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Break the deadlock over nursing homes call The deadlock between This was offered by the the Catholic bishops and bishops after Mr Hawke the government over supplied re-wording of doctors attending nursing Minister Staples' earlier homes was listed for a proposal. critical meeting on ThumThat re-wording is as day between bishops' follows: representatives and the "In the case of nursing Prime Minister. homes being operated by The bishops wrote to a Religious body, the the Prime Minister on proprietor may bring to November 21 objecting the attention of a medito a government pro- cal or health practiposed amendment and tioner entering the nursduring their meeting in ing home to treat the Sydney last week called resident, the doctrines, on Mr Hawke "as a tenets, beliefs or teachmatter of urgency" to ings of the Religious body respond to their letter. operating the facility, A proposed amend- and remind the medical ment from the bishops' practitioner of obligaconference reads: tions under the law." To that proposal, Cardi"In Sub-Clause 10.2, after the word 'choice', nal Clancy, the conferinsert — 'but a health ence president said: care professional shall "I regret to say that not have the right to clause remains unaccepdeliver professional ser- table. MayIalso point out vices at a nursing home that a nursing home operated by a Religious proprietor does not need body if that health care any special authorisation professional does not to do what is provided for agree to respect and in the amendment. In observe, in the exercise this regard, the implicaof her/his profession tions of the amendment within the nursing for a nursing home home, the philosophy of proprietor who is not a health care service of the religious body would be religious body.'" worrYing•
Just moments after Bishop Healy ordained him a deacon last Saturday, Reverend Tony Vallis was busy preparing the altar for the eucharist that followed in Our Lady of Lourdes church Yokine. • See "Tony has a big heart for God" on page 10.
out of step with the majority of Australians and the majority of Catholics.
Quote V In a runaway secularist society such as ours the Church is called upon to take an unpopular stand on many issues, and to maintain its position, however rejected and even ridiculed by others that position might sometimes be. The Church is no stranger to this kind of situation. Be it remembered, however, that the Church is you and me and every single individual baptised into its membership. We all have a part to play, an obligation to fulfil. The new Mater is an achievement of great faith. — Cardinal Clancy
Issues causing crisis — P. 2 "The philosophy of Catholic nursing care rests on certain moral principles that derive from the Gospel and have stood the test of time. They are today under threat from a secular world that on many issues seeks to abandon our common Christian tradition. "Moral principles of their very nature are permanent and indivisible, and are nonnegotiable.
"Catholic nursing homes cannot subscribe to any agreement that leaves the way open for a medical practitioner, with or without the patient's consent, to carry out any procedure that is contrary to its philosphy. "To do so would be to cooperate in that procedure. "Our nursing homes accept residents on the basis that their philosophy will be complied
with. No agreement is acceptable which does not leave open to a proprietor the right to exclude from practising in the nursing home any health care professional who will not agree to respect and observe in the exercise of her/his profession within the nursing home, the philosophy of health care service of the proprietor." The Minister for Aged Care, Mr Staples, claims that a veto on doctors is
The minister rejected the Catholic Church's proposed amendment to the clause, which would exclude doctors who would not agree to "respect and observe . . . the philosophy of health care service of the proprietor", but was willing to negotiate on changes. A similar agreement has already been made with the Australian Medical Association with regard to Catholic hospitals. But Mr Staples said the same principles did not apply because hospitals dealt with sterilisation and abortion, which were accepted by law. He said euthanasia was illegal, therefore such an agreement was not necessary. But Cardinal Clancy in his letter to the Prime Minister says: "The fact that the nursing home provides permanent accommoda-
tion for its residents, apart altogether from the question of nursing care, makes no difference to the principles involved in this issue. "Furthermore, substantial Government funding of our nursing homes has not hitherto made departure, or possible departure, from our philosophy of health care a qualifying condition. "I again respectfully request that the proposed agreement quite explicitly require health care professionals working in the nursing homes to comply with the nursing homes' philosophy. "A spokesman for the AMA has stated that 'the AMA can see no problem with extending the same principle as applies to Catholic hospitals to Catholic nursing homes'. "From the earliest days of colonisation to the present day, the Catholic Church has been, and remains, a major contributor of health care in the service of the Australian community."
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Catholic health care crisis: Clancy speaks Catholic health care is in crisis because of finance, lack of vocations and moral opposition, says Cardinal Clancy. Declaring that Catholic health care is "at a crossroads", the cardinal said that it was particularly true of maternity health care. Cardinal Clancy was speaking at the opening of the new Mater Misericordiae Hospital in North Sydney whose public hospital and maternity wing were dosed in 1982. Last month it was
announced that St Margaret's Hospital in Darlinghurst will not move to Liverpool because of moral difficulties that would arise in the services that would have to be offered. Cardinal Clancy said costs made government finance necessary for the maintenance of public hospitals but "by the very nature of things it carries certain conditions that are inhibthe iting for institution." "There seems to be no satisfactory solution to the financial
problems without some sort of radical social and economic revolution that cannot even be conceived of at the present time." A second factor in the crisis, he said was the failure of young people today to take up a religious nursing vocation. "It is something that we as a Catholic community must grapple with," he said. "However great the dedication of the lay faithful, both doctors and nurses, in the work of health care in the spirit of the Gospel, and however
great their deterrninalion to maintain the Church's apostolate, the withdrawal of religious orders would be, at least from our limited human perspective, a serious impoverishment for the Church. "The dearth of religious nursing vocations, like the dearth of all religious and priestly vocations, is a reflection on, and a responsibility of, the Catholic entire community." On moral questions in hospitals, the c.ardinal said, "the Church
and secular society have been on a collision course for decades". Public Catholic maternity hospitals are being faced with grim alternatives: either to compromise, if not abandon, their moral principles — which is unthinkable, or withdraw altogether from this area of nursing care — which is nothing short of tragic. The morality dilemma had been reflected in both the new Mater building and the St Margaret's
decision not to relocate, he said. He added: "Both decisions were made with deep regret because in both cases medical care is not being made readily available by the religious for the majority, and less affluent members of the community — the very ones to the care of whom both the Sisters of Mercy and the Sisters of St Joseph recognise that they are principally called. 'There is, however, in each case, a partly compensating consideration.
"The decision of the Darlinghurst hospital is a timely, clear and ringing statement of which principle should give cause and pause for profound thought on the part of all members of the community Catholics included. "On the other hand, the new Mater which we have blessed and opened today will be as a beacon proclaiming to the whole metropolis that here God's law prevails in the recognition of human dignity and the sacredness of human life."
Boyce keeps up attack Only days after his accusation of Roman Catholic Church influence in WA Inc, Murdoch Vice Chancellor Peter Boyce used the ABC religious program Kronos to keep up his sectarian attack on the proposed university of Notre Dame Australia. In the weekly religious program that is broadcast nationally each Friday he backed off from naming specifically the Roman Catholic Church and instead referred to "Catholic influence in WA Inc" and the influence of "prominent Roman Catholics". Disclaiming any knowledge of "criminal or
seriously improper behaviour" Professor Boyce claimed "a promise was made just before the last election and the debt is now being paid off". He did not elaborate. A later ABC news report of this statement said: "A deal was struck with the Roman Catholic Church." Replying to interviewer Frank Sheehan's questions that it is "a bit of a disaster for ecumenical relations in WA" and that it "has the appearance of a con job", Professor Boyce made repeated statements about the sectarian nature of the proposed university.
He said it was a retrograde step in itself to have a sectarian university in Australia in the 1990s given the history of this country and given the pattern of public sector higher education which has been accepted and which has proved successful and given that, at thc secondary and primary levels of education the Churches have unlimited influence and are assisted by the state. "I feel therefore in that kind of context the establishment now of a sectarian university, one that is sponsored by another country, from another higher education system, and which
has been given undue Claiming that there assistance by the state would be "ongoing itself, that this is a most resentment" because retrograde step and I there is already a "surfeit believe that it will amuse of universities", Professor Boyce continued: "That it's private is bad enough, that it is sectarLake Karrinyup Golf ian is even worse and Club has advised that that it is a sectarian it never received any university that has been government grant of given unfair treatment, I land but that it purmean has been given chased its property unfair advantage over from the Maley broththe public sector univerers in 1.926 and at no sities adds further insult stage has government to injury for the public assistance been given sector universities in this to that organisation. state, so yes I believe there will be ongoing sectarian suspicions and resentment and the cliprejudices which are just mate will be bad." He claimed the Catholic beneath the surface," he said. community in Western
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"No reasons have been "Catholics know that given why a new, doctrithey can influence the nally exclusive institushape, the ethos, and the tion needs to be estabquality of the public lished and I think it will sector universities in be most embarrassing to numerous ways, through those Catholics with a chaplaincies, through strong sense of equity on because there will be a r epresentation bodies, further appeal to Catholgoverning through the administra- ics to divert funds to pay tion of halls of residence for the new university. and so on and so forth, "The fees will have to be through the Faculty of high if it is to be a fairly at now Theology high quality institution, Murdoch. and Ican't see this being "So there are at least anything but divisive four ways in which the within the large Catholic Catholic community can community in Western help shape the tone and Australia," he added.
-ABC's way of having a say A 6WN midday news bulletin on Friday, November 30, did not correspond to the actual words used by Murdoch University Chancellor Peter Boyce in a Kronos interview broadcast four hours earlier. A newsreader said: "The vice-chancellor 2
of Murdoch University claims the West Australian Government's S7 million land endowment to the Notre Dame University was a pre-election deal struck with the Roman Catholic Church." In fact, Professor Boyce was careful to avoid using that
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explicit phrase. A voice quote of Professor Boyce that followed said: "A promise was made just before the last election, and the debt is now being paid off. N is another reflection of the kind of influence that prominent Roman Catholics have been able to exert
on the present government, sometimes, frequently in fact, leading to serious errors of judgement and even gross impropriety." A further segment of the news bulletin stated: "Professor Boyce said while he was not alleging criminal behaviour, the
deal was an outrage." An examination of the transcript of Professor Boyce's interview shows that at no time did he use the word "outrage". This latest interference by ABC news journalists comes hard on the heels of a complaint made last
month by the Minister for Justice Senator Michael Tate, also about a Kronos program and its accompanying news release. Senator Tate claimed the ABC had "peddled distortions of what he said in a Medianet press release that was used widely in Austra-
lia and which, the claimed, senator caused the phrase "living in mansions" to "fall from my lips". The phrase ". . . by Anglican archbishops and the lifestyle that they display from their mansions" was used by Kronos interviewer Allan Austin.
Mercy killings: No need to fear ADELAIDE: The fear that uncontrolled mercy killing could be practised in Catholic nursing homes under a new Federal Government charter is not shared by the chairman of Southern Cross Homes in Adelaide.
Mr Peter Taylor says the right of nursing home residents to the doctor of their choice should be upheld. The Australian Catholic Bishops have expressed fears that the Government draft nursing home agreement, which enshrines a patient's right to a doctor of his or her own choice, would mean that a pro-euthanasia doctor
could not be refused the right to practise mercy killing in a Catholic nursing home. Mr Taylor said doctors attending to patients who are residents of nursing homes should refrain from such practices as would offend the "doctrines, tenets or beliefs" of the religious body operating and responsible for the ethos of the institution concerned. "This will offer nursing homes the same respect that doctors already accord to Catholic hospitals by refraining from any practice which contravenes the religious convictions and moral
code of the operator," he said. "This will include any practice currently illegal but which may at some future date be permitted under State or Federal law."
The Australian Medical Association has supported Catholic nursing homes on the issue of allowing residents to own choose their doctors. An AMA spokesman, Dr Allan Passmore, said many doctors already had agreed to refrain from certain practices if allowed to work in Catholic hospitals, and he could see "no prob-
lems with that being extended to nursing homes".
Discussions are continuing between the Catholic bishops and the Government over what the bishops describe as "the serious moral problem posed by that part of the agreement that guarantees to all health care professionals an unqualified right to practise in all nursing homes subject only to being chosen by a resident". Last month the Minister of Aged, Family and Health Services, Mr Peter Staples, said a compromise had been reached between the Govern-
ment and the Church regarding the issue of "sexual expression" contained in the nursing home draft agreement. The Minister said the compromise was necessary "so that the agreement on rights for the elderly was not jeopardised" because of the Church's objections.
Shadow Education Minister Fred Tubby said last week that conditions should be imposed on all endowments similar to those applying to the historic land grants made to the University of Western Australia. "Members of the Parliamentary Liberal Party agreed yesterday that strong support must be maintained to the private education sector, and that a viable alternative to public sector universities should also be supported," Mr Tubby said.
"Provided that the Government gives that support in the proper way, there can be no opposition to the proposed endowment to Notre Dame University. "The Government should move immediately to make similar endowments to Curtin, Murdoch and Cowan universities to assist them with their ongoing development, particularly into regional areas of the State. "If similar grants have not been made before the next election, the Liberal Party has agreed that, in Government, it will immediately make such endowments. "All will be provided on a similar basis to the conditions laid down for the Government's proposed endowment to Notre aane which will be
fully supported if the following conditions are met:
• Notre Dame to receive no income from the Alkimos land until university development begins on that site. • As was the case with UWA land endowments, income only from the land may be used to support university purposes while the land, or its equivalent in capital value may never be sold off. • If the Notre Dame University does not proceed, or if it fails at any time in the future, the land will automatically revert to the State. • The Government be urged to make similar endowments to Curtin, Murdoch and Cowan universities, and failing
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Government action on this, the Liberal Party to implement such an endowment policy in Government. • Parliament must approve and endorse all endowments to universities, starting with the Notre Dame endowment.
"These conditions should ensure that the endowment is used only for the purposes for which it was made — to support the ongoing operation of WA's first private university," Mr Tubby said. "They should also allay public misgivings over favouritism because, under these proposals, all universities in WA will have a firm financial foundation to grow and develop in the best interests of Western Australia."
AIDS quarantining is 'no answer' to problem ADELAIDE: Quarantining people with AIDS would not be an effective way to stop the spread of the virus, a Catholic priest said today.
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The bishops had said the draft agreement's provision to have the sexual needs and choices of residents accepted and treated with respect "offends the consciences of Catholics".
We support grants to all unis: Libs The Liberal Party has agreed to support the Government's edowment to the University of Notre Dame subject to conditions and is seeking equal treatment for the three newer public universities.
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Record With rare largesse iast week The Record was drawn to the attention of readers of The West Australian, principally because of what we thought of The West's handling so far of the Notre Dame issue. Some of the shine rubbed off, however, with the realisation that The Record's editorial was already a week old and even more coincidentally that it was being picked up just one day after Perth correspondent Joe Poprzeczny raised the matter in The Australian's weekly higher education supplement. It went possibly to prove that journalist Robert Reid had to read The Australian to find out what is being said in Perth (and, alas, that nobody at The West appears to read The Record . . !). So much for The West's leave-no-stoneunturned approach to Notre Dame that curiously over two weeks has been unable to find one single interviewee who supports the university — the Liberal Party statement aside. This remains the point at issue and not the bigoted attitude of Winthrop Hackett who can safely be left to his peace. Murdoch Vice Chancellor Boyce felt the matter was redolent of the 1940s. He is too timid by far. As his ABC radio remarks reveal, it would be necessary to go back to the turn of the century to hear similar sectarian invective on behalf of governments keeping out of private education funding. He indulges in the wishful thinking that Catholics should have short memories about the injustices they suffered for decades from the black alliance between Australia's emerging secularists grabbing the Australian scene and the Protestant mainline churches who held a comfy monopoly over secondary education — private and expensive. Both found common purpose in giving no ground to Catholics who were patronised endlessly by politicians of all persuasions and about whom political parties found it convenient for sectarian reasons to close an eye to the blatant injustice perpetrated on a section of taxpayers. But the so called irreformible principle of withholding government funds became remarkably flexible when Robert Menzies with his science grants and Gough Whitiam with much on his electoral mind both saw the wisdom of not throwing sand any longer in the faces of private education supporters. The bigots have evaporated as mainline and other churches see the pragmatic light of day and have become quiet converts to funding the schools their constituents obviously are demanding. That the situation may be entirely different between secondary and tertiary funding is not for us to decide. NDA asks no favour on behalf of its Catholic status nor does the Catholic Church. Unlike the case for Catholic schools, NDA has asked for no recurrent funding and is categorically excluded from such. As events so far have proven, and contrary to Professor Boyce's invented sectarian theories, the decisions about university funding are made by the political machinery that makes all spending decisions in this country, including tertiary education. Those who subscribe to the notion that Australia's government funded university system is a sacrosanct club which will be the only arbiter of what the public gets and deserves are entitled to their understandably entrenched views. But the grinding of teetiary continental plates as Canberra applies the pressure shows that self-interest can reign supreme even in the so called sacred public sector. The local vice chancellors are reported to be In opposition to NDA. They are remarkably quiet — UWA finding it very hard to find its voice as it sells off its lucrative endowments. The other universities are clearly poor advocates for their own entitlements to state government endowment In fact basing opposition to NDA on the strength of the current vice chancellors' views is about as valid as asking General Motors and Ford what they think of new competitors in Australian car manufacturing. The views are very predictable but hardly convincing; nor is Professor Boyce's blustering sectarian bias. 4 The Record, December 13, 1990
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'Return loot to the poor' MANILA, (CNS): Cardinal Jaime Sin of Manila said billions of dollars recovered from the family and associates of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos should be returned to aid the poor as a gesture of repentance. The cardinal spoke at a Mass attended by President Corazon Aquino and her two main political critics, Vice President Salvador Laurel and oppostion Senator Juan Ponce Enrile. "National reconciliation should . . . now go to those whose abuse of power. . . enabled them to siphon off the precious money of our people," Cardinal Sin said, apparently referring to charges by the government that Marcos and his business friends looted the
treasury of an estimated $10 billion. "Let this wealth, or even just most of it, be voluntarily returned to the Philippines for the exclusive use of the poor in their hour of need," said Cardinal Sin, who helped mobilise popular support for Mrs Aquino when she was swept to power in 1986. "Let this self-emptying restitution be a genuine sign of repentance for sins past and a credible manifestation of commitment to lasting national peace," the cardinal said. On November 29, the Supreme Court stopped the government from enforcing a controversial deal with a Marcos associate involving millions of dollars allegedly looted from the Philippines.
Three challenges LONDON (CNS): Inter- and Northern Ireland," faith dialogue faces he said. three challenges, said "All our traditions can Archbishop Robert Run- be subject to it. None of cie of Canterbury. us are insulated from its The first challenge is to dangers." resist tribalising Christian churches the archbishop told the must look for places Interfaith Network. where other religions fit "The dangers of that into "our own account of sort of religion, for which truth," the archbishop the term 'fundamental- said. When a religion ism' simply will not do, allows no place for are seen in places as others, the dangers of varied as India, Sri Lanka discrimination and dom-
Rape of nuns: Police dragged into picture NEW DELHI, India (CNS): The Supreme Court of India has received a petition alleging police collusion in the July 13 rape of two nuns in their convent 112km east of New Delhi.
The petition to the Supreme Court alleges the rape was committed by "friends and supporters" of the chief minister, who opposed English as a medium of instruction in schools and colleges in the state. The school, run by Franciscan Sisters of Our Lady of Grace, a diocesan congregation, was misunderstood by Yadav's supporters as challenging his policy. "Consequently, the local criminals, in league with the local authorities, attacked the convent" and raped two nuns, the petition says, alleging that the police stood outside the convent to prevent intervention by local people. The nuns, who were first certified by a local doctor as victims of rape, were sent for "further treatment" to the government hospital where the police and local officials, the petition maintains, "briefed in advance" the government surgeon, Dr Meera Singh, not to give a correct report. Dr Singh's report denied evidence of rape but said one of the nuns was "used to sexual intercourse".
ination grow alarmingly, he added. The second challenge is to recognise and come to terms with the strangeness of other religious traditions, Archbishop Runcie said. "We must recognise that the gulf between our different faiths is not merely a matter of ethos or styles of life, but goes to the very root of our concepts of what the
'Decent' jails for drug lords BOGOTA, Colombia (CNS): If Columbia's violent drug lords go ahead with a mass surrender plan, they could be jailed in and convents monasteries. Unused convents are one of the options being considered to intern traffickers who turned themselves in. The cocaine barons said that up to 300 traffickers would surrender if the government guaranteed it would not extradite them or force them to testify against themselves or colleagues. Colombia's Justice Minister Jaime Giraldo promised that they would be imprisoned in "decent places". "But we are not talking about convents with nuns inside. There may be empty convents that could be sold to the state.
world is and the nature common values," he said. of the human relation"None of this is easy, ship with the divine," he because the debate about said. values often runs "The account of the through the middle of transcendent in our religious communities different faith traditions rather than between differs profoundly." them. Yet there is someFinally, different reli- times a sharp contrast gions must move from between the values of an dialogue to partnership, unreflective secular Archbishop Runde said. world and reflective "We can work together religious traditions with on the basis, not of a transcendent dimencommon belief, but of sion," he said.
Christmas packages BONN: In response to an urgent Soviet appeal, a German Catholic emergency relief organisation has agreed to send 30,000 packages of basic food items to the Soviet Union by Christmas.
Each package, weighing lokg, contained coffee, sugar, powdered milk, butter, meat and other items and was expected to last two weeks for the average family. The total cost of the packages is estimated at $600,000. The packages were sent to Catholic and Russian Orthodox ogranisations with close ties to Caritas. "Distributing packages there is very difficult because there is a great problem of corruption," an organiser said. "We must work with organisations that are out of the Soviet state and that are truthful." The trucks were to deliver food packages in Moscow, Armenia, Lithuania and the Ukraine, which has been pinpointed by the Soviet government because the 1986 nuclear power plant accident there contaminated farmland. Elderly people and families with many children were expected to receive the first packages. Caritas is one of many groups that has pledged to help the Soviets through what experts have said appears to be a winter of crisis and famine because of food and fuel shortages. The German government has agreed to send thousands of tons of food from a stockpile built up in Berlin after Moscow's blockade of the city 40 years ago.
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VATICAN CITY (CNS): In a major change of Church leadership, Pope John Paul ll accepted the resignation of his chief adviser, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, architect of the Church's policies toward Eastern European communism, and replaced him with veteran diplomat Archbishop Angelo Sodano. Technically, Archbishop Sodano's title is proSecretary of State. He will not be called secretary until he is named a cardinal. Church rules require that a cardinal head the secretariat. The title prosecretary means acting head. The naming of an archbishop to replace
Cardinal Casaroli has fuelled speculation that the pope will call a consistory within the next few months to induct new members into the College of Cardinals The pope announced the changes exactly a year after his historic first meeting with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev which opened the door to greater religious freedom for Soviet Catholics.
Cardinal Casaroli was the chief architect of the meeting as he was of the Vatican policy of "small steps" — slow, painstaking negotiations with communist governments to keep the Church alive and give it some breathing room. behind the Iron Curtain. Cardinal Casaroli had
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submitted his resigna- years. Their collaboration started when the tion a year ago when he turned 75, the normal cardinal was the roving Vatican diplomat responretirement age for cardisible for opening contacts nals heading Curia with communist governdepartments. ments and negotiating The pope, at the ceremony announcing the Church-state accords. cardinal's retirement, During this time the said he refused to accept pope was a bishop and the resignation imme- then a cardinal in diately last year because Poland. Pope John Paul said "I did not want to deny myself so soon of such a December 1 he first met expert his future secretary of and wise state when the Vatican collaborator." Cardinal Casaroli, then diplomat "was taking an archbishop, was significant steps to named to head the improve the situation of Secretariat of State on the Church behind the April 28, 1979, six so-called Iron Curtain". "In Poland these efforts months after the current pope was elected to the produced important papacy. Pope John Paul fruit, allowing for the made him a cardinal two normalisation of Church life in the west and north months later. But the two men have of the country," said the worked together on pope. Church Eastern EuroHe called Cardinal pean policies for over 20 Casaroli "the closest
collaborator of my ministry and my primary adviser". The cardinal was praised for "the great help" he provided the pope during "these years in which the Church and the world have seen events and transformations of such vast content". Casaroli Cardinal retires after 50 years in the Vatican's diplomatic service. Over half the service has been as a negotiator with communist governments. It started in 1963, when Pope John XXIII tapped the then-Mons Casaroli for the delicate mission of visiting Eastern Europe to resume contacts interrupted by World War II and the subsequent rise to power of the communists.
Man who is taking over Archbishop Angelo Sodano, the new Vatican secretary of state, has spent 30 years in the Church's diplomatic service, much of that time in Latin America. The 63 year-old archbishop has headed the secretariat's Section for Relations with States since 1988, a
post in which he became a frequent traveller to Eastern Europe. Pope John Paul II named him prosecretary of state December 1. He will be given the title secretary when he is elevated to the College of Cardinals, probably in early 1991.
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NEW ORLEANS: Another priest has publicly declared he will join the breakaway black Bishop Stallings who has set up the African American Catholic Congregation. And the breakaway bishop who obtained his ordination from an Orthodox Church says he intends to ordain a former deacon to the priesthood and two others to the diaconate including a former nun. Archbishop Schulte of New Orleans did not know of the Fr Jeartmarie's decision until he heard it in news reports. "Separating from the Church is no solution to
problems within the Church," he said. St Theresa Church was about two-thirds full and people applauded and clapped and shouted in agreement as Father Jeanmarie made his announcement. Father Jeanmarie was ordained in 1977, was granted a leave of absence several years ago, but taken back in 1986. One of the men to be ordained a priest, Eugene Dunn, was a permanent deacon. Ordained in 1978,
he took a leave of absence at his request in November 1983 to further his education and did not return to active ministry.
As head of the Section for Relations with States, a position similar to foreign minister in many the governments, archbishop has been present at Pope John Paul's meetings with foreign political leaders and heads of state. He met with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in 1989 when
he was in Moscow to finalise plans for the Soviet leader's first meeting with the pope. From 1977 to 1988, he served as the apostolic nuncio to Chile, which was under the control of the General dictator Augusto Pinochet. Archbishop Sodano denounced the human
rights violations which were taking place there. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the archbishop was also involved in the Vatican's successful mediation of the territorial dispute between Argentina and Chile over islands in the Beagle Channel.
Churchmen say 'no' to military force
LONDON (CNS): More than 50 British church leaders — including prominent Catholic and Anglican bishops and t heologians —have issued a statement opposing a Western offensive military a gainst Iraq. The statement acknowledges that Iraq's August invasion of Kuwait and its brutal treatment of Kuwaiti citizens provided one just cause for a war to expel Iraqi forces from Kuwait. But it argued that other conditions required for a just war were lacking. "The timetable of war seems to be dictated more by threats from Western leaders and the
build-up of offensive capability than by the necessarily slow process of sanctions and diplomacy," the statement said. "Sanctions have not failed, nor do they appear to be failing. Coupled with the patient methods of Arab mediation and bargaining, they are more likely in the end to produce a lasting peace in the region," the statement said. Right intention, the statement said, would be the expulsion of Iraqi forces from Kuwait and the restoration of its legitimate government — not destruction of the Iraqi state. It also quoted with approval the remark by King Hussein
of Jordan that war would be "an ecological and environmental disaster on a world scale". Among the Catholic signatories were Bishops Thomas McMahon of Brentwood and Roger Crispian Hollis of Portsmouth; Auxiliary Bishops Victor Guazzelli and John Crowley of Westminster, Anglican Bishops John Davies of Shrewsbury, Tony Dumper of Dudley, Gordon Roe of Huntingdon and John Baker of Salisbury. Also among the signatories were Dominican Father Aidan Nichols of Rome and Jesuit Father Brendan Callaghan, principal of Heythrop College, London.
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ARLINGTON, Va (CNS): The 1983 Code of Canon Law "has a lot more possibilities than people realise" for women in church ministries, Mercy Sister Sharon Euart told The Wisdom of Women symposium. Sister Euart, associate general secretary for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops US Catholic Conference, said the "positive representation" of women in the 1983 code "is due primarily to the enhanced position of the laity in the revised law." Acknowledging a "proper role for the laity," she added, "has helped, if only minimally, to advance the role of women in the Church." She said the 1983 code "represents a shift in the Church's perspective on the role of women," who were given "a passive and inferior role" in the 1917 Code of Canon Law. She outlined areas in common ministry, public ministry, and jurisdictional ministry in which women can participate as allowed by the 1983 code. In common ministry, Sister Euart cited "proclaiming the Gospel especially in instances where only the
layperson can effectively do so, transforming the temporal order with the spirit of the Gospel, and promoting the upbuilding of the Church through marriage and family." These areas, she said, are "proper to lay women and men." Many kinds of public ministry — in the Church's teaching, liturgical and governing offices — are available to women, Sister Euart said. Some ministries require "some type of designation from ecclesiastical authority," she said including religion teacher, religious education director, eucharistic minister, parish council president, and parish visitor of the sick. Teaching offices that may be assumed by lay people without ecclesiastical authority include assisting the pastor in catechetical ministry, serving as a catechist in missionary lands, and teaching sacred sciences in higher education institutions, Sister Euart said. Women, she said, may also serve in liturgical roles as lector, commentator, cantor or special minister of the Eucharist, but only a layman may be formally installed as a lector or acolyte.
In the Church's governing office, women may serve as auditor, assessor, promoter of justice and defender of the bond in diocesan tribunals; chancellor and notary for cases not involving clerics; diocesan financial officer; member of a parish pastoral team; and general secretary of the episcopal conference, Sister Euart said. Laywomen may also exercise official ministries in lay religious institutes and in consultative functions, as can laymen, she added. Bishops may also establish official ministries in their own dioceses which would be open to women, she said. Jurisdictional ministry "traditionally has been reserved for the ordained," Sister Euart said. She mentioned "ambiguity" in apparently contradictory provisions in the 1983 code. One canon says lay people may hold ecclesiastical office, while another states only clerics can hold offices for which the power or orders or governance is required. "Time will tell how this is worked
out," she said. While priests and deacons are given the "faculty" to assist at weddings and to preach, lay people may be "delegated" to assist at weddings and "admitted" to preach in a church, but "no mention of faculty" for the laity is made in canon law, Sister Euart said. "Despite the beginnings of progress, there remains a cycle of frustation among women in the Church who want to be genuine partners in ministry," she said. "Can the Church continue to rely on women and laymen for pastoral service and at the same time deny them an active voice in the governance of the Church?" Sister Euart asked. "How long will lay people continue to accept positions in the Church which do not recognise competence, ability, and experience?" Noting that canon law is not the sole source of church law, "it may be necessary at times to look beyond the code for a full picture of human rights recognised and proclaimed by the Church," Sister Euart said.
The plug has not been pulled ARLINGTON: "The bishops' pastoral on women may be on a life support system but it is alive and well. The plug has not been pulled. The doctor has said, 'Let's see if we can save it,'" Bishop lmesch the chairman of the writing committee says.
A scheduled vote during the bishops recent meeting on the pastoral's second draft was dropped after the Vatican sent the pastoral drafting committee a letter saying the pastoral should be subject to consultation from other national bishops' conferences.
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Bishop lmesch said international the meeting would take place in Rome "after the first of the year". He illustrated the scope of international interest by quoting the late Cardinal Tomas O'Fiaich, Ireland's primate, as saying "the
concerns of women are no longer just an American aberration". "God willing," he said, by June or November 1992 "we will have found a draft that will be available for the bishops to vote on." The bishops, according to Bishop lmesch,
are "unanimous in their feeling this process has to go forward."
It would not be right, he said, if after the seven years of drafting a pastoral, the bishops had nothing to say. "The bishops have not spoken to women in
any way but their silence," Bishop lmesch said.
up and let us know. Make us aware of your concerns and needs."
"Bishops come to me and say, 'I never realised the depth of feeling of women in the Church. It is good for us to hear that. We need to hear them.' . . . You need to speak
A pastoral, if approved, would be "a baby step, but a step", Bishop lmesch said. "We feel we need a basis for discussion and the pastoral allows that."
War last resort...
AUSSIE BISHOPS CALL FOR 'APPROPRIATE MEANS' FOR PEACE
Military action against Iraq for its unjust aggression can be only a last resort and only after all appropriate means for a peaceful settlement have been adequately but unsuccessfully tried, say the Australian Catholic bishops. They also say that the United Nations is the competent world authority that could authorise such military action. In a statement from their meeting in Sydney last week the bishops said: 6 We hope and pray that armed conflict will be averted, that diplomatic initiatives for a settlement will continue and lead to a just conclusion.
A serious threat to world peace overshadows this season of peace. We appeal to our Catholic people and to all people of goodwill to continue praying for a peaceful resolution of the Gulf crisis. Particular people or groups of people to be remembered in a special way in our prayers as Christmas approaches are: • the people in positions of power, who carry such awesome responsibility for the decisions they make; • the Service personnel and their families on all sides;
Recession - concern The Catholic bishops of Australia are concerned at what the recession is doing to businesses, farms and school leavers. At their Sydney meeting last week the bishops said: "Factories and businesses are closing down. Families are being forced to leave their farms. Unemployment is increasing and is having devastating effects on people's lives. "For school-leavers, immediate prospects appear gloomy. The consequences are especially serious for families and also for those young people who will not succeed in finding work. "The plight of many rural communities has worsened seriously in recent months. "Many country people, who rightly see themselves as the producers of much of the nation's real wealth, feel isolated and abandoned in today's Australia. They are in need of encouragement and help from governments and the whole community, who in a true sense their are beneficiaries. "Many of those who still have paid work are struggling to meet the rising costs of housing, food, education, transport and medical care." The bishops announced that they will release the draft statement of their inquiry into wealth in Australia on the eve of
Australia Day next month. The bishops said: "Our decision to undertake this project has been more than justified in view of the recent sad deterioration in the situation. "A brighter future depends on the restoration of certain values which were temporarily obscured in the recent past but which are more typically Australian than the pursuit of selfinterest. "Notable among these is a concern for the common good and a willingness to promote it by working together. "We urge people with competence and skill to be generous in offering assistance where it is most needed. "Organisations like the Society of St Vincent de Paul are doing their best to cope with an evergrowing demand for their services. "1here are many cases where parish communities give support, usually in unpublicised ways, to other groups and individuals in need. We hope that all parishes will follow this example at this time when • the need is so urgent. "We hope and pray that this will be the spirit in which Christmas 1990 will be celebrated by all who believe in the message of Jesus Christ, who was homeless at birth and who taught us by word and example that it is in giving that we truly receive."
Making history The secretary general of the Australian Council of Churches made history when he became the first non-Catholic minister to address the Conference of Australian Bishops at their half yearly meeting last week. Reverend David Gill discussed with the bishops progress on discussion for a new
national ecumenical body in which the Catholic Church may become a member. At their May meeting the bishops received an interim report without necessarily endorsing its whole content. The Catholic bishops devoted a morning to the discussion this time and
by next March a working party is expected to finalise the proposal for a new national body. Bishop Bede Heather, chairman of the bishops' ecumenical committee said the new body would seek to achieve a better understanding on the levels of theology, history, sociology and culture.
• hostages being unjustly detained and their families; • the people of Kuwait especially those who have suffered bereavement and those who have been unjustly treated by the invaders; • the citizens of Iraq, some of whom are suffering from the blockade and face the prospect of horrific suffering should war break out. • the new wave of refugees created by the Iraq action; • all other refugees, homeless and disadvantaged people in the Middle East and elsewhere. Once again the Middle East awaits the peace of Christ.,
What will Christmas mean to Nanda? Nanda and her family had been doing well. Many years of backbreaking toil had seen their small farm slowly become productive. They had food on their table and produce to trade. The prospect of a good education for her children was no longer a dream. Then came the fighting. Like so much conflict in the world today, it came suddenly, with no warning, no reason, no sense. And like so many caught in the path of conflict, Nanda and her family were forced to turn their backs on everything they held precious and flee for their very lives. Christmas will find Nanda where she and her family are today: in a refugee camp. Where time stands still and one day is no different from the last. Where she and her family can only wait and pray that when the waiting ends they will have the will and the strength to return and start again. Will you share your Christmas with the world's refugees?
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Ingredients of collaboration I was about to begin a workshop on collaboration between priests and laity in parishes, but I wanted to see first what the participants already knew about the topic. So I asked them.
One well-prepared person answered immediately. "According to the dictionary, it means cooperation with the enemy." I could see everyone mentally figuring out who the enemy was in our workshop and decided not to pursue that one any further. Collaboration is not a new idea in the Church. What is renewed is the understanding of ministry — the understanding that
all baptised people are blessed with gifts which they have the right and duty to use. Collaboration occurs when the talents in the parish are shared for the good of the Church and those whom the Church serves. It is reminiscent of the parable of the vineyard owner who hired workers all day long to work in the vineyard (Matthew 20:1-16). Everybody had a role to play and everybody shared equally in the rewards. But what went on in the vineyard? How did they work together? What happened when new workers came in with new ideas and new
ways of doing things? The Gospel doesn't answer those questions, but a good understanding of collaboration does. Collaboration works well in a parish when four conditions are met: 1. The task calls for collaboration.
Not everything that happens in a parish requires collaboration. For example, someone who seeks counselling for a personal problem doesn't need to discuss it with the whole parish staff. In general, two types of tasks require collaboration: those which affect the whole parish and those which are too complex for one per-
son to carry out effectively. Planning the adult education program for the year or setting up a parish shelter for homeless people affects the whole parish. These are the kinds of tasks that require collaboration. Visiting homebound parishioners or sponsoring support groups for adult children of alcoholics may affect only a few people, but the task is more specialised and demanding than one person could adequately provide. The first step in collaborative ministry is to be sure the task calls for collaboration. 2. Those who collaborate have clear roles which they under-
By Father Robert Kinast stand and accept. Collaboration can mean consultation: getting the advice of several people before making your own decision. It can mean consensus: getting a group to agree on what should be done. It can mean cooperation: asking a number of people to help carry out a project which someone else has decided upon. It can mean coresponsibility: getting a group to take over one area of parish life. Collaboration requires that people know what their role
is and that they are willing to play it. The best way to ensure that expectations are clear is to write them down. Then potential collaborators can say whether they are willing to do what they are being asked. 3. Those who collaborate are accountable for completing their work. This presumes that the line of accountability is clear and the resources needed for completing the task are available. A catechist is accountable to the religious education director for being prepared and punctual; the religious education director is accountable to the
catechist for providing the space and t eaching materials, and for designing and advertising the overall program. 4. Those who collaborate share in the benefits, especially the spiritual value of ministry and the community value of working together. Collaboration is not just task oriented. Working together should bring workers together. In the context of a parish this should have a spiritual impact. So every act of collaboration should be evaluated, not just to determine if the task was accomplished but what the collaborators experienced in working
together. Has it at engthened their fail, helped them redse their gifts, bre( ght them closer to C )d? Meeting hese four conditiot, is not always ear Why? • Becaus, some tasks may riot make the best se of a Person's talents, or the same peopi Et may be called upot 'no often. • Becaus expectations raaynot always be expresed clearly or some p.r3ons may agree to one role while futtioning as if they ha another. • Or becuse resources are tot always available ad individuals can begin to compete Tvith each other.
col-lab-o-rate (ka lab/ 2 vi. -ratied, -ratling [Latin: collaboratus, pp. of collaborare, to work together] 1. to work together 2. to cooperate with the enemy; to be a collaborationist
Collaborators have to be ready for these moments and willing to face one another when they think things are not going well. This is the literal meaning of confrontation — a face-to-face encounter that is honest and productive. Is it worth it? Yes. As Pope John Paul II said in his apostolic exhortation on the laity: "The coordinated presence of both men and women is to be pastorally urged so that the participation of the lay faithful in the salvific mission of the Church might be rendered more rich, complete and harmonious." (No. 52)
—col-lab-o-ra-tion n. —col-lab-o-ra-tive adj. —col-lab-o-ra-tor n.
One parish's move to collaboration "In the beginning, even though we had said we were willing to work toward collaborative planning, there were meetings at which the emotional weather was like the ominous hush that precedes a dangerous storm. "Perhaps it was the prayers, opening Father Pat's good humour or Joseph's gentle composure in chairing the meetings — or perhaps all three
blew — but the over. We moved from the world we had the into known unknown together."
That account of how the processes of collaboration developed at one parish was given by a parish school principal named Rose. Father Pat added to Rose's account. "It took a year after I arrived at St Monica's before I sensed we might
be able to bride the seemingly unut ;sable gulf to collaboratiol" the sensitive young priest with a gift for lighter recalled. "When I was first assigned I was 'Yes, Fathered' on every lingI said. My early ov !tures were met with a #ned looks and nahing happened. "What this signt ed for me was not so much unwillingness as tiling
and testing."
Father Pat grinned when he observed that inaction is not his natural state. "But I was advised by priest friends to be patient. I studied books on parish leadership, especially those by Evelyn and James Whitehead and Father Tom Sweetser."
By Jane Wollord Hughes "At one session Joseph, the parish council president, said, We think it's "Without being pushy,I time to review our parish offered the books to the mission statement.'" staff and parish council. Rose laid the workbook Some already had begun on the table, suggesting it their own study. could provide a process "Our staff and parish for doing this together. ''The processes of the council meetings grew more interesting, prob- workbook helped us ing the meaning of steer away from blockcommunity and ades, to anticipate how hard it was to come by collaboration.
implemented industry.
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Not all reached Niliolehearted' ideal
The New Testament "house churches" were small communities meeting in private homes. Their success depended on pooling the members' varied talents.
Varied talents, however, meant different personalities, temperaments, viewpoints. Rubbing elbows made for cosiness, but rubbing could cause friction, too. St Paul's community at Philippi seems to have been an especially warm group of people. He had no really big
problems to deal with when he wrote to them. Still, his pleas suggest they were not all candidates for immediate canonisation. Paul wrote: "Do nothing out of selfishness or vainglory, rather, humbly regard others as more important than yourselves, each one looking out not for his own interests, but everyone for that of others." (Philippians 2:2-4)
Wholehearted collaboBy Father ration was of thessence. John rested this Castelot But not all ideal, as this Westing little passage intim letter ality clash or something more serious. indicates: Whatever it was, it I and "I urge Euotil andintog threatened to break up yntychefit undtCs)me urge a m Stua the team. in the Lord. . 'or they In one way or another have struggle& my side they had to eliminate the in promoting:le Gos- friction; either that or pel." (4:2-3) destroy the effectiveness Here were tio dedi- of their ministry. cated. zealous Women, Usually such differenactively co-opriting in ces are resolved by Paul's minifY, yet compromise. Each party unable to see Ae to eye bends a bit. This is the an obviously was This ideal — one toward on something. It may price of continued which they had to strive. have been only, Person- collaboration.
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This was true in the case of groups also. Converts from Judaism were reluctant to accept gentiles into the early Church communities.
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"We learned things. Putting all our efforts together we were quite a
He sent a letter to gentile Christians asking them to be sensitive to Jewish feelings on certain touchy points.
parish. But efforts were being duplicated and there were blank areas we should have been addressing. "We realised we could no longer be disconnected fragments and say we had a common vision. "Rose and Tony, our directors of religious education, had already brought their educational staffs together to seek ways of cooperation. Their first project was an in-service day in bilin-
gual education serving the Hispanic community, representing a quarter of our parish.
"Then the education, worship and service commissions ac.knowledged the need for a coalition to aid the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults programs. Margarita, the rite's chairperson, responded with, 'Wonderful! We won't feel like something tacked onto the parish anymore, but part of it."'
Joseph concluded "The adrenaline which animated us flowed into the parish. People were volunteering, offering suggestions and taking an interest in each other and the community. "In any human organisation there are flaws and I can't say we have buried all the carcasses of turfdom and probably never will. But we are a different parish — and it's great to be part of it."
things, most of which had to do with kosher food regulations. But if the communities were to survive as communities, it was a sacrifice they had to make.
"As for the gentiles who Many gentile customs have come to believe, we sent them our decision were abhorrent to Jews. So, you see, there was It was unthinkable for that they abstain from an obvious concern to meat sacrificed to idols, an observant Jew to sit at promote the unity withthe same table with from blood, from the out which collaboration meat of strangled animgentiles. This made is impossible — not a sharing in the Eucharist als and from unlawful static, sterile uniformity, the sacrament of unity (!) marriage." (Acts 21:25) but a dynamic unity a practical impossibility. This called for a bit of amid diversity, a practiJames, head of the early sacrifice for gentile cal unit that facilitated Christian community in Christians, who saw collaborations in futherJerusalem, hit upon a nothing particularly ing the Christian life and compromise. wrong about these mission.
SCUSSION POINTS What are two quilies or attitudes that people with differed Perspectives or roles need if they are to wit. together well in their parishes? Selected responses om readers: 1by the sound of your "Don't get carried 1, own voice. Your neillboer's ideas may be better than yours." --41argaret Otchy "To me the most hitt,' attitude is trusting in the goodness al good will of other people . . . Then whelk' disagree on an issue you don't have to Oest!on other people's motives. You have tiv!ttitude that they are trying to do the goodlog." — Anne Healey
even a modest show of humility when our personal turf was stepped on," Father Pat said. Joseph confined the story. "Our transformation began when we really listened to each other and came to respect the pa ion and zPal every person carried into their areas of responsibilty.
"To have respect for the other person. . . To be respectful is to show the other person that he and his opinion are of value to you." — loan Adams "Empathy and a sense of unity are important. Empathy enables us to recognise the needs of others. Unity helps us work together as family." — Elaine Schindler "I think the basic ingredient is one of inclusiveness. If people of different educational or social or economic backgrounds only see their own view, nothing can get done." — Wanda Wigfall
Food for thought Various factors, howThe people of a parish are not all alike. So what ever, impede collaboration: dosed minds; the else is mew? desire of one group or What is new is the great individual to "win" wheneed for people whose never solutions to probperspectives or roles are lems are considered or different in a parish to priorities are evaluated; collaborate in achieving undue self-reliance; lack important goals. of respect for others' gifts. Who collaborates? PriFrustration, too, can ests and laity, young and hamper collaboration: old, rich and poor, frustration when a group married and single. expends great effort, but
finds that actual progress work; that people believe is slow; frustration over what they are doing not the common human only is worthwhile but is foibles encountered in possible. group endeavours. For collaborative efforts Good collaboration to succeed, commitment doesn't just happen. But by those involved is it is easier to collaborate necmsary. if individuals value the It is vital that goals be talents of others — not realistic; that work be only when those talents divided up; that individ- resemble their own, but uals be reasonable and when others' talents are share credit for their truly "other". The Record, December 13, 1990
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A 35-year-old dream reached the first stage of its fulfilment this week for one Perth seminarian, but it was a dream that was almost tragically shattered just months short of its culmination.
Tony Vallis (46) was ordained a deacon on Sunday in his home parish of Yokine, yet in March this year Tony lay in hospital after suffering a heart attack that almost killed him. After wanting to be a priest since the age of nine and spending the last five years in the seminary in Adelaide, Tony was expecting to be ordained early this year with other seminarians. "Then out of the blue one morning, I woke up and there was this massive pain like someone stabbing me to death," Tony said. Not knowing it at the time, Tony had up to 90 per cent blockage of five coronary arteries and doctors told him he was lucky to be alive. Tony's first reaction to
the news was to be angry He decided then he with God. wanted to be a priest "I asked God if he'd "just like Father Vinbrought me all this way cent", his parish priest in just to do this," Tony said. Rangoon. "But then I thought so After attending a Salebe it and maybe this was sian boarding school, what he had in mind for Tony took his first profesme." sion as a Salesian brother Once Tony had at the age of 16 in 1962 accepted that this was in India. God's will and not his "I'd seen the Salesians' own, he felt an extraordi- work with the poor and nary sense of inner uneducated and I peace, and he was pre- thought that was what I pared for death. could do in my priestBut Tony was not to hood," Tony said. die, and after angioplasty "But I didn't feel I had treatment in Perth, Tony sufficient education for returned to Adelaide in priesthood so Istarted as July to continue his a brother." for preparation After five years in India ordination. with the Salesians, Tony described his including four years of ordination by Bishop teaching, Tony's health Healy on Sunday as a broke down and he very emotional time. decided to leave the "My emotions are so order. high I feel very inadeHe returned to Burma quate to express my joy," and joined his family in he said. coming to Australia. "It was like a dream He arrived in Perth in corning to fruition 35 1966, and because his years later." teaching qualifications Tony's road to priest- were not accepted here, hood began in Burma Tony was forced to work when he was only nine. in a foundry where his
By IAN ESMOND health again started to suffer. After a few job changes, Tony started with Mayne Nickless and was State Administration Manager when he left 15 years later to go to the Seminary. In all this time, the idea of priesthood had never gone out of Tony's life. "I just went in different directions but always with the hope that one day I'd go to the seminary." In 1980 Tony started giving priesthood serious thought again. "It was my volunteer work with Catholic Care for the Mentally and Physically Handicapped and Hospice that made me look at priesthood more closely," Tony said. Tony delayed his decision for a number of years to help care for his mother who was ill.
stand suffering much better than I did." Prior to his attack, Tony also saw his vocation very much in line with what "I wanted to do rather than with what God wanted me to do". "In many ways, God showed me through my heart attack that one can tend to make ministry a very personal issue," "The five years have Tony said. been hard in many ways "It becomes my diacobut also very nate rather than God strengthening." using me to serve his Tony believes his heart needs. attack has given him a "The biggest insight he radically different gave me into my vocation understanding of what through my heart attack his ministry as a deacon was that my diaconate and eventually a priest was very much one of will mean. service, but of shared "I'm not a fatalist in any service. way," Tony said, "and "It wasn't me being the while I couldn't account main focal point — I was for why the heart attack just the instrument being happened, I could cer- used." tainly say it was very Tony chose for the much a part of the reading the Gospel strengthening of my "motto" of his ordination vocation. a passage that epitomised "The way in which God priesthood for him: "You wanted me to serve did not choose me, but I people was highlighted chose you" (Jn 15:16). in that I had to underIn his homily, Bishop In 1985 Tony moved to St Charles' Seminary in Guildford and finally to St Francis Xavier Seminary in Adelaide in 1986. "When I look back at these five years, if I'd known the study that was involved I would have been very daunted and would probably not have gone," Tony said.
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With the departure of Mr Clem Mulcahy who has been La Salle's principal for the past decade, two positions have been created for Mr Tony Parkinson as acting principal for 1991 (during which
He hails from Kalamunda and has four children, one of whom attends Mary's Mount where he is chairman of that board. Mr Parkinson is an acolyte within his Kalamunda parish and a member of the parish council. Having a commitment to the Catholic Church
and education, it was only natural that Mr Parkinson gravitate to education Catholic where he believes he has a contribution to make, given his past background of 19 years in the government in charge of the science department in schools and of that period, two years as advisory teacher with the ministry. Impressed with the community spirit within La Salle, between staff, parents and students, and the excellent rapport with the local community which he noted Mr Mulcahy had worked so hard to achieve, Mr Parkinson says he is delighted with the challenge his new position offers.
Mr Tony Parkinson, acting principal. As with Mr Elloy, both are involved in continuing religious studies. Mr Peter Elloy was educated with the Jesuits in India, right through to university years. He emigrated to Australia in 1972 when he joined La Salle mid-year. Consequently during that time he has witnessed the co-ed development and growth of the college to its present day strength under the guidance and leadershipwith-foresight, of Mr Clem Mulcahy. During his 18 years at La Salle, making him their longest serving teacher, Mr Elloy has taught in such areas as mathematics, English, social science and religious education.
Healy also related Tony's situation to the readings. "It is possible that on an occasion like this, Tony would be a little apprehensive," Bihsop Healy said. "The prophet Jeremiah, as we heard in the first reading, was also apprehensive and tried to convince God to 'let him off the hook', but God did not relent. "Instead, God reassured his chosen minister as he now reassures Tony — 'Do not be afraid for I am with you to rescue you'. "All Tony's life has been a prepartion for this moment — his baptism, education, life of prayer, dedication to the Church, his love and service of others, especially the members of his own family." Tony will return to Adelaide next year for his final year of study and he hopes to be ordained a priest in December 1991. "And priesthood," says Tony, "is just the beginning of what God has in store for me".
Mr Peter Elloy. actin deputy principal. He is currently assisting Mr Tony Parkinson in administration and is responsible for coordinating general studies. Mr Elloy says the excellent examples set by Mr Mulcahy, previous deputy Mr Brian Buzzard (now of Prendiville) and currently Mr Parkinson have given him the confidence to be able to accept his new position, especially in view of his previous periods of acting deputy principal which have nade him familiar with Ihe job. Mr Elloy who lives in Lynwood with his wife and four children, is an acolyte at that parish and has been on their parish council.
lin's day of reflection attracts 120
Blustery conditions and unseasonal winter temperatures did not deter 120 people from attending the fourth day of reflection by Catholic country parishes. They reached St Joseph's Catholic church Kulin by 9.30am to start with a rosary cenacle and consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, led by Fr Eugene McGrath of Bruce Rock. He told the group to bring to reconciliation a "humble and contrite heart". And that the secret is to accept the misery and humiliation of having sinned and to banish wounded pride. Sister Mary Englebrecht (RSJ) using the theme of the day "Mary One Of Us", told the group they have a lot in common with Mary because they become who they are by the challenges that life offers.
"When we recognise the action of God in our life, that's our faith at work," she said. "It's our faith enabling us to see God in action. We are all creatures of God. He accepts each one of us. Each person at some time in their life cannot help reflecting the goodness of God, no matter who they are or how small the act. "So we must in faith accept that God is acting in everyone's life — that the spirit is at work. Sister Mary encouraged us all to be like Mary — always ready to say 'yes' in trust." Five priests were on hand to celebrate Mass and hear confessions. One said: It's a long time since I've spent almost two hours in a confessional and it was a welcome change." The next day of reflection takes place at Bruce Rock on March 25.
Geoff Brown and Bernadette Robinson at Our Lady's Shrine.
Fr Smith in his confessional.
Award winners...
Belinda Crawley (right) was all into heading for bed in her own fashion nightie but Naomi Sullivan was in an outdoor mood in shorts she designed herself along with the fashion top designed in the Ursula Frayne fashion and technology unit.
The two were special award winners at the practical and creative arts exhibition staged by the college to show some of the work of the 390 students from years 8-10 at a night that included creative dance, a puppet show, the school band and displays in home economics and manual arts. Parents saw a play
by Mary Vidovich who has already scored TV appearances in talent quests. Another special a ward winner was Sebastian Oczowski
pictured (picture on left) showing off some of his fashion jewellery to Samudu Hemachandra, Ivy Loo and Rebecca Millard.
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honesty, consistency and Oxford-graduate economic expertise he acquired his economics where Senator Tate acquired his theology.
Fair enough. Indeed, each time I enquire re work of a foundry or factory and am told, "Sorry mate, we're putting people off at the moment," I am reminded of the Prime Minister's
Perfect concurrence: one "creates" the poor for the other to preach to. (Who else today will "put up with it"? Certainly not politicians!)
from Catherine MASON, Mount Hawthorn Sir, I read with great sadness (The Record, November 29) that the Sisters of Nazareth are withdrawing from the administration of their establishment which
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their chosen apostolate. The Knights of the Southern Cross can certainly be assured of my prayers as they take on the big challenge of following in the footsteps of the Sisters of Nazareth.
from Robert DAVIS, Esperance Sir, Thank you for saying what needed to be said in your editorial of November 29.
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TOMORROW TODAY with Father Joe Parkinson
Community building key to plan
Catholic Rural Youth's munity and see the value recently launched uni- of a genuine community versity accommodation life," David said recently. scheme for country "Maybe during the year students will be an they will have time to exercise in community step back and look at building, according to other university stuone of the plan's co- dents, and be able to say ordinators, David to themselves: 'I believe Edwards. my community expe-
The project, to begin on a one-year trial basis in January at the Pallottine Centre in Rossmoyne, will entail far more than just a 'landlord-tenant' relationship, he said. "My own hope would be that these country students really gain a sense of being a corn-
rience has made a difference," he said. "It will not necessarily be easier, but hopefully more challenging and fulfilling, because more supporting, requiring each individual to realise their responsibility to support other members of the community."
"And in terms of Christian formation, small communities offer more chances of success than larger ones," he said. Community members would be asked to part in formation and planning programs at the beginning and end of each academic year, during which they would establish the 'ground-rules' for their community. According to David, this will be one of the real tests of the community, to see how students approach making the 'nuts and bolts' decisions of community life.
Information on the project is on its way to about twenty students who have already expressed interest, in time for finalisation of applications by midJanuary. The project is intended for country students going into first-year university courses primarily, but enquiries from second-year students will also be welcome. Details are available from David Edwards, 16 Victoria Way, Osborne Park 6017, or by phoning David after hours on 349 8554.
The Pallottine centre in Rossmoyne, home for CRYO's country accommodation project in 1991.
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Luke 18 Mundaring have just had a great weekend camp at BusseIton which took their minds off recent exams through such diversions as 6am fishing jaunts in the nearby sea, a walk on that really long jetty at skits, BusseIton, heaps of guitar music and singing, stacks to eat, sea swims and sand frolics. Sixteen children between the ages of 11-14, with a support group of 20 teenagers from Catholic youth groups as well as adults, helped to make it a time to remember.
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BENEDICTINE OBLATES St Gregory's Chapter of the Benedictine Oblates Association will meet at the Presentation Convent "lona" on Sunday, December 16 at 2.30pm. Members are invited to bring friends for this meeting and Christmas celebration.
"Meet The Abortion Providers Joseph Scheidler introduces the new video documenting the reality of the abortion industry.
MARIAN MOVEMENT The monthly meeting of the Marian Movement will be held at The Little Sisters of Carmel, 2 Frazier Street, Swanbourne on Tuesday, December 18th at 10.30am. This will be the last meeting for 1990.
Joe is the director of the Chicago-based ProLife Action League and author of "Closed: 99 Ways to Stop Abortion". He is a pioneer of prolife, nonviolent direct action and has been instrumental in saving many children from death by abortion. The abortion business is a soul-destroying evil parallelled only in the darkest moments of history, and Joseph Scheidler has stepped forward to lead the fight against abortion, not by word alone but also by deed" — Franky Schaeffer. Come and hear Joe Scheidler speak and see the video.
CHRISTMAS PARTY The Catholic Singles Club invite people 20-35 to their Christmas bbq at Morley, Saturday, December 22 from 7pm. Further details phone Brian 444 4083 A/H.
EAST CANNINGTON EXTENSION The parish of St Francis, East Cannington, through self-help over the past six months have added a new foyer which incorporates a new sacristy to their Church. Bishop Healy will bless the extensions on December 16 at 4 pm. This will be followed immediately by a buffet in the parish hall. Past parishioners are welcome. Please contact Father DiGiorgio on 451 6802.
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CHRISTIAN UFE GROUPS Present members of our 55 Christian Life Groups and all past members will hold a general day of review on Saturday March 23 from 1.30pm to 5pm at the Leederville Parish Centre to review the present situation and look at the development of groups. Further enquiries piesse phone 328 6672.
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A vacancy exists for a youth co-ordinator/worker, to work as part of a team, in the area of youth ministry for the Wagga Wagga Diocese. The Diocese has two youth offices, (Albury and Wagga). This position will be based in Wagga. working in liason with the Albury Diocesan youth worker.
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Prices start from a low $2195
Do you know enough?
For further information and job descriptibn please contact: Greg Were (069) 211 200 or Anne Dewar (069) 215 667.
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Make today one of the best investments for yourself and your home.
18 KIELMAN ROAD WILLETTON, WA 6155
Desirable qualifications:
Member of the Australian 'Council of Natural Family Planning Inc
Whole of home ducted evaporative air conditioning.
ALL FACETS OF TREE CARE
Diocesan Youth CO-ORDINATOR
NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING
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Salary: Open to negotiation. Job description available on request. Applications and inquiries to: The Chairman Finance & Administration Committee 923 Irrigation Way Griffith 2680. Ph (069) 62 4422.
Closing date for applications January 4.