round for many village people and vegetable gardens.

The whole thrust of our work is so very dependent on outside aid. We need your financial assistance. The poor can't pay. Whatever you give will be greatly appreciated. Donations are tax deductible. Cheques should - be made payable to "Australian Jesuit Mission Overseas Aid Fund- and posted to: National Director, Fr. T. O'Donovan, SJ, Jesuit Mission Centre, P.O. Box 193, North Sydney. 2060.

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suffer, directly or indirectly.

"The family is said to be the basic unit of society because it is there that children first learn to harmonise the rights of individuals with the rights of others and of the group.

"It is essential that they are provided with good role models and are taught appropriate methods of resolving the conflicts that inevitably arise. Violence is never the answer.

"Research has revealed some deeply disturbing attitudes within the Australian community.

As many as one in five Australians accept the use of physical force by a man against his female partner.

Furthermore the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research has found that 48% of all female homicide victims were killed by a spouse or de facto partner.

"Other research has shown that nearly 50% of people know someone who is affected by domestic violence.

"Clearly then domestic violence is serious, widespread and at times life threatening," the Bishop concluded.

Knights move to stop exodus Australian Knights of the Holy Sepulchre will he asked later this month to spell out how they can further assist Christians in the Holy Land.

Knight Commander Grand Officer Cliff Holloway, the order's lieutenant of WA along with representatives of the 36 other chapters around the world will be meeting with the Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah of Jerusalem, a Nazarone and the first head of the church to be born in the Holy Land.

"The Holy Land hierarchy are drawing up plans to assist Catholic families with improved and more secure conditions in their standards of living to prevent a general exodus of Christians," Mr Holloway said.

"The Christians on the West Bank have been disenfranchised, are being denied the rights to social security assistance when in need, and have great difficulty in finding and maintaining employment," he said referring to reports he had received.

The Knights, with approximately 12,000 members around the world, are pledged to assist the Latin Patriarch in development projects in the Holy Land parishes, and also to help with the propagation of the faith by supporting the Catholic Seminary which at present caters for 80 students.

They also aid the many schools and hospitals throughout the Patriarchate.

The Order works in tandem with the Franciscans who maintain the basilicas and churches in the Holy Land.

"The Knights have the responsibility of supporting the living Church, that is the Christians themselves," Mr Holloway said.

Michel Sabbah calls his flock "Living Stones".

"St Paul spent much time urging members of his seven Churches of 'Asia' to give generous support to the then struggling Church in Jerusalem.

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Originally from Ilford, Essex, UK he was educated at St Peter & Paul school, St Ignatius Jesuit College, London, and St John's Wonersh seminary before his ordination on May 22, 1948.

During a subsequent six-year period as a British Army chaplain he served in Australia, Germany, Korea and Malaya, now West Malaysia, gaining an MBE for his Korean service.

He commenced service in Bunbury diocese from 1957, moving to Perth in 1966, first at North Fremantle and Beverley. In 1968 he took charge of the new parish of Lynwood-Maddington becoming also Director of Migration for two years.

After an appointment to Bentley in 1970 he became parish priest of Bedford in 1981.

Fr Petry has a brother who is a Jesuit priest in Guyana and he is shortly to help yet another brother priest, Denis, celebrate 50 years of priesthood, in Barking, London.

Father Eugene McGRATH, after eight years at Manning, is to become parish priest of Bruce Rock, in succession to Father Bruce Jones.

Originally from Baltovin, Co Kerry, Ireland, he studied at St Brendan's Killarney and the Irish College Rome before his ordination in March 1954.

In Australia the following year he served at Queens Park, Boulder (1959), Northam (1962), Subiaco (1965) before becoming parish priest of Kellerberrin (1967) and Rockingham (1971). He moved to Guildford parish in 1976, taking up Manning parish in February 1981.

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Father Joseph WALSH who has been on a vocations posting to All Hallows College Dublin since 1984 will take up the parish of Gingin-Chittering in September.

Originally from Tuam, Co Galway Ireland he studied for the priesthood at All Hallows College Dublin before his ordination in June 1976.

His first appointment later that year was to Osborne Park, followed by Leederville and Cathedral parish appointments until being made assistant at Northam in 1981 and at Subiaco in 1982.

Father Bruce JONES of Bruce Rock is to become priest in charge of Bedford Inglewood.

Originally from South Australia where he was educated at Wudinna State School and Rostrevor College before moving to Aquinas College Manning, Fr Jones was a teacher with the Education Department before entering St Paul's Seminary Kensington NSW. After his ordination in August 1980 he was appointed first to the Cathedral parish in 1981, and then to Whitfords in 1984, becoming parish priest of Bruce Rock in June the following year.

Father Peter GROWNEY, assistant at Mirrabooka since 1986 will become priest in charge at Beverley.

Originally from Johnstown, Co Meath, Ireland, he studied for the priesthood at Campion House Osterley and All Hallows College Dublin before his ordination in rune 1985 and a period of pastoral placement at Gosnells parish.

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"St Peter did much the same in the Church of Rome.

"The popes and the Vatican cardinals throughout history have placed great stress on the importance of sustaining the Church in the Holy Land as the cradle of Christianity established by Christ when he instructed His apostles to preach the Good News to the whole world beginning in Jerusalem."

Pope John Paul H said recently to the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre: "I very much

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Guest Editorial JOHN COLEMAN Editor The Catholic Leader An open letter to Robert Macklin author of The Secret Life of Jesus Dear Bob, It must be nearly 30 years ago when you picked up my copy in the reporters' room of The Courier-Mail, in the old building in Queen Street. As you read the story, you accused me of "beating it up".

We were both much younger then, but there was little I could do because, basically, you were right. It was, as I remember, harmless enough, but a -beat up-.

Happily, there were more experienced, wiser heads on The Courier-Mail and, as I recall it, the story never saw the light of day.

I've learnt a lot since those formative years in journalism . . . not only on The Courier-Mail — where under a tough and great Editor-inChief your job was at risk if you did not report the news accurately — but also working alongside some distinguished names in Fleet Street and New York.

The basic lesson: Get your facts right.

Lita y of the havoc Only God knows how many Christians met their doom or suffered for 40 years

It's one you haven't learnt, Bob. The blurb on your latest book, The Secret Life of Jesus, describes you as one of Australia's most distinguished journalists and novelists with books such as The Queenslander, The Paper Castle and 100 Great Australians to your credit.

That may well be news to hundreds of thousand of readers of the Murdoch Press in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, for in running an extract from the book on Easter Sunday (in Perth the following week) they said nothing, as far as I could see, about your standing as an author.

Archbishop Rush, the most charitable of men, was more forthright when he spoke to a packed congregation at the Easter Mass in St Stephen's Cathedral. He said: On Palm Sunday, (when the ABC-TV documentary The Dead Sea Scrolls was screened) a surprising amount of public notice was given to doubts cast on Jesus Christ by arguments that were debunked 40 years ago.

On this Easter morning, a newspaper article, meant to belittle Jesus Christ, is as lacking in scholarship as the grubbiest,bigoted little pamphlets of 60 years ago.

The only consolation one takes from such trivial effusions is that they are an implicit reminder that who Jesus Christ is remains the most important question of all. We, who believe that Jesus Christ is God made man, base our claims on what happened at the first Easter.

Missionary of the Sacred Heart, Fr Paul Stenhouse, Editor of Annals Australia and a scholar who has lectured in Biblical Studies at Sydney University, writing in The Weekend Australian, speaks of the wild and unproven assumptions in The Secret Life of Christ. . . a work so devoid of scholarship that it seems ungracious to take its author to task, for the myriad inaccuracies, unproven assumptions and downright bias . .

The story, he said, makes Cinderella look like a government White Paper on child abuse.

But you've learnt one lesson well, Bob. Marketing.

You, or your publishers, Pan Books, managed to flog extracts of the Secret Life of Jesus to Sunday newspaper readers in the eastern States on the greatest feast in the Christian calendar . . . instead of the message of peace and hope, you tried to sow one of confusion and despair Your publishers were also quick to seize the marketing opportunity of linking the book with the earlier screening of The Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls which biblical scholar Fr Bill O'Shea dismissed as "a mishmash of halftruths and pure speculation. . ."

The saddest thing of all, Bob, is that while you've learnt little about getting your facts straight, the respected news organisations that helped train us both no longer seem to care about standards.

Why else would they show such insensitivity -indeed, lack of editorialjudgement, risking the loss of many, many readers — by publishing The Secret life of Jesus on Easter Sunday?

I hope they'll think twice about the sequel.

According to the blurb on your current "beat up",

it's called. . . The big Fib.

Sincerely, John Coleman

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PRAGUE (CNS): As church bells tolled the death knell for communism in Czechoslovakia, Pope John Paul ll recited a litany of the devastation the departed system caused Catholic life.

The pope at several points during his twoday trip turned the visit into a memorial to those who suffered under four decades of communist rule and asked that they inspire the current generation to overcome the Church's "weakened state", a reminder of

decades of "imposed atheism".

"We must never forget the Christians who for 40 years faced the sacrifice of freedom and of their very lives," he said.

"Only God knows how many Christians, whose lives were shortened or made difficult because of Christ's name, have been added to the roll of your saints," he said.

"I thank the men and women religious who were expelled from their convents, the priests who were isolated from their faithful, prevented from

Praise for the grit PRAGUE: In three outdoor masses attended by more than one million people and in addresses to bishops, priests and religious, the pope constantly praised the steadfastness of Catholics since World War II, especially those "living or dead, who suffered for the faith in prisons, concentration camps, in exile".

The pope added that as a fellow Slav he has been the international voice of their "church of silence".

This steadfastness plus Church defence of human rights makes Catholics trustworthy partners in the rebuilding of Czechoslovakia, he said.

The pope also outlined the current problems facing the Church after four decades of "paralysing passivity" resulting from "imposed atheism".

A main task is forging unity among Catholics who had diverse approaches to their faith, ranging from clandestine activity to collaboration with the government, he said.

According to Church figures, 51 per cent of the population professes Catholicism, while an additional 17 per cent are "hidden Catholics" who kept their faith a secret.

These include secretly ordained bishops and priests, secret lay organisations and professed religious. The current population is 15.6 million.

The pope made clear that all these distinctions must cease so that a single church emerges. This includes acceptingpriests from the Pacem in Terris association,

Show world your strength call PRAGUE: During the trip, the Polish-born pope harshly criticised communist efforts to restructure society from an atheistic philosophy that considered religion an error of the past.

The pope encouraged the population, especially the nation's Catholics, to find the unity and spiritual strength to face their new challenges.

He telescoped his message to the East European countries in similar situations.

"As they take their first steps in regained freedom, the individual countries of Central and Eastern Europe now show the world their specific spiritual dimension," the pope told government officials, artists and cultural figures.

The crumbling of ideological barriers means that "Europe, ravaged by wars and wounded by divisions which have undermined its free development, is searching for a new unity," he added.

The life of these nations, however, "has been par-

alysed up to now in various dimensions by the violent application of a material ideology," he

said.

"These nations need to

catch up and update themselves, not only in the political and economic spheres, but also in the spiritual and moral spheres," he said.

The pope announced the special synod for Europe.

The synod will allow European bishops "to reflect more attentively on the importance of this historic moment for Europe and the church," he said.

"The bishops have the responsibility and charism of keeping watch over time as it passes, in order to read the signs and draw from them the proper conclusions concerning the path to take," said the pope.

During the trip, the pope outlined his views on what should be a reciprocal relationship between Catholics in Eastern and Western Europe.

Western concern for providing material help in rebuilding the institutional and intellectual

life of Eastern Catholics should be matched by

Western willingness to be "enriched" from the

strength forged by the harsh experience of repression, he said.

It is a strength that East European Catholics "now are able to offer the world and the churches of other countries," he said.

Regarding overall contact with the West, the pope issued a stern warning not to lower moral barriers.

"The dangers which the regaining of contacts with the West can bring must not be underestimated," he said to the Czechoslovakian bishops.

"Prepare in the churches entrusted to your care suitable 'immunising' defenses against certain 'viruses' such as secularism, indifference,, hedonistic consumerism, practical materialism and also formal atheism, which today are widespread." he said.

Christianity "is at the very roots of European culture" and should be a main binding force of European unity, the pope said.

Castro VELEHRAD, Czechoslovakia (CNS): Pope John Paul ll plans to visit Cuba in December at the invitation of President Fidel Castro and the Cuban bishops.

Cuba, a communist state, is the only Latin

The pope is expected to arrive sometime after the feast of the Immaculate Conception, Dec. 8. and stay for around five days. because the pope wants to return in time to prepare for his Christmas 'season activities in Rome and at the Vatican.

on the church.

The announcment was made during the

American country to put major restrictions

Staying out of politics PRAGUE: Because the speeches were in the pope arrived less than two Czech part of the months before national country.

But upon arriving by elections, he avoided helicopter in Bratislava, partisan politics by not capital the of Slovakia, discussing specific approaches to solving for the final hours of his Czechoslovakian prob- stay, he kissed a white piece of cloth placed lems.

He also showed sensitivity to the country's main ethnic division between the majority Czechs and minority Slovaks. He spoke mostly Czech, and his major

upon grass made soggy by a heavy rainfall. He also spoke Slovak, a language similar to his native Polish.

But the pope did not support the Slovak independence movement.

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caused by Red rule exercising their ministry or transferred from one place to another according to the wishes of the powerful," said the pope.

"I also thank the priests who had to prepare for their ministry and exercise it in secret, risking punishment," he added.

"The former state control prevented the laity from participating in the apostolic mission," he said.

"Despite all this, many lay movements and associations flourished in secret," he said.

Regarding bishops,

"every appointment demanded exhaustive negotiations," he said.

"Many times, however, the negotiations produced no results." ordinations Secret meant that "a majority of you for a certain period were not able to exercise your priestly ministry publicly and engaged in civil occupations, mostly as blue-collar workers", he said.

"For decades religious instruction and education have been suppressed in your country," he said.

"The long years of undue interference by the political powers in Church life have left behind negative consequences, among them a kind of paralysing passivity, which holds back not only many of the laity, but also some of the priests," he said.

40 to 45 years, believers have been considered as almost second-class citizens. Today they have the clear perception that it is no longer so," said the Pope.

At the same time, the pope said that the previous era was not completely negative for the But as the political Church.

It has produced "a faith situation of the country has changed with the deepened and purified toppling of the commu- by lengthy suffering", he nist government, so has said. the status of the Church, This is the type of the pope noted at the end strength needed to of his trip. rebuild the Church, "not "In the course of these merely returning to what

you were before your freedom was limited", said the pope.

"Build it on the basis of what you have brought to maturity during the years of trial," he said.

This "requires a breadth of outlook, creativity and initiative in pastoral work", he said.

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The pope also noted that earning a living through manual labour allowed priests and bishops to experience "from within the daily living conditions of people today".

of 'living or dead' which collaborated with the communist government, he said.

"In the Lord's name, I exhort you, dear brothers, to forget the conditioning of which they were the victims, and, in a renewed pastoral commitment, to rebuild anew the full unity of the priesthood," he said Pacem in Terri4 was disbanded last December, but the members are still functioning priests.

Other principal tasks mentioned by the pope include: • Learning to work with bishops and understand their authority after "more than a generation" of many dioceses without ordinaries.

• Renewal of Church intellectual life based on the

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teachings of the Second Vatican Council and its emphasis on lay responsibility in handling many aspects of Church activity.

• Forming cornerstone institutional Church structures such as a strong bishops' conference and a nationwide network of parishes and seminaries.

• Developing religious education programs in schools from the elementary to the universal level.

• Getting involved in ecumenical activity.

While renewing itself, the Church must not become isolated from the overall society, he said.

It should "promote the political freedom and responsibility of citizens" while maintaining its independence from the state, he added.

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pope's visit to Czechoslovakia, which overthrew a communist government last December.

The announcement of the visit follows a gradual thawing of Cuban church-state relations over the past several years.

After Castro came to power in 1959, numerous priests

were expelled, Catholic schools were nationalised, the church was banned from performing social services and Catholics were discriminated against in social and civic life.

Catholic life was virtually relegated to participating in strictly religious activities inside church buildings.

In April 1989, Archbishop Alamino of Havana travelled to the Vatican to present the pope with the hierarchy's invitation.

The invitation is a sign of the growing freedom being given the church, the archbishop said at the time.

Church and state officials are involved

in a "practical dialogue" which has been "progressively broadening," he said.

Concrete results have included government permission for priests and religious to enter the country and for church personnel to work in health and social services, he said.

The Cuban bishops have said they want the pope's visit to be part of a nationwide evangelical campaign aimed at fortifying Catholic life.

About 41 per cent of Cuba's 10.3 million population professes Catholicism. Cuba and the Vatican have diplomatic relations.

Firm support for 'Party to a miracle' non-violent toppling of Reds PRAGUE: Throughout the trip, the pope punctuated his remarks with firm support for Czechoslovakia's non-violent toppling of the communist government.

This was a victory for individual's the "unquenchable yearning for freedom and truth," he said in his first speech.

"I have been able to perceive everyone's joy at

regaining freedom," he said just before leaving.

He told journalists on the return flight to Rome that the trip "was very necessary at this moment."

PRAGUE: The symbolic tone of the trip was set at the Prague airport arrival ceremony where Havel — who six months earlier was taken prisoner as an enemy of the communist state — greeted the pope — who six months earlier was barred from naming bishops because of government opposition.

Havel greeted the pope, "I am party to a saying, "Ihope it can open new doors in the relations miracle now." between Eastern and "The messenger of love Western Europe and comes into a country foster European unity," devastated by the idelology of hatred; the living he said.

symbol of civilisation Havel, "Today we stand comes into the country before the ruins of one of devastated by the rule of the many towers of Babel the uncivilised," said in human society.'

Havel, a playwright and Efforts to build society, leader of anti-communist culture and human soliddissident movements dur- arity "upon denial of the ing the 1980s. transcendent dimension creates, as at Babel, "For long decades spirit division of hearts and has been chased out from confusion of tongues," our homeland. I have the the pope said. honor to be a witness to PRAGUE: The pope the moment when its soil is being kissed by the also symbolically particiapostle of spirituality," he pated in Earth Day by planting a tree to comsaid. memorate his visit after At a meeting later in the his April 22 morning evening, the pope told Mass in Velehrad.

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Lack of black priests LONDON: The lack of black priests and religious will be one of the key issues at this year's first ever Congress of Black Catholics at Digby Stuart College, London in July.

Organiser Betty Luckham said: "Some people are resigned to the fact that there are few black priests and religious. But others I've met are angry. They are angry because they have put up with it for so long."

Under 20 priests and religious of African, Asian and Caribbean origins work full-time in Britain. There is thought to be only one Britishborn black priest. Often black priests and religious come to Britain temporarily for further studies.

By Greg Watts — The Universe Black seminarian Howard James of Allen Hall, London said: "Black youth never see a black priest. Some even think that black people can't be priests. It's vital to provide role models for black youngsters."

Tony Lobo, chairman of the Catholic Association of Racial Justice, said that role models exists for black youngsters in sport, business and other areas but not in the Church.

"Why is it that the Church of England has 60 or 70 black clergy, particularly in the inner cities, and even a black diocesan bishop? Is this just complacency in the Catholic Church?" he asked.

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"A priest Imet in India described British black Catholics as 'sheep without a shepherd'."

A day of reflection, discussion and prayer involving Asian, African, and Caribbean priests and religious will be held this month as part of the preparation for the Congress.

Not everyone is happy with the idea of a black congress. One view is that the event is divisive and attempting to establish a black church.

Howard James admitted that he had reservations about the assumption that all black people had a shared experience.

"There is a problem in bringing people of African, Asian and Caribbean backgrounds together. For example, the African and Caribbean cultures are totally different," he said.

Bishop blasts racist groups CAMDEN, NJ (CNS): Camden Bishop James T. McHugh said that organisations such as the Ku Klux Klan are "a scandalous contradiction to all that we hold sacred and teach in the same of Christ and his Church".

He added: "Catholics who promote racism or religious discrimination must understand that they are in open opnosition to the teaching of the

Church and their behaviour is in no way compatible with the Catholic faith they claim to profess."

Bishop McHugh's remarks came in the wake of a KKK rally as a jeering, mudflinging crowd of 100 drove about two dozen Klansmen to the shelter of their cars close to where the rally was held.

Bishop McHugh noted that at the same

time as the rally other people showed their opposition to the KKK by getting involved in "activities intended to benefit the poor and the hungry".

Because all humans are created by God "in his own image", Bishop McHugh said, "racial and/or religious discrimination constitute a grave violation of the dignity of the human person and a rejection

of God's universal law of love".

Racial or religious discrimination "have . no place in our society and cannot be harmonised in any way with Catholic teaching", he said.

"Nor can they (who practice discrimination) claim that membership in or support of organisations such as the KKK is a matter of personal conscience or private

conviction because by membership in such organisations they are involved in a systematic effort to reject or diminish the Godgiven dignity and equality of other persons."

Like other pro-life issues, Bishop McHugh said. "so too in the matter of racism or religious discrimination, one cannot be personally opposed to the des-

"They just tried to strangle it by limiting the number of students to 10 children per class. Teachers thought that working for the school was a bad career move, like a street without an exit."

Nevertheless, academic scores among the students were so high that high government officials, who extolled the socialist school system, enrolled their daugh-

ters at the school.

But, he said those difficult days are over. recently Abend approved the opening of a second Catholic school in Magdeburg, East Germany.

truction of life or denial of human dignity, but refuse to act on that faith conviction when faced with public movements or social institutions that violate or reject that t eaching".

Citing "clearly and forcefully stated" Church teaching on racism and religious discrimination and its application by the US bishops, Bishop

He kept Catholic light shining

BERLIN: Although the East German government constantly tried to undermine his e fforts, Volker Abend said he managed to run the only Catholic school in East Germany for four years because of the strength of Catholic education.

Today, the former principal of the Theresianschule, a Catholic secondary

school formerly operated by the Sisters of the Poor in East Berlin, is the newly appointed deputy minister of education for the new government of East Germany.

"It is amazing to me that I am in this position," he said.

"Before, Catholics could not move up in society."

"During the dark years behind the Ber-

lin Wall, he kept the light of Catholic education shining," said a friend.

While he was principal of the school.

Abend faced many difficulties including restrictions of student enrolment and the recruitment of teachers and assistant administrators.

"The governmcnt didn't try to close the school down," he said.

Abend said that after more than 40 years of a socialist -based, valueless educational system, he wants to instil Christian values and human rights into the East German curriculum.

Of the 17 million East Germans, only one million are Catholic. But, Abend said he believes East Germans will be turning more and more to religion in the coming years.

Both the Catholic and Protestant churches helped bring about the revolution that led to the nation's first elections last year in several decades.

Vatican cautious on free Lithuania VATICAN CITY: The

pope has once again e xpressed support for the independence movement in Lithuania while carefully refraining from offering any move towards opening diplomatic ties with the breakaway Soviet Republic.

Pope John Paul II held a meeting with senior Soviet envoy Mr Vadim Zagladin in Rome at which a letter from President Gorbachev seeking his help in resolving the crisis was handed to him.

the two men had reached "full understanding" during the 40-minute meeting.

After the meeting the Russian news agency lass said that

"The closeness of positions concerning many international questions could now lead to fruitful cooperation," the Tass report went on.

"The pope spoke to

"be for all people a stimulus to deep reflection on the necessity of tolerance and mutual understanding."

He asked that it encourage humanity to "put an end to violence and seek always the way of justice, peace and forgiveness according to the Gospel message."

Historians estimate that about 600,000 Armenians were killed

by Turks in 1915, part of the Ottman persecution of Christian inhabitants.

The killings continued for several more years, and the final toll might have exceeded 1.5 million. It is considered one of the worlds acts of

Mr Zagladin in favour of a solution to all the problems in the USSR including those ethnic problems concerning rights, tolerance and the negotiating table."

After the meeting with the Soviet envoy the Vatican released a papal message to

Lithuania written before Mr Zagladin's arrival.

In a Lithuanian-

language greeting from the balcony of St Peter's on April 15 the pope said he prayed for "the beloved nation" and added "We hope their aspirations may be 'confirmed through a respectful and comprehensive dialogue."

No state has yet made any move

were encouraged by Russia to promote territorial autonomy.

That led the Ottoman government to incite neighbouring Kurds against the Armenians.

The Armenians reacted with anti-tax campaigns and other revolutionary ads. Those acts gave the government a pretext for

bloody reprisal which left thousands dead and villages burned.

After the memorial Mass in central Rome, worshippers made a silent procession to the Armenian College and laid flowers at a new monument dedicated to those who died in the massacre.

In it the pope said he stood shoulder to shoulder with the aspirations of that country's 2.5 million Catholics in their aspiration for freedom.

McHugh said "a consistent respect for life and the dignity of the human person admits of no exceptions or dissenting opinions".

"We cannot proclaim 'our fidelity to the teaching of Christ and his Church as a matter of faith conviction but refuse to carry out that belief in our public bahaviour and public life," he said.

"The church represents a place of freedom," he said.

Abend said, however, that the church in East Germany must focus now more on lay participation rather than just clergy to strengthen religiosity in the country.

"Everyone is looking for new perspectives," he said. "People are coming back to the churches, back to values so they can rebuild their society."

towards giving diplomatic recognition.

But the Vatican's new representative to the Soviet Union Archbishop Francesco Colasuonna has said that the Holy See would be willing to act as intermediary to help find a solution to the issue.

Lesson learnt from Armenian massacre

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul II said the 75th anniversary of the Armenian massacre underlines the need for tolerance and non-violence.

In a message to Armenian Catholics. the pope asked that commemoration of the mass killings

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genocide in modern times.

Separatist and revolutionary movements within the Armenian population of the Turkish empire played a role in the onset of the terror.

In the late 1800s, Armenians in the eastern part of the empire

In recent years, Soviet Armenians have been involved in another bloody ethnic battle after a territorial dispute erupted with neighboring Azerbaijan. Many Armenians living in Azerbaijan were reportedly killed during attacks in 1988 and 1989.

Torn between two priorities The planning director of University of Notre Dame Australia says he is now torn between two "priorities" — his role in the university and his new responsibility in the Dominican community.

His order has elected him to become prior of the Dominican community at Camberwell, Victoria, for three years.

Father John Neil OP says he has bowed to the democratic electoral tradition of the 750-year-old Dominican Order and will co-ordinate the four groups that make up the 25-30 under his care. He will sit in on the vital formation work of some 10 men in training.

He does not see his vision for Notre Dame University weakening in the process: "Unless St Dominic's is a vigorous and supportive Church community then we will not have well trained Dominicans.

"In the long term it is my consolation that if we live the life properly and encourage vocations then there will be Dominicans to come back and take up whatever role in the University of Notre Dame."

Father Neil's key role in getting NDA off the ground might have

something to do with his "near miss" dream as a young man in Sydney when Cardinal Gilroy's 1948 invitation to the Holy Cross Congregation to found a Catholic university in Sydney fell through.

Financial pressure to educate other family members and a mediocre school record of his own saw John Neil at the age of 15 out in the world of wholesale and retail trading.

"That experience of working in the city woke me up to my faith for the first time. I'd taken it for granted before that.

"I began to wonder about the continuing work of the Church for youth after they left school.

"Also it was a time when my friends who could attend university were being warned to avoid the humanities, philosophy, history and politics and stay with the 'safe' subjects like engineering, architecture and chemistry.

"It caused me to wonder. The Catholic university idea had collapsed but I very happily joined the Dominicans:' In the following 25 years, Father Neil did not let go of the tertiary dream as he moved up

the education ladder in South Australia.

First as a teacher and then in charge of Blackfriars Priory primary school in Adelaide, then through a Flinders University B.Ed degree with some practice teaching at the Minda school for mentally retarded, he became from 1972-1988 headmaster of the full Blackfriars College whose enrolment expanded to 900.

"Working with Year 12, I became convinced of the need for the Church to be in organised formal education at a time when people make decisions about personal values and forming themselves p rofessionally and personally.

"The Church needs to be there, to be part of the formative process.

Father Neil pushed his tertiary vision during eight years on the SA Education Catholic Commission, including one term as chairman.

As a member of the National Catholic Education commission he saw that body expand its vision into education after secondary schooling, with the appointment now of a tertiary representative.

"All the while, unbeknown to me, Mr Denis

Horgan and Dr Peter Tannock and others were developing their ideas of a Catholic university."

Mr Des O'Sullivan, then a member of the National Catholic Education Commission made the suggestion that Father Neil come over and talk to the WA group planning a feasibility study.

To be called "director" of the fledgling WA university idea in June 1988 was "grandiose" in Father Neil's view.

There was only himself and a secretary drafted from Mr Horgan's office.

The great achievement in just under two years, he says, is the enabling act of Parliament.

"The university exists constitutionally and in law. It is the first such. It is an historic achievement in Australia."

Notre Dame University foundation planning director Father John Neil with Mr Des O 'Sullivan who was instrumental in getting him linked to the project.

residential university communities.

"It is a very different model of university from what Australia has seen develop in recent years Father Neil is also and that is a great proud of the develop- achievement. ment of an Australian Another achievement, adaptation of the liberal he notes, is the developeducation model of ment of the canon law Notre Dame Indiana, structure of the univerincorporating the neces- sity to the archdiocese. sary study of philosophy This is a breakthrough and theology by all that will assist other undergraduates and the similar institutions requirement of ethics to emerging out of lay be taught in all the initiative. professional schools and "The great struggle, courses. intensified by the ecoA further long-term nomic and political diffibenefit will be to develop culties of the time, is to

get the financial underpinning which will allow the institution to be excellent which it must be if it is going to be a good Catholic university.

And that will allow it to be accessible to the average Catholic."

Father Neil has strong hopes for the university's future, based on the track record of Catholic schools and hospitals.

"They've all started small, they've struggled, they've proved themselves and they are attractive. I feel the university is going to be the same way."

For the general public

and the parishioners of Woodlands who have followed Father Neil's work over two years, the idea was originally the "shock of the unknown."

"When they begin to think of the significance of having lawyers, politicians, businessmen, medicos and teachers who have an adult theological understanding through their formal education as part of their total education, people can see the great benefits.

"If we can get it up and running and if it is true to its ideals, Notre Dame Australia will be a very attractive proposition."

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He also becomes editor of the UC SA monthly, New Times.

"We're very pleased that one of Australia's leading Christian communications experts has been appointed the Uniting Church's C ommunications Officer," said Mr Pryzibilla, chairman of the synod's communication services board.

Mr Kerr is a former Director of Catholic Communications, Adelaide, and was editor of SA's Catholic weekly, the Southern Cross, which closed in 1986.

He is the only life member of the Australasian Catholic Press Association and is secretary of the Australian Religious Press Assocation.

In 1981 Pope John Paul II knighted him (Knight of St Sylvester) for his services to religious journalism.

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rich A African-American liturgies liturgical tapestry

By Father Eugene LaVerdiere, SSS

First you heard the music — rhythmic, pounding, regular — the music of drums designed for processional dance.

An African-American liturgy reflects the culture of its participants in song and movement and in the kinds of cloth and decoration used, writes Katharine Bird.

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One of the first things chains of oppression", a visitor notices on said John Butler. entering the chapel at Head of the parish's St Augustine's parish in catechumenate program, Washit.gton is the cru- he is part of a cifix hanging to the management-consultant right of the altar. firm which advises Starkly simple, it con- churches on evangelisasists of a wire screen on tion issues. which a black Jesus Asked why a parish hangs on a cross, a cross which is 85 per cent made of barbed wire.

African-American has a For African-Americans white pastor, Father at St Augustine's, the first Mudd said that there black parish in the city, always is "a preference dating from 1858, the for black leadership but barbed-wire cross is a people recognise reality graphic symbol of their and there are more black roots in slavery. parishes than black priThe cross tells blacks ests to go around". that Jesus Christ, who Because of a growing died at a young age, sensitivity to the issue of "suffers now in the black race and because the community, especially as worldwide Church a black man between the increasingly is multiculages of 20 and 29", said tural, the Church is pastor Father John grappling today with the Mudd. vital need for ethnic The cross tells African- groups to have access to Americans that Jesus their heritage in the "came in a particular liturgy. time in history, but he "For the liturgy to be comes now to break the alive and meaningful to

various ethnic groups, the signs and symbols which speak to those groups need to be present," said Bishop J. Terry Steib, one of 13 black bishops in the United States.

Having black symbols in the liturgy is important so that we can know who, what and where we are as a community, said Martin Gerard Lange. It is a way for people to identify with the liturgy.

Lange is co-director of St Augustine's program for returning Catholics.

Having ethnic traditions in liturgies is important because the liturgy should be an expression of people's culture as well as a vehicle for worship, said Benedictine Father Cyprian Davis.

-The expression of our worship should not be foreign to the culture in which we live much of our lives."

By Katharine Bird Father Davis is a professor of Church history at St Meinrad's Abbey in Indiana and author of a history of black Catholics in America.

He got interested in the topic "because I was black and Catholic".

The five leaders identified a number of areas that mark AfricanAmerican liturgies in Catholic parishes: • Hospitality.

The atmosphere is warm, friendly and informal.

Often the kiss of peace is extended for some time as people leave their pews to greet others.

It is not uncommon for one person to comfort another who is crying, moved by some aspect of the liturgy or by personal woes, Lange said.

• Holistic. For black Americans, spirituality takes in the whole

person, said Bishop Steib.

Accordingly an AfricanAmerican liturgy "speaks to the whole person, not just to the intellectual".

People often express their emotions more openly during an A frican -American liturgy, he said.

The penitential service, for example. may be longer as people express their sorrow aloud and speak of their need for forgiveness.

They also may respond to a liturgy by affirming a reading with an "Amen", or clapping their hands when something touches them, Bishop Steib said.

liberation, said Father Mudd.

Or a homilist may observe how often people in lowly positions accomplish great things.

In the Old Testament, for instance, the general Namaan is cured of leprosy by following the advice of a slave girl.

Highlighting her actions "helps people identify with the fact that God deals with ordinary people", Lange said.

Instruments may include bongo drums, saxaphones and trumpets, bass violins.

• Use of visual arts.

Vestments and wall hangings often are made of kinte cloth, a West African cloth associated with royalty and used for celebrations. five leaders The observed that AfricanAmericans have much to give the larger Church.

They can remind people that it's OK to express joy at the realisation that we have been saved, said Butler.

• Gospel music and choirs. These grew out of "people of colour doing what they love to do when they get together", Butler said. Gospel music African-Americans also "comes from the stories of the Gospel". It speaks have a great gift for faith of Jesus and what Jesus in God, a faith that • Preaching. To relate means for African- carries them through the the Scriptures to people's hardest of times, said Americans. experiences, a homilist Father Mudd. "They might make a connection Gospel music also is have a sense of God's between the Exodus marked by rhythms with presence" that has carstory of the Israelites' origins in Africa and by ried them through their escape from Egypt to the people swaying with the long history of struggle by blacks for rhythm. oppression.

Then you heard the voices — low, undulating murmurs, sounds barely audible — carried by the wind.

Finally, the people appeared, a long procession, led by men, women and children from the many tribes, their step gentle and proud, their bearing a proclamation: "How wonderful it is to be here!"

If at first you doubted, there was no more doubting when the eagle dancers approached.

They came forward in a single column, young men, arms covered with feathered wings outstretched like an eagle in flight, eyes piercing beneath an eagle hood, body bent at the waist, soaring, turning, swooping, spirits powerful and free.

The eagle in flight is an awesome sight, and so the eagle in dance.

Then came the deacons, the priests, the bishops, the archbishops and a cardinal, all in liturgical robes even more traditional than the NativeAmerican garments of those leading the procession.

At the end came a man with a smile so broad it was all there was to his face. His name was Donald Pelotte and that day in an outdoor stadium in New Mexico, he was ordained a bishop, Nativethe first American bishop.

It was a wonderful liturgical celebration. It spoke to us of God, of one who transcends all cultures but speaks in human words and symbols. That day God spoke in the symbols of Native America.

The liturgy also spoke of us, just as we were, clothed in our best and in all our cultural richness.

Otherwise, it would not have been our liturgical celebration, would it?

Liturgies celebrated by American blacks have their own unique stamp, especially in the South.

My first experience was in New Orleans.

The music was different, hymns filled with new pride but still flowing from the painful memory of slavery.

The preaching style also was different, almost a chant, rising, pausing, rising, lifted up and onward by urgent "Amens". the NativeLike American liturgy, it was

Eagle dancers right and below celebrated the ordination of Bishop Donald Pelotte as the first NativeAmerican bishop, writes Father Eugene LaVerdiere. truly Catholic.

There was no mistaking it when you heard, "Lord, have mercy! Christ, have mercy", and `Thi is my body".

The language may differ from one part of the world to another but the words, meaning and intent are the same.

There also was a difference in style, something you had to hear. For the Native American, "Lord, have mercy" was muted and deeply respectful.

For the American black, it was bold, trusting and hopeful.

But it was in the Gospel choir, most of all, that the sensed you difference.

A slight movement of the director's finger and the entire choir, elegantly robed, swayed to

Of course, the people had their personal prayer lives. But they had just one liturgy in just one place.'

Now here they were in Babylon, hundreds of kilometres from Jerusa-

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lem and its temple, with no hope of returning.

They felt a deep need for some sort of communal worship. But building a temple there was unthinkable: God's house in a foreign land!?

Tied in with their need to worship as a people was the need to preserve themselves as a people. It would have been so easy just to give up, to lose their identity as Jews and become Babylonians.

There were 55 temples

from which to'choose in the land of exile, many of them breathtakingly beautiful. But they were dedicated to pagan gods.

Their liturgy expressed an alien culture.

The Israelites solved their problem by gathering in small groups for communal worship. This called for an adaptation of the liturgy.

Without the temple and its elaborate sacrificial rites, the groups that met centred on prayer and

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Many ethnic groups contribute to the liturgical tapestry of the Church, including the MexicanAmericans of the Southwestern United States.

Iattended a celebration not long ago. The shrine was filled to capacity with attentive adults and not so attentive children, but the liturgical music was led by the mariachi sounds of trumpet, viol, violin, guitar and full male voices.

Here was music and spirit for body and soul, different from all others, every sound and word a proclamation:It certainly is wonderful to be here."

We are blessed to have such variety of expression for the one sacrifice of Christ.

-FOOD FOR THOUGHT Whose voice are you meant to hear during the Sunday liturgy?

Would you respond that people gather for the liturgy precisely to hear God's voice? True

enough. Nothing less suffices.

Yes, people are addressed in the liturgy — spoken to. But they also are invited to respond to what they hear.

God's voice is heard. But human voices are heard as well. People enter into the liturgical action and make themselves heard.

They do this in various prescribed ways — through prayers and

By Father John Castelot entually a new liturgy a me into being.

-he structure was simple: an opening prayer by a designated leader, rfadings from the Torah and the prophets, rfsponse to the readings IY the singing of appropriite psalms, a homily on d e readings by one of the gioup, a final blessing.

'There were definite

advantages to this arrangement. The people were forced to look more closely at themselves, to listen, to reflect, to pray.

A changed cultural situation influenced the Israelites' liturgy.

This, in turn, had a marked effect on the people's culture. For liturgy and life are strongly interactive.

Moreover, the change was lasting. Even after the people returned from exile in Babylon and

rebuilt the temple, they hung on to this form of worship that grew up in another cultural situation.

These little local congregations came to be known as "synagogues", a Greek word meaning congre"gathering, gation".

The people had preserved their cultural identity and developed an alternate, but not a rival, form of worship.

It served them well,

themselves in the "languages" most natural to them — through their music, for example, or the gestures familiar to them.

Even the special ways people celebrate — their

formulas that are written down.

But scholars who study the liturgy's history observe that the liturgy has had a remarkable capacity to make room for people to express

Liturgy of the word: Rooted in life For years before the people of God in the Old Testament were dragged into exile in Bablyon, their official liturgy was restricted by law to the temple in Jerusalem. That was where one worshipped God, and only there.

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the right in perfect unison.

Again it came through, loud as can be: "How wonderful it is for us to be here."

especially when, after the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 AD, they were scattered all over the world.

Remember, of course, that the first Christians were Jews. And for a time they were practicing members of synagogues.

So, not surprisingly, the synagogue liturgy was incorporated into their eucharistic worship. Its basic structure still is easily recognisable in our Liturgy of the Word.

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concept of a real celebration — get expressed in the liturgy.

An interesting challenge for the Church in every age is to preserve unity in the liturgy while making room for a

variety of cultural expressions on the part of a nation's people, or of ethnic and minority groups within a nation.

It is a challenge we hear much about today.

DISCUSSION POINTS

It you participate in a parish "I think it's very good . . .I think "Gospel Mass", what does it mean the liturgy should interact with the to you? culture where I go to Mass. I Selected responses from readers: wouldn't expect a Gospel Mass if "As an African-American, 'Gos- I was in Alaska but I would expect pel Mass' means I feel more a Mass that reflected the culture." comfortable. Mass feels more — C. William Michaels. directed towards my life and my "It causes me to focus a little experience . . . That's not always more, to pay attention because it's possible in other parts of society a bit different.

I suppose the word but when you go to church it should is 'moving'.

As a result, the be." — Diana Allen. participation is greater." — Wes "A Gospel Mass, when done with Durand. a choir and African-American "I have participated in several customs, is a very powerful religious experience. It taps all 'Gospel Masses' and I have been the values and images that bind edified by them. In some ways it's African-Americans to God and one prayer in its highest form because another." — Benedictine Father if you sing, you pray double." — Eva Barczak.

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Child raising for some can be tough enough but add the difficulties of an unhealthy child, and that makes it considerably worse.

Again, if the child has a disorder or disease that is undiagnosed, misdiagnosed, or not recognised at all, then the whole situation becomes very complicated and most unhappy.

Child and parents — in fact the whole family — can be ostracised because it's easy to misconstrue and make judgements when you yourself are not affected and don't understand the facts.

'Kim' and her daugther 'Jenny' were caught in a web of medical ignorance initially, social misunderstanding and the helplessness of facing the effects of a socially disturbing syndrome, without

knowing what to do or where to go.

From the time she was a baby, there was something about her daughter which wasn't quite right.

By the time she was ten, peculiarities and embarrassing behaviour were manifest, so Kim started off the medical rounds in the hope of finding some answers.

Her daughter would have tics (strange behaviour) which featured a twitching eye or involuntary arm movements.

Consulting Jenny's teacher, she believed it was just part of her make-up and maybe a nervous habit.

But her behaviour worsened to include voice headaches, changes (temporary), hopping numerous times on the one spot, barking, sniffing, grunting, spitting, and

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a phenomena which causes the use of obscenities which Kim said were completely out of character for her or anyone in the family.

She took her daugther to a professional who did not diagnose the problem, but suggested Jenny be admitted to an adolescent unit for children with behaviour and emotional problems, after which she was transferred to a hospital for emotionally disturbed children.

Although unhappy with sending Jenny there, Kim needed a break and didn't know what else to do.

Seemingly no one else had any positive either, answers according to her mother, who then withdrew her from the hospital after two months, finding she was worse than before.

"Even now she resents us putting her there being separated from her family."

Believing now it was the worse thing she could have done, Kim said she needed family support and care yet the separation isolated her from the family, leaving Jenny to cope alone.

"I was barely coping then but things gradually got worse and that is when I took her to my GP. He realised she needed a neurologist and then we found she had Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (Tourettes).

This was subsequently reaffirmed by six visiting neurologists.

"My daughter went through hell because of the involuntary movements she had no control over which caused her great dis-

Priest shortage: Finger

The shortage of priests is really a symptom of much longer term developments taking place in the Church with regard to ;Zs parish life, according to an Adelaide t- eminary lecturer.

"Until parishes are reconsolidated with a new identity as strong as they had prior to Vatican II, the role parishes played in helping decide on the priesthood will be missing," said Vincentian Father Bob Simons in an interview at the end of a lecture series in Perth lqst week.

Parishes played a very important role in communicating to potential candidates that the priesthood was an attractive or valuable way of living cut their Christian vocation.

But parishes are only one factor, and a longterm one at that, in the vocations dilemma, he stressed.

On the other hand, people ask seminary staff "all the time" if they have any idea why things are the way they are.

"Iask them if they have three hours to listen!" Fr Simons quipped at a lecture to priests.

In his seventh year at St Francis Xavier Seminary

where he is currently lecturer in systematic theology and dean of studies, Fr Simons has much to do with the students who are studying to be priests in Western Australia.

His own vocation in the United States he attributes to the role the priest., played in what he say a tightly knit parish.

"The religious siste—..: communicated a strong sense of respect and attractiveness about that kind of vocation," he noted.

Parents communicated that the priesthood was a good thing to take up and it was assumed likewise in the parish.

"Encouragement came from all sectors in the parish and it was consistent. It gave men the courage to proceed with their vocation.

"If a parish has a strong sense of identity as sharing in the Church's mission and provides example of people sharing the mission and the priest's function is clearer than at present then the natural attractiveness of the priest's role in a healthy parish community will provide a strong source of attraction and appeal.

"We are still very much in a time of leaving

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behind former ways and discovering newer ways of being parish, towards a more full and participatory involvement of all the people in different ways."

Father Simons says he is no historical prophet about how long this parish transformation will take but he thinks there are some 25 years ah 3ad of the process, given that it has taken some 50 years for previous church councils to be received.

All he will say is that the structure of parish today is changing in a very comprehensive way and will be significantly different 25 years hence.

Parishes that are faced with significant social challenges are likely to be those experiencing the strongest incentives to change.

The challenge of being faced with the awareness of what their mission might be and adjusting themselves to respond provides the rationale or motivation for change to come about.

"If the parishes are comfortable and not facing the challenges they will opt to stay exactly where they are," he said.

Amongst the priest to whom he lectured on three days last week Fr Simons said he found a readiness to think more deeply about issues so that they could go back to their parishes with a better sense of direction of where to go.

"Anxiety and fear about change is one of the most ordinary human responses that we can expect and with so many diverse changes occurring in the Church people are really thrown.

"People are shaken when they see changes occurring in society also occurring in their churches whereas this is one of the things we can anticipate when we have to define ourselves as a church in the world and a church trying to discern the salvation needs of the world now."

But Fr Simons warns against the trend to look towards the fundamentalist churches for answers.

"Basically they hold out a promise of not having to change. Things are black and white and not as complex or challenging.

"We have to live with a certain amount of trepidation and we have to trust."

But as a systematic theologian dealing with much of the Church's history Fr Simons feels that much of the present anxiety can only be dealt with in time.

Asked for a thumbnail description of his ideal parish Fr Simons replied: "If I dropped into a church I'd notice if I was welcomed, if there was an appreciation of the need for hospitality.

"I'd also be sensitive to whether the congregation had any sense of praying together and being together, not just in singing songs but really being together as a body."

He said he would also look at what happened after the liturgy, how much time people spent talking. He would look in the parish bulletin to see what is going on.

"If all of these things suggested a lively sense of community and a high degree of involvement, I would say this parish is facing the challenges for renewal and growth towards a new identity.

"The liturgy is not the parish but it is a good litmus test of the relative health of the parish."

In his search for other evidence of a parish vitality, Fr Simons said he would look at the

attraction of converts, concern for the needy in the local area and a wider appreciation of diocesan needs.

"The Christian Initiation of Adults program is not simply to bring in converts. It is for the sake of the very health of a parish.

"It is part of the ongoing Christian formation of a parish and as a result parishes attract new Christians and new members."

The characteristic idea in the opening pages of the Vatican II document on the Church, Fr Simons said, is the intimate love between the Church and the world.

"A key difference in the way we understood ourselves formerly and now is that we are a Church not only in but firmly related to the world.

"It is part of our obligation to be a sacrament of Christ's presence not only for ourselves but for the world.

'The focus has shifted from the Church's concern about itself to the Church's mission in the world.

The bond between the Church and the world constantly reminds the Church that it is participating in God's mission and is

being called to be a sign of Jesus presence."

Asked what might have happened had the Church not embarked on its renewal Fr Simons said the Church would have run the danger of becoming a sect.

"The danger is that people want to establish a safe enclave and are not in an intimate bond with the world.

"It falls short on the message of God's love being intended for all people not just for those gathered into a safe enclave."

Fr Simons said that today Christians are coming to an awareness not just of the lay apostolate but of lay ministries. that Christians are called not only to take part in the world but to make their own particular contributions to building up the Christian community.

Two potential dangers in these roles, Fr Simons saw, was for Christians to assume a messiah complex to be able to do things of which they are not capable, or for a baptised person taking on lay ministries to insulate themselves from what is going on outside the Church.

"A healthy development for all baptised Christians in coming to know what it means to be a member of the Church would be a blend of concern for the Church's mission as well as for life of the community out of which it goes forth in its mission."

call for tact tress and embarrassment," said Kim who cited echolia (echoing) which means that the person keeps repeating the same word.

Jenny's school was very supportive, loving and caring towards her when she became obvious with her problems. "And lightened her load considerably," said Kim. There seemed to be nothing which could be done for her because prescribed medication merely the exacerbated symptoms and nonmedication was easier to deal with.

Tourettes affects about one in ten females and one in four males between t wo -25 years, said Kim and puts severe strains on relationships. She's received calls from interstate people, two aged 30 and 40 years, who said their marriages had broken up and they'd lost jobs because their employers didn't understand.

Tourettes is a genetic illness consisting of

repeated involuntary vocalisations and brief movements which are called vocal and motor tics.

There is a whole range of sounds and movements within the tic range which may be simple or jerking, or involve complex movements like touching or gesturing.

Symptoms may appear in childhood or adolescence with a single tic perhaps progressing to multiple motor and then vocaLs tics.

This syndrome has nothing to do with childhood tics in which a single tic can occur and spontaneously disappear at a later stage of their development.

Tics can wax and wane throughout life and often improve spontaneously during young adulthood.

The net result for the sufferers is that they encounter and share with those around them, psychological and social difficulties.

And families have to

compromise greatly to accommodate their special problems.

In Jenny's case, Kim would take her to Mass and although sitting in the background with her, would be petrified in case she came out with a bark or an obscenity.

"We both felt uncomfortable and she found it easier not to put herself in that position, so doesn't go with me any more."

Sufferers also have compulsions to repeat an action many times over, or for a specific number of times, hence the TV may be turned up loud three times, or a door slammed shut ten times, or in one instance when Kim counted, jump up and down on the same spot 20 times.

Curiously enough, sufferers can control their mannerisms to a point when in public, but "the tics have to come out", said Kim and when her daughter would return to a place she could relax, she would release them.

That could also be a problem for Kim who'd take her daughter to the doctor, having outlined her symptons, but Jenny would have a tic before she went in and present symptom-free to the doctor. Because of this symptom control, Tourettes is often misdiagnosed.

It's hard too for others to understand the syndrome and the implications.

It's also an ongoing battle for those searching for information and a solution to obtain the necessary, which makes coping a bit easier.

Kim said she spent a lot of time, energy and money in her searching, even ringing the USA. Education creates problems with short attention spans of such children and lack of concentration and energy due to symptom control, yet 'Jenny' as a small child was defined as a bright child with a great future.

Prayer group sup-

on parishes...

Quote V Until parishes are reconsolidated with a new identity as strong as they had prior to Vatican the role parishes played in helping people decide on the priesthood will be missing.

— Vincentian Father Bob Simons (left).

port and from her parish priest, plus healing Masses, have been an enormous help to Kim in getting through it all and affecting a considerable change in Jenny whom she now sees vast a as improvement.

And most importantly she has relied on her faith and ability to talk to Our Lord — "when I had nobody else to talk to or who understood".

The struggle has been long and hard for all concerned, but perhaps in particular her very dedicated mother who along the way was branded as being 'neurotic and over protective' and even today who still fights unfair and rash judgements.

Kim is an attractive, still young mother of

other children as well, who as a registered nurse traversed the medical and paramedical world trying to find answers and solutions.

At this point she said she's had enough, having seen marriage c ounsellors (some

blamed it on stress at home or her mother having a problem!), psychologists, psychiatrists, medicos, and social workers and doesn't want to see one more.

It has caused her severe strain but her reason for sticking with it, was because of her great love of her child.

"Such children need extra support and understanding, comand passion empathy," she said — but one can only heartily add to that — so do the parents of such children, and the siblings who see it all behind the scenes when everyone else has gone home to their quietudes. hasn't Empathy been all that forthcoming either, with one medico telling her she should be grateful her daughter didn't have cerebral palsy or something else, rather then givappropriate ing advice and sympathy specific to her syndrome.

Socially the family has lost out, finding it

easier not to go anywhere, and in the process "we've lost most of our friends".

Because of the stress, strain and plain misery Kim and family have been through, she now wants to help who've others family affected members.

A support group she believes would be able to disseminate information and give encouragement to each other.

Kim went public with this story in order to help others — perhaps save them the painstaking and painful path she trod in searching.

Her message is if there is anyone out there who wants to be involved in such a group, would they please contact this writer at The Record on 328 1388 and their phone numbers will be passed on.

For those who fortunately don't have such an affliction, either themselves or within their circle, the other message is — judge less and care more!

'Keep in touch.:

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard From around Australia's dioceses Diocesan Ecumenical Affairs Committees meet every second year in a different location in order to liaise and update.

The next meeting is due in September in Canberra and the main topic on the agenda will be the forthcoming Seventh Assembly of the World Council of Churches scheduled for Canberra February 7-20 next year.

The new Perth Archdiocesan Committee chairman Mr Barry Johnston of Glen Forrest considered the public needs to be made more aware of what they are doing and planning from the international down to the local level in this area.

He pointed out that locally the various denominations keep in contact with each other through the WA Conference of Churches which holds general meetings quarterly and has an executive of approximately 12 members, including three Catholic priests, from the mainstream Christian churches who meet on a monthly basis.

This year is Ecumenical Sharing Year and events have been planned throughout the year featuring an annual week of prayer for Christian unity, the recently held Seniors Week and the main thrust Come Holy Spirit.

A book entitled Come Holy Spirit Renew the Whole Creation has been published by JBCE containing six Bible Studies which it is hoped will be studied by ecumenical Bible groups as a prayerful forerunner to the Seventh Assembly of the World Council of Churches next year.

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To Canberra the Catholic Church will be sending 400 observers drawn from around the world including from every Australian diocese.

The launch of the Bible groups will be at an ecumenical Church service to be broadcast on the ABC on Pentecost Sunday and on the local level, there will be a similar service held at the Uniting Church Darlington.

A preliminary meeting from Midland to Mundaring has been held with representatives from the Anglican, Uniting and Catholic churches, to set up the Bible groups.

Mr Johnston said the DEAC is concerned that there appears to be insufficient awareness of the need for Catholics to be involved in ecumenical movements, but where such involvement does take place, such as already exists in several Perth suburbs meeting regularly for prayer and discussion of mutual affairs and concern, strong communication takes place with a common desire to work for Christian good.

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tantalise, especially in the "glasnost" era of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, when Vatican-Soviet relations are at a high.

The answer is very The latest spurs to simple: Mehmet All conspiracy buffs were Agca. He was caught at the scene of the crime March allegations by Victor Sheymov, a selfwith the smoking gun in described ex-KGB agent hand. He admitted his who defected to the guilt, was quickly convicted and is currently United States in 1980. serving a life sentence in Yet his evidence is also an Italian prison. circumstantial.

Was Agca, a Turkish Sheymov does not hired gunman, part of a claim to have been Soviet plot? involved in the plot, and Finding the answer to he defected before Agca this tantalising question seriously wounded the is not so simple, provok- pope in 1981. ing controversy whenHis evidence is a cable ever posed. he said he saw in 1979 while visiting the KGB An Italian court in 1986 said there was insuffi- office in Warsaw, Poland. cient evidence to link The cable asked inforAgca's assassination mation on "how to get attempt to a group of physically close to the Turkish and Bulgarian pope". Sheymov said this underworld figures was euphemistic phrasallegedly tied to the KGB ing for murder. via the Bulgarian secret The Soviet conspiracy service. theory always has had a The evidence was following among some mostly circumstantial Vatican officials. and based heavily on the Their argument stems word of Agca, who not from concrete evidiscredited himself early dence, but motive: The in the trial. election of Polish CardiIn courtroom outbursts, nal Karol Wojtyla as the he repeatedly claimed to first pope from a be Jesus Christ. communist-ruled counHis sworn testimony try was a destabilising also contained numerous factor for the Soviet bloc. contradictions.

Regarding motive, there What emerged from the is plenty of evidence. trial was clear evidence The pope sparked the that Agca was involved formation of Solidarity, with an underworld the Polish independentgroup of Turkish and trade-union-turnedBulgarian petty crimi- opposition-movement. nals, smugglers and paid His constant calls for religious freedom carried The court decision, more weight internationhowever, did not bury ally because he had lived the "Bulgarian connec- under Communist rule. tion" conspiracy theory.

Officially, the Vatican's It remains alive, based reaction to the Soviet on circumstantial evi- conspiracy theory has dence, and continues to been silence and an VATICAN CITY (CNS): Who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in St Peter's Square on May 13, 1981?

occasional "no comment".

The only variation came from the pope prior to the start of the "Bulgarian connection" conspiracy trial.

He told a group of Bulgarians visiting the Vatican that he hoped the trial would not reflect badly on the Bulgarian people.

The "Bulgarian connection" also has its debunkers.

Many say the real conspiracy was by international interests that continually planted the story to keep the freeze

on East-West relations.

Some say Agca acted on

"I will kill him for sure," said the letter.

"Western imperialists who are afraid of Turkey's unity of political, military and economic power with the brotherly Islamic countries are sending crusader commander John Paul under the mask of a religious leader," it said.

Shortly befor shooting the pope, Agca wrote another letter saying his motive was to "demonstrate to the world the

imperialistic crimes of the Soviet Union and the United States" because of the "genocide in Afghanistan and El Salvador".

During the 1986 conspiracy trial, he said he shot the pope to symbolically destroy "Western civilisation and Christianity that have oppressed the people of the world".

his own.

Others hold that he was part of a non-Soviet conspiracy because a Polish pope — with his emphasis on breaking down Europe's ideolo0- The Italian conspiracy cal barriers — was also a trial was frustrating to destabilising factor for those who hoped it Western foreign policy. would settle the issue Evidence for these one way or another. views also is heavily The frustration was circumstantial. What is aired by La Civilta provable is that Agca was Cattolica, Jesuit magaan. experienced assassin zine published in Rome, before the attempt which often reflects against the pope and had Vatican viewpoints. strong personal motives, tied to his Muslim At the end of the trial, it beliefs, for wanting to kill was impossible to tell the leader of whether "the attack on the pope was the fruit of Catholicism. an international plot or Agca was a member of an act of individual a right-wing Turkish terrorism", it said. terrorist group and was convicted of the 1979 The magazine conkilling of a Turkish cluded: "All the appearances militate for the first newspaper editor. hypothesis, it being He was convicted "in improbable highly that absentia" because he escaped from a Turkish Agra acted alone. But maximum security pri- will one ever know who son while awaiting trial. was behind the Turkish While in jail he wrote a assailant?" letter threatening the Even today, many views pope, who was planning can be argued, but none to visit Turkey. can be proven.

TOMORROW TODAY with Father Joe Parkinson

Get set for historic event Young people! Get set for the biggest and most exciting gathering of Catholic youth ever held in the history of our state!

Get yourselves ready to join up to one thousand other young people from all over Australia at "Crossroads to Tomorrow", Perth's third Catholic Youth Conference, to be held 11-16 January 1991!

For five fantastic days next summer, Aquinas College in Manning will be the scene of the most important youth event ever held in our Church's history, an incredible chance to confront together the challenges facing young Australians moving into the last ten years of the twentieth century.

As we stand at the "Crossroads to Tomorrow" you can play a vital role in shaping your own future, and the future of our Church and of our country, by taking part in the 1991 Catholic Youth Conference.

There are hundreds of issues to face, and thousands of questions demanding answers, if we are to build a better tomorrow on the foundations of the past.

What does it really mean to be a Catholic Christian? How can I get in touch with God? What is God calling me to be and to do as I face the vital next few years? How can God and my church help me to deal with the pressures and problems of the real world?

The 1991 Catholic

Youth Conference offers you the opportunity to lay the foundations for your future through keynote speakers, small group workshops and dozens of elective topics suggested by hundreds of Australian young people in a national survey.

You will be able to share in small, close-knit communities of your own peers as you discover together how to make key decisions for your life.

Being Catholic and living as followers of Christ can be great when we do this in a group of people our own age, sharing the same hopes and *dreams, and moving forward together.

A full social program is also planned, to include a choice of nightclub-style

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VA1,A1 L CROSSROADS TO TOMORROW evenings and a full day out and about with the crowd.

Your parish and your school have received information brochures, giving you the chance to get in early for this

fabulous event.

Fill out the information slip on the brochure and send it straight in to "Crossroads to Tomorrow", PO Box 194 North Perth 6006, or phone Kristi McEvoy today on

A year In the making The five days of next year's Catholic Youth Conference from January 11-16 have already taken 12 months to plan and there's still plenty to do.

Back in April 1989 a

small but keen group of young people met with youth chaplain Father Joseph Parkinson to discuss the possibility of such a gathering.

Deciding to 'give it a go', they began meeting every Wednesday evening to sketch the outlines of the conference, and

slowly added several more interested young

people to their number.

What began as the dream of four Catholic youth had grown to involve over a dozen by the time of the 1989 Youth Rally, at which the project was announced publicly for the first time.

Since then the word has spread rapidly, and currently there are well over fifty people in six teams working to make the 1991 conference the best yet.

Equally encouraging is the spread of Catholic youth organisations involved in the planning: CPY, YCW, Antioch, Charis and Focolare are some of those lending a hand along with many other young people individually committed to the project.

Committees were established early this year to plan accommodation and pastoral care, publicity and registrations, programming, finance and a host of other key

Conference coordinator Kristi McEvoy is waiting for your call on 328 9878.

Keep all of these people, and the whole conference, in your prayers this year!

of other jobs, large and small, every helping hand makes it just that much easier for the hardworking planning team.

If you can give some time to a few of these tasks, call Kristi McEvoy at the Conference Office on 328 9878 — she would love to hear from you!

To keep registration costs as low as possible there will be several major fundraising activities during this year. Give these events all the support you can, and get

Parish Youth Groups SEXUALITY WEEKEND

May 18-20 Eagle's Nest, Gidgegannup

For teenagers aged 15-18

This annual weekend program is open to all Catholic youth aged 16 years and over.

What makes a good relationship?

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areas such as catering, transport, security and recreation activities.

Dozens of meetings later, and with many more still to come, the 1991 Catholic Youth Conference is shaping up as the fulfilment of a dream: the biggest and most important Catholic gathering of its kind held so far in this state.

A Course on

TEENAGE RELATIONSHIPS

years or over by January 1 next year, so go for it!

And keep reading this page of 'The Record' for regular updates on the 1991 Youth Conference, to "Crossroads Tomorrow".

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Looking to 1991: Damien Mcgain and Chris Girando checking out the 1991 Youth Conference.

Give us a helping hand Next year's Catholic Youth Conference, the most exciting and ambitious ever planned in WA, will be a success only with your help.

Whether you are sixteen or sixty-one, there are plenty of ways to assist.

Each of the five major planning committees needs volunteer help with many small tasks, usually needing just an hour or two of your time occasionally.

With thousands of letters to go out and dozens

328 9878 and you will be on our advance mailing list, rust in line to receive the conference registration form and other vital information.

The Conference is open to anyone who will be 16

Cost: Just $30 Information & bookings: Phone 328 8136 or call at the Youth Office 30 Claverton St, North Perth

Y.C.S. and T.Y.C.S. Movements present

family, friends and neighbours to support them to.

Some of the accommodation for the conference will be by billeting young people in Catholic homes for the week.

Parents and families willing to help in this way, or with other tasks such as bus driving or security services, can call Kristi on 328 9878 for more details.

There are thousands of ways you can help! Just call Kristi for ideas, or for any further information.

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ECCLESIAL ASSISTANT The Young Christian Students Movement in Perth is currently accepting applications for the position of Ecclesial Assistant to movement in 1990.

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Kid's Corner

by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

eter Damien Peter's family was poor.

They lived in the town of Ravenna in Italy almost 1000 years ago. Some people say Peter's parents died while he was still very young and an older brother took him in. Peter cared for his brother's pigs.

another Afterward brother, Damian, a priest in Ravenna, saw that Peter received a good education. Peter apparently liked that brother so much that he adopted his name, calling himself Peter Damian.

Later Peter became an excellent teacher in his hometown. He also became known for his generosity and compassion. He regularly gave away much of his money to people who were poor.

He invited homeless people into his house.

But Peter was restless.

He felt God was calling him to a different kind of life. He decided to become a priest, maybe to be like his brother. But he

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still wasn't fully at peace.

Then he met two Benedictine monks who lived alone as hermits far from the noise of the city. They told Peter about their lives of prayer and quiet.

In 1035 Peter decided to join their Benedictine community of hermits.

Peter spent his time as a hermit praying and studying the Bible. He felt he was now where God wanted him to be. His fellow monks were glad Peter was with them.

They chose him to be their prior. Peter rewrote the community's rules and reorganised the monk's lives. They were all happier then. reputation Peter's spread far. The German

emperor and the pope admired him and invited his help. Peter believed that together the pope and emperor could make the world a better place.

He was willing to work with them both even though he preferred to stay in his quiet hermitage.

The pope convinced him that God was calling him to leave his hermit life in order to serve the Church more actively. In 1057 Pope Stephen IX named him cardinalbishop of Ostia, Italy. His life for the next few years was busy. He travelled widely, settling disputes and solving problems.

But he longed for his hermitage where he could spend more time in

prayer and Scripture study. Finally he persuaded Pope Alexander II to let him return to the monk's life. The pope insisted that Peter be available for important missions.

Peter spent his last years as a simple monk, praying, reading the Bible, doing manual work and writing. From time to time the pope sent Peter off on some important mission.

In February 1072, as he was returning from a papal mission, Peter Damian fell ill with a burning fever. He died in a nearby monastery eight days later.

In 1828 he was named a doctor (teacher) of the Church.

Remember Me to Harold Square by Paula Danziger. Pub by Pan. $6.99.

A Serendipity Scavenger Hunt in New York City draws together Kendra, a fourteen!fear old New Yorker, and Frank, a fifteen-year-old Wisconsin farm boy in this unbeatable romantic teen comedy Frank, Kendra and her little brother, OK make an unlikely trio as they explore the Big Apple. From Chinatown to "Harold Square", from the Statue of Liberty, to the United Nations, OK keeps them laughing as Frank experiences New York for the first time and Kendra makes a few surprising discoveries of her own on the way.

Herbs and Spices by Julia Ecclesbare. illustrated by Martin 1rsell. Pub by Hamisb Hamilton. bb $16.99.

Herbs arid spices are widely used around the world, yet few children know how or where they grow. In this lively little book, Julia

Eccleshare introduces a range of familiar and less well known plants.

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She describes how each example is grown and how it is used.

Martin Ursell's colourful illustrations complement the text perfectly

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Exploring Nature with your Child and Creative Projects Big and Small. and education through Published by Time-Life nature.

Books, distributed It is a great source of ideas through Angus & Robertto introduce children into son. bb. $23.95 each.

Two beautifully illustrated the discovery of this wonderand informative books from ful world.

Time-Life.

Creative Projects Big and Exploring Nature with your Small is a great introduction Child is crammed full of to creathity and stimulating interesting activity detail thought in showing projects showing the fascination of which can be tackled by the The Money Eaters by Ian Edwards. Illustrated by Rachel Tonkin. Published

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Using question and answer Did you know: format, this humemus book • There are around 650 is full of facts that will muscles in the human body? fa.scinate and dumbfound.

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Just to k)Ok at the Ernst Stuffle made 1-)11 feel stuffy and uncomfortable . . . big spectacles, tightly buttoned suit over a rollneck jumper with big sweat marks around the armpits . . . a slobby, sloppy person . . . the Ernst Stuffle seems to he everywhere . . buying up property, taking the jobs on the trams, issuing parking tickets, collecting meter money stealing pigeons, etc etc . . . if there's anything, anywhere to scab or steal. the Ernst Stuffle comes creeping around.

There's a mystery to he solved.

Bill Bear and the Wild Winter by Anna Fienberg.

I llustrated by Astra Lads.

Published by Angus & Robertson. $11.95.

Billy Bear hates winter. He even has a list of his worst Winter-hating ReaSOQS: • it gets very cold, • there's snow everywhere. • his honey goes hard and freezes in the jar but worst of all . . the most horrible thing about winter is that the bears get very boring . . Boring Bearsville.

There's nothing worse than being a young. lively bear left alone in the middle of winter. Billy plans to change that.

What do hears like best?

What makes bears tingle all over, shiver and shout and race about? What makes bears tap their fcct, wriggle and jiggle and leap out of their seats?

Billy knows . . . and he sets about trying to make this winter different from all the rest.

The Red King by Victor Kelleher. Pub by Viking Kestrel. bb. $17.99.

The mighty Red King controls the forest not only by force of arms but also by spreading the deadly red fever upon all those who dare oppose his authority Also living in the mysterious forest is a small hand of travelling entertainers — a magician, an acrobat, 1 monkey and a hear. "We're the perfect team," the magician boasts. "Together we can do anything." But how could such an unlikely group possibly challenge the Red King in his stronghold?

How could they hope to survive, let alone win?

The Red King is a gripping fantasy set in a timeless landscape.

God bless Australia What's happening?

My Daddy Where are we going?

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I saw a kid marchin' with medals on his chest He marched alongside Diggers marching six abreast.

He knew that it was Anzac Day — He walked along with pride, He did his best to keep in step with the Diggers by his side.

And when the march was over the kid was rather tired.

A Digger said, "Whose medals, son?" to which the kid replied: "They belong to Daddy but he did not come back He died up in New Guinea on a lonely jungle track."

The kid looked rather sad then a tear came to his eye, The Digger said, "Don't cry my son, and I will tell you why.

Your Daddy marched with us today — all the blooming way We diggers know that he was there — its like that on ANZAC Day." The kid looked rather puzzled and didn't understand, But the Digger went on talking and started to wave his hand.

"For this great land we live in, there's a price we have to pay, And for this thing called Freedom, the Diggers had to pay.

For we all love fun and merriment in this country where we live The price was that some soldier his precious life must give.

For you to go to school, my lad, and worship God at will, Someone had to pay the price so the Digger paid the bill.

There's some folks around today, my lad, who think it's all for free Even though there's other countries close at hand on bended knee.

They walk around with banners like kids with little toys While the enemy just waits around clapping his hands with joy.

They say it's not correct these days to stand up to the foe, But the old time religions knew where they had to go.

They took the Bible with them and the Padres led the way, That's the reason now my Son, the church is here to stay.

The Romans they couldn't fail, but Oh! how great their fall.

It can happen to all peoples lad! However great or small Your Daddy died for us, my son, for all things good and true, I wonder if you can understand the things I've said to you".

The kid looked up at the digger — just for a little while, And with a changed expression said, with a lovely smile, "I know my Dad marched here today — this, our ANZAC Day, I know he did, I know he did, all the blooming way.

Come Holy Spirit

Come, Holy Spirit — Renew the Whole Creation_ Six Bible Studies on the theme of the seventh assembly of the World Council of Cburcbes, published byJZICE. "Come, Holy Spirit — Renew the Whole Creation."

That prayer is the theme chosen for the Seventh Assembly of the World Council of Churches, which will meet in Canberra, Australia, 7 to 20 February 1991.

Presented in this book are six Bible studies around the Assembly theme. Beginning with our confession of faith in the Holy Spirit, we go on to study the theme as a whole, and the four subthemes which provide the link between our confession and the demancLs it makes on us as we try to live our faith from day to day Included in each study is a wealth of comments and testimonies from friends in many parts of

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The unforgettable characters from Fo rt t Flats are hack! Wal, Cooch, Aunt

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the world.

By being involved in these studies as groups of Christian people, all of us can prepare for and contribute to the Canberra Assembly — and allow the renewal we pray for to start with us in our congregation and our local community

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The irony is that it wasn't pay? Or do we, as some of birthright itnd corruptly us do, cheat the boss of his handle your tax_5. theirs — and isn't ours.

Be patriotic — anu It's God's land and we time as much as we can are His people. As such and do as little as we can, demand that anyone whc we're equal and no-one while meanwhile expect- comes to these shore: should also pull their has the right to give it ing top wages. politicians our do And fistful a weight as One Australia or song away for a tell us to tighten our belts — not fragmentalised of foreign currency.

Australians have had it so — and tighten theirs as cultures and factions good for so long — thank well? Or is it merely a mild doing their own thing hut to our pioneers who way of saying "things are as mono culture with carved out our beautiful tough because we've different cultural contr'taxes butions to add to tl:c ar your spent And the legacy of farm lands and cities, and of the brave frivolously!"

Australian mix. bravest the sadness to children And are politicians hon- Be proud to be Australlighting force like my who grew up fatherless father, uncles and thou- 2st, decent and true when ian because it s a greit and motherless, and sands of others — that allowing our hard won honour and privilege to spouses who were left we've become apathetic. :ountry to be virtually be one. to carry on alone . . .

Lazy. Couldn't give a given away to foreign And midst all the graft, Anzac Day, representing damn about our direction ownership — despite the greed, corruption, vice, all our fallen in all wars and who's running or fact we can't buy their hatred and lack of good bad manner: Australians took part in — ruining our lives and land but they can have ours for a pittance. and nd ignorance which showed by the huge country.

And is this country theirs walks abroad — stant; We're not patriotic crowds that people haven't forgotten. And it enough. We couldn't care to give — or does it not apart for the principles would be a tragic day if less whether the product rest with the Australian you adhere to and th. they did. Gross ingrati- is Australian made or not, people who are custodi- decent background you tude would be the classic and then complain ans for future generations came from and walk tali.

One doesn't Lave to understatement of that. because our kids can't get of Australians. stoop to low levels to join Australaverage But we can not simply jobs!

Has the Yet haven't enough logic ian become so apathetic a seeming mob. dwell on the past glory they achieved for our to work out that local he's failed to notice that But above all — hang on nation and the freedom purchase provides local his heritage is slipping to your Christianity with from his grasp — in fact all the fervour you've got. so dearly paid for. work. think to seem also We for task a left they largely has, with no media Like and face it or not — Because us to do — a free nation there is a perpetually blaze of awareness-raising with the high foreign and filling money well and and only silence by the non-Christian ownership to continue building. there'll always be politicians who wheel and of Australia and projected that Looking at Australia in for social security deal often behind closed even greater — we are plenty the 1990's one can only also losing our Christian easy life. an and doors. conclude it's in a mess. It's disasfinancially content. our But Australians! It's time you been — and here I'll focus And unless we shake on our beautiful Western trous credit rating and woke up and took stock! ;rom this selfpayments of ourselves balance Australia — totally misBe environmentally of light apathy, we the destructive throw managed financially and should aware — before even our we ourselves, find If shall one. that on reality environmentally as well. more destruction takes Christianity and our cu. bother to alert ourselves Those who inherited as to what is really place. ture, nothing more thzn these 'political power happening.

Be politically mature and tourist curiosities in our positions' have seemingly So in the workplace do aware — and vote for own land . . . done their best to ruin we really try and do a fair those whom you can trust

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The poem opposite by an unknown bard is well worth reading.

Apart the from obvious loss of our heroes who paid the Supreme Sacrifice for defending this magnificent land of ours, it also highlights those they left behind.

Victoria Park Hostel and Nursing Home, Kalgoorlie, saw an influx of 150 people last Monday when the Little Sisters of the Poor extended their hospitality in the form of "Come and pray with us

at an ecumenical service, have lunch with our residents and join in the general fraternity of the day!" which was the Little Sisters' contribution to Senior Citizens week.

This is the second year

f or this format and undoubtedly when those folks saw inside that special home the Sisters run, they'd be reluctant to leave. Such is the warmth, love and caring the Little Sisters give to all those in their care.

The Kalgoorlie Little Sisters celebrated the 150th anniversary of their foundress Blessed Jeanne Jugan two weeks ago in a blaze of media attention which saw them on TV, radio and in the press.

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JESUS MISSION The Mission and Justice Team presents. . . The Mission of Jesus Today at the Redemptorist Monastery Vincent St, North Perth on Wednesday 7.30pm-9.30prn June 13, 20, 27; July 4. Cost $5 per session. Phone Mary Droste 444 6679, 325 1212.

WATAC WATAC will hold their next meeting on May 10 to share stories with our Aboriginal sisters for a reflection led by Gabrielle Whiteley at the Old Chapel, Catherine McAuley Family Centre, 18 Barrett St, Wembley at 7.45pm.

MANJIMUP PARTY Manjimup Parish is holding its annual "Cheese and Chestnut" night on Saturday, May 12 at 7.30prn at Fonti's Packing Shed. Further details (097) 71 2048.

HOLY HOUR A Holy Hour of Eucharistic Reparation will be held on Sunday, May 13 at 3pm, in the Carmelite Monastery Church, Adelma Rd, Nedlands. Fr E. Rodgers will officiate.

BABY TALK Women who would like to plan how their baby (wether it's no 1 or no 5!) is going to fit into their life can join a group starting next month in Perth.

Led by experienced counsellors, the group will give pregnant women the opportunity to learn how to care for themselves as mothers-to-be, mothers and individuals.

They will learn how to bond with their baby before and after birth, to create a new space in their lives for their baby and themselves and to have fun and enjoy their pregnancy!

The course starts on Tuesday, May 8, runs for 6 weeks and numbers are limited.

Free one-to-one counselling is also available to discuss any issues concerning pregnancy.

Phone Maureen or Terri-Kate at Pregnancy Help on 325 5592 for more information.

McAULEY WORDS The sayings of Catherine McAuley in 10 matching card/envelopes are available in two packets of five from the Convent of Mercy, Victoria Square. Ph. 325 4698. Proceeds go to Mercy Missions and Mercy Refugee Service.

WEEKEND RETREAT Fr Ken O'Riordan, internationally known priest from Leicestershire with extensive experience in RCIA and catechetics will lead a retreat from Friday 7.30pm to Sunday 3pm May 11-13. Cost $60. Bookings: Sr Frances Maguire 381 5444 (work), 478 1038 (home).

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The spiritual director will be Sr Helen Giles, St. Joseph of the Apparition.

Cost $40. A deposit of $20 is required to confirm a booking. Mail (only) to Mrs. B. Townsend, 23 Daglish St. Wembley, 6014.

A small bus will be available for travel to Pinjarra. To take advantage of this service seats must be booked when making a retreat booking, as this bus holds only 21 people and will depart at 6pm Friday from Monastery, North Perth and return on Sunday approximately 5pm.

A rchdiocesan Calendar Feast of San Leone, Kalamunda Monsignor McCrann 8 Launch Secondary Schools Seminar Handbook and Policy Document, Monsignor M Keating.

9 Civic Reception, High Commissioner of Malta, Monsignor Keating.

11 Mass for Religious, at Redemptorist Church - Fr Chris Ross.

13 Bless Ballajura School Archbisho Foley.

16 Visitation and confirmation Applecross - Bishop Healy.

18 Bless Manual Arts Extension, John Paul College Archbishop Foley.

19-20 Visitation and confirmation, Goomalling Bishop Healy.

20 In St Mary's Cathedral Mass and Unveiling of Plaque, Ursula Frayne College, --- Archbishop Foley.

Confirmation, Cloverdale — Monsignor Keating.

25 Catholic Secondary Principals Assoc Mass --- Archbishop Foley Newman College Art Exhibition represent Archbishop Foley — Bishop Healy.

26 Blessing mufti purpose hall, Orana Primary School Archbishop Foley.

27 Visitation and confirmation, Maylands -- Archbishop Foley, Visitation, Rivenrale - Bishop Healy.

Confirmation, Doubleview Monsignor Keating.

28 Farewell Revered Ken Patterson, Anglican Education Cente, — Archbishop Foley.

29 Scripture and reflection Day by Fr Ken O'Reardan.

29-30 Confirmation, Newman Junior School -- Monsignor Keating.

June 3 Pentecost Mass in St Mary's Cathedral, Archbishop Foley.

Visitation and confirmation, Merredin --- Bishop Healy.

40th Anniversary of Priesthood, Fr W Buckley, Archbishop Foley and Bishop Healy.

5 Open Majella Pre-Primary Centre, Archbishop Foley.

Opening WA Research Institute for Child Health, Monsignor Keating.

In St Mary's Cathedral, Mass for 6 Trinity College - Archbishop Foley.

Confirmation, Northam — Bishop Healy.

8 Visitation and confirmation York — Bishop Healy..

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Applicants will need to feel comfortable working in a Catholic agency and dealing with a range of professional people as well as varied clientele. salary: Negotiable.

Applications should be marked CONFIDENTIAL and addressed to: The Director Centrecare Marriage and Family Service 456 Hay Street, Perth WA 6000 To be received by May 9, 1990 This is a re-advertised position, previous applicants need not apply.

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The successful applicant would be expected to work closely in an Iecumenical context with other QUT chaplains, and to liaise : 1 • closely with other higher education chaplains in the Brisbane • area.

The successful applicant would normally be an ordained minister I - or member of a religious order of a Christian Church. However a • suitable lay member of a Christian Church would he considered I IWhile the committee anticipates a fulltime appointment, two or morel part-time appointments may be considered.

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