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DOES NOT KNOW MUCH ABOUT BISHOPS' VIEWS Mr Gough Whitlam.

TOLD TO CHECK HIS FACTS

Sen Gareth Evans.

CARDINAL CLANCY LASHES OUT

Mr Gough Whitlam is poorly informed about Catholic bishops' views and Senator Gareth Evans should check his facts, says Cardinal Clancy, president of the Australian Bishops Conference.

Cardinal Clancy is not happy with remarks made by Mr Whitlam at a recent national conference of the United Nations Association.

Senator Evans gets a rap for an "unwarranted outburst and attack" when speaking before the Senates Estimates Committee.

"Before making charges of irrationality, Senator Evans should check his facts to find out what the bishops have actually said about the convention," the cardinal said.

On Mr Whitlam being "poorly informed" Cardinal Clancy said: "Contrary to his claims, the Australian Catholic Bishops and the Holy See are of one mind in relation to the Convention on the Rights of the Child."

The cardinal said that the Holy See acceded to the convention but in doing so it expressed confidence in the interpretation of the introductory paragraph which recognised the rights of the unborn child. The Holy See made reservations about family planning and about the primary and inalienable rights of parents.

"In similar vein, the Australian Catholic Bishops welcomed the convention and its signing by Australia as an effort to protect the rights of children. However, the bishops cautioned that the signing would be an empty

gesture if Australia did not seek to protect the unborn child and to uphold parents' rights and duties particularly in regard to education and the nurturing of children," Cardinal Clancy said. (See The Record, September 6.)

Mr Whitlam attacked the Hawke government for its tardiness in ratifying conventions.

Mr Whitlam went on to say about the January 29 signing of the Child Rights Convention: "In Australia, doubts had been raised about the convention by, among others, the Cardinal Archbishop of Sydney on the advice of a former Commonwealth Crown Solicitor.

"The convention was, however, signed on January 26, by several states which are not members of the UN, including the Holy See which, moreover, has already ratified it.

"The most reverend gentleman and the learned layman were thus exposed as more Catholic than the pope.

"Can it be that Australians are too parochial? On August 22, again at the insistence of Mr Duffy, Australia signed the convention. We should acknowledge and support Mr Duffy's commitment . . . to consummate Australia's ratification of the Geneva Protocols and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Not every minister is prepared to disregard the views of a president and a cardinal on the same day . . ."

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WASHINGTON (CNS): The chairman of the US bishops' Committee on International Policy has said Iraqi civilians must not be deprived of food or m edicine as a result of implementation of the UN economic sanctions against Iraq.

Archbishop Mahony of Los Angeles, committee chairman, said the bishops agreed with President Bush's "clear assertion that our enemy is (Iraqi President) Saddam Hussein — not the Iraqi people".

He said the bishops back the embargo against Iraq but urge

that "utmost care and sensitivity be exercised so that innocent civilians" are not deprived of life's basics.

Archbishop Mahony said the "moral justification for our intervention" in the Persian Gulf "requires that we maintain the distinction between

the Iraqi regime and ordinary and vulnerable Iraqi citizens".

He said Archbishop Pilarczyk, president of the National C onference of Catholic Bishops, spoke on behalf of the US bishops when he described the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait as "devoid of provocation or any

justification" and "a serious threat to international peace".

Archbishop Pilarczyk had also urged prayers for peace in the Middle East and "continued international cooperation to protect both human rights and peace".

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Clocking the 'kilos' for Christ • Page 6

When the country parishes decided to hold yet another day of combined prayer, they did not bank on one of the drop-ins being none other than Archbishop Foley.

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We saw Mary claim by trio • Pages 10, 11

Franciscan first in Singapore SINGAPORE: He once played the clarinet in the Military Band while serving National Service but asked to be posted-out because weekend performances kept him from church work. His church activities sowed the seeds for a religious vocation which blossomed into priesthood.

He is Friar John Paul Tan Chong Boon who is the first Singaporean to be ordained a Franciscan priest.

The Very Rev John Vaughn, OEM, who is the Minister General from Rome and Fr Maurice West, OFM

the Minister Provincial from Australia flew in specially for the ordination.

Together with over 30 priests from Singapore and Malaysia they concelebrated the Mass with Archbishop Gregory Yong.

Fr John-Paul took the first important step towards his ordination in 1979 when he was baptised a Catholic.

This was a natural process for he was influenced by a Catholic environment from a young age. He started his education in a Catholic kindergarten. Later he attended St Michael's

School and St Joseph's Institution (SJI).

Catholic friends, and teachers members of the SJI school band influenced him by the way they lived their lives.

The eldest of three children, Fr JohnPaul's parents did not object to him becoming Catholic a although they advised him to wait until he completed his education. Shortly after his conversion his sister, then his parents followed suit.

Mr and Mrs Tan Kim Chuan have since passed away, a year apart of each other in

1985 and 1986. The loss of his parents was very painful for JohnPaul. Through his faith in God and the support of the Franciscan community he overcame his grief. "I was prepared to vow my life away (from his parents) but it is ironical that God demanded I should giveup my parents in this way," he said.

After completing an architectural-draftsmanship course at the polytechnic, Fr JohnPaul was called-up for National Service. First he served in the Military Band, later he was posted to an artillery unit where he gained valuable

St Brigid's principal Mrs Mary Retel has been appointed the new principal of St Brigid's College.

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Mrs Retel, currently deputy principal of Belmont Senior High School, will take up her duties from January 1, 1991.

"This is a significant and important decision for the college," said Mr Michael Lees, the chairman of the Advisory Board to the Congregation of Sisters of Mercy, who own the college.

"It is the first time in 60 years that the congregation is unable to appoint a religious principal for the college," he said.

Mrs Retel, aged 40, is the mother of three children and lives at Kalamunda.

She attended St Brigid's College in the 1960s as a boarder and knows the college very well.

"Iam very excited at the challenge which lies ahead and the opportunity which has been given to me as the first lay principal of the college," Mrs Retel said.

This is Mrs Retel's first formal involvement on the staff of a Catholic secondary college. In her

capacity as deputy principal of Belmont Senior High School, she has acted as consultant to the Ministry of Education in a number of successful programs for which she has been largely responsible at Belmont Senior High School.

"The school community at St Brigid's welcomes Mrs Retel and we look forward to a continuing and fruitful association with her," Mr Lees said today.

Sr Beverley Stott, Congregational Superior of the Sisters of Mercy, welcomed Mrs Retel's appointment to the college.

The Sisters of Mercy will continue to be very much in contact with the school into the future despite the fact that it cannot supply a religious Principal," Sr Beverley Stott said. "It is hoped that the Mercy spirit will continue to inspire the work done at St Brigid's."

Sr Beverley Stott has advised the College Board of Management that the selection of principal was undertaken by a special panel set up to make the recommendation.

Fr John Paul Tan (centre) flanked by Frs Aban Mitchell and Maurice West. experience in administrative work.

Fr John-Paul attributes Fr Louis Fossion, CICM, parish priest of the Holy Spirit Church as the first person to start him thinking about a religious vocation.

Through the years Fr Fossion set an example by his lifestyle. He became Fr John-Paul's image of a shepherd. "Although he is sometimes

The Australian Franciscans have been in Singapore

St Mary's Cathedral Perth at 6.30pm on Sunday, September 23, witnesses one of the 20 Candlelight Vigils being

held in Australia.

In the 90 -minute ceremony children and adults will light candles of hope for the needs of children. The ceremony includes entertainment, speeches and singing.

The vigils are being held worldwide in 430 cities and towns in 39 countries to prepare for the World Summit for Children to be held in New York, September 29-30.

Heads of state from 70 countries have confirmed their attendance at the World Summit for Children.

It is the first time that world leaders from such diverse political backgrounds will meet to

a parish at St Anthony's Friary in Bukit Batok which is also used as a retreat centre and House of Formation. They train their own students.

Currently there are four pre-novitiate candidates and two non-professed friars.

The Singapore parish comes under the A ustralia -New Zealand-Singapore province.

discuss a single social issue — children.

The summit will address the universal problems that children encounter in surviving and developing to adulthood.

Leaders will be asked to set new priorities by adopting a policy of "first call" for children. This will require diverting attention and resources from current priorities such as military security.

The aim of the Candlelight Vigils is to mobilise the world community so that our leaders participate fully in the World Summit for Children and make the following commitments: 1. Having children's well-being be a priority on each country's political, economic and social agenda;

2. Working for ratification and implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; 3. Saving the lives of 50 million children worldwide this decade and ensuring their health, education and opportunity to live a life free of poverty within a sustainable environment.

In Australia, the vigils also aim to increase the speed of political decision making to improve the social, educational and health situation of Australian children.

It has been suggested that Prime Minister Hawke develop a national action plan for Australian children to address issues such as youth homelessness and the unacceptable high infant mortality rates of Aboriginal children.

thing to bring peace to the world.

at 7pm. while in the Pacific Islands it is at llpm.

"You can invite as many other young people and adults as possible to join in this one minute of silence or prayer with us.

"A practical way of being part of it is to set your watches and encourage your friends and family to join in as well."

College's plea for peace Seton College in Hilton has joined an international appeal for peace.

At this particular time when the Holy Father has urged all Christians and all people of good will to work and pray for peace, the college felt their small but sincere contribution might be of relevance to anyone who might desire to do some-

WHICH WAY ARE YOU WALKING?

For more information on the Carmelite way of life please contact: Fr Bruce Clark, 0.Carm.

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In addition to his priestly ministry at the Church of St Mary of the Angels, Bukit Batok, Fr John-Paul is also the public relations person for the Franciscan community in Singapore.

since 1970. They have

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AS CARMELITES, WE WALK TOGETHER AS BROTHERS FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF JESUS CHRIST, THROUGH PRAYER, BROTHERHOOD AND VARIED MINISTRIES

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grumpy he is really kind at heart, a sort of fatherly figure," said Fr John-Paul.

John Dempster, Year 8, extended this invitation to readers of The Record: "We invite you to a worldwide appointment to spend, all at the same time, one minute in silence or prayer each day. In Europe the time is 1pm, in parts of the USA at 7am, here in Perth it is

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NINE PRIESTS, ARCHBISHOP AT GOOMALLING EVENT The third country day of reflection attracted more than 100 people Heart Sacred to Church, Goomalling, travelling some hundreds of kilometres

for the event.

Nine priests made it to the occasion and Archbishop Foley dropped in during the day.

Sacred Heart schoolchildren opened the day leading the congregation in the Rosary. They closed the day by singing at Mass and bringing up offertory gifts.

Fr Noseda OSB of Moora picked up the day's theme Divine Love in a Human Heart by emphasising that Mary is

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a God-given model to each person.

Mary's Heart is magnificent, he said, because it is the vessel of the Holy Spirit.

Fr Ted Hewitt of Toodyay linked the Sacred Heart of Jesus to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, pointing out that Jesus loves us with a Divine love as does Mary, a human creature, with a divine love that is poured into her heart by God. We too, he said, are called to love with a divine and not just a human love.

Fr Hewitt said that when we can look at a person and no matter

A packed church in Narrogin St Matthew's church Narrogin which seats 400 people was packed to the doors on a recent Sunday and not for the celebration of Mass.

It was the event of the year of Narrogin's Christian Churches as Men In Harmony sang at a combined service.

A collection produced $470 which will go to a charity nominated by the Ministers Fraternal.

Men in Harmony are a 40-strong unaccompanied group who on the previous Saturday night had raised $1500 for music at the Narrogin Senior High School. It was their second Narrogin visit.

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how we feel say: 'Let it be choosing to be reconciled realise what it is to share done to me according to while walking with a my faith andI thank God your word, we will priest in the church I have been chosen to be a member of the Catholic become walking and grounds. living carriers of the The sight of nine priests Church." divine love in a human gathered around the Kuhn hosts the next heart.' altar of a small country day of prayer, on country person one made an town Confessions became alfresco event with many say. "It has made me October 29.

Last look at the 'old convent' Parents and Parishioners were invited to view the "old Convent" for the last time last Friday (7/9/ 90) before wort commenced to renovate Sacred Heart School for a new pre-school.

After months of negotiations between the School Board, Architect, and Catholic Education Office the Contracts were officially signed on August 31 by Father Vincent Conroy (representing the Archbishop) and in the presence of Miss Ann Pusey (Principal) and Mr Trevor Clark (School Board Secretary).

Local builder Jandon

Constructions was the successful tenderer and we are advised the work will be completed in time for the 1991 school year.

The Parents & Friends Association has contributed $10,000 towards e quipment for the Sacred Heart Pre School which was raised this year by a Bush Dance, Fete, Gaming Night and other fundraising ventures.

The parents are also conducting workshops organised by the CEO to make their own equipment, (Jig-Saws, Blocks, Puppets etc) to save even more money.

Mercy College maths team the champs Four Year 10 boys from Mercy College Koondoola attended a weekend Mathematics Camp held by the WA Mathematical Association and won the Association trophy.

The students involved were: Hung Nguyen of

Girrawheen; Ringo Sio of Girrawheen; Khang Tran of Girrawheen too, and Michael Peterson of Ballajura.

They showed their superior skill and strategy in playing mathematical games such as

Noro, Schlegel and Nine Men's Morris over the competitors from 47 metropolitan and country schools.

The College also did extremely well in the Wespac Mathematics

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Record THAT wedding — that Queensland(!) wedding — may be over, but there's a lot of mess on the floor and it will take a long time to clean up. It's open to question whether Catholics have learnt any lessons.

"The wedding which rocked the Catholic Church Australia wide went without a hitch" pontificated the Sunday Times last weekend.

Really? Are will still in the days of Joe when Australia quakes at the mention of Queensland?

West Australians take note. Take note of how stories can be shuffled from News Limited's Queensland connections to Perth's News Limmited Sunday Times. For good measure we received two large serves of the irrepressible love of Miss Elizabeth Burger for her divorced Lutheran fiancee Christ Hartwig.

The Sunday Times is now WA's substitute weekend gospel. It is read avidly even by Catholics, before and after they go to Mass to get the other gospel. It is probably considered to be more orthodox than many a Catholic Church gospel.

And what a gospel that romance turned out to be, in the media around Australia! In no way could two people in love ever be wrong and in no way could a stodgy institution like the Catholic Church and its schools ever be right.

Miss Burger after all was in love. The Church in "sacking" her must be wrong. On her wedding day, said reports, she was heartbroken that she would no longer be able to teach in Catholic schools . . .

A further ten lines of tear stained prose were meant to prove she felt she was ever so right.

Patently the Church was on the back foot.

Journalists don't let up on that sort of thing; that's what they are paid for. Refer to sacked Daily News staff for verification.

Via The Australian newspaper, West Australians could discover how the Church nationally was having its nose rubbed in this otherwise unimportant Queensland incident. The unaccustomed fury of religion writer James Murray could find nothing good to say of the Catholic Church, its pastoral care, its principles, or its school products. Doubly damned was education director Fr McKiernan, even if a week later James Murray had to confess that he had got his facts a trifle wrong.

The letters roared, on both sides. Not a few Catholics cheered that it was time for the Church to show a bit of cold steel.

Two weeks later we look back on a standoff in which the Church can be ever so right and in which it can be seen to be ever so wrong.

Are there lessons for the Church to learn?

With the Catholic Press as good as abandoned by most Catholics (and were Catholic papers even offered the FULL story of the Burger saga?) is the Church going to lurch from one week's media trouncing to the next? It never was much fun waiting downstairs in the Coliseum while the mobs howled above, but we thought things had improved a little since then. Maybe not.

If the Catholic Church is to face continual embarrassment around the country because of inept handling of school problems, then ordinary Catholics deserve better public relations than we have seen this week.

Miss Burger's problem is only the tip of the iceberg of problems to which teachers are prone and may face dismissal: divorce, alcoholism, drugs etc to say nothing of heresy or apostasy.

It is time for Catholic education offices to get their acts together and anticipate these questions before they explode in the Church's face. For a school principal and staff to reportedly claim that a wedding invitation was the first intimation of a problem begs far more pastoral questions than it answers. It is no defence.

We may never know the full truth because of the scrambled image conveyed by the priest education director. No matter what he may have tried to say or claimed to have said, the media got him wrong.

If he had professional media advice, it was a poor job. If he did not have public relations assistance, he was serving himself up like a lamb to wolves.

Merely cursing the media and journalists because they can't get a story right is not good enough for the Church. It is the Church's job to make sure the media get it right and no matter what the effort required. Vatican II put negative nonsense about communication to bed 25 years ago but too many Catholics haven't caught up.

There is too much real work to be done in spreading the gospel to let it be dragged from one personal crisis to the next with swords drawn, winning battles and losing the war.

That's about all everyone will remember of THAT wedding in far off Queensland.

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POPULATION CONTROL IN PHILIPPINES

No compromise, say bishops MANILA, Philippines (CNS): The Catholic Church has not compromised its stand on population control, despite recent media claims to the contrary, said the chairman of the Philippine bishops' Commission on Family Life.

Bishop Jesus Varela of Sorsogon, Philippines.

He said there was a "meeting of minds" of Church and government officials on the government's family planning program set to begin this year, but opposing views also were raised in a recent disucussion.

"The Church has not copped out on its teachings . . . Moral teachings of the universal Church cannot change," said

Among concerns outlined in a joint Churchgovernment statement was that the family planning program pro-

mote only birth control methods legally available in the Philippines, such as natural family planning, intrauterine devices, sterilisation and oral contraceptives.

Abortion is outlawed in the Philippines.

The statement said individual consciences must be respected, particu rly those of married people and health care workers.

It stressed the program

must aim to help couples who wish to space or limit births and must not aim to reduce fertility or the population growth rate. The program must be limited to married people, the parties added.

A mong tensions between the two sides was the Church's continued rejection of contraception and sterilisation.

Though Church leaders reiterated their opposi-

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VATICAN CITY (CNS): Population control is not the solution to Third World development problems, said Bishop Jorge Mejia, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

"It has not been proven that demographic growth harms, in itself, development," he said.

"Some people have very serious reasons for affirming the opposite," he added at a UNsponsored conference.

Bishop Mejia criticised promotion of birth control methods "without any respect for the religious and cultural convictions of the people, families and societies concerned, as the necessary condition and suffi-

dent pre-requisite to solve underdevelopment problems."

The Vatican official spoke September 7 in Paris at a UN conference on underdeveloped countries. The text of his speech was released at the Vatican September 8.

The Vatican favours a comprehensive plan that includes reform of foreign aid programs and reform of economic and political structures in the Third World, said Bishop Mejia.

Programs to reduce Third World foreign debt should be "improved and extended to other countries gravely indebted to arrive at ways of annulling or lessening the debt and its service charges," he said.

International trade must be reformed to provide "compensation mechanisms to remedy the fluctuation in export prices" of Third World countries and to counteract "the current fluctuations in oil prices," he said.

Foreign aid programs "must not deprive the receiving countries of their cultural identity, their decision-making autonomy," he added.

"In developing countries there is a priority of investment which must be respected," he said.

Improved East-West relations "must free financial and other resources, such as technoligcal know-how, which a certain part of the world is still deprived of," he said.

But the "principal responsibility" for devising ways of

development belongs to the Third World countries.

Bishop Mejia said.

"The establishment or adequate functioning of democratic institutions, with the different possibilities of institutional controls that these imply, could contribute much of this reform." he added.

This must be accompanied by "a just distribution of wealth and responsibilities, a fight against useless expenses for prestige and arms and especially a fight against all forms of corruption," he said.

Bishop Mejia said the developed world must be better informed of the "terrible reality of poverty" that affects more than 400 million people.

Many underdeveloped countries have a per capita annual income of about $200 and a 25 per cent literacy rate, he said.

Sin flays strategy of debt payment MANILA, Philippines (CNS): Cardinal Jaime Sin of Manila has criticized the government strategy of continuing to make payments on the country's multibillion dollar foreign debt despite the devastation caused by the recent earthquake on Luzon Island.

"Something indeed seems morally wrong when, in the face of such widespread lack of basic necessities among our people, we still feel

compelled to service our debts in a 'business as usual' manner," Cardinal Sin said. comments were made during a Mass, attended by President Corazon Aquino.

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Cardinal Sin said the Philippines would do well to present the poor state of the economy to creditor states more accurately and to declare its willingness to honor obligations within human limits.

"We would also do well

to distinguish between debts that have been incurred legitimately and debts incurred by fraud," Cardinal Sin added.

"There is moral obligation to respect the contract obligations of the debtor, not the creditor," he said, "especially when the latter involves payment of some $300,000 daily in interest alone.

"When we spend such gigantic sums in servicing the interest of fraudulent loans, can there be much left to service the

legitimate interests of the poor?" Cardinal Sin asked.

Cardinal Sin said debtor and creditor nations belong to a human family of nations, and both have responsibility before God for the common good — not for perpetuating the domination of some wealthy nations over others.

At least 37 percent of the government's budget this year will go to servicing the country's $27 billion foreign debt.

tion to artificial birth control methods, they said they would respect the freedom of individual consciences and allow for pluralism in society.

Bishop Varela said some contraceptives affect the fertilised ovum, technically resulting in abortion.

Church representatives said they also feared that coercion and deception might occur, especially in the information phase of the program.

Soldiers fire on two priests S AN SALVADOR ( CNS): The Jesuit provincial for Central America said Salvadoran soldiers fired on two priests as they travelled by car through a northern

province.

Jesuit Father Jose Maria Tojeir, said a soldier fired at a Spanish priest and his Salvadoran colleague as they drove through the community of Guarjila, about 45 miles north of San Salvador.

Father Tojeira called the incident "very dangerous and very serious" and called on the army "not to fire on peaceful and unarmed persons".

"They think it was some sort of warning," said one priest who asked not to be named. He said the priests' car was wellknown in the area. and there was no fighting near there at the time.

Last November, six Jesuits, their cook and her daughter were murdered in San Salvador at Central American University.

Eight Salvadoran military officials have been charged with the murder, but church officials and some U.S. politicians have said the investigation into the murders is being obstructed.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS): Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who earlier this year resigned because of age and poor health, has been re-elected superior of the Missionaries of Charity.

Her election has been approved by the Vatican, said Monsignor Piero Pennacchini, Vatican press spokesman, September 10.

The re-election of the 80-year -old Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of the Missionaries of Charity took place September 8 in Calcutta, India, at a general chapter meeting of the religious order.

Vatican Radio quoted Mother Teresa as accepting her reelection as the will of God and pledging to carry out her responsibilities to the best of her ability.

Last December, doctors in India implanted a pacemaker in Mother Teresa, who had been suffering from heart problems.

Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu to Albanian parents in Skopje, in what is now Yugoslavia, on August 27, 1910. She founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1950 in Calcutta as a diocesan religious community, and 15 years later the Vatican recognised it as a pontifical congregation.

The religious order has more than 400 centres in 92 countries, including Cuba and the Soviet Union.

It works with the terminally ill, abandoned children, the homeless, lepers and AIDS patients.

Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her work with the poor. She accepted it "in the name of the hungry, of the naked, of the homeless, of the blind, of the lepers, of all those who feel

unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society".

NEW YORK (CNS): Christ's establishment of the Catholic Church did not end God's special relationship to the Jewish people, nor does it mean that Jews are condemned if they do not convert, said Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

"Israel maintains her election, which has never been withdrawn, but the church, too, is later accepted by God as 'chosen' for a unique purpose," said the cardinal in an interview published in the JuneJuly issue of Midstream, a New York Jewish magazine.

"Being chosen by God for a unique purpose does not permit us to hold that the others are less than we in the eyes of God" he added.

It "would be unjust" to say that Jews who do not convert are condemned, he said.

The interview focused on Catholic-Jewish relations and came three years after the cardinal stirred Jewish criticism by saying that Catholic dialogue with Jews must

reflect the "theological line" that Judaism finds its fulfillment in Christ.

Many Jewish groups interpreted this as meaning that Catholics regarded dialogue as an effort at conversion rather than mutual understanding.

In the Midstream interview, Cardinal Ratzinger said that a special effort is being made in drafting the catechism for the universal church to overcome misunderstandings of the past. He singled out the "sensitive area" of Christ's relationship to Judaism.

The cardinal heads the papally appointed group drafting the catechism, a compendium of Catholic teachings to be used as a guide in developing local catechisms.

Efforts are being made to overcome 'those old legalistic interpretations" of the Bible, "which portray Jesus as breaking with the Pharisaic interpretations of the Scripture, presented as overly legalistic," said Cardinal Ratzinger.

Some scholars have noted that Jesus' teaching and Pharisaic teaching were close in spirit and

substance, but that the New Testament was written generations later, when the split between Judaism and Christianity was hardening.

Another aim of the catechism is "to find the best way to handle those problematic areas regarding the trial of Jesus," the cardinal said.

For years, many Catholics were taught that the Jews as a people were responsible for Jesus' death. The Second Vatican Council repudiated that view.

"The New Testament per se is none other than an interpretation of the Old" and a continuity with the Old Testament.

Cardinal Ratzinger said.

"Of course, there is novelty in the way Jesus interprets the Sciptures, in the way Jesus sees this continuity," he said.

The cardinal defined Judaism as "an everliving" religion valuable to Christianity.

"Without the Old Testament, without continuous contacts with an ever-living and everenduring Judaism, Christianity could not be true to its own origins," he said.

Strangely silent NEW YORK (CNS): Elie Fordham University, was Wiese!, the Jewish author recognition of the state of who received the 1986 Israel.

Nobel Peace Prize, said "What is it — what the statement of the could it be — about the Second Vatican Council on Jewish state that prevents Jewish relations "went far the Vatican from recogfor Catholics" but "did not nising it as a sovereign go far enough for Jews". state?" he asked.

The principal omission, "Doesn't the Vatican he said in an address at understand its absolute the Bronx campus of importance to the Jewish

people everywhere?"

Wiesel said the Vatican was "strangely silent" when "Israel's neighbours prepared an armed assault against her" in 1967, only two years after issuance of the Vatican II Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions.

"Nostra Aetate".

The conference was held at Fordham University as part of its sesquicentennial celebration, with co-sponsorship by the American Jewish Committee.

tried to use the dialogue for conversion. But the Church has never renounced the idea in principle, he said.

A paper by a Vatican scholar some years ago condemning proselytising, he recalled, was ambiguously modified in its published form to condemn "undue" proselytising.

Leading the workshop with Father Pawlikowski was Rabbi Ronald B. Sobel of Temple EmanuEl, a prominent Reform synagogue on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue.

Proposed catechism disturbing NEW YORK, (CNS): An expert in Christian-Jewish dialogue, warned that the c urrent draft of the proposed new Vatican c atechism was a threatening "dark cloud on the horizon" for Catholic relations with Jews.

"I find this document quite disturbing on the whole," he said, while noting that it was still in only preliminary form.

"There are really deep problems."

These problems, he said, are found not only in sections dealing spe-

cifically with Jews, but also in other places that reflect such traditional patterns as setting Christianity as a religion of love against Judaism as supposedly a religion of fear or law.

Father Pawlikowski, social ethics professor at the Chicago Theological Union, spoke September 12 in a workshop of a conference marking the 25th anniversary of "Nostra Aetate," the document of the Second Vatican Council on nonChristian relgions.

Father Pawlikowski said he had studied the catechism draft as part of a 10-member team set up to advise Cardinal Joseph L Bernardin of Chicago.

In matters significant for Jewish relations, the whole framework resembled pm-Vatican II statements, Father Pawlikowski said, except for

the old "deicide" charge formerly made by some Christians against Jews and condemned by "Nostra Aetate."

"There is no going back on that," he said.

Pope John Paul II has himself addressed Christian-Jewish relationships more positively in many statements, he said, but none of those were cited in the draft catechism.

On the issue of attempting to convert Jews, Father Pawlikowski said that on the practical level Catholics had not in fact

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Clocking the 'kilos' for Christ Centred at Bremer Bay, a remote holiday resort and fishing port on the south coast of Western Australia, Fr Michael Slattery travels 1000km a week on pastoral duties in the seven centres of his parish.

The centres are at Gnowangerup, 205km north-west of Bremer Bay; Fitzgerald River, 160km north; Wellstead, 80km south-west, and in between are Ongerup, Borden, Jerramungup and Gairdner River.

Travelling in all weathers, he negotiates gravel roads and dirt tracks but has had only one slight accident when he tangled with a kangaroo.

"Luckily I was driving slowly," he laughed. "So there was little damage to either me or the car. I make it a rule at night to limit speed to 90km an hour.

"On the whole roads are reasonable but some creek crossings in winter can be dicey."

Talking to him about his work and the people of his scattered parish, two themes are repetitive — the major role played by his parishioners in providing continuity to the

work of the Church between his visits and his close cooperation with ministers of other denominations.

"We all work as a team," said Fr Michael.

"The lay responsiblity is heavy. Not only do they give of their time but families give an average of $550 a year to keep the show on the road. Other denominations have a similar level of giving," said Fr Michael.

He celebrates Mass in each centre at least once a fortnight except for Gairdner River. Church buildings, often erected as a community effort, are shared with other denominations.

For instance: At Wellstead, Catholics use the Anglican Church and Fr Michael and the Uniting Church Minister conduct an open Children's Club for up to 12 children every second week, and at Jerramungup they all use a church built by the Shire Council.

At Bremer Bay the ecumenical theme is even more apparent at the Church of the Holy Cross and MacKillop Parish Centre, built in

1988.

Doctors' do' a big success

Brendan Jansen, final year student, and Dr Catherine Buccilli.

The inaugural meal, danced to oho Doctors' Catholic and new sounds and Association dinner mixed in a friendly dance held recently atmosphere. was a great success.

One quarter of the Eighty Catholic docgroup was made up of tors, students and medical students from their partners were first to final year who treated to a beautiful were encouraged to view of Perth by night take a night off study. from Matilda Bay ResThe success of the taurant as well as a night has prompted spectacular moon rise. organisers to make it They enjoyed a lovely an annual event.

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Fr Slattery outside Bremer Bay Church.

The rammed-earch Church, with the priest's living quarters above, was built by the community and designed by architect Chris Wilcox.

"Every denomination and even those of no denomination pitched in to erect the church under the auspices of the

A small table at the right of the entrance to the church bears mute testimony of the unity of the denominations using the building for worship.

On it are displayed The Record, the Anglican Messenger and the Uniting Church Western Impact newspapers; an

stationed at Albany, was the parish priest for a year before and during the building of the Bremer Bay church and was succeeded by Fr Michael.

The body of the Church, normally seating 50, can be enlarged by opening concertina shutters on to

Church. It was named after Mary MacKillop, the founder of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart in recognition of the work done by the sisters in the parish.

The Order, no longer stationed in the parish, began ministrations in the 1960s operating from Tambellup.

However, just recently, Sister Elizabeth Murphy who retired after 12 years as Superior General of the Order, is now based in Esperance and visits Bremer Bay once a month.

The centre is shared by all other denominations and has a committee composed of one representative from each Church and one other.

The inside of the Bremer Bay Church.

Catholic Church," said Fr Michael.

Now the Anglican Church has services on the first Sunday of each month, the Uniting Church on the third Sunday and the Catholic Church on the second and fourth Sundays.

Anglican Missions box to receive used postage stamps; envelopes for the Catholic missions and copies of the local Anglican parish newsletters advertising the times of other denominations' services.

Fr Hugh Galloway, now

a communal meeting mom.

This doubles the seating capacity for special services such as at Christmas and Easter and for weddings and funerals.

This year the MacKillop Resource Centre has been opened at the

"We are building resources to meet the needs of people living in remote areas, by providing a library of videos, talking books and music tapes," said Fr Michael.

"They cover a wide range of subjects including religious, human relationships, coping with grief, care of children, communications and children's interests."

Material was drawn from a number of sour-

ces including the Perth Catholic Library and the Australian Council for Children's Films and TV. "A video machine has been bought by local Women and is now based at the Centre and loaned for use in homes.

"After Mass we have video showings as a type of children's Sunday school.

"We aim to have contact persons in each centre responsible for supplying videos and tapes."

It is not surprising that Fr Michael is the Government Music Specialist at Gairdner River and Bremer Bay as before he was ordained five years ago, he had been a primary and secondary school teacher.

Born in Scotland, Fr Michael migrated to New South Wales with his family when he was 20.

Later he attended the University of WA and subsequently qualified from the Mt Lawley Teachers College in 1974.

After comleting his theological degree at Sydney College of Divinity, he was ordained in 1985. He then served three years in Albany before being posted to Bremer Bay.

From left: Catholic Doctors' Association president Dr Michael Shanahan, Anna Shanahan, Ros Bowyer, Dr Tim Leahy.

Multicultural Day success

Above: Mr Fazio, a language teacher offers a colourful contribution to the concert.

Left: Preparing a curry in a hurry are from left: Rachel James, Kara Gault and teachers Jackie Highland and Lauril Martis.

Below: Old McDonald. . . Italian style.

By Nick Fazio Seton Catholic College in Hilton held its first Multicultural Day on September 7.

Seton College is the new Catholic High School that has emerged from the amalgamation of St Brendan's (Hilton) and De Vialar (Samson) Colleges.

The Multicultural Day was a great success; it underlined the richness and beauty of the cultural backgrounds of the school population.

A magnificent day offered the perfect background to a multiplicity of events that took place at the De Vialar Campus.

The school does not have a hall large enough for the number of students on both campuses, over 900, therefore all the events had to be coordinated to be presented twice to give everyone a chance to participate.

The senior students showed great sense of cooperation and responsibility in ensuring the smooth flowing of the day.

The whole school was actively involved in this major project, the overall

organisation rested on the language teachers: Mrs Marlissa Gangemi, Mrs Hugette Cohen, Miss Maria Lo Presti and Mr Nick Fazio.

The theme of the day was Speak out Down Under.

At the start of the day all students participated in a quiz multicultural (general knowledge questions).

In the library there was a display of artefacts brought for the occasion by parents, students and teachers.

The concert in the hall was held mainly by students of Italian and French, as well as by representatives of other ethnic groups (eg Maori songs and dances).

Students were given a choice to participate in the following options: Greek cooking, Polish cut-outs, Karate demonstration, kite flying, Indian dresses and cooking, Origami, Japanese dresses and cooking, Indonesian batik, Stain glass, Chinese dancing.

Expertise in these areas was provided by teachers and members of the

Fredericks and some witness to the unity that very keen students, as is found in Christ. well as curry and rice, The students were spaghetti, roast meats, invited to make a special gelati, granita etc.

For lunch the undereffort to consider diverThe whole day culmi- sity as a real chance to croft area was transformed into a side walk nated with a Multicultu- grow. rather than a threat ral Mass at St Patrick's in to one's own freedom. A cafe.

The food, prepared by Fremantle. greater and deeper parents, staff and stu- It was a warm and knowledge of people of dents. was exquisite and heartfelt celebration of all nationalities will extremely varied. 'diversity in unity'. The manifest the true identity There was pizza for whole church, filled to of the nation and coopersale, prepared by Mr capacity, presented a ate towards the creation

ethnic community. The response from the students was overwhelming.

of a united world.

Fr Dino Torresan. who delivered the homily, concelebrated together with Fr Dennis Collins (chaplain at Seton College), and Fr Hannah priest (parish of Fremantle).

The Mass was recited mainly in Italian with hymns in French. The offertory gifts were presented by students in their

ethnic costumes, the offertory prayers were read in Polish, Italian, Gaelic, Singhalese, Arabic, Pidgin-English, Korean, Indian and English. The year 11 students opened and closed the celebration carrying the world's flags.

The Church was decorated with banners and posters proclaiming in many, many languages: "Peace to all nations."

Changing face of Perth.

Perth, once known as the friendliest State in Australia, cannot boast of being so now, says a keen observer of the scene.

archdiocese of Perth, answered:

"Our society has become richer and more selfish. That is probably the real problem."

What has contributed to He said that the threethis about-turn in attiday convention next year tude? Is it because there are more cars on the on multiculturalism and road? Is it because there the Catholic Church in are more people? Is it WA will take a deeper because of the influx of look at the problem. migrants?

He added: "I think that Father Dino Torresan, the little people are still CS, who is in charge of warm-hearted." ethnic groups in the Little people?

He explained: "These are the people who have not much money and are struggling to live on. That is why they understand others and are open to others."

Perth, 36 years ago, was regarded by its Southeast Asian neighbours as a friendly and hospitable place.

Many a visitor from these countries went back with happy memories. I was one of them.

By Roy Lazaroo I had spent two months in WA in early 1954 as a representative of a Singapore boxing contingent that did battle with West Australians.

The people then were caring, friendly, helpful and very hospitable.

Help was available at a drop of a hat. Strangers went out of their way to show us around.

Thankfully there are still some of them still around. But the good that exists has been overshadowed by a new breed that don't seem to care about others.

Father Dino said that in the past the struggles of migrants and their sufferings were looked upon as political realities. They were viewed as human beings, looking for a warm place to live in and being part of that society.

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What message did he have for the uncaring people?

"Look at yourself in the mirror and try to see if you are the one denying the warmth that these people need."

Could it be that Perth has changed because of the influx of migrants?

migrants brings diversity, colours and newness in the life of the society where they are now living.

He answered: "Migrants bring variety and as in a picture variety is colourful.

'The same variety of

"And that is very unfair.

Previously (after the war) the target was Italians.

The story seems to be repeating itself."

"Because our way of living is under pressure financially, we need a scapegoat to put the blame on. The Asians are now the target.

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Work can often be your prayer...

A police chaplain who worked in a parish and moonlighted as a hospital chaplain told me once that his busy schedule actually helped him keep in touch with God. He explained that his work was his prayer because he brought his mind and hands to the task, but looked to his heart for the reasons.

Recently I did a lot of travel.

I found myself waiting on platforms on some terrific summer evenings.

I would think about my day in terms of how well I had related to others and whether I had done anything to build up God's kingdom. On a lot of those days I found myself promising to do better with the next sunrise.

In the winter on a bus I wondered if I had done

anything during the day that had meaning for my fellow passengers.

Each person lives 10,080 minutes a week.

No more, no less.

While most of us tend to be relatively careful money managers, we are probably less careful of time, even though minutes are finite. Once they're spent they cannot be recaptured.

That's why I find it important to develop a plan for "spending" time and to consider ways of "investing" it.

Is it possible to find time for reflection and prayer in a fast-paced, action life? What chance is there for those of us living in a world of work?

Each day we are hit with a barrage of words, pictures, distractions, demands. A way is needed to penetrate that activity to find our inner core — the spirit that

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by Bob Dylak makes us unique and that moves us to act.

To do that, it's important to break with some demands of the moment.

The first step is planning.

Consider leaving a little early for work. Drive to your destination without playing the car radio.

Park the car and give yourself a few minutes to think, to pray.

Are there a few minutes before or after lunch?

What about the end of the day, while others rush home?

Could this be a time to linger a few minutes in thought?

Using such times for prayerful reflection can be habit-forming. Once a habit develops it is easier to find time for it.

The key to capturing time is an ability to focus.

The blaring radios, the hustle of activity all around need to be put aside. Focus on what you are about and where you are really going. Ask yourself those questions regularly; the answers may begin to surprise you.

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Check out different methods of prayer until you find one that appeals to you and helps you develop a perspective.

That prayer style is probably right for you.

The key is to make the time. Then attempt to move closer to God, or perhaps just allow God to move closer to you.

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The gm will soon rest Oil le horizon. The f lood tide of a. day's activies is ebbing. A c alm folds the abbey.

The monks silently gathr, A y, ang monk reads a few 1,,les from the sayingsi'the desert fathers: "T11)philus of holy meta Ty, bishop of Alexandti, journeyed to Scett and the brethren cornt g together said to Abb5 Pombo: Say a worc or two to the bisho, that his soul may be eified in this place.

The der replied: If he is not eified by my silence, theris no hope he will be efied by my words."

No,the monks file into the wrch. A bell rings and te ancient service of Conine proceeds.

Fin ly, the lights fade.

Tw solitary candles shadhv the folds of her manl and caress the small cheeks of the meth val Madonna.

Tin inal strokes of the evenllg Angelus lose therulves in the surroun ing hills. Night has come Cra ion has given up its ad vines. It is time for t he nonk who has ente" d into God's e.stablishel rhythm to be quiet and st.

1 cal not say how many time [ have been asked: Do yi still take a vow of silerp? Actually, Trappist tonics never took a yowl silence.

Hut 'e do have rules or agrotients on silence in the 'mastery — valued

By Father Basil Pennington OCSO by a group of persons living together and still seeking the context in which to be at one with themselves and to commune with God. God does indeed speak to us through all the events of life, through all the persons we encounter, God is in the mighty wind, the earthquake, the fire — all.

But God's voice is subtle, even though it thunders louder than all the voices of creation.

Two could sit in the warm morning sun, listening to the bright morning calls of chickadees, robins and finches.

One might hear only the rich melodies, while the other, who had perhaps sat that morning in the quiet and attuned his inner ear to the divine voice, hears a message of ineffable love: "Look at the birds in the sky. They do not sow or reap, they gather nothing into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you more important than they?"

(Matthew 6,26).

In the quiet, whether we listen to the creation around us, the city's wises, the words of revelation or the deepest stirrings of our hearts. we begin to perceive a voice too often lost in the static of life.

In the quiet spaces, the monk hears God. He also

hears someone else. He hears himself — his true self.

Happiness consists in knowing what you want, then knowing you have it or are on the way to getting it. We have to know ourselves to know what we want.

Ultimately, it is when ourselves see we reflected back in God's all-loving eyes that we truly know ourselves with our infinite potential for beauty, for life, for truth, for love. In the quiet we come to know ourselves and what we truly want.

In the monastery there are silent times: The "great silence" of the night, times of prayer, study, reading, rest. And there are silent places; the cloisters, reading rooms, cell.

If you want the value of this in your life you will need to find or create places of quiet, to agree on times of quiet.

It might be a quiet time in the morning until breakfast, an hour or two in the evening or a few hours on Sunday afternoon when each is left free to read. pray, reflect, write.

This is not impossible with children. They can be put to quiet games.

And for teenagers, a structure to discover the sounds of silence can be a gift that is perhaps at first not welcomed, but for which, as for dry wine, a taste develops.

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Find ways to save time, ways that remind you to pray. Just setting the breakfast table before going to bed at night can yield an extra free minute in the morning.

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The events that took place after that stroll constitute one of the Bible's great stories of sin and conversion.

From the roof, David happened to see a beautiful neighbour. Consumed with desire, he sent for her. "When she came to him, he had relations with her." (2 Samuel 11;4) Some time later, the woman, whose name was Bathsheba, sent word to David that she was pregnant. This presented a dilemma.

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For her husband was away, fighting in David's army. It would eventually become obvious that Bathsheba had been unfaithful during his absence.

David dispatched a message to his general mandating a furlough for the husband, Uriah. who could stay with Bathsheba while home. Her condition then would not need explanation.

However, David did not r eckon with Uriah's character. Uriah refused to enjoy the comforts of home while his friends were fighting and dying.

He insisted on camping at the palace gate with the officers stationed there.

David was concerned.

He decided on a desperate plan.

Uriah was sent back to the battlefield with a message instructing his commander to put him in the front line where he almost certainly would be killed. And he was.

The king now had compounded adultery with murder, but had saved face.

One man was not fooled

by these manoeuvres.

That was the prophet Nathan. He came to David with a little parable.

It concerned a man who had only one little lamb, a cherished pet. His rich neighbour had "herds in great numbers". One day the rich man had a visitor and, instead of slaughtering one of his lambs for dinner, "he took the poor man's ewe lamb and made a meal of it".

On hearing that David

shouted: "The man who has done this deserves death!."

Nathan responded: "You are the man!" He went on to predict dire punishments for the king.

'Then David said to Nathan, 1 have sinned against the Lord'."

Nathan answered: `The Lord on his part has

forgiven your sin; you shall not die." (2 Samuel 12:13) David suffered for his sin. But he had the strength of character to

acknowledge his sinfulness and God responded with forgiveness.

This story is dramatic, but David's need of conversion was not unique.

Conversion is necessary for all people in maintaining a right relationship with God.

I uning in to the quieter pace by necessity Like many heart attack patients, I was put on a regimen of daily walks. I was told, with the doctor's index finger wagging at my nose: "Now, don't forget, every single day for at least a halfhour."

Knowing the alternative, I followed the cardiologist's orders. For the last year Ihave spent a half-hour each day on a quiet walk along the trails, through the grasslands and over the hills which I love.

What began as medical necessity has become

personal luxury. That peaceful half-hour has become a treasured time out. It is my time to tune in to the quieter pace now value so much.

Realistically, there is no way I have time for that walk. A half-hour, after all, becomes a lot of time out of a busy schedule.I have to work and my work is time-consuming.

So I learned to make the time.

Time has been only half the problem. Finding relatively quiet places has been equally difficult. We live in buildings run by machines for our

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By Father David O'Rourke, OP work, are transported by machines and use machines to prepare our food. They're all great and have freed us from lives of drudgery.

But these machines create a constant din — from the hum of the refrigerator or computer to the clatter of trucks and buses. For health, sanity and simple wellbeing we need a break from it.

We need some time

away from the amplified and echoed sounds of machine-aided living. In my case, the regional parks provide respite from traffic and din.

To my surprise. I found many others out on the park trails. Mothers with youngsters in strollers; senior citizens in jogging suits; office workers on their lunch break.

Some move leisurely, others go along at a good clip. But all seem to relish the softer sounds of the park trail.

Is God found only in silence? Must sacred places be silent places?

Are people who live with noise far from God? Can the young mother clinging to survival and sanity just as her screaming children cling to her be religious in the best sense? I think so.

The story of creation describes how God brought life and its

sounds into a silent void.

From the very beginning of Jewish history we hear over and over of ti practice of making a joyful noise to the Lord.

The mother with a screaming child practising acrobatics on her knees can well be in touch with the sacred.

But some relative quiet is certainly a human need. We have created a world of mechanical noises louder and more insistent than we can bear. We have developed the means to amplify sound to a level we cannot stand.

Researchers say the assault is getting to us.

Becoming free of those sounds, even a little while each day, can be restoring. And that human restoration, which makes use of silence, can be very religious.

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Vatican defends basilica blessing VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul II's blessing of a controversial and costly basilica in Africa was a "historical gesture" on behalf of the continent's poor, the Vatican newspaper said.

The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, which the pope consecrated September 10 in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast, is a recognition of Africans' right as equals among the world's Christians, s aid L'Osservatore Romano in a frontpage editorial last week.

The poor will be the "privileged guests" of the massive church, it said.

them in the faith, in prayer and in dignity".

"This is the essential victory over underdevelopment and poverty," it said.

"They are the ones asking for it, and they will fill it up," the editorial said. "Where there are poor, there's no reason to fear that the basilica will be an empty building in the desert."

The basilica, which resembles St Peter's Basilica in Rome, was built at an estimated cost of $150 million by Ivory Coast President Felix HouphouetBoigny. The president gave it to the Vatican, and the pope made a special stop to say an inaugural Mass there at the end of a 10-day trip to Africa.

The new church, it said, will allow African Christians to feel themselves to be "brothers with the believers of the whole world and equal to

The massive edifice was criticised by many as an extravagance in a country that is experiencing an economic crisis. In the Ivory Coast, Catholics make up slightly more than 10 percent of the population.

The editorial said the tone of such criticisms in Europe was nearly that of a "moral lynch squad" that went after "an African people guilty of expressing in a solemn and stable way their worship of God".

Promote dignity of life, pope tells scientists C ASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS): Scientists should oppose euthanasia by promoting the dignity of life, especially in the terminally ill, said Pope John Paul II. The Church supports fundamental "the human right to life and its quality, from conception to its natural sunset," the pope said to a group of scientists attending an

international bioethics conference.

The Church defends life "especially for those who are terminally ill," the pope said.

The attitude before the terminally ill is often the testing ground of the sense of justice and charity, of the nobility of the soul, and of the responsibility and pro-

fessional training of health workers, beginning with doctors," he added.

"A sick person, even considered though untreatable by science, can never be considered incurable," said the pope.

The Church's defense of human life and its quality includes support for ecology and "the re-

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Two families left the sleepy town of Mundaring in July bound for Medjugorje and the European scene and returned home after a few weeks with the conviction that for them, life would never be quite the same again.

Catherina Diggle took her two children Kerensa and John, and Gloria Davini took her (now 15 yo) son Damian.

They arrived in Medjugorje in time to catch the lengthy but apparently very beautiful Croatian Mass in the Church of St James.

During this period at 6pm, Ivan, one of the seers to whom Our Lady has allegedly been appearing to since 1981 had his nightly vision of her and subsequently told the huge crowds to assemble after Mass on Mount Podbro, also known as the Hill of Crosses because of the vast number of crosses which have been put there by visitors from many parts of the world, including Australia.

The climb was steep up the rocky hill and winding one's way up meant in single file.

About 2000 people gathered that night with barely standing room.

Kneeling on the rocky ground was painful while Ivan was experiencing his second

apparition that night, now at 10pm at the foot of the 10 metre cross which stands out from among the many others embedded there by the believers.

All candles and torches had been extinguished in the silent night- until Ivan's apparition was finished and the message he received from Our Lady translated into the many languages for the listening mass.

However, immediately after Ivan stopped speaking to Our lady (no one can hear the seers' voices but merely see their throat muscles moving), Catherina, Gloria and Damian rose to their feet because of the pain in kneeling on the rocky ground.

At that point according to the three of them, the crowds seemed to sway aside so their vision was unrestricted and they said they saw Our Lady standing at the foot of the cross dressed in blue and white with a veil and hands gently opened in a gesture of peace.

They said she was smiling "and had the sweetest, loveliest face you could ever imagine, emanating such peace and love".

At this point, Gloria exclaimed to Damian "Look, there's Our Lady!". Damian meanwhile had reached for his mother's arm and was saying "I know!Ican see her!"

He was trembling like a leaf, said Gloria, "and the tears just started rolling down my cheeks with joy".

Catherina meanwhile was also telling her children to look, but they couldn't see anything.

The trio said that just before Ivan's apparition of Our Lady, they'd heard a swishing sound and Ivan subsequently said Our Lady had

saw Ria Damian Davini whose desire to spread the love, peace and harmony of God to all, must surely inspire. arrived with three angels, which Catherina, Gloria and Damian were not aware of.

Damian said they couldn't take their eyes from what they saw and the vision lasted for several minutes.

"During this time I tried to think of all the people and petitions! wanted to place before Our Lady and to thank her for everything."

Our Lady had, according to Ivan, said the Our Father and the Glory Be with him and was very happy to see everyone there. Our Lady then, said Ivan, opened her arms as if to embrace everyone and gave them her special blessing, and accepted all our prayers and petitions.

One of the interesting things the three West Australians noted was that despite the fact so many people being there, nothing obstructed their view until it disappeared "and went back to Heaven," according to Ivan, "leaving a cross of light behind in the sky" but which no one else could see.

The apparition over the people switched on their torches, lit their candles and started to slowly descend the hill.

"Climbing up such a rocky hill was not difficult though," they said.

"You seemed to just float up."

Catherina, Gloria and Damian went up to the foot of the cross where they believed they'd seen a vision and stood in awe and wonderment, they said, "at having seen Our Lady there, then picked up some small rocks to bring back to Australia before moving back down the hill." have lives Their changed since that night, they state and "life can never be the same again".

They prayed mostly

through the night and felt they took Jesus and Mary with them throughout their European tour, "feeling secure and confident, knowing they were with us".

When they returned to their homes in Mundaring and Stoneville they found Damian's rosary beads, the pair he frequently uses, had turned to 'gold'.

For those who've never seen this phenomenom, let it be noted that many people throughout the world and certainly here in Australia, have had rosary bead links sim-

Gloria Davini and Catherina Diggle who since they've returned from Medjugorje and their experiences there, now believe that "with prayer — nothing is impossible". rose petals, deliberately allowing them to fall here and there throughout the world, entering people's lives and homes to 'leave her calling card' in a significant way which is hard to dispute, considering the uneven way some parts change and others don't. Then more do. Or the lot. And it's an instant discovery, not a slowly changing process. It's a sudden discovery. Or you wake up in the morning and find it's happened.

The important thing that emerges from this happening is that it is not very important to whose

always directing attention for adoration to her Son. One pair of 'golden' rosary beads for instance, the figure of Christ is 'golden' on a silver cross and circular background, as if to say: Behold my Son. Focus your love on Him. And what about these t wo families who've returned to the hills?

Have their lives a new direction? Do they have a message? Do they see themselves with a role to play? What is Mary's message to us? And why has she been appearing

going and in order, Catherina, Gloria and Damian believe now they have a role, a responsibility to spread the love of Mother Mary, and her Son, to as many as they can, who want to hear.

And they state the comfortingly obvious: "You don't have to go to Medjugorje to feel Our Lady's presence. Listen to the seers, or see the many miracles which thousands have, because Jesus and Mary are with each person, everyday and everywhere."

They are always there when you need them.

There's a need to pray more sincerely ilarly turn to a golden colour.

Sometimes some of the decades of beads change, or maybe the cross and medallion or maybe the lot. Some have also been known to change partly, and then later discovered to be fully changed.

Damian's medallion changed a fortnight after he returned and found the links 'golden'.

This is in line with Our Lady's reported statement that she would make a ring of golden rosaries throughout the world.

The known instances of the rosary beads turning 'golden' occur to people from diverse ages, backgrounds, and sexes.

It is as though Our Lady sprinkled the world with

beads it happens — but rather the good that can come from these 'little miracles'.

It is as though Our Lady throws a single rose petal into a still and beautiful, clear pond.

This lovely petal on hitting the water in a chosen deliberately place, sends ever widening circles to reach out to others.

Maybe there are those who will never believe unless they see, or simply because they need to do so, whereas others don't.

And in these 'golden' rosaries, with the enormous blessings they bring, Our Lady doesn't claim glory for herself, but to turn people to her Son. To get them to love God as He should be, and

to the originally six seers nightly since 1981 . . . for what purpose?

They believe "she is coming to help the world convert back to her Son before it is too late. To return to God," they say.

There is an urgency, they said, to pray harder, more sincerely, more often.

"Prayer is powerful," Damian said. "It can do anything".

And the three of them pray now as often as they can, filled with fervour and love at having seen, they believe, "Our beautiful Lady".

Although they've returned to the school and domestic and daily chore that is a ritual for most of us to keep things

And they also need our thanks and love, they said.

The experience for them of Medjugorje, and their having seen, they believe, the vision of Our Lady at the foot of the cross, has fortified their faith, given them the strength, love and dedication to try and pray harder, and to be also like the circles in the pond — ever reaching out and beyond to touch others with the incredible grace and love which Our Lady has brought to those who simply believe.

Footnote: There is a special blessing from Our Lady which is only to those who are at the site of the apparition. But they in turn can give it to others, and they to

others, and so it carries on.

This blessing was originally given by Our Lady to a crowd of over 30,000 people on June 24, 1986.

This was the first time she had given the power to others to bless in her name.

She said to the seers on Mt Krisevac: "You are on Tabor. You receive blessings, strength and love.

Carry them into your families and into your homes. To each one of you I grant a special blessing. Continue with joy, prayer and reconciliation."

In 1988 Marija, one of the seers, elaborated on it by saying: 1. This is a blessing which has the power to convert and help people.

2. It may be used on believers and non-. believers to help them convert or to progress in the conversion process.

3. Once Our Lady gives it to you (being at the site of the apparitions) it lasts your whole life.

4. You do not have to be in the presence of the one you are blessing.

5. The blessing is as powerful as the degree of faith you have in it and the prayer you offer. The more you pray from the heart, the stronger it is.

8 If you receive this blessing from Our Lady and in turn bless another with it, that person has it to the same degree you first received it from Our Lady. This second person may then give it to a third, and the third to a fourth and so on. All will receive this gift to bless others just as if Our Lady gave it directly. This blessing will last your entire lifetime.

9. A spontaneous prayer is sufficient.

Simply: "I extend to you the blessing of Our Lady."

Or you can do so silently even to non-believers

The Record,-September 2a 1990

11

OBITUARY

The world's oldest brother dies in WA

At his death last week, approaching 93, Brother Philip Anthony Kean was t he oldest Christian Brother in the world.

He had spent over 75 years of his life as a Christian Brother, 60 of those years in his home state of WA and 37 of those years at St Patrick's College, Geraldton, A St Mary's Cathedral Perth parishioner he had been educated by the Sisters of Mercy and when he was later

taught at CBC Perth the Brothers were less than 20 years arrived in the one time colony.

In a brief teaching posting to Perth in 1923 he was to teach the young Launcelot Goody, also a Cathedral parishioner and later its archbishop.

Other WA postings were at Kalgoorlie, Fremantle, Aquinas, Leederville and Highgate.

His intellectual brilliance was evident early in his career. His university successes were in

humanities and especially Latin, in science, mathematics, art and music. Late in life he braved taking up Japanese.

His breadth of learning came to the fore in Geraldton in 1933 when he pioneered upper secondary education teaching all subjects to a combined Leaving and Sub-Leaving class with individual options including agricultural science thrown in for good measure.

Outside the classroom he was to be in charge of senior boarders, sportsmaster, and

coach of cricket, football, swimming, athletics and gymnastics, with debating and the college cadet unit for good measure.

Confrere Brother Geoff Seaman said in a eulogy to Brother Kean: -So many will remember with gratitude not only his work as a teacher but the warmth of his friendship and the sincerity of his interest in their welfare. To his fellow Christian Brothers he was conspicuously loyal. His former students invariably

speak of him with admiration, respect and affection. Without doubt he will be long remembered as a great teacher and a genuine friend.

-Yet Brother Kean's strongest influence derived not from his learning, his teaching or his prowess in one field or another but from his being truly a man of God. His strong faith, nurtured from his earliest years in a loving family, was abundantly evident in his prayerfulness, his abiding love of the Mass and his devotion

to Jesus, present in the Blessed Eucharist. Almost invariably those visiting him at Nazareth House, Hilton would find him praying his Rosary in the chapel. The faith and love still so strongly evident had been the motivating force for his lifetime of loving and generous service of a faithful God in whom he had put his trust. Thanks to that service, remarkable in its quality and constancy, the lives of many have been notably enriched.May he rest in peace.

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The Pastoral and Matrimonial Renewal Centre will present a Church Weekend at the L.J. Goody Bio-ethics Centre, Glendalough, from October 26 to 28.

The Church Weekend, developed by Fr Chuck Gallagher, SJ, gives an opportunity for participants with earlier Renewal experiences (Marriage Encounter, Engaged Encounter, Antioch, Cursillo, Barnabus, etc) to build on their existing sense of being Church.

It addresses the vexed question of Catholic identity today, and focuses in a special way on the need for reconciliation and unity within the Body of Christ, beginning with the domestic church in the family.

Married people are strongly urged to attend as a couple.

This Church Weekend will be presented by Fr Joe Parkinson and Peter and Veronica Dymond and is primarily for members of the Highgate zone of parishes; however, limited places are being offered to others on a first come basis.

Representatives of Parish Councils are especially welcome to attend to evaluate the Church Weekend's effectiveness in answering their parishes' needs as defined in the Year of Mission.

For registration forms please contact Alan and Anne Jennings on 271 1653.

Peter and Veronica Dymond.

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to the Editor

Disappointed From Fr Paul PITZEN, OSM Sir, I am disappointed that the Royal Institute of Architects annual award was presented to Marcus Cohn for the transformation of the Home of the Good Shepherd Convent in Leederville into the Education C atholic Centre.

While admitting that the restoration may have its merits, I am constantly reminded that the work did not provide access for people with disabilities.

For example, any activity in the James Nestor Hall precludes people in

wheelchairs from attendance unless they are physically and morally strong enough to be unceremoniously carried up the stairs. Some places are accessible and others that one would expect to be accessible are not. I wonder why one would win an award for placing a public meeting place in an inaccessible location.

I wonder, too, if any of those judging the awards had actually visited the site and did any of them visit the site in a wheelchair?

I would have hoped that

an organisation like the Royal Institute of Architects would be aware of the need and right of people with disabilities when judging the merits of candidates for their awards.

The restoration work may indeed win a national award but it will be hollow indeed.

Perhaps public address systems are not part of the architect's duties but I must mention that the system installed in the hall is entirely inadequate and lacking in basics such as an audio induction loop.

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TOMORROW TODAY with Father

Joe Parkinson

Pope's call to true freedom

By Agostino Bono, of the Catholic News Service, Vatican.

Capitalising on the rapidly changing face of eastern Europe, Pope John Paul II has c alled the world's young people to make a "pilgrimage of freedom" and join him for World Youth Day at the Marian shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Poland on August 14-15 next year.

"It will be a pilgrimage of freedom across the frontiers of states which, more and more, are opening to Christ," he said. "Do not miss this appointment!"

In the light of changing between relations

nations in Europe, Pope But the Pontiff warned John Paul called on against a freedom not young people from both controlled by moral East and West to begin restraints. 'working to build a "External freedom, guasociety in which all ranteed by just civil laws, peoples will live frateris important and necesnally together'. said, "but alone "God is present in this sary," he enough." is not it evolution," the Pope said.

For many peoples the "It must be rooted doors are opening the always in the interior hope of a life more freedom that belongs to worthy of them and the children of God" and more human." which is "guided by an "We rightly rejoice that upright moral today, in an ever- conscience." increasing number of countries, the fundamenThe gathering will mark tal rights of the human one of the first occasions being on which youth people are person respected, even if, not from eastern European infrequently, there has nations will be allowed to been a high price to pay attend churcha and sponsored international sacrifice in bloodshed." meeting.

The recent Catholic Parish Youth Christian Living camp 'Masks' drew nearly a full house at Eagle's Nest, Gidgegannup.

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11 A.A.JIL. F ANAVALV4IV4dk11 CROSSROADS TO TOMORROW Parishes, schools, youth groups and individuals planning to take part in the 1991 Catholic Youth Conference "Crossroads to Tomorrow" should register soon, according to youth chaplain Father Joe Parkinson.

"Considering that the conference has the potential to exercise great influence on the Church's attitudes to

Register soon... youth, the more young people who attend, the better," he said.

"Many parishes have already begun fundraising to offset the costs to individuals, and I think schools and youth

groups should do the same."

Registration forms have been sent to all schools and parishes, and more can be obtained simply by calling the conference office on 328 9878.

A list of 30 elective topics covering a broad range of subjects to be treated during the conference is included with the form.

Catholic first year university students from rural areas are invited to register interest in a shared accommodation project adjacent to Curtin University.

Enquiries and registration of interest may be directed to:

What a team! Baby Brigid Anne McGinty (2 months) is always ready to help her mother Julia in organising the 1991 Catholic Mouth Conference.

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10th Anniversary Celebration October 14 St Charles Centre Meadow Street, Guildford Open air Mass 11am followed by BYO Picnic Lunch (BBQ's provided) Highgate Parish hosted the latest Barnabas Weekend for young adults on August 3-5.

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Mr Lionel Cranfield of Zenith Music presenting their perpetual award of a clock to Trinity students Bill Crofts and Carl Celedin for Trinity's excellence in performance and participation in the spirit of the festival.

Liturgical dancers from St Paul's primary make a charming study as they rehearse for their performance during the festival. Elizabeth Arkle (left rear) Danielle Hayward, Michelle Watson and Fiona Dillon. (Left front) Louise Baker, Zoe Brooks, Diana Costa and Peta Lindsay.

The first Performing Arts Festival for Catholic schools came to a mighty close last Friday night in Winthrop Hall at UWA which was the culmination of two weeks of performances in the field of performing arts featuring speech, drama, music, singing and dancing.

That night 450 students sang together in their collective choirs and the whole festival had seen performances by 5000 WA students from Catholic schools.

Fr Francis Douglas has been the coordinator of

Lawrence for drama, the given 50 years of music Catholic Education Com- teaching. mission and seven wom- In acknowledgement of en's religious Orders in such sisters and their a cknowledgement of work, Archbishop Foley their sisters who so applauded their contribuunselfishly taught so tion and thanked their many for so long, many Orders for their signifiof whom went unrecog- cant work. nised and gave the major Zenith Music made a part of their lives to significant financial conpromote the performing tribution to the festival arts, taking it out beyond and Mr Lionel Cranfield city limits into the coun- of Zenith said they would try and the goldfields. back the next festival because of the imporOne such sister who tance of the performing typifies many others, arts in the lives of people. was Loreto Sister John "What is a scientist Moore who died last year without music or a at the age of 99 having mathematician without

the festival for the central region which involved eight primary schools and their three feeder colleges.

The eight schools were St Peter's Bedford; St Col umba's Bayswater; Our Lady's Assumption Dianella; Sacred Heart Highgate; Good Shepherd Lockridge; Ballajura Catholic Primary; St Paul's Mt Lawley and Infant Jesus Morley.

The three colleges were Mercedes, Chisholm and Trinity.

It achieved its objective in bringing Catholic talent together and the

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essence of the exercise, said Mr Douglas, was to give students an opportunity to perform and to see where they could achieve excellence.

Because invitations were extended by the central region to every Catholic student in WA, many other schools outside the region performed, coming from as far away as Bunbury and New Norcia.

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Aquinas College is hav- open the festival on the in 1925, Mr Mazzotti has created many works for ing an art festival from Sunday.

Sunday, October 21 to 28 Working on the basis religious venues in a honouring its art teacher that art must be seen to wide art form. of 22 years, Mr Dan be appreciated, various His latest creative venart works by students ture is for mosaic icons Mazzoni.

Considering it an and professionals have for the Russian Orthodox appropriate time to been purchased for col- Church in Perth. review past work and lege display.

His works have been present, a display of work Mr Dan Mazzotti helped for interstate purchased and ideas created in the establish the art departand overseas art collecname of art will be ment during its inception and public tions presented spanning the in 1969. buildings.

Retiring for him means past 22 years.

Submitted works will be saying farewell to a large He is an expressionist and sculptor, from current and past slice of his life given over painter figurative. mainly students with students, teachers and to working "who have been the Commenting on the friends of the college.

Former Aquinian, parli- main source of my present standard of student art, Mr Mazzotti amentarian Mr Fred happiness".

Chaney will officially Born in Ravenna, Italy believes it is quite high,

especially this year.

"There is much more enthusiasm now because of the variety we are offering in medium and subjects which has given the students a chance to feel happy about what they're doing."

In retirement he plans to keep busy concentrating on his art and doing occasional commission work.

Mr Mazzoni will also be featuring his work on the forthcoming La Salle Art Exhibition on October 12, 13 and 14.

Our world

The Times Concise Atlas of World History (Angus & Robertson dist tbrougb Collins bh $34.95).

This superlative history of the world is the ideal companion for all who aspire to understand nun's past.

Illustrated with over 300 dynamic maps it has been developed from The Times Atlas of World History a world wide hest seller with over half a million copies sold in nine languages.

This Concise Atlas of World History is designed for an even wider public and many of the maps and all the accompanying texts are new.

It has been published in the belief that a study of world history — those great movements and conflicts which form man's collective memory — is essential for an appreciation of the world today

Artist and retiring art teacher Mr Dan Mazzotti showing Ben Drake (who will also be exhibiting an acrylic oil painting in the exhibition) and other students, his latest painting The Political Prisoner.

•N'ILS COLLEGE

Evocative poet of Austra a

Poetical Works of Henry Lawson, decorated with Rom by paintings Roberts, Arthur Streeton,

Frederick McCubbin and others. (Angus & Robertson distributed through Collins bb $16.95).

Since its first publication in 1918, Henry Lawson's Poetical Works has captured the imagination of Australians of bush and town alike. With the passage of years, Lawson's stature as a poet has grown rather than diminished, and his articulate voice rings as true today as when it first sounded almost a century ago.

Readers will be enchanted by this new edition of Lawson's verse, with fullcolour illustrations accompanying the text, including works by Arthur Streeton, Tom Roberts and Frederick McCubbin. Artists of Lawson's time, they shared his vision of a harsh but enduring nation in the making.

Lawson's celebrated ballads, handsomely complemented by the illustrations throughout, make this a volume to be treasured.

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Daniel de Luis (left) screen printing with Brendan Griffiths, Luke Colgan, Mark Edwards, Richard CampbellDavis and Matthew Anthony.

A Taste of Australia.

Savouring Australia's past in traditional recipes and nostalgic photographs by Peter Taylor. (Angus & Robertson distributed through Collins $19.95) Damper and billy tea, meat pies, lamingtons and Anzac biscuits . . .

Whatever their origins, some foods have become distinctively Australian. Perhaps without even realising it, Australians have borrowed and subtly changed dishes to suit their own way

of life. Some, of course, are all our own design: kangaroo tail soup and the inimitable pavlova are only two examples.

Peter Taylor has combined a feast of Australia's favourite dishes with a rich sampling of nostalgic photographs and Fascinating sketches. glimpses of our past delved from the diaries, recipe books and photographs of the early settlers accompany the recipes to present a visual and gastronomic 'taste of Australia'

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Catholic Education Commission of Western Australia invites applications for the position of

PRINCIPAL St Anne's School

Harvey

St Anne's is a coeducational primary school currently enrolling 161 students from years 1-7 and a pre-primary class will commence in 1991. The school is an integral part of the parish community.

Applicants must be practising Catholics, committed to the objectives and ethos of Catholic education and have requisite administrative skills and academic and professional qualifications.

Salary and conditions are similar to those offered by the Ministry of Education.

Further information and official application forms can be obtained from: Eric Chidlow Catholic Education Office of WA PO Box 198, Leederville WA 6007 Telephone: (09) 388 4388 Official application forms should be addressed to The Director, Catholic Education Office (address above) and lodged by Wednesday, October 3, 1990.

LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR

150 years caring for the aged

CELEBRATION MASS at 7.30prn TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2 at St Joseph's Church, Salvado Road, Subiaco All invited afterwards for refreshments at Little Sisters of the POOT Rawlins Street, Glendalough.

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

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GLASGOW CELTIC Supporters' Club Meets FORTNIGHTLY WEDNESDAY nights at

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Darrien Gardens, North Perth Copies of the latest Scottish newspapers, 'The Celtic View' and recent videos featuring Celtic.

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BURMESE WELCOME A welcome to Father Benjamin Eihsu of Burma takes place on Sunday, September 30 at the Sacred Heart Church parish hall, Highgate at 10am. Please bring a plate and drinks.

Father Eihsu will celebrate the 9am Mass at the Sacred Heart Church on that day.

Enquiries 272 1379.

BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE Rosary, homily and Benediction will be held on Sunday, September 30 at the Bullsbrook Church "Virgin Mary Mother of the Church" at 2pm.

For further information and bus reservations please ring 444 2285 f or Perth, Highgate, Dianella, Marangaroo and Midland bus and 339 4015 for Fremantle bus.

The church is open every day and is available for pilgrimages (by appointment).

SACR I Association PO Box 311, Tuart Hill WA 6060. Telephone 571 1699.

QUEENS PARK DANCE There will be a fund raising dance in aid of the new parish church at Queens Park, at Queens Park Recreation Centre, Centre St, Queens Park on October 20, 7.45pm to lam. $6 (5-14), $12 (adults).

Tickets from Wayne 458 1940, Audrey 451 4690.

CONTINUOUS ROSARY The Kelmscott Legion of Mary are organising a 24 hour continuous rosary for the 31 days of October in honour of Our Lady Queen of Peace.

The rosary may be said privately, at home or in church.

To participate ring 390 6413, 390 5435, 399 7390, 390 6818, or the Ede' Quinn Centre 328 2726, or write to the Kelmscott Legion of Mary c o Mrs M. Bruce, 159 Third Ave Kelmscott 6111 for a daily half hour time slot.

All names and parishes will be entered on a scroll to be presented during the offertory at the 8am mass on Sunday, October 7, Feast of the Holy Rosary.

Intentions of this rosary are: 1.

World Peace; 2. Missionaries.

MYAREE LATIN MASS The Latin Mass at Myaree — formerly llam — has been changed to 8.30am from Sunday, September 16.

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MAJELLAN RETREAT Bookings can now be made for the Majellan Retreat at St Joseph's Retreat House, Safety Bay from Friday to Sunday, October 26-28.

The religious director is Sr MarieTherese Ryder, OLM. Cost of the retreat is $45. Please forward deposit of $20 or pay full amount to Mrs B. Townsend, 23 Daglish St, Wembley 6014.

Cheques payable to "Majellan Groups of WA".

A bus leaving the Redemptorist monastery, North Perth at 6pm on Friday and returning approx 5pm Sunday. Book bus seats when making retreat bookings by ringing Mrs B. Townsend on 381 5757.

HOSPICE SERVICE The annual St Luke's Day service celebrating the combined services of • ' the Cottage Hospice, Shenton Park, the Palliative Care Unit, Hollywood, and the Silver Chain Hospice Care Service will be held in St Mary's II Cathedral, Perth on Thursday, October 18 at 7.45pm. The service gathers relatives and friends of more than a thousand people cared for in hospice services during the year. The preacher will be Rev Canon Les Goode, chaplain of the Cottage Hospice. The Anglican and Catholic archbishops and the Moderator of the Uniting Church will also participate along with chaplains, nurses and staff of the services.

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Archdiocesan Calendar SEPTEMBER 22-23 Confirmation Morley, Monsignor Keating.

Bless and open Seton College, 23 Archbishop Foley.

Visitation and confirmation, Rockingham, Bishop Healy C onfirmation, Bedford Inglewood, Monsignor McCrann Confirmation, Spearwood, Monsignor Nestor.

Confirmation, South Perth, Mon25 signor Keating.

Doubleview church confirmation 26 for John XXIII, Archbishop Foley.

Visitation and confirmation, Wanneroo, Bishop Healy.

C onfirmation, Osborne Park, Monsignor Keating.

Confirmation, Beaconsfield, Mon27 signor McCrann.

14th Annual Synod Uniting 28 Church, Archbishop Foley.

Confirmation, Mundaring, Bishop 28 Healy.

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The successful applicant will work to: • Facilitate Parish Youth Activities.

• Administer the Parish Youth Office.

• Assist in developing the role of youth in the Church.

The yearly salary for this position is presently $16,838. It is necessary that the applicant possess a car and preferably an A & B class drivers licence Applications close September 28 and should include: i) A Curriculum Vitae and any relevant information regarding past or present involvement with youth groups. ii) Two written references.

Applications should be addressed to: Fr Evan Penberthy PO Box 1084 Bunbury 6230.

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