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Back to back, yet not seeing eye to eye At the Mandorla Prize judging at New Norcia last weekend, art critic MURRAY MASON found Dom Chris Power and Dom Bernard Rooney unable to see eye to eye on the winner but on Page 2 he reveals why Dom Chris appears to have chosen the better part.

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Worrying signs . . . OVER THE FUTURE OF PRIESTHOOD

VATICAN CITY: The eighth Synod of Bishops to be held since Vatican II has opened with the historic presence of Eastern European bishops, even from Russia, but very aware that new problems surround the Catholic priesthood's formation systems.

Pope John Paul told the 238 delegates to remember the Catholic churches of China, Vietnam and Laos who were unable to have representatives present.

The pope told the bishop he hoped "your labours will produce the abundant fruit the Church community is expecting" but some of the heavyweight names from around the world are already pointing to the difficulties ahead.

At the opening Cardinal Pimonta, Bombay, pointed: "We must be grateful to God for so many priests who, without doubt, are men full of the Spirit of Christ, but we are also aware that there is a crisis in the life of many of our priests; many have left the ministry while others seem to be uncertain of their priestly identity, of their faith, of their ministry."

There were worrying signs — such as the small numbers of seminarians, the ageing priesthood, and the numbers leaving the ministry.

There were some subjects that the Synod did not have time to discuss: celibacy of priests, the ordination of women, and the priesthood for married men. These themes had already been dealt with in a definitive way.

He said one of the greatest problems in the formation of priests was the society in which young people grew up.

Candidates for the priesthood were less naive and more realistic than 40 years ago. But in the west they were growing up surrounded by hedonism, eroticism, drugs and pornography.

"They look for liberty without limits," he said.

Young men often lacked even the most basic education about their faith, even when they had come from Catholic families and been to Catholic schools.

Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said that the crisis in the image of the priesthood had come about because of a failure in Catholic theology.

The priesthood was a sharing in the mission of Christ, and therefore demanded an intimate personal relationship with Christ.

Cardinal Ratzinger criticised theologians who had tried to identify Christ with Karl Marx, as

a liberator of the poor from the oppression of the rich. That was completely different from the image presented in the Gospels, he said.

Cardinal Neves of Brazil, summarising the responses received during the preparation said priests needed to make up for the lack of numbers by excellent preparation and formation.

"The current spring-time of vocations in some parts of the world could quickly turn into a cold winter without the proper formation," he warned.

Cardinal Jan Willebrands, from Holland, former head of the Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, warned against a nostalgia for the past. The 81-year-old cardinal said many were nostalgic for the middle ages when Christianity dominated Europe.

But nostalgia could hide reality, and the Church at that time was unable to respond to calls to reform.

Others were nostalgic for the more recent past, when the churches were full and vocations numerous. But that was an era when atheistic and pagan governments had emerged, which wanted to destroy Christian culture and annihilate the faith.

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phone naturally With their new 008 cost free telephone number, Natural Family Planning's Perth office staff boast they have gone countrywide, statewide and even nationwide.

Around Australia, the distinctive 008 11 4010 will put a caller through to the Natural Family Planning Council's agency in each state capital city.

And country people are appreciating not having to watch the telephone dollars and cents, say the Perth office staff.

Originally a Melbourne initiative some three years ago, the idea was taken up last year by the national council which is underwriting the cost for the first 12 months until its effectiveness can be reviewed.

In Perth the connection of the 008 number has coincided with the NFP Centre's move into new larger premises at the corner of Murray Street and Victoria Square.

Up to three counsellors are likely to be on the phones at once in their individual offices, say the staff, and there's space galore for mums and toddlers who may be

waiting for personal interviews.

Even having a new direct metropolitan line 221 3866 has made a difference, says counsellor Eileen Jones, from the days when the centre's calls went through the Centrecare switchboard and people felt a bit more remote.

Five years into her second period as a NFP counsellor, Eileen Jones believes that the telephone has changed the relationship of clients to their advisers.

Following their initial interviews, young mothers, especially those breast feeding, can phone weekly or even daily, if they have any queries.

From the days of her husband's country bank For the Perth centre posting Eileen Jones director Ann O'Donnell believes that in these the 008 phone is a boost difficult times country for country people's trust people will appreciate in the service. the cost benefit of having "People want confidena free 008 call during tiality and don't neceswhich they can talk over sarily like to go to their their problems at some best friend next door for length. family planning advice.

Even one country par- With the new phone ish priest saw the new service they are getting 008 number in The through immediately to a Record and gave it a try prefessional situation. to get some 'free' advice, "Especially for the she said. many young mothers in

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Counsellor Christina Graves also sees a change taking place with the

introduction of the easy phone services.

"Country people have been writing us letters but it's obviously less trouble to pick up a phone," she says of the eight years she has been counselling.

Even for the metro people who have had interviews, the phone becomes the alternative to having to battle their way into town with youngsters, she said.

Most of us have accepted modern church architecture without a blink. The symbols have been maintained, the functional and the spiritual have been aligned and the collective purpose has never been in doubt. What was, is and always will be.

With contemporary religious painting (when it appears) acceptance is not always so comfortable as there can be "Grand Final" loyalties clashing over the traditional and the new, the safe and the investigative.

Varying interpretations are among the entries for If the area is not one the sixth Mandorla Prize Religious Art central and accessible to for announced last Sunday past traditions of reliat the New Norcia gious art then where is a Gallery by the Prior better one?

Administrator, Dom If the ultimate insult to Placid Spearritt. a painting (or a person) is For this year's theme of to be taken for granted The Annunciation most then such cannot apply artists kept to the figura- to "Ante Lucem". tive and the representaIt is a smallish work that tional yet there were the reads at first glance like a abstract, the esoteric and latter-day variation on a the ones of personal presentation by an early imagery.

Dutch master. The bonWA artist John Paul netted Virgin is seated in with his painting "Ante a domestic setting clutchLucem" won the Kevin ing a posey of banksia Sullivan Award which flowers, wearing an provides a return airfare inscrutable look and to Italy and then up to fully protected by the two months' accommo- strong wings of Gabriel. dation and studio space Every area of the picin a "C,asa Calonica" or ture (central focus, clofarmhouse 39km south thing, table, walls, floor, of Florence on the origi- the tattoos on face and nal road to Siena. arm and the scene

through the window) is full of moment and demands close attention.

Every symbol is apt and matches modernity with tradition.

Even the title "Before the Light— invites the viewer beyond the instant depicted to the later announcement of "the light of the world".

Three paintings were highly commended: Peter Stafford's "The Passage" ($500 from Peet & Co), "Burning Angel in Her Eyes" by Krystyna Parsonage ($500 from Baillieu Knight Frank) and Patrizia Tonello's "The Handmaiden" ($200).

The judges were the Rt Rev Bernard Rooney (Abbott Emeritus of New Norcia), Paula Latos-

Valier (Director of the Art Gallery of WA), Dr Schioppa Vincenzo (Consul for Italy), Philippa O'Brien (artist) and Noel Sheridan (Director of the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art).

The winning painting eventually joins the permanent New Norcia collection on loan and the whole exhibition runs until November 4 (following the Marian Pilgrimage, October 28) when it will then move to Allendale Square, opening on November 13 for two weeks.

Do go along and share your reactions and analyses as the Mandorla Prize for Religious Art is the only one of its kind in this corner of the vineyard.

the north-west mining towns it will be an invaluable service," she said.

While many people initially rang for general information about NFP, a personal chat with a woman about her own personal details often persuaded her to enrol as a client, Ann said.

Only a Christian name was requested from the client so that the person-

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Natural family planning is as close as the phone and even cheaper for country clients say Perth centre counsellors, Clare Swindells, Eileen Jones, Christina Graves, Ann O'Donnell and Moira Jack.

alised contact could be maintained after each time a client phoned in.

Country clients were then able to go on to a correspondence coourse, sending in monthly charts and fortnightly charts if they are breastfeeding.

politan callers, at least for a first meeting.

In addition to a 24hr phone answering service the service opens its doors to clients 8am to 4pm weekdays and late night to 9pm Wednesdays.

"People want to see the face to whom they are talking," she said.

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A rchbishop Foley speaking at the commissioning ceremony of the Catholic Community Care Commission.

The structures of the Church exist in order to spread the spirit of Christ and His love throughout the world, Archbishop Foley said at a commissioning ceremony last week.

On the other hand, the pastoral planning process in the archdiocese had opened up gaps in the structure so that the voice of people could be heard about their needs, he said.

Archbishop Foley was speaking at the commissioning of the Catholic Community Care Corn-

because it was there that

mission that replaces the WA Social Welfare Commission.

archdiocesan parishes he THROUGH had found an unneve- the gospel was being the development lived more closely.

STRUCTURES ofnesstheinSpirit but in many Structure and life were As chairman of the WA other cases new life both necessary for the and Church. Structures were Catholic bishops, Arch- OF initiatives bishop Foley commissi- THE CHURCH participation. necessary for the contioned Bishop Hickey nuity of Christs's mission (acting chairman), Michael Blakiston, Michael Carren, Maisie Cinanni, Robert Isaacs, Ean James, Maureen Jewell and Sr Joan Smith,

The new commission will respond to the needs of individual WA bishops and will have a special supervisory role over the Perth agencies of archdiocese.

former WA The Catholic Social Welfare Commission was established in 1976 and continued under the chairmanship of Joe Goerke, Terry Loughnan, Tony McAlinden, Sr Martin Kelly, and Bert Dolin.

Archbishop Foley said that in moving around

Using the day's celebration of St Francis, the archbishop noted that Francis had served the poor for two years before his conversion and decision to call a group together.

Francis had a deep loyalty to the Church that other groups did not have and yet Francis had to keep and eye on the periphery of the Church

IVF at (h)arm's length CANBERRA: A ban on human embryo experimentation would result in a reduction in harm to women on IVF programs, says an adviser to the Australian Catholic bishops.

"The effect of the ban would be to remove the incentive to superovulate women," said Mr Nicholas Tonti-Filippini who advises the bishops on bioethical issues.

(Superovulation is the use of drugs to stimulate the ovaries to produce a large number of eggs.

Once many eggs have been obtained they are fertilised in a laboratory and any surplus embryos may be used for research.

Normally women produce one or two eggs per cycle. But with modern drugs they may produce between eight and 40 or even more.)

With nothing to be gained by creating an e xcess of human embryos there would be little reason to supemvulate," Mr Tonti-

By Cliff Baxter Catholic Weekly Sydney Filippini said. Superovulation was unnecessary if no research was being done on embryos.

There would be no justification for having a "bank" of embryos for experimentation.

The decision by the WA Health Minister, he said, was thus a welcome one.

"It is welcome not only because it prevents the wilful destruction of human embryos, but also because it would effectively limit IVF to treating infertility," Mr TontiFilippini said.

"The use of IVF as a means to obtain human embryos for experimentation has been a major most of concern observers of the development of the techniques," said Mr Tonti-Filippini.

"The degree of intrusion and the potential for exploitation of the women has been much

greater while embryo the most easily identifiaresearch remained a side ble genetic trait," Mr product of the IVF," he Tonti-Filippini said. said.

Tonti-Filippini Mr scientific The WA ban on embryo believes biopsy removed the pos- attempts to create a Carl sibility for the eugenic Lewis type of athlete by use of IVF. genetic manipulation be a long way down may Eugenics means trying to control the genetic the track. characteristics of individThe immediate danger uals and has been dem- is the embryos will be onstrated by various rejected merely on the historical attempts to grounds of being the breed "a super race". wrong gender or not Mr Tonti-Filippini said fulfilling the criteria of the the eugenics factor scientists aiming for had been a cause for human perfection. great concern.

Mr Tonti-Filippini is 'The suggestion had hopeful that other State been put by some scient- health ministers will ists in Melbourne that "show similar courage couples who are not and responsibility". infertile could use the "In New South Wales IVF as a means of there is absolutely no producing a number of legal restriction on embryos in a batch and human embryo experithrough embryo biopsy mentation," he said. selecting only those with Many family doctors the decided genetic char- treating couples for inferacteristics or rejecting tility were concerned those with undesired that under the guise of genetic characteristics. treating it the woman "Gender selection was was subjected to a whole an obvious possibility as batch of the sex of the embryo is experimentation.

but it was not necessarily there that the closeness of discipleship would be found.

Francis' call to re-build Christ's church touched his love of the Church and made him realise that change would have to come from below and from the periphery, because there was little trust that it would come from the top.

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Record Nearly two decades ago the Catholic priesthood was the theme of one of the earliest of the post-Vatican II synods.

The eigth synod is back at the same theme again, if from the different aspect of how to train priests in the first place.

If the early synod increased Catholic understanding of its priesthood, the ideas have been swallowed in the welter of comment and analysis that has hit the priesthood since then.

The externals, — and some internals —, of the priesthood the bishops were discussing in the early 1970s, have changed dramatically. Early snippets of the 1990 synod, reported in this issue, reveal a much more down to earth look at what is worrying the priesthood and the way it is prepared.

Just as the human ants chipped at the Berlin Wall once it was declared OK to do so, so has the priesthood become open season for every passing critic who wants to unload his or her burden of disenchanted faith.

It is not much fun for the priests who are bewildered at what seems to have changed since they rosily entered seminaries decades ago.

One clear circumstance has changed. Those priests, many ageing, and their counterparts entering the orders of religious men and women, came from an environment where service in a religious vocation was as normal as any other walk in life. Their families were happy with their decisions, and so were their neighbours and fellow parishioners.

Why has that seed-bed of enthusiasm for tomorrow's young vocations dried up? It will be too much to ask 238 bishops in Rome, many of them elderly, to come up with a revealing answer.

Like so many stones crafted into an impressive wall each synod achieves only just so much and no more.

The majority of Catholics, who do not read this paper, will not even know that a synod is taking place.

Whether priests are talking to their parishioners these weeks about the issues surfacing in Rome will be as clear as a barometer of the crisis in the priesthood as a million words out of a far off synod.

The UNIVERSE, England PEOPLE who are taken for granted eventually vote with their feet. Especially if, for too long, no one noticed that they were carrying more work and worry than they could handle and no one really cared about what was going on inside their minds and hearts.

It is a familiar scenario in domestic life, industry and voluntary work. It is becoming a possible nightmare within the Church.

Priests, like nuns, are becoming so scarce that they should be declared a protected species. That might wake us up to their value. The situation in these islands has not yet reached crisis point. But the number of vocations to the priesthood is bumping sluggishly along the bottom while the slump in women's religious vocations could easily become irreversible.

We should all have seen it coming. The crisis cannot be laid at the door of the Second Vatican Council. It is a consequence of decades of complacency and neglect coupled with the post-war collapse of values and religious belief in many western nations.

The Synod of Bishops in Rome has opened with predictable words of both anxiety and reassurance. Of course God will ultimately provide, but in the process may be teaching us sharp lessons.

It seems from the outset that the Synod may be asking the wrong questions about the wrong problems. The terms of its discussions have been too tightly drawn if there will be no time to discuss some burning issues. The focus of the Synod will be strictly on the formation and education of priests. But the real crisis is not in the seminaries but in the society from which priests have to come and within which they have to exercise their ministry.

Priests in dynamic and fruitful collarboration with the laity have to provide leadership and unity. In these islands we rarely get excited over theories or theology. But the root of the present crisis of vocations is really confusion about what the Church is and how it should fulfil its mission. When we are clear about that we will have a better idea who the priest is and what he should be doing in his daily minstry. Then we will know who we want to recruit and why. It will be essential then to create the condition and support that will enable him to be both community-builder, reconciler, man of God and fully human.

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Forgive us, say Czech bishops PRAGUE: Czechoslovakian bishops have asked German forgiveness for the forced removal of Germans from Czechoslovakia after World War II. This was "an application of the unjust principle of collective guilt, which struck even the innocent," they said in a statement.

The statement was in answer to a March message by the East and West German bishops asking

forgiveness for German crimes committed during the 1939-45 Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia.

The Czechoslovakian bishops pledged co-operation with the bishops of a united Germany so that "the next generations are not forced to write new declarations of sorrow".

"The experiences of the past — whether under Nazism or communism — clearly show that they are not the road to the future," they said.

Abandoning pastoral on women: Warning ORLANDO, Fla (CNS): Abandoning the US bishops' pastoral on women would be "tantamount to proclaiming" that the bishops cannot support church teaching banning ordination of women to the priesthood, said retired Bishop Thomas Grady, a member of the bishop's committee writing the proposed pastoral letter.

He said that the debate over the pastoral has focused on the ordination of women and that many times "equality and ordination" have been seen as synonymous.

"As a result, many things that the letter has to say about women working in the home or in the marketplace or even in the church have

been ignored," he said.

He said that the seven-year process of writing the proposed pastoral has been "of great service to the Catholic community because it has called attention to the concerns of women, raised the sympathy and consciousness of many people" and generated both popular and scholarly interest.

From the beginning the subject of the pastoral was controversial, said Bishop Grady.

"The committee took as a given that it would respect church teaching with regard to the ordination of women, reproductive rights and family life," he said.

Both liberals and conservatives "had strongly held positions before the pastoral was initiated

and have never moved away from those positions," he said.

Many of those with strong opinions on the letter have never read it, said the bishop.

"The subject of the letter will not go away," said Bishop Grady.

"As the draft continues on, riding the rough seas of controversy, what is needed is less rhetoric and more peaceful guidance of the Holy Spirit," he said.

Bishop Grady said the announcement two weeks ago of the decision by the 50member US bishops' Administrative Committee to delay a vote on the pastoral letter on women "does not mean that the pastoral letter is terminated but that consultation about it (will) be broadened to an international scale."

"The decision was made after Archbishop Pilarczyk president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, received a request from Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, Vatican secretary of state, that voting on the second draft of the proposed pastoral letter on women be delayed until the bishops consult with bishops' conferences of other nations.

The vote had been expected to take palce in November at the general meeting of the US bishops.

A number of critics have said the letter suffers an internal contradiction because it insists on women's equality on the one hand but at the same time supports the church ban on women's ordination to the priesthood.

Several bishops, say-

ing the letter would hurt the church's credibility, indicated recently that they planned to oppose passage of the letter this fall.

Bishop Grady noted that international consultation was "very helpful" to the bishops who worked on the 1983 pastoral letter on war and peace.

He said he and other bishops on the writing committee for the women's pastoral "welcomed the suggestion" of broader consultation.

"It was the conviction of the committee that women in every country, to quote Pope John XXIII, 'are becoming ever more conscious of their human dignity. and demand rights befitting a human person both in domestic and public life," said Bishop Grady.

Thieves plunder ...Pn1ests not pop stars retreat centre LONDON: Six people posing as pilgrims preparing for a trip to Lourdes, booked into a West Lancashire retreat centre and proceeded to steal £4000 worth of furniture and equipment — including the electric organ from the chapel.

The four men and two women paid a £25 deposit to use the Rufford Centre, near Ormskirk, for two days, supposedly to train volunteer helpers to work with the handicapped.

Just hours after checking into the building, run by the Methodist Church but available for hire by Christian groups of all denominations, the gang made off with

carpets, beds, a cooker, a projector and a Yamaha organ.

The centre's director Mr Barry Brooke, a Methodist lay-preacher, said he "felt sorry for the people who did this".

He said: "They've obviously got a real problem, I feel very sad for them. Anyhow, the centre continues to function and we have had other groups in since.

Unfortunately, it means that we'll have to double check credentials of all people wanting to use the centre in future."

The centre has been open since Easter and this is the first time anything has been stolen.

DUBLIN: An Irish bishop has challenged parents who support their children's view that Mass is "boring" as to what they expected priests to do — "put on a show and compete with Michael Jackson?"

Bishop Brendan Comiskey of Ferns, Co Wexford, taking a stand in defence of clergy, said priests have been subjected to a barrage of criticism on the way they celebrate Mass, how they preach, or indeed spoke.

He said a fair share of the blame rested on the

shoulders of the laity, and called on priests to ask the people where is their faith; how much prayer is there in their lives, their homes and what they do to prepare for Mass.

He criticised those who approached the altar with their hands in their pockets and received Communion having neglected confession.

Bishop Comiskey said he would tell anyone asked him if it is a mortal sin to miss Mass on Sunday, that "it's a mortal sin to ask that question".

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Call for guts to topple gangs FERRARA, Italy (CNS): Pope John Paul ll has asked Italians to show "firmness and courage" in stemming the "growing threat" of gangland crime.

The pope's call for courage came in Ferrara, several days after the murder in Sicily of Judge Rosario Livatino, who was investigating Mafia-related activities.

The murder is "a very grave episode of criminality which unfortunately joins so many other acts of violence" in Italy, the pope said during his midday Angelus talk.

"Let's put an end to innocent blood," the pope said.

"Let's put an end to fighting and suffering," he added.

Sociologist Pino Arlacchi, an expert on Mafia activities, has said that in the past, "big flare-ups in organised crime violence occurred cyclically, every generation or so, when the young members took over from the old chiefs".

"Now these conflicts are continuous, with a much higher number of dead," he added.

Praise for priests killed in struggle FERRARA, Italy (CNS):

Pope John Paul II jumped into one of Italy's top political controversies by praising the dozens of priests killed by fascists and communists before, during and after World War II.

The latter part of the 25year period mentioned by the pope covers what Italian newspapers are calling the "civil war" that took place mainly between Italian fascists and communists during and immediately after World War B. It mixed struggles for political power with revenge killings.

Italians are currently reliving the period following calls by some communists to critically evaluate their past. Dis-

cussion of the period has been controversial, sparking national debate.

The pope said 88 priests and five seminarians were killed during the 25 -year period that straddled World War II. Other Church officials put the overall figure at 314, of whom 158 were killed by Nazi German occupying troops.

The papal remarks were made in "the Red Triangle", a region where communists and allied leftist parties command a majority of the votes. But the pope made sure his remarks cut across ideological boundaries by giving his major speech at the tomb of a priest killed in 1923 by fascists.

These priests preferred "untimely death rather

'1'o spare himself from death, a priest often is not ordered to directly renounce his faith, but

gang violence and crime, was abducted from his parish in Manenburg, a Cape Town suburb.

His housekeeper said there was no sign of forced entry into the rectory, but a crucifix and items from a safe

were missing.

Police spokesman Jan Calitz said strangulation or head injuries were the suspected causes of death.

Two men, aged 24 and 26, were arrested in connection with the murder.

intentioned efforts" to help the poor have resulted in more suffering.

The bishops called for a "massive educative effort" to rouse people's social awareness and to replace individualism and self-centredness with common good and compassion for all.

Major social changes are "difficult to cope with" and prone to lead to tensions and unrest, they said, advocating

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God, but from one or another section of his flock, thus forsaking his task as pastor to all the people," he added.

A rchbishop Lawrence Henry of Cape Town, in a service at the Manenburg church following the discovery of the body, said: "We ask God to take mercy on those who perpetrated this deed. There is no r espect for human

life."

Father Stanton was director of liturgy in the Cape Town Archdiocese. He was parish priest in Manenburg since April 1988 and was secretary to Cardinal Owen McCann from 1971 to 1984.

his Christian love," the pope said.

"He is not asked to

Way to resolve tensions

NEW DELHI, India (CNS): Conference of India said.

Decrying the growing "Tensions need not lead violence in the country, to conflict; they have to Catholic bishops of India be made creative," it have called for educating added, expressing the people on the rights of the bishops' "deep sense of poor as a way to resolve distress, anguish and tensions. concern" over increasAn understanding and ingly violent public outmutual acceptance of all bursts protesting some as "equal in God-Oven government policies. dignity and with equal Admitting that "social right to a decent human legislation in India has life could help resolve generally been ahead of current tensions," the social awareness of the Standing Committee of people," the bishops the Catholic Bishops' lamented that "well-

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_Body of priest found CAPE TOWN, South Africa (CNS): The body of a murdered Cape Town priest was found in a squatter camp near where he lived.

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than be unfaithful to their pastoral mandate", the pope said at the tomb of Father Giovanni Minzoni. Father Minzoni, 38, was clubbed to death in 1923 after he refused to obey local fascist leaders who told him to disband youth groups he had organised.

Fascist leaders said his work was draining youths from their organisations.

Father Minzoni and the other priests killed "were considered dangerous enemies because of their ties to their people", especially the young, the pope said.

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Ac ()Set' Church must explain the values VATICAN CITY, (CNS): Chicago's Cardinal Joseph Bernardin told the Synod of Bishops the church must explain the spiritually enhancing value of celibacy to the laity and to priests who accepted that way of life only because it was required for ordination.

Celibacy "demands a psycho -sexually integrated personality and a f ree embrace of the commitment, along with periodic, perhaps even daily recommitment," he said.

nal said.

"Some who have made the commitment say they did so under constraint, because it was a necessary condition for ordination," the cardinal added.

These priests cite "a growing openness of the faithful to a married clergy," said Cardinal Bernardin, one of the four bishops elected to represent the US hierarchy.

Compounding the problem are "transgressions, both public and private," he said.

"We must deal with "In today's society, celi- these realities in a way bacy often appears unat- that will positively tractive and, indeed, engage the minds and unattainable," the cardi- hearts of our priests and

Cardinal Bernadin people," added the cardi- down by many burdens: nal. "Otherwise, there shrinking numbers of will be further erosion, priestly co-workers, the and celibacy will not be misunderstanding of faith fully appreciated and and religion in contemporary society, and the embraced." inadequately developed C ardinal Bernardin ecclesial structures of praised celibacy as an support for their minisimportant element in a tries and lives," he said. priest's spiritual life and in his ministry, but said it "It would be both inaccui nvolves "priests in a rate and unfair to desprofound experience of cribe priests as not engaged enough in prisolitude".

The cardinal described estly activities, as illpriests as "good people" willed, or as spiritually striving to develop their lazy," he said. spiritual lives while fulfil- Diocesan priests find ling their pastoral service God "within their priestly in complex societies and ministry" in which they circumstances. "are immersed in a Priests "have fragile unique way in the human spirits which are weighed condition," he said.

Defining priesthood VATICAN CITY (CNS): An agreed definition of priesthood would help discussion of a priest's life and role, Archbishop Pilarczyk of Cincinnati told the Synod of Bishops.

A rchbishop Pilarczyk proposed "with some trepidation" his own defithe nition of Catholic priest.

"The priest is a

member of the Christian faithful who has been permanently configured by Christ through holy orders to serve the Church, in collaboration with the local bishop, as representative and agent of Christ, the head of the Church, and therefore as representative and agent of the Church community before God and the world."

Archbishops Pilarczyk, president of the US bishops' conference, said such a definition delineates the twofold difference between priests and other members of the Church.

In the Church, the priest represents Christ and acts in the person of Christ, in a way in which other

Catholics do not, he said. The priest also has a distinct role of r epresenting the people before God an representing the Church community to the world, he said.

The priest acts as a sacramental minister, as a teacher and an "official spokesman for Christ and the Church"; and as a leader and sign of unity among the

Mum speaks Give her mind VATICAN CITY: Synod delegates got to hear about priestly formation from non-ordained Catholics: a French couple with two sons as priests.

Jacques and Anne Gagey, both psychology professors at the Sorbonne University of Paris, said they gave their children a "traditional middle-class Catholic upbringing" sprinkled with psychology.

Mrs Gagey said she resisted the idea of vocations in her children because of "the risk of an excessive affective bond between a mother and her priest-son".

"Paradoxically, psychoanalysis gave me sure help," she said.

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"It reinforced and clarified the conviction that a mother only accomplishes her role if she withdraws" in pre-adolescence and "lets the father become the force in religious education and the dialogue partner" of the children, she added.

The couple defended priestly celibacy.

"Criticisms raised against ecclesiastical celibacy in the name of psychoanalysis have no serious basis," said Gagey.

The couple has been married for 45 years. They are among a group of non-voting synod auditors named by Pope John Paul II because of their special expertise in priestly formation.

VATICAN CITY, (CNS): Poverty, chastity and obedience are understandable in light of a priest's total commitment to the church, Bishop Brom of San Diego, told the Synod.

Priests are ordained to continue loving and serving the church as Christ did, the bishop said.

Understanding the biblical image of Christ as the bridegroom of the church can help clarify the "inner nature" of the priesthood so that discussions of priestly formation will be "properly focused," he said.

"The image of Jesus

look at priests Bishop off agenda CITY VATICAN (CNS): The issues of priestly celibacy and the psychosexual formation of priests took an early centre stage at the Synod of Bishops.

Bishop Lawrence Burke of NassauAntille questioned whether the priesthood should be limited to male celibates, given that many Catholic communities today suffer the lack of priests, the and the Mass sacraments.

Bishop Burke was apparently the first synod participant to openly question the church's priestly celibacy requirement.

He said the church "cannot be complacent with a static notion of the priesthood while thousands

of Catholics throughout the world are in need of evanglisation and the sacraments".

One consequence, he said, is the incursion of religious sects.

The church should not just lament this fact but must take some responsibility for their success, he said.

Have not "fixed notions of the priesthood and of who should qualify as priests contributed to undesirable this situation?" he said.

"With specific reference to the ordained priesthood, we may ask whether it should be limited to the male celibate. Can we continue to hold on to this tradition and this value, precious as they are, while so

many communities languish without priests, the sacrifice of the Mass and the sacraments?" he said.

"Are we trying to put new wine into old wineskins?" he said.

He said the growing practice of Liturgy of the Word services with distribution of the Eucharist by nonpriests risks giving a "false understanding of what the Eucharist is".

He said there are no easy answers to these problems, but added that in the meantime priests in many parts of the world are getting older and dwindling in numbers.

"Many are worried and wonder if the magisterium really cares," he said.

may be helpful faithful, Archbishop Pilarczyk said.

While the priest has a distinct responsibility and function, however, he is not "removed from" the people or "better than they", ht said.

"The priesthood makes no sense if it is seen as a separate mode of being, apart from the rest of the Church," the archbishop said.

The faithful also share in Christ's mission and Christ's "basic priesthood" by reason of baptism, he said, but the ordained priest has a particular responsibility "to keep the Church in touch with Christ, its head, and to enable it to carry out its basic mission in the world".

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All members of the church, including priests, are the bride of Christ, he said. Priests are distinguished from o ther members b ecause they are ordained to represent and act in the person of Christ, the bishop added.

Priests are ordained to love the church "in the manner of Jesus in the pattern of his paschal activity," he said.

The identity of priests comes from their "identification with

Christ, the bridegroom of the church," and from their acting within the church "as s tand-ins for the bridegroom".

Bishop Brom said priestly ministry is "the way in which the bridegro m continues to love the bride and to give himself up for her that she might be 'holy and immaculate, without stain or wrinkle or anything of that sort'," as St Paul's letter to the Ephesians says.

Using Christ as a model for their ministry and lifestyle, priests give themselves to the church "with undivided love," he said.

VATICAN CITY: Auxiliary Bishop Frederick Henry of London, Ontario speaking for proposed that the church provide closer sexual screening of priesthood candidates and better programs dealing with sexuality to avoid a situation in which priests could "harm God's people" and damage the church's role in society.

Bishop Henry, said seminary teaching on celibacy should not reflect a fear of deep human relationships, but a capacity for them.

He recommended improved training and counseling in the four stages of a priest's formation.

Prior to seminary admission, he said, "each candidate should be evaluated psychologically by a competent professional to determine stability of character, absence of serious pathology, behavioural e vidence of a positive attitude toward himself and his sexuality" and "an e xpressed intention to live a chast-celibate lifestyle".

"Candidates whose sexual understanding is so confused or damaged that they could harm God's people or undermine the task of evangelising society should be denied entry to the seminary," Bishop Henry said.

A reasonably lengthy cessation from sexual intimacy should be sought as an indicator that a candidate can make such a true commitment, he said. This holds for candidates "whatever their sexual tendencies," he added.

During seminary residence, Bishop Henry said, "seminarians engaged in genital behaviour should be put on leave."

In some cases therapy and spiritual assistance can be helpful, he said.

Seminaries should seek to develop healthy adult relationships of all kinds, he said.

"A closed male environment will not adequately facilitate this task," he said.

Seminaries also should provide a forum for students to "uncover the false symbols of manhood provided by our society," he said. Seminarians should be able to relate to other men "unimpeded by homophobia", he said.

"With women they must be able to be peer, friend, leader or follower, without their behaviour being determined by sexual stereotypes or sexual expectations," Bishop Henry said.

In the early years of the priesthood, he said, greater attention should be paid to causes of stress that may seek outlet in sexual behaviour.

Finally, he said, developing psychosexual maturity is a lifelong task, and consultations between priests and professional counselors ought to be encouraged when needed.

Earlier this year — after an increasing number of Canadian priests, former priests and brothers were charged with sexual abuse, mostly of boys — the Canadian bishops set up a seven-person committee to establish guidelines and policies to help Canadian dioceses deal with sexual abuse cases.

In July, Archbishop Alphonsus L. Penney of St John's Newfoundland, submitted his resignation after an archdiocesan investigating panel sharply criticised his handling or reported child sexual abuse by Newfoundland priests.

Over the past two years, about 20 Newfoundland Catholics mostly priests, brothers and former brothers — have been convicted of or face charges of sexually abusing boys.

Teach sensitivity

all the love as head of his body the church is enhanced bride," Bishop Brom said.

Pilarczyk said agreement on a definition of the priesthood could help the synod deal with a variety of formation issues: highlighting the value of celibacy, distinguishing the role of priests from that of other Church ministers, promoting a healthy spirituality and understanding the contribution of religious priests.

Call for closer sexual screening

VATICAN CITY ture into their faith, (CNS): Seminaries but priests often seem fail to teach priests like foreigners. to be sensitive to the Archbishop Gnanstruggles and cul- adickam said the ture of their pari- "main drawback" shioners, said with seminaries is bishops from India "the fact that after and Sri Lanka dur- seven or eight years of ing the world formation in the semiSynod of Bishops. nary, the young priest

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Seminaries often comes out with a provide too much generosity and idealshelter from the out- ism that is much less side world, Archbi- than what he seemed shop Gnanadickam of to possess when he Madras India, said. entered."

Bishop WewitavidaSeminarians need a nelage of Sri Lanka, real experience of said that in his coun- God, he said, and that try, where most peo- cannot be accompple are Buddhist or fished by only "hearHindu, the people ing exhortations to have found ways to pray, to be zealous, to incorporate their cul- be celibate, (to be)

close to the poor and oppressed."

In seminaries, a student "is often shielded from the risk of experiencing the agony and the ecstasy of people," and therefore does not have repeated experiences of knowing "what a wonderful thing is the love of Jesus and his mission," the archbishop said.

He called for seminaries to include in their formation programs "regular opportunities for a personal experience of the people among whom the future priest will work."

This contact will

"give him an opportunity to experience the injustices, the oppression and anxieties they experience so he can realise what a saving experience Jesus can bring into his own life and that of the people."

The present formation program, he said, "seems more apt to produce obedient sheep than good shepherds.'

Bishop Wewitavidanelage said the Buddhist and Hindu faiths of his country's people permeate the culture and can make Catholicism seem "culturally foreign".

Congo view

VATICAN CITY: Bishop Milandoe, of Kinkala, Congo said there is "a surge" in vocations among youths in his country, but obstacles exist because of an environment "marked by official atheism and a decline in morals".

The priesthood also has an ambiguous image in Congo, the bishops said.

"The social and material situation is looked upon as a privileged one" in relation to the resi of society.

"However, it is also seen as a precarious, uncertain and not very enviable life," he said.

"The demands of celibacy and the evangelical life," he said, "are held in great esteem, but they appear to many to be unrealisable."

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"And you shall break the flask of the men who went with you, and say unto them: Thus says the Lord of hosts: Thus willI smash this people and this city, as one smashes a clay pot so that it cannot be repaired."

—Jeremiah 19:10-11

Let me introduce you to...

By Father Eugene LaVerdiere

The young monk read slowly and well, forming each word and phrase with a conjurer's skill, transforming words into images. the other monks listened while Abraham, Sarah and three mysterious visitors quietly joined them.

This was in the Abbey of Gethsemani where I was preaching a retreat for the monks.

The monk read the story of Abraham as one who knew Abraham and Sarah well.

You could tell he had spent a lot of time in the shade beneath their tree.

As he read, their tent appeared, with Abraham seated in front of it and Sarah resting inside at the hot time of day. Heat waves hovered over the desert.

Suddenly three strangers were standing before Abraham.

As I listened, the 38 centuries between us and Abraham disappeared. So did the 8000km between the Abbey of Gethsemani and the hills above Hebron.

I would not have been surprised if Abraham, Sarah and their guests had come knocking at the door of the monastery.

In a Trappist monastery, each day, night and hour is important, but years and centuries are not. Stark as a desert scape, the monastic church is a perfect setting to hear stories of Abraham and Sarah.

Abraham and Sarah Abraham is among my favourite people from the Bible. For a long time,Icould not have said why. But do we actually need a reason to like somebody?

Abraham's family came from Ur, an ancient city in southeastern Mesopotamia.

When he was still quite young, the family migrated up the Euphrates River to the city of Haran.

It is only after his father Terah's death that God broke into Abraham's life. The family migration had only begun.

Abraham, now a desert chieftain, was to leave for a land God one day would disclose to him.

There he and his family would become a great nation through whom all peoples would be blessed.

I think it is Abraham's faith and enormous trust that draw us to him — faith that God was really with him and trust that God's promise somehow would be fulfilled.

A number of other people in Abraham's story are really tremendous. One is Abraham's wife, Sarah.

Sarah and Abraham seem always to have been together.

When the three visitors came, she may have been behind the flap of the tent, but she was there.

Aware of his sinfulness, Is iah wondered how he could survive the fiery brilliance of God's holiness? But Isaiah was not destroyed. Dazed, he felt a burning :oal from the altar touch his lips.

And when the visitors announced that by the following year Sarah would have borne a son, she burst out laughing.

The call of Isaiah, found in Chapter 6 of his book, is a great page in the Old Testament. Reading it, we sense the %Titer straining at the limits of language to describe Isaiah's experience of God calling him to be a prophet in Israel.

Sarah was a great woman. But I think her sense of humour is what endears her to us. It is through her laughter that I imagine her with her husband on their epic journey of faith.

Abraham and Sarah were not only one flesh. They were also one faith and one trust. And God was with them.

Isaiah I soon found my thoughts moving from the time of Abraham and Sarah to the eighth century BC and Isaiah the prophet.

Isaiah was at prayer near the great altar of the temple in Jerusalem. He imagined himself at the foot of Mt Sinai and the whole place shook with God's presence.

His lips were purified and yes, he w(iuld speak the word of God.

After that, the brilliance of Isaiah's insight and his dazzling use of poetic imagery seem quite natural: "The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light." (Ls. 9:1) "A child is born to us, a son is given us; upon his shoulder domininon rests.' (Is. 9:6)

Jeremiah It was different with Jeremiah. Here was a timid man, whose words either c,a ight in his throat or tripped on his tongue

Unforgettable poets...

By Father John Castelot

This book contained 150 prayers which have had a tremendous influence on prayer in all ages.

All Catholics, for example, respond to the first Scripture reading at Mass with a responsorial psalm.

Strict copyright laws, book reviews and autograph parties are part of the modern book publishing scene. It comes as a surprise, then, to learn Several psalms have that the majority of the introductory "titles" Bible's books are of ascribing them to specific unknown authorship. authors like King David.

Tradition attributed or to definite historical most of them to specific circumstances. But these authors, but these attri- titles were not originally butions are, in large part, part of the psalms; they educated guesses. represent later conjecThis is true of that tures based on loose grand collection of "circumstantial evihymns called The dence".

If the Book of Psalms Psalms.

often is called the Davidic Psalter, it is because David was portrayed, especially in the Old Testament books of Chronicles, as playing an influential role in developing the temple liturgy.

Still, if we don't know the authors' names, we can surmise much about these psalmists who acknowledged God's presence by praying and singing.

The author of Psalm 8 was overawed by the marvellous order and beauty of the universe. At one point he broke off and cried out in wonder at both the littleness and

greatness of the human person: "What is man that you should be mindful of him, or the son of man that you should care for him? You have made him little less than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honor" (Psalm 8:5-6).

Other psalmists sang of the God who had worked wonders in guiding the history of his people (Psalms 105, 114, 135).

The psalmists possessed a healthy patriotism, with a practical concern for their king for whom they prayed in what are called the Royal Psalms.

These hymns were sung on state occasions like the king's coronation or wedding.

A large group of psalms stem from personal or native adversity. They are known as Psalms of Lament. They reveal weak human beings beset by illness, injustice, the scary threats of attack, the seeming hopelessness of exile.

But these psalms all share one amazing characteristic: hope. The psalmists always end up expressing not only hope but sure confidence.

Psalm 22 is typical. It

opens with the heart-

Janann Manternach Holidays are a special time for readies.

Since you don't have to read for homework or other school assignments, if can be fun to pick up a book, find a quiet spot and enjoy reading just for the fun of it.

One book you may not think of reading on your own is the Bible. But reading the Bible when you don't have to can be fun.

There are Bibles for young people.

One I like is the "Doubleday Illustrated Children's Bible" (Doubleday, 1983). Its lan-

guage is easy to understand and the watercolour illustrations help make the stories come alive.

It includes many stories about great biblical women.

Or try "A Child's Bible" (Paulist Press, 1986).

Maybe the whole Bible seems too big. If so, why not try a book that has just a few Bible stories, or

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single books that tell just Parable of Jesus": the one story from the Bible? other is "The Miracle of You can read one of these Jesus" (Holiday, 1987). books in a few minutes: De Paola also has Tomie de Paola is one of the best living writers several "Bible Story and illustrators of books Cutout Books" for for children. He has two younger children.

These delightful books books of Bible stories I include cutout figures for like a lot.

One is called "The puppet shows. You could

enjoy with your brother or sister books such as "Noah and the Ark" and "Queen Esther".

Then there are the many "Arch Books" (Concordia Publishing House). Each small book has one Bible story sometimes in verse.

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Actually, he rose to considerable eloquence in speaking the word of God, even to a people who did not want to listen.

Words like the following are the mark of his courage: "How can we say, 'We are wise, we have the law of the Lord', when scribes with their lying pens have falsified it?" (Jeremiah 8:8) When the young monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani completed the reading from Abraham's story, there was quiet in the church. I savoured the company of Abraham and Sarah, along with the company of others in the Old Testament like Lsaiah and Jeremiah.

I hope to return to the abbey one day.

It is a holy place — and you meet the most interesting people there.

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rending cry, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" and ends with a shout of praise, "I will proclaim your name to my brethren . . . For he has not spurned nor disdained the wretched man in his misery" (23-

"...God's messenger called to Hagar from heaven: 'What is the matter, Hagar? Don't be afraid: God has heard the boy's cry in this plight of his. Arise, lift up the boy and hold him by the hand; for I will make of him a great nation."

—Ruth 1:16

No, we don't know who the psalmists were. But we know they were ordinary people like us. subject to life's vicissitudes. They revered nature and wondered at God's love; their anxiety was tempered by confidence in God; they were people of gratitude and praise.

The "What the Bible Tells Us" series has few words and great pictures

by Kees de Kort (Augsburg Press). Some I like are "Jesus Heals a Blind Man", "Zacchaeus", "Jesus and a Little Girl", "The and Good Samaritan".

Favourite Old Testament women

by Kathy Bird Hagar, Esther, Ruth, Naomi, Judith. Those were the names most often heard in my informal survey on favourite Old Testament women.

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Getting the kids involved By

Like Isaiah, though nearly two centuries later, Jeremiah was a prophet in Jerusalem.

But Jeremiah shared none of Isaiah's brilliance.

Is there a perms in the Old Testament whom you deeply admire? What do you admire about this person?

Selected Resporses from Readers: "There are so many

things from Isaiah that mean a lot to me. I love those lines where

Isaiah responds to God's call. The call itself is so vague. 'Who can we seed?' And Isaiah responds with enthusiasm. such 'Here I am, send — Sarah Yaworsky.

"I really admire the prophets and their ability to speak up for

The survey included some relatives and women from a group of book-discussion leaders sponsored by Iona House, an ecumenically founded senior citizen resource centre.

Justice — sometimes at the cost of their own lives." — Daniel Rubinson.

"1 deeply admire Job for his patience and submission to the divine providence of God even when faced with enduring trials of Physical and mental anguish."

Olga Pasquarelli.

"Moses! He was given such a big job to do, and the people were always grumbling and complaining, but he stood by diem, and sadly he was not allowed in the promised land." Catherine Elvin Conway.

pathways of the KNOW YOUR NTH

Glendora Bell. who retired after 37 years with the federal government, sees a tie between the biblical Ruth and Naomi and senior-citizen roles today.

She recalled that after Ruth's husband died, she chose to remain with her widowed mother-inlaw, Naomi and provide for her. Ruth +MM.

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respected Namomi and often took her advice, leading in time to Ruth's second marriage.

Later, when Ruth's baby was born, Naomi became his nurse — making Naomi "the first foster grandparent".

Ruth's message today is that "the elderly have a lot to give", Mrs Bell said.

She thinks Ruth's story also tells us "we must care for the elderly", whether relatives or not. Mrs Bell often serves as a tutor helping illiterate senior citizens learn to read.

For Beatrice Bryant, a retired government worker, Ruth epitomises the kind of unselfish thinking on the family's behalf that she saw in her own mother.

When her five children were young and the family was con-

stantly on the move, her mother thought a lot about the kind of environment she wanted for them.

"She thought what it would mean for us to develop ties and strong relationships," Mrs Bryant said. And a decision was made

to move the family to rear the children among relatives and friends.

For Beatrice Aitchison, now retired from the postal service, Esther is an Old Testament favourite "because she had the courage of her convictions". She "stuck her neck out" and risked death by going uninvited to see her husband, the king, to plead for her people's lives.

Mrs Aitchison thinks Esther's message for people today is that women have had a lot of courage when it comes to the "pushing churches ahead in social justice" issues.

Hagar, the mother of Abraham's son Ishmael, is a woman of courage for my mother. After Abraham's wife, Sarah, gave birth to Isaac, Hagar was banished from their home.

So Hagar went into the desert and found a way to make "a new life for herself and her little boy", as my mother put it.

Hagar stands as a

model of "humility of the good sort", she added. At another

time in history, and in

another culture, Hagar stands as "the kind of person who makes the best of things that were an injustice to her". In

time, Ishmael became the leader of the

North Arabian tribes.

My sister relates most to the Old Testament women who -in the name of God broke stereotypes" — women like Judith, the slaver of Holofernes. My sister is co-owner of a bookstore and is a member of a small group that discusses the Bible.

She observed that after Judith's husband died. she remained a widow in a culture that promoted remarriage.

Though wealthy and charismatic, she became almost reclusive.

But when Holofernes' army threatened her people. Judith took on a most public role. This included persuading the Jewish leaders that she could help, as well as attracting Holofernes' attention and carrying his head back to her people.

Judith and her biblical sisters show women today that they can work for God in new and critical ways, my sister indicated.

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Meditating and learning...

The fourth liturgical seminar to be conducted by the Bunbury Liturgy Commission over the past two years got participants to meditate as well as learn the symbols of the Mass.

Father Tony Chiera got participants to choose music, incense, vestments, font, chalice, bread, candle, altar, lectern, lectionary and the congregation as points of reflection while Kearnan College teacher Margaret Giumelli conducted two meditation exercises.

Twenty people from eight of Lake Grace parish's 10 centres met at Lake King along with Father Ian Johnson, Sister Patricia and Sister Elizabeth Murphy RSJ of Esperance.

The program had previously been presented at Collie, Waroona and Bunbury where Lake Grace pastoral formation organisers heard Father Russell Hardiman, Brother Terence O'Loughlin SSG and Marie Worthingham at the St Gerard Centre.

For the Lake Grace participants it was a preparation for forthcoming acolytes and special minsters who will be commissioned by Bishop Quinn later this month.

At the beginning of the day, Father Chiera asked the group to address: How are we present at Mass: as a praying person, as an active listener, as a critic, as an observer, as a duty, as a believer, as a sceptic?

"It is who we are and how we feel at that time, that create the person we bring to Mass," he told them.

"There are many ways one is present at Mass, the demeanour and attitude of the priest residing can affect us, just as the attitude of each person present makes the Celebration meaningful.

The day's exercise confirmed the theme, "It's The Mass That Matters".

Joan Abbot

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The immediate-past Superior General of the Sisters of St Joseph Elizabeth Sister Murphy, now stationed at Esperance, when asked what she is doing in her territory extending west 400km to Bremer Bay, replies: "I don't know."

She must be joking because she continues: "I'm on a voyage of discovery and my task is true to the initial charism of our Order's founder who sought to meet the needs of the country people.

"They are confronted by the tyranny of distance, isolation and the harsh demands of rural life.

They experience economic, cultural, educational and social isolation. Despite radio and television they still need social interaction at all levels."

Operating in three parishes, Sr Elizabeth considers a lot of country people, like their city counterparts have been left confused by changes in the Church since Vatican H. "For four months I've been assessing the real needs, so that I'm visiting extensively to hear families' opinions. I'm not saying what they should do but instead, we hope to seek a mutual solution."

Each month Sr Eliza-

beth spends a week in the Bremer Bay area, a week in Hopetoun and two weeks in Esperance visiting families within 100km radius of each centre.

"There is a need for children's education in faith and I believe that parents need assistance so that it can happen basically in the home.

Therefore, they need ongoing assistance to support them in their teaching role."

In Esperance the biggest centre from which she operates and in which there is no Catholic school, Sr Elizabeth supports the preparation of children for confirmation each Monday for one hour after school. and is providing a program of lay catechists.

"There are exciting possibilities for future development in the formation of small Christian communities, but we are still at the discovery stage.

"There is need for flexibility in approach and with no expectations of great achievement given the unpredictability of life in rural communities.

"However, we hope some program can eventually provide a challenge and a vehicle for the Spirit to move through these isolated areas.

Quote There is a need for flexibility in approach and with no expectations of great achievement given the unpredictability of life in rural communities.

However, we can hope some program can eventually provide a challenge and a vehicle for the Spirit to move through these isolated areas . . .

Travelling long distances is not a new experience to Sr Elizabeth for during her 12 years as Superior General she visited the Order's 280 communities at least once and many more often.

The Order originated in 1866 in South Australia, with co-founders Sr Mary Mackillop and Father Julian TenisonWoods, at Penola where she was governess.

Sr Elizabeth said before "The need is even that children in rural greater today because the areas were getting few amalgamation of farms educational opporinto larger and more tunities. viable economic proper"Mary started a school ties is resulting in a declining population in a stable and soon Mary became thus increasing isolation Mackillop for the remaining involved in a wide range of social works including families." a refuge for women and Sr Elizabeth arrived in Esperance in May after deprived children.

"She could not find a spending 12 years in to suit her congregation Superior as Sydney vision for meeting the General of the Order.

Born in North Perth, needs of colonial rural she began her career as a families, so together with school J. Tenison Woods started secondary teacher, serving at her own at the age of 24.

"The Order's nuns lived Waroona, Kalgoorlie, Margaret River, Man- in twos and threes in the jimup, Kalgoorlie and, bush with little spiritual for 17 years at New support and the communities were regarded Norcia.

In 1977, representatives by Rome as of mission of the Order's five pro- status and not a religious vinces in Australia and community in the conone in New Zealand ventional sense.

"Mary was a woman far elected, Sr Elizabeth as their leader. There are ahead of her times who also two houses in Peru heroically sustained her consistent vision and and one in Ireland.

calling in the face of great hardship and opposition," said Sr Elizabeth.

"Because of her request to a bishop for time to discuss with him his reasons for moving her, she was excommunicated, this being interpreted as disobedience.

'The ban was lifted, but later further misunderstandings led to her subsequent exile to New South Wales.

"In 1988 Rome granted the Order the status of Congregation of Papal Rite. This allowed the mobility of Sisters to go wherever they were needed in the colonies, unrestrained by diocesan bishops.

"The preparatory documents which have required an intensive examination of the events and characters in Mary's story are now complete and in the hands of the Congregation of Causes of Saints for examination prior to approval for her beatification, we hope, Australia's first."

Talk to Sr Elizabeth in a short space of time, it is apparent that the clear vision and dedicated calling to serve isolated colonial families, demonstrated by Sr Mary Mackillop, is still alive in the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart in their work among rural families.

Support for cancer patients The Cancer Support Association at 80 Railway Street, Cottesloe actively gives support for c ancer patients along with their families to help improve quality lifestyle — and thereby hopefully quantity.

Without condemning or prescribing, it offers members a broad spectrum of ideas and approaches which complement medical treatment through their encouragement of the patient, to be actively involved in the decision making and better attaining health process.

They have counsellors, a video, audio and print library, and people who have been or are cancer patients who are willing to help others by talking it over and looking at the options available.

Courses are run to improve one's diet, mental outlook, fortify oneself spiritually and emotionally and through the art of meditation adopt the strength through serenity to be able to see things more clearly and clear away clutter from the decision making process which has to go on.

Jean Marc Lenior and Jenny Adam are

counsellor and develofficer opment respectively who brought along cancer survivor Margaret Sheahan to tell us the good and positive things about their group.

The GSA is a voluntary community group formed back in '84 and relies on gifts, donations and member subscriptions to provide services.

They also have an Op shop every Wednesday from 10-2pm.

Apart from a typist they have about 20 volunteers and 200 members including families, friends and other casual contacts.

They're open rive days a week from 8.30 to 4.30 and their motto is: Cancer is a word and not a sentence.

Doesn't matter what faith you belong to or who you are - you're welcome at the the GSA. Margaret's story is interesting when you see where she's come from and where she's at.

She lost a leg to cancer when she was 19 — she's now 23.

She's on the very slim and pale complexion side and has been through a lot, but she's got all the deter-

mination which they believe, especially Margaret, you must have to beat cancer. sarcoma, Osteo cancer of the bone, was what she contracted but after 12 months intensive treatment it attacked which her leg resulted in an amputation in 1987.

Then it came back this time in her lungs, which she said is usually the lodging site.

About that time "I got stuck into the holistic side, with lots of meditation and a good diet."

It certainly paid off because the initial three spots in each of her lungs have reduced markedly in size and are now showing as tiny specks.

And she's not a taker, she's a giver, because she goes to GSA to help counsel others; give them a bit of a hand in treading the rocky path of uncertainty when you have a lifethreatening disease which hits you.

As always in life, the steady hand of friendship makes that path that much more negotiable . . .

She's busily educating her friends on diet too and here and

Part of the Cancer Support Association's team in Cottesloe are Jenny Adam (left), and Jean-Marc Lenior with a young lady who did battle with cancer and lost one round — but she's won all the others! — Margaret Sheahan.

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard there may meet some opposition with those entrenched in certain gastronomical pursuits which may be delectable but not necessarily healthy!

However "it takes a bit of courage for what you believe in," says Margaret who believes it is important not to be a passive cancer patient. and along with conventional treatment pushes fresh fruit, vegetables, whole grains, meditation and visualisation.

"It's played a big part in reducing stress and boosting my energy levels." The GSA promote this line of action from the getting healthier point of view and also have guest speakers to enlighten their members in various areas.

Jean Marc emphasises that the philosophical basis of their work is that healing is something which is deeper and bigger than the use of medicine so that people can still be helped even though they may not be cured.

"They achieve an inner understanding and peace, that in the end is more impor-

tant than what is happening to them physically."

Paradoxically, he said, the more inner peace, the more chance there is of affecting a cure. And if a cure does not come, healing is still taking place and that person can die in peace.

"I see that as a substantial shift in perspective from saying that the task of doctors is simply to fix the body at all costs, but in the absence of and divorced from the person who is experiencing the disease."

That is why he the maintains, emphasis is on the person making the choice about whether they want to live or die.

"And if they want to live, to choose their treatment own because the quality of life is as important as the quantity."

Jean Marc then speculated as to whether it raises the question: Is cancer purely a physical sickness or is it the manifestation of a deeper disharmony?

That is why the holistic approach has such influence, he believes, because the holistic approach looks on the whole person. "And that's why meditation

works because of the person's oneness".

GSA state that often cancer patients will tell you they know why they are sick even though the doctor may not know why, because they are in tune with what is happening inside.

Jean Marc who counsels there on Mondays and Tuesdays, runs short selfawareness and basic counselling courses to help volunteers in their task.

The GSA people do not see cancer as an enemy but as a teacher with Margaret adding "Many people say they had to get cancer to wake up to themselves. And for me? It's been a liberating most experience; I've counted so many things gained from cancer being a patient". Having realised what is important, she concentrates on the 'now' — being around people, and all other things fall by the wayside, she says "You can appreciate life in a new and more meaningful way".

Development officer Jenny Adam said when people come to the GSA or ring they encourage them to take responsibility for their own health instead of the doctors

merely advising them what will happen.

"They need to sit back and think about things properly.

Everyone has the right to be informed."

A lot come in not knowing much about cancer but with their extensive library they can read and consider with the space to think things through properly.

A major resource in the cancer battle, Jenny says, is the individual's need and ability to help himself with family and friends being of great assistance.

Often the GSA find that the cancer has been treated merely as a diseasp excluding the whole person, their feelings and emotions but the group gives them the opportunity to talk to someone who understands — not too intimately involved though "because it can be difficult to talk to people you are too close to about things such as this".

Tuesday they have sharing group meetings from 10-noon, which allows ideas, beliefs and treatment exchanges with a variety of workshop options. The GSA 'phone numbers are 384 3674 and 384 4556.

Action on the hills

Catholics Concerned for the Environment took to the hills recently to put conviction into action. It was a day to celebrate spring with a park clean up.

Chief Ranger of John Forrest National Park, George Duxbury, allotted a two kilometre broad strip of park bordering Great Eastern Highway for the energetic attention of the group who had come with gardening gloves and backs ready to bend to the task.

One scavenger found the bush was full of plastic bags, another discovered it littered with broken glass; a third seemed to specialise in the remains of takeaway chicken dinners while yet another was a magnet for bizarre lengths of wire and pieces of tyre. Cans, bottle tops, chocolate bar wrappers and bit of carpet — it was all there. But now it isn't!

Several trailer loads of full rubbish bags later, George Duxbury was a happy man, the park's public face was clean and well-groomed, and the workers had a treat feeling of satisfaciton. The bush, "their" bush, full of wonderful wildflowers, was now free to be its beautiful self and give glory to its Creator.

Catholics Concerned for the Environment hope to "adopt" this section of John Forrest National Park and maintain it regularly.

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J.A.S. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, may your name be praised and glorified throughout the world now and forever, Amen. (Say nine times a day for nine consecutive days and promise publication). A and J. Holy Spirit you who solve all problems, light all roads so that I can attain my goal. You gave me the divine gift to forgive and forget all evil against me and that in all instances of my life you are with me. I want in this short prayer to thank you for all things as I confirm once again that I never want to be separated from you ever in spite of all material illusions.

I wish to be witl you in eternal glory. Thank you for mercy towards me ‘• .1 mine.

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from Robert Hicks KALGOORLIE

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How do you teach youth faith when only 8% of Catholic education teachers in Western Australia are religious and the balance, 92% are lay? Imagine the spiritual destruction caused by many of those lay teachers who are not Catholic, who may subscribe to a secular religion or believe in nothing at all.

Dear Sir, To many adult readers Father Digiacomds findings (The Record Sept 27) come as no surprise.

How many adults see the problems of consumerism and individualism as confined to our youth? This assertion must be tackled head on because it has been those very same adults who introduced these material attitudes derived and developed from the libertarian years of the 1960's.

What hope for our youth when in the past decade there has been a 45.6% decrease in the number of religious teachers and a 48.6% increase in lay teachers within WA?

It is equally not surprising that youth see Church as dull and uninspiring simply because they have never fully understood the fundamental nature of the seven sacraments and the truths t hat give them their meaning.

Doesn't it seem odd that when the Catholic education system over the past decade experienced a 37.5% increase in enrolments that we are still having trouble getting youth to Church?

How do you teach youth the essence of our faith when the parents themselves have little or no understanding, don't attend the Eucharist or don't see the importance of all the sacraments?

Why did the Federal Government endorse the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child?

The Convention gives the child rights to express views freely on all matters affecting the child, freedom of

expression, thought, conscience and religion, freedom of association, peaceful assembly and privacy. The adult parent, under article 5, has very little protection from the many rights the child has available to do with as they please.

The United Nations Convention is simply a consequence of years of global deterioration of the family unit. The state and federal governments have always had sufficient recourse to legislation. What possible reason would the government have for it's endorsement of this convention?

Father Digiacomo rightly points out that our youth need to be told about obligation and duty.

What of our spiritual leaders, the religious? Why has the Vatican called a special International Synod of Bishops to take a critical look at the crisis of the priesthood and religious vocations?

There can be no question that the role of the laity has

increased over recent years as administrators and in the spiritual development of the parishes. No wonder our youth ask the question "who is the Church?"

The priest is now less visual within the parish and community, bogged down by bureaucratic, state like, processes whether he likes it or not.

Priests and religious are, wittingly or unwittingly, taking more unorthodox views on fundamental teachings of the Church and in some cases defying the authority and infallibility of the Pope. If the priesthood is in crisis what hope is there for our youth?

To suggest that the laity take over a greater responsibility for priestly and religious works is unworkable No wonder our youth are leaving the Church, they have either never known it or are totally confused as a result of international and domestic government interference and the decline in orthodoxy

Refreshing words R.J. KEAYS, Claremont Sir, It was refreshing to

address a group of his followers from the steps outside and the stated threat to call for police intervention should he do so occurred about the same time as a public announcement of support for homosexual law reform by some of Austra-

read your editorial in support (The Record, October 4) of Rev Fred Nile's march into Kings Cross The recent refusal by Sydney's St Mary's Cathedral to allow Rev Nile to

lia's Catholic hierarchy Both i ncidents offended many Catholics

Our Church has in recent

times joined with its Protestant counterparts in mocking the fundamentalists who have donned the mantle of firm moral leadership, aban-

doned by the denominations

major

It seems that the fundamentalists' greatest sin is that they take a strong stand on matters and see issues as definitely right or wrong Fundamentally they are r ight

Pleasant surprise for punters at Northam

I resort to my faith and your

protection. I offer this light to God which I shall bum each Tuesday. Comfort me in all my difficulties and through the great favour you enjoyed of lodging the Saviour in our house, intercede for me and all my family that we may always hold God close to our hearts, and may be provided for in all our difficulties.

I beseech you to have pity on the favour I ask of you to obtain for me St Martha (here state your request). Help me overcome all my difficulties as you did the dragon at your feet. Say three Our Fathers, three Hail Mary's and three Glory be to God. to the Father for the intentions of the Holy Father. Say this prayer for nine consecutive Tuesdays, and each Tuesday bum a candle in praise of God. This wonderful saint gets everything from God no matter how difficult and before the nine Tuesdays terminate. Thank you St Martha. M.M.

Grateful thanks to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Holy Spirit Mother Mary, St Jude and St Theresa for prayers answered. May your names be praised now and always. M.P. Ask St Clare for three favours, one business, two impossible. Say nine Hail Marys for nine days with candle burning. On ninth day let candle bum to end and then For favours received my grateful thanks to the Sacred put this notice in paper. T. Heart of Jesus, Our Lady of Thanks to St Clare. Ask St Clare for three favours, one Perpetual Succour, and Saint Jude. K.E.R. business, two impossible. Say nine Hail Marys for nine days Grateful thanks to the Sacred with candle burning. On , Heart of Jesus, Our Lady, St ninth day let candle burn to Jude and St Clare for favours end then put this notice in granted. May your name be praised forever P.V. paper. S.J.E

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to the Editor

Northam punters last week probably couldn't believe their ears when the main event came up as the Catenian Welter.

They were even more amazed to see the remainder of the program sponsored by Verlinden Electrics, Stan Hughes Building, Des Rice's Twinside Fencing, Des O'Neill's engineering, Alax Banovich's pharmacy, Spaddacini builders and Graham Pittaway's Cypress Print.

The Catenians, both members and Grateful thanks to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Our Blessed Lady and St Jude for prayers answered. Betty.

0 Holy St Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near kinsman of Jesus Christ faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need, to you I have recourse from the depth of 31:art and humbly beg to God has given such

ar :

great power to come to my assistance. Help me in my present and urgent petition.

In return I promise to make your name known and cause you to be invoked. St Jude pray for us and all who invoke your aid. Amen. Say three Hail Marys and Glorias.

Publication must be promised. This Novena has never been known to fail. I have had my request granted, Publication Promised. Thank you St Jude from MI.

connections provided trophies for the nine events.

Above: Northam Race Club president and Catenian Dr Joe Schwarz announces the presentation for the Catenian Welter by Catenian provincial Kevin Brady, with Mrs Maureen Brady. At far left is vice provincial president Graham Pittaway and his wife Helen.

Partly obscured is Alex Coe, vice president of Avon Valley Catenian Circle. At the rear are D.P. and J.D. Humphries, owners of the winner Indian Ego. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus

may your name be and honoured forever.

Thanks for prayers answered.

C.E.S. Thanks to St Clare. Ask St Clare for three favours, one business, two impossible. Say nine Hail Marys for nine days with candle burning on ninth day. Let candle burn to end then put this notice in paper.

L.V.

Ask St Clare for three favours, one business, two impossible. Say nine Hail Marys for nine days candle burning. On rir (11 day let candle burn to ert,-4 then put this notice in paper. Eric Maddison.

Thanks to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Holy Our lady, St Jude and holy souls from purgatory for my prayers answered. Forever grateful. Richard

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TOMORROW TODAY with Father Joe Parkinson

BOOK NOW FOR '91 CONFERENCE! Organisers of next year's Catholic Youth Conference "Crossroads to Tomorrow" are urging delegates to register now for the big event rather than leave it to the last minute.

While promotion of the gathering proceeds apace through school visits, zone meetings and various social events, organisers fear that January 1991 still seems "a long way off" in the minds of prospective delegates.

In reality there are barely twelve weeks left until the Conference, to be held at Aquinas

College in Manning, lifts off on January 11.

Registration forms are available from most parishes and schools, and more can be obtained from the Conference Office at 30 Claverton Street, North Perth, but the race is on to get your forms in as early as possible.

Early registration will guarantee first places in the various electives chosen, as well as giving organisers more time to allocate accommodation, community groups and transport.

Recent fundraising

events, including the "Not so Big Gig" at Subiaco and a quiz night at Applecross, have met with mixed success, but they have played their part in promoting next year's big event.

Corporate sponsorship is now being sought to help offset costs to all delegates, especially interstate and country youth.

Most Catholic schools in Perth have also helped by responding generously to appeals for buses to be used during the conference.

Monkey business!

Above: On the monkey bars at Avondown in Toodyay during their recent prayer weekend are (top) Michelle McGuckin, Andrew Griffith, Kyle Perkins and John Thornberry, (below) Inez Rosario, Michael Andrienne Celenza, McKenzie, Simone Kealy, Bruce Downes, Peter Merrifield, Sarah Haines, Daniella Jones, Juliette Lush and Stewart Keith.

Right: Balcatta Luke 18 have their own three wise monkeys in Rebecca Sturnilo, David Vickery-Howe Getting down to business during a Luke 18 weekend for 35 young people at Balcatta, and Monica Paglia!

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Enquiries and registration of interest may be directed to:

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MEETING HELD REGULARLY at the Catholic Youth Office 30 Claverton Street, North Perth

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One sharing group during Balcatta's Luke 18 weekend was (14) Eric Heenan, Clare Henryon, Peter Waddell, Rob Coombes, Jeff Brennan, Frank Cianfagna, Joseph Galea and Sharon James.

ADVANCE AUSTRALIA WHERE?

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PERTH SUPERDROME, CLAREMONT SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 730PM Tickets: $4 single, $15 family.

Available from the Youth Office or call 328 9878 to book.

An ecumenical youth rally sponsored by Anglican, Uniting, Baptist, Catholic Churches, Churches of Christ, Salvation Army and other Christian youth organisations.

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Story and books

by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

Remarkable chair of St Peter A chair is a chair is a chair — or is it? There are straight chairs and soft chairs, rocking chairs and stools, chairs for work and chairs for rest, love seats and "hot" seats.

Chairs are useful pieces of furniture. They also can be symbols of the dignity of the role of the persons who sit in them.

A king's throne symbolises the authority of a king over a nation. A judge's bench symbolises the authority of law in a society. A bishop's chair in a cathedral symbolises the role of the bishop in a diocese.

One chair is so important to Catholics that they celebrate its feast day each year on February 22.

It is the Chair of Peter.

Peter's chair symbolises the unique role of the pope. Pope John Paul II presently occupies the Chair of Peter.

Peter was one of Jesus' first disciples, together his with brother, Andrew. He was a fisherman from Bethsaida.

Actually, Peter's first name was Simon or Simeon. It was Jesus who called him Peter, which means "rock" — the rock foundation on which Jesus built his Church.

Peter was with Jesus at Cana when Jesus performed his first miracle.

Later Jesus healed Peter's mother-in-law. Jesus often sailed out onto the Sea of Galilee in Peter's boat.

naming a successor to Judas and was the first apostle to preach on Pentecost and to heal in the name of the risen Christ. Peter was the spokesman for the earliest Christian communities.

It is almost certain that Peter died in Rome, crucified like Jesus but upside down.

Gradually the bishops of Rome after Peter became the central leaders of the Church. They called themselves popes, the spiritual "fathers" of all Christians, the possessors of the leadership powers Jesus gave to Peter.

The Gospels mention Peter more often than any other apostle and give him a special place. At a key moment in Jesus' ministry, he gave Peter the "keys to the Kingbecame the dom". When the names They of the apostles are listed strongest force for unity Peter's name is always among Christians in local churches all over the first. world.

Peter became a close It is just that leadership friend of Jesus. Even role within the whole though Peter denied him, Church that the "Chair of Jesus forgave Peter.

Peter" symbolises. Today After Jesus' resurrection many Christians recogand ascension Peter is nise and respect the obviously the leader of unique role and authority Jesus' faithful followers. of the pope who sits in the Peter took the lead in Chair of Peter.

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Block City by Robert Louis Stevenson, illustrated by Ashley Wolff (Picturemac, $6.99.)

What are ycnit able to build with your blocks?

Castles and palaces, temples and docks.

So begins Robert Louis Stevenson's famous poem in which the author, as a child. builds a daydream city from wooden blocks.

This fantasy world is brought to life by Ashley Wo ff s imaginative illustrations.

Mazenod College and St Brigid's College made history at the A Division Associate Catholic Colleges Athletics Carnival.

In winning the girls and boys aggregate trophy they broke a thirteen year run of victories by John XXIII and Newman Colleges.

St Brigid's and Mazenod also won the relay cup, for the third time in four years, and the 1500 metre trophy.

Mazenod won all the trophies in the boys' section — junior, senior and aggregate

boys.

What's Wrong with Civilizasbun and other Important ritings by Just Williams. (Macmillan London, bb, $17.95.)

What's Wrong with Chilizashun. "People go on an' on tryin' to find out what's wrong with civiliza,shun an' what they never seem to see is that civilizashun's all wrong anyway an' that nothing will ever be right till we all go back to being' savages."

So says William Brown, the famous "Just William" created by 1Richmal Crampton and hero of the thirtyeight William books she wrote over a forty year period — the first in 1922.

Generations of children — and adults — have read with delighted enjoyment the stories of William and the Outlaws, and their attempts to educate an uncomprehending adult world to an understanding of the straightforward logic of William and his friends.

Corpus Christi again

In this collection of articles "by William", we have his forthright views on education ("at present it is all wrong. You've only got to look at the grown-ups round you to see that"), holidays ( "there's far too few of them"), Latin ("1 don't wonder the Latin people have all died off, having to speak a language like that"),

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careers ("pirates are a noble and glorious career") and, of course, civilizashun.

The first and only publication of these articles was in magazines in the '20s and '30s. Now re-published in book form, today's readers can enjoy the views of one of our youngest, and most practical, philosophers.

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For the second year in a row Corpus Christi College won the open division of the Coca Cola Netball Championship Cup. In an exciting grand final apinst Carine SHS they managed to make up a half time deficit of 13 to 13 to win

convincingly 43 to 36.

A total of 54 schools from the metropolitan area competed in seven zones, winning zones playing elimination finals. The winners of south of the river and north of the river played in the grand final.

Corpus Christi College won their zone convincingly and then defeated Kewdaie SHS, Hamilton SHS and Mercedes College in their elimination finals to earn the right to play in the Grand Final.

The team Belinda Rennick

(Captain), Megan Powell, Shery Wilkinson, Nicole Quinn, Kirsten Bailey, Michelle Tooley, Giselle D'Abadie, Susan Lawler, Yvette Fong, Charlene O'Carroll, Coach: Mrs Deborah Santaromita.

Literature and

by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

Golden land of sunshine

Reader's Digest Country Australia, The land and tbe people.

This is an ambitious project — the first complete guide to the Australian countryside that has ever been produced.

It is certainly the first time that anyone has attempted to put so much information about the land and its people into one volume. This is a book of special importance to all Australians. whether they live in a city or on the land; whether they visit the country once a year. every weekend, or simply drive through it occasionally The book has been designed to fulfil two important roles. First and foremost, it is a readable and entertaining source of information about the country and its inhabitants. Travellers can dip into it during a journey for surprising and interesting facts about almost everything that they see around them. Common mammals, birds, insects, freshwater fish, snakes, spiders, bushes, trees, flowers, rocks, minerals and gemstones are identified, all with clear photographs or drawings. Readers can learn to recognise the crops and stock animals they pass, find out how farms work and what farmers do. They will be able to read about the outback's legendary characters — the overlanders, bullocIdes, swaggies, bushrangers, shearers and miners. Who was Clancy of the Overflow or the Man from Snowy River, what is the real story behind the Dog on the Tuckerbox and the Maitland Panther? The answers to all these and many, many more questions are to be found within the pages of this unusual volume.

Phillip Knight1e

THE FIRST CASUALTY From the Crimea to the Falkland,: The Wart anTespnralent a, llem.

Prnpagarnlim and M,eh Maker

The book's second important role is as a reference work — particularly for students who will find it to be an invaluable source of facts and figures about rural Australia and its products.

The book is divided into three sections.

Part one — The Making of Australia — shows how the continent came to be as it is.

It tells how geological forces shaped the land, and how humans — first Aborigines, then Europeans — have changed and modified the work of nature over thousands of years.

Part two — Living Landscapes — examines all the common and natural habitats found across Australia, from rainforests to deserts, from alpine meadows to grasslands, and shows how communities of plants and animals live together within them. This 30-page section is essential for those who seek a more thorough understanding of all the natural areas that they might visit during a country iourney Part three — An A to Z of Country Australia — is the heart of the book. Over 800 entries cover topics from Atomic Bomb Tests to Yowies; Landslides to Timbergetters; Billabongs to Working Dogs; Ghost towns to Mouse plagues. Here you will find out why hand shears are still used on some sheep; why cicadas all start singing at once; where the Black Stump is; how to make a puftaloon; what the difference is between a Euro and a Wallaroo; what happens in the Wimmera; and how to tell whether a wild fruit is edible or not. No other single book covers such and extraordinary range of topks in such fascinating detail and depth.

The First Casualty by Knigbtky. Published by Pan. $19.99.

In wartime the main source of news is the special correspondent. But how reliable a source is he or she?

To what extent do correspondents shape myths and suppress facts? And how has their role changed over the years?

From the Crimea to Afghanistan, by way of the Spanish Civil War, Korea and Vietnam, Phillip Knightley examines the development of the war reporter's role.

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Recipies for Life: Lou' sodium, Lou sugar and low cbolestrol by Evelyn Jean LouIan (Bay Books distributed tbrougb Collins $19.95).

The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of (be Nation, its people and their origins. General editorJamesJupp (Angus & Robertson distributed through Collins bb $79.95).

Australia — perhaps the least hospitable inhabited continent on earth — has been home to human beings for at least 40,000 years. The first settlers were the Australian Aborigines, who came by sea, probably on bamboo rafts. The arrival of the first fleet of convict ships from England in 1788 marked the end of the Aborigines' sole occupation of the continent and the beginning of great challenges and hardships for all its inhabitants. Since then, millions of immigrants have come from all over the world, and each new wave of settlers has had a unique

impact on Australian society and culture.

This fascinating book documents the dramatic history of Australian settlement and describes the rich ethnic and cultural inheritance of the nation through the contributiorts of its people. It traces the diverse origins of Australians and looks at the interactions between them that have created, and are still creating, the Australian people. This is the only reference work in existence in which the experiences of the Australian Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, the convicts and early settlers, and the multitude of immigrants, are placed in their Australian setting.

Developed by the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University The Australian People is one of the largest social science projects ever

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Presented here are some of the simplest recipes, most of them easy to prepare, nutritious, economical and tasty even vkithout salt. They are made with polyunsaturated unsalted margarine, polyunsaturated oil, very little sugar, no salt added and ingredients available nearly everywhere.

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Grilled and stir-fry recipes can be cooked on a nonstick pan on a single burner.

Vegetables, chiOen, turkey and fish can be steamed in aluminium foil. Soups, casseroles, rice dishes, crepes, pastas, cereals, some sweets and puddings and wighurt can also be cooked on one electric or gas burner using economical ingredients which are available at supermarkets and health food stores.

This important work was designed to appeal to both a general and an academic readership but will be of interest to all Australians — both old and new — to their relatives overseas, and to researchers and students everywhere. Commissioned by the Australian Bicentennial Authority to give a multicultural dimension to its Bicentennial publications, The Australian People is the ABA's major publishing contribution to the National Program for the Bicentenary

• Six appendices to help guide the clinician towards making appropriate assessments and interventions.

• Thousands of clinical studies abstracted with the emphasis on double-blind experimental studies whenever available.

• Introductory overviews of the longer chapters to ensure that the most essential information is quickly available.

• A detailed index to permit rapid location of information of particular nutrients.

• Includes studies reporting negative results to provide a balanced perspective CC the literature.

• Includes coverage of the literature on food sensitivities and toxics.

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(Collins $19.95).

The Skies: Monthly sky maps of the northern and southern hemispheres aid quick recognition of the constellations, stars and planets from various latitudes.

The Constellations: Each of the 88 constellations and their stars are described opposite a specially prepared sky chart showing the

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constellation, in relation to the surrounding skies.

The Stars and Planets: Over 35 colour photographs illustrate the heavenly bodies. The text dexcribes man's exploration of the stars and planets, and what is known about them — how big they are, what they consist of, how fast they spin, how many moons they have.

There are hints on the best astronomical instruments. and how to take photographs of the night sky. There is a full index.

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PARISH SCENE Archdiocesan Calendar -110.1=1..11.—Mil• gloss —

MARIAN MOVEMENT The monthly meeting of the Marian Movement will be held at the Little Sisters of Carmen, 2 Frazier Street Swanbourne on Tuesday, October 16 at 10.30am.

SPIRIT SEMINAR St Kieran's Light of Christ prayer group Osborne Park parish, is holding a Life in the Spirit seminar, October 16-November 27, 7.30pm sharp.

Parish hall, Cape Street, Tuart Hill.

For information call 444 5675.

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Anne Evangelista married Rex Waddell at St Bemadette's church Glendalough last Saturday during Mass celebrated by Father Edward O'Halloran.

Anne is the elder of the two children of Gerald and Joyce Evangelista of Glendalough and Rex is the youngest son of Alice Waddell of Palmyra and the late Jack Waddell.

The couple will live in Tuart Hill

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FUNERAL RITES MEETING The Australian Academy of Liturgy will present a workshop on funeral rites at the James Nestor Hall, West Leederville on Saturday November 3 from 9am to 4pm. Workshops include Catholic, Anglican and Uniting Church rites. Catholic facilitators include Fathers Pat Bishop SJ, Chris Ross OS M, Russell Hardiman, Brian Tiernan SAC and Dino Torresan CS and Mr Gerry Smith. Further information and enrolment forms: Canon Sutton PO Box 320, Subiaco WA, phone 3811130.

NEWMAN SOCIETY On Monday, October 22, at 8pm in the Senior Common Room, St Thomas More College, Crawley, Bishop Hickey of Geraldton lectures on: "Newman's Conversion and Conversions To-Day". Contact No: 446 1628. Open to all interested.

The Little Sisters of the Poor, Glendalough wish to sincerely thank Bishop Healy and the priests who concelebrated Mass on the occasion of the anniversary of their Founder Blessed Jeanne JUGAN, at St Joseph's Church, Subiaco.

Also, thanks to our friends and benefactors, who attended the Mass and the celebration of 150 years caring for the aged. God bless all.

We're countrywide too. . !

NEWMAN SOCIETY On Monday, October 22, at 8pm in the Senior Common Room, St Thomas More College, Crawley, Bishop Hickey of Geraldton lectures on: "Newman's Conversion and Conversions To-Day". Contact No: 446 1628. Open to all interested.

COUNTRY PRAYER The fourth day of reflection organised by combined country Catholic parishes is to be held on Monday, October 29, St Joseph's Church, Kuhn, commencing at 9.30am. Sister Mary Englebrecht (RSJ) will speak on the theme of the day "Mary, One of Us". The day will also celebrate the third anniversary of the Kuhn shrine built in commemoration of Mary in the Marian year.

(BYOL.) Geoff and Lorraine Brown (098) 80 1213 or (096) 22 3109.

(Metro callers please use 221 3866)

OCTOBER St Mary's Cathedral Mass for 14 Catenians, Bishop Healy.

Confirmation Santa Maria, 15 Bishop Healy.

16 & 17 Sydney Central Bishops' Commission meeting, Archbishop Foley.

18 St Mary's Cathedral St Luke's Day Service, Archbishop Foley.

Knights of the Southern Cross 20 Mass and dinner, Bishop Healy.

Visitation and confirmation Kondinin/Kulin, Archbishop Foley.

21 St Mary's Cathedral Mass for Mental Health Week, Archbishop Foley.

Visitation and confirmation, Greenmount, Bishop Healy.

Opening of Mental Health 23 Week, Archbishop Foley.

Western Regional Festival of Performing Arts, Archbishop Foley.

24 Mental Health Week Activities, Archbishop Foley.

Visitation and confirmation, East Cannington, Bishop Healy.

Open and bless South Lakes 27 School, Archbishop Foley.

Confirmation, Beaconsfield, Monsignor McCrann.

28 Bless and open Education Support Unit Santa Maria, Archbishop Foley.

St Mary's Cathedral Mass for the Opening of Health Care Week, Archbishop Foley.

Confirmation, Aquinas College, Bishop Healy.

Confirmation, Kwinana, Monsignor Keating.

CONFLICT RESOLUTION Catherine McAuley Family Centre is offering a six session course on: "Conflict Resolution for Families".

Saturday, October 20: 9-1pm; Thursday, October 25, November 1, 8: 7-9.30pm and Saturday, November 17: 9-1pm.

Learn how to grow in your relationships using the skills of Conflict Resolution. Ring Denise or Brendan on 381 9222.

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Father Ingham is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Providence College University, Rhode Island, where he specialises in contemporary metaphysics and epistomology.

He is a graduate of Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles and of Brown University where he gained his doctorate.

He is on sabbatical leave in Australia and is writing a book entitled "An Introduction to Intermediate Logic and Proof Theory".

VENUE: James Nestor Hall, Catholic Education Centre, 50 Ruislip Street, LEEDERVILLE. TIME: 8.00pm — Monday, 15 October 1990.

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PSYCHIATRIC ISSUES Conference Centre C onvent of Mercy, Victoria Square ( Enter from Victoria Ave:

Sunday, October 21 Leading to the Divine Physician 9-10am 10 30-11 30am The Divine Physician in Scripture Fr Paul Pitzen, OSM 11 30-1 30pm LUNCH (bring your own).

1 302 30pm The Divine Physician at Work in the Church Fr James Dynon. SJ The Divine Physician Comes to Us 3-4pm (Reconciliation with self, others and God Options for Healing).

Buffet/light refreshments provided 5 30-6 30pm 7pm Mass in the Cathedral

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