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THE L.J. GOODY BIOETHICS CENTRE OPENS ITS DOORS

The L.J. Goody Bioethics Centre has opened the doors of its new permanent home and it looks like being a very busy place, according to its director.

"Without undue modesty there is nothing comparable anywhere else in Australia to what the archdiocese has provided here," said Missionary of the Sacred Heart Father Walter Black who has been released to the archdiocese for five years.

He said that the Jugan St Glendalough site, formerly St Bernadette's school, was the end of a 'pilgrim journey' that started in 1985 in offices in St John of God Hospital Subiaco under Jesuit Father Bill Uren who was the Centre's first director, the Bioethics Committee having been established in 1983.

After the transfer of Fr Uren to Melbourne the offices were housed at the Catholic Education Centre.

In the Glendalough conversion there is a large public lecture hall in a separate building and in the main centre a large library to house resources, in moral theology and bioethics, a 16seat boardroom that will be available to health groups such as the Catholic Doctors Association, a large secretarial office and work room as well as a study for those wanting to use the centre's

resources a director's office and residential flat and a kitchen area.

Father Black, who for the past two years has operated out of his Lynwood presbytery bedroom said that his first tasks would be to establish the library and then to offer week-long and shorter courses for teachers and others on Catholic moral teaching.

He said there was already a constant demand for information and personal counselling in moral problems associated with health care, for singles and couples referred by priests, doctors and others.

He said that there had been an enormous response both inside and outside the Catholic Church from those wanting to make use of the centre's resources.

There had always been an interest in moral questions associated with health care and bioethics had been a part of moral theology, Fr Black said.

However, changes in health care due to new technology, such as reproduction, had raised moral problems that had not been thought of before.

The L.J. Goody Bioethics Centre had its unofficial opening this week when Archbishop Goody (centre) was taken on a guided tour by the director Father Walter Black MSC (right) and Monsignor McCrann and Mrs Faye Colum who supervised the renovations to the former St Bernadeffe's School.

With the increased secularisation of society the age old questions of abortion, euthanasia and family planning had become more urgent and people are looking for guidance, light and the clear teaching of the Church, he said.

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Some light reading for the laity When Catholic Social Apostolate officer Jim Miolin heard in 1986 about a forthcoming Synod on the Laity he wondered why nobody seemed to be hearing about it.

He decided to break the silence.

"You are being talked about in Rome" headlined a poster he developed and distributed to every parish in Perth archdiocese.

As the message got around, a number of other Australian dioceses took up the idea and ordered his posters.

Over 1000 appeared in churches around Australia.

In 1990, three years after the synod, Jim Miolin is setting about breaking the silence again.

This time it is the silence about the document of Pope John Paul called Christifideles Laici

(Lay Faithful in the Church in The World), which was issued in 1988.

Many seem to have heard about the 175-page papal document but have not read it, Jim Miolin says.

There have been some commentaries. One of the best is "The Hour Of The laity" by Monsignor Peter Coughlan, secretary to the Vatican Commission for the Laity.

It condenses the papal document and adds a lively commentary with discu.ssion questions.

But there's even a simpler step now.

The Grail, famous for their other simplified texts, have now produced "This Is The laity" a 90-page booklet which halves the quantity of words in the original document and lays them out in easy-to-read sentences.

Perth's Catholic Social Apostolate is pushing the Grail booklet, says Jim Miolin, because CSA's mandate is to help people understand the lay apostolate.

"People are not understanding that they are the Church and that they have a role to play in their ordinary everyday life," Jim Miolon said.

"A lot of people get frightened when they hear this because they fear it will call on them to do more than they are capable.

"On the other hand understanding their role they would see the significance of what they already are doing.

"Visiting a friend, coaching a sporting team, getting into local government, are situations to which they bring their Christian values and qualities.

"This is because, in the

'Foster care' plea Catherine McAuley Family Centre in Wembley is again looking for special families for their Foster Care Program.

The Centre has provided residential child care since the 1800's, cottage care in the last 12 years and in the last year has commenced a Foster Care Programme to cater for those children who need more individuafised care than group

care allows.

The backgrounds the children come from have often been very disruptive, leaving emotional and behavioural damage.

As such, the Centre is seeking people who have experience with children, are firm, patient, understanding and who have love to give.

For example, a home is urgently required

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First it was the poster, then it was the pope's document following the synod, and now its the simple version for ordinary people, says Catholic Social Apostolate executive officer Jim Miolin.

"This is the Laity" is available from 32 Claverton St, phone 328 6672.

words of the gospel, the laity are 'the salt of the earth'."

If people read the Grail version, they will want to go deeper and read

Monsignor Coughlan's book, Jim Miolin said.

Then they will be ready to come together with others in the parish and share their reflections.

The other goal is to prepare people for the public lecture by Bishop Geoffrey Robinson on October 10 in the James Nestor Hall.

Bishop Robinson of Sydney along with Archbishop Faulkner of Adelaide was an Australian delegate to the 1987 synod on the laity.

School gets name When students return to their school at South Lake for third term they will find it has a new name of an AusCatholic tralian heroine.

Parents and teachers at the Catholic Primary School in Verna Road have been discussing possible names since it opened this year and it will be known as MacKillop Catholic Primary School.

MacKillop Mary founded the first order of

nuns to be started in Australia.

Mary MacKillop was born in Melbourne in 1842 and started the Sisters of St Joseph in 1867.

The chairman of the school board Mr Quentin Wilson said: "Mary MacKillop was an Australian working for Australians, who with her sisters adopted the living standards of the ordinary working class.

"She devoted hersef to

working with the unemployed. the under privileged, Aborigines and people from all ethnic backgrounds."

"Mary was a real adventurer and was not afraid to follow the tracks of the explorers into the interior."

"She wanted to ensure that all children would receive a Catholic education and as the country was opened up by miners and farmers she followed and established

schools."

Mr Wilson said that the example of charity and perseverance she gave is an inspiration for all Australians and particularly for the children at South Lake.

The school is set in natural bushland and currently enrols 56 children in pre-primary and year 1. By 1996 the school will enrol approximately 480 students from pre-primary to year 7.

Stranger in the night SYDNEY: Sydney taxidriver John Brennan is a Catholic, but in his own words "I don't kiss the ground every time the pope goes by."

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Some people, he says, might even regard him a bad Catholic at times.

But he does his bit for others.

For example, economics and circumstances denied John the sort of

By CLIFF BAXTER in The Catholic Weekly tertiary education he believes he ought to have had.

Instead of moaning about it, he decided to help a young person.

For the last four years he has been paying $250 a month so that Mateo Maril, 26, qualifies as a graduate in dentistry at the University of Sancar-

los in the Province of Pangasinan, the Philippines.

Lately, however, the going has been tough.

Due to the decline in the Australian economy, cab-driving has not been quite so lucrative.

In his car the other night, John was telling a passenger about the

problems of meeting the university fees for his young protege.

"I wasn't begging for money — just chatting, as he had been in the Philippines too," recalls John.

The passenger paid the fare and then tossed in a $100 bill before he disappeared.

In a way you could say that the passenger was an anonymous angel.

Homosexuality.

Law, morality and the Church

I At the same time, we see no good purpose in keeping on the statute books repressive legislation which, even theoretically, could be used to authorise the invasion of the privacy of individuals. We believe it should be possible to have good law which, while condemning homosexual practices, does not condone the invasion of privacy.

It is not the role of law to be a moral policeman and add legal veto and penalty to every kind of moral behaviour. Adultery is a case in point.

Law can and should forbid those moral wrongs which result in public and social harm. Law should not condone or approve homosexual practices.

But when such acts are between consenting adults in private, law need not write the proscribing of such behaviour into the Criminal Code. No good purpose is served by making criminals of those who engage in homosexual practices in the privacy of their own homes.

The law should, however, legislate against public advertisement and soliciting for homo sexual purposes.

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Even when Church groups and believing Christians agree on the immorality of homosexual activity, they may differ on the role of law in this regard.

Before the current debate erupted, the archdiocesan Social Welfare Secretariat had been preparing a Catholic submission to the Criminal Justice Commission.

The submission would not be recommending that homosexuality be removed from the Criminal Code, nor would it be denying the need for the reform of the law.

Given the great complexity of the problem of homosexuality, a simple change in the law would not do much to solve the range of problems connected with it, either for the individual homosexual or for his/her place in society.

Basic to a Catholic submission would be the clear distinction between the moral evaluation of homosexuality and the welfare of persons involved.

We would hesitate to support the decriminalising of homosexual acts, even in private between consenting adults, if this would be interpreted as

publicly condoning such acts.

Our view would be that such acts, even though not illegal, were immoral and detrimental to a proper development of family life in a healthy society.

We would also recognise that in a pluralist society there is an increasing need to educate people about the limited function of law.

The law can no longer be seen solely as a teacher of Christian values, but as a regulator of public behaviour.

But, at the same time, we would not hesitate to condemn the violence and malice that some sections of society inflict on homosexuals.

There is an obligation on those responsible for administering laws to ensure just and fair treatment of people who have homosexual orientation and to protect them from the oppression to which they have sometimes been subjected.

In The Brisbane Catholic Leader Bishop John Gerry, Vicar for Social Welfare in Brisbane archdiocese, writes on the submission being prepared by the Social Welfare

Secretariat in response to the Criminal Justice Commission's request for public comments on its TOpage report, Reforms in Laws relating to Homosexuality. . .

Society sees nothing wrong with it. Therefore, it is morally alright.

tendencies be kept on the level of genuine friendship, free from indecent It could be used to give behaviour. weight to the contention Our submission would that a standing homosexinsist that, in the assess- ual relationship is, in the ment of the likely conse- eyes of the community, quences of decriminali- just as acceptable as sation, full weight be marriage.

Oven to the educative Some role, limited though it is, homosexual and its power to mould groups are already public opinion, social demanding not only mores and moral atti- tolerance, but acceptance tudes in the community. of their lifestyle on the The tragic abortion basis that all sexual experience of recent orientations are neutral years in Australia and and normal. elsewhere bears out the If "law reform" pronecessity for such posed normalisation of caution. homosexuality in just For many people, the that sense it would easily law is the teacher of what foster and make homoHomosexual persons is socially acceptable, sexual behaviour more should strive to live as even of what is right and public with the result of eroding the meaning of complete a life as wrong. possible.

For them, the decrimi- the family.

Both from the religious For all people, indeed, it nalising of homosexualis expected that erotic ity would suggest: point of view, as well as

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for the good of society itself, marriage and the family are realities that must be protected and strengthened.

Also, public decency is to be preserved from such outrageous events as the so-called Mardi Gras in Sydney.

Many people of goodwill who were led to focus on "decriminalisation of homosexuality" in isolation would be distressed if they later found that they had given aid and comfort to such a destructive movement.

At the same time, we see no good purpose in keeping on the statute books repressive legislation which, even theoretically, could be used to authorise the invasion of of the privacy individuals.

We believe it should be possible to have good law which, while condemning homosexual practices, does not condone the invasion of privacy.

accept or condone homosexual practices as normal in any program purporting to educate young people.

It is not the role of law to be a moral policeman and add legal veto and penalty to every kind of moral behaviour. Adultery is a case in point.

Law should not grant legal status to homosexual unions or in any way regard them as the equivalent of valid marriage.

Law can and should forbid those moral wrongs which result in public and social harm.

Law should not condone or approve homosexual practices.

Finally, we would want to make it clear that we paKs no judgment on any individual homosexual and the state of his or her conscience before God.

But when such acts are between consenting adults in private, law need not write the proscribing of such behaviour into the Criminal Code. No good purpose is served by making criminals of those who engage in homosexual practices in the privacy of their own homes.

The law should, however, legislate against public advertisement and soliciting for homosexual purposes.

It should ensure that there is no question of the corruption of young people under the age of

18, and that it does not

The Church certainly does not condemn those who discover within themselves a homosexual attraction or inclination, and it must work to foster better care and guidance for those men and women whom society has often ostracised.

We need better education about homosexual orientation and better pastoral care offered with an understanding, compassion and sensitivity to help men and women live up to the moral teaching the Church has received from Christ.

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Guest Editorial

THE ADVOCATE MELBOURNE

The whole Catholic community should welcome the church's participation in three recent debates that continue to have a critical impact on our society: the environment, refugees and future church.

The Catholic Education Conference, held last week in Melbourne, had as its theme Renewing The Face of The Earth.

Some might argue that the Catholic Church has not taken seriously enough the abuse of the environment.

What is important now is the issue has been put on a very influential church agenda — that of our Catholic teachers.

We are unlikely to see a new brigade of lobbyists or greenies. The challenge of that conference was to approach the issue via Scripture, theology, liturgy, science and technology.

It is a deeply religious question that Christians cannot ignore. It encompasses more than trees and the wilderness. Reckless exploitation and development of our earth has already struck at the womb. The excessive use of chemicals and the dumping of toxic waste is affecting the development of embryos and foetuses.

Many of our young people are already aware of the devastation that this planet faces and will therefore be receptive to renewing the face of the earth.

The environment and our responsibilities to it, must also become part of our parish agenda, using Scripture, theology and liturgy. It is essential that the adult members of our commuinity are also challenged. There are many who are still sceptical and others who are in a position of influence to commence the process of protecting our earth.

We should be encouraged to become involved at a very personal level, always conscious of our lifestyle, and the products we buy whether they be for our families or our school tuckshops.

A t the same time, the Catholic Church continues to make a valuable contribution to the refugee debate. At the coalface, throughout the Third World, our church is actively engaged in providing material support and a voice for the human rights of the refugee population. There is also a ministry here in Australia among refugees.

But even within Christian circles, there is hesitation, reluctance, ignorance and fear.

Allof us must be prepared to acknowledge the contribution that refugees are making in this country. We must never tire of displaying compassion to the people of God who have been driven from their homes, frequently leaving behind family and possessions. We are also called to be agents of communication and reconciliation dispelling the fears and ignorance that too many have about the refugee population.

And none of us should ever forget that Jesus was a refugee.

Finally, if some are concerned about the future of God's Church, they should take courage from the vision, enthusiasm and diversity of those preparing the way for future church.

Recent articles in The Advocate have not only brought positive comment, but have unearthed an exciting and alive community at work. Their number includes young people.

One of the signs of God's presence among us is his inspiration to us to move on and change so as to meet new demands.

Therefore change and uncertainty are both healthy and necessary.

Many are seeing the hand of God at work calling them to buildhis Kingdom with new hands and maybe using new methods.

Many of the challenges of the Second Vatican Council are now coming to fruition. The silent and reluctant giant, the laity, is coming to life. Not to threaten old structures, but to renew and strengthen.

Our role is to hear the call of God. That might begin by reading the foundation of future church which is found in the Acts of the Apostles. And then move in faith.

It is a senseless exercise to opt for the status quo and attempt to hold back the ocean. It is harmful to nitpick the initiatives of the visionaries. However, at the end of the day, some of the dreaming will require modification and some will be left on the cutting floor.

In the meantime the visionaries need space and encouragement and not frustration.

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o e: Heal wounds of the past ...AND REJECT ANY FORM OF VIOLENCE

ROME, (CNS): A Catholic -Orthodox dialogue statement has warned against violence and mutual proselytising as the t wo churches take advantage of new religious freedoms emerging in Eastern Europe.

The statement reflects growing concern over tensions between Eastern -rite Catholics and Orthodox in the region which have burst into the open since the breakup of the communist bloc.

The churches must give sister-church, which a positive impression to itself offers the means of individuals and authori- grace and salvation", the ties "who are ready to statement said. detect and utilise every "In this sense," the sign of rivalry", the commission wrote, "we statement said. reject uniatism as a The dialogue with the method of unity opposed Orthodox uses the term to the common tradition "uniatism" to describe of our churches." the separation of groups Jesuit Father John Long, of Orthodox from their a Vatican representative churches in order to to the commission, said unite with Rome. the rejection of uniatism Obtaining unity in that is not a rejection of the way does not take into Eastern-rite churches in account "that according union with Rome for to ecclesiology, the centuries.

Orthodox Church is a "We are not sitting in

condemnation of the past, but looking for new ways," he said.

The statement urges Eastern-rite Catholic and Orthodox priests to work together to heal "the wounds of the past" and guide "the faithful toward a deep and

lasting reconciliation".

"All violence, direct or indirect, physical or ,moral" must be rejected in Romania, the Ukraine and other places where new freedoms have opened the way for the re-emergence of the Eastern-rite churches.

"Every effort aimed at having the faithful of one church pass to another, which is commonly 'proselytism' called should be excluded as a misuse of pastoral energy," the statement said.

problems in mind.

"Outmoded nationstate thinking cannot be our objective. The united Germany must find its place in Europe," it said.

The document compared the situation to "an operation that has become necessary".

"There are risks and the whole body will be affected — and yet often it is the only responsible path to restore health." it said.

In light of possible and unemployment

other hardships in East Germany following economic unification, the statement emphasises the "important task of the churches and Christians to remain advocates of the poor and weaker citizens".

It also said worldwide issues of hunger. poverty and economic justice must be heeded and that government as well as Church aid for developing countries must not be reduced, even temporarily.

bishops' material might government guidelines be confusing and that on AIDS and use the secondary pupils should bishops' material in be told that contracep- addition if they wished. tives help to prevent the In March, the bishops spread of AIDS. clarified their objections The general secretary of to the AIDS education the Association of Secon- material piloted by the government's dary Teachers, Kieran Irish Mulvey, said AIDS was a department of education. health, rather than a They complained it did moral issue, and that his not give adequate weight association would advise to the formation of members to follow responsible attitudes.

"Where uniatism has been employed as a method, it failed to achieve its goal of bringing the churches closer together: rather it provoked new divisions," the statement said.

Spectre of Nazi era Is raised again BONN, West Germany (CNS): In an unprecedented joint statement, divided Germany's church leaders raised the spectre of the Nazi era in a warning against the development of narrow nationalism as the country reunites.

Catholic and Protestant bishops from both sides of the old Cold War border cautioned against "outmoded nation-state thinking" and say that a united Germany must

The statement criticised "narrow-minded thinking and actions" that would endanger the opportunity to build a peaceful future for Europe.

It is necessary to remember the "burden of the past", the document said, and noted that the division of Europe and Germany was a "consequence of the National Socialist dictatorship and the irresponsible unleashing of World War II by Germany".

While expressing an understanding of Germany's current preoccupation with itself, the statement warned Germans to keep larger

DUBLIN: Irish bishops have been criticised by teachers' unions for issuing an AIDS education program for schools which opposes the use of contraceptives as a protection against the disease.

At their summer meeting in Maynooth the bishops announced that they would make the program available to all

post-primary schools in Northern Ireland and the Republic.

Prepared by the Dublin archdiocese, it takes the line that the use of condoms is immoral, and stresses that they do not guarantee protection against AIDS. The bishops' spokesman, Bishop Joseph Duffy of Clogher, said AIDS education required

"the formation of a compassionate and caring approach to victims of the disease, as well as the promotion of truly responsible attitudes and behaviour towards drugs and sex, which is the only adequate response to this dreadful disease".

The president of the Teachers' Union of Ireland, Billy Fitzpatrick, said he thought the

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The churchmen also urged Germany's churchgoers to help those hurt by the process of economic reunification, and said spirituality is important to the process of change.

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Abortion clinic warned

WASHINGTON (CNS): Bishop Gracida of Corpus Christi, Texas, has told the director of an abortion clinic and an obstetrician who performs abortions that they have incurred automatic excommunication under Church law.

The bishop also has warned a third person,

who heads another clinic, of the same prohibition.

Bishop Gracida's decree to Ms Vargas, the clinic's administrator, said, "You must understand that by assisting directly in the procuring of abortions, you have subjected yourself to the automatic

excommunication specified" in Canon 1398 of Church law. The canon states: "A person who procures a completed abortion incurs an automatic ('latae sententiae') excommunication."

E xcommunication results in the exclusion of a baptised person from

the sacraments and from union with the Church.

Bishop Gracida told Ms Vargas in his letter of decree that "an excommunicated person may hold no office within the Church and also is deprived of Christian burial".

His letter also said, "This excommunication

can be removed, however, by a sincere and total repentance and confession concerning the sin of abortion."

Both Ms Vargas and Dr Aquino who performs 60 to 70 abortions a month released the bishop's excommunication letters to the local press.

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Two unusual libel cases SO VATICAN COURTS PUT ASIDE MARRIAGE ANNULMENTS, ECCLESIAL DISPUTES

ROME: The Vatican's top courts have put aside marriage annulments and ecclesial disputes to consider two unusual cases of

libel.

One was brought by Rome's former mayor against a respected Italian Catholic weekly, Cristiana Famiglia (Christian Family).

The magazine sinned by referring to city corruption during an election campaign.

The other suit has paired off one of the Vatican's most venerable institutions, the Chapter of Canon's St Peter's, against the chief labour activist at the Vatican.

Chapter officials did not like a passing dig that appeared in an editorial in the lay employees' newsletter.

Both cases involve thorns in the sides of dignitaries, and there have been efforts to pull them out gently — without going to court.

But the Roman Rota decided it would hear the case of former mayor Pietro Giubilo against the journalists of Famiglia

and the Society of St Paul, the religious order that runs the magazine.

The Rota is the church court that processes hundreds of annulment appeals each year.

The tribunal, however, is empowered by canon law to judge cases that involve heads of religious orders — though this is very rare.

The offending article in Famiglia last August dared to report that many of Rome's Catholics were disenchanted with "the mismanagement, corruption and speculative pollution" of the city's government.

In fact, Pope John Paul II and the Vatican newspaper had been among the stronger critics of City Hall.

Giubilo. a Christian Democrat, immediately announced he would sue the journalists in an ecclesial court — a move that underlined the importance of having the church, or part of it, on one's side in an Italian election.

Giubilo was forced to resign shortly afterward

prison — two small rooms normally used for storage.

The prison is hardly ever used, but the tribuFather Renato Perino, nal does mete out punsuperior of the Society of ishment., In the case of St Paul, has expressed his The newsletter of the libel, that could include "amazement" at the ex- Vatican lay employees' dismissal mayor's legal action. He association criticised the hefty fines. Job would probably follow, said the article was way the case was Cerullo said. merely a piece of accu- handled and complained Because the Vatican that the employee was rate reportage. civil tribunal's proceedOven a chance to not For that reason, the answer the accusations. ings are public, there is magazine refused a com- Almost as an aside, the reportedly pressure to promise under which it editorial said the Chapter settle the case without a would have published a seems to have "no inter- trial. That would be fine clarification and the est in seeking the truth". with the judges, whose Vatican service is partmayor would have Six months later, Mari- time. dropped the case. ano Cerullo, chief labour Chief magistrate Pio The journalist who organiser and head of the Ciprotti said that outside wrote the article, a lay employee's association, of traffic violations, his Catholic, has announced was summoned twice for three-judge tribunal norhe will refuse to attend questioning by the civil mally handles only one the proceedings. tribunal. or two cases a year.

"As a journalist, I "They're trying to These usually involve answer to the Italian intimidate me, trying to theft inside the Vatican. justice system and the build a case against me. Petty crime in and professional order," he We're asking the pope to around St Peter's is intervene," Cerullo said turned over to Italian said.

The other libel case is after one of the police. So are truly serious crimes such as being weighed by the interrogations.

The tribunal must the shooting of Pope John Vatican City civil tribunal, which deals with decide who, if anyone, Paul II in 1981. traffic accidents and deserves prosecution.

Whatever the Rota and crimes committed inside The editorial was the tribunal decide on unsigned, so the case the libel accusations, the Vatican walls. could involve the entire their decisions can be Last year, when a directorship of the asso- appealed. That will Vatican lay employee ciation. That would prob- insure that all sides are was believed to be ably be too many defend- offered another day in improperly drawing ants to fit in the tribunal's Vatican court. in the wake of a municipal scandal, and a Socialist eventually was elected mayor.

family benefits, he was suspended by his employer, the Chapter of St Peter, the group of canons responsible for the basilica.

Population control: Bishops look at plan MANILA, Philippines (CNS): The Philippine bishops are taking a long look at the issue of population control as government the appears to be giving the subject a new emphasis.

The bishops were spurred by a government plan to implement a new population program.

"The government wants to implement the program as soon as possible," says Bishop Varela of Sorsogon.

"They seem . . . very much in a hurry."

Bishop Varela said the recent switch of the

Population Commission mation campaign, trainto the Office of the ing and retraining proPresident reveals the grams, clinic operations, government is gearing up and distribution of confor a more vigorous traceptive supplies such as intrauterine devices program. and pills.

The country's population, currently 63.2 milBishop Varela recently lion, is growing by 2.4 per told the Philippine cent annually — one of Senate that implementaAsia's highest rates. tion of the program is According to Bishop immoral and unethical.

Varela, the new govern- He declared that the ment program aims to Church opposes the have six million women information campaign using modern contracep- and the large expenditive methods and to ture for population conreduce the fertility rate of trol when the country is 3.9 children per couple to still paying for the past 3.4 in four years. program.

A five-year program He said the money involves a massive infor- could be better spent for

"welfare programs, population development programs, health care, nutrition, improved housing conditions (and) livelihood programs that will directly address the question of poverty".

According to the bishop, the equivalent of $71.4 million of the country's $30 billion debt had been allotted to population control.

Bishop Varela also cited experts who claim that development is possible and probably even aided by population growth.

He said Philippine culture is opposed to birth control and that a com-

plete switching of values needed for success of such a program would necessarily involve coercion.

Pro-choice groups say a lack of awareness of contraceptives pushes women to seek abortions, which are illegal. Statistics on abortions in the Philippines were not available.

"The Filipino family, especially the poor, looks at children as an investment, as social security for the future. They don't look on children as 'one more mouth to feed', but as another pair of hands to work," Bishop Varela said.

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The tremors in his hand as he puffs away at his cigarette are the scars of a "living hell" he went through.

They are also a frightening reminder of what c.an happen if you hit the bottle hard.

The story of Jack Brownrigg is one of pain, courage and sheer grit.

But Jack, an invalid pensioner at 57, can consider himself as one 2C5.(13,4\ of the lucky few who has S WEET made it.

It is said that only one out of 10 alcoholics manage to break away S PE( t ALLY FILTI1.10 I) from the curse of excesGuarantied as pure grape pa made el contormm sive drinking. And Jack is oath ecderadal condemns tor church use one of them.

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"Yes, I went through a living hell for 30 years or so," Jack announced.

"And if my story is going to help anybody, let's go to town with it," he added as he downed his drink.

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Drink, jack recalled, had got him into a lot of strife including being treated in a mental home in Perth.

"My life was a perpetual hangover. I was coming home late and getting up late for work. It was annoying my dad.

"He took away the keys of my car and that was the day I had to go for a Est. 1910 blood test. My brother ORIG. FAMILY Co. took me down and brought me back.

Along the way he asked his brother what he thought their father would say if "I asked for the keys back."

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Jack Brownrigg, who once suffered a perpetual hangover raises his glass of coke, which is now his normal drink. not been drinking for some time. He then invited me to an AA meeting. One meeting led to another. And for the next 12 to 14 months I went to hundreds of these meetings, sometimes four in a day."

"I had a couple of middies now and again during the first six months. But that only lasted a couple of weeks."

"I went straight back to AA and with their helpI have not touched a drop since."

He was 17 when he started drinking. He turned his back on booze at the age of 48.

He would in his early days down at least six middies in the evening and wind up the day taking two bottles home.

On the weekends he used to really "step on it."

As arranged, the interview was conducted in a pub.

He downed coke after coke and efforts during the near three-hour interview to tempt him proved futile.

Iasked: what would you do if! place $100 "carrot" before you with a beer?

"I'd take the $100 and give the beer back for you to drink," he answered.

"1used to suffer terribly.

Especially on Sunday mornings. It used to be the worst day.

"Iused to have fears that Iwas going mad or about to drop dead. You might say that these were imaginary fears but they were not. They were real.

"And things did not come right again until I cracked another bottle at home or went to a session.

"With that 'hair of the dog' I went on and on and on... I never drank myself into oblivion. I

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Jack painting a vinyl b anner of the A ssumption for the Redemptorist Monastery.

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drove my car those days, too.

"When I turned 40 and with the cops having those blitzes and so on I became wary about having too much and driving. On a SundayIwould walk down to the tavern or take a taxi andIdid the same on my way home.

The irony of it is that he has had two "bad accidents" since he stayed sober.

Has he ever had any temptations since he gave up drinking?

"I have had thoughts of bringing back home a couple of bottles now and again. But then I thought to myself that if Ihad the taste of it again Imight be back to square one.

"I know a lot of people

who have come from AA and I know that their second attempt at drinking has been worse than the first one.

"Now I don't have to rely on grog to make me happy. I am happy with my work. The paintingsI do and a bit of signwriting here and there keeps me occupied."

Drinking in the early days used to "knock the hell out of me."

"I'd go to a dance or something and before the dance was over I'd be outside lying under a tree and thinkingIwas dying.

As if to run away from it. Jack decided to "get away from WA." But what in fact he was doing was running away from himself.

"I went to Sydney, then to New Zealand "where the beer was shocking."

"I drank a lot of whisky there."

Today with an alcoholfree body he is able to think clearly and is free those from nasty hangovers.

"I have a certain amount of fears still but not as much as when I was drinking." he said.

Alcoholism like gam'Td swear then I would never touch it again. Of bling, he added, was like course a week or a a sickness.

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Clontarf gamble pays off The establishment of the Clontarf Aboriginal College was a gamble whether it would a ttract Aboriginal support but the gamble has more than paid off, says the retiring foundation principal.

"On opening day in were 1986 there lots of knockers and doubters but within six months groups were wanting to be here," said Christian Brother Kevin Ryan last week as he handed over the principal's reins to Aboriginal foundation staff member Ms Donella Brown.

The existence of six different Aboriginal activities on the campus in addition to the college, Brother Ryan said, is now a challenge to replan how the activities will relate to each other, he said.

And there has been a corresponding change in the motivation of the 1518 year old students now attending the college.

From the days of seeing it only as a social contact or a drop-in-centre, there is no doubt now in students' minds, whatever their other expectations, that they are attending an educational institution.

Brother Ryan said that not only was the college the only one of its kind in Western Australia, but it was also a unique management partnership between the Christian Brothers, the Aboriginal

community and the Catholic Education Commission under which it is a group funded school.

Brother Ryan takes up another Aboriginalrelated appointment next year as principal of the Nulungu College Broome which was launched in 1971 under the auspices of the Christian Brothers and the Sisters of Our Lady of the Mission.

For all but two years when he took a social work degree Brother Ryan's Clontarf association dates back to 1976 when it operated as a residential centre for 1216 year olds with behavioural problems.

With the closure of that program in 1983, Brother Ryan was a member of the planning task force that looked at some 50 proposals for an alternative use of Clontarf.

By 1984 the choice had narrowed to two and in 1985 the Aboriginal proposal was under way with Brother Ryan as principal and another Christian Brother, Brother Michael Lalor, on the staff.

Brother Lalor continues on staff, Brother Linus Bowler is now a full time voluntary tutor and there is the possibility of another Christian Brother joining the staff.

Brother Ryan has no doubts about the ability of his Aboriginal successor and of the ability of

Aborigines to administer their own programs.

"I believe they can do this if they develop the right administrative style, get the right support and have lots of patience."

That is happening at Clontarf, he says, and the Christian Brothers have played a vital role in providing a nonthreatening and nonvested interest in what is taking place.

A long lease of the buildings to the college will be finalised by the Brothers later this year.

Students are coming to Clontarf, he said, basically because they wanted a good education and wanted to get a job.

The challenge in 1990 is to work out what a good education means to an Aborigine today and what are the job prospects.

"They accept the reality that they are in a Western economic system but at the same time many parents are wanting to be economically independent of governments and that if they are to be selfproud and determining they cannot do that while being on welfare payments."

If anything, he noted, the parents' hopes are even higher than what the college may be able to provide, many seeing it as a last hope for their children.

The search for what is best will have to be

At term's end last week the retiring Clontarf Aboriginal College principal Brother Kevin Ryan saw to the last raising of the Aboriginal flag before he handed over to his successor Miss DoneIla Brown (right). worked out in continuing dialogue, he said.

"The parents have as high ideals about their children as anybody and probably have not had the normal educational system to support them.

"They need a lotsof people in their own Aboriginal community and from places like Clontarf to give them that support."

For Brother Ryan, getting to know Aborigines has been a long process from his days as a youth on a farm near Doodlakine, dealing with Aboriginal youths in the former Clontarf program and meeting Aborigines at the Embleton Aboriginal Masses.

"The closer I've got to

the Aboriginal people the their families — "a good more I am aware that anger", Brother Ryan Aboriginal culture is said. alive and well in Perth. I "They need to explore never fully believed good things of those the when people said it was dead andIcertainly don't times as well as the not so good." believe it now.

A personal development program at Clontarf is already attracting those who want to find meaning and value in their lives.

On the other hand, family life had been shattered for many when they moved from the deprived, yet simple, lifestyle of country towns to the urban environments today.

"I've learnt a lot about their loyalty in families, about their sense of humour in adversity and about the concern expressed by families for their young people."

There is a strong spirituality amongst the Aborigines of the South-West, Brother Ryan said, and it would be a challenge for places like Clontarf to explore that spirituality.

Amongst older Aborigines, he said, there were positive memories from the New Norcia and Wandering mission days but for younger generations feelings were mixed as they learned about the political legislation that separated them from

The task is to show that Aboriginal spirituality and Christian faith are not mutually exclusive and that they can be brought together in new and different ways.

Sister Ryan. t heological reflection and pastoral planning.

Following a resolution at last year's assembly to raise awareness of a global as well as Australian church, the assembly voted to promote programs in the Asia and Pacific regions and to prepare an information booklet on ministries in the region.

The assembly also voted to promote One World

Sister Burns.

Bro Faulkner.

Week and to urge enquiry established last members to contact eth- year be broadened to nic groups. include youth disenthe Along with the recently chanted with established Justice Desk, Church.

ACLRI will set up a State conferences of group to analyse issues religious leaders will be and structures in society asked to look at the work today. of their institutes in The assembly also youth ministry. heard two young AdeThe assembly also laide people discuss their resolved to include Aboexperience of church riginal issues in each and as a result decided year's assembly meeting that a young spirituality of ACLRI.

It is happening in the Kimberleys and it can happen here.

Clontarf is approaching the 90th anniversary of the Christian Brothers and orphanage boys trekking from Wembley to start the new institution' in 1901 and Clontarf Aboriginal College looks like adding another interesting chapter to the campus story.

Trio among AC1.111 executives

Presentation Sister Gabrielle Burns and Christian Brother Gerald Faulkner are among the 16 executive members of the Australian Conference of Leaders of Religious Institutes (ACLRI).

After a two-year trial the new ACLRI body now formally includes the three formerly separate bodies of clerical religious, religious brothers and women's religious institutes, formerly known as the Australian

Conference of Major Superiors.

The new body was ratified at a Brisbane meeting last week at which Sr Angela Ryan, Brigidine, was elected president of ACLRI for the next two years.

She succeeds Sr Helen Lombard, Good Samaritan, who held the office for four years.

Sr Angela Ryan is assistant congregational leader of the worldwide

Brigidine institute. She has been a president of the Victorian conference of Leaders of Religious Congregations and currently works with the Victorian Catholic Education Office.

She described ACLRI as a very significant body within the Australian Church, able to stand aside and ask important questions about church and society, and whose well are leaders equipped to tackle issues

individually or collectively.

She stressed the need for ACLRI to be outward looking, involved in the wider issues of church and society.

During the conference the 100 leader representatives spent time with groups and individuals in the Brisbane area experiencing a struggle in their lives.

They then put their experience through a process of social analysis,

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Evil is a fascinating subject.

For centuries philosophers and theologians have wrestled with the question: If an all-good God is responsible for creation, why is there so much evil in the world?

News media continually keep us informed of evil's existence and its countless manifestations.

Artists and writers have always used evil as subject matter, asking how to recognise it, how to respond to it, how to hold people responsible for it.

One of the most notable examples of the literature of evil is Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness".

This is an allegorical tale of a man's journey into the jungle and his progressive discovery of

ns of evil

evil in its many forms.

Conrad tells the story of Marlow who travels into the Congo in search of Kurtz, a trader who lives deep in the jungle and who has not been seen for years. The narrative is cloaked in shadows and mystery.

As Marlow steams up the river there is a growing feeling of foreboding.

We sense that Kurtz is connected with some unnamed evil and that more evil will occur.

quest, he encounters evil as a social or collective phenomenon.

For example, he witnesses the exploitation of native people which has resulted from colonisation, slavery, and commercial greed.

But as his journey continues, the focus shifts to his encounter with evil expressed in th'e person and actions of Kurtz himself.

This man entered the jungle many years before with high moral ideals.

Both the reader and the main character are strangely attracted to whatever lies in the darkness.

Since then he has degenerated and is now rumoured to be responsible for "unspeakable" acts.

Kurtz dies before Marlow can complete his mission.

We never learn the precise nature of Kurtz's

Marlow's journey is a gradual discovery of the universality of evil and his own capacity for doing evil.

In the early stages of his

By H. Richard McCord Jr. evil.

Marlow returns to civilisation, irrevocably changed by his experience of the faces of evil.

This evocative and captivating story conveys some important truths about the existence of evil.

First, evil can be enormously attractive. If it could not lay hold of imaginations and wills, why would anyone be drawn to it?

As it is, people are fascinated by evil just as they are repelled by it.

Consider the attraction of J.R. Ewing's greedy schemes or the Phantom's twisted sense of love.

Closely connected with evil's seductive power is its ambiguity. This is the

second lesson in "Heart of Darkness".

It is difficult to know how or why Kurtz fell into moral barbarism.

Evil seems part of the very environment inhabited by the characters.

To say that evil can be ambiguous is not to deny its reality.

It simply admits it isn't always easy to distinguish between perpetrator and victim, or to trace the source of the evil or even to isolate it so that it might be easily eradicated.

The Watergate story and, the Iran Contra affair are cases in point.

Finally, Conrad's story points out that evil manifests itself in two ways. It can exist in social structures and institu-

tions. It can also be found in the privacy of individuals' lives and in relationships.

In his day, Conrad found evil in the economic and racial exploitation of African peoples, in slavery, in the plundering of natural habitats and native cultures.

In our day, we could add to his list the evils of sexism, racial prejudice, chronic poverty, drugs, the systematic violation of human rights and the anti-life mentality.

At the same time, "Heart of Darkness" makes clear that evil is a personal matter. It is rooted in one's freedom to choose.

Kurtz had some ability to determine his fate.

Marlow, at the end of the story, chooses to conceal the awful truth

about Kurtz from those nighbourhood of Benwho had a right to know, SQ hurst, N.Y., an indiIn his apostolic exhorta- viaal was convicted, but tion on reconciliation th corrupted environand penance, Pope John ni at in which he acted Paul II summarises three wtialso recognised. realities about social sin: ippreciating the comFirst, each individual's pbcity and variety of evil sin affects others and p sent in our world thereby has repercus- sltald not cause us to sions on the whole dew that sin is always human community. roted in personal Second, a sin can be fredom. social in as much as it lhe pope writes: "At the weakens the social fabric kid of every situation of of our lives by violating a are always to be the demands of justice. find sinful people."

Third, social sin can h "Mere Christianity", occur in the relation- CS. Lewis offered this ships between various vr.e insight: "Good and human communities, as all both increase at in confrontations qapound interest . . . between nations.

Ile smallest good act There is frequently a ttl ay is the capture of a relationship close ategic point from between social evil and kb, a few months personal guilt.

U T, you may be able to When a black youth 9) on to victories you rer dreamed of." was killed in the white

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H. Richard McCord Jr says that shadows and mystery seem to cloak the evil deed of one of the main characters in Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness", an allegorical tale of a man's journey into the jungle and his progressive discovery of evil in its many forms.

The real culprit

By Father Eugene LaVerdiere, SSS

There he was with a big smile on his face, on the front page of a daily newspaper.

It seems only yesterday that another boy tied David to a pipe and beat him up.

When David refused to smoke crack, the young assailant set fire to his clothing and ran away.

Now, less than three

If we see only the evil in any situation (such as this building ravaged by fire), then there is much that has been missed, writes Blessed Sacrament Father Eugene LaVerdiere. One should look again.

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t ionths later, David was celebrating his birthday, hill in the hospital but uell on his way to 13covery.

Fortunately, there are t o scars on his face. Nor ire there any on his 13irit.

He had a message for he small group of relatves and friends who l ithered for the celebraon: "I would like to lank everybody for oinking of me." He also lad a message for young mple tempted by drugs: Ihope everybody will be Ike me", and refuse (rugs.

No one need look far for examples of evil. In David s)pont's story there is the lain he suffered, his turns, the grief and tnxiety of his immigrant ,tinily, the fear of his neighbourhood, the t rack culture and his 13ear -old attacker's lack of lope and violence.

There is more than one lictim in this story.

Along with the evil, h owever, there is a great ( eal of good in David's itory. If one sees only the tvil in this instance and t iroughout life, then I ere is much that has k een missed.

The love and care of larents and friends, the

dedication of hospital personnel, the messages and, above all, the wonderful smile on the face of one who suffered so much.

What happened to David is a story of good and evil which have been with us longer than memory allows.

No one escapes evil, even when its face is not this obvious.

There is violence, addiction, prejudice, envy, jealousy, racism and a long list of other isms, all of which come in many varieties.

But there is also good all around us. Its face too is not always obvious.

Think of the desperately poor. And then think of those who reach out to them, and how they reach out to each other.

And then there is the story of a missionary from Central America who found himself between two elderly black people at Mass.

At the Lord's Prayer, people were asked to join hands. Most seemed to hesitate. Not these two.

"There I was," said the missionary, "between the two, one a woman, the other a man, hands

joined, our bodies linked in faith.

"Their dry, withered black hands with no strength sent waves of power through me . . .

The magic of that moment is still with me."

At times we may feel overwhelmed by evil. But good is always there, even if hidden for a time.

When confronted by evil, we need to remember the story of Adam and Eve. They were created in goodness but formed an unholy alliance with evil.

They tried to be gods and grasp God's own immortality. They learned they were not gods. They were creatures.

And in spite of the evil they embraced, they could be saved.

The whole Bible is the story of their salvation.

When confronted by evil,Ithink we might also remember the story of David Opont, the Haitian-American boy who met so much evil and had to overcome it all.

Remember, too, his smile. It is a young boy's smile, surely, but it is also the smile of one who has suffered evil but remains deeply good.

Evil wears many

By Father John Castelot faces. They leer at us from the Bible's pages.

For the Bible is the story establish a global politi- Jesus victory over evil of the conflict between cal empire. itself. good and evil.

These scenes point Moral evil fell to the The beginning of the toward yet another power of his love. conflict is dramatised in garden where the disasBefore he cured the the story of the tempta- trous choice made by of his physical paralytic tion and fall. The cul- Adam and Eve in the first paralysis, he declared his prits: human pride and garden is shown to be l iberation from moral ambition. reversed —the garden of paralysis: "Child, your People aspired to be Gethsemane.

Jesus sins are forgiven" (Mark "like gods". accepts his Father's will 2:5).

They wanted to call all for him, leading to the When a notorious the shots, to be Creators cross, and love is victor- woman bathed his feet in their own right; but ious over rebellion. with her tears, he conthey became destroyers.

But the victory was not quered the evil destroyEspecially in the first easily won. The price was ing her with the declarathree Gospels, we see relentless resistance to tion, "Your sins are Jesus dealing with the persistent evil. forgiven" (Luke 7:48). same struggle, dramaIn this struggle evil At the end of the tised by the temptation revealed its many faces. struggle, when Jesus scenes in the Gospels of Some were physical: himself seems defeated Matthew and Luke. illnesses like paralysis, by evil in the guise of What destructive forces haemorrhage, leprosy, death, he issued a royal epilepsy. are at work? decree of pardon and Others were emotional, victory from the throne Self-sufficiency, pride, overweening ambition like insanity and grief. of the cross: "Father, — the real evils in the The supreme evil was forgive them, they know not what they do" (Luke suggestions that Jesus death. turn stones into bread, Curing these ills, even 24:34). take a sensational dive raising the dead to life, Sin, the worst of evils, from the temple tower, was part and parcel of has many faces, but they

Food for thought

What image springs to life's mystery — and mind when you hear the complexity.

An eye fixed on the evil it word "evil"? Is it the stereotypical face of evil, sees may overlook something good. utterly cruel and cunning, Thus, in our day, attempts always ready to harm to nourish the roots of others? goodness in an individual or

Evil is really highly complex.

With a keen eye for the workings of human nature, certain writers like Flannery O'Connor, noted for her short stories, showed how good and evil each may be found in an individual's life.

Even where evil appears to dominate, the roots of goodness remain. Ms O'Connor seemed to consider that part of human

a society often become the focus of attention whenever the subject of evil arises.

Still, evil's reality remains.

What are the roots of evil like? Some say evil's roots resemble indifference and apathy.

Some say evil's roots take hold when individuals or societies become desperate and when self-interests overshadow all other interests.

disguise a basic trait, the same as the original one: selfishness.

Sin is harmful to others.

That is why the sins St Paul lists on various occasions are sins against the community. "immorality, impurity, licenidolatry. tiousness, sorcery. hatreds, rivalry. jealousy, outbursts of fury, acts of selfishness, dissensions. factions, occasions of envy, drinking bouts, orgies and the like" (Galatians 5:19-21).

Even the sin that attracts most popular attention, illicit sex, is evil because it degrades another human person.

It turns people into "things" used for selfgratification destroys them as people with a God-given dignity.

Whatever the evil — physical, emotional, moral — Jesus conquered it. How do people conquer evil? With the same means he used: compassion and selfless. forgiving love.

DISCUSSION POINTS What do you call evil? What does it look like?

Selected responses from readers: "Evil is the use of power that destroys the spiritual growth of others." — Myra Hayman.

"Evil is 'live' spelled backward! It is a complete rejection, turning away 100 per cent from God's gift of eternal life... Evil disguises itself as 'good' and 'beautiful' and 'necessary'."

— Patricia M. Connolly.

"Evil is the absence of love and caring. We see it in people who exhibit traits contrary to love — such as greed, lust, envy or selfishness.

It looks like pollution, vandalism, war, destruction." — Donna Grgurich.

"Evil is the creature who takes children ... , who took 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling from his family." — Mona Winter.

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don't really mind or care what religion he is and turn a deaf ear to his first sentence, wondering where he'd be without these litle saints in summertime white who minister to God's earthly children so very well.

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did him any harm."

George has done a lot of things including having a gold show in Wiluna. owning a racehorse when he was young, learning to fly an old Gypsy Moth.

As George talks, whiffs of the exciting pioneering days of early Australia hang in the air with the aromatic tobacco he "In those days you flew puffs and glimpses of a by guess and by God!" rugged past are tinged with romance as he says And stowing away, being "Inever married. But I've caught, and spending a few strays around the five days in the Caboose.

'Old George', his dad, was place!" a timberman on a mine Although his lifestyle in Broad Arrow. "Could would have been basic. do anything at all. Read it he's a literary man and out of books." counts among his favour- In his latter years ite authors such greats as George lived out on Cervantes, Solzhenitsyn, Nanny Goat Hill just out Dumas, Balzac, Moupas- from Kalgoorlie. sant, Flaubert.

His past as colourful as 'Young George's' home the magnificent history was a sheet-iron edifice of Australia. Went to with the Aboriginals; one work in Perth in 1926 being a lady who'd kick and bought a T model start his near-new Ford. Deciding that cars Yamaha motorbike when drink fuel but horses he went for a spin. This water, he swapped it for was kept in a locked iron two horses and a pack shed and various signs all saddle and bridle to the said the same thing: Bridge family in Thieves Keep Out! Wyndham.

Then he moved into the George was more com- Tea Gardens camp on the fortable with the famil- town's outskirts. His iarity of a horse beneath shanty was ultimately him and the vastness of bulldozed alongside the Australia to explore. rest as being unfit for human habitation and so And so he wandered George entered the Little the length and breadth of Sister's Victoria Park the land from Maree to nursing home.

Normanton, Georgetown to Derby, and on the Here he is cosseted like Birdsville Track. a baby. His ashes and baccy swept up from "I was at Noonkenbah from 1939 to '45. Been to around him, his room the Broome and Beagle Bay same story, and his Mission. "Should never wheelchair in the best possible place for him to have left it!" read with his failing And there was the sight, or reflect. necessity to be innovative He's mellowed by the when Esau the old interview's end and after Afghan camel driver admitting that the Little died. "His mates didn't Sister's home "isn't too have the Koran so we bad at all!" he settles back read a bit out of the Bible with his book and his for him. Don't supuoseit T°AitJet .b10341 9riT Tr

Bedford parish gets into gear Bedford's second ministry commitment Sunday has confirmed its becoming a firmly established annual parish event.

The feast of St Peter, the patron protector of Bedford church was an ideal occasion for over 300 people to make their commitment to parish ministry either at the Bedford or Inglewood centres of the parish.

The 1990 commitments not only exceeded the inaugural 1989 total but there were two new ministries in which parishioners could commit themselves to the service of each other.

The idea developed after the parish assembly day held during the Year of Mission when it was decided to aim at having

parishioner every involved in at least one ministry. councillors Parish Fiona Morrison and Kathy Nolan produced a parish directory of 38 ministries that were available.

To prepare for an inaugural commitment ceremony 2000 circulars were distributed to make parishioners aware of the options open to them.

In the inaugural ceremony those already involved as well as newcomers made the result a good mix of the old and the new.

To generate new enthusiasm for the 1990 ceremony the planning team devised a fourweek program of pulpit newsletter and announcements asking

people to look carefully at their lives and see opportunities for reorganising their time and priorities and allowing for personal growth.

For 1990 two new ministries, welcoming and breavement, brought the total available to 40.

The former was introduced following a suggestion by Archbishop Foley and the latter after some did a course with counsellor Gerry Smith. the 1990 ceremony used the St Matthew of parable theme Workers In The Vineyard with the Sunday newsletter boldly announcing: 'Labourers Wanted'.

At St Peter's a temporary trellis was built in front of the altar, and vines were woven between the wires.

The names of the ministries were written on cardboard cut-outs of vine leaves, and these were added to the trellis.

Just to make sure that people understood the few s ymbolism, a bunches of grapes were

Medjugorje: Priest speaks.

vineyard.

At five Masses in the parish nearly 400 commitment cards were filled in, carried forward as part of the offertory procession, and placed in the middle of the

Everyone realised that they were now working as a branch of the Lord's vine.

Because there are too many volunteers for one meting, those in charge

of each ministry will meet and the theme of the vineyard will be studied again so that the message can be taken back to those who will put into practice the notion of working together.

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Father Noel Fitzsimons, Albany's Parish Priest, has returned from a pilgrimage to Medjugorje impressed with the countryside and its people but disillusioned with the commercialisation, inchurch conflict and the banality of messages emanating from the young visionaries.

June 24 saw the celebration of the ninth anniversary of the apparition of Our Lady to three children on the hillside above the tiny village of Medjugorje in Yugoslavia.

"Only two of them, Ivan and Vicka, still see and receive messages from Our Lady," said Father Fitzsimons.

He travelled with 20 other pilgrims from Western Australia in a party organised by Bench International Tours, flying to Belgrade and then by road in cars to Medjugorje.

With 10 others of the party, he was billeted with a Yugoslav family on a farm just a few kilometres from the

village.

"We greatly enjoyed the company of the family and their children who put themselves out to make our stay comfortable and happy."

There were three daily religious events in the village — Mass in English at 10am (there were Masses on the hour every hour in different languages), Rosary at 6pm (both in the church) on the Hill of Apparition the visionaries receive messages from Our Lady at 10.30pm.

"However, the messages may not be for everyone but only for the village's young people. Our Lady tells the visionaries in advance whether the message will be for everyone and, if so, the pilgrims gather on the hillside," said Father Fitzsimons.

"The night !attended, it was freezing cold.Istood about 20m from the spot where the apparition first was seen. A group was playing guitars and the 500 people gathered were talking when calls

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came for 'hush' and the place was lit by hundreds of camera flashes from people hoping to capture a record of Our Lady.

"I did not hear the message, relayed by loud hailer, but on the way down the hill met a Sister who had been given the English translation.

"She said Our Lady had appeared with three angels and had told the visionaries how pleased She was that so many people were friends and praying and that She was interceding for all their requests.

"She asked them to pray for Her intentions. She blessed the people assembled with Her Crucifix, then vanished into luminous clouds."

It was regrettable that conflict existed between the Bishop of Mostar and the Franciscan fathers who ran the parish of Medjugorje. The Bishop was at first convinced of the authenticity of the apparitions but later his diocesan inquiry had found they were not genuine.

"A further inquiry is being conducted by the Vatican," said Father Fitzsimons.

"The Bishop has always urged caution but the have Franciscans encouraged pilgrimages.

"The Bishop forbade the use of the church sacristy by the visionaries but the fathers circumvented this by placing the visionaries in the belfry tower for the 6pm Rosary which they claim is not part of the church.

"I attended the Rosary, said daily in Croatian, where Our Lady each Fr FitzSimons holding a hand-embroidered tablecloth that he brought back from day gives a message to Yugoslavia. the visionaries. The congregation with as many ing, including some in ing trade.

"During the week we outside as inside the his group. "I did not," said "I would not discourage were there, there were as church does not see the Father Fitzsimons. pilgrims but consider many priests from all visionaries but the writ"Many have damaged • that the Bishop has the other nations and over ten message is exhibited their eyes staring at the correct attitude of 200 Australian pilgrims. behind the altar each sun despite having been caution.

About 100 buses a day day. warned against it. Others "Among the rewarding arrived full of pilgrims.

"The whole thing is have reported pheno- experiences, were the "Many had their faith terribly contrived." menons such as a Rosary Masses conducted by strengthened by making visiting priests who deli- the pilgrimage while At the time the Rosary turn to a golden colour was said each day, the and the concrete Cross vered meaningful Chris- others were afraid to sun was declining on the hill turning into a tian messages about the criticise or say anything Gospel. There were 80 which would reflect between two mountains. pillar of fire."

The main street was English-speaking priests detrimentally because of Some people saw the sun changing all colours of lined with souvenir concelebrating at the the involvement of Our the spectrum and rotat- shops which did a roar- Mass I attended.

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from Fr PaulPITZEN OSM Perth Sir, Brian Peachey ("The Record' July 5th) expressed concerns about Notre Dame of Australia. I, too, have some reservations about the establishment of Notre Dame of Australia.

I attended the public lecture by Professor Tim O'Meara from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, held at the Catholic Education Centre and, frankly, I was appalled.

The demonstration of intellectual flim-flam made, in my opinion, a mockery of academic freedom. To give only a few of many examples. Professor O'Meara said the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, received no money from the Church.

Could someone explain to me how that can be so when the same professor mentioned the bequests and donations made by Catholics to University Notre Dame, Indiana because it is a Catholic institution.

Again, the eminent professor said that the University of Notre Dame, Indiana received no government funding, yet mentioned Federal Government grants

for research carried out at the University.

The speaker boasted that faculty members stay on because of the University's catholicity. However he also mentioned that Notre Dame, Indiana first needed to be a "reasonable" university; faculty members' salaries or remuneration was in the top twenty per cent of United States, and staff's children received free education. The latter (worth some SUS80,000 per year for some staff), in my opinion, adds to incentives that may encourage the staff to stay on.

It is the question of Catholicity that worries me t he most.

Professor O'Meara stated that Notre Dame, Indiana, is not under the control of the hierarchy.

If Catholic Bishops have a duty and responsibility to maintain orthodoxy in Catholic institutions, it seems to me that if the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, is not under the control of the Catholic Bishops, is it Catholic? Will the bishops of Western Australia have a say in the appointment of the first board of the University of Notre Dame in Australia and

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Holy you who solve all pi?otlems, fight all roads, so i that I can attain my goal. You gave me the divine gift to forgive and forget all evil against me and that in all instances of my life you are with me. I want in this short prayer to thank you for all things as I confirm once again that I never want to be separated from you ever in spite of all material illusions I wish to be with you in eternal glory. Thank you for your mercy towards me and mine.

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after that, the same University will be independent of them?

Of grave concern to me also was the fact that there did not seem to be any conflict in a statement made at the meeting that the Catholic ethos is seen to be preserved in the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, through a person who is a member of a very fundamentalist sect as the holder of a Chair of Theology Fr John Neil, 0.P. talked about the proposed University of Notre Dame, Australia, as being able to produce mature people to go out into the public arena Western Australia has and is already producing these "mature" Catholic people without the University As a Servite priest working over the years with lay people, I was extremely disappointed that Father John Neil negated and denied recognition to the many Catholic men and women who go into the public arena each day as they grapple with the many issues of morals, ethics, justice and peace In my experience Catholic people in our community daily front up to make submissions to

Federal and State working parties, are involved in Review Tribunals, are involved in law changes that improve the conditions of people in our community.

Isn't this the public arena?

I was born and raised in the diocese in which Notre Dame Indiana is located and it would seem to me that the experience of Western Australia is different from that of the United States of America. Here in Western Australia the Catholic Church has been very much , involved in the presence of the Catholic ethos at the WACAE's and Murdoch directly in offering courses in Catholic disciplines It would seem to me it would be more helpful to strengthen that Catholic presence, for example, through the Catholic Institute, the Perth College of Divinity and the proposed Bio-ethics Centre, whereby Catholics can be better equipped to continue to go into the market place, right into the centres of learning in Western Australia I believe we need to look at the morality of supporting any financial outlay by any sector of the Catholic community on building up a far.itty, capital and salaries of Notre Dame Australia

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World' in one place •

A meeting of priests last month produced a United Nations roll call of origins.

Starting clockwise: Andrew Hrdina, Capuchin Balcatta (Czechoslovakia); John Luemmen, Pallottine Riverton (Germany); Kevin Cronin, Kuhn, (England); Ossie Lewis, Cathedral, (Burma); Dino Torresan, Scalabrinian West Perth, (Italy): Geoff Aldous, Mirrabooka (Australia); Bob Zivkovic, Servite Tuart Hill (USA); and Paul Thomas, Kalgoorlie (India).

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TOMORROW TODAY with Father Joe Parkinson

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A national gathering of Young Christian Students held in Perth this week has the potential to be the most important event in recent YCS history, according to one student leader.

The YCS National Formation Session held at Advent Park in Maida

Vale on July 8-13 gathered 40 movement leaders from Perth, Bunbury, Adelaide, Melbourne and Brisbane.

The meeting addressed the key question, "What is the mission of the Christian student in the 1990's?"

Assisted by facilitators Sister Jan Grey, Peter

Stewart, and Sue Holubek, the secondary school students were led through a series of study sessions which included an afternoon's exposure to a number of key social welfare and other centres.

"I hope that, through this gathering, people come to a greater sense of

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their own personal mission and what their diocese is able to do," said national YCS fulltime worker Susanne Legena (21) of Adelaide this week.

"Most of allIhope that it clarifies what the YCS is trying to do, build up the Kingdom of God, and that it refines our message for others."

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Give it your best

Sunday August 19 is the date set for "Youth A ppeal 1990", and organisers are hoping for the usual generous r esponse from both v olunteer collectors and WA householders.

Youth Appeal is an annual doorknock Campaign conducted by Catholic Youth Services and WA's Police and citizens Clubs aimed at raising funds to help provide personal and social formation programs for young people.

Where several other organisations provide vital crisis care services, the groups conducting Youth Appeal aim to help young people avoid fal-

ling into crisis by developing leadership and relationship skills.

This may well be the last "Youth Appeal" held in WA owing to the proliferation of weekend doorknocl campaigns, so it is vital that the event be a major success.

Volunteer collectors are still needed in some areas, and anyone able to help can call Pam Smith at the Youth Office on 3 28 9878 for more details.

A special Youth Mass will be held at 5pm at the SS John and Paul Parish, Willetton, to wind up the 1990 appeal on Sunday August 19.

Applications are called for the position of fulltime youth worker for the Catholic Youth Office of the Bunbury Diocese.

The successful applicant will work as part of a team to: • Facilitate Diocesan youth activities, • Administer the Diocesan Youth Office, • Co-ordinate the YCS Movement for the Diocese, • Assist in developing the role of youth in the Church • Promote the public image of the youth office.

The yearly salary for this position is presently $16,650 and a petrol allowance of 26,:t per km is provided.

It is essential that the applicant possess a car.

A knowledge and experience of the YCS Movement is preferred.

Applications dose August 6 and should include: i) A curriculum vitae and any relevant information regarding past or present involvement with youth groups, ii) Two written references.

Applications should be addressed to: Br Michael Toohey, Catholic Youth Chaplain Bunbury Diocese 20 Prosser Street Bunbury, 6230

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Isadore — doctor of the Church

Few people in Spain could read or write 1300 years ago. There were no schools like today. Only a small number of rich families could pay for tutors to teach their children.

Isidore, who was born around 560 AD, was one of the lucky children in older His Seville. brother, Leander, was the archbishop of Seville.

Isidore's parents asked their son, the archbishop, to oversee Isidore's education.

Leander must have been a remarkable teacher and Isidore an even more gifted student. The younger brother studied hard and learned quickly.

Over the years he became one of the most learned and influential people of his time. He believed so much in the importance of education that he spent most of his life as a teacher and writer.

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And of course, people Most of all, he devoted could learn about God, himself to education. He the Bible, prayer and believed education was meditation in Isidore's the key not only to encyclopedia. It is not personal success but to surprising that people making the world a better admired and respected place for all people. He Isidore as the most created a model school in learned man alive at the Seville, attracting the time. His fellow bishops best teachers from all looked to him as their over Spain. leader. Isidore used his At Isidore's school the immense learning and lucky students could power to help reform the learn to read and write, Church and improve the but they also could learn world. just about anything that His compassion and was known at the time. generosity toward anyone There were few books in need matched his great People back then and almost no knowledge. libraries. So Isidore, by admired him for his himself, wrote an entire charity as much as for his encyclopedia. It con- wisdom. tained short articles on F centuries after his every kind of knowledge death in 636, students known then. and scholars continued to In Isidore's encyclope- use his amazing encycdia people could learn lopedia. In 1722 the pope about things like math, named him a doctor music, medicine, law, (teacher) of the Church. languages and astron- His feast day is April 4.

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Indies mummy was going to have a baby. Indic was going to have to get used to the idea — especially as she would rather have had a dog.

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by TOM BRANCH 8 St Norbert's Mixed Pennants 5 Queens Park Fine and warm weather 4 St Benedict's made conditions perfect for round 9 of the WACLTA 1990 Mixed Pennant com- B Grade petition. Following the Corpus Christi 16 results of last week's Dianella 14 matches it would appear 13 Pignatelli that three teams remain in St Benedict's 11 the fight for a finals berth in 7 Yidarra A grade and six teams still St Mark's 7 have a chance of reaching St Norbert's 3 the top 4 in B grade.

1 Queens Park A Grade Next week St Jude's retained their lead A Grade at the top of the table when St Benedict's v Queens they defeated St Benedict's 8 Park, St Norbert's v Dianella. sets 84 games to 2 sets 55 St Jude's — bye. games. This kiss to St Benedict's means they are B Grade now 2 games out of finals Queens Park v Pignatelli, contention and with 5 St Benedict's v Dianella, St matches remaining the Norbert's v Yidarra, St chances of reaching the final Mark's v Corpus Christi, appears slim. Whilst St St Benedict's and Queens Jude's are a game and a half have their last chance Park clear they have a bye next to make an impresion on the week and at this stage are no top 3 teams when they meet certainties to finish in the a do or die effort in round in top 2.

10. The loser of this match continued Norbert's St will be almost out of their winning form when contention. Both teams are they accounted for an evenly matched and it improving Queens Park should be an excellent with the final score being St contest.

Norbert's 6 sets 75 games to Outright second position 66 sets 4 Park Queens will be the incentive for the games. St Norbert's are now winner of the St Norbert's v equal second with Dianella Dianella clash. Again both / 2 and Queens Park are 11 teams look evenly matched games behind these two and in their last enmunter. teams, Dianella won in a close B Grade game. St Norbert's have The competition for places improved since that outing in the B grade top 4 and selecting a winner is intensified as a result of most difficult. matches played in round 9.

Pignatelli should bounce Corpus Christi maintained their lead at the head of the back to the winning circle when they meet Queen's table when they won a tight match against St Benedict's, Park and again challenge Dianella for second position. the scores Corpus Christi 7 The match of the round is sets 76 games, St Benedict's the clash between second 3 sets 53 games. This loss and fourth team Dianella leaves St Benedict's in fourth spot and facing and St Benedict's. Dianella challenges from both should be brim full of confidence following their Yidarra and St Mark's. win over Pignatelli and Dianella won the match of should prove too strong for the round when they St Benedict's. defeated Pignatelli in a very close match. Final scores Yidarra still have an were Dianella 6 sets 68 outside chance of reaching games Pignatelli 4 sets 64 the four and this should games. The win pushed provide them with sufficient Dianella to second position incentive to do well against on the ladder a 1/42 game clear St Norbert's. of Pignatelli. This was Corpus Christi should Pig,natelli's first loss for the extinguish any hope St season. Should these two Mark's have of reaching the teams meet in a finals match final when they meet next it promises to be a titanic week. Percentages could struggle. play an important role in Yidarra and St Mark's both determining final positions kept their finals chances and it will be important for alive when they had comforall teams to win as many sets table wins over their respecas they can to improve their tive opponents. chances.

Final scores were: Yidarra 8 sets 87 games defeated Select ions Queens Park 2 sets 48 A Grade games; St Mark's 8 sets 75 Queens Park games defeated St Nerherfs Dianella I set 46 games.

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