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Highs and lows of 1990s Free adherence to the Church, and with a new enthusiasm, along with greater participation of the laity are the good things he sees in the 1990s, Archbishop Hickey said last Sunday.

... AND WORRY OVER LACK OF LOYALTY TO HOLY FATHER

Addressing a 50th anniversary conference of the Legion of Mary, Archbishop Hickey said he was heartened when people spoke of the riches they find in going to Mass.

"Gone is the fear of eternal punishment if they don't.

parishes throngs of families filling churches to overflowing".

"They do not belong through fear but because of the love of the Lord, which is the best motive." had he Earlier expressed concern at the small Mass attendances and a fall off in the numbers going to confession.

"They are enthusiastic about belonging because they find there what they need — community and loving support of others, forgiveness and acceptance, the Bread of Life that nourishes and strengthens them as they struggle to raise families."

Despite constant public criticisms of the Church, he said, "you will find in the newer

Among trends that worried him, Archbishop Hickey said, were large numbers of young

people who do not participate in the life of the Church and the loss of respect for the importance of the Blessed Eucharist.

Greater participation by laity in prayer and bible discussion groups, in liturgy and parish life was not the same as a democratic Church, he warned.

"The Church is hierarchical and will remain so.

What is happening is that people are bringing their gifts and talents to every aspect of its life from prayer to decisions.

"So strong is this movement that priests have had to learn different ways of operating, drawing people in. This has not been easy for priests used to a more centralised model of Church authority."

Archbishop Hickey said he was worried about a lack of loyalty to the Holy Father, the erosion of authority attached to holy orders and theological speculation being accepted as current Catholic thinking and teaching.

The Legion of Mary conference got a helping hand from Scarborough parish choir members Ron and Mary Warby (left) pictured with Scarborough Legionary Eileen McKenna who is currently secretary to Senatus.

Inspirational The Legion of Mary's method was one of its sources of inspiration and Legionaries should be called Catholic Methodists, Archbishop Hickey told the conference.

Other inspirational sources were its evangelisation and Marian theology.

Noting that John and Charles Wesley were called Methodists because they insisted on a method of spiritual formation, the archbishop said: "You have a tried and tested method of formation: prayer, spiritual

reading, group discussion and apostolic activity.

"Retain that method because it forms members in a sound spiritual outlook."

He noted that evangelisation had also been a characteristic of the Legion of Mary, and that it had already accepted the call of Pope John Paul for a decade of evangelisation.

"Your Marian theology, too, is soundly based. You see Mary as your exemplar in prayer and in fidelity to God's will.

"You also see her as the one

who prays for you and one who leads you to her son.

The archbishop also cited the "erosion of Catholic values as we become indistinguishable from the rest of society in our values of respect for life, divorce, personal goals, material and goods individualism".

Family prayer in focus

"These three aspects will hold you in good stead in the 1990s," he said.

Archbishop Hickey's first pastoral letter is likely to be on the subject of prayer and family prayer in particular.

"Family prayer is to be promoted as part of the vocation of parents to form their children in the ways of faith."

"You may feel a little crowded by new groups and movements in the Church. It should not really worry you. It is wonderful that many flowers bloom in the Church. The Legion has flowered marvellously.

Now it stands with other blooms, all loving signs of God's loving care of the Church."

Calling on the Legion of Mary to find ways of distributing booklets and otherwise helping parents with prayers for children the archbishop said: "We cannot leave the formation of our children in prayer to our schools alone. They will and do help as much as they can, but they cannot take the place of the family.

Archbishop Hickey said the parents would need good simple resources and ideas to help them.

"Iwill be asking my priests to co-operate fully in this venture and our religious education teachers to see that the success of their efforts depends very much on what happens at home."

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Bishop Matthew Gibney's priority was education, Archbishop Hickey said at the opening of High W ycombe school named in honour of the former Bishop of Perth 1887-1910.

"Bishop Gibney said at one time in Geraldton: 'I want a school before there is a church or presbytery'," Archbishop Hickey said.

Citing also Bishop Gibney's initiatives in starting the orphanage that is now the McAuley Centre, the institutions con-

ducted by the Christian Brothers and the Good Shepherd Sisters, Archbishop Hickey said.

"He was interested in children, not only the children of good, intact families, that could be accommodated in normal Catholic schools, but also the underprivileged children and the orphans, and there were plenty of them, making sure that facilities were there for them.

"He was known also for his concern for the Aboriginal people.

"In starting the missions

of the north he said the priority was children again.

"So he is a great patron to have and lam sure that he is looking kindly on this school here that bears his name.

"I look back to him as a source of inspiration for what I should do as Archbishop and I am sure we will all look back to him for inspiration of courage, of dedication, of a vision for the future and trust in God." Performing his first school blessing in the

archdiocese, Archbishop Hickey continued: "Unless we work with the blessing of God, unless we work according to the will of God, we are wasting our time, so right from the very beginning of this school we dedicate ourselves to the well being of the children, to their Christian formation and we do so with the blessing and protection of God, we do so confident and trustful in God. "You start with a debt but you start with great enthusiasm and God will

bless your work and it will multiply for the good of this generation and many generations to come."

The new school at High Wycombe is like a young family with a new home — no money but a lot of hope, pride and vision, Dr Peter Tannock said.

"You start behind, a long way behind," he said, pointing out that the school is being supported by the pool of funds that supports Catholic schools statewide.

"It is a joy to support new communities like this because you deserve and because of what you do for yourselves.

"In the long term you will be a big strong school and you will support many others."

Thanking the state government for the school's low interest loan, Dr Tannock continued: "Regrettably it is a loan and not a gift but we do appreciate the discounted interest.

"It is a marvellous beginning. Please recognise it as a beginning and

really the hard work starts now," he said.

Listing the large number of primary and secondary schools that have been opened in recent years Dr Tannock said: "There have been one or t wo closures and although they are sad; they are part of the dynamic change in Catholic education.

"We have been going for 150 years; we've opened many schools and we have closed quite a number and that will be the ongoing pattern."

Church must play more prophetic role, he says The Church will have to take on a much more prophetic role if it is to match the challenges of the times, says an Irish specialist in the field of justice and development.

Kiltegan missionary Father Donal Dorr who has worked extensively in Africa and in his native Ireland also points out that the majority of Catholics do not belong to the Western world and the Church may not have adapted sufficiently to that fact.

Rome has brought in people from the developing countries but has not provided a model of Church that takes inculturation seriously.

These are some of the ideas that flowed from the prolific mind of Father Dorr when he stopped over in Perth for a local conference on social justice before heading for Adelaide and the national celebration of the Rerum Novarum centenary.

The Church's prophetic role is needed, he says, because the earth itself is being exploited and the gap between rich and poor is widening.

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The Church can no longer collude with the notions of development that were embraced so enthusiastically in the past.

"Even Pope john XXIII assumed that human and economic development would solve the problem of the poor.

"Now, as Pope John Paul reminds us, it is a very suspect model that is exploiting the earth and people and destroying even the consumer society that benefits.

"The Church has to take a much more prophetic stance and that is not easy because many of our western Catholics are not comfortable people.

Such a model of human development causes the collapse of ethical life.

"Business is the survival of the fittest but they turn out to be the most ruthless, the most exploitative.

"The entrepreneurial system is where the operative values are not truly moral values."

But Father Donal Dorr is quick to point out that the change is not going to come about merely by teaching people moral

values.

"Changes come from below. We must work with the poorer people and have them challenge the prevailing model."

It is no longer a question of converting the people at the top, he says. "We have to start at the other end."

For Father Dorr 'the other end" has been his experience in East and West Africa. "On the ground" is the way he describes how he has learnt about the Church and changing attitudes.

When he worked on leadership and development education with poor

people in northern Kenya he said to himself "rve come home."

He was happy because his task was not to lecture but to listen, to draw out the threads and gather in the fragments in the gospel sense.

Later he took those experiences to Nigeria, Ghana and other West African countries.

The missionary Church that has done so much for the African Church in the past faces new challenges, e says. The Church must not be identified only with western Christianity and must offer the prospect of a pluralist world in which there are many ways of being authentically Christian.

The change for the Church's social teaching came about he says in 1961, the year he was ordained priest. It was a change brought about not by the Vatican Council but by Pope John XXIII and many clergy and laity who did not notice the change got left behind.

From an attitude that the social teaching of the Church was mainly anticommunist and antisocialist and being suspicious of state intervention

it now became a matter of the state needing to take action to protect those being victimised.

Pope John X)Ull had realised that Catholic teaching could be put to the defence of special interest groups such as the powerful and the rich.

An even more important change came about in the late 1960s with the Church making an option on behalf of those being victimised.

Historically the Church has done a lot for the poor, the sick, orphans and in education.

But those were times, Fr Dorr says, "when we were not the top dog and in many cases we were bringing care to our own who happened to be the poor".

"As we began to grow older we began to grow more respectable.

"Now we have many of the most respectable schools and while there is nothing wrong in having such schooLs and hospitals, the religious orders whose charism was to help the poor are asking what are their priorities."

Surprise reaction to wealth probe

The consultation process of the Catholic bishops enquiry in wealth may be drawing as much support as the topic itself.

"Some would like the process to go on without ever having a final document published," commented Bishop William Brennan of Wagga in Perth last week.

Bishop Brennan, in Perth to address the Newman Graduate Society, is chairman of the Australian Bishops Committee for Justice Development and Peace and for which Archbishop Foley launched the enquiry into wealth some four years ago.

A draft has been put out and responses are being studied for a final document next year.

The reaction of people to the consultation has surprised Bishop Brennan who said he got the most ever notice taken of him when he announced in small newspaper advertisements that he would listen to submissions at a public hearing.

"It surprised me because Iam like every other bishop who thinks his door is always open, who answers his phone and opens his mail and thinks people are free to present ideas to him."

The draft statement has drawn more responses than the original round of enquiries.

Some favour what has developed; others wonder why their first ideas have not been taken up.

Bishop Brennan says that Australia's economic situation has changed radically since the enquiry into wealth began and before the country moved into a recession.

The final document, he says, will have to look at issues such as unemployment, reform of the tax system, the delivery of social welfare services and whether help being given to the poor is making their plight worse.

Bishop Brennan is disappointed that out of some 40 recommendations in the draft the media of Australia seized on only two: the suggestion that the government itself conduct a wealth enquiry and the possibility of a wealth tax through death duties.

Bishop Brennan's personal view is that housing is still the crucial factor and whether a family is well fed or undernourished is

determined by the amount the family has to pay out on housing.

He is also concerned that the largest section of the poor in Australia are the single parents typically widowed or divorced and with children.

"They represent the feminisation of poverty and they should be the prime target of assistance."

The Aborigines too, he says, "by any criterion are the most underprivileged section of the Australian community."

He feels there is too much emphasis on economic rationalism as if the only concern is economic.

The answer he says, is to emphasise, along

Church always against sexual harassment

W ASHINGTON (CNS): Sexual harassment has long been condemned by church leaders, including Pope John Paul II and the US bishops.

"Whenever man is responsible for offending a woman's personal dignity and vocation, he acts contrary to his own

personal dignity and his own vocation," said the pope in his 1988 apos-

tolic letter on women, titled "Mulieris Dignitatem" ("On the Dignity of Women").

The letter also criticised any "situations in which the woman remains disadvantaged or discriminated against by the fact of being a woman".

The US bishops have been much more blunt in the two drafts of their proposed pastoral letter on women's concerns and in the personnel policies guiding their own employees at the National Conference of C atholic Bishops in

Washington.

"Acts of gross injustice like harassment and physical abuse in the workplace and debasement in the media must stop," said the second draft of the pastoral, called "One in Christ Jesus: A Pastoral Response to the Concerns of Women for Church and Society".

"Bishops and priests must denounce physical, sexual, economic and psychological acts of injustice against women," the second draft added. "Boys and men must be educated to respect the personal integrity of women, to recognise how sinful violence and every form of sexual exploitation really are."

The Policies and Procedures Manual describes sexual harassment as "a form of misconduct which undermines the integrity of the employment relationship".

"No employee — male work," he said in a 1983 or female — should be meeting with 15.000 subjected to unsolicited blue-collar workers in and unwelcomed sexual Vienna. They must be overtures or conduct, allowed to work without either verbal or physical," being disadvantaged or said the policy, which shut out from positions dates to 1988. Employees for which they are found to have engaged in qualified. sexual harassment may In 1987 on Italy's be suspended, demoted annual Women's Day, or discharged, "depend- the pope said the ing on the circumstan- Catholic Church "is ces", the manual added. interested in especially Sexual harassment the just recognition of "does not mean occa- women's social and civil sional compliments of a rights in the light of the acceptable dignity and indentity of socially nature", the poplicy every woman". states, but rather refers to On 1989 International "unwelcome sexual Women's Day he called advances, requests for for "commitment of all" sexual favours and other to the defense and the verbal or physical con- promotion of the dignity duct of a sexual nature" of woman, of her equalin the workplace. ity" and of her "inalienaPope John Paul has ble human rights". made clear his disdain A year ago, Bishop for any activities that Hubbard of Albany, NY, harm the dignity or said Catholics don't need equality of female to wait for a bishops' employees. pastoral letter to begin "Women must not be fighting the evils of discriminated against at sexism,.

with Pope John Paul the dignity and respect to do with the human person.

"We have to put the human person first and build the economy around the person.

Otherwise we are making capital more important than labour."

Bishop Brennan says state and federal politicians are taking note of what is corning out of the bishop's enquiry into wealth.

"Both the politicians and public servants realise that in Canberra they live in an isolated environment. They are pleased to have input from an outside body such as the Catholic Church."

Since the bishops' enquiry started, there have been a number of shifts in policy and problems have been addressed. The draft and the final document have had to take that into account.

What use Catholics make of the final documents is up to themselves the bishop says.

"A Catholic's responsibility is to adhere to the principles of the gospel and the basic tenets of Catholic and social doctrine. The practical application is a matter of prudential judgement.

The recommendations of the bishops are not binding on Catholics.

"The hearts of most Catholics and most Australians are fairly compassionate and we need to be better organised and more perceptive at looking at the poverty around us and judging what to do.

Bishop Brennan says there was an initial fear that the bishops enquiry would fall for a socialist panacea to all of Australia's ills.

"We are trying to wake people up to the problem and get them to understand that we are all part of the solution."

Some initially took the position that the bishops should not get involved in economics, let alone politics, but Bishop Brennan thinks otherwise.

"Both economics and politics have a moral dimension and we have a right to make comment about the morality of economic decisions.

"That does not mean that we should get involved in party politics. What can affect the common good concerns us."

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Record Notwithstanding the sanctimonious denials made in front of television screens or press reports the truth is that bad news is good news — good news for the networks that give the public what the public are clearly deemed to want.

Bad news is good news for ratings, for hundreds of millions of dollars of ongoing media sales if the world can be hijacked as has happened this past week.

Spare a sympathetic thought for the American public which has been carpetbombed and napalmed with the bad news of alleged sexual harrassment — the subject that has divided the nation, no less, says every single commentator as an opening gambit. That is a lot of American people.

Beyond the USA probably a further thousand million people in English and how many other language networks have not been spared. There is no place to hide from film clips and analyses of the Washington hearings, repeated to the point of saturation in every follow up bulletin.

Not even a whiff or hint of obscenity in the minute telling of sexual details that once were supposed to make grandmothers blush. Delivered now with the cold sterility of a post-mortem laboratory the bad news of Judge Thomas' best-forgotten episodes, true or otherwise, has been exploited like all bad news for public consumption, because bad news beats good news.

Sexual harrassment ceases henceforth to be a matter of morals or human dignity as the pope and the US bishops point out elsewhere in this edition. There are too many others who stand to gain.

The low profile and confidentiality with which such charges are claimed to be handled up till now will be no match for the legal grandstanding that will be the way ahead.

The moral boundaries of defamation, detraction or calumny that once protected personal privacy clearly will have no defence against the legal claims of hearings and courts to publish and probe into every peccadillo of everyone's past and the undisputed right of others like world news networks to make a profit picking over the carcasses.

This relentless episode proves also to suit a lot of other agendas judging by the detail with which eg Australian audiences have been encouraged to listen carefully to these proceedings from many points of view.

However unintentional the woman professor's initial involvement in the revelations the matter was snatched from her hands and elevated far beyond the pale of defending women's sexual safety. The feminist pro-abortion lobby was out to nail Judge Thomas at whatever cost. They will not give up even if he now sits on the bench.

Those watching from outside the US also clearly know little of the racial tensions that lurk beyond the surface of that nation and which Judge Thomas has painted in bitter and stark language.

Like true politicians Republican and Democrat senators found a handy if grubby battleground on which to settle scores. And so the parasites grow and feed on a cancer that supposedly happened a decade ago.

Yet for all the circus atmosphere with which this distasteful episode has been elevated into world wide theatre (what sense do Asia's or Africa's poor make of it all?) is it the messenger network we are to blame or the hypocrisy and scandal mongering of the message that plague all human beings.

It may be good entertainment or home made rough justice to pillor y vulnerable leading figures in public. The stocks have not vanished (nor have the lynch mobs as Judge Thomas observes).

If women specifically and for too long have received rough justice at the hands of male work associates or in their homes then that immorality has to be challenged and stamped out.

The howl for blood and vengeance may prove to he the uncontrollable evil it has always been — even if it is now at the end of a TV lens.

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BOOST IN ALL AREAS FOR CHURCH

NEW YORK, (CNS): Church membership is up, membership to 57.02 million members. The giving is up, and praying is up, according to the Southern Baptist Convention was the biggest 1991 Yearbook of American and Canadian Protestant group, reporting just over 14.9 million Churches, compiled by the National Council of members, a 0.6 gain over last year.

Churches.

The United Methodist Church, the third In 1989 the total religious membership in the largest US church, had nine million members, United States increased somewhat faster than down less than one per cent. the total population — from 145,383,738 to Other groups reporting an annual net gain in 147,607,394 an increase of 1.5 per cent. The members included the Presbyterian Church in population grew 0.9 per cent.

America, 4.3 per cent; Jehovah's Witnesses, 2.6 Roman Catholicism and several conservative per cent; Seventh-day Adventists, 2.1 per cent; denominations, including evangelical churches, Church of the Nazarene, 1.6 per cent. recorded membership gains. While many In Canada 87 religious bodies reported a rise mainline Protestant bodies reported declines, in combined membership of less than 0.1 per most were less than one per cent. cent, or 16.83 million.

In the United States the Roman Catholic The two largest Canadian churches are the Church, by far the biggest US religious body, Roman Catholic Church with 11.4 million showed an increase in its rolls of 2.1 million members and the United Church of Canada members of 3.8 per cent, bringing its total with two million.

Latin keeps pace

VATICAN CITY, (CNS):— If Pope John Paul ll wanted to condemn the chaotic Roman rush hour, he might title his papal bull, "Fluxus interclusio".

The phrase is Latin for "traffic jam" — and now, thanks to a group of Vatican scholars, you can look it up.

In December the Vatican will unveil the longawaited first volume of its dictionary of contemporary Lein, the "Lexicon Recentis Latinitas".

Between its covers are Latin equivalents for such modernisms as "gulag", "dishwasher" and "cover girl".

"There are a great number of new words in circulation today, from every language and with various nuances. Latin had to catch up," said Father Anacleto Pavanetto, vice president of the Vatican's "Latinitas" foundation, which carried out the five-yearlong project.

Volume 1, with about 450 pages and 18,000 entries, covers A-L

The second half of the impudens", the shame- "tunicula dormitoria", a dictionary should be less flatterer known to little night time tunic. ready in a couple of every age.

The number of automoyears, Father Pavanetto Ancient Romans loved bile terms in the new said optimistically. games and circuses, but dictionary might lead The lexicon will provide they never had a chance one to believe the pope the Vatican with a wider to play a "sphaeriludium was readying an aposvocabulary for its official electricum nomismate tolic letter on how to documents, which actum" — literally, an drive. A few examples: increasingly touch upon "electric game with a ball "disc brakes", "carburetworldly topics. Latin, put into motion". tor" and "car wash" (just although it has fallen The work has taken so look for the sign marked into disuse even at the long because each word "autocinetorum lavatop of the hierarchy, is and definition had to be trix"). still the Church's official approved by a committee "Machina linteorum language for major of experts, often after lavatoria" would have publications. heated debate. made no sense to ancient Many of the new terms, Those tending toward Romans, since they however, seem more the vulgar, were didn't have washing suited to a tabloid news- dropped, said Father machines. Neither would paper than a papal Pavanetto. But the com- the dictionary's rather encyclical. mittee did manage to torpid term for "disco", "Glue-sniffing", "alcoh- roam into some pretty "orbium phonographicoolism" and "brainwash- secular territory. rum theca" — literally, a ing" for example, all have A "flirtation" is defined place to hear worldly Latin equivalents in the as "amor levis" or flip- records. new dictionary. So do pant love. The entry's In writing the diction"slot machines", "war- synonyms flesh out the ary, the committee tried monger" and meaning: "lusus cum to avoid "polluting" Latin "hypertension". blanclitiis", a game with with modern terms.

"Secret agent" is Lati- flatteries, and "lascivia Whenever possible, exist nised as "speculator brevis", what might be ing Latin — or Greek -tectus" — based on a called a one-night stand. words were used. But, as phrase once used by The sheer negligee once in the case of "alcoholo Cicero to describe a known in the United imbuo" (to steep in foreign eavesdropper at a States (and still known in booze), that wasn't dinner party. A "boot- Italy) as a "baby-doll" always possible. There licker" is an "adulator comes out in Latin as a was no Latin word for

Till they meet again WASHINGTON (CNS): substantial Catholic After meeting with 12 US Jewish dialogue in my Jewish leaders in country," he said. "I look Washington, Polish Cardi- forward to the continuanal Jozef Glemp of War- tion of this." saw invited them to meet Catholic and Jewish with him again early next participants in the meetyear in Warsaw. ing had described it as a "Because of the small candid, constructive number of Jews in exchange that opened Poland today, a fact the door to a new level of which has its own tragic Catholic-Jewish underhistory, the co-operation standing in Poland. of the Catholic Church Cardinal Glemp said at and Jewish leaders in the the meeting that he United States is essential sincerely regretted the if there is to be a pain he caused many

Jews by earlier comments which "were seen as fostering stereotypes of Jews and Judaism, but were in many aspects based on mistaken information".

But the New York rabbi, Abraham Weiss who twice tried unsuccessfully to sue Cardinal Glemp in Polish courts, has sued the cardinal in New York.

In July 1989 Rabbi Weiss and a small group

in Warsaw of followers scaled the fence of a controversial Carmelite convent next to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland and held a protest vigil on the convent grounds. Several workers ejected the demonstrators bodily, reportedly beating and injuring at least two of them.

In a homily urging a frank but calm dialogue over the convent Cardinal Glemp referred to the rabbi's protest as an attack that threatened

For whom the bell tolls . . .

LVOV, USSR (CNS): Ukrainian Catholics in Kiev have been given permission to hold liturgies in an 18th-century bell tower, but not in the adjacent empty church.

The Kiev city council ordered a section of the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture which had been using the tower for offices to vacate the premises.

The bell tower of the

Church of St Michael the Good can accommodate about 100 worshippers.

About 300 people in Kiev, attend the weekly Ukrainian Catholic liturgies which have been held

alcohol.

The Latinitas foundation was created by Pope Paul VI in part to keep Latin alive. The dictionary is trying to do the same — by giving the language of churchmen and scholars a transfusion from the real world.

But it may be a losing battle. At last year's synod in Rome, for example, only three of about 200 bishops signed up for the Latin-language discussion group. On the rare occasion that a bishop actually addressed the synod in Latin, there was great fumbling for the translation headphones.

The pope jokingly scolded the bishops about not knowing Latin — but he had to do it in Italian, so they would understand what he was saying.

Latinitas members believe there are thousands of scholars who will use the new lexicon.

Some even think the tome could turn into an academic best-seller — or a "liber maxime venditus".

in the church courtyard.

Church-goers are not allowed to use an existing church because Easternrite Catholics have no traditional presence in

the convent.

"Because they (the demonstrators) were restrained, it did not result in the killing of the sisters or the destruction of the convent; but do not call the aggressors heroes," he said.

The rabbi wants the cardinal "to admit what he said was false" in a public statement, or else to have a court "rule definitively that what he said was false".

that part of the republic.

The Ukrainian Orthodox and Ukrainian Autocephalus Orthodox authorities will not allow a church to be given to Ukrainian Catholics.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul II told the Pontifical Council for the Family that he hoped their guidelines for marriage preparation classes would help the universal church strengthen Catholic marriages.

In drawing up the guidelines, the pope said, the doctrinal content must receive special attention.

Course materials. must be reliable and should help couples understand the sacramental nature of marriage and the family responsibilities that come with it, he said.

"The questions relative to the unity and the indissolubility of marriage and as regards the meaning of the union and

lor's hometown, Pope John Paul II is to celebrate a Liturgy of the Word.

Collor, a Catholic, has admitted to having marriage problems the past two months with his second wife, Rosane, whom he married in a civil ceremony seven

he had rewritten the summary and the key judgments of the analysis to focus on the Soviet plot theory and thus please his boss, the late William J. Casey.

"I never distorted the intelligence to support policy or to please a policymaker. We were wrong at times, but our judgments were honest."

The 1985 analysis said: "The USSR has a long history of involvement in a.s.sas.sinations of political enemies outside its borders."

The study on the papal plot has become a central issue in a growing storm over Gates' alleged skewing of intelligence to fit

The pope said pre-marriage courses not only should ensure that the man and woman are maturely and freely choosing marriage, but that they understand "their own mission as parents, as first educators and evangelists of their children."

years ago. He has removed his wedding band and dismissed his wife and her relatives from government positions.

Collor told the press that after seven years of marriage there are bound to be problems.

the views of his superiors.

The contested report said Moscow had a "strong incentive" to move against the pope, whose support for the Solidarity union in his native Poland was threatening the Soviet central authority's grip on Eastern Europe.

Critics claim that Gates, apparently at Casey's behest, pressed analysts to implicate Moscow in the assassination attempt despite a lack of hard evidence.

"There was pressure throughout to produce an assessment implicating the Soviets.., but the evidence wasn't there,"

A spokesman for the Brazilian bishops' conference said choosing Maceio for the pope's speech on marriage was not meant to hurt the president.

At the Vatican, the vice director of the Vatican press office, said: "It's too

early to say what the Holy Father will say.

Things can change from one day to the next".

The Vatican lists the theme for the Maceio Liturgy of the Word as "Evangelisation at Work and Home".

said Melvin Goodman, a Soviet and Bulgarian Soviet specialist who governments organised headed the CIA's Soviet- the murder attempt.

Third World Division.

Italian Prime Minister Newly declassified doc- Guilio Andreotti asked uments indicated CIA Soviet President Mikhail analysts were asked to Gorbachev to conduct an argue the strongest possi- investigation into possible case for Soviet invol- ble KGB involvement in vement by Gates, at the the assassination time deputy director of attempt. intelligence.

In August Andreotti The Bulgarian secret received a letter from police and the Soviet Gorbachev indicating KGB were implicated in that a thorough investithe assassination attempt gation of KGB archives

by Mehmet All Agca, the and interviews with KGB right-wing Turkish gun- personnel had been conman convicted of ducted by the Soviet wounding the pope May president's "closest" staff 13, 1981, in St Peter's members and had Square in Rome. Earlier turned up no evidence this year, Agca reiterated that the KGB was his statement that the involved.

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The same precision must be given to discussion of "the gift of life, which parents must accept in a responsible manner, with joy, as collaborators with the Lord," he said.

Gates admits giving flawed note on papal shooting WASHINGTON, (CNS): CIA nominee Robert Gates has denied he skewed a report on the 1981 papal shooting in order to implicate the Soviets, but acknowledged he failed to point out the report's deficiencies in a cover note to then-Vice President George Bush.

He said that it did not thoroughly examine all the alternatives that were available.

Gates instead write to Bush that the study of the assassination attempt was the "most comprehensive" the agency had done.

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'No' to speech on marriage SAO PAULO, Brazil (CNS): Foreign ministry officials said Pope John Paul II will not speak on he permanence of marriage when he visits Maceio because it might embarrass Brazil's president.

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Dangerous exodus ...IN THE FACE OF TENSIONS IN EUROPE

VATICAN CITY, (CNS): The westward migratory flow from Eastern Europe could swell to a dangerous exodus unless economic and ethnic tensions are resolved in former communist countries, experts told a Vatican conference on migration.

The civil war in Yugoslavia has created more than 300,000 refugees and illustrates what can happen when national aspirations are frustrated in the wake of communism's collapse, Ivo Baucic, a Croation academic and researcher on migration, said.

In Germany, where the first anniversary of reunification was marred by attacks on immigrant communities, "no one can as yet foresee the consequences" of the unprecedented influx from the East, said Auxiliary Bishop Klaus Dick of Cologne, Germany.

"The magnitude of this migratory movement is greater than that of the famous migration of peoples that changed the face of Europe at the end of the ancient world and the beginning of the Middle Ages," Bishop Dick said.

He called on the church to mobilise to help integrate the new arrivals and be a "watchdog" on human rights, while providing liturgical and pastoral options for Catholic immigrants.

Now that the Iron Curtain has fallen, Baucic said, the West faces a very real danger that growing nationalistic unrest and worsening economies could produce "rivers of refugees which would be difficult to stop".

Even in places of relative social calm, people are ready to leave, he said. He cited a recent poll in Czechoslovakia that showed half its work force would like to go west.

A proposed Soviet law that would liberalise emigration could throw millions more into motion toward Western Europe, experts have said.

Baucic said the West should develop a strategy to aid countries of origin. He suggested that recognising the nationalist aspirations of ethnic groups — such as Croatians — was one way to reduce the flow of dissatisfied populations.

Bishop Dick agreed that the migration

problem must be dealt with at the source. But meanwhile, the arrival of tens of thousands of East Europeans in Germany over the past two years has posed a challenge to German society and the church.

Bishop Dick said the church hierarchy should generally stay out of controversial debate on political questions, such as how many immigrants can be incorporated into the German economy without the economic system collapsing.

The bishop said the church should avoid "forceful proselytising" of immigrants, but should realise that the collapse of communist ideology represents an evangelisation opportunity for the church and "must not be allowed to slip by".

The church must be "exemplary" in its treatment of foreign arrivals, he said. For Catholic immigrants, the local church should operate on the principle that "whenever baptised persons are living together in one place, they represent the 'church' there, whatever their origins may be", he said.

Theologian throws in towel ROME, (CNS): Franciscan Father Leonardo Boff, a Brazilian theologian, conceded defeat in his ongoing battle with the Vatican and his religious superiors over his controversial writings on liberation theology.

"I desist," the priest wrote in an April letter after receiving his latest punishment.

He said the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Franciscan generalate "have won".

He wrote after being removed as editor of a theological magazine.

Along with leaving the magazine, Father Boff accepted the suggestion that he take a year's sabbatical from his teaching post at the Institute of Theology in Petropolis, Brazil.

In 1985 Father Boff was ordered not to write or speak publicly about controversial theological matters for a year as a result of Vatican disapproval of his book on

Church power, "Church: Charism and Power".

Father Boff wrote "it is evident" that dismissal from the magazine was not an initiative of the Franciscan order, "But the will of the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in agreement with some Brazilian bishops, who are conservative, if not reactionary".

Referring to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the doctrinal congregation, Father Boff wrote,

"sincerely, that which happened to me could not have been done by anyone else".

Father Boff said that instead of defending the magazine, his Franciscan superiors "backed up those who blame us and in this way strengthened those who condemn us".

He said the appointment of the censor for the magazine was reminiscent of "the logic of repression" typical of the Latin American military dictatorships of the

1960s and '70s.

"The intervention is an act of violence," he said.

"I must be humble because humility is a virtue. But Ido not accept humiliation, because humiliation is a sin," Father Boff wrote. "And I do not want to make myself an accomplice of sin.

"On my part,I expected a little more respect and consideration for my white hair and 22 years of theological ministry," he said, "not only in our

local Church but in many other parts of the world. I was treated like a novice in theology and a childish acolyte."

The letter was signed, "Leonardo Boff, minor theologian and sinner".

In March Father John Vaughn, then minister general of the Franciscans told Father Felix Neefjes, a Franciscan official in Brazil, the magazine had received repeated requests to keep its articles in line with Church teaching.

Vatican prayer service

VATICAN CITY, (CNS): Pope John Paul II, presiding at a vespers service with the Lutheran archbishops of Sweden and Finland, said the history of antagonism between Lutherans and Roman Catholics is being replaced by hope and mutual trust.

"The moment has come to declare that the denunciations from the time of the Reformation no longer are valid," said Lutheran Archbishop Bertil Werkstrom of Uppsala, Sweden.

The prayer service was

one of several events in Rome marking the 600th anniversary Oct 7 of the canonisation of St Bridget of Sweden, who is revered by both Catholics and Lutherans.

The pope said the common veneration of St Bridget makes her a "fulcrum of unity".

"The search for unity does need concrete steps forward," Pope John Paul said. And the ecumenical prayer service "certainly represents one such step".

No one can know ahead of time whether the

journey toward Chris- is weak and we have tian unity "will be lingered on our way." smooth or rough", he The 25-year-old intersaid. "We only know that national Catholicit is our duty to continue Lutheran dialogue has this journey together." led to recognition on Archbishop Werkstrom both sides that the said St Bridget, who died Reformation was meant more than 150 years to be a reform movement before the Reformation, "within the one, holy, is part of "our common Catholic and apostolic history and as such she Church", he said. can help us to build "The purpose of the bridges in an ecumenical Reformation was not to process". lead us away from each "The vocation of our other or to break the churches endures: to eucharistic communseek the unity which ion," the archbishop said.

Christ wants," the arch- "But it was necessary as bishop said. "But our will St Bridget was necessary

Keys to papal visit VATICAN CITY, (CNS): The possibility of a papal trip to the Soviet Union depends on "the behaviour of the state and of the Orthodox Church", said Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican secretary of state.

Government and Russian Orthodox leaders must be open to a papal visit, Cardinal Sodano said in an interview with the German newspaper Die Welt.

"The pope obviously wants very much to promote unity and to act in a way which will not give birth to any new difficulties," the cardinal said.

The natural forces leading to the downfall of communism in the region "certainly includes the personal work of John Paul II".

"With exceptional vigour the Slavic pope

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gave hope to those sorely tried populations. Before the whole world he recalled the obligation of government to respect religious liberty," the cardinal said.

"When those populations regained trust in themselves and lost fear, a systematic opposition to those despotic regimes began," he said.

in the history of the Church."

The pope said the Roman Catholic and Lutheran Churches "are very close" to reaching a common understanding of a key Reformation dispute — the doctrine of justification.

Agreement will "help us to resolve the other controversies directly or indirectly linked to it," Archbishop Werkstrom said.

At the end of the service, Lutheran Archbishop John Vilcstrom of Turku, Finland, said, "we have for a short time been up

The magazine has been a concern to the Vatican, the Franciscan leadership "and me personally, as well as to many Brazilian bishops", Father Vaughn said.

The magazine has been "exercising a kind of counter-magisterium with negative effects on the clergy and faithful", he said. The magazine is "not in harmony with the ecclesiastical magisterium and the pastoral orientations of the bishops".

on a hill and enjoyed a truly impressive view".

Much of the ecumenical journey is spent in "the valley" struggling with risks, difficulties and obscured views, he said.

But it is a "valley of grace" where "God takes particular care of the least and the weakest".

The Lutheran archbishops and the Swedish royal couple also attended a Mass celebrated by Pope John Paul in St Bridget's honour in the square outside the house in Rome where the saint died in 1373.

Subway ads to stay WASHINGTON, (CNS): The Archdiocese of Washington has asked the local Metro transit system to remove subway advertisements termed as "anti-Catholic bigotry", but Metro says the ads are protected under the First Amendment.

The ads, which imply that the US government is following a Vatican agenda accuse Pope John Paul H of interfering in the nomination of judge

Clarence Thomas to the US Supreme Court.

They warn that if Thomas, who was raised Catholic, joines two other Catholic Justices, "the supreme Court will be further tilted toward the Vatican".

The ads, which cost nearly $12,000 were paid

for by the Laymen for Religious Liberty, an

organisation founded by David Mould, a member

of the Seventh-day Adventists.

Mould said the ads were "not about Catholic bigotry, but simply to spark debate". He added that the purpose of the ad was to publicise the book, "the Great Controversy" by Ellen White, a founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Officials at the global headquarters for the Seventh-day Adventist Church said Mould's organisation is not recognised as a part of the church.

A representative of the Seventh-day Adventists sent a letter of apology to Cardinal Hickey,

expressing "tremendous regret" for the advertisement.

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Art as an expression of religious fervour or as an intellectual inquiry has an established record culturally, historically and individually.

Reflections of that

range are in the seventh Mandorla Religious Art Prize exhibition now showing in the New Norcia Gallery until November 3.

The four judges (Rt Rev Bernard Rooney,

Abbot emeritus Bernard Rooney taking note of James Meldrum's "Ascensione" which was highly commended.

Sandra Murray, Robert Juniper and Noel Sheridan) needed a two-session analysis on Friday, October 11, before making their collective agreement on the winner who received the Kevin Sullivan

Award of a trip to Tuscany with accommodation and studio space for two months.

The winner was Nigel Hewitt with his meticulous drawing "Jurien".

The theme challeng-

ing this year's thirtyone entrants from across Australia was from John 14:27 — "Peace I leave with you: My peace Igive to you."

There are figurative, factual and abstract

Abbot Rooney taking a close look at "The Quiet Altar" which won the encouragement award.

submissions all as of any viewer looking personal interpreta- through and beyond tions and the winning the protective barrier. picture is especially Two highly compoignant in its esoteric mended awards went coinciding with the to James Meldrum's theme.

"Asce,nsione" and to Hewitt's winning Kirsten Makinson for entry was a shade late her photos of an in presentation installation called because his brother- "The Last Supper", in-law was dying dur- redolent of Leonardo's ing its creation and subject and setting in passed away before its the refectory of St completion. Every Maria delle Grazie in mark was made think- Milan. ing of Jurien the The encouragement person and was award went to Patrizia treated in a human, Tonello's "The Quiet caring way.

Altar".

It was created think- It all stays in New ing of death and peace. Norcia during next The judges were week's Marian Pilunaware of that moti- grimage and then vational narrative. moves to Allendale Broadly the work Square (November 12shows two human 23) and on to New shadows on a 'wall to Collectables Gallery in the left, an opened East Fremantle book or box to the (November 27right and a central December 1). corridor leading to a Do go and share the light. Even the viewer pictures, the safe, the reflections in the cov- sensitive, the investigering glass were part of ative and the suspect.

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Special signs Mass

By IAN ESMOND The "signing" of the General Intercessions at a special Mass for the hearing impaired at South Lake parish last Sunday meant parishioners had a chance to experience the plight of deaf people at Mass.

Parishioners were forced to read the intercessions on the overhead projector screen as most of the petitions were given in sign language without speech.

This, according to Barbara Harris from the Ministry with Deaf People team which helped

organise the Mass, gave people an awareness of the difficulties confronting deaf people at Mass.

"We are used to thinking of hearing as the only way of communicating," Mrs Harris said.

"When we don't hear that speech coming at us, we can realise how we take language for granted and become more sensitive to the problems of deaf people at Mass."

Chaplain to the Ministry team, Fr Paul Pitzen, celebrated the Mass at the invitation of South Lake parishioner, Patricia Arkinstall, whose daughter Jane is profoundly deaf.

The entire text of the Mass, including the hymns and homily, was both interpreted (signed) and displayed on the overhead projector as it was

spoken.

Many hearing impaired people in the congregation joined in the Mass by signing their responses and the hymns.

"This helps to make us aware that signing is a different way of praying," said Mrs Harris.

"Hearing impaired people often need to sip; prayers just as others need to vocalise them."

The Joondanna parish conducts a Mass for the hearing impaired each Saturday night, but the Ministry with Deaf People team is hoping to establish three further centres with such Masses each weekend in parishes in the southern, eastern and western suburbs of Perth.

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What is your sou

By Father Lawrence Mick Tuning in regularly to the spiritual side of life nourishes the spirit within us. But how is this done?

Listening to music or viewing fine art puts some people in touch with spiritual realities. Reading poetry or walking in the woods also can help when it comes to transcending the physical.

Giving attention to the people and relationships that matter in our lives can put us in touch with the mystery each person contains.

And time for prayer, meditation and reading the Bible can tune us in to the divine spirit living with us, closer to us than we are to ourselves.

The assumption is, of course, that we have a spirit to nourish — that there is more to us than meets the eye.

This key assumption about human existence has preoccupied thinkers for many centuries.

When I was in elementary school, our catechism spoke of the soul, representing it as a milk bottle.

The bottle was filled with pure white milk if we were in the state of grace, but was spotted or all black if we fell into sin.

In college philosophy courses we learned that in the Greek view, human beings were composed of a body and a soul.

In Aristotle's philosophy the soul gave form to the matter that made up the body.

In graduate school our theology courses used this same Greek view, but our study of the Bible taught us that the Hebrews did not see things the same way.

They tended to regard the human person as a unified whole rather than a dual composite of body and soul.

The Scriptures spoke of God breathing life into the first humans.

Thus, the breath of God was our life force.

All these are different ways of trying to express a fundamental fact of human existence: There is something intangible, something spiritual, something mysterious about every person we meet.

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Thriving on the Spirit

By Father Eugene LaVerdiere, SSS

Strength is in the spirit.

We all know that. We know it from our own experience, from listening to others and reading newspapers.

Under pressure and against all odds, some people not only survive but emerge as stronger and finer human beings.

I think of the many Christians who suffered confinement and physical abuse in Chinese prisons for years, even decades, beginning with the early '50s. I met several of those people.

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Prison life did not break them. It refined them.

The First Letter of Peter refers to that experience.

Suffering has a purpose.

It brings out the genuineness of Christian faith, more precious than gold which remains perishable even though tested by fire (1 Peter 1:6-7).

Speaking to a priest in China a couple of years ago I learned he had spent a big part of his priestly life in prison. I asked how it was that he remained so happy.

He smiled, saying: "They were not able to take away my spiritual life. Freedom is inside us.

They put me in prison, but they couldn't touch my freedom."

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Jesus' inner attunement Those imprisoned may suffer starvation, but to the will of his Father something inside keeps was spiritually sustainthem going. The inner ing. It would nourish spirit, filled with faith, him all the way to his nourishes them; it pro- passion and death. vides sustenance and Spiritual qualities are meaning. With that peoeasier to discern in older ple thrive. people, who have been Jesus referred to some- tested and purified a long thing like that one time time. But I also am when the disciples urged constantly amazed by him to eat. His answer the inner resources of was a bit mystifying: "I children. have food to eat of which For many children the you do not know" (John world is not a very 4:32). hospitable place. They When the disciples may feel unwanted and asked whether anyone that they are in the way might have brought him when parents break up something to eat, he and remarry and new explained: "My food is to children come along. do the will of the one Barely teenagers, they who sent me and to are forced out on their finish his work". own.

It takes a pretty hard heart not to be moved by the way such children take care of one another.

As part of my pastoral preparation for the priesthood, I did some teaching at an inner-city elementary school in Cleveland.Iremember a family with a child in just about every grade, not one of them with the same father.

A picture from that time years ago is still sharply etched in my memory.

It is the picture of a little girl from that family, a little woman actually.

She was in the sixth grade, if I remember correctly.

Each day, after the last class, she waited for two

of her little brothers, took them by the hand and led them home.

She had seen and known a lot of harsh things at a young age. Yet she seemed strong.

Iam sure she would not have said that inner spirit and faith were nourishing her.

But strength of spirit, faith and the will of God can be an energising force for a long time before someone is able to name them.

Iwonder where that girl and her brothers are now. I am afraid to inquire.

But, then, where is my faith in the strength and human refinement that comes from spirit and faith?

Whether we call it the soul, the spirit, the inner self, the heart or the life force, we recognise that there is something more than the physical in the makeup of every human being.

The Greek view of humans as a soul within a body was widely accepted for centuries in the Western world.

This view forms the basis of much of our recent Christian approach to the matter.

As we gradually have gotten more and more in touch with the Scriptures, however, our perspective has begun to shift a bit.

St Paul, for example, sees both body and soul (or mind) as natural faculties, and insists that Christians are called to live spiritual lives.

Within us, Paul says, is the very Spirit of God. We are to live according to that Spirit.

Jesus promised to send the Spirit to teach and guide his disciples, and the gift of the Holy Spirit dwelling within us gives us a share in the very life of God. Philosophers have struggled to decide just what the soul is.

People today, influenced by Eastern religions and philosophies, speak of the human spirit as a piece of the "world spirit" or a universal consciousness.

But for Christians, no philosophical answer, no matter how brilliant, is adequate when it comes to accounting for the human spirit.

For Christians, the real issue is whether or not we live according to God's Spirit.

Because the soul is precisely that mystery at the centre of who we are, we may never be able to define, describe or understand it adequately. This shouldn't trouble us.

We seem to know instinctively that there is a spiritual side to us. Trying to define it precisely may not be that important. Once we accept that we have a spirit, then the Gospel raises other challenges.

The crucial point is that Christ promised eternal life to those who follow him.

Whether or not we are, in some sense, part of a universal consciousness, the important point is that we are called to live in the unity of the Holy Spirit as brothers and sisters of Christ and children of the same Father.

Of course, the difficulty is that it is easy to get so focused on the material that we can begin to ignore the spiritual side of life almost without realising it.

Getting food on the table and watching our diets, getting the laundry done and the house cleaned, getting the roof repaired and the car fixed, tending the garden, changing diapers and cleaning up spills, balancing the chequebook and all the thousand and one tasks of daily life can crowd out any awareness that there is more to life than meets the eye.

So it is essential to tune in, to keep ourselves aware of human life's spiritual side. It would be tragic to go through life focused only on the material.

As the wise fox in Antoine de Saint-Exupery's "the Little Prince" says to the prince, "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

What is essential is invisible to the eye".

DISCUSSION POINTS

The sacraments nourish the human spirit.

Briefly tell of another activity or experience that nourishes your spirit and helps it grow.

Selected responses from readers: "I run. It cleanses my mind and helps me focus on the day. I pray when I run." — Mike Denning.

"In my life it's my family . . ., my wife and my four children . . . I'm nourished by watching my children grow and by doing things for them and I'm encouraged to do those things I need to do both professionally and as a good Catholic father because my family is the key to my happiness and growth." — Arthur Korte.

"I'm trying to . . . get up early in the morning. I ride my bike down to the lake and sort of greet the sunshine. I stop there for a few minutes and say a little prayer and then I pedal back home and start my day." — Peggy Morris.

"Friends, by being there." — Vickie Wheeler.

"Being a first-grade catechist . . . I try my best to instil in my students the desire to learn more about God and the deep love he has for all of us. It is truly rewarding work!" — Mrs Deborah Ferro.

"Scripture reading is one — and personal prayer time and spiritual reading." — lane Howley.

Yourself: More than brain and nervous system

Samuel was directed to go to Bethlehem to find a successor to King Saul.

There was a man there named Jesse who had seven sons. One was to be the next king.

When the first son was introduced, Samuel was impressed.

This son seemed to have all the qualifications. But he was not the choice of the Lord, who told the prophet: "Man sees the appearance but the Lord looks into the heart" (1 Samuel 16:7).

After the first six sons were rejected, the youngest was summoned from the fields where he was watching the sheep.

Just a pink-cheeked lad, he seemed to have little to recommend him for leadership. But he was to become Israel's greatest king, David.

Clearly there is more to a human being than meets the eye.

In David's case, it was a whole constellation of hidden qualities. They became evident, and grew.

What was true of David is true of everyone. There

By Father John Castelot is more to a person than

a body with strengths and weaknesses, more than a nervous system and a brain.

There is a dynamic powerhouse that coordinates all of this other measurable, equipment.

This is what makes a person a person rather than a robot.

Greek philosophy was later to give this a name: soul.

But biblical thought didn't regard a person as split into material body and spiritual soul. A person was a unit.

Still, whether or not biblical people identified and named this power that made a person truly human, they knew human beings were more than muscles and sinews, flesh and blood.

This mysterious something "other" was capable of development and growth.

And this growth contributed to the real worth of a person as a person,

whether one was short or tall, handsome or plain.

Samuel was just a little boy when his mother sent him to stay with the priest of the shrine at Shiloh.

But, as Scripture tells, Samuel was "growing in stature and in worth in the estimation of the Lord and of men" (1 Samuel 2:26).

Samuel's inner growth. was not something that could be weighed on a scale. But it was real and pilgrims to the shrine were impressed by it.

His fame spread throughout the 12 tribes of Israel. In the course of time his stature reached the point at which he was able to weld the 12 tribes into a unified nation.

All people have an inner potential, a power that surpasses, their physical or sociological qualities. It grows as they respond to life's challenges.

It is this "self" who is the real person. And it is the growing consciousness of this inner self that makes for growth in personhood, in true human greatness.

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Life remains absolute in abortion debate The abortion issue is ual who reads this article different and distinct His Eminence, Cardinal Clancy, human being, albeit again claiming public was once such a "blob". wrote this article for The Australian temporarily dependent attention, and the We are all living witnewspaper recently, arguing his on the mother. A womnesses that there is more debate is once more in an's assumed right over opposition to abortion in Australia.

- full cry. Like so many than "jelly" at stake here.

In any case, the claim is her own body certainly The cardinal addresses each of the debates they have largely academic because does not extend to the arguments put forward by proponothing new to say and the great majority of right of life and death nents of abortion on demand and about highly sensitive abortions take place over this other human explains why "abortion is not issues. This one tends when the embryo has being present in the primarily a religious question". to create a lot of heat developed to the point womb. but very little light. where it is identifiably a Much is also made of The arguments, from tiny living human being. the highly emotional No, there is no avoiding one side or the other, are argument that the remocoloured by anger, frus- the harsh reality that val of existing abortion tration, prejudice and abortion is the destrucfacilities will drive countguilt and too often take tion of human life. This is less women into the the form of ridicule and not a religious belief, or hands of the backyard abuse. The credibility of an emotional exaggeraabortionists. The Amerithe arguments suffers as tion — it is a biological can experience would a result. Reason has fact. suggest that this argudifficulty in making its ment is much overdone.

This must never be lost voice heard, or, for that sight of or glossed over in In any case, the end matter, in even being the heat of the debate. It does not justify the recognised for what it is. is the constant and means. The predicted The nature of abortion crucial term of reference. backyard alternative is such that it is difficult We have an obligation to does not justify the not to become emotional. protect innocent human calculated destruction of None the less, reason life from its very beginsome 80,000 human lives must strive to prevail if nings and throughout in Australia every year. truth is to be the victor in the whole of its allotted What is certain is that the end. Those who span. the easier and more believe in God have a It is conservatively readily available abordifferent perspective on estimated that some tion is, so much the more abortion from those who 30,000 abortions take frequently will it be do not believe. But place in NSW each year. sought. abortion is not primarily That is like wiping out a Those opposed to abora religious question. It large country town each tion are often accused of can be debated according year. to rational criteria withAbortions are not acci- second to the moral supreme right over her seeking to "impose" their out recourse to any dents. They are calcu- atrophy that makes own body. This argu- views on the rest of the religious creed. lated and deliberate. society insensitive to the ment is clearly specious. community. But it is part For the pro-lifer the Conceding that "nobody repugnant nature of No woman and no man of the democratic process bottom line in the debate likes abortion" and abortion, and tolerant — has an absolute right for individuals and is that abortion, however pleading that no woman even supportive — of its over her or his own body. groups to do their utmost it is dressed up, remains has recourse to abortion ready availability.

I am not free to mutilate to persuade their fellow the deliberate destruc- without much "soul Abortion is not a "pri- myself at will — for citizens and elected tion of a defenceless searching" are surely not vate" matter. Abortion is example, to cut off a legislators that their human life. This has excusing arguments. a matter of public moral- perfectly healthy hand. I convictions are right and been denied with the One does not exaggerate ity with economic and am free to have my in the best interests of the crude claim that it is only in saying that abortion is demographic implica- appendix removed only country. So much the more so if it is a matter of a "blob of jelly", not a the single most horrify- tions of immense if it is diseased. conscience. human life that is in ing feature of society national significance.

But that aside, any question. today.

The word "impose" is It is frequently argued embryo is not just Some, however, may in favour of abortion that another part of the unfairly reserved for the That is an indefensible position. Every individ- argue that it comes a woman has the woman's body — it is a activities of the pro-lifers

Of faith and direction One of a series of articles on small Christian communities by COLLEEN McGUINESS-HOWARD Long standing executive officers of the Catholic Social Apostolate, Jim Miolin, believes his involvement with the CSA has helped to develop his understanding that being a Catholic involves more than going to Mass on Sunday and observing the rules.

Jim says that through using the process of the Review of Life at their meetings and through the influences he has been exposed to in this work, he has come to see that the faith is about a relationship with God, selfacceptance and his relationship with other people, the world and the environment.

An important aspect of his work, emphasised Jim, is that for him and other

CSA members, as well as their children come to see that the faith is something which really gives them a sense of direction about all things which happen at work, home and in society, and affects the decisions they make.

And for him, seeing how God works throagh all sorts of different people, issues and events he's been able to admire the good works of people who may be considered even to be non-believers. People in groups also come to see how they can do God's will within places of work, their families, the neighbourhood and the whole of society.

This, said Jim, is all in harmony with what the Church teaches us in the documents of Vatican II and Christifedelus Laici,

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which states that work done as a member of a group has more effect because it can lead towards transforming society.

"These lay groups can help many lay people to stay faithful to the gospel and are justified and necessary. They're a sign of communion and unity within the Church," (Christifideles Laici 29).

The Catholic Social Apostolate was set up in 1958 by the late Father Jim O'Brien at the request of the late Archbishop Prendiville when he was asked to establish an organisation which would help lay people see their role as members of the Church and as citizens of the world. "And this was even before Vatican 11," said Jim.

"Right from the early days, small groups were a very important part of the work of affirming lay people and the CSA was also involved in Cana conferences which were for marriage enrichment as well as Parish Pastoral Council Formation, Parish Renewal days and Archdiocesan programs."

These small groups are called Christian Life groups and are usually parish based, said Jim, made up of six to ten people meeting as couples or individuals and coming together twice a month.

The format includes looking at issues affecting people's lives and coming to decisions about what they can do to bring about a Christian influence on situations they have looked at.

People also share their reflection on a selected scripture passage and tell each other how it influences their lives, Jim outlined, and how they hoped to be able to live out what it meant to them.

"Social issues are also looked at so that people come to a decision to do something if possible or at least re-examine their attitudes in society.

"Through all this people develop a deeper sense of their own dignity and awareness of all that which promotes or prevents the development of people."

For any information on the CSA, please contact Jim Miolin on 227 8528, 32 Claverton Street, North Perth 6006 or PO Box 194, North Perth, 6006.

because it has pejorative implications. Abortion is a community problem.

Members of Parliament should not be made solely responsible for the practice of abortion.

It is a change of attitude and a sharpening of moral sensitivites on the part of Australians that is called for. But Parliament does have a part to play in changing attitudes and in stimulating a more acute sense of right and wrong.

Members will often protect their opposition to abortion while regretting that they cannot support a given Bill designed to limit it, giving as their reason that the Bill is "bad" legislation.

One might expect that they themselves would prepare and promote "good" legislation and give more substance to their claim.

In relation to the Bill before the NSW Parliament, it is to be hoped that the Members will allow internot personal and inter-party animosities to distract them from the enduring challenge that transcends this particular Bill.

There will always be "unplanned" pregnancies and the response of society should always be one of sympathy, sensitivity, and support.

This will be especially called for in some cases.

Abortion, however, can never be the approved answer.

Keeping the sick happy Father Trevor Simons with Sister Julie O'Sullivan RSJ, visiting Greenwood parishioner Mrs Eileen Fuller.

Being part of a chaplaincy team is a weighty responsibility — perhaps reflecting the importance of the role.

Even people who have ceased to practice their religion, feel very vulnerable when sick and frequently a visit from a chaplain is high on their list.

In fact, some folks when sick mentally dial the priest before the doctor!

Most of us when sick find it a time of relative isolation — no longer are we able to be up and running around the outside world.

And that gives us time to reflect and perhaps give our conscience a bit of a spring clean.

Noting some discoloured (or downright dirty!) spots here and there, it seems an appropriate time to eliminate them through the compassionate listening of those on a chaplaincy team.

Many of us too think in terms of believing a chaplain can only be a priest — never a sister or a lay person.

Technically speaking this may have been the case, but these days priests are becoming fewer and our sisters and lay people have moved into the chaplaincy area with a great and necessary input to the sick.

The other point is also that sometimes it's great to talk to a man; and other times to a woman.

Well the good news is that at Royal Perth Hospital there's just the right chaplaincy team combination to keep everyone happy! Especially along with the Cathedral priests who give them "excellent support" and do the night calls.

Sister Julie O'Sullivan RSJ and Father Trevor

Simons are a fun-filled duo who do their best to service the spiritual needs of the 250 to 300 Catholics a week at RPH.

see my pastoral role here is that Mr X has a right to privacy and also the right to express whether he wishes it or not."

And while their job is to look after Catholic patients, they say, they're there for any patient who wants them, or any staff.

Father Trevor went on to say that it's taken for granted from influences outside the hospital that if a Catholic goes into hospital they should be anointed, "but this is not always the case or the first wish of the person.

Although theirs is a chaplaincy department, they consider pastoral care to be listening to people's feelings and emotions as well.

The feelings of fear, anger, frustration, loneliness and rejection that often come with the patients, and "having spoken to a lot of people, we also hear of their alienation from the Church."

"I would encourage parish priests to make available the sacrament of the anointing prior to the patients coming into hospital, because it enhances the relationship of the parish priest to his parishioner."

Both he and Sister Julie have skills in counselling, said Father Trevor, "and we use that by being present to the patient and giving them permission to express whatever they need to express at this time."

Sister Julie says when they approach a patient they come to them the way Christ came to the rich young man who said: What would you have me do?

This is what they con"If we then get the sider as holistic healing, response from the rich he said, and completes young man who walked the triplicate of health sadly away — then we care which is the physiaccept that. If we get cal, mental and spiritual. rejection, so be it!"

The hospital complexBut people are really is such they outlined, ity wonderful, said Sister Julie, "even if they say that there are up to 700 they are Catholic but patients and 4000 staff at RPH with the hospital don't go to Mass."

6000 incoming Regarding tendered receiving day. a calls information from parish As a result a Catholic priests or relatives reference the patient, Father may find themselves lost Trevor says that's fine and not able to contact a and it's welcomed and chaplain, said Sister Julie appreciated, "but we're and Father Trevor. here for the needs of the But there is a brochure patient and hold sacred they pointed out which the patient's rights to explains their presence have a private experience and role which the with us." patient can fill out and From the privacy point which they in turn of view, Father Trevor receive within 36 hours also believes that cha- of the patient being plains shouldn't be hospitalised. expected to operate as And of course the times sacramental vending 'they are a changing!' and machines, and explains gone are the days when how a lot of priests will a person coming into ring up and ask if he has hospital can expect a anointed Mr X. chaplain by their bed"And really the way I side, he said "despite the

AIDS, and may also be homosexual, he said.

"But the whole dynamics of confidentiality within the hospital ward, sometimes unfortunately finds a sufferer very much alone with his illness.

"However we get good support from Father Lou Malloy and his AIDS Pastoral Care Ministry team and the hospital staff here." fact we do our best to see every patient."

People used to visualise a priest just roaming around, said Father Trevor, "so it's absolutely necessary for the person coming into hospital, to make it known at admission that they wish to see a priest.

"And then when they arrive in their ward to ask them to ring for a chaplain."

Father Trevor and Sister Julie also make themselves available to relatives, especially in intensive care when people are brought in through the emergency section of the hospital.

This they said can be very draining, "especially when the family has just lost an 18 yo in a car crash.

"So while we're absorbing their grief and shock, we are also ministering to the needs of the staff who are attending to this tragedy."

One of the current issues they face is AIDS, said Father Trevor, "and attending to a person suffering with AIDS can be a new experience — because especially society at large is still homophobic and there are those who still stigmatise such people."

For relatives of the AIDS affected, it can also be traumatic for them to realise their son is about to die, is suffering from

Father Trevor runs a support group for staff working with AIDS sufferers.

Listening, said Sister Julie, is the important thing with chaplaincy work.

"We are 'being' people rather than 'doing' people and we're very much supported by the staff at this hospital."

Sister Julie said she believes that working in a public hopsital, is working in the real world of suffering, especially in these strained economic times where we would experience frustration of people waiting on surgery and not able to get a bed.

And this is a far cry from the comfort circle which a parish priest can find within the parish environment, said Father Trevor. Where his affirmation is found in a suitable stable population of parishioners.

But with the chaplaincy team, their patients leave after three days or die after six weeks, they said.

However it is within this atmosphere that Sister Julie and Father Trevor find it "a joy and delight to meet committed practising Catholics who relate to us as Father or Sister."

Even though Jesus left the 99 to seek out the one, said Father Trevor, they believed it was their role to leave the one and seek out the 99. And as for

those who no longer practice their faith, "it's a real joy to be with them too," said Sister Julie.

As for how such a spiritually life giving position affects them, Father Trevor said since he's been a chaplain at the hospital, his spirituality has become more real.

"Ibelieve I have left the echelons of pious Catholic thinking that often give us a comfortable disposition.

"And my daily work here, instead challenges me more with the reality of my own humanness, and the humanity of those I see before me in the patients — whether it be physical suffering, mental, hurt from their personal life, family life.

Or even hurt by the Church."

Father says they often hear complaints from patients about Father or Sister X, but his only way of dealing with this is to compassionately respond that it was a Church of the past and is not the Church of today.

A lot of people still find this hard to accept because their wounds from the past have not been healed, he said.

From Sister Julie's point of view, "despite the heavy heart I sometimes carry home and the traumas I see and feel and may experience with them, my views have been broadened and faith strengthened because of the lack of faith find in people.

"And I realise what a wonderful treasure my faith is!

"While regretting that others don't accept the tremendous gift God is offering us."

Sister Julie says she is merely an instrument of God whereby He can do His work through her.

"Otherwise we'd go down the gurgler!"

They both said it's very important to have a sense of humour and find the nursing staff and doctors help them with this.

All is not doom and gloom though they laughed, "because people often help us more than we help them as we see their stoicism and many of them do end up well healthwise."

Sister Julie did a year's training at St Vincent's hospital in Sydney where Father Trevor did his.

He's now been chaplain at RPH for three years and Sister Julie is in her eighth year there.

Apart from being chaplain at the hospital, Father Trevor is also chaplain to Our Lady of the Mission sisters, Highgate, as well as to Catholic Care for the Intellectually Handicapped and is a member of the ethics committee at RPH. This is time consuming he says reading protocols, trials which various hospitals and universities want approval for, and he's also chaplain to the Immuno Deficiency Foundation which is a foundation set up to get funding for the extras AIDS patients need in a ward. Things which are not necessarily supplied by the health department, such as an extra wheel chair, a TV, or better mattress.

As to our mind-set on believing we haven't been seen by a chaplain if it isn't a priest, said Father Trevor, we need to change that.

"Given the shortage of priests and their multiresponsibilities these days, people should be encouraged to change their expectations!

"Unless we have a greater number of priestly vocations within the next ten years."

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Ball at Ballajura!

T wenty-one people from Ballajura aged seven to 15 attended a two-day camp at Eagle's Nest Gidgegannup during the recent school holidays.

Activities included five hours of bush walking on three separate hikes through virgin bush.

One live snake and kangaroo, bleached animal skulls and a variety of creepy crawlies were among the memorable highlights for the young trail blazers.

Eagle's Nest caretaker Brian Milne demonstrated the art of cook-

ing "twisters" on a stick but no instructions were needed when it came to eating the honey filled damper delights.

All the cooking was not left up to the young people. Marlene Robins and Hilda Dalby prepared three meals a day and supervised the young people cleaning up.

Despite his years of training in the youth scene as chaplain, parish priest Father Jegorow managed little sleep in the boys' dormitory on the first night.

Ghost stories, midnight feasts and noise

from the girls' dormitory was the order of the night!.

The bush walk zonked out everyone on the second night.

It was not all fun and games. The young people explored the Gospel message of serving others at home, at school and even right here right now (at the camp).

Three girls, Carla Mellough, Margaret Catherine and McGlade composed a song expressing the highlights of the 44 hours experience to the popular tune "Rise and Shine".

446 Ronnie McCarthy, long time admirer of Tony Barber shares a laugh at the progressive dinner.

...and guess who was there?

Tony Barber, Australia's popular compere and singer topped off Ballajura's second progressive dinner.

Participants were up thirty per cent as 42 couples in groups of three visited each other's

homes for soup, main course and dessert.

The final stop for everyone was coffee and port at the community centre with much music and song plus three items by Tony Barber including Panis Angelicus.

Lunch time at Eagle's Nest. Seen here are: Damien Waddell, Robert Eid, Ravin DeFonseka, Elliot Gregory, Daniel Baxter and Andrew Dalton.

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Hills Antioch leaders Mike Smith and Katherine Parkinson with parent couple Lynne and Daryle Mann.

The rebirth of Antioch in the Hills took place at St Brigid's College Lesmurdie on September 27-29.

Antioch outreach

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in arranging the recent visit of eleven Victoria Park Antiochers to the Brooklyn Park community in South Australia.

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The scene at Perth airport as eleven Victoria Park Antiochers left for their ten-day visit to the Brooklyn Park community in Adelaide on September 27.

Fr priest Parish Anthony Moester and parishioners Kay and John Tandy, all previously of Brooklyn Park, liaised with South Australian Antioch parents Winnie and Bob Brennan to set up the visit.

The group flying east included many for whom the trip was a first-

time experience of interstate travel, a prospect they found "realy exciting".

The ten-day stay, first mooted nearly a year ago, included an Antioch weekend with an expected 30 recruits in the central Adelaide parish.

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38 young people taking Ziegelaar, who had previously experienced part.

The weekend was also Antioch in their home an outreach to the north- parish of Kwinana, said west, as four recruits and they were hopeful of a parent couple from introducing many other young people and parent Newman took part in the couples in Newman to event.

Rodney and Catherine the Antioch community.

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With the book "The Opening Eye", Father Morison is giving an overview of the relevance of psychology to religion that will be hard to surpass.

He emphasises at the beginning of his book our starting point must be on anthropology — a vision of the human person in all its aspects and potentialities.

There are an endless number of popular books on religion and psychology What sets this one apart?

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theory of religion out of psychology, but brings his years of practical pastoral and psychoanalytic experience to bear on the reality of religion as transmitted by the Church's tradition. Both Freud and Jung were ambivalent about this type of religion: Freud denied it explicitly but could not escape a life long subconcious fascination with its truth; Jung used its terms and symbols without commitment to its content; Father Morison gives a good treatment of superego as the voice of the parent internalised by fear; true conscience on the other hand as the growth of an authentic self governed by the reality principle. For him it is the reality principle that leads us through emotion to religious experience and on to God. There are many psychological mechanisms which deny reality and with it religion.

He shows a preference for a relational psychology based on object relations theory and his insights into how we split or break off the objects of desire, and consequently arrive at faLse conceptions of God, are powerful and enlightening.

These reflections should be useful for counsellors, educators and pastoral workers.

The middle section of the book deals with life long development, first psychologically then spiritually The last section develops the patterns of a prayer life

Marys Journey Reflections by Shane O'Connor, Illustrations by Susan Daily, (Collins Dove $4.95).

For those many people interested in reflecting on Mary's story, the combination of illustration and reflection here form a remarkable presentation of Mary's Journey Susan Daily's illustrations come from her experience of a thirty day retreat and show the intensity of her falling for Mary A Loreto Sister, Susan Daily is well known from her previous book 'Graphics for Sunday'.

These vibrant illustrations are beautifully complemented by Shane O'Connor's sensitive and perceptive reflections about Mary's Journey as a woman of Nazareth and the mother of Jesus. Shane O'Connor is a Carmelite Priest and the Parish Priest of Our Lady of Mt Carmel Parish, Middle Park.

stands on the cutting edge of ual and geographic heart of the future and thrives on an the city The trend-setting inimitable blend of technol- boutiques of Haratuku may ogy, trend and tradition. sate Tolcyoites' appetites for It is a bundle of confusions the latest in spangle and sprung from that blend and chic, but it is to the nostalgic a melding of East and West. backstreets of traditionThe highrises of Shinjuku bound shitamachi that they may rule the skyline, but the turn to steep themselves in Imperial Palace, quiet and the Tokyo closest to their dignified, remains the spirit- souls.

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"The Lord and I" Vignettes from the Life of a Parish Priest by Msgr Vincent Fecber (Australian distributor St Paul Publications).

Between the lines of all these real-life stories — some of them funny, some of them sad and all of them full of human interest — there is a common theme: being a priest in the States during this last quarter of the twentieth century is an Christian Family in the Teaching of John Paul II (St Paul Publications $7.95).

Faith and Prayer Education/ 2.

This hook contains a selection of Pope John Paul Il's speeches and writings on marriage and the Christian family.

There are many extracts

interesting, exciting and challenging life, and is often a great deal of fun. These vignettes from the writer's world as a parish priest in southwest Texas are proof enough that the Catholic priesthood is alive and well, at least in the trenches. And why shouldn't it be when one considers — as the author does — that the priest is never alone. Whenever he ministers to another, he does so with Another. It's always "'The Lord and I". from Familiaris Ccxisortio, his important Apostolic Exhortation on the Christian Family in the Modern World.

The teachings contained in this document are expanded and developed in extracts from speeches given by the Pope on various occasions.

What emerges is a coherent vision of the Christian family that is both optimistic and dynamic

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This book has it all P fCfGRENIAC A FIRST

GOLDEN TREASURY OF

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The Marriage Encounter community night at St Charles on Friday, November 8 begins with Mass at 8pm, followed by a brief presentation by Kevin and Liz McKersey and dialogue and small group sha rings to follow. Ends 10pm with supper. BYO. Circle programs, jewellery, tapes and books available.

Further information 367 6769.

$12.99).

This beautiful book is al'

about poetry, painting. beautiful verse, cute animals. children sleeping in sunlit woods, and is the type of book which would be a boon to parent or grandparent readers to small children.

The Pizza Monster by Marjorie and Mitchell Sharmat, published by Young Piper, $4.99.

Stop right here — meet Olivia Sharp. She's bold, bright and rich. Duncan's in trouble. His best friend just walked out. He thinks the world is coming to an end.

And he's turning into a pizza monster!

A Pack of Lies by Geraldine McCallgbrean (Penguin $7.99).

Storyteller, salesman and total mystery — who and what is MCC Berkshire?

Ailsa doesn't usually pick up men in public libraries — but the MCC Berkshire is rather out of the ordinary' and has a certain irresistible charm.

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Archdiocesan Calendar

Rottnest Family Fun Camp, December 29-January 3 organised OCTOBER through Marriage Encounter offers 18 Bayswater parish, Archbishop Hickey. low cost family holiday, meals St Mary's Cathedral St Luke's Day catered. Extended family and single parents welcome. Contact Eileen Hospice service, Bishop Healy.

Bott 313 1749, Helen Mary Sykes 19 KSC AGM Mass, Archbishop (097) 21 4547.

Hickey.

The St Gregory's chapter will meet at lona Presentation College on Sunday, October 20 at 2.30pm.

Father Placid Spearritt, OSB of New Norcia will speak on community.

Afterwards two Benedictine novice oblates will be enrolled. Visitors welcome.

Prison the Last Option conference, Bishop Healy.

20 Catenian Mass at St Mary's Cathedral, Archbishop Hickey.

Croatian Mass at St Mary's Cathedral, Archbishop Hickey.

Mass, procession, blessing of fishing fleet Bishop Healy.

Confirmation Bedford, Monsignor Keating.

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Mental Health Week, Archbishop Hickey.

Aquinas College Year 12, Archbishop Hickey.

CHAMPIONSHIPS The annual Association Championships get underway this weekend. Entry numbers are slightly up this year, however one disappointment is that the Andy Memorial Fanowrios Trophy will not be contested as there were no junior entries received.

SIDELINES members Association extend their congratulations

to Damien Messer and his fiancee, Sasha Pencial (Miss WACLTA 1990) on the recent announcement of their engagement.

John and Leonie Messer recently returned from a fortnight vacation in Thailand visiting Bangkok and Phuket.

FOR ALL

RELIGIOUS ART WORKS CONSULT

DAN MAZZOTTI 293 2268 Paintings — mosaics — sculptures For churches and homes

NEW, FREE, PRAYER CARDS THE ANGELUS Said morning, noon and night.

V The Angel of the Lord declared unto Mary.

R . And she conceived of the Holy Spirit.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

A men.

V. Behold the handmaid of the Lord.

R. Be it done unto me according to Thy word.

Hail Mary . . .

V. And the Word was made Flesh.

R. And dwelt among us.

Hail Mary . .

V. Pray for us, 0 holy Mother of God. R . That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray Pour forth, we beseech Thee, 0 Lord, Thy grace into our hearts, that we, to whom the Incarnation of Christ, Thy Son, was made k nown by the message of an angel, may, by His Passion and Cross, be brought to the glory of His Resurrection. Through the same

Cute, cute bubbies

Confirmation Greenwood, Father G. Carroll.

Catholic Doctors Mass, Father T. Quinlan SJ. Mental Health Week Mass, Father Rodney Williams.

In aid of the Little Sisters of the Poor, at their home, Rawlins Street, Glendalough on November 5. Tickets $17 at the home or phone 341 1495.

Sacred Heart parish, Highgate is holding a dinner/dance on Friday, November 15 at Rossetti Restaurant, Balcatta to raise funds for The University of Notre Dame Australia Scholarship Fund. Tickets $20 (all NORTHAM MISSION inclusive). Other parishes welcome to St Joseph's, Northam is holding a make up tables of 10. Inquiries Alan family mission novena, from October 271 1653 or Nick 370 3803.

28 to November 5 (nine evenings f rom 7.30pm-8.30pm), to be GLENDALOUGH FRIENDS conducted by Father Creede, CSsR The little Sisters of the Poor invite and focusing on family sacredness, their friends to join the family bbq in bringing members of the family the grounds of the home, Rawlins closer together. During the week of Street, Glendalough on Sunday, October 20 to 28 it is hoped all October 20, at noon. BYO. Tea and Catholic families in Northam will be coffee provided. visited and invited to attend the novena.

BENEDICTINE OBLATES

A First Golden Treasury of Animal Verse compiled

by Mark Daniel (MacMillan Children's Books,

From page 16

Christ Our Lord. Amen.

May the Divine Assistance remain always with us, and may the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

THE REGINA CAELI Queen of Heaven Said from Easter Sunday to Pentecost Sunday, instead of The Angelus.

Rejoice, 0 Queen of Heaven, Alleluia.

For He Whom thou dicist merit to bear, Alleluia Has risen as He said, Alleluia.

Pray for us to God, Alleluia.

V. Rejoice and be glad, 0 Virgin Mary, Alleluia.

R. For the Lord has risen indeed, Alleluia.

Let us pray 0 God Who has given joy to the whole world through the Resurrection of Thy Son Our Lord Jesus Christ; grant that through the prayers of His Virgin Mother Mary we may obtain the joys of everlasting life. Through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen.

" AUTHENTIC MARIAN SPIRITt 'I would like to recall. among the many witnesses and teachers of this spirituality, the figure of Saint Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort. who proposes consecration to Christ through the hands of Mars, as an ellecti‘e means for Christians to u se faithfully their baptismal conimitments.

I am pleased to note that in our own time too new manifestations of this spirituality and devotion arc not lacking.'

THE MOTHER OF -FHE REDEEMER Pope John Paul II

REFLECTION - MOTHERHOOD "The most important person on earth is a mother.

She cannot claim the honour of having built Nctre Dame Cathedral. She has no need to.

She has built something more magnificent Than any cathedral - a dwelling for an immortal soul, the tiny perfection of her baby's body.

The angels have not been blessed with such

a grace. They cannot share in God's creative miracles to bring new saints to Heaven.

Mothers are closer to God, the Creator, than any other creature. God joins forces with mothers in performing this act of creation.

What in God's good world is more glorious than this: to be a mother!"

Cardinal Mindszenty

THE ANGELUS AND THE REGINA CAELI, Queen of Heaven cards are pocket size and are suitable for

May Gibbs Gift Set (boxed)(Angus &Robertson $29.95) This beautifully boxed gift set includes pocket note

postcard book containing 15 postcards, all enhanced with the inimitable style of May Gibbs captivating gumnut babies.

parish, catechists, school, family and private use. Both these prayers are said by Pope John Paul Please state the number of cards required. They are free except for the postage, and are available from:

Mr M. McGrath, 41 McClean Street, Blacktown, N.S.W. 2148, Australia.

Telephone (02) 621 1268, after 7.00 pm.

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•••••••••••••••••••••••• i• Welcome Dinner

COUNTRY PRAYER

St Joseph's Northam hosts the 7th day of reflection on Monday, November 11, commencing at 9.30am, concluding with Mass at 2pm. Archbishop Hickey will give an address on the theme of the day — —The Love of God".

Father Paul Fogarty will also speak on the theme as it affects the world, particularly the youth.

Please wear name tag. BYOL Tea/ coffee supplied. Contact numbers (096) 22 3109, (090) 44 7035. (If require seat on bus from Perth phone 385 1308.)

HOSPICE SERVICE

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BRUNSWICK CELEBRATION

Rosary, homily and benediction will be held on Sunday, October 27 at the Bullsbrook Church, Virgin Mary Mother of the Church at 2pm.

For information and bus reservations please ring 271 0506 for Marangaroo, Dianella, Perth, Highgate and Midland bus; 339 4015 for Fremantle bus.

The church is open every day and is available for both parish and private pilgrimages by appointment. Phone 571 1699. Sacri Association Inc, PO Box 311, Tuart Hill, WA 6060. On the Feast of Christ the King, Sunday November 24, Mass will be celebrated at 2pm by Archbishop Hickey, f ollowed by a eucharistic procession.

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We have qualified and experienced school teachers who will assist you with your studies in your home.

All suburbs, all subjects, all years

310 6771 The Catholic Health Care Association has organised a Mass to celebrate the commencement of SENIORS' WEEK

GENERAL WORKSHOP Friday-Sunday, October 25-27 Cost: $25 $15 conc

FACILITATORS WORKSHOP Monday -Thursday, October 28-31 Evenings 6pm-8.30pm Cost: $2.5 $15 conc

INDUCTIVE LEARNING WORKSHOP Tuesday-Thursday, October 29-31 9am-4pm each day Cost: $50i $30 conc

Castledare, 100 Fern Road, Wilson Sponsored by the Christian Brothers Catholic Social Apostolate/Christicur LVe Groups Catholic Social Justice Commission

All enquiries: CSJC Office, 459 Hay Street, Perth

PHONE 325 1212

Lord, what do you want me to do?

BLOOM...where you are planted!

Enquiries: Mr Peter Jack CHCA. Ph 321 5641.

We're countrywide too. .

NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING

is as close as your phone (Metro callers please use 221 3866) Natural Family Planning Centre 27 Victoria Square Member of the Australian 'Council of Natural Famity Planning Inc

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Structural Analysis Program A series of workshops run by the Rev Stuart Reid, director of the Centre for Structural Analysis, Melbourne

The Consultant will assist the Director of Development in the University's promotion and fundraising program for the College of Education.

The successful applicant will: • be committed to the promotion of the Catholic ethos of the University • have excellent written and verbal communication skills • possess strong interpersonal skills • have managerial experience • be a creative and energetic person with an ability to work independently • have, or be willing to develop, computer skills for database management.

The position, which will commence at the beginning of January 1992, will require after hours and weekend work.

Applications, which close on Thursday 24 October 1991, should be forwarded to: The Director of Development The University of Notre Dame Australia PO Box 1225 Fremantle WA 6160 lelephone enquiries to: Mrs Kay Mackie on (09) 430 5822.

Progressive * Home Tutors,

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to be celebrated by Archbishop Hickey at St Mary's Cathedral on Sunday, October 27 at 2pm.

NOW BEING TAKEN

Applications are invited (from lay or religious) for the position of

Enquiries: Carmel (096) 291044 Lorraine (096) 291149

7.30pm for 8pm

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CHARISMATIC MASS

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• Parishes and Catholic organisations, associa• • tions and agencies are encouraged to book • tables.

• Bookings and further information phone 321 5641. • • • • •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

A special Holy Spirit Mass will be held on Sunday, October 27 at 5.30pm at Holy Spirit parish, City Beach, 2 Keaney Way. This Mass is held on the last Sunday of each month.

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At Newman Siena College, Williamstown Road, Life in the Spirit seminar introductory night Friday, October 18 at 8pm. Seminar begins Friday, October 25 and runs for seven weeks. Open to the public.

Enquiries ph 388 1333.

The Community day service will be held on Friday, October 25 at 10.30am in St George's Cathedral.

The theme is "Forward Together in Faith" and the speaker will be Deacon Catherine Pinner. The music will be provided by the Mothers' Union Choir. Light lunch at the cost of $3 will follow. Open to all.

Celebration Mass

▪ In order to honour our new spiritual leader, the • Knights L or the Southern Cross are co• • ordinating a welcome dinner for Archbishop • Hickey, to be held at the •

DOUBLEVIEW PRAYER

Will be celebrated at All Saints Chapel, Allendale Square, Perth on Friday, October 25 at 7am, followed by a breakfast meeting at the Venice Cafe in Trinity Arcade. Cost for breakfast $7. Enquiries 446 1868 or 343 2604.

SACRED HEART GOOMALLING PRESENTATION CENTENARY

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BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE

Centenary celebrations of the Presentation Sisters will be held on November 3, in the Brunswick Town Hall, Brunswick Junction. Mass 10.30am followed by luncheon.

Contact: Mrs S. Carbone on (097) 26 1279, Carole Frisina on (097) 26 9262, Nina Yntema on (097) 26 1325.

The 400 plus who attended the Gibney Hall and other lectures by Terri and Steve Surbrook on their human sexuality program are invited to write to Box 459 Claremont to express their views on the talks and whether they would like the program introduced on a larger scale.

(008) 11 4010 (free call)

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The annual ecumenical service of thanksgiving and remembrance for the combined Hospice Services of Western Australia will be held on St Luke's Day, Friday, October 18 at 7.45pm at St Mary's Cathedral, Victoria Square, Perth.

On Sunday, October 20 at Emmanuel Centre, 25 Windsor St, Perth, the Catholic Concerns Committee on Psychiatric Issues is sponsoring a day of reflection on "Healing as part of Mental Health Week". Highlights of the program are listed: 10am — Healing Relationships; 11.30am — Meditation; 2pm -Scripture; 3.30pm — A Personal Reflection; 4.30pm — Mass with Archbishop Hickey. Child minding, respite available in your home. Lunch and teas provided. Contact Barbara Harris for catering purposes and to arrange home help for the day on 328 8113. There is no cost, donations only.

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A call to single lay women to live a consecrated life in the world For information about: The Secular Institute of the Kingship of Christ, contact: Fr Finian Perkins OFM 53 Great Northern Highway, Midland, WA, 6055. Phone 274 1159

Francis of Assisi asked this question 750 years ago. Every serious-minded young man should do the same. The CAPUCHINS, followers of Francis, can help you answer it.

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For further information. please write to:

Fr Andrew St Lawrence Friary.

392 Albert Street, BALCATTA, W.A. 6021 Ph 349 2837