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GERALDTON: Bishop Barry The Family Law Council Hickey has described the surrogacy r ecommended that surrogacy report of the National Bioethics a rrangements should be C onsultative Committee as prohibited. e xtraordinary. Speaking from the family Speaking as Chairman of the welfare aspect, Bishop Hickey Catholic Bishops' Committee for said: • "Surrogacy sounds a very Social Welfare he said: "The National Bioethics Con- compassionate way of helping an sultative Committee has rejected infertile couple, but it is full of the traditional legal principle that problems. the interests of the child are • "The main danger is that paramount. children will be treated as "In doing so the Committee has commodities. There is even talk of brought itself into conflict with payment for surrogacy. the Family Law Act 1975, the laws • 'The experience with adopof adoption in each state and the tion illustrates very well the reproductive technology legisla- sensitivities involved in parenttion in Victoria, South Australia hood and the identity and selfand Western Australia. image of the children adopted. "It opposes the recommenda- Those problems are compounded tion of every State Government in surrogacy. committee in Australia which has • "They open the way to a examined the issue." bewildering confusion of roles Bishop Hickey quoted the and enormous risk of conflict," he unanimous finding of the Family said. • "State Ministers should be Law Council which held that, as a matter of public policy, very wary of adopting the surrogacy arrangements are consultative Committee's recomcontrary to the welfare and mendations. They will create more problems than they solve." interests of the child.
Churches closer
CATHOLICS SHOW INTEREST IN A NEW LOOK COUNCIL SETUP
ADELAIDE: The Catholic Church looks like being able to join a revamped national ecumenical body of churches and the process could be completed by 1992. A report recommending the setting up of a new body was approved in principle by the Australian Catholic bishops in May and last week in Adelaide the Australian Council of Churches accepted the report.
is the target because the next general meeting of the ACC takes place in June 1992 and the Australian Catholic bishops will hold one of 1992
their half-yearly meetings in May that year. A joint Catholic-ACC working party will discuss a plan of action, prepare resources for consultation, consider comments and try to develop a format for the new national body. The Lutheran Church has also signalled its preparedness to look at a new national body of churches. "We'd want to safeguard our confessional position," said a Lutheran spokesman. "At the same time we'd certainly want to work together as much as we possibly can with other Christians and other
Christian denominations within this country. "That's our avowed intention." Anglican Bishop Richard Appleby, the ACC co-chairman of the working party said it was now a matter of exploring the relationship that will evolve between the Catholic Church and the ACC member churches. "There will be a process of consultation but the general advice we're getting is: 'Don't make it drawn out. Get things moving'," Bishop Appleby said. Options are to make a completely new start or to make major alterations to the present ACC
constitution, he said. Cardinal Clancy, president of the Australian Catholic Bishops conference was in Adelaide last weekend ahead of the ACC general meeting. 'The idea is to set up a new structure, a new body that would be comprehensive, to which all churches, including the Catholic Church would belong and in which they would have equal membership. "Our unstructured relationships have progressed to the point where a structured body is called for. It would seem to be the next logical step."
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Towards unity Speak with one voice A change
ADELAIDE: It's very desirable that the Christian churches should speak with one voice on so many issues in society today, said Cardinal Clancy about a new structure of Australian churches that the Catholic Church will likely join. "The world we live in looks to churches to speak with unanimity on many, many issues. The churches have unanimity on many, many issues. "They should have a structure whereby they can voice that unanimity and thus make a more effective contribution to the
developments in society generally. "With increasing secularisation in our society today a lot of the churches feel that what they have in common should be articulated better, and particularly where membership is falling off is the desire felt more acutely. "One of the scandals of the Christian world for a long time is the disunity that has existed. We're working towards a closer unity. And this is one of the steps involved towards unity. "What format that unity will take ultimately is anyone's guess. That can't be foreseen. But cer-
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tainly we can be much better united, more unified, than we are at present. "This is one of the steps in that direction." Explaining why the Catholic Church had not been a member of the Australian Council of Churches Cardinal Clancy said: "The ACC wasn't designed originally to include the Catholic Church. "One problem is if the Catholic Church were to join at this stage according to the present criteria concerning representation it would tend to swamp the council. "No one wants that, including the
Catholic Church. It's because of the numbers involved. "More importantly from the Catholic point of view — and from that of many members of the ACC — it is that we realise that the ACC doesn't always speak fully on behalf of all the member bodies. "It's important from our point of view that the council representatives should be able to speak on behalf of the churches they represent, that no given church can opt out, for example, from a decision that has been made by the body. "That has been so in the past — that
member churches have opted out of decisions or directions taken by the ACC.
"It's been easy in some ways for those who are inclined to disagree with us on our spiritual values to say: 'Look, you can't agree among yourselves. Why should we take any notice of what you say.' "Ihope and pray that one thing that will come out of this is an ability to speak with one voice and to be seen to be speaking with one voice. "If out of this can come more observable unity, that has to be a very good thing."
Pope John Paul II when he visited Australia in 1986 had challenged Christians to work for unity Bishop Oliver Heyward said in St Francis Xavier's Cathedral in Adelaide on Sunday.
Bishop Heyward is Anglican Bishop of Bendigo and president of the Australian Council of Churches. He quoted from the pope's address at the Melbourne Cricket Ground: "Our will to overcome the divisions which still keep Christians apart is demanded by the will of Christ for the peace of the human family and the salvation of all. "In Jesus Christ unity, reconciliation and peace
are made possible; in fact not only are they possible, they are also our task." Bishop Heyward said: "The first level of ecumenism to which the pope was referring was the relations between individual Christians. "I would ask you as a congregation of ordinary Catholics whether you have really had a 'change of heart' in thinking about your Christian brothers and sisters in other parts of the Church. "I feel sure you will answer 'yes' to that if you are thinking back to the old days. "But then I ask you to think again. Maybe you have changed your ideas — but how much? Is it sufficient to make you see unity and reconciliation
Ecumenism will be the big winner TWO SENIOR CHURCHMEN SPEAK OUT ADELAIDE: Ecumenism could benefit from a national structure of churches, according to two senior churchmen speaking before last week's ACC meeting on the proposal. According to ACC chairman Anglican Bishop Oliver Heywood one of the problems of ecumenism is that congregations are comfortable and happy where they are. "They really don't want to be disturbed very much. "They're quite happy to say: 'If you like to go into that sort of thing, well good luck to you. You're welcome to it, provided you don't disturb us.' "Now if this process of consultation, which I would certainly very warmly welcome, brings the rest into a clearer understanding particularly of what we hold in common, to the rest of the people in the congregation, that would be a very desirable thing." Catholic Bishops' Conference president Cardinal Clancy believes that ecumenism is certainly alive and well. "Sometimes people feel it has come to a stop, that we're not making any progress. Perhaps things have slowed down a little. But we should realise that progress has been made over the last 20 or 30 years. "This sort of occasion would have been thought impossible that long ago. So we must keep it in perspective. We must recognise what progress has been made. "There has been a slowing down. But that's given us all a chance to consolidate the progress we have mdde.
"And there are signs — and this report is one of the signs — of a new lease of life and of making more progress in the future. "I think ecumenism is a journey, a slow journey, that is presided over by the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit doesn't tell us in advance what is going to happen. "As this report says, we're inspired in this work to give glory to God; we recognise how that glory is served by the unity of God's people through Jesus Christ and in the Holy Spirit. "Unity is certainly a desirable end and object in itself. How long it will take to achieve unity remains to be seen. "And to what extent that unity is desirable remains to be seen in this sense, that there is always an amount of diversity, even within any one church. "Although it's a unified church you have diversity within the church, a legitimate diversity. "So ultimate unity of the churches could still involve a certain diversity." Asked whether Anglicans and Catholics could join together as one body and when Cardinal Clancy said: "I don't think we can rule out any possibilities. It could be anything between 10 and 1000 years away. It's very, very difficult to say. "We've come a long way. What the end of the journey is remains to be seen. "We have a lot in common and we increasingly discover more and more grounds of commonality."
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of heart...? as your task, to use the Holy Father's words? "I doubt it, because if you are like most of the Anglicans I know, you are quite prepared to leave ecumenical involvement to those who are interested in that kind of thing. "For yourself there is sufficient for you to do as a faithful member of your own parish. You are quite satisfied with what happens there, and you don't really want any more change, anyway! "The Holy Father called on us all, whatever our denominational allegiance, to do much more than that." He quoted once again from the sermon on the Melbourne Cricket Ground: "Our goal is a complete unity in faith and charity.
Such complete unity is
essential so the manifestation of ecclesial communion means unity in sacramental life." Bishop Heyward said:
"We always claimed that the things which divide us are of deep theological significance. "They are," he said, "but I am always drawn back to the fact that those things are not of primary theological importance. "We do not differ on the doctrine of God, or of the incarnation of Christ. We all hold to the doctrine of the resurrection, and of salvation won by Christ on the Cross. Those are the f undamentals of the Christian Faith. "We differ on matters to do with the organisation of the
Church, its ministry and sacraments and the source of its authority. "These things are barely referred to in the scriptures and are not listed in the ecumenical creeds of the church. "Surely in this ecumenical age we should be concentrating on the universal truths on which we are agreed. "Our primary task as Christians is to bring the faith of Christ to an increasingly materialistic and Godless world. Anything that hinders that task must be put aside. "You and I may not have much influence as individuals in these great matters, and we must remain loyal to the discipline of our respective churches — but we must use whatever influence we have, and we must pray for the coming of that unity which is the intention of Christ for his church and his world."
Having a say on justice peace, politics ADELAIDE: Justice, peace and politics might be the topics on which a new national body of churches could speak out, two spokesmen said last week. Bishop Oliver Heywood, ACC president said at a press conference: "The church, of course, must be involved in political issues. "Those who don't like what we say very often claim the church shouldn't meddle in politics. "If they do agree with what we're saying, they don't complain at all. "Politics is what drives our society in many ways. So, if the church is to be part of that society, which it is, then clearly we've got to be involved in it. "If it's a bit of rough and tumble, then so be it." Cardinal Clancy pointed out that the proper competence of the churches and the proper competence of politics overlap in many areas.
"There are questions concerning ethics and morality that are the proper competence of both bodies. "Where they overlap then there will be direct dialogue, consultation and sometimes confrontation between representatives of politics and representatives of the churches." On areas of justice and peace. the cardinal said, the churches have worked on many of these already. "The churches have this in common — that they seek to promote the gospel and gospel values in society today. "We all seek to promote the gospel and its values. "Society has long since moved to that point where it's badly in need of greater input from the gospel and of spiritual values that are encountered in the gospel. "Our society has become increasingly secularised. It stands to gain from a return to the gospel and gospel values."
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Record Like the matter of weather and other well worn motherhood topics that while away the hours, ecumenism can drift in a lagoon where its discussion will hardly do much harm and on the other hand is not likely to upset people by doing too much good. Like the weather, ecumenism can be tailored to the mood and the needs of the people discussing it. Too much ecumenism, say some, and our hard-won identities are at risk. Too little ecumenism, say other zealots, and we are defying a divine plan. A dash of ecumenism is what all the churches need to shake them up, say the generous-hearted who really can't be bothered what the churches say or think. A boring waste of time, say others, who think the immediate and all consuming task is to beat the devil to the line at the end of the 20th century. It was a toss up, therefore, whether a churches' decision in Adelaide last week was the jolt we all need or no more than a hiccup and a yawn. The Weekend Australian felt it was something Australians across the nation ought to know. The media in WA, notwithstanding the weekend doldrums, did not appear to think the matter worth even a passing nod. It depends, it seems, on how one's news editors view these sort of things. The expansive reports we carry from an Adelaide Catholic correspondent (employed by the Uniting Church . . !) reveal some very sound hopes on behatf of Catholic representative Cardinal Edward Clancy and some very enthusiastic hopes on the part of the Australian Council of Churches senior members. As Australians are going to have to learn over the next six months, councils of churches, whether local, national or international, are not substitute super-churches aiming to stampede across boundaries. The World Council of Churches, due to meet next year in Canberra, will however show the churches at work in real dialogue. Even though the Catholic Church cannot fully participate as a member, a significant Vatican and Australian contingent will be observers, adding weight to dialogue, if not to decisions. Likewise, an Australian national body of churches becomes a forum for serious dialogue and co-operation where that sort of action is called for and yet at a comfortable arm's length from doctrinal and related issues on which those same churches have to agree to disagree. History has its own way of solving problems and not necessarily from our present viewpoint. There was a day when Catholic apprehension steered clear of co-operative ventures Today the Catholic Church is a member of the WA Conference of Churches and would any sensible person want it to be otherwise? Tomorrow, the Catholic Church nationally is as good as signed up for a new structure in which all churches can play a part. Yesterday, a fairly confident clutch of mainline Protestant churches possibly felt not particularly deficient if the isolationist Roman Catholics were absent. Today, with Catholics the largest numerical denomination in the country, the absence of Catholics is justifiably called an absurdity. Nobody, least of all the church memberships, skirt the friction and tension that can arise when a conglomerate of churches has to talk out on the issues where faith and life meet. For too long, the gung-ho politicians and amoral humanists who have captured most of the civic institutions of the day have traded on the fact that no two churches can agree on anything. They will not be amused, therefore, if churches can agree and will be speaking about the avarice, white-collar crime, blatant public lying and deception, and jobs-for-my-friends immorality that would be worthy of a Roman Empire in its last days. Many of the nominal members of the churches will not be amused either if their superiors begin to talk with one voice on these civic and moral diseases in the public soul. Those who proudly built the Anglican, Presbyterian, Congregational and Wesleyan churches down the spine of Perth a century ago would probably not understand what has happened to those hollow monuments today. Hopefully, it will be said of the Christian churches of 1990 that they too were taking steps whose consequences they were not fully to understand.
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Bishops tell pope of eir exile secret Ukrainian bishops, the pope said the church, which "was placed outside the law", has now "come out of the catacombs", the pope said. The persecution of the church for 45 years "caused enormous sufferings through which the pastors and faithful have participated in the cross of Christ", the pope said. "We remember today with highest veneration all those who in this long period of trial gave testimony to their faith in Christ and his church," he said. "We believe that their sacrifice and their prayers have obtained for us the grace of this moment, of this new beginning"
VATICAN CITY: As a group of secretly ordained Ukrainian bishops sat with a pope for the first time ever in their lives, he heard first hand of the trials they had undergone and the reconciliation that be would necessary.
After the initial greetings, Pope John Paul and the bishops sat in a circle, with the pope asking them about their personal history and their underground ministry. He asked some of the bishops about their experiences in prison or in Siberian exile and about their consecration as bishops. Later when the group was joined by 18 other
Recognising that the Orthodox, who also suffered under Josef Stalin, might have contributed to the difficulties of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, the pope called for forgiveness. The pope said that entreaty of Christ on the cross — "Father, forgive them, they know not what they do" — must be "the cry of our hearts". "This reconciliation is one of the primary tasks of the church today," he said. "This obligation is fundamental also for the church of the Ukrainian rite." Cardinal Lubachivsky, responding to the pope's talk, said that "despite the difficult past between our Church and the
Orthodox church and the injustices we often suffered, we are prepared to forgive, forget and begin a new way of living together on the basis of truth, justice and love". "It is true that the time of the persecution of our church in Ukraine has deceased," he said, "but the church must still struggle for her very existence and pastoral work".
In 1989 the Vatican was given its first assurances that the Ukrainian Catholic Church would be legalised when the freedom of conscience law was adopted. At the same time, Archbishop Sodano said, Soviet authorities asked the Vatican "to make relations with the Orthodox Church more dynamic" in order to work out the problems. The Orthodox Chruch had proposed that the estimated five million Ukrainian Catholics use the few Latin-rite Catholic churches which were built in the Ukraine before the Second World War. Archbishop Sodano said the Vatican felt
that was "an unacceptable solution". The pope wrote back, insisting on "the right o f the Ukrainian Catholic Church to existence and to freedom in equality with the other churches and religious communities of the Soviet Union," he said. In the same letter, the pope "invited the head of the Russian church to take great pains to support its legal recognition in the spirit of authentic ecumenism," the archbishop said. New assurances that the church would be legalised were given to the pope by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev when the two met last December at
The full legalisation of the church is expected when the Soviet government adopts a freedom of conscience law now being discussed in the Supreme Soviet. "This will enable us to stand upright and heal our wounds, and this will
give us strength to lead our people to the light of Christ's holy Gospel," the cardinal said.
"We will neither impede nor disturb other churches which were also persecuted, although they were not forced into the catacombs," he said. between Tensions Ukrainian Catholics and Russian Orthodox in the Soviet Union have followed Catholic efforts to reclaim church buildings given to the Orthodox by Stalin's regime. A number of priests ordained the by Orthodox recently have asked for and received recognition as Catholic priests.
What Vatican tried to do VATICAN CITY: At a Vatican historic meeting between Pope John Paul and Ukrainian bishops Archbishop Angelo Sodano, head of the Vatican Secretariat of State's section for r elations with states, gave a history of the Vatican's efforts on behalf of Ukrainian the
Catholic Church.
At the very beginning of "the storm of persecution" of the church with the arrest of its bishops in 1945, "the Holy See began a constant and systematic action in favour of this community," he said. letters, Papal speeches by Vatican representatives to
international organisations and personal contacts were marked by "a sentiment of great respect" for Ukrainian Catholics and for their faith, which was "demonstrated with firmness and a nobility of spirit," he said. From the first time Soviet and Vatican officials met in 1963, the question of the legalisation of the Ukrainian Catholic Church was the object of "special memorandums". But until the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, went to Moscow in 1988, there "was never a response to these documents," the archbishop said.
Synod told: Ratify appointments VATICAN CITY, (CNS): The world's Ukrainian Catholic bishops called a special synod and formally ratified the episcopal appointments of 10 bishops who had been secretly consecrated for the church in the Soviet Union. One bishop described the synod as the "shortest in Ukrainian history". It lasted less than two hours with ratification of bishops' positions as the only agenda item. Synods are the main decision-making forums of the Eastern-rite
churches. Bishops are elected by the synods, with the pope having final approval of their appointments. On the last day of their meeting with Pope John Paul II, several bishops asked for a synod to discuss the number, authority and jurisdictions of the clandestine bishops. Cardinal Lubachivsky, turned to Pope John Paul and asked him to approve the convocation of the synod. The pope agreed.
the Vatican. Archbishop Sodano said the pope "has insisted" that the traditions and the unity with Rome that are part of Ukrainian Catholicism be respected by the Soviet government and by the Russian Orthodox Church. But he also has "constantly maintained the necessity" of continuing an ecumenical dialogue with the Russian Orthodox Church, the archbishop said. One thing is certain, he said, "the Holy See will always continue to be faithful to this Ukrainian community, which has always been faithful to it in the course of centuries."
Irish win takes them to top VATICAN CITY: Anglican coach of the Irish football team kept his word and 'Got his team to the top' as a reward for beating Romania to the quarter-finals. Jack Charlton and the team met the pope for seven minutes in a meeting arranged by Monsignor Liam Boyle, the team's semi official chaplain, through Rome contacts. During the conversation in the Paul VI audience hall, the pope spoke with the players about the series of penalty kicks that decided the game in their favour after the teams played to a scoreless tie. Ireland made all five of its penalty kicks. while Romania converted only four. Monsignor Boyle, from County Limerick, Ireland, describes himself as a supporter of the Irish squad, with no official role with the team. "I came on my own. The players got used to seeing me and asked me to say Mass for them on Sundays. Now they recognise me as semiofficial," he said.
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Hard labour for bishop, priest CHINA DETAINS DUO WITHOUT TRIAL HONG KONG (CNS): The head of pro-Vatican underground Chinese Catholic bishops' conference and a priest connected with the conference have reportedly been sentenced without trial to three years' detention in a labour camp. Arrested were Bishop Peter Liu Guandong of Yixian, president of the standing committee of the conference, and Father Su Zhemin, vicar general of Baoding Diocese. Earlier reports said all eight underground bishops and six priests involved in the November meeting in which the conference was formed were arrested. It is against the law for Chinese organisations to swear allegiance or submit to the authority of a foreign
Papal blessings for cathedral bishops of Ivory Coast. An international foundation will be in charge of managing the complex and will pay annual maintenance costs, estimated at $1.5 million. The marble-andconcrete basilica was designed as a pilgrimage centre for African Catholics. It is designed to hold 8000 people — a few thousand fewer than St Peter's Basilica, the largest Catholic church in the world — but its 7.5acre plaza is bigger than
St Peter's Square and can hold up to 300,000 people. The basilica is decorated with stained-glass windows and Italian marble and is airconditioned. The papal blessing for the basilica has long been sought by the 84-year-old president, who in recent months has faced a growing challenge to his 30-year rule. Protestors have demanded political and economic reform in the West African country.
Bishops want democracy KINSHASA, Zaire (CNS): Zaire's Catholic bishops have demanded full multiparty democracy and backed allegations that security forces massacred students in May.
They suggested plans to substitute one-party rule with a three-party system, saying the country
should be governed "on a wider basis".
"It is a question of truth, justice and rights," they said. Referring to an alleged massacre of students at Lubumbashi University, the bishops said they "condemned vigorously the use of the forces of
law and order, not for the security of people and property but to repress and undermine the lives of peaceful citizens". The church has often been outspoken in its political criticism. Zaire's president of 25 years, Mobutu Sese Seko, who has virtually dictatorial powers, condemned the
bishops' last pastoral letter as seditious. A parliamentary commission has accused local officials of orchestrating the murder of at least 12 students on the night of May 11. Opposition groups have said Mobutu's personal guards killed up to 150 students after anti-
Mobutu demonstrations on campus. The bishops said the government should set up a more democratic political system, to "recreate a climate of trust between the people and their leaders". About a third of Zaire's 33 million people are Catholics.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (CNS): Church buildings in Sri Lanka's northeastern provinces, including bishops' residences, have become shelters for more than 200,000 civilians fleeing the cross-fire
of the Asian country's civil war. Priests and nuns have mobilised church workers for emergency health care and food distribution in the affected areas.
Batticaloa's Carmel Convent was converted into an emergency hospital after medical personnel fled Batticaloa Hospital. As army troops entered the war-torn city, church
leaders were negotiating to reopen the hospital. Bishop Swamipillai says the National Christian Council has already sent three truckloads of food for refugee centres in his area.
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organisation. Pro-Vatican Catholic clergy are subject to arrest under that law because of the allegiance they bear toward the papacy. A source says he had seen the two churchmen in the labour camp. He heard that Bishop Liu was assigned to collecting garbage while Father Su was ordered to clean camp toilets. The two clergymen have not been tried. However, Bishop Liu has been charged with "planning, organising and forming illegal organisations" and of having "taken part in illegal activities". Father Su is charged with organising and participating in illegal activities, the source said.
VATICAN CITY (CNS): Peace in Yamoussoukro, complex out of family Pope John Paul II is to Ivory Coast, September funds. consecrate a controver- 10 on the return leg of his The cathedral has been sial US$150 million trip to East Africa. considered a potential cathedral and bless the The same day, he will embarrassment for the c ornerstone for an meet with African pope, who on six preadjacent hospital when bishops from 16 coun- vious visits to Africa has he travels to the West tries in a planning emphasised the need for African nation of Ivory session for an Africawide wealthy nations to aid Coast in September. the poorest ones. synod. The pope agreed to When the pope met The massive cathedral, accept the cathedral as a which resembles St with Houphouet-Boigny gift from President Felix Peter's Basilica and rivals last year, he accepted the Houphouet-Boigny of it in size, has been basilica but asked the the Ivory Coast only after criticised as an extrava- president to build social social service centres gance in a country that welfare facilities on the were added to the has fallen upon eco- adjacent property. cathedral complex. nomic hard times. The decision to build a The pope will bless the Houphouet-Boigny says hospital was made later, Basilica of Our Lady of he paid for the cathedral in accord with the
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From ew 'business card', they confiscated the lot lest I disseminate them in the Three years ago, on a Soviet Union. Last month I had a few visit to Leningrad, the Soviet customs officer holy cards with me on was not impressed with my way through Mosthe 197 holy Byzantine cow, but no-one was. "Holy Cards" found in interested in confiscating my luggage along with them. a few religious medals In fact no-one was and extra bibles. interested in me. Not convinced that I Previously an Intourist was taking them on to escort kept pace with a Poland or that the cards visitor's every step, to were my own personal ensure one's safe By Fr John Jegorow
passage. This time I chose to make my own way from the International airport to one of the four domestic terminals some 40 kilometres away. Thank God I could make myself understood in Russian. A free lance 'private' car owner taxied me, netting the equivalent of one months wages. I arrived safely at my
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next airport on route to Lvov. In the northern midsummer twilight it was still bright at 9pm as I made my way into the foreign departure lounge and checked in my luggage. The airport could have been saving on electricity as few lights shone. The only lights that did shine were the garish signs of Western Euro-
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pean banks and the American Express advert decorated with the onion domes of Moscow. Western money is the light of the Soviet darkness, it seems. I wandered into the departure lounge for Soviet citizens and took a couple of photographs of waiting passengers. I wondered if anyone would protest. No-one did. Back in the foreigner's
lounge I met two Missionary Sisters of Charity (in their trade mark blue and white sari), who had just seen one of their number off. "Have you come to work in Moscow?" was their first question. We chatted for some 10 minutes. Mother Teresa's sisters came in response to an earthquake and have since grown to five houses. Two are in Moscow.
I farewelled the Polish and Maltese sisters and marvelled at the fact that out of seven million people in Moscow I had met two Catholics who are now praying for my return as a missionary to Moscow. I'm worried. In Lvov I spent as much time as possible with my family so I had little time for exploring and meeting clergy. Today, the priest is recognisable on the city
Just five metres from the once infamous Checkpoint Charlie, Father Jegorow did his bit to farewell the vanishing Berlin Wall but not without a graffiti plug for "Ballajura, the best parish in the world".
In Lvov Father Jegorow meets two priests who are typical of what has happened. At left an elderly priest, all his life serving as an Orthodox pastor and now one of many who have openly come back to their Catholic Uniate Church. Centre: This priest, with the crackdown on religion in 1946 was forced to turning to farming; today he is back practising his priesthood.
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sweet smell of freedom streets in South Western Ukraine. A figure in black, a touch threadbare, caught my eye; I turned in my tracks and ran after him. Father Basil was happy enough to talk in the street — something that would not have been done 12 months ago. As recently as five years ago he was fined heavily and had his vestments confiscated when found
hearing confessions in a I saw. private home. On the feast of PenteToday, there is real cost (called — the greenreligious freedom. The ing of the Earth, in the children are taught the East) the people go to the mysteries of the faith and forest and cut green not just the glories of the branches and decorate communist tradition. their homes and the church with the "We were never told... before" was a phrase I branches. heard a number of times when the children spoke of religious matters.
The churches are overflowing — at least those
There is confusion too, as clergy who previously called themselves Russian Orthodox switch overnight to the Ukrain-
ian Uniate tradition. In the city and suburbs the most dramatic change is the evidence of the blue and yellow Ukrainian flag which flies in the city square and from private buildings. Last year the culprit of such nationalist pride would have found himself behind bars, the locals tell you. Hawkers. sell pins,
badges and a variety of alternative papers and bulletins in the city square. Everywhere people are talking and discussing politics. In the street, in the taxi, on television, in the home. This new found liberty is welcomed, lively and public. The letters to the editor are overflowing with real complaints about the injustices of everyday life
and not merely a re-run of praises for the upholders of the system. On my way home I visited Berlin and walked freely back and forth across the East Berlin border. People took their Sunday afternoon stroll in no-man's-land where dozens died or risked their lives in freedom breaks to the West in days gone by.
It all seems so pointless today as the wall stands in ruins and tourists like myself take a swipe at it. Let's hope that good things continue to happen in the Soviet Union and the walls continue to crumble and fall down between the peoples of the Soviet Union who stretch across 11 time zones of the world, and those of us in the other 13 time zones.
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Ukrainians celebrate Pentecost with the ceremony of the "Greening of the Earth". From the woods, families gather green leafy fronds that are fixed as decorations to doors and gates of houses and churches.
Below: The unthinkable just a few years ago; a public rally in central Lvov to honour a national hero. The young conduct the service, because, they say, they were never told these things. Left and right: The Millennium symbol of Christian faith in the Ukraine is now freely displayed on boards or on literature sold by streetsellers.
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Prayer connection... we Sometimes learn from failures.
One of the "failures" in our campus ministry became a powerful teacher for me, once I was able to understand it. For several years, our Catholic campus ministry united with several Protestant campus programs to conduct a "Values and Ethics Week" at our state university. Each year we lined up speakers on topics like abortion, rock music, the dangers of nuclear arms or the impersonalism of high-tech society. We conducted the programs on and off campus, in seminar style and through lectures, with movies and without.
But the response continued to be poor, very poor.
I was convinced that the topics were appropriately intriguing for contemporary college students. I couldn't believe their response was merely a matter of apathy. Then one day Father Joe, my associate, casually mentioned that even though our topics were on target they were missing the students in terms of focus. The program appealed to the mind instead of the soul. Certainly there is nothing wrong with addressing the mind at a university, I argued.
He agreed, but then reminded me that conversion of the heart takes place out of other hungers, other yearnings. So this year we attempted another approach that we now think has great potential.
We call it a spiritual wellness program. Basically, it probes the ways that some kind of spirituality is part of personal growth. That means it helps students seek out a driving principle that integrates their lives and gives their lives meaning. Interestingly enough, as we explored ways to find meaning in everyday life or to handle setbacks, students soon began to
By Father Herbert Weber look upon prayer as a means of reaching and expressing spiritual health and integrity. That elusive attraction known as prayer came to be seen as the way of making some important connections. I constantly marvel at the amount of prayer that goes on in the lives of tertiary students. Even more, perhaps, I am intrigued by the many forms of prayer that are used. One common element, though, is that prayer has to be "real" if it is to remain a part of the life of a young adult. The same may
be true for other busy persons. Prayer becomes real in this way when it grows out of a need to go beyond oneself. Our chapel, open 24 hours a day, is a haven for young pray-ers.
Frequently, night or day, students stop by to kneel or sit, cry or reflect, thank God or ask for help. Often they write their prayers in a loose-leaf binder that has been located at one end of the chapel for nearly 20 years. Whether words of petition or gratitude, most of the written express an effort to reach out to a greater power who is a part of the writer's life. Sometimes
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words reflect a struggling faith, but always they depict a person who must share his or her world with God.
into his prayer, both by himself and with a prayer partner, left a lasting impression on him.
Thus the prayers frequently sound like a discussion between someone and God about the daily occurrences in that person's life.
Books have been written about different ways in which different personality styles pray.
Perhaps it is that connection with real life that makes prayer real, too.
And not surprisingly, sometimes what appeals to someone is not what I would have guessed.
when he learned to pray about what was on his mind already.
One student who is very current on Church happenings, very sociable and academically sophisticated, regularly can be found with a group of students who have initiated a Tuesday rosary.
The ability to take his day-to-day concerns and bring them
The student's presence depicts the blending of old and
In the same vein, one young man who had just returned from a retreat told me that the most valuable part of this weekend was
new thit sometimes goes on. Late 01 e night, I sat with al out six stuthe apartdents ment o one of the partici/ ants. Their w eekly discussion group Rad officially ended, but several stayed dround just to talk. The topic was how they poy. George, the host, picked up a book of meditattons that she kept on her desk. She said tint reading a little riflection each day heed her keep her owl rhythm with God.
In addition, students often indicate that they have found value in prayer forms that appeal to their whole being. Listening to music ranks high for mnay young people. (I was amazed to hear how one woman prayed with a Bruce Springsteen lyric.)
The meditations often gave her an insight l'to life, something dolt she tried to think pout as she walked to class or went to work.
And in the lives of these students, prayer helps to uncover the connections among all the seemingly disjointed aspects of their lives.
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Conversations with a friend The shadowy city c hurch was empty except for the old man in the first pew. His suit was green-shiny with wear and age, but a merry look lighted his face.
The priest saw him from the sacristy. The old man was smiling, nodding and occasionally slapping his
knee as laughter rolled out of him. The next time the priest looked, the old man was
leaving. "It was nice to hear you
laughing," the priest said as he met him at the door. "Thanks," the old man replied. "I was telling the Lord some jokes. Most people tell him their troubles but once in
awhile I think he mds a laugh."
My father experimed that same uncompliated ' joy in God's comps y. In his last years. my father often sat in his leather chair listerinig to music and "taking things over" with his unseen friend. One of my fat ier's favourite musical sores
was from "Camelot". He defined his fondness for it:
"As the Lord and I sit here, the lovely images of the title song are like getting a peek at heaven and we smile at each other. "But most of all, I am fond of the song 'If Ever I Should Leave You', for the Lord reminds me that
By Jane Wolford Hughes
this is the way he loves us and that he will never leave us." Gerre is a caring wife and mother, accomplished musician and dedicated volunteer. Her voice sped along like quicksilver as she told me why the rosary for her is not the bland,
rote prayer some say it is. Gerre described an added dimension of her rosary prayer, which she says before Mass each morning. After reflecting on the mysteries of each decade of the rosary, her generous spirit recalls to mind the following:
"With the first decade, I pray for family and friends, especially those who are ill; for leaders, scientists and medical personnel . . . "The second, I give thanks for the graces given to my family and for the Church, the Eucharist and forgiveness of sins.
"After the third decade, I ask for strength for my
family to obey God's will, and merry for those who are seeking freedom or are alienated. "The fourth,Iappeal for compassion for those who are without love, for the mentally and physically handicapped, for the insane and criminals and those who bring violence. "The fifth is a general wrap-up specifically for
those to die this day, those who will be gravely tempted and a request that the Lord will be with me whatever I do."
The stories I tell here help to reveal what a person says to a friend who is God. They are stories about people for whom prayer is what the writer Father John Shea calls a conversation between hearts.
Do you pray so that God will change? Mark's Gospel records a story about a woman who suffered from a haemorrhage for 12 years. She consulted all sorts of doctors, underwent painful treatments, spent all her money, "but only grew worse". One day she found herself in a crowd gathered around Jesus. Having heard about his healing powers, she rather superstitiously figured that if she just got
close enough to touch his cloak she would be cured. She did, and she was cured. But it wasn't that simple, that automatic. Jesus demanded to know who had touched him, and she was terrified. In her society, her malady made her legally "unclean": anyone she touched was similarly "contaminated". To her great relief, Jesus reacted gently: "Daugh-
ter, your faith has saved you. Go in peace tad he cured of this affliction.(Mark 5:34) This is an instructive incident. Jesus is not a magic charm. so. Leone we "touch up" whim we need something. Prayer is communication Prayer calls for an interpersonal rel itionship, and an ongoii g one at that. It is a "disk gue". In Luke's Gospel. there
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When do you pray? How do you pray? Where? Selected responses from readers: "I'm a quadraplegic. I can't do anything for myself. But I can pray for others. I have lots of people I pray for. They call me up and say: 'Chris, don't forget to rattle your beads.' I pray the rosary, not with my hands but in my head." — Chris Mattia. "When I obey warm-hearted impulses I am praying, and also when I graciously let someone help me. When I smile and cause another to smile, I am praying." — Terri Doktorski.
is a story about 10 lepers who begged Jesus to have pity on them. He directed them to the priests, who alone had authority to declare them cured. The implication was that they would pass the test and, in fact, "as they were going they were cleansed". (Luke 17:14) Only one of them had the decency to come back and thank Jesus. Only he really prayed, entered into a dialogue with Jesus.
"Out on a teen ing highway with its risks and dangers, prayer. for the safety of all in transit become second nature." — Alice Daily. "Prayer can b at any moment. My life is a prayer. Momeat by. moment. I use images, a statue in the window above the kitchen sink . . . a prow taped to the (bathroom) mirror." — Amy Rebello. "I pray whoever I need to express my feelings, whether. they may be gratitude or the need for cornforang. It never matters where I amwhen I need to pray; what does matter is that I do." ___. Om Vargas.
By Father John Castelot The other nine were cured: He was changed. This is an essential trait of prayer. We do not pray to change God, which is impossible to begin with. We pray to change ourselves. We may not always or immediately get what we pray for precisely as we would like, but still we are heard.
God hears our faith, our trust and loves us for it. This is the greatest answer to our prayer. It draws us into loving communication with the Father. We can't see any farther than the tips of our noses. We can't see the longrange results of granting any specific request. But God's range of vision is unlimited. Not infrequently people
look back and say with a sigh of relief: "Thank God that prayer wasn't answered!" The situation has changed since we made the request and we now realise that granting it would have been a disaster. Prayer is a mystery, as is anything that involves God, the ultimate mystery. Embracing the mystery of prayer while continuing to pray is embracing God — and that is prayer at its best.
Let's face it. Praying can be a problem. Maybe you know exactly what to say to God when you're experiencing a major crisis and really need help. But what about life's noncrisis moments? Is prayer hard to contend with then, or dispensable? Or maybe you never
feel you know exactly what to say to God, even though you think prayer ought to take the form of words and that you ought to know in advance what those words are going to be. In that case, finding speechless yourself before God could make you feel inadequate. Reducing prayer to
When Jesus prayed in the garden to have his "cup" taken from him, God appeared not to have heard him. But the prayer really was heard. Jesus rose from his prayer a changed man; he went forth with resolute courage and determination. His real prayer had been answered: "Not my will but yours be done." (Luke 22:42)
In the final analysis, that is the perfect prayer. emergency requests or to words alone — words uttered in completely smooth, logical order can contribute to making prayer a problem. Listening, after all, can become a form of prayer, along with simple reflection and contemplation. Prayer can, of course, be like a conversation with
That prayer takes deep faith and trust in God's wisdom and goodness; it acknowledges that God knows what is best for us and will do it. It draws us into an intimate relationship with God and transforms us into truly strong persons. It is the prayer that is always answered. It was the prayer of Mary, the model disciple: "May it be done to me according to your word."(Luke
1:38)
God. The risk is to unduly limit the conversation. Are you elated about something right now, disappointed? Are you happy at some development, fearful or puzzled? Any of that would be the subject matter of an ordinary conversation with a friend. Is it within the scope of prayer?
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Denise heads Aussie solo parents group ...
Solo Parents of Australia held their Sixth National Convention at Point Piper in Sydney this month at which
Denise Sutton Mattocks of Perth was elected as National President and Patricia Cummings of NSW as Vice President. WA will host the Seventh National Convention next year. Delegates from Queensland, Victoria, NSW and WA attended and although State names may vary, such as Catholic Solo Parents, Paulian Solo Parent Association, Redemptorist Lay Community Solo Team and the Paulian Association of WA Inc.,
they are all Catholic and come under the umbrella of Solo Parents of Australia. Newly elected National President Denise Sutton Mattocks said the well chosen conference program covered many subjects on marriage breakups, death, separation, divorce and annulments. One of WA's greatest needs is a program for children such as that used with great success in Victoria and NSW which is taken by facilitators into schools, she
said.
who've now moved on.
However the cost of training is high and the Association Paulian lacks the financial means to instigate this and another program considered appropriate for people entering second marriages.
Sydney's Cardinal Clancy is patron of Solo Parents and WA's Paulian Association is supported by Archbishop Foley with Redemptorist priests Fathers Owen Ryan and Frank Smith as spiritual directors.
-The rights and losses of grandparents should also be taken into consideration," said Denise.
Unfortunately in the past the separated, divorced or widowed were a neglected group whom parishioners, and sometimes clergy, just didn't want to know about, which led to them leaving the Church and
Four certificates were awarded to WA people who gave years of work to the Paulians and
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have left the Church because of a cold reception by a formerly accepting Church body, the Paulians have been able to give them the acceptance, understanding, compassion and confidence needed to enable them to rejoin the Church and resume faith practice.
Where in fact some
The Paulians is a self help group of Catholic and Christians who are divorced, separated, widowed or single parents with or without children who come together for mutual support. Their aim is to establish caring relationships with others in similar circumstances to support personal growth and etablish family stability. With the Association's growth, area groups form with people from their own parishes. They have home Masses, social activities and family outings and emphasis is on spiritual and emotional support for those suffering the trauma of a broken marriage or death of a loved spouse. They consider their role is like a ministry based on the knowledge that "no-one knows the road we travel better than a fellow traveller" and the most important person in their group Denise said, has to be the last one who joined with their needs having priority. Fresh back from Sydney and eager to take up the reins of her new appointment Denise believes she's done what she set out to do — "to put WA Solo Parents on the map. To let others know that WA is just across the desert — and we're into great things!" Anyone wishing more information on the Paulians can ring Tony Maureen 3 70 2422, 362 2747 or write to them PO Box 147, North Perth WA 6006.
Losing such parishioners caught in a marriage break-up, also meant losing another generation of Catholics — their children.
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Left: Jack Brownrigg with the two small paintings he did for the Redemptorist Monastery. The painting on the left is that of Blessed Peter Donders and the other is that of Kaspar Blessed Stanggassinger. Below: Artist Jack Brownrigg is seen putting the finishing touches to the massive painting of the the at A ssumption Redemptorist Monastery.
Bachelor Jack's secret love A s a young man Jack Brownrigg had a penchant for painting. But he could not exploit this "Godtalent" given because of his timeconsuming trade as a signwriter. During this time, too, Jack also had a long "romance" with the bottle. "You see, I was a beer drinker and was hitting it hard." Nine years ago he decided that enough is enough and broke away from the booze — thanks to some help from Alcoholics Anonymous. Now on an invalid pension and at 57, bachelor Jack has decided to devote most of his time to his "secret love" — painting. He is doing this strictly to appease his appetite for beauty and colour, Over the past four or five years he has painted for Catholic organisations because as he puts it "my ability to paint is a gift from God andIwould like to give back to God what He has given me." He added: "It is a voluntary job and I enjoy it. I do a lot of religious paintings as well as others. I can copy anything."
By Roy Lazaroo He did the Last Supper about four years ago and donated it to the Little Sisters of the Poor. Over the past few months he did three jobs for the Redemptorist Monastery in Perth — two of them by 3ft(90cm) 2ft(60cm) and a vinyl the of banner Assumption which is by 10ft(300cm) 6ft(180cm). The smaller paintimp are that of the Blessed !Caspar Stanggassinger and Blessed Donders, Peter C.SS.R The painting of the Assumption will no doubt take pride of place at the monastery during the feast of the Assumption.
He has done quite a lot of work for the Catherine McAuley child day care centre in Wembley. He spent about 12 months painting for the centre. Jack has a great leaning towards bright colours and his latest paintings will testify to that fact. What would he like to achieve at the end of it all? Said jack: "I would like to be a pupil of Michelangelo in eternity. He has always been my hero." Painting for Jack is a challenge. He strives to do a little better with each job. "Practice makes perfect, you know," he quipped. He says that he does a much better job now with paints than he did 20 years ago.
Jack who was educated at CBC College in Leederville took up an apprenticeship as a signwriter just after the war.
He rates the Last Supper he did for the LSOP as his best effort.
He worked as a signwriter for most of his life but did a few paintings in between.
"Do what you know you can do and do it best" is the adage he follows closely.
"I always had a burning desire to be an artist. But I had to carry on as a signwriter to earn a living."
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Indeed there are degrees of poverty as you discuss in your editorial of 28th June. Salvadorean poverty, real poverty, L s. PTedOUS memories believe of not the make forever. RIP. Pat, Con, makers Australian image . family. It is of interest that the LOWRY, Andrew Joseph Salvadorean depths of went to his eternal poverty, that of the Third reward, July 10, 1988. World countries, was the Beloved husband and subject of a recent ABC father of Margaret, Mary- feature, 'A debt worse that Jo, Martin, Daniel, Ste- death' which attached phen, Annette and fami- much of that poverty to lies. May Perpetual Light demands of the capitalist world for usurous rates of shine upon him forever. interest demanded on debts which the International PUBLIC NOTICE Money Fund and its banking interests had encouraged Third World countries FURNITURE CARRIED. to borrow. One item to houseful's. The interest are so Small, medium, large vans high that thererates is available with one or two hope nor prospect neither of ever men from $24 per hour, repaying the debts; and all areas. Cartons and food and community develcheap storage available. opment have Mike Murphy 330 7979, ficed to meet to be sacrithe interest 317 1101, 444 0077, payments. 447 8878, 272 3210, The program proposed 378 3303, 384 8838. callers: that both debts and interest Country rates should be halved, if 008 198 120 not for humanitarian conSUPERANNUATION is siderations, at least to now even more attractive prevent a social collapse of
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COTT1ER (Mary) 23.6.89. One year ago today dear Mum-Nanna-Great Nanna you suddenly left
Novena to the Sacred Heart. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, may your name be praised and glorified throughout the world now and forever. Amen. (Say nine times a day for nine consecutive days and promise publication.) Thanks to the Sacred Heart for prayers answered. Liz.
Grateful and sincere thanks to St Jude for favours granted for my family. May your name be honoured and praised for ever. G.M 12
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burdened peoples developing into revolutions which would reject both the debts and repayments. Thus nations on the verge of bankruptcy come to an agreement to pay only cents in the dollar on condition that the money saved should go into social and educational development and not into the pockets of the would be rich. These proposals apply to Australia as a heavily indebted country restricting development and its society, and indeed selling parts of the country off to conform to policies of debt interest payments. A result is a degree of poverty defined as having to live on social security payments or on inadequate family incomes. This is being met not by living in squalor, but in a way of much greater national concern: the present day Australia is failing to replace itself. We are an ageing and a dying people. Our maternal productivity, at under 1.8 children per potential mother, is obviously inadequate for replacement. A falling bir-
thrate is being overtaken by a rising death rate. Early in the next century, deaths will exceed births and the Bicentenary people of Australia will be in decline. Abortion, family planning, equi-opping, distraction of women from home and family, inadequate family planning are the forces behind this decline; but beyond them lies the burden of overseas debts and their Third World impact on Australians. Our decline is of course other Asian rim nations' gain. To maintain population we draw increasingly on them for immigrants: what was aborted can be replaced by imported peoples. The numbers are about roughly equal at about 100,000 annually. Many of these peoples come from areas of frugality and find Australian social security payments adequate. In my own charitable work, I often reflect that the number of people helped is a very small proportion of the total numbers of people on social security and what is given to those who are helped is a very small
My experience and support is that "the need for no child to live in poverty" has been covered in the basic needs of shelter, food and clothing.
the ideal of a "Catholic" University, I have been worried that the end result could be a "modernist" establ ishment employing Catholic and non-Catholic staff teaching, for the most part, heterodox theology. Father Neil, for whom I have respect as an orthodox priest gave me hop:: That despite many indications to the contrary, the university could be a place of great Christian learning and culture, that I would applaud and work for. But his assumption that NDA would be based on the "Hegelian model" — that is "the thesis of the
Church" would be "contrasted with the antithesis" from which "there evolves a synthesis that is taken up by the Church hierarchical structure and becomes the new dialogue forum", is a cause for grave concern. This model of the protestant Philosopher Hegel, worries me. Does it mean that the dogmatic teaching of the Catholic Church is the "thesis" and that professors of theology at NDA would present the "antithesis" to it? There is so much destructive dissent in Catholic academia, which indicates that it could be so.
Could NDA be a place where the dogma of the Church on the bodily resurrection of Christ is contested with an "antithesis"?; or that Christ was God?; or that Our Lady was ever virgin?; or that abortion is an abominable crime punishable by excommunication? The list could go on. The philosophy of Hegel was essential to Protestantism and also to Communism, but it cannot apply to the dogmatic teaching of the Catholic Church. The end result of its application would not be the dilution of dogma, but the poisoning of it.
program Jean Vanier and The Flight from Pain. We all desire to be loved because we are unique, special and we all gradually or suddenly realise that we aren't unique. But such knowledge has to be resisted, so the search for love becomes a search for admiration. On July 22 there is a program titled Jean Vanier and the Acceptance of Pain. We are created to walk toward pain and not to flee from it. to discover the reality of our own frailty and poverty. Vanier insists on such an acceptance of reality on the grounds that we must discover we are not "powerful" or "great" or "good", but "beloved." The program on July 29 is Jean Vanier and The Nature of Prejudice versus the Vision of God. The program points to the fact that the tendency to despise others is deep
within all cultures through a need to prove that "we are better" or that we are a member of a select group. This promotes a hierarchical view which is antithetical to the vision of God. Jean Vanier is one of the most important religious figures of the 20th century. In 1964 Vanier founded the first community of L'Arche for adults with intellectual disabilities at Tmsly-Breuil in France. In 1990 there are three communities in Australia, 90 communities throughout the world and 20 new communities in their preliminary stages, the son of a former Governor-General of Canada. jean Vanier joined the Royal Navy at the age of 14, where he remained for 10 years. At the age of 24, he became disenchanted with the Navy and studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. It was there that., Vanier
had his first encounter with the mentally handicapped. Vanier discovered that while he and his fellow students were preoccupied with success, power. productivity and efficiency, the mentally handicapped he met were concerned with human relationship in a way he had not experienced. He came to the view that the mentally handicapped are significantly gifted in the area of relationship, and that shutting them away served only to deny their gifts to the wider community. Vanier also believes that the locking away of the mentally handicapped is more for the comfort of the able bodied than for the welfare of the handicapped. Jean Vanier uses the insights he has gained from his life with the mentally handicapped to reflect on the meaning of existence for all.
percentage of their pension payments. The actual Family Allowance Supplements increase the old Family Income Supplements by $14 under 13 years and $34 over 13 years and thus in excess of a commonly given $25 food voucher provided at infrequent intervals. In fact the claim that 500,000 children are living below the poverty line is a statistic related to the number of children in families whose income is round $300 weekly down to $190 pw for a single parent with one child or $220 weekly with two children. This is not Salvadorean poverty. It is not even the poverty of the SUSO of the Depression years of which the oldtimers of St Vincent De Paul used to speak like Bill Shocker and Hughie Gallagher when relief was doled out in shillings and halfcrowns.
Worry over um from Brian PEACHEY, Woodlands Sir, I have previously e xpressed my grave concern about the establishment of the university, Notre Dame Australia (NDA), which will be a private university, with a proposed "Catholic ethos". My misgivings were heightened when I read remarks of Father John Neil, OP, a Governor of NDA (The Record, June 21). Obviously, I am one of those who is "scared" of the concept but with no "being chance of involved". Since the inception of
Vanier on ABC By CLIFF BAXTER The Catholic Weekly
Jean Vanier admirers, who have grown to a host in this country since his visit to Australia a few years back, will be delighted to learn that World of Worship (Sundays, ABCTV llam with Kate Abba) will screen a series of Vanier documentaries soon. The first program on July 8 is Jean Vanier arid the Age of Discouragement and it details how the hope of the 60s has vanished and we live in an age of tremendous discouragement. We aTe conscious that we have amazing capacities of the mind, of technological and scientific advancement and incredible capacities to destroy. On July 15 there is another
Meet venue a welcome site The superb location and magnificent facilities of Aquinas College in Manning make it a perfect venue for the 1991 Catholic Youth C onference "Crossroads to Tomorrow", according to a team of c onference organisers who inspected the site on June 9.
College Administrator Brother Kevin McMaster conducted the tour, during which the team identified areas of key importance to the confer-
ence, to be held January
11-16 next year.
Central to the whole event is the college gymnasium, complete with stage and gallery, which will house daily gatherings of all delegates for major input sessions. Able to seat over 900, the gym will be the focal point of the conference as each day's theme is presented by keynote speakers. Elective topics, covering over thirty subjects nom-
inated by young people during last year's survey, will be presented in some of the college's 32 classrooms and teaching areas. The conference also has use of the college's four dormitory blocks, in which a majority of delegates will be housed, with priority going to interstate and country youth. Other delegates will be bussed to and from Aquinas each day from central points around the metropolitan area.
Aquinas administrator Brother Kevin McMaster (centre) with conference team members Patrick Willix and Kristi McEvoy during their recent visit to the college.
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Youth Appeal Sunday, August 19 has been set as the date for this year's "Youth Appeal", an annual doorknock campaign conducted by Catholic Youth Services and the Police and Citizens Clubs throughout the state. Funds raised help these organisations provide facilities and programs aimed at preventing young people coming into crisis. Antioch, CPY, Charis and several other Catholic groups will have people on the street on August 19, and volunteer collectors are still required in some areas. As with last year, a special youth Mass will bring the day to a close. Watch this page for details.
The imposing main entrance to Aquinas College, site of the 1991 Catholic Youth Conference. r—
YCS National Formation Session i Theme: "MISSION OF THE STUDENT" When: JULY 8-13 Where: MAIDA VALE Cost: $60 APPROX
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MUSIC MINISTRY WEEKEND August 17-19 AT AVONDOWN, TOODYAY. For young Catholic musicians aged 16 & over Cost: Just $35 (Students $30) Enquiries & registration Ph 328 9878 The Record, July 5, 1990 13
Kids and catechists celebrate Each year St Denis' Joondanna Catechist Group have a rather outstanding annual children's Eucharistic celebration Mass into which goes much preparation and thought by catechists and children for weeks ahead. Last Sunday was the day which saw the Joondanna church filled with a hundred children drawn from the Yokine state school (where four of their catechists teach), God's Gang (the Tuart Hill after school class), St Denis' Catholic primary, St Paul's, St Kieran's, Applecross and Brentvood "and all over", said co-ordinator Anne Giannasi. Mass theme was: Jesus calling us to change. -That change can be best achieved by getting parents to live the lifestyle Jesus wants of us." This will then affect the children and parents will
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give their children the spiritual support and encouragement they need and reinforce Christian values taught by the catechists, but which if not followed up by the parents, will have little lasting effect, said Anne. "This was backed up by PP Father Frank Christie who expressed his thanks to the children for the happiness they had brought us all, and urged parents to reinforce the message of Jesus that is coming out so strongly in his parish." There were posters, especially chosen songs with bells, chains of doves representing the Holy Spirit within each of us and linking us together and then the releasing of balloons outside after Mass, symbolising God's word reaching all in the "up and beyond". A big party capped off what proved to be a memorable day for adults and children alike.
The Record, July 5, 1990
by Colleen McGuiness-Howard
Joondanna has a ball!
Time for music and books
by Colleen McGuiness-Howard
Beating famine
On WA tour Walt Strony is one of only a few American organists who have established themselves in the worlds of both classical and theatre organ music. He has appeared in programs from coast to coast in the United States and has performed extensively in Japan, Australia, England and Canada. Strony has been invited to perform on numerous occasions for conventions of the American Guild of Organists and the American Theatre Organ Society. Thus far in his relatively young career he has made ten recordings, each highly acclaimed. He recently released the first ever live organ concert
video, and is currently working on a compact disc to be released soon. Walt Strony is touring Australia in July at the invitation of the WA Division of the Australian Theatre Organ Society. Perth organ music lovers will have the opportunity of hearing Walt Strony play on a three-manual Allen Digital organ at two different venues in Perth next week — on Monday July 9, at 7.45pm at the Astor Theatre, cnr Beaufort and Walcott Street, Mt Lawley and again on Wednesday, July 11, at 7.45pm at the South Perth Civic Centre, cnr South Terrace and Sandgate Street, South Perth. For reservations or further details please phone 450 3322.
A group of Year 5 boys On the question of food and with the produced a puppet play; starving Ethiopians in the Year 6 girls did a car mind, the Loreto prim- wash; Year 6 made and juices, ary Nedlands big and sold fresh fruit and two Year 5 boys littlies united with staff made sausage rolls and and parents over the sold them to their class week of June 18-22 to for lunch. raise money for the One Year 5 boy made E thiopian Famine and raffled a chocolate Appeal. Each class organised something: Years 1, 2 and Mary Ward children made and sold chocolate and honey crackles. Pre -Primary children ( with help from the bigger children) made and sold popcorn necklaces. Years 4, 6 and 7 ran a cake stall. Year 3 ran a guess the jelly -bean competition and the Principal ran a fun raffle with individual and small groups also contributing.
Walt Strony at the console of the 4 manual Wurlitzer theatre organ.
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When they last met, Dianella and Pignatelli drew and the game could not be finished, therefore, one can expect another very tight game. Corpus Christi won comfortably over St Benedict's. However, St Benedict's have returned to form after poor showing recently against Pignatelli. This match should be a lot closer than their first meeting. Corpus Christi have performed consistently well this season and should be favoured to win and remain on top of the ladder. After a close tussle with Pignatelli last week Yidarra should keep their slim chances of a finals berth alive when they play Queens Park. St Mark's should also prove too strong for St Norbert's and keep in touch with the top four teams. In the other three games all the top four teams had fairly comfortable wins and consequently consolidated their position in the top four. Final scores were: St Benedict's 8 sets 80 games d St
Jude's. B Grade: Pignatelli, Yidarra, Corpus Christi. St Mark's. Next week A Grade: Queens Park v St Norbert's; St Jude's v St Benedict's; Dianella — bye. B Grade: Pignatelli v Dianella; Yidarra v Queens Park; Corpus Christi v •St Benedict's; St Norbert's v St Mark's. A Grade The clash between St Norbert's and Queens Park almost looms as a semi final. The loser of this match will almost certainly forfeit any chance of reaching this year's final. After a slow start to the season St Norbert's are finding form and should better handle the pressure. In the other game, the top side clashes with the bottom team. However, positions on the tables do not truly reflect the closeness of the competition and whilst St Jude's would have to start favourite St Benedict's will certainly make a contest of this match. ibble A Grade: St Jude's 9;
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Father Canice Egan, SJ, parish priest of Goomalling since 1984 is to become assistant priest at Northam. He will be replaced pro tern by Father Tom Smith. Originally from Dublin Father Egan joined the Jesuits in 1932 and subsequently spent 28 years teaching in universities in Canton and Hong Kong. Coming to Western Australia in 1974 he became parish priest of Dampier till 1981, transferring to Rockingham till 1984 when he moved to Goomalling.
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A special service and meeting are to be held at 7.30pm on Wednesday. July 11 in St George's Cathedral, Perth. Members of St Gregory's Chapter of the Benedictine Oblates of Holy Trinity Abbey, New Norcia have been invited by Anglican Catholic Renewal to celebrate St Benedict's feast day at which Father Holden, Chaplain of St George's Cathedral will conduct Evensong. Afterwards, Dom Byrne OSB, Spiritual Director of the Benedictine Oblates will speak on the application of St Benedict's rule in today's world. Supper will follow. On Saturday, July 14 there will be a picnic at New Norcia plus an opportunity to join the monastic community in Liturgy of the Hours.
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40th Anniversary Ordination to Priesthood
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Concelebrated Mass July 8 7pm Parishoners — Ex Parishoners — and friends of Fr John welcome.
The Union Of the
CATHOLIC APOSTOLATE The Union of the Catholic Apostolate is a work of Pallottines, religious and lay people, serving the apostolic task of the Catholic Church. If you are self -motivated, demonstrate maturity and responsibility, and have a willingness to serve on a voluntary basis, We invite applications for positions as: 1.
Pallottine Lay Missionaries
for Aboriginal missions in Western Australia.
2. Youth Ministers for the Pallottine Youth Apostolate at Casa Pallotti, Millgrove, Victoria.
3. Catholic Volunteers for Pallotti College Adult Retreat Conference Centre, Millgrove, Victoria.
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4. Pallottine Priests and Brothers to serve collaboratively in the Union of the Catholic Apostolate. Interested people should contact
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LIFE SUPPORT
Understanding Teenage Faith Development
On Sunday, July 8 Sunday Worship shows Mass from Aquinas College celebrated by Father Doug Conlon. It is followed by the first of several programs on Jean Vanier of L'Arche fame (see story page 12).
Family Faith Development
NEWMAN SOCIETY
Emeritus Professor, Mervyn Austin will lecture on John H. Newman, titled "The Apologia and Spiritual A utobiography," in the Senior Common Room, St Thomas More College, Crawley, on Tuesday July 10, at 7.30pm. Contact No: 446 1628. Vatican II Study Group: Tuesday July 10, at 11am. "Dogmatic Constitution on the Church." Chpt 7. -The Pilgrim Church". Scripture Group: Thursday July 12, at 10.30 am (Please note change to morning meeting). "Acts of the A postles" Chpts 1 & 2. Each of the last two meetings to be p resided over by Father Dynon at 13 COUNTRY PRAYER Dean St, Claremont. Contact No. A day of prayer and reflection will 446 7340. All three meetings open be held on Monday, August 13 at to anyone interested. Sacred Heart Church, Goomalling, commencing at 9.30am and conSECULAR FRANCISCANS cluding with Mass at 2 pm. Secular Franciscans will celebrate This is the third gathering of the 60th Anniversary of the Order in country people in a day of prayer Western Australia, with Mass in St organised by combined country Mary's Cathedral on Sunday July 22 centres. BYO Lunch and share at 11.30am. The Franciscans now Catholic fellowship. For further have Fraternities in Perth, Midland, information please ring Balcatta, Victoria Park, Geraldton, (096) 22 3109, (090) 44 7035, Leeman and Collie, with a group at Dardanup and at Bindoon. Isolated (096) 38 1042. members who are ailing or aged FOCOLARE - MARIAPOLIS - include Mrs Lucy Doyle of Nazareth The Focolare Movement's annual House, Hilton, and Mrs Stella gathering at Fairbridge Village, Carmody and Miss Kath Malone, Pinjarra, from Wed. July 11 to Sun. who are in Glendalough. Further July 15. Open to everyone: whole information: phone 459 2550. 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, Separate JULY programmes have been prepared for 8 CWL State Conference, Archbichildren and a creche is available for shop Foley. babies. Everyone is welcome. For Fortieth Anniversary of Priestinformation ring 271 3222 or hood, Fr J. Luemrnen, SAC, Archbishop Foley. 381 6170.
Courses for Parents
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Introduction to contemplative meditation and prayer will be given September 9-16 by Brother Casimir CSSR from Trinity House of Prayer Singapore. To make a booking for this Retreat please contact Jan Broderick Redemptorist Retreat House North Perth 328 6600.
To celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Mt Carmel, Mass will be celebrated by Monsignor Nestor along with Redemptorist Youth Choir at the Carmelite Monastery, Adelma Rd, Nedlands, on July 16 at 7pm.
With financial support from the Office of the Family, Centrecare Marriage and Family Service will in the period from July to December hold professionally conducted workshops on • How to cope with grief (following death of a spouse); • How to let go (following separation); • Husbands, fathers, friends and lovers (former); • Being together (for couples); • How to take control of your life (assertive behaviour). Information and application forms available by telephoning 325 6644.
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Focolare "Mariapolis-, Archbishop Foley. 13 Mass for YCS National Conference 14-28 Archbishop Foley in Indonesia. 21 Conference of Churches WA general meeting, Monsignor M. Keating. 22 In St Mary's Cathedral, Mass for the 60th anniversary of the Secular Franciscans, Monsignor Keating. 23 Mass for teachers of Fremantle region, Monsignor Keating. 25 Installation Dr John Shepherd as Dean of St George's Cathedral, Fr John Orzanski. Mass, Little Sisters of the Poor, Monsignor Keating. 29 Confirmation, Mosman Park, Archbishop Foley. Confirmation, Queens Park, Monsignor Nestor. 31.1 Bishops Central Commission AUG Meeting, Archbishop Foley 5 Visitation and Confirmation, Armadale, Archbishop Foley. Confirmation, Attadale, Monsignor Keating.
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