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Pointed interest
The Vatican was obviously taking a pointed interest in Bishop Quinn of Bunbury this week when he caught up with Papal Pro-Nuncio Archbishop Franco Brambilla who had come from Canberra to spend some days as the guest of Bishop Hickey of Geraldton before moving down for a similar visit to Bunbury after celebrating the annual clergy Mass for St Charles' Day at the Guildford vocational residence.
Row simmers CATHOLICS 'HOPEFUL' MATTER WILL BE RESOLVED
The top negotiator on behalf of Catholic nursing homes says he is "hopeful" of a better outcome in the dispute but it will depend on the amendments that the government will provide. After a 100-minute meeting on Tuesday between four Catholic representatives and Federal Minister Peter Staples and his staff, Bishop Edward Kelly said the minister seemed more conciliatory and that the mood had changed on the part of the minister. Bishop Kelly said that he gained the impression that the funding of the Catholic institutions would no longer be a question. Before the meeting, Senator Tate, Minister for justice, showed some amendments to Bishop Kelly. At the end of the ministerial conference Bishop Kelly said it was now up to the government to set out the amendments and the Catholic bodies would consider their response. The amendments are in the critical sections 8.3 and 9.3 of the Agreement that must be signed
between proprietors and the government. The two sections deal with sexual choice and sexual preference and currently read: "8.3 . . . and has the right to have language. sexual and emotional needs and choices accepted and treated with respect, except to the extent that the public physical and verbal expression of such needs would clearly and unreasonably offend, or infringe upon the rights of, the proprietor, nursing home staff and other residents; and "9.3 not be discriminated against on the basis of the resident's age, gender, sexual preference, race, colour, culture, language, religion, political or other option, national or social origin, birth or other status." Bishop Kelly said that since it was also an agreement between the residents and the proprietor "in Catholic homes we had to stand by the teaching of Christ in the matters of sexual choice and sexual preference." "We could not forego those principles and we
do not intend to," Bishop Kelly said. On the further issue of medical ethics Bishops' Conference secretary Monsignor Manning drew the meeting's attention to a recent Monash University survey revealing some doctors who had actively participated in euthanasia and others who advocated that it be legally allowed.
"I am more hopeful than I was but we will have to see what they come up with and whether they propose to accept amendments acceptable to us. We will not know until the final document. They could switch at any time."
In Perth this week the Catholic Health Care Association said it did not have anything Regarding earlier on air further to add and the claims by Mr Staples, Knights of the Southern that he had consulted Cross said they would be with Catholic bishops on dealing with the matter the matter, Bishop Kelly through their national challenged the minister homes chairman (see to name those bishops page 2). with whom he allegedly In WA there are 377 spoke to, but the minister nursing home beds did not provide names. under the supervision of Asked whether the ten Catholic bodies the absence of copies of both largest being the Knights the charter and the of the Southern Cross agreement, eg, in Perth along with the Little up till early this week, Sisters of the Poor, the was an experience Nazareth Sisters, the around Australia, Bishop Daughters of Charity and Kelly pointed out that the a number of institutions Little Sisters of the Poor catering primarily for in Sydney had got their elderly religious. copies three days after The controversy the matter was tabled in became public last week parliament. when Bishop Kelly "It looks as though they issued a statement on wanted to get it through behalf of the Health Care without anyone knowing Committee of the Ausabout it," commented tralian Bishops Bishop Kelly. Conference.
The statement said: "The bishops accept the desirability of having a Charter of Rights and Responsibilities and do not object to a form of agreement that seeks to promote loving care for residents: to ensure humane treatment for everyone; and to protect all involved in nursing homes from injustice. "But we do not accept that any Government has the right to deprive operators of nursing homes of financial assistance simply because they cannot in good conscience enter into agreements that would require them to allow their premises to be used for purposes that are a their violation of consciences. "The minister has chosen to include in the form of Agreement explicit rights for residents to have their sexual needs and choices accepted and treated with respect and not to be discriminated against on the basis of sexual preferences — this offends the consciences of Catholics, and I believe, of many others. "In addition for opera-
tors and residents it imposes more extensive obligations than the Sex Discrimination Act. "By granting to each resident an unqualified right to medical services of their choice the Charter and Agreement as tabled would prevent operators from excluding from their nursing homes medical practitioners who are unwilling to abide by the operators' philosophy of health care service in as such matters euthanasia. "Advice from legal advisers is that the proposed form of Charter and of Agreement as tabled by the Minister is shot through with drafting defects which raise serious difficulties for all concerned." Bishop Kelly said "the bishops' preference is for the legislation to be amended so that the tabled documents can be withdrawn and new forms of Charter and Agreement drafted after effective consultation with all concerned with the operation of nursing homes". Bishop Kelly said that such consultation had not occurred.
Why the fuss?
VATICAN CITY (CNS): Brazilian Cardinal Aloisio Lorscheider said he "does not understand the small scandal" caused by his statement that Pope John Paul II has approved the ordination as priests of two married permanent deacons in Brazil as long as they live "as brother and sister" with their wives. The cardinal said he was asked a question and told the truth. "It could be that because the synod did not offer hot items, the press thought a lot about making some noise by squeezing out the juice of my statement," he said. The cardinal added that it is erroneous to talk of a shortage of priests when the real problem is a shortage of committed and trained Catholics. It is the entire Catholic community that has responsibility for pastoral activities, he said. Talking about a priestly shortage is the result of "a mentality that must be changed," he said.
Reactions on the nursing homes saga Charter of residents' rights and responsibilities. Preamble. Every person has the right to freedom and respect and the right to be treated fairly by others. A person's rights do not diminish when they move into a nursing home, regardless of their physical or mental frailty or their ability to exercise or fully appreciate their rights. A positive, supportive and caring attitude by family, nursing home proprietors and nursing home staff, friends, carers and the community will help people who live in nursing homes to continue as integral, respected and valued members of society. Australian society has a strong committment to social justice principles. Those principles recognise the aspirations of all Australians to a dignified and secure way of life with equal access to health care, housing and education, and equal rights in civil, legal and consumer matters. They form the basis of a society which is free of prejudice and is caring, just and humane. This Charter affirms those social justice principles. The personal, civil, legal and consumer rights of each resident are not diminished in any way when they move into a nursing home. The Charter also recognises that residents of nursing homes have the responsibility to ensure that the exercising of their individual rights does not affect others' individual rights, including those providing care. It recognises that residents have specific rights and responsibilities which balance the needs of the individual against the needs of the nursing home community as a whole. Each resident of a nursing home has the RIGHT: • to quality care which is appropriate to their needs. • to full information about their own state of health and about available treatments. • to be treated with dignity and respect, and to live without exploitation, abuse or neglect. • to live without discrimination or victimisation. The resident is not indebted to those providing their care and accommodation. • to personal privacy. • to live in a safe, secure and homelike environment, and to move freely both within and outside the nursing home without undue restriction. • to be treated and accepted as an individual. Each resident's individual preferences are taken into account and treated with respect. • to continue their cultural and religious practices and to retain the language of their choice, without discrimination. • to select and maintain social and personal r elationships with any other person without fear, criticism or restriction. • to freedom of speech. • to maintain their personal independence, which includes a recognition of personal responsibility for their own actions and choices. Some actions may involve an element of risk which the resident has the right to accept, and which should not then be used to prevent or restrict those actions. • to maintain control over, and to continue making decisions about, the personal aspects of their daily lives, their financial affairs and their possessions. • to be involved in the activities, associations and friendships of their choice, both within and outside the nursing home. • to have access to services and activities which are available generally in the community. • to be consulted on, and to choose to have input into, decisions about the living arrangements of the nursing home. • to information about their rights, care, accommodation, and any other information which relates to them personally. • to complain and to take action to resolve disputes. • to have access to advocates and other avenues of redress. Reprisal in any form must not be made against any resident who takes action to enforce their rights. Each resident of a nursing home has the RESPONSIBILITY: • to respect the rights and needs of other people within the nursing home, and to respect the needs of the nursing home community as a whole. • to respect the right of staff and the proprietor to work in an environment which is free from harassment. • for their own health and well-being, as far as they are capable. • to inform their medical practitioner, as far as they are able, about their relevant medical history and their current state of health. 2
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More important matters than oldies having sex There are more important matters, like equity and justice for all, than merely debating about 90-year-old people having sex in nursing homes, says The Australian Affiliation of Voluntary Care Associations (AAVA). Religious beliefs are not being imposed upon others, says Rev George S. Martin, president of AAVCA, in a letter to Federal Minister Peter Staples. "Many groups of people in Australia are happy to live out their remaining years in an environment where house rules reflect their customary behavioural practice," says Rev Martin. His letter to the Minister reads: "It is most unfortunate that the media have been allowed to reduce the debate on residents rights to assertions about 90-year-old people having sex in nursing homes. "There are other important matters of equity and justice for all parties concerned: residents, staff and proprietors alike. "Proprietors and staff are required to observe the religious and cultural practices of residents in the process of encouraging them to maintain their accustomed lifestyle. "Judging from comments in the media, you would
withdraw funding from nursing homes where proprietors and staff want their religious beliefs and matters of conscience to be observed in practice. "Clarification of this point would be appreciated. "The affiliation has proposed on several occasions that the house rules of individual organisations should be honoured rather than be discounted by the agreement. "House rules are to be viewed in advance of entering a nursing home. If they are not acceptable to a prospective resident, another nursing home may be sought. "This is not a case of using Commonwealth funds to impose religious beliefs upon others. It is a recognition of the fact that many groups of people in Australia are happy to live out their remaining years in an environment where the house rules reflect their customary behavioural practices. "Those who choose to 'limit their freedom' in such ways should have the opportunity to do so. "Under the current proposal such people would not have the right to make such a choice. "The affiliation urges you to amend the proposal to allow all parties the right of choice."
Knights want to talk The Knights of the Southern Cross wants government legislation to state more clearly the duties and obligations of an individual for the good and well being of their fellow residents. Mr Peter Taylor, national KSC chairman of Southern Cross Homes has written to Federal Minister Peter Staples outlining a number of points on which further discussion with the minister is wanted. The KSC statement reads:
"In the light of the recent public discussion of residents' rights in nursing homes and hostels Cross Southern Homes Inc. wishes to draw attention to its own practice and to some of the issues raised during this recent discussion: "1. Southern Cross Homes Inc, makes no inquiry into the sex lives of prospective residents as a test of entry. "2. Southern Cross Homes Inc. respects the right or privacy of
all residents under its care. "3. Southern Cross Homes Inc. maintains the standards of its care within the para metres of the philosophy and ethos of the Catholic Church, which includes the utmost respect for the religious convictions of all people. "4. Southern Cross Homes Inc. provides accommodation to each resident in such a way that it resembles as closely as possible the conditions of their own
home. However, it needs to be understood that the scope and nature of this provision are subject to the communal setting of a nursing home and a hostel.
dents to have their sexual and emotional needs accepted and respected. "Older people do have physical and emotional needs and wants and those who wish to give expression to them. being by definition over 21, should be free to do so. "The denial of their rights in many cases is part of a wider regimentation of nursing home residents. It is ordered for
the convenience of nurs- groups have a right to ing home staff and leads their moral standards. to residents being treated "Indeed, they have a like children. Or worse. duty to uphold them. "Children in modern They are entitled to paediatric wards are expect that as their given more freedom than nursing home residents many nursing home enter their care voluntarily, they will agree to the residents. "But Mr Staples failed standards laid down. If to anticipate the reaction not, they are free to seek because he failed to care elsewhere. "The Catholic Church appreciate that promulgation of the charter has portrayed a wild involved a clash of values picture of life under the and of rights. Church charter, with homosexu-
"5. Southern Cross Homes Inc. believes that government legislation needs to provide for the limits of personal rights in a communal setting in the context of more clearly stated duties and obligations any individual has for the good and well-being of their fellow residents.
"6. Southern Cross Homes Inc. believes that the legislation before the Federal Parliament should contain provisions similar to those of Section 37 of the Commonwealth Sex Discrimination Act 1984 which protects the rights of religious bodies to act accordMg to the "doctrines, tenets or beliefs" of their religion. "It is on these points that Southern Cross Homes would like further discussion with the Minister and his advisers."
Paper slams Staples An editorial in The "This is poor adminisAustralian newspaper tration. Bad administracastigated the Federal tion produces problems Minister for Aged Care, and Mr Staples has Mr Staples, blaming created a big one — the him for poor adminis- ill will, and possible nontration and asking cooperation, of an imporwhether he was more tant supplier of nursing interested in playing an home care. ideological game. "In a secular society, Mr "He is surprised Staple's charter is unexbecause he did not think ceptional. It enshrines beyond the first step in important human rights introducing the charter — the main one in — that is, beyond its question being the right mere promulgation. of nursing home resi-
Roll call At the jubilarians' roll call on Monday night at the annual St Charles Day dinner, top honours went to Archbishop Goody (centre) shortly to celebrate his 60th anniversary of priesthood. He is pictured with other jubilarians: his one time St Charles' Seminary protege Bishop Peter Quinn (40 years) and at left Capuchin Fr Frank Delia (40 years), Redemptorist Fr Luke Fay (50 years, and Pallottine Fr John Luemmen (40 years). Function host and master of ceremonies Fr Justin Bianchini assured the 100 priests present that the presentation to Archbishop Goody (pictured) "was not a paschal candle".
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Militant sexual revolutionaries are running the agenda of the Nursing Homes Charter, according to the Little Sisters of the Poor who say they cannot in conscience sign the agreement. In a hard hitting statement issued last week Mother Mary John, provincial superior of the Sisters in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, said that if the government stopped their funding they would have the option either to seek charity or to leave Australia. "The Staples Agreement makes it quite clear," says Mother John, "that any proprietors' house rules designed to regulate residents' conduct, contrary to the "rights" conferred by the agreement, would be invalid; therefore we would be unable to implement our home's philosophy. "The draft agreement aims to give residents the "right" to indulge in adultery, fornication or sodomy in our homes, provided they do not do so in public. "When it comes to intimate sexual relations, it is our belief that these belong within the sanctity of marriage, therefore, behaviour which would be variant to this would be unacceptable in our homes. "We have asked the Minister to remove this provision but he has refused. "Our Order has been caring for the aged poor for 150 years. We conduct 257 homes in 30 countries on five continents, (including five in Australia) as caring Christian communities. "Our Sisters have dedicated their lives to care for the aged poor in homes where the principles of Christian morality are observed." Mother Mary John said, "The Minister's plan, based upon recommendations in 'Residents Rights in Nursing Homes and Hostels Final Report by Chris Ronalds, is to use economic duress, the refusal of funding to force proprietors to offer the agreement to each resident. 'The Ronalds Report noted, at page 13, that
a number of proprietors and staff of nursing homes and hostels objected, on moral grounds, to the proposal that residents should be given the 'right' to do within nursing homes and hostels, anything they could legally do in their own homes. "We are amazed and alarmed that the Minister is persisting with this in the face of expressed moral objections. "Apart from provisions that give rise to our moral objections, there are various provisions that would involve much paper work, and needlessly increase running costs. "Where there is to be a change in goods and services to be provided, the Government's own advisor, Mr Peter Sheils, QC, stated 'that where a change, eg from chocolate biscuits on Monday to cake on Tuesday, takes place, this should be: (a) written into the Schedule; (b) signed by both the resident and person acting on behalf of the proprietor'. "When the NSW Government introduced its Code of Practice for the Retirement Village Industry in October 1989, it did not seek unduly to interfere in the way we conduct our homes. The NSW Code regulates such matters as fair provisions in contracts, security of occupation, proper standards of accommodation, food and medical care, access to family, friends and advisers, reasonable house rules. "Those are proper areas for Government concern. "If Mr Staples' agreement is approved by the Commonwealth Parliament we will not offer it to our residents. "We will have only two possible courses of action: to seek financial support from the State and public charity. "Should such support prove insufficient, we would have to withdraw from Australia and continue our work in other places where the Government is not run by people who adopt the agenda of militant sexual revolutionaries."
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ality and fornication rampant. But putting the extreme language aside, its basic point — that its members have a right not to have their consciences offended — remains. "Having been taken by surprise, Mr Staples has resorted, as if on automatic pilot, to the thoughtless response of the politician-bureaucrat — the blunt use of power.
"In this case, he has threatened to withhold considerable funding from nursing homes that do not accept the charter. But the threat will do him — and nursing home residents — no good at all. What would he do with the patients if the Catholic homes closed? He might recall a similar argument was employed, ultimately to great effect, in the 1960s in the early stages of the
debate over State aid to non-government schools.
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"It bears repeating that he is the minister respon"So Mr Staples has a sible and it is up to him very serious problem. As to devise a solution, the minister responsible, perhaps in consultation it falls to him to solve it. with the industry. If he This involves, as a first persists in his bluster he step, giving some thought will confirm that he is a to the practical conse- poor administrator — quences of his promulga- and give rise to the tion of the charter." suspicion that he is more interested in playing an After suggesting a per- ideological game than sonal voucher system as ensuring the good care of a solution The Austral- nursing home residents."
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Record Catholics with an impression that the media are regularly beating them around the ears with all the subtlety of an all-in tag-wrestling bout can do worse than look back on the clouts they have endured this week over the nursing homes saga. No sooner had Bishop Kelly gone public last Wednesday week over concerns about the proposed charter and sexual rights than the pavlovian dogs yelped from every direction, begging comments from any and every source to titillate even more their already lurid fantasies about what goes on in nursing home corridors. With their every right as a body of national and international standing the Little Sisters of The Poor opted to put out a rather blunt critique of the issue (page 3). For their trouble they were scolded around Australia, the Sydney Morning Herald leading the pack with a front-page send-up of the Sisters concerns. By the end of the day it had developed into a ratings quiz whether the Little Sisters were doing well under the media onslaught — as though they had a case to answerl Although the Little Sisters speak for only a sector of the large Catholic nursing effort, they were pilloried as Catholics, the inference being that Catholics generally can never have a sane thought in these matters. If there were other denominations or groups also opposed to the charter (and there were . . . see pages 2 & 3) they were obviously out to lunch or keeping their heads well down below the barricades. A one page Perth Catholic media release following an approach from The West Australian, merited just a one sentence quote — no doubt because it mentioned morality. Bishop Kelly's statement was also proffered but there were obviously other mines to quarry. Saturday's West Australian got down to a bit of open slather mud-slinging from Home of Peace residents, of all places. Even by the old canons of journalistic balance our much prized morning monopoly could have russled up some equally vitriolic Catholics to reply in kind, if that was supposed to be the level of the debate. More of the same poured out of Howard Saltier in The Sunday Times and the ABC joined in with its usual afternoon ridicule of things Catholic. For WA readers only The Australian newspaper dared question the appalling package being foisted on the Australian public by the Federal Minister and his carefully concealed departmental minders. With remarkable candour on local ABC radio Mr Peter Staples was seemingly rather proud that the conentious wording in both the charter and the agreement was not his work but that of his advisers. As WA recent politics amply illustrate it is now not the elected representatives but the new class of anonymous public service, unaccountable to the electors, who are becoming the comissars deciding how taxpayer funds will be administered. The issue is not about sexual rights — ludicrous as it would sound if anybody took the trouble even to visit a nursing home — but the right of otherwise approved quality organisations to operate within their own ethos. Those same residents too have the right for that ethos to be upheld for their own comfort, and not to be over-ridden by busy-body bureaucrats. The issue is far from finished and Mr Staples can make his own choices about how he wants to treat his voting constituency. The Catholic Church will have to learn that it is entering an era when it will be consistently painted into a no-win situation when it comes not only to being right but being seen to be right. Notwithstanding the valiant efforts by those who went into bat for the Church —including many ordinary letter writers and phone callers, the sad story is that Catholic communications were again handled clumsily and disjointedly. The Church has still to get its act together visa-vis an illdisposed media. 4
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24,000 queries for catechism
R ATZINGER FORECASTS TWO-YEAR WAIT VATICAN CITY: Cardinal Ratzinger hopes that the proposed Catholic catechism will be ready by 1992 but that's two years after the schedule planned by Pope John Paul. The cardinal said that an international consultation resulted in bishops and Church organisations proposing 24,000 changes to the draft. These changes were contained in the 938 commentaries on the draft received by the commission, he said. The commentaries showed that "there remains much work to be done" before arriving at a final text he said. Cardinal Ratzinger said one major need is more precision about "the degrees of authority in the documents issued by the magisterium" so that it is clear "in Christian doctrine what is essential and what is derived". "Solemnly defined truths will be clearly indicated," he said. Also needing a "general editing revision" is the
section on moral theology, which received "the most criticisms in the reports by bishops and bishops' conferences," he added. This is not surprising because "no other area of Catholic doctrine today is so controversial, so difficult to explain", he said. The aim of the revisions will be to present "a Catholic morality which is concise and open to contemporary problems", he said. Revisions will include presenting the Ten Commandments as specific applications of Christ's commandments to love God and to love one another, he said. Another of the major "gaps to fill" is the ecumenical section where more balance is needed between "ecumenical sensitivity and clarity in explaining Catholic doctrine", he said. "Regarding the question of non-Christian religions already sharing in
revelation, the commission considers that the magisterium has not yet made a sufficiently clear statement," he said. Also needing improvement are the sections on religious life, the role of the laity, social doctrine and the missionary aspect of the Church, he said. Overall, the text will include brief summary descriptions of Church doctrine "able to be memorised" to go along with the lengthier treatments, he said. Cardinal Ratzinger said the final document will be called a catechism because its overall aim is religious education. It will be "a catechism destined for those responsible for catechesis", he said. The 1985 synod referred to the final document as a "catechism or compendium of Catholic faith", reflecting differing views as to whether the final product should be a guideline or an exhaustive
Cardinal Ratzinger. . much work to be done, treatment on write something to fit all Catholicism. situations," the cardinal Cardinal Ratzinger said said. the final document "will Although the document not be a document meant was suggested by the for immediate parish synod, it will not be a use". It is meant to be adapted collegial document, said to different local situa- Cardinal Ratzinger. tions and cultures, allowFinal approval will ing educators to use come from the pope. who different approaches, he accepted the synod sugsaid. gestion and made it a "The context today is so papal initiative, the carvaried that it is hard to dinal said.
Pope's Fatima visit plan VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul ll said he wants to visit the Marian shrine at Fatima, Portugal, next May on the 10th anniversary of the assassination attempt against him. The pope also said that the trip might include the beatifications of two of the three shepherd children who saw Mary six times in 1917 at Fatima. The church recognises the apparitions as valid. The pope was gravely wounded by gunshots May 13, 1981, in St Peter's Square. Mehment Ali Agca, a Turk,
was convicted of the assassination attempt and is currently serving a life sentence in Italy. May 13 also marks the anniversary of the first apparition at Mary Fatima. appeared six times to the three children between May 13 and Oct 13, 1917. Two of the children — Francisco Marto and his sister, Jacinta — died within three years of the apparitions. The third person, their cousin Lucia dos Santos, is an 83-yearold Carmelite nun. The pope
visited
Fatima in 1982 to thank Mary for the recovery of his health after the assassination attempt. He cited the "mysterious coincidence" of the apparition and murder attempt occurring on the same date. "I seemed to recognize in the coincidence of the dates and a special call to come to this place. And so today I am here. I have come in order to thank Divine Providence in this place . . . the Mother of God seems to have chosen in a particular way," the pope said during the 1982 visit.
Main task of modern science
VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul II said the main task facing modern science is to make the earth "more habitable, more fertile and more fraternal". The pope said he optimistic was because humanity had reached a "turning point" in which experts of different fields — such as
science and religion — as well as different cultures can collaborate toward a common good. Addressing the Pontifical Academy of Sciences the pope credited modern and technology today's instant communication with creating a global awareness and awak-
ening "an immense desire for freedom and dignity".
"There is every reason to believe that has humanity reached an historic turning point," he said. Scientists, he said, will play "a leading role in the common effort required of our
generations, that of making the earth more habitable, more fertile and more fraternal". The pope warned against adopting an attitude of "fatalism" regarding the future of the earth and its people. "We must react vigorously against this error and this temptation," he
said.
"On the contrary, the hour has come to form an alliance between all the people and all the groups of good will," he said. The overall aim, he added, should be the "whole development" of peoples: intellectual, technical, moral and spiritual.
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Bishops gear up for sex ed plan WASHINGTON (CNS): A major item on the US bishops agenda this week is approval of a 185-page statement on sex education, "Human Sexuality: A Catholic Perspective for Education and Lifelong Learning". It focuses on parents as the primary educators of children but also draws up guidelines to help Catholic parents, schools and parishes. It calls for "ongoing formation in human sexuality, not only for children and adolescents, but also for all people". Particularly important are preparations to deal with "major transitions in life — eg, puberty, moving away from 'home', engagement/marriage, parenthood, middle age, retirement, divorce or widowhood, ordination, religious vows, ageing, serious illness". It says a healthy understanding of human sexuality involves "appreciation, wonder and respect". It quotes Pope John Paul II: "Sexuality is an
enrichment of the whole person — body, emotions and soul — and manifests its innermost meaning in leading the person to the gift of self in love." Most of the book is devoted to spelling out JudeoChristian principles and Catholic teachings on sexuality and how they relate to the development of a "psychologically whole and spiritually holy" human sexuality. The proposed new book is unlike the 1981 document, "Education in Human Sexuality for Christians: Guidelines for Discussion and Planning," which was chiefly pedagogical rather than systematic. Most of the book was devoted to issues of age-related developmental education about sexuality, centering on goals of education at each level. The new document is primarily a systematic treatment of the meaning of human sexuality and sexual morality, with the discussion of educational principles for different ages relegated to the appendix.
The closing message VATICAN CITY (CNS): A closing message from the world Synod of Bishops told priests they are appreciated, asked lay people to "love and support" the c lergy and asked young men to consider becoming priests. The message said that during its monthlong discussions, "celibacy has shone out for us in a new
light and with new clarity".
operation of all Catholics, the loyalty of priests and the generosity of young people to be effective.
"This celibacy is a complete self-giving to God for the good of souls; an intimate union with Christ the bridegroom, who so loved his bride, the Church, that he gave up his life for her," the message said.
Addressing priests, the message said, "you carry the main burden of priestly ministry through your day to day service of the faithful".
Church leaders, it said, rely on the co-
The need for a deeper understanding of a
priest's identity was emphasised in the discussions, it said. Speaking to young people, the synod participants said, "We can promise you, from our experience, that it is worthwhile to give one's life and strength as a priest in the service of the people of God". The bishops said they realise how difficult it
Ballarat bishop's say...
VATICAN CITY: During the recent Synod of Bishops, Bishop Ronald Mulkearns of Ballarat, said continuing education and formation is so important for
priests after ordination that he would "consider incentives, sanction and, where necessary legislation" to encourage lifelong learning among priests.
"This is in fairness to the people to whom we minister," he said.
and appreciating the positive value of celibacy".
Bishop Mulkearns also said, "Priests need help in integrating their sexuality
"The witness of priests living fulfilled, happy, celibate lives is a sign and challenge
is for young men "to commit themselves to lifelong priesthood" giving up the possibility of marriage and having a family. "But priests should be free from ties of marriage and family, not attached to possessions and comfort, not demanding complete personal autonomy," the message said.
to lay men and women, especially the young, who find difficulty in observing chastity in their own state of life," the bishop said.
Castes hit the bottom
Good on you, DELHI: Christian (or scheduled caste) The bishops had called could not be used by all. "Untouchable" castes people were denied facil- for equal treatment for Some of the higher castes are being discrimi- ities available for those of all castes in the liturgy, complained that it was Gorby! nated against by both the Indian Government and other Christians, a ccording to the Bishop of Kumbakonam in southern India.
Bishop Peter Remigius has recently been appointed convener of a
special committee for the Harijan (lower castes). He said that government plans for civil service job reservations do not go nearly far enough, as Christians are e xcluded from the scheme. Christian lower caste
the same castes but of other religions — Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists. The discrimination was so blatant, he said, "You can have people of the same low caste living in the same street but redevelopment money for housing is granted according to your religion". The bishop, also drew attention to caste divisions in the Christian community. In some churches there were separate places for Hariians, he said.
the promotion of religious vocations among the low castes, and their being given priority in education and jobs.
In Bishop Remingius' own diocese discrimination has not been eradicated. Two churches were closed recently because of tension among castes. "In one church there was a funeral bier", the bishop said, "that was not used by low castes. We said nothing could be kept in the church if it
their bier, so we told them to take it away."
And so, he continued, with the service of blessing animals. "It used to start with the priests' animals, then those of the higher castes and then the Scheduled Castes. Now it is first come, first served." Untouchability and differentiation based on caste should be done away with, Bishop Rernigius said. He spoke of the Church's determination to stand by the Harijan.
ROME: Pope John Paul has sent congratulations to the President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, for the award of the 1990 Nobel
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THOUGH I SOMETIMES FELT LIKE A LEPER VATICAN CITY (CNS): Archbishop Paul C. Marcinkus said he is leaving the Vatican with no bitterness, although he sometimes felt treated like "a pariah, a leper" after his controversial tenure as the pope's banker. "Looking back, I would say I'm the beneficiary of all my years here — even though you don't bat a thousand all the time," he said. The 68-year-old archbishop, who has retired after 38 years at the Vatican said "I'm no longer in a position here to really make any contributions — not because I can't, but because the situation" has changed. He described himself as an accidental curial official and an even more accidental banker. "I never wanted all this," he said, gesturing around his ornate apartment in the Vatican City governor's building. "I came to Rome (in 1950) to get a degree and go back to my diocese," he said. Instead, he was drafted into the Vatican's diplomatic corps, the first of many curial positions. When Pope Paul VI named him to run the Vatican bank in 1971, he said: "I had no technical knowledge of banking." After Italy's Banco Ambrosiano went bankrupt under $1.2 billion worth of debts in 1982, the Vatican bank was found to have written letters reassuring the failed bank's creditors on a number of bad loans. The loans had been arranged by Ambrosiano president Roberto Calvi, whose body was later found hanging from a London bridge. Although fraud complicity charges against Archbishop Marcinkus were eventually dropped by Italy on jurisdictional grounds, the Vatican agreed to pay $240 million to Banco Ambmsiano's creditors as a goodwill gesture. Archbishop Marcinkus said he thought the episode will always mark him, but not the Church. "There's no way in which I can get away from it. It's like the scarlet letter you carry around with you all the time," he said. The affair coloured his standing at the Vatican, he said. "The pope was always loyal to me. I had his support. Others I think took a little bit of distance. I sometimes felt like I was a pariah, a leper," he said. "But then, if you're riding the crest sometimes, it's nice to come down," he added with a philosophical shrug. Archbishop Marcinkus said his departure would free the pope from an image problem. For people looking for a reason not to help the Vatican, "I was a very good excuse", he said. "I think the Calvi situation could have been handled differently, but it's water over the dam. I don't think it'll make too much difference when people look back 2,000 years from now," he said. The archbishop insisted that neither he nor others at the Vatican bank were guilty of wrongdoing in their dealing with Calvi. Asked if he had made errors in judgment, he said: "Somebody once said if we could come back again,
we'd make exactly the same mistakes but with a little more finesse." The archbishop said most people forget that he had depended on assistants who knew the technical aspects of banking, while he tried to set general policy. Italy's judicial system, which after five years annulled the charges against him and two other Vatican bank officials, reached "fair conclusions, but I think they should have come to them a lot sooner", he said. He also still feels that the Banco Ambrosiano affair received unusual public attention in Italy. "There were other debacles that seem to be covered up, and this one wasn't," he said. He said he does not expect the banking episode to interfere with his future in the United States. "In the States, no one has ever mentioned it to me in a derogatory sense," he said. Archbishop Marcinkus said his plans are not yet clear, but he wants to arrange to do some practical pastoral work, perhaps with young people. "I don't want to go back and be an administrator. I'd like to be working with a pastor in some type of apostolate that he himself can't handle, because he might not have the time," he said. As an example, he recalled how, during the 1950s, he introduced baseball to 40 or 50 Roman youths as a way to reach them spiritually. "We had Mass every Sunday and went out to different parts of the city to play ball. I tried to use sports and the Church to give them a way of life," he said. He still stays in touch with his "team" — marrying some of them, baptising their children and even marrying some of their children. The archbishop said he is serious about making the unusual switch from top Vatican official to parish helper. "One of the things that can happen is that you become so detached from people, sitting behind a desk. It's easy to make regulations, but those are the people who are confronting life," he said. He has helped out Sundays at a Rome parish since 1985. but he had little time to do anything else. "My day started at 7am and ended at 6pm. By the time I got home I was dragging," he said. For years Achbishop Marcinkus lived at the Villa Stritch, the residence he helped build for US clergy working at the Vatican. For the last few years he has lived at the Vatican in the governor's mansion, which he finds too grandiose for his own taste — he never used the main dining room, he said, and the polar bear-skin rug in his bedroom will stay behind when he leaves. The archbishop, who has been the centre of news reports and articles for decades, said he wants to eventually write his own story about his years at the Vatican.
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Born in Illinois, the son of a Lithuanian w indow washer, Archbishop Marcinkus was ordained in 1947 and came to Rome in 1950 to study canon law.
In 1952 he was chosen as one of a handful of young priests to work in the Vatican Secretariat of State. at a time when the Vatican was trying to internationalise the Curia. He served for several years in the Vatican's nunciatures in Bolivia and Canada before returning to the Secretariat of State in 1959. There he worked under the wing of Cardinal Giovanni Montini, the future Pope Paul VI. In 1971, his former mentor named him to head the Vatican bank — despite his lack of banking experience. After he entered the Vatican's Secretariat of State in 1952, Archbishop Martinkus rose quickly through the curial ranks and gained a reputation as a talented organiser who got things done. In the early 1980s, he performed three of the most important jobs at the Vatican: running the Vatican bank and the Vatican City State and acting
as unofficial advance man for papal trips.
Tall and athletically built, Archbishop Marcinkus sometimes doubled as a papal bodyguard, too. During a visit to Manila, Philippines, in 1970, he helped save Pope Paul VI's life when he wrestled a knife-wielding Bolivian artist to the ground. Archbishop Martinkus began planning papal trips in 1964 and gave it up only in 1982, when the Banco Ambrosiano scandal was becoming public. The burly, 188cm prelate became a familiar figure to journalists and others who followed Popes Paul Vi and John Paul II around the globe. He personally visited every site prior to the trips and gave particular attention to security, rarely leaving the pope's side. Since 1981, Archbishop Marcinkus has overseen the affairs of Vatican City State — including plant operations, building maintenance, post office, police, health system and Vatican museums. His friends and associates in Rome describe the archbishop as a good storyteller with a dry sense of humour.
Departure will help image problem
The Vatican conducted its own study of the Banco Ambrosiano affair and concluded that the letters had no legal weight and that the Vatican bank was an innocent victim of Calvi's schemes, Nevertheless, the Vatican agreed in
1984 to make a "good-
will" payment of $240 million to Banco
Ambrosiano's former creditors — a decision criticised by Archbishop Marcinkus in
the interview. "1 was always against
that payment, because we didn't do anything wrong. The Vatican didn't have to
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put out a cent. And when you have to knock down some of your capital, it hurts," he said. Italian prosecutors,
meanwhile, after a five-year investiga-
tion, issued warrants for Archbishop Marcinkus and two other Vatican bank officials in 1987 on charges of
complicity in fraudulent bankruptcy. They reasoned that the Vatican bank officials either knew or should have known about Calvi's illegal operations. After a squad of Italian police tried unsuccessfully to serve the warrant on the archbishop at a
Rome residence, he was forced to live within the Vatican walls for several
months in order to
avoid arrest. In 1988, Italy's Constitutional Court ruled that the warrants were invalid because of the Vatican's status as an independent state,
and the charges were dropped. Archbishop Marcinkus said he thought the Italian justice system had reached "fair conclusions, but I think they should have come to them a lot sooner." the Throughout ordeal, he said, he was certain he had the
pope's support. Others at the Vatican, however, "maybe took a little bit of distance," he said.
"Isometimes felt like I was a parish, a leper." he said. His departure, he said, will free the pope and the Vatican from an image problem.
Works of 'lib' priest: Probe in Peru LIMA, Peru (CNS):— A two-year-old investigation of the works of liberation theologian Father Gustavo Gutierrez by the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has been transferred to Peru. Archbishop Augusto Vargas Alzamora of Lima has been given the job of continuing the review of the priest, who is widely known as the father of liberation theology. Father Gutierrez is regarded as the origina-
tor of liberation theology, which sprang up in Latin America in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The system of thought is an effort to apply Christian teachings to concrete socio-economic and political problems and emphasises social justice. Father Gutierrez coined the term "theology of liberation" in 1968 when he spoke to an organisation of Peruvian priests and pastoral workers. He elaborated his ideas in "A Theology of Liberation" which appeared in
_Low salaries sparking crisis
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Spanish in 1971. In 1973, the Maryknoll publishing arm, Orbis, brought the book out in English, and it became the Orbis best seller and the "flagship" work of the subsequent books by various authors commonly known as liberation theologians. In a July letter to Archbishop Alzamora, Father Gutierrez said that since the first edition (of "A Theology of Liberation") there has been a maturation of my work in theology after
making revisions "reformulations and correction of some statements and expressions". In his reply to Father Gutierrez, Archbishop Alzamora expressed "satisfaction" for the revised work, but "in order to avoid a disconcerting ambiguity", he also asked the theologian to make the revisions in the original book "which in fact still remains intact". "These changes should be manifested especially in the topics of the
SAO PAULO, Brazil (CNS): "Ridiculously low" salaries and unequal distribution of wealth are provoking a crisis in Brazil, said Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns of Sao Paulo. Raising Brazil's minimum wage is "fundamental" to the prevention of rural and urban violence, he said. "The biggest challenge is that salaries are so low and there is unemployment," he said. "Children are suffering, and their families have nothing to eat." Brazil's monthly minimum salary is 6,425 cruzeiros (U.S. $61). With this amouI i of money, a worker can buy from some employers a basic food basket, which includes
almost five pounds each of macaroni, sugar, flour, corn meal, rice, beans and cassava flour; about t wo -and -one-half pounds of salt, two cans of tomato sauce, four bars of bath soap; one bottle of kitchen soap; one tube of toothpaste; four cans of cooking oil and one can of guava paste desert. No money is left for other staples such as milk, meat and bread, nor for necessary clothing, housing and transportation. Education is the key to better human rights, Cardinal Arns said. "The people don't see any solution," he said. "And education is so weak. What can we do raise to
mission of the Church and the predominance of the factor of conflict in the process of liberation," Archbishop Alzamora said in his letter.
The letter does not exclude the possibility of raising other questions with Father Gutierrez about his writings, Archbishop Alzamora said.
The archbishop also asked Father Gutierrez to show him his works are they before published.
Back in 1988 Father Gutierrez said that he accepted the Vatican critiques of some forms of liberation theology as "relevant observations for myself" and had modified some of his ways of expressing his views.
He said his letter to Father Gutierrez -does not intend to exhaust, naturally, in such a short time, all the problems" produced by the priest's publications.
But he indicated that he still found his theological
consciousness?" He criticized the government's reaction to the economy-caused violence. "When you have violence, the thought is of the criminals and not the illegal acts of the police," he said. "Sometimes people are innocent. The government concentrates on crimes, but not on the long-range solutions." The cardinal also spoke of apathy during the current crisis. For instance, he said, during the 1964-85 military dictatorship, there were about 40 human rights groups. "But now they have mostly disappeared," he said. "It's very difficult to survive in a n atmosphere of indiHerence." starting point in pastoral concern for the poor. "For me, the big question theologically and pastorally is to try to relate social justice and our experience of the gratuitous (unmerited) love of God," Father Gutierrez said at the time. Archbishop Florez. head of Peru's bishops' conference at the time, said that Father Gutierrez had distanced himself from some earlier positions, Marxist though not far enough.
Marxist connotation in Bible claim SAO PAULO, Brazil (CNS): A recently published edition of a Catholic Bible contains commentaries with a Marxist connotation, said Auxiliary Bishop Martins Terra of Olinda and Recife, Brazil. He said the Vatican could require a revision of the Portuguese translation or a recall of already-printed copies of the Pastoral Edition Bible. Bishop Martins Terra is a member of the
Roman Bible Commission, he said he had extensively analyzed the new Bible at the request of the congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The Pastoral Edition bible has "an absence of almost all biblical terms," and "the few mentioned are framed in a word game that is contrary to revelation and Bible theology," he said. Its commentaries have a "sociological interpreta-
tion with a Marxist connotation," he said. The bishop cited use of such words as alienation, self-sufficiency, city, commerce, conflict, corruption. domination, slavery, exploitation, profits, oppression, persecution, power and repression. A commentary about Acts 3: 1-10, in which Peter and John made a crippled man walk, reads:
"In this episode, remember the cure of the blind man. Peter and John personify the church, through which Jesus continues to be present and actual. The cripple incarnates the situation of people who are weak and dependent. Wealth (gold and silver) do not liberate; on the contrary, they always produce new forms of submission and oppression. Only in the name of lesus is it
possible to free people, making them stand up and walk."
to approve new translations of the Bible.
country, supported Bishop Martins Terra's criticism.
The Pastoral Edition Bible was published by Pauline Press. The Brazilian bishops' conference approved the edition and Bishop Wilderink of Itaguai, Brazil, gave his imprimatur.
Ivo Storniolo, one of three translators of the Pastoral Edition Bible, said it was written "to simplify the language of the Bible and facilitate reading it for the people base the in communities".
Bishop Martins Terra questioned the imprimatur, saying bishops, under the Code of Canon Law, are not authorised
Father Joaquim Salvador, secretary of the League for Biblical Studies, a group of Bible experts throughout the
Archbishop Luciano Mendes de Almeida, president of the Brazilian bishops' conference, said the conference is analysing the controversy.
can declared his book, vincial "to calm Rome, to "Church: Charism and quiet them" and to be Power", contained views allowed to continue that "endanger the sound teaching at the Institute doctrine of the faith". of Theology in Petropolis, Father Boff said that Brazil. from August through When Folha de Sao December 1989, he agreed under pressure Paulo asked Father Boff. not to travel or grant about his relations with interviews outside Brazil. the Vatican, he He said he agreed to the responded: "To tell the conditions with his pro- truth, they are the rela-
lions a Christian has. That is, none. "I do my work,I do my theology. They have a problem with me:Inever have a problem with Rome." He added that he assumed the recent criticism was "taking its proper course". "The Vatican works slowly," he said.
ocese in 1985, the cardinal said. "That was a work of sixand-a-half years, and the work in the cemetery will prove it true," Cardinal Arns said. "It will remind people of
protection against torture is publishing what happened."
But Franciscan Father Leonardo Boff, a noted liberation theologian, told reporters that the bishop's criticism "weakened the unity of the Brazilian episcopate".
rit_i Criticism of w ng of 'little importance' SAO PAULO, Brazil (CNS): A well known Brazilian theologian said Vatican criticism of his writing is "of little importance" to him. Franciscan Father Leonardo Boff, questioned again recently by the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said he tries to keep his sense of humour when
the Vatican criticises his writings. "I suffer continuous interpellations and control, but I try to maintain a Franciscan spirit of joviality, knowing that the little controversies the Vatican raises against me have no bearing on the great questions of theology and the church today," Father Boff told
the Sao Paulo daily, Folha de Sao Paulo.
"That is why it's of little importance to me. I only hurt myself, because it robs me of my time and occasionally of my tranquility when I have to explain myself and make the authorities at the Vatican understand." The Vatican has asked
the Brazilian bishops' conference to analyse some of Father Boff's recent writings in which he criticised the centralisation of power within the church. From April 1985 to March 1986, Father Boff was barred from lecturing and writing on theology after the Vati-
Torture in Brazil: Part 2
SAO PAULO, Brazil: The Sao Paulo archdiocesan justice and peace commission is helping forensic experts analyse the bones, discovered in September in a common grave of about 1500 people in Dom Bosco
Cemetery in Penis, Brazil.
"We knew about the graves," Cardinal Arns said "We heard about Perus in 1971 and 1972. It was said secretly, but no one knew exactly what or where."
Cardinal Arns said many bones found in Penis were those of political prisoners, and he expected that more such graves would be discovered in other cities where there was known
torture during the military dictatorship, which ended in 1984. "Isee this as a continuation of 'Torture in Brazil", the book documenting torture and murder, published by the archdi-
what happened. Most young people have forgotten the darkest years, from 1969 to 1976. "It will remind them of what happened before, so there will not be a new dictatorship. The best
The cardinal said he offered further help to the international experts who are helping identify the bones.
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The questioner behind every question It was questionand-answer time after a talk I had given on Mark's Gospel. Question: "Did Jesus really have to die to save us? It doesn't sound right". I listened to the question, but I also paid close attention to the questioner and reactions noted among the other participants. A few brows creased. Some people nodded affirmatively. The question had struck a nerve. Obviously, many had the same question. lb be helpful, the answer would have to respond to the question. But it would also have to address the
experience, personal issue or problem of the person who asked it. the Otherwise, answer might be theologically correct, but it be not would satisfactory. In addition, the answer would have to address the personal issues that led others to identify with the question. This is pretty much how it is after a lecture. The topic may be biblical, but every question is both biblical and personal. So there has to be something of the pastoral counsellor in every teacher, especially one who teaches something
like the Bible which is so closely connected with the most basic issues of human life. People do not come to biblical lectures out of pure curiosity, although that may play a part, but out of personal concerns. It is possible someone has been told he is suffering from incurable cancer. Others may be living with an unhealed memory — perhaps the memory of a child of theirs who died. The question about the meaning of Jesus' death is a question about every death. Whatever its wording, the question always includes "Why?" and "Is it
Bridging troubled waiters By Carole Norris Greene
Without warning, the tit-for-tat conversation became a full-fledged blowup. Good friends, who heretofore wouldn't dream of hurting each other, exchanged daggered looks and angry words that cut deep. Badly shaken, Mary questioned how this could have happened. Deep down, however, she knew it occurred for the same elusive reason
none of her previous friendships lasted long.
were "pastoral counsellors".
At age 36, the prospect of endlessly repeating this destructive cycle frightened Mary. She finally admitted needing professional counselling. Mary chose the services of the Marian Home of Prayer. She heard it had a program for people like her — adult children of alcoholic parents.
They possessed not only clinical skills, but brought a specifically Christian dimension to their work as well.
But more important to Mary was the fact that
Mary's counselling also differed from that frequently provided by
the counsellors there
FOOD FOR THOUGHT An expanding corps of ministers in today's Church hold degrees as counsellors. But why? One of the first things Christians are likely to do at times of great stress, or when they need a new life direction, is to ask God's help. Often people view counselling in a pastoral context as a way of including prayer and faith in the entire counselling process. People also are led to Church or rectory doors because it is natural to seek support or advice on important matters from those they trust. Often they simply want the opportunity to talk with someone they believe will be compassionate or who can refer them to the help they need. Again, it is natural for the Church to attempt to respond to the needs people express — like the need expressed in this age of psychology for counselling when problems are experienced, when goals need clarification or when a renewed spirituality is desired. Thus we are witnessing "the emergence of various forms of team ministry with a member trained in counselling", as Barry K. Estadt writes in the book "Pastoral Counselling". Pastoral counselling is among the ways that people experience "the care of the local Church". 8 The Record, November 8, 1990
"My relationship with God and my prayer life are very important and I wanted to tie that in with my counselling," Mary said, adding, "that's not always possible with secular counselling".
parish pastoral team members — clergy, religious and lay. They, too, are valued as pastoral counsellors. They have theological backgrounds and are pastoral in their interactions with those who suffer. But most have not pursued the clinical training and certification obtained by the genre of pastoral counsellors who are emerging in greater numbers today from the nation's universities, schools of religion and
training centres. These paid professionals operate out of parishes, colleges, universities, theological schools, private offices and denomination counselling centres. The demand for counselling rooted both in religion and behavioural science prompted a Catholic university to recruit psychologist Dr Barry K Estadt to initiate its program in 1976, becoming the only Roman Catholic-based doctoral program in
pastoral counselling. The programs objective, and that of other blossoming training centres, was not to make psychologists out of ministers, but to put psychology and the behavioural sciences at their service. Such a program was what Charlie Martin needed. At a time when Martin was a campus minister, he served many students whose concern about the quality of their relationships with others was linked to their concerns about spiritual
issues. pastoral counselling and He subsequently a practicing pastoral obtained a degree in counsellor. clinical counselling to Today more than 200 undergird his own students from 45 states and 30 countries abroad effectiveness. Presently he is in enroll annually, he said. private practice as a The program continues pastoral counsellor foc- to enroll many clergy using on marriage and and religious candidates, but today is seeing "a family therapy. "Our first class of 38 dramatic increase in the students back in '76 was number of lay men and one-third clergy, one- women looking for a third religious and one- career as a pastoral he third lady," said Estadt, c ounsellor," c ontinued. currently director of clinical education within Estadt defines the pasLoyola's department of toral counsellor as "a
religiously integrated person who approaches others with a sense of mystery along with an ability to enter into communion with others in a therapeutic alliance with the goal of reconciliation and personal religious integration." The definition is a mouthful, he concedes, but cautions that every component is important. Religiously integrated persons, Estadt said, are award of their "personal finiteness" and acknowledge no control over life's
As different as the titles were, the function was the same: helping people cope with or avoid a crisis. Moses, at first, tried to solve everyone's problems. There still are coun-
sellors who try to do that. They either suffer burnout or learn to share their responsibilities. Moses was advised to do the latter. So he established a whole corps of counsellors. After all, people need to find support in the community. For problems arise that one cannot handie alone. Prophets were one
But often, too, the prophets counselled individuals. The prophet Nathan, intervening after David's affair with Bathsheba and the murder of her husband, succeeded in bringing the king to acknowledge his sin and and to repent. Wisely, Nathan did not come right out and accuse David. Rather, Nathan subtly
group to turn to in biblical times. Their role was not so much to predict the future as to interpret the present. People came to them when they wanted to know what God's will might be in a given situation. Most often prophets counselled the whole community on national or international matters.
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By Father join Castelot led him to accuse himself and undergo a conversion that contributed to his emotional and spiritual healing. One quality a counsellor needs is the humility, the honesty. to admit that he or she has been wrong and to suggest a better answer.
When David approached Nathan with his decision to build a temple, the prophet at first backed him up enthusiastically. But upon further r eflection, Nathan realised this was not God's plan. Nathan had to withdraw his support and
inform the king that
the project would be
carried out by his son. There was also the prophet Isaiah. In a moment of great crisis, he intervened to save King Ahaz from committing himself and his people to a suicidal course of action, but encountered only obstinacy and a cynical refusal to accept his counsel.
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alright to feel the way I do?" There is a pastoral counselling dimension to my work. Naturally, a parish minister is able to sustain ongoing pastoral counselling and support. By comparison, the counselling an itinerant teacher provides is limited. But it has its place. St Paul comes to mind. His extraordinary itinerant ministry took him around the whole Eastern Mediterranean. As Paul went from
city to city visiting Christian communities and interpreting stories from the Old Testament, he was always aware that these stories related to the personal lives of those he taught. Paul not only taught about Abraham or the journey of God's people out of Egypt, he also helped the early Christians to deal with the special challenges in these stories. Christians became children of Abraham by sharing Abraham's faith. And they too were on a great exodus journey; they had to deal with problems like those their Israelite forebears confronted.
The journey at times led through a desert and was not easy, but God was with them. Paul was very much what we today call a pastoral counsellor, but he could not do everything. He constantly had to refer people back to their local pastoral ministers. He did that with the Christians of Corinth, referring them to Stephanas, his first convert in the province of Achaia where Corinth was situated (1 Corinthians 16:1516).
When I became an adult educator some 20 years ago,I thought I had more answers than I do today. I
thought also that I could provide fairly effective counselling when necessary. Didn't Ihave degrees in theology and Scripture, and even a in master's counselling? But there is a lesson in this: Today my expectations are more modest, and I regularly refer people to others. In the church, counselling is a collaborative ministry. Interestingly enough,1 now have the impression my teaching and pastoral counselling are more helpful, attempting always to remain aware of the questioner behind every question.
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events. Their "potency" is in their presence and personal witness to a just and loving God, rather than in their ability to end pain. A woman named Sunny, described such a counsellor, one she saw periodically as she dealt with, and eventually overcame, her hatred for her alcoholic and bisexual mother. "I can't say that he brought a good deal of religion into the counselling," she recalled. But
Biblical times counsellors "pastoral The counsellors" of biblical times were prophets, sages, apostles, communleaders, ity teachers.
By Father Eugene LaVerdiere, SSS
The sages, authors of the Old Testament
wisdom books, were counsellors of a different type. Better to ward off trouble than deal with it later they felt. So they gave advice on just about every aspect of life. Jesus, the model counsellor, was often approached by people seeking help with personal problems.
she "somehow realised where he stood spiritually". "In effect," Estadt explained, "we give God permission to be God. Not fighting God's plan, but fully aware that much of life is a mystery, we attempt to discern its meaning as it unfolds in our lives and in the live of our clients." Estadt supports the notion that an effective pastoral counsellor "motivates" and "liberates" a person to make healthy
There was, for example, the rich young man who was anxious about a fundamental question, "What must I do to gain eternal life?" St Paul continued the tradition of counselling. Usually he dealt with community crisies. But his little letter to Philemon shows his sympa-
choices with a "freedom that is within" which has been dormant. Said Estadt, "I am most completely engaged as a pastoral counsellor when the client moves into the mysterious areas that transcend the present experience. "When clients deal with issues of forgiveness, conversion, surrender, faith, trust, love and commitment, I am in deep but familiar waters. Being a co-pilgrim with the client is uniquely pastoral."
thetic tact in counselling an individual on a delicate matter. Scripture shows that when people needed counsel they turned to the commuity — to people they count on to listen and given prudent advice, the "pastoral counsellors" of their day. (Father Castelot is a Scripture scholar, author and lecturer.)
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"As a pastoral counselor, exactly what do you do? And where do you do it?" "In the parish setting, my focus is on crisis intervention and short-term counseling. I work with individuals, couples and families. Much of my ministry is with women and with adult children of alcoholics," — Mercy Sister Mary Healy. "I counsel in the same way that a pastor would — in my office, at the hospital, goals." — Franciscan Sister Virginia Welsh. "I have a private practice located in a parish which does not pay my salary. I deal mostly with relationship issues . . . Most of the people I see are very normal average folks . . . and it's very normal and average to have problems." — Charlie Martin. "I do spiritual, marital, individual and relationship counseling . . . The church setting is important because people know that's where they can get help." — Aline Coghlan. "I see my counseling as a ministry of listening, companioning and presence. I help people to be reconciled with the truth of who they are, their life situation, with God and with their gifts and how to use those gifts." — Maryrita Wieners. "(At) the Marian Home of Prayer here, I bring the clincial skills with another dimension, that of faith . . . A desire to help people achieve their own potential prompted by interest in the field." — Claire Grenier. The Record, November 8, 1990 9
Laughing off the good times and sad times by COLLEEN McGUINESSHO WARD
These three ladies were a life-filled trio laughter whose could be heard well outside the interviewing room. In fact it was great to be with people who obviously thoroughly enjoy life so much. But they'd also had a lot of sad times too — perhaps that's why their laughter was so real in the good times. They were part of a group called Children from Catholic Institutions (CFCI) and the reason they were in it was to give practical help and an emotional shoulder to lean on, should any from an orphanage past need one. In other words they're a team out to help their other members when the need arose. A team probably born of u nderstanding because they'd trodden a similar path by having a childhood without parents. These three fun loving ladies were brought up in St Joseph's orphanage in Wembley which is now the Catherine McAuley Centre. It was a huge establishment which had,
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to cope with hundreds of girls. Raising a number of children can be hard even for families, when there are parents there to share the load, but in an orphanage there are no parents, only sisters in those days who had without a doubt a huge work load to carry plus trying to be a loving figure for the children to relate to. Being an orphan too certainly must bring with it a lot of sadness. There were many during the war and losing one parent in the war years was a terrible blow for their families to suffer, but having none at all must have been even harder to handle. Irene Hammond (nee Hogan) went to St Joseph's when she was six, in a family of 13 children whose parents died of tuberculosis. Eleven went to St Joseph's for the girls and to the Christian Brothers for the boys (the youngest being an eight month old baby). Initially Castledare and then Clontarf for secondary education. The sisters were able to keep in contact with their brothers and are today a close family. Irene went there in 1944 and left to commence work in 1954; working around Perth initially and then joining the army. Four others in her family ultimately joined also. "We all did well and two brothers are Justices of the Peace". According to Irene,
she "had a ball" in the army and then married an army man complete with a full army reception, guard of honour, and article in The Record 1958, reporting her as a protege of St Joseph's. Irene has three children and one grandchild. Pat Bruce (Johnson) was four when she went to St Joseph's. Born up north she went in with two sisters and a brother went to who Castledare. Pat started work but continued to live at St Josephs's until she was 22 when whe went to Merredin to live with her sister and then worked in various parts of WA. She married and has three children and three grandchildren. Pearce Sheila (Cahill) was born in Ireland and then put in Nazareth House in Belfast along with her sister, and her brothers at Nazareth House in an adjoining suburb. A year later in 1947 they came out to Australia in the first shipload of 360 post war migrant children, to be greeted with a rousing welcome by Perth and especially Joseph's the St children. They all sang a song composed by Sister Benignus, welcoming "you dear children to our sunny land". That was the beginning of Sheila's friendship with Irene and Pat who were already there. Many years down the track they are firm friends who share a
Irene Hammond (Hogan) left, Pat Bruce (Johnson) and Sheila Pearce (Cahill) enjoying life on a positive note. lot of laughs together became close to the and constitute their families they raised own little family of and each other. friends. They admit that Sheila and her sister their lives weren't lived at St Joseph's easy "because how and her two brothers can it be if you don't went to Clantarf and have a family?" But Castledare. She never even though they saw her older brother were hard, they again. learned about life and were taught well, they Sheila was nine at said. the time and after day school she would "Because of our work in the foundling. childhood and what home with Irene and we were as children later worked in the and how we had to laundry with Pat. grow up as teenagers, we gained a lot of Sheila later passed strength. It also gave her nurses' entrance us friendships which exam's, went out into have lasted for forty the workforce until years. whe was old enough, and then became a "And the St Joseph nurse. girls are a close knit "Mother Benignus, community because who was gorgeous! of it." taught us and preThe trio said they pared us for our have retained their entrance exam's in links with some of the different fields," said sisters and were Sheila. proudly involved with Sister Imelda And the trio agreed Ryan's book launchthat the Mercys "gave ing of POW's fraternal us a really terrific (see page 15 this education, one which issue) at the Cathewe could never have rine McAuley centre had if we'd been in recently. poor families". Sister Imelda is a They were taught art-of-speech, drama, long-time friend of music, dancing and Irene, Pat and Sheila from their St Joseph's swimming, along days. with their formal studies, for which The trio reminisced they're grateful. over the good times too such as their Sheila married and movie viewing in the has six children and hall along with 20 23 grandchildren. other girls and holiSo a lot of time has daying at the Mercy passed since they Rockingham holiday were together in the home. orphanage. Were Or the fun of the there any bad after huge Catholic school effects from those assemblies on St initial years? SeemPatrick's day at the ingly not. Subiaco oval. It taught them they said to value family "We were the best life and perhaps spoil dressed," said Sheila, their own children to "in yellow blouses, make up for things green uniforms, white they lacked. But they sox and white sand-
shoes, and the Irish harp on the left hand side of our uniform. "The last year there I led the march with the banner held high." The ladies said they used to make their own fun and had each other to survive. "When you're children of removal," said Sheila, "being removed from your parents is a terrible trauma and in general people could not say institutional life is good, because it isn't. "Because nobody can give you the love of parents." Being with these fun-loving ladies and their obvious camaradie, was a refreshing experience. It was obvious they lived life to the full. And if that is even one of the gifts orphanage life gave them, then in their case it is indeed a worthy gift. Proving their valued links with the Mercy Sisters, there is a reunion afternoon tea for all Sisters of Mercy and girls who lived and worked at St Joseph's orphanage and St Vincent's foundling home Wembley in past years, to be held this Saturday, November 10, 2-4pm at the Catherine McAuley centre, 18 Barrett Street Wembley. On a Christmas note, the CFCI are having a three course dinner dance on December 22 at Castledare "for those who never married and have no families," they said. If interested, please ring Sheila 458 1158. $10.
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by COLLEEN McGUINESSNOWA RD Maurice Whitfield may have grown up as an orphan in a country other than his own, but it certainly didn't provide him with a negative outlook or leave him with a bad taste in his mouth. In fact Maurice is a very positive family man with the fight attitude to life because he counts all his blessings — and among them his friends of today who raised him yesterday. Maurice's mother was 17 and unmarried when she gave birth to him in England and as Maurice says: "It must have been a hard decision for her to decide what to do with me. There were several choices when faced with pregnancy, but luckily for me she didn't take the easy way out or I wouldn't be here today." Put in an English orphanage run by the Sisters, at two months, Maurice came out to Australia at the age of eight and was placed in the care of the Christian Brothers at Castledare where he spent four years. Then on to the Christian Brothers at Clontarf for high school. "And so the Sisters, Brothers and the Church became my family, my teachers and everything else to me for the first 15 years of life." Maurice says he still maintains a very close friendship with the Christian Brothers and many religious today, "especially two of my rust principals, Brothers Patrick O'Doherty (now t eaching at Trinity) and Bruno Doyle (now living at Clontarf)." "I am very indebted to these people and their religious congregations. They will never be out of my thoughts or prayers." During his Clontarf years, Maurice went on holidays to Peg and Bob Hannah of Bunbury who with their two boys treated him like their own son. Later they also accepted his bride who'd come out for a working holiday from England, and then their three children. Maurice met his wifeto -be Shirley when working in the farming field at Bencubbin having by this time adopted their community as his larger family. Maurice said one of the greatest thrills when marrying Shirley was
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blaming someone else for what has happened. "Even now politicians are inclined to blame the previous government for the social and economic mess they are in." Parents also can easily turn and blame children, and children parents he said.
Ten years after this they returned to England, Shirley to visit her family — and Maurice to find his mother. This he did and it was a voyage of discovery. No one can appreciate "And it's the same with what it must be like to meet a parent after a life- many boys I went time's separation unless through school with in they've been through it these orphanages. They are looking for someone themselves. to blame. Having carried through "If they turned to crime, their lives so many alcoholism or drugs they unanswered questions as will blame their past. to where they came from, whose family they were They will blame the part of, and above all — brothers, sisters, priest, what was my mother Church and I suppose if all else fails — they will like. blame God for not being And the most pressing on their side. question of all — why "So the way I see it is if did she adopt me out. we keep our faith with Fortunately these days God and His Church there is much informa- there will be nobody to tion and the possibility of blame for anything that finding one's original happened in the past; we parent can be quite good. will only look to the In the case of Maurice's future," said Maurice. meeting with his mother, Maurice has obvious just the two of them, it pride in his family, proved beneficial to both. mentioning how his two Maurice found out he eldest are Antiochians was the eldest of six and the youngest eager to children who hadn't go. been told of his visit there He's obviously delighbecause they never knew ted they, along with of his existance, and for his mother it was a relief Shirley who was a conto have re-discovered her vert 12 months after their son and a secret kept no marriage, love their faith, and he puts some of it longer. down to their family Since then they have practice of always welestabished links and coming in people into maintain contact and their home, "but espeMaurice now finds him- cially the local priests self to be an uncle to 13. who knew they could As a result of that rely on Shirley for a good meeting. Maurice made a meal and a bit of help statement about his with sewing on buttons attitude to life, which and mending clothes." sounds very healthy. The Motor Mission His mother had blamed Sisters were also valued her own mother for visitors "who lived in Maurice's adoption, but Merredin but travelled as he pointed out, it's hundreds of miles every easy to blame others for week. the situation we find "By the time they hit ourselves in. Bencubbin, they were Maurice explained his ready for a comfortable life philosophy by saying bed and to relax." that we all know that life And so his family grew can be a matter of up with members of the passing the buck or religious, said Maurice.
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At an Esplanade pro-life rally on November 25, seedlings will be distributed to be planted throughout Perth as memorial trees for innocent victims of abortion. Following the speeches at 3.30pm there will be a walk to Parliament House where several Members of Parliament will receive petitions against the legalisation of abortion. The rally is sponsored by the Coalition for the Defence of Human Life, a broad-based Western Australian pro-life organisation with more than a dozen affiliated church and community groups including the Catholic Youth Council (Perth), Knights of the Southern Cross, Right to Life Australia, Pregnancy Problem House and Women Exploited by Abortion. Its principal objectives are to promote and defend the sanctity of human life from fertilisation to natural death and to oppose the destruction of human life through abortion, infanticide, euthanasia and embryo experimentation. The rally and Walk for Life commencing with a family picnic at noon and at 2pm a commemoration of babies aborted in 1990, is an opportunity for all members of the community who share these values to openly
Flashback! Rally and Walk For Life at St George's Terrace last year. demonstrate their opposition to the killing of innocent human beings. Despite the illegality of abortion in WA over 8000 unborn babies are killed here each year, primarily at the two private abortion clinics or at King Edward Memorial Hospital. In 1989/90 there were 125 midtrimester (4 to 6 months of pregnancy) abortions in WA.
This was an increase of 250% on the previous year. The rally and Walk for Life will continue to signal the Government that any move to legalise abortion will prove costly to them at the next election. Most abortions in Australia are taxpayer -
funded by the Medicare levy. Mr Alasclair Webster, MHR, the sponsor of the Abortion Funding Abolition Bill will be one of the speakers at the rally. Although Mr Webster's Bill lapsed with the dissolution of the last Parliament he is planning to reintroduce it shortly. Mr Webster is inspired by the example of William Wilberforce whose persistent efforts finally forced the British Parliament to abolish slavery. How long it takes for abortion funding to be abolished depends on the efforts of all prolifers. Abortion is often defined as a women's issue by the "pro-choice to kill" lobby. Mrs Babette Francis, the
National Coordinator of Endeavour Forum is well-equipped to present the woman's pro-life view. Her address at the rally will rebut the feminists' pro-abortion rhetoric and present the case for protecting both women and babies from the tragedy of abortion. The Coalition welcomed the recent announcement by Mr Keith Wilson, the Health Minister, of the Government's intention to prohibit all experimentation on human embryos. The rally will support this ban and also call on the Parliament to protect human embryos from the barbarous practices freezing of and discarding. — Richard Egan
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Distressed over stories from Ms LANDERS, Hillarys Sir, With great distress and disbelief I read on (The Record October 25), "Anglican priest turns Catholic" — his motivation to leave the Church of England, — being increasing pressure for
the ordination of women. That and the article "No sex married priests -, I read with mounting distress. Why should one man be allowed to leave his church and join another, with no other apparent reason but that he objects to women being
ordained? Is that the kind of priests we need in the Catholic Church? I also read that two Brazilian permanent married deacons have been ordained priests and that since a miscarriage and hysterectomy some years ago one didn't have the relations with his wife.
No reason was given (as to why) about the other deacon Why should two men be ordained as Catholic priests with a vow of "No Sex"? Where does this leave the women in the Church? Are we always to be the ones to blame?
'Fuelling racial hatred' from Dafne BIDWELL-JONES, Applecross
Sir, I am outraged at the article Recounting The Cruelty (The Record, November 1) by Colleen McGuiness-Howard. Not only does she denigrat-
ingly refer to the Japanese as Japs throughout the piece, but she takes it upon herself to pontificate that "Characteristically of their race, the Japs showed no mercy, compassion or resemblance of humanity to anyone".
While no one denies that Japanese atrocities took place, this wholesale condemnation of the entire race is totally unjust. Such irresponsible reporting 45 years later only revives anger and gives fuel to racial hatrpri
Depressing reading from John O'KEEFE, Laverton Sir, Your reporting of all the words from the Synod in Rome has made boring and depressing reading. This has been especially true when the elderly men gathered
there have been repeating endlessly all the old words trying to justify the imposition of celibacy. The fact is that the imposition of celibacy is an injustice, taking away a fundamental human right from young men
who do not know what it is they are surrendering. The injustice of this r equirement is most evident in the condition imposed upon two married men in Brazil who were ordained to the priesthood, that they live in total separation from
It would have been r eprehensible in any newspaper; in a Catholic paper it is utterly shameful. For the sake of justice — and for the sake of any Japanese who might read The Record — an apology is called for.
their wives. It does not matter that the men freely accepted the condition put upon them; what does matter is that the imposition of celibacy on them barred them from the exercise of a basic human right. That is injustice!
TOMORROW TODAY with Father Joe Parkinson
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1991 Conference coordinator Kristi McEvoy.
With the release of 328 9878, or leave a the program for next message for her on any of year's youth confer- the phone numbers ence, "Crossroads to listed at the bottom of Tomorrow", comes a this page. call to young people to Meanwhile, the conferregister now for the ence program offers most exciting Catholic young people a unique youth event ever held in opportunity to help Western Australia. shape their own future, Although the registra- as well as a chance to tion deadline has been grow personally through extended, young people the broad range of events should notify the confer- on offer. ence office immediately Four of the five days if they intend to take from January 11 will be part, even if their regis- taken up with personal tration form is likely to be and community formalate. tion activities in the form Simply call Kristi on of major inputs and
elective topics, as well as a full day of pure fun and many other social events. Each day begins with a large assembly and lots of music, before the first of two group presentations and community/sharing group activities designed to focus attention on our real needs now and our options for the future. Evening activities will vary between a bush dance, pool party and coffee shops, the Sunday liturgy, an exciting public rally and the closing ceremony on January 16.
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Trish Burvill, Rob Coombes and Naomi Larsen at Willetton's recent Luke 18 weekend.
Luke 18 fills the gap Willetton parish's Luke 18 weekend, held on October 26-28, coincided with the program's second anniversary in Western Australia and the tenth such weekend to be held in Perth. Filling an urgent need for parish-based youth programs for the 11-14 year age group. Luke 18 is now well established in five parishes. Co-ordinator Rob Coombes said that this success was due to a growing recognition of the need for youth involvement in the
Church, combined with great enthusiasm for the program from both parents and young people. Many other parishes have enquired about Luke 18, indicating renewed concern in the Church for younger teenagers. Luke 18 begins with a weekend experience held in a'parish school or hall from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon, with participants sleeping overnight in parish host homes. It continues after the weekend with regular fortnighlty meetings.
The weekend consists of nine 'cycles' designed to help young people become more aware of their natural and parish families, and what these mean in their lives.
Parishes looking to establish Luke 18 are asked to set up an initial meeting between interested parishioners and a representative of the Pastoral and Matrimonial Renewal Centre, who sponsor the program.
October 26-28 saw Willefton's Luke 18 community grow substanially after another successful weekend for young people aged 11-14 years.
Each cycle includes a short talk, group sharing, an activity or game, and Team training takes a break for a snack or three or four months, meal. after which the parish The weekend is pre- takes on the program by pared and presentd by a itself for the benefit of team of twelve or fifteen their own young people. young people aged 16-25 Luke 18 brochures are years drawn from the available from the Youth parish itself, supported Office in North Perth, by two or three married and can be obtained by couples or mature single phoning the Secretary on people. 328 9878.
Obviously enjoying themselves at Luke 18 are Rebecca Wilkins, Kirsten Lopez, Kate Phillips and Tracey Payet.
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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. The Record, November 8, 1990
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Western Australian
by Colleen McGuiness-Howard
Man of books
Father Luke Fay CSSR is celebrating 50 years of priesthood with a book launch of his fourth book —" A Long Harvest-. Currently chaplain to the Salvado and Christos complex as well as the retired Sisters of Mercy, Father Fay's book will be launched at the adjacent Catherine McAuley centre this Sunday at 4pm. Through his Redemptorist missionary work, Father Fay has done a lot of travelling covering North and South America, Canada, South Africa, Europe, Philippines, various places within Australia and New Zealand, Gallipoli and down the Nile. Some of these places are mentioned in his four books — Presence in the Desert; By the Waters of Galilee; From Table Mountain to the Zambesi and A Long Harvest — as well as drawing on his vast source of experience and insights which he gives his readers.
The Collins Book of Household Hints & Tips by Barty Phillips. (Collins Australia. bb $35) The Collins Book of Household Hints & Tips shows you how to run your home without letting it run you. Covering every aspect of looking after the home. its inhabitants and its contents, this book is crammed with practical tips and techniques to save time, money and energy; the hook also incorporates helpful advice and tips specifically for working mothers. It has ideas for streamlining every-
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Father Fay says he has found writing very rewarding "and in the telling have clarified myself and my identity." He has also written for magazines over the years. From the minor flood of mail response over the years to his books, "I believe that my books have caused a trigger response. For some it has meant memories and discovery". Father also says the books are an affirmation of life and his priesthood. -It saddens one to see how many people are not in tune with the joy and vivacity of life.In response to: Will you write more books? Father Fay says "I have still got things to say and stories to tell and I want to live on until my bones are dust-.
"A Long Harvest", by Fr Luke Fay, C.Ss,R FRP Printing Pty. Ltd., $10 including postage from Catherine McAuley Centre, 18 Barrett Street Wembley 6014. WA Reviewed by Andrew Dickson. Whether it was learned at Theological College or a life among humans, the product is a man of deep understanding of people. A talented man, who has not forgotten that he is one of a 'band of people who represent God to the others'. A much travelled man, an erudite man, but one with no pretensions to call a spade a 'bloody shovel'. Very much a man of the For those who have chosen people, yet bearing himself to walk away from their as a man of God. fellows, who have turned This is a bedside hook. their backs on themselves A book to be dipped into and their maker. every now and then, as this He does not condemn, but book is a 'wander through finds in them and their the wonders of life and beliefs only more strength people,' every page has for his own. something on which all of us In passing he mentions should ponder. many people, many famous A chronicle of a man from people, others — as you and the bosom of his family into — people of worth because the bosom of the 'family of the world is full of people man', and that family spread and all of them add or through the Americas, the subtract from the greatness Philippines, New Zealand, of the whole. South Africa and his native Young and old are the Australia. subjects of Fr Fay's j()urneys. From the very depths of It is the people he records, human despair. Fr Fay draws not the mountains, the understanding and compas- streams, the valleys. The sion for the dilemma of people who give Fr Fay his people. strength.
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day tasks such as cooking. cleaning and laundry, as well as ingenious and effective tips for decorating, home maintenance and repair, stain removal, houseplants, home sewing, home safety and first aid. Quick reference charts provide instant advice on what to do in an emergency. This book shows you how to tackle virtually every household task safely, successfully and efficiently by a judicious combination of time-honoured skills and modern technology, forethought and planning.
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Build-It-Better-Yourself Storage Around tbe House. (Rodale distrubuted through Collins, bb $35). A place for everything and everything in its place is the theme of this how-to book And it's easy to achieve with the attractive, practical, and affordable ideas and projects
described. Loaded with projects for stand-alone, built-in, and hang-up units for every room of your house and for the yard, this book covers every passible way you can improve existing storage space and build new storage units. Each build-it-yourself project is accompanied by step-
They support Fr Fay, even when in the depths of despair, they turn away from him. Reminiscences of a 'prison padre' are told with a gentleness and beauty (Chapter 9). In the words of a mother: "When one of the family is in prison, we are all in prison". Chapter (16) No Stranger is perhaps a favourite. The anecdote concerning Sir Alec Guinness is delightful. A book to be read, and kept. This is a book for all the family A book to be given as Christmas present, a because with it Christmas is always here. The hope of tomorrow will always be here. by-step instructions and photographs, an exploded illustration, and a materials list. And there are lots of tips on safety and technique to make the building process go smoothly Projects range from a simple spice rack to the more complicated sewing centre. Some of the more than 70 easy-to-build projects include: for the family or living room: electronic media centre, room divider, TV desk and TV cabinet with shelves. For the kitchen or dining room: broom closet, closet pantry, kitchen island, paper towel holder, recipe and cookbook holder, spice rack. For the bedroom or playroom: bedroom desk, headboard storage, platform bed, toy chest, vanity For the bathroom, laundr) room, or sewing room: bathroom corner wall shelves, laundry room cabinets, medicine cabinet with mirror, sewing center, wall-hung linen closet.
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May Gibbs Birthday Book (Angus &Robertson distributed through Collins hb $12.95) This beautiful little birthday book with its charming illustrations and appeal would make a delightful gift for any age group.
Holland to 'home'
Johanna Van Grootel of Scarborough has given her children and their families a written history of her original years in Holland and then experiences encountered during her early years in Australia. First came
the Dutch version, Drie Maal Due Is Negen, $15, printed in Holland, for her extended family and friends. But then her children couldn't read it so she translated it into English — Walk in the Sun, published this February $20, both including postage. Since then she's had good feedback for both versions with people identifying themselves as migrants, or simply enjoying the easy style. Like her mother and grandmother, Johanna and her husband Tom had nine children and at one stage had three at St John's, two at Servite and three at Siena. Nine lunches including her husband's had to be prepared daily and Tom worked seven days a week, said Joanna, to pay Catholic school fees and establish themselves. After the busiest times
raising the children, she had a bit more time and did a creative writing course. From that she went on to publish her English version. The book starts with her grandmother in Holland, born in 1861 and who had to go to work when she was nine years old. And it ends in Australia with Johanna's statement: "We feel at home now and think of sunny Australia as ours and our families' country." Johanna returned to Holland in 1985, 32 years after her arrival, and found it had changed a lot. A local reporter got to hear of her return so took her on a 'memory lane' visitation back to the street where she'd lived with some of her neighbours still living there and some in geriatric homes. But she didn't have to visit any brothers and sisters, because when she and Tom decided to migrate out here, her father along with her six brothers and two sisters came also and are today very much part of the Australian scene! Anyone requiring a copy can do so by ringing 341 4361 or writing to 44 Pearl Parade, Scarborough 6019.
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from the day of embarkation, April 1940, until their return in July, 1945 was edited by • their sister, Sister M Imelda Ryan, with her usual flair for • getting to the heart of the matter and expressing it with lucidity and charm. '17 Here we have factual accounts of various stages of the war; graphic descriptions of life in prison camps and stories of the triumph of o the human spirit over deadly forces, with the power to destroy the best in humanity Side by side with all this, we see the human resilience and creativity which provided the many camp activities, spiritual, social and educational, which were a salutary escape from the ever present threat of destruction. Like a silver thread woven POWs Fraternal, the diar- It leads us far beyond the ies of S/sgt Ra.).711071d Ryan incidents recorded of Stalag into a tapestry of years of andpoems of Pte Laurence VIIIB, Stalag 383 and many bitter suffering, frustrated hopes and gloomy forebodBouff) 14tin from World other POW camps. War!!. by Sister M Imelda As I pondered on the life ings, were the colloquial R_yan RSM, Reviewed by Sr philosophy from which were poems of Laurie, whom his Raphael Coady /UM (Pub- born the persevering endu- AIF companions and fellow lished by Hawthorn Press, rance and the resignation prisoners acclaimed the Perth. Available from Gatto tinged with hope and joy, I Poet Laureate of World War & Co. Ursula House and the was brought back to the IICatherine McAuley Centre, scene where these two men These poems fascinated me 18 Barrett Street, Wembley were born and nurtured. Yes, and challenged me to 17 or for mail order from the Ryan family home, honour the spiritual and Ursula House, $9.50). Net permeated with all the social value of a humour that proceeds in aid of Mercy strengths and joys of a lived can analyse the grimmest of missions in Kuala Lumpur Catholic faith and the human situations and dis& Pakistan. binding forces of love and cover therein the seeds of This fascinating and humorous tolerance, was a survival. authentic glimpse into the dynamic formation setting I strongly recommend lives of two WA Prisoners of for the growing up of Ray "POWs Fraternal" to all the War in Germany during and Laurie Ryan. Sisters and to the Associates World War 11(1939-1945) "POWs Fraternal", based and friends of the Mercy is perceptive and revealing. on the diaries of Ray Ryan, Congregation.
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St Benedict's Applecross. . . A Parish History 1952-1990. Compiled by members of the Parish Oral History Committee and edited by Joseph P Stokes. Reviewed by Pat Cummuskey. $10. Copies available from Reverend Father John °Reilly St Benedict 's Parish Office, 115 Ardross St, Ardross 6153. This is something more than a chronicle of events. It is also the very human story of some ordinary Catholics, their efforts and aspirations,
their talents and idiosyncrasies; with the laughs and frustrations attendant on life in their Parish Community. There were outstanding individuals of course, most noticeably that virtuoso of the violin and gifted composer, the late Father Albert Lynch, their founding Parish Priest, who infected all about him with his enthusiasm for liturgical music and who established the Applecross muchParish's acknowledged Music Ministry
The book is well illustrated and the humble beginnings of the Parish are poignantly depicted in the picture of the little school-room on Kintail Road where Mass was first celebrated. Infact with the Parish being just under forty years old, this history must provide something of a nostalgia-trip for many of its present-day members. Humour threads a way through the story: Father Lynch's pyjamas stuffed down the old organ to mute the tone to his liking, fellows treading on the toes of firemen as they rushed in to salvage vestments from the Sacristy fire of 1967 and the frenetic week-ends of "scene-shifting" to convert school to Church and back to school again in those early days. But what especially comes through in this book is the sense of shared intimacy enjoyed by the people down through the years, a relationship founded on their Faith and on an answering dedication towards meeting the needs of their Parish.
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A Practical Step-by-Step Guide to Herbs for the Home and Garden by Shirley Reid (Angus & Robertson distributed through Collins $17.95) Growing herbs can be extraordinarily gratifying, they satisfy so many practical needs as well as delighting the senses. Justly prized for both their scents and fla-
yours, most also make quite beautiful additions to a garden bed. They are indispensable in culinary use and in natural health and beauty care. They have, as well, a long and colourful history being mentioned in the earliest writings of Europe and Asia. In Herbs for the Home and Garden Shirley Reid presents
Herbs for the Home and Garden is a book for everyone — those just beginning a herb garden, those with one flourishing and those just contemplating the idea, though, if you are among the last mentioned, do succumb. You don't knoww how piquant life can be until you've smelt and tasted the delights of freshly picked "parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme".
On edge
The Edge by Dick Francis. Published by Pan. $9.99. Tor Kesley, an undercover agent for the Jockey Club's Security Service, is involved in the attempt to rid racing of one of its most notorious villains, the improbably named Julius Apollo Filmer. When Filmer is acquitted of conspiracy to murder, the Security Service's pride is sorely dented and they are determined to make the next charge stick But they are faced with one major difficulty: Filmer's speciality is intimidating witnesses.
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THE PARISH S CENE At Manning last Saturday Archbishop Foley hands Fr Michael Gaff the missal during his formal induction as parish priest
YOUR ARE INVITED TO HEAP . . .
CARMEL LEAVEY OP (Director of the Institute of Religious Studies) on
Faith in adolescence Carmel will discuss the findings and implications of the National Catholic Research Council's latest research project on the development of faith in young people.
PUBLIC MEETING
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PRESENTATION REUNION A reunion of past Presentation Students, an informal "gettogether". Takes place at Nagle Hall, lona College, Sunday, November 18, 2-4.30pm.
CATHOLIC NURSES The Catholic Nurses Guild will meet at St Anne's Mercy Hospital in the Conference Room at 7.30pm on Tuesday, November 20, Rosemary Lorimar will speak on "ANF and My Christian Commitment". Open to the public.
PRAYER HOUSE At new facilities at Presentation Prayer House, Claremont. Two 6-day directed retreats are being offered this year and four vacancies are available for a retreat beginning, November 28 and one only for retreat beginning December 15. Further enquiries ring 384 2979 ,ievenings).
WYCOMBE SCHOOL Construction of the High Wycombe Catholic Primary School has commenced and stage one of the school will be completed in time for the opening of the 1991 school year. Stage one will include facilities for a pre-primary and year one class. Enrolments for these classes are being taken at present. Inquiries regarding places for 1991 should be directed to The Principal, Mr Greg Wyss, who clan be contacted at the Maida Vale Parish Centre.
LEEDERVILLE REUNION CBC/St Mary's Leederyille past students and teachers will hold a 10year reunion for the year 12 class of 1980 and year 10 class of 1978. At the new Wembley Hotel on December 22. For tickets and to send in articles for the Decibook, call Peggy Pine on 277 2992.
FR LUKE FAY in our store on
Wednesday November 14 He will be autographing copies of his latest book:
Shenton Park parish has a Hammond Organ in good working order with excellent tone for an asking price $500. Contact Fr Holmes 381 5383 for inspection & trial.
"A Long Harvest"
Archdiocesan Calendar Launching Fr Luke Fay CssR's book "A Long Harvest", Archbishop Foley. Visitation and confirmation, Highgate, Bishop Healy. 15 Confirmation, Nedlands, Archbishop Foley. 17 St Vincent de Paul Festival Mass, Archbishop Foley. Jubilee Mass for Fr Liam Keating SMA, Bishop Healy. 18 Redemptorist Retreat House Mass for Paulian Association, Archbishop Foley. Procession and Mass for Vietnamese Martyrs, Archbishop Foley. Confirmation, Victoria Park, Bishop Healy. 20 Launching of Catholic Charities, Archbishop Foley. 21 Heads of Churches Meeting, Archbishop Foley. Confirmation South Lake, Bishop Healy. 21 &22 Confirmation Kenwick/Thornlie, Monsignor Keating. 22 Blessing and Opening at St Anthony's School, additions Greenmount, Archbishop Foley. 24 Aboriginal Catholic Mass and meal, Archbishop Foley. Confirmation Dianella, Monsignor Nestor. 25 St Mary's Cathedral Mass for St Norbert's Silver Jubilee, Archbishop Foley. Visitation and confirmation, East Victoria Park, Bishop Healy. Confirmation, Moora, Monsignor Keating. Confirmation, Maida Vale, Monsignor McCrann. 27 St Mary's Cathedral Servite Graduation Mass, Archbishop Foley. 28 Chisholm College Graduation Mass, Archbishop Foley. Visitation and confirmation, Joondanna, Bishop Healy.
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