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Call to be prophets of hope...

Australian Catholic Relief promoters in parishes are called to be prophets in their local communities, Archbishop Foley said last Sunday.

Compassion for others was not merely the giving of a gift to a poor person, he said at the commissioning of representatives for the 1991 Lenten appeal.

"It is a definite, realistic and essential component of Catholic living that should be present at all times and highlighted at other times," he said.

"You are reaching out in response to Christ to heal the wounds. He came to heal. The challenge is to be

Symbolic persons approached Arcbishop Foley during the Project Compassion commissioning Mass. With his belongings on his back Walter Martins and his granddaughter symbolised the question: 'Why are people on the roads so poor?'

aware of others' needs and to respond in a practical way."

The illustration of the woman on the Project Compassion material was a symbol of the refugees, landless peasants, slum-dwellers, and victims of racial discrimination, he said, and a "symbol of the world that hurts".

The dumb man in the gospel reading could not speak, yet the Lord approached him, Archbishop Foley said.

The word solidarity had taken on wider meanings

than the Polish trade union struggle where it originated, the archbishop said.

Pope John Paul had said it was a word to describe a sense of responsibility in the world, to be concerned for the good of all.

Archbishop Foley said Project Compassion was accountable for the distribution of money and this would be done in the best possible way.

Australian Catholic Relief works in partnership with other agencies so that people in poverty can take control of their needs and grow in responsibility for their lives together.

Apocalypse again ...OR WHEN ARMS MAKE COUNTRIES DRUNK WITH AMBITION VATICAN CITY (CNS): The war in the Gulf shows how "the excess of armaments makes a country drunk with ambition and, sooner or later, it rushes toward war," said Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

"We did not lose peace the day war exploded," the cardinal said on January 29 at the opening of his council's plenary assembly.

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"wasted" for years as "many grudges, frustrations and much desperation" were allowed to accumulate, the cardinal said.

Cardinal Etchegaray said this 20th annual meeting of the council was the first to be held in a time of war.

"Certainly in each of our assemblies some local conflict, more or less bloody, inflamed the horizon of our work," he said.

"This time, however, the localised war in the

Persian Gulf has a resemblance to world war: It makes the whole planet shake and tremble in the fear of a more vast with conflagration flashes of apocalypse."

He told the participants that the war should not paralyse their work, but lead them to deepen "the sense of mission of our pontifical council".

"To speak of justice and peace cannot be an academic exercise, now less than ever," he said.

"To work for justice and peace becomes the task

of every moment, now more than ever."

which unites justice and peace," he said.

The cardinal said the Gulf war gives concrete support to various positions taken by the Catholic Church on peace and justice issues.

The situation in the Gulf shows the need to defend international law wherever it is violated and not allow one nation's right to be sacrificed to economic or political expediencies, he said.

"Today we measure better the depth of the chasm which culturally separates some peoples," he said. There are "useless and deplorable misunderstandings between the Jewish, Christian and Islamic religions".

"Today we discern better the indissoluble tie

Cardinal Etchegaray said the Gulf crisis also shows how fragile human peace is and how only God's peace can "embrace the whole human person, body and soul, in integrity and

tics. Destruction, injuries, deaths and repeated threats continue to weigh Pope John Paul II on our brothers and to celebrated Mass on Janu- sadden us," the pope said. ary 30 with council He prayed for a "sincere members. will" for peace on the part of warring nations, a "Many efforts have willingness to engage in been employed to avoid negotiations and for just the violence of war," he conduct. said. But humanity still The pope also prayed has not learned to let that the rights of the dialogue and negotiation replace "the language of peoples involved would be protected and that arms". civilians would be able to "I am thinking espe- conduct their affairs in cially of the Middle East, an atmosphere of calm Somalia, and let's not "and on a land preserved forget closer to us, the from senseless populations of the Bal- destruction". harmony with the Creator and creation".

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Paper's critic is flayed Archbishop Foley, chairman of the Australian Bishops' Committee on Justice and Development Peace, has hit back at a national journalist's criticisms of the draft statement Common Wealth and Common Good.

"Is it just too difficult for an economics technocrat to come to grips with an pun (no holistic intended) view of the needs of human beings?" asks Archbishop Foley of The Australian newspaper's columnist Pad-

raic McGuinness.

McGuinness wrote two critiques of the statement and they reflect, says Archbishop Foley, "the narrowness of a single view of society".

Stablemate columnist Frank Devine, although critical too of some of the statements of the document, praised the effort for attempting to break out of the constraints politicians put on economics discussion.

"It is interesting to note that Frank Devine holds a similar view," says Archbishop Foley's state-

ment which was partially reproduced in The Australian.

The lip service given by McGuinness to the "good intentions" of the bishops does not wash.

Added the archbishop: "The Catholic Church's advocacy of a balance between private ownership and equitable (not equal) distribution of wealth has been a major theme of Catholic social justice statements since the promulgation of the papal encyclical Rerum Novarum just 100 years ago.

"For McGuinness to misrepresent Rerum Novarum as the harbinger of totalitarianism is not only unjust, it is grossly inaccurate.

"Perhaps he should read Rerum Novarum again alongside Mein Kampf and Das Kapital to clear up his ideas on where the responsibility for the excesses lies. It is not too late to work for an equitable society.

"The Australian Bishops' Committee on Justice Development and Peace has offered the draft statement 'Corn-

World meet to have message for the locals

"They have first hand experience of the reality of the problems inherent

in the widening gaps between the wealthy, the diminishing middle class and the poor and needy 'who will always be with us'.

"The method used safeguards the role of the laity in the formulation of Church teaching and the role of the bishops as teachers within the Church.

'The draft is not meant to offer instant solutions, but in their role as teachers, the bishops want to encourage people to think of ways to alleviate the problems

currently identified in our society.

"The book is not about offering economic models but it is about encouraging Australians to think about a more equitable society. It is about healing some of its ills.

"The statement is not about envy, but it is about making people aware that greed is NOT good for you. Economic success does not necessarily lead to peace and harmony, either for an individual or for society.

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"It is a reflection on some 700 submissions, many of which represent differing points of view.

"They come from a wide spectrum of Australian sources, including some academics and some of those who work with the marginalised and the poor in our society.

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Mrs Colleen Lark and Fr Vincent Conroy who will go to Canberra.

The sending of Perth diocesan representatives to this week's World Council of Churches Assembly in Canberra has a message for local families, says one of the delegates.

"Many families are living ecumenical lives already," said Father Vincent Conroy of Mundaring, "and for them to hear that our local church is taking part will be a great support for them.

"So often it is the nonCatholic who is asked to show an interest in the Catholic Church, whereas on this occasion it is the Catholic Church showing its interest in the World Assembly, not only through the Vatican observers but also from centres like Perth and the other major cities."

Fr Conroy and Mrs Colleen Lark are both members of the Archdiocesan Ecumenical Affairs Committee and will be spending a week each at the conference that spans February 7-21.

With 311 churches attending, some 5000 people from 100 countries will be present for the more than 100 hours of meetings.

Catholics Other amongst the 60 West Australians attending the assembly are Father Walter Black MSC, chairman of the Council of Priests and Sister Bernadine Daly RSM. Mrs Lark, appointed for four years to the WA Catholic committee said that her interest in ecumenical affairs was strengthened through her three years' study at Murdoch University for a BA in theology.

"Studying with so many other traditions I learnt that we have so much to give one another and it resulted in a deepening of my own faith through the questioning and discussion that took place."

In her Doubleview parish she has taken an interest in the World Day of Prayer for Christian Unity and the annual

ecumenical Christmas service.

Fr Conroy's first practical ecumenical experience was in the aftermath of the Meckering earthquake when it was decided to build one community church to replace the various churches that had collapsed.

He found that the Catholic Church participation was often a influence calming between differing points of view.

His more recent ecumenical experience was also practical in his seven years as an army chaplain, rubbing shoulders with other church chaplains.

"We got in and did things, we said a lot of prayers together, conducted religious services together and built a great sense of oneness."

West Australians who attended the World Assembly will be meeting at the Redemptorist Retreat House in March

Seafarers centre hit THE TRUE STORY OF A MODERN HERO SOON ON VIDEO 2 The Record, February 7, 1991

Stella Mans Seafarers Centre is not being used to its full potential says its management committee because of a lack of volunteers.

"A number of facilities at the Centre are underused and as a consequence visitors were

missing out on services needed during the week," said a recent report of a review meeting.

"The centre is not realising its full potential as a place of charitable reception and Christian service to visiting crews."

A lack of volunteers to help out during the evenings and over the weekends is cited as one of the reasons.

Many of the long serving stalwarts have died in recent years, says the committee.

The most recent was the

by archbishop demands much more of us. God demands much more of us if we are to be holistically healthy.

"It is a truism to suggest that more distribution without the creation of additional wealth is not the answer.

"Individuals will work out their own answers to the conundrum — how much is enough for me and what canIdo to help create a better world for others.

"Christians are aware of the Gospel insistence that we develop and use our God given talents, not bury them.

"It is equally obvious is to teach. It is for all of that the control of wealth us to act. in our Australian society, "What the suggestions and in the world gener- in the book aim to do is ally is passing into fewer to encourage people to and fewer hands. come up with realistic "The question for our programs themselves society to come to grips and to apply in their own with here is — do we lives and spheres of need a government inter- influence the equitable ventionist model to red- principles embodied in ress the imbalances occa- Christian values. sioned by say 5% of the "More and better sugpopulation owning 50% gestions will hopefully of our resources, which be forthcoming in the seems to have come next published docuabout because of other ment of the Bishops on inter- Wealth Distribution. government ventions.

'To dismiss Common "The role of the bishops Wealth and Common

Good, as McGuinness does, as 'a load of codswallop' reflects a very unrealistic view of society and its needs.

"Indeed the inequities of today, worldwide, sow the seeds for the wars and other tribulations of tomorrow. When people seek to affirm their personal dignity without violence, and are prevented from doing so by inordinate economic power, then they resort to violence out of despair and anger.

"Finally the hoary old

question of Church property. As the bishops themselves say in the book, it is time for the Church to look at its own stewardship in the light of solidarity with the poor, taking into account historical developments and changing circumstances, to trim any excesses found.

The Church is aware that evangelisation is by example. There will always be plenty of opportunity for good people to serve their fellows in the spirit of the Gospel."

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Father Ned Donovan has worked tirelessly to improve the conditions of migrants and their children in the school situation, Fremantle Mayor John Cattalini said in an Australia Day Citizen Award.

The Irish-born missionary was congratulated for the work he had done since his arrival in WA in 1969. For the previous 20 years Father Donovan had worked in Nigeria providing secondary education for girls and boys.

He was the only European to receive Native Chieftainship title in Ondo, Western Nigeria.

Mayor Cattalini said Father Donovan, after his arrival, had set about rebuilding Christ the King school and assisting migrant families with their assimilation into Australian society.

He was a founding member of the Fremantle Migrant Centre and its treasurer for four years.

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His association with migrant education has resulted in an improvement of educational facilities for non-English speaking students.

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"On behalf of the citizens of Fremantle, I thank you for your service to the community and wish you all the best in your future endeavours."

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Record The West Australian newspaper's confident new education supplement this week was good enough to devote one of its 16 pages to Catholic matters.

Proportionately this need not be excessively praised seeing that 50,000 of the state's 331,000 pupils are in 150 Catholic schools standing alongside the state's 700 odd establishments.

Future newspaper supplements will no doubt get down to the real simple arithmetic of how much the Catholic education of those 50,000 children saves the taxpayer — and not the reverse as journalists are wont to imply Photographers can attend the next Catholic school opening and supply evidence of the millions of dollars in capital costs that are being shouldered by the Catholic School community and which otherwise would be dumped on the recession-plagued treasuries of State and Commonwealth.

Some real information on these and other real aspects of Catholic schooling — parent participation eg — would spare us yet another serve of the stale old porridge that Catholic schools are in trouble because of a dearth of religious brothers and sisters.

The trend to lay teachers was predictable 25 years ago when the rough waves hit religious orders, not because of, but in the wake of Vatican II. Anyone faintly near a Catholic school for the past 15 years would have seen the trend materialise. Just ten years ago there were 1400 lay teachers out of a total of 1800 in WA Catholic schools.

For newspaper stories to pant in amazement at such stale news and call it a 'crisis' is old hat indeed.

Perhaps the laity were in fact thrown in at the deep end of the Catholic school system — and that may be partly our fault — but they have learnt to swim very well. A quarter of Catholic schools had lay principals a decade ago; today they hold more than half the positions.

If a century of tens of thousands of religious brothers and sisters was the backbone of Catholic education in Australia, NZ, Canada, USA, Africa and India then it's a pity the journalists were not itching to publicise the truth at the time.

The newspapers of the day, the smug state education systems and their wimpish political backers would have choked on the truth of the millions of dollars/pounds these heroic religious were saving the world.

Moreover, thousands of these freely educated laity poured into state school teaching, thanks to the excellent teaching the nuns and brothers gave them.

That's gone. The Church too and the religious orders have had to grow up and face other realities and other challenges.

One of the those realities is that it ever was and ever is the full right, and duty, of Catholic lay people to teach the faith to other laity, the children.

That is the true vocation of every Catholic teacher, whether in a religious order or not.

If some future religious orders specialise in education they will be merely joining, not excluding their fellow Catholic laity.

The only 'crisis' facing lay Catholic teachers is to read signals coming from tens of thousands of Catholics families paying hard cash because they want education centred on Catholic faith, about Catholic attitudes and values. Teachers with hazy alternative agendas will need to go back to the sources of their employment: the parents and the community.

Those parents may not be too hot on the finer points of faith but that is no excuse for the teachers. They have to be as good as those nuns and brothers who gave them the magnificent system in which they work today.

Those nuns and brothers worked hard at their task; they prayed a lot, they read a lot and they kept at their religiouss selfimprovement.

The Catholic lay teachers can be every bit their equal provided they too put their minds to this task of the heart as well as the head.

The only 'crisis' is whether they will rise to the challenge.

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Cultural influences can harm marriage VATICAN CITY (CNS): Cultural influences on marriage are harmful if they cause First World Catholics to seek easy annulments and Third World Catholics to tolerate polygamy, said Pope John Paul II. In the "opulent and comumeristic Western world" there is "quick recourse to psychological and psychiatric sciences to demand the nullity of matrimony," he said.

The pope also complained that some Catholics would "justify or tolerate" polygamy among Chritians "in the name of respect for the culture of certain people".

The papal criticisms came during his annual talk to officials of the Roman Rota, the Church's highest court handling marriage cases.

The Church leaves "notable room" to local bishops and national bishops' conferences to adapt marriage rules to different cultures and the variety of pastoral situations," he said.

But these practices must respect basic church teachings and laws, he added.

"There is no lack of negligence in applying canon laws, justified by invoking local customs or special aspects of the culture of some people," he said.

Such negligence "risks violating the right of justice,

due to each believer, with the resulting degradation in the respect for matrimony," he said.

Cultural respect for individual freedom is good if this does not lead to "free love" and "the plague of divorce," said the Pope.

Rather than solve marriage problems through a strengthened love "the difficulties are attributed to psychological mechanisms," he said.

At the same time, the pope praised many societies for their "recognition of the equal dignity between men and women" and their "growing recognition of the right to freedom of choice regarding state of life as well as one's marriage partner".

In some parts of the world "the custom of polygamy has not completely disappeared," he said.

"Even among Catholics there are those who, in the name of respect for the culture of certain people, would in some form justify or tolerate similar practices in the Christian community," he added.

"In these cultures there is still a long road to travel in the field of complete recognition of the equal dignity of men and women," said the pope.

"Matrimony is still, in large measure, the fruit of agreements between families, which do not take into account the free will of the youths," he said.

Concern over prayers W ASHINGTON, (CNS): The associate director of the US bishops' Secretariat for the Liturgy, Msgr Alan Detscher, advises people to pray for peace "without trying to specify how God's going to do it."

their own intentions. parishes "Most would generally not the up" open intercessions to parishioners on Sundays, only on weekdays when Mass attendance is smaller, Msgr Detscher said.

US war moves may galvanise Americans, Msgr Detscher said, but it is likewise galvanising Iraqis.

"Both Muslim and Christian are saying 'what we're doing is right and just," he said.

People have to be "fairly responsible with the general intercessions," he added. "Its very title means they're very broad. It's not just the concerns of a particular community, it's the whole church."

The point where divisions most often surface at Mass is during the general intercessions after the Creed — espically in parishes that allow worshippers to state

The Sacramentary, the priest's book of prayers at Mass, lists four categories of general intercessions: the needs of the Church; for public authorities and the

salvation of the world; for those oppressed by any means; and for the local community.

"Peace would be prayed for as the second" category, Msgr Detscher said.

"When there is a particular need one of categories those should always be expanded."

But when worshippers are doing the expanding, "people sometimes foget that it's not a homily," he said. "It's not a time for polemic" Music chosen for worship can make divisive statements, too. Since war broke out, "a woman wanted to do 'America the Beautiful.' I

Adapt liturgies to local needs: Pope VATICAN CITY (CNS): Worship and SacraPope John Paul II said ments, which was meetChurch officials must ing at the Vatican to continue adapting litur- discuss inculturation, the gies to local needs, but adapt* of the liturgy to without trying to create local cultures. "alternative rites" to the The pope said incultubasic Roman Mass. ration was legitimate and The pope specifically necessary in order for warned against liturgical many Catholics to fully changes that are too participate in the Mass sudden or "inattentive to and the sacraments. the religious sensibilities These changes should always follow a "correct of the faithful". procedure", he added.

He made the remarks in "Changes cannot be a talk to members of the Congrelntion for Divine proposed without atten-

tive, interdisciplinary reflection, avoiding improvisations and making adaptions only when it is useful or necessary," he said.

Liturgical adaption is useful when some aspects of the Mass are not understood in certain cultures, the pope said.

But he said the Mass as celebrated in diverse Catholic churches around the world must be recognisable as the essential Roman liturgy.

nixed that," Msgr Detscher said.

"We tend to make our answers very simplistic: right is all on one side, wrong is all on one side," he said. "In religion, you have to be careful what you put in God's mouth."

When critical events such as war surface, some bishops distribute prayers that address the event without going into the specifics behind them, Mrsgr Detscher said.

The Sacramentary includes a Mass in time of war, and a Mass for the president. "I've adapted it for both presidents, United States and Iraq," Msgr Detscher said.

Cory should not seek new term: Sin MANILA, (CNS): President Corazon Aquino should not run for a second term, but hand over power to a younger person with the vision to steer the Philippines toward economic progress, said Cardinal Jaime Sin of Manila.

"The poor woman did her best," said the cardinal, who helped Mrs Aquino to power by backing the revolt that ousted President Ferdinand Marcos.

"You cannot blame her, because she did everything she could," he added.

Mrs Aquino, who has survived six coup attempts during her almost five years in power, has said repeatedly that she will not run again, but some politicians believe she might change her mind.

Gulf alliances and fractures

ROME (CNS): Pope John Paul II's comments about the Gulf war have led to some unusual alliances and fractures in the Italian political scene.

The Italian Communist Party has applauded and echoed papal statements about the war, saying they show "political realism".

Ciriaco DeMita, president of the Christian Democrats' national council, saiL a connection exists between "the pope's idealism and the pragmatism of the Christian politician".

But, he said, the connection "must be rationally built" on political realities.

The communists' daily newspaper, L'Unita, even used a papal quote — "War is an adventure without return" — at the top of every page containing stories about the Gulf.

Meanwhile the head of the ruling Christian Democratic Party, which is experiencing internal divisions over its commitment of Italian troops to the war effort, has papal the termed remarks "high moral teaching" which cannot always be applied to real life.

In a country which is 90 per cent Catholic, having a pope on one's side seldom hurts.

The same day, full-page advertisements and posters against the war were distributed by Comunione e Liberazione, a Catholic lay group known for defending church doctrine against dissent.

The group is associated with the Christian Popular Democrats' which Movement, opposed Italy's military involvement in the war and has called for a cease-fire.

The advertisement said "the only reasonable position" on the war "is that of the pope who has continued to call for peace and to negate every justification for war".

"The West, for its part, while crying peace wants it accomplished through bombardments," it said.

The Gulf war debate also led II Sabato, a magazine published by the group, to run, for the first time, an interview with Achille Occhetto, head of the Italian Communist Party.

Occhetto said his party's anti-war stance was in line with public opinion and "the attitudes of the highest spiritual authorities, such as the pope". and Communists members of the Popular Movement did not want the western alliance to start the fighting in the Gulf in mid-January; they had asked for more time for the embargo against Iraq to work.

They called on Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait and they called for the convocation of an international peace conference to discuss the problems in the Persian Gulf and the entire Middle East.

Pope John Paul ll has injustice already has made the same points in been "unleashed", and if his remarks about the war could block further Gulf crisis, and Italian injustices, he said.

The United States and opponents to the war are its allies now must work quick to point that out. to create a war that is "les The Christian Demo- ferocious, shorter and crats, on the other hand, always to open point out that the United negotiation".

Nations deadline for Ochetto was also asked Saddam Hussein to if his party, which has retreat had expired and been known for opposing Italians must join in a papal teachings, is united front against becoming "the most Saddam. papal party in Italy".

"Peace is not unconHe said he shares the nected from justice," pope's "line of reasoning" DeMita wrote. that a new world order As to papal concern "cannot be born of war".

"There were moments about the deaths of which our position in in innocent civilians and respect to this pope's give belief that war can rise "to new and perhaps were critical," he said. worse injustices", DeMita "But this occasion, which acknowledged that all certainly is more signifimodern warfare carries cant than many of the with it "a high dose of others, illustrates the fact injustice and therefore that we always evaluate the acts of the pontiff immorality". objectively.

For a Catholic politi"Personally, I believe cian, he said, "the prob- that the positions lem is not that of assumed by John Paul H establishing if only one are important and part (of a country's war should stand as a mileconduct) falls in the area stone in his political and of injustice". spiritual life," Occhetto One also must decide if said.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS): The Vatican recognises the e xistence of the state of Israel and its need for security, but unsettled legal questions prevent the establishment of d iplomatic relations, said a Vatican spokesman.

munity asked Pope John Paul II to "formally recognise the state of Israel" and establish diplomatic relations.

"The fact that diplomatic relations do not exist between the Holy See and the state of Israel does not imply that the Holy See does not recognise the state of Israel," said Joaquin Navarro-Valls, director of the Vatican press office.

He noted that the United States and the Vatican did not establish diplomatic relations until 1984.

"They are the difficulties, still not clarified, of the presence of Israel in the occupied territories and of relations with the Palestinians, of the annexation of the holy city of Jerusalem, as well as (the problem) of the situation of the Catholic Church in Israel and in the territories it a dministers," Navarro-Valls said.

" Nevertheless, obviously, the Holy See always recognised the United States," Navarro-Valls said.

"The Holy. See has never placed in discussion the existence of the state of Israel after its proclamation of independence," he said.

He commented after Rome's Jewish com-

He said "legal difficulties" have caused the Vatican "to wait" before establishing diplomatic relations.

In their 1990 Christmas message, the heads of Catholic and Christian other churches in Jerusalem said the government was eroding "the traditional rights and centuries-old privileges of the churches", municipal and state taxes were being imposed and there was "encroachment on church land and properties".

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Toaff and the council "certainly are not Cordero Lanze di of Rome's Jewish theological, but legal". Montezemolo, the community criticised He cited numerous apostolic delegate in and the pope for not instances when spe- Jerusalem, foreign specifically mention- cific mentions of Israel's ing Israel two days Israel and its security ministry. earlier when he con- were made by Pope He said some people demned the "deplora- John Paul and when confuse the "religious ble bombings" during recognition of Israel dimension and the the first week of the was implied by Vati- political dimension" Gulf war. can contacts with its of the Church's relations and attitudes "More than 40 years leaders. toward Judaism and were Israelis said He after the founding of toward Israel. the state of Israel, the among "official deleThe interreligious Holy See and John gations" at the funeral "exist and relations the at XII, Pope of Pius Paul II avoid even the opening and closing are developing", he pronouncing a citing name of Israel," the of the Second Vatican said, statement said. "For Council, at the fun- December meeting this reason, many eral of Pope John between internaJews maintain that XXIII and at the tional Jewish leaders the Holy See does not inauguration of Pope and the pope and recognise the state of John Paul II's recent Church proIsrael because of a pontificate. nouncments against theological prejudice. anti-Semitism.

Pope Paul VI met the "The Holy See "If John Paul II president of Israel believes in the right of during a 1964 visit to knows that for Jews Jews to live as Jews the Holy land, and throughout the world and believes in the various Israeli govern- attachment to the right of the Israeli ment officials have land of the fathers people to live in the met with pontiffs at and to the state of state of Israel, he the Vatican, including Israel is particularly Ministers important and felt," would understand Prime our feelings and Golda Meir, Shimon he said, and the would declare it "urbi Peres and Yitzhak Vatican "understands et orbi' ('to the city Shamir, in 1982 when and respects that". and to the world') he was foreign "But it maintains with the responsible minister. that the atmosphere love of a brother who Navarro-Valls also of dialogue and does not distinguish said there are "regular respect for the Jewish between brothers," contacts" between people and their histhe Jewish statement Vatican officials and tory should be kept said.

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Pope on role of unis VATICAN CITY (CNS): Universities should be "spiritual laboratories" that provide moral reflection about reality, said Pope John Paul II. This "contrasts with the thesis and customs of universities which are pragmatic, positivistic and agnostic," he said January 25 to 50 Catholic educators attending a conference on "The Reality and Idea of History".

It is necessary "to keep alive a tendency toward investigation and reflection on morality and religiousity in the conscience of the university," said the pope.

"Study thus becomes an ideal for life; a spiritual laboratory where human formation is achieved," he added.

The university is the "place where the future of society is decided, in that it has a fundamental role in the interaction between research and the dialectics of faith, between life and thought," he said.

Doing this requires "a demanding distinction between faith and reason," he said.

Educators must "contribute to finding solutions to the constantly reborn conflicts between science and faith, making clear their respective roles," he said.

Faith and the theology of salvation are needed to give "meaning to history," said the pope.

Without faith "history appears to us in its evil aspect, filled with suffering, disgraces, defeats and death," he said.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS): Married men may have been secretly ordained in Czechoslovakia during communist rule, but their ordinations are probably invalid, said Joaquin NavarroValls, Vatican press spokesman.

Navarro-Valls issued a statement after Italian press reports said women and married men were ordained in Czechoslovakia during the 40 years of communist rule.

The reports of these ordinations are traced to the activities of one clandestinely ordained bishop who was "a mentally ill person", he said.

Vatican and Czechoslovak officials have identified the bishop as Bishop Felix Davidek, who died in 1988.

These sources also said that the ordinations of married men were done by more than one bishop but that the rumours of

female ordinations are traced only to Bishop Davidek. But these officials said they had no proof that women were ordained.

choslovaks were done outside Czechoslovakia by publicly known bishops of other East European countries, "which were freer".

"I'm astonished to see how an isolated case, due to a mentally ill person, is presented as if it were the normal way in which clandestine ordinations place," took said Navarro-Valls.

These ordinations were done validly, "always according to canonical rules and always informing the Holy See of them", he said.

The Vatican spokesman said that most clandestine ordinations of Cze-

Two conditions were that the ordinations take place outside the candidate's country and that the candidate had the

permission of his local bishop or religious superior, he added.

archdiocese before his election to the papacy in 1978.

These were done in "limited cases, corresponding to very special situations," he said.

"Married men were never ordained, even less women," said NavarroValls.

Other church officials have said that the pope did clandestinely ordain priests from Czechoslovakia when he was the archbishop of Krakow.

Several Vatican and Czechoslovak officials said that a small number of married men were ordained in Czechoslovakia.

These officials said they still do not know the total

Some of the ordinations were done in Krakow, Poland, he added, without saying whether they were done when Pope John Paul II headed the

Information on murderers

SAN SALVADOR (CNS): Auxiliary Bishop Chavez of San than three miles north of the capital, San Salvador.

Salvador has criticised an official government report on the Eyewitnesses said at least five men dressed in black over January 22 massacre of 15 unarmed civilians and said the period of an hour stabbed and shot the victims to death. the Salvadoran church has "precise" information on the murderers' identities it will release if the government fails Among the victims was a pregnant woman. to pursue the case.

Bishop Chavez said: "We have precise information (and) if the official agencies that were called upon to legally Bishop Rosa Chavez said during a homily that the murder discover who was responsible do not do so, we are going of eight women and seven men, ranging in age from 14 to to make the results of our investigation public".

59 years, was "too brutal to allow it to be added on to the Salvadoran President Alfredo Cristiani has said he wants list of murders which remain (shrouded) in mystery". the government to "get to the bottom" of the crime and has The massacre occurred in the settlement of El Zapote, less named a special investigatory commission for that purpose.

Bishops blast government ZAGREB: The Yugoslav bishops have criticised the central communist government for using troops to intimidate regions seeking greater autonomy and a demoof form cratic government.

"This democratic development has become threatened in some areas through internal pressures, threats and intimidations," said the bishops' Justice and Peace Commission.

"People are seeking at all cost to maintain the old system, even using armed force against the

legitimate government representatives, freely and democratically elected, especially in Croatia and Slovenia," said the commission.

This shows that in communist-ruled countries "the danger of violations to civil and national rights has not ended," it added.

It asked all sides to seek peaceful ways to resolve the conflict.

The statement was issued after tanks were sent into Zagreb, the Croatian capital.

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number of priests and bishops who were ordained clandestinely, as people are still presenting themselves as having been ordained secretly.

The number of married men is a tiny fraction of the total and "not a dramatic problem for our Church", Father Thomas Halik, secretary of the Czech section of the Czechoslovakian bishops' conference, said in December.

Rich harvest of Viet priests HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (UCAN): Thirtyseven new priests were ordained in nine southern Vietnamese dioceses in 1990.

The first two priests were ordained in Buon Ma Thuot January 22.

The last five were ordained in Da Lat November 3. Three of the 37 new priests are Franciscans, one is a Dominican, and the rest are diocesan priests.

The archdiocese of Ho Chi Minh City ordained priests twice in 1990.

Pope urges religious freedom in Singapore VATICAN CITY (CNS): Paul II said religious freedom in Singapore must include the right to publicly profess the faith and follow its social teachings.

Civil authorities have an obligation to "permit believers and communities to witness to their faith publicly and without fear, and to live out all its demands, including its ethical and social demands," the pope said.

The pope made the remarks during a welcoming ceremony for

Singapore Ambassador Jayalekshimi Mohideen, who was presenting her credentials at the Vatican.

The ambassador, in a speech to the pope, defended her country's policy of strict separation between religion and politics.

During the past year, church-state relations have been strained in Singapore over a proposed law that would increase government control over the civil activities of religious figures.

The pope did not men- every dimension of their "the nature of our society tion the proposed legisla- personal and social is such that religious tion, but his comments lives," he said. distinctions accentuate were clearly aimed at The pope warned racial ones. Religious bolstering the Church's against "baseless rivalries polarisation will cause side of the debate. or suspicions" between sectarian strife." the political community He said true religious "Religious and racial and religious bodies. The freedom cannot be harmony is the bedrock Catholic Church in Singlimited to mere "tolerfor stability in Singapore. ance" of individual apore, he said, wants This can be safeguarded friendly relations with all believers or religious sectors only by keeping religion of society. groups. "Nor is it compatMrs Mohideen main- separate from politics," ible with the restriction she said. of their witness to the tained that religious harmony was a necessity Catholicism is one of purely private sphere," in Sin:n pore, and that several minority relihe said. freedom of religion was gions in Singapore. Most Christians need to be guaranteed in the of thc population proable to apply the teach- constitution. fesses Buddhism, Taoism ings of the Gospel "to However, she added, or Islam.

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Ratzinger doubts that Gulf war is 'just' Cardinal Ratzinger.

ROME (CNS): Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Vatican's top doctrinal official, said there were "profound doubts" about whether the war in the Persian Gulf fits the definition of a "just war".

The cardinal said it was possible that modern warfare may no longer be able to meet the traditional moral requirement of "proportionality" — the principle that says the human and other costs of a war must be commensurate with the values at stake and the evil that one is trying to overcome.

Asked whether proportionality exists in the Gulf war, the cardinal said he did not want to

give a definitive answer, but added: "Profound doubts are justified."

"No one questions the fact that serious injustices are caused by a tyrant, but it is also true that new and serious problems, as well as injustices, are created by war," Cardinal Ratzinger said.

"In a world in which the (military) means develop to the point where the injustices they create are more serious than the injustice one seeks to eliminate, this position (of a just war) is no longer valid," he said.

The cardinal said he could not offer a "final

word" on whether today's weaponry and warfare made all modern war unjust. "But I think we are in a situation in which one must at least reflect on whether proportionality is still possible," he said.

The Church traditionally has taught that a "just war" must meet several criteria. In addition to being proportional, it must be fought for a just cause, authorised by a competent authority, have the right intention, have probability of success, be waged only as a last resort and avoid targeting civilians.

Saddam's 'thank you' VATICAN CITY (CNS) Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has thanked Pope John Paul ll for frying to avoid war in the Persian Gulf and said he shares the pope's desire for justice and peace.

Saddam sent his thanks in a letter to the pope, which arrived after the fighting started.

The Iraqi president's message was in answer to a letter the pope had sent

him just prior to the war urging peaceful settlement of the Gulf confrontation, said Vatican press spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls.

Also January 24, the pope appealed to

non-aligned nations to press for a negotiated end to the fighting.

At the same time he wrote Saddam, the pope sent a letter to President Bush also asking for

a peaceful solution to the Gulf crisis.

Saddam thanked the pope "for the appeals aimed at avoiding the war and assured him that he shares the concerns for justice and

peace," said Navarro-Valls.

Saddam's response was given to the Vatican Embassy to Iraq and forwarded to the pope through "the good offices" of the Soviet Union, said Navarro-Valls.

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St Thomas Church near the northern city of Mosul was "practically destroyed" by the bombing. Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said.

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Local church personnel, including a group of nuns, were believed to have escaped injury, he said.

Baghdad Radio had said

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Navarro-Valls said the Vatican was able to confirm through its own channels that the church was bombed. He said the roof was blown off and debris scattered around the remains of the building.

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Who are ihe new immigrants?

Like runaway children — many are, in fact, not much older than that — the new immigrants daily find their way to our cities and towns.

The Vast majority of new immigrants in the United States are Central Americans.

The Mexican wave of immigration really has never abated. There are also some Asians, mostly Korean, Vietnamese and to a lesser extent Chinese and Indians.

To Father Virgil Elizondo it seems that "we consistently block out from our understanding" these people, who often come from situations of the greatest violence.

Father Elizondo of San Fernando Cathedral in San Antonio, Texas, is a noted speaker and writer on Hispanic Catholics in the United States.

The new immigrants are the poor, the persecuted, the desperate ones.

They find their homeland inhospitable, incapable of supporting its own people, he observes.

They gathered enough strength to face untold an in hardships unknown society.

"What's common is that they come from situations of dire need.

They're willing to do anything," Father Elizondo said. "They come from simple back-

grounds and vei traditional cultures,.;ometimes from smai rural areas and all of altdden come into the [foiled States.

"It's like cornil to a totally different sociopolitical-cultura time zone. I think it es an incredible a it of courage and s no to come into this antry, which is not welcoming," Fat Elizondo says.

That's whei the church should fine in, he added. He thilcs the church's mithleOttiofeallY' the always loving, ntturing mother who *races her troubled 41ciren, looks after their kids —

material as well as spiritual — and then renews their selfconfidence to enable them to go out and win.

Father Elizondo warns that the doors of antiCatholic sects are wide open to the new immigrants. The danger of an unwelcoming atmosphere is that "we're kind of sending the Hispanic immigrants to them".

The church has to reach out in a "real, warm, aggressive, personal way to meet the immigrant where he is," he says.

"That's the power of many of these storefront churches," he notes.

"They really become someone to each other

By Patricia ELIZONDO and they sing songs in Spanish and they get to know each other by name and they could be of help to each other".

good music, good preaching, good fellowship, and on the side they immediately have a school where (the immigrants) can learn English.Ithink that's the right formula?"

San Fernando Cathedral brought about a vibrant devotion by Guatemalans and local Catholics alike for the black Christ of Esquipulas, whose origins are in Guatemala.

are regarded important.

Various forms of assistance to the new immigrants are needed in the church, Father Elizondo says.

And there is a need to It's amazing the comments from people, the help them "network," to incredible joy they feel to provide opportunities for Even in predominantly be in contact with their them to meet other Hispanic San Antonio, imagery.," comments immigrants like themwhere a great many Father Elizondo. "I think selves and others who parishes have regular the church needs to might be able to assist Spanish Masses, there is incorporate these things, them in finding a job, for a great need for efforts to to make the immigrant example. help Latin American feel welcome."

"We really need centres immigrants assimilate they can meet, where into American society, Father Elizondo says interconnect, communiElizondo thinks. that when the new cate with their family "The Protestants do it He recalls how the immigrants see their back home," he says. the other way around. chance arrival of Father imagery, language and Needed are "places that They immediately have Roberto Paredes, a Gua- customs in the Mass, welcome them, networks services in Spanish, with temalan priest, to serve at they see that their values that work with them".

He comments: "I've often said that the Catholics in this country have it backward in relation to the Latin American immigrant.

Catholics have nothing special for them in Spanish in the parish, but neither do they provide English classes for them.

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What is it like to feel rootless in a new community? It could be terrifying. For networks of support and affirmation accompany the sense that one really "belongs" to a community. Lacking these, a person could feel lost.

This is what it is like at times for our new immigrants.

This, too, is partly what makes religious sects so appealing to new immigrants. Sects offer them a sense of warmth and acceptance.

Countless official church reports show that, if they don't rind a sense of belonging in one place — in their Catholic parishes — immigrants frequently seek it in sects.

Acceptance of the new immigrants involves more than warm smiles and handshakes, though a warm atmosphere in parish life is vital.

A spirit of welcome even requires more than help and assistance to the new immigrants. But, of course, a willingness to accompany them as they chart their course in a new society is essential.

Still, a full sense of belonging only comes when people feel that their voices — their insights, customs, wishes — are respected and heard. When a spirit of welcome is present, people become partners in the community's ongoing life.

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have called this land their own.

For most of Catholic history in the United States, the Church has been a haven for immigrants. Although not necessarily in the mainstream of society — perhaps because the Church was not in the mainstream — people of many nationalities gathered around their churches as places to belong and for help in adjusting to a new life.

In the last part of this however, century, Catholics have discovered that they are no longer on the fringes of society.

As a group, members of the Church are highly educated and wellrepresented in all professions and careers.

Father Elizondo thinks the situation encountered by the new immigrants on the whole is greatly different from that encountered by of earlier waves imigrants.

During the influx of Europeans to the United States in the early part of the century, monasteries from the various Old World countries set up centers welcoming where the newly arrived were housed, introduced them to the local community and aided in their job search.

These Catholic centres facilitated the adjustment and minimised the

level of stress for the newcomers.

He says: "For the immigrants from Europe, the church very much accompanied them and set up almost 'rest stops,' you might call them, in homes where they would be welcomed, where there would be people from the old country, where they would be helped in a transition that would take two or three generations".

It is a matter of "seeing that God comes in the person of the immigrant, the poor and that in welcoming them we're welcoming God," the priest states.

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By Father Herb Weber throughout his ministry.

He welcomed foreignHere is a bit of legisla- ers (like the hated The dilemma that into the liturgy and tion from ancient Israel: Samaritans), sinners, arises, then, is where the supports other traditions the disadvantaged lepers, new immigrants might such as the Guadalupe or You shall not molest go for acceptance and celebration. oppress an alien, for you "people of the land" — support if the Church were once aliens your- everyone.

Such actions by parseems too affluent for ishes indicate a certain selves in the land of And he suffered for it. them.

(Exodus 22.20).

Egypt" The "better people", the sensitivity.

If natives of Latin The fact that this legis- self-righteous, sneered at Furthermore, they often America, Asia and the lation was needed him: "This man welothers in the help Middle East enter our reflects the sad tendency comes sinners and eats parishes, then those Church to appreciate the of people to suspect, with them" (Luke 15:1). parishes will have to richness of the immiresent and reject those The "sinners" they adapt in order to be truly grants' traditions. who are different. referred to were all who But what about a welcoming.

This seems to be a differed from them.

Otherwise, there is a middle-class experience human failing.

Many of his own followWhile the man was meet the immigrants fare universal distinct possiblity that of faith? Is it the only way Among biblical people, it ers were guilty of the impatient best of felt are the I if they talking. best the newcomers will faith can be known? led to a disdain for same elitism. because I knew I was listeners, willing to learn never feel at home. other foreigners of all sorts.

Because there are After Peter had congoing to be late for my from the newcomers.

God perceiving that I of parish ways A fine People often were verted the Roman cennext appointment. But As the newcomers in forced to flee from their turion Cornelius and his know continues to strug- and religion, parishes are that feeling simply midst start to feel own countries because household (and he our to ways gle with ways of accept- seeking out proved his point. more at home, their life had become impossi- needed the prompting of themselves ing and integrating its extend Hispanic members. enough to make room for In addition to allowing presence will give new ble there — for a variety the Spirit to do this!), he beyond some cherished lifestyles vitality to the whole of reasons. was reprimanded back at The parish has incorpo- others to be challenged, par- parish.

"You rated Spanish hymns themselves.

When they sought headquarters: refuge in Israel and entered the house of settled there, they were uncircumcised people "resident aliens". They and ate with them!" (Acts were not always wel- 11:3). comed with open arms; James had to take his What creates a welcoming atmosphere often they were resented, community to task for in parishes? What must people do if this despised, abused. discriminating between atmosphere is to exist?

Actually, the Babylo- the "haves" and the "have Selected responses from readers: nian exile deepened the nots". "My brothers, "A warm, inviting physical atmosphere people's antipathy for show no partiality as you in the church, with bright, colourful wall foreigners. This was adhere to the faith in our hangings and banners. When the Church glorious Lord Jesus understandable. space is arranged so, it draws people After all, foreigners had Christ". together — when the altar is in the wrecked their homeland If they treat the rich middle of the Church with the pews on and dragged the Jews members of the comthree sides, it's friendlier." — Annette into virtual slavery munity with fawning Conkin hundreds of kilometres deference and demean "I like to hear the pastor welcome the poor, have they not from home. visitors, newcomers and non-Catholics to Even though the atti- "become judges with evil the parish . . . A new-member party tude was understanda- designs?" (James 2:1-4). might also be nice." — Carol Makweal is important to keep lines of communible, it was still wrong, Paul, who courageously "A parish is welcoming when strangers cation open so that the pastor and his and after the return from ignored all lines of and come into the Church and parishioners staff are aware of the new faces. It is the exile, a writer known demarcation introduce themselves." — Cindy important to invite newcomers to as Third Isaiah tried to embraced all people, enunciated the following McCormack functions and meetings to get them correct it.

"I enjoy the coffee and conversation involved and meet people." — Milrose "Let not the foreigner principle as a basic for gatherings after Mass, and especially Basco say, when he would join Christians: appreciate being part of small groups "There is neither Jew "Congregational singing seems to himself to the Lord, The coming together to dicuss the Scriptures bring people together. . . Candlelight Lord will surely exclude nor Greek, there is and other topics that help us in our faith creates a soft, pleasant atmosphere and me from his people.'. . . neither slave nor free development." — Eleanor Irvine looks inviting. Ushers play an important My house shall be called person, there is not male a house of prayer for all and female, for you are "I think parishes should have get- role in welcoming new people." — all one in Christ Jesus" peoples" (Isaiah 56:3-7). togethers to welcome newcomers. . It Michelle Taylor Still, egocentric exclusi- (Galatians 3:28).

But ultimately, the ishes and their people are process challenges peo- discovering that waiting ple and their usual ways for others to present the themselves at of doing things.

Church doors won't be I recently talked to a enough.

Aggressive man from India who had action to reach out is lived on the continent of called for.

Africa.

And, we are finding, if After about a year in the Church seems austhis country, he sized up tere or intended for the "American" style of others, immigrants will living as cold and absent themselves, no impersonal. matter what they feel He felt no one had time about their faith. to talk or really be Like all outreach propresent to others. grams, those going out to

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Right: At the special Mass for Lithuanian dead, Bishop Healy is flanked by Father Richard Rutkauskas (right), himself the son of Lithuanian migrants, and Dean Orzanski (left), the son of Polish migrants.

Below: The Lithuanian flags were carried into St Mary's Cathedral and held on either side of the sanctuary during Mass.

Bottom: Lithuanian community members wore national costume for the occasion.

Prayer for Lithuanians The Church of Perth stands shoulder to shoulder with its Lithuanian friends in that country's time of trial, Bishop Healy said last Sunday.

At a special Mass in St Mary's Cathedral the bishop said that the prayer was for a just solution to the present tensions through a respectful and understanding dialogue.

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had lost their lives in the recent fighting and for all the peoples of the Baltic states in their hour of suffering.

Concern for those people did not stop with prayer, the bishop said.

He quoted Pope John Paul's January statement that the solidarity of all should help nations such as Lithuania to remain faithful to their traditions and heritage so that in dialogue and negotiation they might find new solutions which would open doors and abolish prejudices.

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Cardinal backs news strike NEW YORK: Cardinal O'Connor has become a supporter of unions in their strike against the New York Daily News.

Theodore W. Kheel, a prominent labour mediator who has served as unpaid adviser to the unions said they had requested and received four or five meetings with the cardinal at his residence since the strike began October 26.

"Of all the people in public positions, he has been the most responsive to our inquiries and requests," Kheel said.

He said that he requested Cardinal O'Connor meet with the union leaders after the cardinal asked him for information about the strike. "The reason he came to me was that we had a similar relationship during the NBC strike three years ago," Kheel said.

The union presidents assured the cardinal that they did not condone the violence committed by some strikers, and discussed having him speak at a union rally and testify at a Senate subcommittee hearing.

On December 10, Cardinal O'Connor spoke at a union rally where other speakers included New York Govern Mario M. Cuomo and the Reverend Jesse Jackson.

At a hearing of a Senate subcommittee on labour and human resources.

Cardinal O'Connor tied his Church position to his support of the unions.

"I testify specifically as archbishop of New York, a direct or indirect employer of many thousands of people," he said.

"I speak as the proud son of a lifelong union man.Ispeak as a citizen of New York deeply concerned about the economic plight of striking workers and their families, the potential loss of jobs, the psychological

impact on the city, already in serious fiscal jeopardy and fearful about its future.

"Finally, but of paramount importance," the cardinal continued, "I speak as one charged with articulating the moral teachings of the Catholic Church in New York, as I understand those teachings. In each capacity I am strongly committed to the collective bargaining process, to the rights of workers to unionise and to the conviction that our society critically needs unionism."

Cardinal O'Connor said that management's knowledge that under current law it can hire permanent replacements for strikers "can make a charade of collective bargaining and a mockery of the right to strike".

"In my judgement," he said, "had it not been for the availabilty of the right to hire permanent replacements, the ministrike at the Daily News plant would have fizzled out very quicldy . . " Cardinal O'Connor at the union rally, said: "It is my personal judgement that those who use permanent replacements have the obligation to prove that this is moral and not only legal".

Daily News publisher James Hoge, who had obtained a meeting to present management's side before the cardinal met with the union heads, released a letter to him the day of the rally.

"Ihave been troubled," he said, "by press reports of your questioning the morality of the Daily News exercising its lawful right to employ replacement workers." Hoge said the Daily News would not have done so if the survival of the business had not been threatened.

Quote tl SPEAK AS A PROUD SON OF A LIFELONG UNION MAN' — Cardinal O'Connor (right)

Revivalists' demand DELHI, India: Hindu revivalists today are demanding a "positive secularism" to reverse what they call the present "appeasement of minorities".

Some militant Hindus press for "theocratic" Hindu state.

Hindu revivalists note that the Muslim population increased from 9.91 per cent in 1951 to 11.35 per cent in 1981, whereas the population Hindu decreased from 84.98 per cent to 82.64 per cent.

Though only 2.43 per cent of Indians are Christian, Christianity

Chinese-language missals SHANGHAI: Chinaappointed Bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian of Shanghai says the diocese needs its own Chinese-language missals to further promote liturgical renewal.

Bishop Jin said publication of new missals might be considered after the translation of the Jerusalem Bible version of the New Testament was complete.

Bible readings in the would be missals

adopted from the new Chinese translation of the Bible, he said.

The bishop explained that they need to have their own missals as the use of some wordings on the mainland might be different from those outside China.

Post -Second Vatican Council liturgy has been. officially introduced in the regional Seminary and the Church of Our Lady in Shanghai as testing points.

The Acts of the Apostles If there were no missals, it would be difficult for would go to press first, Catholics, especially the because copies are elderly, who speak on the needed for classes in Shanghainese dialect, to seminaries, he said. follow Mass conducted The diocesan printing in Putonghua, or Man- press was set to print darin, the official lan- 3,000 copies of the Acts guage in China. in January.

More copies would be Bishop Jin, who is printed together with translating the Jerusalem other books of the New Bible version of the New Testament after the Testament, said he still whole translation work has three books to finish, was complete. including the Book of It was expected that Revelation.

300,000 copies would be printed so as to have enough copies to form complete sets of the New Testament with the copies of the Gospels published a few years ago.

Asked if he would translate the Old Testament, the 75-year-old Bishop Jin said he does not have enough energy to complete such a task.

"This has to be left for the generation," young Bishop Jin said.

Hitting right note for unity LONDON: For the first time the Catholic service of vespers was heard in London's St Paul's Cathedral when Westminster Cathedral's Latin sang choir vespers. Present in the choir stalls was the

Westminster Cathedral Chapter.

As an exchange the choir of St Paul's, along with the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's sang, evensong from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer in Westminster Cathed-

ral the following week. lesson first The appointed for evensong that day was the reconciliation of Jacob and Esau from Genesis 39.

Westminster The cathedral choir has sung in St Paul's on many

occasions, but this was to be the first time this postReformation Anglican cathedral has housed a Catholic service.

The ceremonies marked the northern hemisphere Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Jan 18-25.

in India dates back to apostolic times.

Tradition says that Saint Thomas the Apostle came to India in 52 AD and was martyred 20 years later at Mylapore, in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

Christians now form the third largest religious group in the country.

They also contribute to more than 20 per cent of the social works.

India's 13.5 milion Catholics belong to the Latin, Syro-Malabar and Syro-Malankara rites.

Besides Catholics,

who form 1.68 per cent of the population, the country also has various Protestant and Orthodox groups.

The Church has 122 dioceses, 8,621 diocesan priests, 6,451 priests, religious 1,554 religious brothers and 62,283 nuns.

The Church also manages 3,785 kindergartens, 7,319 primary schools, 3,765 high schools and 240 colleges. It has 1,514 technical training 1,085 schools, orphanages, 228 hospitals, 1,792 dispensaries, 111 leprosaria, 102 rehabilitation centres and 455 homes for the destitute.

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To St Jude, my sincere and heartfelt thanks for answering my prayers on so many occasions. M Thanks to the Lady of Peace of Medjugorje and Padre Pio granted. favour for Therese P. Thanks Holy Spirit, you who solve all problems, light all roads so that I can attain my goal, you gave me the divine gift to forgive and forget all evil against me, and in all instances of my life you are with me. I want in this short prayer to thank you for all things as I confirm once again that I never want to be separated from you ever, in spite of all material illusions I wish to be with you in eternal glory. Thank you for your mercy towards me and mine.

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IN MEMORIAM LENANE, (Michael Thomas) February 10, 1901January 22, 1991. Peacefully at Moora Hospital, dearly loved husband of Evelyn, loving father and father-in-law of Alfred, Les and Greta, Bert and Peggy, Esme (dec) and Dear grandad and poppa of Thomas and Tracy, Francis and Kathy, Jerome and Bonnie, Gregory and Jenny, Danny and Linda; and Maureen and Ian; Allan and Val, Therese and Matthew, Carmel and Chris, Shelley and Tony, Donna and Scott, and Josephine and Pauline (dec). Greatgrandad of 20 greatgrandchildren.

A true pioneer of Bindi Bindi.

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NAUGHTON, Matthew Christopher. Son of Desmond and Michele was baptised December 29 by Father Ian Johnson at Our Lady of The Rosary, Woodlands. Godparents were He/en Murray and John Blandin de Chalain.

F ather Nicholas McSweeney had pioneered two northern corridor parishes during the more than 34 years he gave to Perth Diocese.

He was at the Saturday chore of moving chairs at St Luke's school Woodvale when overtaken by the heart attack that was to cause his death some 40 hours later.

He had been at Woodvale for f our years at the time of his death aged 58, and at the adiacent Whitfords parish he had given 13 years service that

and rich in miracles, near kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need, to you I have recourse. From the depth of my heart and humbly beg to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance. Help me in my present and urgent petition. In return I promise to make your name known and cause your name to be invoked. St Jude pray for us and all who invoke your aid.

Amen. Say three Our Fathers, Hail Marys and Glorias. This

novena has never been

known to fail. Thank you St Jude. G.M. Holy Spirit you who solve all light all roads so that I can attain my goal. You gave me the divine gift to forgive and forget all evil against me and that in all instances of my life you are with me. I want in this short prayer to thank you for an things as I confirm once again that I never want to be separated from you even in spite of all material illusions.

I wish to be with you in eternal glory. Thank you for your mercy towards me and mine. Thank you Sacred Heart of Jesus, Our lady of Perpetual Succour, St Anthony, St Joseph and Little Flower. M.W.

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Novena to the Holy Spirit.

Holy ro it you who solve all and light all roads P so that I can attain my goal.

You gave me the divine gift to forgive and forget all evil against me, and in all instances of my life you are with me. I want in this short prayer to thank you for all things as I confirm once again that I never want to be separated from you ever, in spite of all material illusions.

I wish to be with you in eternal glory. Thank you for your mercy towards me and mine. This prayer must be said for three days after which the favour will be granted. The prayer must be published immediately.

Marie Ask Our Lady and St Clare for one business and two impossible favours. Say nine Hail Marys for nine days with candle burning, on ninth day let candle bum out. Publicise this devotion D N Most Sacred Heart of Jesus may your name be praised throughout the and w now and forever.

Many thanks for prayers answered. C.E.S. Thanksgiving to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Our Lady of Lourdes and Our Lady of Perpetual Succour for my knee operation which has been a success. JS. _

McSweeney a person of vision who involved as many as possible in parish activity.

"He worked tirelessly for a parish ethos based on faith in God and love of neighbour.

"Sermons at St Luke's were never long or tedious but they were succiect, and seemed to be designed to drawn out a personal response to the Gospel message.

"He presented a very laidback image; nevertheless, he was meticulous in all matters, particularly those involving his ministry, and religious c elebrations.

"He will be long remembered for his wonderful sense of humour and the easy manner in which he related to parishioners and friends, both young and old.

Pioneer principal of St Luke's school Sr Mary O'Connor said of Fr McSweeney -He was loved and hugged by the children. His liturgies really

came down to the children's level and he made them very meaningful.

"He was always ready to listen to them and accept the many drawings and works they would present to him.

-His weeky visit without fail, to the school, was a great consolation as it was a chance to communicate with him and to become aware of his insistence that the parish and school communities were working together.

-He gave himself to first communion preparation and was sensitive to those coming back to their faith.

-He was willing to work at the spiritual growth of teachers for the good of their pupils' faith as well Fr McSweeney is survived by his brother Fr Jim McSweeney in Perth and in Ireland his sisters Anne Dympna and Patricia.

May he rest in peace.

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No follow-up editorial from Margaret von PERGER, Swanbourne Sir, congratulations on your large bold headlines WAR CONDEMNED (The Record, January 24).

It was disappointing, however, that you did not follow through with a leading article.

Instead you used an editorial from the English Universe with its pro-war statements such as: . . a grim determination to see things through. The cause is

just . the world community has decided rightly that enough is enough.Well, not everyone in the world community and not all our Christian leaders either think going to war was the right decision or that the cause is just.

The pope has said "the fighting must end" and has condemned the "deplorable bombardments" and the American bishops believe that

-offensive force in this situation would likely violate- principles of Catholic teaching on the just war theory.

That's different from Cardinal Hume's statement that the war is "a tragic necessity-.

I haven't heard statements from all our Australian bishops. Cardinal Clancy's and Bishop Healy's statewere ments disappointing.

In masses I've attended

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included the construction of both a new church and school.

To that parish he had given the title Our Lady of The Mission because of his nearly 10 years as director of Catholic Missions and Migration.

Originally from Mullinavat Co, Kilkenny he was educated in Waterford De La Salle College and then at St John's College where he was ordained on June 16, 1957.

After early appointments at Kalgoorlie, Victoria Park and Maylands, he returned to the Goldfields until 1965. His subsequent three years at Subiaco was followed by a brief spell at Maddington, Lynwood before he took up residence with the Daughters of Charity at Highgate.

He served two terms as a diocesan consultor and a term as chairman of the council of priests. He was a spiritual director of the Legion Senatus Woodvale parish spokesman Maurice Beeson called Fr

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Bouquets... from Richard HARDCASTLE, North Beach Sir, I commend the courageous article 'Our beloved Austalia', writColleen by ten McGuiness-Howard.

It was such a positive experience to read a patriot's view of her from Brian WEBB, North Doubleview Sir, Colleen McGuinessHoward is a person of great character and insight into the human values of life and all that is dear to us.

country, and aspirations for its unity, during times when patriotism does not seem to be encouraged at all. This is a great pity.

I migrated to Australia a number of years ago and have greatly benefitted from those assimilating years. I have always been supported by Aus-

who have tralians e xtended their friendship, encouragement and hospitality to my integration strivings.

I have married an Australian, and we and our children do what we can to be involved in community acitivities as well as socialising with

our many friends.

Seeing therefore the two sides of it, first as a migrant and now as an Australian, I heartilty Ms with agree McGuiness-Howard's view, one which every committed Australian should agree to, when she points out that only

through commitment and integration will we be unified as a nation.

The article was also very well balanced because as well as stating the truth, that Australia has been 'given' freely away, it calls for unity amongst Australians.

McGuinessMs Howard's call to us all to keep what is left, fight for what is lost, and to above all be patriotic, loyal and true to this great country, is something we have long needed to hear.

taking issue with parts of her article "Our Beloved Australia". Hear, Hear!

part with their heritage however they come to Australia with presumably the intention of settling here and therefore "becoming Australian".

the "lustitia et Pax-. We all grow richer for the diverse customs becoming one.

objection to the assertion that "some give no commitment except for selfish gain", which is a concept adhered to world wide "allies" and in other countries less friendly than ours . . . Why single out an Australian endeavouring to preserve Australia for Australians in generations to come?

assets for the future and the

In the article certain parts were highlighted. I quote — "We Australians have to fight for our precious culture and land- and, "All who live here must respect totally the Australian people and their country-.

have published three letters in The Record of January 31,

It is understood that migrants will reluctantly

There is no intention on my behalf and I am sure Colleen shares those same sentiments, that "New Australians- will feel any lesser a person or not able in time to assimilate. Such sentiments are NOT in contradiction of

from W BRYAN, Shenton Park

overseas have told us how lucky we are to live in a country with so many endowments

freedom and advantages denied to them in their own countries, which we are offering to them here

Certainly we are, and in walking down the street a feeling of pride arises at the sight of our new neighbours — the migrants and refugees, obviously enjoying the

Australia is indeed a multicultural nation and owes a welcome to these people, particularly those who have fled from the victimisation a nd deprivations experienced in their own coun-

I am sure she needs no referees on that score and so it is therefore, I am somewhat astounded that you

Sir, Colleen McGuinessHoward spoke for a lot of us when she expressed her pride in our country — Australia.

Fellow Australians have had great achievements in all areas and visitors from

Deeper reading of the comments conveys to me the obvious intent that we need to preserve our land, for the inhabitants, not "sell it to the highest bidder — some foreign interest that will reap benefits for others not living within our shores" There is certainly no tries and long horrifying experiences in refugee camps.

Colleen McGuinessHoward's definition of multiculturalism — division and not intigration is misleading as a just concept of multiculturalism is a recognition of the cultures and enrichments brought to our shores

If no controls are imposed then Australia will have no

in two hundred years of pioneering In her concluding comments Colleen McGuinessHoward rightly points out the necessity of prayer to keep Australia Christian As Pope John Paul's messages for World Migration Day, 1990 says As

Unless there is loyalty, integration commitment

and patriotism among the Australian people, as she states, this country ever never, "can survive".

Congratulatios to the Record on this excellent article. It is high time someone had the courage and the wisdom to state the obvious. from Robert CHESTER, York

landlord may well evict us all.

The bottom line of the article is perhaps directed at our Government and not necessarily political: "which wasn't the politicians, to give away in the first place-.

In that regard there can be no dispute.

Australia, the land, is our biggest asset. Let us retain ownership.

How refreshing to read such a forcible article on "Our Beloved Australia" by McGuinessColleen Howard.

This strikes right to the core In this troubled age there is absolutely no room for complacency — keep up the good work

Jesus is the transparent image of the Father's love, so the Church must be the image of the tender care of the Redeemer; therefore it should be obvious that the community where the migrants alight is a community which can welcome and love them.

May the community of

Christ's followers never greet them with a long face indicating that they are a bother in the course of one's daily endeavours and duties, but rather greet them with the Joyful face of one who has met Christ, whom they have been waiting for and whom they recognised in the face of the stranger.

that we live in a bountiful country and should be prepared to share our good fortune with others.

rather than adopting a status quo approach.

Rather than the socalled American type breast beating patriotism advocated by Colleen, let us remember that we are inhabitants of one world.

Emphasis on national pride has been the cause of as many wars as, let's face it, religious bias.

Brickbats... view it could be regarded as a remembrance of a brutal invasion by an imperialistic power of a poor defenceless country, and the subjugation, repression and murder of its inhabitants.

Apart from Aborigines, a ll Australians have overseas origins. Each succeeding wave of hopeful immigrants has been absorbed into Australian society and in the process enriched it.

So let's get our pride of being Australian in some perspective.

Each wave of migration has had its opponents, in fact Australians do not

We only accept just over 100,000 Our acceptance criteria has become very stringent. As a result we are getting the "cream of the crop" of migrants from all over the world.

Migrants bring with them so much material, spiritual, cultural and human wealth.

They bring with them over 4 billion dollars each year in money.

They also bring a wealth of qualifications, skills, expertise at no expenses to Australia and at a loss to their countries of origin.

Diversity". But unity cannot be achieved through past processes such as assimilation where migrants were asked to give up their culture and everything they hold dear and become instant "true blue- Aussies.

from Johanna BOWEN, Stoneville

Chapel to see the great proportion of Asians there. I thank God our faith will be safeguarded because of their coming to our shore.

Colleen speaks about "Australians"? The Aborigines, the descendants of the first settlers, the descendants of the transported convicts, the descendants of

the gold seekers or maybe the descendants of post World War 2 migrants are all Australians but the Aborigines are more Australian than the rest of us.

"Assimilate" can be become like, to incorporate as one's own. I believe it is a doubtful word to use as a r equirement New for

A /Professor M PENDLETON, Murdoch University

Australians have for pride in Australia's environment, history, war time bravery, rugged individualism, and unique culture, inter alia.

Ms McGuiness-Howard bemoans the lack of patriotism evidenced by a dearth of flag waving and anthem singing, hand on breast. She sees a sell out to migrants motivated by economic gain while steadfastly resisting assimilation. ". . Australia will never, ever, survive as a factionalised splintered hotch potch of many ethnics (sic) who have no links with anyone

except their own ethnic group."

Americans are held up as an example of true patriots and a fully assimilated people. Japanese, Indonesians and Asians generally are singled out as the recipients of land which our government has "given away- while "Australians have looked on helplessly".

What is worse, many of these immigrants are not Christians. Multiculturalism is the government policy seen as going to the root of these evils.

For the non Christian there

from Brian O'LEARY,

Dunsborough Sir, The article "Our Beloved Australia" by Colleen McGuinessHoward made my blood boil.

We are asked to be uncritically proud of our wonderful culture —

from Gerald SEARLE, Catholic Migrant Centre Sir, I felt sad when I read McGuinessColleen Howard's article on "Our Beloved AustraliaOver one million migrants from all over the world express interest each year in migration to this wonderful country.

Sir, Colleen Howard's sentiments and statements are inappropriate to an Australia Day remembrance.

Regarding our Catholic faith; one has only to attend any central religious devotion or simply attend First Friday Mass in All Saints

Sir, While fully cognisant of my own failings of charity the ideas put forward by McGuinessColleen Howard can not go uncontested.

They are anathema to the call to love God through love of others, even to the extent of losing our life (and perhaps lifestyle) so as to gain it; anathema to what is the essence of Catholic Christianity.

The article extols the cause

much of which appears to be centred on booze, birds, sport and meat pies — and migrants are sternly warned that they must conform.

The Australia Day holiday is a day of celebration for the establishment of the Australian nation.

From another point of

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I can understand Ms McGuiness-Howard's fear of fragmentation. But that need not be.

Diversity is either a challenge or a problem. We can and should create "Unity in

have an unblemished record in toleration of newcomers.

The emphasis in the article of being proud to be an Australian is misplaced. Is pride still one of the seven deadly sins?

Rather we should be grateful and thank God

The sharing should not require the imposition of conformity with existing Australian moves. As has occurred in the past we should be open to enriching our culture

Our Archbishop has challenged us to be an inclusive and participative Church.

their ability to adjust and most adjust with time. Many experience culture shock, isolation, home-sickness, depression, loneliness.

All migrants have to deal with the loss of their homeland, their culture, their people. It is a time we have to give them. It is a time they need our support, understanding, acceptance, respect, friendship, love.

Many have to return to say their final goodbyes. Most migrants and their children eventually adjust and enrich Australia in sc many ways.

As Christians we are challenged to 'Welcome the Stranger" into our hearts and our country. Selfishness, unwillingness to share is a way to national destruction.

To be such we cannot marginalise anyone. To be such the migrant needs to be able to say "thank you for your understanding, thank you for your acceptance, thank you for your love. I am now able to give and return the same a hundredfold-.

defined as to resemble, to I don't believe it is a requirement in marriage either. Does America really demand its migrants be assimilated?

As to "one Australian culture". It must be very difficult for any newcomer to decide what in Australian

culture to "resemble" or "incorporate as one's own".

After all, we have only recently acquired a national anthem and we're still battling over our flag. Only our Aborigines have traditional dancing. We don't have a national costume.

If the new arrivals are "becoming well off - I would

suggest it is because they are willing to work hard and long as today's Australians are not. They are entitled to "love our money- as they will eventually love our land given time and a place to call home.

Multiculturalism has done much for Australia in the last 30 years. My life has

certainly been enriched by the arrival of "newer" Australians. I am sure this enrichment will continue provided we older Australians have the wisdom, the love, the tolerance, the understanding and the generosity to welcome their arrival and their contributions.

are a multiplicity of arguments against these points.

Some are merely corrections as to facts, eg a foreigner sees buying land or doing business generally in Australia as akin to playing at a rigged roulette table. The rules of the game are redefined from time to time having regard to the nationality of the player.

Protectionism s/he is told means that ordinary concepts of fairness are not observed because the player is a foreigner.

In that temple of patriotism, the United States, national-

ity has always been irrelevant to land owning and to lesser extent to business dealings.

It is ironic that the article ends by pointing to Hawaii as an example of where (presumably the author means native Hawaiians are second class citizens, like Australians may become. If ever there was an example of total assimilation it it the i nculturation of native Hawaiians by continental United States.

For the Catholic Christian the arguments are much simpler. Christ's message is

to find self by losing self in love of others. The Gospels are full of specific, powerful and very demanding examples.

If violence is done to one part of the body offer the other to your assailant, if money is owed to you forgive the debt and offer the debtor your very necessaries of life.

One can not crave a high standard of living and also love God — one must choose, those who have found their material life have already found their reward.

Surely for the nation these

personal admonitions have the same force but are addressed to the aggregation of individuals who make up that nation.

That is insensitive, inhuman and cruel. The process of adjustment takes time.

Migrants are assessed on

Australians.

National pride is to be applauded if it means national self respect earned through a genuine and honest striving to become better people.

If national pride smacks of jingoism or self satisfaction one does well to bear in mind the oft repeated scriptural message "the exalted shall be humbled and the humble exalted-.

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The Complete Works of Shakespeare. The Alexander Text adopted by the BBC for their complete cycle of plays, (Collins bb $29.99).

The reputation of this onevolume Shakespeare edited by the late Professor Peter

Alexander has increased steadily since its publication.

Professor Alexander's scholarship has produced a text that is internationally accepted as consistently sound, reliable and authoritive: a lifetime's experience of teaching Shakespeare to

his students has devised just the aids that the ordinary reader and student need without swamping the text with a mass of extraneous material.

A glossary of nearly 2500 items gives the meaning of obsolete and difficult words and phrases, with line references to each occurrence. The introduction summarises what is known of Shakespeare's life, sketches his development as a dramatist, and describes the origins of our text of the plays in the First Folio and the early "good" and "bad" Quartos.

The Alexander Text is widely used by scholars, and students will appreciate the fact that its line numbering relates to the standard concordances: and all readers will be grateful for the carefully chosen typography which makes this edition the pleasantest to use of all onevolume Shakespeares.

The Alexander Text of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare was chosen by the BBC as the basis for its major production of the complete plays.

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Pioneer Women Pioneer Land. Yesterday's tall poppies by Susanna De Vries-Evans (Angus & Robertson distributed through Collins bb $29.95) Among the many women whose tenacity and courage helped to open up this country were more than a handful who stood tall beside their sisters — a group of women whose

achievements were remarkable and enduring. These early settlers were an admirable mixture of gentility, refinement, resourcefulness and extraordinary toughness.

Esther Johnston, the First Fleet convict who became a Lieutenant Governor's Lady; Mary McConnel, founder of the Royal Brisbane Children's Hospital; Mary Penfold, the pioneer of the South

Australian wine industry; Louisa Meredith, the talented artist, writer and conservationist; Elizabeth Macarthur, the first lady of Australia and a co-founder of the wool trade; Georgiana Gordon McCrae, a Duke's daughter and professional artist; and Georgiana Molloy, the early research botanist who helped introduce our native plants to the Old World.

These women, together with Caroline Louisa Atkinson, Mary Ann Friend, and the Bussell sisters were all pioneers who left their mark on a pioneer land.

Looking at their lives with hindsight, it is a wonder that they ever survived floods, fire, pestilence, childbirth and the impossible conditions they were forced to endure. Did these challenges produce the character that these women exhibited or was the character already there for them to surmount such odds?

This book is not a definitive study of all women in early Australia, but it does look deeply at a few of those who were the "tall poppies" of their time, the high achievers with high profiles who left behind a record of their endeavours.

Growing Young. The five point fitness plan to minimise the effect of ageing by Rene Cailliet and Leonard Gross. Published by Grafton. $10.95.

It's a medical fact that after 35 the human body has different needs — needs that most fitness books fail to address.

Growing Young is an easy-

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• How to regain lost strength.

• How to defend the most vulnerable parts of your body • How to lose weight while

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• How to hold on to the youthfulness you regain.

From understanding the body's special needs to proven techniques for staying young, this medically approved guide is a must for everyone over 35 who wants a lifetime of good — and healthy — living.

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Clever tips The Ultimate Book of Car Hints by Tony Davis (Bay Books through Collins $6.95).

Tony Davis — a selfconfessed car nut — is one of Australia's most prolific writers on automotive subjects. Packed with easy-toread information, his latest book The Ultimate Book of Car Hints, can show you: • How to save hundreds of dollars a year in running costs.

• Ways to keep your car looking terrific — and how to make sure it's not stolen.

• Smart tips for buying the best new or used car at the best price.

• How to handle major and minor motoring emergen-

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• How to start a cranky car other simple and remedies.

• What to do if the battery goes flat.

• What all of those strange noises actually mean!

• Sensible precautions for winter and summer motoring.

• How to get the most out of a motoring holiday • Towing • safety tips • essential information on and tyres brakes • technology you should know • useful contacts • metric motoring c onversions and lots more . . also includes a full glossary of common automotive terms.

Wildflowers of Western Australia in Colour. An Australian Souvenir (Viking O'Neil $6.99) and Perth In Colour. An Australian Souvenir ( Viking O'Neil $6.99) Each book would make a

superb gift, especially for visitors interstate or overseas, depicting in beautiful photography our magnificent flora and truly beautiful city of Perth.

A great Oft for a very reasonable price.

The Complete Mind & Body Book: Total Bodycare, by Louise Wallace andIlrJean Ann Graham (Reader's Digest through Collins bb $40).

balanced diet. Reference to these chapters will help you to avoid illness and stay in good health.

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The complete mind and body book has been written to help you improve your chances of enjoying good health over your lifetime — and it shows you how to look good and feel good about how you look — whatever your self-image.

Pray as you Can by Kieran Hynes. Published

by St Paul Publications. $11.95.

There can be only one starting point for developing a prayer life that is satisfying, fulfilling, challenging and exciting.

That starting place is where we actually are, at this moment.

We cannot start from where we would like to be, or where we think we should be. If we try to do that we will undoubtedly enter into a life of illusion and distortion, of self-deception and

departure from reality With these practical words, Fr Kieran Hynes begins this book on prayer. He talks about prayer itself about different ways of praying, about different methods and traditions of prayer, about how to begin a prayer life.

Sometimes amusing, sometimes almost poetic, but always practical, Pray As You Can will appeal to people who are just starting on a prayer lift — our greatest adventure, as Fr Hynes describes it — and to those who already have a deep relationship with Christ.

The first half of the book explains how your body behaves — for example, how much sleep you need, what kind of exercise works for you and how to eat a

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Sound physical health brings psychological benefits too — such as feeling sharper mentally and being more confident about the way you look Advice on the more cosmetic aspects of bodycare — which clothes suit you best, how to look after your skin and hair and ( for women) how to use makeup effectively — can be found in the second half of the book. Here you can discover how to improve your appearance and add to wur self-esteem.

A Place Called Bird by Parker (Pan Tony $14.99).

Tony Parker spent three and a half months in a small Kansas town, deep in the heartlands of the American Midwest, and there he demonstrated his uncanny ability to draw 'ordinary people out of their shells, enabling them to talk with often surprising eloquence about their aspirations, beliefs and fears.

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New times: St Brigid's Midland: Sat — (vigil) Mass 6.30pm, Sun — 8am (on 1st and 3rd Sundays combined English/ Italian), 9.30am, 7pm.

St Michael's Herne Hill: Sun 8am.

BUR MA FETE The Australian Burma Mission Relief Society will hold a Food Fete and Jumble Sale on Sunday, February 17 at the Sacred Heart Church Parish hall, Highgate from 9.30am onwards.

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BEGINNING EXPERIENCE A Beginning Experience weekend program for the widowed, separated and divorced will be held at St Joseph's convent, Safety Bay, March 8-10. For further information please phone Jenny on 447 3725 or Gemma on 447 2922.

An information evening for those interested in learning more about the weekend will be held at — North Beach Pastoral Centre, (448 4888) 3 Kitchener St, North Beach on Wednesday, February 20 at 8pm.

Craigie on February 20 at 8pm.

Phone Sharron on 307 3972.

Riverton on February 19 at 8pm, phone Ron on 354 3283.

Armadale on February 19 phone Mary on 399 4984.

MacKILLOP LECTURE

MacKillop Catholic Primary chool, Verna Road, South Lake will the venue for a talk by Fr Paul Gardiner SJ on the life of Mary MacKillop — Saint for Australia?

Saint for Now? on Wednesday, February 27 at 7.30pm. Fr Gardiner works on the cause of Mary MacKillop in Rome.

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Sun, February 17, 12.30 to 5.30pm L.J. Goody Bioethics Centre Jugan Street, Glendalough Cost: $5 covers lunch, afteroon tea and information kit Noon Registraton 12.30 "Abortion: A youth perspective" Chris

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Guy Riolo will remain at Auxilium College, L ysterfield for further Salesian training and will also attend Catholic Theological College, Clayton for ecclesiastical training.

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He is the son of Mrs A. Riolo of Perth and the late Mr F Riolo and was born in Sicily and, after migrating to Australia, was educated by the Christian Brothers in Perth. He later gained a Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the WA Education Department and worked with Telecom for many years before applying to join the Salesian prenovitiate in 1989.

COUNTRY PRAYER The fifth day of reflection organised by the combined country Catholic parishes will be held at the Catholic Church, Bruce Rock on March 25, commencing at 9.30am. he theme for the day: "Exploring he Annunciation".

INAUGURAL SEMINAR

Lawrence 1.15 *** LUNCH ••• 2.00 "Meet the abortion providers" A video featuring a true account of the abortion industry by former abortionists and clinic workers.

3.00 "Abortion: One woman's story" Sue Clifford 3.30 '"•• AFTERNOON TEA "•• 4.00 "Stopping abortion in WA" Richard Egan 4.45 "Getting into action" a practical workshop

February Mass and buffet tea a rchdioce12 san organisations, Archbishop Foley and Bishop Healy.

14 & Council of priests, Archbishop Foley and Bishop Healy.

15 Mass and blessing of Mazenod 15 extensions, Archbishop Foley.

16 Bless and open St Vincent de Paul Depot, Osborne Park, Archbishop Foley.

17 Rite of Election, St Mary's Cathedral, Archbishop Foley.

23 Catholic Teachers' Mass, St Mary's Cathedral, Archbishop Foley.

Guy Riolo (second from left) of Perth has taken his first vows in the Salesian Order. He ispictured with the Salesian provincial superior Fr Julian Fox, and three other novices.

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