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Future in ind Over the next 20 years there would have to be some 30 to 50 Catholic schools developed in WA, the director of Catholic Education, Dr Peter Tannock, said last Sunday.

"Building one, two or three schools a year will require a mighty effort but unless we develop new schools we won't be able to provide for Catholic communities of the future the service of the past," he said.

Dr Tannock was speaking at the opening of Ballajura Catholic primary school which he said joined 150 other Catholic schools in WA serving 50,000 pupils with a staff of 3000 teachers.

He pointed out that the Catholic school effort had started in the 1840s

when a Catholic school preceded the first government school in this state.

He said: "The Church has seen the task of providing schools as central to its mission and work.

"This new community of Ballajura is only part of a pattern that has to go on for many years to come."

Noting that with our Commonwealth and State government contributions the Catholic schools could not carry on Dr Tannock said the schools nevertheless depended "on people like you to tell government to keep up their support".

The parish also had an important contribution to make to a school, he added, urging the Ballaj-

urn community to consolidate its bonds between the school and the parish.

"There is no place in the Church in WA for the Catholic school that does not feel it has a direct link to a parish and does not need to support and sustain that link."

Catholic schools are provided, he said, not simply because of a tradition but "because all of you believe that Catholic schools are the result of people corning together and bonded by a common faith and the common desire to spread that faith".

"I totally believe in the potential of our schools to build communities.

This new school at Ballajura is very important for you and for the Church in WA," he said.

Dr Tannock speaking at the opening of the Ballajura Catholic primary school. He is the director of Catholic Education.

Sr Margaret O'Sullivan, the school principal, is seated right.

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Planning Minister Kay Hallahan has given the green light to a Catholic Care for Intellectually Handicapped (CCIH) Riverton house project by upholding an appeal against Canning City Council.

The Town Planning Appeal Committee was pressed by a wide cross section of community care organisations, as well as many Catholic bodies and individuals. including bishops in Western Australia, to reverse the Canning Council's decisions.

Although the council's Planning department recommended approval, the council's planning sub-committee turned down the proposal twice, notwithstanding a CCM delegation, and the council twice voted in favour of the sub-committe's Opposition.

The council's technical objections centred mainly on inadequate front and side boundary setbacks required for "Institutional purposes."

The Appeal Committee dismissed this objection

Planning Minister gives the green light to a Catholic Care for Intellectually Handicapped project in Riverton saying that the neighbouring walls in dispute were blank and would not affect privacy.

CCIH says that many other local authorities have removed such restrictive clauses so that respite care facilities do not have to come under institution planning requirements.

Council Canning

appears to have taken more note of neighbours' claiming objections noise, increased traffic and parking, lessened property values and high water table sewage problems in the area. were Neighbours invited to a Sunday afternoon tea meeting with CCIH families but appear not to have

lessened their opposition to the project.

CCIH says it searched for two months and inspected 20 possible houses before the January purchase to make sure the respite care home would be close to main traffic mutes and with sufficient on-site parking to cater for visitors.

Regular septic maintenance, says CCIH, will handle problems that are common to all houses; the CCIH facilities are already approved for a household of 14 persons.

CCIH executive officer Maureen Jewell said their aim in appealing against the council decision had been not to over-ride neighbours'

objections but to fmd a balance between the rights of the children and their families and the rights of neighbours.

The new facility would not have a negative impact on the neighbours she said.

After renovations over the next three months the four bedroom, twobathroom house will

offer short to medium term stays for children whose parents need a spell or time to deal with some other family emergency.

CCIH will now own three homes, two others having been purpose built at Greenwood and Koondoola, and also has the use of three other homes.

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Fr Robert Carey said the Catholic community in South Australia was no longer the basically Irish and Anglo-Saxon one on which it was founded.

"It seems a good two-thirds of Catholics in South Australia now were either born overseas or have parents who were, and a large majority of these are from non-English speaking backgrounds," he said.

Fr Carey was noting the many different ethnic communities would be represented at the annual Catholic procession this Sunday held in honor of Mary, the mother of Christ.

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compared with the national Catholic percentage of 2 6%.

Mass is said every Sunday for the following ethnic communities in their own language: Croatian, Italian, Latvian, Hungarian, German, Lithuanian, Slovene, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Lebanese.

Bishop George Pell passed the news to Australian Catholic Bishops Conference last week in Sydney.

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"At the turn of the century there was also a signficant group of Mediterranean people... Maltese, Italian, Greek and Lebanese. The main influx of the ethnic communities into the Church came after the second world war however," he said.

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Bishop Pell. . . passes news to Australian bishops

Scholarship for lay person SYDNEY: The Australian Bishops Conference will fund a scholarship at $15,000 per annum for an Australian lay person to study social justice at an appropriate institute overseas.

The awarding of the scholarship will be the responsibility of the Bishops Committee for Justice, Development and Peace.

Institutes considered to be suitable possible study centres are: Gregorian University, Rome; Institut Catholique, Paris; Regius College, Toronto; Heythrop College, London; St Patrick's College, Maynooth; Alfonsianum, Rome; Angelicum, Rome; Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

Courses each year SYDNEY: The St Peter Centre for Clergy Education in Canberra is to offer one course each year for non-clerical religions and lay persons engaged in parish ministry.

This follows the success of a pilot scheme in 1989 which included full time pastoral associates.

"The first public and acknowledged Christian celebration for more

than 15 years took place at Easter in Phnom Penh," Bishop Pell said.

"This was ecumenical and was led by Fr Emile Destombes, a Catholic priest, formerly a missioner in Cambodia, expelled, and only returned since Christmas."

"Government permission has been given for a

jointly Christian Church to be built in the suburbs

of Phnom Penh," Bishop Pell added.

Bishop Pell who heads the Australian Catholic Relief and Archbishop Foley led a fact-finding mission to Cambodia last December to look over a number of projects ACR has there.

He met with a number of Cambodian Government Ministers, some of whom had made an official visit to Australia last year.

Having a heart for the lonely

ADELAIDE: Christian Community Development and Catholic Family Services iiave jointly responded to pick up some of the pastoral needs of Catholics who are sinseparated, gle, divorced or widowed.

Two groups have been formed — one for people over the age of 50 and, more recently, one for people under 50.

All of the people involved responded to a phone-in. A total of 120 people responded to the over-50's group. About

responded to the under-50's group.

Various social activities are planned by and for the group such as theatre trips, bush walks, luncheons, dinner dances and barbecues.

"Many of these single people have previously felt neglected by the Church," said Pauline Kenny of the Christian Community Development Team.

"One person was heard to have said that being a single parent and listening to the homily on the Feast of the Holy Family about the 'ideal' family

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unity of Mum, Dad and Children, was 'a bit to take', particularly as this family unit was broken, due to the other partner walking out on the family.

"An over-50s committee member asked a

newcomer to the group, where she had heard about this over -50s group.

"The woman replied that her doctor had told her about it."

pick up the pastoral needs of single people, who now make up a large percentage of our parish communities.

"How do we make them feel part of the parish family unit?

"It is firmly hoped that in the future, both 'singles' groups become more regionalised at the local level and possibly be re-directed back to parish-based groups for singles.

"In the light of our diocesan vision Community for the World, it is imperative that we

"There will always he the need for the wider group to come together to review and plan."

Survey of employers SYDNEY: The National Catholic Committee on Industrial Relations (NCaR) established by the Australian Catholic Bishops is to conduct a national survey of Catholic employers to: • Establish exactly who are employers within the Australian Church.

• Establish the size of the Church's workforce.

• Ascertain which areas of the Church's apostolate may need assistance with industrial relations issues.

• Know whom to contact when unions make applications on a federal

• Establish a communications network to ensure that all sectors of the Church's work are made aware of what is happening in their industry.

separate steps to ensure that all agencies of the Church are surveyed and that completing the survey is decentralised rather than having to be carried by central offices.

The required informaThe survey has been tion will take at least six broken down into four months to collect.

Suicidal traits shock

100 Aussies make serious bids to take own lives every day CANBERRA: — Every day more than 100 Australians make a serious attempt at suicide, national broadcaster, Mal Garvin, told the Reclaiming Easter Rally in Canberra.

"In the next 12-month period, one out of seven 15 to 19-year-olds will have thought very seriously about doing away with themselves," he said.

"Dr Don Edgar of the Australian Institute of Family Studies says today's adolescent in this country is the most confused teenager in the history of white settlement.

"I put it to you that we live in a land

but we have not quite learned how to come to terms with the spiritual dimension of human existence," he said.

"Our media and our power structures just do not know how to come to terms with transcendence. We have not conveyed to the next generation what is worth living and dying for."

Mr Garvin, who has a daily radio program on more than 100 radio stations around Australia, and who is National Director of Fusion Australia, a non-denominational Christian outreach to teenagers, was the main speaker at the rally.

He quoted the Austrian psychiatrist, Victor Frankel, one of the leading names in adolescent counselling as saying: "We have clinical evidence to show it is amazing what people will put up with if there is a purpose in the pain but if there is no purpose in the pain even the smallest aggravation becomes unbearable."

Mr Garvin said there was an animal dimension in human beings that was simply interested in minimising pain and stress and maximising pleasure.

"In this country, the media, everything round us is focusing on the escape

route rather than the purpose route," he said.

Australia as a nation was struggling to find a sense of direction as it moved into the nineties and the 21st century.

"You cannot ask questions of purpose without asking a spiritual question."

He said Australians as never before were frustrated but he saw this as a signal of hope, a signal that people were no longer apathetic but they didn't quite know what to do.

Mr Garvin concluded by challenging people to take a stand and "to move to the front foot" for God.

Parish folk gear up Perth's metropolitan parishes are gearing up for next weekend's regional consultation.

Mission Liaison People (MLP) from about 55 of the metropolitan parishes met last Tuesday evening to compare notes on how the preparation was going.

The Parish Development Team were amazed at the level of determination and interest among the MLP's. "The people just kept on talking and discussing their experiences well past the scheduled end of the meeting," said Sr Joan Smith.

"It is encouraging when such busy people are so excited by what they are discovering that they want to keep on going at a week night meeting.

"I'm beginning to realise there is no such thing as an 'average' or 'normal' parish," said Tricia

Walsh, Mission Liaison Person from Doubleview parish.

"I think it is one of the gifts of community, of recognising church as community, that we are in the rejoicing differences."

Tricia, and a team of ten people in her parish, are the preparing for regional Parish Consultations by working through a 'social analysis process'.

Like similar teams in most parishes they are trying to get an accurate picture of what is happening in their parish and locality.

"Social analysis and the 'pastoral circle' are tools for discerning and naming the life-signs in the parish," says Sr Joan Smith.

"Using them, the parish teams are getting information that they will share with other parishes

at their regional consultations. There they will have the opportunity to discuss their experience in the light of the tradition and current teaching of the church.

"It really has been fun getting to know people at a different level," said Tricia Walsh of Doubleview. "When we are spending time with one another and sharing our experience of parish, things happen."

As Mission Liaison Person, Tricia has worked with her parish priest and parish sister to gather a group of representative people to work through the social analysis process.

"The people in our group had never worked together before. Their ages range from thirties to fifties and it's been really interesting discovering new people. With people to whom you

might have been saying "I'm very aware that as hello to, and having cups I get more involved in of tea for many years, you parish, parish becomes are suddenly working more interesting. I hear together on a common young people say that, interest." and I hear my age group say that also. I'm quite that certain that this is going said Tricia members of the group do to be important for not all think of the parish church, for people to get in the same way. "Which more involved. Then makes it more interesting they will discover what a from my point of view," gift it is. There are a lot of she says. people out there, I'm "At the same time we sure, waiting to be have fairly effortlessly invited." come to consensus.

The Mission Liaison While someone might People will bring their point out anomalies in parish teams to the first what someone else might Regional Parish Consulsay, when we have tations on May 25-26 so debated it, we have easily that parishes are more come to some sort of informed as to the consensus. resources and the life on around them.

"It has been fun and going The Consultations are interesting too, because the way I might perceive being co-ordinated by a parish, is seen quite the Parish Development differently from another Team (Mrs Robin Beech, person's point of view Fr Don Sproxton and Sr who has dealt with Joan Smith) at the Pastoral Planning Office different aspects of it.

Getting into the act...

As a result of the Year of Mission and its follow up, Whiffords parish now has some 60 people involved in eight team ministries and interest in parish council membership has been boosted.

Mission Liaison Person Gerald Searle said at last Tuesday's meeting that of the 60 people, at least 40 had not been previously involved in other things.

"This is only a start," he said.

"Because there are so many people involved, and because it is team ministry, they can always look at other areas, they can always form — if there are other areas that are not being catered for — then you just form another team ministry.

"We are not still recruiting, inviting people to come onto the teams. We even have our own logo."

He added: "We are introducing name tags into the parish. And then there are lots of other

things like that: courses have seen the team that are being done. For ministries as a great example as a result, the opportunity to become adult education team has involved. organised Advent groups He disclosed: "After the and Lenten groups with Year of Mission we found about 80 parishioners that there were eight taking part in each areas of concern similar group. to the concerns that "The Pastoral Care ended up gaining priorGroup is now starting a ity at the Archdiocesan new ministry within Assembly. their team ministry — a "As a result we deveministry for the bereaved loped team ministries. working from Centre"From Pentecost 1989 care are now training to Pentecost 1990 we people within the parish have used as a time of to minster in to the preparation and prayer, bereaved." of formation of the teams.

For parish pastoral Officially the launch will councillors, the YOM has be this Pentecost. So we provided impetus in the have given ourselves a area of pastoral care, and year, Pentecost to adult education with a Pentecost. whole new dimension.

"We have guidelines for As far securing parish all the team ministries, councillors is no problem and a team that is conow because there are so ordinating the seven many people to choose team ministries." from, so many people are Each team went about it keen. differently.

A lot of people who "So a lot of activities come into the YOM team have taken place in the ministries were not inter- parish that wouldn't ested before in anything have without the Year of in the parish, but they Mission."

The Antioch group has started through the Youth Team ministry; the debutantes ball has been planned also from the Youth ministry, Parish dinners, training session, and a retreat has taken place for people in the team ministries. More are being planned.

For the regional consultations the parish had no problem forming the team. The instruction from the Pastoral Planning office was that it be representative, and that's why a youth was recruited.

Said Mr Searle: "We wanted to make sure it was representative of the ethnic representation in the parish. We noticed here there was Irish, English, and there was someone from Africa, and there was Spanish speaking, but there was nobody from Asia on the Regional Parish Consultation Team.

"So we specifically recruited someone in the Parish from Asia."

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Record In a world whose media pump out a wishful self-fulfilling prophecy that religions and the people who believe in them are running out of steam, the heady expectations of the Director of Catholic Education are likely to be greeted with embarrassed silence.

A charming newspaper photograph this week, for example, of a sweet young Catholic school pupil hand in hand with an elderly Josephite sister who had given a lifetime to religious education failed to mention that Dr Tannock wants to see two or three such schools opening each year for the next two decades.

The director was not indulging in a half-time pep talk to the team but was drawing on the statistics being turned up by the planning officers at the Catholic Education Office.

The figures may be based on the uncertain forecasts of how Western Australia will develop over the next half century but the Catholic schools forecast will diminish (or expand) only in proportion to other trends not complying with what the civil planners are predicting.

The unpalatable truth for an incredulous and disbelieving world is that given the chance, many people are wanting religious schools, of any and every religious persuasion. If imitation is flattery, then the Catholic struggle to survive over a century now deserves such flattery.

This will give no joy to today's smug successors of the 19th century secularists who designed Australia's brave new world of secular education.

For the squeamish a weekly diet of Bible stories from meandering clergy was supposed to put the religious issue to bed in state schools.

The Protestants of the day who fell for the ruse ought to be hauled back to the 1990s to see the faith-less vacuum that envelops much of state school education today.

The needs being forecast not only by Dr Tannock but by other religious school systems are not welcome sounds to the secularists who struck up a convenient alliance with Big Brother attitudes of Western style government over the past century.

From the indisputable thesis that it is a government's responsibility to see that its citizens are well educated, the bureaucratic jockeys made a smart leap on to their own hobby horse that they would decide on the classrooms and the teachers who taught therein.

It was a very comfy closed shop arrangement long before the comfortable union monopolies of today thought up the same version of freedom of choice: free to do what one is told to do . . .

Dr Tannock and others on such occasions correctly recognise with gratitude the Commonwealth and State funds without which our Catholic schools operate. But the governments are doing us no favour and the remarks on platforms of school openings are far too diplomatically kind compared with times when the injustices against Catholic schools were given full vent.

With pea and thimble dexterity both state and federal politicians brandish bulging figures of the money being "given" to private schools (— never a mention of the hungry state systems. . !) but with never a thought for the fact that this money is becoming proportionately less and less and is buying less and less building.

Catholic parishes are faced with colossal entry debts to buy future school sites because broad-acre developers can control swathes of territory needed for decades ahead. Yet politicians get away with sweet smiles and do nothing to alleviate these crippling debts that appear on no government balance sheet.

(Neither do the costs of state school sites which are conveniently extorted from developers in the name of the government monopoly of education.)

Catholic schools are about faith, about life's values and about people. They are also about the bricks and mortar in which these values — and the values of whatever other religious schools want to operate under proper supervision — have to be transmitted.

In the end, the parents of those children lucky enough to enrol in a Catholic school, or to be able to afford even the modest fees, now have a responsibility to take up the lobbying cudgels to ensure that the openings such as at Ballajura today are not just a dream for the young marrieds of tomorrow.

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Pope: Talk way to independence ... AND DON'T UPSET SOVIET REFORM PLANS ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT TO MEXICO (CNS): Pope John Paul ll supported the right to independence of Soviet Baltic republics, but said achieving that right should not upset Soviet domestic reform programs.

"The two things must fit together well," he said during a news conference aboard the papal flight to Mexico.

Independence must be the result of "effective dialogue", he added.

It was the pope's first public statement that the independence struggle must be balanced against the needs of President Mikhail Gorbachev's "perestroika" reforms.

Spiritual and ethical progress does not come automatically with the political changes in Eastern Europe.

The pope criticised the secret 1939 Soviet-Nazi Germany accord that paved the way for the Soviet Union to occupy and later annex Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia.

The "rights of nations were profoundly violated by the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact of 1939", the pope said.

Yet this striving for independence, "justified by the past", must mesh with "perestroika", the Soviet reform program that "takes into account the whole dimension of an immense country which is made up of many peoples", he said.

"One cannot go beyond" at this time "supporting, according to universal principles, the rights of nations", he added. " 'Perestroika' must open itself — and I think it already has — to this aspiration of the peoples which make up the Soviet Union," he said.

The Soviet Union "is not a national state, but a pluralistic state" made up of many peoples, he said.

The pope said Eastern Europe's shedding of communist rule is "an improvement, at least in a relative sense".

But from the point of view of normalising Church life and bettering human existence, "there is still a long road ahead", he said.

"If outwardly, everything is perfectly OK, spiritual and ethical progress can still be lagging behind," the pope said.

"These things do not go hand-in-hand in a mechanical sense," he added.

The pope praised the overall political direction of Eastern Europe because "there is a need for life which resembles the good European traditions, which means the Christian tradition".

"This means respect for the human person, for human rights, for the human person's creativity," he said.

Back -track on trip to Cuba ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT TO MEXICO (CNS): Pope John Paul II said he plans to visit Cuba, but not this year.

The pope backtracked from a preVatican vious

announcement and said he did not plan to visit the Caribbean island in December.

The pope did not say why the Vatican initially announced a December trip.

Vatican officials said the announcement of a December trip was an effort to push the government of President Fidel Castro to agree on the dates and move forward on papal

trip planning.

Vatican officials said that, instead, the announcement angered Cuban officials, and Vatican diplomats were busy trying to smooth over

the situation.

The announcement also came at a time of Cuban church-state tensions because of criticisms of the bishops by Castro, Vatican officials said.

Damaged by politics VATICAN CITY: A Jesuit long-acquainted with the position of the Ukrainian Catholic Church says the church in the Ukraine might have been damaged by political activism which gave the Soviets the opportunity to brand the movement for recognition of the church as a political crusade.

The Vatican's push for religious freedom for Ukrainian Catholics in the Soviet Union has been part of Vatican discussions with the Orthodox Russian Church since the Second Vatican Council.

Because the Vatican did not have continuous, official contacts with the Soviet government until early 1990, the conversations with the Russian Orthodox Church were the primary context for raising the issue of the

suppression of the Catholic Ukrainian Church, said Jesuit Father John Long.

"We had a mandate" from the Second Vatican Council, Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II "to bring about the union of the two churches," the Jesuit priest said, and in that context the situation of Catholics in the Ukraine had to be raised.

Father Long, who is vice rector of the Oriental Institute in Rome, has been involved in Vatican contacts with the Russian Orthodox since 1963.

In the early years, the Vatican was criticized for its official contact with the Orthodox.

The Ukrainian Catholic Church was outlawed in the Soviet Union after a g overnment synod manipulated voted to merge the church with the Russian

Orthodox. Thousands of Catholic Ukrainian churches were given to the Orthodox.

While the Russian Orthodox refused to discuss the situation on the Ukrainian Catholic Church until 1988, Father Long said "it didn't make sense" to stop all contacts.

"If you're going to resolve a serious situation, you don't break of the dialogue," he said.

"You keep it on the table."

For years, no progress was made, he said. The Orthodox argued that the Union of Brest was politically motivated and the 1946 synod resolved the problem.

Pressure from the Soviet government made it impossible to address the problem until recently, Father Long said.

"I must say the question wasn't helped by the attitude of Ukrainians outside the Soviet Union, especially in the United States and Canada," he said.

"I had the impression that the church people and political people struggling for an independent Ukraine were closely working together," he said.

'The upshot is they gave ammunition to the government and church in the Soviet Union so they could say it is a political movement, not religious," Father Long said.

"I have the impression that some of that continues," he said.

While the Vatican hopes for unity with other Christians, their pledges of unity in faith

cannot be politically motivated.

In the international pan-Orthodox dialogue, Vatican and Orthodox delegates have been "sister discussing churches" as the model for future union.

The model emphasizes the legitimacy of the load church with its own customs and identity.

Fathet Long said.

In practice, it would require the Roman Catholic Church to "shift from a strong centralized government to living out Christianity on a local level," he said.

"But to us, it doesn't rule out the final authority of the pope to make judgments when necessary." he said. sister -church The model also could protect the values and character of the local churches.

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Call for clarity VATICAN CITY (CNS):— A newly released document on Catholic theology strongly underwrites traditional teachings and prescribes a continual weeding out of heresy and other theological errors.

The 50 page document, published by the International Theological Commission, proposed that future statements that have a teaching function — whether issued by the pope, bishops or Vatican officials — should indicate to what degree they are binding.

The document said it was responding to a modern "crisis" caused by the widespread rejection of traditional truths and values. This represents "one of the most fundamental spiritual challenges" of our age, it said.

It also said interpreting Catholic dogma — the church's fundamental, revealed truths — is a crucial aspect of inculturation in places such as Africa and Asia, where more than a "mere translation" is required.

its points, the document noted.

Thus it should be prepared for "collaboration involving argument" before issuing definitive decisions, it said.

The document, citing the pace of modern The obedience Cathol- scientific research, said ics owe the rragisterium, the magisterium should it said, is not limited to avoid "premature deterformally defined truths. minations" in favour of The faithful must also decisions that offer give "religiously direction.

Generally, the magistegrounded obedience" to other pronouncements rium should provide made by a pope, bishops "orientation and cerand the Congregation for tainty for individual the Doctrine of the Faith, Christians faced with a when those statements baffling babel of voices have a teaching and never-ending theological disputes," it said. intention.

This can be done "It would be especially desirable that the through a variety of church's magisterium — means, ranging from in order not to expend its preaching to formal authority unnecessarily expressions of infallible — indicate clearly in teaching, it said. individual instances the When Christian teachvarying forms and ing is judged as seriously degrees of binding force ambiguous or incompatof its pronouncements," ible with the faith, the it said. church has the duty to In modern pluralistic eliminate the error — as society, the church's a last resort, by formally teaching office increas- rejecting it as heresy, it ingly uses persuasive said.

The document stressed argumentation to make

The bulk of the document, which was written for experts, examined the evolution of dogmatic interpretation and study, especially its relation to Scripture and the magisterium, the church's teaching office.

Violations of human rights under fire...

KONG • HONG (UCAN): At an international conference in China, a Vatican delegate lashed out against violations of human rights by totalitarian regimes.

Archbishop Ernesto Gallina, apostolic nuncio representing the Vatican Secretary of State, told the 14th World Conference on the Law in Beijing April 24 that totalitarian regimes robbed men of their freedom and dignity.

More than 1500 legal experts from 65 countries took part in the one-week conference at the People's Great Hall, adjacent to Tiananmen Square.

"There is a grave contradiction in totalitarian regimes, especially those based on a

so-called message," the archbishop said, adding: "in the name of justice, they steal what is most precious to man, his dignity, his freedom."

The apostolic nuncio reportedly spoke of people exposed to the trend toward excessive development of the state, implacable economic laws and the denial of moral integrity, the essence of being human.

"All human rights are closely linked," the report quoting the archbishop said. "It's impossible to abolish some of them as the price for other rights."

Archbishop Gallina also spoke in defense of religious freedom which he described as the "most noble aspect of human rights".

that, in the larger sense, interpreting dogma was a function of the whole church, not just its teaching office. It takes place "in preaching and catechesis, in the celebration of liturgy, in the life of prayer, in diaconal service, in the daily witness given by Christians as well as in the juridicalchurch's disciplinary order," it said.

C atholic -dogma "should not be a dead relic from times past; rather it should become fruitful in the life of the church," the document said.

Likewise, it said, church tradition must not be transmitted in a "petrified" state but as a stimulus for hope and for the future.

The document said that for many Christians today "the traditional dogmatic language of the church just no longer seems to be intelligible" and that some consider it an "obstacle" to the transmission of the faith.

This can be a special problem in Africa and

Asia when faced with dogmas that were elaborated in a Western culture, it said.

The document said that images and concepts of church dogma are not "arbitrarily interchangeable," however, and in some cases — such as the proclamation of faith — the language itself is the "incarnation of a truth," it said.

The document said dogma cannot be interpreted in a merely symbolic or pragmatic way and that the historical reality of Jesus is the dogmatic core of development The document also cited some dangers in new approaches to dogmatic interpretation.

It said that in "radical liberation theology," the faith and dogmatic formulas are seen only in relation to an economic reality.

In the case of "radical feminist theology," a certain idea of emancipation becomes the sole, definitive key to interpreting Scripture and tradition, it said.

Back in his robes

CHIAY1, Taiwan (CNS): recently but had not were barred from priDivine Word Father John decided his future after estly duties because they Bantist Yang Tien-yu had failing in his bid for re- were elected to county his priestly functions election to the County and township councils restored after losing a bid Council of Chiayi. four years ago. for re-election to a local "I suggested he take a Both priests lost their government office. rest for careful considerre-election bids and their Father Yang was sus- ation," Bishop Lin said, terms officially ended pended from the minis- adding that he wanted try after becoming Father Yang back work- March 1. involved in local politics ing in the Church.

Father Yang had been in violation of canon law.

Father Yang and Father criticised for standing Bishop Lin said that the Ignatius Tsai Kuei-tsung, against two other candipriest visited him from Taichung County, dates, both Catholic.

China ordination

HONG KONG (UCAN): The ordination Mass in October of Chinaappointed Bishop Joseph Hou linde of Xingtai in Hebei province was said in Chinese.

It was the first bishops' ordination in Chinese on the mainland, whose Catholic liturgy remains in Latin, though indigenous liturgy was adopted universally elsewhere following Vatican II reforms.,

A China Church watcher in Hong Kong said Chinese Masses have been said in some dioceses in China in the past few years but it was not officially accepted until 1988. Before that, all public Masses were said in Latin.

The China Church watcher said the ordination of Bishop Hou is a breakthrough in liturgical reform in the Chinese Church.

However, he added, it still has a way to go because manpower and printed materials for Chinese liturgy are in short supply.

The open Chinese Catholic Church has 26 priests and 50,000 lay people in Xingtai, but the diocese, where the underground Church is active, is also led by clandestine Bishop Michael Xiao Liren.

Vatican men ordain five in Romania VATICAN CITY (CNS):Two high-ranking Vatican diplomats travelled to Romania recently to ordain five bishops.

country's Latin-rite dioceses with resident bishops.

appointments made by the pope in March several had been secretly ordained many years ago.

ment complained shortly after that it had not been consulted prior to the papal nominations.

Of

The Romanian govern-

But the situation was smoothed over, said

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Big help from Charis House

acolytes...

conversions

Charis House, the priest's residence at Ballajura, turns out to be big enough not only for his needs but for dozens of community activities.

-Acolyte Wafter Scott has proved to be a deft hand at building toys for Nicoleffa Della Primavera and Andrew Hobson.

Peter Lewis, Glenn Shelton, Walter Scott and Ed Mareis are the four Ballajuran acolytes helping build a Catholic Eucharistic community.

Walter and Ed were instituted late last year at St Mary's Cathedral.

Flexibility and adaptability is the required virtue in a new parish where Mass can be celebrated in a park, at a shopping centre, in a school library, the school Mass centre at present or the community room at the parish house.

For whatever occasion acolytes at Ballajura are responsible for setting up all the vesels, necessary books and vestments each Mass for weekend.

W hen necessary they take communion to the aged and infirm.

"I only have to walk in and say Mass" said Fr Jegorow.

'They're dedicated and busy men who find the time to enjoy preparing the dozen details that are important for the Eucharist," said Father John Jegorow.

"They are a great support and always willing to help," he said.

According to acolyte Ed Mayvis it is a great way of belonging to the Church and meetother ing parishioners.

Acolyte Walter Scott has delighted the preprimary children with several originally designed wooden toys.

To date the "Scott" collection includes wheel barrows, trailers. rocking horse and see saw.

The former gamesroom at Charis House was well able to cope with 20 singers preparing for the liturgy. Their youngest organist is Naomi van Veldhoven, a Year 8 student at Morley High School.

Left. St Joseph of the A pparition sister, Sr Margaret Mary Gannon, the Ballajura catechetical co-ordinator for three state schools is preparing 45 first communicants and training a further 16 catechists.

Right: On the first day of pre-primary the little tots had to bring their bedding for an afternoon nap, so Peter Moreno made sure that his daughter Simone was well equipped.

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The parish house at 10 Peak View Ballajura has been named "Charis House" by the one time Diocesan Youth Director who is now its resident pastor.

"While the word means gift the initial cost was far from a gift," said Fr Jegorow.

"The establishment of the parish conincided with the 1988/89 housing boom. At the time the asking price was over $150,000 for a large, four bedroom, two bathroom house.

The house is naturally divided in two sections. One provides a self contained private residence for the parish priest and the former family mom area is a community area.

As a result the kitchen and dining are are well used for celebrations.

To cope with the groaning load of goodies and people Father Jegorow has constructed a four metre pine table made from a single slab, with benches to match.

What was a games room serves as a meeting area and small group mass centre.

The remaining three bedrooms are converted to an electronic office, prayer room and spare room.

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z What faith " can do...

The new Catholic school at Ballajura was a witness to what faith can do and what people can do when they have a focus in their lives, Archbishop Foley said.

He told the people that they had a commitment in their hearts that made a difference in their lives.

Although the new school did not yet have everything that was needed, neither did the new Rallajura residents have everything they wanted in their homes, he noted.

"You are using the building to achieve the growth you desire."

He traced his several contacts with the establishment of the parish and the appointment of the parish priest whom he had told to develop a community of faith and worship of kindness and charity.

What had happened since then, he said, was the progress of a Catholic community that came together for one reason — "because of their faith A fter principal Sister Margaret O'Sullivan had finished thanking everyone else connected with Ballajura school she found in the Lord, their desire herself the centre of attention with a bouquet of flowers from Paul Jones. to work together to

achieve things for Christ in their lives, families and in the broader community."

He thanked each individual person who had contributed to what had happened before their eyes.

The parents had shown their desire to build on what they had commenced on the day of their childrens' baptism — their responsibility to share the witness of faith with their children.

The school building, he continued, had become a focus of community life, not only as a school, but as a place of worship, a centre where the community of community of believers share and grow in their faith.

"That is the character that gives meaning to efforts and the sacrifice made to make it a good school," he said. archbishop The thanked the local Ballajura state school principal Mr Bob Collopy for the assistance he had given the Ballajura parish community in its early days.

More than a school

Mothers' Day was an his appointment as parideal occasion for the ish priest. opening of Ballajura Catholic school, the par- He had then wanted the ish priest Father John school to be the result of Jegorow said last Sunday. people literally clamouring for a school instead of "I hope that the child- the handful who asked ren will look on this for the school to get building as more than going. their school, but as their "But from the expeAlma Mater (Dear rience of seeing what a Mother)," he said.

Catholic school does to a He said he had revised community I am delighhis original thoughts on ted with having a the establishment of a Catholic school in the Catholic school which parish. The fact that it was made in advance of started ahead of the

parish is now neither here nor there.

"The formation of the children's hearts is far more important than the provision of bricks and mortar."

Children thrive on dreams and a belief in adults, he pointed out.

"I believe that the important thing we have got to do is convince our children that they and each other person is unique and has an eternal dignity and destiny."

Pictured holding two of the eight crosses that were blessed for the school's rooms are Owen Gregory and Kylie Soutar.

Jacob Renshaw and Nuala Ryan had some back-up from Father Jegorow when it came to proclaiming some of the prayers of the faithful at the blessing ceremony.

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Can we speak of God Supernatural in an Food garble-free? expanding f or universe poser thought A deep blue planet, We know it. But to see swathed in cloud, float- it!

ing in space, in a dark one picture, a thousand field of unimaginable words. How beautiful, depth. but also how insignifi-

Such is the image of our Earth seen from a tiny satellite as it moves through outer space.

Nearly everyone has seen that picture. Usually we human begins stand on the Earth and look out at the moon, the sun and the stars.

This picture is different.

We stand away from our planet and look back on it. We see the earth in relation to the rest of universe.

By itself that image has done more to reshape our perception of the Earth than anything else since the discovery of America when explorers returned to Europe with tales from a world beyond the sea.

For centuries we have known that the Earth is a sphere, a satellite of the sun, and that the sun and its satellites are but a speck in an incredibly vast universe.

cant and inconsequential our Earth and everything on it now appear! Of course, how tremendous those who took the picture.

We might conclude, "Who needs God? What a credulous, superstitious lot we have been!"

But then we might think also of Psalm 8 and find new reason to wonder.

"When we look at the heavens, the work of God's hands, the sun, the moon and the stars that God set in place, and when we look at the earth on which we live, so lumninous, so beautiful in its garment of cloud, a special place God created for us, who are we poor human beings that God should be mindful of us?"

This reaction, for which Psalm 8 helped us find words, recognizes the supernatural. It flows

On both sides, it is personal disclosure.

When we look out at the The supernatural is universe through the about persons, human eyes that inspired Psalm and divine. It is matter of 8, we stand with God, relationships and inter- one we know and love, personal knowledge. whoem we trust and Superstition is about with whom we continupower. It has nothing to ally share secrets. do with relationships Our knowledge and personal knowledge. expands.

It is a matter of things Perhaps we are surhappening beyond prised at the universe we human control and how see, even shaken. But that human beings can does not threaten our acquire control over relationship to God. It them. leads us to wonder how Knowing a person is many more secrets God different from knowing a has to share with us. fact, idea or thing.

That is how it is with We best appreciate the personal knowledge. difference in speaking of There is no end to the someone we love. We mystery. There always is open our hearts to that more to be disclosed. person. And the relationBut superstition shortship is mutual. We are circuits personal knowlnot afraid to share feeling edge. It has no interest in and secrets. faith, revelation, mystery Our knowledge of God and disclosure. is like that. It is personal Its sole interest is in and mutal knowledge. power and control.

On the human side, we Superstition tries to call the knowledge faith. steal and appropriate On the divine side, we powers beyond human grasp. When it cannot do call it revelation.

By Father Eugene LaVerdiere

from a faith that has been c hallenged but not destroyed.

We live in an age of discovery, science and t echnology, when many things we were certain were impossible keep moving into our grasp.

Thirty years ago, in 1960, going to the moon was still a joke.

Over and over again, our faith is challenged.

So it is quite reasonable to ask, is the supernatural anything more than superstition?

The supernatural and superstition may seem to be related, but they are worlds apart.

For those who know or at least sense the difference, the image of our luminous blue planet's place is the universe is no threat to faith. It is a challenge.

The difference between the supernatural and superstition is quite simple.

so, it tries to neutralise

that power.

I remember visiting a prestigious African university at examination time.

The students there study physics, chemistry, mathematics and all the sciences one finds in Western university.

At the same time, many seek out soothsayers and diviners for objects, incantations and potions to guarantee their success in the exams.

It becomes plain that oridinary knowledge does not do away with superstition.

Superstition, however, is not compatible with supernatural knowledge of God. It never occurs to faith that it might manipulate or limit or control the supernatural.

Instead, looking at our blue planet floating in the darkness of space, faith says, "I knew God was great, but look at this!" This kind of knowledge is supernatural. It has nothing to do with superstition.

Conversations about God can make people uncomfortable. Why? First, the discomfort people feel may reflect an age-old instinct that you just can't pin God down. A realisation that whatever we say about God is inadequate keeps us from talking about God at all.

Again, in a society characterised by continual scientific breakthroughs that yield new insights into the workings of the universe, people may fpar that what they say about God will scund outmoded to someone.

Third, if someone has participated in groups where people were impatient with each other's understindings of God, or reduced "God-talk" to a debate, the person could develop an tidination to avoid conversations mentior mg God. Finally, to speak of (od is to make known — to yourself, as well as others — that you have a notion of God, that you have a God. This may seem risky.

But this last reason for avoiding conversations that mention God may be just the reason to enter into them in the first place.

Within parish renewal groups, Scripture study groups or evei. at home, to speak openly of God — cha lenging as it may be — is an important wa:T to express faith and share it.

DISCUSSION POINTS What makes it difficult today, even for people of faith, to speak of the supernatural?

Selected responses from readers: "I think some Catholics believe that to speak openly of the supernatural smacks of fundamentalism." — G. Joseph Peters.

"Sometimes I think people just don't have good ways of talking about God. They lack the vocabulary." — Carol Holtz.

"Our culture militates against a reflective and contemplative attitude. Mobility, high speed, emphasis on productivity, high technology, a wide variety of media, loud music . . . all vie for our attention." — Sister Marie Kevin Tighe. "(Speaking of the supernatural) is such an intimate area. It makes one vulnerable to share too deeply." — Franciscan Sister Rita Herman.

"The pervasive insistence in our society on facts, Science, research, polls to substantiate our thinking and statements. To admit believing without proof risks being . . . dismissed as not intelligent or a critical thinker." — Ann Wadelton.

In the good old days of memorised catechisms, I asked a youngster Who is Jesus Christ?

He fired back the answer Jesus Christ is a man

with three bodies, the Father, the Son and the

Holy Ghost!

That young theologian had learned some words about God; he just did not have all of them in the right place.

In the book of Revelation we read: "I saw . . . a lamb that seemed to have been slain. He had seven horns and seven eyes" (Rev. 5:6). Even the inspired Word can scramble our imagination with its God-talk at times.

When we talk about God we are as likely to become tongue-tied as to make sense.

Perhaps the befuddled Bottom in Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream" summed it up best: "The eye of man bath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, not his heart to report."

"We cannot know what God is, only what he is not," wrote St Thomas Aquinas in the Prologue to the "Summa Theologica".

Can we say anything about God that will not come out garbled? Something about God always will escape us. But we also will be able to grasp

It speaks of God as shepherd, mother, rock, liattning, fortress, lover, father, thunder, ni voice. tempest, flame, water and as a still, s Sometimes one word will not do; a whole something, said philosopher Joseph Pieper. In story is needed.

"The Silence of St Thomas", he writes: Jesus told parables to teach us about God's justice and mercy.

"For St Thomas, the unknowable can never Artists try to express God with paint. denote something in itself dark and impenetra- Sculptors carve images. Composers express God ble, but only something that has so much light with musical sounds. that a particular finite faculty of knowledge No human endeavours says everything there cannot absorb it all.It is too rich to be assimilated i s to be said about God. But we are given a ompletely." c glimpse — and perhaps a sense of wonder. How Our eyes cannot look at the sun. But we can improvished we would be if we did not have

By Father Paul J. Schmidt

separate the sun into colours through a prism, them. so that we can look at the light a bit at a time.

The Church uses sacramental signs to speak

Our words about God never will say it all, but of God — water, bread, wine, oil, gesture, ritual.

These signs act out the story of God's love for they will say something. And they may say it us given in the death and resurrection of Jesus. rather well.

"God sent his Son born of a woman," says St We believe the sacraments contain what they Paul in the letter to the Galatians (4:4). God signify, Jesus acting to save us.

We embellish the sacraments with every form translated the Word into our "language" by of artistic expression to try to make their sending the Son into our world. meaning more evident. And we succeed, up to God wanted to be known in terms we could a point. absorb.

But there always will be more than all our art It is not blasphemy, therefore, to study those can contain. That great Mystery we shall not words and to come up with our own words. exhaust in a lifetime or a millennium, or in all eternity.

We take our cue from the Bible.

Force of the supernatural King Saul was strong physically but weak emotionally.

Can we speak of the supernatural in an expanding world, in a world of space probes? Father Eugene Lalferdiere explains Why Is hard to talk of God in a technological and scientific world.

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Speaking of God is no easy task, says Father Paul Schmidt. Our words easily become garbled and at best can provide only partial insights into the supernatural.

The Old Testament prophet Samuel had chosen him to lead the people against the Philistines and Saul had succeeded in keeping them in check, at least temporarily.

The two men had their differences and Samuel eventually withdrew his support, but the king had developed a psychological dependence on the older man.

And now Samuel was dead. Saul felt lost and recent events brought him to the verge of panic.

When he looked from

the heights of Mt Gilboa and saw the Philistine army camped at its base, "he was dismayed and lost heart completely" (1 Samuel 28:4).

Abandoning trust in an apparently indifferent Lord and frantically grasping at straws, Saul consulted a woman reputed to be a successful medium, the witch of Endor.

It turned out to be a shattering experience and he went completely to pieces.

The irony was that he had taken steps personally to banish all such superstitions from the land.

By Father John Castelot God's people had a keen sense of the supernatural and, at least officially, they did not let this into degenerate superstition.

The commandment forbidding the making of "graven images" guarded against attributing supernatural power to manmade idols.

Of course, even sophisticated people often betray a superstitious streak.

But the Israelites knew the difference between the supernatural and superstitious.

Strict monotheists, they attributed supernatural power to God alone.

If some of their attitudes and practices strike us as superstitious, it is because they had a lively sense of God's allpervading presence.

A pre-scientific people, they tended to ascribe all the ordinary workings of nature directly to God, who is everywhere.

Of course, you may remember that when the first Soviet spacecraft made its successful flight, an astronaut made the snide observation that he

had'nt run into God anywhere "up there".

God is everywhere (see Psalm 139:7-12).

For anyone to "run into him", God would have to be localised, visible, tangible.

Sometimes the scientific mind can be theologically naive and even rather superstitious.

Unfortunately, the tendency to attribute everything to God created problems for biblical people.

Certainly God could not be held responsible for evil.

And the supernatural mindset could easily slip

into attitudes bordering on the superstitious.

Baffled by diseases they could not explain medically, the people attributed them to evil spirits and demons.

All in all, however, God reigned supreme in the Israelites' thinking.

For them it never simply rained. God sent the rain and the snow, and made the winds blow. Of course, this was true ultimately.

And if it sounds somewhat "superstitious"to people today, it actually indicates an amazing sense of God's presence and power.

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Learning to tie that knot tools to encourage couples to go on a weekend.

The dinner idea is to thank priests for their support and involvement and to acquaint others with EE who may not be familiar with the In fact the US growth program. rate is so fast it is now Bunbury diocese will present in 160 dioceses also have a chance to out of their 180 and hear the Trundells dur27,000 couples attended ing their evening with all their EE wekend in 1989. marriage education couOn the local front our ples down that way, EE ran 14 weekends last planned for Sunday May year with a similar 27 at 2pm. The topic number scheduled for Ministry and our this year.

Sacrament.

Among this number Back here in Perth there will be the hundredth are always ongoing EE since EE was introduced activities such as Jo Ann into Perth ten years ago. and John O'Neil's leaderIn that regard the EE ship meeting at their committee are organis- home to discuss mutual ing a tenth anniversary support for marriage free dinner on Monday preparation. The O'Neils May 28 6pm at St are the Contact AustralCharles Seminary to asian team who went to thank all priests and Baltimore, Maryland anybody involved in with Father Basil Noseda marriage preparation in LSB as Australian representatives to meet and the diocese.

It will be a three course talk about possibilities of dinner with pre-dinner an international EE drinks and the number framework.

Seven countries were to ring for attendance is represented at the conconfirmation 409 7074, Geoff or Jan vention which Ann and Haines. RSVP by May 22. Ron Trude11 chaired and Over from the US to there is the possibility of share their ideas and the O'Neil's going to learn from ours, are Ann Louisville, Kentucky in and Ron Trude11 who October with Father will be dinner speakers Basil which will also on the topic of Intimacy serve to cement EE and Spirituality at the international relations.

Exchanging leaders priests' dinner and during the evening a priests' throughout the world information package will leads to a healthy be launched explaining exchange and input of what the EE program is ideas. about and providing Australia's first leader-

Engaged Encounter has come a long way since its initial beginnings in the United States and since then has spread to 41 other countries including Australia.

ship meeting will be held on July 13-15 at the University of Sydney — the venue for the National Marriage Education Conference which will take place the week after — chaired by Father Basil Noseda OSB, at which will be couples and priests from eight EE communities plus two communities from New Zealand and Singapore.

Ann and Ron are the International Liaison team for Catholic EE and have just finished two weeks in Ni are off to Singapore, returning to Perth, then on to Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne, Rockhampton, Brisbane and back to Sydney for the first leadership meeting.

Last year they were in Yugoslavia, Zimbabwe and South Africa and as a result of their visit, South Africa has just had its first EE weekend.

After this trip last year, the Trudell's went on to have an audience with the Pope in Rome, at

urmn dream into a reality

Because of the concern expressed by couples within the EE structure as to the alarming breakdown of marriages, the teams believe it is necessary to lay a solid foundation before marriage — and in particular give the pre-marrieds an insight as to some of the difficulties they may encounter during the marriage and raise their awareness as to the realities of a life together with all its ups, downs, and pitfalls.

This has sometimes meant that couples

who've experienced the course have decided to opt out or postpone their wedding date until they had more time to think it through and get to know each other.

As a result with a postponement of two years in one instance, the couple got married and are enjoying a much better relationship as a result.

With their wide travels, the Trudells have found that marriages in other countries are treading similar rocky paths as within the US and Australia. The world today is giving very strong messages they said, against marriages and so good strong preparation is vital for today's scene.

The EE weekend has such a good track record in this regard that in certain parts of the US, EE weekends are part of the pre-marriage mandatory format for couples.

An interesting fact which has emerged from this compulsory attendance, is that an anonymous critique filled in by weekend participants has shown that out of any group of 500 who came, half of them reluctantly initially, the result at the end of the weekend illustrated that there were only about seven who still didn't think they got anything out of it and all the rest were really excited and recommended the weekend for others.

Ann and Ron Trudell from Georgia, US, here for an exchange of ideas in the work of Catholic Engaged Encounter.

The weekend changes attitudes, they said.

The Trudells have a wider perspective than the EE because they see the need for couples to prepare themselves for marriage in the same way as one equips themselves with skills for a profession.

In some places in the US, they said, a year's preparation is required before marriage, EE being only one of the steps towards marriage, with the year being fully utilised to incorporate several areas of marriage preparation.

"And we see that as a real ideal that we as the Church should be working towards."

Just as the O'Neils.

Trudells and hosts of others see EE as being a link in a vital chain towards marriage preparation, so too do all leaders of EE need to forge links throughout the world in mutual exchanges to reinforce their direction and receive input in the vital work of stemming the flow of marital casualties which is tragically a world wide phenomenon.

Back on the local scene, the next EE weekend at St Charles will be on Friday night June 1 to Sunday afternoon June 3.

Contact number 378 3680 if interested in attending.

Blend of East, West at profession Novitiate companions who wouldn't have missed out on seeing their friend Sister Margaret Mary Ng make her Perpetual Profession recently as a Josephite are Sisters Katherine Tyrell (NSW) left, and Jan Victory, (SA).

Miss Delia Parker teaching about 450 stu- of only a few elderly dents from pre-school to priests in the north, there grade 12, pastoral work, is an urgent need for lay and teaching religion to leadership training, sischildren and adults both ters to encourage the lay at Oxford House and people to take responsiGod's River, with the bility, sisters to collaboOn the serious side, possibility of teaching rate with peers and Miss Delia Parker of school also at the latter. natives, and sisters who Melville is attractive, in have some knowledge or her early thirties, and has The OLOM sisters are a willingness to learn decided to put her dream planning more initiatives about Basic Christian of working for God in to embrace work with Communities, Alcoholanother culture into alcoholics and drug ics Annonymous, drug abusers, family catechetreality. marriage and So she's been missioned ics, youth work and the counselling. and farewelled by the training of native lay Delia who has taken a sisters, her family and leaders. year's absence from her friends and is off to work Talks are now under job has also made a First with OLOM sisters in way among Order super- in the OLOM's history Canada — working with iors, to plan areas of joint book, because she is their the Amerindians on the ministry between the first lay person in a Cree Reservation among Oblate Fathers, Mission- recently conceived Asso1200 Indians, half of ary Oblates, Grey Nuns ciate Membership prowhom are under 18 years and the OLOM sisters, in gram which enables lay order to give support to people to share in the of age. i Oxford House run by solated workers.

Mission of the Congregathe sisters has two sisters The idea is to get teams tion in a variety of ways, working with the Crees of lay and religious to one being as a Co-worker and Delia will join their plan, and implement. or Lay Missionary. current apostolates of With the small presence CMcGH

Being trite — there's a lady with a mission who's gone on a mission for the sisters of Our Lady of the Missions!

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which he gave his blessing to the EE ministry and all involved.

The Trudells from Georgia have had a ten year EE participation and were instrumental in setting up one in their home town because their were so children impressed with it they thought the locals should get a chance to experience the great good which they believe comes out of EE weekends.

Ann and Ron were so delighted with the effect it had on their own good marriage and relationship with their children, that they've been spreading the news ever since and for some time on a global basis.

Their son, a navy pilot, would seek out any EE groups in whichever country he visited and with his wife have sin-6e set up another EE centre in the US.

Links were forged across the ocean when Sister Margaret Mary Ng made her perpetual profession recently as a sister of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart As such, she is the first Malaysian Chinese to become a fully fledged member of the Brown josephites which is an Australian Order founded by Mary McKillop.

One of a family of nine children, Sister Margaret had a large number of friends and relatives travel from interstate and overseas to proudly witness this big occasion at the provincial house in South Perth.

It was a blending of the East and the West with the lotus flower chosen as the symbol for the day, having oriental religious

significance representing the wheel of life, the ongoing life-cycle.

Her eight brothers, sisters and their families, many of whom live in Australia, saw Sister Mary Cresp, the new Congregational Leader, receive Sister Margaret's vows on behalf of the josephites.

Sister Margaret came to WA in 1971 and joined the sisters in 1981, having spent time at La Salle and St Brigid's primary in Midland.

So the gathering provided a great opportunity for her many friends to meet with her large family and thus a mixing of the East and West in the mutual joy of Sister CMcGH Margaret's final commitment.

Sharing a moment of sorrow TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico: Legal technicalities prevented all but a dead bishops' body being present as pope John Paul prayed for pilgrims who died on the way to see him.

"I wanted to come to pray for the people who should have been together with us today," he said.

They had died the day before when the twin-engine jet aircraft that was flying them north to Tuxtla Gutierrez hit a tree and crashed about three kilometres short of the runway. They had come to attend a papal Litury of the Word.

"Even though human words do not have. much value in moments of sorrow,I wish to express my heartfelt participation in the suffering expressed by the weeping of his relatives," the pope said as he memorialised Bishop Canton.

Pope John Paul changed his schedule to pay homage to the 20 people.

In the white adobe San Marcos Cathedral of Tuxtla Gutierres Pope John Paul prayed over the gray metal coffin of Bishop Luis Miguel Canton Mann of Tapachula.

The pope kissed the coffin, blessed it and walked around it sprinkling holy water.

At the end of his prayers, Pope John Paul walked over to the family members and touched or kissed each of them.

The pope's presence "helps a little bit" but his death is an "unhealable sorrow", said Rogelio Gutierrez, collapsing in tears.

Gutierrez is married to the bishop's sister, Flor Maria.

Birth control in Mexico comes under fire CHIHUAHUA, Mexico (CNS): Pope John Paul II used Mexico's Mother's Day as a platform for condemning the government's birth control program, which is said to include an unspoken policy of sterilizing some of the poor.

The possibility of having children must not be "artificially eliminated," the pope said.

Christian marriage "must always have an openness to the gift of life," the pope added in reiterating church opposition to birth control programs which violate church teachings.

The pope complained

that many birth control campaigns aim at serving the needs of special business and financial interests.

The government supports birth control programs as a way of curbing a population growth expected to double in 29 years.

Church officials complain that this also includes an unofficial policy of sterilization of many poor men and women after they have four or five children, when they apply for government benefits.

Mexican birth control programs have not significantly reduced population growth, despite an

increase in the number using women of contraceptives.

According to International Planned Parenthood figures, Mexico has a population of 83.5 million, which will double in 29 years at current birth rates. Although 48 per cent of married women use contraceptives, the fertility rate is four children per woman.

The pope put his criticism in the context of the relationship between husband and wife. He did not discuss whether curbing population growth is a valid way of promoting economic development.

Christian marriage clandestinely. must be marked by The pope asked schools "generosity and denial," and other educational the pope said. institutes to "cooperate "The husband and wife with parents" in developclose off themselves to ing sex education one another, as they have programs. rejected the mutual He added that parents giving in paternity and have "the right to freely maternity, reducing the educate their children conjugal union to an according to their own opportunity to satisfy the religious creed: to build selfishness of each one," schools that correspond he added. to that right and that the The pope also asked laws of the country parents to take a greater recognize such a right." role in opposing aborAlthough Mexican law tion, fighting drug use forbids religious instrucamong youths and edu- tion in public schools cating their children, and prohibits the church especially on sexual and from owning schools, the religious matters. church nevertheless Abortion is illegal in quietly operates a school Mexico, but is practiced system.

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TUXTLA GUTIERREZ MEXICO: Pope John Paul was scheduled to conduct a liturgy of the word in a poor neighbourhood here, but he had to add a memorial service to the bishop and the 16 who died coming to meet him.

Bishop Canton Mann, 51, once described the diocese, nestled in the southwestern corner of Mexico near the Guatemalan border, as a "powder keg" of potential revolution because of its problems.

"The church in Tapa- alan refugees — thouchula is a poor, mission- sands of whom live in ary church," Bishop Chiapas.

Canton Mann told From Guatemala, Catholic News Service in where a 10-year-old war 1987. While there are "a that is currently at a lot of resources" in the stalemate, the area has diocese, he said, the rich recieved more than do not always share with 90,000 Guatemalan refuthe poor. gees who fled their The diocese also has an country to get out of the annual influx of about path of the army's coun4 5,000 Mexican and terinsurgency operations Guatemalan migrant in their regions. workers. In 1986, the During his homily, bishop said as many as Pope John Paul II 30,000 undocumented addressed groups of Guatemalam refugees refugees, telling them lived in his diocese. that the church "accomAt the pope's Liturgy of panies you and sustains the Word local Catholics you on your path, recogwere joined by Guatem- nizing in each of you the

face of the exiled and pilgrim Christ."

He commended the Diocese of the Chiapas, where refugee camps and centres have been established by the church and expressed the concerns of the Guatemalan hierarchy that refugees receive just treatment during their stay in Mexico.

"I join them in their call to solidarity, to charity and to justice in order to add so many brothers and sisters who suffer every kind of privation, far from their places of origin," the pope said.

Bishop Canton before his death frequently referred to the state as "the most forgotton region" of Mexico — an economic wasteland virtually untouched by private or government investment projects.

And Bishop Aguirre Franco pointed to the political turmoil that has plagued the state. He told the pope in his welcoming speech that "the southern lands of Mexico are fertile like those of Abel, but often they have turned barren with the the and injustice violence."

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Piano player ivienne dies For many Catholics who grew up in the late 1940s and early 1950s there is a nostalgia for the highly successful YCW dances that were conducted in Parishes such as Victoria Park, Subiaco and Highgate and possibly a yearning and a wish that their children could enjoy the same opportunities.

One of the great personalities of those functions died peacefully on May 5 in her 81st year.

Mrs Vivienne Hogan will be remembered by many as the pianist in a small band which played at many of these dances.

Although mainly a self taught musician, but blessed with a great talent, she wrote most of the band's arrangements and

Despite a taxing regime, which included a vast number of charitable works done without record or acclaim, she was a devoted mother of four children, Maureen Pearce, Miriam Peachey, Gwen White and Barry Hogan, and a very proud grandmother of 25 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren.

At the time when the family was growing up and Viv was belting the ivories and helping the poor despite limited financial resources, her husband Gerry, who won the York Gift in 1930, was the popular

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

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and successful coach of the YCW athletic club.

He was responsible for developing the YCW into what could justifiably be considered the strongest athletic club in Australia, which dominated West Australian athletics for more than five years, producing many Australian and State champions and consistantly winning most Association trophies.

Vivienne was a tireless worker, who while putting her family first, made her contribution to the St Vincent de Paul Society and the Catholic Womens League and Clontarf and Castledare orphanages, from where she took several boys. One of whom was Terry McRory, who became a permanent member of her

family. One of her main concerns was for the Columban Fathers, to whom she made unheralded contributions often beyond her means.

The Hogans lived most of their married life in the Maylands parish, then moved to North Beach. In both parishes and also in Karrinyup.

Vivienne generously offered and played the organ at all liturgical services, a ministery she performed with great skill for more than forty years.

Vivienne Hogan died slowly and peacefully with all her f amily with her near to the end, after an illness of more than six years.

The large attendence at her requiem was a testimony to her, Gerry and their family.

May she rest in peace.

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Round two of the WACI.TA 1990 Mixed Pennants was played in almost perfect weather. However, players had to combat blustery conditions at stages during the afternoon. Two matches remained unfinished when bad light stopped play. The organisers may need to review the format as there were no delays due to rain and as the season progresses bad light will have a greater impact on matches.

A Grade St Benedicts v St Norberts: St Benedicts showed that they will provide stiff opposition to the other more fancied teams with a strong first up performance in their clash with St Norberts.

Unfortunately, this match ended in a draw when a result could not be obtained.

St Norberts were in a more favourable position when they led 5 sets 68 games to 3 sets 57 games.

St Judes v Dianella: The scores did not indicate the closeness of the clash in the match between St Judes and Dianella. St Judes jumped to a 4 set to o lead but then lost the initiative as Dianella won 3 of the next 4 sets. St Judes won the last two sets to clinch the match. which at that stage could have gone either way. Scores — St Judes 7 sets 81 games, Dianella 3 sets 60 games.

B Grade Dianella v Pignatelli: In the other uncompleted match of the round Dianella drew with Pignatelli with one set undecided. The deciding set was level at 7 all when the captains agreed that play could not continue due to bad light. The final scores were Pignatelli 5 sets 67 games to Dianella 4 sets 70 games. Both teams gained one premiership point.

Yidarra v Queens Park: Yidarra made amends for last week's 1MS with an 8 set 83 games win over Queens Park 2 sets 48 games.

Corpus Christi v St Benedicts: Corpus Christi leads the B

grade competition following their second consecutive win when they comfortably defeated St Benedicts 9 sets 85 games to 1 set 46 games.

St Marks v St Norberts: St Marks had an easy win over a depleted St Norberts team when they won 9 sets 87 games to 1 set 32 games.

Table A: St Ludes 4; Dianella 2; St Benedicts 1: St Norberts 1: Queens Park 0; B: Corpus Christi 4; Pignatelli 3; Dianella 3; St Marks 2; Yidarra 2; St Benedicts 2; Queens Park 0; St Norberts 0.

Next Week A Grade: Queens Park v St Judes; Dianella v St Benedicts; St Norberts — bye. B Grade: Queens park v Pignatelli; Dianella v St Benedicts; Yidarra v St Norberts; Corpus Christi v St Marks.

A Grade If present form is any guide St Judes should be too strong for Queens Park.

However, the other A grade clash between Dianella and St Benedicts looms as a dour struggle. Dianella has already tasted victory this year and pushed St Judes all the way. St Benedicts first up performance was excellent. A draw in this match could be a likely result.

B Grade It should be an interesting third round in B grade.

The clash between Corpus Christi and St Marks should be very close. Corpus Christi have won both their matches whilst St Marks stormed back into calculations with a solid win following their first up loss by a small margin to Dianella.

St Benedicts should improve after their first outing and provide Dianella with a tough match.

Yidarra may prove too strong for St Norberts whilst Pignatelli should account for Queens Park.

Selections A Grade: St Judes. Dianella.

B Grade: Pignatelli. Dianella.

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Infant Jesus Parish, Morley, is the home of Perth's latest Luke 18 c ommunity after 20 young people aged 11-14 years gathered for their first weekend on 27-28 April.

Drawn from Morley and surrounding parishes, the youngsters joined in a spirited program of talks and sharing groups leading them to a deeper experience of belonging to family and church.

Parish priest Father Greg Burke launched the weekend by celebrating Mass with the team leaders and parent couples on Friday evening.

He also sat in on several of the weekend talks.

The team, all 15-21 years of age, were drawn from Morley parish and were assisted by Peter Merrifield of Mundaring Luke 18 and Rob Coombes, as well as parent couples Elizabeth and Michael Foley, Gwen and Stewart Aylmore, and Maureen and Bob Collopy.

Father Des Williamson celebrated the closing Mass with the Lukers and their parents and families, and presented each participant with a medal of the Holy Family, rosary beads and a certificate.

Luke 18 has enjoyed remarkable success in Perth since the first

weekend was held just last year.

Morley now joins Mundaring, Willetton and Balcatta parishes in the Luke 18 family, which seeks to create in young people a deep sense of longing to their natural families and their faith family, the parish.

The following weekend Morley Luke 18 took to the road for fun and games with Mundaring Lukers.

The Morley community have begun regular meetings every second Friday evening at 6pm.

For further information on Morley Luke 18, call E lizabeth Foley on

Denise Penna, Morley Parish Priest Fr Greg Burke, Vanessa Aylmore and Melanie Lazaroo get into the Lake 18 action during their recent weekend.

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Brad Hanks of Morley Luke 18 receives his medal and rosary from Fr Des Williamson and Luke 18 parent Elizabeth Foley.

Some of Morley's twenty Luke 18 community members listen to a talk during their weekend April 27-29.

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Just one week after posters and advertising brochures reached over 250 schools and parishes, Kristi has already received fifteen requests for advance information and registration forms,

including one form covering an entire Antioch community!

Meanwhile the planning continues apace, with Kristi compiling lists of equipment needed to stage the event: overhead projectors, tape recorders, lighting and much more will be required to make the conference a major SUCCESS.

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Transport will be a major item. The organising team hope to borrow school buses for the period, so there will also be a need for experienced volunteer drivers.

Planning for the main talks, electives and community programs is proceeding well, with the Focolare community playing a major role in conununity and pastoral care for the conference.

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The position involves working in a team, being able to communicate well with secondary students and other adults in the movement, with his/her focus being the spiritual growth of those within the movement. Past experience of the Review of Life method and the Cardijn movements is desirable. The position is part-time (approx 20 hrs/week).

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Super Saints dazzle

by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

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A rather impressed assembled student body of Our Lady of Lourdes Nollamara :•:: watched a skipping spectacular as the Super Saints 19 girl team from St Joseph's Park showed Queens •:•. how ifs possible to keep fit, have fun, and :•:. raise money for health endeavours.

Real troopers by now since their team came into being in August last year, the group have toured the southwest for a week in March plus given •:.: :•:. exhibitions to schools — •::: government and private, shopping centres, aged people's homes and fetes.

Their coach and teacher Mr Sal Casilli introduced •::. the concept to the girls •:. because of the physical fitness benefits short and long term.

This rump Rope for Heart campaign assists the National Heart Foundation by actively promot:::i ing the link between exercise and better health, plus providing •:•• :•:] funds for the Foundation's work.

•:.: •••• :•:: Along with the physical •:.. activity which involves demonstration of single and long rope skills, •:•• :•:: Double Dutch, •:.: Eggbeater, Partner Rou*i tines and use of equip•••••. ..

ment such as go go balls, balls and hula hoops — they are also taught in the classroom health benefits from exercise.

The team works towards a jump off day where they form into groups, which is the culmination of the program, and jump as a team (not individually) between one to three hours.

The children are sponsored for the amount of time they jump and raised money helps the Heart Foundation to continue community education and programs to fight against the leading cause of death in Australia — heart disease.

Schools receive 10% of total funds which are then directed towards their physical and health education budget, with students receiving incentive prizes depending on the individual amount raised.

Each year in WA there are approximately 300 schools registered in the program which is about 25% of all schools, representing 45,000 children in WA skipping their way to better health.

Two other Catholic schools have also produced Jump Rope for Heart skipping teams — Ursula Frayne College and St Benedicts Ardross.

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Lett: The late Cardinal Gilroy of Sydney, Father Ken Byrne of Sydney and the current Cardinalarchbishop Satowaki of Nagasaki with Dr Nagai. In the background is the late Archbishop Yamaguchi of Nagasaki.

Right: Mr Bill Horneham of Sydney to attend the Japanese version's book launch in Japan.

A Song for Nagasaki has recently been introduced into WA and last December the Japanese version was published in Japan.

At the launching was Mr Bill Horneman of NSW, a friend of the author Marist Father Paul Glynn.

Mr Horneman, whose son Patrick has now settled in the West, saw this visit as a chance to return a 300 year old Samurai sword he'd picked up in Kuching, Sarawak, during the Second World War, to its owner or family.

He did not succeed in

finding the owner but it was left in the custody of the mayor of Nara. Japan, until his whereabouts were established.

The return of this historical and certified authentic sword received print media and TV notice during Mr HornemanS stay there Mr Horneman

received no monetary reward for the sword's return, but did it solely as an offering of peace and reconciliation. The book tells the life of Dr Takashi Nagai, an academic atheist, soldier in China, poet, professor of radiology in Nagasaki university and then convert to Christianity and active St Vincent de

Paul member, whose love for his wife and family who were killed during the bombing was surpassed only by his love for God. He found God in the atomic ruins and regarded the bombing of Nagasaki as an act of providence by God. He was invited to speak

by the Archbishop of Nagasaki, at the first gathering after the bombing, and suggested that as Christians they offer as a burnt offering, their relatives who had been exterminated in the bombing, to God. There is a large Catholic and Christian population

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Ideas, plans andprojects.

Published by Ray Rooks.

Distributed through A ngus & Robertson.

This hook is for those who want to be involved in designing new bedrooms for their children, or renovating and redecorating existing ones. Children's bedrooms are ideally multi-purpose rooms. For younger children, a bedroom functions as a play area and toy display warehouse; for older children it becomes a study and hobby centre throughout the school wars.

Whether you are starting from scratch or not, this book is full of ideas which

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will encourage and inspire you to transform your children's bedrooms easily. and within a budget. A number of practical projects are included to help you put together the basics like shelves, tables and chairs, study desks and storage boxes. The buying guide at the back of the book is an excellent resource list for anything you will need in the course of "doing up" a bedroom Although the basic unit of metric measurement used in the Australian building industry is the millimetre ( mm ), this book mainly uses the centimetre (cm), which is commonly used in books that are not designed specifically for the building trade.

Poets' world The Snow Leopard by Peter Mattbiessett. Published by Collins Hamill. $16.95.

Peter Matthiessen went in search of the elusive and beautiful snow leopard and returned with one of the most celebrated accounts in our time of the bonds between man and nature. He went with the field biologist George Schaller from Kathmandu to the remote Crystal

Mountain, high in the Himalayas by way of Annapurna. But for Peter Matthiessen, a student of Zen Buddhism, what began as an expedition became a true pilgrimage of the heart. a profoundly moving exploration of the spirit. The patient work of an inspired naturalist and a spiritual journey beyond the reach of the twentieth century combine to make The Snow Leopard a book of exceptional riches.

The Golden Treasury of Poetry. Selected and with a commentary by Louis Untermeyer. Illustrated

by Joan Walsh Anglund.

Published by Collins. bb. $24.95.

This handsome, beautifully illustrated book contains over 400 carefully chosen poems. There are simple verses, story poems, limericks, animal poems, nonsense poems, ballads, Christmas poems.

Louis Untertneyer, a distinguished poet and anthologist, has made the selection with discrimination, and you

will find poems from every period of English literature: from Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Words-worth, Keats, Tennyson, the Brownings, to TS. Eliot, de la Mare, E.E. Cummings and Ogden Nash.

He has also written an informal commentary which runs through the book. giving extra delight to the reader. The illustrations on every page by the sensitive American artist Joan Walsh Anglund further enhance this splendid volume.

This is a book to be treasured. To own it is to own a lifetime's delight.

Hoodwink by Paula Gosling. Published by Pan. $9.99. lieutenant Jake Chase: not so much a legend in his own lifetime, more of a cautionary tale. Not so much an accident waiting to happen . . . it already did, and he's got the X-rays to prove it.

Chase is taken off his big case and assigned to what looks like a simple murder: male, middle-to-late sixties. stabbed in the chest once.

Evidence of robbery, no weapon found. Maybe just a little too simple.

Then he meets beautiful publishing editor Casey Hewson, and starts to fall for her in entirely the wrong sort of way. The deceased was about to publish the awful truth about a local gangster and a missing socialite. But publish and . . . POW!

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L.J. Goody BIOETHICS CENTRE

PENTECOST RETREAT At New Norcia Fr Kevin Long OSB Maytip (6pm) to May 27 (1pm) Liturgy and Scripture study, Spiritual Direction, Participation in Monastic Prayer.

All inclusive costs: $70 CLOSING DATE: May 22 if not filled before.

Contacts: Tony or Cath 383 2002

MANDORLA CENTRE OF INNER PEACE

GARDENER Grounds Attendant CASTLEDARE

A full-time Gardener-Grounds Attendant is required for garden, lawn and general ground maintenance on Castledare campus.

The position requires a responsible person, able to work alone with ability to operate and maintain gardening equipment. A current driver's licence would be an advantage.

Applications, providing details of age, recent work e xperience, and names of two referees, should be in writing and addressed to: The Administrator Castledare 100 Fern Road WILSON WA 6107

PILGRIMAGE TO

MEDJUGORJE

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Twice monthly group departures May 9, 23; June 6, 20; July 4, 18; August 1, 15, 29; September 12, 26; October 10, 24

5 NIGHTS MEDJUGORJE 2 NIGHTS DUBROVNIK from $2280 per person includes airfares For further details and colour brochure please call

Bench International Travel Tel 321 3930 or your travel agents No 9TA00509

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ENNEAGRAM REUNION

Sunday, June 10, 10am-4pm Open to anyone who has done any part of the Enneagram.

The day will include input and group work based on personality types.

At UPPER ROOM, 16 YORK ST, SOUTH PERTH

Booking essential 367 7847

Glendalough

CWL PILGRIMS On Thursday May 31 a pilgrimage will be made to the shrine of Our Lady at Bullsbrook. Services will commence at 11 am and with the rite of reconciliation, Mass will be offered at noon, with Benediction and Rosary after lunch.

Buses leave St George's Cathedral at 9.30am and return at 3.30pm.

BYO lunch, tea will be provided. This pilgrimage is being organised by the Catholic Woman's League but is open to all. Bus ticket: $8. Ring 381 6303 before May 17 to travel by bus.

TRINITY OLD BOYS Trinity College Old Boys Association's annual Mass and Reunion Dinner. Commences at 6.30prn in the college chapel for ascencsion Thursday mass and later at the Langley Plaza on Thursday May 24.

Tickets from the college 325 3655, or Tom Edmonson 322 1922.

C WL AGM The Catholic Women's League annual general meeting will be held in the Cathedral Parish Centre on Wednesday, May 23 commencing at 10am. BYO lunch. Tea and coffee provided.

BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE Rosary, homily and Benediction will be held on Sunday, May 27 at the Builsbrook Church "Virgin Mary Mother of the Church" at 2pm.

Mass will be celebrated on Monday (Foundation Day) June 4 at 11am to celebrate the third anniversary of the dedication of the Church.

For further information and bus reservations please ring 444 2285 for Perth, Highgate and Midland bus and 339 4015 for Fremantle bus.

The Association is prepared to arrange special buses to leave from other areas depending on sufficient numbers. Please enquire: Sacri Association, PO Box 311, Tuart Hill, WA 6060. Telephone 571 1699.

MAYLANDS JUBILEE The 50th anniversary of priesthood of Father Thomas O'Kane of Maylands takes place at Queen of Martyrs church at the 10am Mass on Sunday, June 3 followed by lunch in the parish hall.

HELP WANTED Volunteers are required to work at a Catholic school south of the river to assist a child who is having difficulty with her school work.

The assistance is required during school hours. Training will be given to the volunteers.

To assist, please telephone Barbara at Emmanuel Centre on 328 8113.

SECULAR FRANCISCANS

The Secular Franciscan Order which has four faternities in Perth area which meet monthly. Perth Fraternity 4th Sunday at 2.30pm, 459 2550. Midland Fraternity 2nd Sunday at 2.30pm, 291 8957.

Elalcatta Fraternity 3rd Sunday at 3pm, 349 1474. Victoria Park Fraternity meets 3rd Sunday at 2.30pm, 457 1401.

Archdiocesan Calendar MAY 19-20 20

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Visitation and confirmation, Goomalling — Bishop Healy.

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

Confirmation, Cloverdale — Monsignor Keating.

Catholic Secondary Principals Assoc Mass — Archbishop Foley.

Represent Archbishop Foley at the ARTCENTA/ Newman College Art Exhibition -- Bishop Healy.

Blessing multi purpose hall, Orana Primary School — Archbishop Foley.

Visitation and confirmation, Mayiands — Archbishop Foley.

Visitation, Rivervale — Bishop Healy.

Confirmation, Doubleview Monsignor Keating.

Farewell Rev Ken Patterson, Anglican Education Centre — Archbishop Foley.

Scripture and reflection day by Fr Ken O'Reardan.

Confirmation, Newman Junior School — Monsignor Keating.

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

Visitation and confirmation, Merredin -- Bishop Healy.

Golden Jubilee of priesthood of Fr Tom O'Kane, Mayiands.

40th anniversary of priesthood, Fr W. Buckley, Archbishop Foley and Bishop Healy.

Open Maiella pre primary centre, Archbishop Foley.

WA Research Institute for Chid Health, Monsignor Keating.

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

Confirmation, Northern Bishop Healy.

Visitation and confirmation, York — Bishop Healy.

National Conference Apostleship of the Sea. Bless organ, St Patrick's Fremantle — Archbishop Foley.

Confirmation, Manning — Monsignor Keating.

Seminar in Sydney — Archbishop Foley.

Cost $5. BYO lunch. Eucharist at 4pin.

Catholic Singles Club 20-35 are having

DINNER & DANCING at the Pagoda

Saturday May 26 Enquiries 444 4083 A/H

Put fertility on your wedding list . . !Come and have a chat to us. It's free.

NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING 221 3866 Country clients welcome. Phone or write.

Natural Family Planning Centre 27 Victoria Square Member of the Australian Council of Natural Family Planning Inc

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requtres a

Secretary/Admin Assistant

Duties: The successful applicant will provide secretarial support to the director, and assist in the administration of a resource centre for the study and teaching of Catholic moral values in medicine and health care.

This mature, reliable person, able to keep confidentiality, will require skills in typing, shorthand, word-processing, filing systems, receptionist duties.

The applicant will be committed to Catholic moral values and able to relate confidently to a wide range of professional people.

Apply in writing by June 1 to: Fr W. Black MSC 20 Prendiville Way Langford WA 6155 Telephone 458 6094

ASSISTANT ACCOUNTANT (DATA BASE) The office of the Archdiocesan Development Fund invites applications for the position of Assistant Accountant, with specific responsibility for Data Base administration and the expansion of EDP financial services.

The position involves contact with the full range of accounting functions, processed via an Ultimate c omputer (PICK), facts software and support PCs dedicated to providing financial services to individuals and agencies within the Catholic Church.

Applicants should be qualified or working toward a qualification in accounting, business or finance.

The office environment services an extended client base via a staff of 7 people.

Applications, either in writing or by interview appointment are welcome and may be directed to: THE MANAGER A rchdiocesan Development Fund 450 Hay Street, Perth 6000 Telephone 325 5950

LOURDES-FATIMA Only speak to the people who know

PROFESSIONAL TRAVEL SERVICES 324 1234 LIC 9TA00487 40th anniversary ordination to priesthood

Father Wiliam Buddey PP Cloverdale Monday, June 4, 1990

to be celebrated with Mass at 5pm followed by a buffet dinner and social. For more information and RSVP purposes please contact:

Jane Murphy 277 5595, Des Dwyer home 277 4757, work 325 5950, Mick Brown 277 2781, Alan Brittain 277 2369.

Escorted pilgrimages to MEDJUGORJE

CATHEDRAL BOOKSHOP

Seats available ex Perth Friday June 22

Pre-Winter

8 nights Medjugorje — 1 night Singapore

$2,650 SHARE TWIN

Includes free return flight to one of many European destinations eg. London, Rome, Frankfurt etc.

Other departures on!

38a St George's Terrace, Perth (opp Council House) Phone: 325 5243

CASH CLEARANCE SALE Monday to Friday May 21-25 9am — 5pm

31 July — $2,399. 10 August $2,399.

3 Oct — $2,295. 29 Oct $2,255.

20% off ALL stock

Full details from

While it lasts!!!AND — WAIT for it!!!

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Suite 1, 2 Prindiville Drive Wangara Estate, Wanneroo

409 1080 / 405 3048

tic. NO 9TA00 150

.504i off thousands of books and other items incising stoles, church plate. pious objects, retina trinkets scripture plaques, etc.

(CASH payment necessary to attract sale discount).