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Spiritof love Bishop Healy greets catechumen Gary Robinson of Greenwood and his wife Simone (left) and Monica Bob his sponsor.

Rule by ridicule • Page 4

Parish pays its last respects • Page 2

Intimacy, life at home and love...

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The cathedral was a mother in the spirit to the catechumens and candidates about to enter the Catholic Church, Bishop Healy, the diocesan administrator said at the recent Lenten ceremony there.

"It is very fitting that you should come to the Cathedral during the program because here is the Mother Church of the diocese.

"As you have been wonderfully loved by your mother in the flesh, so you should know that your mother in the spirit also welcomes you and is ready to help you on the road to salvation.

"Here too you will experience something else of importance.

"You will experience the wider Church and will come to realise that what has been happening in your parish, has been happening in other parishes too, that others like you have been advancing on the road to the Baptismal font on to full membership of the Church.

"You will come to realise, too, that they have been shown the same love and help that you have been given by the parish community to which they belong.

Were raising the standard.

"In itself, it will be a source of great comfort and encouragement to you."

The bishop greeted 20 catechumens and 38 candidates coming from the parishes of Bassendean, Bedford/Inglewood, Brentwood/ Willetton, .Doubleview, Greenmount, Greenwood, Highgate, Kalamunda, Kwinana, Lesmurdie, Midland, Ocean Reef, Queens Park, Whitfords/Mullaloo.

He said the cathedral and parish ceremonies were only "the wrapping around the real gift that the Church offers you.

"The real gift is salvation and the multitude of things it includes.

"Following in the footsteps of Jesus Christ means not only living according to his values and standards but also experiencing the same kinds of things which He did like His temptations recounted for us in the Gospel today.

"As he suffered trials and temptations all during His life, we can expect to suffer the same fate.

"At the outset especially, it may be difficult for us to appreciate the reality of the help given us

by God. "As our personal relationship through prayer grows, so will our ability to see the hand of God working in our lives.

In the meantime, it will be well for us to see Jesus Himself in our brothers and sisters and to experience that wonderful communion there is between all of us.

"The support we receive from each other comes not just from these brothers and sisters but from God Himself through them.

"We are all instruments of God for each other.

"In the light of that truth,I call on the whole Church of Perth to take these and others catechumens and candidates for the faith to their hearts and to pray earnestly for them during this holy time of Lent and preparation for the time of Holy Week and Easter.

"That way we will all benefit from this time when grace is in the air and will be a stronger Christian community for the time ahead."

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Sister Patrick and some of the parishioners browse through some of the memorabilia devoted to the archbishop.

On Monday evening, February 18, the Spearwood Parish Community, Parish Priest Fr Barry Whitely and Deacon Minh-Thuy Nguyen paid tribute to the late Archbishop William Foley.

The visual focus of the Commemorative Service was a symbolic coffin with the Archbishop's mitre, stole, bible, chalice and an enlargement of the cover page of the memorial issue of 'The Record'.

The Archbishop's address to the people when he launched The Year of Mission was played before the service began.

The readings, Gospel community, Fr Whitely

Spearwood remembers archbishop reflected on the occasions when the Archbishop visited Spearwood for confirmation, visitation and the annual St Lucy procession.

When he came for confirmation he came as

a servant not a master, on visitation he took time to talk to and listen to the sick and elderly of the parish, the parish workers and on social occasions he was one of the crowd.

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Fr Barry stressed that it was good for the parish to grieve together, to remember together.

Although there was an atmosphere of sadness there was also a sense of great joy.

A symbolic coffin with the archbishop's mitre, stole, bible, chalice and an enlargement of the cover page of The Record's memorial issue.

The congregation In his address to the devoted to the Archbiradiated solidarity and faith life of the commun- shop, amongst which pride at belonging to the ity with the Archbishop were the plans and flock of such a great man at its head, the rose of photos of St Jerome's and leader. hope and tears of Church which was opened by Archbishop A slide reflection was sadness. presented after comThe service concluded Foley on February 15, munion depicting the with New People — New 1987. and Prayers of the Faith- Life a hymn Spearwood The coffin and symbols ful were taken from the folk call "The Archbi- remained in the church "Mass of Thanksgiving shop's hymn" and eve- through the week. The for the Life and Ministry ryone was invited to stay children from St of Archbishop Foley" and have a cuppa and Jerome's school came to held in St Mary's Cathed- browse through the dis- pray for their ral on February 15. play of memorabilia Archbishop.

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The Marist Fathers are to leave Belmont Redcliffe parish at the end of the year after 35 years' service.

The decision was announced to about 100 parishioners last Friday night at a meeting attended by Bishop Healy, diocesan administrator.

Father Garry Reynolds, the Marist provincial superior said the decision was due mainly to the shortage of Marist personnel and to increased Marist commitments to the Philippines, Brazil and Africa.

It was hoped to have Marist Fathers Lou Malloy and Steve Truscott continue their work in the Aids chaplaincy and Fullness of Life Centre respectively, said Fr Reynolds.

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The Minister for Planning Mr David Smith whose portfolio covers the former State Planning Commission is apparently choosing to lie low in the Fitzgerald Hotel debate.

It was the State Planning Commission that in August 1990 imposed an absolute caveat of demolition on any purchaser of the hotel.

Late on Monday The Record sent the minis-

ter's press secretary a number of questions to put to the minister.

The press secretary expressed surprise that the questions had not been put directly to the minister or to the Department of Planning.

When The Record asked if it should indeed question the department, the secretary replied that this was not necessary and that the forthcoming

PCC gets court rebuff over hotel question Costs were awarded against the Perth City Council in the Supreme Court last week and the archdiocese of Perth was vindicated in its taking of the court action.

In a negotiation last Friday between the parties before the court opened, the archdiocese withdrew its writ of mandamus on the undertaking of the Perth City Council to issue that day a licence for demolition.

The licence had been applied for on January 18 but the PCC refused to grant the licence and to cash the cheque that accompanied the application.

In a 90-minute hearing over the matter of costs the Hon Mr RJ. Anderson pointed out that the archdiocese had been entitled to take its action and that the Perth City Council had erred in at least two points of law.

The action on behalf of the archdiocese was not

futile, the judge said, because it conferred a benefit to which the archdiocese was entitled, namely the right to compensation if the matter arose at a later date.

The judge pointed out that a licence to demolish a building is not a permission to do so but merely one of a number of steps in a process.

Evidence was. produced that if the licence had not been issued on Friday, February 22, the archdiocese would have been denied its right to compensation under the new heritage legislation.

The judge pointed out that had the archdiocese not withdrawn its mandamus the action would have proceeded and the court would have ordered the PCC to grant the licence.

The judge further pointed out two errors on the part of the Perth City Council.

A local authority has no discretion to refuse to issue a licence, he said, and he asked counsel for

Some true facts about the hotel • On December 21, 1984, the State PlanCommission ning bought the Fitzgerald Hotel for the purpose of eventually widening Fitzgerald Street.

• The licencee continued to trade and took his own decision in January 1990 to close the doors and move the licence elsewhere.

• The archdiocese was informed that the premises would be likely offered for sale.

The State Planning Commission in February 1990 allowed the premises to be inspected on the departure of the licensee.

• At the beginning of August 1990 a public auction was announced, two prom-

inent signs were fixed to the building, up to 10 advertisements were placed in The West Australian and a story was written in the property section.

• At the same time a printed prospectus was issued by the auctioneers detailing the conditions of sale and the zoning category and uses for the building.

• At the auction on SepWednesday, tember 26, 1990 the auctioneer repeatedly drew attention to the conditions of sale and the zoning category.

They were: "The Fitzgerald St frontage to a depth of 5 metres and a truncation on to the John St frontage of the land is required for road pur-

poses under the Metropolitan Regional Scheme.

"The purchaser shall enter into a deed with the vendor as to: ( a) Demolish the improvements affecting the land required for road purposes at no cost to the vendor within a period of 5 years from the date of registration of the agreement. (b) Cede the land required for road purposes free of cost within 5 years of date of registration of the agreement. (c) An absolute caveat will be lodged on the title in respect of such deed."

The archdiocese has entered into an agreement on the condition of purchase.

Zoning: "Industry Ci" under the City of Perth, City Planning Scheme 1985. Permitted uses include light industry, warehouse/ showrooms.

Other possible uses r equiring special approval include hotels, lodging houses, retail/shops, restaurant and general industry.

• There were 25 people at the public auction on site, only one other buyer bid and the archdiocese secured the property in six bids.

• Immediately upon taking possession, the building was assessed for its use by Church related agencies. It was found to be in bad repair in the roof, windows and other fittings.

the PCC to give reason why it was entitled to do so. No reason was forthcoming.

The judge also challenged the alleged reason on which the PCC claimed to have refused the application for the licence, namely the nonpayment of the fee.

The original application had been accompanied on January 18 by a cheque which the PCC refused to cash and which the agent subsequently stopped. The PCC later asserted that the fee had not been paid and another cheque was lodged by the archdiocese.

The judge pointed out that the PCC had erred because the fee is not required for the licence to be issued but only before the actual permission to demolish is granted.

The licence to demolish, he said is merely to give a local authority the right to supervise a demolition and related matters.

• In view of the more than $200,000 that would have been required to minimally repair the building and adapt its ground floor for office use, the archdiocese decided that the expense was unjustified for the five year life of the building.

• Upon the abandonment of the original building by the archdiocese, Vanguard Press applied for an office redevelopment to the new street alignment and in conformity with Perth City Council zoning conditions announced at the auction.

• On February 11, 1991, the Perth City Council rejected the application.

lies low in the debate replies would be sufficient after the matters had been researched.

At 8am Wednesday, The Record received the following replies which the press secretary had received from the department: Q: Did the Archdiocese of Perth enter into an agreement on September 26 with the State Planning Commission and is that agreement still in

force? A: Yes. Q: Did the agreement specify the maximum period within which the demolition for road widening viz five years would occur AND did the agreement NOT specify a minimum period in which the demolition would take place? A: Yes. Q: Was there any discretion in the agreement for this demolition

not proceeding? A: No. Q: How was the purchaser to be advised and what were to be the purchaser's rights and was the purchaser obliged in the agreement to use the building, inhabit the building, or in any way not modify the building between the time of purchase and the demolition: A: As owner, the purchaser was entitled to

demolish or modify the building subject to obtaining the necessary approvals.

Q: Can the minister offer any comment on why the Archdiocese of Perth is being harassed by other ministries and the Perth City Council because it wants to effect the agreement?

A:Ida not know that other ministries or the City of Perth are harassing the archdiocese. They presumably are fulfilling their

responsibilities as they see fit.

Q: Has the Department made any effort to publicise these facts given the obvious lack of information in press reports so far?

A: Yes, a statement outlining the conditions of sale and the reason for sale has been provided to ABC Radio and The West Australian.

The department was not aware that the Sunday Times were preparing a story and were not contacted for a comment.

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Record RULE BY RIDICULE The vaunted abilities of the novice minister Mr Jim McGinty have not been particularly evident these weeks.

In a remarkably timed outburst last week just hours before the commencement of a Supreme Court action the minister chose publicly to berate the archdiocese reportedly because of its alleged attempt to frustrate his heritage legislation.

His media blitz continued unabated this week.

In this new version of government by decree can others who dare pursue their rights in court expect a pre-trial drubbing by a minister of the crown for their trouble? The thought police are obviously alive and well.

Supreme Court Justice Mr Anderson clearly took a different view of things to Mr McGinty.

He found not only that the archdiocese had every right to bring an action which would have succeeded at court if pursued, but also that the archdiocese would have been denied its due right to compensation had a licence not been issued.

He further found the Perth City Council to be off course on administering two points of law and accordingly had no hesitation awarding costs to the council — for which the PCC ratepayers will no doubt be forever grateful.

The archdiocese of Perth and the Catholic community of WA need no sermons from Minister McGinty about responsibilities for heritage. No other community has done so much to preserve the past — a far better record than pouting politicians and opportunist council planners who have let every worthwhile building be pulled down (where's The Esplanade Hotel?)

The Sisters of Mercy at Victoria Square have performed a miracle of preservation for Perth city as has the archdiocese at the Catholic Education Centre. Dozens of f ormer convents are now integrated into Catholic schools and an almost completely re-built West Perth presbytery is hardly an insignificant addition to Northbridge, nor are the dozens of old churches maintained at considerable cost.

Mr McGinty can pick up his much needed momentum and ride to glory on the inscrutable bandwagon of the Perth City Council in this issue but he would better serve his West Australian electors by giving straight answers to a range of questions that are being skilfully ducked on all sides with the collaboration of a badly informed media.

Where were the heritage minders in 1984 when the government's State Planning Commission bought the hotel to condemn it to death for road widening? Where was the PCC bleeding heart back then?

Where were last week's 17 opposing PCC councillors in August 1990 when enormous auction signs were plastered on the hotel heritage that is so dear to their hearts?

What were the myopic Perth City Council staff doing in August when a dozen newspaper advertisement and publicity announced the government authorised auction prospectus demanding demolition as an absolute condition of sale?

Where was the beating heart of the National Trust now so touchingly invoked by the PCC, when the auctioneer warned any too hasty purchaser about the demolition conditions with which he would have to comply?

Why are the officials of the State Planning Dept hiding like Hussein in their bunker hoping the war they caused will pass over the top?

What are the rights of ordinary people reading a straightforward zoning announced at the sale and now finding it is subject to the labyrinthine and contradictory interpretation of a city planner before whom PCC councillors last week bowed in awe?

What protection do people have henceforth from self appointed heritage hounds conferring upon themselves busybody police-like powers to lecture hapless owners on what they shall or shall not spend on buildings?

It is hard to escape the conclusion that certain elements within the Perth City Council have an agenda to exploit this manufactured embarrassment to the Catholic Church's archdiocese in order to settle a few other scores.

Why would a two hour hearing before the Supreme Court have proceeded with no PCC solicitor present nor even one staff from the PCC office just 200 metres away from the court?

Why did it take the PCC six months (or six YEARS!) to decide only last week to ask the Department of Planning "to clarify the extent and likely timing of the proposed widening of Fitzgerald Street"? Can't councillors read an auction prospectus?

Why did the 17 councillors only last week discover that the hotel, standing apparently from all eternity "is of historical and architectural interest"?

If the Heritage Minister is hell bent on making this his inaugural trophy why aren't other crown ministers who oversaw the origins of the debacle prepared to speak out?

Our forebears thought it a step forward when responsible government replaced the whims of colonial autocrats.

Currently we are bing treated to a shabby display of Rule

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Ratzinger speaks on MedjugorJe DALLAS: Concerning the alleged Marian apparitions in Medjugorje Cardinal Ratzinger in an interview here defended the provisional decision of the Yugoslavian bishops' conference to permit pilgrimages there while saying there is no proof yet of supernatural occurrences.

"I think the proper point is that people can go to pray there, to confess and so on, but people should not find conversion and life in the firmament of apparitions," he said. "Even if perhaps this is the first point to come, it must be the medium to find sound Catholic piety, a sound Catholic life of faith."

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Social injustice is root of violence LIMA, Peru (CNS): Two Peruvian bishops have said that continued social injustice is behind politically motivated violence which has left more than 19,000 people dead during the past decade.

Archbishop Vargas of Lima and Cardinal Juan Landazuri Rickets, his retired predecessor, called on the government to resolve the country's social inequities in order to help end the guerrilla warfare which plagues the country.

"There cannot be authentic peace if there is no authentic social justice," Archbishop Vargas said.

He said the Church has called repeatedly on the government to improve the lot of the poor, but must now take a more active part in pushing for real solutions. The Church, he said, can no longer adopt

the "inoperable posture of simply showing compassion for those who cannot find sources of subsistence-level income that are honest and just".

Cardinal Landazuri said that in Peru "there are many needs, many problems which unfortunately become fertile ground for violence."

Cardinal Landazuri said that Peruvians had a "thirst for peace" after a decade of war between guerrillas and government.

"Now is not the time for rancour or hate, but for love, reconciliation, (mutual) aid and solidarity," he said.

The cardinal said the government should admit the reality that "we are living in a state of war". He called on government officials to "define an efficient plan for achieving peace" in the country.

'Return church' VATICAN CITY (CNS): The Iliescu declined a request to Vatican has asked Romanian return five cathedrals and 72 President Ion Iliescu to return churches to the Eastern rite.

Eastern-rite churches and semiWhile more than 2000 buildnaries confiscated by the govern- ings were seized in 1948, the ment more than 40 years ago.

Catholic bishops have said they The communist government don't have enough priests to staff forcibly merged the Romanian more than the requested Catholic into the Romanian churches.

Orthodox Church in 1948. Most of Archbishop Sodano was in the Eastern-rite church buildings Romania last April to participate are still owned by the Romanian in the ordinations and installagovernment. tions of three new Catholic: About 80 per cent of Roman- bishops. ian's 23 million people are With the change in governOrthodox and about 6 per cent are ment, Pope John Paul was able to members of the Eastern- and restore the country's entire Latin-rite Catholic churches. hierarchy last March. In May, the The Eastern- and Latin-rite Vatican and the Bucharest bishops withheld full church government announced the participation in the December establishment of formal diplocelebration of National Day after matic relations.

Peaceful way KATHMANDU (UCAN): Nepal appreciates the devotion of the Catholic Church to peace and harmony among peoples of all faiths, King Birendra bir Bikram Shah Dev told Archbishop George Zur, Vatican pronuncio to Nepal.

Archbishop Zur stressed the building and developing of friendly

relations established five years ago between Nepal and the Holy See. The Church in Nepal, he said, renders "service especially through her institutions, educational and social, run by dedicated, selfless priests and religious brothers and sisters who love the country dearly."

Irish media a stone in the path DUBLIN, Ireland (CNS): Irish news media tend to present the Catholic Church as an oppressive influence in society, opposed to progress and happiness, said Bishop Joseph Duffy of Clogher.

The media also make it appear that the Church has a programmed response to every issue and is out of touch with the ordinary people, the bishop said.

"The scapegoating of the Church in the media is an immediate c.atechetical and pastoral problem for the Church," Bishop Duffy said at an Opus Dei study centre in Dublin.

"It's a problem of credibility for the Irish media. But most of all, it's a profoundly spiritual problem which affects the self-confidence of Irish society in general.

It's a reflection of a negative mood which we

all ignore at our peril," he said.

The problem has roots in the common failure to understand the basic spiritual role of the Church in society, Bishop Duffy said. He added that it also had roots in the prevailing secularism — a privatisation of religion — in Western Europe.

However, the bishop said the Church would not expect special favours from the press, but had to respect its freedom.

Like any other interest in society, the Church has a right to expect fair, balanced treatment in the media, he continued.

The Irish Catholic Church has been criticised for its stance against legalising divorce and for introducing an AIDS prevention program that does not include use of condoms.

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Old Catholic way gets new meaning SPRINGFIELD, Mass (CNS): The traditional Catholic idea of fasting has taken on new meaning in recent years, according to those familiar with various forms of spirituality.

Fasting or abstaining from food or meat as a religious practice in accordance with Church law, especially during Lent, is no longer simply following Church doctrine, the experts said.

Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are the only days when Catholics in t he Latin rite are required to fast — that is, to limit their food consumption to one main meal and two smaller

meals, with no snacking in between.

"More and more people are seeing it as a tool for spiritual growth and a way of living life more simply," said James Greer, a retreat director.

"It makes us aware of our need for God," said Greer. "Our God is a God who wants to feed us, and fasting puts the spiritual food in a different perspective.

"When we are willing to deny ourselves food, we remove obstacles that keep us from knowing our feelings in the purest sense, and also those obstacles in our relationship with God," he added.

"There is a new reality

about fasting," said Father Leo Hoar, a university chaplain.

"Before Vatican II, people dreaded Lent just because of all the fasting — and it wasn't a spiritual fasting, it was an obligatory fasting. It lost its sense of spirituality when it was Church law."

Father Hoar said that fasting as a way of getting closer to God and for intentions such as the world situation and the unborn is on the rise on college campuses and elsewhere.

"Now people are electing to fast for peace, or for friends who are in trouble, or for other special intentions," he

said, "and not in a sense of obligation or for fear of eternal damnation — but for genuine spiritual closeness to God and fellow human beings".

Some observers are not sure whether fasting is on the rise or whether world events have simply brought it more into the open.

"Now especially because of the war, people are talking about fasting," said Virginia Towner, a Daughter of the Heart of Mary and director of the Marian Centre in Holyoke, Mass.

"But fasting is a very personal thing," she said.

"Not many people who fast want to share that with others. I know

many people who have always fasted, but don't want it known."

Miss Towner, whose religious congregation does not use the title "Sister", said fasting is not simply abstaining from food, but abstaining from anything pleasurable. She said the most rewarding form of fasting is "active" fasting, that is, doing something for others rather than oneself denying pleasure.

"People have the idea that the more they do without the better," she said. "But it's better to help people — to give to others — and that's giving up oneself in an even deeper way."

All must accept'

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Ecumenical documents approved by the Church must be "accepted by

everyone" and incorporated into the preaching, teaching and ministry of the Church, Pope John Paul II said.

The results of ecumenical dialogue will be "sterile" if they remain only in the libraries of theologians, the pope told members of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

The pope commended the ecumenists not only for the agreements thay have reached with other Christians, but also for their examinations of

"the difficulties encountered".

The analysis, he said, will improve the way in which the Church exercises its divinely mandated call to work for Christian unity.

"We must become more aware of this responsibility," he said. "No difficulty inherited from the past or created by a present situation should stop us."

During the past year, the Catholic Church's with relationship Orthodox churches was strained by the reemergence in Eastern Europe of the Ukrainian, Romanian and other Eastern-rite Catholic churches, which were

'Dangerous threat'

ZAGREB: Yugoslavian Cardinal Franjo Kuharic of Z agreb says that intervention by the army in Croatia would signify a "very dangerous" threat to democratic reform throughout Yugoslavian republics.

"Now that democracy has won in four republics, we do not want military oppression.

Therefore we hope that, with the influence of democratic forces and world opinion, dialogue will be possible."

In late January, troops of the pm-communist army were deployed after Croatian militiamen ignored orders to disarm. The army said it would prosecute organisers of armed militias.

Cardinal Kuharic, whose archdiocesan see is the capital of Croatia, said the army was attempting to "put an end to democratic development in the republics of Yugoslavia."

Four of Yugoslavia's six republics recently voted the communists out of power, he noted.

The cardinal said that "several generals have organised a Yugoslavian communist party and want it to be a political power in the country".

merged with their Orthodox counterparts communist under governments in the 1940s. international The Catholic-Orthodox dialogue team decided to suspend its current work in order to focus on the issue of Eastern rites within the Catholic Church.

The pope told the council members that Vatican II taught that Catholics have "the most intense degree" of communion with Orthodox churches because of shared apostolic succession, sacramental priesthood and the Eucharist.

He said those involved in ecumenical dialogue

must "be prepared to study the specific nature of the issues in question with a great love for the Church and anxious for purity of doctrine".

Ecumenical relations are "a complex and delicate reality", which must include theological study and dialogue, personal contacts, prayer and collaboration on practical matters, the pope said.

"We are called to strive in all these fields," without neglecting any of them, he said.

Documents published by official dialogue committees and approved by the Vatican should be widely known and studied, the pope said.

He encouraged the continued work of national and diocesan ecumenical commissions as "a precious aid to pastors in the exercise of their responsibility".

The pope also said there is an "ever-increasing urgency" to ensure that ecumenism is part of theological formation, especially for future priests.

One of the main focuses of ecumenical dialgoue, he said, is the "full agreement on a common profession of faith" in fidelity to Church doctrine.

'This is what we are praying and hoping for," he said.

For refugees...

TOKYO: Japanese bishops chartered flights to take refugees out of the Gulf war zone, while a national controversy continues over Japanese government plans to conduct similar evacuation flights.

The bishops' conference hired a Royal Jordanian Airlines plane to transport the

evacuees Amman.

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In Cairo, the refugees were handed over to the care of the International Organisation for Migration.

The bishops' conference wrote to Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu informing him of its action and suggesting that the

government should also charter Jordanian planes for refugee transportation.

The bishops said suggestion their would be cheaper, safer and more acceptable to the Japanese people. The bishops encouraged other Christian organisations to contribute to future charter flights.

A great evil...

PARIS: Cardinal JeanMarie Lustiger has as c ondemned immoral any use of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons in the Persian Gulf

War. "Morality must be respected at any cost and the lack of respect for it always leads to the corruption of the winner as well as the

loser," he said.

The cardinal opposed the war and the antiwar movement as offering "simple solutions" to a complex problem.

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Round-up of the recent World Council of Churches Seventh Assembly

'Quest for unity must

Church unity and the ecumenical movement was a key focus at the Seventh Assembly of the World Council of Churches session.

At a press conference, Nicholas Lossky (Russian Orthodox), warned not to confuse unity and uniformity. He said the theology of the Orthodox church is based on a trinitarian approach, of absolute unity in absolute diversity.

Janet Crawford (Anglican, New Zealand) said the church has been divided between emphases on either visible unity or the mission of the church and renewal of society.

Now, however, there is a belief they should be complementary, she said.

Lossky said those who accuse the WCC of not being

biblical lack information about the ecumenical movement and have not read the 'serious theological work' of the commission.

He said the church fathers always had been concerned to bring the message of the gospel to their time.

Ecumenical work is no betrayal of the past but is being faithful to the communion of saints, he said.

While one could criticise aspects of the ecumenical movement, one could not object to ecumenism, he said. Otherwise how could so many churches take part?

Asked whether perceived syncretism in the ecumenical movement was affecting attempts at unity, Lossky said there are temptations towards

syncretism within the WCC. However, he said, ecumenical work necessarily implies dialogue with people from different traditions, and the task is to find criteria for discerning what is fundamental from what is secondary.

He said the fundamental is Jesus Christ, "the same yesterday, today and forever", and the unity of the church can be restored only on that basis. Lossky said there necessarily must be tension between those tempted by syncretism and those who want to maintain this fundamental.

Crawford said there is a continuing process where people appropriate the gospel for their own context.

That was done by the church fathers, she said, and she would allow people the freedom the church has

Carry on with the co-operation Two people with major roles in relationships between the World Council of Churches and Roman Catholicism each have projected a continuation of the current situation of c ooperation and collaboration.

Neither saw major changes on such questions as Roman Catholic membership in the council, or official permission for sharing holy communion.

Australian born Archbishop Edward Cassidy, president of the Vatican Council for Promoting Christian Unity, and French Reformed Pastor

The Roman Catholic Church is not a member of the World Council of Churches.

(Nor are two other church traditions — Adventism and the Salvation Army — which are structurally one church around the world.)

However, especially since the Second Vatican Council, which ended in 1965, Roman Catholic involvement in, and co-operation with, WCC activities has been notable.

Currently, 12 of the 120 members of the

Jacques Maury, WCC co- shop Cassidy, after 25 chairman of the Vatican years of growing mutual WCC Joint working confidence, "we may group, did not see WCC now speak openly of our membership for the difficulties".

Roman Catholic Church Both offered positive as likely any time soon, assessments of the many though both agreed that ways in which the Vatiit should remain a can and the WCC coopquestion open for review erate on the global level, in the years ahead. and of Roman Catholic They also referred to ecumenical involveobstactles and hesita- ments at regional, tions on both sides about national, and local levels. such membership.

(Three of the 'eight Both noted various regional ecumenical doctrinal, ethical, and organisations — for the practical disagreements Caribbean, the Pacific, and difficulties to be and the Middle East — dealt with before church include Roman Catholic unity can be realised. jurisdictions as full But, observed Archbi- members; the same is

true of about three dozen national councils of churches.)

In his message of greeting to the assembly, Pope John Paul noted "the sad fact . . . that our testimony. . . is less convincing to the degree that the world continues to be confronted by our divisions".

One questioner suggested to Archbishop Cassidy that in line with that sentiment, the Vatican should okay a 'concession' by officially allowing other Christians to receive the eucharist at celebrations under Roman Catholic

auspices, and vice versa.

Archbishop Cassidy, however, judged that sharing the eucharist is the "ultimate sign and seal" of church unity, and thus a step with many and major doctrinal implications.

So, he said, it could not be just a step along the way to unity.

Noting that some participants at an informal meeting of Roman Catholics at the assembly took strong issue with the official ban on shared eucharist, Archbishop Cassidy said "we would all like to move along much more quicidy".

But, he said, to do so would do "more harm than otherwise", because, among other things, it might cause disunion within Roman Catholicism.

(At that same meeting, the Roman Catholic JWG co-chairman, English Bishop Alan Clark, said that for Roman Catholics to receive the eucharist celebrated under ecumenical auspices, as some have done at the assembly, "does not advance the cause of Christian unity one inch".)

On the question of Roman Catholic support for the ecumenical pro-

cess related to issues of justice, peace, and creation (JPIC), C.a idy said the Vatican is fu-mly 'committed to the JPIC process', even though it declined an invitation from the WCC Central Committee to host the March 1990 World Convocation on JPIC. Archbishop Cassidy said that was because the Vatican judged the JPIC preparatory document to be lacking a proper theological basis."

Both he and Maury agreed that Roman Catholic contributions to JPIC have been significant.

Roman Catholic membership around the world is roughly double (at least) that of the current 311 WCC members.

Some have suggested that some national conferences of Roman Catholic bishops might apply individually for WCC membership, but that might be understood as contrary to the structural understanding of the Roman Catholic Church as one global body.

Nonetheless, about three dozen national councils of churches,

and three regional conferences of churches (the Pacific, the Middle East and Caribbean), the include Roman Catholic jurisdictions as full members.

Catholic involvement WCC Commission on Faith and Order are named by the Vatican.

Faith and Order and Vatican representatives also co-operate in preparing materials for the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

Seven Roman Catholic consultants attend the annual meeting of the WCC Commission on World Mission and Evangelism.

A nother Vaticannamed consultant meets annually with the WCC Christian

Medical Commission.

The Vatican appoints a Roman Catholic consultant who works fulltime with the staff of mission the commission.

One of the tutors on the staff of the WCC Ecumenical Institute at nearby Chateau Bossey is named by the Vatican.

WCC and Vatican staff members dealing with similar issues — dialogue with people of other faiths, for example — meet from time to time to compare notes.

There have been two papal visits to WCC headquarters — one in 1969 and the other in 1984.

Roughly a quarter of the WCC Geneva staff of 300-plus are Roman Catholics.

Currently, the chief body through which the Vatican and the World Council of Churches co-operate is the Joint Working Group. Its membership is about two dozen; it meets once a year.

The JWG report on its activity since the Sixth Assembly (in 1983),

and recommendations for the 1990s, is before the Seventh Assembly (and available to journalists). In the past, other organs of Vaticaii-WCC cooperation have been the Consultative Group on Social Thought and Action, and Sodepax.

Though there is nothing to prevent it, the Vatican has never applied to be a WCC member.

On both sides, some difficulties, though not insurmountable present themelves.

For one thing, the

Attention will be on obstacles

The Seventh Assembly of the World Council of Churches voted to reduce the size of the VaticanWCC Joint Working Group (JWG) and to direct it to concentrate on addressing obstacles preventing a fuller WCC-Roman Catholic relationship.

The assembly Reference Committee noted that last year was the 25th anniversary of JWG. "Most of its original mandate has been fulfilled, and Roman 6

Catholic participation in the ecumenical movement has become a normal feature," it notes, yet obstacles and difficulties remain.

It is, the report says, time to review the purposes and operations of the JWG. The report projects a "newly-composed JWG . . . to concentrate its attention on a substantive review of the relationships between the Roman Catholics and the

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WCC . . . in particular, to analyse more deeply the obstacles which have prevented the relationships from developing even more fully".

It suggests that JWG aim at "a common acknowledgement of the ecclesial character of the relationship which has grown between the RCC and the fellowship of churches in the WCC, and suggest ways of giving more substantive expression to it".

The assembly accepted recommendations that JWG membership be halved, from 12 to six (plus two staff members from each side), and that the group be given the primary task of "assessing afresh the basis and common ground shared by the RCC and the WCC, and developing new perspectives for giving shape to this relationship".

This task, it said, will need to be placed in the

context of the ongoing process of redefining the WCC vision and selfunderstanding.

The assembly asked the group not to undertake any other major projects until it has reported on this task, allowing its parent bodies to "agree on a new framework for the relationship".

This is to be completed before the next WCC assembly in seven or eight years.

However, the assembly

did ask that MG complete work begun on ecumenical formation, and on ethical issues as a source of Church division.

The task of monitoring and promoting regular co-operation between departments of the Vatican and the WCC would devolve to a smaller coordinating group.

In debate on the report, most speakers emphasised the need for WCCRCC dialogue to be

WCC Deputy General Secretary Todor Sabev, whose portfolio includes WCC-RC relations, and Jacques Maury, the veteran French Reformed pastor and ecumenist who is the WCC cochairman of the Joint Working Group attended the Seventh Assembly.

maintained or upgraded.

Several urged that more be made of ecumenical relationships involving Roman Catholics at the local level.

The assembly endorsed a move that JWC set up formal relationship with similar working groups in regional ecumenical organisations, and consult fully with the three dozen or so national councils of Churches which include Roman Catholic membership

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affirm diversity'

had for generations.

"To condemn without dialogue is not ecumenical behaviour," she said.

Asked why the Orthodox could not recognise other WCC member churches as part of the one holy, Catholic and apostolic church, Lossky said the Orthodox know where the church is, but not where it ends.

He said his church has not taught the limits of the church: "I wouldn't unchurch anyone who claims to be confessing Christ."

On inter-faith dialogue, Lassky said one could not be every religion at the same time.

"Dialogue yes, mixture no," he said.

The Holy Spirit blows where it wills, he said, and

At an elective session on Gathering Around a Divided Table, Rose Renato (United Church of Christ, USA) said that theological disagreements which keep churches divided over the eucharist "are the futile words of men who want to hold on to power. Whose interests are served by making it so hard for us to come together? — the interests of male clericalism," she said.

"Jesus would never institute a meal of separation," she said, stating that women were certainly part of Jesus' last supper with his disciples.

Describing the experience of shared communion among networks of women across the world, Renato said, "women celebrate together and then discuss later what it means".

KG. Abraham (Church of South India) said the Church's unity must be expressed visibly with the eucharist at the centre.

It should also express our unity and solidarity with all peoples, especially the suffering and broken, and lead to "a life of active sharing — otherwise it remains an empty ritual".

Providing a Roman Catholic perspective was priest Jude Weisenbeck (USA).

Weisenbeck stood infor a Vatican representative who was scheduled to participate but who did not attend.

Therefore, he said, he spoke from a personal viewpoint only.

He said Catholics maintain that the bread and wine "truly, really and substantially" become the body and blood of Jesus.

"Therefore it is the holiest of God's gifts", and its holiness and integrity must be preserved, he said.

However, "one of the weaknesses of the ecumenical movement is that it does not make people adequately experience the pain of our division", and that pain is an imporant stimulus to keep people committed to working for unity, he said.

he would never dare judge Hindus, Moslems, Jews, or people who are non-believers.

An afternoon plenary, Without a Vision the People Will Perish, used visual images and dramatic reading to highlight the quest for church unity, from a history of the ecumenical movement this century, to present forms of unity and a call to visible unity of the churches.

The session recalled ways in which the WCC has defined and described unity as a "conciliar fellowship" and in such phrases as "the body of Christ is a unity which makes it impossible to forget each other".

People from different nations spoke of their experiences of unity.

Women spoke of their place in an inclusive community, and of the potential of the Ecumenical Decade of Churches in Solidarity with Women to lead the church to discover new dimensions.

Aboriginal gifts

Four paintings depicting the life, land, culture and spirituality of the Australian Aboriginal people were presented to WCC leaders at the close of an afternoon plenary session on unity, at the Council's Seventh Assembly in Canberra.

The main painting by Aboriginal elder, Wenten Rubuntja from Central Australia, tells the story of creation, depicting the worlds of nature and human culture, and how all the cultures represented by the WCC are united through the Christian spirit.

Three central patterns of concentric circles

show how all countries and cultures are united through the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ, represented by a cross, and the Pentecostal spirit, represented by a dove.

The painting also features implements of Aboriginal culture and natural creatures from around the artist's own country.

Liyapidiny Marika of Northern Australia presented a painting which she had done, depicting the Christ child in an Aboriginal context, with his parents and other members of the community and Australian

fauna, together with a striking representation of the Holy Spirit as a large white dove.

Two other pictures, painted and presented by Lucy Lester, also of Central Australia, depict the Last Supper, and the three women at the empty tomb.

Speaking prior to the presentations, Galarrwuy Yunupingu, chairman of the Northern Land Council, explained why Aboriginal people are so persistent on land issues.

"Aboriginal people have a very strong relationship with the land. . . It's like

a relationship you find between people, it's very strong and can't be broken," he said.

"Our land is our life — we don't care so much for money, we can get all we need from the land."

With tears, Yunupingu said that this relationship with the land "is more close to him spiritually, physically and mentally than any other! know . . .

Land gives me pride and self-respect, and there is no substitute for that."

In reply, WCC general secretary Emilio Castro thanked the Aboriginal people for sharing the mystery of their religion and the beauty of their

culture in the context of "the faith which we share".

He said that the encounter by assembly participants with the Aboriginal people has more than justified holding the assembly in A ustralia.

He then made his own presentation to the Aboriginal people — a gold bracelet — as a token of the gratitude of the assembly and a sign of solidarity with them.

He explained that the bracelet had been given to him as a symbol of appreciation of, and care for, the Aboriginal people.

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.The Record; F-ebiuirit 28, 1991

Cycles of intimac In the foyer of the local seminary is a statue of Mary holding her child.

As small children, "we know our mother's affection before we can begin to understand it", writes Daniel Epstein in "Love's I always am struck by C ompass". the figures' warmth and Epstein's abiding intimacy. The mother cradles her child, her memory is one of his mother rocking him, the face touching his head. chair creaking familiarly.

I think even an alien They seemed almost from outer space would one body in their conclude from that closeness. statue that the seminary The mother-child relais a place of welcome and love — a nurturing place. tionship is, in a way, an initiation into mystery.

The statue expresses the It touches something earliest experience of deep within, the place of intimate love, that of our beginning, to mother and child paraphrase poet T.S. There are qualities in Eliot. this first love that we all I think this early closelong to return to in some ness stirs some preconsway. cious memory of our

beginning place, the heart of God. In time, the child experiences intimacy in the fuller family circle — what Epstein calls the "glorious pressure cooker" of family life among siblings.

We are thrust into intimate circumstances with brothers and sisters, and far into adulthood siblings can call forth all kinds of passion from one another without effort.

Life among siblings is a unique form of intimacy, preparing us for the everwidening circle of love as we move to best friends.

Childhood best friends share secrets and hopes,

learning to trust each other and to tolerate each other's shortcomings.

With adolescence, the opposite sex moves to the centre of interest.

Still, girls at this point tend to have best friends with whom they talk for hours and share the heart's secrets.

Frequently, boys opt for teams and a certan privacy about feelings.

Such patterns can show up later in a couple's different approaches to intimacy.

These differences are frequently the reason married couples seek counselling.

Differences notwithstanding, marriage

By Dolores Leckey creates a unique intimacy both of best friends,

as the partners work through communications differences, as well as of physical desire, knowledge and comfort.

And married people uniquely understand how conjugal love is about so much more than sexual passion.

It involves connecting with one another when self-esteem is damaged, building bridges, forgiveness and reconciliation.

It is also about remembering. The tone and meaning of ordinary marital intimacy is

caught in a novel by Robb Forman Dew titled "Dale Loves Sophie to Death".

The novel's married couple are separated over a summer. When reunited, they reconnect in the ordinariness of marital intimacy and their "instinctive inclination to turn toward the other".

The author writes: "Each one had expected that the other would be too tired to make love.

"In fact, they made love with a gentle and slow pleasure, because their energy was not great.

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The couple felt at at last, and "in the m they were fon nd affectionate with ch other and wit the children. Their p ical isolation from th her had made them get how to be famill nd now they remem d".

Sexual love se a valuable way to dge inevitable estrang nts in marriage ic h happen because of ess or travel or other gations that remo ne

This was one student's reponse: "You cannot define love. This is an inappropriate exam question".

I don't remember what I wrote on the paper, but there was a kernel of truth in the student's response — about a Cminus worth.

The great "desirables" — like love, freedom, happiness and, yes, intimacy — seem to have unbounded meaning.

We think we understand them until asked to express our knowledge in plain language.

Actually, our concepts can become very slippery and fall into inappropriate usage.

What is healthy and genuine intimacy?

Understanding this can

serve us in gaining intimacy within our lives.

I will limit my discussion to interpersonal intimacy, which includes intimacy with God, but not with a pet.

In an event of intimacy, what is distinctive about each person is revealed — personal thoughts, judgements, dreams and hopes, fears and disappointments.

This does not involve

words alone, for special actions sometimes carry meaning beyond words.

In marriage, for instance, when one wants to communicate a fullness of oneself, one can do so in the sexual embrace.

That is why intimacy and sexuality are often connected.

That also is why they often are confused.

Actually, some sexual "language" is not truly

intimate in the sense lam using the term "intimacy" here.

Within this mutual revealing and receiving, one can arrive at a deep sense of being understood and accepted.

Am I accepted as I am?

That question accompanies us through life.

And it helps us understand how fear relates to intimacy.

In revealing to another what is personal and

precious to us, we expose ourselves to belittlement, or worse, rejection.

Suppose I tell you who I am and you ignore my words or put me down?

WillIsurvive this rebuff?

One reason some people have difficulty revealing themselves to another is because they seek security over risk.

They may never experience rejection, but they also may never feel the exhilaration which

comes from being accepted, warts and all, by a friend, or spouse or adult child.

One characteristic of intimacy is that in the act of revealing, one actually comes to a deeper realisation of oneself.

Expressing oneself creates knowledge of oneself.

One can, of course, fake intimacy by revealing only favoured aspects of oneself. We all do this, especially in situations

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Rhythm is basic to intimacy. Closeness and oneness do not happen at a steady pace. Research indicates that marital intimacy, including sexual expression, and the sense of being emotionally and psychologically "in tune", are cyclical.

The cycle of marital intimacy consists of falling in love, settling into a routine, descending into a crisis and beginning again. The cycle repeats itself often, with varying degrees of intensity.

But people married a short time may assume the cycle's crisis part

A broadened concept of intimocy Years ago, in a course on Christian marriage, I asked my students on an exam to define "love".

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signals their basic incompatibility.

Patience and time are needed to see the cycle through. Over the years, memory strengthens one in crisis times.

This is why it is important that longmarried couples be available to counsel young married people, to remind them there is a time to begin again on the horizon.

People married many years sometimes speak of the depth of intimacy felt by simply being in the same house, though there may be little conversation. An intense awareness of the other develops bit by bit over the years.

As a child, Epstein knew this. He writes: "In my grandmother's house there was a vibration . . . like the diminishing echo of a cello chord. The sound was unmistakable to a boy of five . . . Not for another 20 years would I understand that the vibration in my grandparents' house was love."

That's it. The statue at the seminary echoes that vibration.

I can't help but wonder if all our loving acts, all our moments of intimacy, are readying us for the great angel chorus, the sounds of God and all God's people in love.

By David M. Thomas

divine intimacy.

God always is in a revealing or intimate mode toward us.

So in matters of intimacy, the question we face, not only with each other, but also with God, is: Are we desirous and capable of the openness and receptivity required?

Can we be still enough to hear that which is not our own message, and to speak that which deeply reflects our true selves?

I conclude that healthy and genuine intimacy overlaps with religion in ways we are hardly aware of.

When the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber described his understanding of an I-Thou encounter, he described intimacy as I have portrayed it.

He said that when they occur, events of true intimacy are events of grace.

Doroles Leckey, in her article on cycles of intimacy, cites a particular statue of Mary holding the child Jesus which she says "expresses the earliest experience of intimate love, that of mother and child."

Jesus loved the DISCUSSION POINTS People who fear intimate relationships "may never feel the exhilaration which comes from being accepted, warts and all, by a friend, or spouse or adult child," states David Thomas.

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What qualities make a deep-rooted, longlasting friendship tick?

Selected responses from readers: "Mutual interest (make frienships tick).

There is a certain comfort. A good friend is like an old coat that you take off and put back on, and it still fits." — Jean Hayward "Trust, companionship, shared interests and goals, a desire to spend time together. When I think of the relationships I have had, those are the things that come to mind." — Father Al Levitre "The memories that you share and your consideration for one another. Little things I do around the house remind me of my close friends because of all that we have shared. So we are thinking about each other even when we don't get to see each other often. Allowing one another to be ourselves and excusing each other's weaknesses." — Kim Lynch "The willingness to put in the effort to maintain it. The friendships that have lasted for me are ones where each person is willing to call and keep in touch, not afraid to call if they have a problem or to listen if I need to talk." — Lou Jacquet "The ability to communicate in a deep and meaningful way, and the willingness to be vulnerable and transparent in that." — Charles Hill

If one of our many checkout-counter tabloids were to proclaim in screaming headlines, "Jesus Was Intimate With His Disciples", it would be misunderstood, perhaps boycotted — and probably sold out in a few hours.

How sad! What a commentary on people's preoccupation with illicit sex.

him.

Intimacy is an essential ingredient of friendship, of collaboration, of love.

To be intimate means to be open, to share oneself with another in trust, and this involves the risk of rejection, of hurt or the fear of losing selfsufficiency with its illusory security.

Even our language is perverted in the process.

And perfectly good words, like "intimacy", are twisted into one sinister connotation.

In most instances what is feared about intimacy is the closeness. The closer two objects get, the greater the chance of friction, and many people h don risic't think it is worth

Jesus was intimate with his disciples. To say that is simply to say he was close to them, and they to

Jesus took the risk and paid the price. But he also profited from it. He

loved his disciples. He enjoyed loving and being loved.

For all its emphasis on Christ's divinity, the Gospel of John gives many warmly reassuring glimpses of his humanity. It tells of his deep love for Lazarus, a love that caused him to break down and cry when he heard of his death (John 11:5,35).

That love included la7arus' sisters, Martha and Mary. Luke has left us a charming picture of Jesus dropping in for a visit and getting involved in a friendly family spat.

Mary's secure closeness to him is one side of the

picture. But the very fact that Martha could freely voice her annoyance at his apparent lack of concern for her being left to prepare the dinner also bespeaks a marvellous intimacy.

Mature, well-integrated adults all, they could relax securely and warmly in each other's company.

Like all intimacy, Jesus' relationship to his disciples brought the usual share of pleasure and annoyance. He had to put up with their often exasperating obtuseness, their slowness to get the their point, misunderstanding.

By Father John J. Castelot Yet, as he approached his last meal with them, we read: "He loved his own in the world and he loved them to the end."

(John 13:1) This love continued after the resurrection.

Peter had shamefully denied knowing Jesus three times in his darkest hour, but now the risen Christ elicits from him a triple assurance of his love: "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" (John 21:15-17).

Jesus invited his disciples to intimacy with him. Christ invites us to the same intimacy, with its incomparable joys and sometimes wrenching anxieties.

Food for thought Is the human yearning to establish close, warm bonds with at least a few other people a blessing?

Or is this quest for intimacy a weakness?

Intimacy comes in many forms, each different: the intimacy of spouses, parents and

children, friends or coworkers.

For example, an interesting, if not particularly intense, form of closeness often develops among coworkers whose respect, openness and level of communication allow them to support each

other and work together as genuine friends.

But some people distrust the idea of intimacy.

Perhaps their trust was once violated. Perhaps they fear the cheapened forms under which intimacy frequently masquerades, in which exploitation of one per-

son by another is the norm. Perhaps they don't feel very lovable.

Still, basic to Christianity is the idea that life can be shared. Grace is God's sharing of life, and when people share life they are Godlike.

If the idea of intimacy is

cast in this context, it indeed seems a blessing.

Then 'the warmth of marriages, parent-child relations and close friendships is esteemed for the unlimited opportunities offered to share life and to act unselfishly for each other's greatest

benefit.

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Researcher tells of breast cancer's warning signs

Mr David Ingram, Senior Lecturer in Surgery at the University of WA speaks on breast cancer.

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard

Although some consider breast cancer is on the increase, Senior Lecturer in Surgery at the University of WA Mr

David Ingram, believes it is more a matter of

earlier detection and thus more women are appearing with early stage tumours rather than a general increase of the disease in the community.

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age

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increases the rate of breast cancer and with our ageing population, produces a higher incidence which may also distort the general figures if taken out of age group context.

Earlier detection offers a better prognosis and that combined with advances in the medical

field bodes better for the afflicted.

But vigilance through, self breast examination and periodic medical checks is doing much to prevent cancer progress.

Diet is a factor to be taken into consideration when one views the studies of Japanese women who have only a one per cent breast cancer rate as against our six per cent.

With a similar lifestyle in an industrialised and well developed country, their Japanese diet is largely low fat with a high incorporation of cereals and vegetables.

However, after their migration to such countries as Hawaii and California with the introduction to a western diet,

their rate increases and by two generations is almost equal to the American population.

As to an incidence comparison between ourselves and other highly developed countries such as the United States, Britain, Canada and New Zealand, we all have the highest in the western world — about one in 15 will develop breast cancer.

Male breast cancer is very rare.

It is considered therefore that diet is important.

Over the past five years, Mr Ingram said a study has been done looking at the diet of breast cancer patients and comparing it to women who did not have breast cancer, using

for comparison women of similar age and residential areas.

This indicated there was some evidence that breast the cancer patients seemed to eat more fat but it is not considered a major risk factor. Diet is, however, only one of the things which plays a role, said Mr Ingram.

Age at which a woman has her first child is relevant.

If she has her first child before the age of 18 she only has about a third of the risk of breast cancer as a woman who has her first over the age of 30, or doesn't have a child at all.

It used to be thought also that the more children you had and the

WHAT'S ON COUNTRY PRAYER The fifth day of reflection will be held at St Mary church, Bruce Rock, Monday, March 25. Commencing 9.30am Fr Brian Morgan (MOIPA) will be the speaker on "Exploring the Annunciation". Being Monday of Holy Week this "day of prayer" is a preparation for Easter. Contact (090) 65 1034 or (096) 22 3109. (BYOL)

The Principals and Staff of

"lona" Presentation College and

"lona" Primary School Invite

Past pupils and friends of the Presentation Sisters to join with us in celebrating 100 years of the Presentation Sisters in Western Australia at a

CENTENARY MASS in St Mary's Cathedral at 10am on

Friday, March 15, 1991 and morning tea afterwards in Mercedes College Hall, Victoria Square RSVP: In order to allow for adequate seating in the Cathedral, and for catering purposes for the morning tea, kindly RSVP by 6.3.91 on 384 0066 NB The principal Mass and dinner for the centenary will be held in Geraldton at 2pm on Saturday. July 6, 1991

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HELP WANTED A 35 year old woman, blind and just about to start independent living in the community, is in need of help and assistance of a mature, caring person during the initial, 3 month period. The person who decides to volunteer her/his time to help her is kindly asked to contact Emmanuel Centre, 25 Windsor St. Perth, 6000, tel 328 8113 or 328 9571.

SUBIACO CALL Subiaco will repeat the very successful RCIA program which concluded at Easter last year with 7 people being received into the church.

This year's program will begin on March 10, open to Catholics who wish to increase their knowledge and love of the Church, and open to all enquirers. For further information contact Maria 382 1142 or Christine 381 4449.

NEWMAN SOCIETY The Society is organising a Graduation Mass for all university graduates as a thanksgiving for the completion of studies and the blessing of a higher education and as an occassion for Catholic graduation to welcome those who graduate this year from the four universities. All graduates, especially 1991 graduates, are invited to attend at St Thomas More College chapel, Sunday, March 17 at 10.30am. The speaker will be Father Gerard Brennan SJ. A light luncheon ($7.50 per head) is available for those who wish to stay.

The first lecture for 1991 will be given by Mr Romeo Malone in the Senior Common Room, St Thomas More College, Wednesday, March 20, 7.30pm. Contact number 446 7340. Open to the public.

longer you fed them, the more protection, but the protection lies in the age you had them.

Mr Ingram has conducted research into this area and found that having a child causes the woman's prolactin hormone levels to fall; the earlier she drops her prolactin level the less years of exposure to high prolactin levels there are.

And this is probably the mechanism, he said, by which the first child influences breast cancer development.

The hereditary factor also plays a part in that if a close relative who is a mother or sister, has breast cancer, that increases the risk of women getting the disease, especially if that relative got it at a young age.

The risk falls if the relative is considerably older.

Being overweight has also been a contributing factor but it is of minor importance in comparison to the above considerations. Mr Ingram stated.

'There is very little evidence that the pill causes breast cancer and it is perhaps only in women who take the pill a long time before their first pregnancy that it might have some bearing on breast cancer causes."

Taking hormones after the menopause or around the menopause age, is probably safe too, said Mr Ingram, "providing it is not continued for too many years".

Regarding diagnosis, the earlier a cancer is diagnosed, the more likely it is to be cured and if it can be diagnosed before you can even feel it, that generally has a very good prognosis.

There are a variety of ways to diagnose breast cancer.

Most women feel a lump and go along to see a doctor, and Mr Ingram advises any woman with a lump to see her doctor unless it has come up just before a period.

In this case she should wait until after it is over to see if the lump disappears.

Women who breast selfexamine, generally find their breast cancers at an

early stage. lymph glands.

This method which is With conducted research, Mr Ingram said called lumpectomy, is they found that women usually followed by a who breast self- course of radiotherapy of examined, were more the residual breast. likely to have found a With this approach to tumour before it got to treatment it is just as 1.5cms and without effective as a mastectomy lymph node involve- as regards cure and local ment, than those who reoccurrence, said Mr had not breast self- Ingram. examined.

However, not all Mr Ingram suggested women are suitable for there were several ways this treatment because of determining whether women with large the lump is a cancer or tumours and small not, but probably the breasts are not suitable simplest way is to have a for lumpectomies, which fine needle aspiration means removal of the biopsy "which is not too lump and not the entire uncomfortable." breast, nor are women Mammography is also who have multi focal useful, he pointed out, disease, which means but occasionally doesn't tumours in different show a cancer, "so a places throughout the lump together with a breast.

For women who do negative mammogram, should not be accepted as need a mastectomy however, there is always the a final answer."

Where mammography possibility of later breast is very useful, he said, is reconstruction.

Additionally, women in screening for impalpable cancer, that is when who have more aggresthe lump is too small to sive cancers can have be felt, "and the govern- chemotherapy if they are ment has had a pilot younger. program running for If they are older, a more than a year, doing hormone blocking agent mammograms on well called tamoxifen is given women (with no symp- and this sort of treatment toms), to try and detect can improve the cure breast cancer at an early rate. stage."

If cancer is found before This started at Canning- it reaches two centimeton and subsequently a tres diameter, 90% of bus toured the south women will be quite west. tumour free five years This program is limited later and those found at to women over 45 and it a smaller stage have an is expected to expand to even better rate of the rest of the state over survival. the next few years.

Mammograms are not If one has a cancer to be feared, said Mr detected by this means, a Ingram, because only cure is more likely minimal dosages of radibecause they are usually ation are given. at an early stage.

And he advises women Mr Ingram said the over the age of 45 to have standard treatment for a t wo yearly mammobreast cancer is mastec- grams, unless they have a tomy although radical close relative affected, in mastectomies are no which case they should longer performed opt for yearly. (involving the breast, The reasons why mamlymph glands and a lot of mograms are not advomuscle). cated under 45, is Mastectomy involves because breast cancer is removal of the breast less common, but also including the nipple and because young women usually the lymph still have a lot of breast glands. tissue which makes In recent years there interpretation of the film has been a trend away difficult. from this operation Over the age, said Mr towards breast conserv- Ingram, it varies a lot ing operations if possible, "but in older women which involves removal breast tissue gets of the lump together with replaced by fat and it is some normal breast much easier for the xtissue and removal of the rays to penetrate the fat."

Curse or blessing?

Multiculturalism and the Church in WA

By Father Dino Torresan, SC

Countdown to the May convention • the challenge to mount the structures which facilitate faith education and formation.

From these we take our directions . . .

• to move towards becoming a participatWhat makes multiculturalism so contro- ing Church.

• to witness in our relationshps our versial? The fact of its many interpretations and the different ways followed to achieve desire for inclusiveness. unity in diversity.

• to commit ourselves to formation for personal change and growth, and to with its emphasis on Multiculturalism, equity in status and participation in all openness to the Spirit. aspects of Australian life, needs to be rooted I call you all now to join with me in in principles of social justice if it is to creating this future for the Church of Perth." address issues of structural inequality This pastoral call is still on today, and is through positive measures. part of the Archdiocesan Pastoral Planning.

The Church calls such a vision unity in The newness of all this lies in the fact that diversity through inclusiveness. Of course, multiculturalism is a future-oriented we cannot stop at the recognitition of our process. And like all visions, it can only be diversity; we must move on to the creation of unity in our midst through a process of judged by its results over time. inculturation, which implies mutual What do we do as a local Church, to make knowledge of each other's differences, the sure a dream comes true? sharing of ideals and search for ways to In May (14-16) this year a convention will achieve unity in diversity. take place.

As it has been said many times before by Multiculturalism and the Catholic the Popes Paul VI and jolm Paul II, the Church in WA is the title, and the venue the gospel must become incarnate in a culture, Catholic Education Centre (50 Ruislip St, so that its faith expressions manifest the life Leederville). of the people.

Priests, Teachers and Lay-Community Our effort, as a local Church, is to develop Leaders will look at the situation, and try to strategies and programs which incorporate respond to it in the light of the Gospel. effectively the positive values that the Speakers from University of WA, Rome diverse social, cultural and religious and the local scene will "enlighten the communities in WA can contribute to one search. Enrolment Forms are already another, particularly within the Church. available at the Catholic Migrant Centre Openness of Mind and Heart. The (221 1727). receptivity of an individual depends on his Something New to Offer? The late state of mind and heart.

My dad once told me this story. There was Archbishop W. Foley in his call to Mission to the Archdiocese on Trinity Sunday 1989 a wise man in Athens who was capable of answering the most diverse and difficult said: "As your pastor and herald of faith called questions.

One day a shepherd arrived from the by the ChurchIask you to join with me in mountains and heard about the wise man. responding to the challenges before us: • the challenge to a more full So he approached him with a little bird in his hand, and sked him: — What do you participation; think: is the bird in my hand alive or dead? for all; inclusion • the challenge to Multiculturalism seems to be the in-word at the moment. Everybody talks about it, and even within the Church the debate on its meaning and its relevance on Christian life is still on, and at times very bitter and painful.

It was a tricky dilemma: if he had answered "alive", the shepherd would have tightened his fist and the bird would have died; if he would have answered "dead", the shepherd would have opened his hand and the bird would have flown away.

Hence the wise man said: It is up to you, my friend, to let the bird be dead or alive!

It seems to me that the whole question of Multiculturalism and Inculturation must be viewed within the following affirmative aspirations: • that respect, understanding and acceptance be fostered through the reduction of prejudice and stereotyping, and the encouragement of inter-ethnic cooperation and interaction; • that our efforts to create unity in diversity in our midst contain a global vision, aware that the betterment of our relationships are for the good of all; • that we, as a local church, become models of positive inclusiveness to our society through practical strategies adapted, adjusted and implemented at a local level.

We all know that Culture, Religion and Language need to be seen as the embodiment and expression of personal values and identity.

This is not a question of assimilation, where individuals lose their identity; it is rather a question of integration through positive inculturation, where individuals and the country will benefit from each other's best values.

The journey ahead is not an easy one. It requires courage, vision and self-giving The Convention on Multiculturalism will try to foster such a vision of the Church, so that we may truly become One in Christ, in the respect and appreciation of each other's giftedness.

Enrolments to the Convention are open now. Parish Priests and School Principals have already received some enrolment forms. But the invitation is open to Parish Council Members and Lay Leaders who share the vision "with Hand and Heart".

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Top job, they say from Fr DONOVAN and Lordof The Harvestparish Congratulations and thank you for the splendid commemorative edition of "The Record". It was a marvellous tribute to the Archbishop. Without exception, the parishioners here acclaimed it as one of the best editions yet.

We are big fans of "The Record' in these parts.

Forty copies are sold each week, either by subscription through the parish or through the local newsagent.

The bulk of the remaining copies are distributed

at Kununoppin Hospital, where they are gratefully received.

Along with our Old Testament scripture course and excerpts from "Christfideles Laici" in our Sunday bulletin, we have offically included "The Record" in our parish adult education program.

from E.J. O'BRIEN, Yokine Sir, the February 14th issue of The Record was indeed a worthy tribute to our beloved late archbishop.

All the panelyrics and eulogies, to my mind, could be summed up in that memorable phrase "Concern for others. If you have

not concern for others, then there is something wrong with you and/or your r eligion".

Remember that wonderful supplication to God. Our Father "deepen our affection and concern for one another, so that we may truly become images of the

living Christ".

That, I suggest, sums up the whole of the life of the late William Joseph Foley, may he now rest in peace — and pray for us.

from Harold WALSH, South Perth

Sir, I must compliment you and your staff on the stunning cover of The Record. I thought the caption and photograph was just mind blowing. It had such an impact on me I just had to write and tell you. Congratulations.

from Jan BRODERICK, Dianella The passing of a gentle friend We lost a special friend today a man with a loving and caring way He worked for the good of the poor and disabled, to spread goodwill, to

keep others lives stable With words of wisdom, of help, encouragement a hardworking man who gave thought before judgement.

To sit at a table and chat with his confreres, to sip on a wine and feel himself free

For just a short moment to laugh, to relax to share with his brothers some pertinent facts His humour was always so close to the surface, his smile at the ready, regardless of purpose.

Archbishop Foley, a man of the people you

made us all feel we were high on a steeple.

To serve you a meal, to make you some tea, was a pleasure which will remain always with me, We'll think of you often and offer a prayer for a Priest and a friend, who taught us to care.

from KATH GOSPER, Koorda Sir, congratulations on the February 14th issue of The Record and the pages devoted to our late Archbishop, William Foley.

The articles and historic photographs covering his

Our Lady of the Southern Cross church at Dunsborough is being blessed by Bishop Quinn this Sunday, March 3 with Mass at 11.30am.

On the following day priests and religious of the diocese continue the celebration with Mass at llam. Mass has been celebrated in the church since Christmas eve.

The new church has replaced the Gibney St church were Mass has been said since 1957, the building being originally a classroom at Villa Carlotta in Busselton, moved to alongside the

life and work, from a young priest through to the pastoral leader of the archdiocese of Perth, together with the individual condolences have produced an excellent issue and a fitting tribute to a much loved priest and leader.

from J. FOLEY, Melville Sir, congratulations on The Record's coverage of the death and burial of our archbishop.

It was sad and infuriating that the secular media hardly recognised the passing of the archbishop and did not see fit to honour him in his special role in the community by adequate or reporting. thoughtful

Indeed, television reports on the Sunday evening after the archbishop's sudden death were scant and given no priority or prominence.

If ever further arguments were necessary on the need to preserve and strengthen the Catholic press, The Record has provided them in this instance.

Presumably, extra copies of The Record were printed and sold. If this was not so, what are we to think?

(We thank reader JF Foley for his fulsome praise and feel that if he contacts the parish he attends he will be agreeably surprised at the circulation figures We were' Editor)

parish hall at Busselton again as a classroom and now being moved a third time to alongside the Dunsborough Hall to become the home of the Dunsborough Arts Society.

The new site of the church is 4ha bought by the late Fr Ned Kenny with the possibility of a school one day being also located there.

A presbytery has been built nearby as part of the complex in the hope of attracting the services of holidaying, retired and visiting priests.

Above: an impression of the church by artist Bill Prior.

by TOM BRANCH

The WACLTA Executive has recently negotiated for a central venue and headquarters at the Trinity College Tennis Courts in Manning Road.

A gala opening day is scheduled for Sunday, March 10 with tennis at 1pm followed by a barbecue from approx 5pm on a bring your own

basis. A visitor's fee of $3 will apply.

A central venue and headquarters has been the goal of the association executive for quite some time. For a variety of reasons a number of small parish clubs have found it extremely difficult to continue. A central venue will pm-

vide the opportunity for members of these clubs to remain in Catholic tennis.

The new club will be known as "Trinity". A wide age range and playing standard is expected. Should you be a member of a former parish club or simply wish to enjoy Catholic

tennis, then keep Sunday afternoon, March 10 free.

Trinity students and their families are especially welcome. Regular club play will continue each Sunday afternoon.

Further enquiries should be directed to association president, Mr Bryan Kukura on tel: 276 2907.

TOMORROW TODAY with Father Joe Parkinson

Lisa Legena, Michele McGuckin and Kristi McEvoy looked relaxed during CPrs Pre-Valentine River Cruise on 9 February.

Tim Landrigan and Michael.Celenza lead the way at Greenwood Antioch's recent weekend.

More pix from Greenwood next week.

Youth diary notes Five separate youth events appearing on this page today are witness to the fact that there is plenty happening already on the youth scene in Perth, with much more to c ome as 1991 progresses.

Antioch

Over 500 young people on the Pre-Valentine's Cruise had a ball late into the night on the Swan River.

CATHOLIC PARISH YOUTH PRESENT...

1991 SEXUALITY WEEKEND 15-17 MARCH * * *

DISCOVER YOURSELF * * *

This annual program will be held at Eagle's Nest, Gidgegannup andis open to Catholic youth aged 16 years or over. Transport can be arranged if necessary

Cost $33 For bookings andfurther details call Stacy or Paddy on 328 8136

Interested in finding out more about yourself, God & others? Live in the northern suburbs? Then the

MORLEY YOUNG PEOPLE'S GROUP could be for you!

Many young people are seeking their own identity and vision . . . trying to build strong friendships and relationships with God. If you are over 17 and interested, come along!

MEETINGS FRIDAY NIGHT 7.30PM ST JUDE'S HALL HOLDHURST WAY, MORLEY We are also holding a FREE CAMP on 5-7 April. Curious? Then contact Sharon 275 2827 or Alan 244 1794

Three weekends have been held already this year, and rumour is that up to five new Antioch communities could kick off in Perth parishes very soon.

Greenwood (15-17 February) and Claremont (last weekend) will be featured on coming youth pages, with Dianella and Bedford planning weekends for April.

Charis offers a relaxing change from your busy life, a practical yet gentle help to Christian living, and a chance to meet and mix with other young singles your age.

Crossroads Reunion

Relive some of the highlights of the 1991 Catholic Youth Conference "Crossroads to Tomorrow" on Saturday 13 April at the Aranmore Hall in Leederville.

BACK TO THE CROSSROADS

1991

YOUTH CONFERENCE REUNION SATURDAY, 13 APRIL, 1991 St Mary's (Aranmore) Hall Cnr Franklin & Oxford Streets. Leederville

7.30pm-12 midnight Drinks and snacks on sale BE THERE!!

Catholic Parish Youth

After their successful river cruise in February, CPY have their popular Sexuality Weekend coming up in just a few weeks.

Book early for this event.

Charis

Designed for single young adults, the Charis program presents an ideal answer for youth in the 20-30 age group who are looking for personal and faith development in a welcoming social setting week by week.

r EAGLE'S NEST

—jatholic Youth Formation Centre

This popular centre for youth retreats and other youth formation programs is located at 116 O'Brien Road, Gidgegannup. Able to cater for up to 55 persons, Eagle's Nest is available to Catholic schools and parish youth groups.

For further information and bookings contact the Chaplain's Secretary, Catholic Youth Minister on 328 9622.

The following are currently free dates at Eagle's Nest — asterisk indicates a free weekend.

MARCH 20-22

MAY 6-8, 24-29* JULY 1-7*, 13-16*, 22-23, 29-31 SEPT 2-6, 9-12, 16-22*, 30 NOV 1-8*, 11-22*, 25-26

APRIL 2-5, 22-26, 29-30 JUNE 4-5, 7-12*, 17-19 AUGUST 5-7, 12-14, 26-30 OCTOBER 1-4, 11-18*, 21-25, 28-31 DEC 2-3, 9-17*

NEEDED!!

The Catholic Youth Formation Centre "Eagle's Nest" is in need of a trailer and a microwave oven. The oven is for normal preparation and warming of food for groups using the centre, the trailer for general maintenance and caretaking purposes.

As a non-profit body we are asking either for donation of these items or information on where we may be able to purchase them at reduced rates.

Please contact the Chaplain's Secretary, Catholic Youth Ministry, on 328 9622 if you are able to help.

THANK YOU!!

The Record, February 28, 1991 13

Books and a story

by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

Saintly Scotsman John Ogilvie's life began agreed to let him go back in prison, locking him in gently in Banffshire, to Scotland. He landed in a dark, filthy cell.

Scotland. Born about his homeland disguised as The guards tortured 1579 he grew up in the a horse trader, using the Father John, trying to fine home of his parents, name John Watson. force him to tell them the Baron and Lady Ogilvie. names of other Catholics, Father John went from Like many families in town to town, meeting especially other priests.

Scotland at that time, his secretly with Catholic But Father John told family was partly Calvi- families, celebrating the them nothing. Once the nist. John was raised as a Eucharist in their homes, guards kept him from Calvinist. encouraging them to be sleeping for eight days But John's brothers strong in their faith as and nine nights. He still no them were Catholics and they Catholics. He also gave information. wanted John to become a attracted many people to Finally King James I Catholic too. When he the Catholic faith. asked Father Ogilvie who was 16 or so, while Always disguised, studying at Louvain in Father John had to be was the head of Christ"i Belgium, he decided to extremely careful. For a church in Scotland. The join the Catholic Church. little more than a year he priest said it was the pope, not the king. The Three years later he eluded the police. But in angry king ordered chose to become a Jesuit. 1614 a man named Adam Father John to be tried Ordained in France in Boyd said he wanted to for treason. His trial 1610, Father Ogilvie was become a Catholic. He lasted two hours. eager to go back to arranged to meet Father Convicted and conScotland to work among Ogilvie in a certain house demned to die, Father Glascow. the Catholics there. He in Actually he John was hanged that knew how dangerous that planned to betray the very afternoon in the would be because Cathol- priest. public square in Glascow. ics were being persecuted Tipped off by Adam In 1976 Pope Paul VI in his homeland. Priests Boyd, the police sur- canonised Father Ogilvie. risked imprisonment, rounded the house where Each year on his least torture, even death.

Father Ogilvie was wait- day, March 10, we Finally in 1613 Father ing. They arrested him, remember his courageous Ogilvie's superiors beat him and threw him actions and faith.

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It's all in the book!

More than just a bike manual, Richard's Mountain Bike Book is a unique history and guide to mega adventuring, courtesy of Charles Kelly, inventor of a dream, and Nick Crane, the adventurer who has helped to take it to new limits.

From the development of the first fat tyre bike down to the selection, repair and maintenance of the latest hi tech racer — and on to the heartstopping excitement of real off road biking — here is your guide and companion to the world of mountain hiking. . .a whole new era of cycling pleasure

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The Sly spy by Marjorie and Mitchell Sharma: (Young Piper $4.99).

Stop right here — Meet Olivia sharp. She's bold. She's bright. And she's rich.

Olivia Sharp is ready for her next case. Only this time she's the one with the problem! Another detective is in town! He's called E.J. — the Spy who's Sly. And he's trying to find what's hidden in Olivia's apartment. But it takes a real sleuth to catch a sleuth Where's the Fish? by Taro Gomi (Macmillan Children's Books $6.99).

A small pink fish leaps straight out of his fishbowl to play a colourful game of hide-and-seek.

Can you find the fish.?

Akxander and the Tooth of 727a by Dick Cate (Macmillan $6.99).

The trouble with the tooth started at Tricksy Birthwistle's birthday party which Alexander hadn't wanted to go to in the first place.

But it might have been all right if Alexander hadn't taken the trifle with the largest cherry from right under Eric Polecat's nose.

Eric went to karate classes, and soon Alexander was threatened with the Nagasaki Knee-Jerk and the Mekong Mincer.

Adventures

Practise Together Series: Mental Arithmetic. Activities, games and helpful hints by Roger Hepworth.

Published by Piccolo. $4.99.

"Ibis attractively illustrated workbook is designed to help 7-9 year olds practise mental arithmetic at home.

It's packed with a range of games and activities. helpful hints for parents and shortcuts which show children how to develop their powers

in this important mathematical skill.

Metal Arithmetic: • complements and reinforces maths taught in sch( mks; • presents educational activities with a fun approach.

• gives helpful advice and guidance for parents; • includes glossary explaining common maths vt)cabulary.

Practise bigether: Mental Arithmetic makes learning fun for all the family!

The Cat's Wedding by Linda Jane Smith, published by Michael 0Mara through Pan, bb, $19.95.

Suki is the most sophisticated cat in town. She can trace her line hack to Noah's Ark. She sleeps on a silk cushion; she eats three course meals ( fish, meat and chocolate mouse) and her left-overs are Oven to the dog.

Barney is an alley cat. He fights for his dinner and he really enjoys the fish heads

and other scraps because he earns them.

One day Barney ventures into Suki's garden. When they meet it is low at first sight. Suki is the most beautiful thing Barney has ever seen; Barney is, in Suki's eyes, a real cat — a cat's cat.

But the course of low is never smooth. Do you think Suki's family will accept Barney? Not for a minute.

And what will Barney's friends make of %Id the aristocat?

The Thirteenth Pearl by Carolyn Keen. Nancy Drew series (Armada $5.95).

Sabotage!

As the seaplane Dccended Nancy peered out of the window at the pearl farm below. She could see long bamboo rafts on the water, a few oriental buildings and the stunningJapanese mountains in the distance.

Suddenly the seaplane began to lurch. "What's happening?" Nancy gasped.

A moment later the craft lurched again and passengers were thrown from their seats. Then the engines failed. . .

The Sky Phantom by Carolyn Keene. ,Vancy Drew series (Armada $5.95).

A cloudy illusion.

As Nancy guides the little plance under the strange magnetic cloud, she is certain that the mysterious sky phantom is using it as a hiding place for the stolen plane. A moment later the plane is drawn into the vapoury mass by a powerful updraft. Suddenly a dark shape looms up ahead . . . then all the instruments spin out of control and the lights fail.

Nancy is in complete darkness with no means of navigation and she's running out of time.

Pets!

Nick and the Glimmung

by Philip K Wick (Piper $6.99).

How would you feel if someone tried to confiscate YOUR cat?

For Nick it's almost the end of the world. But the Antipet men won't win this time.

Not when his dad's got a idea: emibrilliant grate . . to another planet.

But Plowman's Planet is in the middle of a war. Strange creatures like Trobes, Werjes, Spiddles and Printers battle with an unseen, evil presence. It's called Glimmung. It's got sinister powers. And it's out to get Nick . .

Come hack the Anti-pet men, all is forgiven. . . !

Attention ex-students Sacred Heart College, Sorrento celebrates its 25th anniversary in 1992 and this important milestone will be marked by a number of events and activities throughout the year.

Past students are invited to become involved in these activities, particularly through the formation of a Past-Students Association which the College believes can play a significant role in the College community life.

Sacred Heart College says it is a means of maintaining contact and friendships with former classmates and can offer support in a variety of ways to the College's continuing development.

Former students are invited to attend a meeting

Questions About the Catholic Church by Brian Lucas. Published by St PaulPublications. $16.95.

Questions that concern the Catholic faith and practice often arise in the minds of Catholics and others interested in the Catholic Church. 'frying to find the answers to these questions can sometimes be a frustrating experience.

This book contains answer to some 235 commonly

A Wilful Woman by Michael Talbot. Published

by Collins. bb $29.95.

to help with its establishment and at that meeting it is hoped a chairman and committee will be selected.

The interim committee's initial task would be to formulate a constitution and a n associated set of procedures.

The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, March 20 in the Sister Margaret McInerney Centre at the College commencing at 7.30pm.

Colin Salleo, Community Liaison Officer said the establishment of an Association "would be a wonderful way in which to mark the College's first twenty five years!'"

For further information please contact Mr Salle° at the College on 448 4622.

asked questions about — Catholic doctrine, the Bible, sacraments, funerals, ministry marriage, mord! issues.

Catholic devotions and the Catholic Church in general.

Originally published in a popular column in The Catholic Weekly, of Sydney these questions and answers have been collected and systematised, and are now published in this book in response to requests from

Discovering Jesus

Through a Woman's with the readers. It brings to Eyes: Encounters with us the everyday nature of the Jesus by Christine Burke, settings in which these IBVM, illustration by stories came into our living Mary Anne Courts. Pub- tradition, and explores the lished by Collins Dove. challenge of new possibilities that Jesus brings to the $9.95.

After meeting Jesus we see accepted attitudes and life with new eyes. For two actions of individuals and thousands years people have groups. shared this experience. Each The author and the artist age returns with fresh hope that readers will questions to the original discover the excitement of stories, seeking there the the 'Good News' and recoglight Jesus' life might shed on nise their role in keeping their particular situation. alive Jesus' message. Wisdom Recent scholars have gained from reflection in shown us the diversity of the Jesus is shown daily in communities in which these conversations and actions stories were first told, and which break patterns of the unexpectedness of many loneliness, isolation and episodes we had taken for prejudice. A new energy is granted. They have also released when women as reclaimed the role of women well as men are encouraged in passing on these stories as to be leaders in our comapostles, preachers and munity and boundaries set leaders of communities. by patriarchal custom are Through a Woman's Eves questioned by the freedom shares some of those insights of Jesus.

Lady of the sea

many readers.

After 16,000 miles of pain. hunger, thirst and mutiny Commodore Arthur Phillip and his cargo of convicts and troops finally drop anchor in Botany Bay But this achievement is soon forgotten as he faces up to an even greater challenge: he has to persuade an unlikely workforce of thieves, whores, cheats and murderers to overcome inhospitable conditions, hostile natives and rampant disease, to construct the first British outpost in 'New Holland' — the settlement that is to become their home and their prison.

First Lady, a historymaking solo voyage around the world by Kay Cottee. Published by Pan Books $16.99.

"I looked around in amazethat ment, staggered

hundreds more boats had appeared while I had been busy below decks. There was every type and size of craft ranging from the maxi yacht Windward Passage down to canoes and windsurfers.

There were dozens of ferries,

Reader's Digest How Is It Done? (distributed through Collins).

The everyday world holds many wonders of man's mastery of technology, inspired inventiveness and bold ingenuity. As we turn on the television set, heat a meal in the microwave oven or play some taped music we foget to wonder — how are such things possible? In HOW IS IT DONE? hundreds of fascinating stories described, in clear simple language, just how the everday world works. Marvels of science, mysteries of the natural world, tricks of the entertainer and the challenges of building and manufacturing on a vast scale, are all described here.

Brilliantly devised diagrams and dramatic photographs help to illustrate how it is done.

A chapter on Major Feats of Organisations looks at the behind-the-scenes complexities of supplying an army with food, staging a musical or making a movie. operat-

Know-how

ing worldwide mail and courier services and controlling traffic in large cities.

The exciting world of science, with its constant push to new frontiers, is explored There are close-

ups on cloning, the creation of new animal and plant breeds,

the

all-important

atom, and the study of the Earth itself — its age, size, make-up and movement.

The Reader's Digest Medical Question & Answer Book. (Reader's Digest dist through Collins). bb $39.95.

to ask a doctor. This book phrases the questions for you and answers them in a frank, informal manner.

What are the side effects of aspirin? ShouldI go on a lowfat diet? What is the probable cause of my depression?

Should I be innoculated against flu? Is my husband drinking too much? Is cancer hereditary, and can it be cured? How can I be sure I won't contract herpes?

Should a person with heart disease have sex? These are the sort of problems the Medical Question & Answer Book raises.

Symptoms complications, treatment and cures are covered in detail. More general aspects of health care, such as financial management, rour rights as a patient, finding a new dentist, the advantages of contact lenses, are also discussed in simple, nononsense language. No subject is considered too delicate, and evasive answers are avoided — the questionand-answer format makes for relaxed and easy reading.

The Reader's Digest MediAll explanations have been cal Question & Answer Book compiled from information asks and answers the quessupplied by experienced tions doctors are asked time family practitioners and and again, as well as the specialists in every field of questions you might hesitate medicine.

some large, some small, luxury cruisers, putt putts and tiny runabouts. There were fishing boats, tugs, fire boats and launches. And on board each and every one of them were grinning and laughing people. . . To the sounds of the cannon, horns, cheers, the clapping of thousands of hands and my own hic-coughing sobs, we crossed the line at 1232 hours on 5 June, 1988."

Sailing over 22,000 nautical miles, Kay Cottee became the first woman in history to complete a solo, non-stop and unassisted voyage around the world. This is her story . .

Leming Sydney Harbour on November 29, 1987, after an emotional farewell from friends, family and well-

wishers, Kay resigns herself humour, she overcame all to at least six months of hazards and obstacles to solitude. achieve her dream.

Sailing her yacht BlackKay's log entries reveal the mores First Lady the thirty- extraordinary pressure that four-year-old Australian she was under after months crossed the world's great of heavy seas, homesickness oceans, rounded the five and very little sleep. Her capes of the Southern indomitable spirit carried Hemisphere and was lashed her through until finally — by gale-force winds and June 4, 1988 mountainous seas. She faced In between the sail changes many hardships: natural I sat at the wheel for hours dangers such as icebergs, looking back on the past six whales, rocks and her own months, remembering the loneliness; and and mangood times — how I had made perils such as huge laughed and sang; the sad ships, rogue containers and times — when I had cried even pirates. For more than and agonised; the rough six months she got by times — so exhausted I without an uninterrupted couldn't think straight; the night's sleep and without calm times — the uncanny fresh food. But aided by her quiet. It was like looking in-built common sense, her down a kaleidoscope of courage and her sense of adventure and emotion.

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PILGRIMAGE TO

MEDJUGORJE mm-u`3,21E 9 days DEPART PERTH April 19 Cost: $2590 per person Also includes 1 night Singapore with possible extensions to Europe.

Maximum 20 places only.

For further information please contact:

Bench International Travel Tel 321 3930 Licence No. 9TA00509

THE PARISH SCENE

SUPER?

Are you fully aware of your entitlements on maturity, death or disablement?

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"DO YOU BELONG TO ONE OF THE FOLLOWING PARISHES?" Manning South Perth Willetton Lynwood/Langford Como/Kensington

Bateman Applecross Riverton Melville/ Myaree Wilson

If the answer is YES then why not take part in a workshop which looks at the Mission of J9SUS and his commitment to the poor and oppressed. A workshop that will explore the meaning of mission and justice for you at the parish level.

Friday, March 8 Saturday, March 9 Friday, March 15 Saturday, March 16

7.30-9.30pm 9am-lpm 7.30pm-9.30pm 9am-1pm

Yidarra Catholic Primary, cnr Murdoch Drive and Ma rsengo Road.

Enquiries: Peter Stewart 325 1212, A/H 361 4981

Australian Catholic Relief and the

Catholic Social Justice Commission invite you to a dinner wtth

ROM IVIAIONE (ACR Lenten Vlsttor)

MONDAY, MARCH 18 7pm St Joachim's Parish Hall Cnr Shepperton Rd & Harper St, Vic Park

Cost $10. Bring your own drinks.

Tickets are available from Church Office, Victoria Avenue or Catholic Social Justice Commission, 2nd floor, 459 Hay St, Perth Enquiries 325 1212

Do you know enough?

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BURMA REUNION

ST PATRICK'S YORK

The Burma Conbro Society will hold a get-together of all past pupils of convents and brothers schools in Burma, together with a cultural show on the March 3, at the Sacred Heart Hall, Harold Street, Highgate.

St Patrick's church and school, will hold a reunion in the church grounds from 11am-5pm on Sunday, March 17 (St Patrick's Day). BYO lunch. The loan of photographs required and memorabilia for display. Metro contacts: Fr Heron 459 7849, Silvana Caruso (nee Bassano) 398 3458, Lilias Kelly 398 2277.

York contact: Sally Hall 411 711 wk, 441 506 A/H.

MARY JO MEADOW, PhD

SEVEN DAY RETREAT March 15-22

The Catholic Social Justice Commission asks

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8 St Joseph's Retreat House,Safety Bay

This is a silent retreat from the Christian Carmelite and Buddhist Theravadan (Vipassana) traditions, with special reference to the teachings of St John of the Cross and Guatama Buddha.

There will be group sittings, instruction in Vipassana meditation and a question and answer time each day. Private counselling and guidance will also be available each day. The emphasis will be on interior and exterior silence and awareness, through meditation. Meals will be taken in silence.

Retreatants are asked to leave all reading materials home, and to refrain from anything that would weaken their spirit of silence and awareness.

The method of working with the body sensations, emotions, memories and other experiences that will occur is that of insight meditation which will be thoroughly explained.

The retreat is intended for those who desire greater depth than most retreats offer. Experiences are sometimes intense, but the method provides ways of managing this. No previous meditation experience is necessary for attending this retreat.

Mary Jo views Vipassana meditation as an excellent way to make oneself "empty" of roles, voluntary experiences, and other trappings of ordinary daily life — in order to be available to God. It is an excellent method for being receptive to the purification that Saint John of the Cross taught.

COST $210 accommodation.

for

residential

Mary Jo follows the Buddhist Dana system and makes no charge for the teaching, though voluntary donations may be made at the end of the retreat.

Archdiocesan Calendar March Mass and procession Maria Annunziata, St Kieran's Osborne Park, Fr C. Ross.

7 Bless Ryder Cheshire Home, Bishop Healy.

10 Commonwealth Day Multi-Faith Observance, St George's Cathedral, Monsignor McCrann.

13 Association of Heads of Churches, Bishop Healy.

15 At St Mary's Cathedral, Presentation lona Mass, Bishop Healy.

16 At St Joseph's Subiaco, St Patrick's Day Mass, Bishop Healy.

19 Dedication of Queens Park Church, Bishop Healy.

24 Palm Sunday Mass in St Mary's Cathedral, Bishop Healy.

is as close as your phone

(008) 11 4010 (free call)

CATHOLIC CARE For Intellectually Handicapped Persons require a

Residential Aide (part time) (approx 35 hours/fortnight) Applications are invited from suitably experienced. caring persons to work with multi disabled adults in a house in the Koondoola area Shift work is involved in this position Applicants must be willing to support the Catholic Ethos and ensure that it is reflected in this service.

Pkease submit applications to The Executive Officer Catholic Care PO Box 152 WEMBLEY WA 6014 Phone 387 7566

Your School Audits

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MEDJUGORJE MESSAGE Dear Children, Today, like never before. I invite you to prayer. Your prayer should be a prayer for peace. Satan is strong and wishes not only to destroy human life but also nature and the planet on which you live. Therefore, dear children, pray that you can protect yourselves through prayer with the blessing of God's peace.

God sent me to you so that I can help you. If you wish to, grasp the rosary. The rosary alone can do miracles in the world and in your life.

I will bless you and I will stay with you as long as is God's will. Thank you because you do not betray my presence here and I thank you because your response is serving God and peace.

Thank you for responding to my call.

HARVEST PILGRIMAGES PERTH 409 1080 (Inter Travel) Have four escorted departures to Medjugorie this year all ex Perth (1) Pilgrimage 104 -- -Easter at Medjugoije 14 days (1 night Singapore, 10 days Medjugorje) 21 March $2749 (2) Pilgrimage 116 — -Ten Years of Grace13 days (1 night Singapore, 9 days Medjugorje) 20 June $2769 (3) Pilgrimage 120 — -The Assumption of Our L " (1 night Singapore, 10 days Medjugorje) 8 August $2729 (4) Pilgrimage 126 — -Our Lady of The Rosary" (1 night Singapore, 9 days Medjucjorje) 3 October $2599 For full details contact INTER TRAVEL Jackie or John (409 1080)A/ Hours 401 6368 Eileen

YOU ARE INVITED TO

A TTENTION School boards, principals and bursars Do you need an auditor for your school?

We are an experienced firm of Chartered Accountants established since .1907 and have wide experience in the audit of Catholic schools Please contact

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The Norbertine Tradition and Experience

A 15 WEEK, IN-DEPTH CHARISMATIC TEACHING SEMINAR PROGRAMME:

Seminar Overview & Registration night Wednesday March 6th. -.30p.m.

sleek 1: "Knowing the Love of God' Seek 2: He Ikek 3: "Healing Thmugh Forgiveness • Seek 4: The ,f1nt & His Gift, Week 5: The Outpounng of the Holy Spirit she Tongues , Week 6: ' Righteousness' '. Week 7: The At:thorn- of the he!ieve7 Week 8: "Spiritual Armour" (Eph h Week 9: Prayirg Ftfe,"tivtWeek 10: “TheNlotivabonal Gifts" Week 11: In the world. not of the world Week 12: -They tuned their Yserld upside down with Faith in the name of.lesus Week 13: Intercessory Prayer (Ifs power & effects) " Week 14: "Practical Soul Winning Inc Practical People" Week IS: The Great Commission"

3 LIVE-IN RETREAT WEEKENDS:

kre essential to the Seminar & occur at week 5, week 10 & week I, COST: S; 00 per session = (S7s) Seminar Kit included RETREATS: $25 ea (Fri-Sun)

(Metro callers please use 221 3866) Natural Family Planning Centre 27 'Victoria Square

For friendly obligation free advice call ANN SMYTHE on

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with investments, rollover funds, tax paid savings, home, contents or car insurance?

Vocation Co-ordinator Fr Tom McNulty 0 Pracm St Norbcrt's Priory QUEENS PARK WA 6107

Shared Life Shared Prayer Shared Ministry

"Set My People On Fire WILL BE HELD AT: The Alverna Centre. St. Laurences Church, Albert Street, Rakatta. -.30p.m. Sled March 6th.

ENQUIRES: STEVE PEAICE (09) 447 0671