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New encyclical at a glance VATICAN CITY (CNS): Here is an at-a-glance look at Pope John Paul II's new encyclical, "Centesimus Annus" ("The Hundredth Year").

• Marks the 100th anniversary of Pope Leo XIII's encyclical "Rerum Novarum" (on capital and labour), which is considered the basis for contemporary Catholic social teachings.

• Urges a re-reading of "Rerum Novarum" and a

fresh enthusiasm for the richness of the Church's social doctrine.

• Explores the collapse of communism and asks the West to help rebuild Eastern Europe, although not along the model of an affluent or consumer society driven only by profit motives.

• Says the free market appears to be the most efficient system for utilising resources but notes the

inadequacies of capitalism and the fact that many human needs are shut out of the market.

• Emphasises the rights of workers and the need for labour unions to protect them.

• Calls for major new efforts to meet the needs of the Third World, including forgiveness of all or part of its foreign debt.

• Seeks alternatives to war and notes that "an insane arms race swallowed up the resources needed for the development of national economies and for assistance to the less developed nations".

• Criticises abortion as a denial of the right to life and says birth control campaigns can be a form of chemical warfare against defenceless human beings.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul II's latest encyclical highlights a century of changing problems and circumstances in the workplace, the marketplace and society at large.

As a piece of social teaching, it is attuned to the reality of today's high-tech, interdependent world economy and the new strains it is placing on certain groups, especially in the Third World. encyclical, The "Centesimus Annus" ("The Hundredth Year"), is a comprehensive review of developments since Pope Leo XIII wrote his landmark social encyclical, "Rerum Novarum" (on capital and labour) in 1891.

In several ways, however, the new document looks to the future as well as the past.

• In place of Pope Leo's warnings about

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the rise of socialism and class struggle, the pope was able to write communism's obituary as a social and economic system, following its collapse in Eastern Europe and its decline in other parts of the world.

What is urgently needed now, the pope argues, is reform of the free-market system on a global level, so that it responds more to human needs and less to the profit motive.

• In the workplace, Pope Leo was especially concerned with exploitative conditions and fair-wage issues that — thanks largely to unions — have been resolved in much of the world.

The pope, while affirming the role of trade unions, points out that new kinds of problems have arisen: The shift away from labourintensive means of production.

The need for retraining workers

"obsolete" in industries.

The failure of national entire economies to get off the ground.

• Much of Pope Leo's attention was focused on individual workers — their working hours, their job protection and their ability to tuck some savings away.

The new encyclical, like many of Pope John Paul's speeches in recent years, has more to do with the dynamics of the world economy and the international marketplace.

It points out that today, ownership of land and resources is less important — at least in industrialised countries — than "the possession of knowhow, technology and skill". Work itself is more service-related, "a matter of doing something for someone else".

Moreover, the "globalisation" of the economy has made

markets more interdependent, the pope says. In this changed situation, he notes, foreign debt can be a fatal handicap for nations trying to compete.

All of this has special significance for the Third World, and here the pope makes detailed some diagnoses.

Perhaps even more than the land and resource-based economies of the past, he argues. today's hightech marketplace is leaving the Third World out. Workers in poor countries are falling behind in knowledge and training. They are not so much exploited as "marginalised", and "economic development takes place over their head". This can make populations vulnerable to new abuses, such as coercive demographic control, the pope warns.

Some poor countries have tried economic

isolationism, relying on their own resources, but the results have been stagnation and recession, the pope says. The chief problem the Third World faces, he concludes, is "gaining access to the international market".

Obviously, this will not happen if the free market is driven solely by the search for profit.

Here is where the pope makes his case for reforming the "human inadequacies" of capitalism.

While recognising that the free market appears to be the most efficient system in using resources and responding to consumer demand, the pope notes that "there are many human needs which find no place on the market".

In meeting the needs

of the Third World, the pope suggests sometimes deferring or cancelling foreign debt payment. He also foresees the establishment of international agencies to "oversee and direct" the world economy, with more weight given to Third World difficulties.

The pope underscores these proposals with a warning: Worldwide poverty is "threatening to assume massive proportions in spite of t echnological and economic progress".

The solution is not simply a matter of giving away surplus goods, but requires "a change of lifestyles, of models of production and consumption, and of the established structures of power which today governs societies", he says.

The pope recognises that in some places

Pope John Paul II the "inhuman exploitation" described in "Rerum Novarum" continues to this day.

Low wages, abuse of employees and unjust distribution of profits have not disappeared.

But the new encyclical emphasises that the "humiliating subjection" of today's poor is not merely a lack of material goods.

Increasingly it involves their struggle for training, technology and a share of the market.

In this sense, the encyclical brings a wider focus to the gap between rich and poor decried by Pope Leo XIII. Today the gap is also one of opportunity, involving whole continents and peoples. The encyclical says they too deserve to share in "a society of free work, of enterprise and of participation".

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P Marxism a blow to the working class VATICAN CITY (CNS): Marxism failed to remedy and even worsened — the problems of the working class, but unbridled capitalism hasn't supplied the solution either, Pope John Paul ll said.

The new democracies of Eastern Europe and the continuing poverty and injustice experienced by workers in many parts of the world are among "the important social questions" the pope said he addresses in his new encyclical, "Centesimus Annus" ("The Hundredth Year").

In the encyclical, the pope said, "the Church once again recalls the pressing demands of social justice and the need for solidarity among workers and for respect for the dignity of the human person".

The Church acknowledges "the legitimacy of

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private ownership" and "the value of a free market economy", the pope said, but insists that human dignity, the common good and the right of all to share the earth's resources must come before "the dictates of the market".

Pope John Paul said God's providence, in addition to sociological and political factors, played a role in the failure of Marxism, which he described as "an ideological and economic power which seemed destined to prevail and also to eradicate the religion from the human conscience".

The collapse of communist regimes, must not be occasion for an "untimely satisfaction" or "unjustified triumphalism" on the part of capitalists.

"In various parts of the world the most extreme poverty continues; whole populations are deprived of the most elementary rights and they do not have the necessary means to satisfy fundamental human needs," the pope said.

In citizens of the richest countries "one frequently notices bewilderment", an inability to enjoy life, he said.

In the midst of abundance, people often feel alienated, lost and "reduced to the role of cogs in the machinery of production and of consumption".

The Church's social teaching and his new encyclical place the "higher dimension of man" at the centre of social, economic and political decisions.

While criticising communism, the Catholic Church "has always

refused and still refuses today to make the market the supreme regulator or almost the model of social life", the pope said.

"A man is owed something because he is man, because of his dignity and likeness to God," whether or not that individual has something to make, to sell or to buy in a market economy.

Each person is owed "respect and solidarity", which is the "social expression of love".

Some people have no access to the market, the

pope said, but their needs "must be satisfied all the same".

Nations have an obligation to help find solutions for the problems of poorer countries, ways to enable them to participate in the international economy and to offer direct support when necessary, he said.

A free economy is "a human freedom which cannot be separated from the other aspects and must contribute to the full realisation of persons in order to build an

human authentic community".

The right to private property which the Church recognises does have limits because the earth and its resources were given by God to all humanity, he said.

"Strong legal and political structures" as well as "a strong ethical and religious conscience" are needed to ensure that the right of private ownership is not abused by the wealthy and so that even the poorest workers have what they need to provide for themselves and their families, he said.

The defect under microscope VATICAN CITY (CNS): "Centesimus Annus" ("The Hundredth Year") is a social encyclical which shows the philosophical defects of Marxism by pointing out its practical political failures.

The approach is typical of Pope John Paul II, who often pins social and political problems to shallow ideological roots.

In the process, the pope notes that the Church is not completely opposed to the Marxist concept of class struggle, but feels

that Catholicism has a fuller answer because it takes into account the moral dimension of human existence.

Marxism's major philosophical error is its atheism, which contains the seeds of its own destruction as a political system, the pope said in social third his encyclical.

Besides the economic hardships and political repression, the pope criticised "the spiritual void brought about by

atheism, which deprived the younger generations of a sense of direction".

"Marxism had promised to uproot the need for God from the human heart, but the results have shown that it is not possible to succeed in this without throwing the heart into turmoil," said the encyclical.

The encyclical's title was written to commemorate the centenary of encyclical Pope Leo "Rerum Novarum" (on capital and labour) of

1891, which is the basis of modern church social doctrine.

The pope praised Pope Leo as a social prophet who warned in "Rerum Novarum" about the defects of Marxism as a political system at a time when it had yet to gain power.

'The denial of God deprives the person of his foundation, and consequently leads to a reorganisation of the social order without reference to the person's dignity

and responsibility," Pope John Paul wrote.

Marxism considers "the individual person simply as an element, a molecule within the social organism, so that the good of the individual is completely subordinated to the functioning of the socio-economic mechanism," he added.

Such a system produces political leaders "determined not to be bound by moral principles", said Pope John Paul.

This leads to "using

every possible means, not excluding the use of lies, terror tactics against citizens and weapons of utter destruction" to gain political ends, he said.

As an example of how a moral dimension is needed to guide sociopolitical conduct. Pope John Paul contrasted the Marxist concept of violent class struggle with the Christian realisation that social conflict is an important reality which needs to be resolved peacefully.

Chain of documents reaches 100 mark VATICAN CITY: The popes have issued a chain of documents marking the 40th, 70th, 80th and 90th anniversaries of the first social document Rerum Novarum, Pope John Paul's is the 1006.

"Rerun' Novarum" (on

the condition of the working classes), encyclical issued by Pope Leo KM, May 15, 1891:

Proclaimed the priority of man and his family over the state; defended the right of labour to organise in seeking higher wages and better working conditions; established a series of rights and obligations — based on justice and serving the common good — incumb# t'

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bent on management and labour, opposed the Marxist concept of abolishing private property in favour of state ownership.

"Quadragesimo Anne" (on reconstructing the social order), encyclical issued by Pope Pius XI, May 15, 1931: Upheld "Rerum Novarum" as "the Magna Charta upon which all Christian activity in the social field ought to be based"; reiterated that true socialism is "utterly foreign to Christian truth" since its concept of life is material rather than spiritual; warned that unbridled capitalism and unrestrained monopoly was producing "economic imperialism" because of the concentrat-Irt-

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tion of wealth and economic power in the hands of a few; asserted that 'the worker must be paid a wage sufficient to support him and his family"; favoured international co-operation.

"Mater et Magistra" ("Mother and Teacher"), encyclical issued by Pope John MTh dated May 15, 1961: Drew a sharp distinction between socialism and socialisation, condemning the first and upholding the second; declared that every effort must be made to provide that the rich accumulate only "a just share" of profits, and that "an ample sufficiency be supplied to

the working man"; held that "fruitful and lasting" peace is impossible if the differences between people's social and economic conditions are too great; called for broad international cooperation to help underdeveloped nations overcome their "permanent state of poverty, of misery or of hunger — perhaps the major problem of today".

"Octogesima Adveniens" (apostolic letter on the 80th anniversary of "Rerum Novarum"), issued

by Pope Paul VI, dated May 14, 1971: Was not an encyclical but an apostolic letter to Cardinal Maurice Roy of Quebec, then president of the Pontif-

ical Justice and Peace Commission. A call to action for Christians to take on a political and social obligation to solve themany social issues confronting the modem world — such as urbanisation, discrimination, crime waves and drug use, the role of youth, emancipation of women, rights of workers, creating employment, use of media; criticised Marxism, freewheeling laissez faire capitalism and some forms of socialism; criticised the liberalism that exalts individual freedom without any limitation.

"Laborem Exercens" ("On Human Work"), encyclical issued by Pope John Paul 11, dated May 15, 1981:

Reaffirmed the dignity of work and reiterated Church teaching of the "priority of labour over capital"; criticised abuses of a "rigid capitalism" which places profit above the well-being of the worker, called for new forms of socioeconomic organisations by workers to avoid the evils of capitalism and Marxism; criticised economic imperialism, whether by multinational companies or by managers in socialised societies, which adversely influences the relationships between workers and management in many countries; called on international organisations to develop rules for international dealings affecting workers.

Pope on right to a dignified job POTENZA (Italy): Pope John Paul told workers and politicians that every man and woman has the inalienable right to a dignified job which may assure them the maintenance of their own family Addressing the industrial and agricultural workers of a chemical factory in Matera the Holy Father spoke of the high unemployment rate among the region's youths and adults.

He specifically lamented the fact that some people "reach retirement age without having ever had a job, at least a stable one, a true job with the joy it gives".

Work, he added, "is a means given by the Creator for every person to maintain himself, his family and to serve his brothers and sisters".

The Church, within the limits of its mission, is concerned about contributing to the solution of the problems of the working world because "she is interested in everything which refers to man," affirmed the pope.

Referring to what his encyclical calls "structures of sin", he said these are "the sum total of factors against the realisation of the common good and of respect for the dignity of the person".

He listed some of these factors: the exclusive search for personal profit, political favouritism, attachment to power, the tendency of parties to keep only to their own interests.

A bloom to remember NEW NORCIA TREE FIRST TO BLOSSOM CLAIM

By Dom Francis Byrne OSB A eucalyptus tree is in bloom . . . to the memory of the late Archbishop William Foley.

Two years ago on Pentecost Sunday the Archbishop was present at New Norcia to watch local parish priest Fr Anthony Lovis plant the tree outside the historic Abbey Church to mark The Year of Mission.

The tree symbolises the fruit borne in that special year throughout the archdiocese.

Hundreds of similar trees were officially planted, but Fr Lovis believes that the New Norcia tree is the first one in the archdiocese to blossom.

"We are claiming the privilege of having the first tree in bloom officially nominated by the archdiocese," a delighted Fr Lovis told me this week.

"The tree is a constant reminder to us all of the vision of the late Archbishop Foley, his warmth and missionary outreach," he said.

Two young parishioners have been preparing for confirmation under the guidance of Sr Teresa Hyland, a Good Samaritan Sister attached to the New Norcia Parish.

They are Pippa Kenworthy (12) and Hugh Johnson (12), both of Yerecoin, and they will be presented to Monsignor McCrann in the Abbey Church on Pentecost Sunday.

A special tree . . . Confirmands Pippa Kenworthy (12) and Hugh Johnson (12), both of Yerecoin, beside the tree in blossom outside the historic Abbey Church of New Norcia.

Jobs jolt for CMC One job gone and another in a precarious position.

This about sums up the mini crisis the Catholic Migrant Centre (CMC) has encountered.

A long-time employee of CMC had to go on April 1 when the Immigration Department stopped its funding.

Most of this employee's projects have had to be shelved despite the fact that three other CMC staffers tried to fill the gap with his departure.

"But we all have fulltime jobs and our hands are full," said Mr Gerald Searle, director of CMC. He said an appeal was made to the Commonwealth Government but to no avail.

The grant that was withdrawn was first given in 1977 as a Host Family Grant. It was to pay for a social worker whose role was to coordinate the Host Family Scheme.

This scheme saw families assisting refugees to settle but the scheme ended after four or five years.

The grant was converted into a Community Development Grant and the social worker concerned was in charge of that new scheme.

The community development portfolio was a varied one and the social worker co-ordinated the Parish Refugee Support Scheme and looked after the settlement programs.

By Roy Lazaroo He also did the normal social case work with clients and was very actively involved with the Chilean community and also with the Cambodian and Filipino communities.

"We can only fill the gap in certain areas. There are certain things we can do and certain things we can't now," said Mr Se.arle.

For example, the CMC had planned another round of recruitment and training for Parish Refugee Support Scheme but could not do so.

"It looks like it will have to be a yearly affair now," he said.

The CMC's next setback He said the Church had came when the State done so much for Government limited migrants. funding for the Spon"The service that we do sored Employment Pro- in WA is second to none," ject to only a nine-month he said. period expiring in SepHe added: We need to tember this year. across the message get There has been a lot of lobbying and pressure on that our services are open the government in to all regardless of race, respect of their latest religion or colour. decision. the Catholic "At "We have shown that Migrant Centre we have there is a need to carry on opened our hearts to with this project. There is thousands of migrants a possibility that we and refugees with whom might get another 12 we came into contact. months.

"We have shared the joy "We are now awaiting a of those who succeeded decision from the State and shared the sadness of Government," he said. a growing number of Mr Searle said: "It is migrants and refugees indeed a disappointment who have had their that our good work is not family sponsorships acknowledged." refused."

$15 million in emergency aid The Society of St Vincent de Paul, the largest nonGovernment organisation in Australia helped 255,000 people and distributed $15 million worth of aid emergency between 1989 and 1990.

According to the

annual Society's (1989-90) report, the basic work of the society was performed by members in the 1554 conferences throughout the country.

Members of the Society — largely voluntary — visited

needy families and people in their own homes to bring them "spiritual and material support on a personto-person basis".

Around the nation the Society was involved with homeless persons, the aged, the disabled, youth,

migrant and refugees and prisoners.

Approximately three out of 10 visits made by the Society did not material involve assistance but simply social and moral support.

"The value of such visits cannot be over-

stated," the report said.

It added: "The complexities, the pace and economic pressures of present-day Australia leave in its wake many broken and aliented people.

"The pressures on the family unit are intense . . ."

ACR's $50,000 grant to Bangladesh Australian Catholic Relief has made a grant of $50,000 to assist victims of the cyclone and tidal wave that has devastated parts of Bangladesh in the last few days.

The grant has been made in response to an urgent appeal by Caritas Bangladesh, the Catholic Church's relief agency in Bangladesh which is

working victims.

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Mr Zahidul Islam, of Bangladesh Caritas made the following points: • at least seven million people have been severely affected; • several thousands have been reported dead already — while there

are still areas which have not been reached because of disrupted communications: • 80% of the houses in the area have been destroyed or damaged.

The Diocesan Director of Australian Catholic Relief, Mr Michael Sullivan, said he recognised the generosity of Australians to recent appeals for

Africa, victims of the "The suffering caused Gulf War — especially by this cyclone will exist the Kurds — and for long after the media people in Sri Lanka and attention has died away," other areas, in recent he said. "I hope the months. people of Bangladesh "I hope this generosity will not be forgotten can be extended to the before their needs are desperate need of the met."

MI Catholic parishes Bangladesh people — already living in one of will receive donations to the poorest countries of assist the victims of the Bangladesh cyclone. the world," he said.

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The Church's attention this weekend to its World Communication Day highlights our never ending paradox: never have we been able to know so much and never have we been so confused about what to do with what we know.

Twenty five years ago Catholic bishops were told to start spreading the word that the media were not the enemy but the means, as Pope John Paul says, to help build a more humane, just and peaceful world.

Many Catholis still are suspicious about embracing this view.

Those very newspapers, radios and television channels are showing us daily that for too many in cities' wastelands life is not humane, that justice is short-changed and that one war seems to commence as soon as another ends.

The response say the sanctimonious is to retreat to safety, to climb on to the morally superior ground by cancelling the newspapers, turning off the radios and flipping selectively through the channels.

Some claim a certain virtue in not knowing what is going on around them.

The Second Vatican Council decided in no uncertain way that Christians had better get involved in the world's problems if they wanted to be true to the name of Christ.

Those problems are not just what the world media networks are choosing to tell us but also about how we are being told.

The Bangladeshi mass destruction points up the overload limit that news consumers can be allowed to bear in Western society. That 125,000 are dead and millions devastated by destruction and famine — more than the whole of WA's population, that is — does not change the rules about time and space that can be devoted to such matters.

The handful who lose their lives on Australian roads over an Easter or Christmas holiday are reported as a national tragedy because it is a convenient time to think this way. For the remainder of the year hundreds more are killed but they cannot be packaged into stories that will win the ratings game.

The world was primed for the saturation coverage that would have been given to heavy Gulf war casualties had they occurred on the allied side. On the Iraq side the countless thousands who persihed were victims of the media as well as the war, it suited both the allied side and the censorious Iraqi government to say as little as possible.

The irony has not escaped American commentators that the same 200 casualties in the Gulf are an entirely different media issue to the 4000 and more murders taking place daily in US city wastelands. Those disasters cannot be packaged to impact upon a public conscience.

Endless bloodshed amongst blacks is routinely reported, but only in terms of what the public can take in about South African issues.

The Kurds are made to move back and forth like cattle across the television screens because It is too hard to recall the hammering they have taken long before this from their oppressors when shamefully it was safer for us not to criticise Turkey or Iraq.

The fellow travelling that took place with Moscow for half a century became the excuse not to know of the tyranny and civil war now surfacing in the Soviet republics.

And if that is not enough we wake up to find out what we did not know was happening locally under our very noses. Corruption and opportunism at every level of government and private enterprise went uncovered we are now told because the media had a public to satisfy.

That package was not allowed to ask if all this was wrong.

If our hope from the fruitful expansion of media into the coming decades is for a better understanding of humanity and its failures so too will we have to re-assess our capacity for compassion and for moral courage to put things right.

If media preach a pre-occupation with only our own problems then we breed a selfishness that cannot cope with disasters beyond our reach.

Rich and poor worldwide watch the same programmes but that electronic miracle ensures that the one and the other need not talk to each other.

The concern of the Church must be not about change and the media gadgetry that has fostered it but with the human capacity to know what is happening and the means to put things right because in the end that is why God gives us both our technological brains but also our faith.

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VATICAN CITY: Tensions over Ukrainian Catholic and Orthodox church issues result from Vatican insensitivity but even out of misunderstanding some good will come, says the Church's top ecumenist.

For Catholics, "it is a matter of justice that the property taken from them unjustly by the communist authorities be returned to them", Archbishop Cassidy said, while the Orthodox "say that the churches should be divided according to the pastoral needs of the present time".

Further complicating the efforts at dialogue is the fact that Ukrainian Catholics, because of the ban on their church during the Second Vatican Council, did not participate in the council's historic discussions on ecumenism and are "reluctant to view their Orthodox brothers and sisters as natural partners of ecumenical dialogue", he said.

Archbishop Cassidy traced the roots of religious conflict in the Ukraine not to the 1946 action but to the 1596 establishment of the Ukrainian Catholic Church — when an Orthodox community voted to unite with Rome, but to maintain liturgical and other traditions.

"For the Orthodox, such (Eastern-rite) churches are looked upon as a wound in their ecclesial body; for us Roman Catholics, these were genuine attempts to restore unity at a time when no other path to their deeply desired unity seemed open," he said.

"There are still many Orthodox who would like to see the (Eastern-rite) Catholics being given the so-called choice of becoming part of the Latin Church of Rome or of the corresponding Orthodox Church," Archbishop Cassidy said.

He said the initial refusal by Ukrainian Catholic bishops to participate in a Vatican-Russian Orthodox commission charged with settling disputes over church buildings was due at least in part to "a lack of understanding and sensitivity toward the representatives of the Ukrainian Catholics".

"Looking back I feel that more should have been done to prepare them for their involvement in the commission," Archbishop Cassidy said.

He said the Vatican had "practically no direct contact" with Ukrainian bishops before the commission's first scheduled meeting in March 1990 and did not know they "had a completely different approach to the question of the churches and other properties" than the Vatican had agreed to.

In addition, he said, the Vatican was not aware that Ukrainian Catholic leaders faced "growing opposition to (the dialogue) on the part of their clergy and faithful".

The question of the Eastern-rite churches now takes "priority over all other subjects" in the international Orthodox -Catholic dialogue and both sides have expressed "the strong determination not to abandon — not even to postpone or interrupt — the theological dialogue", Archbishop Cassidy said.

"Ido not really see any option in this regard, andIbelieve that is the conviction of many others involved in this dialogue," he added.

"What I feel is most needed now, both for Orthodox and for Catholics of Eastern rite, is a new vision of their relationship, future," the archbishop said.

Parish move to avert budget deficit CINCINNATI (CNS): Cincinnati parish assessments will go up 36 per cent to avert a predicted archdiocesan budget deficit of $1.5 million over the next three years.

Chicago diocese has embarked on a $10 million appeal and Philadelphia has set up a $100 million target to provide for the Church well past the year 2000.

Cincinnati archdiocesan department directors recommended a major restructuring of the archdiocese's central offices to help save money.

But Archbishop Pilarczyk decided to increase revenues through higher assessments after consulting with priests and receiving reactions from

archdiocesan employees and other groups.

A majority of priests saw the higher aRsessment rate as more favourable than combinations of office restructuring plans with cutbacks on inner-city school funding and priest retirement benefits.

Archbishop Pilarczyk told pastors the archdiocesan structure will remain intact "with some adjustments for economy and pastoral effectiveness".

Adjustments, he said, will likely include a hiring freeze. He did not rule out the possibility of layoffs. "We're going to continue to look for ways to economise within the same structure that we

have now," the archbi-

shop said.

Pastors "will be challenged to make the adjustments necessary after paying an increased amount to the archdiocese", said Father Giles Pater, priests' council president. That could mean layoffs for parish and school employees, he added, but that is something "each parish will have to determine itself."

When the archdiocesan restructuring recommendations were released in December, many opposed the plan, saying services should not be cut. Although no layoff figures were ever released, it was expected that many employees would have lost their jobs.

Beijing helps pay for seminary XIAN, China (CNS): Government funds helped pay for construction of a new stateapproved Catholic seminary in one of China's oldest cities, Xian.

The seminary replaced one that collapsed while under construction three years ago.

The local government gave the diocese about 300,000 renminbi ($50,600) to demolish and rebuild the seminary. The reconstruction took three years.

The Xian Regional Seminary began classes in late 1984, shortly before the first attempt at constructing a new building.

Seminarians were temporarily housed in "congested and filthy conditions" in an old house in the St Francis Cathedral compound, local Catholics said.

The 45 seminarians now studying in the regional seminary are prepared to move into the new campus shortly.

The new seminary lies behind a newly built church, known as the North Church, adjacent to the historic city hall.

Xian Diocese has 15 priests and about 17,500 Catholics, of whom 4,000 live in Xian city, the provincial capital of Shaanxi.

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VATICAN CITY: Statistics published on World Vocations Day show that the number of major seminarians in the world increased 49% from 1978 to 1989.

The highest increases were recorded in Africa with 138.3%, Central

America with 119.9% and South America with 88.9%.

In 1989 major seminarians numbered 93,405, of which two thirds were diocesan and the rest religious. In 1978 that figure was 62,670.

Asia is the continent

where vocation growth tends to be most steady at 6.3%. In Africa, the last two years' 6.3% increase was smaller than the 12.4% of previous years.

North America is the only area where the percentage of seminarians had decreased during

the last decade: in 1978 they represented 15.4% of the whole world and in 1989 it was only 7.1% of the total number.

In the last decade the number of seminarians in Europe increased 24.1% (from 22,902 in 1978 to

28,418 in 1989), even if last year there has been a slight decrease.

From 1978 to 1989 the number of novices of Religious Institutes of Pontifical Right has also increased: from 11,758 to 18,853.

Stirring memories VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul ll's May trip to the Marian shrine at Fatima, Portugal, recalls two papal assassination attempts.

The second was at Fatima itself, a year after the pope was critically wounded in St Peter's Square.

The first attack took place May 13, 1981, at the Vatican when Mehmet Ali Agca shot the pontiff, who was making a circuit of the square in his popemobile.

The incident riveted world attention and took on the nature of international intrigue with strong overtones of Soviet involvement.

On May 12, 1982, as the pope visited Fatima to thank Mary for saving his life the year before, he was in danger again.

While leading 1 million people in a prayer service, the pope was rushed by a 32-year-old Spaniard, Juan Fernandez Krohn, wielding a 15-inch bayonet and dressed in priestly garb. The pope was uninjured as Fernandez Krohn was stopped by security forces several yards before reaching the pope.

The subsequent investigation threw into the spotlight the enigmatic personality of the would-be assassin, an illicitly ordained priest who appeared at his trial in bare feet and in a green cassock with a red heart stitched to it.

Fernandez Krohn also had a history of ties to radical dissident Catholic movements opposed to the Second Vatican Council.

Witnesses of his scuffle with security forces at Fatima heard him say "down with the pope" and "down with Vatican II". At his trial, the Spaniard said he intended to stab the pope in the heart "in legitimate defense of the Church" and because the pope was "demolishing the Catholic Church".

Fernandez Krohn was illicitly ordained a priest by rebel Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1978 but split with the archbishop shortly after, considering him too open to accepting papal authority.

The Society of St Pius X founded by Archbishop Lefebvre repudiated the attack. The society

Starting the hard way

acknowledged that Fernandez Krohn was ordained by Archbishop Lefebvre but noted that he left in 1980.

Fernandez Krohn joined Archbishop Lefebvre's movement after he had tried seminary life in Spain and found it unsatisfactory.

In a 1976 television interview, he called Archbishop Lefebvre "a defender of the traditional Church, which is so threatened by progressives".

After leaving Archbishop Lefebvre, Fernandez Krohn became involved in France with a group which believed that no pope had been validly elected since the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958.

A Portuguese court in October 1982 ordered psychological testing of Fernandez Krohn. The following March he was declared mentally fit to stand trial.

But when the case came to court in April 1983, Fernandez Krohn tried to set fire to a photograph of the pope when asked if he had anything to add to his defense. Court officials snatched the photo before it was set ablaze.

Fernandez Krohn was convicted and sentenced to six and a half years in jail on May 2, 1983. During the sentencing he called the judges "puppets, communists, murderers" and said he was "morally innocent" of the crime.

The outburst caused an additional seven months to be tacked on his sentence for insulting the court.

Fernandez Krohn was released last year.

What did the pope think of this second assa ination attempt?

As soon as the pope perceived that something was wrong, he moved forward and blessed the would-be assassin, said a Vatican spokesman at the time.

The following day, the pope continued with his plans to reconsecrate the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and to thank her for saving his life in St Peter's Square, noting the "mysterious coincidence with the anniversary of the first apparition at Fatima" on May 13, 1917.

'Kurds used by all'

ROME: The first archbishop of Moscow for 55 years has to find some churches, some priests to staff them and a place to live.

If Pope John Paul arrives in Moscow in 1992 he will need a cathedral that is bigger than the chapel of St Louis or the chapel attached to the US embassy, the only two Catholic churches currently operating in the capital, says the archbishop.

Archbishop Kondrusiewicz also dreams of starting a seminary.

He doesn't even know how many Catholics he has and he will have to find out where they are located before he sets about finding them some churches.

The Vatican estimates he has about 60,000 Catholics in European Russia west of the Urals, 10,000 of them in Leningrad, but there are no figures for Moscow.

The archbishop is no stranger to starting off the hard way.

Two years ago he was appointed the first bishop in Byelorussia for 62 years.

"But there it was my land," he said. "I had known the churches, the priests and many of the faithful for some time. In Moscow everything is new to me."

BAGHDAD: The Kurds have historically been "used by everybody" according to the Vatican's diplomat to Iraq.

This time, he said, they deluded themselves after they were indirectly encouraged in their struggle by the United States.

Archbishop Oles said the Kurdish problem was "a human question, a question of a nation that has the right to respect."

For Iraq, he said, this principle means the Kurds would have "a certain autonomy, but it will not be complete".

Other nations where Kurds live today will not easily accept the idea of Kurdish autonomy, he said, even though a 1920 treaty international called for establishment of a Kurdish state.

The Kurds, Archbishop Oles said, have "always been tricked" and have

been "used by everybody" in recent history.

"In this case, the Americans encouraged them —Iwouldn't say directly, but indirectly — and they deluded themselves.

But their problem must be faced," he said.

The archbishop was asked whether, in his view, the UN role authorising the war was to its credit, or whether it indicated a failure of the UN's mission.

"As a diplomat,Ihave to "A small country like say that they did what they could. As a private Israel not only was able person, I am of the to draw thanks for second opinion. Even the having allowed a superSecurity Council gave up power to fight a war in its its authority. They place, but was even able allowed the United to obtain payment," he States and the allied said. forces to operate militar"For a few Scuds that ily, without asking them were incomparable to to make an accounting of the bombardment suftheir operations," he said. fered by Iraq, (Israel) was Partly through the able to obtain $600 efforts of Pope John Paul million, he said.

Police and Press blamed

BOMBAY: Police have not yet complied with a court order to find out originators of misleading reports about two murdered nuns.

A group probing the aftermath of the murder of two Catholic nuns in Bombay accused police of "grave dereliction of

duty" and the press of "unethical" behaviour in sensationalising the crime.

The report maintained the "sensationalised" newspaper reports on the sexual activities of

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Franciscan Sisters of Saint Mary of Angels Sylvia D'Souza and Priya J. Devasia Kudakassery were found murdered November 16 at a home for street children at

II, he said, a potential Christian-Muslim conflict was defused in the region.

He said, however, that he considered it "absurd" that a country like Saudi Arabia, where Christianity is outlawed, is tolerated as a member of the United Nations.

Israel, a country he described as "maintained" by the West, had shown "extraordinary intelligence" during the war.

Jogeshwari, a Bombay suburb.

No arrest has been made and the police have yet to reveal a motive for the crime.

Soon after the murder, some leading national newspapers and local

tabloids quoted a "leaked" postmortem report to allege that the murdered nuns led an immoral life and that one of them had a venereal disease.

The report said at least one person fed misinformation to the press.

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10-year decision to be out soon LONDON (CNS): The Vatican's formal response to the 1981 report of the first Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission, called ARCIC I, is expected to be published later this year.

Archbishop Cassidy, head of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity, said "it is ready now, but when it is published will depend a great deal on our contacts" with Anglicanism's new spiritual leader, Archbishop George of Carey Canterbury.

ARCIC l's final report, now a decade old, contains four statements agreed on by the participants regarding the Eucharist, ministry and ordination, and Church authority.

Archbishop Cassidy said that the growing trend toward allowing the ordination of Anglican women is, however, a problem for the unity discussions.

Archbishop Carey is a strong supporter of giving women the opportunity to become priests.

The formal response of the worldwide Anglican Communion to the ARCICIreport was given by the 1988 Lambeth Conference.

It recognised the agreed statements on eucharistic doctrine and on ministry and ordination as "consonant in substance with the faith of Anglicans" and welcomed the statements on authority as "a firm basis for the direction and agenda of continuing dialogue on authority".

Archbishop Cassidy

said he did not think that a decision by the Church of England, Anglicanism's mother church, to ordain women would be a reason to scale down or abandon the formal institutional dialogue, but it could be a problem.

"In all our dialogue we are trying to move ahead together to discuss each of the problems that divide us and see how much coverage or, better still, how much co isensus we can reach," Archbishop Cassidy said.

"One of

the main

questions we are discussing with the Anglican Communion is that of ministry," he said.

There is a "considerable amount of common understanding" on that subject, he said. But the issue of female ordination constitutes "a new obstacle for our common of understanding ministry".

Full mutual acceptance of ministry between the churches would be affected by a decision of the Church of England to ordain women, he said.

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Bulgaria's most urgent task SOFIA: Bulgaria's capital's diocese had 70 priests 50 years ago. Today it has 10.

"The priests are old; we have no continuity with the young priests and we have seven seminarians," said the apostolic administra-

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Defend teachings VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul II encouraged Jesuits to defend Church teachings, even when they contradict prevailing contemporary opinion.

The pope made the remarks during a Mass in St Peter's to commemorate the 450th anniversary of the founding of the Jesuit order by St Ignatius of Loyola. The church is also celebrating the 500th anniversary of the saint's birth this year.

Today's Jesuits, the pope said, should "rediscover" the spiritual gifts of St Ignatius.

"Love the Church.

May you accept the magisterium (Church teaching authority) dutifully and without any doubt, even when it is necessary to go against the current in a world that often rejects the values of life and justice, of peace and love, as Christ taught them," the pope said.

He recalled St Ignatius' exhortation to be good preachers and men of penance, and to demonstrate the Gospel values through a simple and poor lifestyle.

inhabitants. About 85 per cent of the population is Orthodox.

A positive aspect of communist rule is that it drew Catholics and Orthodox together against a common enemy, said Bishop Jovcev.

"We understood that our enemies were militant atheists, not one or another denomination," he said.

"All the Orthodox priests in Plovdiv are my friends.They visit me and I go to their

homes and visit their families," he added.

"In this way, good relationships were begun and has provided an optimum outlook for continuing t o proceed toward unity," he said.

90 p.c. of Catholics not going to Mass DUBLIN: Archbishop Connell of Dublin has revealed that in some parishes of his diocese 90 per cent of Catholics are not going to Mass.

The archbishop, who was commenting on a report of the churches in cities, at Ballymascanlon Inter-Church meeting, explained the fall-off resulted from social devastation in some inner-city and suburban working class parishes.

Later a social worker

said it would take a tremendous act of faith for some families without work, who spent week whole their indoors, to stir themselves to go to church on Sundays.

Husbands and fathers without work were sitting around watching television or videos all day and generally getting under the feet of the housewife.

This resulted in tensions and all too often the break-up of families.

Children who see their older brothers and sisters who got top marks without jobs, are not motivated to study at school, explained the social worker.

Archbishop Connell said the deprivation experienced by so many was not the norm in the archdiocese.

The parishes where this was happening were exceptional, and in the circumstances of the conditions these people

experienced, was understandable, he added.

Moreover, the archbishop said that in the climate of today there was a great deal of antireligious propaganda in our midst, with not much support for religious attitudes.

Emphasising that religious practise began in the home, Archbishop Connell revealed that he planned a period of family life renewal in the archdiocese.

Example of increasing diplomatic ties VATICAN CITY (CNS): A Soviet delegation met Pope John Paul II and other Vatican officials in what the Vatican called an example of increasing diplomatic contacts with the Soviet Union.

The five-man delegation, all experts in European affairs, then had a working session with Archbishop Tauran, a

top Vatican diplomatic official.

The Soviet delegation was led by Alexei Glukboy, director of the European department of the Soviet foreign ministry. Also present was Yuri Karlov, Soviet ambassador to the Vatican.

The encounter was part

of a series of bilateral meetings taking place after the exchange of diplomatic representatives last year.

The Vatican's representative in the Soviet Union, Archbishop Francesco Colasuormo, has held several similar meetings in Moscow in recent months.

Vatican-Soviet relations improved considerably with the exchange of personal representatives in March 1990. At that time, the Vatican said the step was aimed at setting up a "permanent dialogue" on issues of common interest, and was expected to be a transitional phase toward full diplomatic relations.

Mixed rating for capitalism .. as Marxism is made to wear the dunce cap VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul II, as a teacher of social doctrine in his latest encylical, gives capitalism a mixed report card.

As an economic system efficient in using resources and satisfying market needs, capitalism gets high marks. Its class rival, Marxism, has been banished to the corner and wears the dunce cap.

But on a human and ethical level, the freemarket system risks flunking some important tests. The papal lesson here is that there is room for improvement in the way capitalism deals with the poor, the unproductive and the workers.

Overall, capitalism comes off as the school superachiever who regularly out-performs the rest, but receives poor marks in conduct and a red check under "works well with others".

The encyclical, "Centesimus Annus" ("The Hundredth Year"), published May 2, is a wideranging commentary on social and economic development.

The pope's comments on capitalism are an important part of the core teaching: social organisation and economic production are incomplete without religious and ethical values.

The pope uses the encyclical to censure state socialism, a system whose visible failure was illustrated in the fall of communist regimes throughout Europe in 1989-90.

The pope candidly faces the next logical question: Does this mean that capitalism won? Is it the model of the future?

Not so fast, the pope cautions. And here the mixed report card begins.

Capitalism is praised for: • Creativity. It leaves

room for "initiative and entrepreneurial ability," a process that "should be viewed carefully and favourably." As a system, capitalism emphasises that the human being is a principal resource, the pope says.

• Organisation. The ability to foresee needs and organise production is a "source of wealth" for modern society, he says.

The system rewards discipline and human work.

• Freedom. In fact, the basis of the modern business community is "human freedom exercised in the economic field," the pope said. This too is positive.

• Profitability. "The church acknowledges the legitimate role of profit" because "when a firm makes a profit, this means that productive factors have been properly employed and corresponding human needs have been duly satisfied".

But capitalism gets low marks for its "human inadequacies," as reflected in several categories: • Unconcern for the non-productive. The pope denounces the fact that even in the wealthy West, poverty is being experienced by those who live on the margins of society: the sick and the elderly, refugees and migrants.

Here is tile other side of the "profit" argument — that concern for the community at large must also regulate business operations.

• Insensitivity to the world's poor. Vast multitudes are living in misery, the pope says. With communism out of the way, there is a risk that a capitalistic "radical ideology" will either ignore their fate or "blindly" entrust their solution to free market forces.

Lesson to learn Regarding the Third World, the encyclical said the events in Eastern Europe should be a lesson to liberation theologians seeking "an impossible compromise between Marxism and Christianity" to solve the problems of poor countries.

At the same time, it encouraged answers based on Church teachings to the problems of the Third World, especially the foreign debt.

"It is not right to demand or expect payment when the effect would be imposition of political choices leading to hunger and despair," it said.

Ways must be found "to lighten, defer or even cancel the debt," it said.

An unbridled capitalism still reigns in many poor countries "in no way inferior to the darkest moments of the first phase of industrialisation", it added.

"The human inadequacies of capitalism and the resulting domination of things over people are far from disappearing," it said.

Third World populations also lack advanced scientific and technological knowledge needed for progress, it said.

"Economic development takes place over their heads," it said.

The encyclical opposed artificial birth control programs to reduce the number of poor.

"There are even attempts to eliminate them from history through coercive forms of demographic control which are contrary to human dignity," it said.

The encyclical opposed what is called the "insane arms race" and favoured greater control of the arms flow to Third World countries.

• "Idolatry" of the the pope was not pointmarket. Sometimes the ing fingers at any particonly "needs" recognized ular country. by capitalism are those "The worst deformation that are endowed with would be to label this purchasing power, and document 'antithe only resources are American.' The society of those that can be bought luxury and waste is and sold. "But there are found everywhere, in many human needs every country," said which find no place on Cardinal Roger Etchegathe market". ray, president of the • Foreign debt. The Vatican's Justice and pope says it is wrong for Peace Council. richer creditor nations to The pope's bottom line demand loan repayment is that the free market is when it would lead to efficient, has some good "hunger and despair for elements, but needs entire peoples." He calls "corrections". for deferment or cancelSeeing the fall of comlation of some debt — munism as a "one-sided and notes that this is victory" may delay those already happening to corrections, he says. In some degree. fact, he adds, capitalism • Exploitation. Owning should not be seen as the means of production "the only model of is legitimate when it economic organisation," serves useful work, but even after the defeat of not when a profit is state socialism squeezed out at the In the pope's view, the expense of workers and ideal free market system society. "Ownership of would be controlled in this kind has no justifica- part by the state, "cirtion, and represents an cumscribed within a abuse in the sight of God strong juridical frameand man". it at • Materialism. Capital- work which places ism's faults lead to the the service of human "domination of things freedom." On the interover people," the pope national level, agencies says. The result is consu- are needed to "oversee mer attitudes and lifes- and direct" the global tyles, which lead to economy to the common physical and spiritual good.

Toward the end of the harm. The pope scores the creation of "artificial encyclical, the pope puts new needs," and media both state control and the campaigns that manipu- free market economy in a late and impose fashions Christian perspective: through "carefully "The individual today is orchestrated repetition". often suffocated between "It is not wrong to want two poles represented by to live better," he says. the state and the But it is wrong to asume marketplace.

At times it seems as "better" means "having" rather than "being." The though he exists only as consumer society wants a producer and consuto defeat Marxism on a mer of goods, or as an of state purely materialistic level, object while "equally excluding administration". spiritual values," the "People lose sight of the pope warns. fact that life in society In case the pope's vision has neither the market of the "consumer nor the state as its final society" sounds a little purpose, since life itself like life in the United has a unique value States, a Vatican official which the state and the made clear at a press market must serve," he conference on May 2 that says.

Call for ethical capitalism VATICAN CITY (CNS): A social and political probnew papal encyclical says lems to be solved. communism's collapse in The ex-communist Eastern Europe highlights countries are a powder the need to build societies keg of frustrated national based on a purified and regional tensions, capitalism and a demo- while massive poverty cracy rooted in ethical and exploitation are still values rather than elec- Third World trademarks, toral expedience. it said.

Western countries "run The developed world the risk of seeing this also has its problem — collapse as a one-sided including inefficient and victory of their own expensive welfare states, economic system, and drug abuse and a form of thereby failing to make atheism which glorified necessary corrections", material well-being and said the encyclical writ- possessions, added the ten by Pope John Paul II. encyclical.

The 114-page text is the The encyclical is a strong reminder that the pope's ninth encyclical.It fall of communist is his third social encycgovernments still leaves a lical and his first major world with a variety of church document since

the Iron Curtain started crumbling in 1989.

It is called "Centesimus Annus", Latin for 'The Hundredth Year". It commemorates the centenary of Pope Leo XIII's landmark encyclical "Rerum Novarum" (on capital and labour), which laid the foundations of modern church social teachings.

"Rerum Novanun" was published May 15, 1891.

The new encyclical gathers in one document previously expressed papal thoughts about the fall of communism, the perils of uncontrolled capitalism and the need to solve pressing Third World problems, such as

mounting foreign debt, Europeans because of which contribute to longstanding "social, regional and national massive poverty.

It asked Western injustices" which connations to help rebuild tinue after the end of Eastern Europe, but not communist rule, it said.

"There is a real danger to export "the affluent or consumer society" that these will re-explode oriented toward exces- after the collapse of sive consumption and dictatorship, provoking uncontrolled by laws serious conflicts and based on the common casualties," it added. good.

The encyclical praised The document criti- the non-violent way in cised "a radical capitalis- which communist rule tic ideology" which was overthrown. It said "blindly entrusts" solu- communist government tion of economic prob- was self-defeating in the lems 'to the free develop- long run because it caused workers to redisment of market forces".

Added to economic cover the church and its problems, "much hatred social doctrine. and ill-will have accumThis came about ulated" among Eastern because of "an ethical

and explicitly Christian reaction against a widespread situation of injustice", it said.

The Church made an important contribution by its "commitment to defend and promote human rights", it said.

But the victory is not complete "because the old forms of totalitarianism and authoritarianism are not yet completely vanished" and "there is a risk that they will regain their strength", it added.

The encyclical favoured democracy based on law and a balance of powers between the executive, legislative and judicial branches.

Such democracies must respect religious and human rights, it added.

"A democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism," said the encyclical.

The document criticised democratic governments which allow abortion because this violates "the right to life".

"Certain demands which arise within society are sometimes not examined in accordance with criteria of justice and morality, but rather on the basis of the electoral or financial power of the groups pomoting them," it said.

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Not getting message across

By Dolores Leckey When peole live together, up close, day after day, friction is to be expected. It is part of the normal give-and-take of family, work and community life.

The issue is not how to avoid conflict so much as how to resolve it, how to live together peacefully and creatively in spite of the inevitable conflicts of intimate life and work.

Communication in families is as much emotional as reasoned. When conflicts erupt, usually they are not confined to the immediate issue.

With adults, question of shared power — who has it, how much it is exercised — often undergird the immediate concern.

With children, questions of parental attention and love, as well as testing the beginnings of personal authority, often are at stake.

But knowing that conflict is normal does not relieve the anxiety it causes. People want and need some practical assistance.

No one wants to live in a highly conflicted situation. So what can be done?

First, it helps to understand that men and women often miscommunicate.

Deborah Tannen, a linguistics professor, has written a book titled "You Just Don't Understand".

It shows how different patterns of socialisation in childhood affect the way men and women communicate. These differences frequently are interpreted as slights or hostile attacks by the other.

One example of crossed communication from the book goes like this:

A couple is driving enroute to a little weekend vacation. She says to him: "Would you like to stop for coffee?" He answers: "No".

She interprets his response as annoyance on his part and lack of desire to visit with her. He thinks he is giving a straightforward answer to a question. The minivacation is off to a rocky start.

Had he answered with a question like: "Would you like to stop?" or with a longer response such as: "I'm concerned about driving at night, so I don't think we should stop," the communication air would have cleared.

Insights like those found in "You Just Don't Understand" can lead adult members of a family to develop more effective ways of talking to one another. But that kind of help takes time. What about now?

What do you do when anger ignites the homefires in ways that are neither cozy nor comforting.

One of the best antidotes to anger is quiet. I'm not talking about heavy, sullen silence but the quiet that allows us to rest awhile.

The Quakers have long and fruitful experience with utilising this most fundamental of human dynmaics.

For Quakers — for all of us — silence can provide both light (guidance) and rest (sabbath).

Then there is the power of human touch. It often heals ordinary conflicts.

Hugging a child who is distraught, holding a spouse who is alienated, shaking the hand of an angry co-worker — these signs of human caring can dispel the confusion of anger and of fear.

Many families also find that holding a family meeting is a good way to air differences that can harden relationships between siblings and between parents and children.

Sitting around the table, maybe before dinner rather than after (since mealtimes can be tense when misunderstanding hovers over them) can

teach il way of reasoned rather than irrational responi, to our everyday family frictions.

Dint r then can be a celebration.

Suci steps for families already represent a form a Christian spirituality. But families also need to (now that prayer for one another builds aPPreotion and readiness for reconcilation.

Pertips most of all, families can benefit from the trip understanding of humility, the practice of hurt le love which is not the same as passive ihdiffeince or fear.

I an eminded of a recent letter to the editor in the New York Times which told of an alterca m that broke out when two men who did not sewach other coming — a man riding a bicyle .hrough Damascus with a basket of orangebalanced on the handlebars, and a porter i cat nroryi eahiaheavy burden of his own — bumped other.

Theiranges scattered and the men shouted insultsit each other; the bicyclist moved toward the poor, fist clenched.

The] a tattered little man came out of the crowcLie took the clenched fist and kissed it. As he did? crowd of onlookers began to murmur its app)val. The porter and the bicyclist then began I relax, and the people began to pick up the ora ges.

Thektter writer remembered that scene as a caring' ct by a man who might have been a Syriankiuslim, a Jew or a Christian. The letter was *ten in the context of the Persian Gulf War. lit I read it as revealing all kinds of recondition.

One family — a single mother with three children — was having a particularly hard time with the only son, a 10year-old. He had become rather abrasive with his mother and sisters.

After several counselling sessions, the boy told his mother it was his job to behave that way as the "man of the house".

The mother looked surprised and asked me where the boy could have picked up that notion.

Isuggested she ask him.

When the mother gently did so, the boy hesitated and then said his grandmother told him after his father's death that he would now be the man of the house.

Not sure what it meant to be an adult male, the 10year-old decided it meant being pushy and demanding.

As mother and son talked, the boy began to cry in relief, discovering he didn't have to be an adult before his time!

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By Father Herb Weber a simple clarification of statements and expectations of one another can dissolve numerous tensions.

be around when stress built at home.

While acknowledging that it is hard to witness one fight after another, The college students I the young women I was work with often tell me working with had to about unresolved family admit that if she hurt tensions. because the whole family she was also a hurt, As students mature and part of a necessary learn communication solution. skills they frequently Seeing that she was part long to return home and try to sort out family of the whole helped diminish her emphasis problems. on blame, a destructive Several guidelines are process. helpful.

Second, family The first is for family members need to accept members to think in what they cannot change terms of family instead of about one another. parents vs children or Conflicts often arise one member opposing from a desire to make all the others. All members members of the family are involved in whatever identical in thinking and stress there is; it is unfair acting, or from an unwiland unhelpful to blame lingness to admit the one person. imperfect characteristic A young woman whose of others. (Frequently, sister continued to tear we label a person's the family apart by her attributes imperfect wild behaviour, includ- when they differ from ing drug use and a our own!) suicide attempt, wanted Thus, the couple that that sister to disappear allows its children to from the family. pursue their own interFurthermore, she found ests without comparison she no longer wanted to or competition is already

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ahead in the process of avoiding conflict.

Finally, it is helpful for families to remember that home is a time and place where mistakes occur. Many good parents inadvertently give children the message that mistakes are unacceptable.

This translates in children's minds to mean they are not acceptable when they make mistakes. And when parents try to help "cm it.t.t" the childrens' behaviour, they sometimes compound the problem by sounding unforgiving.

One student summed it up this way: "Just once,I wanted to know that my parents cared about me not because of good grades or success on the track team, but because of who I am."

An elderly woman once reminded me asIworked with children, "just remember that they are persons too".

Homelife is the occasion where that bit of truth can either best be respected or most easily Practices forgotten. learned in the home will help in conflict resolution everywhere.

"When people live together, up close, day after day, friction is to be expected. It is part of the normal give-and-take of family, work and community life," states Dolores Leckey. She offers suggestions on how families can cope in highly conflicted situations.

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We ped to find the tattered little man, the humb 3erson, within ourselves. For that person can r creative ways to carve out paths of recondition.

Viewing family conflict under microscope I enjoy counselling families because there is so much interaction.

The power of human touch can often heal ordinary conflicts. "Hugging a child who is distraught, holding a spouse who is alienated, shaking the hand of an angry co-worker — these signs of human caring can dispel the confusion of anger and of fear," states Dolores Leckey.

What to do when wills clash Young David did not get along at all with his boss, King Saul. David liked him and tried to do everything to please him, but the king did not return the sentiments or the favours.

The two lived in constant tension and often in violent conflict. It is somewhat strange to speak of a one-sided conflict, but that is what this was. It was Saul who hated and Saul who expressed his hatred.

It should be pointed out

that the king was clearly neurotic.

His insecurity led him to fear David's accompand lishments popularity.

Time and again he made unsubtle attempts on the young man's life — little things like trying to nail him to the wall with his spear.

He always missed, but David could not miss the point.

David tried everthing to resolve the conflict. He could have fought back.

His spectacular victory over the Philistine giant, Goliath, gave him good reason to believe he could stop the king's aggressiveness once and for all. But David did not deem this an acceptable solution.

For one thing, he really liked his enemy, and for another, he respected the king's position as "the Lord's anointed".

He tried talking things out, but that didn't work.

Then he tried mediation through Jonathan,

By Father John CASTELOT the king's son. David and Jonathan were close friends, soud mates.

Jonathan interceded with his father and extracted a promise of peace, but the promise soon was forgotten. So there was nothing for David to do but leave the king's presence.

If the conflict could not be resolved, it could be avoided.

DISCUSSION POINTS What is a good principle to bear in mind when tensions or conflict develop at home?

"Many good parents inadvertently give children the message that mistaketar,e unacceptable," writes Father Herbert Weber. He adds, "this translates in chile" s minds to mean they are not acceptable when they make mistakes".

Selected responses from readers: "I try to see if I'm the problem. I also try to put myself in the other person's shoes." — Danny Pierre-Louis "Sometimes a little space and time can be beneficial . . . agree to meet again in an hour. Return with a gentle reminder . . . that God created us with two ears and one mouth so we can listen twice as much as we speak." — Reita Lauer "When you feel like hitting someone, hug them instead. I try to find a solution that will meet both our needs. With kids I try to find a way to add humour to the situation. It can be a tension breaker that

will help move you on to finding a solution." — Denise Seeger "Love is the best answer to most problems. Even though we (my spouse and I) may have a problem at the moment, I try to remember why I got married — because I love her." — Dick Grayson "If lines of communication are broken, then probably trust is broken. Parents and children must do things to re-establish trust. Keep promises so that trust can be rebuilt, even in little things." — Thomas Corcoran "All things pass with time. They pass more quickly if you detach yourself from the situation, look at your own position honestly, admit when you're wrong and make the adjustments needed to live together." — Lou Tumminaro

Two others in the Bible After that, when his mediation through an path crossed Saul's, acceptable go-between who did not always see David sometimes found and clear demonstra- eye to eye were Peter and himself in a position to tions of good will. Usu- Paul. kill the king, but refused ally one or all these After a conference in approaches will succeed. to do so.

Jerusalem that was a Eventually the two just splendid example of went their separate ways, In the case of David and reasonable dialogue at none of these Saul, David to greatness and approaches succeeded. work to resovlve conSaul to suicide.

But that was because one flicts, the two had a This affair, sad as it is, of the parties. Saul, was a s e r i o u s illustrates how one goes misunderstanding. about resolving conflicts. sick man who didn't manage to control his It was decided at the First, hot-headed retali- emotions.

Jerusalem conference ation — striking back — avoided. be should It was a sad day for that gentiles did-not have Positively, one should David when he heard of to become Jews first before becoming Christry calm communication, Saul's death. tians. Peter had accepted the decision. But almost immediately afterward. his conduct at Antioch seemed to give the It takes a good mix of ferently than you might. opposite impression. qualities to keep homelife But conflicts may Rather than sulk and let humming: laughter, time worsen if they get all his resentment fester, together and work; cele- one's attention. brations and rest; love.

In a negatively unbal- Paul confronted Peter What happens, how- anced atmosphere, it is publicly (Galatians 2:11 ever, when conflict too easy to withdraw 14). We are not told just erupts at home? The from others, to reject. how successful this conconflict — the tension, Then the love that makes frontation was. disagreement, anger — a home unique, special, But it is significant that easily can become the be- seems lacking. even afterward Paul all and end-all of one's So in the face of a consistently referred to attention. A negative problem at home, people Peter by his distinctive atmosphere dominates. need to take care to call nickname, Cephas, Hard work and commit- to mind all the positives "Rock," the name Jesus ment are needed to — to give attention to gave him as an indication resolve problems at what they love and enjoy of his importance in the home. They do indeed about their children, community's foundrequire attention. spouse or aged family ation. m embers.

Often these problems Honest confrontation don't have instant soluStrength coupled with tions: what to do when a love, and a willingness to there may have been, teenager "tests the give as well as take, are accompanied by an waters" over a period of basic when it comes to apparent resolution of time, how to react when beginning the approach the conflict. But sincere anyone — spouse, child to a problem on the respect was not sacrificed in the process.

— makes decisions dif- homefront.

Food for thought

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e became a Australian Martin Gehrmann may have been a German national technically speaking, but when it came to commitment, he proved he was 100 per cent Australian in his allegiance to his mates on board the HMAS Brisbane.

Leading Seaman Gehrmann home safe from the Gulf

It was a moment of decision.

Martin was a Leading Seaman Radar Plotter and Aircraft Controller who'd been in the Royal Australian Navy for nine years and never quite got around to being naturalised although the wheels had been set in motion some time before.

Then when Saddam Hussein took Kuwait and thumbed his nose at the rest of the world, Australia made a commitment to send our naval men to the Persian Gulf.

Unless Martin was naturalised he couldn't go — but it also represented a great chance not to go!

But Martin's not that sort of a fellow and doesn't come from that sort of a family.

He decided that he wasn't going to let his mates down and would sail with them into whatever the future held.

So he was naturalised three days before departure.

Like most of the 350 men on board, it meant leaving his wife and four year old daughter, but Martin had an affinity with the Brisbane and crew with whom he'd spent two three year stints. He'd worked and trained with them and also trained a lot of the younger men.

The men waited around anxiously waiting for their turn to go. The HMAS Darwin and HMAS Adelaide had gone — and then they received their orders.

"It broke the tension and we knew we were away!"

Martin said there was speculation as to whether their role would only be peace keeping such as interception of ships, or whether war would develop.

They undertook solid training for three weeks while the ship was being modernised and the specifics of the training was noted — the realities of simulated fires, casualties, defence, and damage sustained.

The men knew it was no longer any game but they had to get it right because their lives would be at stake.

As for returning home again when they left, they figured they had a 50/50 chance.

"When you kiss your wife goodbye each day at home, there's a fairly good chance you'll be home again that night, but in our case it was different."

On November 19 they left WA and headed for Diego Garcia and on reaching it did more specific training with the HMAS Westralia.

In a week's time they would hit the Gulf and by now training had reached its peak.

"We were now in a state of readiness where we felt we could cope with anything," said Martin.

They sailed into the Gulf of Oman on December 3 and stopped over in Muscat for three days to refuel and stock up with stores.

Back to sea until December 16 and then on to the Persian (Arabian) Gulf.

Their worry about going to the Gulf was the knowledge that the Iranian Silk Worm missile sites were all across the Strait of Hormuz and

were aimed at the allied ships in the Gulf, set to fire on anyone transitting the Strait.

Arriving there they sailed around for two days and headed for Bahrain for Christmas.

"We'd arrived at the first port where there were American small attack sea craft to protect all the ships in the harbour.

"Hostilities were imminent we felt, but we didn't known when."

Christmas in Bahrain "wasn't exactly a barrel of laughs!", joked Martin, "and there wasn't any welcoming committee, only four men who showed up to ensure we received our stores and mail".

With the mail came all the Australian support the naval men needed.

There were "thousands and thousands of letters from family, friends and the people of Australia.

Everyone from war veterans to small children with their drawings, sent mail. Their support was magnificent knowing they were with us all the way."

Seeing Bahrain was a big culture shock, said Martin "with the Arab women, whom you were forbidden to even look at!

— it was an offence, dressed in a black robe from head to toe".

"And there we were just

dying to see a white woman's face!"

Tim Fisher, leader of the National Party visited the men on Christmas day "and our cooks put on the most brilliant dinner with seafood, game and everything you could think of".

Trouble was, said Martin, it was all over by 2pm and there was nothing else to do being where they were and away from home.

After their week's operational deployment, they headed back to the Persian Gulf and met up with the ships in charge of the four American aircraft carriers, the Midway, Theodore Roosevelt, America and Ranger.

The Brisbane's operations room then became the nerve centre of their new assignment which was to monitor their aircraft and ensure they had their correct identification codes at launch and recovery and nobody mistook them for hostile aircraft, and to ensure there were no Iraqi aircraft intermingling with ours.

"We did that until January 17 and then around 8am Perth time we heard the war had started. The Americans were going to launch the first attack."

The general feeling on board was of relief — "it's about time", putting an end to uncertainty and speculation.

In the Brisbane's cafe, "the men were all hyped up in anticipation and wondering whether we'd make it through the day".

"We didn't know whether Hussein would retaliate against the allies in the Gulf. And the war was to be fought from three sides — the Persian Gulf, Red Sea and the Mediterranean.

"There was a huge section of the world fighting against Hussein and we didn't know who would cop the brunt of his retaliation. Or when."

At the end of the first day, said Martin, they'd fired a load of tomahawk missiles into Iraq and the first hundred or so sorties had been flown.

There was much excitement on board the Brisbane because now the men were using all the finely honed skills they'd intensively trained for.

Later on the Brisbane encompassed other duties and towards the end of the war they were given the duty of Tanker King.

This meant that Martin and two other men rotated on six hour watches, supervising the tanking (refuelling) of the fighter aircraft heading for Iraq and then back to the ship.

This method allows mid-air refuelling as far away as 200 miles away from base. "We would be watching on radar and had a choice of two air radars to use, having at times up to five tankers airborne, flying a race track formation of about 15 to 20 miles long".

Their job, said Martin, was to direct the fighters to them and ensure that the right tanker received the right fighter to refuel.

There was a choice of two tankers, the Drogue and the Boom.

The Drogue has a long hose about 150ft long with a funnel at the end of it and the fighter aircraft lines up with his inlet tube and connects the two.

The tanker has thousands of gallons on board, and each day prior to take-off, the fighter pilots are briefed as to the location of the tankers that day.

A good example of the kind of migrants and at sea, and Father Conroy had too many constraints Marie-Luise Gehrmann are with the Mundaring for what they wanted to Otto Martin's parents and parish was right behind do. are in themselves a them and other pari"The children could shioners whose loved success story. only play on a tiny ones were affected.

They have three other children — all daughters, two of whom are married and the youngest of whom attends Sacred Heart school Mundaring.

This group of people constitutes a real family, full of warmth, love, faith and hospitality.

But what I find particlarly appealing about this lovely family, is the way they have integrated into Australia, and have so readily assimilated into our way of life, while still retaining their German uniqueness.

They're a lot of fun to be with, the sort who thoroughly enjoy life and relish their family.

Marie-Luise was one of 14 children in West Germany and Otto was one of four from East Prussia.

With Martin away in He escaped from there the Gulf in the danger zone, they, like all other in 1959 — his family families, experienced the opted to stay — and trauma of the uncer- became further educated tainty the war brought to in West Germany which gave him employment all. within the public service.

Being committed Catholics they prayed They were married in mightily for his welfare 1964, had three children, and that of the other men and decided Germany

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section of lawn outside our flats," said MarieLuise, and so with various other considerations, they decided to emigrate to Australia in January 1971.

They went to Sydney's Villawood Hostel with Irmgard 6, Martin 4, and Marie-Luise (junior) 2.

Fortunately they had friends, the Morleys, whose son they'd met at the Embassy in Cologne who taught English there.

This family met them at the airport and took them to the hostel, but Marie-Luise wasn't impressed with the nissan huts which greeted them! "The weather was hot and humid. We were

all tired out with the travel, and everything seemed so damp and sticky".

Their friends offered them their home but they decided to stay at the hostel and find their own way.

And I guess that's what makes these parents rather special.

Initially that night Marie-Luise wondered what she'd done having come to a new country and not understanding a word and finding no the appeal in accommodation.

So based on the premise that if you're going to be negative — be positive about it! She hid behind the door and drank the bottle of Schnapps they'd picked up at the duty free!

Feeling one whole lot better at that point! —

pations to wine selling Manager since he estabfor a German company lished the company in — Pieroth German 1977 and travels overseas and interstate regularly.

Wines. well and sales He did Otto went out and Once again the family found a job with Goo- increased, so they sug- continued to upgrade dyear which he held for gested he come over to their quality of life five years. Marie-Luise WA and establish their through their own hard got stuck into learning company here. work, and bought five English by having the TV Initially he declined but acres in Sawyers Valley. on all day in order to when they later sugThey had the home of absorb the language, gested it again — he their choice built and it reading came. That was in 1977. meanwhile nestles in the beautiful books in English.

He bought a house for bush — a far cry from After four weeks they his family and they all their flat with its tiny moved out of the nissan travelled over on the allocated grass area, in hut and rented their own Indian Pacific in early Germany. flat as they achieved their 1978. financial independence Marie-Luise also joined Otto showing his char- the company working through Ofto's job. From then on they went from acteristic style made alongside her husband strength to independent things really happen and their son-in-law who with the company and married Marie-Luise jnr. strength. having established it in They moved from the Victoria Park, he then Their eldest daughter flat and rented a house, moved on to West Perth Irmgard married an putting the children in where they are currently Austrian and lives in Catholic schools when marketing German, Austria "but misses Austheir time came.

French and Australian tralia so much," said wines.

Marie-Luise.

Otto Meanwhile He's been their State Marie-Luise jnr is doing decided to switch occuthey got on with the task of finding their way in their typically dynamic manner.

to be in the Gulf war

These pilots ensure their fuel doesn't drop even to half full, so they top up whenever they can.

The recipient aircraft is always behind and slightly below the tanker.

With the Boom aircraft it is a little more tricky because fueling points are behind the cockpit so the pilot can't see.

There's quite an element of danger during the refuelling process because of other aircraft inadvertently flying too close by.

"We had a near miss of 30ft in one instance and another at 100ft. The tanker aircraft doesn't have radar."

During this incident one tanker missed another which was refuelling two fighters simultaneously. The Drogue can do two and the Boom one.

The Boom has its refuelling hose on the main body while the Drogues have their outlets underneath the wings.

The atmospherics are a plus or minus with radar as well. In good clear weather you can see for hundreds of miles with the radar but in bad weather you may be restricted to within a 50 or 60 mile range.

The radar always works to its maximum but it's a matter of the radio wave coming back.

The tankers sourced their fuel from Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.

Having completed this assignment and being commended highly by the Americans for their expertise, while continuing to track aircraft comings and goings from Iraq, their next assignment was escort, which meant going to the top of the Gulf.

This meant going

uncomfortably close to the mines left there from the Iran/Iraq war during 1980 and 1988.

"We were sailing around looking for the ships, ready to protect them if required. And then of course two American ships did hit mines. We were only 50 miles away at the time which was close."

Martin and crew appreciated the danger from the mines "and sleep took on a whole new meaning!" he said.

His sleeping quarters' location meant he was only the thickness of the ship's side from the water "so initially I went to sleep knowing I probably had a 50/50 chance of waking up again. But after a couple of days we got used to it and continued to sail around the northern Gulf for four days, encountering two mines while we were there", said Martin.

"We wanted to put down our divers but this was the Americans' perogative. We watched them blow them up and wondered how many more were out there."

While they were there the supply ships supplied the British and American war ships in the northern Gulf and they then turned south again for the GAG (Central Arabian Gulf).

and in some countries, total prohibition of alcohol or other forms of acceptable social behaviour.

The Dubai Sheraton where they stayed, however, offered some respite because there were many foreign nationals there on business.

While there, Martin received some exciting news when his father Otto rang from Sawyers Valley, telling him of the cease-fire. This was great news for the crew and that day they spent watching the TV, getting all the details.

Back to sea the interception continued, making sure merchant ships were not carrying contraband items or arms, in contravention of the United Nations sanctions. :he Catholic chaplain played an important part in their epic also, said Martin.

Father John Casey from Sydney was the Brisbane's chaplain, not only to Catholics but all denominations.

Martin was enthusiastic about how well he fitted into service life and got on with the crew.

"He never pushed religion or pious platitudes, but merely said we were here to do a job and all in it together."

He made the ship's video for the deployment "We resumed duties "and would mix with all with the American air- of us showing no rank craft carriers, and had preference". now spent 47 days at "He was a terrific man sea." for the job; somebody The crew stopped off at you really appreciated. A Dubai three times during stable person he was their Gulf stint and had whom you could rely on three days restricted for support and understanding of where you R&R It was in any case were at as men."

He played a vital part in restricted because nonMuslims can find it the camaraderie they difficult to recreate in a had on board, said Muslim country with Martin, and really their various restrictions related to service life.

With the cease fire, the next question uppermost in their minds was "When are we going home?".

Camaraderie and Australian mateship were very strong on board ship. "We were our own town. Our own people.

We had the support of Australia and our families, but we relied on each other to get ourselves through. There was this tremendous feeling of mateship we shared," said Martin.

There was still uncertainty however as to what tomorrow would bring and being back at sea now was injected with renewed enthusiasm because unless hostilities re-arose, the final stages were evident.

"We were enthusiastic about our return to Australia — our family and friends and the Australian people who gave us so much support from home."

Each day after that they took as it came, with dates being "tossed around by the government but with nothing definite decided upon".

Interceptions continued with low-key exercises to "keep us on our toes" and then they returned (unbeknown to them) to Dubai for the last time.

It was March 18. The chaplain and medical officer had been sent to Kuwait for the arrival of the diving team for their medicals and any support they needed from the chaplain.

The Australian navy divers were experts — specialists — in shallow water diving and none of the allies had any who could match them, so they were given the job of clearing the sea lanes into Kuwait which Iraq had planted with thousands of bombs to pre-

Australia should have nursing studies at Curtin University and Martin has bought himself a home over here for his wife and daughter.

So looking at them today one can only feel proud of the contribution they have made to this wonderful country.

"It's no good coming to A ustralia and complaining," said Marie-Luise.

"Life is what you make it".

Each one of them said how happy they are that they came here and when they return from overseas they say "Thank God I'm coming home".

They love Australia and are the very best type of migrants Australia could wish for.

There is nothing ghetto minded about them.

They've joined us joyfully and have enriched us as Australia has

enriched them.

Everything they have they worked for. They got themselves up and going within four weeks of their arrival in a new country.

They took nothing from the country and achieve their high living standard they have today through their own hard work and intelligence.

The Gehrmanns didn't come to Australia with the wrong attitude of "what will this country do for me," but used its attributes to build their own homes and lives through its natural richness it had to offer.

Thoroughly into the Australian and parish scene, they have mostly Australian friends, contribute time and interest into their children's school life (having paid for them to go into the

Catholic system), Otto is an acolyte in Mundaring parish and a member of the parish council, and they are the ones who every morning after Mass are there to chat with other parishioners.

They have given a son to the Royal Australian Navy for nine years, have one Australian born daughter and raised their children in the Australian culture with dignity to make them into the delightful young adults they are today.

But I suppose your attitude makes all the difference, because as Otto said . . . "I never considered myself as a migrant. I guess I would if I migrated to somewhere like Pakistan, but certainly not here. We love Australia, with all its glorious space, freedom and way of life. It is our home, and we're very happy here."

vent any rescue of Kuwait taking place after Hussein's take-over of that country.

The Brisbane's crew were then told that day they'd be going home on April 22.

There was much excitement with calls home to Australia to pass the good news on to loved ones, said Martin.

Looking back, Marlin believes the war provided a learning experience for everyone involved; not only the service personnel but also their families. With the technology involved, Martin saw the whole war take on sinister dimensions with the chemical potential attacks and nuclear weapons from Hussein — deadly their and accuracy.

"It was a huge moment of relief for me because we had seen the end of The war, however, also the war — and survived!" proved that our men had But now there was just their Australian compaone real worry left for the triots behind them all the men — whether they way, with their volumes would find "that one of mail and work by such mine!" as we left the Gulf. groups as the Display They got through there Group on the east coast, safely, however, and which sent each man anchored in Singapore to parcels of Vegemite, top up stores and fuel — mineral water from Vic"and have our first real toria, powdered chocoR&R in all that time". late, chips, Australian Martin said the Bris- beer, Australian magabane's men were tre- zines and other goodies. mendous "with not one Upon their return to fracas on board the Australia, our men were whole time". given the welcome they Yet it couldn't have richly deserved, as Gulf been easy — being in one heroes. room with 39 men for That was in Sydney on those months.

April 22. But Martin Sleeping space was didn't wait for it. He took tight with bunks three the first flight he could tiers high, less than a home to Perth and is metre wide, only 190cm overjoyed to be back long and less than a home. metre high from mattress "At first it was a shock to the bunk above.

And the difficulty of to see so much traffic and living with "the little so many people after five things which can be so months shipboard life. abrasive" — the way But what struck me most someone cleans their was the glorious freedom teeth, showers, snores and joy of being with my family. and so on.

But to this terrific "And above all — to bunch that was all have made it safe and superfluous because sound." they're mates through Martin found those and through and accordto be mindmonths ing to Martin "We've and eyeopening forged friendship links "And I also got opening. which will remain for to know God a lot better the rest of our lives". and became closer to In fact he's already Him. looking forward to their reunion planned a cou"Ifound myself wanting ple of years from now. to go to church. Not

becauseIfeltIshould but because I wanted to go.

"I also wonder how people can get caught up with concern over the little things in life. Small time things. The trivial matters which people concern themselves with which are just not important on the grand scale of things."

One might have been scared of dying before the war, said Martin, but being close to the possibility left you with no fear of dying any more.

And the great satisfaction of knowing there is a God. The peace knowing your family was okay and safe.

With the gratitude you felt for your wife and family, knowing they supported you totally.

"You may be with 350 other people on board ship, but no matter what good friends they were, you are still an individual and they can't give you the support which comes from your wife and arents."

Throughout those months too, Martin remembers the positive attitude of him and his mates. "Because with or without a ship, we knew we'd make it back home.

"There was never any doubt in our minds . . ."

And this young man of 24 now knows just where he's going. Martin having spent nine years of navy life, is leaving service life and settling back in Perth this year, joining his father in his wine importing business.

"I've had time to think and now know exactly what I want for my family, where I'm going, and what I'm doing."

And with his certainty of emphasis, he may be young — but I quite believe it!

. . . says Colleen McGuin ess-Howard

Marie-Luise and Otto Gehrmann with daughters Marie-Luise (left) and Rosalie.

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Phone 275 2579 SITUATIONS Your loving children Letty Eirene Home Retreat and Tony.

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May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved and preserved throughout the world now and forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus pray for us. St Jude worker of mirades pray for us. St Jude helper of the hopeless pray for us. This prayer must be said nine times a day for nine days.

Publication must be promised. Thankyou. M A F.

Novena to St Clare. Ask for three favours — one business and two impossible. Say nine W and B Drape-Fitters Holy Spirit, you who solve all Hail Marys for nine clays if supply, install, repair and light all roads so you have faith or not. Pray service windows, bay and that I can attain my goal. You with a lit candle and let it corners. Reliable work. gave me the divine gift to burn to the end. On the forgive and forget all evil ninth day publish this notice.

Phone JIM 445 3657. against me and in all J.B. instances of my life you are Ask Our Lady and St Clare for SITUATIONS with me. I want in this short one business and two imposprayer to thank you for all sible favours. Say nine Hail MASSAGE by a qualified things as I confirm once again Marys for nine days with therapist combined with that I never want to be , candle burning. On ninth reflexology (foot mas- separated from you ever, in day let candle bum out. spite of all material illusions. sage). Helping to relieve I wish to be with you in Publicise this devotion. R.M. tension, back and neck eternal glory. Thank you for A very special Thank You to problems. For more infor- your mercy towards me and Our Lady and St Jude for mation please phone mine. Amen. This prayer prayers answered. I am so grateful, thank you again. must be said for three days C M Loretta 444 7534. after which the favour will be granted. The prayer must be Thanks to St Clare. Say nine THANKS Hail Marys for nine days with published. V.L.S. candle burning. Ask for three Grateful thanks to St Jude, the Grateful thanks to Saint favours, one business, two Sacred Heart and Our Lady Joseph, very powerful inter- impossible. Bum candle to for ongoing favours rceived. cessor for favour received. end and publish on ninth LW day. D.N. Stan Leslie

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from Frank HRUBOS, Greenmount Sir, Because the views of the Holy Father on the common ground between Christianity and Muslims (The Record, April 25) are not a dogma it is quite legitimate to express disagreement.

Muslims believe in one God just as Jews.

Catholics beiieve in the Holy Trinity which is denied by Muslims.

Catholics believe that Christ rose from the dead. Not so Muslims.

They are taught that Christ was never crucified. The Romans crucified a wrong person.

Paul's words: "And if Christ be not risen again, then is our preaching in vain; and your faith is also in vain," are the cornerstone of all our hope and no matter how many conceptions we have in common with Muslims they all fall by the side.

The very clever reason is that Muslims are taught to respect Christ as a great prophet and they acknowledge his virginal conception yet in no instance they tolerate Christians to explain Christ in Muslim countries while Muslims get every liberty to spread

their erroneous teaching in Christian countries.

With non the crucifixion of Christ there is for Muslims a troubling question. After the crucifixion of a wrong man there is no further knowledge on whereabouts of Christ. Would he remain silent and leave in quandary his mother, relatives and disciples as to his fate?

Communism was the greatest enemy of all creeds, one of the antichrist if you like. It has collapsed like the terrible statue in the dreams of King Nebuchodonosor.

Who or what will the

supersede communism as the rising antichrist?

The Church looked for some common ground with Marxism but in vain.

Friendship, yes, with anybody who is willing to r eciprocate. Common ground? Matthew 5:1314: "You are the salt of the earth. . . You are the light of the world. . . ...

We have to keep the salt uncontaminated and the light in full view of all humanity. Looking for common ground we would necessarily contaminate the salt, and the light would become a flickering flame.

Sure Ark of Salvation Mrs Dons MARTYR, A ttadale

Sir, Patrick Harvey states (The Record, April 18) that it is not Catholic teaching that "there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church-. Yet in fact that is the teaching of the Church.

The Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 declared, "There is but one universal Church of the faithful outside which no one at all is saved." The same doctrine was proclaimed by the Council of Florence (1438-45), Pope Boniface VIII and Pius IX,

and by the Holy Office in 1949 in the case of Fr Leonard Feeney, SJ to which Mr Harvey makes ambiguous reference.

However, this teaching must be understood as the Church understands it. As Pope Pius IX stated, "By faith it is to be firmly held that outside the Apostolic Roman Church none can achieve salvation. This is the only ark of salvation. He who does not enter into it will perish in the flood.

Nevertheless equally certain it is to be held that those who suffer from invincible ignorance of

the true religion are not for this reason guilty in the eyes of the Lord."

(Denziger 1647).

For the truly invincibly ignorant, physical baptism into the Church may, in the infinite love and mercy of Almighty God, be replaced by a desire or longing for the true Church, and this implicitly present in all who faithfully and to the best of their ability carry out God's will for them.

Thus, in the words of Lumen Gentium (16), . . those who seek God with a sincere heart may

(note the word is may) achieve eternal salvation." This is the position enunciated in the Feeney case.

In the long run, everyone depends for salvation on the mercy of God and the redemptive love of His Son. But it is no true charity to be merely "tolerant of people with different ideas from our own", as Mr Harvey suggests. We must go further and offer them the absolute truth of the Catholic Church, the mystical body of Christ, and the only sure Ark of Salvation.

Ascension needs a lift

from Paul DONNELLY, Claremont Sir, Celebration of the A scension correctly observed on the 40th day after the Resurrection tended to be in low key of recent years.

Perhaps postponing observance by three days to the Sunday after may restore it to a now distant past glory of celebration of the finale of Christ's life on earth.

But if the liturgically minded seek a hymn related to the Ascension there seems to be but

THANKS ASK Our Lady and St Clare for one business and two impossible favours. Say nine Hail Marys for nine days with candle burning. On ninth day let candle burn out.

Publicise this devotion. W. & M.M. May the Sacred Heart of

Jesus be adored, glorified, loved and preserved throughout the world now and forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus, hear our prayer. St Jude worker of miracles, pray for us. St Jude helper of the hopeless, pray for us. Say this prayer nine times a day. By the eighth day your prayers will be answered. Say it for nine days, it has never been known to fail. Publication must be promised. Thank you St Jude. F.M. Ask Our Lady and St Clare for one business, two impossible favours. Say nine Hail Marys for nine days, pray with a candle lit and let it bum to end on the ninth day. Publish this notice. With thanks V.LS.

one; and it is not commonly found in the many different hymnologies now used in our churches.

Its opening words are.

"New praises be given to Christ newly crowned."

It was written by Mons Ronald Knox who, like Cardinal Newman was an Oxonian convert from Anglicanism.

Its tune is traditional, titled "St Denio" and written probably by yet another Oxonian, Charles Wesley, in the 18th century.

A classical Oxford education may cause the devout to turn to hymn writing: Charles Wesley wrote 5000; Cardinal Newman gave us "Lead Kindly Light".

The Anglican Church is also prolific of hymns.

There are upwards of half a dozen under the Ascensiontide heading in the Book of Common Prayer.

In the new ordered translation of the Feast there is evident room for greater emphasis on its liturgy making sure that

Holy St Jude apostle and Holy St Jude apostle and martyr, great in virtue and martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near kins- rich in miracles, near kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful man of Jesus Christ. faithful intercessor of all who invoke intercessor of all who invoke you. Special patron in time of you. Special patron in time of need. To you I have recourse need. To you I have recourse from the depth of my heart from the depth of my heart and humbly beg you whom and humbly beg you whom God has given great power to God has given great power to come to my assistance. Help come to my assistance. Help me now in my present and me now in my present and urgent need and grant my urgent need and grant my earnest petition, in return I earnest petition, in return I promise to make your name promise to make your name known and cause you to be known and cause you to be invoked. Say three Our invoked. Say three Our Fathers and three Glorias. St Fathers and three Glorias. St Jude pray for all who honour Jude pray for all who honour and invoice your aid. Publica- and invoke your aid. Publication must be promised. This tion must be promised. This novena has never been novena has never been known to fail L M B known to fail B M R Thanks to Our Lady, to the Special thanks to St Clare for Sacred Heart. to St Jude, and favour received. Say nine Hail St Rita di Cascia for favours Marys for nine days with received. Adauge nobis candle burning. Allow can- fidem, Domine. N.H. dle to burn out. Then Ask St Clare for one business publish DH and two impossible favours.

Say nine Hail Marys for nine Special thanks to Jesus and days with candle burning, on Our Lady thro St Clare for ninth day let candle bum out. intentions granted. Keep Thank you St Glare for watch over me and my answering my prayers. Pubfamily. Thelma. kb this devotion. M.G.C.

the Ascension story of Acts 1 comes over strong and clear as well as the majesty of the ascended Christ in the glory of the Trinity of Ephesians 1:1723.

Those seeking the Mons Knox hymn will find it in 'The Living Parish Hymnal". This latter, in its most recent edition, offers an outstandingly good selection of hymns both Catholic and eumenical. It is also more conveniently sized than many more weighty manuals.

OBITUARY Sister Jerome Lynagh who died at St John of God villa, Subiaco on Friday, April 26 came to Australia in May 1924 accompanied by forty sisters to join the order of St John of God. Sister Jerome was in Wexford six months prior to coming to Australia and she and five more sisters received the habit of religion there.

She has been to several houses since then — Geraldton, Bunbury, Goulbum, Ballymote in Ireland where she was superior for three years.

After her return to Australia she was provincial superior for six years.

Sister Jerome leaves four sisters, three living in Subiaco: Sisters Osmund, Fergus, Mercedes and Coltilde in Geraldton. Her cousin. Sister Alexis also resides at Subiaca

TOMORROW TODAY with Father Joe Parkinson

Mt Lawley and Bedford Antioch communities combined for a weekend on April 26-28.

Among 45 on the Applecross weekend were the core of a new Antioch community in Lesmurdie-Kalamund.

Hills set to revive?

Among nearly eighty young people taking part in Antioch weekends on April 26-28 were fifteen teenagers from Lesmurdie and Kalamunda parishes, where Antioch seems set for revival after a break of several years.

Sharing during the Applecross weekend are (L-R) Sara Thorpe, Nikki Stanley, Mike Smith, Siobhan Runge, Jane Daniel and Rachel Galvin.

Over forty young people attended a typically lively weekend at Applecross, including the core of the new Lesmurdie community.

Nearly forty more made the weekend at Bedford, where the Mt Law;ey and Bedford communities combined for the occasion.

In both parishes, parish priests commented that the talks given by the Antiochers were of an unusually high standard — a good sign for the future.

Next week — news and pictures of the Youth Rally last weekend.

All Antioch Communities!

1 991 F LAME W EEKEND July 20-21 at La Salle College Viveash Details will be posted soon The Redemptorist Lay Community present the

BODY AND PRAYER WORKSHOP May 25-26, 1991 at St Denis Primary School Joondanna (not live-in) A weekend workshop on body awareness,

relaxation and meditation, mime as prayer.

Ties were 'in' for Bedford-Mt tawley leaders Chris Hann and Natalie Zagar.

Jason Duff and Cassandra Neale led the big Applecross weekend.

Catholic Youth Formation Centre

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

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

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

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Wendy Schokker (left) who has been parent couple along with husband John for the last two years of Mundaring's Luke 18 makes way for the new group leaders at Luke 18's second birthday party held in Stoneville.

Gemma Riddell and John Evans tell her on behalf of the other Lukers, how sadly she and John will be missed but thank her for all the great times they've given them.

,.714 .The Record, May 9, 1991

Blessings of Motherhood

by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

"God gave unto woman the blessed crown of motherhood ...

"And with it the capacity to love infinitely, the children He entrusted in her care."

I travelled the world When I see their actions, many times and I see Him at work. exprienced its delights And regardless of both within my beautiful whether they'll end up Australia and far afield. like me or not — that And met many people really doesn't matter. In from different lands and fact I hope they don't. saw what the world had to Because they represent offer. perfection. Mirroring But then I later in life God's life. found my ultimate joy in And my prayer for them my children. God, in is that they will keep what giving me four magnifithey have — their youthcent children, placed the ful innocence, vigour, crown of motherhood on charm, uncorruptedness, my head and adorned it sweetness, light, joy, with four jewels, so vitality, God's sanctity and marvellous to behold. purity of mind, body and I had previously, and soul. then, enjoyed the special I hope that if they meet gifts, loves and joy of my the bums along the way mother's motherhood. that I've met — whether Being her daughter was in a workplace or elsea jewel beyond price. where — they will keep Because she was the best what they have and God had to offer. She had merely distance themno equivalent. No comselves from the abrasiveparison. She was the ness and sheer nastiness ultimate. of some of their fellow Then when my firstborn men. Who never made it came — I lost my darling — and can't quite forgive mother, the greatest God those who did. had created.

I ask God to keep them And then I found myself the way they are because 'alone' if you will, with my in them I see the hope for little daughter. When my the future. second was due — I lost Salvation of man. Upliftmy step-father. My ing of the fallen. second was a boy and he, Hope for the rejected if you like, replaced a and dejected. And above wonderful dad. all an inspiration to those So two were gone and who need to climb so far replaced by two. up to get to celestial Then I had my third and heights, to try one hellofourth. falot harder to get there.

Immersed in motherThe climb is really worth hood I discovered joys it when you see what His beyond all expectations. reflection is really like in This God-given task of such children. child rearing HIS children, So to all mothers and was so great, so enormous fathers I would say . . . that with the prospect of love them to bits unceastaking my firstborn home ingly. With all your heart. from hospital I was afraid.

Passionately.

That wee small infant Tell them you can't live brought into my home without them. They are and life (in fact created your everything. 'home') the true meaning That you need them so of life, of absolute fulfilmuch. lment. Of joy and love And then maybe if every beyond comprehension. poor, forgotten and negA child brings with it, its lected kid who's love own love, my darling starved in this world could mother used to say. only get that — then And I found she was maybe the whole messy hopes, They don't see the same is what treading the path and fragrance which the be quite breathtaking in dreams, right. world would be an infiratio of nice guys versus of life does to you. its beauty both spiritually aspirations. world cannot give. nitely better These children created a place.

But all that aside. It bums as you do. and physically. reason for living. For Their doesn't matter because Where the bums You see them in their development being. For growing and through kindy, school, You look at them in awe perfection without wrin- Because they believe — with children you see wouldn't be as undesiredeveloping and continu- primary, secondary and and see perhaps a reflec- kles, grey hair and perhaps in their inno- perfection as God able as they truly are.

And more would mirror ing and blossoming. cence and naivete — that intended man to be. now university and their tion of how you once disillusionment. the As a mother you watch career paths, is an unfold- were. beauty of Almighty all people are nice. When I look at my their precious lives unfold ing too of the magnifiThey don't reflect your "They're all God's children I see God God as it shines so as the petals on a bloom- cence of God's creation.

And experience once sour attitudes born of the children . ." r eflected in His brilliantly in my precious children. ing rosebud. again the burgeoning of bums you've met along perfection.

They, like the rosebud, The infant newly born to youth into full flowering. the way who've done Maybe they're right and When they speak to me

by COLLEEN have their own beauty the finished product, can You remember your their best to 'get you'. we're wrong. But then this I hear God. McGUINESS-HO WA RD

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P & F CONFERENCE "Why Catholic Schooling" is the theme of the Parents and Friends' conference at Sacred Heart College, Sorrento on June 1-2.

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April message from the Blessed Virgin Mary at Medjugorje -Dear children, Today I invite you all to prayer from the heart.

Let each of you find time for prayer so that in so doing you discover God. I do not desire you to talk about prayers but to pray. Let your everyday be filled with prayers of gratitude to God for life and for all that you have. I do not want your life to be filled with words but I want you to glorify God by your actions. I am with you and I am grateful to God for every moment spent with you. Thankyou for having responded to my call.- (April 251991)

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Graham was the founder president of the WA Catholic Deaf Association (now Emmanuel Centre), founder of the Australian Deafness Awareness Week and is a life member of the Speech and Hearing Centre for deaf children, of the former St Mark's college, Bedford (now Chisholm College) and the Osborne Park Agricultural Society.

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14-16 Convention on Mutticulturalisrn 15 Mass for centenary Rerum Nova rum, Mirrabooka, Bishop Healy.

16 Confirmation, Bentley, Mons Keating.

18 Confirmation, Midland, Bishop Healy.

19 Open St Jude's, Motley, Bishop Healy.

Confirmation, New Norcia, Mons McCrann.

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