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Computer power Pope: The Church would feel guilty before the Lord if it did not utilise the means that human skill is daily rendering more perfect These youths' computer skills are the key to the Church's dialogue tomorrow with the world, says Pope John Paul.

VATICAN CITY: Now that the Church is now firmly into the computer and information age, the pope says immediate access to information makes it possible for the Church to deepen its dialogue with the contemporary world.

"In the new 'computer cialture' the Church can more readily inform the world of its beliefs and explain the reasons for its stance on any given issue or event.

"It can hear more clearly the voice of public opinion and enter into

continuous discussion with the world around it, thus involving itself more immediately in the common search for solutions to humanity's many pressing problems."

The Church would feel guilty before the Lord, Pope John Paul says, if it did not utilise these powerful means that human skill is daily rendering more perfect.

Young people, he said, were readily adapting to the computer culture and its language and this was surely a cause for satisfaction.

They have had the advantage of growing up with the new developments and it will be their duty to employ these new instruments for a wider and more intense dialogue among all the diverse races and classes who are this "shrinking globe".

"It falls to them to search out ways in which the new systems of data conservation and exchange can be used to assist in promoting greater universal justice, greater respect for human rights, a healthydevelop-

ment for all individuals and peoples, and the freedoms essential for a fully human life."

However, young or old, all must rise to the challenge of new discoveries and, "on this World Communications Day, let us pray for wisdom in using the potential of the 'computer age' to serve man's transcendant and human calling and thus give glory to the Father from whom all good things come".

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Archfoes at funeral • Page 5

Mercy pioneer remembered • Page 10

Aborigina child poverty Our children are our future . . . There are many "Aboriginal Child Poverty" is a report that things in this report we was undertaken under have known for years, the co-sponsorship of but have not been able to the Brotherhood of St express in a form comLaurence (BSL) and the prehensible to the powSecretariat of National ers that be.

Aboriginal and Islander The poverty of our Child Care (SNAICC) community — the both based in Mel- oppression — has meant bourne. It was launched that we even have to fight in April this year. for the right to speak on While there have been many studies on specific indicators of poverty among Aboriginal people, the situation of Aboriginal children in poverty has so far remained unexplored.

This research begins from the premise that the opinions of the Aboriginal communities must be actively .sought out, listened to and respected.

Without this respect and active listening, all externally imposed plans for the communities will fail, because the people themselves are not involved, even ignored, in the provision of services.

By engaging in genuine consultation with the Aboriginal communities these communities will be actively involved in working for change and this itself will increase self-respect and dignity.

Brian Butler, Chairman of SNAICC says in the Forward to the Report: 'There have been many studies done about Aboriginal people. This one is unique because it has involved those whom it professes to speak on behalf of and about.

Many aspects of Aboriginal and Islander child poverty defined in this book will leave an indelible impression upon the reader . . .

behalf of ourselves.

The 'experts' usurp even the last remaining birthright of any person, the right and the ability to define oneself. Of course, we have, over the years, regained some of the ground we lost many years ago, by acting as a community and as a people united by our Aboriginality and our oppression.

We have acted politically and have made advances.

This report must therefore be seen in this context.

No matter what the aims of others, we have always had our own agenda, which at times has coincided with that of others. There can be no other way, because no one has shown the concern about our people that we have for ourselves.'

The picture that emerges in this study is one of appalling material deprivation and also an acute sense of cultural deprivation, but also a picture of some of the positive efforts and enterprises of Aboriginal people themselves have undertaken in an effort to deal with their oppression.

The material and cultural poverty of many of the children of Aboriginal communties is the

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Flashback! Fr John Leary MSC pictured with Aboriginal children in the Daly River area. result of the structures of oppression which have been in place for 200 years.

In this report, recommendations are made which aim to remove both these forms of deprivation from the lives of Aboriginal children. The recommendations come from the Aboriginal people themselves through the consultations and discussions which the researcher had with people in various communities and in a number of states.

The researcher worked under the direction and guidance of the SNAICC network of agencies.

She also had a Research Advisory Group of Aboriginal people from Perth.

Meetings with many different Aboriginal people and groups were organised through the Aboriginal and Islander Child Care Agencies (AICCAs) in the various states.

The researcher spoke with people from Central Australia, South Australia, Western Australia, Queensland and Victoria.

The material was sent back to the AICCAs regularly for their comment before it was published.

It was also presented at the Annual General Meeting of SNAICC held in Canberra which was attended by representatives from all parts of the country, including many areas which the researcher could not visit.

In this way, the Aboriginal communities had a very direct input into the production of the report.

Issues A boriginal people speak of: • Loss of their children from their families and communities: • Resulting loss of iden-

tity, loss of spiritual and cultural heritage; • Loss of dignity and self respect through oppression over the years; • lack of access to a reliable supply of good, clean water, food and other essential services; • Incidence of alcoholism and homelessness; and • Alcoholism homelessness contributing to physical and sexual abuse of children; • Increasing incidence of STD among their people, especially their children; • Poor health of the children which affects their life chances; • Incarceration of their children in institutions and prisons; • Chronic homelessness which affects the health and education of their children; • Negative effects of all these on access to employment and income, which keeps the children and their communities in poverty.

Some Indicators according to "white" research Infant mortality for Aboriginal children is twice that for all Australian infants. (Gray 1988) Children at risk have young mothers with larger than average families. (Gray 1988) Nutritional deficiency causes growth retardation in young children from the time they are weaned from the breast.

(Nganamampa Health Council Inc 1986; Gracey and Sullivan 1987, McIntosh 1989) Malnourishment is associated with recurrent chronic infections.

In WA 14% of Aboriginal infants and 22% of Aboriginal children were underweight. (Holman et al 1986) 32% Aboriginal children 0-9 compared to 1.6% non-Aboriginal

children of that age have been articulated through water, shelter, essential some form of trachoma. this research. to the maintenace of a (Thomson 1984) The poverty of Aborigi- healthy life.

More than 10% docu- nal children must be In addition this material mented hearing loss considered in the context poverty is the relative among Aboriginal child- of the deprivation of the poverty which Aborigiren compared with 4.7% whole Aboriginal nal children share with in the non-Aboriginal community. non-Aboriginal children population. (Thomson i n this country.

It includes the spiritual.

1984) This poverty is despsychological, emotional Only one third of and cultural loss that has cribed as the absence of Aborigines of working come with the failure to a decent standard of diet, age (15+) are employed recognise the Aborigines' clothing, housing and compared to nearly two prior ownership of this health care, and in not thirds of other Austral- land and the subsequent being able to participate ians of working age. oppression of the Aborig- in employment, education, recreation and the Aboriginal employment inal people. family and social activiis concentrated in lower The breakdown of Abo- ties and relationships skilled and lower paying jobs, many now disap- riginal law, culture and that are commonly expepearing from the market. traditions through the rienced or accepted by structural injustice of Australians.

2% of Aboriginals are white oppression has Aboriginal people everself employed compared created a "culture of ywhere are conscious of to 15% of all Australians. poverty", further Aboriginal unemploy- entrenching the depriva- the richness of their ment is at least five times tion over the last 200 cultural background and values. the national unemploy- years.

They are sad to think ment rate.

In recent times the that their children could The incomes of Aborig- structural injustice has inal people are on aver- been manifested and lose these values. age half that of other perpetuated in govern- They are sad to see the Australians. (Australian ment policies through breakdown of their law Bureau of Statistics). inequitable funding pro- and social structure, yet ( Aboriginal Employment cesses, which ignore self- are hopeful that if eveDevelopment Policy determination principles ryone worked to bring 1987). and self-management about change, self deterfrom an Aboriginal pers- mination and self manDefinition of Child pective, further margi- agement could be Poverty nalising and handicap- achieved.

From early consulta- ping the Aboriginal There are many values tions with SNAICC and community. that Aboriginal people the AICCAs the breadth Therefore when we hold dear to them that of the Aboriginal pers- speak of the poverty of challenge nonpective became clear, Aboriginal children we Aboriginal perspectives and was reinforced in refer first to the poverty and which nonsusbsequent discussions that is broader than Aboriginal people themwith the Aboriginal material poverty, selves define the poverty communities. although it includes of their children raises questions about the It was felt that any material poverty. poverty of the non"definition" of AborigiIt is the deprivation that nal child poverty must be is the consequence of a Aboriginal perspective. It a broad one, which loss of cultural conti- also challenges us all to encompasses the spirit- nuity and identity as a work for a better Austraual and emotional needs result of dislocation from lia for all our children. of children as well as their spiritual and eco- (The report is published their physical needs. nomic base — the land. by It must acknowledge In terms of the material Brotherhood of St Lauthe structural inequities poverty that is secondary rence, 67 Brunswick that result from racism to the loss of culture and Street, Fitzroy, Vic 3065. that is deeply embedded identity, Aboriginal Cost $8.00 plus $1.50 in the consciousness of children are the most postage. contemporary Austral- disadvantaged in Send orders to: ian society, which is Australia.

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Porn video fight to go on C ANBERRA: Canberra legislator Dennis Stevenson will c ontinue his fight a gainst pornography d espite a one-vote defeat in the ACT Legislative Assembly recently.

Mr Stevenson had introduced a bill to ban mail-order distribution of porn videos from Canberra to the states.

It was defeated 9-8.

Mr Stevenson said rewould he introduce the bill in the Assembly.

"All the states. except the Northern have Territory, banned the sale and distribution of Xrated videos. The Federal Attorney General is in agreement with that decision," he said. is being "Yet the used as a sewer to subvert the laws in other states. That's a fact."

— The Advocate

ACT

Seven girls from a Co Sligo family joined the St John of God Order to work in the Australian field. Five remain and have made an enormous contribution to their Order and Australians. Sister Osmund (centre rear) is flanked by her two golden jubilarian sisters Clotilde (left) and Mercedes. Sister Jerome (left front) was the first of her family to arrive here in the twenties followed by her sister Fergus — over from Ballarat to join in the celebrations.

They really were an amazing band — five sisters from a large family originally from Co Sligo, Ireland (two of the original seven have since died) — all St John of God sisters.

Thickening the plot even further was the fact that two of them are simultaneously celebrating their golden jubilee — Sisters Clotilde and Mercedes.

And adding to the family solidarity theme was the arrival of two cousins from Ireland (also blood sisters), Mrs Lollie Harte from Lanesborn, Co Longford and Mrs Veronica McInerney from Glasnevin, Dublin, who'd seen them depart from Dunleary, Dublin back in 1937 when the two sisters left for Australia. That was pre Vatican H when, once you left your homeland, it was forever.

You knew you would probably never see your family or your homeland ever again.

Fortunately with the fresh air of change which Vatican H brought, one can now see their loved ones again, but in the case of one of their cousins she made that sacrifice not to return because of her original commitment, and spent her aged retirement in prayer.

Sisters Clotilde and Mercedes as children had always wanted to be sisters and used to dress up in "pretend habits".

When Australian sisters came over to Ireland

seeking young girls for their ' St John of God Order, Clotilde and Mercedes joined and spent their initial three months in Ballinamore, Co Mayo.

Their parents had died by this time and they already had five of their family sisters dispersed in Australia with the same Order.

After their arrival in Perth, Sister Clotilde spent three years in Subiaco and was sent to Bunbury for 12 months doing her nursing training which she continued with back at Subiaco.

She spent 15 years in Belmont in two spans, five years in Goulburn NSW and was back here for a year before being sent to Geraldton where she has spent the last 12 years.

Now semi-retired, Sister Clotilde does a little bit of office work up there.

Looking back on her contribution to care for the sick and to her religious life, Sister Clotilde said she wouldn't change her life "even if I had the chance to start all over again".

"I'm very happy. And I pray daily for others to join the sisterhood and the brotherhood in religious life."

Sister Mercedes spent six years in Subiaco after her arrival with Sister Clotilde, in the novitiate and doing her nursing training.

Then a year in Northam, Kalgoorlie and Bunbury for 20 years

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with the rest of the time They both said they're in Subiaco. very happy in their She also wouldn't chosen calling and have change a thing and said never regretted their she's very happy. "I feel choice, but along with thatIhave done good and their other sisters, they'd have tried to be as kind as like to see more girls possible to all whom I've joining the Order. been in contact with."

Leaving their homeland Sister Mercedes was was softened somewhat doing pastoral care they said, not only around the hospital but because of their own due to ill health is family sisters who came before and others who temporarily on leave.

Regarding vocations, followed, but also Sister believes that mod- because of the great ern life for young women number of Irish girls with its independence who'd come to Australia. and financial freedom, Here when they arrived "is not conducive to was their sister Jerome seeking the religious (now retired and who Ne". spends her time praying) But nevertheless — who'd entered in 1924 she's praying for the and has now given 66 cause! years to her Order.

Another two sisters (of But it's a much broader the original seven) who dedication than that, entered together, were because not only did Sisters Osmund and these seven sisters give Fergus. their lives to the St John They entered together of God Order, along with in 1932 and Sister some of their aunts and Osmund is currently in cousins, but in particular Subiaco doing pastoral to Australia. care.

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Record Across the leisured centuries while the Church's calendar was taking shape, the planners did not anticipate a 20th century mad scramble to capture the last available Sunday slot for anything from World Salvation Day to MicroEconomic-Reform Sunday on which clergy would be expected to drop the appropriate paragraphs in to their already struggling homilies.

Only the parking of Ascension literally on a Thursday when any sense of obligation to pray would become a quaint historical relic, would leave the following Sunday quietly nestling nowhere as the Church waits downstairs, for the Spirit in the Upper Room.

Two contenders spotted the gap in the play.

From the languid southern hemisphere summer it was decided to tranplant Pere Coutourier's Week of Prayer for Christian Unity from its Janaury apostolic links to the anticipation of the Spirit at Pentecost.

Somewhere no doubt prayer for church unity is taking place this week but the excitement of praying together possibly makes all the other church differences look too hard at the moment.

Other issues meanwhile have been brewing within the Church in this pre-Pentecostal pause: the nuts and bolts of how to get next weekend's Gospel Spirit out into the world of today.

Like all apparently simple issues the Church's verbal bureaucracy can get in the way such as when it labels the event as World Communication Sunday.

Yet the notion of such a celebration would have been distinctly odd barely a hundred years ago when the communicator, missionaries trudged on two feet with a mosquito net and perhaps a broken down duplicator if they were heavily into technology and progress of this century.

Even those evangelising churchpersons have been hit by a revolution. By the jumbo jet load they flit in and out of places like Africa in a matter of hours. And in the number of their flights and stamps in their passports they are outdone by none other than their Holy Father pope!

When that same Karol Woftyla was a youngster around Cracow the Vatican was undergoing the culture shock of having its own Marconi station and even allowing a pope's voice to crackle though a microphone, (in case anyone was listening?)

Barely 40 years later it would hardly be noticed that Popes John XXIII and Paul VI were not in the St Peter's benches at Vatican II but were noting every word and nuance upstairs on their office TV screen.

Today a pope is telling the Church that it had better brush up its computer skills in the service of the gospel.

Beneath those exalted heights, however, the Church fumbles and dithers. The Vatican II Decree on Social Communication and its follow up pastoral instruction can easily claim the record of being the most un-read treatises, possibly because the documents themselves were looking for answers to a riddle.

Down at the hackneyed coalface of social communication Catholic mumble and froth about the media, quite unable to cope with the notion that media technology, like sex, many even be part of God's plan. Blaming print, radio and television for the latest round of ills gets a quick murmur of approval.

We are telling the Devil to nick off and we feel better for having said so. That old devil Screwtape laughs; our very ambivalence and confusion over communication is just what he wants to make us do everything badly.

Heaven help Screwtape, or ourselves, if we take seriously the fact that millions of fellow Australians -- leave aside billions of mankind — never hear of God or the gospel, don't know what Catholics think, or why, and much of the blame boils down to our pathetic communication.

On the other hand, to the badly communicating zealots the very word communication is a trigger to blame everybody else for the bad state of Church communication. Catholic newspapers have particular cause to be one the receiving end of this play-acting.

Around the world at this very moment thousands of men and women beaver at the communication task of designing advertising that will sell more products. Is the Church embarrassed that these people's efforts are the catalysts to make the world's money go round?

If we are not embarrassed why are the criteria of these industries not applied to our Christian performance as communicators in parishes, schools and dioceses?

If we are not embarrassed at the communication revolution why are our computers not becoming the tools to advance the gospel? Pope John Pual at least on World Communication Sunday wants to know why.

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Women's question gets priority SEATTLE: The women's question now has priority for a Church which teached justice, Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen of Seattle has told priests of his diocese.

In a letter he sent them explaining his decision to discontinue the diocesan programme for the formation of permanent deacons he wrote that to have continued with the programme would "reinforce by an optional procedure the sexism already operative in the Church".

He was not prepared to do that, although he recognised the need for the liturgical services provided by deacons (who must be men) for the assistance of overburdened parochial clergy.

The archbishop's decision has been criticised by some for that reason, though it is applauded by others.

At first Archbishop Hunthausen sanctioned a new deacons programme, but soon afterwards cancelled it, explaining that to make decisions -that are read

by dedicated women as manifesting insensitivity to their cries for equal opportunities to serve the Church is for us to become deaf to the call of the Spirit in our time".

Better make no deacons than make deacons who could only be men.

The archbishop went on to say that his decision was made regardless of pressure and that it was in no way an attempt to influence Vatican authorities to change church doctrine and law.

"It was a decision made for western Washington,

not an empty gesture towards the universal church authority."

the diocese and about the same number of religious priests.

However, he registered his opinion that "we are in fact, if not in intention, a Church which is sexist in its operation in the sense that Catholic women have an impact ecclesiastical on decision-making significantly less than their skills and dedication warrant".

The permanent deacons, who can perform most sacramental duties other than celebration of the Eucharist, are for the most part older than the active priests.

There are 77 permanent deacons in the archdiocese of Seattle, 170 secular priests active in

The diocese faces a growing clergy shortage.

Some parishes have no resident priest, and "priestless Sundays" in which the liturgy does not include celebration of the Eucharist, are creeping in.

Vietnam eyes' to seminary HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (CNS): Vietnam is reported to have approved the reopening of a seminary in the city of Nha-Trang, closed after the communists came to power 15 years ago, and has eased travel restrictions on Vietnamese bishops.

This will be the first

seminary in central Vietnam allowed to reopen since the Vietnam War ended in April 1975.

The approval reportedly came during a meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam, between government officials from the Committee for Religious Affairs and officers of the Episcopal Conference of

Vietnam.

At the same meeting, four bishops received approval from the government to attend the July plenary assembly of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conference in Bandung, Indonesia.

The government also gave permission to three bishops to attend the

Jesuit killings: Inquiry obstructed SAN SALVADOR: Judicial officials of the supreme court of El Salvador have let it be known that several vital pieces of evidence in the murder inquiry into the shooting of six Jesuit priests and two women last November have disappeared, and at least four soldiers with potentially incriminating testimony have been sent abroad.

Other witnesses have failed to answer summonses, and the judicial officials are reported as saying that the authori-

ties have provided almost no co-operation and have appeared at times to be deliberately obstructing the inquiry.

Charges of murder were laid in January against Colonel Guillermo Alfredo Benavides and seven other more junior soldiers of the Salvadoran army.

The colonel is the highest-ranking officer in El Salvador to have been indicted for abuse of human rights.

Impatience is building up in Washington at the

slow pace of preparation for trial, and the government of El Salvador is in danger of losing a large part of the military aid it receives from the United States if the crime is not cleared up.

Fr Ignacio Ellacuria SJ, rector of the Central American University in San Salvador, five of his colleagues, their cook and her daughter, were shot dead in their quarters in the university under cover of curfew in the early morning of November 16, last year.

Martyrs beatified VATICAN CITY: Eleven martyrs killed in the Spanish civil war and the troubles which preceded it, between 1934 and 1937, were beatified by Pope John Paul at the end of April.

Eight of them were Christian Brothers from a school in northern Spain who were arrested

at Turon, Valladolid.

near

They were condemned to death by a revolutionary committee, together with their spiritual director, and were executed.

The other two were a nun from the order of St Teresa of Jesus, Maria Mercedes Prat, and another Christian

Brother, who was executed by a revolutionary tribunal near Tarragona.

At the same ceremony Filippo Rinaldi, third successor to Don Bosco as head of the Salesian order, was also beatified.

He was born in Piedmont in 1856, and was particularly active in developing the Salesians in Spain.

world Synod of Bishops at the Vatican in October.

All bishops, except those who are currently overseas or have recently travelled abroad, also have received permission to make their "ad limina" visits to Rome, required of all bishops every five years.

The government also agreed in principle to allow seminaries to receive new students every three years, though the number of students to be received has not been finalised.

Vietnam's four operating seminaries now admit new students once every six years.

Euthanasia will be next

GLASGOW: Archbishop Winning has warned that moves to legalise euthanasia could follow recent decisions in parliament to allow destructive research on the human embryo and to ease restrictions on abortion.

He said in an official statement: "When human life at whatever age, especially when it is most vulnerable, is seen as expendable, the society is on a very slippery slope indeed."

He said the media were generally good at reading trends within society, and noted that a major Sunday newspaper had carried an article on euthanasia shortly before the vote on embryo research.

He did not believe it was coincidental that more and more articles on the subject were appearing.

Christian count

VATICAN CITY: Of the 5.1 thousand million people in the world, more than 1.6 thousand million are Christians and nearly 878 million are Catholics.

The non-Christian two-thirds is growing more rapidly than the Christian third.

Yet, according to the 1990 edition of the Vatican official directory Annuario Pontificio, Catholics form the largest single religious group, followed by 870 million Muslims, 686 million Hindus, 321 million Confucians, 313 million Buddhists, 18 million Jews and 16 million Sikhs.

As to Catholic deployment around the world, excepting Marxist or former Marxist countries where statistics have not been available, there are 78.3 million in Africa, 76.2 million in Asia, 278.9 million in Europe, and 437.5 million in the Americas.

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lirchfoes meet at funeral ARMAGH, Northern Ireland (CNS): Archfoes in the Northern Ireland conflict attended the funeral of Cardinal Tomas 0 Fiaich, a fervent Irish nationalist who longed for peace and a united Ireland.

Leaders of the outlawed Irish Republican Army sat near Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey and Britain's Northern Ireland Minister Peter Brooke at the Mass. Northern Ireland police chief Hugh Annesley sat just yards from Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams, who heads the political wing of the IRA. Cardinal 0 Fiaich, 66, died of a heart attack in Toulouse, France while on a pilgrimage to Lourdes.

Often a forthright critic of Britain's presence in Northern Ireland, he believed passionately in a united Ireland but abhorred the IRA's violent campaign for unity.

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Cardinal 0 Fiaich

"Cardinal 0 Fiaich was totally opposed to all use of violence purporting to advance nationalist aims," Bishop Cahal Daly of Down and Connor told 1100 people crammed into St Patrick's Cathedral.

"May those committed to violence listen at last in death to this plea from the heart of that great Irishman who was Cardinal Tomas 0 Fiaich," he said.

Dublin dignitaries arrived in Irish army helicopters at a Northern Ireland army base and were driven in bulletproof limousines to the twin-spired cathedral, where security was tight.

Police chief Annesley was accompanied by bodyguards. Special police officers mingled with the crowd listening to the service on loudspeakers outside.

Police roadblocks were set up around Armagh, a town in mass mourning with black flags on every shop.

The streets were lined with armed police in flak jackets.

Touting a religious law S INGAPORE (CNS): A top Singapore official used a Buddhist celebration to tout a controversial proposed law that would give the government wide powers over the civil activities of religious figures.

Calling religion a

stabilising factor in Singapore society, trade and industry minister Brig Gen Lee Hsien Loong said the government is being sensitive to religious concerns as it develops the legislation.

Lee was addressing a May 9 commemoration of Buddha's birth, attended by an esti-

mated 1,700 adherents, at which he also raised a warning about religious proselytising.

Professionals and religious groups have expressed serious reservations about the bill, which proposes to give government wide powers to discipline or remove religious leaders involved in political action.

Yong of Singapore called the provision of the bill which would strictly separate politics and religion a "complex and problematic proposal".

A white paper explaining the need for laws on religion was released last December.

The legislation was introduced in Parliament in January.

The measure also proposes to give government ministers sole power to decide what constitutes political action on the part of a religious leader.

Archbishop Gregory

The government is aware of the need to consult as many religious groups as possi. ble to obtain their support and understanding. Lee told his Buddhist audience.

"Whatever final form

Vatican envoy meets Gorby VATICAN CITY (CNS): Vatican envoy Archbishop Francesco Colasuonno met with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev May 14 at the start of the archbishop's diplomatic mission in Moscow.

Archbishop Colasuonno presented Gorbachev with a letter from Pope John Paul H. Gorbachev spoke during the meeting of the need to develop contacts between the Soviet Union and the Holy See. He also pledged to continue to resolve "problems of believers as

well as non-believers".

Archbishop Colasuonno said the pope was following events in the Soviet Union daily and that he was praying that they had a favourable outcome, the Tass report said.

A rchbishop Colasuonno, who carries the personal title of apostolic nuncio, is expected to make several trips annually to the Soviet Union.

He has said his first priority there will be to study the Catholic Church and its approximately 12 million members in the Soviet republics.

the bill takes,Ibelieve Singaporeans have already benefitted from the frank but sensitive discussion of this issue," he said.

"These discussions have made us all more conscious of how volatile the problems can be and how careful we must be never to offend the sensitivities of other religious groups by what we say or do," he said.

Lee said Singaporeans "have enjoyed religious freedom and harmony for the past 25 years."

He credited the island-state's Buddhist, 28.3 per cent of

Singapore's population, with setting the tone of relations among religious groups.

"Religious harmony will be difficult to maintain unless religious groups take a calm and moderate approach in their practices and how they win converts."

Lee said.

The government wants to be on "good terms with as many faiths as possible," the official said, and to take steps to preserve religious harmony, especially in the light of a worldwide trend toward religious fundamentalism, he said.

Exit Lenin . . .

KRAKOW: Cardinal Macharski, of Krakow, presided at a ceremony to bestow a new name on the former Lenin Steel Mills, founded in 1949 as the raison d'etre for the town of Nova Huta "New Mills") built just outside Krakow.

The mills have long been a major environmental threat to Krakow, and the cardinal, by his

patronage of the Krakowbased Polish Ecological Club, has been a prominent figure in the campaign to have their toxic discharge reduced.

During the renaming ceremony, which conferred on the mills the name of Tadeusz Sedzimir, an eminent Polish metallurgist and inven-

tor who died abroad last year, the cardinal bestowed his solemn blessing on all who work at the mills. was Nova Huta intended by its builders to be an example of the socialist city of the future, and the site was deliberately chosen so as to neutralise the liberal traditions of Krakow.

Anglicans at odds NEW YORK: Anglican traditionalists in the United States are pressing for the creation of a tenth, non-geographical, province of the Episcopal Church in the United States.

It would cater for both

Catholic and Evangelical Episcopalians who are unalterably opposed to changes in the Church's doctrine and discipline, notably the ordination of women.

The Episcopal Synod of

America, representing those elements, was formed by traditionalists last year with a scheme for "episcopal visitors" to minister to any parish on request, with or without the permission of the local diocesan bishop.

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God acting via Mary

...TO END COMMUNISM, SAYS YUGOSLAV ARCHBISHOP WASHINGTON (CNS): places where her presRetired Yugoslavian ence is needed most."

Archbishop Frane Mary's arrival to MedjuFranic, a defender of gorje, the archbishop the alleged Marian maintained, is because apparitions at Mediu- "many different faiths gorje, Yugoslavia, says are crossing there: Mary should not be Catholic, Orthodox and given credit for the Muslim. On top of all downfall of commu- three are unbelievers, are nism in Yugoslavia and communists who have the Eastern Bloc. political power."

"No God is" responsible, Archbishop Franic said in an interview in Washington. "But he's acting through her (Mary) for him. She says, 'I am the mediator."

Archbishop Franic said Mary "comes when her children are in (the) most trouble. She comes in

Yugoslavia, Archbishop Franic said, is "a miniRussia, a mini-Soviet Union" in that, like the Soviet Union's increasingly discontented republics, Yugoslavia is comprised of six major ethnic groups who were "put together without (their) consent."

The rise in nationalist sentiment among ethnic groups in Yugoslavia should not be interpreted as such, Archbishop Franic said. "It wasn't rising. It was always present. Every person knew what he is. They never forgot."

Archbishop Franic said the communist government at first tried to stifle the reports of the alleged apparitions, believing it to be "counterrevolution against the government" and charging that priests were "fabricating all of this."

Because of the government position, Archbishop Franic declared

that priests in his Archdiocese of SplitMalcarska could accompany but not organize pilgrimages to Medjugorje.

The policy is still in effect under his successor as archbishop, he said.

Today, the government promotes Medjugorje to attract tourist dollars, he said.

Yugoslavians who go to Medjugorje, Archbishop Franic said, return to their home as "better people, better Christians.

They practice their faith in a more serious, more reverent way."

Bishop Pavan Zanic of

Preying on poor...

PAGSANJAN, Philippines (CNS): Pagsanjan's poor families have become the prey of foreign child molesters who use their wealth as bait, said local pastor

Father Renato Cosico.

The trade in children has also had a backlash on local tourism, which accounts for a reported 80 per cent of the town's economy.

Exploitation of children has become so notorious in Pagsanjan that it was one of the chief reasons that in April the Philippine Department of Tourism stopped promoting the town as a tourist attraction. Theft and price-gouging were also cited.

Although Pagsanjan, about 48km southeast of

Manila, is not promoting "sex adventurism" as part of its attractions, says Father Cosico, "sexually deranged" tourists are taking advantage of the people's poverty.

As a result whole families are often involved in the child sex trade, the priest said. 'To keep children and parents silent, the paedophile gives them a house and lot, a jeep, jobs, education, and other material benefits."

He added that some paedophiles "cloak their lascivious abnormalities by marrying local women who have young handsome brothers, or widows with sons."

Father Cosico said he has grown especially cautious of marriages

involving foreigners.

"Whenever a foreigner asks to marry, there is always an air of suspicion in my mind and I always investigate," he said.

The priest added that he suspects a foreignfunded international syndicate is connected with the pedophile activities in the town.

In 1989, the Bureau of Investigation seized a catalogue containing pictures of nude children from Pagsanjan and Manila which was intended for the use of foreign paedophiles, he said.

Detectives from Los Angeles and other US West Coast police departments say there is a loose, international network of

child molesters who communicate with one another in their search for children ranging from toddlers to teenagers.

The Philippines and Thailand are particularly desired hunting grounds for the paedophiles. detectives said, because of the easy availability of children.

One characteristic of paedophiles is a fixation on particular ages, say authorities on the subject.

They will try to acquire children of the age they desire and continue the molestation until the child is beyond that age.

They then abandon their young victim and search for younger a replacement.

They'll fight Jewis h abortion Bill BANGKOK, Thailand (CNS): Cardinal Michael Kitbunchu of Bangkok said he will oppose two proposed bills that would liberalise abortion in the country.

Both bills would allow a woman to obtain a legal abortion if she could show that bearing a child

endangers her health, if the foetus shows signs of being disabled or having a contagious disease, or if the pregnancy is unplanned.

At present abortion is legal only when pregnancy is the result of rape or it poses a danger to the mother's life.

NEW YORK, (CNS): "both sad and Cardinal O'Connor of dangerous".

New York said that the "It suggests either Israeli government's governmenta l ignorance support of the recent attempt to settle 150 of, or insensitivity to, not Jews in the Christian only the incident, but to Quarter of Jerusalem the perception by many was "obscene" and Christians of what the incident implies and "indecent".

He aslso said failure of the Israeli government to respond to Christian and Jewish protests was

BLOOM...where you are planted!

forebodes," the cardinal said.

"As a longstanding friend of Israel, I protest

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of these events in Medjugorje, which is very (much) not so. There are so many words which are contrary to the truth" in the tract.

The archbishop said he has written a reply to Bishop Zanic.

A new commission of Yugoslavian bishops and theologians is investigating the alleged apparitions to report to the Vatican whether they believe the visions to be authentic.

Despite the lack of authenticity given to the apparitions, "no one is forbidding any pilgrimArchbhishop ages," Franic said.

Viets to build Catholic museum

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (CNS): The Archdiocese of Ho Chi Minh City says it plans to build a combination museum of Vietnamese Catholicism and center for strengthening the faith of young Catholics.

Called the House of Traditions the project is reportedly facing a severe cash shortage.

The museum has three main purposes: • Collect documents and artifacts related to the history and life of Catholics in Vietnam and document the contributions of Vietnamese Catholics to the nation in areas such as history, literature, art and music.

• Organise studies on the church in Vietnam, its incultura-

tion and the missionary and evengelising lives of bishops, priests, religious and lay people in the past.

• Promote the love of God and the nation among all Catholics, particularly the youth, in accordance with the teachings of the Gospels, the Second Vatican Council and the 1980 pastoral letter of the Vietnamese bishops' conference.

The house of traditions is to be located in a 172-year-old building which served as a minor seminary until 1975.

Scheduled opening date of the museum is September 1 in honour of Archbishop Nguyen Van Binh, who will turn 80 the same day.

ove 'obscene' such ignorance and insensitivity almost as much as I protest the incident itself. This is a clear case of 'what's bad for Christians is bad for Israel'."

The Israeli government acknowledged that it secretly provided $1.8 million to help the settlers buy the lease through a Panamanian

company. The Israeli He also quoted from a Supreme Court ruled the joint statement by heads settlers had to vacate, but of the major Christian allowed 20 to remain as groups in Jerusalem caretakers pending reso- calling the settlement a lution of legal issues. "violation of the centuries-old status and In his column, the character of these quarcardinal said some peo- ters of the Holy City". ple perceived the settlers' "This action further action as "only a signal of endangers the survival of a conspiracy to grab land all Christian communiall over Israel currently ties in the Holy City," occupied by Christians". they said.

It's increasing tensions claim J ERUSALEM, (CNS):— The influx of Soviet Jews to Israelioccupied territories is increasing Arab-Israeli tensions, said Latinrite Patriarch Michel Sabbah of Jerusalem.

A call to single lay women to live a consecrated life in the world

Mostar-Duvno, Yugosla- wanted to replace the via, in whose diocese. Franciscans with dioceMedjugorje is located, san priets. has long denounced the Bishop Zanic recently alleged apparitions. published a tract, "The Archbishop Franic said Truth About MedjuBishop Zanic's opposi- gorje," in which he tion is rooted in "the time denounces the alleged the bishop and the apparitions as a fraud had that will bring "disgrace Franciscans and scandal upon the difficulties."

Franciscan priests with church." whom Bishop Zanic have The tract contends that had jurisdictional dis- " Archbishop putes have been the Franic . . . and many strongest promoters of others" knew of lies the alleged apparitions. purported to have been Archbishop Franic is a told by the alleged Franciscan. visionaries, "yet they The site where the remain silent." alleged apparitions first Archbishop Franic said took place is a church that Bishop Zanic conwhere Bishop 7anic had siders him "a Main pillar

It is also increasing the fear of Palestinians that they are being replaced by the Jewish immigrants, he said.

"This signifies more (settlements) in occupied territories, Palestinian territories," the patriarch said.

It is causing "more fear and more tension between Israel and Palestinians and Israel and Arab countries," he said.

Patriarch Sabbah said another explosive issue is the presence of Jewish settlers in the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem in a complex of buildings owned by the Greek Orthodox Church.

Although an Israeli court has ordered the Jews to evacuate, this was only a preliminary decision, he said.

'This problem, from the legal viewpoint, has not been concluded, and we do not know when it will end," he added.

"The place has not been returned to the Orthodox Church, and the question is still open," the patriarch said.

Currently, there are no direct contacts between the Israeli government and non-Jewish religious leaders, he said.

'There is no dialogue for peace. It has been

refused by the state of Israel," he added.

Regarding overall problems in occupied territories, "our viewpoints and those of the Israeli authorities are different," he said.

Religious leaders are accused of mixing in politics when they are only trying to defend the rights of people, he said.

Patriarch Sabbah asked Western powers to pressure Israel to reach an accord with Palestinians.

It has been a long, long road for Scalabranian priest, Father Dino Torresan. His special responsibility in the Perth archdiocese is to oversee the affairs of ethnic groups. His assignment at first glance looks an easy one. But be assured that it is not. It is a difficult road ahead and it involves patience, tolerance, understanding and a heap of strategies. Father Dino over the past two years must have covered "easily 50,000 km" on his mission journey. What he has succeeded in achieving thus far in parishes is awareness — awareness of the existence of people from scores of ethnic backgrounds in our parishes. He is now sowing the seeds for their acceptance in this "lucky country." He made no predictions for the future. All he can do now is hope — hope that the next generation or generations to come will reap the harvest. What he finds quite disturbing if the forgetfulness of some migrants — those who have so quickly forgotten their status. Father Dino's thoughts are revealed in this question-and-answer session with ROY LAZAROO.

Don't forge who you are

Simply a Matter of Frontiers

Crouched in a dirty corner of this overcrowded house, sheltering temporarily migrants and refugees.

Icry alone the dry tears of the desperate man.

Ican't even work for honest bread!

It is forbidden by law — in this country — for people like us, and foreigners AndIam a foreigner unfortunately!

My only guilt is to have been born somewhere else, outside, beyond the border beyond man-made frontiers, beyond a gratuitous, selfish barrier which splits the hearts of people in tiny fractions, imprisioning impoverishing depriving them of the sweet taste of belonging sharing freedom AmInot a rightful member of this global village?

Or is this country a smiling chimera alluring me into its bosom, then wounded bleeding leaving me

crying all alone in this tiny little corner of a rented house?

People full of dreams and hopes migrants and refugees are: little people looking for life looking for bread longing for a job.

Ibelieved in the "fair go" of this immense nch harshly beautiful country But my accent my coloured face, gave me away Now in the tiny, little corner of this rented house, Idream to have a home among loved ones whereIbelong where lam accepted where the colour of my skin the look of my face the wayIdress does not matter a home, without frontiers to simply belong I walk with this crowd carrying within me the firm hope that this country — one day in the near future — will experience the power of love which has no frontiers

(A lived experience, with a group of migrants and refugees, just arrived from overseas inspired Fr Dino Torresan to write the poem.)

Flashback! New migrants being treated to a Christmas party by the Catholic Migrant Centre.

Q: Do you see a silver lining beyond A:Iam still making myself available Q: You have literally been on the Perth is reading the signs of the times. the horizon? for multicultural missions in the encountered any Q: Have you road for the last two years or so A: a Every cloud has a rchdiocese plus I am preparing — silver lining.

I way? groups along the ethnic of problems the affairs overseeing mean even together what seems with to be the Catholic Migrant absurd part of any they are in the archdiocese. Have your efforts Plenty but A: today may find its reason tomorrow. Centre and a special steering paid dividends?

Christian growth.

And if we are game enough to see the committee — a three day convention A: Yes, although nothing spectacupositive, then we are moving in the on multi-culturalism for May 1991. lar is there to prove my conviction. I Q: So you did. What were the right direction.

Q: Do you think you can achieve think that people are aware of brothers problems? something? and sisters who have not their A: Well, indifference, apathy, taken Q: How do you to conquer A:People know that within 50 years, background and cultures. for granted attitudes that this is an the problems propose that you have the population will be 26 per cent Q: Can you now spell out what you Australian church and hence everyone encountered?

Asian, the word taken in its broader must adjust to it. But do we have a have achieved!

A: By making people AWARE of sense.

People also know that we have A: Very hard to put into statistics a typical Aussie church? what is happening and showing them people from more than 45 countries pastoral mission. Rather than figures (I Q:Did you at any stage feel that you possible directions and solutions. present in Australia. speak for myself)Iprefer my life to tell were in fact chasing rainbows? Will All this is factual. What is not known the story.

Q: You say that awareness is is the way we the "migrant" church stage ever must deal with each parishes have taken root. How other so as to become Q: Are you satisfied with your conclude vis-a-vis parish? a 'family'. important is this achievement? mission so far?

The journey is still a long way. But A:Will the world and human beings Awareness in any field is always it is positive that we are aware, we A: Yes: Thanks to our archbishop. stop to be so? Migrations, inspite of all theA: first step. If one wants to drive, one started with practical strategies. have His openness and sincere care for this our efforts to stop it will continue. needs a car to drive with.

We are doing the sowing. The next 'portion' of his church which It is a pity that those who were tomorrow may be more than half of his migrants themselves, so quickly have Q: What are you focussing your generation, hopefully. will do some reaping. flock, is a clear sign that our church in forgotten their status... attention on now?

The. ReQ5,101. 140y24.-.1990 7

Faces of grief...

A religious educator told me about a wake for a priest's mother where family members sat around in a circle telling stories about the person they had lost.

They mourn in different ways but comfort is always there

The experience helped the mourners come to terms with their loss because "telling stories connects people to a shared experience," the church professional said.

"That connection is very supportive. It breaks the isolation of death."

She said the wake was

a bittersweet experience for her, however.

It brought back the emptiness she felt five years previously when her own mother died.

Because her mother lived in a different city, the religious educator's parish community was not present.

She recalled feeling isolated and alone in dealing with her emotions and the practical details of organising the funeral.

Most people experience a death "as very, very

How a parish helps those who grieve "The worst time was about a month after the funeral," said Betty. In her late 50s, she was describing her experience following the death of her husband five years earlier.

By Father Robert Kinast they were starting to now, often with no make plans. During his warning or apparent annual physical, a tumor provocation. was detected.

The strongest feelings An operation revealed during this time typically that the tumor was were guilt and anger malignant and cancer Guilt for missed opporhad spread uncontrolla- tunities, unfulfilled bly. Six weeks later Tom intentions, lingering diswas dead. agreements or decisions There was no way for made during the last Betty to be prepared days of Tom's illness. emotionally for Tom's Anger at the cancer death and there was no which caused Tom's way she was "supposed" death, at the doctors who to react. couldn't cure him, at What Betty needed at Tom for leaving her first was comfort. Family prematurely, at God for and friends, including letting this happen.

"Right after Tom died I felt numb but there were lots of people around for support," she said. "Then my friends got back into their routines. My children, who live out of town, returned to their homes and families."

"I knew I should be getting on with my life, but I just didn't feel like it," she continued. "Even now there are some days when I don't want to make the effort. Is there something wrong with me?"

Betty touched on the feelings of most grieving people.

The insights of those who study the grief and other process can be surruna- clergy rised under three members of her parish, cared for Betty by simply headings: being with her.

1. Shock.

Their presence cushiThe numbness Betty felt right after her hus- oned the shock of Tom's death and let her know band's death is typical. she was not totally alone, It is, in the words of even if she felt alone Howard Clinebell, a initially. pastoral counselor, Their role was to feel "nature's anesthesia." with Betty during this When a beloved person period when her own dies, there is a shock to feelings were numb. In one's whole system. The this way they gave her severity and duration of time to face Tom's death. this impact depend on 2. Absorption. the closeness of the relationship and the It was about a month later when Betty began to suddenness of the death. absorb the effects of Betty and Tom had been Tom's death. In contrast married 27 years. to the initial shock when Tom was going to take she felt numb, Betty's early retirement and emotions Minded her

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Betty knew these reactions "didn't make sense," but they hit her nonetheless. There is no time limit for this process and no prescribed way of going through it.

Betty had to come to grips with her grief in her own way.

This was at limes a lonely experience, especially when family and friends seemed to be resuming their lives as if Tom hadn't died.

Betty didn't need professional counselling during this period, but she did need patient, receptive listeners: Patience because Betty became so absorbed with Tom's death that often

she wanted talk about little else. Had listeners soon grown tired of hearing Betty talk about Tom, they might have begun to avoid her, adding to her feeling of isolation.

Receptive listening was needed because Betty's feelings were symbolic of her love for Tom. She needed to know that her feelings, like Tom himself, were not uttered and simply forgotten but were respected, valued, taken in by someone else.

During the absorption phase, Betty's parish was a great asset. Its members, some on their own and some as part of an organised grief ministry, sought Betty out and gave her the opportunity to share her feelings.

Betty did so, but some grieving people find it hard to express their feelings.

When this happens parish members can be helpful just by staying in touch, socialising and being available as the person works through the grieving process.

A parish can be an even greater asset in the adjustment phase.

As Betty absorbed Tom's death, she began to adjust her life to his absence and to reshape her future.

She was not picking up where she left off, which was impossible. Instead she was admitting that her life with Tom was actually over.

Adjustment meant

By Katharine Bird unpending," said Dominican Father David O'Rourke. "They really need other people around them to recognise how significant this time is."

People seldom are rational in their expectations when someone dies.

The bereaved "want your full attention and your time"; if they don't get it from a parish, they

judge a parish harshly, Father O'Rouke said.

He told of a family who called the parish to tell of a death and hung up when they got only an answering machine.

Later the family complained bitterly to the funeral director that no one at the parish had cared enough to call them.

The death "was so important to them, they assumed we should have known about it," Father O'Rouke said.

Parishes and dioceses respond to mourners' needs in a variety of ways. Some few have established bereavement guidelines.

In 1988 a survey to each U.S. diocese asking about their bereavement ministry revealed that of the 110 responding, 84 had no established program; 14 said they had programs which could serve as models; 99 wanted to be kept informed.

One response to that survey is the National

cAtholic Ministry to the organisation's goal The ved. . 3erea s to help parishes and lioceses provide services or the grieving, said 2o11een Gallagher, proram coordinator for larish social ministry.

Ms Gallagher pointed out that many parishes 'lave an informal netvork that swings into c 6 tion when a parieso. shioner edtiw vide a meal and place for mourners to gather after a funeral or

support groups to assist people through the first months of mourning.

"One of my jobs is to train people in parishes to give bereavement ministry," Ms Gallagher said.

She added that 95 per cent of those she trains know what bereavement feels like: "They have gone through a tough time and come out of it."

In three years her office has helped 70 parishes establish bereavement groups.

Father O'Rouke and Ms Gallagher discussed other ways that parishes support mourners.

Some sponsor an annual day of discovery when mourners come together to talk about what the bereavement process has taught them.

Many parishes have a system of remembering deceased parishioners at certain points after a death.

In some, homebound elderly members send cards to the bereaved on their anniversaries and birthdays.

"People want to know the person they loved is remembered," said Ms Gallagher. She told of a woman who carried such a card around for a year.

"She got it from someone she had never met and was deeply touched to find the church remembered her husband," Ms Gallagher said.

Parishes provide comfort and support to people who mourn in different ways, writes Katharine Bird. Often this help comes from people who have lived through bereavement themselves.

The Christian human service

When someone dies, people need to grieve, writes Father Robert Kinast B 10 one should have to do it alone, especially no one in a Christian community. claiming a new identity as a person alone, but an identity molded by her years with Tom. It meant renewing friendships as an individual without Tom. It meant, eventually, reaching out to others, channeling her experience and talents for their benefit.

The parish was especially helpful at this point by encouraging Betty's renewed interest

and providing opportunities for her to use it through parish activities, especially the grief ministry.

Grieving is a natural, personal ad. There is no step-by-step progression that must be followed, no preordained timetable.

People must do their own grieving, but no one should have to do it alone, especially no one in a Christian community.

All the important events of life were community events for God's people. When Elizabeth gave birth to John the Baptiser, "her neighbours and relatives heard that God had shown his great mercy toward her and with her" theyreljo:58.

(Luke iced)

various sorts and loud lamentation.

A synagogue leader once asked Jesus to come to his house to heal his critically ill daughter.

"When they arrived at the house of the synagogue official, he caught sight of a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly" (Mark

Weddings were village affairs and the feasting lasted seven days.

5:38).

Death also drew the community together.

There were carefully prescribed ceremonies of mourning, involving bodily disfigurement of

If the family could not give eloquent enough expression to their sorrow, there were professional mourners ready to play sad dirges and cry ostentatiously.

Bizarre as this may seem, it served a deep

FOOD FOR THOUGHT Lonely and al's.lond: Those are just two words to describe leeli.ngs people experience m At the time m ym . Abers at the time of a iwthfainmailyfamile loss of a great themselves feel lest, as though the very roots of their lives haveleen disturbed.

They also may lea stunned and frightened.

And they may Inve questions about the meaning of this (kith and the reasons for it. of a death in their family, At the timeaveli people may h plidsense both that they are and the beginning of a at the end of a new, unknown joluneY

When a parish community gathers around a family's members at the time of a death, it takes the first step in this journey with them.

Of course, the community must be faithful weeks and months later, remembering that this journey is still unfolding for the family.

The community formed by the Eucharist each Sunday possesses important qualities to extend at the time of a death. This community has enduring roots, it has hope and through its members it can respond, in a great variety of rich ways, to the feelings of abandonment that people may experience.

By Father John Castelot human need to mourn and especially to know that others shared one's grief. To mourn is painful, but to mourn alone is unspeakably distressing.

Mourning is therapeutic. One simply has to let the pain escape in a flood of tears. Holding it in is not healthy.

Eventually it will come out, and it may do so in ways far removed from sorrow, in anger, resentment, even violence.

Sharing the anguish with a sympathetic corn-

munity helps to cleanse the anguish.

Paul's converts at Thessalonica were upset about their loved ones who had died. He put their minds at rest this way.

"We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, about those who have fallen asleep, so that you may not grieve like the rest, who have no hope" (1 Thessalonians 4:13).

Notice he has no objections to their grieving,

but to grieving like the rest, who have no hope.

When Jesus' friend, Lazarus, died, "many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother" (John 11:19).

Quite typically, the community rallied around them.

We read, too, that "Jesus loved Martha and his sister and Lazarus."

When Jesus arrived at the village, he tried to console Martha with the assurance that her brother would rise again: "I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he

dies, will live" (John

11:25).

But at a time like this,

words are never enough.

Jesus knew the sisters' heartbreak and shared it.

His touching response is recorded in the shortest verse in the New Testament: "And Jesus wept." Sharing their grief was the greatest gift he could give them.

When Christian communities rush to the support of grief-stricken brothel's and sisters, they continue a long and rich tradition and render an human exquisitely service.

DISCUSSION POINTS After a death, what do people need and want from others in the parish community?

Selected Responses From Readers: "As reality begins to sink in and the pain becomes incredulous, empathetic people who are there to listen, to give you a hug, to say they care and to be non-judgemental." — Sharlene Benzel.

"There is no set schedule for grieving — the key is gentle, patient presence months after the loss." — John Cerullo.

"The name of the deceased should be included in the Prayer of the Faithful at all weekend liturgies for at least a month." — Joan Sergeant.

"Be good friends that will listen when we need to 'just talk' to someone." — Rosie K noblach.

"Do not abandon these people in a week or two . . . Contact sorrowing people one month to one year after, and don't say know how you feel' unless you have been there." — Wilma Parkin, The Record, May 24, 1990

9

Keeping track with Ursula Frayne The West Australian Governor's coach that in 1856 took Mercy Sister Ursula Frayne down to the Perth river f erry en route to Melbourne was 2 recognition of what she had achieved in 10 years, Archbishop Foley said last Sunday.

At a St Mary's Cathedral Mass to unveil the plaque for the Ursula

Frayne College, the archbishop said the Irish nun and her seven companions, had established the first school in Australia to be staffed by religious and her school at Victoria Square in 1846 had preceded the establishment of the first government secondary school in this state.

Sister Ursula, who had attended the dying foun-

Dr Tannock, chairman of the Catholic Education Commission unveils the Ursula Frayne College plaque. dress Catherine McAuley, had been part of the Mercy history in Ireland and Newfoundland and now in WA and later Victoria.

Their Perth primary school which had only one pupil on opening day in February 1846 had grown to 75 after six months becoming the colony's largest school.

The Church in WA had been founded only a few years before because two of WA's only 300 Catholic out of a total population of 3500 had written to Sydney for help.

Yet when Bishop Brady and his group landed at Fremantle there was no one to meet them and a Fremantle family took them in overnight before

their river journey to Perth next day.

By the time of her departure 10 years later, the archbishop said, Sr Ursula had introduced the mercy and compassion of Christ to Perth's community and had established a system of Catholic education for WA, winning universal approval from Catholic and non-Catholic alike.

Her significance could not be exaggerated, he said, and was due to her religious commitment her gift of leadership, her faithfulness to the Sisters of Mercy learnt from the foundress and handed on.

She had adapted the new flexibility of the Mercy Order to the local environment, the archbishop said, calling her an

astute and practical woman.

The archbishop told the congregation to look at the origins of their faith and renew them and then point out the meaning of their values to others.

Example was not enough, he said, and they had to be ready to give an intelligent explanation of their reasons for life.

College's day at Cathedral St Mary's Cathedral, adorned with student painted banners and filled with about 1500 people, was venue for the Mass to mark official opening and blessing of Ursula Frayne Catholic College last Sunday.

Archbish3p Foley celebrated at the Mass assisted by several other priests associated with the College, which marked the amalgamation of three campuses.

The entrance proces-

sion was led by the head boy carrying a Cross made by two staff members, followed by the head girl with the school flag and student representatives from all years plus the student council.

They were followed by the three longest serving staff members representing the history of the past three c ampuses, two teachers in academic gowns to highlight the scholastic emphasis of the College, members

of the P & C and the school board with principal Mrs Anne Parker along with Dr Peter Tannock and politicians.

Offertory gifts featured students' work, clay bowls by art students, the College's Project Compassion and contribution crosses which were to be blessed and hung in class rooms.

Student badges were also blessed for distribution.

Dr Tannock spoke and officially unveiled the

College plaque followed by Mrs Parker's vote of thanks.

An unusual feature of the altar cloth was its uniqueness; it was designed and painted

by Aboriginal student Vicki Scott showing two black hands holding a white orb representing creation given to mankind by God. Decorating banners also echoed this theme and new life, and stoles for concelebrating priests were made by the year eight boys.

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MEXICO CITY, (CNS):— John Paul ll's May trip to Mexico was an effort to reconvert the growing number of Catholics lost to Protestant fundamentalism and sects.

"Nothing would make a pope happier, during this pastoral visit, than the return to the breast of the church of those who have wandered astray," the pope said near the end of his eight-day trip.

The antidote offered by the pope was Catholic popular religiosity, especially the strong Marian devotion of Mexicans, principally through Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the country and the Americas.

He also told bishops and tant Marian shrines priests to end their where local devotion is "timidness and indiffer- equally fervent, espeence" in combating sects. cially among poor Indi"Their methods, their ans and mestizos — economic resources and people of mixed Spanish the insistence of their and Indian heritage — proselytising work have vulnerable to conversion an impact, above all on by Protestant groups and those who migrate from sects. rural areas to the city," "We are aware of the the pope said. painful fact that some The importance of pop- have broken the salvific ular religion is seen in unity, joining themselves the fact that millions of to sects," he said on May Mexicans annually make 11 to hundreds of thoupilgrimages to the shrine sands of Indians attendof Our Lady of Guada- ing an outdoor Mass. lupe in Mexico City, "I would like to meet many doing part of the you all individually to pilgrimage on their say. Return to the bosom knees. of the church, your Mexico also have five mother," the pope said. other regionally impor"Return without fear.

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The church awaits you with open arms," he said.

Protestant groups also have been gaining throughout the predominantly Catholic population of Latin America Some studies show that the previous low rate of Catholic conversions to Protestantism have been replaced by a 400 per cent increase since 1968, due to stepped-up recruiting programs.

In Mexico, Catholic bishops estimate that Protestants account for as much as 10 per cent of the population as a result of proselytising by nearly 300 church groups, many with ties to U.S. churches.

Catholic officials say reasons for Protestant success include heavy funding from their U.S. backers and the fact that the sects offer a simpler morality, an emotionally centred faith, and greater participation in church life through being part of small groups.

Some add that inducements include promises of money and help in finding work.

Since the 1970s, Latin American bishops have been warning the Vatican of the situation, leading to a 1986 Vatican document citing the phenomenon as a "pastoral challenge."

The document said

Catholics were being lost induced "to believe that through overpowering to attain economic wellrecruiting techniques being you have to leave that include showering aside the Catholic people with attention Church." and affection and offeHe asked for "more riirng simpler solutions active participation in — such as divorce — to the liturgical and sacracomplex personal mental life of the church. problems.

"In this way, humble It suggested that local people will find in this Catholic churches stimu- and in the practices of late a greater sense of popular religiosity moticommunity and do more vations to justify their to help people develop a faith," he said. personal relationship "In this way, dewith God. Christianising circles At the same time, it said will be more open to reCatholics must respect the right of other groups encountering the Lord, and the proselytising and individuals to proactivities of sects can find fess their faith. a brake to the ambiguiIn Mexico, the pope ties and confusion they warned against being sow," he said.

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The Christian message in a computer age Closer understanding gone out of date in less VATICAN CITY: "Man's genius has with God's would have a chance to than twenty years? between help produced marvel- develop Well, the Pastoral lous technical inven- national and ethnic Instruction itself warned tions from creation, groups. There could be that pastoral planning especially in our wonderful results from needed to "stay flexible" times. . . " say the this: justice and peace, where social communiopening words of the good will and active cations matters were Vatican II council's charity, mutual help, concerned, that the on love, fellowship, com- planners had to work in Decree munion said the new a "fluid situation", and communications.

The inventions of grea- document. that "keeping pace with test interest to the new discoveries in this At the end of 1975, Pope Church — said the Paul VI issued his land- (media) field" called for Decree — were those mark apostolic exhorta- openness and effort. which made direct con- tion "Proclaiming the "The Church wishes tact with people's minds, Gospel", which summed researchers to know how keeping them up to date up the conclusions of the eager she is to learn from on the news, feeding 1974 Synod of Bishops their work and to follow them ideas, shaping their on the theme of out its practical attitudes. conclusions." evangelisation.

Press, radio, cinema, The 1971 Pastoral Here once again, the television, and other I nstruction took care to media "of a like nature", Church is strongly urged state that it was making powerof those "avail had special importance, to no claim to say the last because they reached ful instruments (of social word. It expressed the large numbers of people communication) which hope that its publication simultaneously. These human skill is constantly marked "not so much the "instruments" should be developing and perfect- end of a phase as the start used to proclaim the ing". "for first procla- of a new one". mation of the message, Good News.

It is time, then, to ask: so for catechetical instrucThat about sums up tion and for a deeper what is new in media how the Church was study of the faith". matters since 1971? thinking in 1963.

An indirect answer to The Church has been By 1971, when the that might be: what consistent atteng iving Pastoral Instruction on would the ordinary social communications tion to the developments, reader of a Catholic and othertechnological was published, it was weekly paper in 1971 clear to the Church that wise, which have been have made of a certain place in the technology had been taking type of cartoon which communications. advancing very rapidly. has been appearing in Sounds, images, mesThe Pontifical Council the same paper in 1989? sages, would soon be for Social CommunicaSamples: a mother sayreaching people simul- tions has been studying, ing to a very small boy taneously, all over the with a special interna- working at his computer world. tional group of experts, "Bedtime dear. End and Better still, there could whether some sort of save your letter to God." be exchange of ideas, action needed to be taken A perplexed confessor dialogue, sharing of to bring the 1971 Pastoral enquiring from his peninformation, among peo- Instruction on commun- itent: "How many comples and cultures, across ications up to date. puters did you infect great distances.

Could it, then, have with the virus?"

International facsimile operations are as close and convenient as the telephone! Electronic mail boxes are replacing the postal letter services.

The PC, or Personal Computer, is the central component of "what is new" since 1971.

"A computer may be described in general terms as an electronic machine which performs rapid and complex calculations and compiles, collates and sorts data. . .

"Information fed to the can be computer retained, recalled, sorted, merged with other data to give immediate overview of the information. . .

"The computer can transmit its information, e.g. by telephone and/or satellite, to other computers anywhere in the world.

"By the same channels it can, of course, retrieve information from data banks anywhere (data banks are electronic memories where information is stored) and compare it with, or add it to, that already in its possession."

Ownership of computers, at first confined to business corporations and similar bodies, has now come within the reach of individuals and families, for the cost is no longer prohibitive.

Apart from electronic mail, other possibilities of interest to the Church

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are that of "computer their potential for transnetworking" (where two mitting religious and or more computers con- cultural information, as nected by cable, micro- well as news of current waves, lasers or satellites, events, accurately and can communicate and without distortion. exchange information, It is on the creative uses data and documentation to which these new and between themselves); so-widely available techand computer-based nologies can be put that "teleconferencing", the attention of educawhich allows groups of tional and pastoral people scattered around workers in the Church a country or continent, or should be mainly indeed all over the world. focused on this World to discuss with one Communications Day. another, over a period of There is no precedent in days, weeks, or months, the history of the Church whatever matters are of for the kind of possibiliconcern to them. ties they offer, so it is for Already a number of "this generation" to Church offices, parishes, discover the ways in and bodies such as which they may be bishops' conferences, are exploited to the limit to making use of some or all bring the Christian message to humanity. The of these possibilities. and advantages necessity While the hardware and the technology are in of involving lay men and themselves immensely lay women in this search be hardly fascinating, it is the need dialogue they make pos- emphasised. are Experiments sible which is our principal interest on World already in progress to Communications Day, link up nation bishops'

conferences in a continental network with an eventual linkup with the Holy See. A similar network within dioceses, linking the bishop's office with the parishes, is probably not too far in the future.

For the prompt and timely circulation of accurate information, the advantages of such networks are obvious.

The use of computers for keeping parish records and accounts has definite advantages in saving time, man hours and money.

To any person or organ isation which needs to produce a bulletin, small newspaper or magazine, it has by now become indispensable to look at the possibilities offered by what is called "desktop publishing".

The computer has revolutionised the world and it is set to revolutionise the Church's operation in that same world.

Pope's new warning MEXICO CITY (CNS): Dancing on the grave of East European communism should not be a victory waltz for capitalism, according to Pope John Paul II.

Throughout the pope's visit to Mexico, he recited the defects of "liberal capitalism" as a warning that it should not be considered the only model left to follow.

Instead, the changes in Eastern Europe are a challenge for the underdeveloped world to forge its own socio-economic and political models, taking advantage of the "renewed breath" the changes have given to international relations.

Latin America — with its predominant Catholic

population, history and culture — also was a good place for the pope to emphasise church readiness to help develop new models.

In the political and economic sense, the Mexico visit was a continuation of the pope's April trip to Czechoslovakia, where he hearalded the demise of a communist rule whose promises of Utopia were transformed into a false paradise.

But "neither do cultural models already lied to the most industrialised countries totally assure a civilisation worthy of man," he told Mexican cultural leaders.

"Consumerism is furthermore a continuing and

humiliating offense, especially for the poor, who at times are denied not what is superfluous, but what is most necessary for a dignified life," he told Mexican bishops.

Capitalism contains "the temptation to convert the national community into something at service of the special interests of the company," he told business leaders.

The pope also listed abortion, euthanasia, secularism and high suicide rates as problems of the Western world.

At the same time, in a part of the world where intellectuals flirt with Marxism, the pope recalled that 1989 showed that "the system

based on Marxist materialism has been deceiving by its very nature."

This juxtaposition of the evils of communism and capitalism — found throughout the social documents of the current pope — has been called "moral equivalency" by some U.S. Catholics.

They are annoyed at what they consider a papal blind eye to the advantages of capitalism and believe that the atheistic philosophy behind communism should tilt the scales definitively in capitalism's favour.

Vatican officials say the balancing act is nothing more than measuring systems by objective moral guidelines.

In Mexico, the pope used the dual criticisms as a stimulus to find new systems at a time when "there are many uncertainties about the road to follow."

"Latin America has to reaffirm its own identity," he said.

"The different problems which affect it — economic, social, cultural — need to be resolved with the cooperation and effort of its own people," he add..,-1 The pope also placed this challenge within his overall call for a "new evangelisation" as Latin America prepares to celebrate in 1992 the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Catholicism.

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

Thank you for your mercy towards me and mine. Thank Sacred Heart of Jesus, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, St Joseph, Litte Flower, St

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Novena to the Sacred Heart.

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

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GRATEFUL Thanks to Our Lady, St Joseph, St Jude, and St Catherine of Sienna for their intercessions and to our Blessed Saviour for healing given and improved health

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Grateful thanks W.D.B.

by TOM BRANCH Matches varied from being to one-sided totally extremely close in Round 3 of the WACLTA 1990 Mixed Pennants. For the first time this season all matches were completed.

A Grade Dianella v St Benedict's After a first up draw last week, St Benedict's won their first game by defeating Dianella in a thriller 6 sets 80 games to 4 sets 72 games.

As the scores indicate, the match was tight throughout with the winner not known until after the completion of the final two sets. Following their win St Benedict's jumped into second position and Dianella dropped to third. With a bye next week Dianella may fall further down the ladder.

Queens Park v St Jude's St Jude's continued their winning form with a comfortable win over Queens Park 9 sets 86 games to 1 set 48 games. The win was more significant in that St Jude's number 1 player was not playing. This win gives St Jude's a game and a half lead on second team St Benedict's. Queens Park is

languishing at the bottom of the table.

B Grade Dianella v St Benedict's In the closest game of the day Dianella defeated St Benedict's in a cliffhanger 6 sets 69 games to 4 sets 70 games. The final set was won by St Benedict's in a tiebreaker. Should Dianella have won the tiebreaker then they would have finished victors in this contest. As a result of their win St Benedict's move into the four at the expense of Dianella.

Yidarra v St Norbert's In the other close game of round, Yidarra t he accounted for St Norbert's by winning 7 sets 75 games to 3 sets 58 games. It was an enthralling match throughout, a match which could have gone either way.

Corpus Christi v St Mark's Corpus Christi continued their tremendous form with a convincing win against a good St Mark's team, the final scores 10 sets 90 games to 0 sets 30 games. Corpus Christi have only lost one set in three matches and rightly head the B grade table after

three rounds. However, they will be fully tested over the coming weeks when they meet the more fancied teams.

Pignatelli v Queens Park Pignatelli completed the round with a similar convincing win against Queens Park 10 sets 90 games to 0 sets 38 games. They, like Corpus Christi, will be the trendsetters and the ones to beat.

Table

A: St Jude's 6; St Benedict's 3; Dianella 2; St Norbert's 1; Queens Park 0. B: Corpus Christi 6; Pignatelli 5; St Benedict's 4; Yidarra 4; Dianella 3; St Mark's 2; St Norbert's 0; Queens Park 0.

Next Week

A Grade: St Norbert's v Queens Park; St Benedict's v St Jude's. B Grade: Queens Park v St Benedict's; St Norbert's v Pignatelli; Corpus Christi v Dianella: St Mark's v Yidarra.

A Grade

Last year's finllists should start their challenge for a berth in this year's finals when they clash with Queens Park. Queens Park have not performed to

expectations and St Norbert's should prove too strong for them.

St Benedict's have performed very well in their two games and their clash with top side St Jude's will fully test their season's aspirations.

B Grade The top four teams meet the bottom four in Round 4 of the B grade competition.

St Benedict's and Pignatelli should consolidate their positions in the four when they clash with Queens Park Norbert's St and respectively.

Corpus Christi will face their toughest match of the season so far when they meet Dianella. The winner of this match should feel confident about a berth in the finals.

Fourth spot could be up for grails in the clash between St Mark's and Yidarra.

Selections

A Grade: St Norbert's, St Jude's. B Grade: St Benedict's, Pignatelli. Corpus Christi, St Mark's.

Tbm Branch

OBITUARY Sr Mary Benignus Sheehy who died suddenly on April 24 aged 72 at Our Lady of

Lourdes convent Nollamara had served education in WA for over 50 years.

Her order describes her as having been a forthright, firm teacher with a genial kindness, and a special relationship with primary school children from whom she could draw qualities of responsibility and goodness.

She did especially good work in initiating the sacramental life in children.

She was a superior in several

local houses, overseeing the construction of the Mercy Convent in Tyler Street, Osborne Park. in 1964, and the development of the large primary school complex at St Brigid's, Lesmurdie.

She facilitated the handing over of St Bernard's Primary School in Koionup to lay administration remaining on to be of assistance to the new Principal in an isolated situation.

She was one of the founding members of the Mercy Mission to Newman in 1983 and her last ministry was administra-

tion assistant and general support person in the new foundation of St Luke's Primary School, Woodvale.

Sr Benignus left us suddenly on the morning of the 24th April when her heart failed her and we, her Sisters among whom is her blood sister, Sister Bernadette, with whom she spent more than 50 years in loving service, will miss her greatly.

In the West Perth Mercy congregation she is survived by her sister, Sister Bernadette.

May she rest in peace.

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BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE To celebrate the 3rd anniversary of the dedication of the Bullsbrook Church "Virgin Mary Mother of the Church" there will be a Mass at 11am Monday, June 4 (Foundation Day).

Annointing of the sick will take place during Mass, and after Mass there will be a general blessing.

For enquiries 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 (for their various celebrations) depending on sufficient numbers.

Please enquire. Sacri Assoc, PO Box 311, Tuart Hill WA 6060. Telephone 571 1699.

PREGNANCY HELP Two new groups for pregnant women will begin in June, giving women an opportunity to be together and support each other as they learn new skills. Participation will enhance mother-baby bonding, before and after birth. The group will help women to look after themselves well, and increase their enjoyment of pregnancy. Each group runs for six weeks. The groups take place on Tuesdays 7-9pm Commencing June 17, Wednesdays 1-3pm Commencing June 25. For further details phone Pregnancy Help on 325 5592.

CHINA MEMORIAL Tiananmen Square anniversary memorial service will be held at St Mary's Cathedral Victoria Square on Pentecost Sunday, June 3 at 2.30pm. Open to the public.

A booklet has been prepared to help groups and individuals to focus

[From page 16 I the events in Tiananmen Square with ideas for prayerful reflection.

Contact Australian Catholic Relief, Catholic Church Office, Victoria Square.

A rchdiocesan Calendar May 27 Visitation and confirmation, Maylands, Archbishop Foley.

Visitation, Rnmrvale, Bishop Healy.

Confirmation, Doubleview, Monsignor Keating.

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

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

June 1 First Friday discussion, Cathedral Parish Centre, Archbishop Foley.

2 Parents and Friends Conference, Archbishop Foley.

3 Trinity Sunday Mass, St Mary's Cathedral, Archbishop Foley.

Visitation and confirmation, Merredin, Bishop Healy.

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

4 Fortieth Anniversary of Priesthood, Fr W. Buckley, Archbishop Foley and Bishop Healy.

5 Open Majella Pre Primary Centre.

Archbishop Foley.

Opening WA Research Institute for Child Health, Monsignor Keating.

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

Confirmation, Northam, Bishop Healy.

8 Visitation and confirmation, York, Bishop Healy.

8-9 National Conference Apostleship of the Sea.

TOMORROW TODAY with Father Joe Parkinson

Music a gift and service What kind of weekend can you have with 55 talented young musicians, 38 guitars, two saxophones, five keyboards, two clarinets and a trumpet?

A great weekend filled with good music, superb singing and plain good fun, as a large group found out on the second Antioch Musician's Weekend at Eagle's Nest, Gidgegannup, on May 11-13!

Organised and run by Antioch identity Damien McBain and an excellent team of young musicians, the weekend was a great opportunity to learn more good music in the company of other people striving to bring out their best.

God's gift of music, and using that gift for the benefit of all God's people, was a constant

thread running throughout the two-day program.

"The object of the weekend was to come to a higher understanding of ministry, service and prayer, and especially the way in which young people can serve the Church through their music," said a tired but satsified Damien this week.

"I was most pleased with the prayerfulness of the people," he said.

"It was more than a camp. It was a weekend of prayer and growing closer to God, of learning about ministry and service, more than just learning new songs."

hist about the only moment without music all weekend! Some of the 55 talented young people on the second Antioch Musicians' Weekend.

Council call to back fast

Having held one weekend for Antiochers, Damien is already planning another weekend for other young musicians in mid-August.

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A frkt moment during poster sharing for Willetton Antioch in Orana Primary School's new hall.

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The sign of peace and presentation of crosses at Willeffon's Antioch weekend, April 27-29.

AINAVANALVAll F CROSSROADS TO TOMORROW

Young people looking to support development and mission work in thirdworld countries were urged by the Catholic Youth Council this week to support the Church's own "Fast for Faith".

Sponsored by the Pontifical Mission Society, "Fast for Faith" is an opportunity for young people to lend positive help to developing countries through one of the oldest and best established aid agencies.

Council chairperson Martin Lawrence of South Perth said this week that supporting "Fast for Faith" was also

a good way of fostering a greater sense of being a Catholic community in action.

The Pontifical Mission Society has a long tradition of funding thirdworld missions, and "Fast for Faith" has been part of that effort for many years.

Schools and youth groups especially are urged to take part in the fast, with sponsorship forms available from the Missions Office, 23 Victoria Square, Perth.

The exercise, normally held this weekend, can in fact be done anytime by any interested group or individual. Call Renate on 325 5264 for further details.

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by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

All about kids!

azenod wins

Andrew Kenny (left) and Kade Sims with the prized shield.

The Mazenod U/16 cricket team completed a hat-trick of three successive premierships with victory over Caversham in the MidlandGuildford Cricket Association. Kade Sims won three individual Association trophies including "Champion Cricketer", scoring 770 runs at an average of 130.64 including an unbeaten century in the grand final.

History buffs Over the last term out Yr 11 history class at La Salle College have been hard at work compiling our entry for the 1990 Industrial Heritage Schools Competition.

the area. We were also and compiling information. asked to look into the As well as all this it gave us environmental impact of the a practical insight into the site which is a very impor- realities of being an histotant issue of today. rian and helped us learn, The final stage was to and become involved, in a develop a plan for the future part of our local history. of the site which would both Special thanks must go to The hard work certainly maintain its historical Mr Mountain of the Workpaid off when we were• aspect as well as serving a shops who was alweys awarded first prize in the Yr useful purpose to the local ready to help with our of the community. We chose the division 11 research. The students Midland Railway competition. must also thank Mrs BrodWorkshops. us required to project The erick, our history teacher, find a suitable industrial site All who participated in the who helped us in every way in the area, be it still in use project enjoyed it immenpossibiel or vacant, and prepare a sely. It gave us experience brief history of its impor- in many aspects including, by Stephanie Harris tance in the development of researching, interviewing La Salle College

Trinity's big musical Trinity's major musical for the year — West Side Story — will be showing at Trinity College on June 8 and 9, 15 and 16 at 8pm (bookings 8.304.30pm on 325 3655) and will involve girls from Mercedes, Perth College, Presbyterian Ladies College, John Curtin and Applecross High Schools. Rehearsing the Rumble Scene with much gusto are (left rear) Carl Properjohn, Alex McLean and Phil Price with (left front) Trevor Jones and Paul Leahy.

What a walk!

A Nice Walk in tbeJungle

by Nan Rodswortb. Pub by Viking Kestrel, bb $16.99.

)bung historian La Sallians believe that delving into the past with an eye on the future — is definitely the way to go!

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Set in a fantasy jungle full of leopards, tigers, elephants, baboons — all the wild animals of all the continents — this is the story of a group of school children taking a

very unusual Nature Walk, Their teacher. Mimiellaby. is a fenent nature lover and while she points out to the children all the minutiae of the jungle life, she fails to see the big animals lurking in the background. More importantly she fails to notice that they are being followed by a

very boa hungry constrictor . .

One by one the children disappear and hit by bit the boa constrictor grows fatter and lumpier!

Will Miss JelLiby realise what is happening, before it is too late and she too falls prey to the boa constrictor's appetite? Will she save the day — and all the children?

Nan Bodsworth worked for two years to complete the gloriously detailed drawings which give the story such appeal. She has created a beautifully lush jungle with great depth and colour, and exquisitely drawn animals.

As well as being an entertaining story. Nan hopes that teachers will use the hook as a starting point for discussion about ecology and conservation. There is a different bird feeding its babies on each page and there are many creatures hidden in the foliage. Spatial concepts such as "above". "over, "under", etc . . have also been woriced into the story

Cuddly bubbles Welcome, Little Baby by ABM. Published by Piper.

Wekome, little Baby is an enchanting 24 page picture hook, guaranteed to make all baby-lovers and parents of new-horns go gooey at the knees.

It is also a lovely introduction to babies for older children with a new addition to the family

People and books

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through A P..)urnev . _.Vidlije and AgeingMARY d'APICE Living it up at the recent Paulian Ball, these members know heels and show the world how it's done!

Growing old

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The Paulian Associa- On the get-together Last week they had tion for widowed, scene, they have a home their general meeting divorced, separated Mass every first Friday in and Mass at the North .•.. and single parents say the month, a guest Perth monastery folmore people should speaker once a month lowed by a bring and buy know about them and two social Saturday f und raising social gathering. because of the fun outings monthly.

The Paulians say they they have when they Scheduled for the long are a warm, friendly get together. weekend of June 2 and sharing group who are

Spread the news in effect!

A nnual membership costs $10 and they're always eager to have new members to swell :•*.• the ranks.

3, the Paulians are planning to stay at a Northam. hostel where they'll take part in camel riding, hot air ballooning a nd general fun activities.

FAITH IN SEARCH OF

UNDERSTANDING An Introduction to Theology

Simple terms Faith in Search of Understanding by Cisaries Hill. Published by Collins Dove. $12.95.

Theology is a demanding discipline and can often be a rather tortuous experience for beginners. Problems of language, terminology, history and the bewildering of theological positions confront all those who commence studying theology This impressive book covers

a broad range of subjects.

Faith in Search of Understanding is a significant achievement and fine synthesis of development of the fascinating field of Christian theology Written by Australian theological scholar and lecturer at Sydney's Catholic College of Education, Charles Hill, it is a pure and simple introduction to a difficult topic.

into lots of fun and suggest you go along to • check them out to see it ••• it's really true!! Anyone i nterested can contact Tony on 370 2422 or Maureen on 362 2747.

In Danger's Hour by Douglas Reeman Published by Pan. $10.99.

Minesweeping . . a war without glory where death lurked beneath the sea or floated from the sky A war without mercy or discrimination. The men who fought this lonely battle did so knowing it was an essential one. Every day, and in CWIT kind of weather, the sea lanes had to be cleared to allow convoys to enter and leave a country under siege. The ships faced danger from the air, E-boats, even submarines, but mainly their fight was against an unseen enemy — an endle&s, deadly battle with the mine.

In Danger's Hour is the story of one such ship, the fleet minesweeper HMS Rob Roy, during those desperate fourteen months from April 1943 to D-Day in June 1944.

Noon to .Vightfall by physical charges and develMary d'Apice. Published opment in both men and

by Collins Dove. $16.95. women during the second Holistic in its approach. half of life.

Noon to Nightfall describes This book is vital reading with sensitivity and the for all children, parents, necessary detail the physio- grandparents and health logical spiritual, sexual and professionals.

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Microwave Vegetable Cooking byJudyJackson Published by Macdonald Orbis.

With today's emphasis on healthy eating, new cooking methods that make the most of vegetables are welcome.

The microwave method is perfect for this: it's quick, clean and easy and retains the maximum nutrients and goodness of the food. The vivid colours of the vegetables are preserved, and flavours are intense and concentrated after cooking.

The textures, too, are firm and crisp while being well cooked and tender.

Vegetable Microwave Cooking combines the most up-to-date style of cooking — your vegetable dishes will be tastier, healthier and brighter than ever before. ' This book contains over 130 original recipes on a vegetable theme, all spe-

cially written with the microwave cooker in mind.

It covers a wide variety of both common and unusual fresh vegetables from tomabeans, broad toes, courgettes, leeks, spinach and mushrooms to asparagus, artichokes, salsify, sweet potatoes and many more.

Not all recipes are strictly vegetarian — meat and fish are included in some of the dishes for flavour and variety, ensuring that the book has something for everyone.

Chapters include simple vegetable starters, hot and cold soups, side plates and buffet platters, main courses, cold dishes and salads, stuffed vegetables, sauces and dips. The recipes are exciting and tempting — such as courgettes with pine nuts and lemon sauce, salmon trout in spinach envelopes and aubergine diamonds with green mayonnaise.

The Story Makers II. Edited by Margaret Dun /de. Published by Oxford University Press. bb. $16.95.

In The Story Makers II, Margaret Dunkle, expert on books for children and wellknown reviewer, has interviewed over 60 writers and illustrators from New Zealand and Australia. The interviews are directed at children. The people interviewed talk about their likes and dislikes, their aspirations and how they came to write books for children.

Ms Dunkle, a former librarian, says in her introduction, "I had spent many frustrating hours trying to dig up information about the authors and illustrators of Australian children's books for my young borrowers.

WhenI did find something it was usually written for

adults: dull, dry facts with the life squeezed out of them. So, in the first Story Makers,I tried to offer young people a vivid and interesting reference, as well as an insight into the Ihrs and work of the authors and illustrators who create the wonderful books being published today Ihoped that such a book would encourage young people to read more widely and appreciatively and also inspire their own creativity by providing them with a better understanding of how successful writers and artists go about their work."

Margaret Dunkle has now provided another inspiring book for children which is a fascinating and useful source of information on some of the best writers and illustrators working in the world of children's books.

WA pioneer Dearest Isabella. The life and letters of Isabella Ferguson 1819-1910 by Prue Joske. Published by Oxford University Press. bb $28.50, pb $18.50.

Isabella Maxwell was born in Dundee in 1819. She married Dr _John Ferguson in 1839 and the couple migrated to WA in 1842 with their two oldest children.

After four years at Australind, Dr Ferguson was appointed Colonial Surgeon at Perth. a

position he held for over twenty-five years. The Ferguson family also developed the famous Houghton vineyards near Perth.

The book includes letters written between the years 1842 and 1910 by Isabella and members of the Ferguson family to their Scottish relations. These have been transcribed and annotated and placed within their historial context.

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NEWMAN SOCIETY

On Monday June 4, at 8pm in the Senior Common Room St Thomas More College, Crawley, Father P Bishop SJ lecture on "Newman's Catholicism". This is the third event to celebrate the centenary of Cardinal Newrnan's death in 1890. Open to all interested. Contact no:

BOOKS AVAILABLE NOW! Disability and Human Relationship: Christian Values in Personal Development. Australian Catholic Social Wetfare Commission.

This book is written for families, carers, counsellors and the community generally, to enable them to gain a greater appreciation of the needs, hopes, joys and frustrations of individuals with disabilites.

Price $6 per copy.

St Vincent De Paul Book Shop 19 Bronte St, East Perth 325 3244 Open Monday — Friday 10am to 4pm

PILGRIMAGE

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NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING 221 3866

The theme "Our Children, Our Schools, Our Values" will be addressed by several speakers at the P & F Conference on June 2-3 at the Catholic Education Centre, Leaderville, including Bishop Hickey, Mr Denis Whitely (R & I Bank), Mr Leo Dunne (QM), Fr Peter Slattery, Mr Tom Roberts (principal) and Dr Julia Solomon (psychologist).

Registration details from the Federation Office (09) 387 5377.

Open to the public.

CLERGY CANCELLATION

Owing to the sudden illness of Father Ken O'Riordan's father, Father O'Riodan has returned to Ireland. The clergy day of Reflection on Scripture scheduled for Tuesday May 29, has been cancelled.

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VVYCOMBE SCHOOL

The High Wycombe Catholic Primary School has been approved by the Shire of Kalamunda. The site bounded by Wittenoom and Kalamunda Roads and the rail line to the West will be a possible future church and parish centre site.

Stage one will provide facilities for 2 classes, with library and administration accommodation. The initial enrolment will be approximately 60 pupils in pre-primary and Year 1. The school will be ready for operation in February 1991.

P & F CONFERENCE

Twice monthly group departures

Tel 321 3930

AMU. !MEL . IMP awe

The Catholic Social Justice Commission presents its monthly 1st Friday discussion featuring Archbishop Foley "Reflections on Cambodia"

June 1 — 7.30pm Cathedral Parish Centre 450 Hay St Perth

Member of the Australian Council of Natural Farnits. Planning Inc

FRANCISCAN VISIT

The world spiritual director of the Lay Franciscan Order (S.F.0.) at 3pm on June, 10 at St Lawrence Church, Balcatta, will preach at Mass. Afternoon tea will be served in the Alverna Centre after the Mass and Father Jaime Zudaire OFM will be available then for a question time.

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MAJELLAN AGM

The annual general meeting of the Majellan groups of WA will be held on Sunday June 10 at the Subiaco parish centre commencing at 10.30 am sharp.

All groups are most welcome and asked to bring along their reports. if unable to be represented please sent reports to Bernadette Nicoletto 3 Byfieet St Morley 6062.

Lunch: The committee will provide soup and those attending are asked to kindly bring a small plate of sandwiches, cakes etc.

Mass will be celebrated during the day, by our chaplain Fr Pat Cunningham.

PENTECOST CHARISMATIC

The Catholic Charismatic Renewal of Perth will present The Grace of Pentecost in a celebration Mass in St Mary's Cathedral at 7.30 pm on Pentecost Sunday June 3.

The Norbertine Tradition and Experience

Country clients welcome. Phone or write. *Natural Family Planning Centre 27 Victoria Square

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Vocation Co-ordinator Fr Tom McNulty 0 Pram St Norbert's Priory QUEUNS PARK WA 6107

Shared Life Shared Prayer Shared Ministry

CHOIR SCHOLARSHIPS VOICE TRIALS

For the Parish Choir will be held during October for boys aged 8-11 years of age. Successful applicants will be educated at the

CHRISTIAN BROTHERS COLLEGE

Fremantle and awarded a Choral Scholarship covering the cost of school fees.

Consideration may also be given to older boys with ability whose voices are as yet unchanged.

Application forms may be obtained from: The Parish Priest, The Church of St Patrick Fremantle 6160 and returned by June 30, 1990

40th anniversary ordination to priesthood

Father William Buckley PP Cloverdale Monday, June 4, 1990

to be celebrated with Mass at 5pm followed by a buffet dinner and soda/. 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 2.77 2369.

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Youth and Family Pilgrimage for Peace July 8-23 1990 Spiritual Director: Br O'Doherty (Trinity College).

Tour Leader: Dr Tony Baker (John XXIII College).

Includes Bangkok city tour, • Dubrovnik city tour • Prayers induding Rosary, Communion Services and Prayers for the Sick • Meeting the SEERS at their village concerning their daily meeting with Our Lady, the Blessed Virgin Mary • Climb `PODBRDO' Pe Hill of Apparitions) and Mount `KRIZEVAK' (Mountain of the Cross).

Also visit Father Jozo Zovko at Tihaljine and attend Mass and listen to his sermon. (He is the first priest who was aware of the Apparitions of Our Lady.)

15 NIGHTS / 16 DAYS TOUR COST A$3100 per person share triple room.

Under the patronage of Our Lady Queen of Peace this pilgrimage is open to students, staff and families of Catholic colleges in Perth. It offers the opportunity to take part in the spiritual renewal activities offered at Madjugorje.

Tour co-ordinator Stephonie Crees a/h 385 1308 PROFESSIONAL TRAVEL SERVICES PTY LTD PO BOX 251, WEST PERTH WA 6005 1304 ItiAr STREET, WEST PERTH, WA 600%.

TELEPHONE (09) 324 1234. FAX (09) 481 0890.

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