The Record Newspaper 21 March 1991

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Politics and religion tangle V ATICAN CITY, (CNS): The pope's e xpressed desire to go to Jerusalem to pray for peace shows how religion and politics quickly become entangled in the Middle East.

It also shows the weakness of Vatican influence in a part of the world where Pope John Paul II feels Catholic obligations are strong.

The pope made his seemingly innocuous wish to go to Jerusalem in closing a March summit at the Vatican on the Church's postwar role in the Middle East, saying he hoped that "one day, circumstances will allow me to go" to Jerusalem.

But the "circumstances" which would allow the pope to visit are complex and beyond the ability of the Vatican to resolve unilaterally.

Archbishop JeanLouis Tauran — the pope's foreign minister — and Latin-rite Patriarch Michael Sabbah of Jerusalem — the ranking Catholic official in Jerusalem — said the pope could not make the trip until there is an international agreement guaranteeing Jerusalem's special status as a sacred city open to Christians, Muslims and Jews.

Officials in Israel, which unilaterally declared Jerusalem its capital, said the pope's visit should be linked to the establishment of diplomatic relations, something the Vatican says could come only after a series of Arab-Israeli political problems are solved.

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He died twice ...AND 'THANK GOD' LIVED AGAIN

By Roy Lazaroo He has lived . . . died . . . and lived again.

Thirty-nine-year-old Leroy Kang described this rare encounter in just five words: "I thank God for it".

Leroy would be one of the very few people in the world who can rightfully claim to have died and lived again.

Leroy's date with death goes back to October 29 last year.

After a hard day's working routine — he works 14 hours a day, seven days a week — he returned home with a "burning feeling" around his chest.

As owner of a mini supermart in Balcatta

he had carried earlier in the day 30 to 40 crates of soft drinks and made a drop of some 3000 magazines in the city of Perth.

He told a friend about the severity of the pain he was suffering and without much ado they headed for a doctor nearby who in turn advised that they make a beeline for Royal Perth Hospital.

He raced towards his "death" that was going to happen more than once.

He sat at the back of the van while his friend Peter Cooper blazed the trial from Craigie to RPH. It was a long trip but quickened by long spurts of up to 140kmp/h.

What a relief it was

for Leroy as the van pulled up at the enterance to RPH's admission room.

He came out of the van, walked two steps and collapsed.

He had no pulse beat and his friend started giving him mouth-tomouth resuscitation just before the hospital crew rushed him to the emergency ward.

A team of doctors and nurses started to work on him.

They did so for 10 minutes. They sent bolts of heart-jerking power on his chest but his ticker failed to respond.

Half an hour had passed and he still could not be revived.

A Catholic priest was called to give him

his last rites.

The seconds ticked away as the medical team worked feverishly on Leroy.

Forty-five minutes went by and the doctors still could not get a heartbeat.

"I was virtually dead for this duration," he said.

The medical staff decided to give him one 15-minute "last chance".

They had told his wife that if they could not revive him in this last ditch effort there was nothing more they could do.

At the 55th minute, however, they managed to get his heart beating again.

Leroy's revival was however shortlived.

His heart stopped

again for 15 minutes during the critical 24 hours following his resuscitation.

The hospital called in the priest again to administer the last rites.

In the process of trying to revive him again this time the medical team "broke a few ribs".

"But that was nothing really for I was happy to be alive," he said.

The doctors and staff of RPH said it was a miracle that he pulled through with out any after effects following the ordeal.

They had warned his wife that there was a possiblility that he would suffer brain damage or some form

of paralysis. But that was not to be.

"Thank God," he concluded.

The strapping Leroy who stands at 172cm with socks on and weighs a trim 70kg is now waiting to undergo a bypass operation on medical advice.

He speaks philosopically as he waits calmly for this operation. "Whatever will be will be. Ihave faith in God." A successful operation will ensure him a further lease of life and with prayers and faith in God he believes things will work out right.

"Just say a little prayer for me too," he told me in this exclusive interview.

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Priesthood role awareness VATICAN CITY (CNS): Confusion about the meaning of the priesthood is lessening as more people experience the need for priests in their communities, Pope John Paul ll said.

"Lay people are seeing the indispensable need for priests as a condition for their own authentic Christian life and their own apostolate," the pope said in a letter to priests worldwide for Holy Thursday, 1991.

Pope John Paul said: "We simply need to love our priesthood, to give ourselves completely to it, so that the truth about the ministerial priesthood may thus become attractive to others."

It was the 11th time that Pope John Paul had written to priests for Holy Thursday — the commemoration day of the Last Supper and a day in many dioceses when priests renew their priestly promises.

The pope said that the world Synod of Bishops on priestly formation last October brought "a new maturity in the way of looking at priestly service in the Church".

"This maturity finds

expression in a more profound interpretation of the very essence of the sacramental priesthood, and thus also of the personal life of each and every priest, that is to say, of each priest's participation in the saving mystery of Christ," he said.

The pope opened his letter with a line from Isaiah — "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me" — which Jesus quoted when speaking at the synagogue in Nazareth.

"In their immediate setting these words point to the prophetic mission of the Lord as the one who proclaims the Gospel. But we can also apply them to the manifold grace which he communicates to us," the pope told his fellow priests.

Archbishop Laghi said the pope chose the quote "to underline that it is not by an election of the community, but by the imposition of hands by the bishop that a man 'is constituted for the good of men in things regarding God' ".

The pope said that following the Second Vatican Council an awareness of priestly identity "has in some

quarters become less sure" because of a misreading of council documents.

The pope did not explain how the teachings were misinterpreted, but said that "a significant transformation" has begun to reverse the trend.

The "need for priests — in some ways a growing phenomenon — should help to overcome the crisis of priestly identity," he said.

"The experience of recent decades shows ever more clearly how much the priest is needed both in the Church and in the world, not in some laicised' form, but in the form which is drawn from the Gospel and from the rich tradition of the Church."

The pope said the synod also pointed out the unequal distribution of priests in the world.

"There are places with one priest for several hundred Catholics, and others where there is one priest for 10,000 Catholics or even more."

The Second Vatican Council taught that priests are prepared for "the most universal and all-

ceses to those in need.

The pope told priests that "the more overwhelmed we feel by our mission, the more open we must be to the action of the Holy Spirit".

"The liturgy of Holy Thursday is a special moment during the year in which we can and must renew and rekindle in ourselves the sacramental grace of the priesthood."

ministries.

That is the date commonly given for the start of the intifada, the Palestinian uprising in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Occupied Territories now under the control of the Israeli government but once part of Jordan and Egypt, respectively.

Images of stone throwing men, women and children from the Occupied Territories have alerted the world to the Palestinians' decades-old conviction that the Jews

uprooted them from their homeland when the United Nations created the State of Israel in 1948.

Successive Jewish.

Palestinian wars and skirmishes over the last 40 years, along with subsequent acquisition and loss of territory, have only added to the intensity of feelings.

Amidst these realities the Franciscans seek to continue their presence and their service in the Holy Land, though how that presence is best lived out is a thorny question.

Where was I? WasIone of the soldiers who bartered and tossed lots Where was I? Was I out for Jesus' clothing. window shopping with Where was I? Was I my friends and hearing all the shouting, decided down at the oval watchto join in the fun and ing my favourite game shout louder along with being played.

Where was I? Was I the rest of the mob. taking advantage of the Where was I? Was I holiday and picnicking standing in the crowd with the kids outside of watching quietly the the city. proceedings and not Where was I? WasI the joining in the shouting skilled tradesman that and accusations as I wielded the hammer that didn't know what the nailed Jesus to the cross. hell I was doing there in Where was I? WasIone the first place!! of the disciples standing When they led Jesus up below the cross wonderonto the mountain out- ing what was to become side the city called of me now that Jesus was "Golgotha" and he was dead — killed by the very crucified on the cross. same people that he

(Jesus) had promised to save.

Where was 1? Was 1 one of Jesus' followers standing quietly to one side and promising myself that I'd revenge Jesus' death and visualising all the methods I'd use to kill Caiphas, Pilate and Judas.

Where was I? Was I one of Jesus closest apostles who put my arms around the shoulders of Jesus' mother, Mary and led her away from the cross to her home and looked after her.

The BIG question then is "Where was I?" What wouldIhave done? What would my reaction have been?

embracing mission ot salvation", the pope said.

ceses with severe shortages of priests.

He asked priests and dioceses to think and pray about those words, and be as generous as passible in helping dio-

A pilot program is being considered by the Vatican which would facilitate the sending of priests from well-staffed dio-

Perth takes the third spot Perth archdiocese ( $40,840) ranked third after Melbourne ($87,657) and Sydney ($84,618) in the 1990 Good Friday collections for the Holy Places.

Parramatta ($18,485) and Broken Bay ($21,554) diocese would have added to the greater Sydney total.

Other archdioceses' contributions were Brisbane ( $28,351), Adelaide ($22,085), Canberra ($21,937) and Hobart ($7235).

In WA, Bunbury diocese

gave $6600, Geraldton $1950 and Broome $815.

Other totals: Armidale $5300; Ballarat $15,000; Bathurst $7237; Broken Bay $21,554; Cairns $7264; Darwin $2266; Lismore $7104; Maitland $15,989; Parramatta $18,485; Port Pine $6469; Rockhampton $10,170; Sale $8656; Sandhurst $9986; Toowoomba $5328; Townsville $4888; Wagga Wagga $7502; WilcanniaForbes $3711; Wollongong $10,000.

Although called for "The

Holy Places", 35 per cent of the offerings are allocated to the Vatican Congregation for Eastern Churches in the area and the remainder directly helps refugees affected and civil war by disturbances.

St Francis of Assisi came in the early 13th century to the Holy Land to stop the bloodshed between Christians and Muslims and to engage the Sultan in respectful dialogue.

For almost 800 years, much of the Christian service has been done in

the name and spirit of St Francis.

By far the majority of Franciscans serving in the Holy Land are, and have been, members of the First Order; at present there are approximately 360 OFM's who are part of the Custody of the Holy Land. In addition, there are a handful of Capuchins and close to 175 women Franciscan religious.

They operate 39 parishes, 19 vice parishes, or chapels, and two dozen schools and colleges

which serve 15,000 students — many of them Muslim — in the Custody of the Holy Land. (The Custody is made up of Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Cyprus and Rhodes.)

In addition, they are involved in outreach to the poor, including providing housing for the needy at little or no cost.

In December 1987, a new ingredient entered the picture, further complicating the efforts of the Franciscans to continue centuries-old their

Where was I?

Jesus' reaction would be the street, watching when he confronted bemusedly the proceedJudas and his band of ings down below, happy armed men. to be distancing myself Where was I? Was I the from it all. one who scampered off Where was I? Was I into the dark night, too playing with my childafraid to be seen as one of ren, not in the least bit Jesus' followers and worried or concerned Was I one of the soliders believers. about the happenings in seeking a bit of praise to When Peter stood the temple. become the first to lay my around with the servants Where was I? Was I the hands on Jesus and place and soldiers in the who was suspicious one him in manacles. coal the beside forecourt of Peter and asked the Where was I? Was I one fire to warm himself. pertinent question of of the street kids followWhere was I? WasIone Peter whether he was ing Judas and his band of of the servants who one of Jesus' men. soldiers, trailing along to questioned Peter if he'd see the fun.

When they led Jesus been one of Jesus' Where was 1? Was I disciples. from Caiphas Council nonchalantly sitting in Chambers to Pilate and Where was 1? Was I the whole crowd of Jesus' the garden along with the other disciples and standing at the window accusers was assembled watching to see what of my apartment across there . . .

When Judas, having received a complement of men (John: Chapter 18:19) and soldiers from the chief priests and pharisees came to the garden of Gethsemane over the brook Cedron. Where was I?

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Where was I? Was Ione of the accusers filled with hatred and contempt for Jesus who shouted in a loud voice "Put him to death! Crucify him, crucify him."

Where was 1? Was I a member of Pilates entourage who thought to myself "I'd better stay out of this. Let Pilate make the decision. Let him take the "rap" for ft."!

Where was I? Was I sitting in my room, reading a book and turning a deaf ear to the

noisy demonstration below.

Double standard in prostitution ADELAIDE: Proposed legislation to legalise prostitution would not be effective nor would it be for the common good, a Catholic Church spokesman said today.

Fr Laurence McNamara, lecturer in moral theology at St Franics Xavier Seminary, said the practice of prostitution revealed a double standard which saw prostitutes prosecuted while their clients got off "scot free".

At the same time prostitution was a behaviour that destroyed individuals and family life, he said.

"There is a double standard in the area of prostitution. It's not right that prostitutes are prosecuted by the law, while their clients get away scot free.

"But legalising prostitution is not the answer.

"The first concern of the Church is for people who are victims, often forced, into prostitution because of social conditions beyond their control — unemployment, lack of adequate social support, inadequate social security.

"Drug dependency leads many young people to prostitution.

"South Australians must look more closely at the social conditions that foster prostitution in our cities.

"Of great concern is the so-called sex industry where some people make profits from prostitution.

"This leaves both operators and prostitutes open to coercion by the criminal element.

"If our State legalises this 'industry' it would sanction sexual behaviour that we consider to be destructive of individual, social and family life.

"At the same time it will convey to many South Australians making it legal makes it right.

"This we do not accept.

"Sexual expression should not be reduced to a casual and commercial meeting which often exploits the prostitute.

"Those who wish to introduce legislation think that prostitution will be adequately controlled by licensing, health checks and deterrents preventing 'juvenile abuse, intimidation and violence'.

"We question whether such legislation would be good law or effective law or for the common good."

Catholic college to come up in Joondalup A new Catholic secondary college is to open in Joondalup in 1993.

The Catholic Education Commission of Western Australia has approved the establishment of the Joondalup Catholic College which will open with a minimum of three streams of year 8 students and will develop into a five stream school by 1995.

The College will be built on an eight hectare site on the

corner of Joondalup Drive and Treetop Avenue adjacent to the Joondalup City Centre. The land has been made available by the Sisters of Mercy (West Perth) who are planning to establish an aged persons centre on the adjoining two hectares.

The Deputy Director of Catholic Education (Resources and Planning), Mrs Therese Temby, said that the Catholic Education Commission was

grateful to the Sisters of Mercy for generously making the land available. Mrs Teniby said the site was ideal for the new College which was designed to accommodate an increasing demand for secondary places in the rapidly develnorthern oping corridor.

C ommonwealth New Schools Committee approval has already been obtained for the new College.

Construction of the first stage of the

College will be partially funded by a C ommonwealth Capital Grant of $500,000 and application has been made for a State Government Low Interest Loan.

An Interim board convened for the new College has been meeting since December. The Board is chaired by Mr Michael Rose. Other members are Mgr Peter McCrann, Fr Lawrence Murphy, chaplain, Sacred

Heart College, Sorrento; Mr Barry Harvie, principal, Servite College, Tuart Hill: Mr Peter Blair, Mrs Marie Di Giovanni; Mrs Josique Lynch and Mr Steve Cooper.

The West Australian's Page 2 Inside Cover phoned to point out that last week we had not done justice to the name of the real editor, Mr Robert Taylor.

We are more than happy to put The Record straight by noting that the Mr Rod Taylor to whom we incorrectly referred is in fact one of the award winning photographers of The West Australian.

It was indeed Mr Rod Taylor who photographed the funeral ceremonies of the late Archbishop Foley thus ensuring a meticulously correct reportage of the archbishop compared with some of the recent less accurate attempts of the paper's other departments.

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Record Cardinal James Freeman, Sydney's retired archbishop for the past seven years was treated wtih unaccustomed generosity in the local and national press this week following his death.

His many personal virtues aside, the attention paid to this churchman illustrated something of the enigma for those outside the Church trying to understand its workings and the paradox inside the Church for those keeping up with current developments.

To the Catholic Church nationally Cardinal Freeman's significance would have been his holding continually the office of president of the Australian Bishops Conference as does now his successor Cardinal Clancy.

Unlike a good number of other countries' hierarchies where the presidency rotates across a wide cross section of bishops, Australia has followed the practice of giving the position to its Sydney archbishop.

This gives rise to the erroneous view, borrowed from Anglican practice, of calling the Sydney's Catholic archbishop a 'primate', whereas such a position occurs rarely in the Catholic Church and only in a few traditional ancient locations.

Not only is there no Catholic 'primate' in Australia, but even our archbishops have only minor administrative seniority over their brother bishops who are all essentially equals amongst equals.

Every diocese, therefore, however sparse or small, ranks equally as a pastoral community gathered around its shepherd, and is linked direct to the Bishop of Rome.

All bishops have an equal voice in developing the ideas of the bishops' conference.

To Australian Catholics, on the other hand, Sydney is the mother church, from its priestless convict days and the Blessed Sacrament's reservation in the Davis' home to the famous pioneer Father Therry and thence through some notable figures.

Cardinal Freeman was therefore a true son of Sydney town rising to be its archbishop and Australia's cardinal of the day. He was appointed cardinal along with Perth-born Archbishop James Knox but the honour then paid to Melbourne turned out to be only because Pope Paul VI had plans to get his long time Roman friend to come back and head two Vatican congregations.

Cardinal Clancy got the Red Hat when Cardinal Freeman lost his papal electoral rights at the statutory age of 80. In the meantime Sydney archdiocese has been cut down to less than half of the greater metropolis. Parramatta and Broken Bay now cover the western and northern suburbs.

Perth's principal experience of Cardinal Freeman was his 1975 Esplanade homily during the Marian Festival. It revealed not only his homely devotion to Mary but also his rather adept speaking technique.

The ABC tape proved to be defective and on the following day he was asked to do it again. Unphased he sat down immediately in front of a technician without a note in sight and delivered the same homily word perfect, quotations included. There were many such stories of his perfect memory as a younger and popular priest broadcaster in Sydney.

His homeliness was evident when the Perth cathedral clergy asked him how he would like to spend the morning. "Don't worry" he said, "I'm off to watch the people shopping in Coles and Woolies. I can't do that back home in Sydney . . . " He was also impressed by the vested acolytes and decided Sydney would be the first of several NSW dioceses to follow WA's concentration on acolytes — others having adopted special ministers.

Cardinal Freeman's words often popped up on the nation's breakfast table on Mondays, thanks to his partnership with the retired and renowned Rome correspondent Alan McElwain.

The two would head for 2SM during the week to put down a tape of reflections for Sunday night. The journalist would dash off a few paragraphs that were a godsend to journalists hungry for a story on Sunday night and they travelled far.

Cardinal Gilroy made history as the first native son to reach Sydney's archbishopric and Red Hat. The endless stories about James Freeman prove that he gave another Australian dimension to that ongoing story. ('44

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Puzzle over priest who was shot dead CEBU CITY, Philippines (CNS): Rumours about a Filipino priest's killing swirl around his alleged membership and fraternisation with pro- and anticommunist organisations.

But officials of one Catholic group meeting in Cebu at the time of the killing said the priest, Father Alejandrino Abing, was simply doing his pastoral duty.

Father Abing's sister Marlina insists her brother was not involved in political movements.

Father Abing, of Davao City, was shot dead in Cebu City while on his way to visit his sick father on an island just east of Cebu City.

Cardinal Ricardo Vidal of Cebu has offered sanctuary to those willing to provide information on the killing.

At a Mass in Davao's St Jude Parish where the slain

priest worked, Father Iluminado Adorable said, "There are those who say Father Abing was anticommunist, others who say he was a communist, and those who say he was a policeman or military."

As Father Abing's body arrived in Davao from Cebu, a local radio commentary claimed Father Abing's killing is what heppens to priests who celebrate Mass for the communist New People's Army, and suggested the military was behind it.

Others say Father Abing was killed by New People's Army hitmen because he had been seen at anticommunist group meetings.

Father Abing was the second clergyman to be killed this year. In January, Rev Narcisco Pico of the Philippine Independent Church was shot deat near his church on Negros Island.

ension over massacre •

SALVADOR SAN Tensions (CNS): between the Archdiocese of San Salvador and the government of President Alfredo Cristiani have risen in recent weeks over conflicting versions of a massacre of 15 villagers by armed men.

The strained rela-

tions reached a low after a Planning Ministry advertisement called the archdiocesan human rights office part of the "organic structure" of Farabundo leftist Marti National Liberation Front rebels.

The government has claimed that the massacre grew from an

ongoing feud between two families in the village and that the killers were three former soldiers.

A report issued by Tutela Legal cites eyewitness accounts saying uniformed men the c ommitted murders and then left via a local military

guard post. The report says that account w arrants a thorough i nvestigation of possible military i nvolvement.

Following a Sunday homily, San Salvador Auxiliary Bishop Gregorio Rosa Chavez said he expected that the verbal attacks against

$50,000 for Sudan VATICAN CITY, (CNS): Pope John Paul II has donated $50,000 for Church-sponsored relief efforts in Sudan.

Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, president of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum", left for Sudan with the papal donation. He will also help co-ordinate international Catholic aid programs.

A seven-year civil war has been raging in Sudan, pitting rebels in the mainly black Christian and animist south against the largely Muslim, Arab population of the north which controls the government.

Added to this has been spreading famine caused by prolonged drought.

Between eight million and 11 million people in Sudan are at risk of starvation in 1991 unless there is massive international aid.

Zairean bishops chide the govt

People advocating democracy are "the object of crude jokes and persecuted", they said in a 2000-word statement.

The economic situation is marked by low salaries, high unemployment and the "infernal spiral of galloping inflation", they added.

The statement, read at Masses, was a harsh criticism of Pillsident Mobutu Sese Seko, in power since 1965, and his Popular Movement of the Revolution, Zaire's only legal political party

In rebel-held southern Sudan, the Diocese of Torit has played a major role in distributing emergency food aid and in pressing efforts to build up agricultural production.

Slightly more than seven per cent of Sudan's 24 million population is Catholic.

Most are located in the south.

Added to the needs of its own people, Sudan is also experiencing pressure from Ethiopian refugees fleeing a similar set of circumstances in their neighbouring country.

Mass money for war victims Persian Gulf and Middle East.

The Mass will be held at Rome's Basilica of St john Lateran and is part of the pope's liturgical

But, he said, the Tutela Legal rights office would not back away from its commitment "to providing an untiring and generous service to those who suffer".

KINSHASA, Zaire (CNS): Zaire's one-party government is backsliding on promised democratic reforms and has brought the population to "indescribable misery", said the nation's bishops.

Aid agencies have charged that the Sudanese government is ignoring the pending disaster, which is said to be more threatening in the government-controlled areas than the zone controlled by the rebel Sudanese People's Liberation Movement.

VATICAN CITY, (CNS): Funds, collected during Pope John Paul ll's evening Mass on Holy• Thursday, will be used for war victims in the

the archdiocese by government over the El Zapote case "will probably continue".

ceremonies for Holy Week.

On Holy Thursday morning the pope celebrates the Chrism Mass and later the Lord's Supper and

washing of 12 priests' feet.

On Good Friday he celebrates the afternoon liturgy and the evening Way of The Cross to the Coliseum.

"Our country is experiencing political and socio-economic crises of extreme gravity" while there is "a lack of interest by public authorities" in solving these, the bishops said.

"It is imperative, therefore, to liberate democracy," they said.

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A MMAN, Jordan (CNS): Last August, shortly after the Persian Gulf crisis began, Jordan's most outspoken Muslim cleric delivered a stinging sermon in an Amman mosque, saying the real battle in the region was between "Islam and the crusaders", between the people of Muhammad and "the infidel leaders".

The sermon was seen in Amman as a dangerous sign of Islamic extremism.

But more recently, with the Gulf conflict in full swing, the cleric, Zeid Keylani preached a remarkably different homily in Amman's main mosque.

Broadcast on national television and radio, it rejected the caricature of Christians as modern-day "crusaders" and underscored Christians' support for peace and justice. The war hurts both Christians and Muslims, he said — we are one.

It was a gratifying gesture to many Catholics in Jordan, who had feared the war might fuel Muslim extremism in a country that has traditionally shown religious tolerance.

One big reason such a split was avoided, Church leaders say, is the leadership shown by Pope John Paul I I during recent months.

In particular, the pope's convocation of a March summit of Middle Eastern and Western bishops brought appreciative reviews in Jordan, where it was reported in most newspapers.

"This meeting gave people hope, and it showed everyone that the pope was serious when he pleaded for peace so often in recent weeks," said Latin-rite Bishop Selim Sayegh of Amman.

"It demonstrated the value the Church places on human life, and its concern for the fate of poor people here. And when the pope told of his deep desire to go to Jerusalem, he showed that he sees hope in the future — perhaps more hope than we see," he said.

Bishop Sayegh wrote an article about the conference that was quickly published by some Arab newspapers in Amman. He also sent the concluding statement of the meeting to the press in the hope that it, too, will be published.

'Ordination wrong'

VATICAN CITY, (CNS): A fter accepting an Orthodox churchman into the Catholic faith, a Ukrainian Catholic archbishop exceeded his authority by appointing the man bishop of Eastern-rite Catholics in Russia, said the leader of the Ukrainian Catholic Church.

Archbishop Volodymyr Sterniuk of Lvov, Ukraine, "acted outside the limits of his position and jurisdiction and without the consent of

either the Holy Father or of myself", said Ukrainian Cardinal Lubachivsky.

Archbishop Sterniuk is the cardinal's personal representative in Lvov.

The convert, Viktor Vladimirovic Cekalin, was part of an underground Russian Orthodox Church, not attached to the Moscow Patriarchate.

He was accepted into the Catholic Church in early January. Archbi-

shop Sterniuk then named him bishop for Eastern-rite Catholics in Russia.

"Archbishop Sterniuk apparently thought he had been ordained a bishop" by the underground Church, said Sonya Hlutkowsky, press officer for the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Rome.

After the Ukrainian Catholic Church was outlawed in the Soviet

Union in 1946, the bishops of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, who had to operate clandestinely, "consecrated bishops without the knowledge and express consent of the Holy See and the major archbishop," the statement said.

"With the return to a normal situation in Ukraine, such nominations are no longer permitted under any circumstance," it said.

Pope Don't profit from hurt

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul II told Christian businessmen to spurn harmful but highly profitable enterprises, such as supplying arms and peddling illegal drugs, and to help build just societies.

"To preserve morality in economic activity, you have need of lucid thinking and the courageous will to remain

faithful to the clear demands of the word of God and the teachings of the Church," Pope John Paul said to the International Christian Union of Business Leaders.

"Iam thinking of everything which works against human life and nature, from degrading the environment to developing weapons of outrageous concepts or

the marketing of equally murderous drugs," he added.

moral and gospel laws," he said.

Strive -to develop the best relations among all The primary aim of Christian businessmen is the personnel of your "the building of a just company, with the users society" and a "truly of your products or equitable society", he services, with the different social sectors and said. with authorities respon"You must find the sible for the common point of convergence of a good," he said. series of natural, techniThe pope also praised cal, civil and, finally, the collapse of commu-

Envoy blocking probe claim NEW YORK, (CNS): An American priest who replaced one of the Jesuits murdered in 1989 in El Salvador said that the Jesuit community in that country believes U.S. Ambassador William Walker is obstructing efforts to find the truth about who ordered the murders.

Walker professed great respect for the university

and its slain rector, Father Ignacio Ellacuria he said, but the priest claimed that actions of the ambassador, the State Department and other U.S. agencies show a pattern of withholding useful documents and subverting the investigative process.

The Jesuits were found slain on the university campus November 16,

1989, along with their cook and her teenage daughter.

Nine military personnel, including the former head of the national officers' school, were arrested and bound over for trial in connection with the murders.

But critics of the government charge that the investigation failed to

go after those who might have ordered the killings.

Father BracIdey said the Jesuit community had no doubt higher ranking officers were involved, but did not consider it likely that any of them would be brought to trial.

"We expect nothing from government prosecutors," he said.

But the Jesuits believe,

nism in Eastern Europe.

"A noble part of the world has freed itself from the ideological constraints of collectivism" which "reduced their creativity and pawned their healthy social and economic development," he said.

The current need is for "reconstruction of entire economies" requiring much sacrifice, he added.

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Episcopal vicar for Geraldton FR BRIAN AHEARN has been appointed Episcopal Vicar for Clergy in the Diocese of Geraldton.

"It is obvious that Fr Biian has the respect and confidence of the priests as has shown in his concern for their welfare for a long time," said Bishop Hickey.

"He will act on behalf of the bishop in matters concerning priests when requested, and will raise with the bishop, on behalf of any or all of the priests, concerns that arise about their ministry and life."

There are 29 priests in Geraldton diocese.

Fr Ahearn

Salvatorian FR STAN BENDOWSKI will be assistant priest with Fr Brian Ahearn at Bluff Pt. In Geraldton diocese he joins Salvatorian FR EMIL JARCO who is parish priest of Morawa.

FR BEN ENGLEBERTINK, a Mill Hill Missionary, has arrived in the Diocese of Geraldton to work full time in the Aboriginal Apostolate.

Fr Englebertink, originally from Holland, spent many years as a missionary in Malaysia.

In recent years he has been Rector of the Mill Hill Missionary College at Roosendaal, Holland.

For the first year, he will

Holiday Mariapolis The largest annual gathering of the Focolare movement took place at Ballarat, Victoria, in January.

Almost six hundred people from throughout Australia and the Pacific Islands took part.

People from many different cultures and backgrounds spent time together to experience life as lived concretely in the light of the Gospel.

There were numerous family groups as well as young people.

Three Catholic bishops and the Anglican Bishop of Ballarat visited the Mariapolis, and a large number of priests were also there.

Many people discovered God for the first time in their lives through the unity and love they experienced in being together.

Others were reconverted or renewed in their faith.

The sense of peace and joy on many faces stood in complete contrast to the happenings in the Middle East, where war broke out at the same time.

The entire Mariapolis program was varied and relaxed so that people could really experience a sense of unity. Many said afterwards that they wanted to take what they had learned back to their everyday lives.

A Mariapolis will be held in Perth at Fairbridge, Pinjarra, between April 12-14 for the people of WA. Everyone is welcome to come. For further information and bookings, please contact the Focolare Centre at 5A St Columba's Avenue, Wembley or ring 381 6170.

Poor and rich sisters Bishop Healy at the Centenary mass in St Mary's Cathedral.

How poor the Presentation Sisters who pioneered WA 'were' will never be really known but they were rich in other ways, said

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faith, leaders with extraordinary gifts and stamina," Bishop Healy said.

He noted the Geraldton foundresses Mother Joseph O'Connell and her companions Mother Joseph Horgan and Mother Lelia Russell, along with Mother Angela Treacey, the first Australian born sister who led the group from Hay to Southern Cross and eventually Iona.

"The leadership and strength of these pioneer women was repeated in the lives of many others over the years down to this very day."

The bishop paid special tribute to Sister Marie Therese Murphy who died in 1975 and who was superior of the Geraldton group and after the amalgamation was also superior at Iona.

"They describe her as completely just, very prayerful and totally faithful.

"One could go on forever adding epithet to epithet to describe these valiant women and others. There is one word however which to my mind describes all the sisters of the Institute.

They were all missionaries for Christ.

"The pioneer Presentations and all those who have followed them since, were walking in the footsteps of the gospel's 72 disciples," the bishop said.

"When Nano Nagle was born in Cork, Ireland in 1718, 273 years ago, it was a very different era the present. from Because of the Penal

Laws, there were no schools as we know them.

"Nano's first schooling was in a hedge school. A school illegally operated in the open because there were no buildings. She was fortunate in that later she and her sisters were able to go to Paris to continue their education. she "Eventually returned to Ireland and to Cork and inspired by her great love of children and especially poor children, she founded the Presentation Sisters in 1775.

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later, she was dead, worn out by her labours for those she loved. The Presentation institute flourished and more

than 100 years on, the first Sisters arrived in

WA in 1891 at Geraldton.

There they began their mission of teaching poor children in what was a very new and very poor diocese.

"The Sisters went to Northampton, and Goomailing, to Carnarvon and Roebourne and Greenough and a host of places that hardly exist today in the Murchison Goldfields. At the turn of the century, another group of Presentation Sisters travelled from Hay in NSW to Southern Cross, to Collie, to Conesbe, to Iona and later to many country towns in Bunbury and Perth diocese."

Bishop Healy concluded with a poem written by a Presentation Sister from Victoria.

Take down your lantern from its niche and go out.

You may not rest in firelight certainties.

Secure from drifting fog of doubt and fear.

You may not buildyourself confining walls And say: "Thus far, and thus, and thus far shall I walk And these things shallIdo, and nothing more."

Go out! For need calls loudly in the winding lanes And you must seek Christ there.

Your pilgrim heart Shall urge you still one pace beyond.

And love shall be your lantern flame.

be stationed in Tardun, working alongside the Pallottines who conduct a residential centre and a Catholic primary school for Aboriginal students.

Later he will move through the Mid-West and the Murchison to assess likely centres for his future work.

Other Mill Hill Missionaries working in Geraldton diocese are — Fr Pat Littlewood, South Hedland; Fr Jan Oosdyck, Newman; Fr Berths Van der Geest, MeekatharraMt Magnet and Fr Dirk Tolboom — Three Springs.

FR JOSEPH RATHNARAJ FERNANDO has

volunteered to work in the diocese of Geraldton for a period of two years, with the possibility of extending it for a further two years.

Fr Joseph comes from the diocese of Tuticorin in South India. Apart from extensive experience in parishes, Fr Joseph has been involved in lay formation in the Tuticorin Pastoral Centre and in radio and television evangelical work.

He is supplying in South Hedland at the present time whilst Fr Pat Littlewood is on leave.

Bethel plan to develop its HQ The Bethel Community has embarked on a fund-raising drive to develop its headquarters in Railway Parade.

The 350 strong community has been based in the Leederville area for more than 12 years.

To achieve its target members are running raffles and selling lamingtons. community The hopes to set up a reception area, auditorium and children's ministry area "in the next few years."

Bethel is an Ecumenical Community of about 95% Catholic.

The Community has a Chaplain, Fr Chris Ross, who is appointed by the Archbishop.

The Chapel at the Railway Parade headquarters has the Blessed Sacrament reserved in it, and a Mass is celebrated for the staff each Wednesday.

Because of the large number of Catholics in the Community, Bethel has established formal links with the Archdiocese and with the universal Church.

At the end of last year, Bethel became one of the founding members of the Catholic Fraternity of Charismatic Covenant Communities.

The fraternity is an international private

association which seeks to identify itself with the salyific mission of the Church through links to the Pontifical Council for the Laity. In communion with the local bishops, the Fraternity seeks to give renewed vigour to renewal in the spirit and an outreach for evangelisation.

The formal establishment of the fraternity is an important recognition of the significant place that groups of lay people have within the Church.

The aims of Bethel are to develop our Christian life within the framework of the community, to be open to what the Lord wants to do in us — and to be effective members of the society in which we live by reflecting Christian values to others.

Generally this is done by creating opportunities for people to share their lives together and seek mutual help in their Christian walk.

By trying to develop an authentic Christian culture in lifestyle, celebration and relationships we hope to counter the erosion of Christian values.

Small sharing groups and personal counselling provide the occasion for mutual growth.

On the far side of the sun When I was a small boy in Victoria, I saw the sun rise out of the sea somewhere between us and New Zealand, and when it disappeared each night in the west, I presumed it hit the ground somewhere between Adelaide and Alice Springs; so imagine my surprise when I flew into Western Australia on the first day of this year to find that the sun must have bounced like a "Mery Hughes" bumper! because over here it was still shining, shining, shining!

That burning sun has been the most prominent thing of my first month here in the West on exchange from Melbourne Archdiocese while the Parish Priest of Carnarvon, Fr BoL Pocock has gone east for a year of different experience.

I am disoriented. How can the sea be on your left as you drive north? How can Test matches finish at three in the afternoon? And more than that — after seven years in a group of hospitals for the mentally ill, the intellectually disabled and drug and alcohol addicts, how do you do baptisms and marriages? How do you say Mass for a congregation that sits still and doesn't interrupt with questions and comments?

People are people wherever they live. Life is still a mixture of ups and downs, but the joys and blessings and the sorrows and troubles take different shapes. As at home, many people are incredibly rich in gifts and talents, just needing to appreciate how deeply they are loved by the

Lord, so that they can be willing to share with others.

Here in these streetsIsee a new form of poverty — people who have lost pride and dignity. I wonder was it lost or did they have it stolen from them? How can it be regained? Someone is going to have to sit and listen along the river bank, or under the bridge for a long time before we know what help to offer.

I've lost a lot in coming here.Imiss being able to drive just a few kilometres to meet half a dozen other priests to share our lives during a game of cards. I miss, thank God, trams and red lights making traffic chaos. I miss sitting in front of a log fire while my mother fusses over a meal she has specially prepared for me. I miss "home".

In exchange, I've marvelled at God's dolphins and turtles disporting themselves gracefully at Shark Bay; I've been enchanted by myriad multicoloured fish among the blue and purple coral at the Blow Holes; I've seen trees laden with fruit on the edge of the desert; and I've learnt why the Bible and the Church use water as a symbol of life; I've dreamt of the day when a politician's scheme of piping water from the north will make the whole state bloom and all it cost me was one bad dose of sunburn!

Carnarvon has introduced me to new groups of migrants; not the Greeks and Vietnamese of Melbourne, but warm-blooded Portuguese from Madeira — I thought that was a white wine —

By Fr Bart King of Melbourne who is on a year's exchange with Fr Pocock of Carnarvon.

and the hard working Eastern Europeans who thought freedom was worth crossing the world for. Different climates produce different people as well as different plants.

Along the river, families are closely settled in lush tropical surroundings; while, inland, you meet the isolation of sheep stations that are bigger than some countries in our world. The tyranny of distance is a reality for families battling against heat and drought to make their homestead a little oasis. Their desert life gives them time to reflect on the Father's plan that the Earth should be the mother of life. Masses of wildflowers suddenly spring from what looks like lifeless dust, and the frogs and the fish that were apparently gone, reappear with the long awaited rains.

There is life after death. I've learnt to pray: Lord look not on our sinfulness; help us to overcome selfishness and greed in this land you have so richly blessed. Lord, look upon your people's faith — the faith that leads these people to thank you for all they have; and their hope — the hope that enables them to survive life's trials and to dream of a better future; and their love — the love that flowers in their children, the love that rallies people in time of disaster. Lord, may we all, of every age and race, share the work of bringing your kingdom to "our place", so that we may enjoy watching for the day when, together, we will enjoy "your place".

Have you ever been hungry?

Not the hunger pangs of a missed meal, but the debilitating ache that comes from days, weeks and months of barely finding enough to stay alive.

We take our weekly shopping for granted, the greatest hardship perhaps the sacrifice of a luxury or two when money's a little short.

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God's message for Easter They km in the year 2091 Jesus

was dead

by ROBERT WILKEN

"And when he learned form the centurion that he (Jesus) was dead, he granted the body to Joseph and he bought a linen shroud, and taking him down wrapped him in a linen shroud and laid him in a tomb which had been hewn out of the rock.

And he rolled the stone against the door of the tomb."

For the Jews of ancient Palestine, burial was a family affair.

No physician stood in

attendance, no priest came to give last rites, no undertaker hovered in the background waiting to discuss "arrangements" with the family.

Death usually occurred at home attended only by family and friends.

As soon as a person died, the oldest son or a close relative closed the eyes of thc deceased, as in sleep and bound ne mouth shut.

The body was ceremoniously washed and anointed with aromatic ointments.

The case Five years ago Nolan Rupp, a 20-year-old university student, was coming home from his part-time job selling shoes. About lOpm he got off the bus three blocks from home and was attacked and robbed by three young men.

By Loretta Girzaitis (In this "Message from God for Easter," sent to the people on Earth in the year 2091, religious educator Loretta Girzaitis describes what holiness actually "looks like.")

Yes,Icall you my friend not servant.

One hundred years ago, according to how time is measured on earth, people were dying at an extraordinary rate from the war in the Persian Gulf, from suicides, drug overdoses, murder and revenge.

They were coming home in droves, and among them were saints drawn to me as a needle is drawn to a magnet.

You ask me, "who was a saint then? Who is a saint now? Who is the one who so yearns for my intimate friendship that no obstacle is too difficult to overcome?"

Let me tell you just as my Son did more than 2.000 years ago. You will 8

see that the saints in 2091 are no different from the ones who already celebrate eternal life with me. Let me use you as a model.

Do you know I chose you deliberately to live in this age because there is a task I have for you that no one else can do?

Out of nothingIcreated a seed and a man planted it into a woman so that you could have life. Even before you were born, I loved you with a love that can never be destroyed.

What makes you my beloved? Love does. To be my eternal friend,Iwant you to love everyone, but I have found that it is difficult for human beings to love.

Why? Because they are turned in on themselves so that only their needs are paramount, because they seize whatever they can for themselves, forgetting that my gifts to the earth are for everyone.

Know the earth and everything in it is the Lord's and treat it accordingly. Be willing to have

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hope you sense that I fill your heart with serenity and determination.

You delight me when When you spend time you live life fully, immersing yourself into in intimate conversation with me, sharing and every activity, loving every person who comes listening,I mould you as a potter moulds clay into your way. a beautiful piece of art.

Learn from your misBecause you are so takes and do not give pliable, I can use you as them the power to a conduit that carries my control you with their blessings to others, as an memories. instrument that witI respect you when you nesses to the reign of God are the kind of risk-taker which already has begun who chooses this path on earth and is being which others fear. brought about more completely through you.

You who are saints Jesus Your love leads you to what understand meant when he said, "I recognize those less fortunate than you in am the way". wealth, Your honest appraisal of education, yourself allows you to opportunities and faith. follow this son of mine, It surfaces an anger and about for your realize there are compassion blind alleys and dead inequalities, oppression ends as well as abysses and evil which surround that can waylay you. And you.

So you become my so you trust. prophet denouncing evil, You have a courage that reminding everyone does not submit to fear.

Your values are like once again that my Son mine and you live them died that all may know.

His death and resurrecout daily. Particularly when others ridicule tion assure you saintyour choices because hood. Know that Iwill be they do not fit the mould awaiting you when you of the world's values, I come home to me. less so that others may have enough.

Because he had little money, the robbers hit him over the head with a metal bar, fracturing his skull.

Fortunately, passers-by witnessed the crime, called the emer-

gency medical services and the police.

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His widowed was notified she Nolan arrived The emergency team hospital. brought Nolan to the hospital within 20 min- She suffered through the utes of the attack. hours when sul Diligent police work performed to 11 apprehended the three pressure to his attackers within two to repair his 1.4 hours.

Nolan had The skull fracture was student of ri life threatening. The through him 1 physician in the emer- parents. W1 gency room feared that if mother called a Nolan recovered he I joined het might be mentally hospital. impaired for life.

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Marking Good Friday was cold and wet. As I cleared away the remains of our meagre meal, I came to the sudden conclusion that I was glad Lent was over and thoroughly sick of leftover tuna casserole.

"Why is it," I said to my wife, who was boiling Easter eggs in the kitchen, "that I can go for months without wanting a hamburger and then suddenly on Ash Wednesday develop a prima craving for a MacDonald's quarter pounder?"

"Because it's Lent, dear."

My wife is a great psychologist. Back in the kitchen there was the sound of hot water

splashing and then hard boiled eggs clicking against one another in a big dish.

"You know, it makes no sense."

"What makes no sense?" my wife asked, putting the dish of eggs in the refrigerator.

"Lent is 40 days long and we make all this hoopla — ashes, fasting, stations of the cross, the parish Lenten Scripture study. The Easter season is 50 days long and all we have is rabbits, chocolate eggs and your mother to dinner."

My wife gave me a look that made the day all of a sudden seem warm and friendly.

I took a new tack.

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VOLUME 8, No. 1

A Publication of the Catholic Education Office of Western Australia Registered by Australia Post. Publication No: WBF 2526.

TEACHERS RECOGNISED Salary increases awarded to teachers in Catholic and other non-government schools at the end of last year and significant changes to the administrative s tructure of WA Catholic primary schools have combined to improve career paths and promotional opportunities for teachers.

Last December the Full Bench of the Western Australian Industrial Relations Commission granted salary increases of up to $2500 per year to teachers.

The decision brought the top salary for experienced classroom teachers to $38 000 from 1 June 1991. An interim increase to $37 020 applied immediately and brought non-government teachers' salaries into line with that of teachers employed by the WA Ministry of Education.

Other Changes The increases were among a number of amendments to the Independent Schools' Teachers' Award. Other changes included provision for teacher appraisals, teacher induction processes and the introduction of a new classification of Senior Teacher into the Award. The Senior Teacher classification applies to teachers who are at the top of their respective salary scales who can demonstrate exemplary classroom practice and who wish to remain as classroom teachers. This classification will attract an allowance of $1200 per year and will be implemented from 1 January 1992.

Administrative Change Also at the end of last year amendments made to the Independent Schools' Teachers' Award provided for Catholic primary schools with an enrolment of 100 or more students to be managed by an administrative team comprising the principal and two assistant principals.

The amendments will provide a career path and promotional positions for primary teachers and extra pay for teachers who take on positions of responsibility within schools.

The positions of assistant principal (administration) and assistant principal (religious education) replace the positions of senior teacher and religious education coordinator which have previously existed in primary schools.

These positions have, until now, attracted only a small allowance. Under the amended award, assistant principals of schools with an enrolment of between 300 and 700 students will receive a maximum allowance of $6000 per year while assistant principals of schools with an enrolment of between 100 and 300 students will receive an additional $3000 maximum per year. The allowances are being implemented by payment of one-third this year, increasing Continued on page 2

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"He was a very good bloke ... and an exceptional Bishop."

With these words, the Director of Catholic Education in Western Australia, Dr Peter Tannock described the late Archbishop William Foley at the Catholic education community's Thanksgiving Mass to honour the life of the Archbishop.

Referring to the Archbishop's spent $120 million one way or sight, to set the downtrodden free, The Mass was held at the Catholic Education Centre on involvement in Catholic educa- another on school buildings to proclaim the Lord's year of favour — that is the work of the Wednesday 13 February. In his tion, Dr Tannock described him as during his time as Archbishop.

"We have a very obvious task Lord in which he was engaged, tribute, Dr Tannock said that while a visionary.

"In his short period of time as before us," Dr Tannock said. "We that is the work in which he led us, the Mass was an occasion of joyous celebration for the life of Archbishop he did an amazing have to carry on and complete his and that is the work that we by his memory the Archbishop, and the gifts he number of things including the work. We have to support the new honour brought to the Catholic education development of the Catholic leadership of the Church and at continuing." community, it was also a time of Education Centre in Leederville. the same time we must imple- Family sorrow as it marked the departure He committed himself to and ment, carry out, or finish much of Among those who attended strongly supported in every way the work which the Archbishop were members of Archbishop of a leader and friend. possible the development of the began. We must also rejoice that Foley's family, principals, Humble Man University of Notre Dame Austra- we had him for the period that we teachers, and students from Dr Tannock described the metropolitan and country Archbishop as a humble, simple lia. He developed the Catholic did." schools, members of the Catholic and unpretentious man whose Library which is going to be a Catholic Education Ministry Fr Holohan also urged the Education Commission and staff deep spirituality showed through tremendous contribution to the in his human relationships, in the life of the Church in Western continuation of the Archbishop's of the Catholic Education Office, the Catholic Institute and the way he went about his work and Australia. He supported the work work in his homily. of the Catholic Education Com"Tonight we focus on his ministry University of Notre Dame Austrain the model of his life.

"He was also instinctively mission and the Catholic Educa- in Catholic education," said Fr lia and representatives of parent positive — he kept looking for the tion Office, the Catholic Institute, Holohan. "Archbishop Foley was organisations and school boards.

The Director of Religious pluses in life, not the minuses — adult education and the catechist passionately concerned for and he was courageous. He loved program. These are some of the Catholic education. It was Education in WA, Fr Gerard life, and he saw the good in it and things that he worked so hard to important to him because he Holohan, was the main celebrant recognised that at all its levels it at the Mass which was concelein people. He was, put very see become reality. contributed to the formation of brated by several priests simply, and in the Australian Special Interest "During his period as Archbi- adults down to young people so associated with Catholic educavernacular which he liked so much, a very good bloke. And of shop he presided over the that all could play their role in the tion. Members of the Corpus course he was an exceptional development of four new secon- mission of the Church to the Christi College senior choir led Bishop. He was the right man for dary schools and eight new world. He saw Catholic education the singing and year 12 students his times and his death is a primary schools including the two continuing the words of Jesus, John Nair of Ursula Frayne tremendous blow to the Church, metropolitan Aboriginal schools, which were to bring good news to Catholic College and Jilska and of course, to Catholic Culunga and Clontarf, which the poor, to proclaim liberty to Fairweather of Mercedes College were of special interest to him. He captives and to the blind new read the Prayers of the Faithful. education," said Dr Tannock.

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CHISHOLM EXCELS

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In only the second year since its establishment, Chisholm Catholic College, Bedford has set an enviable record for academic excellence with one student receiving a General Exhibition for his results in the 1990 Tertiary Entrance Examinations and another receiving a Subject Exhibition.

Medicine General Exhibition winner Derrick Tze Chiang Kuan is now studying medicine at the University of Western Australia. His fellow student, Dennis De Pellegrin, who gained the Subject Exhibition for Italian, is studying Engineering at UWA. Both students received their awards from the then Minister for Education, Dr Geoff Gallop, at a special ceremony at Government House in January.

Subject Awards Also receiving Subject Exhibitions awards were St Brigid's College, Lesmurdie, student Sarah Jones (History) and Louise Allen, Sacred Heart College, Sorrento (Physical Science).

General Exhibitions are awarded to the 20 students who gain the highest TEE scores. Subject Exhibitions are awarded to the students who gain the highest marks in individual subjects.

The administration team at Queen of Apostles School, Riverton, Sr Anne Luke, assistant principal (religious education), Mr Rob Troost, assistant principal (administration) and Mr Tony Giglia, principal. by one-third each year until the maximum amount is reached.

pals' Association has welcomed the changes to the administrative structure.

Negotiations Since April 1990 the amendments were negotiated extensively by the Catholic Education Office, the Association of Independent Schools and the Independent Schools Salaried Officers' Association (ISSOA) through the Tripartite Industrial Relations Committee.

Association chairman, Mr Tony Giglia, principal of Queen of Apostles School, Riverton, said the changes addressed an existing imbalance with administration structure of primary schools.

Agreement with the ISSOA was reached last November and ratified by the Industrial Relations Commission in December.

"By giving equal status to both the assistant principal (administration) and the assistant principal (religious education) schools were acknowledging the importance of religious education to administration," he said.

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"The new structure also provides a career path for

teachers," Mr Giglia said. "There is opportunity for promotion for those teachers who want to remain in the classroom, as well as experience and training for those who wish to move into administration.

The new structure has already been introduced at Queen of Apostles School where the administration team comprises Mr Giglia, assistant principal (administration) Rob Troost and assistant principal (religious education) Sr Anne Luke.

The three meet weekly to discuss the general running of the school, organisation of staff meetings and other issues such as school Masses and paraliturgies.

Chisholm Catholic College principal, Mr Graham Cooney congratulates General Exhibition winner Derrirk Tze Chiang Kuan.

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Wet beginning While Perth teachers and students sweltered under record high temperatures at the beginning of the school year, their colleagues at Catholic schools in the Kimberley were battling a different problem — too much water.

A good "wet" season, the first in several years, saw many teachers and students stranded when severe storms, flooded airstrips and swollen rivers made travel to remote schools impossible.

Teachers for Bilir Ngawiwu Catholic School, Yaruman (Ringer Soak) were stranded in Kununurra for several days before travelling on the Great Northern Highway through Halls Creek to Fox River Irrigation Station. From there they were taken by helicopter into Yaruman as the black soil plain was impassable.

At Billiluna Station arrival by air was not an option for staff of Kururrungku Catholic School — chi ldren were already catching fish on the flooded airstrip. Three lay teachers, Marnie Walker, Bernadette McPherson and Sarey Delaine, managed to reach the station by road from Balgo Hills only hours before the Sturt Creek became impassable. Principal, Sr Margaret McGrath and Sr Bernadette, were trapped at Balgo Hills for more than a week before flying to Halls Creek to try to reach the school by road. Two

attempts to drive in were unsuccessful but on their third attempt, Sr Margaret and Sr Bernadette were met at Wolfe Creek by members of the Billiluna community in a tip truck. With their assistance, the two teachers were finally able to cross the creek and reach the school.

Since the beginning of the year, Billiluna Station has received three times its annual average rainfall, including a 10-inch overnight deluge which resulted in flood waters almost reaching teacher housing.

Gibb River At the Gibb River Catholic Primary School, one of two new Catholic schools to open in WA this year, classes were delayed for almost a week when staff, Sr Margaret Scott and Sr Frances Wilson, were unable to reach the remote community because of poor weather. They finally arrived by plane on Thursday 30 January after two abortive attempts, and after several days of unpacking and organising, were ready for classes on Monday 4 February.

Only nine children were able to

Above: Simone Ferrara (left) and Emma O'Reilly, year 1 students at High Wycombe Catholic Primary School. found much to absorb them on the first day of school. reach the school for the first day of lessons, but by the following day they were joined by several more who reached the school after crossing the Barnett River by boat, swimming the Hann River and being driven the final 60 kilometres by members of the Ngallangunda Aboriginal Community, from Gibb River.

The new school, located on Gibb River Station, mid-way between Derby and Wyndham, was established in response to a request by the Community.

In a letter to Bishop John Jobst, of Broome, Community members

requested a Catholic school and Sisters to teach in that school.

Community members also described how they wanted to keep their children at home so they could be taught their own culture, language and dreamtime stories.

Previously children from the station had boarded in Derby and attended Holy Rosary School.

Principal Sr Margaret Scott says there is "a tremendous feeling within the Community, due in part to the fact that they have their own school now. All are supportive and helpful. Because there is very little room within the corrugated iron house currently being used as a school, the men of the community have built a bough shed which will cater for the preprimary children for the next few months until it gets too cold outside. The women are clearing the ground around the school and everyone is pitching in to help set up the school for their children.

"At a recent meeting parents and other community members discussed a name for their school.

They want a uniform and have all paid for this already," said Sr Margaret.

Support for the new school has also come from other Kimberley Catholic schools. 'They were generous with donations last year

and we are grateful for their support," Sr Margaret said.

High Wycombe • In metropolitan Perth the second new Catholic school , High Wycombe Catholic Primary School, opened on Wednesday 30 January, in brand new buildings seemingly surrounded by white sand and on a day when the temperature reached 43 degrees before lunchtime. The following day saw Perth experience a record temperature of 45.6 degrees, however the classrooms, cooled by ceiling fans, remained comfortable.

In the month since school opened, hard work by parents and staff has resulted in turf being laid for pre-primary students, garden beds being established and grass, trees and shrubs planted.

Principal of the new school, Mr Greg Wyss said there had been tremendous support for the school by parents. "A wonderful sense of community is building up quickly," he said. "Already a Parents' and Friends' Association has been established and two fund-raising ventures are underway to provide additional facilities for the school."

High Wycombe Catholic Primary School has opened with preprimary, years 1 and 2 classes and has some vacancies in each year group.

Left: Teachers and students at Gibb River Catholic Primary School in one of the bough shelters constructed by the Ngallangunda Aboriginal Community for use as extra classrooms.

1991 Teacher Training Scholarships The Catholic Education Commission of Western Australia has awarded 10 Teacher Training Scholarships to students who will complete their teaching training in 1991 and who have agreed to teach in country and Kimberley Catholic schools.

Each scholarship is valued at $7000. This amount includes the Higher Education Contribution Scheme fee which is paid directly to the students' tertiary institutions. The remainder is paid to the students in four instalments.

Where possible, the students' long term teaching practice will be undertaken in a country Catholic school and the students will study a unit in religious education during the year.

Primary Teachers This year four scholarships were awarded to primary teacher trainees who have undertaken to teach in Kimberley Catholic schools in 1992 and 1993.. They are: Veronica Barber, Curtin University; Frances Bendotti, Edith Cowan University; Donna Furgusson, Curtin University; and Charissa Marshall, Murdoch University.

Secondary Teachers Six scholarships were awarded to secondary teacher trainees who will teach in country schools. They are: Gillian Burge, University of Western Australia, Physical Education; Michelle Devereux, Edith Cowan University, Business Studies; Jane Harriss, Murdoch University, Mathematics; Matthew Johnston, University of Western Australia, Mathematics: Andrew Murphy, Edith Cowan University; Mathematics: and Louise Young, Edith Cowan University, Business Studies.

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THE UNIVERSITY OF SHAPING THE FUTURE OF Western Australia The Church Catholic Education The University of Notre Dame Australia will open its doors to students in 1992. The founding school will be the College of Education. During the next decade the University will develop additional programs in Arts and Sciences, Law, Medicine and Health Sciences and Business.

Two Campuses The College of Education will be in Mouat Street, Fremantle adjacent to the University's planning office in Cliff Street. As the University grows and the other colleges develop it is planned to shift the main campus to a broadacre site in order to accommodate the expected enrolment of more than 5000 students.

The Fremantle campus will always remain and will be the base for about 1500 post-graduate and part-time students.

Meeting Needs The idea of the University was first suggested when Catholic educators were looking at ways to provide training for teachers for Catholic schools.

It was decided that the establishment of a Catholic university would not only meet the needs of Catholic education but also the need for the training of leaders and professionals in all areas of the Church's mission.

Dedicated to Excellence Notre Dame Australia (NDA) will be a small Catholic university of high standards dedicated to research and to rigorous teaching.

It will seek to graduate students noteworthy for their beliefs, values and practices, and their outstanding professional skills and knowledge. Close attention will be given to the personal and social needs of students, through organised pastoral care and the encouragement of student clubs, activities, sport and recreation. As part of this overall philosophy, undergraduate students will be, in the future, encouraged to live in NDA accommodation.

Theology and Philosophy Units In the tradition of liberal education NDA will seek to broaden the knowledge of its students. Undergraduates will be required to combine their professional specialisation with units in philosophy of theology and a choice of units in the arts and sciences.

It will foster intellectual enquiry and debate on important issues from a Catholic perspective.

NDA will promote a spirit of openness and freedom, and add the richness of an independent Catholic university to the spectrum of higher education in Australia.

FIRST DEAN THE COLLEGE OF AND PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION EDUCATION .....1992 program The College of Education will take its first students in 1992 in the following courses.

Diploma in Education — Secondary A post-graduate Diploma in Education for intending secondary school teachers will be offered in 1992.

This is a one-year, professional teaching preparation for people already holding a degree in an appropriate subject but who are not teacher trained.

It will also be of interest to people intending to work in specialist areas including guidance and counselling and youth programs and who require a teaching qualification.

Masters Degrees Two post-graduate Masters degrees will be offered in 1992 for those in, or aspiring to leadership positions. Both courses will involve core and elective coursework and an individual project of an applied nature. Initially both courses will

be part-time and after school hours, however it is planned to have them available externally at a later stage.

The Masters degrees will be structured on a three-semester basis. Part-time students will usually complete the degree in four to six semesters.

Master of Educational Leadership The Master of Educational Leadership will be of interest to any teachers with administrative, coordination or management responsibilities or to those who wish to prepare for leadership positions.

The course is aimed particularly at school principals, deputy and assistant principals, senior teachers, department heads, subject coordinators and teachers with special responsibilities in areas involving staff development.

Master of Religious Education The Master of Religious Education is designed to meet the needs of Religious Education coordinators and teachers in Catholic schools.

It will offer professional formation for those already in leadership positions in the Religious Education area and for those wishing to move into the teaching of Religious Education.

1994 — Primary Teacher Training In 1994 the College of Education will begin one of its major programs. It will offer a three or four year Bachelor degree for early childhood and primary teaching.

It will be open to immediate school leavers and to matureage students on a full-time or part-time basis.

The Dean and Professor of Education at the University is Dr Tony R yan.

The College of Education will be taking on one of the biggest challenges facing Catholic education according to Dr Ryan.

"Today Catholic schools employ almost 3000 teachers but only 7% of them are from religious orders," he said.

"The lay people in our schools are committed, talented, dedicated and professionally as strong as you would find anywhere, but our schools have special needs."

"I believe the greatest challenge we face in the next 10 years is to provide a comprehensive and Catholic training for those lay people who will carry on the great tradition handed on by the Religious Orders," said Dr Ryan.

"NDA will be able to design and structure its courses in ways which emphasise the total formation of the individual. Great store will be placed on respecting and nurturing the goals of individual development and fulfilment, the integration of spiritual and intellectual aspects of education and understanding, and the conscious harmonising of faith and reason."

Exchange Opportunities Dr Ryan said that many Notre Dame Australia post graduate students will have a unique opportunity to study part of their course overseas, particularly at the University of Notre Dame in the United States.

"In all post-graduate courses, opportunities for exchange (or cross-credit) studies at other tertiary institutes will be encouraged," he said.

Vice Chancellor to Start in June Professor David Link is the University's inaugural Vice Chancellor.

Currently he is Dean of the profession, international Law School at the University of human rights and the rights of Notre Dame in Indiana. He will the poor and homeless. move to Australia to take up his Professor Link is co-author of new position in June. three major works on taxation Professor Link has had a and is Chairman of the Indiana distinguished career in both State Ethics Commission. education and law. He received US Guidance his Juris Doctor degree from Notre Dame in 1961 and after a The appointment of Professor term as a lawyer with the Link as Vice Chancellor is an Treasury Department in the US example of the distinctive Federal Government relationship between NDA and he became a senior partner in a the University of Notre Dame in Chicago law firm. the US. While the universities He joined the faculty at Notre are autonomous and there are Dame in 1970. clear differences of culture and As Dean of the Law School he tradition, the US University will continued to teach, concentratgive valuable guidance during Professor David Link ing on the ethics of the legal NDA's foundation years. .,Intercom

Professor Tony Ryan Dr Ryan was formerly Dean of the Faculty of Education at Curtin University of Technology. He has had extensive teaching experience in Western Australian schools and was a senior member of the curriculum and research branch of the Education Department.

He is a member of the Catholic Education Commission of WA and has held executive positions with the WA Institute for Educational Research and the Australian Association for Research in Education.

NOTRE DAME AUSTRALIA Archbishop Foley's vision for NDA Archbishop William Foley was a strong supporter of the University of Notre Dame. His support was unwavering during the years when the University was being developed. At a press conference on 12 August 1988 Archbishop Foley announced the decision to proceed with planning for the establishment of the University. On 9 February he signed a letter to the Catholic community of Western Australia urging support for the University. After the Archbishop's death the Administrator of the Archdiocese, Bishop Healy decided that the letter should be distributed as Archbishop Foley had planned. The letter is printed below.

SCHOLARSHIP FUND ESTABLISHED The University has commenced a major fundraising campaign to provide scholarships for education students.

The campaign will ensure that no and will be available to both fullstudent will be discriminated time and part-time students. against on financial grounds. The A full scholarship would typically University will not be elitist. It is provide an 80% fee waiver. Part expected that the majority of scholarships will also be offered at students will be offered a substan- the discretion of the university. tial scholarship to offset the fee.

Target The College's scholarship proMost NDA Education students will pay only marginally more than the gram will be dependent on the so-called HECS fee payable at the University's fundraising efforts.

Scholarships will be provided from publicly funded universities. the investment income of the Academic Merit Scholarship Fund. The fundraising The scholarships will be offered program will continue into 1992 competitively on academic merit and 1993 until the overall target has and according to financial need been met.

NDA TEAM VISITS Archbishop Foley at the press conference announcing the decision to establish the University of Notre Dame Australia.

ARCHBISHOP'S LETTER TO THE CATHOLICS OF THE ARCHDIOCESE It is with considerable excitement that I await the opening of the University of Notre Dame Australia in Fremantle next year. Though the concept of a Catholic university is certainly new to Australia, there is a long and respected tradition of Catholic universities in other countries. Recognising the important contribution many of these have made to the intellectual life of the Church, Pope John Paul II has recently given strong endorsement to their further development.

I am pleased that the Church in Western Australia, through the emergence of NDA, will become a part of this expanding and influential network.

The University will begin with a College of Education in remodelled premises in Mouat St, Fremantle, and follow this shortly with a College of Arts and Sciences. Plans are also in place to introduce Colleges of Health Sciences, Law and Business as soon as possible. A Department of Theology, to be included within the College of Arts and Sciences, will greatly enrich the spiritual and intellectual life of the Church in Western Australia.

The College of Education is of special importance. We have all recognised the need for some time of providing a comprehensive professional preparation for those looking to teach in and lead our Catholic schools. Through its degree courses the College will give its beginning teachers a more integrated grounding in theology, religious education, teaching methodology and the ethos of Catholic schools than is currently available in Western Australia.

A post-graduate Diploma in Education will commence in 1992 for students preparing for secondary school teaching.

The College will also offer a Masters degree in Educational Leadership for senior Catholic school staff, and a Master of Religious Education for teachers and coordinators of Religious Education. In 1994 the College will commence an undergraduate Bachelor of Education for intending primary and early childhood teachers.

The University's teacher education programs will complement the excellent and continuing work of the Catholic Institute. I look to the University and the Institute together to continue the great tradition of teacher formation and development established and maintained for so long by our religious orders.

In recent years I have frequently affirmed and supported the moves towards this private Catholic University. I now formally and strongly endorse the University and its foundation College of Education, and I ask every Catholic in the Archdiocese to join me in praying for its success. I also ask you to be generous in your financial support to help the University with its initial costs, assist with the furnishing and equipping of its lecture rooms, help put essential books on the library shelves, and provide scholarships for its students.

I urge you to share in this great venture, and to become part of the challenge that is ahead of us. It is clear that we require appropriately trained teachers for the special mission in our Catholic schools; it is also clear that we need every Catholic to contribute to this new and important frontier for the Church in Australia. The Pope has recently underlined the University's need for support from the broader Catholic community when he said: Iturn to the whole Church, convinced that Catholic Universities are essential to her growth and to the development of Christian culture and human progress. For this reason, the entire ecclesial community is invited. . . to offer them economic aid, especially in those countries where they have more urgent need of it, and tofurnish assistance in founding new Catholic Universities wherever this might be necessary

During the past six months members of the NDA staff have been visiting parishes, schools and Church groups informing them about the University.

The small team at the University's Office in Fremantle include: Des O'Sullivan, NDA's Registrar and Secretary was formerly the Deputy Director of Catholic .Education in WA. His long career in education included the position of principal of St Norbert College, Queens Park.

Margaret Haydon is the Director of Development. Margaret worked for the Church in Sydney in media for 13 years before taking up the position of Senior Coordinator of Media Services at the Catholic Education Office of WA in 1987.

She began working at the University this month.

The Deputy Director of Development is Father Peter Slattery. He is a member of the Carmelite Order and holds a Doctorate in Education from Fordham University.

The staff of NDA, including Dr Tony Ryan, are available to speak to individuals and groups on a formal or informal basis about the University.

The NDA Office is in 36 Cliff Street, Fremantle. Telephone Des O'Sullivan 430 5822, Fax 335 8334.

Fr Peter Slattery

Margaret Haydon

COMMISSION SEEKS SUPPORT FOR NDA The Catholic Education Commission of Western Australia has asked the Catholic education community to support the. State Government's decision to grant 150 ha of land to the University of Notre Dame Australia.

In a letter to schools and parishes on 8 March 1991 the Commission said it was vital that the Catholic community was well informed about the ongoing development of the University and about the issues surrounding the land grant.

The Commission said it was very grateful that the Government and the Opposition were supporting the land grant.

Principle of State-Aid "Governments of all political persuasions have supported and continue to support private education in Australia. The principle of 'state-aid' in education has long been established.

"Governments, since colonial times, have granted land to private schools, private hospitals, churches, charitable institutions, sporting, cultural and community organisations. Similarly land has been granted to companies establishing industries in this State. The criterion for making these grants has been the potential benefit to the State.

Alkimos Land "The Alkimos land, which is valued by the University of Notre Dame at between $4m and $7m, is to be granted for University purposes only. Although part of the land can be sold, the proceeds of such sale can only be used for the purposes of the University.

If the land is not used for University purposes it must be returned to the State.

"The decision to grant the land was made following more than two years of negotiation between the Government and the University. Notre Dame said publicly from the start that it would be seeking some form of State support."

Substantial Benefits The Commission said that Notre Dame should be supported through the land grant because it would provide additional places in the higher education sector and at the same time complement the State's already high reputation for providing quality education.

The Commission also said that the University would provide substantial economic benefits to the State as a whole and the rapidly expanding northern region of Perth in particular.

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Faith and Life Intertwined

FOCUS Oh SCHOOLS

Set high on the windswept slopes of the hills beyond Perth, Mazenod College, Lesmurdie is quietly going about the business of providing city and country boys with a Catholic education.

Mazenod College was established in 1966 by the Order of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. It began with classes for local students held in a galvanised iron shed but by the following year more substantial school buildings, including the first boarding house, had been constructed.

The College has continued to grow and now has an enrolment of more than 500 students including 63 boarders from areas as diverse as Norseman, Esperance, the South West, Telfer, Derby, Paraburdoo and Malaysia and Indonesia.

A new boarding house, opened at the beginning of this year, has increased the College's boarding capacity by 50 percent. Senior students are accommodated in individual rooms in the new wing while junior boys are housed in the refurbished original boarding house. Both senior and junior wings have common rooms in which the boys can watch television, play games or make themselves a cup of coffee.

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• • %, Past and present rectors of Mazenod College, Fr Ian Macintosh (third from left) and Fr Pat Dwyer (fifth from left) with religious education coordinator, Fr Peter Daly and students Drew Cornelius and Rob Di Toro, year 12 and Mark Harper and Travis Lewis, year 9.

Vital academic, sporting, cultural life

Chapel at heart

Year 11 student Terence Van Osch, of Harvey, hard at work in his boarding house room at Mazenod College.

Facilities at the College include a full size gymnasium, well stocked library and computer and manual arts rooms. A Silver Jubilee Building Appeal has been established to build a new performing arts centre adjacent to the gymnasium.

At the heart of the College is an attractive chapel opened in 1984. This is used for the daily Eucharist which all students are encouraged to attend.

"Religious education is foremost in the school's curriculum," said College rector Fr Pat Dwyer, "but it involves more than the formal program of instruction.

We take care to foster the growth at school of a Catholic environment which complements and reinforces the environment of the home. The boys are encouraged to understand that all aspects of their lives are expressions of their faith."

In keeping with the missionary nature of the Oblates, Mazenod students support a mission operated by the Order in Indonesia. Students raise funds to assist in the work of the mission and each year two senior boys are chosen to visit the mission to see at first hand the uses made of the money donated.

"At Mazenod our aim is to develop each boy's full potential," said Fr Dwyer.

We seek to develop in each student a sound sense of self respect, independence and responsibility to others while simultaneously allowing him to reach his own fullest academic and sporting potential.

Academic excellence is encouraged at Mazenod. In addition to classroom studies, students take part in a wide range of mathematics, science and English study groups.

Sporting, outdoor and cultural activities are also important in the life of the College.

Every boy is encouraged to participate in some sport or activity outside the classroom to develop loyalty, self-discipline, interdependence and team spirit.

Each year every class spends several days on a camp in the outdoors. These camps are graduated in their degree of challenge from a first experience of being away from home for the younger boys to a real outdoor challenge for the older student.

The students' civic responsibility is encouraged by involvement in community activities such as College busy bees and school projects.

Mazenod also has strong Arts and Music Departments. The College orchestra, established in 1987, is an integral part of Mazenod. Many members of the College orchestra are also members of the Kalamunda Youth Band which has successfully competed in international music competitions in New Zealand.

Oblates Link There are close links between the three Australian Oblate Colleges in Perth, Melbourne and Brisbane. These include an annual three-way sporting and cultural contest, held alternately in each city. Next term representatives of Mazenod College, Lesmurdie will travel to Melbourne to compete against teams from Mazenod College, Melbourne and lona College. Brisbane in athletics, band and choir events.

Sport is part of the way of life for Mazenod College students. Above: Derek Charles. year 11, a student from the Kimberley, gets in some football practice at lunchtime.

Deputy head boarder David Thorpe, from Goldsworthy, relaxes in his room in the new boarding house.

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Mazenod College rector, Fr Pat Dwyer looks on while head boy Tyrone Tuohy receives his badge of office from the Provincial of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Fr John Sherman at a Mass to mark the beginning of the school year.

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Giuseppe Furfaro and Jason F?enel, year 9, practise their woodturniril skills in the College's manual arts workshop.

Year 12 student Choon We, Tien, known to his classmates as Alex, checks out the College library. Alex, a boarder at Mazenod, is from Malaysia.

Cameron Marshall and Ashley Williams, year 10. at work in a social studies class.

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Book hire saves time, money The increasingly high cost to parents of purchasing secondary school text books has led a number of schools to introduce a textbook hire scheme.

For an annual sum which is must be cleaned, repaired, stored to pay the wages of staff required considerably less than would be and sorted. At the end of each to conduct the scheme.

There have also been other needed to purchase the books year and during the summer required, students are provided holidays, volunteer parents spend b enefits for the College. with all the textbooks they will use many hours assisting library staff Introduction of the scheme has to clean and repair the returned led to the automation of the souring the year.

Corpus Christi College, Bate- texts before they are sorted into school library.

"Staff generally are in favour of man, is one school which has sets according to the individual the scheme," Mr Curtis said, operated the scheme successfully student's needs. for a number of years.

Principal of Corpus Christi "although we all had to learn how For a once-only deposit and an College, Mr Tony Curtis, said that to make the system work." arnual hiring fee — this year it is the book hire scheme was Costs S- 10 — students are able to established to save parents Parents too agree that the collect their textbooks in the week money and to provide students scheme is a good idea. They are before school resumes. with a good range of up to date assured that all the texts their The scheme has a two-fold resources. The scheme has c hildren need will be available benefit. It saves the parents proved very successful on both and they save considerably on the considerable expense and counts. total cost. ensures that each student has the Mr Curtis said that the book hire "On average, the cost of necessary textbooks ready to scheme is a difficult one in that it textbooks for a senior student can start work on the day school requires a lot of work and very be up to $450 a year. A single starts. good, capable staff. "Corpus book for a subject such as ln addition, teachers are assured Christi has been fortunate in Physics can cost more than $30 that every child has the correct having very professional and and Physics students usually texts when they are needed. dedicated staff and in having require four text books," said who were willing to give Scheme Coordinator, Mrs Kaye parents Logistics Daunting The actual logistics of such a up time to help out in busy Eastwood. "The hiring fee is less than a quarter of this cost." scheme, however, are nothing periods," he said.

"The scheme also allows stushort of daunting.

Self-tunding The scheme is self-funding. Hire dents to change subjects without After five years of operation, the Corpus Christi book hire scheme fees paid by parents are used being penalised financially," Mrs ncludes 15 000 volumes. These solely to purchase new texts and Eastwood said.

Corpus Christi College year 12 student, Ray For/in, collects his textbooks from the College library.

MacKillop's first birthday Encouraging clear speech

Students at Kolbe Catholic College, Rockingham are being encouraged to develop clear speech and practise public speaking through the College's participation in the English Speaking Board Examinations.

At the end of last year, 63 students took part in the ESB Examinations, gaining eight Distinctions, 31 Credits and 24 Very Good Passes.

Members of the English Speaking Board conduct the examinations which require each student to give a three minute talk on a prepared subject, an interpretation of poetry or a role play, a dramatised reading and an impromptu speech or question and answer period.

Kolbe College's participation in the Examinations is coordinated by the Head of English, Mrs Lucy Edwards. She said the aim was to encourage the students to use clear and vigorous spoken language and to promote.selfconfidence by giving them an opportunity to demonstrate their speaking skills in front of an audience.

MacKillop Catholic Primary School in South Lake celebrated its first birthday on 12 March — and the Premier of Western Australia, Dr Carmen Lawrence came to join in the celebrations.

Dr Lawrence and the Member for Cockburn, Mr Bill Thomas visited each class and spoke to the students before joining parents and friends of the school for morning tea and the cutting of the first birthday cake.

During the visit Dr Lawrence and Mr Thomas presented the school with Australian and Western Australian flags.

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An American Experience Seven excited Servite College, Tuart Hill, students recently returned from a two-month visit to Anaheim City, California, bringing with them a kaleidoscope of memories and impressions gained during their visit.

The students were the first to take part in what is expected to become a regular exchange program for staff and senior students from Servite College and Rosary High School and Servite High School in Anaheim.

It was initiated by Servite College and was designed to enhance student and staff awareness of the work of the Servite Order overseas.

The program was set up early last year when Servite College principal, Mr Barry Harvie and several College staff members visited the two American schools.

The seven students, Daniel Lehman, Robert Radici, Anthony • Elkington, Heather Lord, Avril Dique, Emily Tavelli and Jennifer Hart were selected from last year's year 11 students. Selection was made on the basis of academic ability and leadership qualities.

In an interview with Intercom, the students commented enthusiastically on their American experiences.

Differences There was mutual agreement that there are marked differences between American schools and students and those in Australia.

"Everybody has definite opinions on social issues, politics, the environment, even young students," they said. "The American students are very patriotic, they have a very strong school spirit and everyone gets involved in school sport."

The students were also surprised that the American students knew so little about Australia.

Some complimented us on how well we spoke English," they said.

"In every class we were in we were asked questions about the way we lived."

The Servite students attended regular classes in the schools they visited. The boys were at Servite High School, a boys only school, while the girls were at Rosary, the gills' high school.

Although they are not coeducational, the two schools are closely linked through sporting and social activities. "All the Rosary students go to the Servite basketball games to support the teams," they said.

Because the American school year was only half-way through, the students found the academic side of their visit easy to cope with, except religious education, which in their host schools was much more structured than they had previously experienced.

AIR Above: Servite College students who took part in the first exchange visit to the American schools are Emily Tavelli, Avril Dique, Jennifer Hart, Daniel Lehman, Anthony Elkington, Robert Radici and Heather Lord. College principal, Mr Barry Harvie is pictured in the back row. right.

Friendships The students were billetted with families with similar aged children, an experience which they all enjoyed. "It was like having a sister who was also your best friend," said one. They are all continuing the friendships they have made through letters and long-distance telephone calls and are looking forward to meeting their friends again when the

American students pay a return visit in June.

"We have learned so much from the trip — not only from the school, but from the people we met," they said. "We have become more independent, more mature and we've also become much closer as a group. Because we travelled by ourselves we had to look after each other."

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Teachers Show Living Faith "You are the instruments of God," Bishop Robert Healy told teachers from metropolitan Catholic schools at the annual Teachers Mass held at St Mary's Cathedral on Saturday 23 February to mark the opening of the 1991 school year.

Bishop Healy said that students had to be able to see clearly that their faith was a vital part of their lives, that God himself was with them in every activity and that the answers to many problems they encountered would be found in the word of God. While young people would see and be i mpressed by the word of God as the driving force behind thousands of great Catholic men and women in the course of history, they would be more impressed by the example of the living faith of their teachers.

Liturgical Movement The Mass was organised by schools of the Eastern Region with music led by years 11 and 12 students from La Salle College, Viveash, and a liturgical movement performed by students of Notre Dame School, Cloverdale.

Diplomas During the Mass 16 teachers were presented with the Catholic Institute Diploma of Religious Education by Bishop Healy. They were among 22 teachers who completed the Diploma in 1990.

Five graduands from New South Wales received their Diplomas in absentia and another, Mr John Roff, received his Diploma from the Bishop of Geraldton, Bishop Barry Hickey at the Teachers'

students also experienced other aspects of American life.

Many visited other parts of California with their host families.

They all enjoyed the shopping and generally "living life in the fast track" although there was general agreement that Christmas in the USA was a much more commercialised season than in Australia.

Staff Involvement A significant part of the

exchange program is the professional development of teachers.

Staff from Servite College will be given the opportunity of working at Servite High School for short periods. They will work alongside their colleagues and share their ideas and resources.

"This will enrich the great work already being done in both schools," said Mr Harvie.

Joondalup college site A new Catholic secondary college is to open in Joondalup in 1993.

Commonwealth New Schools The College will be built on an eight hectare site on the corner of Committee approval has already Joondalup Drive and Treetop been obtained for the new Avenue adjacent to the Joondalup College. Construction of the first City Centre. The land has been stage of the College will be made available by the Sisters of partially funded by a Commonwealth Capital Grant of $500 000 Mercy (West Perth).

The Deputy Director of Catholic and application has been made Education (Resources and Plan- for a State Government Low ning), Mrs Therese Temby, said Interest Loan. that the Catholic Education The College will open with a Commission was grateful to the minimum three streams of year of Sisters of Mercy for generously 8 students and will develop into a making the land available. Mrs five stream school by 1995.

Temby said the site was ideal for An Interim Board convened for the new College which was designed to accommodate an the new College has been increasing demand for secondary meeting since December. The places in the rapidly developing Board is chaired by Mr Michael Rose. northern corridor.

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The principal of St Jerome's School, Munster, Mrs Patricia Runge, receives her Catholic Institute Diploma of Religious Education from Bishop Healy at the annual Teachers' Mass.

Mass in Geraldton in January.

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Sacred Heart College, Sorrento year 12 student Justine Stefanoff will be a competitor in the State final of the Lions-Price Waterhouse Youth of the Year Quest.

Justine, who is sponsored by the important goals through selfDuncraig Lions Club, gained her confidence in young people. place in the final by winning a The winner of the state final will district final held in January. She then compete against finalists impressed the judges with her from other States. The national thought provoking speech on winner will become an ambassaApathy. dor for his or her country through overseas travel under the auspiThe Youth of the Year Quest is a ces of Lions Clubs International. project of the Lions Clubs of Justine is following in the Australia and is sponsored by f ootsteps of former Sacred Heart Price Waterhouse. The Quest College students Daniel Colgan aims to encourage self- and Justine Harvey who reached expression and the attainment of the State finals in 1988 and 1989.

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MISSION AWARENESS Students at St Joseph's School, Pemberton are more aware of the needs of others following a recent Mission Awareness Day. Like most Catholic schools, St Joseph's holds a regular drive to raise funds for Missions, however teachers were concerned that the children were becoming more concerned with actually raising the money than the reasons for the effort.

With this in mind, staff prepared a special day to inform the children about the plight of the poor in the near and far world. The day began with a prayer assembly and included an address by one of the teachers, Mrs Anne O'Donnell about her own experiences in India.

At lunch time the students were invited to donate their lunch money to the Mission appeal and to eat instead a simple meal of a bowl of rice prepared by the teachers. The special awareness day concluded with Benediction.

The students' efforts, which included a free dress day and a money chain, raised a total of $300 for the Mission effort organised in the Bunbury Diocese by Bishop McKeon.

Above: Students at St Joseph's School, Pemberton enjoy the rice bowl lur _;h which was part of the school's mission awareness day.

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Science Summer School Students from more than 20 Catholic secondary schools were among 120 top science and mathematics students from throughout the State who were invited to attend the week-long WA Science Summer School at Murdoch University in January.

The students, from years 10 and 11, were nominated by senior science teachers and were chosen to participate on motivation, examination performance and career intentions.

Experience The Science Summer School is designed to give these students the opportunity to experience first hand the practical applications of scientific phenomena in everyday life, to develop their scientific knowledge and abilities in a practical and educational environment and to explore career prospects in the different science fields.

Program The students lived in at Murdoch University's Student Village while they participated in a program which included experimental laboratory sessions, practical sessions and field trips. Keynote addresses were given by leading scientists and business leaders. The WA Science Summer School is sponsored jointly by Murdoch University, Alcoa, BP, the WA Public Education Endowment Trust and the Department of Industry, Technology and Commerce.

Above: Chisholm Catholic College student, Dimple Taylor, year 12, (right) and Natasha Easton, a year 11 student from Mount Barker Senior High School, at work in a physics laboratory at the Murdoch University Science Summer School.

St Jerome's expands St Jerome's School, Munster is to extend its enrolment to three-streams beginning with a third pre-primary class in 1992.

The school has acquired a block of land adjacent to the existing school which will allow new buildings to go ahead without the loss of any of the school's existing recreational space.

The third pre-primary class will begin in a prebuilt classroom to be erected during 1991.

The Munster Catholic School Board agreed that St Jerome's should become a three-stream school following consideration of the South West Region Demographic Study and discussions with the Catholic Education Office's Planning and Development Section. The proposal has been supported by the South West Region Coordinating Committee.

Principal, Mrs Patsy Runge said there was a great need for extra places at St Jerome's. She has already received more than 100 applications for the 90 pre-primary places which will be available.

Mrs Runge said she was pleased that the school had sufficient space to allow the expansion to occur without it losing its semi-rural character.

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Records tumble at ACC Swimming Carnival Records tumbled in 10 events in the four-day Associated Catholic Colleges swimming carnival held earlier this month.

In the relay events John XXIII Bunbury Catholic College won College took the record for the Boys both the Junior Boys and Aggregate Under 13 event: the Boys Under 15 Boys competitions, while St Mark's record fell to Sacred Heart College; took out the Senior Boys competiand the team from Mazenod College tion. won the Boys Under 16 race.

All Saints won the Junior Girls and Girls Aggregate trophies with the A Division Senior Girls competition going to The relay win and another record Aranmore Catholic College. gained by Peter Wood in the Boys C Division Under 15 backstroke helped the The combined team from St John XXIII team to first place in the A Division competition, 40 points Patrick's College and Stella Mans ahead of the combined St Brigid's College, Geraldton made the College/Mazenod College team. journey to Perth worthwhile by Mazenod's Matthew O'Connor broke winning the C Division competition the record in the Boys Open freestyle ahead of Bunbury Cathedral Grammar School and Prendiville Catholic event.

Newman College, separated from College.

The Geraldton team had an almost the St Brigid's/Mazza combination perfect record, winning the Junior by only one point, was third.

Boys, Junior Girls, Senior Boys and The Mercedes College team put in Girls and Boys Aggregate trophies. an impressive performance to win The Senior Girls trophy was won both the Junior and Senior and by Prendiville.

Aggregate Girls competitions, assisted by a record-breaking win in D Division In only its third year, Kolbe the Under 13 Girls butterfly from Catholic College, Rockingham has Tanya Lowicki.

Other records set during the A shown itself as a force to be Division competition were in the considered with a decisive win in the Under 15 Boys freestyle won by Ben D Division competition.

Kolbe competitor Miranda Sibraa Horgan, Sacred Heart College; broke the Under 15 Girls breastUnder 13 Girls backstroke won by Elise Sharman, Chisholm Catholic stroke record, the only record to fall College; and the Girls Under 16 outside A Division.

With wins in the Junior and Senior breaststroke won by Cathrine Boys, Senior Girls and Boys Newton, Sacred Heart College.

Aggregate sections, Kolbe finished B Division with 613 points, 31 points ahead of All Saints College, Bull Creek, last second place getters, John Wollasyear's B Division winners, were again ton Community School. successful this year, with the John Wollaston took out the Junior Anglican Community School of St Girls and Girls Aggregate trophies.

Mark in second place and Bunbury Third place getter in D Division Catholic College only three points was the team from St Joseph's behind in third place.

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PRE PRIMARY OPENED AT DONNYBROOK The local Catholic community joined in the celebrations when a new pre-primary building was blessed and opened at St Mary's School, Donnybrook, last month.

The ceremony was held immediately following the regular Sunday Mass which was celebrated by the Bishop of Bunbury, Bishop Peter Quinn. Students participated in the Mass with singing, liturgical movement and by acting as readers.

The Director of Catholic Education in WA, Dr Peter Tannock, performed the official opening following a blessing by Bishop Quinn.

The pre-primary building was completed in 1990 and the first intake of students was made in that year.

Other developments at St Mary's School include the levelling of the school playground and construction of a new classroom.

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The Interim Board of the Mandurah Catholic College has announced the appointment of Mr Dick Finucane as the College's foundation principal.

The longest-serving lay principal of a Western Australian Catholic secondary school, Mr Finucane is currently the principal of Mercy College, Koondoola. He has been seconded for a two year term and will take up his new position in the middle of this year.

Finucane's term as principal of Finucane has been a parish Experience Mercy College, the school councillor and was a member of of Bachelor Mr Finucane holds a Arts degree and Diploma of changed its enrolment policy the Diocesan Pastoral Council Education from the University of from girls-only to coeducational. between 1979 and 1982.

Western Australia and is a The College was one of the first Member of the Australian College Catholic schools to establish a 1992 Opening of Education. His experience in School Board (in 1975) and has Mandurah Catholic College will education includes several years had an almost continuous build- open in 1992 with a three-stream as a teacher of English, History, ing program since 1976. enrolment of year 8 students.

Mathematics and English LiteraArchitects Michael Broderick ture in government and Catholic ACC President Partners have been selected and schools. He was Senior Master at Mr Finucane has served as to design the new college which Kwiand Perth Modern School president of the Associated will be established on a 12 hectare nana Senior High School before Catholic Colleges. He is a site in Coodan.Jp Drive. becoming deputy principal at St member of the Executive of the The architects' concept is for a Joachim's High School, Victoria Catholic Secondary Principals' Park, in 1974. In 1976 Mr Finucane Association, the West Coast number of single-storey buildings was appointed principal of Mercy Principals Group, and is Mercy grouped around a pedestrian College. In addition to his College's representative in the spine in the form of an arcade or administrative duties he has Association of Independent cloister. An entry tower will be a feature of the design. The continued to teach Religious Schools. buildings will blend with existing Education to upper secondary A parishioner of the Our Lady of vegetation which will be included students and English Literature to Parish, Palmyra, Mr in the overall landscape design.

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ESTABLISHING TRADITIONS Bishop Peter Quinn and Fr John McGrath process to the St Mary's preprimary classroom for the blessing and opening ceremony

Theatre arts centre A new Theatre Arts Centre, constructed at a cost of almost a quarter of a million dollars, was opened at Newman Siena College, Doubleview last month.

The Theatre Arts Centre was The new facility will be known as The John Broderick Theatre Arts built with the help of a State Centre in acknowledgement of Government Low Interest Loan the contribution made to the and donations from parents College by Mr John Broderick, a through the College building trust former chairman of the Parents' fund. It comprises a large and Friends' Association and the workroom and moveable stage and lighting.

College Board.

The Member for Balcatta, Mr College principal, Sr Perpetua Nick Catania officially opened the building which was blessed by Fr Gill said that before the new Peter Slattery 0.Carm, Deputy centre was built theatre arts Director of Development at the students has only a limited and University of Notre Dame inadequate area for production preparation.

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One of Western Australia's newest Catholic Colleges, Kolbe College, Rockingham, now in its third year, has begun to establish its traditions.

At a Mass to mark the beginning of the 1991 school year, the flags of the College's six Houses were blessed and Chairman of the College Board, Mr Laurie Smith presented badges of office to the House captains and deputies.

The six Houses have been established for pastoral care, student activities and leadership within the school. Each House has been named after a person who has demonstrated in his or her life an outstanding commitment to the Church and society.

The names chosen are MacKillop after Mary MacKillop, founder of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart: Chisholm after Caroline Chisholm, an early pioneer of family welfare in Australia; Teresa, after Mother Teresa of Calcutta; , Loyola, after Ignatius Loyola, f ounder of the Society of Jesus; Rice, after Edmund Rice, Kolbe Catholic College house captains present the house flags during f ounder of the Order of Christian Mass to open the school year.

Brothers; and Xavier after A special commissioning included in the Mass. It was the Francis Xavier, a companion of Ignatius Loyola and one of the ceremony for members of the first time such a ceremony had first members of his new Order. College Board was also been conducted by the College.

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Schools in the News • St Vincent's School, Medina: The Lotteries Commission has made a grant of $2877 to St Vincent's School, Medina following a submission by the School Board. The funds will be used to purchase equipment for the school's pre-primary class.

• New Norcia Catholic College: Four students from New Norcia Catholic College achieved two first prizes and two distinctions in a reading competition conducted by the Chinese Language Teachers' Association of WA. Year 11 student, Connie Kwok Ho, who is from Hong Kong, won the division one prize for students who have a Chinese-speaking background; Shanti Thirunavokkarasu, year 12, took out first prize for students who do not have Chinese as their primary language. Zanda Cameron and Elaine Kong gained distinctions in the section for students with a non-Chinese speaking background.

Sailing Success for Students Students at Christian Brothers' College, Fremantle will have a personal interest in the World Mirror Sailing Championships to be held in Holland later this year.

Two students from the College, Kane Binks, 16, and John O'Connor, 14, have been selected to join the Australian team which will contest the championship events.

Kane and John were selected following their participation in the Australian Mirror Sailing Championships held in Adelaide during the summer holidays. The pair finished fourth in the senior competition and second in the junior competition to secure their place in the team.

The boys' home sailing ground is the Royal Fremantle Yacht Club.

• Sacred Heart College, Sorrento: In preparation for its 25th Anniversary in 1992, Sacred Heart College, Sorrento is establishing a Past Students Association. An initial meeting for former students was held on Wednesday 20 March. Former students interested in joining the Association should contact the College's Community Liaison Officer, Mr Colin Salleo, on (09) 448 4622.

• Newman College Junior School, Churchlands: Primary students from Newman College Junior School, Churchlands showed off their mathematical skills in the 1990 Mathematics Olympiad. The aim of this national competition is to develop interest and skill in mathematical problem solving. To participate, schools enter teams of 30 or less students. Of the two teams entered by Newman, the A Team gained the tenth highest score nationally, while the B Team gained the 46th highest score out of a total of 453 schools.

• Mercy College, Koondoola: Lesley Adair, an ex-student and former teacher from Mercy College, Koondoola has achieved the Gold Standard of the Duke of Edinburgh Award. Lesley first joined the Scheme as a year 9 student at Mercy College, under the supervision of coordinator Mr Rick High. She is the first Mercy student to achieve the Gold Standard.

• Stella Mans College, Geraldton: All teachers, parents, past students, relatives and friends who have been associated with Stella Mans College, Geraldton, or any other schools operated by the Presentation Sisters are invited to join in a weekend of celebration of the Sisters' 100 years presence in Western Australia. The celebrations will be held on Saturday and Sunday 6 and 7 July and will include a Mass, happy hour and dinner and Back to Stella Mans Day. For further information please contact the College on (099) 21 2369.

The Presentation Sisters' centenary is also being celebrated by lona Presentation College, Perth and in November a book on the history of the Sisters in WA will be launched.

• Prendiville Catholic College, Ocean Reef: Senior students at Prendiville Catholic College, Ocean Reef are establishing an Environment Club. The club plans a range of activities during the year, including involvement in the Wanneroo Council's Ribbons of Blue project of a series of tests on local wetlands. Other proposed activities are paper recycling, local wildlife studies, trips to Seal Island and visits from rangers from the Department of Conservation and Land Management.

• Mary's Mount Primary School, Gooseberry Hill: The Mary's Mount Primary School Parents' & Friends' Association is selling copies of John Perkin's book, Marathon of Courage, to raise funds for the school. The book is available through the P&F for a cost of $12.

Items (or your school newsletters) for the Schools in the News column should be sent to Norma Rainey, Media Services, Catholic Education Office.

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Karl, who has an artificial foot, was granted one of four scholarships available for athletes with disabilities under the Disabled Sport Program. He moved to Canberra last month to take up the scholarship.

Karl was the outstanding Australian competitor at the World Championships for the Disabled

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East, the Jews did not embalm nor did they cremate.

Because of the warm climate, haste was essential. Burial took place the same day or within 24 hours, unless death took place on Friday afternoon, the beginning of the Sabbath.

It all happened with such swiftness that it was only after the burial and during the period of mourning that the bereaved began to comprehend what happened.

It is a ritual acted out

even today in modern Israel.

A soldier killed in Lebanon is laid to rest within hours in a freshly dug grave in the kibbutz he had left only days or weeks before.

The rhythm of death and burial is unlike ours in the United States with days of preparation, wakes and services.

When the body was ready for burial, the family bore it in procession through the streets of the city or town to the burial place.

There was no public service, no gathering in the synagogue, no eulogy or homily, only the private prayers of family or friends.

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Death was seen as much as an act of God as a natural occurrence.

The procession was, however, a public lamentation attended in some cases by professional mourners as well as family and friends.

What God had given, God had taken away.

Some people believed the spirit of the dead person hovered above the body for three days, possibly to return.

As the mournful column made its way through the streets, screeches and wails and loud laments proclaimed the family's grief to

Only when the spirit saw the countenance change did it retire and abandon the body.

The actual burial took place outside the town

(corpses were considered ritually unclean) in a simple trench in the ground lined with mats or stone slabs, or in a cave, or some other natural place.

Only then did the family have an opportunity to visit with neighbours and friends to pray, to talk, to meditate, to remember the loved one.

Often the caves were quite large with niches to recieve the body, somewhat in the fashion of a modern mausoleum.

Usually the mourning period lasted seven days, which corresponds to the modern Jewish "shiva" ("sitting"), but it could extend to 30 days or more. During this time, the mourners sat on a low bench or the floor, read sacred books and received visitors.

Because burial took place so quickly, the period of mourning aft erward took on unusual significance.

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By Father Kevin O'Rourke, OP after random, senseless vioendangered t the lence which Nolan's life. up the phone and spoke of forgiveness, I aloud upon the realised how difficult Wetly There wasn't much reflected situation: "My and countercultural is whole 'cult inclination to talk as we is in danger, we the admonition of Jesus: was awaited Nolan's return son's life people who "Love your enemies, do the know the from surgery. Nor did we and I think good to those who hate him, hurt and have much to say during Jesus would want me to you." the day as Nolan's condids.

Often we envision ourunstable. forgive them." n a tion remained selves forgiving persons , and About 6pm the police I must admit forgive- who hurt us. Sometimes et his notified Nolan's mother ness was remote from my we actually forgive othhis that they had witnesses mind at that time. Ven- ers because we are not ut Sam. to the attack and had geance and retribution seriously injured or it the obtained confessions were more characteristic because we know the from the three assailants. of my thoughts. person who injured us id had Nolan's mother hung But as Maude Rupp did so accidentally.

But how do we forgive a person who injures by design or who destroys someone upon whom our life depends?

Many of us go through life without facing such a challenge to love our enemies. But people with Maude Rupp's depth of grace remind us what it means to die and rise through faith.

One the second day after Nolan's injury, Mrs Rupp went to visit the young men arrested for the attack. Her message was short but powerful:

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She came around the table warily. "We could have a really nice dinner. " "Sounds good." " . . . with some traditional Easter food like hot cross buns."

"The last time you made hot cross buns, they were so hard the kids almost broke the dining room window with one."

"OK, Mr Wiseguy. If you'd fix the timer on the stove like you promised, maybe I could tell when they were done. Anyway, scratch that. I just remembered I want to make an Easter cake this

By Richard Cain year in the shape of a lamb."

"All right. What else can we have?"

"I'm sure there are lots of ethnic Easter foods. ru check my cookbooks."

"Why don't we talk with some of the people in our parish who come from other countries and see what they do?"

"Just as long as you do it in English," my wife said firmly, reminding me of the vacation when I accidentally picked an obscene French word to compliment the waiter on our food.

My wife went to the bookcase, pulled down

Sara Wenger Shenk's book, "Why Not Celebrate!" (Good Books, 1987) and flipped through the pages full of celebrations for families, small groups and retreats.

"Under Number 81 — 'A Traditional Easter Greeting' — it suggests that we begin the day with the traditional Orthodox greeting The Lord is risen.' The response is: 'He is risen indeed.' " "What else does it say?"

"It suggests reading a Gospel account of the Easter story at the breakfast table, lighting a large new candle and singing an Easter carol."

"I didn't even know

"I don't understand how you could do something so brutal and intentionally harmful to my son.

But I forgive you because I believe this is the message of Jesus."

Upon her return to the hospital, Nolan had awakened, recognised us and remembered everything except the attack.

Was there a connection between Nolan's recovery and his mother's ability, to forgive? We don't know. That is the point. We don't bargain with Jesus. Rather, we try

there were Easter carols."

"Maybe there are even Easter dances."

My wife went to check on the eggs. They were cooling nicely.

"You know, it's fun to see the kids look for the Easter eggs. But the Easter bunny and eggs are really pagan fertility symbols," I explained.

My wife looked at me like I had just accused the pope of being an atheist. "To me they are symbols of hope and new life," she shot back.

I couldn't argue with that. "Maybe they could become a way of telling the true story of Easter," Ioffered.

"Yes," she said. 'The

to fulfil his call to the Rupps' story. But this holiness and trust he will is not easy.

Vengeance, reprisal and care for us. hatred are not the ChrisSince I witnessed tian response to injury; Maude Rupp's act of these actions bring death, forgiving, I have related not life. this story to many people As we ponder the hurt whose loved ones were and harm, psychic as injured or maimed as well as physical, that victims of senseless Jesus experienced on the crimes. After the initial cross, and his words of shock, people search for forgiveness, we gain ways to make some sense some insight into the of what happened and, if depth of conversion to possible, to respond to which we are called. the pain and sorrow from Then we realise the a faith perspective. relationship between It is then that Itell them death and resurrection.

eggs, for example, can be the symbol of rebirth and new hope." She always has been good at storytelling.

"But that's not how our children will see it."

"So what. Seeing things that are hidden is spiritual," my wife interjected matter-of-factly.

I couldn't argue with that either.

Not one to be outdone, my wife gave me a hug.

"One way we could celebrate this new life and hope would be to make a Marriage Encounter. The next one is in May." "All right," I calmly responded, trying not to appear resistive. "You've

got a deal, just so long as it doesn't conflict with Bob's wedding. He's not going to let me out of leading the music at this late date."

"It doesn't; I already checked," she said.

We were both quiet for a minute, wrapped in our own thoughts.

"One thing rm looking forward to is planting the Easter lily you gave me," she said, coming up close. 'To me, that is a real symbol of new life and hope."

"And a sign that it will some day warm up," I said, aware once more of the chill in the air. I added, "For next year's Lent I'm giving up March!"

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Illy echo, my shadow Age, with a life lived well and honestly, brings with it an unique aura.

There is a softness, a mellowness. No brashness or discourtesy. And it's great when there is still that oomph and fire. But now it's tamed and directed.

So the integral flame still burns bright — but it's tempered.

Bernie and Alma Smith are 81 and 80 years old and the loveliest couple. Probably everyone wants them as grandparents. They're the sort of people you love to be with and find it hard to break away from.

Stable and dependable, caring, loving and true, are qualities people in advanced years can lay claim to.

They've got it.

Bernie is sprightly and really mentally fit. In fact he's an active Justice of the Peace very much in demand by the police, all and sundry.

Alma, although beset with some arthritis, is a lovely lady who keeps active and produces some

delightful knitted and stuffed toys.

Their immaculate home in Shenton Park is bright and lifefilled and speaks volumes about their personalities.

Bernie is the central character in this story, because Alma says "well anything he did, I was there too, so that's my story also!"

Nothing dull about Bernie. He's got a strong character and a sense of great humour, and you get the impression that when he dies, he'll "go out living", as against rusting away.

Born in North Perth in 1910 to Francis (nee McCarthy) and Michael Connolly, he had a bad start because his mother died a year after his birth and father was killed in France in the 1916 war.

Orphaned, he was fostered out until he was six then adopted by his aunt and uncle Mary and Wilma Smith, whose name he was given.

John of God sisters (Gertrude) and became Sister Barbara who was on her death written up in the Record in October 1971 by the famous Sister Philomena Earle.

The young sister nursed a smallpox patient and then succumbed to the deadly disease herself.

by COLLEEN McGUINESSNOWA RD

Educated at St Brigid's Midland, Bernie spent a while at New Norcia then on to CBC Perth and later night school studying accountancy and other subjects.

He joined the Crown Law department in 1928 until his retirement in 1975, with only one day's sick leave.

Alma, having arrived from Leicester

England in 1928, met Bernie and they were married in 1935.

They then left for the goldfields where life proved a rather colourful affair!

Based at variously Midland, Katanning, Northam, Collie, Busselton, Banbury, Norseman, Leonora, Laverton, Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie, they

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finally returned to Perth in 1972 when Bernie was made the acting stipendiary magistrate.

In all the other positions he was Clerk of Courts or Mining Registrar.

Life, they said, was good to them and their three children and Bernie abounds in anecdotes which mainly happened in Laverton, Coolgardie and Kalgoorle.

At Laverton there was a plague of mice which is worth recounting whereby the family while relaxing on the verandah during the evening, noticed an incursion of small bush mice, coming in vast quantities.

Making the most of their new found habmice itat, the munched their way through a solid timber cupboard door and then proceeded to eat the delectable pantry contents.

The lounge suite provided the very thing for further nesting and ultimately had to be destroyed to deter the comfort seeking cads and food stocks for survival had to be put into big metal biscuit tins.

Fortified by many district ground nests, numbers their increased and the whole town felt the full force of the plague with no recourse to a Pied Piper!

To the locals it appeared the town had succumbed! But one large store triumphantly declared it was averaging a thousand catches a night by trapping them in a half filled 44 gallon water drum with a fitted top trap.

District cattle stations also felt the force

as they polluted fresh water wells and cattle drinking troughs.

Fat cats also inadvertently died through gorging on the rodent rascals and then having eaten out Laverton, they repeated the exercise at Leonora and were only stopped in their next town drive by heavy summer rains which wiped out their nests.

Then there was the lamented death of long time resident butcher and millionaire (through shares, not meat!) Bill Rigg.

Bernie hadn't been there long and was asked to read at the burial service.

So the coffin was put in the late butcher's utility and driven at a speed of 50 mph (80 kms) over a rough gravel road.

After the bumpy ride the coffin and owner were duly buried and then all the townfolk of around 500 to 600 people decided to (in true wake style) retire to the local pub.

Back they tore at a considerably faster speed in order to drown their sorrows.

Apparently it was a tight squeeze in the pub but well worth it!

About seven years ago Bernie returned to Laverton to have a look around and was greeted by another customer in the local newsagent with a "G'day boss!"

It was Pannikin, the esteemed full blood black tracker who after 40 years had recognised him.

Laverton locals used to rely on the fortnightly train to deliver their food orders and meeting it was in itself a social occasion.

Alma would send down a food list to a Midland store and so the train was always eagerly awaited.

Although due at 9pm it usually arrived around midnight with all the townsfolk gathered on the station fraternising until its arrival.

One night there was a storm and the Smith family heard this continuous bleating.

They discovered there was a kid at the door so took it in with the girls feeding it milk and then bedding it down for the night in the bathtub.

Next morning they awoke to find the whole wild goat herd in the front yard, waiting for the return of the kid!

They moved onto Coolgardie in 1942 where they stayed for 12 years. Coolgardie, founded in 1892, was an interesting and colourful town whose magnificent building (built 1898) wherein the Smith family lived, also accommodated one room for the Bank of NSW, the court and offices, the Mines Department, Water Supply and since then has become a museum.

Bernie became president of the Holy Name Society there and to the Catholic school, boarders came from Esperance, Oodnadatta and elsewhere.

In 1900 this interesting town had a population of 15,000 with 25,000 more in

the

area.

It boasted 23 hotels, three breweries, six banks, two stock exchanges, three daily

and four weekly newspapers.

After 1905 gold petered out and the town declined. Today its population is 2000 and has one hotel, three motels, one caravan and camping park, two guest houses and one youth hostel.

Bernie and Alma spoke highly of the prospectors who were they said, "a breed of their own".

Their history is with interwoven some who made their fortunes and others who didn't, but they were according to Bernie, hard working, honest, and always optimistic.

Bernie recalls the brothers, Baker Frank, Clunes and Alford brothers in addition to "men like Maurie Brown, Paul Drew, Bill Hart, Albert Gordon and Alec Kent.

"I vividly recall the Frank brothers, Alby and Gerry, who had struck a rich patch on one of their locations, from which they extracted four 44 gallon drums of specimen stone containing a high gold content.

The brothers put the drums on the back of their utility and parked it outside the Denver City hotel.

They'd been thirsty days in the harsh bush and so the men decided to slake their thirst in the time Aussie honoured fashion.

Worn out with their prospecting efforts, the booze and the heat, they didn't return to take their utility and golden find away, for three days.

Yet in that time, no one had attempted to touch any of the gold which after it had been crushed and extracted, netted a profit of many thousands of dollars. the was Such honesty of the 'good old days in Australia'. another Citing instance of the incredible honesty of the goldfields people, Bernie and Alma recounted how they went on holidays by train and typically, deliberately left their unlocked house which everyone did in those days.

There was no need to lock anything up!

En route between Coolgardie and Booling, Alma suddenly she exclaimed couldn't remember whether she'd turned the stove off.

So the guard rang the police at Cool-

and me gardie who went to their house, checked it out, and when they arrived at the next station reported that it had been turned off and everything was OK In another incident, two well known prospectors who are still operating today, reaped a successful reward from their endeavours and went into the pub to celebrate.

Such was their generosity that they literally threw around to the other patrons, a big quantity of one pound notes ($2).

This was a considerable amount of money in those days, but apparently every single pound note was given to the bar tender for safe keeping, to hand to the prospectors the next day when they were over their little pub whirl.

Incredible honesty and decency.

Harking back to Laverton, Bernie and Alma commented on the firm commitment of the Catholic dedicated "especially those of Irish blood, and particularly John O'Malley, well into his sixties, who lived three or four miles of town in one of the t ypical prospector

huts, numerous in the district".

Parishioners would have to come in by horse or cycle and usually over rough terrain to attend Mass, but many like O'Malley, and Kearney and Pentony in Coolgardie, also prospectors living under similar but clean conditions, never missed Mass on Sunday.

"On looking back," said Bernie, "I treasure the memories of these three Irishmen, always true to their faith and especially the Mass, a credit to their Church and an inspiration to all who knew them.

"It was a privilege to have shared a small part of their lives and they will certainly reap their just reward in Heaven."

Family visits to 'O'Malley's mansion' said Bernie, was a matter of meandering through rough bush scrub, with no visible landmarks to assist, and the ground a confusing mass of cattle, sheep, goats and even kangaroo tracks.

To guide them to the 'mansion', O'Malley would attach pieces of coloured ribbon to the scrub trees at hundred yard inter-

vals on the day before the arranged visit, hoping the wild goats wouldn't get to them first.

The goldfields abounded in 'characters' and the Smith family's life was peopled with them.

One individual who was frequently before the courts, often for imbibing too freely in a certain brew, had a dedicated horse with a cart.

It would stand patiently outside the court and if its master failed to appear, would then go around (on its own initiative) to the police yard where it would wait until its master was allowed home.

Versatility was also the 'in thing' with one policeman who also had a dental surgery!

Tony Meilak was a Maltese fellow who was illiterate, could only speak limited English, and didn't trust anyone. Execpt Alma that is.

He lived in a little prospector's hut and raised goats, poultry, pigeons (to eat) and vegetables and would barter them at Moran's store in Coolgardie, which has been a family store for many, many years.

When the Smiths transferred to Kal-

Alma and Bernie Smith, 80 and 81 years young with 56 years of happy marriage behind them. goorlie, Tony still insisted Alma would make the fortnightly trip from there to pick up his pension cheque and attend to his various business.

Typically the prospector's humpies were made from corrugated iron, and lined with hessian bags coated with lime.

They were normally one room homes with one door, but usually kept very clean. The were prospectors who bachelors although they led lonely lives, didn't `go troppo' and were decent and very honest men.

In Coolgardie they would camp near the pipeline or have water tanks to cart water from the main tank in Coolgardie.

A miner's right was good for a year and cost 5/- (50¢).

Another awesome individual was a little Italian, Amilio Gregorio Benigna, nicknamed 'nugget'.

This fellow had an incredible set of molars and would pick up a table between his teeth, without ever losing one!

A couple of other notable identities were Ben Prior and Ernie Scala. Ben was an outstanding citizen, recalled Bernie, "who owned a service station and helped prospectors. They called him Mr Prospector.

"He arrived in Coolgardie in 1943 until he died three years ago and for his work

was awarded the British Empire medal."

Ernie also did a lot of work in helping numerous prospectors, was a generous fellow apparently, and did a lot of work for the Church.

"Another was Sam Cash."

Apart from imbibing local colour from the various people they encountered, Bernie was a correspondent for the Kalgoorlie Miner, the Coolgardie Miner and the ABC. During his time there he married numerous numbers of people, and was secretary to the golf club, cricket association and managed the Coolgardie cricket team in country week cricket when in Coolgardie.

Alma and Benue returned to Perth as an acting magistrate from early 1972 to 75, until he retired, proudly stating he'd only taken one sick day off in all those years of service.

Bernie said he's been honoured to serve on the Shenton Park parish council for three years and takes and active interest in all parish affairs.

The obvious thing to say about delightful people like Alma and Bernie, is that they are contributors to life.

They give rather than receive and in return, life has rewarded them with many solid attributes, many friends, and a loving family. Not to mention a host of wonderful memories.

New Medjugorje centre

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard A new Medjugorje Centre has recently opened at 6 Ford Street, Midland, to cope with a growing demand for religious material.

Although the Centre has information on all the apparitions throughout the world, Medjugorje is its main thrust.

It has been set up independent of church offices or parishes because the Church has not yet ruled officially on the Medjugorje apparitions which are said to be taking place daily to the seers, since 1981 in Yugoslavia.

This centre is linked with all other Medjugorje centres for peace throughout the world, and interstate with the Medjugorje Centre for Peace in Auburn, Victoria, spearheaded by Leon Le Grand.

Its spiritual director is Father Lawrence Attard, parish priest from Guildford and the centre is manned by volunteers (more wanted they say, please ring 274 5015) Monday to Saturday

inclusive between 10am and 4pm.

There are videos and good prayer books for those who wish to increase their spiritual growth, books to help them form prayer groups and others to encourage family prayer groups.

Every Saturday they have video showings on Akita Medjugorje, (Japan) and Kibeho (South Africa), and once a month they have Medjugorje evenings for pilgrims who've been to Medjugorje and want to share their experiences with others.

Every Wednesday at 7.30pm they have an adult prayer meeting and a youth cenacle on every first Saturday at 7.30pm, which is followed by the Medjugorje evening.

Major co-ordinators Trevor Knuckey and Russell Fonceca say "it's more than a bookshop.

It's a centre".

Another projected aim of the centre is to reach prisoners and hospital patients. if a need exists there.

Midland's Medjugorje Centre co-ordinators Russell Fonceca and Trevor Knuckey showing off their stock to Enid Fonceca and their children Simon (left), Elizabeth and Jason.

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Grave dangers in meditation from Brian PEACHEY, Woodlands

Sir, Mary Jo Meadows — Why Perth? It seems that all the dissenters in the Church end up in Perth.

We no sooner recovered from the invasion of the radical Whiteheads, who approve of homosexual practice, contraception, divorce, women priests and welcomed the shortage of priests as a blessing, when along Mary Jo comes Meadows.

Meadows, a divorced mother of six is, somehow, a Buddhist nun and at the same time a member of a so called, religious order or as it was described, 'a modern American sisterhood', which boasts of having three women priests.

For my sins I suffered an hour and a half of a

Meadows' bitter diatribe on women in the Church.

She obviously hates men, especially her divorced husband, who according to her obscene account beat her. There was the implication that all men condone wife beating. There was also an attack on Pope Paul VI for his encyclical on why there can not be women priests, followed by a blast at Pope John Paul II, for his encyclical on the same issue.

A friend from Albany reported that she urged the Albany parishioners to look for evidence of the priests sexually molesting women and altar boys.

What an insult to the Albany priests; but they did allow her to come and speak in the parish.

Meadows was invited to Perth by the chaplain o f Aquinas College, Father Douglas Conlon,

who organised a barnstorming tour, including Albany and Geralctton.

Her prime purpose was to teach Buddhist methods of meditation.

In one talk she said that she spends three months of the year being a Buddhist, Why? If she is a genuine Catholic, how can she forgo the spiritual sustenance of the Eucharist?

-Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood you shall not have life in you.How can a zealous Catholic deliberately embark on a "religious" exercise and thereby avoid the serious obligation (Canon Law 1247) to participate at Mass on Sundays and Holy days?

There are also grave dangers in the practice of transcendental meditation. If one "empties" oneself, the risk is to be

possessed — not by God, but — by Satan.

I feel sorry for the nuns and any others who may be foolish enough to pay $210 to attend the ten day retreat at Safety Bay. The University of Notre Dame Australia, with an expensive advertisement, sponsored her talk at the Catholic Education Centre on March 20.

Such sponsorship will not help the current fund raising campaign of NDA. The great bulk of Catholics still want a Catholic university to teach and orthodox sponsor Catholic theology. They do not want promotion of people in dissent with the Magisterium of the Church.

This raises some important questions. Who on the NDA staff was responsible for this decision? Or did the whole board agree that Mary Jo Meadows was acceptable fare?

Only God knows from Mrs Joy McMULLAN, Doubleview

the greatest respect, yet would have still announced to him that same Truth)

Sir, From the academic and multicultural points of view it is definitively highly commendable to study other than the Christian faith, such as Buddhism, Islam etc.

But when it comes to proclaiming "Jesus Christ as Lord, to the glory of God, The Father" — that is "Jesus, Son of God, as SAVIOUR of the world" — Jesus did not do it by coming on earth and marrying 'His vocation of our salvation' to the vocation of a Buddhist monk (for whom He would have had

He announced the Father's message of salvation and depthless love for all by proclaiming a message of repentance, unconditional forgiveness, the acceptance of Himself as Lord and Saviour, and the indwelling gift of God the Holy Spirit to those who took that road — all of which resulted in the necessary healing in each of their lives (yes, even holistic healing one realises, if one studies the Gospel examples carefully).

When one looks back over the years to the time of

Jesus' ascension into Heaven and the sending of the Holy Spirit, all the wellknown Christian 'greats' — such as Sts Paul, Francis of Assisi, Teresa of Avila, Cure of Ars, Don Bosco, and our own century Padre Pio (died 1968), to name but a few — seem to have found the message of "Jesus Christ and Him crucified" (around which message all their spiritual mystical experiences were centred) as the only way of bringing thousands to salvation, or a deeper Christian walk.

I'm sure that had they married their priestly/religious vocation to the vocation of a Buddhist monk/

Happy memories from Pat BROPHY, MOUNT LAWLEY Sir, Your reproduction (The Record, March 14) of "Aunt Bessy's Nieces and Nephews of November 2, 1935 brought back many happy memories.

Our family bought The Record regularly and as a child I always enjoyed this page. Indeed I became one of Aunt Bessy's nephews sometime in the 1930s and wrote to her with the pen-name 'Australite', regularly for some years, and entered the various

competitions conducted; this encouraged my regular reading of The Record'.

It is a pity that the page had to be discontinued, as it was an excellent way of developing family reading of our paper.

A nother page that catered for adults was 'Without Apology" by Francis Gilbert. This dealt with issues of the day — especially of a social and political nature.

These two segments of 'The Record' of the 1930s, if reintroduced would undoubtedly give

'flavour' to the paper, if it was possible to obtain someone of the calibre and balance of these two writers, who have been called by God to their eternal reward. from Father John LISLE, Mosman Park Sir, The World Council of Churches Assembly in Canberra with delegates from all over the world, has demonstrated quite clearly that Christians without the centre of Unity — viz. the Pope, only end up in a theological wilderness and chaos.

nun, the number of those giving praise and glory to God for 'Jesus and their salvation' would be gigantically reduced; and our list of recognised saints would be considerably shorter also.

Having said all that — only God knows fully the hearts of all peoples, and He will be their judge; no-one else.

And I have no doubt at all that multiple of those who were outside the Christian faith will be found in Heaven with their Christian brothers and sisters, there (through some loving action of God) proclaiming "Jesus Christ as Lord, to the Glory of God the Father"

What is going on? from M and J GONZALES, Willeton Sir, Notre Dame Australia University invites the public (The Record, March 14) to a lecture by someone who claims she is a sort of hybrid of Buddhism and Catholicism and whose "spirituality" is partly focussed on Hindu Yoga and Theravadam Buddhist traditions! What on earth is going on? Is this the university we Catholics are being asked to support? In the same issue the Pope said that the main problem facing Brazil's bishops is the spread of sects. . . eroding the faith of many Catholics.

Why is erosion of the Catholic faith being pushed by a so-called Catholic university?

Something is seriously wrong somewhere.

TOMORROW TODAY with Father Joe Parkinson

House opens The opening of a residence for seven tertiary students from WA's country areas was a dream realised for the small but active Catholic Rural Youth Outreach community on February 24.

The Rossmoyne project, based in a house owned by the PaHotline community and rented on a trial basis for 1991, was formally launched with a formation weekend at Pinjarra's Fairbridge Centre followed by Mass at the house.

The first few years of tertiary life are difficult enough for most students without the added strain

of having to adapt to a totally new city environment, so the weekend was more than a 'getting to know you' exercise.

The foundations of a genuine Catholic community were laid as CRYO team members pledged to support the students in every possible way, and students were encouraged to develop every aspect of their lives despite the pressure of tertiary studies.

Family members and friends joined the students later at an inaugural Mass in the centre and staved for a barbecue

tea with the whole CRYO support community.

Duties in the house are shared by all residents, and word is already out regarding the culinary standards, with the men's kitchen skills attracting high praise!

Providing a link between the centre and various other youth initiatives are former CPY full-timer Cathy Allen and CRYO worker Kristi McEvoy, who also co-ordinates the project.

The Rossmoyne house is just another example of what young people can achieve with drive and energy to match their vision.

First residents of the CRYO tertiary house in Rossmoyne are (l-r, behind) Liz Piggott, Paul McInnes, Peter Rodier, Damien Postma, Luke Kinvin, Cathy Allen, Kristi McEvoy, with (front) Marie Stokes and Chad Lockwood.

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A reflective moment during the opening Mass at Rossmoyne.

Office vision

Youth workers from the Catholic Youth Office in North Perth recently drafted a shared vision for youth ministry during a brief retreat at Eagle's Nest, Gidgegannup.

The camp was the first of two annual retreats for office staff, during which they review their work and plan future projects, as well as simply having a few relaxing days (L-r, behind) Lisa retreat office recent Catholic Youth Office staff during their Legena (YCS), Kristi McEvoy (CRYO), Annette Watkins (YCS), Stacy Purvinskis away from the pres(CPY), Inez Rosario (YCW), (front) Mladen Milicich and Paddy Devlin (both CPY) sures of youth with Michelle Sheehy (TYCS). ministry.

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St Patrick's

1. Maura and Pat Ducey, Irish Club stalwarts, with manager Tom Quinn (centre).

2. Bishop Healy and Subiaco parish priest Father Sean Bredin, giving their 'little folk' some extra St Patrick's day attention.

When I sit down to write about St Patrick's Day, it's really hard to know where to start, but I guess the first link in the chain of really wonderful happenings on St Pat's Day has to be with Mass.

Fortunately for many thousands of people, the feast was spread over two days (unofficially, because the actual feast day was on Sunday).

I personally thought this was a great idea and the anticipation of spending two days dedicated to having a rip-roaring time celebrating with the Irish, was almost adrenalin enough!

I wasn't disappointed.

3. Max Lyons alias Paddy Leprechaun, with a host of little leprechauns from the O'Brien School of Irish Dancing in the Fremantle parade.

4. Serving at the Subiaco Mass were Damian Gorian (left), master of ceremonies to Bishop Healy, Marcus Brown, a member of the special pontifical altar servings men's team at the cathedral and Doug Williams, pontifical master of ceremonies to the

First off, on Saturday was the traditional St Pat's Day Mass at Subiaco, organised by the Irish Club of WA. This is always impressive because, apart from the magnificence of a Mass starting the Irish ball rolling, is the wonderful fact that the Church is always filled with Catholics and nonCatholics alike. The denomination is quite irrelevant because these people are joined by their Irish birth or ancestral origin and unite in their chosen adopted land Australia, to give praise to their Irish saint and be together on a day revered for centuries.

The Subiaco Mass was concelebrated by Bishop Healy, parish priest Father Sean Bredin (who is celebrating his 30th anniversary of priesthood), and several other priests, and among the

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filled pews were many sisters who undoubtedly came out from Ireland as young women a great number of years ago and who have given, along with their priests and brothers, their life energies to the missionary land Australia.

In Ireland, Australia is no longer considered a missionary country, thus we don't see that many Irish priests and religious come to our shores anymore, but for those who did come and bring with them the precious gift of our Catholic faith, we thank them and are indeed indebted.

St Pat's luncheon at the Irish Club was a great affair, (as I believe their 7am breakfast was the next morning) catered for by husband and wife team Josie Kempton and Chris Griffin. This was followed by Brendan Woods entertaining us with Irish music and song which put many on the dance floor.

Sunday there was a big festival at Fremantle organised by the Tara Sports, Social and Cultural Club of WA That too commenced with a packed Mass at St Patrick's Church Fremantle, concelebrated by parish priest Father John Hannah and other priests.

After the Mass a huge parade proceeded through the streets of Fremantle, which included pipe bands, horse drawn float, sporting, social and cultural groups.

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The scene on the Esplanade was ablaze with green with leprechauns, dancers who demonstrated their marvellous skills in the aristocratic and talented Irish dance and among a myriad of activities and entertainment of Irish music, pipe bands and other items, picknickers lunched while children frolicked on the (yes, green too!) grass.

Now over for another year, we've undoubtedly been left with some delightful memories of a great weekend having fraternised with the Irish.

They're one of the happiest races. Their great sense of fun mixed in with their interest in politics, strength of faith and belief, their openness and general camaradie with others, their wonderful warmth and f riendliness and the special attributes they bring as immigrants to other lands, makes them outstanding.

Although they have their own distinct culture, it's one which they share freely.

Yet they integrate and become part of the country they are in, without losing any of their own identity.

They are givers, not takers, and always enhance and enrich the country they settle in.

It's always a pleasure to be with them with their healthy sense of fun and gifted sense of humour and I tend to think we'd all be that much poorer without these wonderfully enriching people.

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1. Father Paddy Connolly, St Colomban's parish Rivervale (left) with former childhood days neighbour from Co Galway, Tom Glynn with wife Maurpen. Their son is Father Vincent Glynn, Perth diocesan priest currently studying in Rome.

2. Some of the Irish dancers at the Subiaco Mass.

3. DecIan Ruttledge with 26 months old daughter Katie after Subiaco's Mass.

4. Piper Tom Cunningham with O'Brien School of Irish Dancing girls who formed part of the procession into the Subiaco Mass.

5. Ready to christen `the baby' (Fergus Farrell) in the traditional way with Guinness at the Irish Club, are (left) Patrick Gavin, Deanne Farrell, Michael Gavin, Frank Smythe and Don Gavin.

6. Celebrating their 35th wedding anniversary is Paddy Costello (three times former Irish Club president, with wife Lena, son Laurence (left rear) and visiting cousin Vincent from Chicago.

7. The Irish Club Rugby team 'Ex Pat's' preparing for competition and 20 teams in the Golden Oldies tournament this May and June.

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Rosary, Homily and Benediction will be held on Sunday, March 24 at the Bullsbrook Church "Virgin Mary Mother of the Church" at 2pm. For further information and bus reservations please ring 344 4054 for Perth, Highgate, DianeIla, Marangaroo and Midland bus and 339 4015 for Fremantle bus.

On Sunday, April 14 at 11am the SACRI Association will celebrate their annual Mass and Procession in honour of the 44th anniversary of the first apparition of the Virgin of the Revelation.

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Archdiocesan Calendar MARCH 26 Mass of the Chrism, St Mary's Cathedral, all priests.

29 Celebrate the Lord's Passion, St Mary's Cathedral, Bishop Healy.

30 Solemn Easter Vigil in St Mary's Cathedral, Bishop Healy.

APRIL Catholic Teachers' Mass, Boulder, 6 Bishop Healy.

Invest Knights of Holy Sepulchre, Monsignor Keating.

Open school extensions, Kalgoorlie, 7 Bishop Healy.

Legion of Mary Acies, St Mary's Cathedral, Monsignor S. O'Shea.

13 Ordination to priesthood, Martin Rostenberg at Queens Paric, Bishop Healy.

14 Mass, Procession, 44th Anniversary of the Virgin of the Revelation, Bishop Healy.

Open school extensions, Joondanna, Bishop Healy.

20 At St Francis Xavier Seminary, Adelaide, Bishop Healy.

23 & MAY Australian Catholic Bishops' Confer2 ence, Bishop Healy.

3 Law Society Ecumenical Service, Uniting Church, Mons Keating.

Blessing and opening Pre-Primary 5 Centre, Kelmscott, Bishop Healy.

Mass and procession, St Leone Association, Fr G. Carroll.

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