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doors Because of the urgency of the situation, Australia must be prepared to open its doors to more refugees, says Bishop Hickey of Geraldton who is chairman of the Australian Bishops' Committee for Social Welfare.

"We must also be prepared to become a country of first asylum," he said.

"We should not expect to avoid our responsibilities and enjoy the luxury of picking and choosing whom we like from

When 700 catechists turned up at St Mary's Cathedral last week for the annual commissioning ceremony it was a chance for Archbishop Foley to shake hands with the likes of Gwen Smith of Wanneroo who has been a catechist for 34 years and whose great grandfather Bernard established Perth's pioneer Catholic family. See page 11

the holding camps."

Speaking at a public meeting in Geraldton during Refugee Week Bishop Hickey said we must examine closely the division of the world into nations that take too absolute a view of their sovereignty.

"This world is home for us all," he said. "It is not right for us to deny a home for the homeless."

He said that many of the arguments against more refugees such as strain on the economy, higher unemployment

and the sustainable population arguments, betrayed, on closer examination, the ugly face of xenophobia.

"It is claimed that population grows exponentially while feed resources grow only arithmetically, so the Malthusian argument goes," he said.

"If that is true, why is it that when we take our annual immigration figures we see that Australia's population is declining, our birthrate not even at replacement levels.

"People create jobs, they do not take them away," he said.

"Immigration has been an outstanding success in Australia, so it is surprising that descendants of immigrants who knew the hardship of leaving home and starting anew are not more sympathetic to the problems of refugees.

"Those of us whose religious or humanitarian vision accepts all people as equals without distinction must press for international covenants that insist

on the basic inalienable human rights of refugees that do not depend on prevailing economic conditions political of circumstances.

"Pressures must be mounted on despotic regimes whose record on human rights is atrocious.

"If not," he said, "there will be no end in sight to the refugee problem. What progress has civilisation made when we have 14 million refugees across every continent of the world?"

Vatican worried over Asian freedom VATICAN CITY (CNS): Religious freedom is "one of the pillars" of human rights, Pope John Paul II told bishops from Southeast Asian countries where Catholics are a tiny minority.

The pope made his remarks during a meeting last week with the bishops of Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei.

Pope John Paul spoke about the spread of

Islamic influence and laws limiting church comment on politics.

"The problems confronting you in relation to the Church's full freedom to carry out her religious mission" are a concern shared by the Vatican, the pope said.

"The increasing Islamisation of the social and civic life" in Malaysia "has at times appeared to you and to other nonMuslim communities to

encroach upon the fundamental rights of individuals and groups to practice their faith without interference", he said.

Pope John Paul said he hoped "assurances" of full religious freedom given by the Malaysian government to nonMuslim religious leaders would be respected. than three percent of the Malaysian people profess Catholicism; 53 percent of the population

is Muslim.

The pope encouraged "friendly discussions" in Singapore about the proposed "Maintenances of Religious Harmony Bill", which would prohibit criticism of the government from church pulpits.

"Experience shows that the honest confrontation of ideas and convictions among citizens has been an indispensable condition for maintaining

harmony within society and for the development of civilisation," the pope said.

"At the same time," he said, "religious convicLions cannot be separated from moral judgment, and morality applies not only to private and personal matters, but to all that constitutes the structure and course of public life in society."

Singapore's population is 70 percent Buddhist

and Taoist, and four percent Catholic.

The pope told the bishops that "citizens who fear undue adverse reactions when they express their convictions cannot share fully in the c onstruction of the society in which they live".

He asked the bishops to help their priests find and maintain "a proper balance between spirituality and action" in

preaching the Gospel and meeting the material needs of people.

"The great sign of fidelity to Christ is the exercise of an effective and universal love without discrimination of persons, which, following the example of Jesus himself, entails at the same time a love of preference for the least of our brothers and sisters, the poor and the defenseless," he said.

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A core of 12 fellows out of the 50 trustees of Notre Dame must be one half religious and one half laity, but requiring a two thirds majority in all decisions.

In this way, Professor O'Meara said, neither group can dominate but they can preserve the Catholic identity of the school. Very few universities have such a structure.

The faculty at Notre Dame was 70% Catholic

and this was difficult to accomplish in a pluralist society whose people are trained in environments where religion is irrelevant to their occupation, he said.

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because it then went coeducational. Professor O'Meara quipped that this suited him fine, having four daughters and one son who attended the university and where tuition was free to faculty members' families!

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Pointing out that Notre Dame gets "not a penny from government and not a penny from the Church" he said a fund raising campaign in the 1970s had promoted explicitly the Catholic nature of the institution and had raised $130 million. A similar campaign in the 1980s had targetted $300 million and so far had raised $450 million.

This had come, he said, not just from Notre Dame alumni or Catholics but from those who thought there was something special about the institution.

"Many will not come to Notre Dame because it is Catholic. Many will

"We see ourselves as a half way house between society and the institutional Church, sitting in the middle where we reflect on the problems and the developments of society in a spirit of academic freedom and interpret them to the Church.

"Conversely we reflect Christian values in the society around us, in our graduates and in our research."

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ates in the 10,000 population of Notre Dame are Catholics and some 80% of them attend Sunday Mass voluntarily. Masses are said daily in all the dormitory residences.

With fees at $16,000, he said, the problem was not with what was charged but with those who could not get in.

On the other hand, he said there was no trace of a ghetto Catholic mentality and "I would expect that there would not be any trace of this at NDA".

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In the establishment of Notre Dame Australia we have the choice of being scared or being involved in the very best tradition of our Catholic heritage, Dominican Father John Neill said at the close of the Notre Dame lecture of Professor O'Meara.

"The idea scares the hell out of me," said the priest who has been on the NDA planning staff for the past three years and assumed recently charge of the Dominican priory in Melbourne. He has been appointed a governor of NDA. From the days of the Acts of the Apostles,

he said, philosophical had questions required new Christian reflection and the emergence of universities from the early studies of the mendicant orders had not been without tension, including St Thomas being Aquinas anathema at the University of Paris, he pointed out.

"It is nothing new to us that in committing ourselves to a Catholic university in Australia we are going into a of certain area contention."

On the Hegelian model, he explained, the thesis of Church definition was contrasted with the

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may take The University of Notre Dame Australia will be a ground breaking venture for the Church but it is faced with the choice of the chicken or the egg in getting it going.

"If this university is successful it will establish the pattern of setting up a religiously founded university in a day and age when this can no longer be achieved through a order, r eligious because of a decline in numbers", Professor Timothy O'Meara told a public meeting las' week.

"The Church has got to find a new approach and it is going to be a lay initiative", he said in the first public lecture to be presented under the auspices of NDA. "There is a need in the nation for a school of this sort but it is the difference of the chicken or the egg on how to get started until you've got funds.

"But once you have got started this will be an attractive going operation" he said. To the question whether families would want to fund $10,000 a year in tuition, Professor O'Meara said that this was now an ongoing reality at Notre Dame University in the USA. O'Meara Professor traced the thinking that had taken place since Mr Denis Horgan and Dr Peter Tannoc.k visited the

US university three years ago in search of a model on which to establish a Catholic university in Australia.

He said it was established that from the outset that the US institution would advise the venture but only on a fraternal basis. Subsequently three top executives of Notre Dame including Professor O'Meara have been appointed to the board of trustees of NDA. The idea of a teachers college acting as a feeder school had grown to a concept of a full university founded on Catholic and Christian ideals.

"From the start we were impressed with the need for a Catholic university in Western Australia" he said, pointing out ideas behind the development of a strategy • the desire to have a different system of tertiary education in Australia that would be a competitive force; • to be truly competitive the university would have to be private; • that the university would have religious values.

"If we had not been satisfied on this last point we would not have participated", he said.

Professor O'Meara said that there were further underlying principles that developed from the traditionally accepted Catholic reading of St

Anselm's dictum; "Faith seeks an understanding" • It is an essential part of our faith that there must not be a competition between faith and reason.

In this way we differ from the fundamentalist sects, he noted.

• From the time of the Rennaisance and the scientific revolution an estrangement had developed between faith and the evolution of knowledge (of Galileo and Darwin) and to remedy this a Catholic university is essPntial today.

Traditionally Catholics have been involved in education and from the outset of NDA it was decided there would be a research component.

Sufficiently high salaries would be paid in order to attract the best people.

Other qualities of Notre Dame USA also attracted the planners: • the attempt of the American institution to educate the whole person in a compulsory initial year and not merely to specialise at the beginning.

• the experience of active ministry in the residential dormitories where even the president of Notre Dame has his quarters and counsels the students regularly.

"It will take decades to have all these things", Professor O'Meara said "but the ideas are certainly present in our thinking.

In 1962 When South African born and educated Timothy O'Meara left Presbyterian-founded Princeton University to join Catholic inspired Notre Dame Indiana University, friends told him he "must be crazy". Today, he said, the Catholic institution's religious label is one of its attractions.

The Provost of Notre Dame Indiana and Governor of Notre Dame Australia told his audience last week "I think that all these components

for our times the church, says Dominican governor antithesis development arising out of an intellect enlightened by faith.

"From that God given gift, please God, there evolves a synthesis that is taken up by the Church through its hierarchical structure and becomes the new dialogue forum.

"That evolutionary process in the development of doctrine and dogma is as old as the Church itself. The sad fact is that we have t ended to become frightened of that process.

"The usual thing about this endeavour is that it signals a

maturity coming into our community when we are prepared to go back again into the public arena and to do the best we can, in humility and docility to the teaching authority of the Church and the gift of intelligence God has given us, to find new expressions in words appropriate to our own times for the traditional doctrines, and the answers to the questions that come in every age."

Father Neill said NDA had to be a truly Australian institution and not sold short. It had to be faithful to our tradition, pre-

pared to be distinctively Catholic and a uthentically academic.

Earlier Father Neill had said that he was and c omfortable happy to be associated with the Notre Dame Indiana university.

"It has a model to aid us in the development of our distinctive Australian Catholic university," he said.

That university, he said, was a product of the history of Europe from which its founders had come and different from the English model of university.

The influence of American history was

different from that of Australia and it was important that what emerges here would be distinctively Australian in its interpretation of our Australian tradition.

In reply to a question Fr Neill said Notre Dame USA was distinctively Catholic. On the other hand there were actions by individuals and decisions by particular administrators that one might question.

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"NDA has got to be a strong university, but you cannot retain its Catholic identity by just saying it is Catholic and not just by having an archbishop on its board, but by having a strong committed presence of Catholics on that board.

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Guest editorial

ASIA FOCUS Hong Kong

Asian land for all Asians

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Drought-stricken peasants in the central Philippines have been urged to seize land and no longer expect governmental solutions.

Their plight confirms the urgency of Jesuit Bishop Francisco Claver'splea last month that problems of economic survival and socialjustice be accordedpriority over the issue of American military bases in that country.

But the Philippine government seems to think differently Though "people power" in February 1986 dramatically changed Philippine politics, people's problems remain unresolved.

The transfer of economic power to poor Filipinos has been interminably delayed by what may be all too kindly called constitutional procedures.

The frustrations of the land-starved poor in the Philippines simmer all over our continent. Most of Asia's agricultural lands still belong to the relatively few.

Many Asians who accept democracy as a political model also seek a kind of democracy in economics through equitable land distribution, but class advantage and corporate interest stall implementation of land reform programs.

Besides this land hunger throughout Asia, peasants and tribals in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Thailand continue to protest eviction from their habitats.

Land, the mechanism of feudal power and base of later colonial rule, is now an instrument of social control by multinationals and their agents among ruling elites.

The people of Asia are still denied their birthright.

• How does the Church respond to people's just cry for their patrimony?

Heeding the signs of post-colonialisation and in line with Vatican Council II, the Church in several Asian countries has divested itseff of excessive landholdings.

This is commendable, but Christian social responsibility and pastoral commitment demand more.

This struggle of the people needs solidarity.

The Word of God calls us all to collective partnership in and care for creation. The Biblical counsel against ownership of land inperpetuity (Lev. 25:23) andagainst monopoly ownership (Isaiah 5:8) is also clear.

Modern Church documents such as Return Novarum (47) and the conch/jar Gaudium et Spes (71) urge equitable and land distribution, and also deplore the denial of peasants' social and political rights.

The Philippine bishops' 1987 pastoral letter on agrarian reform is but one example of recent Asian Church calls to solve people's land hunger.

However, such laudable teachings require corresponding action. The much discussed, well publicised "option fer the poor" cries out for implementation.

Moreover, virtually allAsian religions exhort harmony between agriculture and ecoculture.

Their respect for all of creation challenges the Church to help evolve a multireligious ethic about land use.

These prophetic tasks call for inspired study and courageous action by the whole Asian Church.

Let us pray that our Church leaders proceed in just that way when the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conference convenes in plenary assembly next month to discern the challenges of the 1990s.

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Modern martyrs VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul II praised the Church's unknown martyrs in the Soviet Union and said their suffering was comparable to that of the early Christians.

The pope, discussing the 1000-year history of

Christianity in the Soviet Union's western republics, said the faithful there had passed "a great test of the faith".

"How many human lives were swallowed up in this test, and how many sufferings were inflicted; and at the same time, how many heroic testimonies were there, similar to those of the

Christian martyrs in the rirst centuries and in the centuries that followed?" the pope said.

The pope said the suffering in this part of Europe, known as the Russ, represented "a great martyrology, as yet unknown to the world."

The region, which includes parts of Russia, the Ukraine and Byelorussia, celebrated the millennium of Christianity in 1988.

In that year, the pope said, "it was shown that it was impossible to eradicate the name of the living God from the land of the living."

Church trusted more than the armed forces soviets say MOSCOW: Opinion polls published in the Soviet weekly Moscow News suggest that since March 1989, the Soviet public has lost confidence in the Communist Party while gaining confidence in religious organisations.

The latter have moved from being the least to the most trusted institutions.

One poll Moscow News shows that 64.3 per cent of respondents trusted the Church — eight per cent more than trusted the armed forces.

Another poll in Moscow News shows that in March 1990, religious organisations and the news media enjoyed the highest level of "full trust" — 37 per cent.

The army, the Supreme Soviet and the KGB were slightly behind, and the Communist Party well behind.

Keston College, the research centre in Kent, comments on the surveys: "The high level of trust in the Churches may be because they are the only institutions with deep historical roots at a time of increasing instability and uncertainty in society. Having been excluded from power and until recently from public life, the Churches are not tainted with responsibility for the failure of the communist.

The pope made his remarks to Polish pilgrims during a general audience at the Vatican.

The pope's native Poland borders the region of the ancient Russ, and he was making the point that Poland's revered image of Mary, the Madonna of Jasna Gora, has meaning for Catholics in the East.

The pope did not specifically mention the decades of religious repression under Soviet communist regimes. In recent talks he has characterised Marxism as a tragic failure that radically negated human rights.

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San Francis popped into Gorby's bag SAN FRANCISCO self to stop the fighting.

(CNS): Soviet Presi- It was created in 1982 dent Mikhail Gorba- by Lorenzo Ghiglieri to chev was presented a commemorate the 800th bronze sculpture of St anniversary of the birth Francis of Assisi by of the popular saint Mayor Art Agnos of San associated with peace Francisco, when the and simplicity of life.

Russian leader visited Only 44 copies of it here. exist. Among others who

The bronze was a gift by have received a copy is an anonymous family Pope John Paul II. that collects art.

Gorbachev also The 70cm sculpture, received a gold-plated titled "St Francis, Man of key that opens the gate to Peace," depicts a battle San Francisco's Mission scene with a rearing Dolores, the sixth of the horse and two armor- California missions clad soldiers, with St started by Father Francis interposing him- Juniper° Serra.

Hand back churches MOSCOW: Boris Yeltsin, the newly-elected president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, is in favour of handing back "a majority" of churches in Russia to the faithful.

He told a press conference in Moscow that "the

role of the Church as part of our spiritual development and upbringing ought to grow", and that the Russian Republic should introduce a law

on freedom of conscience protecting the rights of believers and ensuring their equality with atheists.

(Federal Soviet legislation on religious questions, which originally was promised to cover freedom of conscience, now seems to be taking a narrower form, dealing only with the legal status of parishes and religious organisations.)

Regarding the owner-

ship of churches, Yeltsin said that he did not want to commit himself to returning every church, because it might turn out that some of them were not needed by the faithful, or would not be taken back if they were offered.

Moreover, it would be impossible to hand them all back immediately, "since this would require certain investments for restoration, repair and other work."

Soviet says Hello VATICAN CITY (CNS): mated five million When the Soviet's Vat- members have worican envoy presented shipped secretly in the his letter of introduc- Soviet Union since 1946. tion to Pope John Paul Pope John Paul and II, the two met for more Soviet President Mikhail than half an hour in the Gorbachev agreed last papal library.

December to establish When Karlov arrived in

Rome last month, he told

reporters that an agreement was near on the legalisation of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, whose esti-

official diplomatic contacts. The names of the r epresentatives were announced in March.

Archbishop Francesco Colasuonno, the Vatican's representative to

Moscow, met with Karlov in the Soviet Union in May during his first diplomatic tour of the country.

The 53-year-old Soviet envoy has been a highranking diplomat in the European section of the Soviet Foreign Ministry.

He was an official of the Soviet Embassy to Italy, which handled occasional contacts with the Vatican.

Bring a cushion next time...

LONDON (CNS): A 70year-old bishop spent the night in a cardboard box on the steps of London's Westminster Cathedral to dramatise the plight of the homeless.

Auxiliary Bishop Victor Guazzelli of Westminster joined about 100 politicians, soap opera stars and schoolchildren on the steps during Britain's National Sleep-Out Week to raise awareness of the homeless and raise funds to house them.

"It's only a gesture, but if the message gets across to young homeless peo-

ple that we care, then it sponsored their bishop and the pavement was will have done some for his "night on the tiles" fairly hard. good," Bishop Guazzelli and raised several "Next time I'll know to said as he unrolled his hundred dollars for bring a cushion or a sleeping bag with 100 homeless charities. pillow," he added. "You other people on the can't get comfortable in a " I know that it seems a square in front of the cardboa rd box. You can't pretty futile thing to be cathedral. doing, but at least next curl up in a ball."

Bishop Guazzelli said it time I get up and speak The bishop said he was good to let the about homelessness and knew he experienced government see that people sleeping rough, "one tiny part of what people care. He said I'll know what I'm talk- some people have to more should be done to ing about," Bishop Guaz- experience every night". provide accommoda- zelli said.

"The morning was tions for the thousands of The bishop said after interesting — all the people whose "home" is a cardboard box on his sleep-out that he had boxes looked like coffins, a "pretty sleepless night". and then the heads began London's streets. to pop out the tops of the Parishioners through"There was more noise boxes. It was like the day out eastern London than I'm accustomed to, of resurrection," he said.

But the sleep-out was not appreciated by all of London's morepermanent homeless.

"Ithink it's a great game they're all playing," said 60-year-old Bridie O'Neill, who has lived on the streets for seven years. 'They can all go back to their rabbit holes after tonight. I'll still be on the streets.

"Homeless people don't all even have cardboard boxes to sleep in," he added. "Some just sleep in their clothes on the pavement."

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Death machine deserves a 'killer' label DETROIT (CNS): Two theology professors at a Detroit seminary have called the June 4 physician-assisted suicide of a woman in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease "killing".

"What occurred was a 'killing'," in which "the ultimate indignity was done to life," say Father Walter Markowicz and William Buckley.

St Thomas Aquinas judged suicide as being wrong, they said, because "it deprives the community of a member and hence it is contrary to our obligation to seek the common good; it violates nature in that all beings tend naturally to their preservation; and, finally, it violates God's sovereignty because it is up to God and not human beings to determine when they should die."

The AMA Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs in a 1988 statement cited by the theologians said, "The social commitment of the physician is to sustain life

and relieve suffering.

Where the performance of one duty conflicts with the other, the preferences of the patient should prevail. . . However, the physician should not intentionally cause death."

tranquilisers are not objectively evil.

"The 'suicide machine' has only one purpose objectively and from the intention of the user and the accessory. It kills, nothing more, nothing

Dr Jack Kevorkian, a pathologist retired assisted in the suicide by connecting Janet Adkins to his so-called "suicide machine" which dispensed lethal drugs once Mrs Adkins pushed a button.

They added, "The usage of such a device by physicians even under controlled situations would strain to the breaking point the confidence necessary in the p hysician -patient relationship."

The theologians said judgement on Mrs Adkins' suicide wish should be withheld.

"Insufficient knowledge, incompetency and duress might diminish and even completely excuse an act or a practice," they wrote.

"The patient might even have been obligated to choose suicide in response to the demand of an invincibly erroneous conscience."

Buckley and Father Markowicz noted that Mrs Adkins knew she

"The device is not as much a 'do-it-yourself' machine as one was told.

It called for a rather active participation by its inventor," the theologians wrote.

"One can commit suicide in an automobile and yet automobiles are not objectively evil," they wrote. "One can commit suicide by drowning oneself in a bathtub and yet bathtubs are not intrinsically evil. One can ingest a sufficient number of tranquilisers to bring on death and yet

Irish OK travel M AYNOOTH, Ireland ( CNS): The Irish without b ishops, e ndorsing alleged Marian apparitions in Medjugorje, Yugoslavia, said Catholics could make prayer pilgrimages to the town.

The bishops say it is necessary to distinguish between pilgrimages for prayer and the "apparitions" and "messages" of Our Lady claimed by Medjugorje visionaries and believers.

People could make pilgrimages to the Yugoslavian site, provided that they were privately organised.

The Church bars officially organised pil-

grimages by bishops or priests. The bishops "approached this discussion with the pastoral interest and concern: interest because of the spiritual benefits which many people seem to derive from Medjugorje; concern because of the various claims of messages and apparitions," said a spokesman noting that priests travel to Medjugorje to provide spiritual and pastoral help for pilgrims, not as pilgrimage organisers.

Since 1987 a commission of the Yugoslavian bishops' conference, established at the request of the Holy

See, had been investigating claimed apparitions and private revelations.

The commission has not given an opinion on the supernatural character of the alleged phenomena.

The commission will forward its opinion to the Holy See. "Only when this process is complete will we have the judgement of the Church, whether positive or negative," said Bishop Duffy.

"Until the Church gives its decision, no one is entitled on behalf of the Church to presume a favourable judgement regarding the happenings at Medjugorje."

had a disease with no doctor's death device to cure and "a progressive the alternative of being deterioration which will warehoused somewhere leave the victim in a until death's angel makes seriously compromised its rounds," they said. quality of life."

"Shouldn't we offer They asked, "What was other alternatives that the patient's perception give some meaning to of the kind of custodial terminal life?" care that would be the Arguments on euthanapatient's lot in a 'convalescent home'? sia are "nuanced" in a The patient had a 'sup- pluralistic society, Father portive family'! How Markowicz and Buckley supportive? Convincing said. the patient that the "Some would allow future was something active euthenasia in they would not want to cases of chronic termibear?" nally ill patients," they The theologians said said.

Christians must develop "Others would argue a response for those who for a passive euthanasia, would choose suicide letting nature take its when faced with termi- course while aggressively nal illness. addressing the other "As Christians we have aspects of care." always ascribed a saving Because of euthanasia's force to suffering," they high profile in the media. wrote. "but can we offer Buckley and Father Marthis with the prospect kowicz wrote, "all of us that the sufferer will not have a stake in the even be aware of the outcome of this issue, suffering," as in Mrs especially those facing Adkins's physician- the possibility of a slowly assisted suicide. developing, terminal and "Many have said that gravely debilitating they would prefer the illness."

Priest politician faces 'no'vote

KARACHI: The Catholic of special circumstances: "Pakistan is a combishops in Pakistan have told Fr Julius Rufin that he pletely Muslim country can finish his present where there are no lay term in Parliament but Catholics to defend the must then end his political interests of the Church," official Vatican a c areer.

Fr Julius was elected in commented.

November 1988 as an They asked that Fr independent in a seat Julius should give a reserved for minorities. written guarantee that it He later became minister would not happen again, of state for minority but he refused. affairs.

Although canon law Fr Julius has said that forbids clergy from hold- he intends to run for reing public office, he election when the pressecured the agreement of ent term ends in 1993.

Bishop Armando Trin- and that he wants to dade of Lahore, and the form his own political grudging approval of the party, the National Vatican on the grounds Christian Front.

Tele gospellers abuse public trust

CARACAS, VENEZUELA: Selling large blocks of program time to televangelists who unfairly attack other churches is "an abuse of public trust," the Vatican's top communications official said.

Archbishop John Foley, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, told Latin American TV executives that religious sects are browbeating viewers with programs that con-

tain "more insistence nourishment, and tele- news or discussion and less accuracy" than vangelism shows in shows in which there is fund-raising a chance for clarification automobile commercials. which It is unfair that "the appeals consume 25 and response by all sides, he said. beliefs of others, chiefly percent of the air time.

Such programs "often "But the sale of large the beliefs of Catholics, are often unfairly repres- seek to intimidate listen- blocks of program time to ented and criticised" in ers or viewers" and religious groups for nonsuch shows, the archbi- attempt to undermine stop proselytism and other religions through fund-raising is an abdicashop said.

Archbishop Foley drew "unfair accusation," he tion of programming responsibility and supera distinction between the said. officials vision by the broadcasNetwork broadcast of worship services and inspira- should ensure that ter," he said.

Archbishop Foley said tional messages, which points of religious differcan provide spiritual ence are dealt with in he had no objection to

the sale of brief commercial advertising slots to religious groups which do not attack other religions.

He said all levels of local TV organisation — whether by government department, public corporation or private ownership should consider the airwaves a public trust to be administered for the common good.

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Torture: army blamed SALVADOR SAN (CNS): Archbishop Arturo Rivera Damas of San Salvador said a Spanish priest was detained and tortured

by Salvadoran soldiers and has been evacuated from the country for medical treatment in Costa Rica.

Archbishop Rivera Damas condemned the torture of Father Gonzalez Carlos Perez as well as death-squad killings of two young men and the execution of a

civilian by leftist rebel forces.

The Salvadoran church will continue to speak out for the humanisation of the country's 10-year-old civil war and to promote and defend human rights, the archbishop said during a homily.

"That's why we denounce the violations, wherever they come from," he said.

"That's why we today denounce the

tortures inflicted by security forces upon Spanish citizen Carlos Gonzalez Perez, who has since been taken out of the country and is currently in a hospital in Costa Rica."

Archbishop Rivera Damas did not specify which of El Salvador's armed forces were responsible for the torture of Father Gonzalez Perez.

News reports identified him as a Spanish priest who was work-

ing with the Salvadoran church and who was tortured while under detention at a military barracks.

The church leader also condemned the death-squad-style killing of two young men "whose bodies were dumped in the city of Apulo."

The faces of the men reportedly had been mutilated beyond recognition and their bodies dumped at a site where right-wing

death squads left hundreds of corpses during a rampage of political killings in 1980.

In addition, Archbishop Rivera Damas denounced the assassination of a civilian, Jose Isidro Villacorta Ramos, which he said archdiocesan the human rights office had determined was carried out by members of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front guerrillas.

Parishes are not to close SEATTLE (CNS): Archbishop Hunthausen plans to maintain all 133 parishesin the archdiocese despite a shortage of priests to serve him.

He said that, despite an anticipated one-third reduction in parish priests by 2000, five new parishes are planned by then to help meet an expected 20 per cent increase in the archdiocese's estimated Catholic population of 317,000.

To help bridge the gap, priests will share pastoral duties "wherever possible", Archbishop Hunthausen said and more non-ordained people will be hired as "parochial ministers" in parishes where there are no full-time priests.

The seventh layperson to head a parish in the archdiocese was to be

appointed. Some 500 professional lay ministers already assist pastors in the archdiocese.

The number of parish priests is expected to decrease from 160 to 105 by the year 2000 due to death and retirement.

Father Michael McDermott, director of a project to meet parish ministerial needs, said every parish will have a priest assigned to it, although some priests will be assigned to more than one parish.

In those circumstances, situations may arise when the priest will not be available for Sunday Mass or other sacramental duties.

"We'll have to learn how to accept someone other than a priest presiding at a baptism, wedding or funeral," Father McDermott said.

Satanic search

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (CNS): South African Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok has ordered a full-scale investigation into Satanism in his country.

The investigation of the "Diabolical phenomenon" is to be conducted with the cooperachurches, of tion social educators, workers, psychologists and lawyers, Vlok said.

The move follows recent reports of ram-

pant Satanic practices in some parts of South Africa. Some reports claim the occurrence of rituals such as sacrificing babies with slit throats, then eating the babies' hearts.

Other reports claimed devil-worshipping parents allowed children to be raped and sodomised or to engage in bestiality.

Bishop Wilfred Napier, president of the Southern African Catholic

Bishops' Conference, said he did not believe banning Satanism would stop people from believing in it.

He added that a multidisciplinary investigation was needed to probe why people adopted extreme forms of perverted behaviour.

"The claims are hearsay," he added. "If it is actually devil worship, I don't know."

Families besieged VATICAN CITY (CNS): the "excessive number of The unity of marriage separations" at all social and the family is under levels. Brazil's divorce siege in Brazil, and laws, he said, were that country's bishops "unfortunately very should insist on church permissive." teachings to reverse The pope said that the the situation, Pope problems of streetJohn Paul II said.

He told 30 Brazilian that the weakness of family life in modern Brazil was having deep consequences for society and for individuals.

The pope expressed alarm at the "extreme fragility" of marriage and

children in Brazil's major cities was closely tied to the breakdown of family values.

Many children are abandoned by their parents, others are born outside of any conjugal bond. These hundreds of

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thousands of children who roam the streets are easy prey for delinquency and are often its defenceless victims," he said.

The pope also criticized Brazilian TV shows that "ridicule" traditional family and marriage values, such as unity, fidelity and indissolubility.

He was apparently referring to a number of Brazilian-produced soap operas popular in Latin America and elsewhere.

In those cases, he said, a deacon or

layperson will conduct a service that would include Scripture readings and distribution of previously consecrated hosts.

"Our goal is to help parishes continue to be vital, caring communities that celebrate the faith," Father McDermott said.

Coadjutor Archbishop Thomas J. Murphy said 1100 names were submitted earlier this year when the archdiocese asked Catholics to give name of persons they thought might be interested in serving the Church.

Of the 1100 people, 400 expressed interest in information sessions on possible church careers. Forty were potential priesthood candidates, Archbishop Murphy said.

South Africa faces abortion scourge JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (CNS): Catholic parishes throughout South Africa are petitioning the government against relaxing its abortion laws after an announcement that new, less restrictive legislation might be considered.

The campaign has

gathered momentum since Cardinal Owen McCann of Cape Town, South Africa, urged readers of The Southern Cross, archdiocesan newspaper, to write the government, telling of "the wrongness of abortion and requesting it not be allowed in any circumstances."

New World, ahoy!

VATICAN CITY: To mark the 500th anniversary of the evangelisation of the Americas the pope said he would inaugurate the 1992 celebrations marking the arrival of Catholic missionaries who travelled with Christopher Columbus — with a visit to the capital city of Santo Domingo.

The Dominican Republic, the pope told its new Vatican Ambassador was where "the cross of Christ was planted five centuries ago" and from where the faith spread to other parts of the Americas.

"The process of evangelisation, which began with the first missionaries, exemplary for their selfsacrificing spiritual and social work, and which in five centuries has passed through diverse ecclesial and socio-political changes, must continue in our day," he said.

The message which the church preaches must also "project itself into the future, taking into account the changing situations of the persons and the peoples in their historical situation," he said.

"Get out of Naples. . .

NAPLES: "Communion is a symbol of love and brotherhood," said Don Franco in his homily, "but only anger and vengeance are to be found here."

With that he refused to distribute communion at a Mass held to mourn the slaughter of a man and his two-year-old son, Gennaro and Mario Pandolfi, victims of the Camorra, the rnafia of Naples.

The parish priest of a Naples church, Don Franco Rapullino did not mince his words to the faithful.

"Let me give you some advice," he said.

"Those of you who are not already involved, get out of Naples. This city should be abondoned," he urged.

"It has nothing to offer us since it kills its children... Our streets teem with ruffians who murder, cheat and steal. Drugs are sold as if they were cigarettes. And all this happens everywhere, anywhere, even here next to the church, right under our very eyes."

Material goods not a solution VATICAN CITY (CNS): Projects to increase industrial development in the Third World will not succeed if economic wellbeing is their only goal, Pope John Paul II said.

-True progress," he said, must include "the harmonious and integral promotion of the whole human person."

"Man is not to be sacrificed to any model of development, but is to be respected, defended and promoted," he told participants in a course offered by the Institute for Industrial Reconstruction.

"Only reciprocal understanding will bring the abolishment of psychological barriers and prejudices of every type which are the root of so many episodes of intoler-

ance, denial and violence," the pope said.

He praised "effective international cooperation" that gives developing nations "the possibility of results achieved by more technologically advanced societies."

At the same time, he said, those promoting the industrialisation of the Third World must remember that "material goods are not able to bring man happiness. On the contrary, at times they enslave him".

"Development contributes to the realisation of the fullness of true freedom only when it keeps in mind the cultural, transcedent and religious dimensions" of human life and subordinates every economic and industrial choice to those values, he said.

Priests are to make doctrine meaningful VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul II ordained 47 priests from 18 countries and told them to be witnesses to the Gospel in every part of the world.

The new priests should trust "not in their own talents, but in the secret strength of the Holy Spirit," the pope said following the ordination Mass in St Peter's Basilica June 10.

He urged them in particular to study church doctrine well so they could adequately teach it and formulate it in a way that is accurate and meaningful to today's adults.

Of the total, 22 were members of Opus Dei, an international apostolate movement founded in Spain.

Opus Dei members are traditionally ordained in large numbers during the annual Mass in St Peter's.

Opus Dei makes a point of seeking out vocations and members among professionals. This year its group included a 41year-old former paratroop instructor for the Irish contingent of the UN special forces in Cyprus, a 45-year-old Mexican cardiologist and a South Korean dentist.

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The Dome starts another century

Michelangelo might want to ask a few questions however lo's plans for the play of light inside the church.

The giant statues he foresaw to ring the structure were never made.

Worst of all, the basilica nave was elongated so that the dome cannot be seen by someone standing in front of the church.

These would not have been incidental details to Michelangelo, who had agreed to work without pay on the dome in exchange for total artistic control. Even so, he didn't like the job, with

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Vatican cardinals recently held a rooftop c eremony to mark the 400th birthday of St Peter's dome, an edifice considered a triumph of architecture and papal ambition.

16th -century By standards, the birthday party was a modest affair.

Cardinal Casaroli, Vatican secretary of state, pronounced the dome a "celestial" monument that, in effect, praised God. Later, Pope John Paul II offered his view that the "cupola" was a fitting crown for the tomb of St Peter, which lay directly below.

But the dome's real fascination has always been part human drama, part construction skill, and a new exhibit on the basilica's roof tells that story in detail.

Like so many things in Rome, the crowning of St Peter's involved pontifical pride, artistic jealousies and engineering genius.

The fad that the dome was built at all was probably due to the aggrandising character of Pope Sixtus V, the "builder pope" who changed the face of Rome.

As he approached death. Sixtus turned his attention heavenward — toward the ugly, unfinished stump that sat atop St Peter's.

The great Renaissance artist Michelangelo had worked on the dome 25 years earlier, but when he died in 1564 construction came to a virtual

its professional rivalries and the widespread corruption in the construction industry.

When the dome was finally built, it employed 100,000 beams; three million pounds of hemp; two million pounds of iron for clamps, hinges and crossbars; and tens of thousands of bricks.

The whole thing was later covered in lead. In 1742, three mathematicians "weighed" the dome and decided it was no less than 50 million pounds.

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St Peter's dome is for Rome and not for the milling throngs in the piazza trying for a peek at a papal ceremony.

halt, with only the base strangely furious by completed.

Roman standards.

The problem was One morning in May of money. Papal strong1590, only 22 months boxes were emptying, he commissioned after labour and and materials the project, the pope was were costlier than ever. taken from his sickbed That was the perfect on the Quirinal Hill to an Pope for sort of challenge apartment balcony.

Sixtus. Even before his Before him, seemingly to election, looking ahead floating on the city's his pontificate, he had horizon, was the cominfluential lobbied pleted dome. The basilica Roman families for fund- was no longer a headless ing on the dome project. body.

Now he pressed them to deliver and was able to A "Te Deum" Mass was hire 800 workers, who celebrated that morning laboured day and night inside the church, and at a pace that was outside fireworks and

games went on all day.

An official program announced that the dome had been finished

by Pope Sixtus V "to his perpetual glory and to the shame of his predecessors". That was the gist of sermons preached throughout Rome that day, too.

the pope died three months later.)

The dome was praised from the beginning for its elegant lines, and Michelangelo is given the credit.

But chances are that if Michelangelo would walk into St Peter's Square today and gaze With Christendom's upward, he would wince the at little largest church topped off a in appropriate style, modifications.

The dome was elonSixtus could turn his attention to other gated by a later architect schemes — like his plan so that it would not look to convert the Colosseum so squat. A large lantern into a wool factory. (It was added to the top, never was accomplished; disturbing Michelange-

dome's graffiti-covered walls. Halfway up you have to lean with the curve of the structure.

Then you hit the open air the lantern, the summit.

Here is a truly eagle-eye view of the Vatican. You can watch practically the entire operation of the city-state miniature below, and it's the only place where you can spy on the pope as he occasionally walks along his rooftop pergola — A single guard sits in a just a few hundred feet chair up in the dome all across the way. day long, complaining to The only thing above himself when tourists the lantern is a crowning reach up over the metal ball and cross, barely grate to photograph the seen from the ground, breathtaking scene said to hold relics of the below. true cross and seven Sometimes their came- saints. ras slip and take a 300It's a view to be foot plunge, he says, and savoured by visitors and it's lucky no one has been one probably never expekilled. rienced by a pope: VatiFrom here, the more can experts say it is intrepid take the narrow doubtful that a pontiff stairway to the top, 350 has ever made the gruelsteps that wind inside the ing climb to the top.

Today, tourists can take an elevator to St Peter's roof and view the inside of the dome from a platform that circles high above the main altar.

The curved walls are covered with mosaics, and a tradition is to whisper at one end to a partner standing 138 feet away on the opposite side — if fellow tourists aren't chattering, the voice carries perfectly.

Cloister rumble needs an Eco sounder!

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Umberto Eco, author of the medieval monastery mystery, "The Name of the Rose" could handle the labyrinthine tale of how Rome's American residents lost their church to a group of cloistered nuns, says Father Foley, a Paulist and pastor of the parish of Santa Susanna.

But the priest says he cannot give Eco an ending for the book until the dispute over the use of Santa Susanna Church is settled with the 15 Cistercian nuns who live in the attached monastery.

The efforts of the Paulist Priests and parishioners to get the church back have involved the cardinal-vicar

of Rome, the Vatican Secretariat of State, the US ambassador to the Holy See and the president of the US bishops' conference.

The nuns are trying to protect an increasingly rare life of contemplative prayer and manual labor begun by their Cistercian foremothers at Santa Susanna in 1587.

Their only public witness, and therefore their only opportunity for attracting new vocations, was their presence behind a will at Masses in the church. A spokeswoman said they did not like sharing the space with the Americans.

The US consulate estimates that of 30,000 US citizens living in Rome and its suburbs, about 10,000 of

Mysterious things have happened at Santa Susanna church, the pastor and parishioners said.

Rome Fire Department to a slight sag in the church ceiling — a matter longknown and of little concern.

The fire department ordered the church dosed," said a brief history of the parish prepared by Father Foley.

The nuns said that the ceiling sag was caused by a broken beam, and that the fire department ruled the church unsafe.

Various churches provided short-term temporary space for Mass for the Americans until a long-term temporary arrangement was made with an aristocratic Italian family for use of their private church, St Agnes, in Rome's historic Piazza Navona.

"In April 1985 someone called the attention of the

office The church remained at Santa Susanna

those are thought to be Catholics.

The Paulists' busy ministry to American Catholics, including religious education and two Sunday Masses with a regular attendance of about 400 people, "suffocates the fragile life of the nuns," said the monastery spokeswoman.

'A contemplative life is very delicate," she said. "It needs space and silence."

Sharing the space with the Americans was "like being in the middle of a marketplace."

and daily Mass was celebrated in the sacristy. The parish's English-language library remained as well.

"From 1985 to 1989, the abbess repeatedly objected to the continued, though limited, presence of the American community at Santa Susanna," Father Foley's report said.

Cardinal Ugo Poletti of Rome drew up an agreement allowing Americans office space and use of the church on Sundays. It also requires the parish to pay the nuns for cleaning the church and forbade use of the church for concerts of sacred music and other nonliturgical functions.

The Paulists signed the agreement; the abbess. did not.

However, the monastery spokeswoman said, if the cardinal insisted, the nuns would be obedient.

The cardinal has asked the Vatican to attempt a settlement.

The Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life has asked Father Foley and Abbess Maria Roberta Cappiotti to come in for a chat.

The Paulists "are saying they want to be the owners and the bosses of the church," the spokeswoman said.

While the Paulists said tensions began in the mid 1980s, the nuns said there were alVt roblems and that the unity always hoped tl --icans would

find another home in the Catholic where city churches stand on almost every corner, and in the middle of many blocks as well.

'The writing was on the wall." said lo Cleverly, the parish's longtime librarian, noting that whenever the electricity and telephones would go out, they chalked it up to Rome's overworked and aged utilities.

But they had a hard time explaining other things like wondering why the flow of visitors had stopped until they'd sometimes discover that all the doors had been locked or that keys no longer worked in the parish office locks and the office furniture and supplies were piled in the open courtyard.

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The art of grabbing attention

By Carole Norris Greene Positioned, shoulders erect, eyes focused on the altar, he reverently lifts the lectionary high for all to see.

He looks neither to the left nor right as he walks deliberately down the centre aisle in procession with altar servers, eucharistic ministers, deacon and priest.

His ministry — that of proclaiming the Good News of Scripture with every fibre of his being, is about to come full circle

yet another week.

"When I carry the lectionary, I let everyone present know it is a treasured possession, like a precious newborn baby," said Philip Kane, lector par excellence at Holy Cross Church, his parish for the past 29 years.

"How I place the lectionary on the lectern also tells of my deep purpose," Kane added.

That purpose: to capture the undivided attention of the congregation, then feed it with Scriptural words of hope, of

already-won redemption and divine love.

To accomplish that, the retired army officer and former educator rehearses passages and reviews extensive background materials days in advance.

His time before the people is brief and he must maximise it. Kane crossstarts by referencing five texts for lectors.

Invaluable to him are their guides for vocal techniques, gestures and posture, pronunciation, eye contact and expression, strong openings and

closings, as well as background on the readings themselves.

At that moment when Kane and the assembled are one, their journey Likewise indispensable together begins.

With a deep voice is the coaching Kane receives from Jacqueline powerfully projected, Kane, his wife of nearly rising and falling in 50 years and a retired intensity and urgency, or hushed in astonishment, educator as well. he carries them back to When at last Kane the River Jordan, to the stands before his eucha- desert, to the road to ristic community, he Damascus, or to Corinth remains silent until the revisited by Paul. flipping of pages has Kane's heretofore comceased and all eyes are on manding presence soon him. takes on a kind of He knows that eye transparency as he contact draws listeners becomes lost in his into the story about to narrative role. The peounfold. ple follow irresistibly.

They feel each stinging indictment, each plea to remain steadfast in faith.

And intuitively they know that the message is as alive and directed to them today as it was for those early Christians.

Being prepared; being so thoroughly imbued with the proclamations that you spark interest and convey believability: The importance of these states of readiness could not be stressed enough

by Kane whose family traces it Catholicism back nine generations.

Another who shares Kane's convictions is

Geraldine Coleman St Peter Claver parish.

Ms Coleman is the church's coordinator of lectors. A member of the parish for almost 45 years, she works untiringly to groom a cadre of 16 lectors to become outstanding ministers of the word.

"Our lectors range in age from the late teens to the 70s," said Coleman, her voice both gentle and warm.

"We pair new lectors with those who are more experienced and we train them with the use of handbooks, tapes,

Ine nical equipment, Prat ce sessions and one.( n-one coaching," shea plained. ,oleman herself is a vet% in educator and retie' high school princiPal. She knows the vali* of personal disciIA4 and urges her 'Was s to devote a full careful to wed ration. rew P ult11 them, 'Don't just sti4 your reading alone.

If PO is speaking to the Cori thians a second tine find out why he can back too them.

Wha is his concern then?

Lectors are actors such a close connection between the Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist, between It is fair to presume the living word and the that people wouldn't living bread. And that is come to Mass if they why lectors, the minisdidn't have faith in the ters of the word, are so first place. But faith is important. more than the cold Lectors must make the intellectual acceptance word of God come alive of a truth. and thereby enkindle the Faith is a warm per- faith of the faithful. They sonal commitment to a contribute in a vital way person — to Jesus. It has to their brothers' and to be kindled anew, set sisters' encounter with on fire. The living bread Christ in the Eucharist. has to be approached It is extemely painful for with a living faith. the presider at Mass to sit That is why there is through an inept reading

By Father John Castelot

Food for thought Most of us are well practiced at tuning out the sounds around us — the sounds of music, machines, voices. If we weren't good at this, we'd hardly ever be able to hear ourselves think.

Practice can make perfect, however. And practice at tuning sounds out can be habit forming.

Soon we may find that we're hearing ourselves think when we really intended to hear something or someone else.

So, sometimes it is hard to listen and to hear. At least it is hard to listen and to hear well.

That makes the lector's role in the Mass demanding. Lectors are asked to enable people to hear well.

Lectors are more than mere readers of Scripture at Mass. They serve as communicators. The assumption is that reading the word of God in this community here and now is vital; it is essential.

A key goal of the liturgy is that Scripture be heard.

Nonetheless, the relationship lectors enter into with the community through their reading doesn't always click.

Lectors face a big challenge: to cut through all obstacles listeners encounter when it comes to hearing well.

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of the Scriptures, to look out over a sea of glazed eyes.

The response he sees is bored impatience, a resentlessness which says, "Let's get this over with."

That serves only to deepen the all-toocommon impression that the Liturgy of the Word is just something one must endure before getting on with the real thing.

The fact is that "the real thing" will be fully real only with the glowing faith that the word of

God is designed to Am how can a homilist get to preach on texts thatt ave not really been hear?

Rea ing is an art, and a difficult one. In many ways, it is harder than spell Lng.

Ina iking a speech, you put iur own thoughts into 'vords. In reading, espe ally in reading ScriOure, you communicate someone else's thole -its as expressed in a styi definitely not your OWa

"Then you'll know if he is frustrated, angry or encouraging," she stated.

Gifted with patience and a keen eye for talent, Ms Coleman consistently recruits more lectors.

Her desire is strong to share the rewards of this unique form of ministry open to lay men and women.

She recruits young adults in particular because she is convinced of their witness value before their peers.

She is also undaunted by their camera shyness or occasional tendency to

buckle under pressure from friends.

"Some young people we have in mind are already altar servers, so they are comfortable in that role," Ms Coleman observed confidently, then shared her most effective recruitment tactic: "If we can get the parents, we can get the young adults. That's the key.

"The two young men we now have as lectors have mothers who are active in the church. One mother herself is a lector, so Iknow it can work!"

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You have to make those thoughts and emotions your own. That takes work. It requires an understanding of the writer's culture, of his actual situation and what he is trying to say in that situation.

Then you have to "translate" all that for a modern audience — make it meaningful for them.

Lectors must be actors, without being hams.

Lectors have to feel the emotions of a Paul or a Jeremiah and then project those emotions in a

way that engages people, moves them, elicits a response, stirs their faith to life.

This is a serious adult ministry, the ministry of the word, the living word of God. It is a preparation for the reception of the bread of life.

Reading is not a sacrament in the technical sense of the term. But it is sacramental, a powerful instrument for enlivening faith.

In concert with the homily, it makes up the all-important Liturgy of the Word.

It helps both lector and congregation when creative forms of presentation are used with the readings, states Father Herb Weber. Small steps, like adding background music to select passages, can enhance the proclamations.

Of skills and understanding

By Father Herb Weber One of the finest readers at our parish is a university student named David.

He is gifted with precise diction and a sense of vocal appropriate emphasis. But those traits are not what make him such a good minister of the word.

David frequently has drawn me into dialogue over the passages he was scheduled to read.

For him, rehearsing technical aspects of the reading was not enough. he needed to understand the reading's context and content.

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lust as readers need listeners, lectors need to know that their function only makes sense within the context of the faith community.

Some parishes have with experimented weekly Scripture discussions for lectors and others on the Sunday readings. These sessions two accomplish objectives.

They help individual readers know the passages better and they conned lectors with the community they are serving.

And often in weekly discussions the readings took on a new life as people related them to their experiences and feelings. This would enrich the public reading process.

David told me that his "discovery" of the gift of reading came about through others in the community.

They encouraged him to use that gift.

As lectors come to understand better what they are proclaiming and grow more skilled in the techniques of oral interpretation, the congreg,a-

It does help lectors and lion also needs to learn the congregation when how to listen better. forms of I am fortunate at my some creative are used presentation parish for two reasons. with the readings.

It is a university parish Often small steps, like a with mostly students and faculty members. After little background music hundreds of hours of for lyrical reading from classroom listening, even Isaiah, or the use of a mediocre students dialogue reading of pardisciplined at ticular passages, can become the catching a speaker's enhance proclamation. phrases and words.

Second, we don't proOne way our parish vide the congregation helps Scripture passages with their own copies of take on life is to use them the readings, fearing that more than once during a many people will liturgy. become more fixed on a This was memorable word-by-word following of the lector than on one Sunday when the actually hearing the first reading was the account of God telling message.

And it is hard for even Abram to take his family the most valiant lectors to and belongings into compete with the sound another land. of 500 pages turning at Just before Mass began, the same time. we had a Lector read part

of that passage, including God challenging Abram to trust him.

Then, so that the congregation might "get the feel" of being so uprooted, worshipers were invited to gather up their belongings and, instead of moving to another land, move to a different place in the church!

Much to my relief, everyone responded.

When that same Genesis passage was read during the liturgy, people, hearing it from a place in church where they never had sat before, had a new understanding of Abram.

The congregation, the lectors and the liturgy planners became partners in the task of enfleshing the word of God.

DISCUSSION POINTS How do you see your role as a lector at the Sunday Eucharist? How do you prepare for that role?

Selected Responses From Readers: "I see my role as a proclaimer of the word and not just a reader. My job is to make the word come alive and be meaningful to the congregation, which is pretty much a captive audience." — Dorothy B. Reiner.

"I want to see the faces of the congregation as I read. Are they listening? . . Often, Sunday readings are the only Scripture people are exposed to. I want to make the readings come alive." — Jennifer Pelland.

"I consider the lector's role as having two dimensions — giving and receiving. The reverent and attentive response of the congregation helps to strengthen my faith and Scriptural convictions." — Sister Germaine Catlin.

"I feel that . . . the lector, whether man or woman, is St Paul or Isaiah . . . I try to read so that the people will feel that I'm telling them the message rather than reading it." — Grace Kane.

"I believe it is necessary to begin in the deepest recesses of one's mind to live what one proclaims, then to study and understand the reading in order to deliver it properly." — Martin I. Barrett.

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Spotlight focus on Focolare

The gen on real GE Australians discover a new world The Palaeur Sports Stadium in Rome was f illed with 16,000 young people recently for Genfest 1990.

Held every five years

by Youth for a United World which draws its inspiration from the Focolare movement, the huge gathering was addressed by Chiara Lubich initially, founder and president of Focolare.

The pope also spoke on this occasion and it brought home the spirit of ecumenism to see a young Buddhist in saffron robes, kneel down low before him. He then spoke of his aspirations too for a united world and the hope that he would be able to take home this spirit to his own country.

In the sports stadium were representatives of 76 nations 700 of whom came from behind the Iron Curtain, with another 16 linked in a telephone conference and by television via satellite.

The Youth for a United World movement began five years ago with the 1985 Genfest.

The word `Gen' refers to the young people who aspire to high values and endeavour to bring about peace and love throughout the world by the witness they bear to others.

Through the Gen, said Chiara Lubich, the movement has spread worldwide embracing 60 different languages as well as the principal Christian churches, the world religions, and those of simply different backgrounds.

The Focolarini believe that by placing trust in God, basing their lives on love, and living `the good life He intended' that despite the strife in an unsettled world, peace and unification is slowly happening and will continue to surely come.

Chiara Lubich said that each in their own little way had contributed to make a big difference and noted the incredible changes which have taken place — the 10

extraordinary events sweeping Eastern Europe which cannot be attributed to man alone.

She then quoted Pope John Paul II who stated "God has won".

Illustrating the bravery and idealism of youth, Chiara pointed to youth who throughout the world had fought the oppressors in various demoralised, trampledon, war-torn countries.

And it was youth who stood up for the rights of the common people.

She invoked the youth and people of the world to love one another, following Christ's edict of "Love one another as I have loved you" because "this is the key that provides the solution to every problem; it is the fundamental answer to every evil affecting humankind."

Ten WA Focolarini left for Rome, two of whom are Lodi Motuku, who is from Futuna Island (near New Caledonia in the Pacific) but who is working in Australia as of the last four years with other Focolarini and Kevin Wilkinson of Mt Hawthorn.

From around Australia and New Zealand there were 22 Gen, plus three from the Pacific.

They returned after four weeks and were full of enthusiasm for what they witnessed and the sheer joy, love and unity they experienced at what was for them and undoubtedly others, an unforgettable two days.

The Genfest is very important in the lives of the people of the Focolare movement.

The word focolare is meaning Italian,

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"warmth of the fire". The association of the word there, is "warmth of love" which is the basic principle of the movement.

Lodi pointed out that although participants' backgrounds were different — some from wartorn countries and others from the easy life of the Pacific and Australia, they all took back their experiences of others to their home countries.

Although the Genfest lasted only two days "it was like a month! It was so life filled!" said Lodi and Kevin.

Each wanted to share their life with others along with their background and experience, and return to their countries not as a national belonging to a specific country, but united with others and representative of all countries, carrying a united world in their hearts.

"Only God could have made this possible," said Lodi, uniting so many with so many differences.

At the Genfest, around the stadium there were a number of halls where each could worship God in their own tradition while the huge Mass was underway in the centre stadium itself.

So there were Moslems, Hindus and other religions each doing it their way.

To be members of the Focolare, one doesn't have to be Catholic or even Christian because the idea of the movement as outlined by its foundress Chiara Lubich, is rather to unite humans in their immediate surroundings and then the whole world through their unity with God and love.

The Buddhist gave his version of how he lived his life and discovered how he could be united with other christians in his own country.

Many at the Genfest exclaimed that this experience was the beginning of their lives, said Lodi.

They said they now realised what their lives

Lodi Motuku and Kevin Wilkinson who went with 20 other Australians and New Zellanders to Rome to attend the 1990 Genfest. were all about; that there Zealanders. All working the European Alps were many other young in harmony experienc- through a small group people living as they ing the meaning of the experiencing a spirit of Christian would, for each other, Genfest even though on profound and when they returned occasions we could have unity. home they would put it been fed up with it all."

It developed from there. all into practice.

They all wanted to live Each year an increasing A Moslem said the the spirit of the Genfest number of people now Focolare movement is through living for each gather in many nations not only for Catholics but other, even before they throughout the continents, in an atmosphere for everybody because left Australia. of real friendship and love has no end.

"Now lam back I face Lodi said the young the fact that I can't sincere love.

Participants in a Mariapeople she met at the change the world just Genfest have now like that, but the first polls are invited to live become part of her life essential is to look at for one another in order and now she cannot limit ourselves and the way we to build a New City based on the gospel law of her prayers for Australia live.

Or her island, but rather "My first job is to put mutual love. for the whole world. the gospel into practice Lodi and Kevin see the For Kevin it was like and everything we talked local July Mariapolis as a seeing the whole world about, so hopefully by Catholic way for young in one huge stadium and doing that other people people to reinforce what all within living for the will be attracted to the they have received, in same ideal. this instance, at the God light."

He heard how some In Perth there are many Genfest. youth lived under stress- young people who want Focolarini maintain ful situations in their to work with them in the contact with each other own countries with vio- Focolarini activities "but even if only through a lence and oppression but they don't necessarily `phone call, keeping their they nevertheless lived understand exactly what lives 'alive with love.' the gospel and found we are on about — which Through their networkhow they were able in is trying to live the ing, contact is mainsome instances, to con- gospel." tained "and that is how quer the situation.

Kevin and Lodi pointed the Spirit works," they "It made me under- to the forthcoming Mari- said. stand that living the apolis scheduled for July Lodi, Kevin and all gospel can change 11 — 15 at Fairbridge, those who experienced society and the world north of Pin jarra, a the Genfest have along will be united because I highlight of the Focolare with the rest of the world, saw evidence of this at movement where people seen incredible happenthe Genfest. from all walks of life get ings in Eastern Europe "And also among us together for an expe- with the crumbling of Australians — how we rience based on the Word the Berlin Wall and for the first time East Gerworked for a long while of God. man brother united with The Mariapolis they to put together a mime over here before we went said, originated back in West German brother.

They have seen the and then working 1949 where its birth took together with the New place in a small town in frontiers denying liberty

to encaptured people. dismantled.

For the first time brother Germans were able to sing their own song of unity at the Genfest.

And for Gen who'd been incarcerated in the Eastern bloc there was release from their bondage.

It was therefore particularly powerful to hear their stories and to experience the wonder with them of seeing the free world for the first time.

"Travelling to other countries that we've taken for granted. We saw the delights of other free lands and experiencing their life styles."

"And their symbol of new found liberty and unification with other human beings in the free world also epitomised the love, unity and freedom through loving God which the Focolarini strive for — the unification of the world through love."

The fruits of one woman's dream back in 1943, Chiara Lubich who believed that all men could be unified by Christ's teaching which was simply to love one another . . .

Anyone interested in Focolare or attending the Mariapolis please ring the Focolare Centre on 381 6170 or 271 3222.

Hundreds sent out on a gospel mission to children About a thousand people took part in a ceremony at St Mary's Cathedral on June 15 when 700 catechists were commissioned by Archbishop Foley to teach in the archdiocese for the next two years.

Head of the Archdiocesan Catechist Service, Sister Elizabeth Devine RSM said the large number of catechists who came from as far away as Bruce Rock.

Narembeen, Kuhn and York, indicated the extraordinary commitment of lay people today.

"The task of educating children in the faith who are in government schools, is one of the biggest challenges facing the Church today," said Sister Elizabeth who indicated that 50-60% of Catholic children did not attend Catholic schools for one reason or another

At the catechists' cathedral commissioning ceremony Irela Debono (left) of Osborne Park with 21 years service sits next to her mother Venetta Flynn of North Perth (36 years), along with Gwendoline Smith of Bedford (20 years) and from Kwinana: Joan Britt° (15 years) and Betty Wilson (26 years). catechists are on the cutting edge of the Church's mission in Australia.

A tribute was paid to 70 catechists who'd served more than 15 years and in acknowledgement of this were given a special papal blessing.

Four catechists have worked in government schools and parishes for According to Sister 35 years. said sister, one Elizabeth the volunteer of whom was aged 90

and who'd been teaching for the past 25 years.

Mrs Pat Hackett, catechist in Applecross, has spent 31 years instructing the young and has met many challenges.

huddle° in there," she said.

But it's all been worth it, she believes, and she s continued on as a catechist because "I love children. And in my "Perhaps the most diffi- heart I believe that these cult thing I've faced was children have a divine the lack of a place to right to know their God." teach — there was Work of the catechists is nowhere to go. Sometimes the gym, some- absolutely vital to young times the stage dais, or Catholics because the the entrance to the toilets catechist may be the only with 25 children link the child has of

Earthly prison host 'prison' ORVIETO, Italy (CNS): Pope John Paul II led a medieval Corpus Christi procession last Sunday through the streets of Orvieto, as he celebrated the 700th birthday of one of Italy's most famous cathedrals.

Later, the pope sought out two "hidden" groups who were unable to join the citywide festival — prison inmates and cloistered nuns.

The pope praised the "architecturally splendid" church in the central Italian city, but recalled that even a "modest chapel in missionary lands" was an equally fitting place for Christ.

Pope John Paul walked under a white-

and-gold ,anopy behind some 400 people dressed in costumes from the 1200s, when the cathedral was built.

The mile-long procession led through the narrow streets of the hilltop city, which is also known for a miracle of the Blessed Sacrament.

In his meeting with inmates, the pope said that in some ways Christ could be considered a "prisoner" in the host, even during triumphal such processions.

"I don't know if this analogy with your condition is perfectly theological, but from a human point of view it seems right," the pope said.

The pope had a 10minute, unscheduled encounter with cloistered Claretian sisters, who greeted him warmly. The pope frequently makes a point of visiting cloistered communities during his pastoral visits.

It was the second public procession in less than a week for the 70-year-old pontiff, and a Vatican spokesman denied Italian press reports that the pope was being treated for fatigue.

The spokesman said the pope would take his vacation as scheduled in July, after making a visit to Benevento in southern Italy.

receiving knowledge dbout their faith.

If their parents are not active in faith practice, then the catechist is the only one to instruct the child.

Some government schools allow specific religions to be taught, while others allow only broad christianity.

In the latter case, the parishes then back up this broad base with Catholic teaching in the

parishes, once again And this they realise usually by catechists. multiplies the word of One interesting and God, bringing it into the exciting new develop- home where it should ment with the Archdi- initially all begin. ocesan Catechist Service "This program is very ( formerly known as much in keeping with SPRED), is the sacramenthe Church's teaching tal program being run at that parents are the first parish level for parents. and most influential Sister Elizabeth said educators of children." parents are instructed in said Sister. first communion, recon- But if it doesn't happen ciliation or confirmation, there? Then that's where and they in turn instruct the great work of the catechist begins. their children.

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ROME (CNS): Moses' wandering "The desert is wherever man — even througn the desert from Egypt to the having the greatest abundance of bread promised land began when God told him and every other temporal good - is not it was time. fed by the word of the living God," he But Pope john Paul H's annual said. procession for the solemnity of the Body An abundance of material goods. the and blood of Christ began an hour 0.: pope said, "not only cannot by itself earlier than normal last Sunday, so that change the desert of the world into the faithful could get home in time to watch promised land, but at times it can even the World Cup soccer match between widen the desert, increasing the area of Italy and the United States. spiritual death."

A person's passage through life is a journey through the desert unless one During the liturgy, the pope prayed ::. nourished by the Word of God, the ••• is •:: :.: that "the countries which have left pope said during his homily at the ... conditions of humiliation and oppresBasilica of St John Lateran. sion and have begun to enjoy the fruits Mass at St John's, which is Rome's of liberty" will find "a correct :..::. preceded the pope's milelong cathedral, •:. understanding and adequate help, :.: procession to the Basilica of St Mary .:.0. especially from Christian peoples Major. motivated by hope and charity which •:. ...

Just as God fed Moses and the the body and blood of Christ nourishes ..: Israelites with manna in the desert, he in them."

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Life saver

She may not be the prettiest, but to projects that will help people get back starving Eritreans she's the most beautiful onto their feet. sight in the world.

MEI MN INN INN NEI INN Elm Nos I= MIN Hard on the heels of a senseless war, Australian Catholic Relief devastating drought is turning hardship I 19 MacKenzie Street North Sydney 2060 into tragedy for the people of Eritrea.

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WHAT'S ON FOCOLARE — "MARIAPOLISThe Focolare Movements annual gathering at Fairbridge Village,

Pinjarra, from Wed. July 11 to Sun. July 15. Open to everyone: whole

families, single people, young people, clergy and religious, people of all

Churches, and people of good will.

There will be talks, workshops and practical experiences on living the Gospel in daily life, with an aim to promote unity in the family, at work, in the Parish, with friends, Seperate programmes have been prepared for children and a creche is available for babies. Everyone is welcome. For information ring 271 3222 or 381 6170.

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On the "Jesus Is Calling You" on Sunday, July 1, at 9am St Denis Church, Joondanna will hold the

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1 Balcatta, Victoria Park, Geraldton, Leeman and Collie, with a group at Dardanup and at Bindoon. Isolated members who are ailing or aged include Mrs Lucy Doyle of Nazareth House, Hilton, and Mrs Stella Carmody and Miss Kath Malone, who are in Glendalough. Further information: phone 459 2550.

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Weekend of note a Toodyay Up to seventy young God and for the service of musicians from many His people."

Perth schools and parTo be a good music ishes will have the minister a person has to chance to develop their have some very basic but musical talent and important gifts and qualtheir faith during this ities, according to year's second Music Damien.

Ministry Weekend, to "They have to have be held at the Avon- musical talent, and a love down Centre, Toodyay, for music, as well as on August 17-19. humility," he said.

After the success of the "Humility is being wilrecent Antioch musi- ling to serve the body of cians' weekend, Damien Christ with all of the gifts McBain (21) of Sorrento that the person has been has planned the August given by God for exactly program for any young that purpose." musicians who assist at "They also have to have parish or school liturgies. enthusiasm, because "Good music, and good music ministry often music ministry, is not takes a lot of energy and Antioch," can sometimes be a drag. just for Damien said this week. That is when people have "It is good for everyone in to remain true to what the Church."

God intends them to do, "Good music is any which is to serve." music which is well "And when the music performed and which becomes too routine, we touches the very being of need to take the words of the listener," he said. the songs into our hearts "Good music ministry and really pray them. takes good music and After all, good liturgical uses it for the glory of music is prayer."

CATHOLIC YOUTH CONFERENCE 1991

"AlIPATZ 1 IFAIIFA CROSSROADS TO TOMORROW Publicity for the 1991 Catholic Youth Conference "Crossroads to Tomorrow" is set to move into top gear with the Promotions Committee about to embark on a a full program of parish and school visits explaining the January event.

"Crossroads to Tomorrow" was chosen by the committee because of the

symbolic significance of Conference the objectives.

The idea of 'crossroads' conjures up images of journey, decision, and the opportrunity of change. We are given the chance to take up this t hrough challenge the attending conference.

live, futuristic outlook and conveys the fact that, as young people, we care and are aware that the future of the Christian and social community lies with us.

Formal registration brobeing are chures designed now, and will be available to all schools and parishes in the near future.

Damien McBain, who is to lead the second Music Ministry Weekend in August.

"We need to consider the people being ministered to, what they like or need. You cannot play hard driving rock and roll to little old ladies!"

"But the faith of the music minister is the soul of the music. The Holy Spirit gives us the gift of faith and also the gift of music. The combination of these two God-

given gifts can touch people where words alone sometimes cannot."

"When you speak the words of a song, and they are still a prayer, then that is a prayer indeed."

"The music then enhances the prayer, lifting it out of the mind and heart and making it a prayer of the whole person."

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Inspiration of St Agnes the girl martyr

One of the most loved they were 12 or 13. Many and admired Christians young men wanted to of all time was a young marry Agnes. girl named Agnes. She Agnes refused to marry lived long ago in Rome at any of the young men. a time when it was a crime She decided to give her to be a follower of Jesus. love only to Jesus Christ The Roman Emperor in those dangerous times Diocletian made a law in which she lived, with that anyone who was a Christians being arrested Christian could be and killed. arrested, tortured and put Some young men were to death. Agnes was only angry at being rejected about 12 then and was a and told the Roman Christian. governor that Agnes was We know nothing of her a Christian. The governor except that she bravely had Agnes arrested. gave her life for her faith Soldiers took her from in Jesus Christ. Her her home to the goverexample stirred the hearts nor's palace. He ordered of other Christians. They her to worship the Roman admired young Agnes so gods. Agnes refused. much that they told her Instead she prayed to story over and over year Jesus. after year.

The governor threaChristians still tell her tened her with death and story even though no one showed the swords and knows for sure if all the spears used to kill Chrisdetails are accurate. What tians. Agnes was afraid is certainly true is that but refused to deny Jesus.

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harder to Jesus. But the soldiers were struck with awe at the sight of so brave a girl and did not touch her.

Instead they sent her back to the governor. He was furious and threatened Agnes once again with death unless she gave up her faith in Christ. Again Agnes refused.

So the governor ordered his soldiers to kill her immediately. Agnes died around 304 AD, at the age of 12 or 13.

Her family and other Christians took Agnes' body and buried it in a catacomb. Christians later named the catacomb after Agnes. Once Christians became free to worship in Rome they built a basilica over Agnes' tomb.

O ver the centuries Christians have continued to admire Agnes and to honour her as a saint. She remains an example of courage and love.

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Life can be tough P AULA DANZIGER

Shrink shock Mrs Pepperpot's Christmas

Mrs PepperpoLs Christmas by Alf Proysen.

Illustrated by Bjorn Berg and translated by Marianne Heiweg. Published

by Picture Puffins. $6.99.

Mrs Pepperpot woke up one morning and found that she had shrunk until she was no bigger than a mouse!

It was the day of the Christmas Fair and she wanted to buy some special things for her hotise.

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But now she was far too small to go. . . or was she?

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Golden God THIS PLACE HAS NO ATMOSPHERE

Baby Talk and Baby Walk by Anne Miranda, pictures by Dorothy Stott Two lift-and-look flap books, published by Macmillan. bb $12.95.

Two books which give you the chance to spend a busy day with baby in the park. and spend a busy day with baby at home. Read the words, lift the flaps — and see what happens.

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This Place Has No Atmosphere by Paula Danziger. Published by Piper. $6.99.

With characteristic wit and wisdom, popular author Paula Danziger zeroes in on today's — and tomorrow's — teenage problems.

Aurora Williams lives in the 21st century. Robots rule the schools, everyone has a TV watch, and computers think for themselves.

But Aurora's parents are still living in the Dark Ages.

They still want to run her life. Worse still, they want to move the family to that lifeless place called the Moon.

For Aurora, who's just tuned into Matthew's wavelength down at Monolith Mall, it's the next best thing to death by a thousand orbits . . .

t s, Carolyn F. lA)gan The Iluaco of the Golden Gold by camlyn F Logan.

Published by Angus & Robertson.

Huascar's discovery of a huaco with special powers, in the ancient burial ground, is the start of a series of strange happenings.

He is drawn into the mind and body of a boy who lived in the days of the Incas — a boy who shares his name and, like him, has a sister called Matil.

He sets out on an important journey that takes him away from his village and is helplessly plunged into the adventures of this Other boy — a boy in terrible danger.

Bumping and Bouncing

by Alison Lester. An Australian Baby book.

Published by Viking Kestrel. bb. $5.99.

Sharing a child's first experiences of books will be a joy with Alison Lester's warm hearted, familiar, funny books. Each is a delightful introduction for babies and toddlers to exploring and naming their fast-expanding world.

Bubbies

KATIE MORAG AND THE TWO GRANDMOTHERS

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Katie Morag and the Two Grandmothers by Maini Hedderwick. Published by Picture Lions.

$5.95.

A story of two grandmothers — both so different — but both special in the eyes of a little girl who learns to appreciate them for their own individuality.

Maria's Diary by Maureen ,Vtereart. Published

by Penguin. $6.99.

On the 27th of February.

Maria began her diary in which she promised faithfully to be completely truthful.

So at last readers of Dear Emily and Love from Greg. will discover how truthful Maria's letters were to her country penfriend, Emil)( "the most totally feminine person ever"). Was there really a swimming pool on top of Maria's block of flats?

Why didn't Maria ever want to meet Emily? What is Maria really like?

There's also more about Maria's exasperating and exasperated parents, and her brother. Greg, who she says is worse than a slice of mouldy bread covered in cockroach dung. But most importantly we meet Maria's new friend. Terry, who, Maria says, would be perfect if she believed in romantic stuff like having boyfriends and kissing.

Maria's Diary is a wonderfully funny account of Maria's sixteenth year.

People of Perth

by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

Above: Monica McGuire and Brett Graham — one of the 13 couples at the 96th Engaged Encounter Weekend at St Charles' Seminary last weekend.

Right: Two more couples snapped in the dinner queue at the EE Weekend and obviously having a great time. Which is what "being engaged" should be all about!

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1. Photographed at the Archdiocesan commissioning are Sisters Julie (left) and Carolyn Kelly (right) who have just finished their 14 weeks catechist course, with Bayswater PP Father Bryan Rosling and Margaret Jones, a catechist for a number of years who was re-commissioned for a further two years.

2. Felicia Ong of St Kieran's Osborne Park who has also just finished her catechist course.

3. Sister Marie Fitzgerald RSM (right) who is a member of the catechist team with Deborah Atherton of Wanneroo who has just finished her training.

CORRECTION: This book Is published by University of Western Australia Press and .NOT Oxford University Press as mistakenly printed in the May 24 issue of the Record.

Dearest Isabella. The life and letters of Isabella Ferguson 1819-1910 by Prue Joske. Published by niwrsity of Western Australia Press hb $28.50 ph $18.50.

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

After four wars at Australind.

Dr Ferguson was appointed Colonial Surgeon at Perth, a position he held for over twenty-five years. The Ferguson family also developed the famous Houghton vineyards near Perth.

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

WA pioneer

Collins Illustrated Guide apart. On the world's oldest to Australia by Carl continent the seasons are Robinson.

(Collins reversed, the trees do not shed their leaves, and the $19•95).

Australia is literally a place flowers have no smell. Even

the light and colour of the earth are unusual. This lavishly illustrated guide takes the reader on a discovery through this vast but still little-known country Organised by the state and territory the Collins Illustrated Guide to Australia highlights the da7.71ing travel choices available to visitors and residents. from Australia's modern cities to the endless Outback, and examines the development of the country from a British convict colony 200 wars ago into a sophisticated, multicultural nation. An American iournalist who has resided in Australia for more than ten years, author Carl Robinson is uniquely qualified to describe the Australians, from their humour and slang to their passion for leisure and sports. A highly entertaining and informative guide.

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PA ISH SCENE

by TOM BRANCH Mixed Pennants Following round 6 of the 1990 WACLTA Mixed Pennants, competition for the top two places in A grade intensified whereas the top four consolidated their position on the B grade table.

A Grade The clash between top and bottom sides (last year's finalists) proved the evenness of this year's A grade competition when St Norbert's won 6 sets 78 games to St Jude's 4 sets 62 games.

This was St Norberst first win for the season and the first loss for St Jude's.

However, St Jude's retained their place at the top of the table and whilst St Norbert's remain in fifth position, they are only half a game away from second position.

Queens Park won an exciting match against Dianella 6 sets 77 games to 4 sets 74 games. Sets were equal at four all with one game separating the two teams at the start of the last t wo sets. The final two sets were decided by tiebreakers which were both won by Queens Park. The win took Queens Park to second position behind St Jude's, but only half a game away from bottom side St Norbert's.

B Grade Results went as expected in B grade with the top four teams recording wins and consolidating their positions on the table.

St Benedict's won a hard fought match against Yidarra, finally winning 5 sets 70 games to 5 sets 67 games. Scores in the remaining 3 games were a little one-

sided with Corpus Christi defeating St Norbert's 10 sets 90 games to 0 sets 42

games, Dianella 8 sets 88 games to Queens Park 2 sets 49 games and finally Pignatelli 10 sets 90 games to St Mark's 0 sets 26 games.

Tale A Grade St Jude's 7 Queens Park 5 St Benedict's 4 Dianella

St Norbert's B Grade Corpus Christi Pignatelli St Benedict's Dianella Yidarra

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St Mark's 3 St Norbert's 3 Queens Park 1 Next Week A Grade: Dianella v St Jude's, St Norbert's v St Benedict's, Queens Park — bye. B Grade: Corpus Christi v Yidarra, St Norbert's v Dianella, St Benedict's v Pignatelli, St Mark's v Queens Park.

A Grade With the closeness of the competition in A grade, all teams are aware of the importance of winning each week.

After suffering their first loss for the year St Jude's will need to regroup when they meet Dianella who narrowly lost to Queens Park last week.

St Norbert's will be keen to continue their winning form when they clash with St Benedict's. Should St Jude's account for Dianella then second spot will be the prize to be gained from winning this game.

B Grade The clash of the round in B grade will be the match between second and third placed teams Pignatelli and St Benedict's, both of whom have 9 points. The winner will consolidate themselves in second position behind Corpus Christi who should prove too strong for Yidarra.

Dianella should remain in the four when they meet St Norbert's, and pride is at stake in that match between St Mark's and Queens Park.

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

Alexander Park Last Sunday many association members accepted the

hospitality of the Alexander Park Tennis Club. Those who attended enjoyed a good afternoon of social tennis which was followed by a sumptuous dinner.

St Joseph Pignatelli Club members are advised that the Back to Chinatown function which was scheduled for Saturday. 28 July has been transferred to Saturday, 25 August. The change in date is to avoid the clash wih the Queen Quest Dinner Dance which is being held on Saturday. 4 August.

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Fr John Luemmen PP Our Lady Queen of Apostles Riverton Previously — Director Pallotine Centre Rossmoyne

Concelebrated Mass July 8 7pni Parishoners — Ex Parishonen — and friends of Fr John welcome.

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CORPUS CHRISTI CARPET When Mosrnan Park parishioners thought of a traditional Corpus Christi carpet of flowers for their patronal feast last Sunday they did not imagine that the carpet would turn out to be the 14 metre aisle of the church.

Dozens of parishioners brought flowers from their gardens. Others gave donations for flowers to be purchased.

For starters, plastic and a template of the host and chalice and the word 'Life' were outlined on the floor. But there were flowers still to spare. The numerals of 1990 were added making a carpet from the door to the sanctuary.

After the 9.30am Mass Father John Lisle trod the carpet holding the monstrance and leading a procession outside the church where children strew more flowers.

Back in the church the ceremony concluded with Latin songs and prayers accompanying Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.

The parishioners rounded off the morning with morning tea.

The organisation had been in the hands of the adult and children's liturgy groups and the social committee.

The parish has decided to make it an annual tradition.

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I. Pallottine Lay Missionaries for Aboriginal missions in Western Australia.

2. Youth Ministers 3. Catholic Volunteers for Pallotti College Adult Retreat Conference Centre, Millgrove, Victoria.

and

4. Pallottine Priests and Brothers to serve collaboratively in the Union of the Catholic Apostolate.

Interested people should contact:

Sr Anne O'Meara, RSJ or Fr Pat Jackson SAC for further information: Tel NO: (03) 898 4657 or write: St Vincent Pallotti College, 27 Barcelona St, Box Hill, Vic, 3128.

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for the Pallottine Youth Apostolate at Casa Pallotti, Millgrove, Victoria.

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Shared Life Shared Prayer Shared Ministry

In 1990 from Nov 6 to Dec 9 I n 1991 from Feb 17 to Mar 19

Life's Journey Experience A Sacred Heart Spirituality retreat balancing die informational, affective and contemplative aspects of adult spirituality.

1990/91 in retreat format from Dec 28 to Jan 21.

1991 in sabbatical format from Apr 19 to May 22.

Participants are invited to locate their personal Journey within the normal life processes proper to human development.

They are put into touch with the natural and supernatural healing processes found within a spirituality of compassion, and are encouraged to bring these to a contemplative and sacramental meeting with Christ.

For more details and application forms for these and all retreats, please contact: The Co-ordinator St Mary's Towers Retreat Centre Douglas Pad( NSW 2569 (046) 30 9159, (046) 30 9232 Office hours: 9-12.30; 2-4 Mon-Fri.