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Bishop Hickey, administrator of Geraldton, with Bishop Healy, administrator of Perth, making arrangements for the former's installation in Perth on August 27.

...AS BISHOP HICKEY MAKES HIS FAREWELL ROUNDS Leonora saw Bishop Hickey enter the world and it is going to be his last f arewell to his Geraldton diocese as he heads for Perth.

A very busy round of pastoral engagements many planned months ago will turn into a hectic round of farewells to parts of his diocese.

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He will make it to Perth just in time for his installation on Tuesday, August 27, and the next round of engagements that will follow that event.

Bishop Hickey spent this week in Perth attending to many details and then it was off to Carnarvon for confirmation this weekend. And it will be on to Pannawon-

ica, Wickham and Roebourne for the following weekend's visitation and confirmation.

At this stage because of few air connections he will be a passenger in airconditioned buses as he makes his next visitation at Port Hedland.

At Karratha and Dampier he not only confers confirmation

but presides at the official opening of the last stage of St Luke's College.

Next he will head for what he called his "spirit country" when he was appointed Geraldton's bishop seven years ago — Leinster, Laverton and finally his birthplace Leonora.

In between he will have made a last dash

into Geraldton for a farewell there on August 19.

The Perth installation ceremony will be performed by Cardinal Clancy, president of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference.

During Mass, Bishop Hickey will present to the Church diocesan consultors his letter of appointment from

Pope John Paul.

He will take an oath of office and declare his faith in the Church and then be led to sit on the archbishop's chair.

The cathedral will be filled with representatives of all Catholic organisations and parishes plus what other members of the public can be accommodated.

An informal reception will follow at Mercedes College.

On Wednesday the clergy will join their new archbishop in a eucharistic liturgy of readings and prayer followed by a lunch.

On Thursday evening he will meet the religious of the diocese and on Friday he will have a gathering with his extended family.

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Life, gift of St Ignatius is retold...

Put a smile onthe face of Africa

Bishop Healy addressing the Jesuit celebration.

Behind him is the new rector of St Thomas More College Father Tim Quinlan Si.

After years of relentless war, the Australian Catholic Relief has helped by people of Mozambique at last have someproviding five agriculturalists to work thing to smile about. with them, teaching new and more proThe threat of rebel attack has ductive ways to provide for themselves. meant leaving their homes and productive With the goal of self-sufficiency lives for the safety of resettlement villages. within reach, they'll he well-prepared And with it. the indignity of dependence when peace returns once more to on others for shelter, food, water and basic Mozambique. healthcare.

Together with Ethiopia and Faced, with the bleak prospect of Sudan, Mozambique is demonstrating living on handouts, they are striving to how a small investment in new skills fend for themselves. and implements can provide the Thanks to Caritas Nlozambiquc priceless payoff of healthy. and its 'Zimbabwe counterpart. CADEC, productive and happy lives.

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St Ignatius of Loyola had great experiences from God but he was given the gift of communicating them to others, Bishop Healy said last Sunday.

"I thiak of Ignatius as a restive individual, always seeking to travel a little for the sake of the Kingdom."

Bishop Healy was speaking at Mass for the Jesuit community and their friends for the 500th anniversary of the birth of St Ignatius and the 450th year since he founded the Society of Jesus.

Noting that down the centuries the spiritual exercises of St Ignatius had given countless thousands a knowledge of God and an encounter with Christ, he continued: "All of us likewise, if we appreciate our Christian vocation, should have the same goal, the same responsibility.

"We live in a time not unlike that of Ignatius, a time of great at, change and great upheaval and great deprivation.

"Vatican II urged the Church to realise this and urged all of us as Church to associate ourselves with the joys and hopes, the griefs and anxieties of the people of this age especially those who are in any way poor and afflicted.

"The message from the festival of St Ignatius is that we should take heart from the mysticism of St Ignatius. Perhaps we should commit ourselves to finding and recognising Christ within each person and to seeking and working for a world of peace, hope and love in a just society.

"It would be a grave mistake to think that the life of Ignatius was comfortable or idyllic.

"Everybody knows of his physical suffering when as a soldier, he was wounded in battle.

"Perhaps too few of us realise the inner suffering he experienced especially during those months at Manresa.

"In this he was a true disciple of the suffering Christ. As Jesus Himself wept from time to time and as Peter wept so did Ignatius.

Of all the saints in the Church he had the greatest gift of tears.

"These tears were an expression of his mysticism in action.

Most often they occurred when he directed his efforts to the service of others."

Bishop Healy praised the contribution the Jesuits had made to the Church in WA and the variety of work they do in the Church at large.

'Packer bid not in our interest' The MELBOURNE: announcement by businessman Kerry Packer that he is to join forces with Canadian born newspaper magnate, Conrad Black, to bid for the Fairfax newspaper group has been condemned by the publisher of the Jesuit journal Eureka Street, Father Michael Kelly.

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"No one benefits from the concentration of the media in the hands of a few. A pluralist democracy requires a variety of resources and information. Giving such an influential hand to someone who, like everybody else in the market place. has their own interests, cannot be in our interest." Father Kelly said.

The Federal Government has said that it may block the bid using foreign invest-

By Michael Dubois The Catholic Weekly ment legislation. Thirty per cent of the Packer/Black bid will be foreign investment, substantially above the 2025 per cent allowed under government legislation.

Father Kelly said: "We need more diversity, not less. The quality press in Australia, and that includes the Fairfax press. is one of the precious resources for adventurous reporting and intelligent opinion making.

Information and opinions are not commodities like steel or toilet paper.

"There is a qualitative difference between ownership and production of media and any other commercial commodity." he added.

"The public forum is

owned by the public. Therefore, further concentration is in the interests of no-one.

We already have at least 60 per cent and arguably 75 per cent of the Australian press in the hands of one man, Rupert Murdoch. Effectively concentrating the rest in one person's hands is a retrograde step.

"We have moved in a few years from four main players to three and now two. This is a lamentable situation and should concern those who are interested in democracy and diversity of opinion." • Communications Minister Kim Beazley. has agreed with the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal (ABT) that loopholes in the cross-media ownership laws should be tightened to stop the owner of a television licence owning a major newspaper in the same city.

Apostleship of the Sea Sunday Celebration at the Stella Mans Centre in Fremantle sees another badge presentation to seven

Apostleship of the Sea Sunday was celebrated at the Fremantle Stella Mans Centre with another badge presentation ceremony to seven people.

Those receiving badges from Monsignor O'Shea were: Helen Castillo, Alex Castillo, Bernie Kelly, Marilou Kuman, Tony Munro, Marie Raphael,

Eileen Thompson.

Eighteen others received badges in a ceremony a month ago.

Monsignor O'Shea said that the accelerated turn around of ships called for a pastoral response adapted to the needs of the crews.

Overall the centre was well patronised and this patronage and use of the centre by seafarers them-

Tony Munro receiving his badge from Monsignor O'Shea at the Stella Mans Centre in Fremantle.

selves generated the bulk of income to cover the running expenses.

However, Monsignor O'Shea was appreciative of the wider support received from the Apostleship of the Sea special Sunday collections.

O'Shea Monsignor returned to the Fremantle centre at the beginning of this year after

serving a two-year secondment in Rome.

During his absence the centre was served by Fathers Nino Vinciguerra and Frank Delia OFMCap. Attempts to revive the regular Sunday evening socials have so far proved only partially successful, regular hosts and hostesses being in short supply, he said.

The re-establishment of a Legion of Mary praesidium in the near future should prove helpful as in the past.

Local groups are using the centre, the latest being the Filipino community who have Mass and social on the first Saturday of each month.

A YCW group meets Wednesday each evening.

For those thinking of a second marriage Couples contemplating a second marriage ought to seek specific pre-marriage preparation adapted to their situation, the Catholic Solo Parents of Australia Conference was told recently.

Father John Hosie, Marist, who is national chaplain, urged this in light of the fact that one in six of all Australian marriages has at least one partner who has been previously married.

While several dioceses already provide services designed to meet these needs, delegates to the conference faced the challenge, on their

return home, of urging the creation of such programs where these do not already exist, he pointed out.

Addressing a hundred people who attended each of the three days of sessions, Father Hosie suggested among other things that support ought to be given to the proposal of the Family Law Council of Canberra (which advises the Federal Attorney General) that terminology "custody and access", currently used in divorce proceedings, be replaced by "parenting plans", presently favoured in

Great Britain, and in some states of the USA. Such schemes, which have the needs of the children involved as their starting point, seek to explore appropriate parental authority and responsibility, as well as decision making about the family and the resolving of disputes.

Bishop Healy said Mass for the conference held at Santa Maria College and arranged by national president Denise SuttonMattocks, secretary Esther Grogan and treasurer Kevin Burke.

Archbishop Foley was praised for the encour-

agement he had given the association.

Two delegates from NSW, Queensland, Victoria and WA became the new national executive, and elected for 19911992: President Margaret Asplin (Qld), Vice President Denise SuttonMattocks (WA), Secretary Frances Edmond (Vic), and treasurer Joseph Petralia (Qld).

The National Chaplain for twelve months is Fr Adrian Farrally of Brisbane.

The 8th National Catholic Solo Parents of Australia Conference will be held in Brisbane in June 1992.

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The end of the free press?

The announcement by Kerry Packer that he will be joining forces with Canadian born Conrad Black to bid for the Fairfax newspaper group must be of grave concern for anyone who believes in a free press.

Kerry Packer is Australia's richest man, the owner of the Nine television network and Consolidated Press, the largest magazine publishing company in the country.

A lready 60 and perhaps up to 75 percent of Australia's newspapers are owned or controlled by one man — Rupert Murdoch.

Were the Packer bid for Fairfax successful, most of Australia's print media would be in the hands of two men.

Earlier this year, The Independent newspaper published a story claiming that Packer and Murdoch had a secret agreement to divide Australia's print media between them, blocking any future competition with the power of their empires.

If this is true, Packer's bid for Fairfax is a step in that direction.

Australia's interests are not served by allowing greater concentration of the media.

A free press is best achieved by a large number of different owners in competition with each other. Diversity of ownership allows a large range of opinions to be expressed and does not allow one owner to control the dominate values of the press and society.

Jesuit priest and publisher, Father Michael Kelly, said (see page 2) of the Packer bid: "No one benefits from the concentration of the media in the hands of a few. A pluralist democracy requires a variety of resources and information. Giving such an influential hand to someone who, like everybody else in the market place, has his own interests, cannot be in our interest.

"We need more diversity, not less. The quality press in Australia, and that includes the Fairfax press, is one of the precious resources for adventurous reporting and intelligent opinion making. Information and opinions are not commodities like steel or toilet paper."

The media is not like any other industry. It has the potential to set the public agenda, to create or highlight issues and to ignore others. It is the watchdog of government and business.

The Fairfax papers, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, have a long history of investigative journalism combined with little management interference.

Kerry Packer's methods of running his press empire are allegedly more interventionist.

It was a series of articles in his magazine The Bulletin that led to the Fraser Government setting up the Costigan Royal Commission into the Painters and Dockers' Union. It was also The Bulletin which r eversed its position and savaged Costigan after his investigations led him to call Packer before him to answer questions on a film tax minimisation scheme and SP gambling, The Federal Government has already moved to block the Packer/Black bid. Senior Government sources said that the bid will be blocked because it exceeds the Government's foreign investment limits for newspapers. The Minister for Communictions, Mr Kim Beazley, has announced that the government will close loopholes in the Broadcasting and Television Act which stop television station owners controlling major papers in the same city.

The concentration of media in this country has meant that Australia's religious newspapers have been issued with a chellenge — a challenge to cover stories which the major newspapers, through self interest, will not.

Christ called us to be with the poor and the oppressed.

The Catholic Weekly has along and proud history of reporting on injustice, poeverty and oppression in Australia and overseas.

We will not shirk our responsibility.

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Catholic schools target of rebels TOTAL OF 60 GIRLS KIDNAPPED SO FAR

ROME (CNS):— Rebels in northern Uganda have kidnapped more than 60 students at a Catholic girls' school and killed at least 100 civilians during July, according to Comboni missionaries.

At the Sacred Heart Senior School in Gulu, a public girls' school founded and staffed by Comboni nuns, 50 rebels from the Acholi tribe looted a dormitory and kidnapped 44 girls last week.

The same rebel group, which goes under the name Joseph Kony and is one of many factions fighting the Ugandan government, was blamed for a similar raid on nearby St Mary's Girls' School earlier in the month.

Eighteen students were kidnapped in that incident.

An article in the Kampala daily New Vision quoted a girl who escaped as saying the rebels "screen" the girls to choose "wives" for themselves.

Eight policemen were on duty at Sacred Heart School when the attack occurred, but they fled.

The rebel group is an offshoot of the fanatic Holy Spirit rebels, whose fighting style involves stones, sticks, knives, magic and superstition.

The Joseph Kony group is blamed for the deaths of at least 100 Acholi civilians who were either beaten, tortured with knives or had their heads smashed with stones.

Mutilated survivors were brought to the diocese-run Lacor Catholic Hospital. Their lips, nose, ears or breasts had been cut off, he said.

The Acholi rebels are "desperate" and kill fellow tribe members who they believe have been cooperating with the government, says a Comboni priest.

"The civilians are caught in the middle," he said.

Gaps in the Church WASHINGTON: The 25 years that Bishop Perry spent as the first US Black bishop symbolise the gaps between theory and practice in the Church.

Bishop Perry was auxiliary appointed bishop in New Orleans in 1965. He died this month aged 74.

"No one will ever know what he had to endure as the first black bishop." said Archbishop lames P. Lyke of Atlanta. The opposition he would face was symbolised from the start, he added, when "people demonstrated at his ordination, with signs like 'We don't want a nigger bishop—.

"At that time there were no black leaders in the

political world, the government or the church. Bishop Perry took the brunt of the resistance," said Bishop Chairman Rica rd,

bishops committee for Black Catholics.

As Father Perry he Founded in the 1950s the first black parish in Broussard, La, he built a church and school that celebrated black Catholicism.

Above the main entrance to the church he placed a sculpture of the Holy Family with black features — a bold statement of black Catholic identity and culture which, Father LeDoux noted, came "decades before most black Catholic activists and militants were feeling their oats".

In 1958 he became the first black rector of a US seminary.

In 1963, a month after meeting with President John F. Kennedy on strategies for peaceful integration, he became the first black clergyman of any denomination ever to lead the prayer in

opening the US House of Representatives.

In 1964, he was the first black provincial of a religious order in the United States, The Divine Word.

Where he was named a New Orleans auxiliary in 1965, desegregation of Catholic schools three years earlier had touched off a near-revolt among some Catholics. Then-

Archbishop Joseph F. Rummel had been forced to excommunicate three segregationist political leaders.

One Catholic school bombed and was Catholic school registrations in the archdiocese dropped nearly 4000.

The archbishop suspended services when parishioners forbade a black priest to say mass.

When Bishop Perry was ordained a priest in 1944. he was only the 26th black to be ordained in the history of the US church. He joined the

Society of the Divine Word because it was one of a handful of religious orders that would accept a black candidate.

By the time he was ordained a bishop, 164 of

a priest the year Bishop Perry became a bishop.

At his first press conference in New Orleans after his appointment.

Bishop Perry declared, "I am not the Catholic answer to Dr Martin Luther King".

the nation's 59,000 priests were black — 62 of

them Divine Word priests.

Among the 53.000 US priests today, about 350

He said he would "have so many things to do as a Catholic bishop that I personally will not have time to be considered a civil rights leader".

are black. That is still a significant under representation for black

Catholics, who form about three per cent of the US Catholic population.

He was the only black in US bishops heirarchy for six years.

Four more black bishops were added in the 1970s and eight in the '80s, bringing the total to 13 before Bishop Perry's death.

Archbishop Lyke, who earlier this year became the nation's second black archbishop was ordained

"As a person, he was not a public figure," and he refused to take on a role that did not fit his personality, said Archbishop Lyke.

"He was a great pastor, and he fought racism in more quiet, one-on-one ways."

He did speak out on civil rights and racism, but often it was in homilies to black congregations around the country and did not make national headlines.

Church of England says 'no' YORK, England (CNS): The church of England's general synod rejected a motion calling for reforms of the World Council of Churches, but urged its delegate to the council to ask for a "constructive response" to criticisms of its administration and theology.

The synod urged that future restructuring of

the organisation should focus on ecumenism, and supported the development of a "vital and coherent" theology to provide a base for the council's work.

It asked the Church of

England's representative

ha, assembly.

Archdeacon Austin raised the criticisms expressed by Orthodox participants in the WCC's Canberra, Austra-

The Orthodox said they saw an "increasing departure" from the foundation of the council as "a fellowship of churches which confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and Savior according to the Scriptures".

to the council's central committee to urge a constructive response to the charges.

The critics also said they saw the organisation departing from

"biblically based Christian understandings of the Trinitarian God, salvation. the 'good news' of the Gospel itself, human beings as created in the image and likeness of God, and the church".

Purse-snatcher kills nun, then kills himself DETROIT (CNS):— A 68year-old Detroit nun was run down and killed by a fleeing purse-snatcher who later ended his life by hanging himself from the rafters of his garage.

Robert Sewell, 23, was on probation for an assault charge.

Sister Turzak was unloading groceries from her car after doing a morning shopping trip

for her 96-year-old father, for whom she cared after his recent bout with pneumonia.

When she returned to her car, she saw a young man run from it with her

purse. Determined to get her purse back, Sister Turzak jumped in front of the fleeing car and was struck, police said.

The purse was later found with the contents

missing.

Later, before taking his life, Sewell told his girlfriend he had done terribly something wrong and police were after him.

919 million Catholics LATEST STATISTICS SHOW AN INCREASE

VATICAN CITY, (CNS): There are more than 919 million Catholics, 17.5 per cent of the world's population, according to statistics showing that the increase in Catholics has kept pace with the o verall population growth through the 1980s.

The figures for 1989 released by the Vatican's Central Office for Church Statistics show that the 1988 Catholic population was 906 million.

The Catholic population figure includes an estimate of 13 million Catholics in countries under communist rule in 1989 — such as in Eastern Europe, China, Cdnbodia and Laos — where it was impossible to gather reliable data.

Changes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union should result in reliable figures for 1990 from that region.

The figures released showed 42.4 per cent of the Catholic population in Latin America and 31 per cent in Europe.

Europe, however, is decreasing in percentage of Catholics, while Latin America is slowly increasing.

The figures also show a steady decrease in the number of priests and a steady rise in the number of major seminarians and ordinations.

There were 62,670 major seminarians in 1978 and 93,405 in 1989, a 49 per cent increase.

Ordinations rose from 5,765 to 7,686 a 33 per cent increase.

But the increases fell short of offsetting the

drop in priests — resulting from deaths and abandonment of the active ministry. The number of priests dropped four per cent during the same period, from 418,522 to 401,479.

The net result was that the ratio of priests per Catholic went from 1,800 Catholics per priest to 2,258.

Also decreasing from

1978 to 1989 were the

ranks of brothers and women religious. The number of brothers dropped almost 16 per cent, from 74,792 to

Brazil the leader VATICAN CITY (CNS):— Brazil leads the nations of the world in the number of Catholics in its population, but third-ranked Italy has more bishops and four times as many priests, according to Vatican statistics.

The 439 page latest yearbook for the period of Dec 31 1989 cites the five countries w ith the largest Catholic populations as: • Brazil, with 129.6 million Catholics.

• Mexico, 80.5 million.

• Italy, 56.3 million.

• United States, 54.9 million.

• Philippines, 50.8 million.

According to the yearbook, each priest

in Brazil cares for almost 10 times as many Catholics as his counterpart in Italy does.

There are about 13,900 priests in Brazil — one for every Catholics.

9,306 There are more than 59,000 in Italy — one 952 every f or Catholics.

The world average is one priest for every 2,258 Catholics. The yearbook said the United States has one priest for 1,010 Catholics and Canada has one for 991.

In Greenland there is one priest for every 54 Catholics; a separate table in the yearbook shows there is one parish in Greenland and one priest.

There are 54 Cathol-

ics out of a population of 60,000.

No baptisms or C atholic weddings were reported in 1989, nor were there any petitions for marriage annulments granted, denied or even pending.

Italy headed the list of countries with the most bishops with 480, followed by the United States with 418, Brazil with 365 and France with 204.

The yearbook reports 16,603 permanent deacons in the world with 60 per cent, or 9,976 working in North America.

Between 1984 and 1989 the number of globally priests declined by 4,480 to 401,479. The number of ordinations was

Papal invitation VATICAN CITY (CNS):— The Vatican's top ecumenical official Cardinal Cassidy travelled to Moscow in July to give Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexei ll a papal invitation to the special Synod of Bishops on Europe.

Russian Orthodox officials have threatened to

boycott the synod and a pre-synod ecumenical prayer meeting because of the tensions.

The special synod is scheduled for Nov 28 to Dec 14 to discuss Christianity's role in fostering European unity after the political changes which have seen communist

'Be active in politics' KOTA KINABALU, Malaysia: A Jesuit priest has appealed to Catholics in Malaysia to get involved in politics either directly or indirectly so that they can fight for a better and more humane life for all Malaysians.

Father Paul Tan, regional superior of the Society of Jesus in Malay-

sia and Singapore, said the mission of Christians is to establish the Kingdom of God on earth, where Gospel values of truth, justice, love and peace are practiced.

He said it is for this reason that Christians should make a stand against corruption, lies. injustice, discrimination

rule disappear in many East European countries.

Last April, Archbishop Jan Schotte, synod secretary general, said that about 15 Orthodox and Protestant representatives would be invited to the synod as "brother delegates" to speak and participate in the synod's small working groups.

62,942. Women religious dropped nearly 10 per cent, from 984,782 to 885,645.

Sharply on the rise was the number of permanent deacons. Their number just about tripled from 5,562 to 16,603.

According to approximate figures in the latest edition of "the World Almanac", there are presently some 1,700 million Christians in the world. 925 million Moslems, 689 million Hindus, 311 million Buddhists and 17 million Jews.

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more than in 1984 but less than in 1988. The number of major seminarians increased by more than 3000.

tioners in the Americas, and 98 per cent were granted on the basis of invalid consent.

In the five-year period, the number of women religious decreased overall by 40,690 to 885,645; but there were increases in Africa and Asia.

A marriage is considered valid in the Catholic Church only if both parties enter into it with full knowledge and consent.

The yearbook reported 18.3 million baptisms in 1989. It said that 6.7 per cent of those baptised in North America and 32.3 per cent of those baptised in Africa were over seven years old.

It said 54,736 annulments were granted by diocesan tribunals in the "first instance" or ordinary process.

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Of the remaining two per cent of annulments, the yearbook said, 138 were granted because of impotency. The Polish diocesan tribunals cited impotency most often, annulling 64 marriages on that basis.

Marcos compound reopens for this Mass

TACLOBAN CITY, Philippines (CNS):- The gates of the former Marcos family residential compound in Leyte were reopened this month for the first Friday Mass after being closed for more than three months.

Hundreds attended on just a few hours' notice. But some came just out of curiosity and because of rumours Mrs Imelda Marcos would be there.

The compound had been closed off by the Philippines' Presidential Commission for Good and exploitation of Government, which is looking into allegations people. that the Marcos family used political office to Father Tan, also direc- acquire vast wealth. tor of the Catholic An excavation of the compound has been Research Centre in Kuala going on since January on the suspicion that 350 Lumpur, attracted more than 200 Christians from tons of gold are buried there.

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Two days of obligation

THAT'S WHAT U.S. CATHOLICS COULD FINISH UP WITH WASHINGTON: US Catholics could finish up with just two days of obligation: Christmas Day and Immaculate Conception December 8.

A recommendation of the Bishops' liturgy committee must receive a two-thirds agreement of the bishops' conference.

An alternative set of proposals from the committee would abolish the obligation for most holy days whenever the holy day falls on Saturday or Monday.

Under the alternative, only Christmas and Ascension Thursday would remain holy days of obligation every year.

The last time the nation's bishops voted on any changes in holy days of obligation was in 1983.

After a long and lively debate in which they expressed a remarkable diversity of viewpoints, they ended up deciding to make no changes in traditional US practice.

Language favoured

by Vatican UNITED NATIONS, (CNS): The executive board of UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund has adopted language favoured by the Vatican on family planning. l'he board asked UNICEF to strengthen its cooperation with the UN Population Fund and other agencies. But it added the qualification "each within its own mandate", and specified that family planning should be conducted "with due respect for cultural, religious and social traditions".

In February a joint letter by staff heads of UNICEF and other agencies concerned with maternal and child health set forth a policy of co-operation, but with recognition that each had its own mandate and that UNICEF emphasised "birth spacing" rather than "family planning".

"Recent UNICEF policy statements indicate its

sensitivity to the need to fully respect not only its own mandate, but to respect cultural, religious and social traditions of its counterparts," the Vatistatement can concluded.

The Vatican does not have a vote on the UNICEF board, a rotating group of representatives from 41 countries, but the Vatican's UN observer status enables it to be seated alongside board members and participate in discussion.

Also last year it became one of the first signers of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, helping UNICEF gain unusually rapid ratification of a document of special concern to it.

The Vatican representative, New York businessman, John Klink said the church could accept the traditional UNICEF promotion of "birth spacing" specifying without methods, and its emphaparental on sis responsibility.

In several US dioceses in recent years, bishops have started to excuse their people from the obligation of attending Mass on holy days that fall on Saturday or Monday.

A number of bishops have stated their concern about confusion among Catholics over evening Masses when Sunday and a holy day of obligation fall on successive days.

A lthough 10 holy days of obligation are listed in general

church law, in practice the observance varies widely from country to country.

In Mexico, only two of the 10 are observed as days of obligation: December 25 and January 1. But Mexican Catholics have their own local holy day of obligation: the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Canadian Catholics have two days of obligation: December 8 and December 25.

Commission now First things f irst permanent VATICAN CITY: A commission to deal with the worldwide distribution of clergy has been made permanent.

The commission will co-ordinate programs through which dioceses with a high priest-laity ratio would be asked to release teams of clergy for work in dioceses where there is a shortage.

Cardinal Laghi the president, said that although the official mandate from the pope had not been published, the program already was "operative" with an Italian team working in Ecuador and a Colombian team being trained for work in Brazil.

He said last March, the -unequal global distribution of priests is a "pastoral injustice".

The most dramatic shortage of priests is in Latin America.

Almost 43 per cent of the world's Catholics live in the region, but only 13 per cent of the world's priests minister there.

The Catholics of Europe and North America constitute less than 39 per cent of the world's Catholic population, but are served by more than 73 per cent of the world's priests.

Bishops oppose abortion voting WARSAW: The Polish bishops have opposed suggestions by Polish legislators for a national referendum on abortion.

"A vote on legalising the destruction of human life violates human

rights and is an aggression to the entire natural order.

"Permitting such a referendum could lead to other undignified acts such as euthanasia," the statement said.

Currently, abortion is legal in Poland but there is a bill before the parliament to declare it illegal.

VATICAN CITY: Pope John Paul's encounter with one million youth at Czestochowa on August 15 is going to be preceded by his catching up on his former home city of Krakow.

On the second stage of his fourth pastoral visit to Poland which started June 1-9, the first thing he will do will he to pray at his parents' tomb. His mother, Emily, died at 45 on April 13, 1929, when the future Pontiff had just turned nine, and his father, who was also called Karol, died aged 61 on Feburary 18, 1941.

At Krakow he will visit the children's hospital.

He will then have dinner at Krakow seminary.

In the afternoon, a Mass is scheduled for the beatification of Angela Salawa, lay virgin of the Third Order of St Francis Assisi who died in Krakow, on March 12, 1922.

In the evening the pope will privately visit Wawel Krakow.

Cathedral, where he celebrated his first Mass on November 2, 1946, the day following his priestly ordination by Cardinal Sapieha. In this

cathedral he was also ordained auxiliary bishop on September 28, 1958.

Later in the evening, he will have supper at Krakow Episcopal Palace and an informal meeting with his old friends from the area.

On the following day, August 14, he will go by helicopter to Wadowice, where he was born on May 18, 1920 and to church where he was baptised on June 20, 1920 by a military chaplain.

John Paul II first visited this church on June 7, 1979 when he delivered a speech recalling personal memories and prayed before the baptismal font.

He will dedicate the new church of St Peter's in Wadowice. He will have lunch at the presbytery with the priests who were ordained in the same year as he, and will greet later his school mates from Wadowice

case of "the wolf declaring itself damaged by the lamb, the powerful playing the victim". `The true victims are those — Croatians and also the simple Serbian people — who are terrorised or seduced by the campaign of hate which has poisoned every family.

issued a joint statement for peace in May, another joint statement is not foreseen.

At 15.45 the pope is scheduled to leave by helicopter for Czestochowa where he will celebrate the World Youth Day with the young people.

Way to peace...

ZAGREB: Establishing a c onfederation of sovereign states among the republics of Yugoslavia could bring peace, but it won't happen until the country's Serbian majority ends its dominance over Croatia and Slovenia, the Croatian primate said.

Franjo Cardinal Kuharic of Zagreb, the Croatian capital, said there is no future for a Yugoslavia made up of "oppressors and the oppressed".

The Serbian-led central government is clinging to its "politics of Greater Serbia. of the expansion 6

of the Serbian territory over the land of Croatia using every means, not excluding war", he said.

Claims that the Serbian minority in Croatia and Slovenia can be safe only in a united Yugoslavia "recalls the slogan of Hitler that all Germans must live in the same state. We know how that Cardinal ended", Kuharic said.

"All peoples are equal in their rights and their dignity," he said. "Having more weapons does not give a people more rights."

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Cardinal Kuharic said the new Croatian Constitution guarantees the rights of all. "The Serbs have the right to participate in Croatian state institutions in proportion to their numbers."

But instead of wanting to live in a country marked by "friendship and freedom", the S erbian -dominated government has tried to "overpower" Croatia and Slovenia, he said.

"Today the peoples are freeing themselves from this overpowering. The Belgrade TV, radio and

press sow hatred against the Croatian and Slovenian people and also, as they have done for years, against the church and the Vatican," he said.

'They have organised a terrorist war on Croatian territory," he said. 'There are federal army generals, educated under totalitarianism and ideologically persuaded to defend a system which has already fallen in the rest of Eastern Europe."

Cardinal Kuharic asked Catholics living in Western democracies to pray for the peoples of Yugoslavia, to oppose violence

and to ask their governments to do everything possible to stop the war in Yugoslavia.

Western Europe's support for a united Yugoslavia is based on Western experience of freedom, he said. "It does not have the experience of slavery.

"But everyone wants to be free even the smallest peoples, and Europe must respect their rights."

The Serbs' claims that Croatians and Slovenians are nationalists and fascists because they want independence is a

Cardinal Kuharic said the situation also is beginning to have a negative impact on relations with the Orthodox in Croatia.

"The Orthodox hierarchy in Croatia, for example, has refused to accept the existence of the Croatian state," he said. And they have not accepted recent invitations to participate even in non-political events with the Catholic Church.

"But the church has not lost hope," the cardinal said. "The church invites While he and the people to pray for peace, patriarch to reconcile, to forgive."

Orthodox

Penchant for politics Des McDaid has enough money to live in The thought of marriage has never comfort without a worry. occurred to him. "I don't think I will ever get "What I have gives me a sense of security. married," he said.

My comfort zone is organised and paid for.

He says his investments are structured so I don't need to spend a lot of money to live," soundly that he does not have financial problems. he said.

But there is an emptiness in his life — his Des has a penchant for politics. missing parents.

He admits to being "very right wing" and He has been looking for them over the years a strong supporter of the Liberal party. but to no avail.

He describes himself as a producer or a He has now left the assignment to the person who goes out to get results.

"Catholic migrant people" who he has been He is obviously far from being an uncaring told are capable and efficient. because he has helped see "a couple person Des said that he looked forward very much through university. youngsters" of to a reunion with them.

"That has given me tremendous satisfacThey are somewhere around but he does tion," he said. not know where.

He even went back to the village where he Asked why he was doing things in this was brought up as an infant in the UK but direction, he answered: "I believe I have the nobody knows a thing. energy to spare, the power to spare. So it is All he can do for the time being is hope and just a case of transferring them. pray that they will be traced.

"When you help youth it is never lost."

To keep him somewhat busy these days, When he was in the saw business, Des also Des is learning Italian and Italian cooking.

A bachelor, he enjoys dating and going out served for three years or so on the committee of the Small Business Association. for a good meal and a good "drop".

His advice for the young: "You have no Divine rights to anything. You must learn to be responsible for yourself and your actions. Even when things go wrong just understand that that is life. Don't make excuses".

Des McDaid . . . Clontarf boy who made good.

Skinny's fat bank balance When Desmond Paul McDaid walked out of the gates of Clontarf in 1960 he had only £2/18 (under $6) and some clothes given to him by the Christian Brothers there.

The "orphaned" boy did only seven years of schooling at Clontarf and had turned down a chance to further his education at Aquinas.

He decided to take up the challenge in the "outisde" world and fend for himself.

Now at the age of 47 and some 31 years later. Des, the boy whom they

c.alled "Skinny" at Clontarf has a fat bank account and a number of properties in Perth.

He is now worth a "few million dollars". For that reason he was able to semi-retire two years ago.

"I had a burning desire to be a millionaire from the age of 18," he said.

And to achieve his goal he had to give away "the play things" like his involvement with the surf club and the Citizens Military Forces of which we was a volunteer for five years.

"I got into business and worked seven days a

week, 14 to 18 hours a day," he said.

He was a saw doctor.

He was able to put the basic education and "all the tools" received from the Christian Brothers to good use.

The important lesson learnt at Clontarf was that "you don't get something for nothing".

He admitted that he did not realise the value of those lessons at Clontarf till later on in life.

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and complained then but when you come to think of it, the discipline was useful," he said.

The education at Clontarf was not of a high standard but was enough to give all those there the important basics.

He also saw the good and bad side at Clontarf and has "very strongly come out on the good side".

He described the work He was ever grateful to his mentors at Clontarf done by the Christian for those important Brothers as incredible. lessons.

"There were eight of "We might have bitched them looking after and

SVDP responds to homeless young SYDNEY: With youth unemployment (15-19 years) having reached 27 per cent and youth homelessness estimated at 25,000 (Brian Burdekin — Human Rights Commissioner) the St Vincent de Paul Society have responded by opening their fourth new refuge in as many months (in Dee Why, Hornsby, Newcastle and now Marrickville).* St Vincent de Paul's newest refuge which opened recently, St Vinnies for Youth, in Marrickville houses 23 chronically homeless boys and girls between the ages of 15 and 18.

There are few rules, their "streetwise" residents can stay as long (or as short) as they like, there's no curfew, and a noticeably relaxed, friendly, family atmosphere.

Visitors to the refuge are often surprised at how quiet and peaceful it is, frequently commenting that

they wished the atmosphere of their family home were as good.

Father Chris Riley, St Vinnies' Manager (and former principal of Boystown) puts a lot of the refuge's success down to the fact that they always look for each kid's unique skills and develop these.

"At present every one of our kids is doing a TAFE or some other course — whether it be in song writing, horse management, youth work, first aid, or whatever interests them" he pointed out.

For some of the kids (no older than 19), St Vinnies for Youth is the only home they can remember, the only place they can rely on for support, and the only friends they have who aren't addicts, pushers or pimps. * The St Vincent de Paul Society currently run eight youth refuges and 16 youth services in NSW.

educating 250 boys. They belonged to a group of the 90th anniversary don't deserve what has virtual orphans — reunion dinner at Clonbeen thrown at them." he youngsters who came tarf on September 7.

Another committee out from England said. they had headed by Michael Dark if unaware What does Clontarf natural parents still alive has also planned an open mean to him? He ansand whether they could day at Clontarf the wered: "I consider those following day (Sept 8), traced. be fellows who went to where family, friends school with me like When he throws his and benefactors or brothers, like a family. mind back to his days at anyone having previous People like Brother Clontarf he cherishes associations with ClonO'Doherty and Brother those moments with his tarf can attend.

Higgins were really great peer group of friends, Des said he looked people". football and the brothers forward to seeing as He added: "I think it there. many old boys as possiwas a blessing that I was ble "because there is a Int "Interestingly enough," pulled up from that of catching up to do". environment (in UK) and he said "the fellows I Those interested in brought up elswhere and knew then are the same attending the dinner can now."

I know people better still in Australia." ring Maurice Whitfield Des is a member of the on 450 3668 or Robert Des, incidentally, is of descent. He committee organising Isaacs on 350 6162.

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Bishops defend ABC religious broadcast CANBERRA: The Chairman of the Chairman of the Bishops Committee Australian Catholic Bishops Commitfor Social Communications, said. tee for Social Communications today Bishop Murray emphasised the urged the Minister for Communica- important cultural role the ABC tions, the Hon Mr Kim Beazley, to ought to have in order to put to air retain the specialist program depart- programs that are not at the level of ment for religious affairs for ABC the lowest common denominator of radio and television. mass appeal which dominated the "Religion is an integral part of the commercial programs. life and culture of this community, "The priorities expressed in forming attitudes and expressing a cutting religious affairs and removfundamental dimension of human ing Australian produced worship personality. material from programming indicate "Adequate programming depends that ABC management is divorced on journalists who understand the from the Australian cultural context concepts of religious affairs and have in which at least eighty five per cent sufficient vision and sensitivity for profess religious adherence. them.

"The downgrading of religious "It would be a great loss to the affairs below the departments of Australian community if the exper- sports programming and rural affairs tise and program emphasis were programming is a matter of serious lost," Bishop William Murray, concern," Bishop Murray said.

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Evalige!isation...

By Father Eugene LaVerdiere, SSS Evangelisation. Is there something wrong with the word?

No matter how often we repeat it, the word "evangelisation" leaves most Catholics cold. It just does not sound Catholic.

There is nothing wrong with the reality.

Evangelisation is as basic as the Gospel and as Catholic as the pope. It belongs to the same category as baptism, salvation and belonging to the church.

Evangelisation is what Jesus did, and after him Peter, Paul, Mary Magdalen and so many others.

Evangelisation is what the Samaritan woman did after meeting Jesus by Jacob's well.

It is also what Priscilla and Aquilla did at Ephesus when Paul went on to Jerusalem.

Without their evangelisation ministry, Apollos, who became a leader among the Christians, would not have learned about baptism in Jesus' name.

So why does the word "evangelisation" have such an unCatholic ring to it.

When most Catholics heard the word "evangelisation" what comes to mind is not the great text by Pope Paul VI on evangelisation, nor is it their diocesan commission on evangelisation or even their own parish evangelisation committee.

What comes to mind is preaching, and preaching of a certain sort, with lots of biblical words and phrases, many quite terrifying if taken seriously. It is people preaching on the street, at busy intersections, surrounded by a few curious onlookers but with most people passing by without so much as a nod.

The word "evangelisation" belongs to a family of words that includes evangelist — as in TV evangelist — and evangelical. There is nothing wrong with those realities either; in themselves the words are fine.

But words come to us with special connotations they have gathered over the years.

Words like "evangelisation" evoke a way of living Christianity that is foreign to most Catholics.

We have a good test case in Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen whose TV program, "Life Is Worth Living", was extremey popular in the 1950s.

Archbishop Sheen was a TV evangelist. Yet we Catholics do not think of him that way.

We are much more apt to refer to him as a TV personality.

Perhaps what makes some people uneasy is the connection they make between evangelisation and expressions like "Have you been saved?" and "Do you believe that Jesus Christ is your personal Lord and Saviour?" and "Are you born again?"

These questions are not part of an ordinary Catholic's language. They come out of evangelical Protestant concerns.

When a Protestant evangelical — very often a fundamentalist or a pentecostal — asks those questions, the personal pronoun "you" in each of them is singular. They refer to an individual.

On hearing such questions, Catholics feel uneasy, but usually do not know why.

Were most Catholics to raise the question, the personal pronoun "you" would be plural.

That becomes clear from the way we tend to answer.

Instead of saying "Yes I have been saved, I believe Jesus Christ is my Lord and Saviour," Catholics answer, "Yes we have been saved.

A WOW THAT WILL SURELY LEAVE MOST CATHOLICS COLD Jesus Christ is our personal Lo.c1 and Saviour."

The use of the plural makes a big difference. I once asked a pt minent Protestant preacher if he send any difference when he spoke to Cathodes. He answered with no hesitation: "Oh, yes, there is a huge differeno . When I talk to a group of Protestants, th major concern is God's word and itilividual salvation. When I talk to a group of Citholics, everyone is taken up with commuruy."

Community is basic to Catholia and, of. course, to many mainline Protestant.

It comes to us from the Bible whenwe read about the community of Israel, th Jewish community and the early Ciristian communities.

Catholics tend to think in Inns of community. That is probably te most important reason why the word "ewigelisalion", at least in its evangelical htestant context, sounds foreign to Catholics But there is another reason. Evans lisation is associated with prophets ar[ their preaching. Its language is that direct address, as in the books of the pmphi s in the

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How — or where — does someone like you communicate the message of the Gospel to others?

Selected Responses From Readers: "When I had my first child by cesarean

I thanked them they said, 'When you can, pass on the deed by taking a meal to another new mother'. Since then, I have . . . They brought food to nourish the body and the short visit nourished the spirit." — Julie Dush.

"I do it through my actions . . . I try to be like a servant to others in need." — Barbara Breting.

"I am especially fortunate to be able to share the Gospel through youth ministry. I find young people to be very much in a searching of their faith." — Geralyn Nathe-Evans.

"To live the resurrection is . . . to be merciful, to be compassionate, to be loving, to be long-suffering, to live justly and to live joyfully." — Sister Joyce Seivert, OSB. "Anywhere, at any time, by example (trying to live by the Gospel) and by being open to the Holy Spirit to work through me." — Dan Fleming.

Paulist Father Alvin Illig vividly recalls his parents' reaction when he told them he wanted to become an "evangeliser". Thunderstruck, they thought he was planning to become a Jehovah's Witness.

Their confusion was readily understood by Father Illig, director for the past 14 years of the Paulist National Catholic E vangelisation Association.

Like many Catholics of their day, identifying with the term "evangelisation" was somewhat

With money left to her by her grandmother, Dorothea was able to enjoy life quietly in New England during the summer and in the South during winter.

She enjoyed visiting friends and studying.

Four years later a friend mentioned to Dorothea that the women convicts in the house of correction at East Cambridge, Mass., needed a religion 8

She found four women locked in the cold, dark basement. They had committed no crimes.

The jailer told her they were "lunatics".

The sight of these four mentally ill women in the jail's basement haunted Dorothea.

It stirred painful memories of her own difficult life. Born in 1802 in Hampden, Maine, she had an unhappy childhood.

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By Janaan Manternach Her father was an alcoholic, her mother an invalid. Dorothea had to take care of her brothers until she was able to become a teacher at age 14.

The sight of the mentally ill women stirred Dorothea's deep sense of compassion.

She determined to change things. She began visiting other jails and hospitals too.

She found mentally ill persons chained in closets and cages, beaten and neglected, treated worse than animals.

Helped by friends, Dorothea began a cm-

sae to help the mentally She studied everything she could find about mental illness.

Despite recurrences of tuberculosis she travelled around the United States crusading for humane laws and treatment for those suffering mental illness.

She helped change attitudes toward the mentally ill and showed that they could get well.

During the Civil War in the United States, Dorothea called for the training of nurses to care for the wounded. The surgeon general put her in charge of the nurses' training.

After the war. Dorothea turned her attention to getting pensions for

veterans, aid for fire victims, clothes for orphans. She also continued her work for the mentally ill.

Finally, in her 80s her health gave out.

No longer able to hear. and partially blind, she passed her last years in a New jersey state hospital she had helped found.

In 1887 she died at age 85.

Dorothea Dix personally founded 32 hospitals in her lifetime, and raised money for 123 more.

Almost singlehandedly she brought about changes in how people treated the mentally ill.

Pope Pius IX praised her as a "modern St Teresa".

foreign to them. Father h ug believes that is because reaching out to non-Catholics was not stressed so much then.

"For the first 200 years of our existence in the United States, the great challenge of the Catholic Church was to nurture and maintain the faith of an immigrant people in a hostile society," he said.

"We put all of our energies into building churches and schools and social agencies. taking c.are of our own.

Now all that has changed. We're trying to shift the mentality to a community that both nurtures and shares."

The US Catholic

bishops share Father Illig's concern for increased evangelisation efforts. Leading up to next year's 500th anniversary of Columbus' arrival in the Americas, and with him Christian efforts to spread the Gospel, they are promoting the idea of evangelisation: evangelisation directed to those who never have heard the Gospel, evangelisation directed also to unchurched Catholics and others who are members of the church.

The bishops published a pastoral letter for the coming quincentennial titled "Heritage and Hope, Evangelisation in

the United States".

In it they remark that the present age "expects of all believers simplicity of life, a spirit of prayer, charity toward all, obedience and humility, and detachment sacrifice".

It cautions: "Without these marks of holiness, the evangelists will have difficulty touching the hearts of modern people.

Their activity risks being vain and sterile."

Father Illig believes what is needed for effective evangelisation is "a trained and inspired evangeliser", one who imitates the Mary model

of evangelisation. ics' Office of Evangelisa"This means that we are tion. She took her office's to accept Christ into our "One-to-One in Christ" life as Mary did, freely evangelisation program and under the power — to 24 dioceses. the invitation — of the They teamed with a Holy Spirit," Father Illig local co-sponsor to host a explained. "Second, we week-long revival that are to allow Christ to live included preaching, in us, and then we are to prayer, liturgies, song share Christ with the and an opportunity for community in which we Catholics to recommit live." themselves to sharing Like Father llig, Ger- their faith. trude Morris of San Follow-up included Francisco, describes an workshops on church evangelist in terms not much different from history and outreach. those one would use to "My favourite definidefine any other sincere, tion of evangelisation is practicing Christian. to be so full of Christ that For six years, Ms Morris you just can't help headed the National sharing him," said Ms Office for Black Cathol- Morris.

"People really do have to go from talking about Christ to living Christ.added Ms Morris, who for more than 30 years has been a member of the Grail, an international movement of laywomen dedicated to justice and peace.

"This was, a person becomes a magnet for Christ, one who attracts people by the way he or she carries himself or herself, by corporal works of mercy, by charity."

She added: "If you really want to see what an evangelist looks like, look in the mirror, because we're each called to be one."

Astonishing news

Children's story hour

What she saw changed her life.

Evangelisation itself has always been important to Catholics. If we do enough of it today, the word itself might acquire a few additional connotations.

It might evoke the Christian story. And who knows, it might even become part of our Catholic story.

By Carole Norris Greene

section, a couple of women in our parish brought in meals for my husband and me. When

teacher.

Eager to do some teaching again, she volunteered for the task.

The first Sunday the warden took her on a tour of the jail after her religion class.

It matters less whether we use the word "evangelisation" to describe what we do. The fact is that when Catholics tell their story and that of Jesus, they are doing evangelisation.

Who, me? An evangeliser?

DISCUSSION POINTS.

In 1837 Dorothea Dix sailed back to the United States after a year in Italy recovering from tuberculosis. A young woman of 35, frail and anxious about her health, she hesitated to go back to her strenuous career as a teacher.

Old Testament, the letters of Paul in the New and even the discourses of Jesus, like the Sermon on the Mount.

Evangelisation can take many forms, including that of storytelling.

Storytelling is fundamental for Catholics and increasingly for most Christians. It is what Jesus did when he taught parables.

It is what the four New Testament evangelists did when they wrote the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles.

When a Catholic does evangelisation, he or she is apt to open the message with the words, "Let me tell you a story. It is about . . . ". With that we are on Catholic ground.

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If the first Christians were spectacularly successful at spreading the good news throughout the world of their day, it was because they put evangelisation at the top of their agenda.

They ranked it higher, for example, than administrative duties, as we learned when some needy widows in the Christian community complained that funds for their aid were being unevenly distributed (Acts 6:2).

It was not that matters of administration were unimportant, but that preaching the good news was the top priority.

As St Paul told the Christians of Corinth, "If preach the Gospel, this

is not reason for me to boast, for an obligation has been imposed on me, and woe to me if Ido not preach it!" (1 Corinithians 9:16).

A sense of obligation, however, does not account fully for the first Christians' success in evangelisation.

A much more compelling reason was their zeal, their enthusiasm.

The people personally experienced the Gospel precisely as good news, the astonishing news about what God had done for them in Christ.

They were bursting with eagerness to share the news with as many people as possible.

"For our Gospel did not

Macedonia and Achaia.

For from you the word of J. Castelor the Lord has sounded forth" (1 Thessalonians 1:6-8). come to you in word alone, but also in power It was not only what and in the Holy Spirit these people were that and with much convic- made for their success; it tion" (1 Thessalonians was also what they were not.

1:5).

They were not on an ego Zeal, enthusiasm, burn- trip, or simply striving to ing conviction: The build up "membership". excitement was contaThey were selflessly on gious, and early converts fire with a desire to share felt the same drive to what they had received: share the Gospel with the joy of knowing that others. First Thessaloni- God's love has the power ans puts it this way: to transform people.

"You became imitators Neither were the first of us and of the Lord, Christians colonisers, out receiving the word in to spread a culture. great affliction with joy This was a problem at from the Holy Spirit, so first, when Christianity that you became a model for all the believers in was identified with Jew-

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ish culture and it was thought that in order to become a Christian a person first had to adopt Jewish ways.

Paul fought tooth and nail to counter this elitism. The graciousness of God transcended all ethnic, national, cultural boundaries. It was universal.

The first Christians never would have succeeded if they had insisted that people abandon their cultural identities in order to be All of this is instructive saved. for Christians who take their faith seriously and are convinced of the need to share with with others — all others.

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Two insn guests at this centenary

Sister Albeus of the Presentation sisters at whose invitation Bishop Dermot O'Sullivan (centre) and Father Kieran O'Shea came from Co Kerry, Ireland, to help celebrate a centenary of good works on WA soil.

Recent visitors to Geraldton and Perth at the invitation of the Presentation sisters were Bishop Dermot O'Sullivan and Father Kieran O'Shea from Co Kerry, Ireland.

The occasion was to celebrate the coming of the Presentation sisters to Western Australia when they arrived at their first base in Geraldton, a hundred years ago.

Three of the founding sisters had come from Sneem in Co Kern', hence the connection and particular interest of Kerry's bishop.

It was a first visit to WA by Bishop O'Sullivan and Father O'Shea who were delighted with "the warm and genuine hospitality shown to us," said Bishop O'Sullivan "and their obvious pleasure at giving it which has made our stay so delightful here!"

Their stay in WA, although brief, was with the Columban priests in Rivervale, having just arrived from Geraldton where they said the Presentation sisters' celebrations were very impressive and well organised.

"The sisters have had a very big impact in WA," said Bishop O'Sullivan who went on to speak highly of the sisters and Western Australians.

While stating his own first hand knowledge of Australia was limited to expatriate Irish priests returning home on leave, Bishop O'Sullivan said it was a fact that Ireland was the foundation head of the Catholic faith for Australia and Central Americ,a.

The Australian links were stronger he said, but because of distance "we were not as aware of them as our American links up until recent years when travel facilities made it easier."

Of recent years enquiries about Irish roots from people outside Ireland have been difficult to deal with at times, but with the increase of people anxious to learn of family backgrounds especially since the bicentenary, and the current indexing of records, computerising locally and then with a link-up access on an Irish national and Australian level, people's queries should be more readily answerable, he said.

Killarney is the local centre for Co Kerry diocesan records.

Regarding religious vocations, Bishop O'Sullivan said there had been a severe falling off and in previous times the Irish priests, brothers and sisters had always followed the migrants but they were no longer able to do so because of depleted numbers.

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Young people in Ireland and elsewhere, he said, find it very difficult to cope with the idea of a lifelong commitment to anything whether it be marriage, religious life or employment, "which is their misfortune, but possibly it's because they see the world now with all its uncertainties, what with the fragile environment and danger of nuclear war, and are reluctant to make a commitment."

Nevertheless the Irish still try and retain a commitment to missionary effort, said Bishop O'Sullivan who pointed to the current big source of vocations coming from places such as Africa.

Most of the Irish dioceses have their priests in Kenya, Zimbabwe, Nigeria or South America and Kerry works in with the neighbouring diocese of Co Cork where they have a territory in Peru, fully catering for their needs in building churches, schools, medical clinics and allied endeavours, which are totally unsupported by their own government.

"The people of Ireland are very generous towards third world countries," he stated, where on a voluntary basis they give more per capita towards famine stricken countries than many others, and are as equally supportive of papal charities where they rate sixth or seventh in the world.

Bishop O'Sullivan said possibly because of their own history, the Irish had great sympathy with the people of the third world and those who suffer natural disasters.

Trocaire is the official agency of the Catholic church in Ireland which aids the third world.

On the economy, Bishop O'Sullivan said with the world being so small and so much interdependency in world trade, all are affected currently "and especially smaller countries like ours."

During his Australian visit he'd heard a lot about the suffering of families, "but it's the same back home."

Nevertheless although they lacked a strong industrial base, economically they were doing fairly well in recent years, he said, and had the lowest inflation rate in the European Economic Community.

Unfortunately growth and the economy were not necessarily synonymous with growth in employment anymore, he pointed out, because of technology and automation.

Migration too was making its impact upon Ireland with the negative result of the lass of so

many of its young to overseas countries; out of its population of three and a half million, losing around 100,000 people during the last decade with a similar prediction for this decade.

There is the cost of educating its people. then losing such a high number with the necessity to accommodate a number on social security with fewer wage earners to support the structure, he stated.

Of the percentage which migrate, 70 per cent go to England, 15 per cent to the USA, 10 per cent to continental Europe and five per cent to Australia.

Ireland's education system is tops, according to Bishop O'Sullivan, and Australia and other countries benefit from this with the high standard of Irish people coming into Australia covering the mainstream professions.

On the topic of faith, Bishop O'Sullivan said Ireland was a closed society but they are now exposed to all kinds of secular and materialistic influences with the faith being not as strong as it was.

At the same time he says he's not disappointed about the future because a lot of good things are happening with an increasing awareness of the true nature of the Church as a result of the Vatican Council, "but it's a slow process and maybe in some ways it's slower in Ireland than elsewhere".

Because of their political history, he said, the priest was very much a leader and was involved with the people in everything, whether it be sport or social activities, "and I think for that reason it may be more difficult for us to establish the concept of the Church as being the people of God moving together on a pilgrimage which is the image of the Churcir as presented by the Vatican Council with this biblical image."

"But this is the one the Vatican Council saw as being more relevant to the current climate of faith in the world."

With the "global contracting" as a result of travel viability, human dignity and human rights although always important, have become of even greater concern than ever before, he said.

"The pope is always talking about human rights and dignity which is the product of this current Church thinking as being a people of God and the group which has to carry the gospel, Christ's message, and His values, to the world."

Morley cares i a big way

Margaret Box and Rose Topp manning Christcare phone.

Hillary Jacobson and Father Greg Burke organising the service.

Last weekend Christcare was launched at the Infant Jesus Parish Morley and the response from the parishioners was overwhelming.

A record number of 165 people have volunteered to serve one another through the Christcare program offering over 250 services.

Because of the generosity of the Morley parishioners, Christcare was in a position to respond to a request for help immediately after the 6.30pm Mass on Saturday.

A lady asked for assistance with her invalid husband and Christcare took care of her need.

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Stay out of politics, clergy told DILI, East Timor (CNS): East Timor Gov Mario Viegas Carrascalao has asked the clergy in East Timor to stay out of politics.

"I want the clergy to stay out of politics; they must be neutral," Carrascalao, a Catholic, said a day before the commemoration of the 15th anniversary of the annexation of East Timor by Indonesia.

According to Carrascalao, Bishop Belo, apostolic administrator of Dili, agrees with annexation.

"Only a few persons disagree with it. They have a right to disagree, but they may not disturb the stability," Carrascalao said.

In contrast to the governor's assertion, last July Bishop Belo asked the United Nations to sponsor a referendum in East Timor on whether the people of the occupied territory want to be part of Indonesia.

He also alleged human rights Indonesian violations by authorities.

The world body has not recognised Indonesia's claim to East Timor.

Asked about Church relations with the government and the armed forces, Carrascalao said: "We have good relations."

Carrascalao said the Dili Diocese has not yet joined the Indonesian bishops' conference because the Church in East Timor is still under Vatican supervision, and the Vatican is awaiting the settlement of East Timor's political status by the United Nations.

"If the United Nations approves the integration, the East Timor church should also join," said Carrascalao. Until now, he added, the Church has not pressed for a settlement of the issue.

Pope John Paul II did not mention the sovereignty issue in a 1989 visit to East Timor. During his Mass there, 20 annexation opponents scuffled with police after unfurling independence banners.

About 82 per cent of East Timor's 714,245 population is Catholic. Indonesia's 10 million population is less than 10 per cent Catholic.

Although the Dili Diocese has not joined Indonesian bishops' conference, Bishop Belo attends the Indonesian bishops' annual meeting as an observer.

Some religious congregations in Indonesia have sent members to Dili.

Use of birth control pills a concern

JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNS): Christian leadJakarta in ers e xpressed concern over the widespread use of birth control pills among adolescents and appealed to the government to limit the sale of oral contraceptives to married couples.

Father Kartasiswaya, e xecutive secretary of the Bishops' Conference of Indonesia, said the availability of cheap oral contraceptives as a result of the government's nationwide birth control campaign has led to their abuse among adolescents.

The Protestant-run daily Suara Pembaruan (Voice of Renewal) reported it is common for many high school students to carry pills and condoms in their bags and pockets.

"They regard it as a new trend. Those who do not have them are ostracised," a high school counselling teacher told the daily.

According to Father K artasiswaya, the Indonesian bishops recently appealed to the national family planning board to limit the sale of contraceptives to married couples.

By Monday afternoon the service was in operation with the co-ordinators manning the phones and attending to calls for help.

Father Greg Burke said: "This is not so extraordinary — our parishioners are just like that — they have great generosity."

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Apology for treatment EDMONTON, Alberta (CNS): The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate in Canada apologised to Canada's Indian tribes for "cultural, ethnic, linguistic and religious imperialism" over the past 150 years.

The Oblates, which number 1200 in the country, in a July 24 statement, also apologised for what they said was the cultural destruction caused by Indian residental schools and "instances of physical and sexual abuse within these schools".

An Oblate bishop, Hubert P. O'Connor, recently resigned as head of the diocese of Prince George, British Columbia, after being charged with sexually assaulting female residents while headmaster of St Joseph's Mission School.

The 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the Americas was "a symbolic reason" for apologising at this time, the statement said. It said the Oblates pledged themselves to "a renewed relationship with native peoples".

"We recognise that many of the problems that beset native communities today — high unemployment, alcoholism, family breakdown, domestic violence, spiralling suicide rates, lack of healthy self-esteem — are not so much the result of personal failure as they are the result of centuries of systematic imperialism," the document said.

"We broke some of your peace pipes and we considered some of your sacred practices as pagan and superstitious," the statement said.

Although offering no excuses, "thousands of people operated out of this mentality and gave their lives in dedication to an ideal that. while sincere in its intent", was based on a notion of superiority it said.

The residential schools although begun with good intentions, created situations in which "children were usurped from their natural communities" it said.

"These schools operated out o the premise that Europear languages, traditions, and reli gious practices were superior tr native" society, it said.

On the matter of sexual abuse the statement said such acts wen "inexcusable, intolerable, and betrayal of trust in one of its mos serious forms".

The Oblates said they plan to: • Help tell the "full story" of till residential schools.

• "Proclaim as inviolable till natural rights of Indian familie, parents and children."

• "Work with native peoples ii their efforts to recover their lamb their languages, their sacret traditions, and their rightfu pride."

• Forge "a new covenant o solidarity" with native peoples.

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from Brian A. PEACHEY, Woodlands Sir, The statement of J.F. and G.J. Harding (The Record July 25) regarding the fight against abortion that the "Catholic Church has lost considerable ground over the previous two or three decades" and the reason is "the reluctance of our leaders (ie the Bishops) to give positive and unambiguous guidance and direction" is not only gravely wrong, but is sheer hum-bug.

Whilst I may have argued with the late Archbishop Foley on some matters, I have not, nor could I criticise the strength and the clear

The fight against abortion, which has benefited by hierarchical leadership statements, has suffered because of the lack of support of the laity, who have the exclusive responsibility, to be involved at the level where decisions are made.

Many who have been in a position to effectively oppose what the Hardings correctly call the "humanist conspiracy" and which is so "blatantly obvious- have reneged on their obligations for a variety of reasons. One of the worst is political expediency, often mistaken for lack of courage.

The conservative parties now have no policy on abortion and the Labor party forcefully proposes legalised abortion on demand.

Mr Harding would have heard me say back in 1 973 "that Australia would permit abortion on demand within ten years because the so called good people, who should have acted, did nothing or compromised for the sake of 'practical We are paying the price today, with some 80,000 children being slaughtered each year. Don't blame the Hierarchy, look' at your own role.

What Australia needs from Paul DONNELLY, Claremont

Sir, In discussions on abortion and contraception in Australia it is rarely mentioned that these practices are contributory to a forseeable decline and ageing of our population through a marked reduction in the Maternal Productivity (MP) amongst present day women of child bearing age.

Saving immigration this MP figure, also e xpressed as fertility index, is at an average family size of 1.8 children; half of whom being daughters implies that

each 100 mothers replace themselves with rather fewer than 90 daughters.

Whatever ever is said about our womenfolk having 50% of the total and physical potential of Australia, it must not be overlooked that they have 100% of the uterine function.

In a curious misassessment our Prime Minister stated recently that they contributed 50% to the population: not the 100% needed for national survival.

In failing to maintain population through natural increase Australia

follows the pattern of other major capitalist countries. West Germany and Japan's MP is only 70% population replacement; so too is that of porn-infamous Denmark.

At figures as low as this a people can virtually disappear over the course of three generations. Thus Karl Marx's major thesis, that capitalism is self destructive bears truth.

Others might claim that in Australia policies of population restriction are a product of socialism, promoted by a leftwards government and funded

by the taxpayer; largely through Medicare.

A second influence is the favourable presentation of marriage infidelity and other sins against the sixth commandment by the media and especially by television as presented by our ABC; again a publically financed activity.

Australia for a balanced economy needs a population of at least 30 million. Through promotion of abortion and contraception, by restriction of immigration our policies suggest that never will such a figure be reached except by invasion.

Planning for abortion from the secretary, Australian Family Association Sir, We are staggered to read, that the Family Planning Association is having difficulty in coping on taxpayer funded grants of $1 8 million

Holy Spirit you who make me see everything and who shows me the way to reach my ideal. You who give me the divine gift to forgive and forget all that is done to me, and who in all the instances of my life are with me. I want to thank-you for everything and confirm once more that I never want to be separated from you, no matter how great the material desires may be. I want to be with you and my loved ones in your perpetual glory. This prayer said on three consecutive days with only one request will be granted. Publication promised. Thanks P.

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Queens Park top A tie breaker early in the day won by Queens Park over near rivals, Castledare. was the difference between the two teams when Queens Park won by a solitary game.

With the sets tied at five all in the first set of the day in the ladies' doubles. Kerry Williams and Geraldine Alderman beat Kerry Messer and Maureen Collis in a tie breaker. This set consequently enabled Queens Park to hold on to top spot in the "A" Grade Pennant on equal points with Dianella. With three rounds remaining. Castledare now can't afford to drop another match. Dianella easily accounted for St

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unambiguous nature of his many statements opposing abortion.

To say that our Archbishop-elect, Barry Hickey, has not given leadership on this issue would be grossly untrue.

Not only have his statements been frequent, but they have at times (ie this time last year) caused him to be vilified in the public media.

The bishops of Western Australia have fully supported the rallies and marches conducted by the Coalition for the Defence of Human Life, either by sending a speaker or clear statements of support and encouragement.

be in total accord with our philosophy Even though FPA claims to be -pro-choice- le, equally supportive of all of the options for women faced unplanned with or unwanted pregnancy it does little or nothing for women wishing to continue with a pregnancy but for those electing abortion it provides a range of services It is not surprising therefore that 76 per cent of pregnant women counselled by FPA choose to have an abortion

Benedict's 7 sets to 3.

Thornlie had the bye.

In the "B" Grade all the results were predictable.

Yadarra comfortably beat Queens Park 8 sets to 2, Attadale downed St Mark's by the same margin and Willetton beat Pignatelli 7 sets to 3. Dianella had the bye.

A very interesting situation now exists at the top of the table with the top three teams all equal on 14 points.

These teams would seem to be secure for a final four appearance. Attadale and Queens Park are set to battle out fourth position.

Results "A" Grade: Dianella 7/78

When was the last time FPA lobbied for improved funding to pregnancy support organisations? Yet it f requently lobbies for improved access to abortion It is clearly not what it claims to be — ie even-handed As Senator Harradine has claimed in the Senate, the FPAs -were very much part of the abortion infrastructure in Australiawhich every year obliterates 80,000 potential Australians — in our view an antisocial result. Senator Harradefeated St Benedict's 3/62; Queens Park 5/69 defeated Castledare 5/68; Thorrilie — bye.

"B." Grade: Yadarra 8/62 defeated Queens Park 2/55; Willetton 7/85 defeated Pignatelli 3/58; Attadale 8/ 87 defeated St Mark's 2/50; Dianella — bye. ""b 1lvb,IGera s de Queens Park

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dine claimed that -Rather than reducing our high abortion rate the money paid by the government to FPAs has helped to maintain our high abortion rate" Also we find it quite amazing that FPA according to its 1989/90 annual report provided over 10 hours consultancy service free of charge to each of the following pro-abortion organisations — the prochoice alliance and the Association for the Legal Right to Abortion, ALRA

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Lytilie Dennis Raymond Rabbit Goes Shopping by Lynne Dennis, published by Picturemac through Pan, $6.99.

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The extraordinary adventures of Swain, the courageous ginger cat, will delight children and adults everywhere.

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Keeper by Gerald Durrell, illustrated by Keith West (Michael O'Mara, through Pan $16.95).

Everyday, Keeper the boxer dog goes round to say good morning to his friends, the animals in the zoo.

One thy, AS he is visiting the Golden Lion Tamarins, the tiny monkeys from Brazil, a large Seagull swoops down from the sky to attack the baby Tamarin.

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Of all the moose in the tall dark forests of the north, none is more yucky than Mucky.

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unknown to whites despite the efforts of a handful of explorers. But 124 men, women and children from Ballarat, Bendigo, Portland, and around the world decided to carve out a settlement there. There

They did not notice obvious hazards, or stay to see the grass wither in the searing heat of the dry. That was left to three shiploads of inexperienced settlers living in the colony around Port Phillip. away to the east. A colonial governor keen for a land-boom success in his province, and the tales of a sharp land agent, lured them into selling up and embarking for a prosperous lite in the western territory They sailed into hell. Their stock died daily by the score, their crops failed, and many of the settlers themselves went to early waves.

When finally the venture collapsed. the survivors crept home.

The author has combed official and private papers in Australia and overseas to tell their full story, in interesting and readable narrative style, for the first time.

In the lives of those who went before The Wollaston Journals.

Volume 1 1840-1842.

Editedhy Geoffrey Bolton and Heather Vase with GeneileJones. (University of Western Australia Press. bb. $50.)

This new book from the iversity of %Nes. tern Australia Press comprises the first Of three volumes of the iournals written by Wollaston, the first Anglican Archdeacon of Perth. The beautifully bound book is not only fascinating reading. but also a handsome addition to any collection.

John Ramsden NXi)Ilaston arrived in the pioneer colony of Western Australia in 1841 at the age of 50 with his wife and family after leaving the security of a comfortable parish in rural Cambridgeshire. The shock of pioneering for Wollaston included finding that the government would pay him no salary until he had a church. He and his sons promptly built one, and provided Western Australia with one of its finest rural church buildings, St Mark's at Picton.

Later he was rector at Albany and the colony's first archdeacon before his death in 1856.

But there was much more to him than that During his shipboard voyage from England to Australia he unexpectedly

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His lively and perceptive accounts of shipboard life developed his skills, so that his journals, originally written for the information of friends in England, provide a uniquely lively and informative picture of colonial life in the 1840s.

Wollaston is never merely picturesque: he writes honestly about the hardships and dirt of pioneering life, as well as the efforts made by the settlers to retain something of their English culture

and standards. At the same time there was a shrewd practicality which enabled the Wollaston family to adapt readily to the Australian environment. A subtle portrait of a middle-class English family learning to come to terms with alien surroundings, this book is a record of enduring insight.

Wollaston is among the small group of writers of 150 years ago whose capacity to enliven the events of the everyday round make him highly relevant to the modern reader.

Cry of the Damaged Man; A PersonalJourney of Recovery by Tony Moore (Picador) $12.99).

'A siren seemed to be screaming inside my head.

There was damage everywhere Broken bits of my body and the car were twisted together in a gruesome embrace. Nothing would let go. I could not move.'

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Introducing Contemporary Theologies. Tbe That and Who of Theology Today by Neil Ormerod (EJ Dwyer $16.95).

Tremendously exciting and potentially disorienting — a good descritpion of theology today What is theology?

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NOVENA TO OUR LADY OF HEALTH VAILANKANNI Aug 30-Sept 8 Holy Trinity Church, Embleton Preacher — Father Robert Zivcovic OS M DAILY 7pm: Rosary, homily and benediction of t,le Most Holy Blessed Sacrament AUGUST 30: After the novena devotions, there will be a welcome get together for Father R Zivcovic at the parish hall Please bring a plate.

SEPTEMBER 2: Anointing of the sick SEPTEMBER 4: Blessing of the sick SEPTEMBER 5: After novena devotions, food fete at the parish hall SEPTEMBER 8: Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 7pm concelebrated Mass followed by (a) Candlelight procession to the grotto (b) Farewell get together for Father R Zivcovic

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INNER HEALING A weekend for experiencing God's great assurance for Healing the Hidden Self. Includes healing of memories, generational healing and a Special Healing Mass conducted by Fr Chris Ross, OSM St Joseph's Conference Centre 27 Penguin Road, Safety Bay. Friday, August 30(7.30pm) to Sunday, September 1 (4pm) $65 per person To register please send full amount or minimum 520 deposit together with name, address and phone number to Mandorla Centre for Inner Peace Inc, C. - 102 Lyrebird Way, Thornlie WA 6108 Registrations close - August 20 Enquiries: Phone Sam or Vesta on (09) 458 5633, Tony or Cath on (09) 383 2002.

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GUEST SPEAKER: Fr Ben McKenna, SM. Suggested donation: $5 at door.

BYO lunch. Coffee and tea provided.

ALL ARE WELCOME. Enquiries: Phone Vesta on 458 5633.

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Visit of Archbishop Hurley from South Africa.

St Thomas More College. Short talk on "Centesimus Annus".

St Joachim's Vic Park.

"Reflections on 100 years of Catholic Social Teaching."

LJ Goody Bio-ethics Centre.

"The Conflict of moral values in Contemporary Moral Theology."

St Joachim 'S. Vic Park.

"South African Update."

St Jerome's Parish, Spearwood. Mass & Breakfast with South African community Rerum Noverum Conference.

Led by Fr Donal Dorr, St Patrick's Missionary Society.

"Key Issues: The emergence over the past 100 years of the Social Justice Agenda of the Catholic Church and WCC." Conference continues following Mass.

Keynote presentations by Fr Donal Dorr "New challanges: The Social Justice Issues facing the churches today." 'A Spirituality of Social Justice Today."

Santa Maria College. Attadale. Cost $10.

Structural Analysis Workshop.

Led by Rev Stuart Reid of the Centr«. for Structural Analysis — Melbournt,

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6&7 Bishops Central Commission Meeting, Bishop Healy.

Launch parish software package at 8 Subiaco, Mons Keating.

Confirmation North Beach, Mons J. 9 Nestor.

108/11 Confirmation Leederville, Bishop Healy.

11 Confirmation Gingin-Chittering Mons Keating.

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

Confirmation Fremactie, Fr C. Ross, OS M. 14 Heads of Churches meeting, Bishop Healy.

15 Open Aranmore extensions, Bishop Healy.

17 Wanneroo Ball, Mons Keating.

18 Opening premises for Catholic Care Intellectually Handicapped, Bishop Healy.

Confirmation Rockingham, Mons Keating.

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

20 St Thomas More College council meeting, Bishop Healy.

24&25 Confirmation Balcatta, Bishop Healy.

25 Archdiocesan -Vocations" Mass, Mons Keating.

27 Installation of Archbishop Hickey.

The Bunbury Majellans are holding their Annual Retreat Day as follows: Sunday, August 25, 9.30am to 3.30pm (Mass at 2.30pm) at St Gerard Centre, Winton St, Sr Frances Maguire will be our guest speaker for the day and will lead us in prayer, reflection and group sharing. This promises to be a valuable day both for spiritual growth and sharing with ladies from out of town. All ladies are welcome to come. To assist in catering could you please inform either Anne Donovan phone (097) 95 9121 or Kerry Cirillo phone (097) 91 2463 before August 18.

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On Sunday, August 11, at the Bullsbrook Church "Virgin Mary Mother of the Church" the SACRI Association will be celebrating the Feast of the Assumption with Holy Mass at 2pm, followed by a procession (weather permitting). All welcome.

For further information and bus reservations please ring 444 7565 for Marangaroo, Perth, Highgate and Midland bus, 339 4015 for Fremantle bus and 275 6998 for Dianella bus.

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COUNTRY PRAYER The theme for the day of reflection to be held at St Patrick's church, York on Monday August 12 is "Sure trust in God".

Talks will be given by Fr Jim Dynon, S.J. commencing at 9.30am with Rosary and Cenacle and concluding with Mass at 2pm.

BYO lunch to share — tea/coffee available.

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RERUM NOVARUM CENTENARY AWARD The Catholic Social Justice Commission is inviting members of the local Church to nominate a person who has made a significant contribution towards the understanding and/or the practice of social justice in our archdiocese. The successful nominee will receive a free trip with a ccommodation to the Rerum Novarum celebrations in Adelaide from October 3-7, 1991.

Nominations should be no more than 250 words and addressed to: The Chairperson Catholic Social Justice Commission 459 Hay Street, Perth WA 6000 before August 21. 1991 Enquiries 325 1212