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DS hits priest Isio2 The killer HIV virus has struck yet another priest.

The latest victim is a prominent priest known for his work with Central Americans in Los Angeles.

The virus causes AIDS. Claretian Father Luis Olivares, 56-year-old pastor of Our Lady Queen of Angels Parish in Los Angeles, contracted the virus in Central America from contaminated needles used in medical treatments during his many trips there, said a statement issued by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

Archbishop Mahony of Los Angeles said Father Olivares had "served the poorest of the poor" with "great courage".

"He has aroused the conscience of us all as we try to understand our

responsibilities toward newly arrived peoples and those whose lives are not sheltered by laws and protections."

Father Olivares made national headlines in recent years when he and his associate pastor, Jesuit Father Michael Kennedy, received anonymous death threats that made reference to their ministry to Salvadorans.

In 1987, the two priests led a group of 53 Los Angeles priests, nuns and lay people who urged employers to violate the 1986 immigration reform law by hiring workers without asking for their legal status.

Father Olivares, ordained in 1961, has been pastor since 1981 of the historic Our Lady Queen of Angels

Fr John White . . . the first known missionary priest hit by AIDS.

Church, known as La Placita, where there are 12 masses each Sunday to accommodate its many Hispanic parishioners.

The last known priest who contracted AIDS was Kiltegan missionary Father John White.

He attracted worldwide attention when he was bundled out of a Vatican conference on AIDS one day but on the next day was hugged by the conference chairman in front of 1000 delegates.

"The Church has AIDS" said a placard held by him as he leapt to the podium from which he was removed.

Fr White 43, got AIDS while a health worker in Nigeria. Today he works in London helping the disease's victims, "just as missionary as being in Africa", he said.

When Archbishop Angelini embraced Fr White and kissed him on both cheeks he said to prolonged applause: "They say we are holding an AIDS convention without the presence of sufferers. In fact some victims are here among us. Some have for understandable reasons asked for their identity to be concealed."

Fr White replied: "Sorry for the outburst. It was done as a cry and a plea for solidarity, for when a Christian is sick, then all the church is ill and suffers with him. That's what my red-paint sign meant.Iam myself suffering from the AIDS virus."

In a later statement the priest said he was not sure if he got the disease in Africa or elsewhere.

Rocking the home...

The music industry manipulates teenagers for their money, wellknown God Squad preacher John Smith recently told more than 180 year 12 students at Parade College, Bundoora.

He said the pop industry contributed to separation between teenagers and their parents.

"Although it is not a direct cause, it is a factor that accelerates the problem," he said.

John says that it is very

natural for teenagers to feel some areas of conflict with their parents, as do the parents with them.

This can be good for both people to a certain extent.

However, if a noncommunicative gap evolves, it can be very dangerous, and in some cases, parents can sadly be replaced by peer groups.

He also said that the pop industry can be a symbol of rebellion, or a means by which a teenager can

escape a problem, "for if a child is confronted by some form of domestic dispute, he/she can simply run into their bedroom, slam the door, and hit the ghetto blaster, knowing that they will be annoying their parents even further."

"This is why we can say that the pop industry is almost deliberately set to inflame the separation problem.

"Just recently there was an album put to sale with a television logo: 'Buy

By JOHN COLBERT in The Advocate this heavy metal album, your mum will hate it', where we can plainly see that the pop industry is deliberately trying to force kids to intimidate their parents."

John also said that in the eyes of most adolescent teenagers, there are no outstanding symbols in a family that make them feel like they belong, and they often turn to rock In' roll, television and sex

symbols to give them that sense of belonging.

"This can be very sad, beause the market forces are now continually exploiting something that is natural, but is now out of hand. `Television is the worst of them all. Images and pictures of women on television are simply an appendage for the man.

Film clips like Robert Palmer's are classic examples where gorgeous women are dancing in the background in

kinky costumes with blank faces.

"This is unfortunate for the majority of Australian women because television is reducing respect for the natural woman to their simply being a sex object."

From surveys undertaken, Australia is supposed to have highest rate of sexual violence in the world.

John also said that life is happiness, and the human animal has not been made to do well

under powerful manipulation by market forces, and most teenagers become easily drawn in by meaningless symbols and images.

John concluded by saying, you will often find that most teenagers who listen to a song will not have the faintest idea what its theme or meaning is, but because it feels good, they continue to listen to it, and that can often be very destructive and very dangerous to all people.

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Paki province going Catholic again

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'Rule of St Benedict has place in modern world' The rule of St Benedict had relevance to our modern world an Anglican-Catholic gathering was told in Perth last week.

Benedictine monk Dom Francis Byrne said that 10,000 monks and about 12,000 nuns were endeavouring to follow the spirit of the rule in the world of today.

A large group had gathered in St George's Cathedral last Wednesday evening to celebrate the feast of St Benedict with evensong and special readings.

Evensong was led by the Rev Colin Holden, chaplain of St George's Cathedral.

Dom Francis, spiritual director of the Benedictine Oblates, said that the rule dated back almost 1500 years and has had a powerful influence on Western Christianity since then.

It was obvious however even to a casual observer that the rule in tot had not been followed precept for precept in all of its 72 chapters.

Some scholars in fact believe that the rule as

such has not been observed in monateries in all its rigour for about 1000 years.

Dom Francis outlined the various reform movements to get back to living the monastic life "according to the rule. . . to the letter of the law" and the Cistercians under St Bernard of Clairveaux were the best this of examples movement.

Can the rule written in 6th century Italy in a different social and political atmosphere really stir outhearts and minds

today in our technologicalised age?

Dom Francis believed that the answer was simply "Yes!".

"It can and it does" he added. "The rule of St Benedict inspired all of you here tonight as well as the monks of New Norcia.

The rule had always formed an important part of the tradition as it governed and inspired monastic life in the West down through the centuries.

St Benedict, however,

Seminarians and $$#$

BRISBANE: Students from Banyo Seminary will go into Brisbane archdiocesan parishes for the first time to promote the annual Seminary Education Appeal, to be made on July 28-29 throughout the archdiocese.

"A staggering $400,000 needs to be raised this year to continue the education of archdiocesan seminarians at Banyo and St Paul's Seminary for Late Vocations in Sydney," said Mr Pat Corby, of the archdiocesan Adminstration and organiser of the appeal.

"It is hoped that a talk by seminarians will help make the reality of the seminary and its needs a little more immediate to Mass-going Catholics," he said.

Education of seminarians was a costly undertaking, Mr Corby said, and "one for

simonIs winner

Mr Simon Cobiac, 33, a teacher of English and Religious Education at Rostrevor College, Woodforde, SA has been awarded the 1991 Edmund Rice award.

The award was established by the Christian Brothers in 1989 to further the education of lay teachers in Religious Education or Religious Formation, and is named in honour of the founder of the Christian Brothers — Edmund Rice — who gave up his very successful business in the Irish port city of Waterford to offer education to the poor illiterate boys he saw around him.

The award is made annually and is open to any lay teacher currently employed in Christian Brothers schools in Western Australia and in South Australia.

With the help of the award, Mr Cobiac intends to take study leave in 1991 to complete the first year of an MA in Religious Education with the Underdale College of Advanced Education. He will then complete the degree part-time.

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which the ravages of inflation make no exception."

The bill for educating and supporting seminarians, as well as the cost of maintaining the buildings and their environs, would jump to an average of $17,900 per student per year — or $1490 monthly.

"Through the archdiocesan people's generosity last year, $152,643 was raised," said Mr Corby. "We hope to collect $200,000 this year."

Last year there was a 20 per cent decline in contributions compared with the previous year.

In the past three years these amounts have been given: 1987, $140,254; 1988, $195,268; 1989, $153,643.

had no intention of composing a universal document. He no doubt viewed his rule as a modest addition to the previously existing body of monastic literature. It was meant for monastic life in his own time.

Dom Francis said that the rule had a lot of wisdom, it was immersed in scripture and pointed the path to holiness operating from within the enclosure.

He stated that it had a great deal to say to modern man in relation

to silence, humility, for anyone imbued with brotherhood, obedience the Holy Spirit. and prayer.

He cited a quotation "The rule above all from the prologue: "And deals with prayer and the running along the path of sanctification of the God's commandments soul," Dom Francis said. our hearts will be over"'Be still and know that I flowing with the inexam God' declared the pressible delights of psalmist and this per- love". meates the spirit of the One of the main readrule." ings dealing with the life Dom Francis added that of St Benedict was done if people did nothing else by Mr Tony Smurthwabut meditate reflectively ite, who is president of on the prologue to the the St Gregory's chapter rule they would soon of the Benedictine discover its beauty, its Oblates of Holy Trinity wisdom and its relevance Abbey New Norcia.

Tardun retreat Lay missionaries from Rossmoyne, Geraldton and Tardun took part in a four-day retreat at the Pallottine Mission Tardun, conducted by Dom Francis Byrne of New Norcia, who himself is formerly a lay missionary of La Grange 197275.

The silence of the Pallottine Mission reflected the prayerful nature of the retreat.

Emphasis was placed on the role of the laity as

outlined in the documents of Vatican II as well as the Aboriginal apostolate, scripture and the dignity of the human person.

The role of Our Lady in the work of redemption was discussed and the letter encyclical Redemptoris Mater of Pope John Paul II was examined.

Dom Francis emphasised the importance of the role lay missionaries

played in the Church and that they had gifts to promote the building up of Christ's Church on earth.

He said that each lay missionary had a unique gift to offer the church.

Father Ray Hevern, the administrator of the mission, celebrated the eucharist daily while an American priest Father Larry of Geraldton diocese led the rite of reconciliation.

Surrogacy debate

Arguments supporting surrogacy are relying only on the absence of evidence of any harm being done, and this is a dubious proposition says the Melbourne St Vincent's Bioethics Centre.

A statement by Kevin Andrews and Mary Stainsby RSM says that the state has a role in preventing harm to others especially where interests such as that of a child are not adequately represented.

Their statement says: L The publication e recently of extracts from the report on surrogacy by the National Bioethics Consultative Committee and the suggestion that the Western Australian government will ban the procedures has raised again widespread community concern about the interests of the child born as a result of the procedure.

The approval of surrogacy by a majority of the National Bioethics Consultative Committee appears as a restatement of the view taken by the committee in a discussion paper last September.

In supporting surro-

gacy, the committee has rejected the findings of the IVF inquiries in every state of Australia, and the findings of the Family Law Council.

The Victorian Waller Committee came to the conclusion that surrogate mother arrangements where fees are paid are, in reality, arrangements for the purchase of a child and should not be countenanced. Importantly, the committee had grave doubts whether any altruistic arrangements could be in the best interests of the child.

The influential report about the emotional and by the Family Law psychological trauma Council rejected surro- caused to relinquishing gacy as contrary to the mothers and adopted welfare and interests of children. the child. It called for a Moreover, the commitrejection of the practice tee has relied upon a through laws which negative proposition, the make surrogacy arrangeabsence of empirical ments unenforceable. evidence of harm. Surely, More recently, the New in the face of widespread South Wales Law Reform concern, and possible Commission said that the grave consequences for practice "should be dis- the participants in surrocouraged by all practica- gacy arrangements, it ble legal and social should positively ensure means". that the welfare of the In the face of such child is protected. overwhelming rejection The argument of perof surrogacy, one might ask why the National sonal autonomy is also misplaced. The state has The Victorian liVF legis- Bioethics Consultative an overriding interest to Committee — a body lation reflects this conprevent personal harm to cern. The legislation established by the Fed- others, particularly eral Government to avoid creates an offence to where their interests are legislating the recombecome involved in any not able to be adequately surrogate motherhood mendations of the Senate represented.

Committee on embryo arrangement involving experimentation — payment or reward or to The Committee relied advertise with a view to could support the upon the utilitarian entering such an arran- concept. philosopher John Stuart Unfortunately, their Mill in its discussion gement. It also provides that an altruistic arrange- reasons are questionable. paper. ment is void and In summary, the majorIt would scarcely be ity primarily rely on the unenforceable.

Mill's position to allow absence of empirical The legislation also evidence of harm to the interference with others in upholding "the interprohibits the use of IVF child, the principle of ests of children" — to make a fertile woman personal autonomy, and which he does — and pregnant, a provision if the absence of harm to then neglect children's which proclaimed at the the common good. Each interests in condoning time, may have claim dubious. practices which have the precluded the well pubFirst, there is a consid- possibility of resulting in licised Baby Alice Kirkerable body of evidence repercussions on childman arrangement.

ren's very lives as a result of their being born of surrogacy.

The committee also draws an analogy with the decriminalisation of homosexuality, but a principle applicable to the private acts cannot necessarily apply to acts which are both public and have very serious, and perhaps life-long consequences.

The suggestion that surrogacy should be allowed and regulated because it cannot be prevented is akin to family regulating murders because they too cannot be prevented.

The committee appears to have been unduly influenced by the needs of a few commissioning parents to the extent of undermining the best interests of the child.

In short, the committee is not providing any sustainable reasons for allowing surrogacy arrangements. The Western Australian government should therefore adopt the position taken in other states of banning commercial surrogacy and making altruistic surrogacy arrange- a ments unenforceable 7 at law.

Tony is picked to lead Church's new outreach Archbishop Foley has announced the appointment of Tony McAlinden (49) as the executive officer of the newly formed Neighbourhood Care initiative of the WA Catholic Commission for Community Care.

The former Catholic Social Welfare Commission (CSWC) is currently being restructured as the WA Catholic Commission for Community Care, with Neighbourhood Care formed to take over responsibility for liaison with parishes.

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1984 to the present.

His various responsibilities included being honorary probation and parole officer for New Norcia and the surrounding district, welfare person for the local Aboriginal community responsible to the then Department of Community Welfare, principal of an Aboriginal adult education scheme, director of St Mary's Boys

Home and deputy rector

Tony served as the honorary chairman of CSWC from 1981 to 1984 and was its first full time

He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management.

He has been a committed advocate of the need to pursue neighbourhood care policies, drawing on the centralised services of the professional welfare workers in Care, as Catholic appropriate.

A former student at Christian Brothers Highgate, Tony McAlinden was a member of the Benedictine Community at New Norcia for 13 years.

He was deeply involved in Aboriginal education and community welfare matters in that time.

"As Catholics we have a mandate to care for ourselves, our families and our neighbours. This mandate comes from our baptism," says Neighbourhood Care executive officer Tony McAlinden.

He said Archbishop Foley in appointing an executive officer of Neighbourhood Care, is encouraging the development of a whole new service in the Church to strengthen support services in the home and in the street at the parish level.

Neighbourhood Care is the term coined to describe this new initiative of Catholic Care.

"There are already caring services in place in some parishes, and there have been for many years" he said.

"In addition many Catholics are involved in service clubs and welfare organisations that are not Catholic based but provide avenues for our parishioners to express Christian care.

"Neighbourhood Care will give parish groups support in the work they do by providing new resources in information, in networking of contacts and in building shared resources.

"In the days before welfare work was considered by many to be the prerogative of only the highly trained professional, there were many structured but also informal ways the parishes assisted the needy and those enduring a crisis.

"There is a real need to get back to the spirit of that help and to once again enable the laity to develop that portion of their Christian life. We are being asked to assist in the growth of that development."

Mr McAlinden said the first step would be to accept invitations to help a parish develop its own unique program.

"We will look at the special skills in the parish, and assist in setting up a service of

volunteers.

"The neighbourhood services we envisage are basic. They would include visits to the aged, the sick and the dying; emergency baby-sitting; a casserole bank for emergency food needs; rosters for handyman tasks; emergency housekeeping; assistance to bereaved families (particularly where there are children and one of the spouses has died) and so on.

"Where one parish has a certain range of skills and another has a different range of skills we would like to encourage the sharing of expertise.

"Where necessary we will organise training programs to enhance inter-personal and other skills.

"People working at the neighbourhood care level would be trained to know when they should offer to hand over a problem situation to one of the professional care agencies in the Catholic

Social Welfare System."

He said the new initiative is not designed to replace existing services like the Saint Vincent de Paul Society, or the professional agencies, but to enhance the life of the parishioner and the parish community and encourage them to be involved in neighbourhood care.

"It should allow people to develop an awareness of community needs and of the wide range of professional services offered by the Church and allow people to use those services," he said.

"A further spinoff hopefully will be to encourage people to seek employment in the welfare services of our agencies as vacancies become available. Catholic Care services are not as widely known in the Church as they could be."

Mr McAlinden stressed that Neighbourhood Care will only be developed at the request of parishes and in concert with the parish priests.

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Tony lives in the Bassendean parish with his wife Georgina, their three sons and two foster children.

Tony's views on the importance of Neighbourhood Care are expressed in the accompanying article.

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Record Just in case there are a few who believe that technological progress is the robot to cure all human ills, there is sobering evidence that we are capable of manufacturing sufficient problems to keep pace with development.

The motor car that has become a substitute idol in too many lives, demanding money, attention, outright worship and prostrate devotion of the most obscene kind is in idolfashion wreaking its own punishment.

The poison seeps into the hearts of the very young and we wring our hands in frustration, panic, scolding, maniacal threatening, righteous posturing and sociological doubletalk because the stolen car is the symbol of outrageous and unmanageable rebellion by the young. And it is only a hunk of metal!

Homes drip with luxury, and the remainder gallop on the treadmill of consumerism to catch up with the home next door and only to be confronted by the truth that there is a segment of the young who don't want to live in them. We even have the spectacle last week of government officials arguing about how many homeless there are. (And let us not mention their poverty. . . for a while . . .)

The poison drips into those young disillusioned lives from the adults before whom passes a never ending stream of articles in newspapers, glossy magazines from the respectable to the grotty, all preaching communication, how to relate to each other, how to do possibly anything and everything . . .

And all the while marriages break up on all sides and children are recycled through unions as though there was never an ounce of recognition of the decay and distortion of true human love.

Health technology abounds yet ingratitude, moaning and groaning on all sides proves that we are as miserable when well as when we are laid low with sickness.

Who is to blame for the merry-go-round of human failure? Almost daily the blame can be laid somewhere. The governor, Sir Francis Burt, would have got some nods of approval this week for his attention to wayward parents and not just the courts.

Blame is not the problem. How to achieve a lasting cure is our dilemma. 'Physician, heal thyself' yet we are incapable of diagnosing and taking our own medicine.

The churches do not escape. If they are not the culprits to be now fashionably denigrated for attempting to do something, they are the culprits for not being able to wave a magic wand and produce the millions of dollars that human pastoral care now calls for.

Social science and welfare has become a technology and industry in its own right and the good hearted, if not always wise, efforts of Christ-inspired persons in the past to care for human failure can now be unfortunately and patronisingly shunted aside.

The churches need not feel out in the cold, notwithstanding the failure of secularism to come up with quick answers. Church welfare and health agencies are quickly adjusting to the truth that good Christian care means good human care and the poor and needy deserve nothing but the professional best. The challenge is for our church agencies to provide an even better service in Christ's name.

The great remainder of the Church must not rest on the laurels of a few delivering the professional care services. In the past, when specialist religious were delivering care in hospitals and institutions it was still the ordinary people whose donations kept this work going.

A new range of problems calls for a renewed approach by parishioners to the whole question of the delivery of care. Schools have occupied the larger part of parish thinking and this runs the risk of forgetting the personal family tragedies that now surround many of those same children.

There is no substitute ever for the Christguided person who will cross the street to help a neighbour who is sick, mourning, or abused and devastated. This goal has to be kept in front of people in season and out.

On the other hand, there are complex problems that mere good-will is not going to solve but about which parishes as a whole should be concerned.

The outreach programme now being launched by Catholic Community Services

means that ordinary people are going to receive professional help to identify and do something about the problems over which Christ wants us to care.

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Bishop's bid to save killer

...WHO IS DUE TO DIE BY LETHAL JAB

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois (CNS): Bishop Daniel L. Ryan of Springfield, testifying before the Illinois state prison review board on behalf of a condemned killer, said that capital punishment undermines the sacredness of human life.

The condemned killer, Charles Walker, was convicted in the 1983 slayings of Sharon Winker and her fiance, Kevin Paule.

Walker is scheduled to die by lethal injection.

Bishop Ryan personally delivered a letter to Illinois Governor James It Thompson's office asking Thompson to grant clemency to Walker.

Bishop Ryan, representing the Illinois Catholic Conference later repeated part of a statement drafted by the Illinois bishops in 1988: "When any human being becomes a victim of violence, we all suffer a diminishment of our own human dignity. When any human life is taken away, all human life becomes vulnerable."

Bishop Ryan said the Illinois Catholic Conference wasn't trying to minimise the crimes Walker committed and that Walker must be held accountable for his actions.

"The tragic deaths (of Sharon Winker and Kevin Paule) remind us of the urgent need to address effectively the plague of violent crime that afflicts our society," said Bishop Ryan.

"Justice and the common good must be served," he said.

"Nonetheless, the (Illinois) Catholic Conference is convinced that execution is not the only way to address these issues of personal responsibility and community safety.

"In spite of public opinion, we maintain a principled opposition to the use of capital punishment. Our basis for this rests in the conviction that each human life is sacred," said Bishop Ryan.

Walker, one of 125 inmates on death row in the state, may become the first person to die under the state's capital punishment law since 1962 because he had dropped all appeals of his death sentence.

"I'm not asking for clemency and don't want it," said Walker in a tape-recorded message played for the review board.

"I'm tired of looking at these (prison) bars. I have no interest in sitting in this place," he said.

Benedictine Sister Miriam Wilson, a member of the steering committee of the Illinois Coalition Against the Death Penalty, said Walker has a genuine concern for other human beings and is remorseful for the murders and for a lifelong history of alcoholism.

atholic cut off cash

ZURICH: In the conflict in the Swiss diocese of Chur over Bishop Wolfgang Haas' succession the Catholic synod of the canton of Zurich, the elected "parliament" of Zurich's Catholics' has voted by a majority of 88 to 1 to cut off all payments to the diocese of Chur, and to refuse either to meet the salary or to put an office at the disposal of the n ewly -appointed vicar -general of Zurich, Christof Casetti, until his

appointment is submitted to the Zurich chapter for ratification.

The frozen payments. amounting to

more than a million Swiss francs, will be diverted to a fund under the synod's control.

Chur diocese includes the city of Zurich 100km distant.

The diversion of funds is one element in a four-part program, to demand an acceleration of moves to form a separate diocese of Zurich, on the grounds that the

provisional administrative attachment of the canton to the diocese of Chur was "no longer tolerable".

Moves towards a separation had been put in hand with the sympathy of the previous Bishop of Chur, Johannes Vonderach, and synod spokesmen complained that they had now been stalled under Bishop Haas.

The vicar-general, who attended the meeting, synod declared that he was prepared to work without either salary or office if necessary.

'Respect earth' VATICAN CITY (CNS): Scientist must be wise in their use of the earth's resources as they probe the frontiers of the universe, Pope John Paul II told students and staff members of the Vatican Observatory's summer school.

The pope told the students that "in your professional careers you will be required to make wise choices in the use of the resources of our small planet earth in the quest for deeper knowledge of our vast universe."

The 25 graduate students from 22 countries were attending a monthlong summer school in astronomy and astrophysics at Castel Gan-

dolfo, where the observatory is housed in the summer pope's residence.

The pope repeated remarks he made a year earlier to donors helping fund the construction and placement of the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope.

It is a prototype of a new generation of telescopes which use new mirror casting techniques to enable scientists to see further into space.

"In order to function as efficiently as possible, these telescopes must be located on remote mountain sites, many of which are treasured ecological zones," the pope said, quoting from his 1989 speech.

"I know that as scientists you cherish and respect nature," he said.

"Hence, while striving to fathom the ultimate frontiers of the universe, you have sought to interfere as little as possible in the natural processes of the earth, that small but precious part of the universe from which you observe."

The pope told the students there is a growing sensitivity "to preserving the harmony of mankind with the universe."

"Iurge you, who are just beginning your professional careers in scientific research, to keep yourselves at peace with the creation that is the object of your study," he said.

and restricted himself otherwise to quoting canon law. He has refused to call a meeting of the Zurich chapter.

The senior dean of the canton has therefore invited all members of the four deaneries to a joint meeting, without the vicar-general.

Bishop Haas responded with two letters, despatched to all priests in his diocese.

In the first, he justified his opposition to proposals for a separate diocese of Zurich, on the grounds that

Zurich Catholics seemed to aspire to a degree of independence "hard to imagine within the framework of the universal Church".

He denied that the Zurich chapter had any standing in the appointment of a new vicar -general, or the synod any right to hinder the latter in the exercise of his functions.

The second letter announced that all correspondence for the vicar-general should for the time being be sent to him in Chur.

Officer held SALVADOR SAN (CNS): The army has detained a top-ranking officer implicated in the destruction of key evidence in the investhe tigation of November 16 murder of six Jesuit priests.

It Col Carlos Camilo Hernandez has been arrested for concealing evidence related to the murder case.

Hernandez has been named in court testimony as having ordered the incineration of logbooks from the c ountry's Military School, where topofficers ranking allegedly participated in planning the murders of the Jesuits on the night of November 15.

Hernandez was the deputy director of the Military School at the time that heavily

armed, uniformed men murdered the Jesuit priests, their cook and her daughter.

After the killings, Hernandez was reassigned to the post of second in command of the military's elite Ramon Belloso Battalion.

The Salvadoran government has charged Col Alfredo Benavides, three lieutenants, two sergeants, a corporal and a private with the murders.

Benavides was the director of the military school at the time of the killings and is said to be the one who gave the command to kill the Jesuits.

Many observers believe other topranking officers were involved in planning the murders.

Successful

Conscience 'pulse of divine law' POPE: DON'T OVERSIMPLIFY IT V ATICAN CITY (CNS): which praised the theolon view The value of con- ogians science as an arbiter of conscience. .

Cardinal Newman, an right and wrong should not be "oversimpli- Anglican convert to fied," said Pope John Catholicism, died in Paul II, in connection Birmingham on Aug 11, with the forth coming 1890, at age 89.

Newman C ardinal Newman Cardinal centenary. taught "the importance Rather, conscience is of conscience as a means "the pulse of the divine to the acquisition of law beating within each truth," the pope said. person as a standard of "He sets out from the right and wrong, with an basic affirmation that unquestionable author- conscience is not simply ity," he said in a letter to a sense of propriety, selfbishop Couve de Mur- respect or good taste, ville of Birmingham. formed by general culture, education and At the same time, it is "the duty of a Christian social customs," the pope to inform and educate said.

"Rather, it is the echo of (conscience) through the guidance of an authority God's voice within man" in order to bring it to that needs authoritative maturity and perfection," guidance for developsaid the pope in the letter ment, added the pope.

"Left to itself and disregarded, it can become counterfeit of the sacred power it is, and turn into a kind of selfconfidence and deference to a persons's own subjective judgment," he said.

The pope praised Cardinal Newman for defending "the vital principle that revealed religion, with its content of doctrine and morals, is the bearer of objective truths which can be known with certitude and assented to with joy and ease.'

The text of the papal letter was released less than two weeks after the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the faith issued a document asking theologians to avoid

Members of the society, which exists to give financial support to convert clergy, religious and laity, heard at its annual meeting that in 1989 E203,032 had been

retiring chaplain for Oxford University, Fr Ian Ker, surveyed the ecumenical scene, and speculated about how Newman would have viewed it.

"I do not think the present despondency 3ver the slowing iown, perhaps even neakdown, of the znvergence between Xnglicanism and 7.atholicism would rave surprised Newnan in the least." he ;aid.

In his homily at the society's annual Mass at Westminister Cathedral, the Newman scholar and

"After every general :ouncil, Newman ised to point out, .here has always been considerable confusion, not to say dissen-

disbursed.

sion. The postconciliar period in which we Catholics are living is no exception.

"It is inevitable that our partners in ecumenical dialogue should be uncertain about the extent of Rome's readiness to make accommodation . . . Until the Catholic Church is more certain and clear about the direction she is taking, our Anglican friends can be forgiven for a certain hesitancy and perplexity on their part" In an address to the annual meeting, a

more than 40 years of communist rule, it was closely monitored by the government.

Children who attended church often did not attend the best schools, and their parents could be locked out of good jobs — forced, like thendissident Vaclav Havel, to drive a taxi or find other low-echelon work.

On July 5, Vaclav Havel, 53, an author and member of the Civic Forum party, was elected

by Czechoslovakia's new Parliament to a two-year term as the nation's

president.

Ivan Havel said there is a need for a solid constitutional definition of the church's place in Czechoslovakian society.

"It will be a hard and long walk to find the proper Constitution for our country," Havel said.

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public dissent from church teachings.

The Vatican document warned against setting up individual conscience as a type of "supreme magisterium" for those who question church teachings. The magiste-

rium is the church's teaching authority.

Theologians may raise questions about church teachings, but willingness to "submit loyally" to the magisterium on all matters should be the rule, said the document.

former Anglican priest who recently became a Catholic, Mr David Stevens, remarked on the need for Catholics to be educated in doctrine.

In many Catholic parishes, he had noted a hunger for reasoned, open, authoritative Catholic teaching which received, he said, only a spasmodic and patchy response.

"A catechism — any catechism — must be woefully inadequate to measure up to the fullness of revealed truth. And yet we need such inadequate guidelines, and we need, even more,

human minds and hearts and voices in love with these revealed truths . . " Archbishop Ward of Cardiff, who also spoke at the meeting, said that those coming to Catholicism from another tradition need to experience a true conversion — "something that has touched the large print and the small print of their pilgrimage of faith".

Conversion based on a single issue — "be it liturgy changes. ordination of women or to make marriage arrangements easier" — did not go deep enough.

Czech this change PRAGUE: The most visible change in Czechoslovakia's churches is that children now worship in them again, according to Ivan Havel, brother of Czechoslovakia President Vaclav Havel.

But as Catholics take their places in church again, the place of the catholic Church in Czechoslovakia is under debate, Ivan Havel said.

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Havel said that religious orders are re-establishing themselves and restoration of some church property — which could provide living quarters for clergy and religious communities — is currently under discussion.

Ivan Havel cited Father Vaclav Maly as symbolic of the church's new role in society.

A leading dissident,

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Father Maly, 38, lost his parish as a result of his human rights work. He is now assigned to a parish in Prague.

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Paki province goes Catholic

...AFTER 18 YEARS OF GOVT CONTROL

KARACHI, Pakistan (CNS): After 18 years of government control, Pakistan's Sindh province is returning Catholic and other private schools to the organisations that ran them before nationalisation.

The action follows a nationwide effort to encourage the private sector. However, teachers and other staff will continue as government employees for at least two years.

Church sources say that nearly two decades of government management have destroyed the educational quality of the schools.

So far, at least 35 of the 54 Christian schools and colleges swept up in the countrywide 1972

nationalisation campaign have been returned or are scheduled to be.

Five are schools taken from the Archdiocese of Karachi.

Eight belong to other Christian organisations. The remainder were taken from a variety of other bodies.

Catholic sources say that similar de-nationalisation is badly needed in Punjab province, where 80 per cent of Pakistan's Christians live.

Pakistan is a primarily Islamic nation. About 97 per cent of its 107.5 million population is Muslim.

Less than one per cent of Pakistanis are Catholic.

The country has one archdiocese and five dioceses.

'The rich must help the poor'

Plan to defy govt ban on black students J OHANNESBURG: South African bishops intend to defy a new government regulation prohibiting black student enrolment of SO per cent or more in Catholic schools located in areas reserved for whites.

By resisting new regulation 85 schools risk losing accreditation.

The southern African bishops' conference said Catholic schools will not base their admission policies on race.

Brother Jude Pieterse, secretary general of the southern African bishops' conference, said that the Church has been fighting

for open schools for years and considers the regulation unacceptable.

Brother Pieterse said he had "no idea" how many black children were enrolled in white Catholic schools. He said race is not a factor in enrolments.

By defying the regulation. Catholic schools could be deregistered with the white-run government's Department of Education. That in turn could place parents of white students at the affected schools in jeopardy of prosecution for failing to send their children to an accredited school.

Brother Pieterse noted

Bishops' offer Colombia BOGOTA, ( CNS): Colombia's Catholic bishops have offered to mediate in peace talks between the government of President Virgilio Barco and leftist rebels.

Colombia's Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo said during a press conference that the country has deteriorated to unexpected levels largely as a result of political and drug-

related terrorism.

"One of the most serious factors is the manifestation of terrorism in its most cruel expression, that of the paid gunman," said Cardinal Lopez Trujillo, who is archbishop of Medellin, home of major drug cartels. He said the money to be earned by paid killers hired by drug traffickers "enslaves adolescents and young people in an unreal world".

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that education is compulsory for white South African students, but not for black children.

The alternative is a kind of Catch 22.

"If we register the schools with the black educational authorities we risk falling foul of the Group Areas Act which does not permit schools for black children in white areas."

Brother Pieterse said Minister of Education Piet Clase has been trying since 1986 to introduce regulations limiting the number of black students at "white" schools.

The Church opposes quotas, he added.

"I find the new regulations incredible," Brother Pieterse said. "We have argued against them for five years and though they run counter to everything the state president (Frederik W. De Klerk) is advocating, the minister has gone ahead and promulgated them."

The bishops' statement says: "Given the massive crisis in education South Africa is experiencing, the dire lack of schooling provision within the black community, the reform initiatives of the government under State President F.W. De Klerk and the government's growing

recognition of the need to involve parents more directly in the education of their children, the gazetting of the new regulation makes no sense at all.

"It is an extremely retrogressive act," it said, noting that Catholic schools have worked for years to "bring about an admissions policy in which the government's racial classification of people played no part".

"The government education authorities were fully aware of the stand taken

by Catholic schools over the years and the reasons for that stand," the statement said.

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Rich countries must help improve economic conditions in poor countries if they want to stem illegal immigration, said Pope John Paul II. "It is not only violent conflicts that cause people to flee, but also the violence of poverty and underdevelopment," the pope said to the International Catholic Commission on Migration.

"The most favoured countries cannot be disinterested; they share the responsibility for the

imbalances causing suffering among the poorest," he said.

Rich countries "must contribute to reduce the growing disparities which often have stimulated a clandestine immigration," he added.

The pope asked church organisations involved in migration work also to turn their attention to improving conditions in the countries of origin of migrants and refugees.

The church must help "men and women and families to live decently and in peace in their home country," the pope said.

Chilean bishop blames Pinochet for abuses Chile SANTIAGO, (CNS): A Chilean bishop has publicly blamed former Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet for summary executions and other human rights violations during his 14 years in power.

Pinochet has "political responsibility, at least" for the executions of political prisoners and for rights violations which occurred under his regime.

Bishop Carlos M. Camus Larenas of Linares said that because of that record, Pinochet should step down from his

Pinochet has been quoted as saying he had "no idea" about the killing of political prisoners after the 1973 bloody

current post as head of Chile's armed forces.

coup which brought him to power. In recent weeks, mass graves containing dozens of corpses of prisoners who were summarily executed have been found in various parts of the country.

Bishop Camus said that during the years of the dictatorship "Pionchet used to say that not even a leaf stirred in Chile without his permission."

He said that Pinochet,

"along with all those who shared some participation" in rights abuses, should resign from the military.

The independent Chilean Human Rights Commission has reported 1772 known cases of political killings and 877 cases of persons detained by security forces who later disappeared.

In Bishop Camus' dio-

cese corpses have u' een found of 20 exectued political prisoners and formal charges filed in civil court by Bishop Lafeble of Valdivia led to the exhumation of the corpses of 1S farmers who were summarily e xecuted by military troops for being suspected supporters of leftist President Salvador Allende, who was himself killed in the 1973 coup.

'Corruption has deepened poverty in Argentina' BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (CNS): The Argentinian Catholic hierarchy said a "profound moral crisis" of personal and public corruption has deepened poverty in the c ountry.

In a document titled "Pastoral Guidelines for a New Evangelisation,"

the Argentinian bishops said that "dishonesty, lying, injustice, public and private ambition and various other forms of corruption today affect the dignity of man, his quality of life, his reasons for living and expectations," according to news reports.

The bishops wrote that on "numerous" occasions they had brought "the profound moral crisis which our country is going through" to the attention of Argentinians.

"In a country blessed with all kinds of resources and possibilities, the

sin of a lack of solidarity is in great measure the cause of the levels of misery" experienced by Argentina's poor, they wrote.

The bishops called on political and business leaders to undertake "the creation and maintenance of sources of

employment and development of regional economies" within the country. They also called for the "effective promotion of higher levels of health care, education, culture, nutrition and real possibilities for higher standards of living, for work and for humanly suitable housing."

Abortion bias seeping into news LOS ANGELES (CNS) — Despite attempts at fair and balanced coverage of the abortion issue, major American news media are biased in favour of abortions rights, an exhaustive, 18-month study by the Los Angeles Times revealed.

"Abortion bias seeps into news," the newspaper said. It noted that abortion opponents are "insistent that media bias manifests itself, in print and on the air, almost daily. A comprehensive Times study . . . confirms that this bias often exists."

Written by reporter David Shaw, the Times study of major newspapers, newsmagazines and network TV news programs totalled some 12,000 words and filled five articles.

"Responsible journalists do try to be fair, and many charges of bias in abortion coverage are not study the valid," reported.

"But careful examination of stories published and broadcast reveals scores of examples, large and small, that can only be characterised as unfair to the opponents of abortion, either in content, tone, choice of language or prominence of play."

For example, the Times study determined: • "The news media consistently use language and images that frame the entire abortion debate in terms

that implicitly favour a bortion -rights advocates."

• "Abortion-rights advocates are often quoted more frequently and characterised more favourably than are abortion opponents.

• "Events and issues favourable to abortion opponents are sometimes ignored or given minimal attention by the media.

• "Many news organisations have given more prominent play to stories on rallies and electoral and legislative victories by abortion rights advocates than to stories on rallies and electoral and legislative victories by abortion rights opponents."

"Television is probably more vulnerable to charges of bias on abortion than are newspapers and magazines," Shaw reported.

"But throughout the media, print and broadcast alike, coverage of abortion tends to be presented — perhaps subconsciously — from the abortion rights perspective."

Shaw cited as an example the fact that when the Supreme Court in its July 1989 Webster ruling upheld Missouri abortion regulations. "ABC News termed the decision 'a major setback for abortion rights.'

"Couldn't it also have been called 'a major

victory for abortion opponents?' Yes." In addition, "Virtually all the media refer to anti-abortion legislation as 'restrictive,— because it would restrict a right to abortion, Shaw wrote.

"But abortion opponents would describe the legislation as 'protective' — 'protective' of the foetus."

Similarly, "abortionrights advocates would like to be known as 'prochoice," Shaw noted.

Abortion opponents. meanwhile, "would like to be known as 'pro-life' and 'pro-choice'?" Shaw asked.

"That would be a balanced use of clear, simple terms that everyone recognises and understands. For a long time, most in the media bought at least half that argument.

"They used 'pro-choice.'

But not 'pro-life," he said.

Many newsrooms still cling to the "pro-choice" terminology, though not all reporters agree with such policies, the study found. Shaw wrote that news organisations are making changes. In his own newsroom, for example, Shaw said, "eight years after the Times decided that 'prolife' was an unacceptable term" the managing editor has "issued a memo to the staff declaring that 'prochoice'. . . will no longer be acceptable."

Shaw wrote that —prolife' is widely perceived

as an emotionally loaded term that stacks the deck by implicitly suggesting the other side is 'anti-life' — or 'pro-death: So most in the media have long used the terms 'opponents of abortion' or 'anti-abortion' instead.

"But 'pro-choice' is aLso an emotionally loaded term that stacks the deck," he added.

Although the broadcast networks used 'prochoice" frequently in 1989 and "pro-life" hardly at all, all three say now that they are moving away from that term or have already done so, Shaw added.

—Pro-choice' sometimes slips into some newspaper and television stories, though, despite these policies; 'pro-life'

Synod remedy likely

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LONDON: This week's sition to prayers for the last meeting of the dead in the latter outgoing 1985 Synod of ensured that they did not the Church of England obtain the two-thirds may remedy what some majority they needed in think is a mistaken action the house of laity for it took in February, when their authorisation to be it decided not to continue extended. the authorisation for the Series I marriage and The Series I marriage funeral services, which service, however, is the runs out at the end of this favourite for those who year. want a wedding celeThe two services were brated in the language of lumped together, and the 1662 Book of Comstrong Evangelical oppo- mon Prayer but without

its blunt outspokeness: it fornication; that such has been used for royal persons as have not the weddings. Omitted in gift of continency might SeriesIare such phrases marry, and keep themundefiled as the warning that selves marriage should not be members of Christ's undertaken "to satisfy body". men's carnal lusts and Unlike the procedure in appetites, like brute February, separate votes beasts that have no will be taken on extendunderstanding", or its ing authorisation for statement that one of the these two services until three causes for which the end of the year 2000, matrimony was ordained and it is thought likely was "for a remedy that the marriage service against sin, and to avoid will be approved.

rarely shows up," Shaw's study found.

The Times study also found that some reporters who cover abortion agree that other journalists stereotype abortion foes.

"The earnest intentions of most journalists notwithstanding, an examination of media coverage. . . suggests there is often an implicit bias against abortion opponents," the Times study found.

"Even in the matter of numbers of sources quoted. the media often favour the abortion rights side," the Times found.

"The media are generally careful, for example, to include comments from abortion rights

advocates in stories about abortion protests," Shaw reported, "but coverage of abortion rights activities sometimes fail to include balancing comments from abortion opponents."

According to the times study, religion is raised in some news media treatment of anti-abortion efforts but not in regard to abortion rights activities.

"Abortion opponents are sometimes identified as Catholics, or fundamentalist Christians, even when their religion is not demonstrably relevant to a given story, abortion rights advocates are rarely identified by religion," Shaw wrote.

Furthermore, the Times

study reported, "when Roman Catholic bishops individually spoke out on abortion or, collectively, hired a public relations firm to aid them in the battle against abortion, some in the media grumbled about the church's intrusion into the political arena.

Similar media lamentations were forthcoming when bishops criticised (and raised the specter of excommunication for) public officials who refuse to oppose abortion."

But when they spoke out against a nuclear weapons race or Reagan administration policies, the study added, "no such criticism was levied at the bishops in earlier years."

'Walk to Mass' SEOUL, (UCAN): Korean Catholics have been asked to walk to Mass and leave their cars at home owing to out-of -control traffic c ongestion in urban areas.

In Seoul alone, the number of cars registered with the city government exceeded one million in January.

During Sunday

Masses, parked cars clog streets and residential areas near parishes, inconveniencing residents and passersby.

The problem has intensified recently as the number of Catholics driving cars to church has risen.

Catholics here in Seoul and in other major cities have been asked through

Catholic newspapers and parish bulletins to leave their cars at home.

But Church officials say that because the appeals have done little to ease traffic jams around parishes on Sundays, some parishes in the South Korean capital have prohibited Sunday parking on their properties.

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CO rnPlie; 3y NC News Service

The web of ay spirituality DISCUSSION POINT What is spirituality? This is a question that may well be discussed in the world Synod of Bishops on the laity.

There is no commonly accepted definition of lay spirituality, writes David Gibson.

For some lay people, he adds, spirituality has the special ring of a subject pertaining to others, especially to the clergy and the religious.

In his article, Gibson explores some common characteristics of lay spirituality.

Katharine Bird interviews Dr Elizabeth Dreyer of the Washington Theological Union.

A person's spirituality moves through stages and is closely tied to the lifestyle of each individual, the theologian says. For example, living in a family setting will have ramifications for the kind of spirituality a person develops.

Dolores Leckey talks about the particular way lay people live out their spirituality in the twin arenas of family and work.

The great themes of the spiritual life are already present in the patterns of lay life, even if one hasn't consciously thought of it that way, she says.

"For lay people, the call to his holiness is lived out in 'the very web' of existence," the US bishops said in Call a nd Gifted: The Catholic Laity.

The metaphor of a web suggests not only that the spirituality of the lay people is complex, but that it possesses unity as well.

The bishops' insight in their pastoral reflections on the laity was that lay men and women experience God's holiness, not in flight from the world, but engagement with the people, events and even crises that fill their existence.

But what does this really mean? How is it that people experience God in the midst of the world?

Three major arenas in which lay people live out the measure of their days are family, the workplace and civic life.

With husband, wife, children, parents, friends and co-workers, the meaning of the cross and the meaning of hope are through learned experience.

Even in the strongest of marriages, for example, estrangement and withdrawal occur, some pain and darkness result. As wife and husband learn

to be with each other in the darkness, the depths of the Crucifixion have new and immediate meaning for them. When intimacy returns, saving love again fills the crevices of family life.

We know that trust is one of the fundamentals of the spiritual life.

To align the human spirit with the Creator and Sustainer of the human spirit means to grow, somehow, in trust that God dwells in both the peaks and valleys met in the course of human life.

Parenthood is a common crucible for learning to trust.

By Dolores Leckey Children grow up and become men and women in their own right, graced with the freedom to choose.

Often the choices they make are not the choices we would make.

Parents inevitably move deeper and deeper into trust as they realise that loving God means letting The cycle of creation, loss, redemption, suffering and joy is the very stuff of family life.

And those are not pious-sounding words.

The fact is for many people the great themes of the spiritual life are already very much alive in the web of their daily existence.

The laity, by and large, do not spend the major part of their lives in church sanctuaries or church meeting halls.

For most of their walking hours, they are at work in offices, in board rooms, in shops and schools.

Father Douinican Johan Tauter, a 14th centuy Rhineland mystic, esuit Fr Pierre Teillvd de Chardin and Pope John Paul II all speak of the human persa's work as the vehic. for knowing, loviai and serving God.

Thomas More noted, is a citizen of two worlds, heaven and earth.

Earthly citizenship — showing concern for the common good and civic participation to achieve the common good — is yet another most important spiritual path.

And mother Teresa of Cala( a, asked by a group laity if it should be the r work to care for the fling as she does, replie that each person has a! articular work.

To desire and work for the good of the community is to move beyond self-interest. Such movement is the heart of the spiritual life.

Wha is important, she said, that each does this The work place, and work vith honesty and work itself, has long been love. recognised as a place of encounter with God. The Christian as St

Lay spirituality is very much about life, abundant life, with all its pain and its glory.

It is about life with and for others.

Faces of the laity

This is a subject that pertains to the others For many lay people, the word "spirituality" has the ring of a subject pertaining to priests, others: members of religious orders, perhaps a few of the laity.

That's part of the problem with spirituality — and a reason why some conversations about it have a way of ending

almost before they've begun.

Perhaps a person closely associates spirituality with "prayer"; perhaps prayer is understood to mean "saying prayers". When the biblical exhortation to "pray always" is heard, a person is likely to think: "Impossible. I won't be able to pray enough to call what I do a

spirituality."

As theologian Lawrence Cunningham puts it in "The Catholic Experience" (Crossroad): "In the harried life most of us live there is precious little time for periods of prayer, withdrawal and meditation even if there were a taste for such a thing. . . There is far too little focus on the spiritual life of prayer as it

relates to the ordinary experience of people."

In spite of any risk that the conversation might end before it begins, the Vatican's Synod Secretariat proposed lay spirituality as one possible topic to discuss during the 1987 world Synod of Bishops on the laity.

The secretariat asked: "What elements need to be underlined as essen-

tial and significant in the spirituality that is proper to the laity?"

There is no commonly accepted definition of "lay spirituality".

So the secretariat's question is wide open.

The fact is, numerous spiritualities are pursued by lay people.

But there are some widely accepted charac-

teristics of lay spirituality. Cunningham suggested one, speaking of a spiritual life related to people's ordinary experience.

Closely tied to that is another characteristic of much lay spirituality learning to recognise Jesus in the faces and voices of other people.

This dimension of Christian life was suc-

cinctly stated hv:leveland's Auxiliary ishop James Lyke, who id in a 1986 speech on Cisin: "The dread failu& our fasting and our prers is not that we 51 to recognise Christ a our God, but that we a nnot see our God as flan."

Knowing "the llond between Christ and every creature s a "conversion mogent",

said Bishop Lyke.

Lay spirituality also is a response to God's "call to holiness" heard in "the very web" of one's existence, as the US bishops put it in their 1980 pastoral reflection, "Called and Gifted: The Catholic Laity".

They added: The laity hear the call to holiness "in and through the

events of the world, the and privacy, love and loss".

You get the impression in such a discussion that pluralism of modern living, the complex decisions and conflicting values they must struggle with, the richness and fragility of sexual relationships, the delicate balance between activity and stillness, presence

what is at stake is more than saying prayers, essential as that is.

Spirituality is a way of life.

The actions of daily life, public worship, group reflection, quiet prayer — all serve as responses to God's call heard in "the very web" of life.

Already mentioned was the problem when peo-

A case of mat ring with pod grace

asks Spirituality about the ways people experience God and "each person answers this differently", says Dr Elizabeth Dreyer a theologian teaching of history the spirituality.

"Lifestyle is a distinguishing characteristic" 8

in the kind of spirituality individuals develop, she, says. God is revealed "in daily life and the kind of spiritual life I have depends on how I'm living".

"Spirituality is tied up with who and what one is," she says, explaining why she distinguishes

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between a spirituality for laity and for clergy and Religious.

The experience of a celibate priest or Religious living in a singlesex community will be different from those of a married person with children.

In helping people with

spiritual direction, Ms Dreyer says she may ask: "What does it mean to be holy?" Becoming holy includes learning to be "other -centred, aware of God's presence, able to love well and to be loved well" in return, she explains.

"Whatever in life brings

a person in this direction, that's spirituality, where you'll experience God," Ms Dreyer emphasises.

For married persons, the family setting is a key element in spirituality.

Looking at the circumstances of their lives, married persons often say they experience God

"in a love relationship", especially with a spouse or children.

For many couples, their bodily union is a part of their experience of spirituality.

Married people can find that "a powerful place of experiencing God is in their sexual union", the

theologian adds.

In spiritual direction, the theologian reminds people not to let their spiritual life become stagnant, stuck in the same routines of praying and viewing God year after year.

"Our spiritual life is like a favourite room in a

hotel!'" she says, borrow- person "wakes up and ins t le comparison from the room is all wrong", jesta Father William she says. coo Oily.

She tells people not to It a mom a person panic at this point. To 100 being in" because sense something is it is; ainted in a favourite wrong with one's spiritcoot and furnished ual life is like "an wiii favourite invitation to rearrange a mom". hOgings. on one morning the It is a call to move more

deeply into a relationship with God. Another comparison she likes to use comes from Trappist Father Thomas Merton. He pointed out maturing spiritually involves working through different stages.

pie perceive spirituality as something only other people pursue.

By DAVID GIBSON

ongoing exploration of life's meaning.

But once the desire develops for a spirituality, there is an added problem: the support needed for it.

It may be troublesome news for some who don't know where to turn for help in giving form to the desire to grow as Christians.

No one's spirituality is ever a finished product.

That's good news for those who welcome an

Spiritual directors, Marriage Encounters and Cursillos, books, parish renewal groups,

retreat centres — lay people have turned to all those for support in their spirituality.

Interest among the laity in God's call to holiness presents "a challenge to the parish", said the bishops — a challenge Because so many turn that will be rewarded. to parishes for this One obvious reward support, the US bishops will be found in liturgical urged parishes to celebrations, they become like homes explained. For "the qualwhere the laity "come ity of (parish) worship together with their lead- depends in great meaers for mutual spiritual sure on the spiritual life enrichment". of all present".

By KATHARINE BIRD

"Moving into a deeper stage is like going through adolescence," Ms Dreyer reports. As in adolescence, it means experiencing "discomfort, a lack of identity and awkwardness" as an individual searches for a new, more comfortable way of relating with God,

says Ms Dreyer.

Though this is painful for people, the process leads to growth.

She thinks when people approach her for help with their spiritual life, it is often because something has happened such as a death or a major

disappointment.

A college student might come when he discovers a career he'd dreamed about is not going to be possible for him.

The event "upsets their view of life", Ms Dreyer explains. Feeling they

"have lost their way leads people to ask questions about life that they haven't asked before".

This can be an opportunity for an individual to move on to a new, more satisfying kind of relationship with God, Ms Dreyer says.

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...OR UNDERSTANDING MY TEENAGERS, MY CHURCH AND MY GOD to the Spirit operating through the criticisms of our children and to grow more completely as As parents and Christians. teachers in today's The 'domestic church' world we are often is required to encourage bewildered by our and accept questioning many concerns about in the same way as does the 'faith' (or lack of the parent Church to which we belong. it), of our teenagers.

Jesuit priest Gerard "reenagers seem so different these days, so Hughes, in his awardquestioning, so fickle, so winning book God of lost, so unbelieving, Surprises, refers to the so. . . what is my own Church as an effective experience of teenagers? sign of God's presence Adolescence, we are amongst us.

God is not static and is told by the research, is a time of such searching continuously at work in for identity and meaning all of creation and in each of us — even when in life.

It's not only the Church we are unaware of this and the existence of God presence.

Thus our Church is that come under attack or 'get the elbow' but also, called to respond to the or so it seems, do many of unfolding nature of the traditional values God's work in the world. held to be so precious by In order to function the family. effectively the family How does my teenager community, like our exhibit this rebellious parent Church, needs structures, rituals, laws, attitude?

Our church refers to the teachings and ways of family as 'the domestic communicating. church' and to parents as However these, as with the 'primary educators of their counterparts in the their children'.

Church, need to be How do we cope with provisional and must this period of upheaval constantly be developing and turbulence in our as family members lives? respond to their own Ibelieve that this time of growth and to their adolescent presence in unique relationships our homes gives us the formed with God. opportunity to test out As Hughs reminds us "if our own faith, to be open we all have different

By Brendan McKeague

finger prints, it is not so surprising that we should also have our own unique way of knowing and understanding God".

So as primary educators of our children it becomes necessary for us to review continually our own life patterns, our own unique family dynamics and our own relationships within our family in response to the certainty that God is within us and within our teenagers.

Our children's image of God is constantly mediated to them through their parents and other significant people in their lives.

Is my God all neatly 'cut and dried' . . . or someone of mystery to be unravelled and discovered throughout my life journey?

Courses for parents and others who wish to explore the interaction of God in their lives and in the lives of their teenagers are available in the Archdiocese.

These courses are sponsored by the Archbishop and the Sisters of Mercy through the Catherine McAuley Family Centre.

If you would like some further details see the advertisement in this edition of the Record or call Brendan McKeague on (09) 381 9222.

The trouble about sex and tourism One of the thousands of Thai temples which speak of the country's spirituality. Inset: A sample of nightlife in Pattaya.

B ANGKOK, (UCAN): The followare some ing excerpts from an English translation of a pastoral letter concerning the problems and advantages of tourism.

The original Thai document by the Bishop's Conference of Thailand is dated May 21: The natural environment in which we live is very delicate and fragile.

We humans have been entrusted with the care of that envir-

onment and this is a sacred trust.

It is wrong for us to selfishly exploit the environment for momentary personal gain when such actions would cause serious harm to the delicate balance of nature.

We know this and yet, at the same time, we hear the cries of our people as they point to so many commercial construction projects being carried out under the banner of "tourism development" yet

without due consideration for the harm these projects may be doing to our coastal shorelines, our forests, our water supplies, aquatic plant and fish life, and our other natural resources.

Especially troubling to us is the degrading fact of "sex tourism" in Thailand.

Young Thai girls and boys, many from small villages, are being enticed into this industry that treats them as mere sexual objects and not as persons at all.

Sexual services are seen as commodities to be bought and sold and nothing more.

No consideration is Oven to the sacredness of the human person. Ethical values are replaced by cold economics.

Tourist bars compete with one another in the sexual explicitness of their "shows".

Life-threatening diseases, such as AIDS and other sexuallytransmitted diseases, are shrugged off as not worth being afraid of, when all the

evidence proves the opposite.

In all this we see a very saddening erosion of values. The lure of easy money that can come from the tourist trade has become a great temptation to many.

The dignity of the human person, the sanctity of the family, the very value of life itself, all these are being overshadowed by a sinister thirst for money and material gain.

Much of modern tourism as we see it

impacting on Thai society today, is so organised as to insulate traveller and host from meeting God in one another.

Human encounters become shallow and dehumanising rather than moments which promote mutual understanding and

respect.

When crass commercialism, sheer is profit -making, allowed to dictate the terms of tourism, the result is the tragic exploitation not only of our beautiful forests and sea masts but also the exploitation of our people.

A nice way to go mad

"Mad? You say? What sort of 'mad'?"

Australians are being encouraged to be 'angry mad' and 'enthusiastic mad' about environmental issues in this year's One World Week material Mad About the Environment.

One World Week is sponsored by Australian Catholic Relief and the Australian Council of Churches, and this year is scheduled for August 5-12, although the material can be used at any time.

Information within the material is provided to encourage anger about the neglect and abuse of the environment, especially to be directed at those people, governments and businesses that abuse the environment in order to make money.

There is also, however, information on how some communities are working to

conserve and regenerate their environment — and we are encouraged to do the same.

The two 'Mad' kits produced are for Upper Primary and Secondary students.

The kits each contain teacher notes, student information and activity sheets, prayer services and posters.

Material in these kits cover a number of environmental issues from a global perspective, including pollution in Eastern Europe, toxic waste and driftnet fishing.

There is also a special focus on forests of the world — in Asia, the Pacific, Africa, and Central and South America.

A cassette of four songs has also been produced.

Another kit has also been produced for

use by groups of young people or adults.

The material also focusses on the but the slogan is Restoring nvironment, e the Earth — Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation. Pamphlets on recycling and action ideas, plus information on the interconnectedness of the environment with economics (affluence and poverty), the armaments industry and development issues form the basis of the kit.

There is also a Bible Study Guide, plus prayer and worship resources.

For further information on the material, a copy of any of the kits, or to interview one of the staff involved with the production and use of the material, please contact Ms Clare Bleakley, Education Officer, Australian Catholic Relief.

TV viewing with Catholic touch Under a new arrangement between the Catholic Communications Centre, Sydney and Catholic Communications, Melbourne and the Christian Television Association of WA, 15 — 30 minute interview programs are appearing on Perth's Channel Nine at 7.30am Sundays and again on Sunday evening.

The program is called and closing of the proMosaic meaning "some- gram have been prething made by piecing pared by Sister Susan things Daily IBVM. different Sr Susan has prepared a together".

The television program number of embroidered presents pieces of peo- motifs for eventual disple's life-stories in the play at the World Counhope that viewers will cil of Churches Congress gain inspiration, encour- in Canberra early next agement and support in year. Some of these motifs are used in the their own journey.

The mosaic effects program. created for the opening Interviewer Cathy Jen-

kins has been an associate of Catholic Communications, Melbourne for a number of years.

Making her debut as a television presenter Cathy is the Religious Publisher for Collins Dove and editor of "Criss Cross"; a magazine for junior secondary students in Catholic Schools.

Guests in the first series

include, author, Morris West; historian, Professor Patrick O'Farrell; poet, Les Murray; Bishop, Bede Heather, broadcaster, Kel Richards; church moderator, Freda Whitlam; politician, Ted Mack; singer/songwriter, Peter Kearney.

Well known public identities have been chosen on the basis that they will talk about their

life-journey and the faith will be transported that sustains them in between the cities as their personal and public required. lives.

A secondary audience The Nine Network has for Mosaic will be availconstructed an elaborate able through the educasetting featuring a tional video distribution lounge, living-room set system established by together with a conversa- Catholic Communication area. tions, Melbourne.

Like other networked The program will be programs, that are pro- syndicated through the duced in both Sydney National Catholic Film and Melbourne, the set library in Sydney.

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Sir, It was certainly pleasing to read of (The R ecord, July 12) Father Noel FitzSimons, A lbany's parish priest, accompanying pilgrims to the village of Medjugorje in Yugoslavia, where over 2000 apparitions of Our Lady have taken place.

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Congratulations to our cousin Bishop Eric Perkins of Melbourne, July 28, celebrates his golden jubilee to the priesthood.

God's blessing and prayers. Rose and Jennie Staines and Vincent Corbet.

Round 10 of the WACLTA 1990 Mixed Pennant competition was completely washed out. It was disappointing for all players as a number of the games were evenly matched and provided the opportunity for most teams to enhance their finals' prospects. Each team was awarded one point for a draw. Following is the table for the respective grades.

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Half a page had been devoted to Father FitzSimon's trip, and I am. sure many people were looking forward to reading and feeling the holy inspiration that is emanating from this tiny village.

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DEACON ORDAINED Missionary of the Sacred Heart, Brother Frank Perry, formerly of Leederville, is being ordained a deacon this Saturday at Randwick NSW. He hopes to be ordained to the priesthood on February 9.

Next Week A Grade:

113ble A Grade St Jude's Dianella St Norbert's Queens Park .St Benedict's B Grade Corpus Christi Dianella Pignatelli St Benedict's Yidarra St Mark's St Norbert's Queens Park

My disappointment lay at the very mention of -contrivanceand "banality" in this article.

NEWMAN LECTURE Rev Professor Ian Ker MA who has written or edited a number of publications on Cardinal Newman including the widely acclaimed work "John Henry Newman — A Biography" published in 1989 will lecture in the Callaway Music Auditorium at the University of Western Australia on Saturday, August 18 on 'The Greatness of Newman" reviewing the genius and achievements of John Henry Newman as well as Newman's influence down the years as Christian, theologian, preacher and writer.

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Father Amaldas made many friends during his visit with Father Bede, in 1985, during Novena to the Sacred Heart. his workshops at Santa Maria Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, College and with students of may your name be praised Aquinas College. and glorified throughout the Father Amaldas was an world now and forever. accomplished yogi and priest of Amen. (Say nine times a day for nine consecutive days deep spirituality. He will be and promise publication.) sadly missed by his community Thanks to the Sacred Heart and many friends around the for prayers answered. Liz. world.

Mixed Pennants

Abortion springs from and is often perpetuated by the deadly sin of lust, fanned by the "deluge of impurity" which Our Lady so bitterly lamented at Fatima and which is so widespread judging from the disturbing mammoth scale on which soul-destroying pornography is so easily available today even by the very young!

Members of the Parliament have brains enough if not the will to realise that pornography of any description is steadily killing the

very soul of Australia by degrading the nobility of womanhood and destroying the moral fibre of young and old alike.

The evil of pornography must be stamped out by a total ban if we are to survive as a nation of substance and worth! We would then be worthy to receive God's blessings for our future prosperity and financial stability which we now, in consequence, so sadly lack!

It is not that the teachings and practice of Christianity have been tried and found wanting, it is just that they haven't been tried!l

Instead we read: 'The whole thing is terribly contrived."

Commercialism abounds in Lourdes, Bethlehem, Knock, and of course Rome.

Whether Father FitzSimons believes in the apparitions remains unclear, and is not at issue; my contention with the article is that he

is a holy voice. Why then did he not convey the inspirational "message of Our Lady" to the readers?

I realise The Record is not a pulpit, but if this trip was important enough for half a page, then let Father FitzSimons speak from his heart, not from his tablecloth. (Looking forward to the next half page.)

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tioning of his vehicle.

Why then, even more, should not frail and finite man created by God from the dust of the earth and made in His image and likeness similarly implicitly obey God's instructions for right living contained in His Ten Commandments which makes for real peace, joy and lasting happiness.

All the anti-social evils rampant in our society can be traced to the capital crime of legalised abortion foolishly authorised by the government which has sworn to labour in the best interests of the people and

St Norbert's v St Jude's; Dianella v Queens Park; St Benedict's - bye.

B Grade St Benedict's v Queens Park; Pignatelli v St Norbert's; Corpus Christi v Dianella; Yidarra v St Mark's.

A Grade St Norbert's excellent form started in their previous meeting with St Jude's, and with matches one all this season the winner of the third encounter can look forward to the finals with some confidence. Should St Jude's win then they would be almost certain finalist contenders.

However, should St Norbert's be successful in this important

match then the competition for a finals' berth will be thrown wide open.

Dianella have the opportunity of joining St Jude's and St Norbert's at the top of the ladder should they win and St Jude's lose their match to St Norbert's.

However, their head-tohead with Queens Park is also one all and thus a win in this game is by no means a certainty as Queens Park will be striving to keep their finals' chances alive.

B Grade The most important B grade clash is the game between Corpus Christi and Dianella. Unfortunately rain interrupted their previous clash. When rain stopped play the scores were very close. Dianella had a signif-

VOCATIONS DAY The Association for the Promotion of Religious Life - - will hold a lecture, reflection day at Little Sisters of the Poor, Rawlins Street, Glendalough on Saturday, July 28, beginning at 9.30am. Speaker will be Fr John Whiting CCS, founder and superior general of Confraternity of Christ the Priest. He will speak on "Religious Life, the Laity and Vocations".

Admission is free. The day will include Mass and Benediction. BYO lunch, tea and coffee provided.

Further details from APR EL PO Box 364 Mulgrave, North Victoria, 3170.

MESSIAEN RECITAL Olivier Messiaen's organ music has been of immediate religious inspiration, accompanied by theological commentaries and supported by exact references to Holy Writ, the liturgy or other religious writings. His latest work for organ, 'Book of the Blessed Sacrament', is an immense 18-movement composition and has only recently been published. At 1pm on Thursday, August 2 in Winthrop Hall (University of WA), there will be an opportunity to hear six movements of this work played by St Mary's Cathedral organist, Annette Goerice. The lunchtime recital lasts for 40 minutes, admission is free and open to the public. icant win the previous week

against Pignatelli and if they could defeat Corpus Christi then their confidence for the finals would be high. Corpus Christi would see this match as a very important stepping stone to finishing on top of the ladder at the end of the home and away games.

Yidarra and St Mark's are playing in a virtual elimination final. The winner will still have an outside chance of qualifying for the final, whereas it will be certain mothballs for the losers.

St Benedict's and Pignatelli should consolidate their position in the four when they meet Queens Park and St Norbert's respectively.

Both teams should record easy wins.

Selections A Grade St Jude's Dianella B Grade St Benedict's Pignatelli Corpus Christi Yidarra Queen Quest There are four entrants in this year's Queen Quest. The Queen Quest Dinner/Dance

is being held at Wembley Lodge on Saturday, August

4 commencing at 7.39pm

and concluding midnight.

Tickets are $30 a head and covers both food and Table refreshments. numbers (tables of. 8) need to be phoned through to Judy Russo on 387 3766 by July 27.

Two find new fields Not many people are able to combine their two great loves in life, but Cate Hale, who resigned recently from the Catholic Youth Offices in North Perth, has done just that.

Originally from Toowoomba in Queensland, Cate (right) has taken up a position as house mistress at New Norcia Catholic College, bringing together her love for the country life and her great desire to work with young people.

Cate (20) said last week that the highlights of her work had been two camps for kids at Busselton run by Fr John Jegorow, and the recent retreat for St Clare's school.

Employed in November 1988 to work with Catholic Parish Youth, Cate said that she was sorry to leave many good friends at the Youth Office, but that the variety and versatility of CPY held a bright promise for the future.

Also recently resigned from full-time youth work is Kate Deavin, who completed a full year with t he Young Christian Workers movement at the end of June.

A hard worker for YCW in a difficult time for the movement, Kate (left) returns to her former profession in the travel and tourism industry.

Apart from her YCW involvement, Kate (22) has also been a key member of the 1991 Youth Conference planning

team, where her knowledge of travel and local t ourism has been invaluable.

The YCW is entering an interesting period with many possibilities, and Kate said she was confident of leaving its future in the hands of fellow fulltime worker Joe Heffernan.

For their generosity, dedication and commitment, Cate Hale and Kate Deavin merit the gratitude of all Catholic youth in Perth!

Snippets for August A special youth mass to be celebrated at the Ss John and Paul Parish, Pinetree Gully Road, W illeton, at 5.00pm on

Sunday, August 19 is open to all young people and families, All Catholic youth, and especially youth groups,

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as well as all families and friends can celebrate together the end of Youth Appeal 1990 w it h tthiss special event. spec Youth Appeal, the annual doorknoc.k campaign for Catholic Youth Services and Police and Citizens clubs, is set for Sunday, August 19 and volunteer collectors are still needed in some areas.

Get your youth group into gear to help other young people by calling Pam Smith at the Catholic Youth Offices on 328 9878 now!

E Ending on the same day, August 19, is the Music

CROSSROADS TO TOMORROW 1991 CONFERENCE Aquinas College January 11-16

The Promotions Team need enthusiastic people all around WA to help publicise the conference from now until January 1991.

There is a lot to do — your help is needed!

Call Kristi during office hours on (09) 328 9878 or Daniella after hours on (09)332 5290

PAF !IPFAVA.IFAIPFA11 C ROSSROADS TO TOMORROW

BUNBURY DIOCESE YOUTH WORKER 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¢ per km is provided.

It is essential that the applicant possess a car.

A knowledge and experience of the YCS Movement is preferred.

Applications close 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

YOUTH MASS

SUNDAY AUGUST 19

For all helpers with Youth Appeal '90, Antioch, CPY, YCS, Charis, YCW, TYCS groups and all young people!

5pm, Ss John & Paul Church, Pinetree, Gully Road, Wiletton.

Light tea and special event to follow Mass.

ALL WELCOME!

MUSIC MINISTRY WEEKEND

Ministry Weekend to be held at the Avondown Centre in Toodyay If you plan on taking part in this exciting event, make sure you register as soon as possible, since weekend has the attracted enormous interest among young people.

Registrations close on Friday, August 3. Call the Youth Office on 328 9878 for details.

The team promoting the 1991 Catholic Youth Conference "Crossroads to Tomorrow" need your help in advertising the event in your parish and school. Volunteers, call 328 9878.

YOUTH OFFICE DIRECTORY

August 17-19 AT AVONDOWN, TOODYAY. For young Catholic musicians aged 16 & over Cost: Just $35 (Students $30) Enquiries & registration Ph 328 9878

CHAPLAIN: FR PARKINSON 328 9878

ANTIOCH 328 9878

CPY 328 8136

YCW 328 9667

CRY0 328 9878

YCS 227 7061

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St Francis and books Francis of Paola defender of poor Francis was born in Paola, a small Italian town, about 70 years before Columbus discovered America. His hardworking parents named their son after St Francis of Assisi.

When Francis was 12, they sent him to live for a year with Franciscan friars. There he learned to read and write, to pray and to appreciate a simple way of living.

The next year Francis' parents took him on a pilgrimage to Assisi and to Rome. After that e xciting experience young Francis surprised his parents. He said he wanted to be a hermit and live alone, spending his days in prayer and manual work. They agreed to let him try it.

Hardly 15 years old, Francis left home in an abandoned house about a half mile from Paola.

Soon he moved to a more remote spot by the sea where he lived alone in a cave for five years.

Some hunters eventually discovered Francis

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and his cave. They were struck with how happy he was even though he had none of the things most young people his age w anted.

Before long people began to visit Francis. He listened to their problems, helping them as best he could. He began to leave his cave to share the wisdom and values he lived by.

Before Francis turned 20, two other young men were so impressed with him and his simple lifestyle that they joined him. People living nearby in the countryside came to love and admire the three young men so much that they built three small huts and a chapel for them.

That was the beginning of Francis' community.

They came to be called the Minim ("least important") Friars. Francis wrote a rule for the Minims. Their life was to be simple, filled with prayer and marked by compassion and love.

Francis also became the

defender of the poor and oppressed. He bravely stood up for their rights even before princes and kings. Francis' example and reputation drew many to join his community.

The dying King Louis XI of France heard of Francis and asked the pope to send Francis to him to cure him. At the pope's command, Francis went to Paris. Though he did not cure Louis XI, Francis comforted him and his sorrowing family.

The king's son became Francis' lifelong friend.

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When he became the new king, Charles VIII, Francis became his adviser. He worked to bring about peace among warring nations. The king built several monasteries for him and his friars.

Francis lived the rest of his life in France. He died at the age of 91 in France in 1507. He was canonised just 12 years later.

Catholics, especially in Latin countries, honour him still.

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The Puffin Book of Australian Insects by Helen Hunt. published by Puffin.

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Nancy Drew Files: Total 1 , Ransom, by Carolyn Keene pub by Armada

= m Nancy is asked to imestii gate the kidnapping of Hal Colson, teenage heir to a fur clean • the only mamhuge fortune. His handsome mals that can fly. young uncle, Lance Colson. is sure the unsavoury types LEARN how to recognize Hal hangs out with are mammal footprints • why holding him captive. Lance's some animals store food in =•girlfriend feels Hal doesn't their cheek pouches • why deserve the near half-million you are a mammal • how the 3 = ransom demanded by the porcupine frightens its kidnappers. enemies. . Things really heat up when DISCOVER why some Nancy asks her friend mammals have spines George to keep tabs on Hal's instead of fur • what mamp• unk pals. First someone mals looked like in the Ice tries to blow up Lance's Age • how camels can walk Ma.serati — with Nancy in it. on sand • what whiskers areI T• hen Nancy and her friends for • why a wallaby has a are gabbed. How big a price pouch and much. much will the kidnappers put on more. their lives?

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• E A Reader's Guide to Japanese Literature by Thomas Rimer. Published E by Kodansba. Distributed tbrougb Collins. $24.95.

It is universally acknowlceieste, SC edged that the key to a • = people's heart lies in its literature. And this, of • = course, is as true of Japan as of any other country But problems • = perplexing remain: How much of Japanese literature is available in translation? Which E books are truly worth E reading? And which of these E would be personally appealN = . arive. = mg. Now, for the first time.

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J. Thomas Rimer — teacher, The Intimate Friend- saint ever written. We follow author, critic — translator, 5 ships of Elizabeth Ann Elizabeth Seton throughout has selected fifty of the best, was she Bayley Seton by Sister her life and see how profoundest, the most the Marie Celeste, SC. Pub- influenced by her father, her Japanese of works readable lished by St Paul Publica- husband, her children and a literature throughout the lifelong of galaxy whole tions. $12.95.

S ages: twenty from the friends. Woven through this classical period and thirty spiritual account are the Elizabeth Seton was not fixiii the modern E milestones of her life — her r. only our first native-born care for her dying husband, American saint, but was also her conversion to C_atholia warm-hearted person with cism, her founding of the a great Ot for making Sisters of Charity, her life and E friends. By focusing on her work in Maryland Too often friendships, this book gives us a uniquely penetrating in the past; saints were look at Elizabeth Scton's presented as remote and inhuman: here is a portrait of spirituality feeling loving, most a the saint as a This is one of human being. intensely human studies of a

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Julie Staffford's Taste of Life from the Microwave contains mouthwatering recipes, quick and easy to prepare using your microwave.

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= Survivor: a tribute to The recipes are drawn from I Cliff by Tony Jasper. her other highly successful E Published by Collins cookbooks, re-tested and re- E Dove. $19.95. written to ensure success.

Julie shows how you can To coincide with the use your microwave to Australian National tour of prepare healthy low fat, no Cliff Richard in February salt, no sugar, meals for your E Collins Dove released a whole family as well as E tribute to this evergreen of sauces. jams and chutneys to -= the music industry. use a-s accompaniments for other meals.

ent lives are adjusting to the strain of day to day existence E on the cutting edge of the combat zone.

Seasoned officers and raw recruits take their places in the brutal, enclosed world of the USS Jefferson City — a world of bitter rivalries, harsh segregation and harsher justice, where the only thing they all share is a new commanding officer.

Captain Arthur McKay has taken on the toughest challenge of his naval career: command of a ship with a = prestigious future and a shameful past, and orders to direct a strike at the heart of the relentless Japanese forces.

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The Initiate by JUStin D 'Ath, published by Imprint $16.95.

The Initiate addresses the issue of Christianity versus Aboriginal spirituality Although a novel. D'Ath studied three years for the missionary priesthtxxl and is familiar with the complexities of Aboriginal culture and spirituality and the conflicts that can arise when superimposed by the white man's, thus the fiction has the ring of truth.

The two main characters in the book are Stephen Quintus. young, white and middle-class who is unsure F. of his future and dissatisified with the present.

Survivor contains never = Rafael Roebuck is black and before published photo- E lonely college student in graphs of Cliff and a special er tolimminiiimmiumminiummiminiumminimmisimmummuumg Melbourne's white society chapter by Cliff himself. Plus = = Yearning to be back among personal reminiscences and = his people at the Aboriginal tributes from his colleagues Corpus Christi Mission near in the music industry his 1, Alice Springs. work for God and celebrities 1 1111111111911 IIIIIMMININININININNIr from stage and screen.

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Green City in the Sun by E Barbara Wood. Pub by E Pan. $10.99.

In 1919. inspired by dreams of fortune and E dynastic power, the aristocratic Trevertons arrive to establish an estate on the E homeland of the Kikuyu.

The family are greeted with E fear and suspicion — and none more than Dr Grace E Treverton. Her modern E methods are scorned by the 3 tribe's own medicine E woman, Wachera, whose 3 powers and influence the E The Illustrated Encycsettlers foolishly disregard. S lopedia of Myths & nr: Legends by Arthur CotteWhen her husband dies i= under mysterious circum- 9 reli Published by Collins. stances. Wachera is deter- E bb. $39.95. mined to exact her revenge E Myths and legends are not on the family who threaten merely curiosities from the = past. These age-old stories her tribe and traditions.

from many cultures and traditions express poetry and power to which people continue to respond. The endlessly diverse body of world mythology is increasingly seen as a living link to the beginnings of our

attempts to understand the natural world, and how human communities fit into its scheme.

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Myths and Legends is a new and comprehensive guide to its subject which includes individual entries for more than 1250 characters of myths and legends from 18 different cultural traditions around the world.

Enhanced with a wealth of colour illustrations, line drawings and photographs, the book explores the historical, social and geographical reasons for the differences between the traditions, as well a.s identifying the universal human themes — from love and fertility to war and death — that bind them together.

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$2449 $2345 $2305

For details telephone 409 1080, after hours 401 6368 HARVEST PILGRIMAGES 0/0 INTER TRAVEL Licence No 9TA00150

St Mary's Towers R etreat Centre Douglas Park NSW 2569 Major offerings for 1990/91

The lgnatian Exercises (30 day retreat) In 1990 from Nov 6 to Dec 9 In 1991 from Feb 17 to Mar 19

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

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

1991 in sabbatical format from Apr 19 to May 22.

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

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

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

LIVING WITH LOSS

COUNTRY PRAYER The third Catholic Country Centre's day of reflection, takes place at Goomalling on Monday August 13 commencing at 9.30am in Sacred Heart church and concluding with Mass at 2pm. There will be at least five priests present on the day. Open to all to join fellow Catholics in the prayer, talks and friendship.

BYO lunch. Contact (096)22 3109, (090)44 7035, (096)38 1042.

TELEVISION TALK

Mosaic, on Channel 9 7.30am Sundays and Sunday evenings is presented by Catholic Communications Melbourne in conjunction with Christian Television Association of W1&. of which the Catholic Church is a member will feature the following interviews (See page 11):

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WOMEN'S PRAYER Australian Church Women's Fellowship Day service will be held in Wesley Church, Perth on Friday July 27 at 10.30am. Theme: "In the Beginning God".

Guest speaker Miss Nancy Edwards, chaplain Rossmoyne High School. Light lunch to follow. Donation $3.

Grief Management Educational Services

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KOREAN CONGRESS

Redemptorist Retreat House Camelia Street, Ntb Perth

Cost195.00 (Includes meals and accommodation)

Friday evenin:, Au:ust 24: Registration and Getting To Know You Session

Saturday, Au:ust 25: The Experience of Grief . . .

Speaker: Gerry Smith Ways of Coping With Loss . . .

Presented by: Members of The Redemptorist Lay Community Picking Up The Pieces . . .

Speaker: Julie Taylor

Healing Service . . .

Fr Graeme Manolas (Anglican Church) Rev Allan Rankine (Uniting Church) Fr Frank Smith (Catholic Church) Members of The Redemptorist Lay Community Music by: HARVEST

Sunda ?, ALL Just 26: Please Hear What Iam NOT Saying...

Speaker: Gerry Smith Be Still and Know Relaxation and Meditation . . .

Speaker: Sheila Bowler

Registration forms from:

Mr Gerry Smith Ph 445 3049 Bookings close Monday, August 20

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Books and a 45 minute video of the International Eucharistic Congress held in Seoul Korea last year are available from Communications Office Myong-dong 2 ka 1, Seoul 100-022 Korea by sending the equivalent of the following SUS. Postage is included: 360x250 215 page photo and text album, K orean and English SUS46.65; video, Korean, S US25.10; official texts, Korean and English SUS16.

AMERICANS LECTURE Catholics United for The Faith in association with the Campion Fellowship present a series of talks by the American authors and writers — James and Helen Hitchcock — at Nestor Hall, Catholic Education Centre, 50 Ruislip St, Leederville on August 2 commencing at noon and then at 8pm. Theme of the talks will be Catholic Faith and Modern Culture. Phone contact — Malcom Craig 448 1746 — evenings.

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July 22: author Morris West July 29: musician Peter Kearney and historian Prof Pat O'Farrell.

August 5: Independent MP Ted Mack and poet Les Murray.

August 12: Fr Peter McGrath and broadcaster Kel Richards.

August 19: churchwoman Dorothy McMahon and Anne Luciano.

LIVE-IN WEEKEND WORKSHOP Presented by

An exploration of meditation within the context of Orthodox Christian Faith Four sessions: Saturdays July 28, Aug 4, 11, 25,2-4pm each day at

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Organised by: Christian Meditation Network (WA)

St Mary's Cathedral, Mass for the 60th Anniversary of the Secular Franciscans — Monsignor Keating.

St Patrick's church Mass for teachers of the Fremantle region -- Monsignor Keating.

St George's Anglican Cathedral Installation Dr John Shepherd as dean, Fr John Orzanski.

Archbishop Foley returns from Indonesia.

Mass for APREL at the Little Sisters of the Poor --- Monsignor Keating.

Confirmation, Mosman Park, Archbishop Foley.

Confirmation, Queens Park, Monsignor Nestor.

Archbishop visiting St Francis Xavier Seminary, Adelaide.

Central Commission meeting, Archbishop Foley.

Visitation and confirmation, Armadale Archbishop Foley, St Joseph's Church Bassendean Mass for Maltese Prime Minister — Archbishop Foley.

Enquiries: Phone Vesta Garnalatge 458 5633 Rev Peter Kan 276 5601

SANTA MARIA COLLEGE Special Announcement

Santa Maria College is opening a new Education Support Unit for intellectually handicapped girls, commencing February, 1991.

Enquiries are invited from practising Catholic families who may benefit from this new service.

Contact: The Principal, Santa Maria College, Moreing Road, ATTADALE WA 6156

GROWTH THROUGH RELATIONSHIP

5 Tuesdays commencing July 31, either morn or eve.

The course looks at the psychological stages of growth in relationship and the spiritual stages of growth in holiness.

At The Upper Room, cost $25.

Booking essential Phone 367 7847.

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8 nights Medjugorje DEPART PERTH SEPTEMBER 28, 1990 Cost: $2350 per person maximum 22 people

Reverend Professor Ian Ker Catholic Chaplain, Oxford University Professor Ker is a distinguished Newman scholar and biographer.

He has written extensively on Cardinal Newman.

FULLY ESCORTED For further details please call Maud Beatty (tour escort) (097) 20 1126 or Sabina Fleckner at

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LECTURE/REFLECTION DAY SATURDAY, JULY 28 (9.30am-3.30pm) Little Sisters of the Poor, Rawlins Street, Glendalough FR JOHN WHITING, CCS will speak on "Religious life, the laity & vocations"

Vocation Co-ordinator 7 Fr Tern McNulty 0 Pram St Norbcrt's Priory QUEENS PARK WA 6107

Natural Family Planning Centre 27 Victoria Square

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BYO lunch, tea & coffee provided.

Details: APREL, PO Box 364.

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