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Help stop slaughter BISHOPS TOLD TO STEP UP FIGHT AGAINST ABORTION AND EUTHANASIA VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul II urged the world's bishops to step up their fight against abortion and euthanasia, saying the practices amount to a modern day "slaughter of the innocents".

In a strongly worded letter sent to every bishop, the pope blamed a "prevalent death mentality" for blunting Christian consciences.

To counter this trend, he said, bishops must speak out forcefully "at every opportunity" and

make sure Catholic seminaries, schools and hospitals follow Church teaching about respect for human life. The bishops should also support pro-life legislative and political efforts, he said.

The pope's letter, was a follow-up to an extraordinary meeting of the world's cardinal at the Vatican last April. The meeting centred on the rising number of abortions worldwide and the increasing acceptance in some places of euthanasia, or mercy-killing,

The pope said the meeting had revealed a "striking picture" of numerous and violent attacks on human life, especially on the weakest and most defenceless.

No less worrisome, he said, was that "people's moral conscience appears frighteningly confused" and unable to distinguish good from evil, even in such basic matters.

"Laws and civil ordinances not only reflect this confusion but they also contribute to it," the pope said.

"When legislative bodies enact laws that authorise putting innocent people to death and states allow their resources and structures to be used for these crimes, individual consciences, often poorly formed, are all the more easily led into error," he said.

In order to break this "vicious circle", he said, Church leaders must go against the trend and proclaim church teaching "fearlessly, in word and deed, to individuals, peoples and states".

He called on bishops to:

• Make "public declarations at every opportunity" on pro-life issues.

• Contribute to programs that aid the suffering and the dying.

• Exercise particular vigilance over the teaching being given in seminaries, Catholic schools and universities.

• Encourage "scientific reflection and legislative or political initiatives which would counter the prevalent 'death mentality' ".

• Make sure the practices followed in Catholic hospitals and clinics are "fully consonant with the of nature such institutions".

• Support projects that give practical help to women or families experiencing difficulties.

The pope said proclaiming the right to life "from the moment of conception to life's natural end" should be a cornerstone of the Church's "new evangelisation" in society.

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unborn and the dying as modern-day a "oppressed" class of people who need the Church's voice to defend them.

The pope noted that the cardinals had concluded their April meeting by unanimously asking him to write a document, preferably an encyclical, on the inviolability of human life.

The pope did not say whether he would do so. but a Vatican source said the wording of the papal letter indicated that he would.

Identical spiritual paths of Noble twins — Page 7 Directory is launched Perth archdiocese's first e ver comprehensive directory was officially launched on Tuesday by Bishop Healy at a meeting of the Pastoral Planning Team and other advisors.

The 131-page booklet contains a comprehensive listing and description of the administration, services, parishes, clergy and religious orders working in the archdiocese.

Bishop Healy said that although the information was available from other sources, the directory now gathered the facts in one volume and this was a symbol of the spirit of unity and cooperation that should exist in a diocese.

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lion, the director of Pastoral Planning Sister Sonia Wagner said the red cover would remind users of the apostolic the purpose of publication.

From an idea put forward at the Council of Priests and developed by its sub-committee, the directory was passed to the Chancery Office and later to the Pastoral Planning Office where Sandra Brown had the task of culling the material into its final published form.

She said that a directory like this in its first edition would have omissions and inaccuracies and be would these addressed in hopefully what would be annual editions.

Sandra Brown helps Bishop Healy unwrap the first directories.

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Join the party call to Clontarf old boys Helping Mr Whitfield to file the names of old boys of Clontarf is his wife Shirley.

The word is out to all old boys of Clontarf — come, join the party.

And a big, big party it promises to be, too.

Clontarf Old Boys' Association is organising a get-together dinner on September 7 to mark the 90th anniversary of its alma mater.

Healy will celebrate Mass prior to the dinner that evening.

President of the association Maurice Whitfield, one of the main organisers of the function said by the t ime this story appears 280 letters would have been sent out to old boys of Clontarf.

The event will also coincide with Clontarf marking the 50th a nniversary of its chapel and Bishop

He began getting the names and addresses of old boys and sent them letters about four months ago.

More than 40 have responded already.

A useful help was a banner put up outside Clontarf announcing t he reunion. The banner has since been swept away by the wind and a new one will come up shortly.

Mr Whitfield said t he banner alone drew the attention of 50 old boys who contacted the organisers and expressed an interest.

From them, the

organisers were able to get more names and addresses.

So far contact made with some of the old boys has had a snowballing effect with regards to tracing more old boys.

He said an advertisement in a local newspaper drew a satisfying response too. organisers The heard from people least t hey had expected to hear from.

"That's made our effort worthwhile," he said.

'Pot luck' phone calls, however, have not been successful.

The reunion dinner will be catered for 300 people but Mr Whitfield said that he would be sending out more than 400 letters.

This is to make allowances for those who may not respond.

The dinner, he said, will be a wonderful opportunity to catch

Some brothers who resigned from the Order will join the party as "old boys of Clontarf".

Higgins, Duckworth and Cusack (now in New Zealand) to be at the dinner.

Mr Whitfield said he was amazed at the success of Clontarf boys.

"They have blended in with society and made a go of the opportunities presented to them," he said.

The organisers also hope to get other old teachers like Brothers

He said there were some Clontarf old boys who are now acolytes.

up with old friends.

A former pupil who will be present at the reunion dinner is Jesuit Brother Alex McDonald, who works in the eastern states.

TV Mass 20 and going strong In the dark of a winter's morning in Melbourne people rise early to pray.

In the heart of Australia, under the shadow of Uluru, an Aboriginal woman prepares for her day with prayer.

Far in the west of Sydney's metropolitan sprawl a man bedridden for 15 years switches his television set to Channel 10.

By courtesy of an Aussat satellite, the Mass on television reaches out to many thousands of people in Papua New Guinea every Sunday morning.

Thanks to satellites the Mass covers the vast

outback of Australia.

Western

Around the suburbs of Perth the elderly watch recordings of the Mass in association with the communion visits they receive from acolytes and special ministers.

Mass For You At Home is now a national institution and the Christian Television Association of WA, of which the Catholic Church is a member, played a part in that achievement.

On August 1 the TV Mass which offers spiritual support to people from Cairns to Broome will be 20 years old.

It was initiated by the well-known Melbourne

media personality the late Father Michael King who was the first celebrant of the studio Mass.

The title Mass For You At Home was the suggestion of ATV Channel 0.

It quickly became popular amongst the sick, the elderly and isolated who could not attend their Catholic churches.

In February 1986 WA's Christian Television Association with the unique situation of having the Catholic Church as a member negotiated to have the program freighted weekly to Perth for presentation on Channel Nine. It subsequently passed to Channel Ten. The outback of WA

became the beneficiary when the CTA of WA offered the program to the Golden West Network GWN. Catholic Communications in Sydney took up the idea and the program now circulates in much of NSW. The program has had to cope with competition and programming pressures on the networks.

In Melbourne from a very convenient time of 9.30am on Sundays the program has now been shunted back to 6.30arn.

Perth had a 7.30am Sunday showing time and it too has been put back to 6.30am.

The country networks however have the bonus

of a showing on Mondays at 11am.

Video recorders however have made the program accessible and popular.

It is a program that touches people of many faiths because it follows the Sunday readings common to the major Christian denominations and the homilies are relevant to what is being heard in the churches that week.

An added bonus is that the Mass is signed for deaf people. the first television program that has accommodated itself to the deaf and hard of hearing.

In 1971 in Melbourne the TV-Mass began with

a flurry of publicity with letters and cards sent to nursing homes and hospitals and hand delivered to all Housing Commission Estates by members of the Legion of Mary.

Today letters arrive at Catholic communications offices from viewers requesting a printed text of the Mass responses.

Hundreds write, sharing the stories of their lives and often requesting prayer. Answering the mail is an important pastoral job and a natural extension of the mediated relationships developed via television.

In the Melbourne pro-

duction studio the TV Mass is a labour of love for the many people who give their time for sacristy duties, music and reading ministries.

Although there are similar televised Masses in many parts of the world it's unlikely that any Mass is televised weekly to such a large part of the earth, the continent of Australia.

Unofficially it is without doubt the largest "parish" in Australia and perhaps the world.

For further information about Mass For You At Home phone Christian Television Association of WA 450 6696.

Morley gets set for Christcare A group of enthusiastic parishioners have gathered around Parish Priest, Father Greg Burke to prepaie the way for Christcare.

After consultation with the Parish Council, Father Greg invited the Diocesan Outreach team to work together with a hand picked committee to establish Christcare in the Parish.

Allan Lean, chairman of the Parish Council said "this new service in the Parish will allow many people to become involved in helping others by volunteering their own time and skills. Christcare will run alongside other groups already established in the Parish and fill in the gaps which will make our total helping programme much more holistic. We are looking forward to the arrival of Christcare".

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Back Row (left to right) Ed Bracknell, Margaret Box, Bernard Joyce. Seated (left to right) Fr Greg Burke, Allan Lean, Joan Joyce, Josie Pizzolante, Hillary Jacobsen.

Hard times fail to stop our generosity Notwithstanding hard economic times the 1991 Project Compassion total already at $450,065 could well reach last year's all up total of $451,297.

this year's donation:

There are 57 parishes showing an increase on their donations last year.

Other parishes hit by economic difficulties have shown significant decreases in some cases.

"Iconsider that with the present economic difficulties people are undergoing, and also the demands being made on parishioners to finance other activities, that the result is once again a strong and generous statement for the work of Catholic Australian Relief.

"It is also an acknowledgement of our own abundant blessings and a recognition of really how well off most of us are in comparison with the world at large.

Australian Perth Catholic Relief director Margaret C,ollopy says of

"In addition to the amount contributed to Project Compassion, we

Schools and individuals who have sent their directly donations account for $35,651 of this year's total so far.

have also received in $70,000 of excess towards emergencies re the Kurds, Africa and Bangladesh."

Large parish donations continue to come from Applecross, ($23,450) with Cathedral, Rockingham and North Beach all topping $14,000.

Whitfords, Highgate, Willetton and Kalgoorlie pass the $10,000 mark, with Bassendean and Riverton close behind them.

Four parishes. Nedlands, Marietta, Doubleview and Greenwood. surpassed $8000 with Osborne Park and Bateman capping $7000.

The contributors 1991 1990 PARISHES $14,683* ($13,297) Cathedral 23,450 (25,335) Applecross (6,152) 6,570* Armadale 3,725* (3,000) Attadale 3,900 (4,000) Balcatta (2,883) 3,677* Ballajura (8,350) 9,413* I3assendean 7,461* (5,366) Bateman (1,877) Bayswater (2,001) 1,827 Beaconsfield (11,500) 6,000 Bedford/Inglewood (2,483) 2,196 Belmont/Redcliffe 2,810 (3,685) Bentley 11,128* (10,161) Brentwood/Willetton (810) 1,000* Carilla (3240) 3,996* Carlisle 2,600* (2,100) City Beach!Wembley Downs 4,172* (2,625) Claremont (3,122) 3,166* Cloverdale 6,444 (6,821) Como/Kensington (3,600) 6,289 Cottesloe (7,037) 8,263* Dianella 8,343* (7,294) Doubleview 1,782* (1,632) East Cannington 2,259 (2,449) Fast Fremantle 3,462* (2,800) East Victoria Park 2,051* (1,725) Embleton 5,400 (5,420) Floreat Park 2,117 (3,463) Fremantle (5,000) 6,000* Girrawheen (1,941) 3,241* Glendalough (3,598) 3,562 Gosnells (6,138) 6,393* Greenmount 8,120 (8,680) Greenwood 522* (428) Guildford 920 (1,073) Hamilton Hill 11,872* (11,598) Highgate 4,262* (4,043) Hilton Park 1,518* (1,274) Innaloo (2,679) 3,266* Joondanna (2,901) 3,107* Kalamunda 3,129* (2,846) Karrinyup (1,606) Kelm.scott Kenwick (5,640) 1,194* (1,033) Kingsley (2,231) 1,368 Kwinana 4,182* (3,90)) Leederville 3,285* (2,635) Lesmurdie 2,240* (1,763) Lockridge 4,546* (4,216) Lynwood \taddington 1,408 (1,614)

ACC to get a lift

The Australian Council of Churches believes that the chief thing wrong with it is that it is not sufficiently representative of the churches.

Even its member churches do not raise for discussion in the ecumenical arena many of the issues that are important to them. And other churches are not yet willing to bring their contribution in to a national ecumenical body.

So in 1988 the ACC extended a broad invitation to other churches to talk with it about the sort of national ecumenical body which could be more representative.

The Lutheran Church and the Roman Catholic Church responded positively, and a joint working party was set up to look at the possibilities.

From May to November 1991 their proposals will be discussed around A ustralia.

Bishop Heather . . . will visit WA this year.

Responses will help them as they set about drafting a detailed constitution which they hope to present to the respective bodies in the middle of next year.

Bishop Bede Heather, the Roman Catholic coChairman of the Working Party, will be in WA later this year to help us discuss the proposals.

He will be addressing meetings in Perth. (Aug 31), Bunbury. (Sept 1), and Geraldton. (Sept 2).

Meanwhile, a very stimulating set of discussion papers on issues facing Australian churches today have been put together by the Church and Society Commission of the Australian.Council of Churches.

"Crosstalk" is published by the Australian Council of Churches and is available for $13.50 (plus postage) from the Conference of Churches of WA. 10 Pier Street, Perth.

Christians and their duty

The Australian Catholic Social Justice Council has made Christians and their Duty towards Nature, No 7 in its series of Occasional Papers.

The paper. which was produced by the Bishops' Committee for Justice, Development and Peace,

has as its purpose: "To invite all Christians, Catholics in particular, to reflect on the truth that their responsibility within creation and their duty towards nature and the Creator are an essential part of their faith".

In the recent Social

Encyclical Centesimus Annus, Pope John Paul H reminded us that in its use of and care for the environment, humanity today must be conscious of its duties and obligations toward future generations.

can make arbitrary use of the earth subjecting it without restraint to their will, as though it did not have its own requisites and a prior God-given purpose. which people can indeed develop but must not betray." (Cente"People think that they simus Annus No 37).

Copies of "Christians and their Duty towards Nature" are available for $2.50 and can be obtained from: Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, 19 MacKenzie Street, North Sydney NSW 2060.

Ph (02) 956 5811, Fax

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ASIA FOCUS Hong Kong

Asylum-seekers face cruelty Fresh boatloads of Vietnamese are coming to Hong Kong.

Officially, 10,786 Vietnamese landed in the territory from January 1 and June 13 this year. This is more than four times the arrivals figure for the same period last year and well exceeds the 6,598 who came during all of 1990.

The renewed influx is stretching the territory's capacity to cope and is generating a crisis that includes calls to revoke Hong Kong's policy of granting first asylum to all who reach its shores.

Hopes for some solution were raised on June 6 when the United States agreed to the non-voluntary return of "boat-people" to Vietnam-based holding camps to be run by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Provincial officials on Vietnam's northern coast reportedly have examined a site on a sparsely-inhabited island to be used to hold many of the more than 53,000 Vietnamese viewed as "illegal immigrants" in Hong Kong. (Another group of over 6,200 are "refugees", who await resettlement in a third country.)

While such holding camps in Vietnam may relieve Hong Kong's burdens, they will do little to ease the lives of those who have forsaken their home country to find a better future for themselves and their children.

Like detainees in Hong Kong, they may have to spend years surviving cramped, often unhygienic conditions.

And as in many Hong Kong centres, within which only a few paid jobs are available, they would not be allowed to seek jobs outside.

• In the past two years, says a Hong Kong Standard report, 4,545 babies have been born to women in Hong Kong's refugee camps and detention centres.

According to Refugee Concern Hong Kong (RCHK) Hong Kong detention centres hold at least 7,060 children aged 1-5, and 9,293 others aged 6-17. More than 2,500 of these youngsters are "unaccompanied minors-, children under the age of 16 who have left Vietnam without their parents.

While governments discuss policies and refine plans, these kids must endure childhood years warped by the cruel and unnatural environs of detention centres or holding camps.

On June 13, RCHK released findings of a ninemonth study on how such detention affects children and their families.

Long-term incarceration in detention centres, RCHK says, was seriously scarring the more than 15,000 Vietnamese children psychologically, physically and emotionally.

Suzy Comerford, RCHK co-chairperson, told a press conference that the all-round development of the children was being hampered, thus violating the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Sadako Ogata of Japan, has commented: "There is a clear correlation between refugee problems and development. It is no coincidence that the largest refugee populations are to be found in the poorest parts of the world."

The world's refugee problems cannot be solved without a more equitable world order. Fairer and more realistic development aid is demanded.

This requires committed initiatives to help poor people lay the foundation for and build a better, more secure future for themselves and their children.

If individual Christians, Church groups and non-government organisations ever had a cause worthy of their efforts, this is it.

If they fail to pressure governments into action that ensures the rights of helpless children in detention camps, how can they justify their existence?

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Modern war always immoral ... says influential Jesuit magazine

ROME, (CNS): The destructive force of c onventional and nuclear weapons make the "just war" theory outdated, and Christianity must now stress that "modern war is always immoral," said an influential Jesuit magazine often close to Vatican views.

Another previous theological justification, a "holy war" to defend the faith, also is no longer applicable, said an editorial in La Civilta Catto

The 4,000-word editorial cited the Persian Gulf War as an example of the destructive power of modern weapons and said it shows how modern wars are "irrational" creating more problems than they solve.

"Besides being immoral. war today is useless and dangerous," said the editorial.

The only exception to a total moral ban on war is strict self-defence against an act of aggression, it said.

The editorial quoted recent popes and said that the 20th century has seen "a growth of Christian conscience about the absolute immorality of war".

"It has been expressed in the absolute condemnation of war and, therefore, in the outdating of the old questions of the 'just war' and the 'holy war' to defend the faith," it said.

The editorial added that the "just war" theory, a strict criteria used for centuries to judge a war's morality, has only been a rule-of-thumb formulated by theologians, "but never became 'official', never, therefore, sanctioned by the church's teaching authority".

Among the criteria of the "just war" is that the

war must be fought for a just cause, civilians are not to be deliberately targeted and the war cannot cause more injustices than it is meant to rectify.

The editorial criticised the "just war" concept because "this theory starts from the presupposition that the war is not in itself always immoral".

"These conditions of a 'just war' were and are unattainable," it said.

"With the only exception of a war of pure defence in the presence of an aggression that is taking place, one can say that 'just wars' do not exist and there is no 'right to wage war," it added.

The editorial said "responsible sources" estimate that 175,000 Iraqi soldiers and 30,000 Iraqi civilians were killed in the fighting.

"If in fact, the relatively limited damages of past wars could have been justified by some as lesser evils, this can no longer be done," the editorial said.

"The liberation of Kuwait cost the destruction of a country and the death of hundreds of thousands of people," it said.

Other problems caused

"Modern war brings with it the unleashing of a violence which, because of the use of modern arms, is without limit," it said.

"This is valid even if only so-called conventional weapons are used because, as was seen in the Gulf war, these have attained, thanks to technological innovations, enormous destructive power," it said.

"It is an illusion to speak of military operations as 'surgical operations," it added.

by the Gulf war, said the editorial, include: • "The massacre of Palestinians in Kuwait."

• "The civil war in Iraq with the massacre of Kurds and Shiites."

• Contamination of large parts of the Persian Gulf.

• The near-total destruction of civilians, economic and industrial life in Iraq.

The role of the church today is to educate for peace, it said.

"There always are peaceful means to resolve conflicts as long as there is the will and patience to use them," it added.

This also means "unmasking" the "ideology of war" which often consists of "juridical and moral covers for the true motives of war, which are predominantly political and economic", it said.

Signing of treaty hailed CAPE TOWN, South A frica (CNS): South Africa's decision to sign the international Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty was welcomed by the head of the southern African bishops' conference as an important move to contain the spread of atomic weapons.

The South African bishops "are glad to this treaty see signed", Bishop Wilfrid Napier said.

"Presuming that South Africa does not have the capability to produce nuclear weapons, this now means that this expertise won't be passed on," he said.

Bishop Napier said the bishops' conferente had not pressed the government to sign the treaty.

"The Vatican has a clear policy on the need to rid the world of nuclear weapons," the bishop said. "The Holy Father has spoken out regularly" on nuclear arms issues "and so

there is no need for bishops' conferences to take individual stands."

The bishops "would like to see the government also refrain from exporting arms," he said. "Some of the arms in Iraq that performed very well against the allies were made in South Africa."

Going 'forward with courage' ROME (CNS): Slovenia must "go forward with courage" on the road to independence, said Slovene Archbishop Alojzij Sustar of Ljubljana.

Turning back is no longer possible, added the most important Catholic leader in Slovenia.

The Slovene hierarchy supports independence from Yugoslavia but wants it to come through

negotiations, "without any form of violence", he said.

"Bishops, priests and believers have supported the efforts to bring independence to Slownia" based on the princiselfpies of determination, freedom and equality, said Archbishop Sustar.

"It is up to the presidency, the government and the parliament to

give a political form to these principles." he added.

"We bishops always have encouraged prayers for peace." he said.

"Besides, we have undertaken protest actions against the occupation" by Yugoslav troops after the June declaration of independence, he said.

'Turning back is not possible, therefore it is

Fighting divisions VATICAN CITY (CNS): The Catholic Church, since its founding, has had to fight internal "tensions and divisions", said Pope John Paul II. "It is part of the human inclination to oppose one another." he said at his weekly general audience.

The apostles were conments "form one inter-

stantly condemning these divisions, he added.

The pope was reflecting on the words of the Apostle's Creed: "I believe in the one, holy, Catholic and apostolic Church."

The oneness of the Church means that its human and divine ele-

locked reality", he said.

"All the particular or local churches must share in this oneness in order to belong to the one church of Christ," said the pope.

Saying that the Church is Catholic means that it is universal and "open to the whole of humanity". he said.

necessary to go forward with courage. even if the road will be long and, in a certain sense, similar to the Way of the Cross," added the archbishop.

Catholic-Orthodox dialogue cannot have a major effect in solving the crisis caused by the declaration of independence, he said.

"The churches alone cannot resolve the crisis, but can provide a contri-

bution." he said.

"Our common commitment" is to avoid allowing "national tensions (to) provoke adversity between the Catholic and Orthodox churches", he said.

Slovenia has a heavily Catholic population, while Serbia, the largest of the six republics forming Yugoslavia, has a mostly Orthodox population.

Pope greets victims of tragic experience VATICAN CITY: At an audience last week the pope greeted Soviet youths who were victims either of the 1986 nuclear explosion in Chernobyl or the 1988 earthquake in Armenia.

"I hope your stay here helps you overcome the consequences of that tragic experience," the pope told the 30 youths from Chernobyl.

After the earthquake, "life, joy and hope have flourished", the pope told the 13 youths from Armenia.

Pope takes a break VATICAN CITY: Pope John Paul headed last week for Les Combes, 15km from Aosta, where he spent 10 days resting, studying and e xploring the surrounding mountains.

This is the third consecutive time that the pope took his vacations in this northeastern Italian alpine region.

In 1987 and 1988 he spent some time at S an Lorenzo del Cadore, in the eastern Alps.

The village is 1000 metres above sea level with only 30 inhabitants. He spent his time taking walks in the surrounding mountains, following routes prepared by local guides.

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The house in which the pope lived, accompanied by his secretary, Mons Dziwisz, professor of Moral Theology, Tadeusz Styczen, and the director of the Press Office to the Holy See, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, is a modest t wo-floor, mountain chalet with breathtaking views over the surrounding countryside.

The pope will be able to see Mont Blanc and Monte Rosa from the window of his room.

Pastoral activities were scheduled during two of these days: in Susa and at the foot of Mount Cervino. The pope also had an informal meeting with the residents of Les Cornbes.

On returning to Rome this week, the Holy Father will move to his summer residence at Castelgandolfo, 30km south of the Italian capital, where he will continue his pastoral work and, as in his custom, will make use of the time working on forthcoming trips and preparing documents.

"It won't be a 'dolce f ar niente' (sweet nothing)," the pope told reporters when he arrived. "I hope to finish the encyclical on morality.

"I don't know the Magyar language and must practise it for my August trip to Hungary," the pope also said. He had even brought some books to study on it he said.

Churches in China go underground HONG KONG (CNS): Chinese religious affairs officials have admitted that most church activity in China is being carried on by underground churches outside their control.

The government and the Communist Party leadership have called for a crackdown on the clandestine religious bodies and have infiltrated agents into the congregations to monitor their activities, said a China observer.

Some members of those churches have been reported missing recently.

The officials estimate that about 70 per cent of church activity is "out of (state) control", the observer said.

The "uncontrolled- activities referred to are activities not affiliated with the government-approved churches, he said.

The government has apparently admitted the situation had gotten out of control largely because government officials were ignorant about religion, the observer said.

The Ministry of State Security uses infiltrators posing as church members

Taiwan's gesture TAIPEI, Taiwan (CNS):— Bishops in Taiwan have unanimously decided that each diocese on the island will contribute one per cent of its annual income to help relieve the Holy See's financial crisis.

In a letter to Taiwan's 290,000 Catholics they reminded the faithful of the pope's care and concern for the Chinese church, especially of those Catholics being persecuted on mainland China.

They spoke of the many sufferings of Catholics persecuted in China and how they persevered in their faith, citing the example of Cardinal Ignatius Kung Pin-mei of Shanghai, now living in the United States, who recently received his red hat from the pope.

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to monitor Catholic and Protestant congregations throughout the country, he added.

The observer said that the issue of controlling religious activity was raised during China's first national religious meeting last December in Beijing.

The officials attending the meeting were asked to strengthen management of religion and initiate stringent measures against underground churches, the observer said.

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In the past few years, the growth of the underground church, especially of the Catholic Church in areas such as Hebei province and Inner Mongolia, has reportedly drawn criticism of the religious affairs bureaucracy from local governments.

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Good people with good standing STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (CNS): Members of a troubled Catholic charismatic community in Steubenville "are good people who are in good standing with the Church", says the diocesan vicar general.

Rumours or reports s uggesting they had turned into a cult are "a grave error and a distor-

tion of the truth", he said.

The Servants of Christ the King charismatic community was investigated by a bishop's committee on leadership abuses and attitudes in the community not in accord with Church teaching and practice.

The bishop's report described the commun-

ity as a group of "faith- lack of compassion in the On the bishop's instrucfilled people" but said community for faltering tions, the community certain abuses that had or former members. also elected new interim developed in the com- At the start of the leaders. munity needed to be investigation the comcorrected. munity disaffiliated with He quoted from Bishop Sword of the Spirit, an Ottenweller's report: "In The report cited exces- international, non- no way do we want to sive leadership control denominational charis- quench the Spirit nor the over members' private matic governing group charism of the communlives, secrecy, some fun- which instituted the ity. But always, the damentalist and elitist questionable leadership Church must discern the Spirit." religious attitudes and a practices.

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Israel lures Christians WASHINGTON (CNS): To counteract decreasing numbers of US Jewish tourists and recover from the virtual collapse of tourism during the Persian Gulf War, the Israel Government Tourist Office has launched an intensive campaign to attract US Christians.

Israel has hired evangelist and singer Pat Boone as spokesman, offered travel junkets to Christian journalists and televangelists and opened an 800 number for travel information featuring Boone.

"I feel closer to the Lord in the land he called home," Boone says in the recorded message and in advertisements.

Tourism from the US to Israel plummeted 87% during the Gulf War. Tourism brings Israel about $1.8 billion per year, equal to around two per cent of the country's gross national product — the value of the annual output of goods and services. Tourist officials had hoped by 1990 to raise the annual tourism rate to two million people, but so far have not broken 1.3 million.

Many younger Jews who were not affected directly by the Holocaust do not feel the same strong urge to travel to Israel that their elders do, a tourist official exlained.

Christian travellers, who comprise about 25 per cent of US tourists to Israel, could easily make up for the loss, and more, in Jewish travellers, said the official who is running a campaign to recruit Christian tourists in her region.

An American rabbi said travellers should visit a kibbutz, which is an Lsraeli communal settlement, meet Soviet and Ethiopian Jews and tour the Holocaust memorial to grasp modern Israel. "(The Israeli government) wants American Christians to see modern Israel with its people, great achievements and its problems," said Rudin, who has led several tours.

A model reconstruction of Herod's Second Temple. it is one of the sites modern-day tourists see in Jerusalem.

Mons Richard Mathes, the Vatican's cultural attache in Jerusalem, said that since the war, tensions in Israel have subsided and there is a general effort to attract foreign visitors.

Even the Palestine Liberation Organisation distributed a pamphlet urging respect for tourists in light of the recent killing of a French tourist, apparently by an Arab attacker, Mons Mathes said.

Mons Mathes said the Israeli government is allowing Christians greater access to holy sites, has dropped plans to remove churches' tax-exempt status and stopped trying to force Israeli tour guides on groups led by Christian leaders.

"At the moment, we don't have any problems," he said.

Rev Don Wagner, a Presbyterian minister who has led six tours to the region, said it is important for Christian travellers to visit the Middle East to understand the issues.

"There is a need for western Christians to be in solidarity with the Palestinian

Christians and with the Muslims, Jews and Christians who stand for peace and justice there," Wagner said.

Wagner said his organisation supports a negotiated settlement by all parties based on United Nations resolutions.

"We say right up front that we will hear a variety of perspectives, including ours, and that they can make up their own minds," Wagner said.

Wagner said travellers who take tours offered by the Israeli government often are not exposed to Arabs or Christians in the country and that sometimes the Israeli government tries to make it difficult for tour operators to show travellers different aspects of the country.

"There are certain things they don't want you to see," Wagner said. "We don't have full access."

Rabbi Rudin said the other side of the story is that Arab tour operators have sometimes failed to show important areas of Israeli history in their tours.

Nigeria sending missionaries to US LAGOS, Nigeria (CNS): The Church in Nigeria is now not only receiving mission aid but sending missionaries to other countries, including the United States, the US director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith has reported after a visit.

Bishop McCormack went to Nigeria for the June ordinations of 13

priests of the Missionary Society of St Paul. an agency of the Nigerian bishops.

Missionary agencies have been established by the bishops of South Korea, India and some Latin American countries and there is a missionary order. Apostles of Jesus, based in Kenya.

Nigeria, Although whose evangelisation began only in the last century, still receives missionaries from other countries, including the United States, the Nigerian bishops started their society to "stimulate the missionary spirit of the Nigerian people", Bishop McCormack said.

He said the Nigerian

bishops pay about a fourth of the cost of their missionary society, and look to Propagation for the remainder. But he said their goal was 100 per cent Nigerian support.

Missionary priests are given a year of pastoral experience in Nigeria before they are sent to other countries.

Romania setback BUCHAREST: A year and a half after the fall of Nicolae Ceausescu, the Catholic Church in Romania has plenty of seminarians but no seminary buildings and conducts its liturgies under the open skies for want of churches.

The active suppression of the Ceausescu years ended with the dictator's December 1989 removal, but almost no improvement in the Romanian Church's condition can be cited since then.

Only five of the 2000 churches confiscated by the communists have been returned so far, according to Mons MesaMS. rector of the seminary of Baia-Mare.

"The government of Romania, in the face of international opinion, declared that they have reinstated the Catholic Church in its rightful position. but we have not been given back our buildings. By law, the Church is free; in fed.

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however, it cannot exercise its freedom," Mons Mesaros said.

The Church has been free to hold public services ever since December 1989, but they have had to be outside, said Mons Tertulian Langa, vicar general of the Diocese of ClujGherla.

"Still, priests sitting in chairs in the public square hear confessions, and the outdoor liturgies average up to 800- com—

municants," he said.

The problem, according to Mons Langa, is that the new government has no motivation to improve the position of the Catholic Church based on internal political considerations, and only international pressure is likely to have an effect.

The 14 ordained last year were sent to work in Botswana, Cameroon, Gambia and Sierra Leone.

The society has also been working in Liberia. but its priests were withdrawn during the Liberian civil war and are still awaiting opportunity to re-enter.

The Nigerian society

had so far sent six missionary priests to work in the United States.

They work in black communities, and under the general oversight of the josephite Fathers, an order specialising in black ministry.

The Nigerian society was established in 1977, and began sending mis-

sionaries in the 1980s.

Their seminary, was started by the St Patrick Missionary Society, known from its Irish base as the Kiltegan Fathers.

Some Nigerians now serve on the faculty, and others are in advanced study abroad preparing to teach. "I expect the whole faculty will be Nigerian in five years," the bishop said.

Pope's plea for peace 50 times over VATICAN CITY: A booklet has just been published containing all SO messages and speeches by Pope John Paul II appealing for peace in the Persian Gulf region.

The speeches cover the period from August 1990. the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq. to March 6. 1991. the end of hostilities.

Besides the pope's 50 speeches. chronologically arranged, the publication also compiles commentaries, known as the "Ada Diuma", and articles on peace which appeared on the third page of the Vatican newspaper during the conflict.

"No 1 the Catholic The Holy Father's Church in Romania is a words still are specially minority; and No 2, it This booklet is the 16th relevant today when does no co-operate with a crypto-communist goy- in a series published by Yugoslavia is on the ornmeut; he said. . .1.1945servatort Romano". brink of war..

In the wake of the Gulf war John Paul said: 'The recent conflict in the Middle East has clearly shown that the way of the war does not solve any problems, rather, it kindles hatred, violence and suffering.

"What can solve the problems of mankind is the way of peace, walking together and facing human crises in a spirit of dialogue and

Identical spiritua pathways of the Noble twins Which twin . . ? That's Father Bruce Noble (left) and his identical twin, Father David Noble ". . . Paths interwoven like plaited rope."

An exclusive by Catholic Leader's Barbara Mead.

Their father always called them Bruceor-David-or-whoever -you-are — Father Bruce and Father David Noble, idential Brisbane-born twins who have served on Wall Street and the Birdsville Track, in Coventry and Houston, and taken Marriage Encounter into 30 countries on five continents.

In Brisbane at the end of a month of homecoming and renewal, Father Bruce, with promptings from Father David, traced the brothers' extraordinary journeying — physical, intellectual and spiritual — from boyhood escapades when only their mother could tell them apart to their chaplaincy today at the giant Texan Medical Centre, Houston.

And from Anglican to Catholic priesthood . . . a move made with "the very kind and generous support of the Anglican community world-wide", Father Bruce said.

They were born to Victor and Elsie Noble in 1937, their father an alderman for Ipswich, with mining and transportation interests, and their grandfather L.J. Harvey, woodcarver, sculptor, potter. They were educated in Brisbane at the Church of England Grammar School (now the Anglican Church Grammar School), the University of Queensland and St Francis Theological College.

In 1963, they were ordained in St John's Cathedral "amid", said Father

Bruce, "our grandfather's wood carvings".

They were posted to Anglican parishes on either side of Brisbane, Camp Hill and Stafford, -and went in fear of accidentally snubbing one another's parishioners walking down Queen Street".

Their paths ever since have been "interwoven like plaited rope", at times continents apart, at times as close as identical twins can be, leading them five years ago to St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, where they were ordained by proxy as diocesan priests for Galveston, Texas.

Several loops in the plait before then, their ways parted when Father Bruce went to Queen's College, Oxford, to study theology and was appointed to Coventry and ". . . meanwhile, back at the Australian ranch, David was working in the outback. We used to call him the Bishop of Birdsville. He was there for five years . . . Birdsville, Innamincka, Cunnamulla, during the worst drought on record. A very itinerant ministry and he loved it".

From the outback, Father David was sent to a Hobart chaplaincy, to New York for study and then appointed associate director of the Trinity Institute on Wall Street.

"Wall Street," said Father Bruce, "is, of course, a fabulously wealthy parish.

It created an institute for training

clergy." The institute studies cultural trends in New York, working out of the belief that, wherever New Yorkers lead, the rest of the world in time will follow.

Highpoi,ver and ecumenical Church think-tanks look at actual and predicted trends identified by the institute and formulate Church-based responses and training for clergy to help them cope with the forecast future.

Thus Father David was "in" at the beginning of Marriage Encounter, which was born in Spain but had its infant growth spurt in the United States. He saw the movement as "coming out of the post-Vatican H Church and out of Cursillo as renewal . . . radically changing lay spirituality". Clearly, Father David saw its implications for the Episcopalian (Anglican) Communion.

It was Father David who largely was responsible for shaping "or, as they say in the States, repackaging" Marriage Encounter for American community consumption, and from the outset that consumption was "phenomenal".

Father Bruce was called from Coventry to join his brother in New York and the two began a 15-year, fivecontinent, jet-lamed odyssey to present 800 Marriage Encounter weekends in cultures as diverse as Papua New Guinea and Japan. On their way, the two came to know well both Anglican and Catholic communities world-wide.

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Catholic look at the realities of divorce In an interview on national radio on August 27, 1989, a Catholic priest talked about the problems that divorce poses for many Catholics.

Hosie. "For this reason alone the book really needed to be written and circulated within the Catholic community," he said.

The book is a result of The response from his years of formal and talk was overwhelming. informal talks with many The interview became individuals and groups the largest selling tape of whose lives have been the ABC's Religious affected by divorce. department for the next It became apparent that 12 months. issues such as annulIt was also the catalyst ments, remarriage and which lead to the publi- the taking of communion cation of a new book and other Church rites quite mis"Catholics, Divorce and were Remarriage — Binding understood. up the Wounds" written A former school by that same priest, teacher, and currently a Father John Hosie. lecturer at a theological "The most interesting college, Father John thing revealed was that Hosie is well known for people did not realise his work of more than 15 among the how much more com- years passionate the Church divorced. really is," said Father He writes with rare

empathy and under- cance to thousands of standing for the prob- people." lems of Catholics facing The strongest message this tragedy. of all in the book is that At the same time he there is life after divorce, gives a precise explana- even for Catholics of the tion of often- strongest beliefs. misunderstood subjects The book will be helpful such as the annulment of to divorced Catholics and marriage, and its impli- their relatives and cations, the situation of friends.

Catholics who have remarried without the To the surprise of many, Church's blessing and divorce among Catholics controversial has reached a rate not other greatly different from the subjects. national average of Current Church teach- between thirty and forty ing is often more com- per cent of marriages. passionate than people realise, as he explains in "We also hope that this newly-released book. Catholic school children will read it and underFather John Hosie says: stand the grief and pain "In the past, there has that divorce can cause. been seriously inade- These problems should quate treatment of these create a determination in issues, which are of them to prepare well for deeply personal signifi- marriage when their

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The author is National Chaplain to Solo Parents of Australia. He was responsible for bringing to Australia The Beidnning Experience weekend program for the widowed and divorced.

Then in 1986 he introduced to this country the outstanding program for children of single parent homes Rainbows for all God's Children.

"Always and everywhere we were very well received by the Roman Church and its Orders," Father David said. "The elements of human warmth and hospitality — they were a theological virtue par excellence. We found that the Catholic Church can speak the Gospel in the whole range of situations and cultures."

But each made his on personal journey "over years, with free will . . . a lot of dialoguing. . . an understanding of the communal dimensions of the Church" to the Catholic Communion and to their Catholic ordinations which were "a coming home, a return to source", made without loss of the warmth of their Anglican friendships.

Father David and Father Bruce were based in Houston during their 15 years of taking Marriage Encounter "on the road" and were appointed chaplains to its medical centre. Father David heads a 15-priest Catholic chaplaincy to a 1500-bed private hospital — the world's largest — and Father Bruce to the trauma hospital, both within the centres.

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Ordinary peop e and ordinary gifts Occasionally, as our morning commuter train pulls into the station, the conductor will announce our arrival with a witty verse (usually beginning, "roses are red, violets are blue . .") or with some reference to the day itself (eg St Patrick's Day).

His effort is always appreciated. I notice my fellow commuters chuckling, smiling, maybe even exchanging a pleasant word or two.

What might have been an ordinary start of another workday has been transformed in a small way. We are grateful for the gift.

Most people tend to look for gifts only in the most exceptional places. the applaud We talented artist, admire the dynamic leader, take pride in children whose intelligence and ability classifies them as gifted".

But how many gifts go unrecognised and

uncelebrated because they appear so ordinary or because we mistake t hem for curious eccentricities?

Try thinking about your parish as a gathering of gifted people.

What probably comes to mind immediately are those who have talents for teaching, public speaking, music, organising or leading prayer.

These are good and necessary gifts for the community's life and work.

But if we concentrate only on them, we miss the ones that are more hidden, but no less valuable.

"Every human being is born with some sort of gift, an inclination or an instinct . . . our birthright competence," says spiritual writer Parker Palmer.

We are most aware of those gifts we've developed into skilLs. But what about our native, instinctive traits? These, too, are gifts.

By H. Richard McCord Jr. For example, some out your more hidden persons can work with gifts. the elderly or the disSomeone has even sugabled without becoming gested recalling what you impatient, abusive or were criticised for when condescending. you were growing up — Some people are natu- especially in school. ral peacemakers, always What was daydreaming able to look beyond then might be the gift of differences to what can reflection now. What was once disruptive playfulunite. ness could now be a gift Others can listen in a which lifts heavily. non-judgmental, healing burdened spirits. manner. And what about "Every faith community those for whom humour is 100 per cent gifted," or hospitality arises so claims Trinitarian spontaneously and is Loughlan Brother shared so readily?

Sofield, who specialises ministerial I don't think anyone is in sufficiently aware of his development. or her gifts. To gain a The problem is we don't better sense of your know how to recognise, giftedness you might ask: call forth, use and supWhat do I enjoy doing? port the variety of gifts What is most life-giving available in all the to me and to others? members of a parish When do I feel most community. myself?

The gift of tragedy is You might pay attention frequently overlooked as to what you do that most a source of strength evokes gratitude from within a community others. You might ask a according to Brother trusted friend to point Sofield.

Everyone has experienced some kind of loss or suffering which can be transformed not only into personal experience of grace, but can also be shared as a gift with others.

Alcoholics Anonymous is an excellent example.

So, too, are parents whose child has died and who then become "compassionate friends" to others living with the same pain.

Support groups for persons who have been divorced, who have lost a job or who have a child with AIDS are other places where hidden gifts can come to light.

It doesn't require an academic degree, a special title or even ordination to use gifts of time, caring and compassion in faithful service.

The Second Vatican Council was emphatic.

"From the reception of these charisrns or gifts, including those which are less dramatic, there arises for each believer the right and duty to use

them in the Church and the world for the good of humankind and for the upbuilding of the Church." (Decree on the Apostolate of the laity, No 3) Today in our Church there is a gradual but definite shift away from a view of the parish as an institution which delivers specialised services to a view of the parish as a community in which members serve one another.

The theological basis for it is the recognition that all the baptised are called to participate in Christ's saving mission through the Church.

If everyone is called, then everyone is gifted for some kind of ministry or service.

At Pentecost we joyfull received the gift of God's Holy Spirit. Now we're into a stretch of the Church year known as "ordinary time". What better time to recognise and share our ordinary gifts in new ways?

P1. Richard McCord Jr draws attention to the gifts of ordinary people which he notes "go unrecognised and uncelebrated because they appear so ordinary".

Which of them is gifted?

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By Jane Wolford Hughes

Vint is a truly gifted person?

Nv daughter Elaine and I gaird a fresh perspective on that quetion during a recent internationlart exposition in New York. tine, herself, is a gifted callusapher. She was exhibiting her vork at Art Expo/New York, viskl by some 100,000 people. first two days of the exiiition were exclusively for traik people — those sophisticate' urban dealers in art who wee not only interested in besty for its own sake, but in bestty to be purchased. repmdited and sold.

Bit on the third day the oenral public came streaming t hSigh the exposition.

O te visitor was a small, modest wor an with a tired face. She apf aciated Elaine's work and ask,' for a catalogue.

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community is an intricate network that functions best when it is its by energised members' gifts.

But are these "natural" gifts? Or is the gift for Similarly, some serving youth or the aged younger adults possess a more than that? natural gift for spending Some may believe that "quality" time among the money — important, no doubt — is the only gift aged. they can give the church.

A key to the Christian But gifts of all kinds are community is found in needed to enhance the the notion of gifts. The community.

Some adults seem to have a natural gift for working with teenagers, while others "lose it" instantly in the company of more than two 16-yearolds.

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There are gifts for teaching or for creating a welcoming atmosphere.

There is the lector's gift of reading well at Mass; the gift for giving guidance to others or for raising funds; the gift of a smile and a caring attitude.

It may be that some gifts rarely get labelled as gifts of God at all. But if there is a limit on the number of God's gifts, no one yet knows what that limit is.

The catalogues were reserved for the trades people and private collectors. But then we heard Helen's story.

She was a teacher in an innercity school in New Jersey. As she spoke, her inner beauty was clearly visible.

Helen's mission was to give sixth-grade students precious experiences of beautiful art.

She shook her head as she said: "My students live surrounded by graffiti, dirt, broken bottles and broken lives. It should not be this way. I really believe God meant the gift of beauty for every human being. Ugliness is the dark side of beauty. It is the curse of man's inhumanity to man."

Helen's hope was that fine art would enter the students' consciousness like an underground stream — fresh, sparkling, refreshing — to become a lifetime source of comfort and joy.

Her story was one of stubborn

persistence rubbing away any resistance the students had to her introduction of art into their young world.

Helen's voice became more animated as she related her recent success.

"Iproposed to the class that we hire a bus and visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. We enthusiastically discussed the project.

"Realistically, our biggest obstacle was financing. The students volunteered to get family recipes and publish a cookbook," she said.

"The students showed remarkable ingenuity. They 'owned' the project; they made the money; they paid for the bus and the box lunches," Helen explained.

She added: "At the museum, the students — in the presence of the original pieces of art — stood absorbed by what they saw. Even

I was surprised by their quiet,

almost reverential awe."

And on the bus returning home they talked over what they had seen.

They were happy about their experience at the museum.

Of course, "several students said 'yeah, yeah' when Tony commented that most of the artists had been poor 'like us'.

We gave Helen the catalogue with the promise of sending her more examples of art we have in our collections. We wanted to become part of her legacy of beauty.

God gives us innumerable gifted, creative persons. All around us at Art/Expo were people recognised as creative, exhibiting their works.

One of the most gifted people we met there, however, was a teacher named Helen.

Jesus' powerful human qualities Like all Christians, the Corinthians were favoured with gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Unfortunately, some small-minded people were using them, not to help the community grow, but to bolster their own egos. They scorned those who had less showy gifts or who seemed to have no gifts at all.

Paul reacted to this behaviour with typical

vigour: "To each individual the manifestation of the Spirit is given for some benefit." (1 Corinthians 12:7) The fact is, all Christians have gifts. talents, and they are as varied as the individuals who possess them. "Indeed. I wish everyone to be as am, but each has a particular gift from God, one of one kind and one of another." (1 Corinthians 7:7)

communities All depend for their wellbeing on the pooling of the talents of all, not just on the outstanding talents of a few.

The scriptures celebrate the everyday contributions of quite "ordinary" people, like the widow of Shunem, whose generous sense of hospitality led her to prepare a little lodging for the prophet Elisha (2 Kings 4:9-10).

He was gifted in his

By Father John way, but she was likeJ. Castelot wise gifted in her way — were both an d would call musical important. :herapy.

The Acts of the Apostles David's extraordinary -,elebrates the quiet feats are extolled, but so alents of a disciple are his homey talents. lamed Tabitha (Dorcas).

King Saul. poor man, was neurotic, given to terrible She was a clever seam;tress, hardly a historyfits of depression. making talent! But "she was completely occupied So David, who played a with good deeds and in mean harp. was called a to administer what we lmsgiving".

And when she died "all the widows came to him (Peter), weeping and showing him the tunics and cloaks that Dorcas had made while she was with them". (Acts 9:36, 39) The Old Testament lavishes praise on the ideal homemaker. She did nothing to turn the tide of history, but she used her ordinary gifts in an extraordinarily efficient way.

She managed her household with considerable skill, showing a strong spirit of enterprise. and at the same time manifesting delicate sensitivity to the needs of her charges (Proverbs 30:10-31).

We are so impressed by Jesus' miracles that we forget the power of his very human qualities.

His influence stemmed from his delicate concern for his fellow human

DISCUSSION POIN beings: his compassion, his little acts of considerateness.

In the account of him raising the daughter of Jairus, one of the most revealing details is his concern that she be given something to eat (Mark 5:43). Not even her parents recognised that the poor kid was famished.

Jesus did, and this tells us even more about him.

In fact, it was through his ordinary humanity that he revealed the Father, through his little acts of concern for those who came to him for help.

The picture of his embracing the little children is etched indelibly in our memories, and it is this ordinary gesture that reveals the Father's embrace of all his children.

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Think of the special gifts of one or two people you know --- gifts that make them signs of God to you.

What are their gifts?

Selected responses from readers: "We just had our first child. We see him as a gift from God to us — a sign of God's creative power working through us." — Matthew Carrico.

"She's always ready to listen and to love. The first thing on her mind is, 'How can I help your' — Mary Stuckart.

"My friend and colleague Gene Kelenski who has been a public school teacher for over 20 years — I see signs of God in Gene when he counsels a student whose parent has just died. I see those same signs when he pats a student on the back who got the 'C' he worked so hard for." — Patti Templeton.

"A willingness to . . . give of themselves when you're in a tough situation." — Jacque Behler The Record, July 18, 1991

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HEAD OF COMMITTEE WRITING THAT PASTORAL LETTER SPEAKS OUT JOLIET, ILL. (CNS): The chairman of the US bishops' committee w riting a pastoral letter on women has said he felt "frustrated" but was "still after hopeful" a Vatican-hosted interna-

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The chairman, Bishop Imesch, said he had anticipated that bishops of other countries attending the consultation would voice concerns similar to those

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"But I have to say with t he exception of bishops from England and Canada, there did not seem to be much awareness of the issues we discussed in the pastoral letter," he said.

The Max' 28-29 consultation in Rome, requested and hosted by the Vatican, included five curial officials and bishops from 13 nations in addition to six US bishops.

Bishop Imesch said it was apparent that the

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Christopher Budd of Plymouth. England, commented at the consultation that "they were two years behind us. No one else ventured to offer an estimate, but I would guess that some of them would be 20 years behind us".

Bishop Imesch added, however, that before the US bishops began to hold hearings with women to prepare for writing the pastoral "they certainly had no idea of the depth of women's feelings or the number of women who felt as they did, or how women felt on some of these issues".

He said at the consultation there was "general encouragement for what (the US bishops) had done. Several bishops thanked us for undertaking the task", he said.

A third draft of the pastoral goes before the US bishops in November.

Bishop Imesch said Vatican participants at

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experience of women in other nations varied significantly from the experience of US women.

the consultation felt that a pastoral letter should be "authoritative, magisterial teaching".

He said he asked: "Cannot bishops be learners as well as teachers in a document?

Need every question be answered?... Might not some legitimate concerns be expressed without giving an authoritative response?"

Bishop Imesch said there was also concern expressed about the way the proposed pastoral focused on Mary. "I think they want more focus on Mary, as lowly. They felt the document ought not to stress power. but rather reflect on Mary as someone raised up in her lowliness."

He said he pointed out that "it's always easy for people who hold positions of power to talk about how wonderful humility and service are for the people who don't have any power, encouraging them to be patient.

That's what we did to the blacks (in the United States). We kept encouraging them to just be patient. to wait . . . And they got tired of waiting".

Bishop Imesch said he had found that "the word feminist', at least in some Church circles, is interpreted only as radical,

and in a negative, pejorative sense."

In such circles, he said. 'legitimate aspirations of Christian women for rights in the Church" might be considered "feminist".

"Perhaps we can do some good for the Church if we are able to distinguish at least between a Christian feminism and a radical feminism," he said.

As to the suggestion emerging from the consultation that the proposed pastoral letter be downgraded to a pastoral statement, Bishop Imesch said he didn't see much difference.

"My feeling is that a statement from the bishops is a statement from the bishop's, no matter what name you give it," he said.

He said a decision on the format of the document will probably be made at the bishops' national meeting in November. "Rome has given its suggestions, but it will be up to the bishops of the United States to decide what they are going to do," he said.

He noted, however, that there are some US bishops "who will say that Rome's suggestions are really orders and that we should follow them".

Source of red faces

Bishop lmesch said he raised the subject of female altar servers "as a 'non-issue' that had no theological background or logical background, but that had become a test of orthodoxy in our country".

He called the issue a "source of embarrassment for many Roman officials".

"One of them confided to me after the meeting that they, too, were frustrated by the lack of

action on this issue, having presented their conclusions to the Holy Father six months ago," the bishop said.

He said he had asked Archbishop Jaime Pedro Goncarves of Beira, Mozambique, if his nation had female servers and the response was "certainly".

Two blocks from St Peter's Basilica in Rome girls are serving at the altar, noted Bishop lmesch.

Politics: Can it be honest, honourable?

An edited extract of a speech

by Phillip Pendal MLC to the South Perth Uniting Church Men's Group

Misbehaviour or unethical or corrupt behaviour are not exclusive to our generation, but they are acceptable.

What I suspect is exclusive to our generation is the extent to which these acts of misbehaviour are reported (and in some cases "beat up") in the media.

Two generations ago, allegations of the kind we see as commonplace out of the Royal Commission today would not have been front-page news.

Not that they were not news or that they were not spectacular.

have today.

There was a perspective then because the births and deaths actually intervened.

Everything had its place, and the place for news was neither the front page not the intrusiveness of the airways.

In other words misbehaviour was not given the prominence that it's given today.

While our generation is no worse (in the main) than in the past. there are signs that we really do have to act. Because we can't afford to assume that the rot won't set in with our generation.

It goes beyond politics.

The front page of The West Australian a couple of generations ago was actually occupied by the births and deaths and other classified advertisements. There was actually no news on the front page.

Politics, thank goodness, does not go on in isolation from the rest of society. It is society.

If politics seems corrupt, maybe society itself is corrupt.

We had no TV then.

And while we had radio, we certainly did not have hourly news bulletins and updates.

News in those days simply didn't have the breathlessness that it seems to have today, the dramatic quality, the sense of outrage that we

If politics has a lot of self-seekers in it, perhaps it's because society at large has a lot of selfseekers.

If politics seems to reward the smart-alec and suppresses the decent, perhaps its because that's what wider society today does.

Politics actually reflects society, because a lot of other important institutions are in equal strife.

Does the church today preside over, and by its silence, endorse standards and ethics unthinkable only a generation ago?

When for example did you last hear a leading churchman spell out that marriage is for keeps?

When did you last hear a Church run a campaign on the now widelyaccepted practice of people living together without being married.

Not only politics have become driftless and wishy-washy. but the churches have become that way too.

What goes on in politics, and what goes on in the churches, is what generally goes on in society at large.

Tennis was indisputedly a well-disciplined game until a generation of tennis lovers were exposed to the antics of John McEnme.

If politics and religion seem to have let us down and if sport has fared no better, so has the world of business judging by the

rise in so-called white collar crime, and the extent to which business decisions may or may not rely on donations for favours.

If ordinary men and women find comfort by pointing out they're just ordinary, and not a judge, a magistrate, a clergyman, a cabinet minister, or a mayor, or a doctor researcher, can they feel absolved? I doubt it.

Ihear many condemnations about a breakdown in communications by people who've walked out of marriages, or complaints by people who bemoan the childishness of others but who then don't hesitate to act out of spite.

What is it about a society that scorns politics generally but which willingly invites its practitioners always to the top table?

What is it about a society that demands toleration, or even licence, but yearns for stability in the relationships that they can't hold together?

A leading Catholic cardinal told a conference in the Vatican that

small religious sects had that know they made progress in recent personally. years because they were • Political leaders ". . . fuelled by spiritual throughout the ages have famine, weaknesses been lampooned by the within Catholicism . ." cartoonists. It actually and a few other factors. reminds MPs not to take A society is as strong as themselves too seriously. its leaders, spiritual and • Politics can be honest temporal. Ask only a mediocre performance of and honourable — but your community and not by itself. As a former that's precisely what journalist Isuggest therepeople will respond with. fore that the difficulties WA is having right now Conclusions: could not have occurred • Politics can be honest without the compliance and honourable, and in of an admiring media. fact is most of the time.

Journalists and politiexcept that the most honest and the most cians are much alike. . . honourable are then they are quick to seize on usually accused of lack of the perceived weakness of another. charisma.

Politics can be, and is, as • People desperately want to believe that their honest and as honourapolitical leaders are just a ble as the people in it, the bit better than they people who hang around are . . . that they don't it (with donations) and automatically lie or the people who report it. cheat, or act deceitfully, All three reflect the values of society. some or accept pay-offs.

In essence they wish for good some bad.

Politics, like life, decent and honourable behaviour from their involves you and me. Am political leaders — so I, speaking from up here, long as they retain the honest and honourable? right to give them a Are you, down there, whack or two. honest and honourable?

• People disdain politiThe answer is "yes" but cians as a group but that every generation has make an exception for to find its own way of the one (or perhaps two) proving it.

Lord's Prayer hits another high note A Perth priestcomposer's search for an acceptable melody for the Lord's Prayer has taken another step f orward.

For The Lord's Prayer by former Floreat pastor Fr Peter McCudden, sheet music and cassette copies are now available from Zenith Music, Musgroves and Pellegrini and Co or the Catholic Mission Office. kis published ip

with descant, keyboard reduction and chord symbols, SA with descant, keyboard reduction and chord symbols and melody with chord symbols.

Fr McCudden says of his composition: "Ideally, the Lord's Prayer during Mass should be in sung form. However, not being a measured or poetic work, it has rarely been put to music by composers in an appropriate setting for a congregation to sing.

Father McCudden, formerly director of St Mary's Cathedral choir composed this setting for a telecast Mass ten years ago.

"The Gospels record that Jesus taught his disciples to pray in the words of 'Our Father'.

"No other prayer has received such recognition and daily use as it accompanies a Christian through life: at baptism, community worship, private prayer and on the threshold of eternity these sacred words of Jesus relate one to God while effecting respite and challenge," he said.

Written in the folk idiom, with accessible Purchasers of multiple copies of the melody chords for the guitar, and edition receive a compliwithin a comfortable mentary copy of the voice range, it is believed organ accompaniment.

"Consequently in the that an answer has Profits and royalties go Mass it is either spoken, arrived with music that sanctity and to the Catholic missions or when sung, for the has with cassettes at $10, and most part Gregorian grandeur. sheet music at $2.50 chant is used and too Explanatory notes each. .often not used wisely."

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prayer and a model of prayer as its structure indicates: • an address to God couched in familial and loving terms ("Our Father");

• a triple cry for the Christian's human and spiritual needs ("Give us this day our daily bread", "Forgive us our trespasses", "Lead us not into temptation").

• an acclamation of God's being and status ("Who art in heaven");

"No wonder that CAMposers find this prayer a perennial source of • a triple wish for God's inspiration. No wonder union with humans to be that people of good will perfected ("Hallowed be everywhere find in the thy name", `Thy King- Lord's Prayer a model of dom come", "Thy will be reflection and contemdone on earth as it is in plation." added Fr heaven"): .. ,.

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Eating and drinking is hardly a sacrifice!

St Paul says we "are proclaiming the death of the Lord-, the sacrificial death of 'the Lamb of God'. I accept the symbol as provided by the Catholic Church. The altar is appropriate. The rest is mystery.

Neil Smith asks, 'What would have been done about the crumbs scattered about, after twelve men had got up from the table"?

The answer could be as mysterious as the answer to the following question What happened to the precious drops of blood from Gethsemene to Calvary?

heaven as been made so easy for them they were not tested, and so did not earn anything that warranted a reward like heaven I happened to be born on Ascension Thursday, and so feel it is an important day, it happens to be one of the few mathematically determined on which that Jesus did something very special, ie Ascended into Heaven. Another named special day is Holy

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and failed. So will new protestantism, in its private interpretation of scripture.

Your correspondent quoted St Paul (Cor.1 .11 28). I prefer the version which includes the word "unworthily" when referring to the reception of the Body and Blood of The Lord.

Mr Smith has a critical opinion on the Catholic Church's use of altars, his inference being, that the Church has been wrong all these hundreds of years.

I think this is one of the occasions when he is "not totally right" The Church is not symbolising pagan fertility rites as he suggests, by using altars, but altars are certainly symbolic of the sacrificial nature of the Mass It is indeed appropriate to symbolise the Old Covenant sacrifices. Is not Christ the sacrificial Lamb of God?

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Neil Smith further suggests that we ".. . cannot be restricted by the theological theorising of Thomas Aquinas. . " Personally, I will have to be restricted to the 'theological theorising of this great saint of the Church, my intellect and sanctity being immeasurably inferior to that of St Thomas Aquinas

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Sounds to me that he would be safer in sticking with the revelation of mystery 'acting within the Church' and forget 'each v ual ' individual'.

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Ten young people from Doubleview, planning their own Antioch community, took part in South Perth's weekend, My 5-7.

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violent and cruel, especially to anyone who threatened his power. As time went on more and more powerful people in Poland opposed the king for political and religious reasons.

Bishop Stanislaus was one of them. He spoke out against the king's cruelty and unjust policies. At first his words seemed to touch the king's heart.

King Bolislaus seemed repentant and for a time changed. But not for long.

The king soon went back to his old ways. His personal greed and lust for power saddened Bishop Stanislaus. His unjust political policies angered the bishop.

Bishop Stanislaus stood up to the king. He spoke out even more against the king's injustices, greed and cruelty. Angered King Bolislaus accused the bishop of being a traitor and issued death threats against him.

The final break between king and bishop took place when Bolislaus did something that shocked all Poland. The king

kidnapped the beautiful wife of one of his nobles and locked her in his castle. Outraged, the Polish nobles begged the Bishop to condemn the king.

Bishop Stanislaus bravely went to the king and rebuked him. He urged the king to repent.

The king angrily refused.

So the bishop excommunicated Bolislaus.

When the king entered the cathedral for Mass the next Sunday, the bishop stopped the service until the king left.

Bolislaus was furious.

Not long after, on April 11, 1079, while Bishop Stanislaus was celebrating Mass in St Michael's Chapel just outside Cracow, King Bolislaus rushed in and killed him with his own hands.

Stanislaus was hailed as a martyr. Eventually his murder led to the king's overthrow. Bolislaus escaped to Hungary and spent the rest of his life doing penance in a Benedictine abbey.

Bishop Stanislaus is a patron of Poland. His feast is April 11.

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Like Wes, his uncle; gay, rich and worried. Luke, who's hammering down the hatches for World War III. And who could forget Cara Mae — the girl with plenty of secrets and plenty of moods to match.

With people like that around, it's no wonder Billy can't stay a kid for long . . .

Rabble Starkey by Lois Lourry (Lions $6.95).

Parable Ann Starkey's grandniother gave Rabble a biblical name to ward off the trouble in her Ilk. But even Henry 6, The Frights by Terence Blacker and Adrian() Gon (Macmillan Children's Books $6.99).

Going to bed was a problem for Henry As soon

Stanisiaus was an only child. Grateful to God for the gift of a child, Stanislaus' noble and wealthy parents took good care of their son.

They sent him to the best schools in Gniezno, which, back in the 11th century, was the capital of Poland.

They were delighted when Stanislaus told t hem he wanted to become a priest.

A fter his ordination poured his energies into preaching. He soon became the most loved preacher in Cracow.

Many people came to him to hear his sermons and to seek his advice and spiritual direction. His goodness and his wise words helped many live better lives.

In 1072 the pope named Stanislaus bishop of Cracow. As bishop, Stanislaus was in a position of spiritual and political leadership in Poland.

The Polish king at the time was Bolislaus II. People called him "the daring" or "the bold".

He had many fine qualities, but he could be

The world's greatest mysteries cry out for the world's greatest detective.

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A Summer to Die by Loris Lowry (Lions $6. 95).

Having a sister who is blonde and pretty and popular can be tricky if you're like Meg — serious, hardworking, and, well, plain.

But when Molly becomes seriously ill. Meg. no longer jealous, has to face up to something quite different: that Molly is not going to come home from hospital, that Molly is going to die.

Difficult to accept at the best of times, and when Meg has to cope with growing up too, it's the hardest thing she's ever had to do.

Things in Corners by Ruth Park. Published by Viking KestreL ho. $16.99.

It was then that Theo noticed he was not alone in the lift. There was something in the hack corner against the wall. For the first three seconds Theo though it was some weird bundle of yuk that someone had left there.

Then he saw it pulsing slowly . .

What was the sluggish, slowly pulsing thing that Theo could see, in the story Things in Corners? v.'bo was the half-demented man in The Old Yellow Tourer' who lived in the rear-vision mirror of the vintage car?

And why did Wilmet — and the cat and dog — feel there was something queer about Auntie Bev's house in AXliat Kind of lady was Auntie Bev?'.

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Christ Among Us by Anthony Wilhelm (Collins Dove $16.99). The fifth edition of Christ Among Us: With an appendix for use with the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCL4) and now including an expanded index.

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A love of Dylan Thomas and making people laugh has shot Victoria Park actor Elwyn Edwards into the spot light with the one man show, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog which comprises three short stories.

This unusually named co-production with the Swy Theatre Company, comprises three Dylan Thomas short stories performed by Elwyn for a limited nine shows from .July 30 to August 10.

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by the 16 characters he ment value this show • portrays. has to offer," he said.

His highly acclaimed The Welsh-born actor, • performances of Tho- who relocated from Sydmas's Where The Tawe ney to Perth in 1986, has Flows at Artrage last year aspired to this upcoming promted Elwyn to intro- production for many duce further stories, A years.

Visit to Grandpa and "The stories really are E xtraordinary Little very funny, clear and into this decisive with no padCough production. ding,- he said.

He hopes to attract a "You can see he was a diverse range of people of meticulous writer and all ages to the theatre the simplicity of Dylan and is keen to dismiss Thomas himself is any concerns that the exposed. show is for a select Bookings to Perth Conliterary audience only. cert Hall or any BOCS "You don't need to be a outlet on 484 1133. For Dylan Thomas fan to enquiries phone Swy on enjoy the pure entertain- 325 8366 .

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Gilbert and Sullivan A Song to Sing 0, a musical celebration of Gilbert & Sullivan starring Dennis Olsen will open for a strictly limited season at the Playhouse Theatre on July 24 The show is based on the story of George Grossmith, first of the famous G & S comedians, and his somewhat t urbulent association with the most successful of all comic opera collaborators, Gilbert & Sullivan.

Dennis Olsen, one of Australia's finest enter-

tainers is also, undoubtedly the country's best loved interpreter of Gilbert & Sullivan. Song to Sing 0 is a 'tour de force' for Dennis Olsen in which he performs 22 of the most popular of the G & S classics including The Ruler of the Queen's Navee, Tit Willow, The Judge's Song and Taran-ta-ra He also presents a selection of rarely performed songs written

by Grossmith himself.

Written by Australian writer, Melvyn Morrow, the show enjoyed out-

standing success when first produced at the Savoy Theatre in London

by Dame Bridget D'Oyley Carte in 1982 The production is directed by London based Australian director Stuart Maunder whose credits include Romeo & Juliet for the Australian Opera and Don Pasquale for the Victorian State Opera with musica' direction by Dulia de Plater, designs by John Senczuk and lighting by Richard Stuart.

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they follow in the footsteps of Peter and Paul. Others, unable to make a pilgrimage will turn to this book again and again as they too, in spirit, visit these spots which are so dear to the hearts of the faithful everywhere. This is, therefore, a guidebook with a difference. Father Jabusch is clearly in love with Rome, and his enthusiasm comes through as he takes you here and there on a personal guided tour of the Eternal City The trip is further enhanced by prayers. readings, hymns and classical line drawings. A treasure indeed!

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"God is with those who persevere".

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Answers: Alfonso The Wise; Gerald Priestland; Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead); Shirley Williams: The Qur'an.

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An experience of prayer in its different forms.

A guide to growth in personal prayer.

Wednesday, July 31 Wednesday, August 7 5.30pm arrival. Bring a sandwich.

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Conducied by: Fr P. Kearney C.Ss.R. Contact: Jon Broderick. Redemptorist Retreat House 328 6600.

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CHURCH WOMEN The annual Fellowship Day celebrated by Australian Church Women will be held in Perth this year at the new Salvation Army Fortress on July 26 commencing at 10.30am at 333 William St, Northbridge. The theme for the morning is "Praise the Lord with Gladness". The guest speaker — Mrs Major Barbara Wilson and music will be by the Tuesday Singers.

A light luncheon will follow for which a $3 charge will be made. The same service will be held in All Saint's Church, Peebles Rd, Floreat on Thursday, July 18, the guest speaker being Mrs Mary Box Gregson.

The College has limited vacancies for

Current tuition fees for Year 8 students are $240 per term with generous discounts for families.

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f or the 1992 school year. We are a coeducational College catering for students from pre-primary to Year 12. Our primary aim is to create an educational community, centred in Christ, in which peace and love, truth and justice prevail.

Features of the College include: • Strong pastoral and vocational curriculum.

• Specialising in languages, computing, performing and creative/manual arts.

• Special education unit.

• Extensive range of tertiary and non-tertiary subjects for Year 11 & 12 students.

• Alternative Year 11 course incorporating school, work experience and TAFE. • Broad range of extra-curricular activites especially in sporting and cultural fields.

• Easily accessed by all major transport routes.

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Pearl McGill is relieving Catholic chaplain at the University of Western Australia until the beginning of September. Father Adrian Lyons SJ is relieving chaplain at St Thomas More College.

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BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE

Rosary, homily and Benediction will be held on Sunday, July 28 at the Bullsbrook church -Virgin Mary Mother of the Church" at 2pm.

On August 11 Mass at 2pcn followed by procession (weather permitting) to celebrate the Feast of the Assumption.

For further information and bus reservations please ring 444 7565 for Marangaroo, Dianella, Perth, Highgate and Midland bus and 339 4015 for Fremantle bus. The Church is open every day and is available for both parish and private pilgrimages by appointment. (Ring 571 1699). SACRI Assoc Inc PO Box 311 Tuart Hill WA 6060.

ENNEAGRAM Fullness of Life Centre (Inc) presents the Enneagram-Advanced: program for people who have an introductory knowledge of the enneagram. Prayer styles and spirituality of major enneagram types: wings and arrows; and the origins of the enneagram in early childhood through to adulthood on Thursdays 10am-noon, August 1 to September 19 at 28 Holdhurst Way, Morley, presented by Celia Joyce and Stephen Truscott. Applications by ringing 227 6883.

NEWMAN SOCIETY

"Sure Trust in God" is the theme for the day of reflection to be held at St Patrick's church, York, Monday, August 12 commencing 9.30am and concluding with Mass at 2pm.

This is the 6th day of reflection organised by combined country parishes. BYO lunch. Contact (096) 43 1041 or (096) 22 3109.

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PSYCHIATRIC CONCERNS The Catholic Concerns Committee for Psychiatric Issues will have Mass on Sunday, July 28 at 3pm at St Francis Xavier Church, Windsor Street, East Perth, followed by talk "What is pastoral care" by Sister Mary Berry, RSM. Tea and social after. Further information 450 6176.

invites you and your family to hear

CAROL EVERETT former Texas abortion clinic owner talk about

"My Reversal On Life" 8pm Monday, July 29

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L.J. Goody Bioethics Centre Jugan Street, Glendalough — Donation only — Enquiries Richard Egan (09) 451 4497

Day of Enquiry, St Charles' Seminary, Bishop Healy.

Mass, Flame Weekend De La Salle College, Bishop Healy.

Meeting, St Lazarus of Jerusalem, Bishop Healy.

Kalgoorlie debutante ball. Mons McCrann.

Mass, 450th anniversary of birth St Ignatius, Bishop Healy.

Mass for St Alphonsus Day, Bishop Healy.

Confirmation, Mosman Park, Bishop Healy.

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is required to live with people with disabilities in Emmanuel's Christian Community.

Person may have outside employment or be studying through the day.

(Persons only available for weekends will be considered.)

Free board and rent to successful applicant. References required.

Contact Fr Paul or Barbara on 328 9571 for interview.

August 2 Confirmation, Mercedes College, Bishop Healy.

4 Confirmation, Armadale, Bishop Healy.

Confirmation, Mt Lawley, Mons Keating.

Churches Commission on Education service, Fr G. Hokotian.

68.7 Bishops' central commission meeting, Bishop Healy.

9 Confirmation, North Beach, Mons J. Nestor.

10& Confirmation, Leedennlle, Bishop 11 Healy.

11 Confirmation, Gingin-Chittering, Mons Keating.

Mass for Mary Mother of the Church, Bullsbrook, Mons Keating.

Confirmation, Fremantle, Fr C.

TWILIGHT RETREAT

The "Twilight Retreat" is designed particularly for but not exclusively for, the working man and woman.

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Scripture Group, Tuesday, July 23 at 11am. Acts of the Apostles, chap 17-20 (both incl) to be presided over

by Fr Dynon at 13 Dean St, Claremont. Open to all interested.

Contact number 446 7340.

Monday, August 12 pm concluding Thursday, 15 am

Heads of Churches meeting, Bishop Healy.

Opening A ranmore extensions, Bishop Healy.

Wanneroo debutante ball, Mons Keating.

Open new premises for Catholic Care Intellectually Handicapped, Bishop Healy.

Confirmation, Rockingham, Mons Keating.

Mass, procession, Benediction for Our Lady of Assumption, Fr G.

We invite you to come Monday 5.30pm onwards, have some time for quiet personal prayer. Evening meal at 6pm retreat — reflective time until 9pm.

Stay overnight, have Mass and breakfast before going to work. Repeat this programme until Thursday am. Cost $71.

Conducted by: Frs K. Henry & P. Kearney C.Ss.R. Contact: Jan Broderick. Redemptorist Retreat House 328 6600.

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