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Playing Pontius Pilate?

VILNIUS, Lithuania (CNS): A Lithuanian archbishop said Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev acted like Pontius Pilate when he 4isclaimed responsibility for a bloody Soviet army crackdown in the Baltic republic.

"The answers given

by Soviet authorities about the bloodshed in Vilnius are very evasive. The defence minister says he never gave the order to fire on the crowd, and Gorbachev even claims he knew

nothing about it," said Archbishop Julijonas Steponavicius of Vilnius.

Gorbachev and the others are like Pontius Pilate, he said, because "we are mourning our dead and they are washing their hands of it".

The archbishop's comments came a week after a Soviet army assault on a broadcasting station in Vilnius left 14 people dead.

Archbishop Steponavicius said he thought the recent

Baltic events showed the Soviet Union was toward "headed dictatorship".

He said Lithuania had shown flexibility in suspending its declaration of independence so that talks with Moscow could begin last year. But the Kremlin only wanted to deal with "a committee composed of communists and Russians", and not with the legitimately elected Lithuanian leaders, he said.

"The Church stands with the nation and

with the democratically elected Parliament that is now with threatened aggression," the archbishop said.

He was not optimistic for Lithuania's short-term prospects, however. The republic's push for independence will probably end like that of Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968, he said. In both countries, Soviet troops put down the revolt and installed friendly regimes.

In Lithuania, Moscow now "needs only to decide how to take power. The blood of innocents has already been spilled. We are praying that there be no more victims", he said.

"Unfortunately, the West notices us only after a massacre, when it's too late," he added.

Archbishop Steponavicius said he was sure that eventually. however, Lithuania — like Hungary and Czechoslovakia — will be free.

War condemned

STOP IT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, SAYS THE PONTIFF VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul ll has warned against expanding the Persian Gulf war to include the entire Middle East and has urged the warring sides to spare the lives of civilians.

The fighting must end "as soon as possible" so that the causes of the war can be removed, he said last Sunday.

During his midday Angelus talk, the pope also criticised the war's "deplorable bombardments".

"All civilian populations, on one side or the other, have the right to be respected and not to become involved in military actions," the pope said.

"It is the terrible logic of war, which tends to involve other states in the conflict and discriminately threatens even the civilian populations," he said to about 25,000 people in St Peter's Square.

"Weapons do not resolve problems but only creates new and worse tensions among people," the pope said.

The pontiff appealed to the warring countries "to stop the conflict as soon as possible, and then to begin searching to remove the causes which have provoked it".

"I did everythingIcould the grime and the ments "have contributed so that such a tragic mangled bodies on the to the present situation experience would be ground," he said. by policies dictated more avoided," he said. by opportunities and "Everyone is a loser." economic advantage Prior to the start of the fighting, the pope asked In London, Cardinal than prudence and principle".

Saddam to leave Kuwait Hume called the and asked Bush not to use military force to attempt dislodging Iraqi forces.

In Belfast, Ireland's primate said rare political unity at the United Nations was an opporSADDAM HUSSEIN, tunity missed for preI raq's President venting war in the Persian Gulf.

"For the first time almost in the post-war period we have complete GEORGE BUSH, solidarity at the level of US President the United Nations," Archbishop Cahal Daly of Armagh said.

"This was an opportunity for letting sanctions war "a tragic necessity".

He said the first job of really operate and really Christians is to provide noted work and do their effect." However, he also relief and comfort.

The Irish archbishop that the decision to go to said that modem warfare war followed UN resolu"Like the Good Samarpractically eliminates the tions and warnings to itan, the Church must be possibility of having a Iraq to leave Kuwait. in healing and i nvolved just war, as the Catholic Cardinal Hume of West- rescuing the victims of it. defines hurch C minster said Saddam war," he said, "making no Modem weaponry with Hussein, who ordered its appalling, unimagina- the invasion of Kuwait, distinction between ble destructive power, bears the ultimate blame friend and foe". simply make it impossi- for the conflict. But he In Palermo, Cardinal ble to apply the criteria of added that other governsaid: Pappalardo Archbithe just war," shop Daly said.

"In a war we begin to use anaesthetised language to talk about surgical strike, and we • Pages 7 and 10 forget about the gore and

Gulf

"Recourse to war is "Perhaps we thought that it was no longer always a defeat. necessary to humiliate -That which has hap- ourselves by asking God pened was not a triump for the gift of peace once of justice nor a victory of the antagonisms of East and West were removed," the human spirit." he said.

In Florence, Cardinal Piovanelli said the outbreak of war was "a failure of international policy".

In Naples, Carindal Giordana said that -peace is not built with explosive devices but through dialogue and loyal confrontation".

In Prato, Bishop Fiordelli said "nefarious dictators must disappear", but this should be done through -peaceful co-operation to assure freedom, justice and bread for all peoples".

In Milan, Cardinal "War is always a misadMartini said diplomacy venture in itself, a failure should have been used to of humanity," he said. solve the problem, even if In Molfetta, Bishop this took "a long time".

Antonio Bello criticised Iraq's launching of using UN resolutions to missiles against Israel justify military force to was a "treacherous oust Iraq from Kuwait. attack", he said.

In Los Angeles, ArchIn Bologna, Cardinal bishop Mahony said Biffi linked the Gulf war "there are no real with the problems in winners in war".

Lebanon and Israelitie cauea me rersian occupied territories.

Gulf war " one more failure to achieve alternatives to armed conflict".

Describing the war as a result of years of policy mistakes, he said, "it is paradoxical that the

More Gulf war reactions

allied fortes now attacking Iraq's military installations are being fired upon by the missiles and weapons which those very allied forces supplied the Iraqis." extensive "While human rights abuses unfolded in Iraq year after year," he said, "and while Iraq's leaders continued to accumulate ominous weapons which they were willing to use against their own citizens and their neighbours, we and the world community maintained a baffling silence — a silence which Iraq took to mean approval."

He called for a solution to the Middle East's problems. "Each of those countries need secure and safe borders, together with the full recognition of each other's unqualified right to exist within those borders,"he said.

-The Palestinian peoples need their own homeland with the right to choose and control their own destiny," he added. "Israel must be assured of its proper place in the region, with all threats halted. The peoples of Lebanon crave a return to normalcy in which their country can regain its former independence from outside forces and influences."

Bunbury's second wave It was a challenge

The diaconate, he says, is only one of the options available in the Church today including acolytes. special ministers and "some ministries we may not even have thought about."

For Brian Sykes the diaconate is a journey he would probably not have undertaken three years ago had it not the for been prompting of his parish priest Fr Leon Russell.

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"Till then I would have said that's not for me, but for others. But Iwas presented with a challenge to go on a journey so accepted."

He says it has also been a journey for his wife Helen Mary who could see the time the Church was now going to demand of their marriage.

His five children have endorsed his decision. "WhenI was approachedI put it to the kids, and they said

4 They were received positively into the diocese and into parishes as a sign of increased pastoral presence. There were teething problems for the deacons working with parish priests and vice versa but we have learnt from that first experience.

— Fr Tony Chiera (right). 9

The forthcoming ordination of a further seven permanent deacons is taking place alongside Bunbury diocese's strong move also to encourage lay commitment to other ministries.

Father Tony Chiera, co-ordinator of the twoyear formal program the new deacons undertook said he is happy with the step because it is part of a balanced pastoral initiative going on.

"We are not putting all our resources of formation into deacons as the only way to go. A considerable amount of resources are being put into lay ministries and outreach to parishes."

Father Chiera said some might question the move to ordain more deacons when lay ministries are being developed but this objection would be valid only if diocese was not looking at pastoral formation for others and looking at new ministries.

Bunbury's latest deacon candidates had to complete the first of the three-year correspondence course that is conducted throughout the diocese by the Brothers of St Gerard.

The candidates travelled to Dardanup for 10 weekends over each of two years. Each weekend commenced on Friday night and worked through to Sunday or Monday on a long weekend.

Friday evenings were devoted to personal development and communication with people.

Sundays dealt with the task of spreading the Word and following each weekend the candidates had to write a reflection on what they had learned.

Along with Fr Chiera, visiting lecturers included Michael Jackson, Fr John Prendiville SJ and Fr Russell Hardiman of the Catholic Institute, Sr Glenys of Bunbury Centrecare and Brothers Terence and John of the Brothers of St Gerard.

ORDINATION OF THESE SEVEN PEOPLE IS PART OF WIDER MINISTRY PLAN Bunbury is the only Australian diocese to have introduced the permanent diaconate on a large scale. There are currently five active deacons who were ordained in February 1984 after a two-year training program.

Nine candidates started the recent progam extended to three years and seven wiL be ordained by Bishop Quinn in ceremonies at Denmark, Albany, Busselton and Bunbury.

Candidates are nominated by the parish priest after consulting the parish council and towards the end of the program the parish was again consulted about affirming the decision and to suggest ways in which the future deacon would be involved in ministry.

Father Chiera said he strongly supported the

without hesitation: 'Go for it.'"

His role as deacon will be part time to his other position as promotions officer for the past seven years of the Diocesan Development Fund and as one of Bunbury parish's six deacons the precise duties will have to be determined.

The three years preparation for ordination have added to what he called a blessed faith family tradition as a youth and his personal faithfulness to the Church over the years.

"Once you have knowledge you know you have to make a choice — yes or no.

Being the sort of person I am, a few years ago I would probably have said no!"

place of deacons after working with them in both Albany and Bunbury.

"They were received positively into the diocese and into parishes as a sign of increased pastoral presence. There were teething problems for the deacons working with parish priests and vice versa but we have learnt from that first experience."

Much of what the future deacons will do will be worked out by the particular priest of the particular parish.

In Bunbury where the deacons will expand from three to six, the current deacons already look after the preparation for baptisms and perform most of the baptismal ceremonies.

Deacons are also registered celebrants for marriages and funerals.

Fr Chiera said the introduction of deacons into sacramental services such as baptism also required an education of the Catholic laity about meaning of the deacon's ordination and their rightful place in the Church.

The deacons are described as part time in as much as they will give what time they have available to the particular areas in which they will specialise.

They are not formally recompensed for being deacons but will be entitled to the fees from services and for other incidentals such as telephone, travel etc.

The deacons received training in preaching and public speaking during the first year of their course and Fr Xhiera said it would be up to the priest and the deacon's own personal confidence how much he was involved in this aspect of his ministry.

Each year Bunbury's deacons will attend a retreat and at least two other training weekends.

Being member of bishop's task force influenced his decision

For long time Albany church identity Jim Doyle the move to the diaconate will make him part of a team in which he is already taking an active part.

As a former member of parish councils, school boards and finance committees

he has moved on to helping the Albany priests cope with serving the far flung centres at Bremer Bay and Jerramungup.

His involvement with the priests has developed also by being at the presbytery almost daily to relieve them of some of the administrative

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tasks cutting into their time.

and perhaps a deacon later.

His decision to become a deacon was also influenced by his membership of the bishop's task force looking at the decline in priests and identifying those parishes at risk that might have to have the services of a religious assistant

Helping also includes activities he will continue such as programs for RCIA and for inactive Catholics.

It is also a service tradition for his wife Norma who not only is a current Church secretary, parish

councillor and shares in the marriage sponsorship program but also finds time to prepare weekday meals at the presbytery.

The three-year training program has not only given him a love of scripture but it has c hanged his spirituality.

From the days when

he was a very active science and maths teacher always on the move for 33 years, "I can look at myself and realise that God's ways are not always my ways."

The reward of the diaconate will be "the joy you get when you help people. You don't do it for the joy but it comes as a result".

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A natural evolution employment.

Wick For Sorensen the ordination to the diaconate is what he calls a "natural evolution" in the full time position he has held since 1985 as the Bunbury parish secretary.

His journey in the Church began with his becoming a Catholic at the time of his first marriage in 1953. Following the death of his wife his links were strengthened with Bunbury through the celebration there of his second marriage to Frances. He has four children from his first marriage, three from

He says that even had he not been in the employ of the parish he would have wanted to be more involved with Church life and the diaconote came at an appropriate time.

his second and nine grandchildren.

The addition of three more deacons to Bunbury parish's existing three will make the parish become more aware of deacons and accept the broader role they can play in the Church, he says.

After a period back in Perth an opening in Bunbury parish coincided with his opportunity to take early retirement from his Westrail

The three-year preparation for the step has been a period of learning much more about the Church than had been possible in his earlier years.

Different outlook

Kevis Wally doesn't know if he did anything in life being without asked but the diaconate is a step to which he has been well and truly asked.

"The day the Bunbury administrator asked me I was quite struck. I couldn't sleep that night. It was quite a challenge. It might not be for me.I felt they might have made a mistake."

On the other hand he had come to understand service in the Church not only as an Oblate Brother for nine years but also later when in Perth he assisted both Bishop Quinn and Bishop Healy and during his teaching six-year position at Trinity College.

added a new dimension to his life.

Much of his study for three degrees had been "in order to get a piece of paper" he says. "It was like the grounding to what the present studies have revealed about a personal relationship with Christ.

As a deacon he will now be ministering differently as religious education coordinator of Bunbury's two Catholic schools primary embracing 615 children and some 30 teachers.

The three-year preparation program for the diaconate has

"I am doing things differently with a different outlook. I have told my fellow deacons: Sure I may have the knowledge part but it is interior impact it is having on me and what I am going to do with that later on is the difference which is the great source of joy."

A spiritual director over the three years has added another dimension to his life, he added.

Something calling Greg Dudley will become Busselton's first and only deaprobably con because he "felt something calling that would not go away".

Eighteen months before the diaconate program he had talked the matter over with Bishop Quinn and when the applicants were called, "Fr Ned Kenny naturally put my name for- father of four feels ward," he said. more confident about the role he may be that "I had a feeling in both the parish and able to play in bapcommunity people tismal and marriage were crying for help.I preparation. wanted to do some"Being a parent thing for them but I myself, I know how wasn't equipped." the young ones feel." self the Now The feeling is likely employed builder and to be echoed by his

wife Dawn who he says has also grown over the three year program which has brought them closer together. She herself began her journey in the Church when at the age of 11 she became a Catholic while attending a Catholic school. study Although course have kept him away from the green courses he believes his golfing and work associates respect him for the decision he has made, "butIstill want to be myself".

The parish has made him feel relaxed and ready to serve them in a new way.

'TALK TO ISOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS

Step closer...

Ernest Carey had thought seriously about the priesthood many years ago when he was a lad at the Rosalie Park Shenton Catholic school and his diaconate ordination next week will bring him a step closer.

The importance of the step, he says, is in making him feel better about going on board the some 100 ships calling at Albany each year and conducting communions services and helping in other ways.

"We like to have a priest come on board and say Mass and no matter who you are it's always 'Goodbye Father' at the gangway, so they appreciate the call whether it is priest or deacon."

The Apostleship of the Sea has been close to his heart since he retired to Oyster Harbour at Albany seven years ago but also during the 23 years he spent as a public servant in Darwin where he founded the Apostleship centre there.

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But even the decision to join the diaconate program had not even entered his mind until Fr FitzSimons made him a candidate the day before entries closed.

His only doubts he says are whether he will be able to fulfil the obligations he has undertaken.

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A TRADITION OF TRUST

Logical step Terry Quinn, a public servant all his life after leaving school at the age of 14, feels that he gave much to Caesar during that time and now as a deacon he will be able to give back something to God "who has been very good to me all my life".

His role in the church at Denmark where he retired in 1982 has already been shaped by the absence of a resident priest since the death of Father McSweeney three years ago.

Already he conducts communion services alternately at Denmark and when Walpole Tom Father McGree of Mount Barker is unable to be present. It was a logical step for Terry to be asked by his priest to enrol in the three year training program.

If it was a hard grind making the monthly journey across to Bunbury and sleepless nights in strange beds, it has also been a period of spiritual growth.

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The UNIVERSE London

Human cost of Gulf War THE outbreak of war in the Gulf is a human tragedy on a cosmic scale. In recent weeks there has been confident talk of a short, sharp conflict. The truth is that no one can realistically predict the scale and duration of the war of terrorism.

We enter the killing fields with no sense of exultation but with a grim determination to see things through.

The cause is just but no one comes to this conflict with entirely clean hands and an easy conscience.

Saddam Hussein is a ruthless and bloodstained dictator. He is prepared to use any means to secure his ends. He is guilty of many crimes against those he sees as enemies. But all of that has been known for years and the great Powers still had little or no scruple in conniving at his crimes, arming his military forces and giving him aid.

Now the world community has decided rightly that enough is enough. Many have argued that sanctions and diplomacy should have been given longer to work. Those arguments now belong to the past. There are still urgent moral issues at stake.

The Christian voice must be heard demanding that death and destruction be strictly limited. Only the minimum force necessary to achieve the initial legitimate goals is justified.

The second task for the Christian is to look ahead. In the heat of battle few bother to think of the peace that on days has to be re-established. Today's enemies have to become tomorrow's friends. It is important not to lose sight of what will contribute best to the eventual peace and stability of the Middle East.

The intense prayer of last weekend for peace has to continue no matter how the situation develops. Our compassion must know no bounds. We should embrace in our prayer friend and foe alike. The victims of the conflict will be those who have played no part in its beginning. Our thoughts and prayer are with our forces in the Gulf and their anxious families.

BALTIC CRISIS THOSE who emerge from Communist oppression describe vividly what it is like to live not with truth but with lies. Without truth, freedom is impossible, trust is destroyed, tyranning triumphs. The last days have seen not just the reassertion of Soviety brutality on the strets of Lithuania but the blatant resort to lies as a strategy of government.

We are being asked to believe that President Gorbachev who has amassed unprecedented power to himself did not know about the use of force against unarmed civilians in Vilnius. The lie factory is in full production. All the former machinery of oppression is already in place.

Soviet oppression is an urgent matter of the UN. In the meantime all aid should be suspended.

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Blindfolds hinderi vision of 'new Ireland'

A RMAGH, Ireland: "There is a sense of newness in the air in our community at this time," the Primate of All Ireland, Archbishop Cahal Daly of Armagh, declared in the homily he gave at his installation ceremony on Sunday.

But violence and sectarianism in the North threatened that vision: "opposing and overcoming these twin evils must be a priority concern for all the Churches".

Both in the Catholic and in the Protestant community, the archbishop said, "there are people who keep blindfolds over their consciences which prevent them from seeing the moral enormity of their deeds of violence, and keep them from seeing the inviting finger of Christ calling them back to the love and compassion and mercy which wait for them in his sacred heart".

He appealed "particularly" to "republican activists": "The longer you continue with your campaign of violence, the more ignominious in the end will be the memory you leave behind you and the further away from attainment will be any of your aims and objectives.

"If or when you call off your campaign, your aims and objectives become in principle attainable through the only means by which they ever could be attained, namely through peaceful political processes.

"You have no sane reason or justification, moral, rational or political, for continuing with your campaign of violence.

"You have every reason, moral, rational and political for calling off your campaign now. May

Christ, who enlightens every man and woman coming into this world . . . enlighten your minds and your consciences so that in his light you may, as St Patrick puts it, 'recover your senses for God'."

Looking towards "two groups of people who are suffering at this time" in Britain, the Birmingham Six and the Maguire Seven, Dr Daly declared: "I want both groups to know what we think of them today and will continue to pray for them.

"The Maguires still await vindication of their innocence and that of Giuseppe Conlon who died in prison.

"The Birmingham Six I visited in prison last September. I can see no sustainable reason why their conviction should continue to stand or why they should not be vindicated and released."

Dr Daly stressed the need for the Church to cultivate "joy in believing". "Now is the opportunity for the Church in Ireland to rediscover that sense of excitement about the Good News of Jesus Christ."

But he also warned that the economic recovery of recent years had left many people and families "no better off, indeed in too many cases worse off than before".

Could they really speak of national recovery when so many citizens of their nation were excluded from that recovery?

"No government and no section of society can be satisfied while unemployment remains so high, emigration continues at unacceptable levels, and real poverty is still the fate of many."

So "moral and political decisions" were necessary on the part of government and people

to attend to the casualties of recovery and bring them back "to an acceptable level of human dignity".

He committed himself to working for better relations between the Churches in Ireland, where "the ecumenical imperative is particularly pressing".

He said: "The large number of Protestant church leaders and clergy and people present with us in this cathedral today touches me deeply.

"It brings forcerfully home to me my duty as bishop to do all in my power to build on this good will and to explore with my brothers and sisters in other Churches all opportunities for Catholics and Protestants to work together for mutal understanding and respect, for the removal of reciprocal prejudices and for their replacement by reconiliation and Christian love."

New social encyclical in May VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul II hopes to publish his new social encyclical by the beginning of May the centenary date and it is expected to focus on the relations between rich and poor countries, said Joaquin Navarro-Valls, Vatican press spokesman.

"There are continuous requests from the Third World that the pope keep speaking about this issue," he said.

On January 1, the pope announced plans to publish a social encycli-

cal to mark the 100th anniversary of "Rerum Novarum," Pope Leo XIII's landmark encyclical that set the foundations of modern Church social teachings. But the pope did not announce the publication date of his new document.

"Rerum Novarum" was published May 15, 1891.

The thrust of Pope Leo's document was to formulate Church social thinking about labour management relations because there was no such doctrine at the time, said Navarro-Valls.

Now there is a need to rich," he said. detail the responsibilities This goes beyond better of rich nations to share distribution of the their material and intel- world's resources and lectual resources with includes education and underdeveloped coun- exchange of technical tries, he said. know-how, he added.

This is "a wide open "It is not just a question moral field for the of underdevelopment Church," he added. because of lack of resourThe pope already has ces. People also lack the shown his concern by the knowledge to do things," way he has stressed the he said. theme, especially in his The new societies foreign travels, said emerging after 40 years Navarro-Valls. of communist rule in The main question is Eastern Europe face the "how to share develop- same problems as Third ment, because this is the World countries in relaright of all, not just the tion to the developed

world, he added.

Regearing these relationships requires a "change in mentalities," he said.

Companies from developed countries cannot regard the rest of the world as merely a market for their goods, he added.

People must also understand that Church social doctrine is "part of the moral teachings of the Church and not a temporary policy," he said.

"It is a sin to wilfully violate these principles," said Navarro-Valls.

Obey your bishops, warns the pope VATICAN CITY, (CNS): Pope John Paul II has warned Latin American religious to obey their local bishops, especially regarding pastoral programs for the 500th anniversary in 1992 of the arrival of Christianity.

There are "solid motives" for criticizing "not just a few groups of religious" for being slow to obey and for "often promoting parallel initiatives," he said.

This cannot be permitted at "such a significant

moment" as the preparations "to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the evangelisation of the New World," the pope told superiors of male and female religious orders working in Latin America.

The pope expressed his "profound worry" about the situation and said it is "causing negative repercussions even in the bosom of the entire ecclesial community".

The pope talked to the superiors recently as part

of their meeting with Vatican officials to discuss problems in Latin America.

He did not mention the controversial "WorldLife" catechetical program, which has pitted many religious against bishops. But he criticised the Confederation of Latin American Religious, which prepared the "World-Life" program for the 500th anniversary.

The program was opposed by many in the

region's hierarchy as too critical of colonial evangelisation and too ideological in its treatment of social issues.

The controversy caused the Vatican to intervene to block use of the program.

Last June, the pope sent a 46-page apostolic letter to the 160,000 religious in Lein America, saying colonial evangelisation was generally positive with "more lights than shadows".

The papal letter also criticised religious for overly politicised activities.

There is "an erroneous interpretation" based on a "Marxist code" that equates "the option for the poor with the vow of poverty" said the letter.

In 1992, the pope plans to attend celebrations of the 500th anniversary, organised by the Latin American bishops in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

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APPARITIONS OFFICE HEAD SAYS THE YUGOSLAV STATEMENT NOT FINAL STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (CNS): A Yugoslav bishops' statement saying alleged Marian visions at Medjugorje "cannot be confirmed" is "in no sense a final and definitive judgement", according to an official of the Franciscan University of Steubenville.

"That the supernatural origins of the apparitions at this time cannot be 'affirmed' does not indicate a negative final decision", said Mark Miravalle, director of the university's Marian Office of Contemporary Apparitions.

Inferences of "a negative final judgement on the Medjurgorje event" based on the Yugoslavian statement, Miravalle said, are "both inaccurae and untrue".

The Yugoslavian bishops, unanimously but for one abstention, in passing the statement at their meeting November 27-28, said their judgement was made "on

the basis of studies that have been made to this moment".

The bishops' statement addressed the need for "liturgical and sacramental" care for those travelling to Medjugorje, "so that manifestations and contents which are not in accord with the spirit of the church may be prevented and hindered".

"A definite statement regarding the authenticity of the apparitions was simply not the intent" of the Yugoslav bishops, Miravalle said in his statement.

The bishops' declaration on Medjugorje "completely leaves open the possibility of a final positive judgement as to its supernatural nature", Miravalle said.

He urged that the ongoing Medjugorje investigation be given "the proper spirit of integrity, respect and submission to the final and definitive judgement approved by the church's magisterium".

The Teresa touch...

C ALCUTTA, India (CNS): Mother Teresa's visit to Moscow and talks with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in May 1991 will give an impetus to Soviets who want to take up social activity in a big way, said the Soviet consul in Calcutta.

S.S. Astafiev, consul and head of the information department at the Soviet Consulate, said Mother Teresa plans to discuss humanitarian problems in the Soviet Union with Gorbachev.

Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity have more than 400 centres in 92 countries, including the Soviet Union.

Astafiev made the comments during a recent visit to the city by a four-member delegation of Soviet women. They came at the invitation of the All

Women's Bengali Union, a voluntary organisation run by and for women in Calcutta.

"The recent changes in the Soviet Union have led to a sense of individuality among the people, mainly women, and so we want social activity to be taken up in a greater way," said Genriefta Repinskaya, spokesperson for the delegation and editor of Dialogue, a SovietIndian magazine.

Ms Repinskaya said the delegation came to Calcutta to study women's groups in the city and to organise similar voluntary social programs in their country.

"What we need now is a mass movement supported by the eagerness of the individual to tackle the social problems besetting the country" she said.

Honoured for saving Jews NEW YORK (CNS): Mons Benjamin Schivo, a retired seminary rector from Cifta di Castello, Italy, was honoured January 10 in New York by the Anti-Defamation League for saving Jews during the Second World War. At a fund-raising dinner, Rabbi Schulweis said the Christians who "risked life and limb to rescue people not of their faith" were "ordinary people who did extraordinary things".

Ursula Korn Selig, a

New York resident who ents to escape, and credits Mons Schivo with arranged hiding places saving her and her for them in a convent and parents, now deceased, his seminary. was at the dinner with Mrs Selig said Mons him.

Schivo once kept her and Also honoured were a her parents hidden two dozen other Christians, months in a large oven.

10 of them present, who helped Jews survive the She said that four years Nazi Holocaust. ago she joined Mons After the Mussolini Scilly() in planting a tree government fell in 1943 in his honour at the Yad and Germany took over Vashem Holocaust northern Italy, many memorial in Jerusalem.

Jews were deported. But He is among some 8500 Mons Schivo enabled Gentiles who have been Mrs Selig and her par- honoured there as the

dinner was for the foundation's program of giving financial aid to Christian rescuers in Mons Schivo said he need. It sends monthly appreciated not only the stipends to more than honour of the dinner, but 700 people in 15 counthe foundation's positive tries, and declares "a approach to building moral commitment to J ewish -Christian help needy rescuers for friendship. the rest of their lives".

"righteous among the nations" for their efforts to rescue Jews.

Now a widow with no children, Mrs Selig said: "The only one who keeps me going is Mons Schivo."

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Fr Parkinson. . . addressing 300 youth.

Youth told: Follow way of the light

Girls from Santa Maria College performing a graceful liturgical dance at the Mass at the Silver Jubilee pavilion, Claremont Showgrounds.

Three hundred youth attending the third Catholic youth conference were told that they were at the crossroads of life and they needed the light of Christ to point out the way.

"Without the light of Christ you will take the wrong turn," said Catholic youth chaplain Fr Joe Parkinson to the big crowd of youth and adults at the Showgrounds Mass celebrated by Archbishop Foley, Bishops Quinn and Healy and 20 priests.

Only with Jesus as the light could they have vision in times of darkness, Fr Parkinson told the youth.

"With the light you may stumble but never fall, may be cornered and run into difficulties but never overcome.

"The Lord is not just on our side, he is with us. You have the potential to change. the world but it is not a real potential unless we follow the way of the light of the Lord."

Noting that the ancient crossing of the desert Jews had a pillar of flame to guide

them at night and a cloud by day, Fr Parkinson said that God did not lead the Jews by the shortest or most direct way but by a roundabout route because he was looking after them.

The Catholic youth were told they might have times of darkness, such as they had experienced during the conference when hearing of the outbreak of the Gulf war.

The youth would need not a pillar of fire, but a flame burning within, Fr Parkinson said.

"Not a light to see with the eyes but a light to see with our hearts, to see the truth that only when we reach the crossroads and stop and consult the light are we on our way to freedom, to be the people God created us to be.

"If we ever wander, extinguish or fail to fan the flame we are living backwards and not forward on the journey. We are taking the risk of taking a wrong turn when we reach the crossroads of our lives."

A general view of those present at the Mass at the Silver Jubilee pavilion.

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Simone Kealy playing the part of a deserted street girl and Mladen Milicich playing the role of Christ at the public rally. The message behind this scene was to remind us that we should not forget to reach out to those in need.

eaping rewards

All the time and effort choices. has been rewarded one Father Joe Parkinson, hundred times over.

Youth Chaplain and That about sums up chief organiser of the what the organisers of conference said: the recently-concluded "I am very relieved it is Catholic Youth Confer- all over and very pleased ence, Crossroads to with its success."

Tomorrow, had to say.

He thanked all who The coordinator of the helped make it a success. event Kristi McEvoy, "They were a great said: "The enthusiasm team," he concluded. and commitment that Greg LeGuier, a charthe people showed really tered accountant, took made everything worth charge of finance. it."

"The conferHe said: She had to work with the different committees ence was a huge success. and liaise with them It was an effort I don't besides having organisa- regret putting in my tional duties like cater- share one bit.

"It was also a good teaming, promotion, talking to schools and speaking at building exercise and was nice to be working Masses. with people my own Julia McGinty who was age." in charge of programs for He took on this responthe conference said the "heaps and heaps of sibility as long as a year work" that she and her ago and encountered a team put in was "worth few budget revisions because of the everall the effort".

"It was a great success changing number of and it is a relief that it is delegates.

He was also instrumenall over.

She said everything ran tal in organising a few smoothly and "we got fundraising projects which included a quiz our reward for it". night and the Big Gig (a She and her team had to band night). contact a lot of people to work out the elective • See page 13

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What 'jihad' means IT IS NOT NECESSARILY TAKING UP ARMS

VATICAN CITY, (CNS): When Muslims are called to a "jihad", often defined as a holy war, it does not necessarily mean they are being asked to take up arms, said an Islamic scholar who works at the Vatican.

Jihad literally means struggle, not war, said Jesuit Father Thomas Michel, an official in the Islam section of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.

The struggle to which jihad refers can be one of three things: the lifelong interior struggle to submit every aspect of one's life to God; the struggle to apply and live the principles of Islam through one's daily life and work; or the struggle to oppose injustice and oppression.

Heaven is the reward for a person who dies in the struggle, but it can be in any of the three areas, Father Micheal said.

The jihad against injustice and oppression is "the most infrequent", he said, and "it doesn't mean they go to war".

The call for a jihad against injustice is a call "to reflect and to find where truth and justice lie", he said.

Father Michel noted that Muslims involved in

the Persian Gulf crisis would consider themselves to be engaged in jihad, although the armies of most Muslim nations were set to oppose Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

Saddam has called his invasion of Kuwait and opposition to the Unitied States jihad, but many Arab countries, including Syria and Egypt, whose forces are 90 percent Muslim, "see what is right as being on the other side", the Jesuit said.

"Saddam Hussein didn't speak much about religion until last August" when he invaded Kuwait, he said.

Now much of the Western media is portraying him as a Muslim fundamentalist encouraging martyrdom among his people, although traditionally Saddam's government has treated fundamentalists harshly, the Jesuit said.

The media present Muslim fundamentalists as "always ready to burn a building or surround an embassy", Father Michel said. But the fundamentalists' struggle is to promote a more literal interpretation of Islamic teaching, especially in areas of personal behaviour, such as dress and diet.

Saddam has made points in the Muslim world by calling for an end to Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Father Michel said.

And Saudi Arabia, which opposes him, has lost prestige by asking the United States and other predominatly Christian nations to help it defend its territory.

"We have to remember how strongly Muslims feel that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands is unjust . . . and thus fits into the call of jihad", he said.

The Saudi Arabians, whose country includes the Muslim holy sites of Mecca and Medina, are supposed to be the protectors of those holy places on behalf of all Muslims, Father Michel said.

Their position in the eyes of other Muslims is lowered by having called non-Muslims to come to their defense.

Father Michel said Saddam's race or religion do not explain his action.

"I don't understand why he is willing to wage a war that he cannont win", he said.

But it is "too superficial" to attribute his conduct to his "Arab mentality", the priest said.

'They aren't that different from us."

=Words not war...

WASHINGTON (CNS): Archbishop Daniel E Pilarczyk of Cincinnati, president of the US bishops' conferences, urged "blockades not bombs, diplomacy not destruction, words not war" as the United Nations January 15 deadline for Iraq to pull out of Kuwait passed.

"We believe that offensive force in this situation would likely violate" principles of Catholic teaching on the just war theory, Archbishop Pilarc-

zyk said in his statement, which was delivered to the White House.

"The apparent failure of recent diplomatic efforts, the congressional actions (to authorise the use of force in the Persian Gulf) or the passing of this deadline," Archbishop Pilarczyk said, "do not relieve our nation and our leaders of the terrible responsiblity of clearly meeting the moral tests to justify the resort to war".

The archbishop called the aggression against occupied Kuwait by Iraq and its president, Saddam Hussein, "brutal" and "indefensible", adding that the US bishops have supported the goal to "resist and reverse" the aggression.

But "before our first bomb is dropped, our first shot is fired, our first missile launched, the moral imperative remains to find a way to achieve both justice and peace in

response to Iraq's aggression", he asaid.

Archbishop Pilarczyk said military action now violated the just war theory's principles of last and r esort proportionality.

tives: that the human and other costs of war must be measured against the values at stake and the anticipated outcome, and that the military means used must be commensurate with the evil one is seeking to overcome.

The last resort principle justifies war only when all peaceful alternatives to stop aggression have been exhausted.

"Is war the proper path to justice if it is not the only available path? Will the people of Kuwait, the Middle East and the world be better off after a war?"

The proportionality principks state two objec-

A rchbishop asked.

Pilarczyk

"Has every means of diplomacy been fully pursued, every form of reasonable international pressure been tried? Are the economic sanctions achieving their objectives and have they been given enough time to work?"

The archbishop said, "We fear that war in this situation will destroy many lives, divide our nation and leave the world in a condition which none of us can predict.

Saddam's 'amen corner' in Rome

ROME (CNS): If Iraqi President Saddam Hussein needed an "amen corner" in Rome, he had it in Partriarch Raphael I. Bidawid.

The 68-year-old head of the Iraqi Chaldean Catholic Church spent the war's first week defending Iraq to Pope John Paul II, Vatican officials and anyone else who would listen.

Tall, burly and quick to anger when it comes to Iraqi affairs, the patriarch is a personal friend of Saddam.

"He's a gentleman who should not have been treated with insults," the prelate maintained.

Although on a "peace" mission with other Iraqi Christians, the patriarch is no pacifist. A selfdescribed patriot, he was one of few people to defend Iraq's missile attacks against Israel, and he said the eventual use of chemical weapons by Saddam would be justified.

"It's war," he said with a shrug during an interview at an Iraqi convent on the outskirts of Rome. He was seated beneath a dated picture of a smiling Saddam, hung opposite a photo of the pope.

Patriarch Raphael's long career offers many clues to his pragmatic attitude toward war and his loyalty to Saddam. In particular, he is grateful to Iraq's secular Ba'ath Party, which has protected the rights of the minority Catholic Church in a region where Islamic fundamentalism is growing.

In between pastoral duties, the patriarch has

experienced several armed conflicts close-up including World War II, Lebanon's civil war, the Kurdish uprising in Iraq, the Iran-Iraq war and, now, the Persian Gulf war.

"I've spent my whole life in or around war," he said with a chucide.

One of 13 children in a Catholic family from Mosul, in northern Iraq near the ancient site of Nineveh, he came to Rome in 1936 to study for the priesthood. Over the next 11 years, he saw the rise of fascism, the Nazi occupation of Rome and the allied liberation. When the young priest left Italy in 1947, he had degrees in philosophy, theology and canon law — as well as an unromantic view of warfare.

The patriarch, when asked recently about Iraqi atrocities in Kuwait, replied with a litany of cruelties he says were committed by both sides during the Italian campaign in the mid-1940s.

"That's war," he said.

After leaving Rome, he taught in an Iraqi seminary for nine years and served briefly as an administrator of a Chaldean diocese. Then, in 1957, he was elected bishop of Amadiyah in the northern Iraqi region of Kurdistan, where local Kurds were engaged in a struggle for autonomy.

"I watched that war for nine years," the patriarch said. But he had little sympathy for the Kurds and no criticism of the Iraqi government for the reported atrocities against the rebels —

including the use of poison gas on Kurdish villages.

He disarms those kinds of questions with a smile: "My dear, what government in the world would not put down an internal revolt?"

As a bishop, he attended all the sessions of the Second Vatican Council.

In 1966, he was transferred to head the small Chaldean community in Beirut, where over the years he saw street skirmishes turn into full fledged civil war. Today, his voice rises when he talks about how the West allowed Syrian troops to march into Lebanon but condemned Iraq's "reclaiming" of Kuwait — proof that a double standard is being used, he said.

In 1989 he was elected Iraqi patriarch and went to Baghdad, the Iraqi capital.

Patriarch Raphael first met Saddam in 1979 and today considers him a friend.

"We know each other pretty well," he said.

What about those who see Saddam as a ruthless "butcher"?

"The Saddam Hussein I know would give the shirt off his back to another man," he said. He dismissed reports of Iraqi political killings as fiction,but added that, in any case, it is something done throughout the world.

The patriarch credits the Church's freedom in Iraq to Saddam and the ruling Ba'ath Party, which as a secular party has tried to keep religion out of politics.

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Haptiness equation

By Loretta Girzaitis

Loretta Girzaitis ponders the question of what happiness is. She asks: Is happiness contentment? Is it more dependent upon one's inner world than the things outside oneself?

Listening to the radio the oth day I heard the announcer say, "Don't u get the happies when you hear this mg?"

Soon afterward, the lyrics p: his question into perspective: "Any Ice on earth will do, just as long as I'm wis you, my happines."

"No," I thought, "I don't t the happies just listening to this re ".

But the question posed it own dilemma. What does make me ippy?

In "Fiddler on the Roof,"Tevye whimsically sings, "Sunrise, unset; sunrise, sunset, swiftly flow *ears; one season following another bring happiness and tears".

Happiness. Sadness. Is happizss the opposite of sadness?

Is happiness dependent on irtside factors? Should a person or plaamake you happy?

These questions moved ;e a carousel in my head. Then began talking with others about happiss.

A woman who had suffered i loss of her first husband and I now remarried thought that hal mess depends on happenstance. ()ward

An engineer struggling with dissatisfaction on the job claims he is happy but could be happier. He says he is happy being a father, husband, friend and volunteer, for these are satisfying roles and spiritually rewarding.

But he is not fulfilled on the job. He feels he has not reached his full potential at work and sees many negatives connected with his job.

Futhermore, he drives close to 120km each day to work.

This engineer also experiences a lingering dissatisfaction with his lifestyle, for he would like to live more simply and spend more time with his aging parents, who live too far away for him to visit them regularly. But concern about earning enough to put his children through college and about his future retirement keeps him in a quandary.

An airport chaplain said happiness results from fulfillment and maturation. Happiness occurs when we have learned to live through the painful as well as the joyful times. It is the sense of blessedness that permeates everything we do.

Michael Obsatz, a psychologist, thinks happiness is primarily spiritual.

I found myself growing knowing she would increasingly uncomforbecome blind, but as the table with the simplistic disease progressed she answers both young men found herself having to I was participating in offered. confront this tragic a panel on religion at I felt certain the first occurrence. one of the residences student's do-what-youThe more the young at our state university want attitude was bound woman reflected, the when the topic of to lead toward some better she was able to happiness came up. tragic end. realise she had not been A young man, who abandoned by God. As for the second, I claimed to be an agnostic couldn't disagree with Her sense of happiness and who by his own his emphasis on Jesus, was not based on what admission had a rather butIwanted to challenge she had control over but loose moral code, indi- the glib way he spoke in her peaceful, continucated he was happy about Jesus. ing relationship to God. without the assistance — Happiness can't be Looked at this way, or interference — of defined in one sentence is an inner happiness religion. like "Happiness is a quality.

For him happiness warm puppy". HappiA woman with severe meant doing what he ness is beyond simple problems told me health wanted. words of description. nearly always is she But the fact that the within a given day, as ing experiences It can happy because she is A second student, a the in present remain born-again Christian, students so readily things go well or badly. always excited by each midst of disappointment, new day. I have to agree said he couldn't believe jumped into a discussion the to is due That partly hardships and struggle. with her self-assessment. the first person's expe- about happiness serves true as a reminder that it is a belief that happiness A college student who This in spite of the fact was rience focus of lots of people's comes from external was gradually losing her that she often struggles happiness. or circumstances sight due to retinitis just to keep up her attention. happenings.

Instead, his own expetold me she energy to finish the day. pigmentosa For young people — rience of finding Jesus in found herself surprishappiA more mature his life constituted a and, I suspect, many Happiness, it appears, is ingly serene. of core the at exists ness can happiness profound joy with which others — reflected in an attitude She admitted that at toward circumstances no one could take bloom or fade with the one's being and doesn't change of day or even depend merely on pass- first she panicked at rather than a desire to exception.

By Father Herb Weber

What does happiness "look" like? What are two qualities of happy people? Selected responses from readers: "I believe happiness is being at peace with yourself. Happy people possess many joyful qualities, including enthusiasm for life, a strong sense of self-esteem, a genuine concern for others, an absence of grief and a deep faith in God." — Mary Ann Wyand "Two qualities happy people possess are joy and warmth." — Stephen Ka!mon "Happiness comes in moments when we recognise and appreciate God's blessings, in moments when we are appreciated or in moments when we succeed in fulfilling a need or duty. Happiness is all of these moments in the midst of, or in spite of, adversity." — Rita Knue "Happiness is the look of love on 'your' face at another's good fortune." — Margaret Lloyd "Joy and enthusiasm are qualities I see in oldtimers in my church who have been serving the Lord and others for a very lone time — their bones now brittle, but their spirits bright." — Elaine L. McKendrick

FOOD FOR THOUGHT Is happiness for real?

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Probably you have a good idea of what happiness is not. Clinical depression that drains the human spirit is not usually cited as a form of happiness. Destructive vio-

lence doesn't hold a position on the happiness agenda.

The desire for happiness is a driving forte in life. But happiness wears many masks, and two people may have two different ideas of it.

For one, times when life is not stressed out are happy times.

For another, strenuous, worthwhile work performed under an absolute deadline has the look of happiness.

Is happiness a good feeling? Is it contentment? Or do people find happiness in the kind of productive discontent that allows them to work toward a better state of affairs?

Whatever happiness is, for

Christians it is riot found along an escape route leading away from the realities of their life. And happiness isn't simply an illusion — a trick of the devil, designed to make only fleeting appearances so as to

char them to better suitl e's wishes.

TIr , the young man whceconciles himself to ti fact that he does notsave the academic acurn to be in college any inger can find a grea deal of happiness wields new insight into hirra Thsame is true for the agelg woman who accets the fact that her strci-afllicted husband has' reside in a nursing hos. She may feel the treindous burden of theecision while being at pice knowing she has doritlae best she could.

If iappiness is intimatiV connected with innE Peace, it seems unn:essary to set one's sigh on happiness as life'f.dtimate goal.

Ins ad of expending enei es seeking happiness the wise person acqi 'es it as a byproduct of so King a life of peace wilt elf and satisfaction in iing one's gifts to sery God and others.

By Father John J. Castelot

Human beings are pretty persistent in their search for happiness.

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Nohe desire for happines s one of God's gifts. It tuft people, inviting them into fuller involvement wiethe best that life offers.

It is peace with oneself and includes loving and forgiving self. He emphasises the importance of letting go of past childhood abuses and hurts.

Happiness "is also harmony with other people" — and not just with friends and family but, because of the connections within the entire human family, with enemies and those whom we do not know personally, he says. At the same time, happiness "is a loving relationship with God" in which we perceive ourselves as wanted and loved.

What, then, is happiness? Is it peace with oneself? Is happiness a sign that God is present? Does happiness come when we fell at one with people, nature, God? Is happiness primarily interior or is it dependent on exterior factors?

The smorgasbord of responses that I heard while listening to others struggle with the meaning of happiness may or may not strike a chord with you. So, you may find it worthwhile to devote some prayerful reflection on your own part to the questions raised here.

Is it safe to say that you have been both happy and unhappy at different times in your life. Where is happiness found?

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circumstances — what is going on in world and being free from my oid self one's life — are the key for her. When I have learned to be contented, even in it is good, she said, it gets you on top of prison." the mountain.

Is happiness contentment?

She swiftly added, however, that Is happiness more dependent upon happiness is not the same as joy, which one's inner world than the things is a more permanent stance in which outside oneself? one accepts pain and success without One woman I spoke with defined either one of them upsetting the happiness as a state or quality of wellequilibrium of peace. being, satisfaction, bliss or beatitude.

That, however, only raised another Another saw happy times as times of question for me. animation and laughter.

How different is joy from happiness?

A young man preparing for marriage A prisoner talked about his life and knew what happiness was for him. all the things that made him happy: a "Happiness means living out one's beautiful woman, children, a blossomdestiny and being aware that in this we ing career, success. Then pride in his are becoming what God created us to accomplishments led to betray all these become." and he is now serving a 12-year Happiness means fulfilling God's will sentence. is not affected by disappointment and indifference, He reflected, "My the young man said. suffering, or complacency and self centeredness led state in which we deal a is Happiness me here. But I have found new good and bad, that everything, with relationships. Though all material life. in happens things have been left behind, I have Members of a group I spoke with discovered the value in God's love, defined happiness as a time of delight, together with that of my wife and exultation, exhilaration of the spirit. Or children. may be the result of happiness "AndIhave discovered the peace and life, it was said. in satisfaction this of things the from free being joy of

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Father John 1. Castelot defines happiness as a byproduct of loving morn for others.

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The Bible, as salvation history — a record of how God's design for human happiness gets worked out — shows that God is equally persistent at helping people achieve happiness.

The Bible opens with God's decision to create man and woman in his own image. It closes with the assurance that God "will wipe away every tear" and that there will be "no more death or mourning, wailing or pain".

(Revelation 21:3-4).

When God created people in his image, he gave them a share in his capacity for creative love.

To love as God loves — creatively, selflessly — is to be truly human, whole.

To fail or refuse to love is to be subhuman, unfulfilled, unhappy.

It seems so simple, but, unfortunately, the selfishness that made human beings want to be "like gods" — their way — paradoxically makes people not only unlike God, but actually subhuman, fragmented and unhappy.

Still, God never gives up. In fact, God keeps pointing in the right direction, giving guidelines for happiness.

The Ten Commandments, so often caricatured as wet blankets, are actually intended as prescriptions for happiness. If people

ignore their parents, killed and cheated, human society would be impossible.

There would be nc security, only suspicion and fear — deep unhappiness.

The Bible is filled with beatitudes, guidelines to happiness.

The very first psalm begins this way: "Happy the one who follows not the counsel of the wicked nor walks in the way of sinners, nor sits in the company of the insolent, but delights in the law of the Lord and meditates on his law day and night. He is like a tree planted near running water, that yields its fruit in due season, and whose leaves never fade."

God's "law" is not a legal code, for who "delights" in a legal code? It is God's expression of loving concern for people's happiness.

Those who follow it find wholeness, fruitfulness.

To be happy is to be whole, integral.

In Matthew's Gospel, Jesus' first sermon opens with the Beatitudes, guidelines for true happiness. If they sound paradoxical, it is because happiness itself is paradoxical. Human experience has demonstrated repeatedly that a selfcentred pursuit of fulfilment and happiness, consistently leads to disillusionment and unhappiness.

A consuming concern for self is self-defeating. Happiness is a byproduct of loving concern for others — creative love.

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Alternatives

Environmental scientist David Piggot of Palmyra who believes that we don't have to poison ourselves and our environment for termite control, because natural alternatives do exist.

The problem with current local government legislation is that many people are automatically using pest control companies to spray their slab site or extensions, to control possible termite attack.

What the public does not generally know, is that alternatives to chemical spraying do exist.

David Piggott of Palmyra is one such environmental scientist versed in non-toxic approaches to termite control. People with expertise on the environment, its creatures, and human dwellings in their midst, do exist in companies which

provide alternatives without the use of poison.

Unfortunately we have become so reliant on toxic chemicals for eradicataion of anything undesirable which moves, that in our ignorance, we have not pursued scientific natural alternatives.

Australia as a consequence has become overdosed with poisons which have polluted, destroyed, come close to wiping out, and have very adversely affected our health and that of the environment.

We have to remember that chemical pushers and dispensers are there for profit and not necessarily for health.

Bear in mind we have to be custodians of our own health and put proper safeguards into place.

Because we are limited generally in our knowledge of alternative solutions, we go to experts we can trust. Such as someone who can still be making a living without working in the destructive mode

which many deliberately choose.

David's role within the company he works with, Systems Pest Management Perth, is to adopt strategies for dealing with termites without chemical contamination if at all possible.

There are all sorts of guidelines to follow for new buildings and extensions, involving location, choice of materials, dealing with councils and other relevant tips.

To help the nonversed sort through all the pros and cons, a book is soon to come onto the market Building Out Termites by Robert Verkerk, published by Pluto Press, Leichhardt, Sydney, and priced at $19.95.

Apart from other things, it explores lowest hazard approaches to a wide range of pest related issues with genuine emphasis on environmental and social concerns.

David's approach and that of other environmentally sensitive pest management consultants, is by using non-

MIDDLE-EASTERN REACTIONS

Bombing of Iraq 'barbaric' VATICAN CITY: The bombing of Iraq was barbaric said Baghdad's Catholic Chaldean Patriarch four days after the war started.

Speaking after he and Armenian Orthodox and Assyrian Orthodox bishops had called on Pope John Paul Patriarch Bidawid said the pope was sympathetic to their

concerns and especially worried about civilian victims of the massive allied bombing campaign against Iraq.

The delegation deli-

Risk of igniting religious fanaticism...

AMMAN, Jordan: JorArchbishop Youakim "This is the danger," he dan's Melkite Catholic praised King Hussein said. archbishop said the and said he hoped reliGulf war risks igniting gion would not become a The archbishop, who religious fanaticism in factor in the war. met with Pope John Paul the Middle East, with I in Rome a few days "Fortunately, we have a I serious consequences very prudent king who before hostilities broke for moderate Arabs. has made many efforts to out, said the Catholic Christians and Muslims prevent war. But there community in Jordan in Jordan are following are extremists. It is was "praying for peace the fighting "with possible that fanaticism every day". anguish and fear", Arch- can make big problems bishop Saba Youa,kim of here," he said.

He said the Church, like Petra and Philadelphia The archbishop said he the government, supsaid. was gratified that local ports a neutral course on The archbishop, who Muslim preachers have the war, which he called lives in the Jordanian so far been "very pru- "a catastrophe for capital of Amman — dent" in their talks about everyone". which during the Roman the conflict. But if Israel He said, however, that occupation was named is drawn into the war, he Philadelphia — said that said, "people would an international peace for the first three days of come to see this as a war conference should be the war "the streets here against Muslims", and called to deal with all the were deserted and the religious fundamental- problems of the Middle people were home next ism could become a big East, including those of Palestinians. to their radios". factor. ;The Reconi, January,24„1991

vered to the pope an appeal drafted by Iraqi and other Christian leaders last December.

The appeal did not mention Kuwait but

demanded that foreign armies in the area go home.

"The pope was very saddened by what has happened," Bidawid said.

"He told us about the The pope especially efforts that he made to expressed his concern for prevent the spectre of Iraqi civilians and for the war, and how they had poor, whom "the pope c failed. This was a source ofonsiders the real victims this war", the patriarch of great sadness for him" said.

Call for peace conference BEIRUT: The Canadian and Middle East councils of churches have issued a joint statement calling for an end to the Persian Gulf war and urging a peace conference on Middle Eastern issues.

"This war only adds to the suffering in the region and frustrates further the fulfilment of justice on which true peace depends," said the statement, issued in Beirut, Lebanon.

The Canadian Council of Churches represents mainline Protestant and Orthodox churches in Canada.

The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops is an associate member of the council.

The Middle East Council of Churches is a regional group that includes Catholic, Protestant, Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches. It represents most of the 12 million Christians in the region.

Three representatives of the Canadian Council of Churches travelled to the Middle East two days before war broke out to express solidarity with peoples of the Middle East and show Muslims that many Christians reject war as a solution to the Gulf crisis, said a Catholic statement.

Catholic churches represented on the Middle East Council of

Churches include the Armenian Catholic Patriarchate; the Chaldean Catholic Patriarchate of Babylon (Iraq); the Coptic Catholic Patriarchate of Alexandria; the Greek Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch, Alexandria and Jerusalem; the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem; the (Lebanese) Maranite Patriarchate of Antioch and the Syrian Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch.

The statement said: "Peace cannot be imposed through war, through superiority in technological weapons of mass annihilation, or through attempts to balance military powers or interests of states."

Patriarch Bidawid said Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had failed to receive a papal appeal for peace before the war began. The pope released letters to Saddam and US President George Bush a few days before the conflict broke out. But communications to Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, were closed, and the Iraqi ambassador to the Holy See could not return to Baghdad with the text, the patriarch said.

Orthodox Bishop Asadourian said the pope had listened to their points and agreed with many of them.

"He especially made the point that all problems of the Middle East must be dealt with, in particular Palestine and Lebanon," he said.

Iraq had sought to link negotiations over withdrawal from Kuwait with a settlement of the Palestinian problem in Israeli -occupied territories.

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to chemical spraying chemical methods which rely largely on the alteration of habitats, minimisation of susceptibility and maintenance of regular inspection/ evaluation.

Minimum hazard chemical treatments may be used to achieve initial control of active termite infestations, but materials used in accessible interior areas have low toxicity and are not scheduled as poisons.

For other pests, many registered products are overly toxic to achieve initial effective control, said David.

The lowest toxicity products are far more desirable, he states, "such as botanical natural insecticides, for example pyrethrum, a range of botanical flushing agents, such as essential oils of eucaluptus, ti-tree, lavender, citronella, and the synthetic pyrethroid, permethrin".

In order to minimise disturbances to nontarget fauna and flora, and thus reduce the chemically burdened environment, insecti-

cide treatments of any type are generally not carried out in outdoor areas.

In effect, environmental scientists believe we can all get along happily together without killing off other living organisms and ourselves in the process.

David believes a significant number of pest control companies and affiliated organisations adopt and t erminology logos designed to capitalise on current concern over environmental and health issues, while many other such bodies carry on 'business as usual' without making any genuine attempt to move away from their intensive chemical toxic approach. Apart from the obvious destructive effects of chemical applications, there are the less obvious but just as damaging side effects.

According to David, when an emulsion of heptachlor, aldrein or chlordane is applied to a soil prior to pouring of a concrete slab, a significant percentage of the

active ingredient plus solvents and other impurities are immediately airborne, polluting our shared atmoshpere.

Australia, he said," is the single largest importer of the heptachlor/chlordane mixture on the planet.

It's manufactured in Texas, USA, but can't be sold there because of the health/environmental risks.

"Similar restrictions apply in many other parts of the world."

David went on to say that chemical applications have caused severe disruptions of populations in a number of animal species with some being varieties pushed close to extinction, where termite control chemicals have been used in large amounts or where dumping or have spillages occurred.

He quoted the local races of peregrine falcons which have all but disappeared in parts of the world.

A company he said, was fined $23,000 by the NSW Land and Environemnt court in 1989 after its contam-

ination of an almost pristine estuarine ecosystem during their routine termite treatment.

Many contaminators, of course, get away undetected and continue until caught without any environmental or social conscience whatsoever.

Big dollars far outweigh any other considerations such as healthy perpetuation of life on earth.

The organochlorine chemicals generally remain active toxins for up to 30 or more years, said David, and accumulate in animal fatty tissue. "And they're found in the air, water and soil in all, without exception, parts of the globe".

He is also concerned that organochlorine chemicals, which are used in Australia, are actively taken up by a wide range of plants.

Although research proved this as far back as 1958, "government experts have until recently, denied this fact!".

It is also of concern, he said, that when official bodies do conduct so called studies and research,

they tend to omit when convenient, papers, relevant meaning that their findings are concluded not without bias towards their chosen preferences.

David stated 16 such highly relevant papers were omitted from the national body on health matters', (NH &MRC) last study on organochlorine toxicology, and said the recent visit to Australia by an eminent United States toxiologist who works for the regulatory bodies in that country, confirmed these facts.

Thus despite the rising incidence of cancer, responsible bodies are unable or reluctant to admit that chemicals used in Australia are cancer causing.

David is concerned that the chemical emulsions used contain not only the pure active ingredient but also a wide range of solvents, stabilisers, spreaders, emulsifiers, with often 'secret' ingredients, some of which, he states, are known for their severe health risk.

Although it isn't

possible to trace the exact pathways of initial substances as they break down and interact with countless other substances over time and across a wide range of variable no metabolisms, epidemiologist would ever concede that such chemicals as o rganochlorines defmtely do not interfere in human or animal metabolism, he said.

The suggested termite chemical alternatives of chlorpyrifos and arsenic are definitely not as environmentally safe as many claims have stated, said David.

Both are highly persistent with chlorpyrifos being designed as a long term barrier by its manufacturers.

"However they are not just selective for termites, but nondiscriminate against any organism."

Clorpyrifos, which the authorities appear to be promoting, he said, is toxic to humans and other animals and has significant potential to pollute groundwater and aquatic ecosystems as has arsenic.

Plan to beat poverty cycle BRISBANE: The St Vin- city. Life skills training cent de Paul Society in would be offered.

New South Wales is about "These hostels will be to launch a major 10-year on-line in a month, with program to aid youth, and another two in Newcasa new group of young tle, one of which has just needy has emerged in opened," Mr Fitzgerald South Australia. said. "Skills training will Mr Robert Fitzgerald, of help the long-term live to Sydney, the Society's homeless NSW president, said a independently. special youth care con"We try to achieve ference was to be reconciliation in famiexpanded State-wide to lies, but this is not always offer youth three levels of possible. A small minorsupport. ity of parents have It would offer preven- actually worked to get tive services to help keep children out of home."

Mr Fitzgerald said it children at home. For children who had left was difficult to know home there would be whether there were three new hostels, two on more homeless kids now, Sydney's northside, with but the Society's expea large centre in the inner rience indicated its new

facilities would be constantly full.

"The Church has a responsibility to break the cycle of poverty," he said. "If we're serious about this, we've got to work with youth and children. Impoverished children will otherwise become tomorrow's impoverished adults. As it is, we're seeing an alarming increase in poverty every year.

In Melbourne, Mr Bill Kinsella, the St Vincent de Paul Society's Victorian president, said it had experienced a 300 per cent increase in calls for help in the past six months, many from

alone and from families months to December 31, where the breadwinner in one area — Woodridge — the St Vincent de Paul had been retrenched.

Conference Society "We're very concerned," with families visited 800 he said. "I'm worried that a big number of people, 1476 children, "figures across Victoria, laid off which are staggering work before Christmas enough alone," said Mrs will not have jobs to go Jac.ki McCormack, Conback to and in a few ference president. weeks will need our help.

At the Society's Wood"Apart from the childridge office, which serves ren in these families, we an area covered by 14 have two night patrol conferences, 1104 addivans operating in Mel- tional families had been bourne and it is found helped, 504 of whom had that the people on the not helped been streets are getting previously. younger and younger.

The majority in our "It's unreal," Mrs hostels are now young McCormack said. "Our men. feeling is that in 1991 it's In Brisbane in the six going to be worse."

Street kids were helped constantly, with food they did not have to cook and blankets kept on hand in the office for them. Their numbers fluctuated and there were periods when there were only a few in. Then word got around again about the availability of help at the office and there would be a flurry of kids in, Mrs McCormack said. The youngest had been eight.

this upward trend to continue for some time," he said.

He explained that the reserve funds accumulated by the St Vincent de Paul Society during the past 10 years had resulted from sales of clothing and furniture (in excess to that required to give to the needy), proceeds from the annual Street Appeal, direct donations and collection from "poor boxes" which are located in most parish churches.

"While a big proportion of the clothing donated to the Society is used to help the needy, the sale of reconditioned clothing and household items remains our life-blood so far as our finances are concerned.

Mrs McCormack said she thought some of the children were not reported as runaways by their parents because, if they did so, they would lose welfare benefits.

-Set for business soon The St Vincent de Paul Society's new Distribution and Sales Centre for clothing, furniture and household items will open for business in Edward Street, Osborne Park next month.

The building will be blessed at 3pm on February 16 by Archbishop Foley and officially opened by the State Minister for Community Services, Mr David Smith.

The Society's State President, Mr Gerry

Lambe, said the new Distribution and Sales Centre would provide more than twice the storage space which had been available at the existing Centre in Street, D onovan Osborne Park, and should be adequate to increasing meet demands on the Society for at least the next ten years.

The overall cost of the project including acquisition of the Edward Street property and a major re-

building program was a pproximately $1,250,000.

Part of the cost ($450,000) will be recouped from the sale of the existing distribution Centre in Donovan Street. The balbeen had ance financed from the Society's own reserve funds.

"While this has seriously depleted our reserve funds," Mr Lambe said, "forward planning and stringent financial budgeting

has made it possible to move to larger premises at a time when calls for help by needy people are rapidly increasing. This has put a strain on the resources available for our assistance to needy families through our home visitation program.

"In the last three years these demands have increased by about 60%, and due to the current recession and increasing unemployment we expect

"We are grateful for the continuing generous support by the people of Western A ustralia and are hopeful that our future appeals for clothing, furniture and house-

"Arsenic is a persistent heavy metal, a toxic acute poison, and is a known human carcinogen."

In essence, the ignorance and passivity of the population in accepting the disastrous use of indiscriminate and unacceptable type and levels of chemical application to our is environment, allowing the infliction of chemical cocktails which, while shortening our lives and reducing quality of life for the increasing asthmatics, allergy sufferers, defective babies and general level of population health, is comfortably increasing the wealth of the chemical pushers.

Although ignorance and manipulation may have been the cause to date, there is no need to allow its perpetuation while e nvironmentally informative bodies and consultants such as David exist.

For people who have problems with pest control operations, they can 'phone or 325 6158 458 9738.

But the picture is not all dark. In November The Leader carried a brief report about the Woodridge Conference wanting "a small miracle" of donations of Christmas gifts for some 800 children who would not otherwise receive any.

"The response was marvellous," said Mrs McCormack. who also said she wanted to say thank you to the people who had given cash or toys. Some gifts had come from NSW border towns and, in Queensland, from as far as Townsville.

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hold items will enable us to meet all demands as they arise.

"Storage is no longer a problem and I am confident this new Distribution and Sales Centre, which is within easy walking distance of our existing location, will enable the Society to function more efficiently in the best interests of those whom we serve," Mr Lambe said.

— DEREK FLYNN

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Helping to 'fill the gap' Catholic students from rural areas have more difficulties settling into tertiary environments than city students and need extra support, state Catholic Rural Youth Outreach (CRYO) representatives Sebastion Corvaia and Patrick Willix.

Upon arriving in the city they have immediately lost their support base of family and friends, a familiar environment, and all the stability and security these things bring.

Combine that with the weight of tertiary study, baffling prcedures, money managment, a very mixed peer group from diverse backgrounds, no support structures to fall back on, and some students tend to flounder.

CRYO has been concerned with the problem and has come up with a scheme to 'fill the gap' as much as possible.

They have leased the Pallottines' Rosmoyne centre and with an initial expected intake of 10 with the possiblity of expanding to 24, they hope to provide a Catholic accommodation support base with a family type atmosphere for first year rural students to live in and relate to.

Although it is geared towards first year tertiary, any 'other year'

rural students who are having accommodation difficutly, will also be looked at.

The accommodation will be for males and females but CRYO emphasises that it will not simply be a continuation of boarding school, "because everyone will be responsible for < themselves".

The broad aim is to provide a transition stage for rural youth by giving them a stable environment to get them adapted to tertiary study and future work while living in a Catholic community.

Certain ground rules will be established but decisions as to how the community will live and Catholic Rural Youth Outreaach representatives Sebastian Corvaia (left) and Patrick Willix whose organisation work together "is up to is out to help rural students settle into Perth. them".

Sebastian and Patrick ment and relevant deci- youth. primarily as an initial Any enquiries, please clarified by saying that sions and that a commitRossmoyne will have a transition stage towards contact Kristi McEvoy on all will have to be ment will be sought from full time youth worker, the student achieving his 3 28 9622 or David involved with the food applicants, to participate Kristi McEvoy for help independence, and in all purchasing, cooking, in the community's spir- along the way, but the cases will be responsible Edwards after hours on cleaning, money manag- itual life as Catholic Rossmoyne venue is seen for himself.

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MISSION DEATH Father Francis Huegel,

SAC, a great missionary of the North West,

passed away at Rossmoyne on Wednesday morning at the age of 88.

He spent sixty years of his priestly life in the K imberley.

He arrived from Germany in 1930. His first appointment was Beagle Bay Mission, in the Broome Diocese.

Other places of his pastoral and priestly work were Rockhold Station, Lombadina Mission.

Broome, La Grange, Balgo Mission. From 1966 onwards he spent the rest of his life in Beagle Bay. A memorial Eucharist will be celebrated at St Vincent Pallotti Chapel at 60 Fifth Avenue, Rossmoyne, on Saturday, January 26 at 9.30am and his funeral and burial will take place on Wednesay, January 30, in Beagle Bay.

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Holy Spirit you who solve all 0 Holy St Jude, apostle and problems, light all roads so martyr, great in virtue and that I can attain my goal. You rich in miracles, near gave me the divine gift to kinsman torsive and forget all evil faithful of Jesus Christ, intercessor of all against me and that in all instances of my life you are who invoke your special with me. I want in this short patron in time of need, to prayer to thank you for all the you I have cause from the things as I confirm once again depth of my heart and humbly beg you to whom that I never want to be God separated from you ever, in powerhas given such great to come to my spite of all material illusions. assistance. Help me now in I wish to be with you in my eternal glory. Grateful thanks andpresent and urgent need grant my earnest to the Holy Spirit and In return,Ipromise Our Lady of Revelations petition. to make your name known for favours granted. Char- and cause you to be invoked. maine (Say 3 Our Fathers, 3 Hail Thanks to St Care. Say nine Marys and 3 Glorias. St Jude.

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TOMORROW TODAY with Father Joe Parkinson

Thank you, all!

The 1991 Catholic Youth Conference "Crossroads to Tomorrow", which attracted nearly 300 young people to Aquinas College in Manning for five days of inspiration, growth and fun together, has been a huge success.

Feedback from conference delegates indicates that this type of event is enormously important to young people in their faith journeys, providing as it does not only tremendous food for thought and reflection, but also a living experience of Church community life.

And with nearly one thousand Perth Catholics attending the public rally on January 15 and the closing Mass the following night, the conference also had a huge impact on the whole Catholic scene.

While the challenge is now before us to extend the effect of the gathering and provide further opportunities for young people to grow in faith, it is now time to offer sincere thanks to some of the many people, young and old, who contributed to the success of the event.

In the two years it took to prepare for "Crossroads", many young people played important roles in planning various parts of the program.

In fact, even taking older helpers into account, the average age of those who prepared and presented "Crossroads" is just a touch over 21 years!

This surely speaks volumes for the vitality of our Church today, and gives cause for bright hopes in the future.

Some of those who made such enormous contributions include the conference coordinator Kristi McEvoy, our finance man Greg LeGuier who also handled many other details, and a veteran of three youth conferences, Julia McGinty.

Other key contributors were: Daniella Jones Adrienne McKenzie Patrick Willix Cate Hale Peter Shaw Virginia O'Meara David Wareing Nik Hoar Craig Richardson John Wass Mark Brennan Andre Ghouse Bernard Callus Kate Deavin Damien McBain Peter Edwards The Christian Brothers at Aquinas College The St Charles Centre Committee Trevor Jansen from Ashton Admor Pty Ltd

for sound and light Mike Edwards and staff from Curtin Caterers John Busby from Budget Truck Rentals in Rivervale Jiffy Print in Applecross St John of God Hospital in Subiaco for all medical gear Cullity Timbers Westpac Bank The Royal Agricultural Society The School of Architecture and Planning, Curtin University Bowra and O'Dea The SAS Monsignor Michael Keating Father Gerard Holohan Father Brian McKenna Geoff Merrey Ros Merrey Peter De San Miguel Steve Grasso Clare and Sebastian Corvaia Doug Williams Rosa Speranza The Liturgical dancers from Santa Maria College Andrew Dymond Paul McGinty Scott Vance Mladen Milicich Ray Ryken-Rapp Mark Miliaskaus Paul Russell Margaret Pavlinovich Marj Downie Geoff Haines Tony Parkinson Theresa Gibson Julie Della Franca Joe O'Brien Mr & Mrs LeGuier Jim and Jenny Miolin Bernard and Bernadette Lawrence The Community Leaders The Elective Presenters The Musicians: Mark Pomery Jenny Ramos Michelle Kenworthy Julie Lush Kyle Perkins Stuart Keith Andrew Griffith Damien McBain The Team The Focolare Movement Archbishop Foley Bishop Healy And the Keynote Speakers Bruce and Cathy Grasso.

Most of all, we thank God for His continued guidance, inspiration and blessing.

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Dancing away to the music of Paul McGinty and Scott Vane at their Aquinas College camp are some of the delegates who attended the Catholic Youth Conference.

Discovering St Francis In a first for Perth, the Franciscan family are hosting a weekend to introduce young people aged 20-30 years to the tranquility of Franciscan spirituality.

The weekend, to be held February 8-10 at the Nanga Bush Camp near Dwellingup, is organised by the Secular FrancisWestern of cans Australia.

Speakers will be drawn from the lay and religious branches of the family, with a view to establishing a local arm of the International Young Franciscan movement, which is established in seven countries around the world.

Group sharing, discussions and the enjoyment of a peaceful bush setting will be incorporated into

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the weekend in a truly Franciscan atmosphere on joy, peace and love.

Young people aged 2030 years, who are interested in attending the weekend or finding out more about it, should apply now for more

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Come and share in a Franciscan experience with other young searchers 18 years old and over.

Get closer to God and St Francis of Assisi.

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Contact Fr Andrew 349 2837 Pat Meek 349 1474 or Fr Finian 274 1159 The Record, January 24, 1991

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by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

Unique Australia

Art history

Pioneering legacy The Songs That Made Australia, compiled by Warren Fahey (Angus & Robertson through (2ollins, $19.95).

Swagrnen and squatters, shearers and drovers, convicts and coppers — these are the folk who built Australia, and here is their story, told in song.

• EARLY PAINTERS OF

Classic Bush Ballads Clancy of the Overflow

by A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson, illustrated by Evert Ploeg (Angus & Robertson $14.95).

Early Painters of Australia 1788-1880. Images of Australia (Bay Books, $49.95).

Since the very first days of European settlement, the untamed beauty of the Australian continent was recorded by men and women who took up their brushes to try to depict the strange, unfamiliar elements around them.

From the masterly paintings of professional artists to the emcative brushstrokes of amateurs these settlers recorded the landscape, the growing settlements, everyday events, commercial life as well as expeditions and discoveries. The unique flora and fauna of their new country was 1 constant source of inspiration; kangaroos, fish, flowers and birds were all captured with surprisingly scientific detail and pleasing aesthetic qualities.

In Early Painters of Australia 1788 to 1880, author Shar Jones has brought together a comprehensive collection of these works.

Historical record was not always the prime motive for early colonists taking up brush and easel; it was often simply a relief from the tedium of life in exile, a

hobby to while away the long, summer days or simply to record home and family for relatives in Europe.

From the 1850s, a small privileged class began employing artists to record their material success. These works took the form of family portraits, paintings of their homes or farms, views of their town, bullock teams, coaches, ships and other signs of progress.

Most of the artists were born in England and their work reflects their old country training. Far from being an accurate representation of the Australian environment, many of those early paintings were perceived with an inner eye nurtured on the soft grey light and gentler outlines of British countryside.

In terms of archival significance, the illustrations chosen for Early Painters of Australia cannot be overestimated. They are, in some cases the only record extant of those pioneering times The charming sketches executed by skilled amateurs and the professional paintings by highly competent artists form part of our pictorial history and contribute to our rich and precious heritage.

This beautifully illustrated book brings to life Banjo Paterson's classic bush ballad, Clancy of the Overflow.

First published one hundred years ago, it remains to this day one of Australia's most loved poems.

The spirit of Paterson's poem — the yearning to

escape the confines of the city for the glorious freedom and openness of the great Australian bush — is most evocatively captured by Evert Ploeg's vibrant recreations of droving life. The artist's inspired, fresh approach will delight old friends of "the Banjo" and captivate new readers, young and old, into sharing — alongside generations of Australians — the excitement and adventure of this time-honoured poem.

Bush beauty

A Bush Calendar by Amy E. Mack. (distributed through Collins. bb $12.95).

Each month the Australian bushland has some new

spectacle to offer — perhaps as subtle as grey grevilleas or as exuberant as clouds of Wattle; perhaps as noisy as nestling cuckoos or as discreet as a morepork's

Over a hundred songs, some very familiar, some less well known, offer a rare key to the treasure chest of our past. There are traditional songs composed by disgruntled bush workers, by optimistic gold-seekers, by the men and women who tramped the old bush tracks during the lean times of the 1890s and 1930s; there are songs from the coalfields of the south and from the canefields of the north; songs about love, about leisure, about hope for the future.

These are the songs that made Australia, and, above all, they're meant to be sung Thus they are presented here with both words and music, to enable today's Australians to enjoy to the full these camouflage.

A Bush Calendar is full of these sights and pleasures.

Amy Mack takes us tramping in the early morning through the summer bush still wet with dew to breakfast with her beside a bank of wild violets. Or we down chores and escape to the midday stillness of a rocky path, or set off in the late afternoon and delay to see the moonlight catch in silhouette the dramatic shapes of she-oaks. Along the way there are birds and flowers to observe and identify, the nutty smell of the bush to inhale and the sounds of cicadas and birdsong.

When first published in 1909 Amy Mack's diary fulfilled her purpose for it and became a much loved "companion for nature lovers".

Our religious tradition

Reader's Digest Mysteries of the Bible. The enduring questions of the scriptures (distributed through Collins, bb, $40).

Christmas Crackers.

Australian Christmas Poetry. Compiled by Ann Weld (Omnibus $6.99).

Here is a terrific new collection of Christmas poetry with a flavour all of its own — Australian. From cheeky four-liners to beautiful longer poems, they all

embody the spirit of Christmas. It is a time of fun, with barbecues, beach picnics and hot, hot days. It's also an outback Christmas, a Christmas of drought and blowflies and farmers' dreams. It's a Christmas that can only he had in Australia. Who needs holly and snowmen?

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Over the years Reader's Digest has brought us a number of outstanding, insightful books about the Bible and its history This latest volume continues that tradition, a book rich in information, illustration and inspiration. Within these mysteries are the questions and answers which have fascinated mankind since the world began.

This book should touch every reader with its intriguing text and pictures, its excitement and revelations.I am honoured to recommend it highly for those who sincerely seek for answers.

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SONGS THMINADE AUSTRALIA WARREN CANEY

legacies from our pioneering past.

Warren Fahey is a musical "jack of all trades" — a collector and singer of bush songs; a "long-in-the-tooth" broadcaster and scriptwriter for the ABC; a music publisher; and a music

businessman operating both the Folkways retail outlet and the ever-cheeky Larrikin Record label. Born and bred in Sydney, his performing and song-collecting protects have sent him rambling through rixxst of Australia's outback

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'Banjo' Paterson's High Country by Tim Hail. pbotograpby Trisba Dixon (Angus 6, Robertson, bb $35).

Banjo Paterson, the best loved of all Australian poets, was captivated by our beautiful high country His ballad, The Man From Snowy River, woven around the history people and places of this unique part of Australia, has become almost an anthem to the pioneering history of this country. llisha Dixon and Timothy Hall have taken the spirit of Paterson's ballad and retraced the steps of The Man From Snowy River, exploring the magnificent Snowy Mountains and the strange, treeless plains of the Monam. Their search for the real men and women behind Banjo Paterson's legend delves into the history of the high country from its first settlement to the present day. Here are the earliest pioneers — the squatters and settlers, the half-mad shepherds and ticket-ofleave men; and their inheri-

tors, the townspeople of a now thriving district and the modem graziers, producing the finest Merino wool in the world.

It is a journey to Cooma, headquarters of the great Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Scheme; to Tumut and Miles Franklin's lovely Tumut Valley; and Kiandra, a ghost-town now, but once a bustling gold-mining centre.

We are given a privileged glimpse of the Snowy Moutains, their fragile ecology desperately striking a balance with man. The icy streams and meadows of flowers, the small mountain lakes, left from the last ice age, and the snowy crags — these and many other faces of Australia's high country are discovered through Hall and Dixon's picture history.

Timothy Hall and Tlisha Dixon have both made their homes in the high country.

Their love and knowledge of this part of Australia is evident in every chapter of this magnificent book. This is Australia at its most beautiful — Rani() Paterson's High Country.

Our beloved Australia Australia Day is a significant event for Australians, and apart from getting a day off from work, it should be honoured by all in the land.

Australia is a country which is totally unique; for its flora, fauna, and Australian culture.

Our wide spaciousness has also bred with it our particular type of mentality which is wide in its thinking and broad in its outlook.

There is nothing dosed, confined, or insular about our attitude and we are held in high regard throughout the world for our special Australianism which is uniquely ours.

Our country is stunning with its wide variances of snow to tropical, and our scenery magnificent in its rugged grandeur.

What was asked and must be asked, is that with all this talk of multiculturism (which means division and not integration), it should be emphasised that although many ethnics may come to Australia, Australians are insisting on one Australian culture. Not many from all over.

That the immigration concept is not to merely provide a land "where the pickings are good" and one can reap the harvest, rape the land and never make a commitment to Australia except seek selfish gain.

Because if our beautiful country is only to provide a lucrative base away from home for the many thousands who've come here, then there will never be commitment from these people; the Australians who've put these services and finances here for them will never get a fair deal of patriotic commitment in return, and Australia will never, ever, survive as a factionalised, splintered hotc-h potch of many ethnics who have no links with anyone except their own ethnic group.

spaces and resources and our country has become a highly desirable country to emigrate to.

With that good fortune of being able to live here, however, comes a responsibility to Australia and its people.

Our forebears of whom we are so proud, fought hard to give present peoples what they have.

And for this we owe them a debt of gratitude.

It's also an obligation that what they have fought hard for, we must continue to upgrade and treat with respect — the Australian people and their country.

People admire the Americans because of their patriotism. Many have their flag flying outside their home and when they sing their anthem — they mean it with hand on breast More patriotism is needed in Australia, this golden land of great promise and future.

We Australians have to fight for our precious culture and land The Australian people too have a grandeur. They come from a rugged type of individual who fought to tame a wilderness, carved his home out of the bush and in so doing developed that enviable toughness which is unique to us Australians. men Our were acclaimed for their bravery in battle when we helped our allies in two world wars. There is nothing gutless about our breed.

We walk tall because we've earned the right in the world forum to do so, and we have an enormous amount to be proud of.

To be an Australian is the greatest honour and anyone fortunate enough to be Australian should be filled with pride with all that means.

We are an enviable country with our vast

We too should be nurturing our roots to keep them alive, being proud of our wonderful culture which is special and something to be treasured.

How sad for Australia and what an insult if that is allowed to happen.

I know there are certain ethnic groups who have bowed never to assimilate into Australia meanwhile stating how well off they are since they've been here.

We should also insist that anyone who comes to our country and is fortunate enough to be allowed to stay, must contribute to our country by assimilating into our people.

No one has ever asked a migrant to forget his homeland, his language and his customs.

It has never been asked and is not asked today.

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and Asians generally and couldn't give a damm about the level of foreign ownership.

It would be interesting to see how little left there is that is actually owned by Australians. What there will be left for our Australian children one can't visualise.

Because the government mis-managed the economy, they've sold our birth right and for the war orphans whose par-

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Because the government gave away the country their parents died for, without any semblance of patriotism or giving a damn about the crime they've committed in doing so.

But for what there is left and before Australians become second class citizens in their own land — which wasn't the politicians to give away in the first place — we Australians have to fight for our precious culture and land.

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They've done us a disservice because they're in effect stating: We love your money but not you.

What other country would put up with that from its migrants? (the very, very few countries that take them).

In America assimilation is demanded from its migrants because only through unity can there be strength and commitment Just as in a marriage.

Australia today is in a very sad plight.

Australians have looked on helplessly while the government has given away its land to the Japanese, Indonesians

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Above and below are early Australian churches built by our forebears. Muliewa's Church of Our Lady, above, built in the early 20th century was designed and built largely by Father (later Monsignor) John Hawes, the very gifted architect, painter, sculptor, stonemason, decorator, poet, horseman and horsebreaker.

We have to throw out those who've sold us out and vote in those who'll get it back.

We have to be patriotic and loyal to our country and help those wholeheartedly who want to assimilate and not allow others to get away with it who won't.

We have to pray earnestly to Our Lady Help of Christians, our patroness, to keep our magnificent Australia free for Australians, and Christian, because the majority of our new foreign landlords are not Christian, and everything our forefathers fought for in establishing our beautiful Australia and establishing our Christianity, will be lost.

People who don't want ethnic groups to integrate — have highly questionable motives . . .

Australians should do everything they can to keep what we have and fight to get back what was ours, which was given away for a fistful of foreign currency — along with a large slice of our Christianity.

At this rate of destructive process being currently 'in fashion', Australians, and Australian Christians will most definitely become last class citizens.

And that's exactly what happened in Hawaii . . .

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Dan Ryan and Pat Meldrum are two Western Australians who are travelling overseas for the PALMS Lay Missionary Movement to use their talents to serve in developing countries.

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Pat is going to Tonga as she wants to be of service in her retirement and share her life long experiences.

Dan Ryan is from the Holy Family Parish at Como and was a Courier Manager in Perth. Dan is going to manage a store in Aitape in the West Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea and is going to serve as he wants to give something of his experiences to Papua New Guinea.

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