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Priest ordained in Geraldton On the night of May 23 Father Brenton Taylor was ordained by Bishop Hickey in St Francis Xavier Cathedral, Geraldton.

Born in 1947 he was educated in Scotch College, Perth. A convert to Catholicism he entered St Charles Seminary in 1982, completing his studies in St Francis Xavier Seminary, Adelaide in 1989.

Newly ordained priest Father Brenton Taylor celebrates Mass with Bishop Hickey who had just ordained him.

Present at the ordination were his father, his brother Tony with his wife Cheryl and many friends from Adelaide, Perth and Geraldton.

Twenty-two priests concelebrated at the Ordination Mass with the enthusiastic participation of a packed cathedral.

Father Brenton Taylor spent many years in the commercial world, mainly in advertising in Australia and overseas.

After his ordination Father Taylor expressed his joy at the wonderful response of the people. "I realise," he said, "that their enthusiasm was not just for me, it was evidence of their appreciation of God's gift of priesthood and the ordination of another priest for the Diocese of Geraldton."

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DAMNED IF IT DOESN'T RAIN AND DAMMED IF IT DOES SYDNEY: Eritrea needs peace, peace and rains, and if they could have that for a number of years I think we would be seeing a totally different picture of the Horn of Africa, says Australian Catholic relief worker Maureen Postma who has just returned from the area.

In a cruel irony the rains expected to fall in Eritrea over the next few months may well sound the death knell for thousands of people who have been on the brink of starvation because the rains failed last year.

Insufficient rain then meant that few crops grew. These same rains now may sever the villagers' only life line — food aid.

Maureen Postma said many of the tracks used by the food aid trucks were river beds.

The coastal plains in the north of Eritrea are often transformed into rivers and lakes during the rainy season.

So the trucks carrying food through this barren land could be held up for days or even weeks.

'There is virtually nothing in the food storage so they need a continuing supply of food aid delivery up until November and the pledges that they've got only cover about one tenth of their expected needs for the next six months," she said.

She said if the food supply could be maintained people would

ride out the famine and then be able to harvest their own crops in November.

And while distribution throughout the country is maintained the people will remain in their homes and continue to work the land.

This, she said, was vital in diverting a disaster similar to that experienced in 1984/ 85 when thousands of people left their homes in search of food and thousands fell victim to disease that spread rapidly among the weakened masses in the refugee camps.

Ms Postma said much had been accomplished in Eritrea since the last famine more than five years ago and that early warning of the

famine now affecting the country had adverted another major crisis.

The people, she said, were also better prepared with only 35 per cent suffering malnutrition compared with 70 per cent in 1985.

Eritreans had achieved some remarkable accomplishments considering the conditions under which they were forced to survive.

Food distribution was efficient and quick and a sense of good organisation oprated within the country.

Committees took care of social needs ranging from health care, agricultural development and land reform to education and women's issues.

Village health workers, birth attend-

ants and bare foot doctors were being trained and the Eritreans produced their own medications, surgical drips and saline solutions.

An adult literacy program had also started and soldiers often had classes during lulls in the fight for independence.

"The joint relief program within Ethiopia is also a very efficient way and a very reliable and trustworthy way to deliver food in areas of need. We are able to account for both the money that we receive in support from the Australian community and for the support that we receive through the A ustral ian government."

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Prayer answered THAT'S THE BELIEF OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD Before the Vatican Council John XXIII prayed with the whole Church that through the forthcoming council the Church would be renewed by a new Pentecost.

"Renew your wonders in our time, as though for a new Pentecost and grant that the holy Church may increase the reign of the Divine Saviour, the reign of truth and justice, the reign of love and peace."

Millions of people in the Church believe that prayer has been fulfilled in the Church by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit through the so

called Catholic Charismatic Renewal.

Like wild fire this movement has been spreading all over the world bringing many people to a personal relationship with the Risen Lord who subsequently blesses them by releasing in them the Holy Spirit.

From the midwestern U.S. in 1967 it spread out to all parts of the world.

Where in the beginning it affected a handful of priests and laity it now claims the allegiance of popes, cardinals, bishops and theologians of the highest rank.

It is a movement that has swept the whole of

the Church and has as its avowed aim to become the normal way of life for all Christians.

Yet, there are still many, perhaps the majority, who have not yet got the right idea of what it is all about.

Many others claim that it is not their cup of tea.

Definitely, those who tasted it's spiritual experience do not want to force it down the throat of anyone. Neither to see themselves as the only ones touched by the Spirit of God. What they insist upon is that the basic elements of Charismatic spirituality are not optional for anyone who decides to accept and follow the Christ of the gospels but are part and parcel of the Christian way of life.

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PUBLIC LECTURE "THE IDEA OF A CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY IN AUSTRALIA" PROFESSOR TIMOTHY O'MEARA PROVOST, UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, INDIANA, U.S.A.

Professor O'Meara is a distinguished educator who is a Trustee and Governor of the University of Notre Dame Australia. He has been actively involved in the planning for the University and has an extensive knowledge and experience of University education in several countries. He is familiar with the issues involved in the debate on Catholic universities.

TIME: 8.00pm 14 June 1990 PLACE: James Nestor Hall Catholic Education Centre 50 Ruislip St, Leederville.

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By Fr Frank Delia (OFM) square one in it's faith in Jesus as presented and proclaimed by the Apostles and especially by Peter on the very first day of Pentecost.

"The whole House of Israel can be certain that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ (Saviour)" Acts 2:14.

This is the main proclamation of faith of the Church and the one needed to be saved.

This confession is not simply a mental acceptance of a truth revealed to us but an experience of it's reality touching the very core of our being.

It is the seed of a new life of God in us.

It leads us to repentance of our sins and to the outpouring of the Spirit of Jesus in us.

Role of the spirit: The Catholic Charismatic Renewal holds that the Holy Spirit is the same one of yesteryear.

He and His role have not changed at all in the Communion of the people of God. These, like those at the time of the Apostles, do

receive the gift of His outpouring in them whenever they really and truly accept Jesus as Lord of their lives.

St Thomas wrote that it was normal for the first Christians to have such an experience of the Spirit, of His power and of His gifts in their lives.

Certainly then, such an experience can and should be the normal experience of Christians in the world of today.

There are many millions of Catholics who today do give public witness of a personal Pentecost in their lives.

These Catholics are spread in many countries and among all positions they hold in the Church.

Each of them tells a story of how the prophecy of Joel and the promises of Jesus were experienced in their lives.

In these stories there is a hard to explain similarity.

First, there was a time of preparation through prayer and penance.

Then complete surrender of their lives to Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour; a confession of belief in Christ's

promise to send His tial agent of the Church's Spirit associated with a task but really, he is the cry of need for that Spirit dependant agent of the and a prayer, "Come Holy Spirit.

Holy Spirit" followed by The attitude is expectant praise and expressed in these words, thanksgiving.

As a result God's Spirit "Holy Spirit use me as came in a way that you will." This surrender radically changed their to the Spirit triggers the flow of divine power. lives.

Our role as ChristPersonal Pentecost: ians: It is well to remind What the Church expeourselves that the task rienced in the first given to us by Christ is Pentecost becomes real the same given to Him by and makes sense to us His Father. when it becomes a Indeed, we all agree that personal Pentecost in this role is beyond our which we personally are human endeavours. touched by His presence But we are assured and and and melted encouraged that Jesus moulded, filled and promised to us the power healed by the power of of His Spirit to build us God's love. up, to empower us and That is the moment of enabling us to fulfil His truth in which the plan for us. mystery of God's love, Touched and gifted by Jesus Our Lord and His Spirit we can go Saviour and the Holy ahead to do even greater Spirit, our Mentor and thinp than He did.

Minder, will become in We are indeed his frail faith our personal expeinstruments. Still he rience treasured in our makes us mighty by His hearts which leaves us Spirit. hopelessly poor to express the wonder of it The Catholic Charismatic Renewal is not all by simple human some kind of new organ- words. isation of the Church.

Perhaps the only word It is a rediscovery of the that attempts to fill that thought of the Church, void is the untranslatable emphasising that man Hebrew explanation: himself is not an essen- ALLELU-YA!

Monastery Viet vocations booming retreat a big draw

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By Dom Francis Byrne OSB

Prayer, meditation and the Paschal Mystery were the themes of a weekend retreat held at historic New Norcia Monastery last weekend.

The retreat, organised by the Mandorla Centre of Inner Peace, attracted a large group, including a couple from Brisbane.

On the Saturday night a candle-lit Eucharist, conducted by Fr Kevin Long OSB was held in the Abbey Church.

Fr Long, who is a post-graduate student at the University of Western Australia, gave several talks during the weekend. Fr Long has studied in Trinity College, Dublin, as well as in Rome.

There was also an opportunity for the group to paiticipate in the monastic liturgy and share the Benedictine hospitality.

The Centre, which began in Perth in 1983, has an important connection with New Norcia in that it has established the Mandorla Art Prize which attracts artists from all over Australia. The paintings are exhibited at the New Norcia Art Gallery.

The Secretary of the Centre, Mrs Cath Albuquerque, told me that it was originally set up to fulfil certain needs within the Church community.

"We began with visiting speakers, retreats and Christian meditation," she said. "We are now linked with the meditation net-work of the Benedictine Priory in Montreal under Laurence Freeman OSB." The Priory's founder was the late Dom John Main OSB.

MELBOURNE: VOCATIONS to the priesthood from the Vietnamese community in Melbourne are booming.

The ratio of such vocations to the number of Vietnamese Catholics in the archdiocese is also high.

There are 20 seminarians training for the priesthood in a number of orders.

Nine of them are seeking to enter the Society of Jesus, three are with the Dominicans, three with the Redemptorists, two with the Franciscans and two at Corpus Christi, Clayton.

Fr Bart San, one of the two chaplains serving the Vietnamese Catholic community in Melbourne, said that there were severe restrictions imposed by the Communist Government in Vietnam on the ordination of priests and on seminarians.

Last year the government had given permission for two seminaries to open.

Before the Communist takeover, there was a minor seminary in each diocese and a major seminary in each region, he said.

Fr Sandy Andrew Hamilton Si from Campion College said that many people came to Australia because of various restrictions imposed on them in their native countries, and one such restriction was on religious freedom.

The decision to become priests was very often one that young Vietnamese Catholics had taken before they had left Vietnam, and some were continuing their studies s eminary interruped in Vietnam.

Fr John Neill, the newly appointed prior of the Dominican Order in Victoria, said that to the best of his knowledge, vocations had not sprung from the local Vietnamese community, but from the refugees who had already begun their priestly studies in Vietnam.

There are already two Blessed Sacrament priests from the Vietnamese community.

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'Liberating' Aussie affluence by vision of the Gospel Australia's affluence needs to be liberated positively and freely by the vision of the Gospel, Sr Helen Lombard, president of the Australian Conference of Major Superiors, told Federal politicians at an ecumenical service marking the opening of Federal Parliament in Canberra.

Sister Helen . . . a sermon 'first'

Sr Helen was the first woman and the first Regligious to give the sermon at the service the by organised Australian ParliamenChristian tary Fellowship.

At St Paul's Anglican Church, Sr Helen spoke of discipleship ". . we cannot simply privatise discipleship . . . it is social concern which Christianity makes Christian."

"An individual, a Church, a government, a country can be characterised as having a private

mind, totally preoccu- and action that liberates pied with its own agenda, people and land from all absorbed in its own that is unjust, that domestic concerns, be oppresses, diminishes, they personal salvation, enslaves. party politics or narrow "Religion, discipleship, ecclesial issues," she said. is about public life, its And she asked: How do arena is in the public we "do justice" in this sphere. It demands of us Australia of ours? a solicitude for social Christian discipleship is reality. a call to "take on the It means we weep with larger social agenda — to the people of Nyngan as live and act publicly" as we work practically to Isaiah was "called as an help rebuild their lives, Andrei Sakharov, to be we dance for joy in the the conscience of his streets of Prague and at times, a prophetic figure the Brandenburg Gate as in public life, witnessing we see the walls come to values not held by the tumbling down."

Establishment, calling The Gospel, Sr Helen his times to an alterna- said, demands of all tive consciousness with Christians "but surely of its hope and promise." those in public office," Discipleship was not not simply to respond to just a commitment to social reality but to Christ in the privacy of constitute that reality, to one's heart but "it is be "world markers . . . continuing his work".

Christians are movers "There is a world out and actors in the historthere. It sets our agenda ical process who care for Christian passionately and poweraction . . . to bring vision fully about the creation

"There is a tendency in Christianity to feel slightly guilty that one has received the gifts of God copiously. Surely human enterprise and wealth and resources are positive gifts of God? From where does Christian hostility and hesitancy to these come?"

The Gospel has to speak to Australians positively and challengingly as a people and a country copiously endowed with resources and "certainly does not ask us to bury or deny the gift — it is rich in themes of stewardship, highly condemnatory of those who bury their talents in the ground rather than use them creatively and with magnanimity."

"But, equally, it is scathing in its judgement on those who build bigger and bigger barns to store up their riches and gifts for themselves, of those who do not see the wounded lying by the wayside, who are blind to the wider social reality.

"Our affluence needs to be liberated positively and freely by the vision of the Gospel, to take up the possibility of the world of the Gospel. opened up by Isaiah and by Christ in Luke. "this is for us, I believe, the cutting edge in doing justice and in shaping Australia by Christian vision and values.

"Without this, our world-making will be scarred and deformed."

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of a world shaped by justice, compassion, freedom, mercy, equity, integrity, peace.

"Where is that cutting edge where the Gospel meets our social situation, where sparks fly, conversion takes place and newness begins?

For many societies, Christians have found this cutting edge in a preferential option for the poor.Isuggest it is, for us, rather the liberation of the affluent.

"Iaccept the fact that an 'underclass' of real poverty is with us, part of our social reality, that it is, in fact, showing disturbing growth patterns and that this must engage us as Christians. Yet in world terms, Australia is a rich country.

"We are affluent — a society in which material wealth is widely distributed . . . rich in terms of Creation and resources.

Hill River project arouses CCE The proposed Hill River power station at Mt Lesueur attracted the attention of the April meeting of Catholics Concerned for the Environment (CCE) and is listed for the group's May meeting this week.

CCE members concluded that current

debate presented an interesting challenge to Catholics, in terms of their attitudes to the environment.

Questions arose such as: What kind of power generation do we want for our State in the future?

Is sufficient emphasis being accorded to power conservation (as water conservation has successfully been addressed)?

How do we see our responsibility to God's creation?

Because the proposal for a coal mine and power station at Mt

Lesueur had produced considerable public interest CCE members were keen to obtain an impartial background briefing on the present situation.

The developers were unable to send a representative to the meeting. Their comprehensive publicity

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The Mt Lesueur area has been listed as a proposed National Park since 1983 and contains seven rare botanical species, in addition to local wildlife and spectacular scenery.

The area has been described by Mr John Baas, representing a forum of concerned environmental groups, as one of the State's best kept secrets.

Further information on CCE is available f rom 453 6120 or 382 4490 A/H.

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Guest editorial

ASIA FOCUS Hong Kong

EDUCATION MUST NOURISH THE SPIRITUAL ROOTS OF HUMAN ACTION Last November, the United Nations GeneralAssembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child and established structures to monitor its implementation.

Countries which sign the convention commit themselves to uphold and safeguard children's rights.

One such birthright of children is the right to education.

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Foiled! That bid to bug pope's room

WARSAW, Poland (CNS): Polish secret The report said it was common knowledge in police tried to bug the room used by Pope Poland that pilgrims visiting Jasna Gora during John Paul ll when he visited the country's communist rule were filmed with hidden holiest shrine in 1979. cameras.

DAILY The Solidarity daily Gazeta Wyborcza said the EXPOSES attempt Poland's secret Security Service, which once The convention affirms education's was thwarted by Vatican security staff, had an entire department to monitor the pivotal role in assuring children of all who detected listening devices planted at Jasna POLISH Gora Catholic Church, was disbanded after the their rights. Education, it stresses, also monastery at Czestochowa in southern communists lost power last year. helps them prepare for "responsible life Poland. in a free society in the spirit of POLICE'S The pope's 1979 visit was the first of three "It was clear that the place was stuffed with understanding, peace, tolerance, bugging facilities to a terrifying extent. The pope pilgrimages to his homeland. He is due to return equality of sexes, and friendship among BIG FLOP was notified, and another room was given to him in 1991 for the first time since Solidarity took

all peoples, ethnic, national and religious groups and persons of indigenous origin; and the development of respect for the natural environment."

A s defined, education embraces far more than most of our education systems now provide.

For example, this kind of education calls for sound formation in ethics and spirituality, a basic for any responsible adult action, but how many of four schools offer such knowledge.?

With greater Church emphasis on social and political concerns during the past two decades, Christian involvement in education, especially formal education, has appeared to become an unavoidable institutional burden, low on the ladder of apostolic priorities.

Too often, the Church's motivation for its education practices has been uninspiring, and its investment of finance and personnel have routinely proven to be too limited.

One also laments that non-formal education programs linked to Church bodies have not been consistently attentive to ethical cultural and spiritual formation.

It is worth noting a comment on the convention by Amin Fahim, president of the International Catholic Child Bureau: "If the world still leaves a lot to be desired, if it still contains so much injustice, both concealed and visible, is this not because many of its leaders were not properly educated, in the ethical sense of the term!?"

Religion and culture intertwine at the heart of social andpolitical life in Asia.

The Asian Church, replete with educational institutions and rooted in the religious life of the people, is in a privileged position to contribute to a pedagogy of moral and spiritual education.

Initiatives cultivated by the Asian Church are awaited, and its collaboration with knowledgeable and dedicated educators could dramatically accelerate the development of authentic education.

In recent months, we have witnessed an upsurge of freedom and respect for human rights, but our world has also seen growing threats to freedom and human rights from religious fundamentalism, from political repression, and from economic and cultural domination.

Our children need educationalpedagogies that nourish andstrengthen the spiritual and moral roots of human action, and an enlightened Church response to this need has never been more urgent.

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Desecrations condemned PARIS: Church leaders in France denounced recent desecrations of Jewish cemeteries in Europe and said the acts represent a challenge to Christian consciences.

Cardinal Albert Decourtray of Lyons, president of the French bishops' conference, joined tens of thousands of people in a silent march through Paris to protest the vandalism.

Cardinal Decourtray, in a letter to the chief rabbi of France, Joseph Sitruk, declared his indignation and "deep regret" at the cemetery desecrations. "Real believers should feel

involved and horrified by these facts," the

cardinal said.

He added that "the mutilated dead of Carpentras are terrible signs that should reawaken our conscience, our attention, and make us work harder for justice and tolerance."

"May these signs be interpreted correctly and understood courageously, if there is still time," he said.

The French bishops' committee for relations with Jews also expressed "horror" at the acts and its sympathy with the whole Jewish community.

'Priests must help couples' VATICAN CITY, (CNS): Priests must help married couples overcome "the weakness which leads to concupiscence" by encouraging reception of the sacraments and by stressing church teachings on "responsible procreation," said Pope John Paul II.

"The doctrine on marriage and the family that the priest is in charge of

transmitting is not simply a theory," the pope said. The priest "also translates the wisdom by which the ordinary assistance of the Holy Spirit nourishes the faithful for their growth in the church." he added.

The pope spoke to a which the Redeemer plenary session of the came to re-establish," the Pontifical Council for the pope said.

Family.

"That which is taught Regarding "the truth by the church on respon- about married and famsible procreation is ily love, the pastors of the nothing more that the new covenant know that original design that the it is not enough to teach Creator stamped on the the new law, which humanity of men and illuminates the conduct women who marry, and of everyone," he added.

"Priests "must also open the door to grace, which is a remedy for the weakness which leads to concupiscence," said the PoPe. To do this priests must be "continually available to offer the richness of sacramental grace dispensed by the church," the pope said.

to the specific situations of each country," he said.

The international conference is scheduled for May 14-15, 1991, in Rome.

"Rerum Novarum", Latin for "On New Things", was dated May

"the great charter which must be the foundation of all Christian activity in social matters."

The encyclical was an effort to provide Christian guidelines for resolving labour problems caused by the Industrial Revolution and growing Marxist influence among workers.

Centenary conference plan VATICAN CITY, (CNS): The Vatican is planning an international conference in 1991 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of "Rerum Novarum", Pope Leo XIII's landmark encyclical that forms the basis of the modern church's social doctrine.

A letter to the world's

bishops by Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

Asks dioceses to organise local commemorations to emphasise teaching Catholics "their social responsibilities assumed as a moral

imperative of their entire Christian life."

"The celebration of the centennial of Rerum Novarum' should not be limited to an updated reading of the encyclical," said Cardinal Etchegaray. But based on the dual level of reflection and action adapted

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They'll meet pope Knights' pledge ROME (CNS): At the milestone in the emerVatican's request, sev- gence of the Eastern-rite eral Ukrainian bishops church in the Ukraine. are expected to meet Over the past year, the with Pope John Paul II church has won the right to register with local in June for talks on the authorities and been church's future in the able to worshiphas publicly Soviet republic. without government About six of the interference.

Ukraine's 10 secretly ordained Eastern-rite The encounter also bishops are expected to would allow the pope to attend the meeting, late have a direct voice in in June. settling disagreements The meeting would be a involving the Ukrainain

Church, the Vatican and the Russian Orthodox Church.

Observers said that in meeting with the bishops, the pope wants to show his solidarity with Ukrainian Catholics and may also want to send them a signal. One likely agenda item will be the Vatican's attempt to mediate an ongoing conflict over church buildings in the Ukraine.

WASHINGTON, (CNS):— The Knights of Columbus have promised $3 million to the U.S. bishops to help pay for services of public relations and polling firms in a pro-life campaign.

The Knights said they committed another Si million to expand their own pro-life efforts, including distribution of materials to members of the Catholic fraternal organisation.

The 1.2 million Knights in the United States were to be asked for contributions to pay for those two efforts.

When Cardinal O'Connor of New York announced the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' campaign he said the $3 million-$5 million cost of the three to five-year campaign would be raised entirely from sources outside the bishops' conference.

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Pope's warning on threat to life...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul II expressed alarm at the rapid destruction of the world's tropical forests and said the process was threatening countless forms of life.

"Even the quality of human life, because of its dependence on the dynamic interaction of other species, is being impoverished," the pope told scientists at a Vatican sponsored forum on forests.

The pope cited the great

potential medical value of plants and microorganisms in tropical forests, such as those used in producing antibiotics.

"Unfortunately, the rate at which these forests are being destroyed or altered is depleting their biodiversity so quickly that many species may never be catalogued or studied for their possible value to human beings," the pope said.

The pope blamed an "unjustified search for

profit" as the leading cause of forest destruction and asked: "Should a concept of development in which profit is predominant continue to disrupt the lives of the native populations which inhabit these forests?"

He also noted that poverty, too, endangers tropical forests — as when foreign indebtedness forces countries to "unwisely administer their hardwood resources in the hope of

a matter of numbers. It is reducing that debt".

Likewise, he said, the a cultural and moral attempt to create lands issue, as well, he said. for farming or pasture is He said the Church an example of inapprop- would continue to conriate means used for demn coercive populagood and necessary aims. tion programs and "In this case the solu- uphold the right of tion of an urgent prob- couples to decide about lem can create another, children according to equally serious one," he moral and religious beliefs. said.

The pope said that The pope spoke to while population pres- participants of a Vatican sure is often cited as a forum on tropical forests, major cause of forest sponsored by the Pontifdestruction, demogra- ical Academy of phic expansion is not just Sciences.

_Amazon folk losing battle ROME, (CNS): A group of Brazilian bishops on a visit to Rome warned that the Amazon's people and land are losing the battle against increasing "devastation and depredation," fuelled mainly by the search for profit.

They also urged companies and creditors to halt the unchecked exploitation of the vast Amazon forest area.

The current pace of

development, they said, is already threatening the survival of some local native populations and the future generations of others.

"Our faith in the God of life moves us to take a position against all sowers of death," they said.

The pope told the bishops privately that he was concerned about ecological damage to the region and said he wanted to visit

there during his next Brazil, to trip expected sometime during the next two years, the bishops said.

The pope visited the Amazon during his trip to the country in 1980.

In describing the the to damage Amazon, the bishops were critical of Brazil's environmental policies.

They said one reason for the burning of

virgin forest areas was to obtain economic aid offered by the government — part of "an absurd national policy under which the tearing down of a forest is considered a good thing."

They said more than 300,000 prospectors, victims of national agrarian policies, have helped dig up entire river beds in search of gold. The processing of gold has left rivers full of mercury and other

deadly chemicals, turning fish into "poison" for local peoples, they said.

The bishops criticised proposals to build dams and hydroelectric facilities, saying they would flood large areas of forest and destroy the habitat of many local tribes.

Road building has opened up whole sections of the Amazon to exploitation, they said.

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Spare his life plea

WARSAW: Bishop Henryk Muszinski, chairman of the Polish bishops' Commission for Dialogue with Judaism, has stated that the role of Pope John Paul ll in resolving the Auschwitz convent dispute was "most important" even though the pope never spoke about it directly.

The decisive influence, the bishop said, was the pope's 1988 speech to a Jewish audience in Vienna, Austria, about the proposed construction of an Interfaith Centre of Information, Education, Meeting and Prayer at Auschwitz, and about the "rich fruit" he hoped would come from it.

Bishop Muszinski said his commission publicised the statement, and because of the extraordinary authority of Pope John Paul in Poland, people accepted the plan to build the centre, for which Cardinal FrancisMacharski of zek Krakow broke ground last February.

The bishop described the centre as an "honest compromise" between Jews who wanted the convent Carmelite removed and Catholics.

Thompson to grant clemency to convicted killer Charles Walker.

"If Charles Walker dies, the life of every Illinois citizen is diminished," Bishop Ryan said in a letter hand-delivered May 18 to Thompson's office.

Walker's execution is scheduled for September 12. It would be Illinois' first execution since 1962. Walker, after pleading guilty to killing two people in southern Illinois, was convicted in 1983.

Walker, according to Bishop Ryan, "sought and won from the Illinois Supreme Court the 'right' to die by lethal injection".

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that life. It is within your power, Governor Thompson, to restore that right to its only proper executor".

Capital punishment, Bishop Ryan said, "cannot bring back to life those who have already died. It cannot restore the social order, it does not effectively deter other serious crime".

"Capital punishment can only weaken our reverence for all human life," Bishop Ryan said.

"The sacredness of all human life is threatened each time any human life is violently destroyed."

In 1988, Bishop Ryan and 15 other Illinois Catholic bishops issued a statement against the death penalty.

Massacre is 'fruit of policy' MILAN, Italy (CNS): The massacre of Palestinian workers by an Israeli and the subsequent Israeli military action against protesters is the result of the government's policy to extend its domination over Palestinian territory, said Latin-rite Patriarch Michel Sabbah of Jerusalem.

Patriarch Sabbah was commenting on the mass murder May 20 of seven Palestinians by an Israeli and the further killing of 10 Arabs. In addition, Israeli security forces wounded more than 700 Arabs in an effort to quell mounting protests in the aftermath of the mass murder.

Israeli authorities denounced the massacre,

attributing it to a "deranged" person, and arrested an Israeli suspect.

The actions are "the fruit of the policy followed with great determination by the Israeli government, which aims to extend its own domination to all Palestinian territories," said Patriarch Sabbah.

"For more than one month in Israel a government has not been able to get off the ground, and the reason for this is the unhealthy split that exists over the Palestinian situation:' he said.

"If they will not accept the idea of the dialogue, they will not form a government," he added.

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In trips to Mexico and Czechoslovakia and in a talk to Italian bishops, the pope has warned that c ommunism's failure does not mean countries should automatically adopt "liberal capitalism" as the way to economic development.

Although the pope never criticised capitalist countries by name, the Jesuit-run magazine La Civilta Cattolica — which reflects Vatican views — ran an 11-page editorial on May 19

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saying that Europe must the liberal capitalist avoid "the political, system". economic and military interests "Special imperialism of the Uniwould like to take the ted States". analysis to the extreme, La Civilta Cattolica to present the system officials describe their that they believe the magazine as a non- victor as the only road for Vatican publication at our world, basing themthe service of the Vatican. selves on the reverses Its editorials and major suffered by contemporarticles are reviewed by ary socialism," the pope the Vatican Secretariat of said.

The pope criticised an State before publication. eagerness for "exclusive During an April 21-22 does not take profit" that Czechoslovakia, trip to into account the limited Pope John Paul warned resources of many Third East Europeans that the World countries. He said dangers that renewed capitalism contains "the "contacts with the West temptation to convert the can bring must not be national community into underestimated". something at the service the of the special interests of in "Prepare churches entrusted to the company". your care suitable Speaking to Mexican immunising defences bishops, the pope called against certain 'viruses' consumerism "a continusuch as secularism, indif- ing and humiliating ference, hedonistic con- offence, especially for the sumerism, practical poor, who at times are materialism and also denied not what is formal atheism, which superfluous, but what is today are widespread." most necessary for a he told Czechoslovakian dignified life". bishops April 21.

In a May 18 speech to In Durango, Mexico. Italian bishops, the pope May 9, the pope told said Eastern Europe businessmen that only a might have moved away "superficial" interpreta- from materialistic ideoltion would consider ogy, but like the West it communism's fall in remained vulnerable to Eastern Europe "as the W estern -style triumph of failure of one materialism. system over another, In different ways, he especially the triumph of said, Eastern and West-

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But it was La Civilta Cattolica that went a step further and warned against US dominance.

The editorial analyzing the messages of the pope's Czechoslovakia trip stressed "the necessity for Europe to unify its own energies in order not to succumb in the face of the United States and of the economic competition from Japan".

The editorial added that a united Europe must also "be brought back to Christianity" and that moral and spiritual values must guide political and economic integration.

"The new Europe would get off on the wrong foot" if stronger nations took advantage of the current weakness of Eastern Europe, it said.

'There is the risk that the new Europe will be made by the big mercantile and financial forces, with economic and political aims predominating," it said.

"Instead of a Europe founded on solidarity and freedoms we would move toward a Europe founded on money and power," it added.

Western Europe, "after an initial enthusiasm" over the fall of communism, has expressed "a certain coldness" toward the East, and "above all, a great difficulty in coordinating aid programs", it said.

"Also strong is the 'imperialist' temptation, in other words the tendency of the Europe 'victorious capitalism'," it said.

"It seems to us that European unity cannot be built on the current capitalist model, which is always. in an open or hidden way, imperialistic," it added.

The juxtaposition of the evils of communism and capitalism — found throughout the social documents of the current pope — has been called "moral equivalency" by some US 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 tip the scales definitively in capitalism's favour.

The East still Condolences 'vulnerable' VATICAN CITY (CNS): Eastern Europe might have moved away from m aterialistic ideology, but like the West it remains vulnerable to Western-style materialism, Pope John Paul II said.

The pope said both halves of Europe now need "a new and great impulse" of evangelisation so that the faith can animate society.

He was speaking to a meeting of Italian bishops on May 18.

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emphasised that the fall of communist regimes in Eastern Europe marked the failure of Marxism and "made clear the illusion of an ideology that tried to build humanity's future under the sign of the denial of God".

This political renewal has opened up great possibilities for the Church in society, he said.

"But at the same time the serious problems regarding the Christian texture of society are becoming more and more GVIUGHIL.

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VATICAN CITY: Hanoi's late archbihad shop given "remarkable pastoral service", said Pope John Paul when he sent condolences on the death of Cardinal Trinh Van Can. The pope prayed that the 69-year-old cardinal who is believed to have died from hypertension would find peace with the Vietnamese martyr saints.

The Vietnamese government protested when Pope John Paul canonised 117 Vietnamese martyrs in 1988.

The dead leader had been co-adjutor archbishop of Hanoi since 1963, taking charge of

the diocese in 1978 and becoming a cardinal the following year.

He became president of the bishop's conference but is believed to have been eased out of the position last year through government pressure.

In 1987 his departure for a synod meeting in Rome had been delayed by the government and eventually he pleaded illness for his inability to attend.

He had been listed to attend the bishops' synod later this year.

His death leaves the number of cardinals at 147 with 110 below the voting eligible age of 80.

Medjugorje row BISHOPS IN BATTLE OF WORDS OVER 'APPARITIONS' W ASHINGTON, (CNS): Bishop Pavao Zanic and Archbishop Frane Franic have faced off again in a public exchange accusing each other of misrepresenting the facts of the alleged Marian apparitions at Medjugorje, Yugoslavia.

During a US visit Archbishop Franic has isssued a response to Bishop Zanic of the Mostar-Duvno Diocese, where Mediugorje is located, who denounced the apparitions in a 16-page tract he delivered to Vatican officials in mid-April.

The bishop accused the alleged visionaries and the Franciscan priests who support them of lies, manipulation and "fabricated miracles".

Archbishop Franic, recently retired head of the neighbouring Archdiocese of SplitMakarska, responded with an open letter to his fellow bishop.

He accused Bishop Zanic of "poor knowledge of mystical theology" and of making false and unprovaccusations able against some of the Fransiscan priests

the promoting apparitions.

From the bishop's list of complaints, Archbishop Franic wrote, "one could conclude that Medjugorje is a mud puddle of sin, heresy, treasons and greed, and that all of this is leading to destruction".

But he said from his own personal experience he considered Medjugorje "a holy place".

"Our Lady was appearing in Lourdes and Fatima and, in my opinion, is now appearing in Medjugorje," he wrote.

A commission of the Yugoslavian bishops' conference has been studying the claims of apparitions at Medjugorje but has not yet reached a decision.

The two Yugoslavian prelates have engaged in several public disover agreements Medjugorje since the alleged apparitions to six local children began in 1981.

Archbishop Franic asked Bishop Zanic why, in his pamphlet, he should seek and dig out the past life of these individual Fran-

ciscans (promoting the Medjugorje apparitions) and bring out before the world the sins which they committed according to your findings".

"Forgive me if I tell you, as an older brother, that you are making an error regarding fatherly love," he wrote.

"It is also methodically wrong," he added. "One can answer to you, then, our Lady that appeared to sinners and not to the righteous, as it was the case of her divine Son." Referring to a long series of instances detailed by Bishop Zanic in which he said he caught the visionaries in lies and contradictions, Archbishop Franic said the bishop's demands for consistency failed to take into account the "human element" that is acknowledged even in the church's norms for interpreting divine revelation in Scripture.

"Some people find such 'contradictions' in the holy Scriptures . . . It is no wonder, then, Father Bishop, that the same fate awaited, in my

opinion, the words of our Lady, pronounced to simple children who did not study theology and who are not recording on a tape," he wrote.

He said similar problems "were acknowledged in the visions and conversations" of

St Bernadette at Lourdes and the three children who saw Mary at Fatima. The church eventually judged that the apparitions at Lourdes and were Fatima believable.

Archbishop Franic urged Bishop Zanic to

"please go sometime, maybe even incognito, to Medjugorje and begin to hear the confessions of the pilgrims."

"In this way," he added, "I am certain that you can best get to know Medjugorje

— by seeing the miraculous conversion of souls, the greatest miracles which are happening in Medjugorje, in far greater numbers and in far greater intensity than in any other parish in Herzegovina and even in Lourdes."

Life saver

Bases a lesser priority: Bishop MANILA, Philippines (CNS): As the first round of talks on the future of US bases in the Philippines ended, Philippine Bishop Franciso F. Claver said his nation's economy and environmental abuse are of greater importance.

The bases continue to be one of many problems facing the country, but are a lesser priority compared to the problems of eco-

nomic survival, social justice and the environment, said Bishop Claver, director of the National church's Secretariat of Social Action.

"You can have the bases here and still sovereignty, have depending on the treaty. With environmental problems you either have life or you don't," the bishop said.

"When the Americans leave, it won't automatically bring a just

society. That's why I feel problems of environment and social inequity are more pressing," he added.

Bishop Claver said c ompensation touches the heart of the bases problem, noting that "rent is a matter of justice, something due you."

"If we can't agree on this, how can we trust each other and proceed to the next phase of the talks?" he asked.

Synod's spotlight VATICAN CITY (CNS): The October world Synod of Bishops probably will focus on ways to increase spiritual preparation among priesthood candidates and strengthen their formal education at seminaries, said a top Vatican synod official.

Archbishop Jap P. Schotte, general secretary of the Synod of Bishops, said: "One main

issue is the need for deeper faith formation and commitment to one's faith in the Catholic That's community. where a lot of problems start (for priests). They are much more challenged and much less supported," he said. concern Another expressed in pm-synod responses was the need for well-prepared teaching staffs for seminar-

ians. The demands on these staffs are much greater than in the past, Archbishop Schotte said.

He said the questions of married priests and women priests probably would be marginal ones at this synod.

"They are outside the agenda of the synod.

That doesn't mean they won't crop up in discussions," he said.

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Coping with pressures of marriage

By H. Richard McCord When a couple stands before family and friends to pledge love "in good times and in bad," do you ever wonder if they have the vaguest notion what that might mean for their marriage?

It probably is unrealistic to expect it. You might hope, however, that they acknowledge two things: 1. Their wedding marks the beginning of a faith journey known as marriage.

2. They cannot make this journey without the help of God and other people.

It is becoming more common to describe marriage as a journey.

The metaphor has religious significance. Recall Abraham's journey to an unknown land, the Hebrews fleeing Egypt, Jesus going up to Jerusalem.

Such journeys are mixed with joy and sorrow and include

smooth travel and turbulence.

When one enters marriage as if embarking on a journey, the good and bad times can be understood in a new light.

Rather than unconnected events, they become stages on a single journey.

The journey's pressure points can be accepted as invitations to growth.

Journeys require assistance from others. Marriage is no exception.

The sacrament of matrimony confers grace upon a couple; the Lord promises to be present at all stages.

However the couple must open themselves to God's power and to the healing available through the church's ministries.

Couples who interpret marriage as a journey seek help not just on the verge of a breakdown but in ordinary times, too, when pressure invites growth.

When couples turn to the church, what do they request?

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A ministerial team in Pittsburgh heard these requests: "Get to know who we are and how we live." "Acknowledge families as holy." "Support our growth through education, small groups and support programs."

A family-life specialist finds that people want models of others who have successfully negotiated a life passage like raising teen-agers.

Also, couples seek information to help prepare for changes in their marriages and families.

A woman who works with families reports that couples want "company on the journey."

They want to discuss their ordianary triumphs and defeats with other couples in groups.

With the help of these others, they can view an e xperience through the eyes of faith.

When do couples look to the church for education, support groups or other resources?

Many instances are child-related.

DISCUSSION POINTS What support can the church give to couples? What kind of support makes a difference?

Selected Responses From Readers: "After 31 years of marriage, I can say I think the church has kept our marriage together . . .

I think the church needs to have religious counseling for troubled families." Ed Bussey.

"The continued support we've received through our involvement with Marriage Encounter has kept us close through job changes, relocation and family crises." — Steve and Peggy Geiger.

"Workshops have been very good for us, especially those that clarify that Catholics can be in mixed marriages and still be good Catholics." — Inge Clay.

"Give a series of marriage enrichment talks one evening a week for five weeks, let's say, or one full Saturday or Sunday program several times a year." — Kathy Wilkinson.

The birth of a first child causes a couple to adjust expectations. When a child enters adolescence, the couple may be stirred to examine family cornmunication and values.

And living with the older generation can place just as much pressure on a marriage.

In the later years decisions about the care of

elderly parents become critical.

Other marriage pressure points are associated with employment or the lack of it. A wife returns to, or leaves, the work force. A husband is transferred or decides to pursue another career.

When both spouses are employed, there are continuing concerns

about child care and household sharing responsibilities.

A couple's adjustment to the inevitable "empty nest" is another pressure point.

Increasingly couples are also confronted with adult children returning to live at home.

In these seemingly normal times of stress, couples say they struggle with issues like time, money values, communication and spirituality that underlie the decisions they feel called upon to make.

Here is where the grace of matrimony touches a couple.

This grace can come through a church which ministers to the whole of a marriage. Parish and diocesan programs are an example.

Frequently offered are programs such as Parent Effectiveness Training.

There also are focus groups dealing with issues like sexuality and substance abuse. conduct Parishes retreats for special

groups like at-home mothers or retired couples.

In a few Texas parishes the baptismal preparation program connects a young couple with an older "sponsor couple" who help them understand the adjustment precipitated by the birth of a first child.

Dioceses sponsor renewal weekends for the newly married or single parents.

Several diocese use the Program REFOCUS which provides material that couples use by themselves or in groups to stimulate growth in areas like communication and compatibility.

Another diocese offers programs on strengthening step-families and coping with stress in two wage-earner families.

In another large diocese weekend retreats place children in supervised groups, allowing parents to participate in education and prayer.

There are groups and lay movements whose

apostulate marrik ges.

nurtures

The Christian Family Move !lent and the Team! of Our Lady createI ongoing groups of co iples for prayer, learniiig and action.

Mari iage Encounter and w3ekends help couples cevelop habits of dialog re and a common prayer life.

Othes offer a weekend and fullow-up program to thoie experiencing a seriou; breakdown in their riarriage.

Some retreat houses specialize in progams for families.

In addition to all these efforts, there is the prevailing sensitivity parish leaders demonstrate toward the realities of marriage and family life.

This is known as adopt"family a ing persp3ctive." often the best It evidence that the church is serous about nurturing married couples at the pressure points on their ourney.

When couples need help

By Jane Wolford Hughes R seems consistent with the vows taken in the sacrament of marriage that a Christian couple should be able to expect comfort, understanding and direction from the Church as they enter marriage and go through their married lives.

Recently I came into contact with two creative programs for couples.

My husband and I met

Karen after Mass ow Saturday evening.. Sae was an acquaintance of our friend, Anne.

I didn't expect nu re than a few moments of the usual pleasantries.

However, she took p 'euse aim at me and said "I understand you are in a second marriage.In ed advice, can we talkr My husband !noted into the silence arid suggested that I call 'er Monday morning, ooce we were settled.

She agreed. I was

for grateful compromise.

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Despite my desire for vacation, my heart responded to the hurt hiding behind her cool words.

She needed help.

Monday, before I called Karen, I had the good fortune to speak with Mimi and Terry Reilly.

They co-host an all-day workshop for people second entering marriages.

The biannual conferences serve between 15 and

20 couples each time.

They include widows and widowers, and people whose former marriages were annulled.

The program, in its third year, is sponsored by the diocese's Pastoral Ministries Department.

Mrs Reilly is its director.

A nine-person team offers presentations on attitudes, communication, sexuality and spirituality.

Lay couples are the presenters, except for the session on the sacrament

of marriage, which a priest gives.

Each session includes time for one-on-one communication.

Karen's conversation centred on her relationship with her future husband Fred's three children, two teenagers and a five-year-old girl.

The little girl was loving but the teens were belligerent, she told me.

Part of Karen's suffering was inflicted unconsciously by Fred who did not acknowledge their

resentment.

He kept saying: 'They'll get over it." She saw them as circling like gulls ready to strike at any moment.

I admitted that second marriages could be risky, especially if people are not sensitive to each other's "historical pasts".

This is the Reillys' term for the dangerous mentality of: "But we always did it that way."

It has been my experience that there must be enormous good will and

generous giving by everyone involved, including in-laws and friends.

I strongly recommended that Karen and Fred attend the Reillys' workshop.

They did and later Karen told me that it was "down-to-earth, not preachy and spiritually supportive".

Karen added that following the workshop they were better able to talk about everything, especially the kids.

In the Detroit archdio-

cese, married couples can benefit from a program in which several parishes act as a catalyst in making counselling services available to parishioners through an independent group of and counsellors psychiatrists.

Though not part of the diocesan structure, the group works side by side with diocesan programs.

Parishes place notices about the counselling service in the parish paper, make referrals

and provide space for the with meetings counsellors.

In some cases the parish supplements the fee paid by the couple or the individual.

In the program, dedicated lay persons work in dose collaboration with priests and pastoral staffs so that professional guidance and the compassion of the Church can be made available to help couples grow in healthy, Christian loving, relationships.

Support for marriage, biblical style When couples were family, the Christian married in biblical community. times they were not Here too the couple simply cut adrift to found love and support make it on their own. to sustain them through They remained an intimarried life. mate part of two closeThis life, with its knit communities.

The first community increasing responsibiliwas their blood relatives, ties, its ups and downs, usually a considerably its inevitable tensions and misunderstandings, extended family. was never consistently This family celebrated smooth. the wedding with them But there was always a and the festivities drew all involved closer shoulder to cry on, a wiser and more expetogether.

The newlyweds were rienced head to offer sage surrounded by people advice, to smooth out the with a personal stake in bumps. their happiness and who There were, however, ongoing some people in Corinth provided support. who got carried away in Often enough these their spirituality and same people formed part proclaimed that marital of a still more extended relations were wrong.

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ual consent for a time" (1 Corinthians 7:5).

It was open season on marriage in those days.

They insisted that "it is There was a growing philosophical movement a good thing for a man which insisted on the not to touch a woman." exclusive goodness of the The clear implication spiritual and the evil of was that it was a bad the material, the thing to do. physical.

By the time the first St Paul disabuses them of this view, assuring New Testament letter of couples that they have a Timothy was written, positive right and duty to advocates of this view give physical experession posed a serious threat and the author resists it. to their love.

Once again the comIn the process he brings munity, through an out the delicate mutual- a ccredited teacher, ity of married love: They rushed to the support of have given themselves to married couples, assureach other. ing them that their He writes, "Do not relationship not only was deprive each other, not evil, but positively except perhaps by mut- good.

In 1 Timothy 4:3-4, the author gives this strong assurance: "For everything created by God is good and nothing is to be rejected when received with thanksgiving."

Every age has known people who make it uncomfortable for married couples, either by smearing the institution of marriage of trivialising it and not taking it seriously.

And in every age couples have found support in their faith enlightended communities.

They have the comfort of knowing that they are not alone in their efforts to find happiness in each other. Their extended family is there to help.

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Geared up for golden joy the Holy Spirit Congregation where he lives in Co Meath, and two sisters joined the Presentation Sisters' missionary endeavours in India.

They are now retired in their convent in Co Kildare.

Typical of the pioneering stock who came to Australia's shore, Father O'Flaherty pitched in and "gave the country and faithful a hand" when he arrived in the Geraldton diocese in Well known priest 1941 after his ordination identity in the Gerald- in All Hallows Dublin in ton diocese, Father 1940.

O'Flaherty, is currently He was assistant priest in Ireland preparing to at the Geraldton cathecelebrate his golden dral also servicing Greejubilee of priesthood on nough, Walkaway, Bluff June 25.

P -int and Bootenal until It should be some his appointment as PP to gathering of the clan, Cue, Big Bell and Reedy. because of the nine Soon after his arrival in O'Flaherty children two the Goldfields, Father of his sisters had ten O'Flaherty began his children each, one lifelong works of raising brother seven and the money and building, other two five each. working alongside the Four of the O'Flahertys, parishioners as "one of who can trace back their the boys" and in that ancestry for 3000 years spirit of camaraderie, in the west of Ireland, going out shooting with became priests and sis- them, fraternising with ters. Father's younger folks at the various brother Richard joined celebrations, and visiting

the sick and dying — many other priests had blessing the non- that commitment and for Catholic dying in hospi- that and the giving of tals as well as the themselves, they are Catholic flock, much to loved and remembered. the gratitude of all.

After "17 happy years" A generous man he in the Murchison Goldopened his coffers to help fields, Father O'Flaherty other struggling Catholic was transferred to Minenterprises, and is loved genew in 1963, then on to Perenjori, and respected for "nur- Morawa, turing the spirituality, of Latham and Buntine in his people, being with 1968 and ultimately them in the good times as became PP of Mullewa, well as the bad, visiting Yalgoo, Murchison Shire their homes, listening to and the fairly recent their troubles and leav- mining town of Golden ing solace, comfort and Grove, in 1985. love behind".

Always one to settle He made many friends down with the locals and covering the immense share their lives, Father areas he serviced and O'Flaherty's popularity piloted his own Tiger continued as with other Moth in order to service postings, and Mullewa Cue, Big Bell, Wiluna and toasted his 50th celebraMeeka t harra, sometimes tions with some style, saying three Sunday just prior to his recent departure for his annual Masses.

Irish vacation.

The enormous span Although maintaining between Meekatharra and Wiluna is consi- great interest in his former homeland and dered one of the loneliest relatives' doings, Father in the state and 200 mile O'Flaherty has a lot of the drives between centres required a special tough- true-blue Aussie in him and said he wants to be ness and dedication to buried in Geraldton give the Sacraments to alongside his fellow far flung outposts of priests — with whom he Catholic civilisation. worked so long in the Father O'Flaherty and Australian field.

Father O'Flaherty, who has just notched up his Golden 50 years of priesthood, with a recent publication This is Your Life written from research, anecdotes, facts and "hilarious happenings"!

North to a 'rewarding

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard Kulumburu, the old Dryesdale River Mission reference in the Atlas, is 5000km from Perth in the extreme north of WA. It's mainly accessible by aircraft and four wheel drive and has a small white population of • r0und 15.

Neville Anderson sought something more, so he went as far north as Kalumburu mission. The experience was, he believes "very rewarding!"

They're mainly full blood Aboriginals on the `dry' mission (no alcohol) from the large Kwini

tribe, the Kalaris and the Walambis. All together they number 260 of which a hundred are children.

The Benedictine sisters have given much service to these people with Sisters Scholastica (Solly) and Visitation (Visi) having notched up 40 years apiece and Sister Josephine 17 years.

Benedictine Father Anscar McPhee has been there for about five years and Father Patrick McAtamney for the last couple of years having

been at Lombardina previously.

Neville Anderson is a young man, boiler maker by trade, who decided he wanted a bit more from life, so went up to Kulumburu as a lay missionary.

He spent the past eight months there and did a variety of things from fixing video games in the Aboriginals' games rooms, to the serious jobs of boiler making and building.

There were light sides too of course such as

fishing and swimming daily if you wished, to escape from the heat or just plain fun, and the countryside according to Neville "is just magical!"

The population is largely Catholic and the previously mission taught children now have a government school.

There is also a government shop which is manned by mission staff and supplies are brought in by aircraft all year round, and a refrigerated truck during the dry

'Great' Gorby DUBUQUE, Iowa (CMS): Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev -is one of the great visionaries of our time," Holy Cross Father Theodore M. Hesburgh, president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame, said after he had received his 119th honorary degree.

"I think he's an extraordinary guy. I told him I'd pray for him every day, and I do," said the priest, who knows Gorbachev personally.

He argued that Americans should take the past year's massive shift in international politics as an opportunity to address neglected domestic problems.

Father Hesburgh, 73, is a regular traveller to the Soviet Union and has quasi-diplomatic status there, with a free visa that allows him to come and go as he wants with no baggage check.

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"Nobody was really prepared for" the upheaval throughout Eastern Europe in the past year, Father Hesburgh said, but "it all goes back to that man named Gorbachev."

"He's done some extraordinary things, such as calling on the pope — something that none of his predecessors dared to do," he added.

"Not only did he go there (to the Vatican), but he also said that the religious and spiritual are very important in keeping stability in our day."

He said that despite Gorbachev's many problems, he thinks the Soviet leader will prevail. "There's really nobody behind him," he said. "There are a few others, but by and large, nobody else of his stature.

"He has been at the heart of this whole development," he continued.

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season between April and October.

Their water hole is big enough to supply Perth, states Neville, and needless to say unpolluted, however it does have chemical additives put in when pumped up to the header tank before supply.

The store also provides tourists with provisions and petrol when they camp on the beach.

Mission buildings and housing for the Aboriginals was originally built

It's happening in Midland ments as outlined by the Shire and State Governments, Father Robert also expressed much enthusiasm for a chance to work younger with the Midland parish priest generation. from 1975 to 1980 Father Robert Mat"Because we have to get thews OFM has the young people returned to take up this involved in the emerging position for the next Church." few years.

Western Australian It's rather like "being St Brigid's school will born and bred Brother back home" for Father have to move out to Robert Stewart OFM has Robert who was a well- Middle Swan but Father been sadly missed by his known identity during Robert said he hopes many admirers during his Midland days and there will still be a his three year absence was welcomed back by church in Midland. and was welcomed back many familiar to Midland with much During his Midland enthusiasm. parishioners.

Originally from Mel- days, Father Robert was Returning to the Midbourne, Father Robert also chaplain at Pearce land Friary as guardian, a went from Midland to do while servicing the end position he held during a year's post-graduate of his parish run which his previous term (which studies in London, a extended as far as Gingin was the first time a Friar diploma course in pas- and Bindoon and extend- Brother has been given a toral theology, followed ing all the way to Lake Guardianship), Brother by a Franciscan renewal Beeramullah.

Robert also took up for a month at Assisi.

Father noted the last position as RE coordinaFrom there he moved family who lived up tor at Trinity College. on to Singapore as parish there were 57 miles (91 After Brother Robert's priest of St Mary of the kms) from the front door profession he taught at Angels and guardian of the Midland Friary! the Friar's Padua College from 1982 to 1986.

Looking forward to the in Brisbane, for six years After that, three years in future Midland develop- from 1976 — 1981, and

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard

Adelaide in the same capacities and back here in January as Midland's PP. Father Robert notices many changes Midland has undergone "and its state of catharisis in as much as planned development will soon go ahead, but meanwhile there is a mess!"

experience'

by the Benedictines but more recent homes have now been built by the government.

The Aboriginals who traditionally were food gatherers, have lost that strive and drive because of financial hand-outs which stifles industry in most people, and now only go out for the occasional bush tucker as a diversionary pastime.

Some help produce food crops with Benedictine Brother John or do other works. And cattle have now been intro-

duced on the mission. entertainment," said The sisters bake bread Neville. three days a week which The whole experience is sold in the shop and has been a rewarding one Sister Josephine is the "which was hard physinursing sister who cally and mentally," he attends to health prob- said. "But very worth lems at the clinic, backed while. up by weekly Flying "It was very satisfying Doctor visits. meeting the mission Most pregnancies are people white and Aborigsent on to Wyndham inal and the greatest part before reaching full term. about it is that it isn't a The games room of the money oriented mission "is a big hit with l ifestyle." the Aboriginals when it's opened three times a And as far as Neville is week and Saturday concerned — that made night, being the main all the difference.

Fr Perkin

Franciscan retreat house in Dardanup headed by Father Michael Brown OFM. In 1987 Brother Robert Meanwhile Father Leo became guardian of the Brisbane novitiate as Curran OFM is doing well as RE teacher and some parish retreats, said Brother Robert, with two coordinator at Padua.

John He returned to Mid- Presentation Sisters land along with a new and Acquinas, in the team of four other Friars, Bunbury diocese. in January.

Another Friar returning the West is Father to Brother Robert said his Perkins who Finian Order is in the process of arrived in January from starting a pastoral planQueensland. ning program under the During 1970 — 1974 direction of American Passionist priest Father Father Perkins was based Yuhaus; the initial meet- with the Friars in Collie ings began this month and then moved over to and will involve the Brisbane on parish and Franciscan Order in supply work.

Australia, New Zealand This will be similar to and Singapore. the work he will be doing Other Eastern States in Midland — visiting the sick and lonely in Friars are coming to their homes and at Swan the facilitate Perth to program and the local Lodge plus two nursing facilitator in WA is homes as well as Swan Brother Jim Fitzgerald Districts hospital. from Collie.

During his absence

then joined La Salle College during the years 1982 — 1986.

Apart from their Midland and Collie communities, the Friars run a

from WA, Father Perkins moved between Melbourne, Sydney, Bris-

bane, Townsville and Midland Friary will continue with this work Bendigo.

Student Friar Brother Father Perkins who is Cutagar is spending Sam with the very involved Franciscan six months at the MidSecular Order will continue with land Friary doing his six this work in Perth and months pastoral term said that looking into the and enjoying the chance immediate future, he to be away from the saw the Franciscan's student scene into the survival very much tied thick of the pastoral in with the Secular activity.

Franciscans.

Into his sixth year with Most people who've the Friars, brother Sam been to the West are did his postulancy in NZ always keen to be back in 1985 and novitiate in and Father Robert Mat- Queensland in 1987 and thews, Father Perkins in between did studies at and Brother Robert said the Yarra Theologica I "absolutely Union in Melbourne. they're delighted to be here!"

Brother Sam said he'd Prior to his arrival in been in the rag trade Midland, Father Hugolin prior to joining — a bit Bourke OFM was cha- like St Francis of Assisi!' plain to the Christian — and believes with his Brothers in Woolongong. movement between Li Salle College and the He has also taught at the parish, it will enable him Friars' Padua College in to view the different Brisbane where he was apostolates to determine Rector. his own future direction.

Father Hugolin has After his return to worked in parishes in Melbourne in July, Victoria and New South. Brother Sam will conWales and based at the tinue with his studies.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS): Soviet envoy Yuri E. Karlov took up his diplomatic post at the Vatican, saying an agreement was near on the legalisation of the Ukrainian Catholic Church.

Karlov, the Soviet Union's first permanent diplomatic representative to the Vatican was met by Vatican officials.

Karlov said he had held talks in Moscow with his Vatican counterpart, Archbishop Francesco Colasuonno, who was making his first diplomatic tour of the Soviet Union.

"I should say that perhaps already we have found a solution regarding the legalisation of the Byzantine-rite Catholic Church."

In the Soviet Ukraine, or the EasternByzantine-rite Catholic Church is believed to have close to five million members, who have had to practice their faith clandestinely since 1946.

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the Meanwhile, churches have been allowed to conduct worship services without interference. Karlov said the Vatican was currently attempting to make a survey or "map" of Catholic communities throughout the Soviet Union, along with the number of priests needed.

Commenting on his new diplomatic role, Karlov said the exchange of envoys should work to the "mutual advantage" of the Vatican and the Soviet Union.

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Of mothers and money Mrs G.J. HARDING Dianella Sir, Over the last 10-15 years, motherhood and family life has been battered until it is scarcely recognisable.

Those women who leave the paid work force to take up mothering as a full time career face a stiff financial penalty.

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celebrated milestones in their marriages in the year 1990.

Celebrating 30 years of marriage this year are Billie and Bob Wyatt, and Paquette and Jacques Parisot.

One couple celebrate their twenty fifth Bernie, originally from Kalgoorlie and anniversary: Brenda and Trevor Black.

Mollie, originally from Maylands, were Two couples notching up fifteen years celebrating 50 years together. He is a parish acolyte and his wife has been on are Janice and Angelo Tropiano, Sheena several committees in the Embleton parish and Valentino Palmieri. of which they were foundation members.

And one couple celebrating their tenth But there were others who also anniversary, Rita and George Jacob.

Mollie and Bernie Scott of Embleton parish, pictured holding a special blessing from Pope John Paul II were at the top of the billing when many parish couples made Mothers' Day a special occasion to renew their commitment to marriage.

Allen's key to CPY

The highs and lows of her TAE at Newman two years' youth work College in 1985 before formed another thread undertaking the first woven into an already year of a science course varied and exciting at the University of life, according to Western Australia.

Cathie Allen, who During Year 12 she retired last week from joined Doubleview AntiCatholic Parish Youth. och, and moved on to the Cathie, 22, of Nedlands, Christian Union (UINA) came to work fulltime for the following year.

CPY in 1988 having lived In 1986 Cathie also in Indonesia and Eng- helped initiate 'Crusadland as well as Australia ers', a youth group for 12and after experience of 15 year olds, and in 1987 five separate youth helped run `Pax' for year organisations!

11 and 12 students in The eldest child in a . Doubleview parish. family of six ("who have She joined the CPY supported me all the Neway Team in 1987 way"), Cathie completed and, after participating in

a six-week youth ministry seminar, decided to offer herself to CPY for two years fulltime youth work.

Chosen to follow Margaret McVeigh on the CPY staff in May 1988, Cathie joined Andrew McLean and Clare Corvaia (nee Pavlinovich) for what turned out to be a most eventful stint in the Youth Office in North Perth.

Asked to recall her very first youth camp as a fulltimer, Cathie smiles wryly.

"It was very challenging and very new," she said,

. • iv:• Flashback: The Northern Regional camp last year was a high point in Cathie's time in youth work.

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"because I did not know many people. It was also very exciting, since I didn't know what lay ahead!"

One of the major highlights of Cathie's time in youth work was the 1989 CPY Northern Regional Camp held at Fairbridge Farm.

"There was a deep respect gained for individuals, and great trust developed.

"Two new youth groups grew out of that weekend, and most of those people are still growing strong, too!"

Unfortunately youth work also has its hard times, and Cathie reflected that the changes wrought in CPY over the last few months ranked high among these.

The transition from "Neway Team and CPY Fulltimer" to "Archdiocesan Youth Worker and Support Team" had left her feeling burned little out and a disillusioned.

"I wondered sometimes what Ihad to do to please everyone," she said. "I tried so hard to make CPY work, but some

ABC backs youth In a major show of Diocesan Youth Coordisupport for youth organi- nators Network took part sations in the Church, the in a 'full and valuable Bishops' Committee for interchange' with the the Laity met with repre- bishops. sentatives of five national The meeting aired a Catholic youth organisaof common connumber tions during the recent Australian Bishops' Con- cerns of young people, and noted the special ference in Sydney. needs of persons supporting youth ministry in Members of the Young the Church.

Christian Workers, Tertiary Young Christian Of particular imporStudents, International tance was the 'collaboraMovement of Catholic tive rather than competStudents (Australia), itive stance' assumed by Antioch and the National the various movements

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during the meeting, a hopeful sign for the future for all young people in the Church.

Major youth news from the Bishops' Conference also included a report on the continuing phenomenal success of Antioch: 92 Antioch weekends Australia-wide, involving 4000 young people, in the first four months of 1990 alone!

The Conference noted that a shortage of parent couples is virtually the only limiting factor in the continued expansion of Antioch.

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The bishops also gave approval in principle to the proposition that Australia host the next International YCW Conference, due to be held in November 1991.

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laity discussions being organised in conjunction with the Social Justice Council.

The National Diocesan Youth Coordinators Network presented two reports to the bishops: the 1990 youth survey completed by youth ministers in 21 Australian dioceses, and a draft of a national vision statement for youth ministry, which will form the basis of the October network's meeting.

Archdiocesan Youth Worker Cathie Allen, who retired last week, brought man:, unique gifts and talents to her work. types of criticism can be a bit hard to take.

and God's guidance to succeed.

"Although there have been some really great times, I suppose I am relieved to be finishing now," said Cathie. "Dealing with people, trying to put others first all the time, has been a strain on my personal strength.

"The main benefit of what is emerging is that young people obtain an identity and a respect for self," she said.

"Ifeel very pleased with the direction the new CPY is taking, but it needs people's energy

'The realisation that youth are part of the Church community and therefore have a right to be active in the development of that community, will benefit the whole Church.

"lam not saying that the old CPY did not achieve this, but perhaps the new CPY can make this more happen effectively."

"To all of my friends who have kept me going these two years. 'Thank you', and may I have the chance to do the same for you someday!"

Cathie goes on now to continue her psychology studies fulltime at Curtin University.

Flashback: The 'trust walk' which made such an impact during the Northern Regional camp in 1989.

And to celebrate the

Leo seminal encyclical on social justice, "Rerum Novarum", the YCW sought the bishops' support for a series of

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People of Perth

Engaged Encounter fetes priests

Father Robert Matthews, Midland, admiring Ben and Moira Sinagra's fourth son Jacob with Father Barry Whitely of Spearwood who were invited along with all priests to a dinner celebrating EE's 10th anniversary and information night.

ercede wins

1. Mercedes Aerobics Team (a first entry for Mercedes) — won the State Renouf Junior Team event, winning a gold medal each and the prized team trophy! (left rear) Camille Sefton, Lara Marciano, Elizabeth Burgess; (left front) Raquel Alessi, Judith Winders and Natasha D'Silva holding the team cup.

2. Mercedes tennis teams won the State Slazenger Cup and the State Mursell 1 and 2 divisions plus the Herbert Edwards Cup. Slazenger Cup and Herbert Edwards team members (left) Emylou Street, Joanne Deligeorges, Marianna Vlahov, Adriana Szymonik, Kirstine Butcher, Karina Szymonik, Natasha Vahala and in front Agata Chmielewski.

3. Nurse!' team members (left) Rebekah Levitizke, Jenny Keenan, Stephanie McLean, Denise Dorazio, Marika Court, Tamara Vicini and Nicole Dalby.

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Dinner speakers Ron and Ann Trudell from Georgia USA, over here to exchange and input into the worldwide EE movement.

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Father Michael Gaff, Gingin, Teresa Handcock (EE team), Louis Younger from St Charles Seminary and Luke Van Beek, also resident, catch up with a bit of fun and frivolity, aided by some of 'Lou's tall tales!'

Father John O'Reilly of Applecross takes time off between dinner courses to have a cuddle with EE's latest addition — Jacob Sinagara.

Jo Ann sharingO'Neil (Australaslan EE a contact Sinagra bit of fun and (State EE nonsense! withteam) with Father Basil Father Justin coordinator with wife Noseda Bianchini of St (right), also ow the Moira).

Charles Seminary team, and Ben

Dennis and Jan de Burgh EE's secrcts ry cocple, making sure Monseignor McCrann and Father Frank Murphy, Rockingham, don't go hungry or thirsty!

Engaged Encounter Perth threw a dinner night with a free invitation to all priests to help them celeb;ate their 10th anniversary, thank those who are already involved with EE, and inform others who aren't as to how good EE really is.

EE works! Rarely do couples come to an EE weekend without going away greatly enriched by information on real issues and challenging thoughts to consider which are all part of marriage.

Many priests suggest couples go because the experience is considered a vital attempt to stem the flow of broken marriages today. It provided a concrete base of realism on which couples can build a sustainable marriage. 'No information' about the realities of what to expect and what is expected in a marriage, is not a recipe for success according to the experts. So EE are doing whatever they can to promote the stability of Catholic matrimony.

Jan and Geoff Haines (EE's registration couple), being offered a drop of 'grape juice!' by EE team helpers Jan and Joanne Kilbusz.

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THE PARISH SCENE

The Servite Friars will be holding a Day of Prayer for young men considering the Religious Life on Sunday 24th June, 1990.

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EXPOSITION

On the Solemnity of Corpus Christi exposition of the Blessed Sacrament takes place in St Norbert's Priory Church, Treasure Rd, Queens Pad( from 10.30am to 7.30pm. The Prayer of the Church (Liturgy of the Hours) will be celebrated at 12.10pm, 5.45pm Solemn Vespers, 7.15pm Compline and Benediction. Open to the public.

NEWMAN SOCIETY Father P. Bishop SJ will lecture on "Newman's Catholicism", on Monday, June 4, at 8pm, in the Senior Common Room of St Thomas More College, Crawley.

This will be the third event to celebrate the centenary of Cardinal Newman's death in 1890.

Open to all interested. Contact 446 1628.

ST STEPHEN GUILD

In order to re-establish the diocesan executive of the Guild of St Stephen, Fr Peter Joseph would like to hear from any person interested in making a contribution to this level of the liturgical life of the diocese.

Contact St Norbert's Priory, PO Box 354 Cannington 6107 or (09) 458 2729. A gathering of interested persons is projected for late June.

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40th anniversary ordination to priesthood

Father William Buckley PP Cloverdale

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Archdiocesan Calendar JUNE 3 Pentecost Sunday Mass, St Mary's Cathedral, Archbishop Foley.

Mass -- Charismatic Renewal, Archbishop Foley.

Visitation and confirmation, Merrredin — Bishop Healy.

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

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

5 Foundation Day Reception, Council House, Archbishop Foley.

Opening Majella Pre Primary Centre, Archbishop Foley.

Opening WA Research Institute for Child Health, Monsignor Keating.

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

Confirmation, Northern - Bishop Healy.

8 Mass at Catholic Education Centre for staff, Archbishop Foley.

Visitation and confirmation, YOfiC — Bishop Healy.

8-9 National Conference Apostleship of the Sea. 9 Blessing organ, St Patrick's Fremantle Archbishop Foley.

Confirmation, Manning — Monsignor Keating.

10-15 Seminar in Sydney -- Archbishop Foley.

13 Confirmation, Trinity College — Bishop Healy.

14 Council of Priests meeting.

15 Catechist Re-commissioning, St Mary's Cathedral Archbishop Foley.

16 Debutante Ball, VVhiffords Monsignor Keating.

17 St Anthony's Association Mass Monsignor McCrann.

Final Profession Mass, Sr Elsie Tagliaferri Archbishop Foley Confirmation, Ocean Reef -- Bishop Healy.

Confirmation, Riverton — Monsignor Keating.

17&20 Confirmation, Greenwood - Archbishop Foley.

18-22 Clergy Conference 1st Week.

19 Parish Mission, Balcatta - Archbishop Foley.

22&24 Visitation and confirmation, Brentwood Willetton Archbishop Foley.

24 Bless Chapel, Howard Solomon Hostel Archbishop Foley.

Confirmation, Innaloo Monsignor Keating.

25-29 Clergy Conference -- 2nd Week.

27 Lockridge Confirmation Monsignor Nestor.

Monday, June 4, 1990

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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

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

If you are interested in spending a quiet day in prayer and reflection to consider your vocation in life, then you would be most welcome.

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