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Archdiocesan organi- two years with the sations are going to be Tertiary Young Christian asked their views on Students, followed by current adult education two years with Southand so are the people care on a project for aged receiving the adult and disabled. education programs Organisations delivercurrently available. ing adult education in A survey is hoped to be the faith courses will be concluded by the end of asked how they see their September and recom- needs and what gaps are mendation that emerge occurring in their from the survey are services. On the other hand planned to be put into in the parishes people of the end the by place and others will be asked year. how they see what they The survey will be the are receiving and what responsibility of Pastoral executive they would like to have Planning in such programs. officer Anne Harris who The survey will cover all for employed has been groups from the Catholic the six-month project. Education Office down Originally from Kwinana, she graduated in to the smallest agency. No group will be social work after comoverlooked. pleting her education at For Anne Harris, being Iona and then worked for
involved now in adult education holds much more opportunity for developmental work with people as compared with social work which is dealing with patching up problems. Her experience with young students taught her that young people want to come together to discuss their faith and how they are living that faith with each other. Christian education should be covering the whole spectrum of people's lives, she said. "I'd like more knowledge about my faith. But then just meeting people in the same situation as yourself is a great educational tool.
Anne Harris listens to a recorded message of Archbishop Foley to be played to church congregations this Sunday and which includes the announcement of her appointment.
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$45,000 to study A $45,000 scholarship is awaiting a suitable Australian who wants to study social justice at an overseas institution. The successful candidate will be a person committed to the Church's mission in the social justice area and will already have completed an appropriate course at tertiary level. The scholarship will hold good for three years at $15,000 per annum. It can be taken out at an institute such as: the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome; the Institut Catholique, Paris; Regis College, Toronto; Heythrop College, London; St Patrick's College, Maynooth; The Alfonsiamum, Rome; and Georgetown University, Washington. Further information and application forms can be obtained from the Secretariat of the Bishops' Committee at the following address: Bishops' Committee for Justice, Development & Peace Leo XIII House 19 MacKenzie Street North Sydney NSW 2060 Tel (02) 956 5800 Fax (02) 956 5782 (Inquiries to Sister Marjorie Hennessy) The closing date for applications is July 13, 1990.
Cardinal Clancy . . . chairman of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference.
The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference has joined the criticism of the latest advertising material being used in the AIDS education campaign. The new AIDS campaign encourages "socially destructive and personally dangerous behaviour" in the young, says the bishops' chairman Cardinal Clancy. Instead, he says, there should be an emphasis on the positive worth of permanent, exclusive sexual relationships, the avoidance of drug abuse and the need for drug rehabilitation. Cardinal Clancy who has viewed the material has appealed to Community Services Minister Brian Howe not to use the material. The material, and in particular the two condom commercials, tends to promote casual sexual affairs as the norm. These two commercials make no
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mention of sexually transmitted disease. Said Cardinal Clancy: "I understand they will be shown separately from the testimonial commercials. "It is obvious that their sole purpose is to socialise the condom. "The television commercials assume that young people in general have multiple sexual partners. "That message denigrates the capacity of youth for the free and responsible choice of lifestyles which respect personal dignity and worth." While other critics around Australia ask why the adverts target heterosexual acts whereas up to 90% of AIDS victims are from homosexual or drug participants, Cardinal Clancy also questions whether the material is soft on drug usage. He said: "A question must also be asked about whether the National Campaign Against Drug Abuse will be
compromised by the predominant focus in this new phase of HIV transmission. "Drug abuse is on the increase also and it directly risks life and health. "The campaign claims to promote a supportive environment for positive behaviour -change and action, but it serves to encourage socially destructive and personally dangerous behaviour. Condoms for sexually irresponsible affairs and clean needles and syringes do not make the activities either safe or desirable. "I appeal to you to take a more positive approach to youth and to have your Department promote a campaign which assumes a capacity for responsible choice and which emphasises the positive worth of permanent, exclusive sexual relationships, the avoidance of drug abuse, and the need for drug rehabilitation.
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Don Sproxton, Sister Joan Smith and Mrs Robin Beech — were observers at three of the eight consultations, held in the last weekend of May as part of the 1990 Mission initiatives for the Perth archdiocese. The team members said people were so enthused by the outcomes of their social analysis work in the parish and by the sharing at the regional level that they wanted to move straight into making decisions about new things to do. "We have stressed t hroughout this process — and Archbishop Foley has said the same — that we are not going for the quick-fix solution," said Robin Beech. "We need to remind people of the 'Pastoral Circle', the idea that we are taking on a long process of i nformation gathering, reflection, testing our knowledge in the light of experience and then planning action." The eight consultation regions are based on the archdiocesar zones of priests and 64 metropolitan parishes were involved in the consultations which brought
There was a tremendous enthusiasm for getting down to the Invitation to Action questions. And there was a strong feeling that talking regionally was very useful. The Parish Regional Consultations in late
together teams from each parish as part of the 1990 Mission initiatives. The special needs of country parishes will be addressed in a separate series of meetings over the next few months. An average of six people formed the consultation team from each parish, including the parish's Mission Liaison Person (MLP) and usually the parish priest, representatives of parish pastoral councils, parish workers, and the principal of the parish school. At the Fridayevening consultation launch, people left their parish groups and discussed their parish experiences in "regional mixed groups". They listened to the experiences of other people and other parishes and then shared what they had heard with their own parish participants. After this came an unusual session in which people were invited, in their parish group, to creatively design their parish.
Robin Beech described the base materials provided at the consultation she attended as essentially "pre-primary" but said that some representations by parish groups were worthy of the "National Gallery or the Nimrod Theatre". Kalamunda Parish performed a mime. The people from Greenmount blended building blocks with the Year of Mission prayer to tell a reflective story about their experience of and hope for the Church. A t the Saturday session there was a presentation of some key images and understandings of the Church that have developed during its history. At the conclusion of the consultations, people reflected on their experience in the light of what they had heard by way of teaching and from conversation with people from throughout the region. Then they headed back to their parishes with an "Invitation to Action". Here are some reactions and comments from members of the Parish Development Team and from pari-
shioners involved in the consultations: Sister Joan Smith: There was a real enthusiasm among people to share their experience of their social analysis. They became strongly aware that they are not alone in their parish, that they do belong to a wider Church. Mrs Beech: The process of sharing their own situation with other people and hearing what other people are doing engendered enthusiasm for regional meetings. People began to think about the possibilities that regional conversations and support might offer. Father Don Sproxton: They appreciated the opportunity of coming together and learning about and understanding their region. I had the strong feeling that the Grassroots Consultations, from the Year of Mission, and the Parish Assemblies and the Archdiocesan Assembly had been carried through to this regional consultation. So there is truly on-going development.
May concluded with the release of an "Invitation to Action" for parish consideration. The "Invitation" — a set of three questions and an accompanying discussion guide — will be referred by each group at the
Consultations to their parish council. They will then work within the parish, with the parish council, to refine and answer the Invitation questions. Their answers will form the basis of the direction that the project will
take over the next few months. These are the questions, in paraphrased form: — A. How effective are our parish structures in addressing the challenges of our Archdiocesan Mission Statement?
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Brothers council ceremony In the Aquinas College chapel last Saturday night on the eve of Pentecost, the new Holy Spirit WASA provincial council of the Christian Brothers formally took office in a ceremony conducted by the outgoing deputy provincial Brother John Carrigg. The function was attended by Brothers and a gathering of lay people and their families who are associated with the works of the Brothers. • Pictured from left: Brother Gerry Faulkner who commences a second six-year term as provincial superior; Brother Tony Shanahan, a former councillor, now his deputy; Brother Max McAppion who also commences a second term and newcomers to the council Brothers John Baldwin and Des O'Grady.
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Applications are now being called for the 1991 Archbishop Goody Award. The Archbishop Goody Award is derived from the interest received on money donated by Archbishop Goody on his retirement. The award is devoted to further training of the laity for the betterment of Archdiocese of Perth.
The first Archbishop Goody Award was made in 1985 to a Mr John Last and Ms Laura Meyers for projects relating to Engaged Catholic Encounters Groups and Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults. Five years later in 1990 the Award was made to Mrs Christine Choo for work on "Extending Cross-cultural Under-
standing in the Perth Archdiocese". Mrs Choo has taken up her award and is studying Aboriginal Cultures in Broome, Darwin, Bathurst Island and Daly River. There were nine applications for the 1990 Goody Archbishop Award. This was approximately half the number for the 1989 Award.
Any unsuccessful applicant from 1990 has the right to apply for the 1991 Award and Committee Members are willing to answer any enquiries from potential applicants. The only stipulation on applicants is that religious and church employees are excluded from applying.
In the- consultation for the south western region (Fremantle to Rockingham) eight parishes took part. The gathering was strongly multicultuml. And the people were very concerned to see how the parishes and the region related to the various ethnic groups. Dorothy Johnston (St Anthony's, Greenmount): Having to go through the social analysis process beforehand (that is, sitting down and writing up the results of what we found was
going on in our parish) was very good. It made us think where we were and what we were doing. The social analysis process helped people to realise, to become aware of, what was already happening in the parish. Communication was the key. When we got to the point of doing some creative reflection — because we had done the analysis thoroughly, and because we had at the Consultation the chance to bounce our experience off people from
other parishes in our region — a very clear picture of where we were came to me. Our group worked with building blocks to make a picture. And the blocks told things about our parish. Our parish was, like the block, ordinary... even "square". Other parishes with other shapes were more innovative. Some others were behind the limes. I found myself matching the picture we had bat with the lines of the Year of
Mission prayer. My husband and I have been praying that prayer ever since the Year of Mission. The facts are before us. We need to respect tradition. And we need to be sensitive to the needs of the times. Some young people represented the youth in their parish, but this age group was under -represented. One Year 12 student, Kelly Langley from Prendiville College. bravely attended as the only young representative in the northern suburbs region.
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to invitation (Note: The three challenges are in the areas of participation, education and inclusion.) B. Having had experience of regional meetings at the Consultations, how might regional meetings and parish discussions at regional level serve
their parish? C. What support and resources are necessary at the Archdiocesan level for on-going parish development? The Parish Development Team reports that people were very moved by a song used as part of the opening
reflection at the Parish Regional Consultations. This is the lyric: We come to share our story We come to break the bread We come to know our rising from the Dead
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THE CRY OF THE EARTH The beautifulphotographs from the Voyager satellite showed the earth as a blue-green gem cloaked in white, against the darkness of space. That is gradually becoming for many people a symbol of their small — and threatened — planet. The Catholic Church has come late to environmental awareness. Rachel Carson's doomsday warning in her book The Silent Spring was published in April 1962. The Vatican Council which met in October of that year to update the Catholic Church sought to integrate the faith once more .with human endeavours and aspirations, and to expound a liberating vision of life. Nevertheless, the bishops who produced those inspired documents were more or less blind to the wounds inflicted on nature in many parts of the world. Not tillPope John PaulII's social encyclical, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, was published in 1988 did environmental concern finally enter Catholic social teaching, andnot till January 1 this year was there a papal document devoted exclusively to the environment. In it the Pope insisted that the ecological crisis was a moral and religious one, insoluble without planetary co-operation. He said there could be no solution which failed to tackle -the structural forms of poverty that exist throughout the world" driving the poor to ravage natural resources, and the unsustainable impact of the consumer society with its growth economics. The papal teaching on these matters comes out of a tradition which is deep and strong and long-established and capable of exerting great credibility — on condition that it acknowledges the question raised against its own credibility by the population explosion, and provided it shows itself ready to work with all Churches and people of good will in linking concern for justice andpeace with concern for the integrity of creation. If, as the Pope says, the ecological crisis is at root a moral one, then the religions have a special contribution to make. The Sermon on the Mount may contain a code for human survival, working against the assumption that the strong willinherit the earth, supplyuing countermotivations to greed and selfishness, inculcating the love of austerity, urging a care for the neighbour which extends to the whole human family and includes future generations in its perspective. The religious dimension is recognised by secular organisations like the Worldwide Fund for Nature which markedits twentyfifth anniversary in 1986 by inviting leaders of the world religions to a celebration at the tomb of St Francis of There is in the Hebrew and Christian scriptures a wealth of insight and encouragement for a crusade to preserve the earth and build just human societies upon it; there is the Celtic Church's sensitivity to the presence of God in creation, the caring tradition of St Benedict's monks, the kinship for all creatures left by St Francis of Assisi. Here is material for a spirituality of creation which can help to guide the human community and give it hope in the crisis of existence which now confronts it.
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Murder of priest sparks worry CALCUTTA, (CNS): The murder of a Catholic priest has further unsettled the Christian community in India's northeastern state of Manipur, where for several months outlaws have terrorised church institutions. "The demoralised missionaries are gagged, as democratic channels of ventilating their views have been blocked," said a spokesman for the Catholic community. "If the bravest of the lot can be murdered, what is the condition of the ordinary Christian?" asked a Manipur church official. Father Mathew Manianchira, 53, principal of Canchipur Catholic School in the state capital Imphal, was shot dead April 29 by three men while he watched a sports event on the school premises. One of the three assailants shot pointblank at the back of the priest's head. Some priests attending the
sports event chased the fleeing assailants, who opened fire on the priests. Commandos of the proscribed People's Liberation Army have reportedly claimed responsibility for the killing. Father Manianchira served the region for 22 years. "Within five years he helped the Imphal Diocese improve the school's standard," said a church source. The school has more than 1,500 children, mostly from remote areas where no proper schools exist. On several occasions, sources said, money has been extorted at gunpoint from several church institutions, which now conduct all major financial transactions through banks. Missionaries working in the valley areas of Manipur are demoralised, church sources said.
'Rebuild path to spirituality' VATICAN CITY (CNS): Now that the Berlin Wall has crumbled, Europe needs to be spiritually rebuilt, Pope John Paul II said in a message to a major meeting of German Catholics. "Despite all the social, cultural and economic complexities, no state or society can renounce the basics of transcendental morality," he said. "Belonging to Catholic organisations and associations is not enough; the criteria cannot be that of
social commitment or opportunity," he said. "Renew yourselves in faith and in the moral conduct that derives from it," he added. The pope called for the "spiritual rebuilding" of Europe. "Only a Europe which understands its own spiritual roots can find itself and face more efficiently the problems of the Third and Fourth Worlds," he said. "The church does not want to occupy itself
with polities, but it must insist on the values which people need to build their own future," he added. "As a church, we must impede humanity from losing itself in in consumerism and materialism after the overcoming of Marxist alienation," said the pope.
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Reminder for Malta, too VICTORIA, Malta (CNS): Just because the vast majority of a nation's people actively practice their religion does not mean there is no need for evangelisation, Pope John Paul ll said.
Without continued spiritual growth, "religion can quickly be
reduced to an empty and parish, and churches tradition", the pope said for Methodist, Greek during a May 26 visit to Orthodox and the the Maltese island of Church of Scotland. Gozo. About 346,000 of the "You must renew God's 350,000 Maltese citizens spiritual temple through are baptised Catholic. constant conversion as The islands also have a individuals and as a small Muslim commun- community in response ity, a Jewish synagogue, to the challenges of an Anglican cathedral today," the pope said.
The challenge in a society where almost everyone has accepted a faith tradition is "to live the Gospel ever more perfectly and fully, so that the weak, the alienated and the skeptical may not turn away from Christ, but embrace him and his salvation", he said.
The goal of evangelisation, the pope said, is to take the virtues a strong faith life gives individuals and "weave them into the very fabric of society and social institutions; in the family, education. politics, the workplace and in every sector of life".
Life sentence annulled BUDAPEST: Hungary has annulled the life sentence given to Hungarian Cardinal lozsef Mindszenty in 1949. The cardinal had been convicted in the early days of communist rule on controver-
sial charges of treason, espionage and illegal money changing and came to symbolise Catholic opposition to the communist government. The government's decision was based on a new law allowing
review of the arbitrary trials conducted under the previous communist nile.
Cardinal Mindszenty was temporarily freed during a popular uprising in 1956 and made it to the US embassy
before Soviet troops crushed the uprising. He was granted asylum there until 1971 when, under Vatican pressure, he agreed to leave Hungary. The cardinal died in Vienna in 1975.
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THIRD TIME IN VATICAN'S HISTORY VATICAN CITY (CNS): About 500 Vatican lay employees marched silently beneath Pope John Paul II's apartment window to protest delays on salary adjustments and labour reforms. The demonstration, which broke up after a few minutes, was the third labour protest in Vatican history. Following a regular assembly of the Association of Vatican Lay Employees, the workers walked the short distance from the association's headquarters in Vatican City to the St Damasus Courtyard below the pope's office and living quarters. said Organisers workers were upset
about inaction on pay scale adjustments, pensions and employee norms at the Vatican. They also claim the Vatican's Central Labour Office, formed by the pope in 1989, was dealing too slowly with their grievances. "We've decided to request an audience with the pope and ask him to strengthen the labour office. We wanted to point out that in the current situation, there is no dialogue" between employees and administration, said Alessandro Candi, a lay association leader. Vatican officials said the employees' grievances were being dealt with by the labour office and by a number of separate
commissions, some of which include labour representatives. One reason the issues are not being resolved immediately is lack of reserve funds at the Vatican, said one official, who asked not to be named. The Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, said that the workers' points would be "studied seriously." He said it was important to continue a dialogue, respectful which at the Vatican must represent more than a simple unionmanagement relationship.
back into the base salaries, which were set in 1985. They are seeking urgent action on the Vatican's shaky pension program and on a long-awaited plan to standardise Vatican employee categories and norms. The workers also want the Vatican to grant some kind of official recognition to the lay employees' association, Candi said. The employees' association represents about 1,200 of the Vatican's 1,800 lay employees, and Vatican officials have negotiated with its leaders on a number of issues over the years. When the Central the said Candi employees want pre- Labour Office was estabcost-of-living lished, some observers vious adjustments worked questioned whether the
employees' association would continue to play the same role. The labour office, which includes two lay employee representatives, was set up to deal with work-related disputes and personnel policies. The lay employees' association staged a silent protest march in the Vatican in 1982, during negotiations over a wage-and-benefits program that was approved in 1985. In 1988, the lay employees held a "moral strike" to protest a changeover to a delayed pay schedule. They kept working but donated three hours of their pay to charity.
Priest staffing crisis CHICAGO (CNS): The Chicago Archdiocese has been losing an average of one priest every 18 days in recent years. From August 1984 to January 1990 the number of active archdiocesan priests dropped from 960 to 850, an 11 per cent loss. With about 170 priests working full time in seminary teaching, archdiocesan agencies or other non-parish posts, the number in parishes during that same period dropped from 790 to 680, or 14 per cent. If ordinations, retirements, premature deaths and resignations continue at current rates, by the year 2000 the archdiocese expects to have 450 to 475 diocesan priests available for full-time parish work. Father Gerard Broccolo, a formation consultant with the archdiocesan Department of Personnel Services, said most
people won't feel affected until an associate pastor in their parish is not replaced. "As long as they're not experiencing any deprivation, they won't consider it a problem," he said. "Crunch year will be the first Sunday at a major Catholic parish when they can't have Macs because there is no priest available," he said. The number of parishes in the Chicago Archdiocese dropped from 446 in 1984 to 416 in May 1990. The closing or merger of 29 more by June 30, announced in a major realignment plan last January, will bring the total down to 387.
But the archdiocese's Catholic population has remained relatively stable at about 2.35 million for the past several years.
A special Call to drop position pastoral letter VATICAN CITY (CNS): Geographical postion in the Mediterranean between Italy and North Africa has given it a "natural mission" as a mediator in the oftentroubled region, Pope John Paul II said. At his weekly general audience, two days after his return from Malta the pope thanked the 350,000 citizens of Malta. "Malta's geographical
position and its rich history have made it a meeting place of various civilisations, which have left their mark on the language and culture of
the Maltese people," he said. Maltese, the nation's official language along with English, is a Semitic language but has many words borrowed from Italian. "I expressed the hope that Malta will continue to exercise its vocation as a mediator between the peoples of the Mediterranean basin and to share its deeply human and spiritual vision with the rest of Europe in this time of change and cultural development," the pope said.
MILWAUKEE: American bishops' recent draft pastoral letter on the concerns of women lacks credibility and should be dropped, says Archbishop Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee: its tone is all wrong too — "preachy", strident, negative and judgemental.
There can be no credible treatment of the role of women in the Church, says the archbishop, until the connection, or lack of connection, between priestly orders and jurisdiction has been clearly worked out.
"The whole issue of power and decision making in the Church and how they are, in our present thinking and legislation, related to orders is not mentioned.
"The question of whether this situation must be so is not ever raised." But "the gifts of women cannot be fully recognised if leadership roles have to be tied into ordination". The letter had not dealt with this. The pastoral letter (a
second draft, published in April) highlighted the sin of sexism in society
and in the Church, reiterated the rule
excluding women from ordination, and encouraged women to participate in all liturgical
ministries that do not require ordination. Because of the letter's emphasis throughout on equality, the section on ordination of women "comes as an even more chilling cold shower", Archbishop Weakland wrote; and when after that the letter went on to • reprimand society for the inequality of some of its structures and urged
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KRAKOW:— Pope John Paul ll and Mikhail Gorbachev were the two crucial figures in Eastern Europe's political revolution, said Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Agostino Casaroli. Cardinal Casaroli credited Gorbachev with speaking out against the failures of communism. He said the Soviet leader, while facing serious problems, was seeking a real solution — "which is in the interest of everyone to encourage and support" The cardinal made the comments in Krakow, Poland where he was receiving an honorary degree.
nature and the influence they exercised, must surely be considered fundamental" to the change. The Polish pope's defence of human and religious rights had a profound echo in his homeland, he said. Among the East-bloc nations, Poland was the ripest for reform and in fact became the first to challenge its communist regime, he noted.
No less surprising was Gorbachev's emergence, Cardinal Casaroli said. Without naming the Soviet leader, the cardinal characterised him as "a voice of great authority raised to denounce the failure of the system and Cardinal Casaroli said in recognition of the that for decades, as the urgent necessity to Vatican's chief negotiator change direction." in Eastern Europe, he "Gorbachev saw the was convinced that com- need to "turn to demomunism was a bankrupt cractic methods in order system that had moved to heal the mortal far away from its utopian wounds of the people, goals. caused by a long dictatorBut, along with others, ship of a socio-political, he was surprised last moral and economic year when one East type," Cardinal Casaroli European country after said. another began throwing There remain "very off communist rule. serious and difficult Looking back, the cardi- problems," the cardinal nal said, the election of said, but under the new Pope John Paul Hand the approach they are no rise of Gorbachev were longer hidden. He said "two facts that, because that "a clear vision and action of their unforeseen courageous
represent the only realistic and effective way to a solution, which is in the interest of everyone to encourage and support." Cardinal Casaroli defended the Vatican's patient policy of negotiating with Soviet-bloc regimes during the decades of communism. He said the Holy See acted "with prudence, without illusions, keeping to firm and clear principles, without compromises in essential things but in search of honest practical agreements." His speech included a harsh post-mortem of communism, saying that the regimes made a crucial error in attacking "the sanctuary of the moral and religious conscience, which is always alive even in people who seem to have given it up." He said the socialist utopia was one that "had caused an enormous number of victims." The cardinal referred to the purges that occurred under Josef Stalin and Soviet succeeding leaders. The Marxist idea of a "dictatorship of the proletariat" was in reality domination by a minority, which used its power and privilege to thwart the wishes of the majority, the cardinal said.
Vatican meeting
ROME (CNS): For the first time in more than 45 years, the heads of all of the Ukrainian Catholic dioceses, including those in the Ukraine, are to meet at the Vatican. All
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Catholic bishops in the west and the heads of the three dioceses in the Soviet Ukraine have been invited to Rome for a meeting with Pope John Paul H on June 2526.
When rumours about the meeting circulated in mid-May, it was thought that at least six of the 10 bishops in the Ukraine would be invited. The meeting could include formal Vatican recognition and appointment of all or some of the bishops in the Ukraine, church sources in Rome said. Those bishops were clandestinely consecrated and exercised
their ministry in secret because their church was outlawed in the Soviet Union. Discussions on the future of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, including ways for the faithful in the West to help rebuild the church in their homeland, are likely. But the major concern of some Vatican officials and many Ukrainians, especially those living in the Soviet Union, is the future of a commission established by the Vatican and the Russian Orthodox Church to settle practical disputes related to the emergence of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the western Ukraine. Although the church has not been legalised, since last October Ukrainian Catholics have begun reclaiming
thousands of church buildings given to the Russian Orthodox when the Ukrainian Catholic Church was outlawed in 1946. Cardinal
Agostino Casaroli, Vatican secretary of state, told reporters on May 30 that it was not the work of the commission to settle major legal issues, such as recognition of the church. With Catholics in the Ukraine, "as everywhere, there are those who — being aware of their rights and the suffering they have gone through — are led to take an attitude that is rather firm, sometimes a bit strong, even a little belligerent", the cardinal said. At the same time, -the other extreme" of accepting any proposal put forward would not be just, he said.
A 'golden' occasion
At Maylands last Sunday Father Tom O'Kane sets about making short work of the cake that commemorated his 50 years of priesthood, celebrated earlier in Queen of Martyrs church with parishioners and many past parishioners from Rivervale, Mundaring and Toodyay parishes in which he formerly served. Parishioner Walter Martins compered a social gathering that included a tribute to Father O'Kane by Margaret Hubery who also made a presentation on behalf of the parish. Father O'Kane is originally from Omagh in Northern Ireland and in 1934 he entered All Hallows College where he was ordained priest on June 23, 1940. He arrived in Australia in 1941, travelling via Panama because of wartime interruption. With him were Fathers Jim McCarthy, Pat Cryan and Con Nolan, all deceased and Father Peter O'Sullivan who volunteered for service in Japan and later joined the Columbans there. After his first appointment in Subiaco, Father O'Kane took up his first parish in Mount Barker in 1946, thence to Toodyay 1954, Mundaring 1955, Rivervale 1966 and Maylands in 1974. At a reunion in All Hallows College next week Father O'Kane hopes to join the other eight who survive out of a class of 27, most of whom came to Australia and New Zealand, with a few to England, Scotland and South Africa.
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Power of the cross...
By Father David O'Rourke, OP
The cross is obviously Christianity's chief symbol. Go to any corner of the world and a public building with a cross over the door will almost invariably house a Christian institution. Yet this symbol can sometimes be lost in a world of misunderstanding or overexposure, reduced to a mere decoration. In the same way, talk of "picking up our cross" as a way to face problems can sound trite when all it means is a dull tolerance of dreary days or a choiceless acceptance of the inevitable.
This is an impoverished and hopeless view of our greatest symbol of richness and hope. But where is the hopefulness? Let me explain with a story. A friend recently gave birth to her second child. Linda is now 29 and is a talented writer. Her first story was published before she graduated from college and she managed to publish one a year for several years. Like many writers, she needs a few hours of quiet each day to pull her ideas together and sketch them out. She believed that once she had a baby those necessary quiet hours would be just a memory. So she thought long and
hard before deciding to marry Jack. Linda and Jack are Catholics believing whose faith is important to them. This is where the idea of the cross came in for them, but not the view of the cross that says Linda should just forget her writing career in order to take care of her children. Instead, it is the viewpoint that in her new life as a wife and mother, which obvious!y involves a loss of independence and the ability to set her schedule as she wishes, there will be a new life of a different kind. This is what Linda discovered. The birth of their first child, a little girl, definitely changed Linda's daily routine.
Right: The power of the cross enriches the lives of those who embrace it, says Dominican Father David O'Rourke, as he focuses on a young woman who juggles her writing career with parenting.
DISCUSSION POINTS "I see Christ's cross bonne today. . . by "Looking out into your world, where is Christ's cross borne today? How is it borne?" those who teach the mentally handicapped and those who take time to visit and share with the Selected responses from readers: — David Callahan lonely." "I have cerebral palsy . . . There are times fall when I when I fall physically and times "My own mother is an example . . . My dad mentally. . . But the Lord is right there, either died, her youngest child married, a best friend behind me picking me up . . . or ahead of me, and the family pet died all in the same year. reminding me that his cross is a lot heavier Slowly these crosses are being lifted from her — Mary Ann Gala than mine." life making her a stronger person." "I know of one family where the father is an — Lynne Kendig alcoholic, the daughter became involved in drugs and ran away and the son came down "Lives which avoid any sacrifice and with mononucleosis. (But) the mother suffering really carry a great cross. For humans continued on . . . the son got his GED . . . the of this condition are at distance from . . . a daughter earned her master's degree." knowing and intimate union with Jesus." — Judy Furman — Francis Richard Lalor
Below: The cross is Christianity's chief symbol because it leads to the resurrection, writes Dominican Father David O'Rourke.
"And as much asIknew things would be different," she said, "I had no idea just how different. It just doesn't stop. I've never had a responsibility like this before that never, ever stops." But there was also an unexpected development. "Writers can be so wrapped up in their own ideas, their own world, and I was no exception," Linda said. "I never knew Icould be so interested in someone else. Jack has always been very supportive of my career. He is so generous, or maybeI was just demanding." Her oldest, now nearly 3, was tugging at Linda's sweater as we spoke, shouting as she tugged. "But little Grade could
The big, big battle in tough times
not care less," Linda said with a laugh as she lifted the little girl up to her lap. "She wants what she wants when she wants it. And I discovered that I was able to take care of her.I even like it." This is no begrudging or Stoic acceptance of a dreary life. There is none of the sense, sometimes incorrectly associated with the cross, that having made her bed so she must now sleep in it. Rather, what Linda discovered is that the loss of some good can, and perhaps should, lead to an enrichment of a different kind. The cross is Christianity's prime symbol, not as an end in itself but
because it leads to the resurrection. As an end in itself it would be abhorrent. But because it leads to new life it is a sign of hope, even in the midst of turmoil. Some religions and some cultures do, in fact, make much of learning to accept even bad situations with grace and dignity. They regard people as powerless in the face of events and try to teach people to survive in an overwhelming world. How to keep aloof from external events, how to put up with adversity, how to maintain a sense of detachment or distance in the midst of troubles are all highly praised in some parts of the world.
But the Christian vivw
is different.
Christians believe ti at if things are bi d, attempts should be male to try to change them if people are suffernig, alleviate the suffering. Do not be detached from these situations if that means not digging in to make things better. The difference in he two views lies in the quality of hope. Christian faith says hat in all our mometts, including the most Acult, God is with us. Even when a sense of powerlessness seems overwhelming, as when people are mistreatedbY armed captors, powerlessness does not mem hopelessness.
What the cross eant to ark
It seems that Mark Mark had to disabuse wrote for a community, them of their lopsided perhaps in Rome, that view. He didn't deny the wanted to hear nothing supreme importance of about the place of the Jesus' resurrection. But cross in Christian life. Mark insisted people
After all, they were Easter people of the resurrection! Persecution didn't fit into their scheme of things. This attitude was risky, however. It could easily lead to bitter disillusionment since these people lived at a time of potential, if not actual, persecution.
would get to it only by following the path Jesus took. There are no shortcuts. Mark portrays the disciples as stubbornly reluctant to hear the message of the cross. And when their dreams of glory are finally dashed by Jesus' arrest, they desert him and run away (14:51).
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This is not a psychological study of the disciples' obtuseness. It is Mark's way of teaching that, apart from the cross, it is impossible to know Jesus, to be Christian.
Mark has a long section in which Jesus predicts his sufferings three times, each time in greater detail. Then Mark tells the story of the blind Bartimaeus. Jesus asks Bartimaeus what he wants and he answers fervently, "Mas-
By Father John Castelot ter, I want to see". The effect is powerful. While the disciples, with perfectly good eyes, refuse to see the truth and become progressively blinder, a blind man begs to see the light. Mark tells us, "immediately he receivd his sight and followed him on the way" (10:52). What way? Calvary, the way the disciples did not want to walk.
At the end of his Gospel, with crashing irony, Mark tells of the centurion at the foot of the
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This total stranger has seen no miracles, heard no words of wisdom from Jesus' lips, yet he utters the astounding proclamation: "Truly this man was the Son of God!" (15:39). Mark's message is inescapable. We get to know Jesus, not in works of power or
sublime pronouncements, but in the suffering love of the cross.
Naturally, Christians, like all human beings, will suffer. Life is like that. But for them suffer- • For Mark, the cross was ing is not pointless. the key to discipleship. Ultimately, "carrying But what did this one's Crtit " Will mean Jesus mean? That one must loving selflessly, as did. live a life of misery in Another evangelist put order to be a Christian? the meaning of the cross Hardly. in these words: 'This is St Paul would undoubt- my commandment: Love edly answer (Galatians one another asIlove you. 2:20) that the cross No one has greater love expressed Christ's self- than this, to lay down less love; he gave himself one's life for one's for others. friends" (John 15:12-13).
My friend Linda put aside her writing when Grace was born, thinking that, at least from the point of her career, it was all lost. She learned differently. the time While demands of being a actually mother exceeded Linda's fears, the vitality and growth that came with it changed her into a different person and, as she sees it, a better person and a better writer. "Ihave so much more to write about now," she said. And then, as she pulled Grace off the coffee table, she added, "and someday Iwill have the time."
Jane Wolford Hughes illustrates with true stories that carrying daily crosses with faith can change people for the better. By Jane Wolford Hughes
The winds of the Great Depression scattered my family's resources but not our resourcefulness, our hope or faith.
My parents prophesied, "Thins will get better, but in the meantime. . ." In the meantime my mother pressed my father's suit daily so he would greet the world undaunted. (The suit
Food for thought The person who "bears a cross' can become a lifegiver. In knee-jerk fashion, we may expect to encounter, a dour expression of the faces of those who are bearing a cross, along with the recitation of a litany of complaints. The Christian way, however, is paradoxical. In it suffering can lay a base for fresh growth, light emerges within darkness and death prepares the way for life.
Of course, in the world as we experience it suffering also can lay a base for fatigue and burnout. Those who find that the cross has taken up residence in their lives may not be able always to act heroically and to project a cheerful disposition. They may wonder why it became their "fate" to endure anxiety or pain or disappointment. They may doubt their ability to persevere over the long
course of time needed to difficult resolve situations. Nonetheless, suffering in the Christian scheme of things is not solely a matter of putting up with or enduring difficulties. Paradoxically, bearing a cross can change people. It sometimes happens that they become just the ones who are able — quite mysteriously — to convey the goodness and happiness of life to others.
came to have a life of its own as it travelled on the backs of neighbours for their job interviews.) We went without, but did not go hungry. We pulled strength from each other. My mother often reminded us, "God helps those who help themselves. He will not forget us." Things did get better. The best is with my brother and me today. knowing how to cope with life's adversities. It is difficult to define exactly what it means to "carry one's cross". Stories help, however, to illustrate the point. Tom had the swagger of the locker room champ. He is good company at social functions — except when he indulges his passion for reciting sports statistics. He is a full-charge type with a chauvinistic tinge.
A string bean of a youth, he struggled to keep his awkwardness under control and hide behind his National Honour Society achievement knowing he never would be the football star that his father would like to see. Mike hoped to become a psychologist and "make people's lives easier and more loving". He added, "My dad is good at slapping your back but he can't hug anyone, even my mum." Sally, Tom's wife, is not the typical wife of a cold domineering and husband. Self-assured, with a quick sense of humour, she wryly unravelled her story. "Icould take his persistent crowding of me with his orders, even ignore some," she said, but his coldness made her feel "drably undesirable". About 10 years ago Imet his son, Mike, at a Sally decided "to be my summer party. own ego booster".
Though Tom refused therapy, she and their son went. "I stopped stuffing myself with food and went back to work," she said. Now she is a supervising nurse. "Our marriage isn't perfect," she added, "but wirt is! Tom is a good man. He's not mean, he just can't break out of the person his strict, undemonstrative father and he created." Twenty-two years ago I first met Harvey, a vigorous 60-year-old teacher of English in a public school. He shone with the gentleness of one who had wrestled with life. Born into the decay of the ghetto, he knew his students' struggles. Harvey had suffered with dignity the slights of the white academic community and the sweet victory of acceptance for himself and other black educators. Then he moved to
another city and his attitude shifted. "I now realise that by moving to another city to be near my niece I have chopped away my roots, the familiar streets and people who gave me life," he said. "I have become the dry stick I never would I thought become." He added, 'The people here are nice but they are strangers, except for Sister Anne." Though she was trying to convince him to lead a book discussion, he thought it was "nonsense. No one will be interested". Iencouraged him to try, reminding him of his past successes. Later he told me though it was slow at first, he now has a group of about 15. "They're lonely folks just like me. Life is not so wintery-dark anymore," he said, "andI think this transplanted stick is beginning to root again."
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Downs Syndrome Week National Downs Syn- The main thrust of the drome Week runs from association is to give June 11 and will serve support to others and to inform many more along the way not only people about DS and create awareness about the need to extend a DS but also to let people hand to those with DS know their children have a largely untapped and their families. As with most things in life, the more you know, the more you 'understand' — and that should increase one's tolerance or compassion — depending on the relevant area. This is Australia's first DS Week and all states will be highlighting awareness through various functions. Since 1986, Perth has had a Downs Syndrome Association which is a WA support group for parents and families who have children or older people with DS. The coordinator of the Association's hospital visiting team Sylvia Kinder, whose husband John is the president of the DS Association, gave an outline of their activities which feature a play group for children with DS once a week, monthly mothers' groups with a guest speaker and parent information nights with a guest speaker, usually a doctor, who gives a talk on aspects relating to DS. They also have social functions such as family outings, picnics and dinners.
potential which should be looked at.
They strive to equip and develop their babies and children with as much expertise and skill acquisition as possible and then get them into normal schools and working areas where they can. In other words people with DS may have an intellectual handicap ranging from the majority's of mild to moderate, through to severely handicapped, but they have a lot to offer and possibly more than has ever been realised. DS occurs in one in 600 to 700 live births to mothers in the 25 to 35
yo age brackets. And undoubtedly that figure would be higher except for many more which spontaneously abort. A dramatic increase of DS is seen if the maternal age is over 40, and over 45 there is a one in three chance of having a child with DS. It is generally thought if you have a child with DS and you are under the age of 30, you are at no
Principal Sister Breda O'Reilly RSAf with Alexis Hesford and Niall Ridgeway, year one, saying a prayer at the school paraliturgy based on the theme God Gives Me Life.
ranging from mild to greater risk of having profound. another child with DS. Babies born with DS are Over the age of 35 there usually of lower birth is slightly greater chance weight and even however than anyone premature. else. As children they tend to And if you are over the suffer more respiratory age of 40 and have a child ailments and are prone to with DS, you have a ear infections which much greater chance affects their speech. than others. Formerly it was thought But generally speaking that people with DS were said Sylvia, once you not capable of speaking have had a child with DS correctly, said Sylvia, but you are offered genetic counselling because medically it was discothere is more than one Half of the live births vered they were not sort of DS and there is a DS have congenital hearing properly. certain type which is with Over the last 10 to 15 heart disease and preinherited, so parents who viously these babies years, medico awareness have given birth to a has brought realisation child with DS may wish would have died within 12 months, said Sylvia, that the physical setto seek genetic counselbecause they lacked the backs children with DS ling to clarify concerns. medical up-date of today, experience is not due to The inherited form is but now with corrective the syndrome but rather very rare; 97% of DS "is surgery and better health medical conditions such the normal garden var- care, their prognosis is as earaches which in iety," said Sylvia. turn affects their speech. good. Amid speculation as to Once that is cleared up, There are about 15 to 20 whether there are more live births per year in the child's speech babies being born with Perth, "and interestingly improves. DS, one can concede enough the majority of Concerned about giving there may seem to be, but the mothers were around new parents and their then one has to consider 35, with a significant the greater survival rate number aged around 30," babies as much information and support as of newly barns across the said Sylvia. possible, Sylvia coordiboard. The occurence of DS is nates a team, formed two The fact coupled with at conception or shortly years ago, which goes better ante natal care after. It is a chromosome into hospitals upon ensures the baby with DS abnormality causing 47 request by parents to has a greater chance of chromosomes instead of help them come to grips survival at birth. the usual 46. with the initial shock and Once born his chances The extra chromosome let them know of the of ongoing survival are alters the person's phys- abundance of help. increased again with the ical appearance, giving The response to the special medical facilities them special characteris- association's team has and knowledge Australia tics and an intellectual been great and parents handicap to some degree, are given an information has.
pack plus details of community support facilities. The Association hopes to hear from anyone who needs the Association's support and in particular country people. Many parents of a newly born baby with DS feel guilty and confused, wondering what did they do nine months ago to cause this — something they drank or came into contact with. But the cause of DS is poorly understood said Sylvia, and had nothing to do with any such things. DS occurs in every race and within any socioeconomic group. And whether the environment has any bearing on it is also uncertain with the lack of sufficient research done to date. There is no doubt however that today's babies with DS born here, have a much greater chance of achieving higher standards of capabilities and a realising greater potential and independence than ever before. Parents of Perth born babies with DS are put in touch with Irrabeena, the governemnt authority for the intellectually handicapped; a team from there visits the new family and sets up a program for the child's development.
Thus in the first year of life the baby will be seen by a physiotherapist, occupational and speech therapist and the family given social worker support. Upon reaching primary school age, different options present. There are schools with a special unit where the child can spend some time and the rest integrated with his peers. Currently the increasing trend is for full integration with the support of an Aide, and Catholic secondary schools are looking at options to accommodate children with intellectual disabilities into high schools. Marking National DS Week, the Assocation will be having a cocktail party for their members (which number 60 metropolitan families and 60 country), an information stand in the Hay Street mall, and a 30 second TV commercial on channel 7 and GWN for country people. The Week will finish with an appeal and Sylvia said if anyone is interested in learning more about DS, joining the Association or 'shaking a can' for fund raising on that day, would they please contact their secretary Chris Cooper on 296 1284.
Special education teacher at the Catherine McAuley Centre at Ocean Reef, Tina Noone, with audio fans Candice Jones year one (left), pre primary Helen Morrison and Grant King year four.
Special centre for them By Colleen McGuiness-Howard
Timothy Griffiths with his mother Pauline who is teaching him sums the fun way on a computer at the Catherine McAuley Centre. 10
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AN up and running regional special education centre which was only opened in January this year, is greatly improving the educational chances of four youngsters who are students at the St Simon Peter Catholic Primary School at Ocean Reef. Named the Catherine McAuley Centre after the Mercy foundress
whose Order brought education to WA in 1846, the centre has a special education teacher who takes the children in the morning with mother rostered assistance when required, and four specially trained volunteers who assist classroom teachers when the children join their mainstream classrooms in the afternoon. The centre caters for mildly to moderately handicapped children
and is offering another six places for 1991 — two in pre-primary one in year two, one in year 3 and two in year four. Children attending the 293 student double stream school from preprimary to year four come from the surrounding areas of Connolly, Heathridge, Edgewater as well as Ocean Reef. As there was a need for a regional special education centre in the northern suburbs, Ocean Reef
seemed appropriate St Simon Peter's foundbecause of its relative ing principal, Sister newness, having been Breda O'Reilly said she opened in 1988. hopes other Catholic The school will con- Colleges will follow and tinue double stream, set up more secondary adding on each year, and special education units is situated opposite Pre- in the northern suburbs. ndiville Catholic College. Children at the Cathe- In particular she hopes rine McAuley Centre on all parents of students in primary school comple- Catholic schools and tion can then move on to parishes are aware of the Sacred Heart College Catherine McAuley CenSorrento which has a tre's special- education secondary special educa- facilities — and use tion unit. them!
'Gifts' from Go
Patrick Ricciardo of City Beach is a cuddly, cute 18 month old who is typical of any other energetic youngster in a doting family of parents and four brothers and a sister.
Piles of toys pulled out which entertain for a short while and then off to explore 'the rest of the world'. Patrick has Downs Syndrome but his siblings believe that is what makes him so special. "Only one baby out of 700 has DS. So we've won Lotto!" exclaims / year old brother 2 111 Sean. Irish born mother Val is a trained nurse who's a full time mother and father John, born in Italy, is a medico. Val has strong views when asked on the amniosintesis test, which does have a risk factor of causing a spontaneous abortion, and the sometimes subsequent suggestion of an abortion should the test reveal the unborn baby had for instance DS. "In my case, an amnio was not even considered and an abortion, even though we would have known Patrick had DS, would have been out of the question." Saying she wishes it was never offered to women, and especially women in the high age risk category who are then "often almost pressurised into having an amnio". Val said she believes very strongly that babies are gifts "and even though we plan them ourselves, as we did Patrick, they are miracles and gifts from God and why should I interfere
with DS having reached the summit. Living with someone with God's plan in and flowers, and others who has disabilities also whatever He was giving can't quite cope with it enlivens one to others in and their awkwardness the same situation and me?" n knowing how to deal initially Peter said when i But then one can't impose their views on with the discovery. he'd seen someone with That perhaps must DS before it had made others who may not share our faith perspec- make it worse for the him feel "insecure" tive, said Val, and many parents who need as through the uncertainty as of what it was. support people regard it as an much advance in medical possible. These days the children science, being able to Then on the part of the have empathy for others determine at an early parent there is conver- and even take pride in stage what abnormalities sely the desire to isolate other people who have might be present. oneself to come to grips DS and how they cope During pregnancy we with it — stare it in the with their activities, Val relate to God a lot in face, and to ask oneself: said. asking Him for what we Where do I go from here? But baby Patrick's want, and trusting He Val said it was uncomfor- achievements they 'hang will give us what we are table with the semi- on' and exult over his wanting, "but whether silence that greeted her daily and doings that baby is perfect or after Patrick's birth. victories. not, we have to accept No one could quite Four of the Ricciardo that as God's will". make the statement. But children go to Holy Spirit But that doesn't happen she knew and then she primary and Peter immediately; it takes and her husband John attends john XXIII. time, she said. Patrick is gradually broke it to the And their school mates another fortunate child children. make a big fuss of Patrick who although born with First to Peter 13, who along with parishioners. DS is being raised in a reacted tearfully and In fact his christening very loving environment emotionally, said Val, a wonderful parish was surrounded by love and until his father explained said Val, with the event, attention. the medical facts of DS priest and parishioners His position as sixth which made it that much joining in to make it such child in a close-knit easier to cope with. a special occasion folfamily oriented unit with A few days later the lowed by a morning tea the stimulus of older other children were told in the parish hall after siblings counts positively and it was explained that Mass. in his favour, and he too Patrick would be a baby Since the birth of has parents who strive to longer, and needed more Patrick with the initial give him the best they time. attendant shock, the can to further his abilities Ricciardo family were beginning the was That and chances in life. Patrick in a new fully supported by their It's probably correct to of seeing a very special PP, the school principal, as ight, l state that everyone who good friends, "and trehaving a uniand baby gives birth to a baby with spiritual help mendous gives. DS which a disability, goes through queness from a priest friend of a state of shock along It brings with it a special mine who's always been with their families and protective love for the a wonderful friend and spouses. child who needs even was there as soon as he So Val and John's more love, care and found out. reaction was no different. teaching. "He came back and There is the inevitable And it also brings with talked to John and myself silence on the part of it the urging and excite- and was a wonderful some who don't know ment of climbing more support when I needed how to deal with it. mountain peaks and the him most." resultant cry of achievewishers Val says she has empathy well Some come forward with cards ment at their loved one for those who don't have By Colleen McGuiness-Howard
Proud mother of six children, Val Ricciardo of City Beach parish plays with 18 month old Patrick. Brendan 10, wants Patrick that spiritual support and to share his room with him are very often afraid to seek when he leaves his parents' out someone, especially when their baby is room and talks to him on a unplanned, they're not one to one basis. coping well, and don't know Bernadette 9, originally who to turn to. wanted a girl but when she "When Iliad my baby I w-as saw Patrick exclaimed she wouldn't change him for more concerned about the effect it would have on the anyone else. other children, having a "She's written a poem baby with special needs and about him and describes requiring extra time and him as a Little Angel froin enemy. God." "But now 18 months later Peter insists on being there I look on what Patrick has shopping to choose when given us and it's a totally and babysits him, new outlook, not only on DS his clothes father, who's his "and but on any other child or closely bonded so always person with disabilities." with the children, has an Now said Val, her children overwhelming love for him look on these people with and desire to protect him. affinity and affection. "John says we'll have him Her children don't lose on the golf course next year patience with Patrick and and he can show mother take great pleasure in taking how to play golf!" him for a walk, and spendThere have been times of ing time with him. sadness, said Val, in coming protective, Paul 7, "is so to terms with it, but Patrick and tells me to keep an eye has brought an enormous on him while he is at school, amount of love to us and the while making certain the children can express themdrawers are shut and the selves so fully through stair gateway is locked in Patrick, their love and himself." casP he hurts affection which they might /, teaches him to have been a little bit 2 Sean 111 make the Sign of the Cross inhibited with. "But Patrick (to get ahead of the others!) has shown them how in the and speculates on growing short time he has been with up with his little brother. "If he wants to live in a After the initial shock you duplex next to me that's fine. don't know whether you are I'll get one for him too!" thinking or not, you just
cruise along. "but your feeling towards the child is probably greater because they need you more." But Val believes that people outside don't take time enough to try and understand and see them as little individuals with special talents and special gifts. Some people are even afraid to look at them, she said; "It's the fear of the unknown." But as far as the neighbourhood, parish and school are concerned "our little man is a celebrity. So many want to share our baby." And with his physio, speech and occupational therapy and stimulus from his environment, plus the striving that his parents have to give him every chance to realise his pote.tial. Patrick's outlook looks pretty good! And as Val suggests, who knows what potential will be tapped in these rather special individuals whose resources and well springs have never been fully realised. With this new generation of parents who are striving for the best and who have so many more facilities and much more expertise available, to get their fledglings with DS up and flying — great things they'll surely achieve.
A shock but don't despair Northern Italian born Sylvia and NZ husband John Kinder have four children; Matthew 8, / and 2 Chiara 7, Elena 41 Thomas 10 months.
Born in Townsville and thus away from immediate family, they were nevertheless given full support for Elena by family members, friends and doctors, which made Elena has DS but fortunately for her, parents it all easier. Sylvia and John of JoliBoth teachers and now mont are very much into settled in Perth with a doing what they can to young family to raise and help her,. and also others the daily rush of living, through their involve- Sylvia is a very busy ment with the Downs young mother doing Syndrome Association in some teaching, child WA — John as president raising and still feeding and Sylvia as co- baby Thomas as well as ordinator of their hospi- doing what she can to tal visiting team. help others in the DS Giving birth to a child Association. with DS would be a Sylvia was 27 and Elena shock to anyone because was their third child with a chance of one in which is a proven advan600 — 700 live births, it tage for the child with DS would seem unlikely. to have older siblings. therefore And They learn faster and unexpected. more interaction have difficulThe shock and first-born. a than ties of coming to terms with it was therefore as A dmitting that the great for Sylvia and John occurrence of DS was as anyone else, but after "really hard", Sylvia said the initial coping mecha- she and her husband nism of living one day at have never had any a time, they haven't negative reactions or looked back with their comments from anyone positive attitude. "and that's because we've
you have more compassion and empathy and are more considerate and understanding." Busy young mother Sylvia Kinder from Subiaco parish, takes time off to cuddle 4112yo little Elena and baby Thomas. Sylvia believes raising a child with disabilities "is a very rewarding and fulfilling experience."
treated it in a positive way." She states they are not burdened by the fact that one of their children has a disability "in fact it has
been a really enriching "You are touched by a experience for all of us. person with special "To have a child with needs in your family. special needs makes you so much more aware of "You become more people's needs. aware of other people;
with intellectual handicaps." And although living independently away Elena speaks quite well, from home may seem a especially in view of her long way off, it's certainly tender age, and can be a possibility Sylvia believes. easily understood. With the education and Her older brother and assistance that the young sister "are wonderful to with DS are given these her," says Sylvia and days and the relative realise she may be a bit mildness of Elena's disslower — but she'll get ability with a potential there. yet untapped, living with others with disabilities in Echoing the DS Associ- a cottage situation is ation's aims to integrate certainly a viable achievchildren and adults with able aim. DS into the school place The advice she gives to and work force as fully as possible, Sylvia doesn't a mother of a child with see any great hurdles, DS — and especially to "because Australians are anyone who has recently generally much more given birth — is to "not open to accepting intel- lose faith in life and feel lectually handicapped desperate, because there the is lots of help around and into people very good support. And if community. the person is prepared to "In the past people with give it a go, it can become DS really only had the a very rewarding and option of the sheltered fulfilling experience to workshop, but now more have a close association employers in the open with a child who is work force are making intellectually handiCMcGH provisions for people capped."
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AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY Australian Catholic University will commence operations in 1991 through the amalgamation of four existing Catholic colleges of advanced education — Catholic College of Education Sydney, Institute of Catholic Education Victoria, McAuley College Brisbane, and Signadou College Canberra. The University is committed to foster and promote teaching, research and scholarship in the widest and richest sense in accordance with Catholic principles and traditions. Its goal is to excel as a university thereby enriching the Australian culture by making scholarly and creative contributions to the arts and sciences, technology, the professions, commerce and public service. The university will be a full member of the Australian Government's Unified National System of Higher Education, with La Trobe University Victoria as its sponsor for a period of up to five years.
VICE-CHANCELLOR
The university now seeks to appoint its first ViceChancellor and invites applications for this challenging
and demanding position. The university also invites nominations of outstanding persons from other interested parties. The appointee will require knowledge, skills and abilities of the highest order including senior management experience, and must also be able to demonstrate commitment to the Catholic ethos and values underpinning the establishment of this university. The ability to promote and develop as:ademic research ?nd scholarship, a commitment to the development of an integrated university operation across widely separated campuses, and the vision and determination to pursue excellence in academic offerings within the Australian higher education sector are essential. An attractive remuneration package will be negotiated. The university reserves the right to fill the position by invitation. Further details may be obtained from the Planning Office, c/- Institute of Catholic Education, 251 Mt Alexander Road, Ascot Vale, Victoria 3032, Australia, phone (03) 377 8480. Confidential enquiries may be directed to the Chairman of the Amalgamation Implementation Committee, C/ Director Planning, at the above address, phone (03) 377 8481. Applications should be directed to the Chairman of the Amalgamation Implementation Committee, c/- the Planning Office at the above address, by July 20, 1990.
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Round 4 of the WACLTA 1990 Mixed Pennant competition was officially abandoned due to inclement weather. Play commenced on time but heavy showers mid-way through the afternoon prevented further play. As a result each team received one point for a draw. At the conclusion of Round 4 the tables were as follows: A Grade St Judes St Benedicts Dianella St Norberts Queens Park
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B Grade Corpus Christi Pignatelli St Benedicts Yidarra Dianella St Marks St Norberts Queens Park
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Next week A Grade: Queens Park v St Benedicts; Dianella v St Norberts. B Grade: Yidarra v Dianella; Corpus Christi v Pignatelli; St Norberts v Queens Park; St Benedicts v St Marks. A Grade St Benedicts should remain unbeaten when they clash with Queens Park in Round 5. In last week's rainaffected match, Queens Park were ahead of St Norberts and if they can retain that form then they should provide stiff opposition to St Benedicts. St Benedicts were pushing St Judes all the way in last week's draw. The clash between Dianella and St Norberts will be most important for both teams. The loser of this match will find it more difficult to qualify for the finals. On paper, St Norberts appear the stronger team but Dianella are an unpredictable side and could cause an upset.
B Grade Obviously the match of the round is the clash between the top teams Corpus Christi and Pignatelli. Pignatelli have been the pacesetters over the last few years and the strength of Corpus Christi will be fully tested in this match. The winner of this match can rightfully claim title to early season favourites for the Pennant. Fourth position is up for grabs in the clash between Yidarra and Dianella. This should be a very close game. The clash between St Benedicts and St Marks should be another close game. St Benedicts have not put a foot wrong following the early season loss to Corpus Christi and should be favoured to win this contest and thus consolidate a position in the four. St Norberts and Queens Park have a chance to avoid the wooden spoon in the dash of the bottom two teams. Neither team has won and this should provide sufficient incentive for both teams to perform well.
Selections A Grade St Benedicts St Norberts B Grade Dianella Corpus Christi St Norberts St Benedicts Alexander Park Alexander Park Tennis Club have again invited the association to a day of tennis on Sunday, 17 June 1990. Afternoon tea should be brought for all association members wanting to attend. This follows the successful day the association had with Alexander Park in April. The executive is again expecting a good turnout. Wongan Hills 1Nongan Hills Tennis Club has also given an invitation for the association to visit their town. The executive has yet to decide on a date. It is expected the invitation will be accepted some time after August 1990 where upon all association members will be notified.
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HOUSE TO LET
The missing link from John MASSAM, Greenwood
corned- this initiative, and other church leaders are backing it too.
Sir, The dangers of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child were pointed out by the Parents and Friends' Federation, the WA Council for Civil Liberties, the Parent -Child Forum, and other community groups.
Nowhere in the convention is there a clear legal defence for children and families to defend themselves legally against government and corporation attacks. As Amnesty points out so ably, most people in the world live under dictatorships, which give lip service to human rights while actually practising torture, murder and
But, the Australian Prayer to St Jude. Most holy Catholic Bishops (The apostle, St Jude, faithful Record May 10) have "welservant and friend of Jesus, who traitor the name of the delivered your beloved Master into the hands of His THANKS enemies has caused you to be forgotten by many, but the Church honours and Holy Spirit thou who makes invokes you universally, as me see everything and show the patron of hopeless cases, me the way to reach my ideal. of things almost despaired of. You who gives me the divine Pray for me. I am so helpless gift to forgive and forget the and alone. Make use I wrong that is done to me and implore you of that particular who are in all instances of my privilege given to you, to life with me. I, in this short bring visible and speedy help dialogue want to thank you 'here help is almost des- for everything and confirm .dired of. Come to my once more that I never want assistance in this great need to be separated from you no that I may receive the matter how great the mateconsolation and help of rial desires may be. I want to heaven in all my necessities, be with you and my loved tribulations and sufferings, ones in your perpetual glory. particularly (here make your Amen. Person must pray this request) and that I may praise for 3 consecutive days God with you and all the without stating one's elect forever. I promise, oh After 3rd day your wish will blessed St Jude, to be ever be grarited no matter how mindful of this favour, to difficult it maybe. Promise to always honour you as my publish this soon as your special and powerful patron, favour has been granted. and to gratefully encourage NSC devotion to you. Amen. Thanks to St Jude for prayers answered, and thanks to Our Lady of the Revelation, DIAMOND WEDDING Bullsbrook for a very special favour granted. Liz. Ask St Clare for three favours HAGARTY (nee Beer): one business, two impossiCass and Lou. Congratulawith Marys Hail nine ble, say faith, pray with candle lit and tions and God's blessing let bum to the end on the on your 60th wedding ninth day. Publicise imme- anniversary celebrated at diately. Thank you Most Holy St Patrick's Church, FreSpirit and St Clare mantle on June 14, 1930. Novena to St Clare. Say nine From your children Nola, Hail Marys daily. On ninth Len and Carol and sonsday light candle and let it in-law, Kevin Woulfe and bum to end. Public notice. Victor Munt, and grandThank you St Clare. Anonymchildren, Kate and John ous. Woulfe, Tracy and Paul Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Browning, Sussan and may your name be praised and glorified throughout the Peter Munt and great world now and forever. Frandchild Patrick BrownIing. Love from us all. Grateful thanks. WDB fIr
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exploitation The convention gives governments the power to send 15 -year -olds off to war (article 381, and to break up families if so decided by the -competent authorities (articles 19-21) acting, of • course "in the best interests of the child-. But who decides what are the child's best interests? The government and the UN are willing, under the convention, to "respect- parental rights,
but nowhere are they agreeing to actually give parents and families the primary and natural rights. In Australia and other democracies, the convention will give rebellious children the right to get government help to demand from their parents and schools: • The right to privacy. • The right to associate with whom they like.
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A11 systems go at '91 H
It is 'all systems go' at conference headquarters, according to Kristi McEvoy, the co-ordinator for next year's Catholic Youth Conference to be held January 11-16 at Aquinas College in Manning. Enquiries about the
conference have been flowing in increasing numbers from schools and parishes around WA,
and interstate interest is also on the rise.
Several schools in Queensland are set to
begin fundraising to help offset the cost of bringing busloads of young people across the Nullarbor for the event. In Perth, our own fundraising committee has a number of events planned, which sound as though they will be a lot of fun as well as helping keep conference costs as low as possible. The promotions team is planning to approach parishes individually, to encourage as many
young people as possible to take part in the conference. Personal visits to schools and country parishes are also in the publicity pipeline. Kristi said last week that word-of-mouth publicity is still the best way of spreading the news. "Tell all your friends! Encourage them to start planning now to take part in what will be the most fantastic youth event ever held in Perth," she said.
Promoting the 1991 Youth Conference are Publicity Committee members Chris Girando, Cate Hale, Craig Richardson, Daniella Jones, Patrick Willix and Virginia O'Meara.
CATHOLIC YOUTH CONFERENCE 19 91
CROSSROADS TO TOMORROW CATHOLIC PARISH YOUTH
YOUTH WORKER 1̀1 :Zi,A Preparing to leave "Eagle's Nest" after the Northern Regional CPY camp on April 27-29.
Eagle's Nest free dates for '90 "Eagle's Nest" Youth Formation Centre is located less than an hour from the heart of Perth in magnificent natural bush surroundings at Gidgegannup. Able to cater for up to 45 persons, "Eagle's Nest" is set aside for the personal and spiritual formation of young people. It is wholly owned
and operated by the Catholic Church. Priority use of the centre goes to Catholic youth groups and
schools running retreat or other genuine formation programmes, with other groups able to use the facility as vacancies permit. The following are dates still available this year
JUNE 29-JULY 1 (Weekend); JULY 13-15 (weekend), 25-27, 30-31; AUGUST 1-3, 13-17, 2021, 27-30; SEPTEMBER 3-7, 19-21; OCTOBER 1529-31; 22-25, 18, NOVEMBER 19-23, 2627. Enquiries can be directed to the Chaplain's Secretary at the Catholic Youth Office, 30 Claverton Street North
Perth 6006, or by phoning the secretary on 3289878 during normal office hours. From July 1 a slightly altered booking arrangement will come into effect, but this will not affect either existing bookings or groups of 15 persons or more. Current and past users of "Eagle's Nest" will be notified of these changes by mail.
Applications are called for the position of fulltime youth worker with Catholic Parish Youth. The position is for a term of two years with an option of a third, working with parish youth groups in Perth's Southern suburbs. The successful applicant will assist the leaders' team in parish groups, facilitate leadership training and spiritual formation, supply resources and co-ordinate communication between groups. Applications close Monday June 18 and should include: i) A curriculum vitae and any relevant information regarding past or present involvement with youth groups; ii) Two references or names of two referees. Applications should be marked "CONFIDENTIAL" and be addressed to: CPY Team PO Box 194, NORTH PERTH 6006 Further information contact CPY on 328 8136.
YOUTH OFFICE DIRECTORY
CHAPLAIN: FR PARKINSON 328 9878
ANTIOCH 328 9878
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MUNDARING
by Colleen McGuiness-Howard
Effie Crump Theatre The Effie Crump theatre (upstairs at the Old Brisbane Hotel, Street) Beaufort opened last week with an entertainment of four one act plays. The Two of Us, by Michael Frayn is running through 'till July 7, Tuesday to Saturday, bookings at Bocs outlets. Elizabeth Caiacob, the founder of the Effie Crump Theatre, is a well known Perth actress, with Eastern States and New Zealand tours to her credit, as well as film and
television, making quite an impression in her advertisements as "Doug & Barry's Mum"! Among the luminaries she has worked with are Eric Sykes, Jimmy Edwards, Frank Thornton, Andrew Sachs, Mollie Sugden and Peter Carroll, as well as top names in the WA Theatre world. Elizabeth noted the popular trend in the United Kingdom and Sydney, for good, intimate theatres over hotels. "The concept of being able to have a drink and a meal or snack — a social experience combined with quality entertainment, is attractive. I hope it will be especially so for men, who are noticeably
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absent from many theatre audiences." Initially the company will run as an actors' collective similar to the beginnings of the original Hole in the Wall. Why Effie Crump? Elizabeth — "Everyone has a muse — Effie Crump is mine!" Over the years she gave encouragement and assistance to the Theatre of Perth. Effie Crump is now a patron in name only, but her encouragement and love of the Arts was the inspiration for the founding of this theatre. Althotih Miss Crump was an anonymous donor she was a familiar figure at opening nights where her hats were a great talking point.
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Team leader Melissa Fong with four of the eight new recruits singing one of the bikers' favourite songs.
Australian army to train as a rear gunner. In a masterful portrayal of two contrasting worlds, William Coyle has created a novel that is both enthralling and entertaining, and which achieves a rare combination of profound psychological insight and intrepid adventure.
Peter Merrifield, team leader, with Rob Coombes, WA new recruits on the recent Weekend.
Kids and books
by Colleen McGuiness-Howard
Prendiville's FDD! Primar fun
Joel Waddell, Tara Banting, Sarah-Louise Poulton and Jason Musca sharing the chips around at Prendiville's Free Dress Day. Money raised goes to charity or a needy family.
Matthew Lester and hicole rtson of year 4 having fun with the fish in the curtain they made for the library at St Simon Peter Primary.
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"Dead"! but still smiling Sarah Kelly plays the 'dead as a dodo' part while into high drama in Prendiville's Greek tragedy Prometheus are Kelly Griffiths, Matthew Hansen, Brendon Truman and Marisa Pietrantonio.
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Skipping veteran Jessica Sontay year two of St Simon Peter, Ocean Reef, is a true survivor. Suffering a disabling stroke last year, Jessica has survived very well indeed thanks to the many prayers offered for her recovery and good support all round.
want to help her "adjust" But how does someone "adjust" to being an amputee? There are no guidebooks, no sets of instructions. There are changes in all the practical tasks of dayto-day life — simple things that must be re-learned and practised. But more than that, there is an inner life that Izzy has never before had to examine or question. With the help of an unexpected new friendship with Rosamunde, a girl lazy never bothered with before the accident, lazy takes her first uncertain steps to a different life. She finds slowly, painfully, but triumphantly that she is the only one who can redefine who and what she is.
The Celery Stalks at Midnight by James Howe. Published by Young Lions, $5.95. Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of a lettuce? Chester the cat is sure that he does and he sets off with his friends Harold the dog and Howie the Dachshund puppy to save the town from the trail of vicious newlyvampirised vegetables left by Bunnicula, the vampire rabbit. But the people in the town are behaving very strangely already Could it be that Chester's too late?
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Catholic Education Centre Staff Mass, Archbishop Foley. Visitation and confirmation York, Bishop Healy. National Conference Apostleship of the Sea. Perth. Bless organ, St Patrick's Fremantle, Archbishop Foley. Confirmation Manning, Monsignor Keating. Attend Seminar in Sydney, Archbishop Foley. Confirmation Trinity College — Bishop Healy. Council of Priests meets. Catechist Re-commissioning, St Mary's Cathedral — Archbishop Foley. Debutante Ball, VVhitfords, Monsignor Keating. Final Profession, Sr Elsie Tagliaferri, Archbishop Foley. Confirmation, Ocean Reef, Bishop Healy. Confirmation, Riverton, Monsignor Keating. St Anthony's Association Mass, Monsignor McCrann. Confirmation, Greenwood, Archbishop Foley. Clergy Conference -- 1st week. Bless parish mission, Balcatta, Archbishop Foley. Visitation and confirmation, Brentwood 'Willetton Archbishop Foley. Bless chapel, Howard Solomon Hostel and Units, Archbishop Foley. Confirmation lnnaloo, Monsignor Keating.
THE PARISH SCENE NEWMAN SOCIETY
Vatican II Study Group: Tuesday, June 12 at 11am "Dogmatic Constitution On The Church", chapter VI 'Religious'. Scripture Group: Thursday, June 14 at 8pm "First Epistle to the Thessalonians" chapters 1-5. Each of these meetings to be presided over by Father Dynon at 13 Dean St, Claremont. Contact No: 446 7340. All welcome.
PADRE PIO GROUP Those wishing to know more about Padre Pio and participate in the apostolate should contact Fr Felix De Candia, Capuchin, at St Lawrence's parish, 394 Albert St, Balcatta, WA
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ASSUMPflON PILGRIMAGE Lourdes and Medjugorje London 3 nights • Lourdes 4 nights Medjugorje 8 nights • Singapore 2 nights With Spiritual Director Fr Bob McGregor
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6021. Tel 349 2837. There is a meeting every first Tuesday of the month at 9.30am at the above address.
CAR MELITE SPIRITUALITY Persons interested in Carmelite Spirituality are welcome to attend the annual lay Carmelite retreat, to be held from the night of July 27 to the afternoon of July 29, at St John of God Retreat House, Safety Bay. The reflections on "The Spirit of Jesus in our lives" will be led by Father Brian Pitman, 0.Carm., Chaplain to the Lay Carmelite Community in Western Australia. Enquiries: Rosemarie Parke. Telephone 337 2171 (after hours).
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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.
The Servite Friars
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PASTORAL PLANNING OFFICE requires an
Information and Computer Systems Consultant The Archdiocese of Perth is undertaking an analysis of its information needs in each of its four major sectors with a view to designing suitable information systems The design will incorporate computer technology where appropriate, take account of existing computer systems and allow for interchange of information across sectors. The Pastoral Planning Office requires an Information and Computer Systems Consultant to work under the direction of the Information Systems Committee. The consultant will work with each sector to ensure that the information systems analysis and design is being carried out and co-ordinated. The position is for a contracted period of 12 months. The position is currently envisaged as full-time but consideration will be given to applicants who are available for at least 25 hrs/ wk. The possibility of renewal of contract into the implementation phase of the proposed design remains open. The successful applicant will need to have: • extensive experience in the field of information systems; • excellent information analysis skills; • the expertise and ability to design and implement a major information system; • developed communication and administrative skills. Experience of a range of computer systems would be an advantage. Salary (up to $45,000) to be negotiated depending on qualifications and experience.
Applicants should include names of two professional referees and two character referees. Applications and Curriculum Vitae should be forwarded by June 25 to: The Chairperson Information Systems Committee Pastoral Planning Office 2nd Flr, 459 Hay Street Perth 6000 For information telephone Mr Michael Fox on 221 1548.
will be holding a Day pf Prayer for young men considering the Religious Life on Sunday 24th June, 1990. 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.
Contact:
Father Leo, Servite Priory 2 Morgans Street, Seven 13511' Snindcrs ONft1 Tuart Hill, WA 6060. Phone: 444 1223
ST JOSEPH PIGNATELLI PARISH ATTADALE WA
RETIREMENT COTTAGE "MANRESA TOO"
on the Church property, overlooking the oval. no immediate neighbours. Very close to church, SJP school, SJP tennis club, river, buses, shops, bike-ways Caretaker. Sacristan. cleaning. gardening jobs available For Prospectus write to Ph 330 3727
The Parish Priest 35 Davidson Rd Attadale West Aust 6156.