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Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission statement

Mr Paul Keating . . . the Treasurer.

A Commission statement said: "The Commission is concerned about the extra pressures the Budget (along with wage restraint and high interest rates) places on families, especially lower-income and larger families.

"Apart from restrictions in eligibility for family allowance and family allowance supplement, the great majority of families will be hit by the rise from $11 to $15 for pharmaceutical prescriptions.

"While the Government commendably has sought to cushion the effect of the $2.50 prescription charge for pensioners, no commensurate compensation is provided for families.

"Families also will not be given anything to offset reduced unemployment benefits for 18-

20 year olds (as well as juniors) living at home.

low nsensitive Paul Keating's Budget was virtually insensitive to the needs of people who are struggling.

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The Budget has made no allowance for these people "at a time when homelessnms and family breakdown are major social problems".

The Budget will also hit a great majority of families by the rise in pharmaceutical charges.

These are the views of the Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission.

The Commission said it was disturbed about the effects the Budget changes will have on social security recipients and families.

While agreeing that public assistance should be directed to, and only to those genuinely in need, the Commission felt the Budget did nothing to alleviate the problems of those in need.

"The sacrifices being made by families in supporting dependants (whether children, youth, or aged or invalid relatives) virtually seem to be ignored. Yet it is families, through the entry in the paid workforce of married women in record numbers, who have largely made the Budget surplus possible.

"At a time when the Commonwealth is seeking to reduce the number of persons it supports, it should recognise that families are expected to fill the gap. Reform of the income tax systems to give due recognition to the support of family dependants is long overdue.

"A just tax system must recognise the costs of caring for dependants and those with disabilities. Such reform would enable social security assistance to be better directed to those most in need."

We've been deceived!

"Those of us who believed the Labor Government's election promise that they would retain overseas aid at a real level have been deceived," Michael Whiteley, National Director of Australian Catholic Relief, said.

"The Government, in subsequent statements confirmed the promise, but in the budget last night has implemented the policy of the Liberal Party and cut the aid budget in real terms by around $100 million. To pretend that this is not the case, as the Budget papers attempt to do, is to continue this deception.

Mr Michael Whiteley.. . . ACR director.

"The fact is that the real level of aid last year was $1263 million taking into account the early payment of World Bank and

Asian Development Bank commitments of make real cuts in overseas aid is appalling. $100 million.

"The other despicable feature, andI use "The Minister of Foreign Affairs and the word advisedly, is that the cuts in the AIDAB officials openly admit this. To aid budget are in the areas that directly hit maintain this real level of aid would have the poorest people overseas — refugees, required a budget allocation of around victims of disasters, those whom local NGOs are assisting. $1350 million.

"The funds are being used instead to "The aid budget has been slashed and this action has provided almost 10% of Mr support institutions whose affect on the Keating's savings, about which he was so quality of life of the poor have been demonstrated to be negative. proud last night.

"The powerless poor overseas have once "At least the Liberal Party accepted this again been asked by the ALP to bear the and indicated that, while they were to cut brunt of the cost of maintaining our aid, those sections of the aid budget that standard of living. The action of the ALP directly impacted on the poor would be in maintaining its policy of continuing to increased."

Inactive priests want to make comeback

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spectacular Inter-ch rch FAMOUS SINGER BURSTS INTO SONG AT KIDS' LITURGY

A recent inter-church children's liturgy at Kukerin took a spectacular turn when famed WA bass Gregory Yurisich, fresh out of "William Tell" fame at Covent Garden, burst into song for the occasion.

As he coaxed an accompaniment out of a lethargic organ, little faces in cupped hands swivelled in the pews in rapt attention as "Now thank we all our God" resounded from the tiny church alcove.

He was visiting his sister in the district and dropped in on a ceremony in which Uniting Church children joined C,atholics in a mission liturgy presented by Franciscan Father Leo Curran and Presentation Sister Aquinas.

The two have Seen commissioned by Bishop Quinn to visit every parish in Bunbury diocese in a "decade of

Mission in the South West".

The mission's theme is Faith and the mission banner proclaims: "Koinos, The Common Touch of Christ."

At the end of the mission every participant received a card saying: "Mission accomplished. Over and out". The card also told them to "give thanks for the gift of creation, the joy of living, and the lovebearing spirit".

Reflecting the relationship of the Church to the silence of the bush a frequent theme was "we must each have a listening heart".

The three-week program, started in Lake Grace with Mass and a luncheon in the Anglican hall followed by a week in each of three regions covering the parish's ten centres that span from Hopetoun to Kukerin.

Franciscan missioner Father Leo Curran shows how to get down to the children's level at Kukerin.

Preparation for the mission was made by the parish priest Father Ian Johnson and Sister Patricia Hogan OLM who worked on with the program.

Lake Grace placed a large banner "Welcome

to our Church" behind the altar. Each centre made its own request for a localised treatment of the theme 'The Common Touch of Christ".

Discussion groups, reconciliation, children's and adult liturgies, holy

hours, home Masses, happy hours and barbecues made up the program.

At the Kukerin children's ceremony Fr Curran used 18 dolls from different countries to highlight the love Jesus

has for each person.

Nicholas Joyce was altar server and cross bearer and his father Greg acted as acolyte for the occasion.

Eight children from mixed race and church backgrounds read pray-

ers of the faithful, Anna and Jodi Joyce carried and Catherin Nenke carried bread water and wine while 20 other children aged four to eleven brought up farm produce and gifts for the poor.

Priest clears the air

MY VIEWS ON SAFE SEX DON'T CONTRADICT THOSE OF SIN MELBOURNE: My views on safe sex do not contradict those of Cardinal Sin, Fr Shay Cullen says.

Fr Cullen. an Irish missionary based in the Philippines, said he supported Cardinal Sin's position and said the Australian media had misrepresented comments he made about safe sex at last week's AIDS conference in Canberra.

"They made it out to be opposition when in fact we support very strongly the fact that

this condom-use for the prevention of AIDS is a very shortterm and emergency intervention policy, because what's really been under attack here are the dignity of the family and the rights of women."

But he said a program of safe sex did not address the real ultimate problems facing Filipino women who has been forced into prostitution to feed themselves.

Fr Cullen likened it to the situation of a

father condemned by poverty to steal bread to feed his starving children. This, he said was not morally a crime, and neither was it morally a crime for women forced into prostitution by poverty to protect themselves from beaming infected by AIDS. These women, he said are facing potential HIV sufferers and have a right to protect themselves and use condoms in that situation.

"In the matter of life and death the practice

of moral theology changes very much," he said, "and most moral theologians are familiar with that.

But, he pointed out, the issue of using condoms had to be seen as a short-term solution. It should not, he said, become a smoke screen for the larger problem which was the structural exploitation of women.

Fr Cullen said there were around 16,000 women who prostituted themselves in

Olongapo, responding to the demands of the million or more American service personnel who would be stationed there at sometime during any given year.

His position, he said, was to confront the system and the structures that suppressed and exploited the women and created an environment which made them vulnerable to the AIDS virus.

The system and structures, he said,

were proverty, lack of jobs, the nightclub industry, and the US military bases.

These women. Fr Cullen said, are given no education and no chance to escape military prostitution or the threat of the AIDS virus.

We believe, as Cardinal Sin says, that this behaviour must be confronted, he said.

I t requires a whole change of attitude," he said.

— The Advocate

Catholic concern over dementia sufferers

The care of dementia sufferers was raised by a Catholic delegation who travelled to Canberra to meet with the Minister of Aged, Family and Health Services, Mr Peter Staples.

Matters raised by the Catholic delegation included: • the Government's strategy for gearing up aged care support to adequately meet an almost fourfold increase in the very old over the next thirty years, and probably an even greater rate of increase in the number of those with dementia; 2

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• the present level of funding for the care of dementia sufferers in aged care facilities; • distortions in the nursing home funding formulae leading to possible discrimination against ambulatory dementia sufferers; • the need for clarification of Government policies concerning the segregation of residents suffering dementia; and • the possibility of the Government providing support for the coordination of voluntary helpers.

The delegation, led by Bishop Edward Kelly,

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chairman of the Bishops' Committee, Health included Bishop Peter Connors, acting president of the Australian Catholic Health Care Association (ACHCA); Mr Peter Taylor, chairman, Southern Cross Homes and Dr Jack Opie, research consultant, ACHCA. To meet the enormous increase in future demand, Mr Staples said that growth in aged care outlays was built into the budget through being tied to the number of persons requiring care.

Thus, despite it being a financially difficult time

for the Government, over $13 billion, largely for aged care, was expected to be allocated for his portfolio this year.

Growth in both the capital and the personal care programs was scheduled.

Mr Staples said that it was being increasingly recognized that the proper handling of dementia was critical to achieving the best quality of life in aged care.

Accordingly, dementia grants funding had grown rapidly to reach the present level of Slim.

He emphasised however that much more

of manage, or caused an needed to be known process about dementia, and said accommodation accord- unreasonable degree of that a report of preval- ing to the needs of the concern, the preference ence, stages in hostels, person, more community would be for solutions more and content of hostel options. and more involving dementia programs is appropriate housing segregation. due in August, and will arrangements to relieve be used in further plan- impacts on the Housing He considered however ning re hostels and and Community Pro- that the confining of HACC programs. those only marginally gram (HACC). with dementia affected On the segregation of Mr Staples agreed with more others with Mr the need to recognise the dementia sufferers, should affected severely case of ambulent demen- Staples said that there be scrupulously avoided. tia in the funding pro- was a preference towards cesses, and said this issue integration of those with Mr Staples expressed would be looked at in the early dementia into a interest in the question of context of the needs of broader community, in funded co-ordination for careers in home, hostel order to help arrest or volunteers, but could see and nursing home situa- slow the condition. difficulties in relation to But where the dementia legal liabilities, especially tions. Mr Staples also referred to efforts to sufferers were too intru- where large organisaprovide "a more fluid" sive, too difficult to tions were involved.

Bishops question Aboriginal treaty What's the point of an Aboriginal treaty? Shouldn't just be treated the same? veryone e These questions are addressed by the Australian Catholic Bishops in their pastoral letter for Aboriginal Sunday, to be celebrated on September 2.

The bishops express the hope that the continuing debate and misunderstanding about the 'treaty' will not stop us from finding how best to express the assured place of Aboriginal culture and heritage in the Australian nation.

At Alice Springs in 1986, the Pope referred to 'a just and proper settlement that still lies unachieved'.

When the Prime Minister, Mr Hawke, promised a treaty at Barunga in 1988, an Aboriginal elder, Mr Wenten Rubuntja, said:

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The bishops call for all Australians to build on the bicentenary experiences of 1988 and set as a target the next symbolic moment in Australian history, 1 January 2001, for reaching a 'just and proper settlement'.

Committing themselves to this process of national reconciliation, with appropriate legal underpinning, the bishops look to 'a new beginning in living together in this land' and affirm the hope that 'no Australian need be alien to the society which is the common heritage of all, from the Aborigine to the newest migrant'.

Former West Austral ian Christian Brother Brian Morgan was recently ordained a priest of the order of Missionaries of Our Lady of Perpetual Adoration.

The ceremony took place in the Benedictine Abbey chapel in Manila where Fr Morgan

studied for the priesthood.

He will work in specialised the apostolate of setting up chapels of perpetual eucharistic adoration.

In Western Australia such chapels

have been established at St Gerard's Mirrabooka and St Lawrence's Bluff Point.

Fr Brian Ahearn of Bluff Point attended the ceremony and delivered the homily on the following day at thanksgiving a Mass in Las Pinas parish where Fr Morgan worked as a deacon for six months.

Fr Morgan. originally from Brisbane, was a fitter and turner before entering the Christian Brothers with whom he spent 40 years, much of it in

Prisoners in Aussie jails in 1989

The Australian Institute of Criminology to 245 and the Northern Territory fell almost report of the eighth annual National Prison 9 per cent from 381 to 351.

Census shows that there were 12,964 Prisoners were more likely to be in their prisoners in Australian prisons on census mid-twenties or older, night, June 30, 1989. and more likely to be than married, in the previous year.

Of these, 12,284 were male and 680 were female.

They were also more likely to be in prison The 1988 figures were a total of 12,321, of for a violent offence, and slightly less likely whom 11,670 were male and 651 were to be in for property offences or driving offences. female.

The increases were broadly in line with the Prisoners who have already served two growth in the adult population and so the rate years or more now constitute a third of all of imprisonment, per 100,000 persons aged prisoners, compared with only about a fifth 17 and over, remained virtually constant at twelve months previously.

103.3, compared with 102.8 the previous year.

These changes are probably more to do This apparent stability, however, masked with the changing demographic composition some quite substantial changes at the state of Australia's population, and the consequent and territory level. changes in offending patterns, than to any Five jurisdictions experienced increases in changes of sentencing or correctional policies. their prison populations (NSW up 12 per cent In NSW, however, average times expected to from 4,691 to 5,261, Victoria up 9 per cent be served in prison increased by almost a from 2,071 to 2,256, Queensland up by less third, with offenders in prison for assaults than one per cent from 2,374 to 2,390, South now expecting to serve over three years in Australia up 3 per cent from 844 to 871 and prison compared with under two years at the the ACT, which has only a remand prison, up previous census. Those convicted of breaking from 14 to 22 prisoners). Western Australia, and entering now expect to have to serve on the other hand, fell 5 per cent from 1,649 sentences effectively doubled, from 18 to 1,568. Tasmania fell 17 per cent from 297 months to three years.

Western Australia and including a period in Rome assisting with the construction of the general order's house.

He did a course at the National Pastoral Institute and subsequently did pastoral work in Bluff Point parish, helping 24 people enter the Church over a period of five years.

Fr Morgan will work in Manila under the vicar general Monsignor Ramirez. He will be in WA on August

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An archbishop for the times Fourteen years ago the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales welcomed the appointment of a leader from outside the hierarchy. The choice seemed inspired. There has been something of a parallel in the surprise appointment of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, George Carey, to the see of Canterbury in succession to Dr Runcie, although he has only been a bishop for two and a half years, and did not feature among those tipped as front-runners in the Canterbury stakes. Once the initial shock had worn off, however, there was an unreserved welcome from almost every quarter.

Among those contributing their assessments in Notebook this week, Frank Field stresses the most obvious break with the past represented by this appointment. The archbishop-elect is not a product of the Oxford and Cambridge university system which has till now formed the top leadership of the Church of England, but the son of a hospital porter in London's East End who left school at the age of 15: "the only genuinely working-class candidate ever to set foot in Lambeth", says Mr Field. The qualifications which Dr Carey subsequently gained and the books which he wrote show his intellectual ability clearly enough, but he is nonetheless cast in a different mould from previous holders of his office and that will show his approach and attitudes. One of the greatest deficiencies of the Church of England is the extent to which it is class-bound: if Dr Carey, as a man of the people, can alter that, he will already have a huge achievement to his credit.

Equally refreshing is the type of evangelical commitment which he represents. The days are gone when the intellectual positions taken up by this more Protestant wing of the Church of England, from which the largest contingent of young clergy now come, could be dismissed as intellectually inferior and when the movement was closed against Roman Catholic influence. In his book The Meeting of the Waters. Dr Carey shows that he has read widely in Roman Catholic theology, is familiar with the texts of Vatican II and has followed closely the progress of the ecumenical dialogue. Even the Marian teachings of the Catholic Church, which in the past would have been anathema to all evangelicals, he does not rule out provided they conform with Scripture.

Like other evangelical intellectuals, he thinks for himself, not along party lines, inspired by the belief in a common Christian faith based on shared fundamentals. That same conviction will surely drive him to more meaningful dialogue with the Free Churches, where the record of the Church of England has in the past been so deeply disappointing. But this is a time of winter in ecumenism, when the new growth waits underground. It will take time before it flowers and people may look back with nostalgia to the exciting breakthroughs of the Ramsey and Runcie years, especially if the probable ordination of women by the Church of England, which Dr Carey warmly favours, causes the dialogue with the Roman Catholics to be broken off for a time.

One result of such a break would have to be a reassessment by Anglo-Catholics of their position. It is sad to see the relative eclipse of so influential a tradition in the Church of England, to the point where it could not field a single runner for the Canterbury vacancy. Anglo-Catholics have in the past united with evangelicals against women's ordination, but in the synod before last a shift could be sensed as the liberal evangelicals asked themselves in what sense opposition to women's ordination could be Good News. One signal to the Anglo-Catholics from Dr Carey's appointment, as an evangelical whose orthodoxy is above reproach but who is committed to w Jmen's ordination, is that they must now ask themselves the same question as the evangelicals did.

Dr Carey's leadership will be tested to the limit here.

It will be tested also as soon as he throws down the gauntlet to those who hailed his appointment in the belief that a man "sound" on faith would be "sound" on politics. These short-term supporters are convinced that the analysis behind the "Faith in the City" initiative taken under Dr Runcie stemmed from disbelief. They were disabused at Dr Carey's very first press conference after the announcement of his appointment, when he made it clear that religious commitment could not be divided from social and political concern.

There are as rough waters ahead, without a doubt, as Dr Runcie has faced in the past ten years — and Dr Carey is untried. In particular, he has very little experience of the international dimension of Anglicanism, where Dr Runcie shone. The warm welcome he has receiveu is a tribute to his personality and record, but in part it is also because he has not had time to make many enemies. Now he has to establish himself for a primacy that could last for 18 years, and which will require judgement, toughness and discernment. Undoubtedly he has a Christian vision for Britain. Accepting that it is impossible to advance that vision by supporting every good cause which passes his front door will be one sign of his judgement. Choosing the six of seven maior issues to promote during his primacy will be one sign of his discernment His enthronement sermon will show. For the rest, if he can gather the right team around him, he may prove indeed to have been an inspired choice to guide the Church of England through the decade of evangelisation and beyond.

60 inactive priests in comeback bid SOME OF THEM MARRIED INVALIDLY SPRINGFIELD, Mass (CNS): More than 60 priests who left the active ministry have inquired about returning, and at least five of them will begin the process in September, according to the director of a new program.

Asked to describe the typical man who has inquired about returning to active ministry, Father John Gray said: "Write any kind of fictional story about someone who left you want. I have a real man who would fit your description".

Father Gray said that some inactive priests to whom he has spoken left the ministry as long as 20 years ago, and others more recently.

Some "realized that they had made a mistake the next day" while others had more complicated stories to tell, he said.

Some married invalidly and have been divorced while others never attempted marriage, he said.

Since the program is new, he said, it was best not to enroll more than 10 or 12 priests the first year.

An inactive priest wishing to enter the program needs sponsorship by the bishop or religious superior under whom he ministered, and he must complete an extensive application form.

The applicant must also demonstrate that although he has not functioned as a priest he has remained an active Catholic.

Also required is a letter of recommendation from the pastor of the parish in which he lives, Father Gray said.

Participants will receive an average of two semesters of academic updating and spiritual renewal at My Father's House, a Moodus, Conn., retreat house owned by his order, Father Gray said.

How many priests might return? "I don't think anyone has the foggiest (notion):' he replied.

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ST CLOUD, Minn (CNS): A program for preparing candidates for the permanent diaconate has resumed in the Diocese of St Cloud after a three-year hiatus.

Twenty dioceses have their diaconate formation programs on hold, down from 26 in April 1989, according to Notre Dame Sister Eileen Tierney, executive director of the National A.ssociation of Permanent Diaco-

nate Directors, with in headquarters Chicago.

The reasons varied, she said.

Concerns expressed then involved the quality of academic courses, the relationship of the diaconate to other ministries, especially those filled by women, and the practice of ordaining candidates without a specific call from the local community.

Sister Tierney said among reasons cited

in the most recent national survey were the need to evaluate the existing program. a change of a bishop, the issue of women, who are excluded from the diaconate, and the start of a lay ministry program.

The women's issue, cited by four dioceses, indicated a real concern by some that the diaconate discriminated against, women, Sister Tierney said.

"Determination of the deacon's role

occurred after ordination instead of the community calling forth an individual to fulfill a particular need within their community," spokesman Father Kremer said.

"This practice led to the ordination of some men who then had no place in which to serve," he said.

The new program calls for four years of academic formation before ordination in addition to pastoral

Bouquets, brick-bats SAN ANTONIO (CNS): Cardinal John J. O'Connor of New York told the Knights of Columbus at their convention in San Antonio "it's possible there would be no pro-life movement today if it hadn't been kept alive by the Knights".

The cardinal criticised Knights who favour abortion rights as having "given scandal" because of their stance.

Cardinal O'Connor, chairman of the US bishops' Committee for Pro-Life Activities, also compared the bishops' hiring of a public relations firm for spreading the pro-life message to the invention of the printing press.

Until the printing press was invented by Johann Gutenberg in 1454, Bibles were not available to general the population.

"What if the Church communicate better and had said `no' to the use of this is one way of doing the printing press?" it," Cardinal O'Connor Cardinal O'Connor said. asked.

The Knights gave $3 "That was a communi- million to the bishops to cation system then. Our help finance the CamGutenberg at present is paign, which could cost called Hill & Knowlton," up to $5 million and last the firm hired by the from three to five years. bishops.

Cardinal O'Connor said "We have to learn to that using Hill & Knowl-

ton should not be thought of as a public relations experiment but education an as campaign.

He also suggested that Knights treat members who favour abortion rights with charity.

Knights who give scandal or are no longer practicing Catholics automatically cut themselves off from their brother Knights, he said.

"Everyone is entitled to a hearing." the cardinal said. But a local council should refrain from taking further action unless or until they confer with the local bishop.

"Remember that the sinner is as precious in the eyes of God as the 99 who need no help," he said, adding: "Give them every opportunity to consider the nature of their offence."

and spiritual formation.

As for the concern about women, Father Kremer said: "Waiting to train new deacons until the controversial issues concerning women are resolved does not serve the church positively.

"It is paramount therefore that newly ordained deacons in the future are sensitive and supportive of women who desire to serve in the church." he said.

Concern over penance SAN ANTONIO (CNS): An American cardinal at the Vatican expressed concern at the Knights of Columbus convention about the decline in the use of the sacrament of

penance.

Cardinal Baum said the sacrament is needed "to liberate us from sin".

While some people "try

to put it in a good light", said Cardinal Baum, "I think the only honest response is: 'There's a real loss here'."

Cardinal Baum is head of the Apostolic Penitentiary at the Vatican, which deals with matters of conscience involving the sacraments and procedural issues concerning the sacraments and indulgences.

He was head of the Vatican Congregation for Education for 10 years.

Secrets of Mary not important' IRVINE, Calif (CNS): More than 4,000 participants at a Mediugorje Peace Conference at Irvine were told that secrets Mary is said to have revealed "are not that important," but rather the M arian apparitions should be considered a call to deeper Christian faith.

"Be curious about the secrets but don't pay too much attention. The secrets are not that important," said Bishop Nicholas D'Antonio, vicar general for the Orleans New Archdiocese.

A greeing with that sentiment was Franciscan Father Svetozar Kraljevic, who has met with the six reported visionaries in his home province of Hercegovina, Yugoslavia.

"Don't pay that much attention to" the secrets. he said. "Some are led to believe that days to come will be traumatic or difficult. Once you are Christian it is all the same because you are ready."

"There is a 'holy tension' between ourselves and our bishop said Father Kraljevic, whose Franciscan community has championed the cause.

This is positive and fruitful," the priest said.

"Someday he might be called the martyr of Medjugorje because he suffers.

"If one day the church would say the apparitions were not authentic," he said,"! would still be very happy because! a lways serve the church."

Mark Miravalle. who teaches theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, said w hether "Mary appeared there or not, the message is in conformity with divine revelation."

"The opposition may argue that the visions are a result of psychological disorders or the devil," Miravalle said. "But the fad that the message content is consistent with church teachings is

the first factor the church looks at in d etermining authenticity".

He said that during authentic apparitions "visionaries share the space and temporal order of the person giving the message" and he also said they claim that when they see Mary they are unaware of other persons immediately around them.

Finally, he said, the church looks at the fruits of the apparitions.

"There is no need for private revelation theologically speaking," Miravalle said. "In our humanness, there is a need. Ultimately it is a personal decision. You can be a sound Catholic and not believe in Fatima. But it is reprehensible to mock another for believing in Fatima, because that's the freedom of the church."

The church declared the 1917 apparitions at Fatima. Portugal. worthy of belief in October 1930 a fter a seven-vear investigation.

Jesuit Father Robert Farley, who teaches spirituality at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, said "there are a lot of other apparitions that as a private person seem authentic to me".

But he cautioned that hundreds of apparitions were reported to the Vatican and the "vast majority are either clearly or probably false, the result of a hoax or disturbed people who have delusions".

Yet, he said. "never has there been a time in history when Mary appeared so many times to so many people and said so many words".

Father Stephen Barham, A Melkite Greek Catholic, said that in the Eastern church, "We have more weeping icons of the madonna in the world than at any time.

"All around us God is giving signs," he said.

"We don't know what lies ahead. The whole of history can be radically changed".

Cathedral's status sparks new tension LVOV: Tension has arisen between Catholics and Orthodox in the Ukrainian city of Lvov over the status of St George's Cathedral, claimed by both groups.

About 30,000 Ukrainian Catholics marched toward the cathedral to press the Orthodox to return the church.

The demonstration ended peacefully when Ukrainian Catholic Archbishop Volodymyr Sterniuk of Lvov told the Catholics not to enter the cathedral and to go home, added the statement.

The march occurred after a Ukrainian government official

met with Lvov's Catholic and Orthodox officials and told the Orthodox not to return the cathedral.

The Church of the Transfiguration had been in the hands of the Orthodox until last October when the associate pastor and a majority of the parishioners decided to become Catholic.

The cathedral belonged to Catholics until 1946, when the Ukrainian Catholic Church was declared illegal and its members told to join the Russian Orthodox Church. The Ukrainian Catholic Church, however, continued to exist clandestinely.

Protest over police raids Z AGREB: Yugoslavian bishops protested police raids on church buildings in the tense Kosovo region, scene of fighting between ethnic Albanians and Serbs.

Cardinal Franjo Kuharic of Zagreb, president of the Yugoslavian bishops' conference, said recent police searchers of a church, a parish office and a religious house were arbitrary and unjustified.

He called on authorities to return medicines seized in the raids.

He said the medicines seized had been obtained legally from international aid agencies and were meant for distribution to "the most needy" in Yugoslavia, rep: rdlessof their nationality or religion.

It's barbaric COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (CNS): Bishop Peiris of Kurunegala, Sri Lanka, has condemned the murder of more than 140 Muslims praying in a mosque.

He called it the barbaric massacre of

innocent civilians who are our very own people, citizens of our country."

Muslims reacted by killing 37 Tamils in a refugee camp.

The justice and peace commission statement

lamented the "cruel destruction of human life" and listed eight other recent attacks on unarmed civilians.

Three of the attcks were aimed at religious groups.

Church's new Namibia challenge WINDHOEK, Namibia (CNS): The Catholic Church used its moral influence to challenge South Africa into granting independence to Namibia.

Now it faces its own getting c hallenge, enough priests, particularly Namibian priests, to serve the more than 220,000 Catholics of the country.

Catholicism got a late start in the colony. For a

long time, the only Catholic priests were German army chaplains assigned solely to minister to Catholic troops.

The overwhelming religious influence in the colony, taken by Germany in 1884, was Protestant.

It wasn't until 1904 that Catholic missionaries were allowed to evangelise in South West Africa.

With the defeat of Germany in World War I, the colony reverted to the control of the League of Nations, which made it a protectorate of South

By comparison, there were 3400 Catholics in

1921.

However, there are only

35 priests in the Vicariate

of Windhoek — seven Namibians and 28 GerCatholics now comprise man Oblates of Mary upwards of 20 per cent of Immaculate, The Gerthe population of man order arrived in approximately 1.7 mil- 1896 and has supplied lion, most in the Apos- the bulk of the clergy in. of Namibia since.

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While the priests are

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There are 18 married deacons who run parishes and several lay leaders who lead Sunday services and perform pastoral duties during the week.

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Going down under in a Vatican escape...

NEW PLANS FOR GUIDED TOURS VATICAN CITY (CNS):— With a little advance planning, visitors to the Vatican can escape the crowds in St Peter's Basilica and the Sistine Chapel and make downunder or behind-thescenes explorations.

Guided visits to the excavations under the basilica — a necmpolis that includes what is thought to be St Peter's burial place — generally are limited to 15 people.

Reservations must be made in writing in advance either by stopping at the excavations office or by sending a letter.

Modern technoloigy can be a help in arranging a visit to the 1.900-year-old necropolis: The excavations office accepts faxed tour requests.

The other Vaticanoffered escape from the milling multi-

tudes is a two-hour tour of the Vatican gardens, limited to 33 people once a day, five days a week.

Neither tour is offered on Sunday, and there is no garden tour on Wednesday because of the pope's general weekly audience.

Reservations for the garden tour must be made in person at the information office in St Peter's Square.

The tour is offered in two of six languages each day, not according to a set schedule or even majority rule.

Subject to the availability of its tour guides, the Vatican gives the tour in the first two languages requested for a given day.

Being the early bird has definite advantages. It is common for people to sign up three or four days in advance.

Tours of the excava-

tion site are offered in English, French, German, Italian, Dutch and Spanish. Using the written requests, the excavations office organises the groups and notifies participants a day or two in advance.

Visitors faxing or mailing their requests in advance should provide phone numbers where they can be reached in Rome.

It is cool and quiet in the necropolis, which was buried by the Emperor Constantine in the early fourth century to make a firm foundation for the first basilica on Vatican Hill.

When Constantine became the Roman emperor, the tradition of venerating the site as St Peter's grave was already more than 200 years old.

As pilgrims wander through the underground corridors and

streets of the old necropolis, the guides tell tales of the lives of pagans, Roman slaves and early Christians by interpreting inscriptions on the mausoleums and artifacts found in them.

The underground maze also occasions a lesson on the history of buildings on the site before the present basilica, which was consecrated in 1626.

Visitors see pieces of a wall which early Christians erected to mark the spot as special, parts of an early Constantinian monument to St Peter and walls and pillars from Constantine's church.

In addition to being a break from the crowds, the garden tour offers an escape from the traffic of Rome and a behindthe-scenes look at one of the smallest nationstates in the world.

The tour begins with

A view of the Vatican garden which will be part of the tour. a half-hour ride on a 33-seat bus, hence the limit on the number of tour participants.

Visitors drive past the Swiss Guards stationed at the Arch of the Bells, past the Palace of Justice and the central Vatican police station.

The garden part of the garden tour begins in front of the "Governa tora to" which houses local Vatican government offices. Pope John Paul firs coat of arms is duplicated in a bush sculpture on the sloping lawn.

The bus stops again at the Vatican train station — now used only for deliveries — then drives by the pope's vegetable garden. the St John Tower with three apartments for visiting dignitaries and the pope's heliport.

Guides point out plants not usually' found in Italy, like banana trees and Lebanese cedars, as well as sculptures donated by Catholics in various countries.

The final bus stop is in front of a re-

creation of the grotto at the famous Marian shrine of Lourdes.

The rest of the tour is a stroll through the gardens and past the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the House of Pius IV (which was never used as a house

by Pius IV or anyone else, the guide said), and other buildings.

As the sun reaches its full glare. the guide may let the group stand on the lawn in the shade — but only if everyone promises not to tell any of the Vatican's 36 gardeners.

Dial-a-pope service now VATICAN CITY, (CNS): Want to hear a talk by Pope John Paul II, but you can't make it to the Vatican?

The answer is dial-aPoPe. There are two services you can call — although neither puts you in direct phone contact with the pontiff. service One (0011 39 7779 3020) is offered by Vatican Radio.

The other is under the patronage of the Peter's Pence office, responsible for drumming up funds to cover the Vatican's growing budget needs.

Both agencies. although rivals in the telephone business, are under the supervision of the Vatican Secretariat of State.

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Their dial-a-pope services also have a lot in common. Both offer brief recorded papal spiritual messages. Both use the same store of recorded speeches to extract the pope's thoughts. Both are considered a pastoral service to Catholics needing a papal word of encouragement.

But their similarities end where their reasons for being start.

Vatican Radio does not see its service as a fundraiser. Its officials proudly say that they get no income from the project.

The aim is to spread the pope's voice around the world, rather than market it, said Italian Jesuit Father Pasquale

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Borgomeo, Vatican Radio general director. The philosophy is a clear separation between pastoral service and fund raising, he added.

Spanish Jesuit Father Arturo Martin of the Peter's Pence office also favours spreading the pope's voice far and wide, but has nothing against earning money in the process.

This is also the best way to fight commercialising the pope's voice through pirated use, he said.

In reality, both Vatican services are fighting for the ears of the world's 906 million Catholics, or at least those Catholics — mostly in the developed world — with access to spare change and a modern phone system.

Vatican Radio also is in the awkward position of competing with itself.

Besides preparing its own recorded messages. it provides the raw tapes of papal speeches for Father Martin's project because Vatican Radio is the official audio recorder of all papal speeches and public ceremonies.

Most of the tapes used for both services are of the pope's weekly audiences, general where he gives spiritual messages in several languages. Father Martin has high hopes that the pope eventually will record special messages just for his operation.

Another difference is that callers to the Vatican

Radio service have to make an international call by dialling Rome.

Father Martin, instead, is experimenting with local access numbers in England, Ireland and the United States.

People in other parts of the globe, though, must call Australia.

But for Father Borgomeo, calling Rome is "important for believers" because this is the spot they associate with the Pope.

"Why call London or Melbourne to hear the pope?- he asked.

For Father Martin, local access makes it easier and faster to call and normally assures a better telephone line. Also, these calls are compute-

rised, making the billing But Vatican Radio still easier, he said. would not receive a Vatican Radio has the penny. added Father older service, started in Borgomeo.

April 1989, and operates Father Martin's service it in co-operation with in English, Spanish and ItalCable, a private company in charge of Italy's Italian is being done by a international telephone London-based company set up exclusively for the traffic. dial-a-pope service. It is The two-year renewa- passing along its earnble contract gives Vatican ings to the Vatican while Radio control over the absorbing the daily runmessages and gives Ital- ning costs.

Cable the income from Father Martin said it is the calls. still too early to judge the This enables ItalCable success of his service. to recoup its expenses, said Father Borgomeo. At On the other hand, renewal time. Vatican Father Borgomeo said Radio hopes to establish the Vatican Radio service new terms that would is a success, resulting in divert the income to a thousands of minutes of planned Vatican interna- telephone calls, but he tional telephone service, does not have the latest he said. figures from ItalCable.

'Former priest' ordained

In London a former priest in the Church of England, Philip Goff, was recently ordained by Cardinal Hume in the chapel at Archbishop's House, Westminister, to serve in the Catholic Church. Below is the text of the Cardinal's address.

It I do recognise just how much is involved for a man who, having exercised a ministry in the Church of England, now seeks priesthood in the Catholic Church. You will look back now on the years of your ministry in the Anglican Communion, and you may wonder about them.

Wasted years?

Of course not. I recall the very clear teaching of the Second Vatican Council: 'Even though we believe that those (other) or communities are defective, they are hurches C not without significance and ertainly c importance in the mystery of salvation. Their strength derives from the very fullness of grace and truth entrusted to the Catholic Church.'

Those words, "not without significance and importance in the mystery of salvation", are not explained, but the statement itself takes us right into the hidden secrets of the way God works.

God does not depend on the sacraments alone in order to give his grace.

These words do not in any way touch on the question of Anglican orders, and the Catholic Church's position on this matter means that any idea of a conditional ordination is excluded.

The last sentence of the words quoted could be — perhaps sometimes is — read as yet another example of Roman arrogance. It is not so.

It is a simple statement of our Catholic faith: that the Church of Christ subsists in (i.e. is to be found) in the Roman Catholic Church.

Nonetheless "important elements or gifts from which the Church derives its structure and life, are capable of an existency beyond the confines of the visible Catholic Church".

Where these exist, there is already a vital bond between ourselves and other Churches and ecclesial bodies, and a basis upon which future unity can be built.

It was full communion with the Catholic Church that you first sought.

Indeed it was not so much that you were moving towards membership of the Catholic Church, but rather that you had discovered that you had already arrived.

What we believed, you now believed; what disciplines we accept, you wanted. What we are, you too, wished to be. It seemed right then to you and to me that you should proceed to the

Cardinal Hume speaking at ordination.

priesthood, although not quite as rapidly as Cardinal Manning did.

Experience in the monastery taught me that from time to time a man would want to be a monk before ever thinking of becoming a Catholic.

The call from God was present, and there was a certain continuity from the first awareness of the call to its realisation.

Similarly,Ihave found that there is continuity between that first call by God to you to exercise a priestly ministry in the Church of England and his call now to be a priest in the Catholic Church.

It is the continuity and persistence of the "call" that have struck me. It is not so in every rase.

The Catholic bishop does have to discern anew, in so far as he can, that God is truly calling the convert to priesthood. Not every potential applicant will necessarily be accepted.

You know that priesthood in the Catholic Church is different to what you have previously experienced. Before the Council the "culture shock" (as it had been called) in becoming a Catholic was much more acute and difficult.

Now, thanks to ecumenism, we know so much more about each other. Things are not quite the same as they used to be.

You know what you are letting yourself in for, and you are wise enough — and spiritual enough — to recognise that there are difficulties and that you will have to cope with them.

There will be loneliness and the problems of presbytery life, just to mention two. You may even at times wonder whether you have done the right thing.

We Catholics sometimes handle the things of God clumsily; we change, not what is of the essence of the faith, but its cultural expression in action and word, and change can be irritating, surprising and, indeed, difficult to accept — there is no need to labour the point.

We are Catholic priests, but earthenware vessels. Warned, you will be ready.

Such trials are part of growing in trust — that constant leap in the dark which we are all from time to time asked to make.

You have made one leap by becoming a Catholic, now you make another in becoming a priest.

It is when the way ahead is not clear and the burdens and irritations of life are at their greatest that we learn the meaning of dependence on God and how to live it. Go forward, then, with peace in your heart and step courageously into IP the unknown.

Pope's strategy used in mum M EXICO CITY ( CNS):— Mexican bishops are looking to a new strategy in their effort to keep religious sects from undermining Catholic dominance in Mexico and say that strategy was provided to them by Pepe John Paul II. According to retired Bishop Genaro Alamilla Arteaga that new strategy consists of "calling

on our separated brothers" to return to the church. Bishop Alamilla said the pope set the tone for such a strategy during pastoral messages delivered during the papal visit to Mexico in early May. "Now, the pope has told us you must call to them, not reject them but call to them to 'return to your church'," Bishop Alamilla said.

One recent study of the sects' growth in the region said that an

a "valuable" message sity of returning to the about reaching out to Virgin of Guadalupe as a Catholics who had con- focal point in a reevangelization of MexHe explained that the verted to the sects.

Mexican church often "I think that now there ico. Bishop Alamilla said In Guadalajara Archdi- had assumed that it is a new manner of that is especially imporocese, there are at least needed to revise its dealing with the situa- tant because given the 47 different Protestant education of Catholics tion and that is to call on attraction the Virgin and non-Christian sects about their faith or had them with love and holds for many Mexican operating with backing simply attacked the US charity... 'Return to your Indians, she could serve from US based groups in backed sects publicly as a church," he said. as a counterbalance to Guadalajara. threat to Mexican cultuthe appeal toward the He also said that Pope ral and religious identity. John Paul II made four or Indians' popular religioson been often "We've But the pope, he said, five mentions during his ity presented by many the defensive and at other times we've gave the Mexican church addresses of the neces- sects.

border site where the truce ending the Korean War was signed, to meet North Korean officials for talks on a Mass planned in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital.

The Catholic contingent was stopped by more

than 50 police. The officers blocked the barbed-wire gate that leads to the Imjin River bridge, down a road winding through minefields, past tank traps and US and South Korean army bunkers to the

Mexican church sources have estimated that as many as 300 different Protestant and other non-Catholic religious groups operate in Mexico, and their membership makes up roughly 10 percent of the estimated 86 million population.

average of 8000 Latin Catholics America renounce their faith and convert to the sects daily.

attacked them." bishop Alamilla said.

Seoul police block 5 priests IMJIN—GAK, South K orea (CNS):- South K orean police blocked Catholic priests from driving to North Korea on the second day of a week declared as an open border period by South Korea's presi-

dent, Roh Tae-woo, witnesses said.

The five priests, who were joined by 30 Catholic students in more than an hour of prayer for reunification, said they had hoped to drive to Penmunjon, the

border 10 miles away.

North Korea had on Aug 13 invited priests, dissidents and other groups for a series of border meetings. South Korea said it opposes border crossings until its security concerns are

satisfied.

Roh had proclaimed the week, which marks the 45th anniversary of independence from japan, as a time for unrestricted cross-border travel through Panmunjon.

The truce town is the

only crossing point along the heavily fortified, 150mile border.

But procedural squabbles and four decades of mistrust kept the border as tightly sealed as it has been since the 1950-53 Korean War.

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Recipe to happ IleSS Experts give their views

Happy homes are not all alike, despite Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy's famous comment in the novel Anna the K arenina to contrary.

How happy a particular family is depends on what the people involved expect and want, and how much work they are willing to put into making homelife alive and vital.

DISCUSSION POINTS

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Clinical pschologist Joseph Schwab describes a happy homelife as one -where members all respect each other and are willing to work toward solutions of problems, where everyone's intentions are toward and tranquility harmony."

having "the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own and another's growth."

A former counsellor Virginia Clemente says a happy home depends on

"Ideally a good family is balanced" with members recognising that priority

"It takes time and energy and ongoing education on what a relationship is and how it works" to keep a family life running smoothly.

has to be established in relationships.

In Ms Clemente's experience, the primary relationship should be between the husband and wife. Next comes the parents' relationship with their children and finally the family's relationship with the church and city community.

Too often, she said, a husband and wife with

' Life is like that

By Katharine Bird growing children and busy careers are so distracted with responsibilities that they pay too little attention to their needs as a couple.

This can spell trouble especially when the children become more independent and the

couple is left to relate once again on a one-toone basis.

"Commitment is the cement" of family life, Ms Clemente added. "It helps people develop a truly spiritual, mature, genuine love."

With commitment, people have the gumption to struggle "with issues, feelings, thoughts and the need to forgive each

)ther" through a lifetime ups and downs.

For Schwab, commitment means more than ust "being willing to ;tick with a spouse and 'amily."

It also means being nrilling to "bring to the ,urface hurts with the family )elief that nembers care for each )ther and will help each other."

"There's no such thing as a family that's problem-free," he said.

"What makes for a good family is one with good tools for solving the problems that life dishes up for them."

For him, along with commitment, two other tools are indespensable for harmonious family living-communication and conflict resolution.

Conflict resolution' involves developing listening skills and attitudinal skills. A goal of conflict resolution is mutual understanding.

Real communication means sharing our inner life, he said, "the kinds of things you've been feeling, your fantasies and dreams, how you felt about the boss going on a rampage today."

At home in old Israel pathways of the A 51/--40 "pint

By Father John Castelot

Changes in society bring about changes in families.

In very ancient Israel the family structure was rigidly patriarchal.

The father was master of his wife and had

absolute authority over his children, even over his married sons if they lived with him and over their wives.

The father's authority included power over life and death. Genesis 38:24 tells of Judah's condemning his daughter-in-law Tamar to death when she of used was m wais d

The family at that time consisted of those united by common blood and common dwelling place.

It included servants, widows and orphans who lived under the protection of the family head. It was truly an "extended family."

Family members were obliged to help and protect each other. There was even a specific institution which defined when this obligation called for action.

It was called the "goel", which basically means "to protect".

The individual "go'el" was a redeemer or defender, a protector of the interests of the person or group. If an Lsraelite was forced to sell himself into slavery to pay a debt, a close relative would "redeem" him (Leviticus 25:47-49).

If someone had to sell his family inheritance, such a "go'er had priority over all buyers. It was his right and duty to buy it to protect family PmPerty.

Those close-knit family ties held true during the early days of tribal organisation.

But family customs were affected when Israelite society underwent a transition to a settled agricultural lifestyle and still later with

the development of town and city life.

The family ceased to be self-sufficient.

Even then the family ties remained strong.

Crafts were usually handed down from father to son. Certain villages were composed of woodworkers or ITOmongers, while others specialised in textiles or pottery.

Groups of artisans called "clans" were ruled by a "father", implying that members were like families.

But gradually the great patriarchal families uniting several generations head one around disappeared.

Living conditions in towns limited how many could live under one roof.

In fact, houses excavated by 20th-century archaeologists are uniformly quite small.

by NEIL PARENT

Family life is complex and uncertain, with heartaches and delights, joys and worries, writes Neil Parent, as NC's relgious Education Package continues to explore facets of lay life.

In each family certain recurring themes — love and commitment, authority and independence, communication and decision making — are played out, he says. Parent is representative for adult education with the US Catholic Conference.

Katherine Bird interviews psychologists Joseph Schwab of South Bed, Indiana, and Virginia Clemente of Dallas, Texas.

They discuss what goes into creating a happy home.

For both, commitment is an essential element and a willingness to keep working on problems.

David Gibson describes some changes in family life which are causing parents to perceive their responsibilities differently.

Often parents are perplexed over some aspect of their responsibilities but don't know where to turn for help.

Research shows they want help with family problems from their church, the writer says.

Father John Castelot points out that changes in society almost inevitably bring changes in family life.

He shows the evolution of family life in Old Testament days.

In the early days, families were rigidly patriarchal with a large, extended selfsufficient family gathered around the father.

As society became more urban, however, the family system changed in a number of ways.

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Changing responsibilities

When I was a theology student in the mid 1960s, I used to regularly visit a group of couples who gathered every other week for study and socialising.

They began to meet in the closing days of the Second Vatican Council to discuss the meaning of the many changes that were occurring in the Church.

Most of their children were small at the time but they would join us frequently for group outings, home liturgies and the like. As a result, Igot to know each family fairly well.

Eventually our paths parted and we lost one with contact another. Recently, however, one of the women from the group and I happened to see each other while attending the same meeting. Thirsty for the news of the families, I pumped her with many questions.

Her story was one that could easily have been the subject of a TV series.

All the ingredients were there: joy and sorrow,

by David Gibson

success and failure, hope and frustration.

I learned each family, almost without exception, has experienced its share of ups and downs.

Most of the adults seemed to have weathered the years quite well, though a few were now experiencing some serious health problems.

A fair number of the children had gone on to achieve advanced degrees and were working professionally.

Others, however, somewhere along the line had run into serious problems.

One succumbed to drugs eventually took his own life.

Another had gone afoul of the law. Still another had serious emotional problems.

That brief conversation once again confirmed for me just how complex and uncertain family life is.

Regardless of our social or economic status or of the nature of our family, none of us live carefree lives.

We all experience heartaches as well as delights.

All struggle to work things out to the best of our abilities.

In a way, each family is kind of a microcosm in which many of the same basic themes are played out: love and commitment, authority and independence, communication and decision making, values and lifestyle.

The particulars may vary but the issues are fairly much the same.

When 0=se issues and themes 811' dealt with in ways Oat nourish

authentic] "man becoming, that stress understanding' d forgiveness. that fost"r love and compaolm.

...or where each family has its share of ups and downs

A friend and I were visiting a few days ago while waiting to pick up our children from school activity. Her 10-year-old Stephen, she told me, wasn't performing as well as he might in maths. It wasn't that he didn't know how to do his maths. He was careless.

His mother, however, was uncertain how to approach the matter. She wanted to guide Stephen out of his carelessness without giving him the impression that she was unreasonable in her expectations or that his principal task in school was to please her.

In an age of psychology, parents not only attempt to identify areas of need in their children's lives and do respond to them.

Parents feel called to respond in a special way.

Often they feel inadequate to the task of applied psychology.

This age of psychology makes a definite impact on homelife, influencing the ways modern parents define their responsibility.

It is common for both parents to work outside the home now. As a result, the ways family members define their roles and responsibilities at home often change.

The flood of images, ideas and lifestyles entering a household through modern homeentertainment centres are a force to be reckoned with also.

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Who's who in AIDS care Set up in February 1988, the Archdiocesan Advisory Committee on AIDS (AACA) was brought into being by Archbishop Foley in response to a need so that interested and knowledgeable parties c ould discuss and advise on a disease which has rocked mankind and the cure for which seems remote at this stage.

Informing, disseminating information and helping the afflicted seemed to be the way to go and as a result of this committee establishment, the AIDS pastoral care team developed under this umbrella and is servicing its clients very well under the team guidance of Father Lou Malloy SM.

pastoral needs of those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS and makes appropriate recommendations to Archbishop Foley through the WA

Mervyn Bond, Michael Dick, Sister Victoire Connolly SJG and Father Lou Malloy SM.

Doing it by the dozen. . .

Chris Waddell.

The AACA provides back-up support and direction for the Hrw AIDS Pastoral Care Ministry, whose team members are Father Malloy, Rosemary Brennan who's had several years in caring for AIDS sufferers, and Sister Victoire Connolly SJG. The committee identifies and researches the

Dennis Kelly, Sister Christina, Tony McA linden and Colleen Lark.

Catholic Social Welfare Commission.

Education at secondary, tertiary and parish levels is offered through programs from the Australian Catholic Bishops AIDS Resource and Reference Centre as well as overseeing courses for certain groups.

The committee is the Archbishop's reference

Strengthen values, say Brought over from St Louis USA for a two day stop over by Catholics United in the Faith, Professor Hitchcock and his wife Helen (pictured left) have given lectures and a workshop in Perth, basically urging Catholics to reinforce the teachings of the Church and to strengthen their own value system in this regard 10 The Record, August

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in times when the Church and family are under threat.

Mrs Hitchcock is head of Women for Faith and Family, an organisation which expressly supports the teachings of the Church on all the sensitive and controversial human life issues such as abortion, contraception, divorce, education,

and the question of for ordination women, she said.

"We believe that in the contemporary situation. Catholic women in particular are called to give stronger witness to their faith and express solidarity with the Church's teachings to affirm and support the family which is under

team point within the Church lion, "because although other there may be other more with along Churches and agencies serious terminal illnesses government and non- in the community, I government regarding cannot think of one that has such damning social HIV/AIDS. The committee believes consequences as AIDS." Colleen Lark is a wife that through community awareness and the com- and mother of two bining of resources the children who sees the AIDS challenge in WA care of people living with can be more adequately AIDS, and their families, met. as a priority.

They state the basis of Coming from a nursing their commitment comes background with particfrom society's need to ular interest in pastoral emulate Jesus' call for care, she believes there is justice and compassion much work to be done in which he showed and the AIDS area. taught during his earthly "The social injustice life. they've endured is very Despite their varied sad and an indictment of backgrounds, the 12 our Christian communmembers on the AACA ity. It's heightened their have basically one desire pain causing families to — to assist with compas- hide their problems sion, those with AIDS. resulting in further Father Lou Malloy SM isolation." is the pastoral coordinaThis secrecy, she said, tor of the Archdiocesan doesn't allow us to grow AIDS Pastoral Care min- in Christian maturity by istry and is currently accepting and caring for acting chairperson of the them in the true spirit of committee. He states his gospel love. involvement "in this Dr Catherine Lazaroo, Christian ministry has who is the assistant been very much influ- registrar at RPH and enced by the deep con- representing the viction I have that people Catholic Doctors' Associwho are marginalised, ation on the committee, rejected and discrimi- says she's been attracted nated against for wha- to the HIV affected tever reasons, need my community by the hope love, support and com- and compassion shown And by them in the face of panionship. through my involvement suffering and injustice.

I will hopefully be a "I feel that the Church witness to the Church's and our whole communconcern". ity urgently need to listen Sister Christina Mat- and learn from them." thews RSM has a vast Dennis Kelly is a counnursing background and is representing the selling psychologist with Catholic Health Care the Gay & Lesbian Counselling Service of WA Inc Association of WA. who has served on the She says she's been committee since 1988. interested in the AIDS He brings to this work problem for some time his expertise and many and was inspired by the years of pastoral ministry Mercy's Queensland he has given to the involvement. alienated in the Church.

Sister Victoire Connolly "especially the gay coma St John of God sister, munity", he said. says this is a concrete Knights of the Southern way of servicing the marginalised in society Cross (KSC) representaand in the process show- tive Mervyn Bond, who is ing them some of Christ's currently their state chairman, says his comcompassion. mittee involvement proexecMcAlinden, Tony utive director of the WA vides a link to KSC Catholic Social Welfare members statewide, thus Commission said that keeping them informed with the increasing evi- of the Archbishop's dence of AIDS, he didn't views and priorities plus want those affected to be assistance and programs treated like lepers and in regard to AIDS. segregated.

Margaret Van Keppel, This concern led him to Centrecare's Marriage being associated with the and Family Service coorAACA from its incep- dinator of counselling

Dr Lazaroo, Kevin Fitzgerald and Margaret Van Keppel. programs, says AIDS is a community issue and she's involved because it is a practical way that her agency and herself can share in the community's responsibility to respond compassionately and fully.

Kevin Fitzgerald of St Vincent de Paul is on the committee in the hope that those infected with HIV/AIDS can be Oven Christian support, along with their families.

He believes we should follow Christ's example of love and compassion to all in need of physical and spiritual healing.

Chris Waddell was involved with AIDS education while at Catholic Education and has been on the committee for the last three years.

He wants to assist in establishing programs for parish and Church to provide a network of spiritual support, as well as assisting in community understanding. Being on the committee he says, will also assist the Church in taking a lead with AIDS and provide support for the work of the pastoral care team.

Michael Dick who is the finance man at the Sisters of St John of God province centre feels compelled to contribute to changing and improving the situation for AIDS sufferers, "because they are not being treated as fellow humans".

visitors from US threat."

Hitchcock Mrs spoke also on the way in which families transmit their moral and religious beliefs to the next generation and how strongly that affects the future of society and of the Church.

Radical feminism was another topic she introduced, "with its effect on the faith of

women as well as on the Church and society." Professor Hitchcock said they were all about underpinning the values of what the Catholic Church stands for.

"We live in a culture where we are told that if it's good — do it.

And not denying ourselves of anything if we really want it.

"That seems to me to

run completely contrary to traditional Catholic teachings which say that you must live in accord with the will of God and sometimes at least the will of God may require a few stringencies," he said.

"And there is a certain element for whom self-denial and self-control are alien concepts."

Trio in signal mission

Rhonda Hamersley and Andrew Del Marco sending out an SOS to all parishes to contact youth so all young Catholics can get together to share fun and faith.

Mated parish contacts It also creates the the Catholic Youth (who have to be pool of a — obvious Council (CYO. who reliable), inform the much energy and are trying to establish parish youth maybe the which talent contact, via the parby notice boards or church Catholic many ishes, of as parish bulletins of could well utilise to young people as forthcoming youth itself. revitalise possible. events, and let eveIn the process it The idea is that if ryone join in the fun would show adults they establish netwhich has neverthehow marvellous our works headed by a less a spiritual base young really are, parish adult and

by COLLEEN The CYC recognise instead of neglecting young person, they that not all youth McGUINESSthem, overlooking can then provide want to belong to them (in the mistaken information, possibly HO WARD groups. so this exerbelief that the young only three times a cise is aimed at letting will always be young year, to advise all them know of the big — and therefore Catholic youth of events which they can A team of three young 'insignificant' — wheCYC events they join in, giving them a people is sending out a reas failing to realise could attend. chance to fraternise signal to all parishes that while we 'slide Involving parish and enjoy the wide within the next few over the top of the youth and being range of Catholic weeks in an endeavour stack' the young are interested in their youth. to find a responsible steadily gaining in activities would then adult and young perThe team's message ascendancy!) become a parish son in each parish, who is "when you receive involvement which will find out who and Best of all — as our letter detailing would break down where are the young they're our Catholic the information of barriers and invite folk in their parish and kids, let's enjoy them what we're after — interaction between thus make up a youth while we can. please don't bin it! adults and youth. contact list.

Read it and act on it.

So the plan is to This is an exercise It would give adults Andrew Del Marco, discover them, keep a where everybody gets an insight into what Rhonda Hamersley contact list, dissemisomething out of it." the young are up to, and Maria Annese are nate information while being invited to on the team who are It's called 'finding CYC from the be part of their scene. working on behalf of and fraternising!' through the two nomThe Record, August 23, 1990

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Who is double talking now?

from Peter KALMUND, Kalamunda Sir, Bishop Hickey's perception of a pro abortion stance by the environmental movement and his resultant criticism cannot be left unchallenged (The Record, August 2).

I am not aware of any environmental groups which advocate abortion and -population control by any means-. I strongly object to being classified with the pro abortion lobby because of my concern for the welfare of our planet.

Australia is not an empty continent as stated by the bishop. The Good Lord has filled the country with a diversity of species which live in harmony and balance with nature in an arid land, and have done so

for millions of years.

Pollution and destruction of the environment only occurs in conjunction with Homo Sapiens.

Civilisation and its growth is dependent on adequate and sustainable resources, water being a vital requirement.

However, Australia is already over exploiting its water resources as evidenced by the lowered water table on the coastal plains and the ever present threat of restrictions to its use.

The bishop's reference to a declining natural birthrate implies that this is an undesirable situation and must be reversed Why? What are his real objections to a stable population and what natural justification is there for

demanding continuous growth?

The pope recently berated the Italians for no longer producing large families and also criticised the Mexican Government for recommending caution in the area of population growth. How does the clergy propose to feed, clothe and shelter an ever expanding population in a world which has finite resources? The pope and the bishop live in comparative luxury, divorced from the realities facing a majority of the world's populations, who live in poverty or are actually starving, including areas of Australia.

Much of this situation in Third World countries has been brought about

by Western society's interference with peoples who have survived

hundreds and probably thousands of years living successfully in harmony and balance with the environment.

Bishop Hickey criticises the environmental movement for directing their activities towards their organisational objectives and not voicing protest over abortion Does he also expect the RSPCA or the local tennis club to be active anti -abortion organisations? Should the Right to Life Association also be campaigning for animal rights?

The unfounded comments by the bishop r eflect adversely on his credibility as a Church leader. In this instance, it is the bishop who is doing the double talk and distortion, not the environmental movement.

Top story but... from Robert HICKS. Kalgoorlie The leading article last week (The Record, August 16) was to many readers, I'm sure, like a breath of fresh air in so f ar as it is always heartening to know of such recoveries of faith as experienced by the woman writer.

Notwithstanding the emotion that surrounds such sadness I am compelled to temper that emotion by highlighting what I saw were a number of fundamental flaws in the article in

terms of our Catholic Faith: 1. The Catholic professional staff do not constitute the whole Church.

The Catholic Church in name and by its very tradition is universal in every respect.

Nov.) can a person be let down by the Church that is forever forgiving for it is the sinners within it that let the writer down.

2. The Catholic Church cannot be blamed for the mother's neglect or lack of caring. The Church prays for such unfortunate people that they

may receive the gift of faith and see their suffering as an integral part of that faith.

3. The tone of the sentence, "She cannot leave dad, because Catholics simply don't get divorced, we're told" is a little ambiguous to say the least. We are told by the Word, God, that divorce is contrary to his teaching.

If the tone of the sentence is to suggest that if a woman is mistreated by her husband she then can justify divorce she then contra-

venes the Word. We are told by the guardians and interpreters of the Word, the bishops, that divorce is wrong for that is their role as Peter's successors.

The story of the life of the writer, although sad in terms of humanist understanding, is one of great joy at the redemptive powers and infinite f orgiveness of Our Father. To blame the Catholic Church lacks real understanding of the faith, to marvel at its f orgiveness is the very essence of our faith.

Call to pray as one' from Joy McMULLAN Doubleyiew Sir, In light of the many Gospel passages in which Jesus emphasises the definitive power of prayer in our daily lives — especially community prayer — and as supported by the epistles, I would like to suggest that each priest in our archdiocese ask the members of the

congregation, at the beginning of each Eucharistic Celebration, to pray 'as one' for world peace, as well as for their own personal and private needs.

I know from my own experience it is so easy to attend Mass with a 'You and me. God' mentality, forgetting quite often the needs of my neighbour who is my

sister/brother in Christ. So — my prayer plea is that together we become much more publicly aware of the wondrous 'community prayer strength' at our disposal via the greatest daily event in the world history — the Mass, when the God of Love unites Himself in total with the community present — not

The men's appear to be evenly matched. although with the most luck on the Dianella may hold a slight area. day winning. Selection: St advantage in this However, the Corpus Christi women's would he by far the B Grade strongest B grade women's It is difficult to compare the combination, which would two B grade finalists as both offset any advantage Diatheir home and away games nella may have in the men's have been washed out. section. Like the A grade, Corpus Christi have per- this match will not be haps been the more consist- decided until the final sets ent side during the year. have been completed. SelecThey had three comfortable tion: Corpus Christi. wins over St Benedict's. yet Dianella lost their only game 1990 Tournament against St Benedict's. In the The 1990 WACLTA annual second round. Pignatelli tournament is scheduled to easily defeated Corpus commence on Saturday.

Christi whilst Dianella heat September 15. 1990 at 1pm.

Pignatelli in last week's semi Play will continue on final.

Sunday. September 16 at

10am and the following weekend, Saturday. September 22 and Sunday.

September 23 at the same time. Matches will be played at the Trinity Playing Fields, Manning Road, Manning.

Entries close on Thursday, August 30. 1990 and entry forms are to be forwarded together with entrance fee to the Tournament Organiser, Mr Michael Mes.ser, 119 Yale Road, Thornlie. phone 459 8183. Entry forms are available from club secretaries or the Tournament Organiser.

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only as the main solution to the current world crisis, but as the main solution to many other major problems in our society.

"All glory to Him whose Power working in us can do infinitely more than we ask or imagine. Glory be to Him in The Church and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever, Amen!" (Eph. 3.20-21)

Pignatelli courts in Davidson Road, Attadale. The day will commence at llam with social tennis, followed by a break for lunch.

Members are asked to provide their own lunch.

Barbecue facilities will not be available. Tennis will continue after lunch until afternoon tea. People are requested to provide a plate.

The important AGM will then follow at approximately 4pm. The incoming committee will be elected for a period of two years so that they can prepare and present the 1991 Perth Carnival. All members AGM The association's annual should make a concerted general meeting will be held effort to attend this importhis Sunday at 4pm at the tant meeting.

TOMORROW TODAY with Father Joe Parkinson

Faith into action Concluding our series on the YCS National Formation Session held in Perth on July 8-13, 1990.

While all good works reveal the presence of God, the actions of students are specifically 'Christian' when they reflect on their lives in the light of the Gospel, the good news that Christ is the Way. National Young Christian Students worker Susanne Legena added that works of serving others, when prompted

by Gospel reflection, help us grow in love of the Father.

"God is very much present in our lives," she said. "and he is con-

stantly pursuing us in everyday life."

"It may be something as simple as a sunset, or laughter with friends."

"I think that God certainly is present in those things and is pursuing us, reminding us all the time of his promise to show us life to the fullest if we live his way."

"YCS leads students to a growing awareness of our relationship with God, and being able to say 'I thank you. I know now that you are showing me this. You promised it to me, and you are fulfilling part of that promise."

"Or to say, 'I know you promised me this, but it is not happening. I believe that you want it to happen, but I cannot

see it now. Please help me to notice it in my life'."

Susanne said she challenged the idea that YCS does not lead people into a personal relationship with God. "I think that a YCS group needs always to be in communication with God, to be prayerful about its actions, otherwise it could become a more or less secular organisation," she said.

"I really believe that, through being committed to live the way of Christ and to action, people in the YCS are challenged to develop a personal relationship with God. This is very important."

This relationship, according to Susanne,

leads the student to try to live a full Christian life, and to receive the fulness of the Church's message.

"At closing Mass of the National Formation Session, Archbishop Foley reminded us that we have to remember every Christian value, not just some of them."

"True Christian action is not action for justice only, for example, without consideration for every person involved, or without compassion or a sense of forgiveness or mercy."

"The mission of a YCS group is prayerfully to discern how we are called to love people in all the situations of our lives."

This requires what Susanne calls 'making connections' between everyday events in the life and the call of Christ to love, and in this the wider Church is Perth YCS worker Annette Watkins gets a helping hand from Amanda iarbin (Seto'', College) and co-worker Lisa Legena during the recent National Formation Session. involved.

"What I hear young people saying all the time now, to priests and to the Church, to the Archbishop, is, 'We need you.

We need you to help us develop our prayer life.

We need you to help us make those connections in ways we can understand."

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YCS steams ahead

A night filled with e xcitement, music, dancing and socialising for youth from all over the State is planned for Friday, September 28.

The Young Christian Students Movement are holding a River Cruise which is expected to a ttract hundreds of young people for a great night out on the Swan.

The theme is simply 'Youth', and the night will provide a perfect chance for students to celebrate the beginning of the holidays with

prizes, games and the chance to meet new friends.

The invitation is open to young people to board the Rottnest Islander H. which departs the Barrack Street Jetty at 7.45pm and docks at midnight.

Cost is just $8, and light snacks and drinks will be on sale, but definitely no alcohol will be allowed.

Tickets can be purchased from the YCS office in North Perth, or by ringing Margaret. Lisa or Annette on 227 7061 during office hours.

CROSSROADS TO TOMORROW

1991 YOUTH CONFERENCE t

CALL KRISTI 328 9878 Celebrate the start of boiidays with the YOUNG CHRISTIAN STUDENTS MOVEMENT

YOUTH CRUISE on the Rottnest Islander II Friday, September 28 A recent break-in at the Youth Offices mend more work for office staff, as youth worker Paddy Devlin discovered. Little was lost in the raid, but :i.e clean-up took nearly a full day.

Catholic Youth Conference 1991 Fundraiser

NOT SO BIG GIG A Battle of the Bands Six Bands — $300 Prize

Saturday September 22 8pm-12pm

Subiaco Police and Citizens Club Cm' Rokeby Road and Thomas Street

Tickets $5 at the door

or to have them held, call Kristi on 328 9878

Soft drinks and snacks on sale NO ALCOHOL

ALL WELCOME!

Interested in deepening your spiritual life?

GENESIS II WEEKEND * Meditation * Relaxation

Sailing from Barrack Street Jetty at 7.45pm, returning at midnight Cost: just S& Drinks and snacks on sale.

DEFINITELY NO ALCOHOL ALLOWED. TICKETS: From the YCS office.

Call Lisa, Annette or Margaret on 227 7061.

The Jocist Movement for Peace

BRINGING JUSTICE ALIVE

* Communication For young adults 20 years and over.

SEPTEMBER 1-2 Eagle's Nest, Gidgegannup

OCTOBER 5-7 Don Moore Centre, Parkervile Cost: $30

Cost: $15 (12 places only!)

For details, call 3284071.

Details: Ring Sr Emilie Cattalini on 328 9878

Presented by Jocist Youth movements in collaboration with the Catholic Social Justice Commission and the Mission and Justice Team.

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2. Crowding around the seated drummer Martina Howman are Fiona Bennets (left), Carina Chan and Joshua Ihlein.

3. Really into drama are Siena's Oklahoma cast Andrew Blythe, Gina Rapinese, Cathryn Crooks, Nadia Musca, David Bromley and Bindi O'Brien.

4. Into culinary art with flair are Sally Campbell prefect (left), Belinda Dunn, Kate Oldham and Libby Cooper.

5. Discussing the big Newman Mass with principal Sr Perpetua OP, are Christian Hartfield, Chris Duffy and Nicole Farrell.

6. Some of the magazine committee -- Nicole Barnas (left/rear), Pia Drans field, Clayton Williams with (at table left) Natalie Kon-Yu and Anita Marchesani.

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Holy Rosary competitors in the preliminary finals of the Speak Up awards were Meredith Regan (left) and Dana Mince. Christine Martino (right) competed inthe first round.

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THE PARISH SCENE Archdiocesan Calendar

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AUGUST 25&26 Visitation and confirmation, Balcatta, Archbishop Foley.

26-31 First clergy retreat, Archbishop Foley.

31 Catholic AIDS Mass, St Mary's Cathedral, Archbishop Foley.

SEPTE MBER 2 Confir mabon, Claremont, Archbishop Foley.

Mass at Culunga Catholic Aboriginal School, Archbishop Foley.

Confirmation, Lynwood, Monsignor Keating.

2 -7 Second clergy retreat, Monsignor Keating.

4 Install attar servers, Victoria Park, A rchbishop Foley.

5 Heads of churches meeting, A rchbishop Foley.

8 Australian Board of Missions School, Archbishop Foley.

Confirmation, Mt Yokine, Monsignor Keating 8 & 9 Confirmation, Midland, Archbi shop Foley.

9 Confirmation, Bateman, Monsignor McCrann.

12&13 Confirmation, Lesmurclie, Archbishop Foley.

14 Performing Arts Festival, Archbishop Foley.

15&16 Visitation and confirmation, Southern Cross, Archbishop Foley.

16 Our Lady of Sorrows feast, Dianella, Bishop Healy.

Confirmation, Belmont Redcliffe, Monsignor Keating.

19 Confirmation, Como/Kensington, Archbishop Foley.

19&20 Confirmation, VVhitfords Mullaloo, Monsignor Nestor.

22&23 Confirmation, Modey, Monsignor Keating.

Under guidance of

Bro Pat O'Doherty including

Visiting medical professor from Trinidad

Prof Courtenay Batholemew (giving an update on events)

TRINITY COLLEGE Gibney Hall

Wed, August 29 7.30pm-9.30pm Please bring a plate.

Early seating is desirable.

MEDJUGORJE Only speak to the people who know

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Do you know enough . . .

... about international travel?

To take part ring 1096) 22 3109 or (0961 22 2766 for names or parish to be printed on the scroll which will be offered up during mass on September 8 at St Joseph's, Northam.

Ask Maria O'CONNOR 364 8170 tic No 9TA 00524

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Member of the Au.stralian Council of Natural Family Planning Inc.

Parishioners of Mt Barker parish met at the farm of John and Ann Martin (second & third left rear) for a reflection day with Father Doug Conlan.

Father Conlan had been priest in charge for six months in 1985 and this was an occasion for renewing old friendships, as well as spending time in prayer and meditation. four Subsequently members of the prayer day group — Ann & John Martin, Anne Enwright, Dr Margorie Burke went on pilgrimage with Fr Hugh Galloway, to Medjugorje and Oberammergau.

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Visitation and confirmation, Rockingham, Bishop Healy.

Confirmation, Bedford/Inglewood, Monsignor McCrann.

Confirmation, Spearwood, Monsignor Nestor.

both the A grade and B grade finals following the last home and away games in the A grade division and the semi-finals in the B grade. Matches were played in wet and blustery weather which did not make conditions conducive for good tennis.

A Grade St Norbert's held a game lead plus superior percentage over their opponents, Dianella, leading into the final home and away match.

Dianella needed to win 6 sets to clinch a berth in the finals. This they did, thus preventing a replay of last year's final between St Norbert's and St Jude's. The game was evenly contested and after four sets the scores were two sets all. However, Dianella won the next four sets to clinch the match and second position.

The other A grade game between St Benedict's and Queens Park ended in a draw when bad weather forced the players from the courts.

The final table in A grade wa.s as follows: St Jude's 18 Dianella 14 St Norbert's 14 Queens Park St Benedict's 6 B Grade It was a semi-final day in B grade with top team Corpus Christi playing fourth placed St Benedict's, and second and third teams Pignatelli and Dianella meeting.

Corpus Christi continued their good form against St Benedict's when they had a fairly comfortable win, 8

EX-NORTHAM REUNION The ex students and teachers of the Northam convent schools are holding a dinner at Beau Mirage, Perth on Sunday, September 9. To complete a photo album (photos exist back to 1910) group photos are needed to be copied. For further information please contact Eileen Tucker 277 6065; Doreen Bullen ( 096) 22 2931; Kath Pasco 458 1389.

FRIENDS NEEDED A number of people in their

twenties, associated with Emmanuel Centre, for various reasons cannot be supported by their families and are looking for single people or families who will take the time to accept them.

Those who enjoy driving, outings, dancing or other types of recreations either weeknights Of weekends, should remember there area number of people who would like the opportunity to join then please call Barbara on 328 8113 or 328 9571.

FRE MANTLE PARISH

To give people a faith community e xperience, the Fremantle parishioners are holding a presentation of "We The Parish" on four consecutive Monday evenings at 7.30pm commencing August 27. Open to the public.

The 48 hour continual rosary bouquet to Our Lady for her birthday, September 8 will commence 5pm on Wednesday, September 5 and conclude at 6.30pm, Friday, September 7.

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Dianella won a berth in

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indicated an easy win, Corpus Christi did not have it all their own way as St Benedict's provided some strong opposition and did not give in without a fight.

The other semi-final provided an even tougher game with Dianella finally defeating the more fancied Pignatelli 6 sets 71 games to 3 sets 60 games. These two teams have had very close matches all year with one being a draw and Dianella winning the other by a few games.

Next Week Saturday, August 25, 1990 is finals day with both Matches being played at Aquinas.

A grade Minor premiers St Jude's meet Dianella in what promises to be a very tight match.

Predicting a winner in this match is almost impossible.

The teams have met three times this year with St Jude's being successful on two of those occasions. St Jude's won the first match 7 sets 81 games to 3 sets 60 games; Dianella reversed the result in the second round 7 sets 80 games to 3 sets 65 games, anti St Jude's won the last

match by the closest of margins, 5 sets 68 games to 5 sets 67 games. Therefore the scnreline throughout the season is St Jude's 15 sets 214 games, Dianella 15 sets 207 games. With only seven games separating the two teams one can expect a very dace game. The teams are evenly matched. Dianella perhaps have a slightly stronger men's combination. however, St Jude's can combat this with a stronger women's team. The A grade final will go down to the wire, with perhaps the team

games. Whilst the set scores

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TO OUR LADY OF HEALTH VAILANKANNI

The Catholic Doctors' Association

Aug 30-Sept 8 Holy Trinity Church, Embleton

I naugural

Preacher — Father Paul Raj DAILY 7pm: Rosary, homily and benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament.

AUGUST 30: After novena devotions, there will be a

welcome get together for Father P Raj Please bring a plate

AUGUST 31: Anointing of the sick SEPTEMBER 1: 7pm vigil Mass SEPTEMBER 4: Blessing of the sick

SEPTEMBER 6: After novena devotions, food fete at the parish hall.

SEPTEMBER 8: Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed

Virgin Mary, 7pm concelebrated mass followed by a) Candlelight procession to the grotto.

b) Farewell get together for Father P Raj.

invites all Catholic doctors, students and their partners to the

DINNER DANCE to be held on

Friday, September 7 from 7.30pm till midnight at Matilda Bay Restaurant (upstairs) 3 Hackett Drive, Crawley Cost $35

Students $15

Dress formal

PLEASE RING FOR TICKETS:

Dr Catherine Buccilli 387 6800 (H) Dr Helen Slattery 381 8975 (H) Cathy Ellyard 386 3812 (H)

CONTEMPLATIVE RETREAT Sept 9 (pm)-16 (am) To be held at

REDEMPTORIST RETREAT HOUSE NORTH PERTH Directed by

Br Casimir CSsR

of Trinity House of Prayer, Singapore This Retreat is an introduction to Contemplative Meditation, it provides an experience of eastern techniques for posture, breath and mind control — the purpose is to lead to the prayer of the heart.

Cost Uve out $120, live in $230 Bookings: Jan Broderick 328 6600

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