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A strong Link Professor Link (right) has had a distinguished career in both education and law.

He is an Ohio, Illinois and Indiana lawyer and has chaired several c ommittees of the American Bar A ssociation.

Earlier in his career he served as a trial attorney and administrator in the Department of the Treasury in Washington DC. Professor Link has served on two Human Rights Commissions, participated in civil rights litigation and is the author of model fair housing legislation.

He has an interest in and a strong commitment to legal ethics. The distinguishing characteristic of the Notre Dame Law School under his guidance has been a continuing orientation towards the value questions involved in law.

He is involved in parish and community activities in South Bend and has taken up the responsibilities of serving on a wide range of c ommittees.

Professor Link is married to Barbara Ann. They have four children, a son and three daughters.

Uni success is on the cards While the establishment of the University of Notre Dame Australia (NDA) may seem like a dream, it is a very dream, r ealistic according to the inaugural vice chancellor whose appointment was announced this week.

"We don't go into this with any venture thoughts that it won't work. It is so badly needed that it is bound to work," said Professor David Link. currently dean of the law school at Notre Dame University Indiana.

Professor Link. 54, has acted as a consultant to NDA over the past 12 months and will take up

full time appointment in mid 1991.

The mission is important to the university's success, he said this week in a phone interview.

"We have an outstanding mission already set for us by a board that has a clear vision of Catholic higher education." he said.

Asked what he hoped history would say of his efforts. Professor Link said: "That I set the course well, that we were going the right way, that we knew where we were going and that people were able to pick up where we were going."

quality right from the start."! hope they will say that not only were we right but that we always had this idea of academic excellence as part of our mission statement.

"It is important to make sure the Catholic character takes hold very early and has a lasting quality.

"Ihope it will be said we saw what was important to Catholic tertiary education and put that in place and made it easy for others to follow."

Professor Link said he kept returning to the adjective 'Catholic' "because we have a different mission".

He said it would be always a matter of

"I would not be as excited starting another

institution. I look at the separate mission that Catholic schools have been able to hold together throughout history."

Asked if he was prepared to anticipate criticism of NDA he said he was prepared to listen to criticism but it would not worry him if the university was doing the right thing.

"You can easily live with the criticism when you know you are doing the right thing.

"That we are in a delicate period makes it so urgent to have a Catholic tertiary school at this time. It is important to the Catholic

Church, to the country of

Australia. to the educational process."

Looking at the historical part played by Catholic universities when there was a need. Professor Link said, it was now a case of a need for Australia.

"It will make a contribution to the Church in Australia, to government in Australia and to education."

Professor Link said that he at one time imagined that his move from a legal practice to university teaching was to be short term but students changed his mind.

"They are what keeps me in education. I got

VENTURE IS BOUND TO WORK, HE SAYS caught up in it because of you are never going to get the spirit of students. the right kind of They are wonderful to graduates." work with and I am Professor Link said he optimistic about their would be very much views of the future. involved in the selection "I think they are cur- of students and helping ious, that they demand them explore their own much of their teachers, unique qualities not doing just the old He said NDA's students routines but looking at modern questions. They would be similar to demand more of their others but would have a teachers than teaching different outlook because and look to them as a role of the place of Australia on the Pacific rim. model.

He said one of his aims "It is exciting having would be to make his people look at you in that become globally students sense. It's what the educational process is all aware. One of his concerns about some Amerabout. ican universities was that "If you don't start with they were parochial in the right kind of students thought and not really who have critical values "about the world".

Catholic backing for UN curbs Australian The Catholic Social Justice Council (ACSJC) supports the action of the United Nations Security Council in applying economic sanctions against Iraq to achieve a peaceful resolution of the Gulf crisis.

It said it hopes that any military action .0.••••-

taken by the multinational forces will not go beyond the minimum necessary to secure effective implementation of the United Nations' sanctions.

"We support continued Australian diplomatic initiatives for peace, such as the d iscussions being

with undertaken governments in the region by the foreign minister, Senator Gareth Evans.

"President Hussein's decision to hold foreign civilians in Iraq and Kuwait and use them as human shields at key civilian and military violates targets

international law and human rights in that it is a breach of the 1979 Convention on the Taking of Hostages and Article 28 of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949.

"It also breaches Article 12 of the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights, to

which Iraq is a signatory.

"Iraq's treatment of foreign civilians as hostages comes on top of a longstanding history of human rights abuses

by Iraq's ruling Ba'ath Party.

"President Hussein's use of poison gas against the Kur-

dish minorities is well known.

"Thousands of political prisoners have been detained without trial; torture and ill-treatment of prisoners are routine.

"Last year Amnesty International published the names of nearly 400 children who had been

detained without trial, imprisoned and tortured.

"The ACSJC calls on the Commonwealth Government to do its utmost to continue to explore every practical avenue for a just peace in the Persian Gulf and for the restoration of the legitimate government of Kuwait"

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On the other hand, the college will not attempt to corner the entire market of Catholic people in education, he said after the announcement of his appointment this week.

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Because of the smallness of its operation it will allow for intensive interaction between staff and students and it will have to keep its programs highly focused, he also explained.

These were some of the thoughts of the current Dean of Education at Curtin University where he has been involved for 13 years. He takes up his NDA appointment in 1991.

Creating a Catholic environment for the training of teachers and discovering the Catholic dimension of schools is what he hopes to do.

"Our Catholic schooLs are not simply offering a secular program to a mainly Catholic staff and student population. ''There's meant to be a special character to our schools that makes them different. I'm interested

in the question of what that intangible thing is," Professor Ryan said.

After a long career teaching and researching in secular education, he noted that Catholic education has been well served by the state institutions providing units for intending teachers in Catholic schools.

"But that's part of a larger secular institution and though important, is inevitably swallowed up in the character of those institutions.

"I'm interested in the Catholic university as an environment explicitly for the formation of people, to teach them to think their job and mission in terms of gospel values."

Professor Ryan said the days of single purpose teacher colleges were past — the 'womb-to-

tomb' system in which teachers went from school to training colleges that were modelled on schools and then went back to schools again.

"The Catholic university of NDA includes a college of education but only as part of a multipurpose and multidimensional institution in which education will be integrated with other areas, particularly arts and sciences."

Professor Ryan's move to Notre Dame is also part of his belief that the responsibility for carrying forward the mission of the Church rests very largely with a lay people.

"It's been easy for my generation to sit back and assume the established hierarchy looked after that and it was there for our benefit.

"The challenge is for me and others like me to

understand what our role really is."

But Professor Ryan didn't expect it all to happen so rapidly.

When a Catholic university was suggested, he expected only to be involved in its planning.

"I've been captivated by the excitement of all this, andIsee it as the natural thing to do."

Some of his colleagues, he admits, will be surprised at his move to the Catholic venture but others will see it as "inevitable".

But he intends that there will be cooperation between NDA and the other tertiary institutions, especially Curtin University.

"There is a lot of interest in the new university. It puts some excitement back into higher education."

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Archdiocesan Pastoral Planning Director Since July 1986. the Archdiocesan Pastoral Planning Office has carried out a Project of three stages: • One: Building up a Picture of the Archdiocese • Two: Articulating a Mission Statement through the "Year of Mission • Three: Implementation of the Mission Vision The first two stages arc complete: the third stage is progressing

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My hope 80-100 years from today Australia can well do with universities that have a Catholic tradition behind them and that can offer an alternative to higher education that is not so far available.

This is the opinion of Notre Dame Australia's deputy director of planning for the NDA College of Education, Carmelite Father Peter Slattery.

Asked for an historian's view of what is about to be launched Fr Slattery said: "I hope that 80-100 years from now they will say they are glad we took the risk, that it was brave of us in 1990. that we now have something so

great and enriching for the Australian Church and Australian society."

Fr Slattery will participate in the planning of the college, in public relations and in fund raising.

He will be explaining why a Catholic university and its college of education is needed.

He admits himself at times to wondering if the project is beyond us, but he also believes that people's attitudes change when they are brought in confidence and shown how it will get ahead in a very Catholic way.

"It will have humble beginnings, relatively

poor buildings and not much money but it will have a group of people very dedicated to setting up a quality Catholic university in Perth."

Fr Slattery has already been extensively involved in teacher training and formation and he feels that so far the pre-service effort in preparing teachers for Catholic teaching has been minimal but he looks forward to NDA offering a fuller preparation for teaching, especially in regard to a philosophical and theological background.

He is confident that the student teachers will respond.

"I think there is a growing sense among young people of being called, not only in teaching but in other aspects of the Church.

Just as we spoke of vocation, so they too are feeling a call like a vocation to serve in the Church in many and capacities ministries.

"They are making a really conscious choice to teach in a Catholic school because they are looking for a way to deepen the spiritual side of their lives and also to contribute to the Church through ministry in a Catholic school and by helping Catholics grow in the faith."

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The size of NDA compared with other institutions will not affect its quality, he says.

It will be small because of its market but also in order to develop its environment and a very intensive interaction between staff and students, he explained.

"In a sense we can make a virtue out of necessity but it will mean we have to keep the program highly focused.

"A small university cannot be all things to all people and we will have to be very clear on what is the specific dimension, to represent that so people are convinced of what we have to offer and of the high possibility of us delivering that dimension."

NDA will be a challenge for the students too.

"The future of the world depends on the oppor-

Professor Anthony (Tony) Ryan, 49, NDA's first Dean of Education is currently the Dean of Education at Curtin University.

Professor Ryan (left) has had an extensive teaching experience in Western Australian schools and was a senior member of the curriculum and research branch of the Education Department.

He completed his doctorate in educational research and evaluation at the Florida State University before taking up a position at Curtin. He has held executive positions with the WA Institute for Educational Research and the Australian Association for Research in Education and has represented WA researchers on the Australian Council for Educational Research. Professor Ryan's academic specialisation is in educational testing and evaluation, quantitative and qualitative approaches to educational research and questionnaire design and analysis.

He has been actively involved over many years on major committees advising on educational policies and development. Professor Ryan has also had international consultancy experience in a number of Southeast Asian countries and is currently Co. directing a major Australian project on performance management for higher education.

tunities we can provide them to think about the world and its future, to confront some of its problems and to accept responsibility for the world's development.

"We have a remarkably optimistic group of young people in education generally.

"NDA's college of education does not want to corner the entire market of Catholic people. It provides an alternative alongside other institutions. There will be some who are looking for the added dimension provided by a Catholic university.

That's the particular mission of a Catholic university for me, to take the future Church leaders in schools and society and give them the kind of development and formation that suits their role."

will be his main task Mr Terry Gabbedy, 47 (left), the Director of Development for NDA commenced in midAugust and has begun the task of preparing a marketing strategy for the university which will take its first students in 1992. He will plan and co-ordinate a program to help finance the university's first faculty, the College of Education. This program, with the support of the Catholic Education Commission, will centre on the development of a trust fund to support a scholarship scheme for students wishing to enrol in the College. Mr Gabbedy is well experienced in the field of marketing and media having been a director of one of the State's leading marketing companies for many years. He was also chief executive for Radio 6PR in 1989.

Terry has also been involved in many successful campaigns for prominent market leaders in various fields. He is a Fellow of the Advertising Institute of Australia and an Associate Fellow of the Australian Marketing Institute.

We have a product that is a good one and the task is now to go out and get a market share, says Mr Terry Gabbedy, Notre Dame Australia's director of development.

That market share will be more and more students in the years to come, Mr Gabbedy said.

From his background in marketing and advertising, Mr Gabbedy continued: "The number one constituent of any marketing campaign is having a good product."

He described his task as "clarifying the product. and convincing the

Catholic consumer community that there are benefits in being associated with the product".

He described the College of Education as one of many mountains ahead of the university.

"We will have to claw our way up that first mountain but once we get to the top with the first college then we will be able to trade off it."

Mr Gabbedy has a wide reputation in. his field and he says he enjoys meeting people and putting a product in front of them.

"I feel very confident.

We're not going to light any rocket. We're goin9

to build it slowly and securely."

On the other hand, he said of himself: "Terry Gabbedy likes to be associated with success and if we start off with small ones I am sure bigger successes will follow."

Although two of his secular colleagues have labelled his move as "utter madness", he wonders if they have not realised the size of the challenge and asked: "Ls Gabbedy good enough for it?"

Mr Gabbedy said that his contribution would he part of a team effort

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HONG KONG (CNS): A veteran China-watcher said there is strong evidence that Chinese communists for years have been infiltrating the Catholic Church in mainland China and Hong Kong.

Jesuit Father Laszlo Ladany said that he has collected a good deal of evidence that mainland agents have either recruited Catholics or have placed themselves in sensitive church positions.

He said that as far back as the mid-1950s he heard of mainland efforts to influence the church in Hong Kong.

"Thirty-five years ago, an Aberdeen (a section of Hong Kong) seminarian revealed to me that he had directed communist authorities . . . to an underground agent in Hong Kong," the Jesuit said.

But the seminarian, who came from an old Catholic family, began to have pangs of conscience, Father Ladany said, and "he eventually left the seminary and Hong Kong."

In another case, it was a familiar face that turned out to conceal a communist informer, the priest said.

"For many years, another man was a constant visitor to my work quarters. He was a staunch anticommunist but a bit too inquisitive. He wanted to know everything about me and my assistants and our work.

"I discovered only by accident that he was an informer," the Jesuit said, and "I kept up contact with him to discover the identity of his successor."

But Father Ladany said he also exercised caution.

"I did not want him to inform on persons I knew and eventually harm them," he said.

There is "nothing startling" in the pattern of infiltration and spying, Father Ladany said.

"According to Marxist tactics, the enemy is not attacked from outside but is split from within."

Many members of the government -approved Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association are compelled to assist security officials in their campaign against the pro-Vatican underground Catholic Church, Father Ladany said.

"A few years ago an underground bishop was arrested (and) it was the (patriotic association) bishop in the same locality who testified against him in court," the priest said.

"Not all informers are evil spies," Father Ladany said. "Sometimes they act out of fear over what may happen to them or their family members. Others inform unintentionally, hardly aware that they are being followed and used."

Some seminary students associated with the patriotic association are sent to infiltrate the underground church and become ordained in it, he said.

"One letter from China has pointed out that underground bishops and priests are poor, overworked, and so preoccupied and naive that they are easily deceived," Father Ladany said. "They find it hard to detect the agents of deceit who have infiltrated their ranks."

Another tactic that has been used by agents is to create rumours of Marian appearances in certain places — prompting Catholics to congregate at those sites, he said. That makes it easy for police to take names and photographs used to later arrest the leaders of the pilgrimages.

Some of these agents have also reportedly tried to plant suggestions that Catholics should recognise Pope Pius XII only, Father Ladany said, instead of Pope John Paul B. They plant the idea that the current pope is collaborating with the atheistic Chinese government.

Ukes grab cathedral LVOV: Ukrainian Catholics, after several months of mounting tensions with Russian Orthodox, officially have taken possession of St George's Catholic Cathedral in Lvov, Ukraine.

Possession of the historically important cathedral was returned to Catholics August 16, four months after the regional and city councils of Lvov, where the cathedral is located, ordered the Orthodox to leave the church and its adjacent complex of buildings.

Previously, the Orthodox had refused to comply with August 4 and August 11 deadlines to vacate the cathedral, said the statement.

The refusals caused rising tensions between Catholics and Orthodox.

On August 12, about 30,000 Catholics peacefully marched to the

cathedral to press demands for its return.

Ukrainian Catholics consider the 200-yearold cathedral the seat of their church. It has been used by the Russian Orthodox since 1946, when the Ukrainian Catholic Church became illegal and its members were told to become Russian Orthodox.

The cathedral had come to symbolise the battle between Ukrainian Catholics and Russian Orthodox for possession of the numerous church buildings once used by Catholics in the western Ukraine which were given to the Orthodox after 1946.

The battle also has harmed overall CatholicOrthodox ecumenical dialogue, which hoped to discuss the problem as part of an overall treatment of the status of Eastern-rite Catholic churches.

The Ukrainian Catholic Church is one of 17 Eastern-rite churches. It was formed in the Ukraine but has millions of members living outside the Soviet Union, mostly people or their descendants who fled the country.

Although the Ukrainian Catholic Church was declared illegal in the Ukraine, it continued to exist clandestinely, with officials saying that it now has up to six million members.

The church has come above ground in the past few years under the reform policies of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Soviet officials have promised that the church will be legalised after parliament passes a religious freedom bill.

Meanwhile, the church has been allowed to function publicly.

...and mark it with a celebration

LVOV: Ukrainian Catholics celebrated their first Divine Liturgy in more than 44 years in Lvov's St George's Cathedral, despite Russian Orthodox warnings that it would harm ecumenical relations.

The service took place August 19 and was attended by about 300,000 people, who spilled into the courtyard and the adjacent streets.

Several days before the service, Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexi of Moscow sent a telegram to Ukrainian Catholic officials warning that the celebration would strain Orthodox-Vatican relations, said the Ukrainian statement.

Ukrainian Cardinal Myroslav Lubachivsky, Rome-based head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, sent a telegram to Lvov praising Ukrainian Catholics for getting possession of the building "without violence".

"Who could have expected, eight months ago, that you would be standing here, in the Cathedral of St George, which was closed and guarded and to which nobody was admitted?" asked the cardinal.

The liturgy was concelebrated by Archbishop Volodymyr Sterniuk, Cardinal Lubachivsky's representative in Lvov, and four other Ukrainian bishops.

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'Madonna show in bad taste' CITY VATICAN (CNS):— The televising of a Spanish rock c oncert by Madonna on Italian state television was "a maltreatment of good sense, good taste and decency," said L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper in a veiled attack on the C hristian Democrat controlled station RAI 1.

The show was "clumsily publicised as a cultural event", the newspaper said in an editorial.

-A minimum sense of proportion would be appreciated," it added.

RAI 1, one of the three state-owned Italian television channels, televised a Madonna concert on prime time August 1, live from Barcelona, Spain.

The four-paragraph editorial did not criticise any specific aspect of Madonna's concert. Most of its criticism was aimed at RAI 1 which has no ties to the Catholic Church but is popularly

called the Catholic station because it is under the directorship of the Christian Democratic was Party, which founded on the basis of Catholic social teachings.

Under Italy's multiparty government system, ministries and stateowned operations are divided among political parties as part of coalition deals. The Christian Democrats currently head the five-part governing coalition.

L'Osservatore Romano, using a small "c," criticised RAI 1 for "hiding under the self-assurance of being 'catholic."

"This is what happens when the term 'catholic' is transformed into a label and a presumed licence to do anything," it said.

Prior to a series of Madonna concerts in Italy, Fainiglia Domani (Family Tomorrow), a group of Catholics with no official ties to the

church, asked for a boycott of her concerts, which it termed "shameful".

Religious Information Service, a news service for Italian weeklies, called Madonna's performance "an offence to good taste" becaue of her use of religious symbols such as crucifixes.

The Vatican and the Italian bishops issued no protests of public Madonna's concerts when she was in Italy.

SEQUEL TO THE AFFAIR THAT CAUSED AN AMERICAN ARCHBISHOP TO RESIGN

Church the victim, say most callers ATLANTA: Two weeks into revelations about a resigned Catholic archbishop here, a Sunday evening television news poll has produced 44,312 callers identifying the Church as the victim and 8235 callers thinking the woman is the victim.

The affair which caused the end of the two-year career of 56 year old Archbishop Eugene Marino as the first black to achieve a US archbishopric appointment, has begun to focus on legal moves taken by the woman and by the archdiocese to protect their conflicting interests.

In further evidence it has been revealed that a court ordered paternity test filed in August 1987 had cleared a Savannah priest of being the father of Ms Vicki Long's child, even though the prist had earlier entered into an agreement to provide $350 monthly in child support, but with a disclaimer of being the child's father.

Savannah diocese has stated categorically that no diocesan funds have been advanced to Ms Long notwithstanding her seeking higher support payments and suing the diocese for negligence of personnel.

And in Atlanta diocese the resignation of a priest also involved with Ms Long and publicly announced

by him at a Saturday evening Mass has not been accepted by the diocese's apostolic administrator Bishop James Lyke "until matters have quietened down and I can consult a representative group of people in the parish."

Bishop Lyke has said that the archdiocese of Atlanta has paid as an act of charity some medical bills of Ms Long — $14,000 out of a limit set at $15,000 — and that these had been made to the providers of services and not Ms Long and that Ms Long's attorney had provided a written agreement that the payments will not be used in any future claim against the archdiocese.

Bishop Lyke has appointed a special commission headed by Coca Cola chief executive Donald Keogh to investigate if any money was given to Ms Long from any Atlanta archdiocesan funds or from either of the two parishes where the Atlanta priest served.

In a former parish in which Fr Woods served, Ms Long was a eucharistic minister but the parish has announced that she will no longer serve as such.

Before his Atlanta appointment Archbishop Marino was for 14 years an auxiliary bishop in Washington.

There are twelve other black bishops in diocesan or auxiliary bishop positions in the US.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul ll's visit to the Soviet Union will take place after 1991, said Joaquin NavarroValls, Vatican press spokesman.

Italian press reports said that the pope's trip would take place next summer and that the pope had communicated

this to a group of Russian Catholics who visited him at his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo, Italy.

Navarro-Valls added That preparations are being made because the pope wants to go and was invited by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev at their historic meeting

December 1.

The pope's newly named representative to the Soviet government, Archbishop Francesco Colasuonna, still has not had a chance to contact many people that would have to be involved in planning the papal trip, added the official.

These include Catholics

in the Asian portion of the Soviet Union and the Russian Orthodox, he said.

Time is also needed to develop an adequate religious instruction program to prepare people for the pope's visit, he said.

During the December 1

meeting, Gorbachev told the pope the Soviet Union would enact a religious freedom law as the first step toward legalising the church.

Previously, the pope had said he would not travel to the Soviet Union unless a visit with Ukrainian Catholics was included.

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Salute to brave bishops SOUTHERN AFRICA TRIP AN EYE-OPENER FOR PERTH DELEGATE

The Catholic bishops in Southern Africa have been brave and have done a great deal to help the situation there.

They see their role as fostering reconciliation and are cautious about siding with one side against the other.

This was the opinion of Dr Michael Costigan after he returned from a four-week visit with an Australian Catholic delegation invited to look at conditions in South Africa.

In Zimbabwe the Church had undertaken a role of reconiliation as well, Dr Costigan said. "It isn't a totally clear cut distinction between good and bad situations."

Dr Costigan is executive officer of the Catholic Bishops Justice and Peace Committee and said that even though the current wealth enquiry made him conversant with the poverty gap in Australia, South Africa provided a "dramatic contrast" between the wealthy suburbs and the black townships. "In South Africa it was another league," he said.

Zimbabwe, on the other hand, which he visited as a member of Australian Catholic Relief was a "breath of fresh air. It's not paradise or perfect, but it is well on the road.

They have gone through

the difficult and conflicting times through which South Africa is going now.,, Along with the Australian delegation that included two bishops, there were representatives from Austria, France and England.

They were taken to some nine black townships and two or three of the homelands.

A South African bishop told the group they were seeing conditions that many whites never see.

"The people living in the comparative affluence of the Durban sea-front probably have never had the close experience with blacks that we had in just three days in that area," Dr Costigan said.

When they asked the South African churchmen what they could do, the Australians were told: Tell the facts.

"They have the feeling that people are not telling the facts," Dr Costigan said.

Outspoken Durban leader Archbishop Hurley said that the pillars of apartheid are still in place and they had to be removed before the next general election or right wing forces might win and violence would follow.

Dr Costigan said that Australians have an obligation to be concerned in L;1()bal matters

such as South Africa.

He found people everywhere who were grateful for the stand Australia had taken.

The sanctions and boycotts had produced a result and even though blacks had lost employment in the pineapple canning industry they supported the continuance of sanctions.

'They weren't saying: 'Call the sanctions off'," Dr Costigan said.

"Archbishop Hurley, himself a keen sportsman said he was dying for international tournaments to return but the sporting boycotts have hit hard and have had an effect."

The delegation experienced the vitality of the liturgy in black congregations, Dr Costigan said.

Archbishop Faulkner when saying Mass for a white congregation had heard of good parishioners leaving for Australia and wondered if that was the desirable solution.

In Zimbabwe during his visit, Dr Costigan said, the lifting of the state of emergency after 25 years and an appointemnt for Dr Nkomo had become a sign of the reconciliation that was taking place there.

Dr Costigan . . . recounts recent trip.

Money not key to happy life...

A three year stint as lay missionaries in Papua New Guinea have changed a Swiss couple's view on what makes for happiness.

"They have time tor everybody; they are so happy, singing even when they work very hard," said Pia Walpen who worked at a mission vocational training centre while her husband Uli ran the diesel mechanical workshop.

"In Europe we have everything and we are only after money and it was a big difference to 6

see how well these people lived. They had nothing, just a mat on the floor and cooking in the open, but they were happy," she said.

"We learnt that people are more important than money or clothes, that to be together like a family is more important."

Working • with 15-19 year-old girls who learned handcraft, sewing, child care and screen printing, she found out that women have a hard life working from dawn to dark in their gardens as well as caring for

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The Church also had a similar reconciling role to play not only in Zimbabwe but in neigh-

bouring Mozambique whose refugees are creating hardship problems for Zimbabwe.

"That is a role that is in absolute conformity with the gospel. The Church does not take sides politically but tries to bring people of goodwill together. There will always be those who want to manipulate the Church in these matters."

A Lutheran leader had told the group that negotiation is one thing and reconciliation another. They are not identical. There is a healing process that has to be gone through and part of that is to acknowledge the role of what has happened.

The Namibian government did not acknowledge the harm that had been done there.

In his Australian Catholic Relief capacity Dr Costigan said he was impressed with a demonstration centre project he saw and to which peasant farmers were brought for short ()purses, on conservation, health and sanitation including the instruction of Blair toilets.

This would have been a project that the local people chose themselves, he pointed out, in conjunction with a block grant of aid from Australian Catholic Relief.

Swiss missionary family Uli and Pia Walpen and their three children Christian.

Tony and Severin take in a taste of Perth on their way home after serving in Papua New Guinea.

children.

Yet, said Pia, they seemed to have none of the Swiss headaches about hairstyles, clothes, boyfriends or television.

"They just seemed happy," she said.

For husband Uli it was a lesson in practicality. If he could demonstrate practically what he wanted done to an engine, he was right; instructions in a book meant nothing.

The couple took their three sons Christian (11), Tony (9) and Severin (8)

with them and their the black people," Pia and spent a year thinking In fact, if they can find marriage made an said. it over. They could have a posting with an interThe Swiss couple went fmished up in Africa or national school, it will impression on the PNG under the auspices of South America but a call make for an even quicker women. over came from Bishop Moore "They saw me being Inter Team that has decision.

Switzerfrom people 100 for a diesel expert. bank; allowed to go to the They say they have had Uli, an electrician, did a they saw Uli helping in land and Liechtenstein a taste of a Church that international t hree-month crash the house, doing the on i s vastly different to what ostings. p course in a Luzern diesel washing. they experienced in The Walpens had their factory.

Europe.

"You work together," fares paid but receive The couple then had a they said. only pocket money while three months mission "People are more open "We had a good rela- they were at the MSC course, followed by a to the Church and the tionship with them. We mission. t hree-month English Church is more open to The Swiss organisation course in Brisbane before people," Pia said. "In visited their homes and they were happy that we is 25 years old and it moving north.

Europe, religion is a came to talk to them, to survives on volunteers The result: They will be hidden thing. In PNG it try and understand and donations. off again as soon as the was an open affair, and them. Lots of whites who Uli and Pia heard about boys' education is People really liked to go to PNG live apart from it from the newspapers arranged. come."

Remembering New an

Man who preached a stern but balanced message Cardinal Newman was never afraid to preach a stern message but it was always a balanced message.

It was a message particularly relevant to today's world.

This was the theme of the homily delivered for Newman Sunday by Rev Professor Ian Ker, Catholic chaplain to Oxford university and a renowned scholar on Newman's life.

The local Newman packed the St Thomas More chapel on the day following Professor Ker's lecture in the Octagon Theatre.

Just as with the effect on our lives and ways of living wrought by Western industrial and technological progress — our change of diet — so has there been a change in our spiritual diet post Vatican!!

There has been too much concern with self affirmation which was a reaction against a too negative Catholicism.

This reaction had some theological basis.

The Resurrection and Pentecost had previously been neglected in a Crucifixion centred "Good Friday Catholicism."

In this Centenary Year, it is important to avoid too much complacent self congratulation both by Anglicans and Catholics.

Newman is still a challenge to us — a challenge in theology against liberalism and

against contempt of authority.

It is a challenge to our contemporary spirituality.

Just as Newman theology is remarkably comprehensive, not in the sense of being ambiguous and judged, but in terms of balance and nuance to do justice to a complexity of issues, so too his spirituality represents a much needed balance and wholeness.

Although the deeply Scriptural and Patristic sermons he preached as an Anglican anticipate more recent theology in their profound awareness that the Ressurection was more than the affirmation of Christ's divinity and of his victory over sins, the Crucifixion and the Cross nevertheless cast their dark shadow over every page of Newman't preaching.

Again, through his study of the New Testament and the Fathers, Newman had recovered for himself the great doctrine of the "indwelling" of the Holy Spirit, but because of his mistrust of the Evangelical emphasis on salvation by faith alone, he deliberately stressed

At the Newman Centenary lecture which he delivered in the Octagon Theatre, Rev Professor Ker (centre) is pictured with Archbishop Foley (left) and Archbishop Carnley (right).

not so much the Spirit as the Christian's responsibility to obey the commandments and the law of Christ.

The theological rediscovery of the Resurrection in recent times, as well as the Charismatic Renewal movement's emphasis on Pentecost, have both sometimes seemed to lead to a neglect of the Crucifixion.

One of the most impressive aspects of Newman's integrated theology is his balanced view of the whole mystery of redemption beginning with the Incarnation and concluding with Pentecost.

As a result, his spirituality avoids the two extremes into which Christians can easily fall.

If it may be alleged that the pre-Vatican II Church with its emphasis on sin and penance appeared to be more interested in Good Friday than in Easter, then it may also be suggested that there is perhaps a reverse imbalance in contemporary Catholicism.

In his sermons, as in his other writings.

Newman was always insistent on both sides of Christianity, on both the Crucifixion and the Resurrection. Christianity must be cheerful and joyful, but it must also be sorrowful and fearful.

As he puts it succinctly in one sermon, 'None rejoice in Easter-tide less than those who have not grieved in Lent.'

Or again, 'The duty of fearing does but perfect our joy; that joy alone is true Christian joy, which is informed and quickened by fear, and made thereby sober and reverent.'

On the other hand he writes: 'Gloom is no Christian temper; that repentance is not real, which has not love in it; that self-chastisement is not acceptable, which is not sweetened by faith and cheerfulness. We A s part of the Newman Society observance of e centenary o the death of must live in sunshine, even when we sorrow . . .

Cardinal Newman, the Newman Society president Mr Frank Malone is pictured All through Lent we must rejoice, while we handing to St Thomas More College rector Fr Pat Bishop a copy of Professor Ker's afflict ourselves.' opus on Newman for placement in the College's John T McMahon Library.

Anxious to avoid a merely negative spirituality of repentance, contemporary Catholic spirituality seems sometimes to lay itself open to Newman's severe rebuke: 'I wish Isaw any prospect of an element of zeal and holy LONDON: An Oratory a community of In the 1860s Cardisternness springing up among us, to temper and is to be founded in Oratorians. nal Newman had give character to the languid, unmeaning Oxford, fulfilling an intended to found an This will be the third benevolence which we misname Christian love. ambition of Cardinal Oratory in Oxford, Oratory in England, I think that if we had to choose one Newman's some 130 primarily for ministry after those in London characteristic of Newman's Great Anglican years ago. to Catholic students. and Birmingham, and sermons it would be that of Obedience. Not i s being set up in the because Newman undervalued faith or love but But the project founThe Fathers of the centenary year of because Obedience is the test of them and dered because the Birmingham Oratory Newman's death at because Newman always thought that deeds priests two was send hierarchy to are the invitation of Archspeak louder than words — that the Eucharist opposed to Catholics to take charge of the bishop Maurice drama with which we proceed spoke much Aloysius, being educated at parish of St Couve de Murville of more loudly than the mere words of the Oxford. where they will found Birmingham. preacher.

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Sacraments are not affairs of an instant.

They are events that require a lengthy process for their full effect.

We have long — and correctly, I believe — associated the word "sacrament" with the community's liturgical celebration of God's action in the lives of those being baptised, or married, or anointed.

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In the process the community reaffirms its own commitment to being a community of love.

Take marriage, for example. Its liturgical celebration is the time when the relationship is But the love celebrated cemented, in the wedding is not just formally when the couple's love an affair of the moment. and commitment is pro- A couple comes to that claimed to the whole moment with a whole world and when the history of developing Church accepts and love shared and their experience. supports commitment.

Their experience of It is the time when the love touching God's community celebrates the love of God that is them through their love revealed in the love of for each other provides the basis for the marriage these two.

celebration.

Recognising god's presence in their love, the couple proclaim to the Church and the world the joy and wonder of discovering that love.

In light of their shared experience over time, they have found themselves ready to promise lifelong commitment to each other.

The wedding, then, culminates a long process of growth and discovery. Much of the preparation that the Church requires today

before witnessing a marriage is an attempt tc make sure that the growth has been adequate and the discovery complete enough to sustain a couple for a lifetime of continued growth and discovery.

Far from being an isolated moment, the wedding can only be a valid celebration if it stands on the base of a lengthy process of develmature a oping relationship.

At the same time, the celebration of the sacra-

ment has implications for years to come.

The commitment is lifelong; the full implications of that commitment will unfold only gradually in the days, weeks and years of married life.

The sacrament has been celebrated, the couple are truly and validly married, but the richness of the sacramental union is discovered and experienced over a long period.

This is true of every sacrament, not just marriage. Each of the

Church's sacramental celebrations presupposes a long-term process within which the celebration has an important and necessary place.

Where in this process does the celebration of the sacrament take place? That varies. In infant baptism, for example, most of the process occurs in the years following the celebration, though the preparation of the parents and godparents before the baptism is an important prerequisite.

DISCUSSION POINTS How do sacraments affect the lives of lay Father Lawrence Mick points out that the Christians. Why is it said that the sacraments sacraments presuppose a long-term process provide the foundation for the laity's role in the within which the celebration has an Church and Society? important and necessary place. The "The sacraments aren't magic," operating sacraments' full implications, however, only in a vacuum separate from the rest of life, says are discovered over time.

Father Joseph Connolly. He is interviewed by Theodore Hengesbach points out that Katharine Bird. In preparing parents for certain words carry indelible images for baptism, Father Connolly's aim is to help people. them see that baptism isn't an affair just of the moment. It's effect is ongoing.

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Then, during his initial contact with a couple, Father Joseph Connolly, the pastor, always asks: "Why do you want the baby baptised?" His question aims at uncovering the couple's understanding of their faith and their relationship to the parish.

"My job is to help people see that baptism is not a one-time event never again referred to," Father Connolly said.

The parish's program helps a parent to see "I was given something in baptism which should be working in my life now."

Father Connolly compares baptism to conception. For the parent and the child," conception is an extremely important moment — but it's only the beginning of many important moments".

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Connolly continued.

By Katherine Baptismal preparation can bring couples "to a Bird deeper awareness of faith." encourage a couple, with For the pastor, who the help of others, to ask spent 19 years in two what they are going to do inner-city parishes, a about their faith "in guiding principle is his response to the child," view that "the sacra- Father Connolly said. ments aren't magic."

Baptism is rebirth in the They don't operate in a Spirit, he added. A vacuum isolated from person goes "from the the rest of life. hume to the divine in one For many couples at St leap. It's a mighty jump."

Bernadette's. the bapBut its implications tismal preparation pro- only gradually become gram becomes an occa- clear throughout a lifesion when the word time of reflection on "community" takes on what the sacrament is flesh and blood. doing.

The task is made easier Each expecting couple is matched with a spon- with the help of others, soring couple who have he said. gone through the same A baptism at St Berexperience within five nadette's symbolises this years. At their first when the eight hands of meeting the couples parents and godparents explore their images of join to immerse the baby god, the Church and its into the shallow copper mission. baptismal font.

The sponsoring couple In the baptismal rite, the is "the living, breathing, officiating minister asked personal contact with the the parents and godparparish" for the new ents to promise to raise parents. he said. the newly baptised child The program's goal is to Christian.

Their promise pledges them to create an atmosphere in the home where faith can grow, the pastor said.

Father Connolly also asks the parish to support the parents in their new responsibility. The sponsoring couple, on behalf of the parish, pledges to do so.

The parish follows through on that pledge in concrete ways.

First, through worship.

"We try to make every Sunday Mass a good experience for faith," he said, and experience where "people open themselves to the power" of Jesus in their lives.

Another support the parish provides to new parents is educational.

From baptism until the child is 42 months old. every three months "we send a mailing to the parents with a practical down-to-earth suggestion" for the parents.

The parish's approach to marriage preparation also emphasises how the sacrament can have an

ongoing effect. Father Connolly tells couples that this work means Christ "is at work" throughout their life together.

"I want their love to grow as Jesus Christ wanted it to grow," he explained. A practical suggestion he makes concerns the biblical texts couples choose for their wedding ceremony.

Each year on their anniversary, he recommends that they "look at the year in light of those texts."

See whether "you really became one flesh and resolve to do better" if failure appears in some area.

Father Connolly added that the hymn to love in Chapter 13 of First Corinthians is an especially good text for the purpose. "A difficult test for many couples is to forgive and forget," he said. St Paul's discussion of what love is encourages couples to "go back to the vows they made" and keep trying, keep growing.

home. The Church recognises the value of such symbols and their ability to stir our imaginations.

Father John Castelot observes Jesus used "bread" for instance, many symbols in teaching his followers because symbolic actions spoke more loudly and impressively than flat words.

Father Castelot adds, the visible, tangible, lovable sign of the invisible, intangible Word.

Just a word needed to stir up memories Sometimes it takes only a word to stir up memories.

Fake the word "water" for example.

It reminds me of the first time I went out into the deep end of the pool and realised that I could swim.

I was elated and terrified at the same time. I also was 35!

Then I remember the TV commercial featuring a woman exhausted at the end of a hectic day.

After an exhilarating shower, she returns from a night on the town to exclaim. "I could have danced all night!" It still makes me chuckle. It's wonderful what a little soap and water will do.

Now take the word 'oil'.

It immediately calls to mind a time when my wedding ring had gotten

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They are symbols that can touch us deeply. The Church piggybacks on these very natural elements and folds its own history into them Water, with its terrifying ability to flood the land and its vitalising capacity to make things grow helps to express the death and resurrection of Jesus in the sacrament of baptism as he overcame death's terror through his own rising.

stuck on my ring finger.

A little baby oil on the knuckle helped glide it off.

And there are the words 'bread' and `wine'.

I remember the humps of homemade bread under the white cloth on the kitchen table when I would return home from school.

The warm and rather The oil of confirmation nutty-flavoured expresses the soothing mouth nature of God's love for humankind. Oil helps t ricarkees lled swatiAn mbey r a glass make difficult tasks mem of wine shared at an easier. exhilarating dinner with It permits machinery to friends. run. It heals cracked Water. Oil. Bread. Wine. hands or screensThrough the rays It is no accident that the of the sun. le- confirmation, the healthChurch the theseneries us mentsandse giving Spirit of Jesus. his attached to them to help Holy Spirit, is smoothed express itself. into OUT lives.

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Quote 4 We have to work out a way of sharing this country, but there has to be an understanding of and respect of our culture, our law.

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A Pastoral letter by the Australian Catholic Bishops, Aboriginal Sunday, September 2, 1990.

When the Aborigines met with Pope John Paul II at Alice Springs, they prayed to the Father of us all: "We ask you to help the people of Australia to listen to us and respect our culture. Make the knowledge of you grow strong in all people, so that you can be at home in us and we can make a home for everyone in our land".

At Alice Springs, the Pope challenged us all when he said to Aborigines: "The Church herself in Australia will not be fully the Church that Jesus wants her to be until you have made your contribution to her life and until that contribution has been joyfully received by others."

It is appropriate that as a church we recognise the past and present injustices suffered by Aborigines and we reflect on the need for national reconciliation today, and how each of us may contribute to one another's right to belong in Australian society.

Hearing Paul's words to the Romans (Rm 12:2) we

do so not by modelling ourselves on the behaviour of the world around us, but by letting our attitude and behaviour change, being modelled on a new way of seeing the world, through the eyes of Jesus. To do this, we have to renounce ourselves and take up our cross, following the footsteps of Jesus (Mt 16:21-27).

For some years, there has been talk about an Aboriginal treaty in Australia. Many Aboriginal leaders have said that there is a need for some legal document which recongises the dispossession suffered by Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in the past and which guarantees them a place of belonging in Australia now and in the future.

Other people have argued that the past is past and all that needs to be done is to treat all Australians the same.

The Prime Minister, Mr Robert Hawke, sees the need for an instrument of reconciliation as the outcome of consultations which will succeed only with the support of the majority of Australians.

The Leader of the Opposition, Dr John Hewson, recognising the importance of reconciliation, has said that there may be room for considerable common ground between the major political parties on this issue.

There has been a lot of

misunderstanding about the word "treaty". Our parliamentarians would prefer another word while many Aboriginal leaders want to keep the word "treaty".

As we know from all the statistics we hear, Aborigines are still very badly off, often living on the fringes of society. The reports of the Royal Commission Into Aboriginal Deaths In Custody have been a grim reminder to us all that many Australian Aborigines are marginalised.

Racism", the Pontifical Commission for Justice and Peace has said that "Equality of treatment implies a certain recognition of differences which minorities themselves demand in order to develop according to their own specific characteristics, in respect for others and for the common good of society and the world community."

Respect for each other's differences can challenge our simple Australian ideas about equality and a fair go for everyone.

Even in church life we To belong in our Society, Aborigines are have to face questions entitled to preserve their like: "Why can't they just cultural identity, while be like the rest of us? We remaining open to oth- have our parish strucers. Aborigines should tures, why won't they not be forced to assimi- participate?" We need to late. That would be like be educated to a positive forcing people to be appreciation of the commigrant, becoming part plementary diversity of of a foreign culture others. It is not racist to against their will. Having respect the special posithe right to maintain tion and needs of others. their own identity, AborAborigines are not just igines should have the opportunity to choose one group among many their lifestyle. If they in the community who integrate into the sur- are in need of welfare rounding socetey, it assistance. should be as a free One Aboriginal leader choice. has said: "We are not just Aborigines must be poor whites. No policy uaranteed realistic should proceed on that g alternatives, when seek- basis". ing social and political As descendants of Ausorganisation. We have to tralia's first occupants move beyond the simple as the primary and assimilation is idea that custodians of the Aborigthe answer. inal culture and heritage, Equality is not the same Aborigines have a right to continue the manageas uniformity. ment of their community In its recent document affairs as autonomously "The Church and as possible within the

Australian nation provided they do not act contrary to the common good nor interfere with the rights of others, and provided all community members are given a realistic choice between their community life and the lifestyle available to other Australians.

At Alice Springs, the Pope said there was a need for "a just and proper settlement that still lies unachieved" in this country. He went on to say.

"The establishment of a new society for Aboriginal people cannot go forward without just and mutually recognised agreements with regard to these human problems, even though their causes lie in the past. The greatest value to be achieved by such agreements, which must be implemented without causing new injustices, is respect for the dignity and growth of the human person."

During the bicentenary, we issued a pastoral letter in which we asked all governments to encourage Aboriginal self-management and independence, to involve Aboriginals in all decisions that affect them, and to recognise in practical ways that Australia at the time of

of national reconciliation.

In January 1988, Cardinal Clancy, as president of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, joined with thirteen other church leaders in a statement entitled "Towards Reconciliation in Australian Society" They set our four requirements for a just and proper settlement:

and the enduring place of our Aboriginal heritage.

Many Australians had hoped this could be done by the passage of a suitable resolution with unanimous support as the first item of substantive business in the new Parliament House.

The resolution was passed but unfortunately it was not unanimous.

We hope that the renewed efforts by the 1. a secure land base for Prime Minister and the dispossed Aboriginal Leader of the Opposition communities with spe- for bipartisan agreement cial attention being given on a process of reconcilito traditional communi- ation will bear fruit. ties on their lands, family groups on pastoral prop- In addition to well erties and fringe dwellers resourced and properly targeted welfare, educaoutside country towns; tion and training pro2. a just process for the grams, there is still a resolution of conflicting need for formal acknowlclaims to land and its use, edgement of the special especially between Abor- place of Aborigines in igines, pastoralists and Australian society. miners; Hopefully the debate about the word "treaty" 3. an assured place for will not stop us from powerless Aborigines in finding how best to our political processes express the assured place with provision for Abo- of Aboriginal culture and riginal councils at local. heritage in the Australstate and federal levels; ian nation.

1988 was a good lesson Aboriginal culture and for us all. We did not tradition with legal pro- know how to speak about tection of Aboriginal ourselves as a nation heritage, and public according Aborigines education of all Austral- their due place. We ians about Aboriginal learnt that white Austrahistory and the vitality of lia has a black history. contemporary Aborigi- The next symbolic moment in Australian settlement nal culture.

European history in January 1, was not terra nullius They asked that the 2001, the first centenary (nobody's country).

Federal Parliament make of the Australian ConstiWe saw a role for formal acknowledge- tution. There is time to everyone, including ment of the nation's act, but we must start governments, in the task Aboriginal prehistory now.

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Quote 6 No Australian need to be alien to the land or to the society which is the common heritage of all from the Aborigine to the newest migrant.

For all to belong, we need a just and proper settlement.

Wouldn't it be good if every Australian could proudly call My this land Place? 9

The treaty (or whatever it is to be called) cannot be resolved overnight by Commonwealth the Government and a group of Aboriginal leaders. All levels of government must be involved. Local Aboriginal communities must be part of the process. The community generally must be involved, not simply as spectators waiting to be presented with a final document. We who are the Church must play our role as reconcilers whether we are Aboriginal or non-Aboriginal Australians.

The character of the Australian nation has been shaped by our history. There was no a greement negotiated between Aborigines and British authorities. Soldiers, convicts and -free settlers" drove Aborigines away from their lands. Colonists disregarded British instructions given to Captain Cook to take possession of land "with the consent of the natives". As a result, Australian laws have remained flawed and underdeveloped for over 200 years.

Since the 1967 Referendum when the great majority of Australians showed support for Aborigines, our Commonwealth and State Parliaments have taken steps to recognise some Aboriginal land rights and to give Aborigines better opportunity to participate and manage their own affairs.

It is for Aboriginal country, but there has to representatives, lawyers be an understanding of and politicians to work and respect of our culout how our legal system ture, our law. Hopefully that's what this treaty can be improved so that the rights of Aborigines will mean." are better protected and Whatever the final so they can be assured a document is called, it place of belonging. We should help us to show will not do this by more understanding and denying the facts of respect for each other so history nor by using that we can share this political rhetoric which land in which all may in no way matches our belong. intentions or commitCelebrating the 150th ment. If we start now, we should be able to reach a anniversary of the Treat just and proper settle- of Waitangi, our brother ment by 2001. There bishops in New Zealand should be a new begin- asked their church ning in living together in members to be "constructive builders of this land. structures of harmony and grace". Together. as When the Prime Minisinstruments of ter promised Aborigines God's we still reconciliation, a treaty at Barunga, the Lord's hear to need Northern Territory, in communicated 1988, one of the elders promise the prophet through Mr Wentern Rubuntja Ezekiel: said: "I am going to gather "Today there are a lot of you together and bring people living in this you home to your own country. People who land. I shall give you a have come from all over new heart and put a new the world. But we don't spirit in you. You shall be call them foreigners. We my people and I will be don't ask "Where's your your God." (Ez 30: country? Where's your 24,26,28) father from?" They have No Australian need to been borne here. Their be alien to the land or to mother's blood is in the the society which is the country . . . This is their common heritage of all country too now. from the Aborigine to the newest migrant. For all to So all of us have to live belong, we need "a just together. We have to look and proper settlement". after each other. We have Wouldn't it be good if to share this country. every Australian could An this means respect- proudly call this land ing each others' laws and "My Place"? cultures.

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by TOM BRANCH

Mixed Pennants Dianella won an enthralling match in A grade and Corpus Christi were successful in B grade when the finals were played last weekend at Aquinas.

A Grade Two evenly matched teams played a marvellous game of tennis which was enjoyed by all who were present. An exciting finish was expected but with only one game separating the two teams at the finish the result was far closer than anyone could have anticipated.

The match opened with the St Jude's ladies winning their ladies' doubles, but the Dianella men won their men's doubles in a marathon set to level the set scores with St Jude's leading on games. Scores at that stage were St Jude's 1 set 16 games to Dianella 1 set 12 games.

The second round saw two mixed doubles, both ending with identical scorelines of 9/7 and again the sets were halved. After four sets the scores were St Jude's 2 sets 32 games to Dianella 2 sets 28 games.

Round 3 was also halved but Dianella picked up three games to draw closer to St Jude's with the scores after six sets: St Jude's 3 sets 46 games to Dianella 3 sets 45 games.

In round 4 Dianella hit the lead by one game after sets were again halved with St Jude's winning the only tiebreaker of the afternoon.

Scores: Dianella 4 sets 61 games to St Jude's 4 sets 60 games.

The narrowest of margins and light fading, the final two mixed doubles sets were completed. Like the previous four rounds the sets were halved and again with

identical scorelines of 9/7 St Jude's were represented Dianella won an enthralling by Mike Lawson, Peter encounter by the solitary Messer, Tom Branch, Linda game. The final score was Farrell, Maureen Collis and Dianella 5 sets 77 games to reserve, Peter Hyatt.

St Jude's 5 sets 76 games.

B Grade This match typified the Whilst the B grade final did closeness and competitive- not have as an exciting a ness of the A grade compe- finish as the A grade, the tition throughout the season match proved to be a titanic and in particular the close- struggle till the end. ness of both Dianella and St Scores after round I were Jude's. At their last meeting St Jude's defeated Dianella level at 1 set 14 games all. by one game and overall in Dianella took a slender two their four matches this year game lead after round 2 but the final scores were St Corpus Christi kept in touch Jude's 20 sets 290 games, by winning one of the sets in Dianella 20 sets 284 games a tiebreaker. Scores: Diawith two wins each. Unfornella 2 sets 31 games, tunately for St Jude's, Corpus Christi 2 sets 29 Dianella won the one that games. Another tiebreaker mattered. in round 3 which also was The successful Dianella won by Corpus Christi saw team consisted of Paul the sets level, but Dianella Horsten, Peter Polakiewicz, held a slender 4 game lead.

Peter 1homas, Alison Tho- If Dianella had won both mas, Judy Russo and reserve, tiebreakers then they would Greg Russo. have had a 5 set to 1 lead.

Round 4 saw Corpus Spitteler, Peter Perich, Dean Christi wrest the initiative Berry, Stephenie Kukura by winning both sets to lead and Jo West.

5 sets 62 games to 3 sets 57 games.

Although the season was Whilst Dianella only frequently interrupted by trailed by 5 games they were rain, the standard of tennis two sets down and had all was of a high calibre and the the work to do in the Final central venue was an two sets. However, with a outstanding success. Credit scent of victory Corpus must go to the Association Christi took all before them Executive for their foresight, to win the last two sets and and particularly to the the match; 7 sets 80 games Pennant Organiser, Michael to 3 sets 67 games.

Messer for his untiring In the final analysis, the efforts throughout the women brought home the season. bacon for Corpus Christi as Dianella won all three of the 1990 Tournament men's doubles and Corpus The 1990 annual tournaChristi won the ladies' ment is scheduled to comdoubles and all the mixed. mence on Saturday, SepThe successful Corpus tember 15,1990 at 1pm. Play Christi team consisted of will continue on Sunday, Mike Colgan, Peter O'Kane, September 16 at 10am and Geoff Larsen, Elizabeth the following weekend, Mavros and Dorothy Cher- Saturday. September 22 and rington. Dianella were Sunday, September 23 at represented by Andrew the same time. Matches will

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A Commonwealth State Committee on violence against women will get S1 .35 million over three years, starting with $450,000 this year.

This is one of the micro positives of the Budget.

At last a dollar has dropped and the Federal Government recognises that sexual assaults, rape, injury and murder of women has risen phenonomally and alarmingly over its years in office.

By international standards Australian sexual assaults per 100,000 population are amongst the World's highest.

Average of all States was 55.38 for 1988. The women of Australia presently live more in danger from sexual assault than women in other countries.

This is recent. In the 1960's women and children were safe at home, on the streets, by day or night. Rapists did not prowl the city streets by night or paedophiles did not stalk school children by day. Paedophile was an unknown word to most in the '60's; but not so now.

But do not expect betterment from this

new committee. It will be heavily lobbied by the porn industry and brothel interests. The one will say that ALP pro-porn policies have had nothing to do with the denigra tion of women as sex objects; the other that the cure for rape is to open more brothels and legalise them. In general the Government may well be whitewashed of blame or encouragement of sex exploitation.

In opposition the local scene may be quoted.

We have an Indecent Publications Act under which is a Publications Advisory Committee consisting of two men, one of whom is a Minister of Religion and four women of professional standing. They are fed at a cost of $17,189 annually. Their main activity is to restrict release of about 200 monthly sleazy sexual and homosexual oriented magazines and featuring pictorials, women and men as sex objects.

Over the period of their activities sexual assaults have increased from under 10 to over 25 per 100,000; and this under strongly orientated women's government. Seemingly none of these Cabinet ladies care.

New rite better from Mrs R TABONI Nollamara Sir, A good deal has been written recently in defence of the 1962 Mass and I agree that its being said with the priest turning his back to the people and praying mostly in silence, conduces to recollection. But I prefer the new rite (1969) with the celebrant lead-

ing the congregation in prayer and the people taking an active part in the Mass. Besides, it is less monotonous as the readings change, forming a 3 year cycle, and there are 9 Eucharistic prayers, from which to choose, even 10, with the new Mass for a large assembly. I am told that more are being prepared

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TOMORROW TODAY with Father Joe Parkinson

Youth call to self-help

HOW TO RAISE $20,000 A YEAR AFTER YOUTH APPEAL POSER Young people should realise that there is a tremendous amount of goodwill towards them from older members of the community, according to retiring Youth Appeal coordinator of Smith Pam Woodlands.

Having helped raise over $65,000 for Catholic youth in Western Australia in the last six years, including the last three as principle organiser of Youth Appeal, Pam is in a good position to know!

Speaking last week as returns for Youth Appeal 1990 came in, Pam said

that householders generally continued to give generously to Youth Appeal, knowing that their donations would help young people avoid corning into crisis.

The real challenge of Youth Appeal was to get young people to see it as a self-help project.

"The average collected by doorknockers this year seems to be up on previous years, but the total is down overall because of our difficulty in getting collectors onto the street," she said.

"It is this difficulty,

getting young people to get out there to help other kids, which has made the difference."

'The result is that, although there is such good will in the community, Youth Appeal will probably be the last held since other groups taking part in the appeal have experienced the same problem."

"It is not so much the economic climate, but the enthusiasm to get out there and collect seems to have gone."

"There have been a lot of very faithful people

out on the street every year, including a lot of my friends from YCW and NCGM days, and a number of parishes and groups have been wonderfully faithful."

"Certainly older people see Youth Appeal as a way of helping youth today. One lady gave a note with her donation, saying it was 'a small appreciation and a token to help along the youth of today", Pam said.

Asked how she felt, retiring from Youth Appeal after so many years of generous and

Musicians at the youth Mass at Willetton included (l-r) Damien McBain, Domenic Di Lallo, Simone Kealy, Stacy Chalk and Cynthia Fenton.

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faithful service of youth, Pam said she had found it very satisfying to be with young people.

"But lam relieved it is finished, especially this year because it has been so hard finding collectors. I suppose I will look around now for some other way to be involved," she said.

With the apparent demise of Youth Appeal, the Catholic youth scene is left with the problem of around fundraising $20,000 a year to help it maintain services. Any ideas?

Youth Office stalwart Pam Smith, retiring this week after six consecutive Youth Appeals which raised over $65,000 for Catholic youth.

Some of the 300-plus youth and adults at the Youth Appeal Mass, Willetton parish, on August 19.

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in Gulf call CYC In the light of the grave situation which has developed in the Middle East over the last few weeks, the e xecutive of the Catholic Youth Council have released the following statement.

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tion of the Middle East crisis."

"In relation to this statement, the CYC encourages young people to take all necessary become to steps informed of the facts of the situation, and conscientiously to form their opinions of it in the light of Jesus' teachings on love and forgiveness.

We pray that young people will not be uncaring in the face of this crisis, but will see it in a personal challenge to confront and overcome violence under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

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People and pups!

Seiwa Singers

lapanese Chorus Club member from the Seiwa school in Sasebo in western Japan. Set against the magnificent backdrop of UWA's Winthrop Hall stained glass window, this student blows bubbles to a Japa-

nese soag Soap Bubbles, watched by a packed student body from many primary and secondary Catholic schools around Perth who came at the invitation of the Good Samaritan Sisters to hear the concert

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The Catholic Seiwa school was founded and is run by these sisters whose student body numbers 780.

Although there are not a great number of Catholics at the school, it is highly sought after by nonChristians.

Top: New Norcia Catholic College students (Good Samaritan Sisters) Penny Goudje (left) and Rosie Walker along with William Smith (left front) and Chris Moren find comparing school notes a bit difficult when Chieko Tokuhisa and Yuki Hirasata only speak Japanese, but it was a lot of fun having a go!

Above: Sister Maree Nash (left) who accompanied the singers from Japan along with their principal Sister Keiko Kimura, meet up with New Norcia's principal Sister Therese Marie SGS and Sister Catherine SGS who came down from Mt Magnet with Sister Carmel to show typical Good Samaritan hospitality to the singers and meet up with their fellow sisters from Japan and New Norcia.

In yet another role, New Norcia Catholic College principal Sister Therese Marie shows off the latest addition to her Kennel Collection! Sister is one of only four Australian Terrier breeders in the state and has produced some outstanding prize winners.

With 15 current top quality dogs at the moment and another litter expected, Sister Therese Marie has some top shelf canines for anyone interested in owning a cutie like this fellow. Her number, New Mortis (096)S4 8060.

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Mercedes student Catherine Alford proudly receiving her prites of $300 R81 Bank account and a reference hook for Mercedes library having won the Joint Commonwealth Societies Council 1990 speech and leadership contest. Youth Speaks Out. for years 11 and 12

Around Perth

by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

The Christian Bros

Turning 40 —I- and looking great!

George She vtsov starring in The Christian Brothers.

The Hole in the Wall Theatre's director Aarne Neeme has chosen a brilliant double bill of one act Australian plays Ron Blair's famous play The Christian Brothers is a powerful and humorous story of a brother, coping with his self doubts and his current crop of pimply charges!

We witness a teaching style which mixes Keats and Caesar with Mary and Joseph. The brother in this solo tour de force is played by George Shevlsov. Shevtsov has featured recently in the Hole in the Wall's sucproductions cessful Serious Money and As You Like It and looks forward to the demand-

ing role of the Christian Brother.

Neeme's interpretation of The Christian Brothers will shed new light on Blair's clever and witty script and the compelling work of Barry Dickins provides an unexplored avenue for Perth audiences. For those who enjoy a more intimate evening of theatre, in an environment which allows greater artistic freedom, The Studio shows should not be missed.

The play opens Sunday September 2, 6.15pm and continues Tuesday September 4-Sunday 23, September Tuesdays-Saturdays at 8.15pm, Sundays at 6.15pm.

All evening performances offer a special "dinner and show ticket-.

Dinner at the Subiaco Steakhouse followed by the show at the Hole in the Wall, just $34 per person.

Tickets may be purchased at all BOCS outlets (Subiaco Theatre Centre, Perth Concert Hall, His Majesty's Theatre, Octagon Theatre and One Stop Shop, Bunbury). Box office hours are 10am-5pm, MondaySaturday, extended to 8pm on performance days. Phone 381 2403 for Hole in the Wall Theatre Box Office. on Wendy Phone 3 21 6831 for group bookings.

What There were some beautiful babies horn in 1950 and among them a whole pile of Siena students. such had and (Howe) Foster Theresa of home better reason for a class reunion? So 20 gathered at the Pictured future! foreseeable bright the in reunions' baby a terrific time, they're planning more bonny (Howe). Pene at the gathering were class mates Chris Crooks (Wilkins) left. Theresa Foster Lyn Arnott and Morriss Janet Queensland). in years several from returned Macpherson (who's birthdays. fortieth their celebrating all ) (Richardson

Bach for Fremantle The Fremantle Bach Festival 2-23 September. The first Bach Festival presenting a selection of the most popular works written by Johann Sebastian Bach and performed by outstanding local and international artists in the f ine fourteenth-century Gothic building of St Patrick's Church in Fremantle. Hear the musk as it was originally conceived — not just live but living performances: meet and talk with performers, composers, instrument makers and lovers of fine musk.

International artists will be Gillian Weir from England, one of the foremost exponents of our time in the field of baroque music. and Neithard Bethke, organist of Ratzeburg Cathedral in North Germany and chief conductor of the German Bach Orchestra.

Our international guest and the rich arrrav of local ensembles and soloists offer you the opportunity of a rare and memorable musical experience — don't miss it!

1. The Festival Opening Recital: Sunday, September 2, 3pm St Patrick's Church, Adelaide Street Fremantle (parking available in the Church car park).

An 'authentic' performance by brilliant organist Gillian

The Music Theatre Co of WA and University Choral Society of WA presents Winthrop Hall Grand Opera Gala on Sunday September 9 at 3pm and 7pm with 200 performers and 5 great stars.

Conductor: Ian VVestrip, Janice Taylor -Warne, Elizabeth Campbell, Thomas Edmonds, Chris Waddell and introducing Kathryn McCusker with The New Philharmusica Orchestra and the University of WA Choral Society. Overture selections will be Barber of Seville, Chorus of Hebrew Slaves Nabucco, Duet Pearl Fishers, 0 mio babbino caro Gianni Schicchi, Intermezzo Rusticana, Cavalleria Flower Duet Lakme, Softly awakes my heart Samson and Delilah, Dove sono Marriage of Figaro, Overture Die Fledermaus, La donne e mobile and Quartet Rigoletto, Overture tarmen, Flower song Carmen, Humming chorus Madam But =-7 terfly and Barcarolle Tales of Hoffmann. Tickets at BOCS Ei outlets.

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by a recital of unaccompanWeir, of Bach's most popular missed. ied violin and cello chamber Thursorgan works presented on 5. Unbuttoned Bach: the fine four manual pipe- day, September 13, 8pm The music including Bach's organ recently completed Esplanade Manor, Collie famous 'Fiddle' fugue arrangement played on the organ. and installed by Bellsham Street, Fremantle. candlelight to short Pipe Organs (Australia) Pty Gillian Weir and the Univer- Listen by of Bach's popular selection present Ensemble sity Bach Ltd. by the choristers. sung arias and Coffee fascinating Bach's Recital: 2. Harpsichord Delights: Baroque More 8.

Orchestral Thursday, September 6, 8pm Peasant Cantatas, 8pm St 21, September Friday, a and minor, B in 2 No Suite St Patrick's Church, Adelaide selection of popular harpsi- Patrick's Church, Adelaide Street Fremantle.

Fremantle.

Neithard Bethke plays Bach's chord pieces in the gradiose Street Collegium University The House Manor the of setting in suites famous harpsichord the direcunder um Music Ballroom. Enjoy a relaxed the North German tradition. distinguished their of tion and pre-concert of evening 3. Organ Recital: Sunday, choral conductor, Margaret September 9, 3pm St Patrick's interval refreshments and Pride, present the Cantata lag Hotel Church, Adelaide Street, retire to the Esplanade in Tories Banden and the supper.

Festival a for Fremantle.

Freude in 6. Orchestral Concert: Satur- Motet Iesu, Meine Gillian Weir presents another which also programme a St 8pm 15, September day, fine program of Bach's organ Concerto Patrick's Church, Adelaide includes the Violin works including his magnifiour local featuring maim E in Street, Fremantle. cant Passacaglia in C minor t Paul Wright. violinis and conductor German of and his arrangement 9. Festival Closing Recital: Vivaldi's Concerto in D organist conducts the West Sunday. September 23, 3pm University Australian minor.

St Patrick's Church, Adelaide 4 The Art of Fugue: Wednes- Chamber Orchestra and Collegium in a splendid Street Fremantle. day, September 12, 8pm St Fremantle's first Bach Festival Patrick's Church, Adelaide concert of Bach's best known conclusion works, featuring the out- comes to a grand Street, Fremantle. splendour of spacious the n i organist British Neithard Bethke, Germany's standing St Patrick's Church. Geoffrey eminent Bach scholar, Gillian Weir. playing the plays a representative Revell performs on the organ. the harpsichord in Brandenburg including two of m progra minor.

D in 5 No Concerto — Fugue complete Art of organ works, greatest Bach's 7. Musk Does All Our Joys Bach's final masterpiece — and Fuge in E Prelude the SepWednesday, Refine: last composed during the 'Wedge) and the tember 19, 8pm St Patrick's minor (the year and a half of his life. It Fugue in C and Prelude consists of 19 fugues and Church. as well as 'Great') (the minor Paul Wright, Catherine Jones, canons in which he sought to G major in Fugue popular the the Geoffrey Revell and demonstrate the possibilities Chorale Choristers of St Patrick's (the 'Jig'), several of Fugue form. in D Trio the and Preludes Church combine to present A rare experience not to be minor.

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

so_0011 BILl. — OUBLECOMPELLNG D 41111V, Ron Blair's famous play '

The Chris ian Brothers starring George Shevtsov plus Barry Dickins'

(The Death ofMinnie starring Vivienne Garrett

Directed by Aarne Neeme Plays 30th August - 23rd September Tuesday - Saturday at 8.1 5pm ••• Sundays at 6.15pm ••• Previews 30 & 31 Aug, 1 Sept $11 $7 Other performances just $16 $10 'SUBIACO STEAKHOUSE' Dinner and Show Tickets only $34.00 RESERVATIONS - 381 2403 484 1133

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PROGRAM • RELIGION AND LIFE SEMINARS — OPEN TO PUBLIC Saturday, September 15, 9am-12 noon. Cost $5 Venue — Chnst Church Grammar School chapel Oueenslea Drive, Claremont.

• FIVE DAY RETREAT For those who have done a workshop or retreat dunng her last visit. Monday-Friday, September 17-21. Cost $255 Venue — Redemptonst Retreat House, North Perth • WEEKEND WORKSHOP OPEN TO THE PUBLIC — INDIAN SPIRITUALITY, LIFE & MEDITATION PRACTICE.

PAULINE WEEKEND

For solo parents looking at grieving, aloneness, support, starting again. Fr Owen Ryan and the Paulian Association team will hold a weekend in Safety Bay. September 14-16, $60. Phone Denise, 398 3398 -457 9622, Annette after 5pm 401 9860.

ATTAD ALE PLAY To assist the special education unit being established at Santa Maria College "On Golden Pond" will be presented at the Performing Arts Centre, Santa Maria College, Attadale: Friday, September 7 opening night cocktail party, $25 includes ticket, food and drink, 7pm.

Saturday, September 15 — final p erformance and champagne supper, $25 includes ticket, food and drink, 7.30pm. Saturday-Friday, September 8-14, adults $14, students $9, 8pm.

Ring the college 330 6566 for bookings.

E NVIRONMENT CONCERN

Catholics Concerned for the Environment will hold their monthly meeting on Friday September 7 at 8pm, at Inglewood Parish Centre, 165 Central Avenue, Inglewood.

Open to the public.

A litter cleanup and picnic has been planned for Sunday September 16 at John Forrest National Park.

Archdiocesan Calendar SEPT 2 Confirmation Claremont, Archbishop Foley.

Mass at Culunga Catholic Aboriginal School, Archbishop Foley.

Confirmation, Lynwood, Monsignor Keating.

2-7 Second clergy retreat.

4 Install of Attar Servers, Vic Park Archbishop Foley.

5 Heads of Churches meeting, Archbishop Foley.

8 Australian Board of Missions Spring School, Archbishop Foley.

Confirmation, Mt Yokine, Monsignor Keating.

8&9 Confirmation, Midland, Archbishop Foley.

9 Confirmation, Bateman, Monsignor McCrann.

11 Youth Legal Service function, Archbishop Foley.

12&13 Confirmation, Lesrnurdie, 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 Redclrffe, Monsignor Keating 19 Confirmation Como Kensington, Archbishop Foley.

19&20 Confirmation Whitfords Muddloo, Monsignor Nestor.

22&23 Confirmation, Morley, Monsignor Keating.

23 Open Seton College, Archbishop Foley.

V isitation and confirmation, Rockingham, Bishop Healy.

Confirmation, Bedford 'Inglewood, AilOnsignor McC rann.

Confirmation, Spearwood, Monsignor Nestor.

The Christian Brothers invite applications for the Br

N.N. Tuppin

Full Tuition Scholarshi for boys enterittg

Year 8 in 1991 at

• AN EVENING GET-TOGETHER — OPEN TO PUBLIC Music. Scripture, Meditation and Teaching.

Date: Tuesday. September 25 at 7.30pm.

Venue — Beacon Yoga Centre, 151 South Street, Beaconsfield.

Please bring a plate (vegetarian only) for supper

Keaney Agricuftural College

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NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING (008) 11 4010 (Metro callers please use 221 3866

Natural Family Planning Centre 27 Victoria Square Member of the Australian Council of Natural Family Planning Inc

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October 3-14 $2345 October 29-Nov 7 $2349 Includes bed/breakfast & evening meal, spiritual director & guide.

Stopover Singapore & extensions to any European city at an additional cost of $50 return.

HARVEST PILGRIMAGES 9TA001 50 Phone 409 1080 A/H 401 6368

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Unit 3, 15 Cressal l Road, Balcatta 6021

Telephone: 344 4378 The Catholic Doctors' Association invites all Catholic doctors, students and their partners to the

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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

Keaney is a Catholic College offering boarding facilities for boys in lower secondary school. It is located on a 3000 hectare fully operational farm in Bindoon 901(m north of Perth.

In addition to a fullacademic curriculum, agriculture is studiedat both practical and theoretic levels by all students. Facilities are comprehensive and include an IBM computer laboratory.

Keaney caters for students from the country, isolated areas and the city, who wish to be educated in a rural setting, with a bias towards agriculture. Our past graduates have been able to choose between: further study, an apprenticeship or employment in the agricultural industry.

Phone (09) 576 1040 school hours for scholarship applications.

The Norbertine Tradition and Experience Vocation Co-ordinator Fr Tom McNulty 0 Fracm Si Norbcrt's Priory WEEMS PARK WA 6107

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

Australian Guild of St Stephen

ALTAR SERVERS Theme: "In Union with Christ" Venue: Wagga Wagga, NSW

When: January 20-24, 1991 For: Servers — Year 9 and above, Acolytes

Be Early! Closing Date: September 21, 1990 Getting married soon . . ?

We'd love to talk to you!

No cost to give us a call at

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PLEASE RING FOR TICKETS:

Saturday-Sunday, September 22-23 Cost $75 Venue — Redemptonst Retreat House, North Perth

ENQUIRIES PHONE (09) 277 3068

PROFESSIONAL TRAVEL SERVICES 324 1234 LIC 91A00487

CONTINUOUS ROSARY

The 48 hour continuous Rosary Bouquet to Our Lady's birthday on September 8 will commence 5pm September 5 and conclude at 6.30pm Friday September 7.

The Rosary can be said privately, and the elderly, sick and housebound can also contribute to this gift to Our Lady.

To have names included on a scroll which will be offered up during mass on September 8 at St Joseph's, Northam phone (096) 22 3109 or (096) 22 2766

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Shared Life Shared Prayer Shared Ministry

Application forms and further information: Diocesan Executive Guild of St Stephen PO Box 354 CANNINGTON 6107

Think CARPET! Think Peter RINEY 242 1002 AH 446 6238

DIAL-A- CARPET 504 Charles St, North Perth (opposite Charles Hotel)

Carpets for home, school, church and office.