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Children pray best with their parents Parents will find it difficult to encourage children to pray if they are not praying themselves, Archbishop Hickey says in his first pastoral letter to the archdiocese.
Some parents are praying with their children at meals and bed-time, he says but others are not. The answers he gets from children whether prayers are said at home convinces him that "we have to get back to family prayer again". The archbishop's letter, sent to parishes for publication and promotion this weekend says that the practice of prayer cannot be left to the parish or schools in the hope "that somehow it will just happen". It is one of the responsibilities parents accept when presenting children for baptism, he says. Archbishop Hickey sees children's prayer arising out of the parents' own habits of prayer. "Do you turn your mind and heart to God during the day? Do you pray for your spouse and for your children? Do you ask God for help to be a good wife or
husband, mother or father? Do your children ever see you praying?" Urging parents to start afresh with booklets of prayer the archbishop urges parents not to stop with teaching only the Our Father and the Hail Mary. "The more simple and spontaneous your prayers the better, because your children will know they come from the heart." A recent survey, he says, shows people find fulfilment not outside marriage but in the companionship of family life. "Your vocation is a precious one," he says, thanking parents for the love and care they show. Calling on the Church to be a prayerful people Archbishop Hickey says: "Without the constant and deep communion with God that prayer sustains. we might make great strides, but as St Augustine reminds us, they could all be in the wrong direction. "The Church calls us to be active in the world, to bring the good news of salvation to all nations, to love the poor and insist on social justice. We will do none of these things well without the strong foundation of prayer."
Beware pitfalls in faith's journey A leading Carmelite other sources such as has warned against the visions, apparitions and danger of seeking to locutions," he said in his augment the Catholic homily. faith with visions, "Where they occur, we apparitions and are thankful for them locutions. and we benefit from Speaking at the annual Marian pilgrimage at New Norcia last Sunday, Fr Brian Pitman urged pilgrims to grow in their confidence in the revelation that God has made known in Jesus Christ. "We don't need — except for our own human weakness — to be searching to augment this revelation with
them as long as they are orthodox. "Faith in Mary tells us that we have to move beyond these things. We have to mature in our faith. "We have to listen to the spirit of God speaking with us." Pilgrims from many national backgrounds basked in bright sun-
shine as the eucharist By Dom Francis was celebrated outside Byrne, OSB the historic Abbey Church. Fr Pitman told the gathering that they had dence that we are indeed all come together at the a pilgrim people, a journeying invitation of the Benedic- people tine community as a through this life to the pilgrim people and to fulfilment of a destiny. walk in the company of He went on: "Wherever Mary. we walk as pilgrim "To be a pilgrim church people we necessarily is to be Marian," he walk with Mary. . . it is added. her transforming faith Some people he felt that we want to emphabelieved that it was not sise today. We must allow necessary to emphasise ourselves to be absorbed the idea of a pilgrim into the mystery of Mary, church. The turn-out at into the mystery of New Norcia was evi- Christ."
He referred to the fact that in these "very anguished times" we needed to have more confidence and trust because Mary the Godbearer and Mother of the Church is with us. Mary was a sister to us in our humanity and our faith. She was a woman of ardent desire for the plan of God and had a deep trust in his plan. The Benedictine community of New Norcia had turned to her in prayer in 1847 when a fire threatened the mission.
He believed that all those present had come to New Norcia in this "spirit of faith", a visible sign of a pilgrim church to the world. The choir, in impressive gowns, were the Julian Singers from the Perth area. Students from New Norcia Catholic College assisted in a variety of duties throughout the day. Fr Kevin Long, OSB was Master of Ceremonies. Many religious from the Perth archdiocese — acolytes, nuns, brothers,
priests — were represented and one of the most colourful groups was the Knights and Dames of the Holy Sepulchre. The Guild of St Stephen was also present. The side altar containing the painting of Our Lady of Good Counsel was beautifully decorated with native wildflowers. Following the pilgrimage hundreds made their way to the museum where the Mandorla Exhibition of Religious Art is on display.
Demands that go with human dignity Western Australian AMA president Dr Roly Bott pictured with Father Brian Lucas. We do not promote human worth if we allow others to kill the dying, Fr Brian Lucas of Sydney told the Natural Death Forum. "We do not promote human worth if we impose on others excessively burdensome treatments that they do not want or which are futile to the preservation of life and health, said the priest who is secretary of Sydney archdiocese and a media spokesperson. "We do not promote human worth when we make the judgement that
someone else's life is not worth living. "We promote human worth when we care for those who are seriously ill. They are not a burden, they are our brothers and sisters in humanity. Their dignity and our own dignity demands that we be respect them for who they are." Addressing the legal and ethical issues surrounding natural death Fr Lucas said: "The resolution of some of the ethical and legal problems will depend on the meaning that one
gives to human life and death. "There is no clear consensus about how we determine what is right or wrong. It is not surprising, therefore, that without a clear understanding of the ethical norms, we have trouble finding agreement about how the norms should be applied to particular cases. " 'Death with dignity' is a commonly used expression but it means different things to the volantary euthanasia society or the right to life association.
"I understand 'death with dignity' to refer to living with dignity, even to the moment of death. Even while dying, a person is still living. "Dignity refers to human worth. "We measure that worth by giving the human person a status that is measured in terms of what a person is, never by what the person has or what the person does. We need to constantly remind ourselves that the human person is a subject. "We devalue a person when we regard the
person simply as a functionary or as an object. We demean human dignity when we use people as means to an end. "Medical treatment is always subject to ethical judgement. We must ask what is it that we ought to do, not simply what is it that we can do. "The ethical imperative in the complex issues of medical treatment is to act in a way that promotes human dignity and worth. "We must be aware of the personal context that informs ethical choices.
"Choices about treatment take place within the context of the relationship between a person as patient and a medical practitioner. "The relationship must be based on mutual respect for the rights of duties of all concerned." Pointing out that it is the role of law to promote justice and protect the rights of the vulnerable, Fr Lucas said: 'The law must be clear not only about what it permits but what it forbids. "The law should protect people from doctors who
wish to impose unnecessary, futile or disproportionately burdensome treatments and from those who consider that some lives are no longer worth living. "At the same time the law should protect doctors from people who demand treatments that are inappropriate. It should protect doctors who act in good faith without intending to end the lives of their patients, and withdraw or do not provide treatments that are futile, or only secure a burdensome prolongation of life."
Some hope for those in Port Hedland "Western Australia is host to some hundreds of stateless people, now being housed in former single persons quarters in Port Hedland. Most of them are from Cambodia where new political arrange-
ments there give some hope of national stability," Archbishop Hickey, Secretary of the Bishops' Committee for Migrant Issues, said today. "The Minister for Immigration, Mr Gerry
Hand, is to be commended for his decision to give these asylum seekers time and space to apply for refugee status, instead of deporting them summarily as some other nations have done."
The Migrant Issues Committee of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference will monitor the situation in Port Hedland to make sure that the asylum seekers have every opportunity to test their
legal claims to proper refugee status, Archbishop Hickey said. "Many eyes are watching Port Hedland to see how events unfold. There is understandable panic and anxiety among the
asylum seekers who fear being sent home to a country that has known violence and terror, and where the new arrangements have yet to be tested. Reports arrive daily about the menacing
activities of the Khmer Rouge militia. "I am pleased to see that a local Catholic Church committee is offering welfare assistance and education programs to the Port Hedland visitors."
Concern over imbalance POVERTY CO-EXISTS WITH GREAT AFFLUENCE IN AUSTRALIA A Catholic bishops' enquiry into wealth has revealed concern that poverty co-exists with great affluence in Australia. Respondents so far want to know the causes of the injustices and how to redress them. They want the Church leaders to lead in this just as they have led in holding the enquiry. Only a small minority have criticised the bishops for undertaking the exercise. The final statement is due in mid 1992 says a third progress report issued last week.
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was launched by the late Archbishop daily and specialist press and has been that they be discussed and debated), Foley in February 1988. the subject of a number of speeches in the principles themselves, as enunciated in the text, are firmly based on Hundreds of submissions were Canberra. received for a first progress report in The bishops' recent statement the Gospels and the social teaching of September the same year and a rejects a News Weekly statement that the popes and the Second Vatican second report in September the the document had been costly and say Council. following year. A number of respondents, taking an that "given its scope and impact, the The draft statement Common 'wealth inquiry' as it is often called has opposite view from those who Wealth And Common Good was been incredibly cheap". professed to find Marxist influence in issued in January 1991. They also reject statements by some the document, expressed disappointThe draft had three printings, public commentators that the draft is ment because it was not radical enough. Some asked for a more reaching a total of 13,000 copies sold. infected by Marxist philosophy. phrophetic statement. made be The 600 responses are believed to Whatever criticisms can The final statement will take note of have involved thousands of people about some of the practical implicahalf of the responses coming from tions of Catholic social justice Australia's recent recession and also individuals and the rest from groups. principles (and a number of clearly the issuance of Pope John Paul's The draft has received wide debatable suggestions were advanced encyclical Centesimus Annus on the comment, positive and negative, in the in the document, with the intention centenary of Rerum Novarum.
Save life not kill it, he says Physicians need to be aware they are stewards of life and not its master, the Minister for Health, Mr Keith Wilson, said last week. The main purpose of medicine is to save life rather than harm or kill it, he told a Forum on Natural Death held at the Burswood Centre. The purpose of the forum was to address issues raised by the WA Law Reform Commission's report on "Medical Care for the Dying". Mr Wilson said that "best interests" of the patient in which many decisions were made had to be carefully clarified. He pointed out that
shortening life as a secondary effect of relieving suffering was morally distinguishable from a primary intention to cause death. A treatment's potential had to be analysed within the context of a patient's life situation or value system, and in the end the choice must directly relate to what the patient thinks is worthwhile. He cited Georgetown University Professor Pelligrino saying that whether a life is worth living is not a medical decision nor is it simply measurable by medical means. Mr Wilson referred also to the "slippery slope
argument" that can lead to physician assisted suicide becoming morally acceptable and "becomes an instrument for fulfilling perceived needs of society, such as the need to limit or to ration medical care". Mr Wilson said that the ministering of inadequate doses of pain control drugs may have been due to doctors' ignorance or lack of competence and not fear of prosecution. Improved medical and ethical training, he said, should ensure that noone should be in fear of suffering unbearable pain arising from incompetent medical care. "In my view the need
for the proposed legislative changes has not been substantiated and they certainly have grave potential for impacting negatively on respected medical practice." Earlier, Mr Wilson had referred to medicine being a pastoral art based on the concept of the patient as a person. Medical ethics and thus appropriate health care must value the patient as a person and one who has inherent rights derived from the very fact that they are human. "The healing professions offer much more than the dispensing of scientific knowledge and technological treatments. "They engage people in
Today's oddity...
To discuss a law to permit people to die the way they have always died is a 20th century oddity, a Sydney doctor told the Natural Death Forum. "It looks as though some of us have lost or temporarily misplaced our humanity," said Dr Brian Pollard who was associated with the development of intensive care in Australia and who spent five years exclusively with the dying in a palliative care unit. Dying is not an intellectual event, he said, but making laws about dying are intellectual exercises. "Dying is the final crisis in a life which has almost certainly confronted and coped with many other crises, even though they were not all overcome." Dr Pollard said that in medical school doctors received little instruction about laws and medical ethics, nor on how to deal
with the problems they meet later with dying patients. community, "The which pays for all medical education and is the sole reason why there are doctors would be entitled to be aggrieved if it knew that doctors are so illprepared to deal confidently with matters we are here discussing." On a WA Law Reform Commission Report calling for doctors to give "appropriate" care to the dying, Dr Pollard said: care "Appropriate evolves as the illness progresses and the results of treatment become apparent.
"At first, no effort may be spared to pursue the goal of cure, including the liberal use of treatments which in many instances will add significantly to suffering. "Later, it may be that only increased length of life can be sought, and later still, only comfort.
'The last stage, when it tives of treatment should is known that hope for be shared with the recovery cannot be ful- patient and his family. filled, may be thought to "It has been suggested require the most inten- that now the criteria for sive attention to the appropriate treatment detail of care and emo- are two only: Is it what tional support. the patient wants, and "But how will a doctor will it make him feel respond who has not better? "These respect choice been taught what to do when his technological and promote comfort, tricks have all been used but they are not those and have been found commonly recommended or used. useless?
"He may find it prefer- "Observing them will able to escape from this not always make things intolerable dilemma by easier because the telling the patient he has patient is free to choose, come to the end of his even against advice, road, though the patient treatment with little hasn't come to the end of chance of success and a chance of his and can't see why the high discomfort. doctor should. "Or he may continue to "But they are the goals something ineffectual, to be aimed for, to try to just so he doesn't seem to bring the patient and his be deserting his patient. family to realign their hopes while there is time, "Neither of those is good and to avoid an unnecesenough. sarily distressing end to "When it is apparent life, the prospect which that the illness is incura- so many patients rightly ble, the changed objec- fear."
a relationship founded on trust and a shared respect for the worth of the individuals involved. "Crucial to this trust, especially between the terminally ill and medical staff, is the belief that the main purpose of medicine is to save life rather than to harm or kill it. "Unfortunately, suffering and death are realities and they cannot be eliminated. "However, appropriate means should be taken to reduce suffering and sustain life. "These means are determined by a due proportion between the burden and the benefit of the treatment to the patient."
The Minister for Health, Mr Keith Wilson, pictured with Dr Brian Pollard at the Natural Death Forum last week at the Burswood Centre to discuss the law reform committee proposals.
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Record Contrary to the presumption that bishops should thunder in their pastoral letters Archbishop Hickey's first letter addresses the almost disarming topic of family prayer. There is a danger in dismissing such a topic as the re-invention of the wheel whereas it throws light on where the incoming archbishop sees the needs of his people. There is no shortage of people who believe that many of the wheels seem to have collapsed or come off the religious cart but no two of them can agree about which wheel and what is the cause. On all sides there is clamour for more discipline, more liberty, more innovation, more restraint. To be calling for more prayer does not fit into many of these agendas because there are arguments to be settled and the high moral ground of righteousness to be captured. Prayer too runs a risk of being a battleground of righteousness as Jesus' parable of the two men in the temple points out. Prayer at the other end of the spectrum is a motherhood topic for nodding heads in agreement. The oddity of our day is that there should be such a divorce between prayer and religion. Until the recent census tells us the worst there are some 75°/o of the Australian population who profess to be believers of one sort or another. Do they pray? The spiritual health of the nation would surely have to be much better if three quarters of the people prayed. Sadly many would run a mile if the media surveyed them on prayer. The divorce is not only between so-called religion and prayer but even between the church and prayer. Sunday after Sunday the churches of the nation open their doors inviting people to pray but the majority of people — even those who claim a belief — pointedly never darken the door of the church. It is easy to verify that millions of Australians now have never been inside a church building, let alone have taken part in any form of community prayer. The fact that a sizeable and loyal core, far greater than the much vaunted football fever mob, attend those Sunday gatherings because they feel the need of prayer, seems to make no difference to the way the churches are perceived or their goals understood. On all sides the secular and so-called religious commentators have an open line to berate the churches if they don't speak up against the dishonesty and greed that plagues politics and business. On the other hand the same churches are ridiculed if they dare to take a stand on the blatant moral degradation that parades under the banner of liberty. The Fred Niles of this earth have never been liked. If the formal and liturgical prayer of the church therefore is not touching the masses, is there comfort to be taken from the just popularity of prayer experience in many different forms? Certainly among Catholics, as Archbishop Hickey points out, there is a healthy interest in prayer movements and retreats. Yet threee quarters of the Catholic community don't even know, let alone participate in these riches that their fellow Catholics — not just priests and religiousprovide. Catholic schools too have lost ground to make-up if the regularity and discipline of prayer was one of the basics that a Catholic schoolchild never forgot . . . or never practised. Brides of Christ may have become an open season to denigrate and caricature those former men and prayer, but if prayer is truly the work of religion, and God's work, it will not be beyond lay teachers to promote and teach prayer from their own experience. Archbishop Hickey, then, wants his church to get back to the safe cradle of prayer, the family. Family prayer has to be genuine because family life has to be genuine. The prayer of praise, of forgiveness, of endurance, of consolation will be truly the prayer of the Church because each family is truly a domestic church. The rest of the Church will be as strong or as weak as a consequence.
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Help protect our land cry from Indians CUIABA, Brazil (CNS): The indigenous people of Brazil begged Pope John Paul II to use his influence to demand protection of their rights and their land. "Without land we cannot live," said Orlando Melgueiro Bare, head of the Co-ordinating Committee of Indigenous Peoples of the Brazilian Amazon. The pope told representatives from 37 Brazilian tribes that indigenous people have a "right to live on their own land in peace and serenity". Successive Brazilian governments have promised to define and defend the boundaries of traditional native land, but the bishops' Indigenous Missionary Council says that only 11 per cent of the land has been mapped out. That land repeatedly has been invaded by miners, loggers, ranchers and squatters. "The Church will continue to be at your side to defend your right to have an adequate and tranquil life for your traditions, customs and cultures," the pope said. "I have received with great sadness the news that reached me about the violations of these rights, motivated by profit and hidden interests, which have
You are the future
SALVADOR, Brazil (CNS): Brazilian children deserve a united family, a basic education, a home and time to grow up without being threatened by crime and death, Pope John Paul II told thousands of children in Salvador. "You are important because you are the
future of the nation, important because you
are the future of the Church. Do you know that?" the pope asked the children, most of whom were under 12 years old. "There cannot and must not be abandoned children, nor children without a family, nor boys and girls living on the street," he said. "There cannot and must not be children used by adults for immoral purposes, for drug traffick-
grave repercussions on the life, health and survival of various indigenous groups." What had happened to Brazil's 200,000 indigenous since the pope's last trip to Brazil in 1980 was spelt out to him. Some 140 leaders have been killed in land disputes; 2000 Yanomami have died of malaria and other diseases brought into the Amazon by miners and other outsiders; and growing numbers of Guarani youths in Mato Grosso do Sul have committed suicide. "They (non-natives) criminally invade our land, assassinate our leaders, poison our rivers, destroy our natural environment and treat us as a lower race, making us foreigners in our own land," said a spokesman. "We want you to carry our cry for justice to the other peoples of the world so they will know that indigenous nations are disappearing in this country," he said. It should be "very clear that if the indigenous are exterminated, the forests and natural environment will be exterminated and life on the planet will be unsupportable".
ing, for grave or petty crime, for practicing vice," the pope continued. "The pope asks and demands in the name of God and of his Son that there cannot and must not be children assassinated, eliminated on the pretext of preventing crime," he said. Brazilian and international human rights organisations reported
that 472 Brazilian children, most of whom lived on the streets, were killed in 1990. The majority of murders have been blamed on efforts by business people to "clean-up" the streets in front of their businesses, where the children beg or steal from patrons. At the meeting, the pope told the children he loved them so much he was going to tell them a
secret. The $450,000 he received as a peace prize from an Italian foundation would be Oven to Cardinal Neves for distribution to Brazilian Church programs benefiting youth. "I want to see you grow up happy," he said. "Your joy, the enthusiasm with which you sing, cry and pray are a richness and the greatest hope of Brazil."
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VITORIA, Brazil (CNS): Passing homes with private swimming pools, then visiting a slum, Pope John Paul II saw firsthand the "two Brazils" he described earlier in his 10-day visit.
The Church "declares as unjust" the accumulation of wealth in the hands of a few when "the multitude" lives in misery, he said at the slum, Lixao de Sao Pedro, which means "Garbage Dump of St Peter". Before visiting the slum, he celebrated an outdoor Mass on a field bordered by large homes with pools, two-car garages and high fences. A shopping mall is under construction nearby. The "favela" or slum is an ever growing collection of wooden one- and two-room huts divided into several neighbourhoods: St Peter 1 through 7, Conquest, Resistance and New Palestine. Pope John Paul appealed to God, to the Brazilian government, to the international community and to all Christians to correct the social injustices that "offend the human dignity" of so many Brazilians. At the Mass he asked government leaders to increase their commitment to the common good and to "the cause of
justice so that the many who hunger and thirst for justice will be satisfied". The skies opened and rain poured down as the pope toured the favela, where he announced he was giving the local church $100,000 to build a pastoral centre. "In the face of those who suffer under the weight of spiritual, affective and material scarcity, the Church sees the face of Christ himself," the pope told the slum dwellers. "The Church wants to serve the poor in the spirit of the Gospel and for this reason has never ceased committing itself to comfort them, defend them and liberate them through innumerable initiatives and works of charity." But at the same time, he said, the Church has a "wider perspective" pushing it to work to solve "the causes of poverty and misery at their roots". One of the roots, he said, is "the accumulation and concentration of many personal sins". For that reason, he said, the Church's first response is to call for conversion. "A strong reawakening of the moral conscience of all men and women of this country is needed to make it sensitive to the requirements of justice," he said.
Anniversary Mass dispute CAMPO GRANDE, Brazil: Pope John Paul's shower could wait but not his Mass on the anniversary of his election to the papacy, disputing whether it was the third or thirteenth. In Campo Grande, a private Mass was the
pope's priority even though he had spent much of the day outside where temperatures reached 42 degrees. The pope asked his host, Archbishop Pavanello if he could use his chapel for the Mass. The archbishop was the only other
person in attendance. At dinner later, when the pope had had his shower, Archbishop Pavanello said he was happy that providence brought the pope to one of the poorest places in the world on his anniversary.
The pope responded, "I am also very happy. But you spoke of the '13th anniversary'. I prefer to say there only was a third anniversary. The other 10 years have been a gift from God. My pontificate should have ended in 1981. The other years
have been a gift." The pope was shot May 13, 1981, in St Peter's Square. A Turk, Mehmet Ali Agca, was convicted of attempted assassination and is serving a life sentence in an Italian prison.
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Protest over Push for study of the use African-American rite of Madonna in pill promotion NEW DELHI, India (CNS): Indian Christians are protesting a drug firm's use of a picture of Mary and the child Jesus in the sales promotion of a contraceptive pill. Leaflets with the picture advocating the use of the contraceptive pills were distributed by a drug firm in Calcutta, India. The pictured carried a caption, "For the joys of planned motherhood". It is "a vulgar and despicable misuse of a religious picture for purely commercial gains", said J.R. Victor Karunan, general secretary of the All India Catholic Union. "It is a deliberate attack on the religious sentiments of Christians who hold the Blessed Virgin in the highest regard," Karunan said. The use of a "venerated painting of the Madonna" for the sale of a contraceptive pill "is vile beyond description and deserves utmost condemnation", he said in a letter asking the more than 400 member associations to protest in "all possible ways". The Union reminded the drug firm that Christians support proper family planning and have the lowest growth rate of all communities in India.
WASHINGTON (CNS): An African-American Black priests say they will rite, which the black push for the study of an priests have backed since African-American rite 1983, is about "trying to within Roman develop a whole new Catholicism. way of being church", he The Catholic Church is said. "I think it has to be the fastest-growing developed." Church in the world Auxiliary Bishop Wilexcept for blacks in the ton D. Gregory of ChiUnited States," Holy cago, one of 11 black Ghost Father McKnight bishops, supports the idea of a study, even said. though the reasons for a "It has to change its identity of being a white rite are not "sharply man's church and a focused". Bishop Gregory said an European church," Father McKnight said. African-American rite "An African-American would have to take into rite would help accomp- account the needs of lish that. It would also Haitians, Hispanic blacks help do what's necessary and Caribbean peoples to help black vocations." in addition to US blacks.
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WASHINGTON: The breakaway AfricanAmerican Catholic Congregation founded by black priest Father George Stallings is itself suffering further splintering. Two of his clergy, a former Episcopal priest who was ordained in September, and a lapsed priest of a splinter group known as Christ Catholic Church, have left.
Last year, a former Salvatorian priest split from the breakaway church. He later founded his own church and was ordained a bishop in it. One of them said the A frican -American Catholic Congregation had no fiscal accountability or doctrinal responsibility, charging that one of the church's rite was "voodoo". Stallings, who claims archbishop status from
an Old Catholic ordination, said he bore no animosity to those priests who have left him. "If we have difficulty with them splintering from us, then we'd have to question our own splintering" from the Roman Catholic Church, he said. He added he might not have left the Catholic Church had he been elsewhere in the United States or had a bishop other than Cardinal
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Cardinal Hickey said of Archbishop Stallings' plans: "No one should mistake this independent and heedless personal initiative for progress in deepening the A frican -American expression of the Catholic faith." Of Stallings' remaining
six clergy members, only two were priests in good standing when they announced their intent to leave Roman Catholicism. Of the others, one cleric was a priest nearing expulsion from his religious order, one was a permanent deacon on leave of absence; another was once a seminarian; and one, the Reverend Rose Vernell, is a former nun.
One child murdered every 3 days SALVADOR, Brazil: At least one child is "tragically murdered" every three days in the north eastern Brazilian city of Salvador, said a priest working with abandoned children. This is a minimum figure because it is the number that arrives at the city morgue, said Father Clodoveo Piazza, an Italian missionary. Other murdered children are buried or "thrown in the river with
a stone around their necks", he said. The day before, Pope John Paul II met thousands of youngsters in Salvador and said that "there cannot and must not be children assassinated, eliminated on the pretext of preventing crime". Millions of abandoned children throughout Brazil beg, steal and sell drugs to survive on the streets. The root of the problem
is the extreme poverty of the majority of Brazilian families, said Father Piazza.
"In Brazil, more than 60 cent of the child population lives in a family having an income inferior to $40 a month," he said. per
This is not enough to provide food, clothing, schooling and shelter for children, causing them to leave home in search of a better life on the streets, he added.
Another "very tragic" problem is the instability of the parental relationship, Father Piazza said. "Fathers normally do not stay at home and also abandon it," he said. "Mothers, in these cases, cannot survive more than a week without finding another man who can bring home a minimum salary," he said. "When these children return home, they fre-
quently find another man and undergo shock, because it is someone that they absolutely will not accept," he said. "We must remember that when these children are engaging in delinquency in the streets, they are not, first of all, doing something bad. They are launching a cry of help," Father Piazza said. "They need to be educated and helped to escape this type of life," he said.
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Mission set up in city of violence VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul II has established a missionary outpost in a Nigerian city where Christian-Muslim violence in mid-October left several dead. The mission "sui juris" — a term denoting an independent missionary territory is for Kano in northern Nigeria. The
scope of such missions is to "intensify the evangelical activity of the Church in areas that lack pastoral structures". Recent violence erupted after a Protestant preacher was Oven permission to hold a rally in the predominantly Muslim city. Muslims were upset because authorities recently denied similar permission
to a Muslim clergyman. Some 100,000 Muslims marched to protest the Christian rally, and the demonstration turned violent. At least one church and one mosque were said to have been razed, with many others damaged. Scores of stores and homes also were destroyed. Earlier this year a wave of anti-Christian violence
left more than 100 Christians dead and numerous churches destroyed. Nigerian church leaders have blamed the tensions on Muslim fundamentalists. While Nigeria's government has called the attacks tragic, church leaders say authorities have not done enough to protect Christian communities in
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predominantly Muslim regions in the north. The new mission in Kano will be headed by Father John Browne, a member of the Society of the African Missions. At the same time, the Vatican said a similar mission was being established in Bomadi in the southern part of the country, where most Christians live.
$1.3m to help Irish migrants DUBLIN, Ireland (CNS): Services for new Irish immigrants in New York have cost the Archdiocese of New York about $1.3 million in the past four years, according to a report to the Irish bishops. The services are being provided through Project Irish Outreach, established by Cardinal O'Connor in 1987 when the number of young Irish people in New York without legal status was at its peak. The Irish bishops sent two priests from
Good choice!
ISTANBUL The choice of Metropolitan Bartholomeos as patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church has been applauded by the Vatican. The 51 year old, elected unanimously from a list of 15 approved by the Turkish government is an ecumenist with close ties to Rome. Patriarch Bart holomeos, who has a doctorate in theology from at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University, is a friend of Pope John Paul II and, since 1989, the leader of an annual Eastern Orthodox pilgrimage to Rome on the Feast of Sts Peter and Paul. He has met and lunched with Pope John Paul during those pilgrimages, forming a friendship with the pontiff, the Vatican official said. Approval of the patriarchal candidate list, a sensitive issue with Greece, was delayed until after the Turkish general elections. The patriarch, who must be a Turkish citizen, is chosen from the 15 metropolitans who are members of the synod. A metropolitan ranks between an archbishop and a patriarch.
Search for peace
BACOLOD CITY, Philippines (CNS): Retired Bishop Antonio Fortich of Bacolod said he recently sent an emissary to urge the communist-led New People's Army in Negros province to join in peace talks. The government seeks to convince local rebel leaders to enter negotiations and says the front no longer has control over local guerrilla armies. Vice Governor Coscolluela of Negros assigned Bishop Fortich to contact the rebel fighters and gave him authority to issue safe conduct passes for their representatives to the talks. "So far, no one has asked for a safe conduct pass," Bishop Fortich said. He added he was willing to go to the hills himself "if they (NPA) want us to go". 6 The Record, October 31, 1991
Ireland. They have been joined by two other Irish chaplains — a priest and a nun. Projects based on the New York model have since been adopted in the dioceses of Philadelphia, Boston and Brooklyn. Eleven chaplains from Ireland — nine priests and two nuns — now work with Irish migrants in the eastern United States. In the past year, 4800 people contacted a Project Irish Outreach New York hotline, and
Sectarian Ulster violence under fire DUBLIN, Ireland (CNS): The Irish Catholic bishops have condemned sectarian violence in Northern Ireland which, they said, had recently t aken on a new ferocity. "Horrible random murders have been committed, totally innocent people have been targeted because of their religious persuasion," the bishops said. "In one particularly horrible case, the victim was a taxi driver who actually drove his murderer home before being gunned down." The bishops said there is a need to fully acknowledge the validity of the CatholicNationalist and the Protestant-Unionist traditions in Northern Ireland. "Any promotion of peace must recognise that both traditions have their place and must ensure that one is not unjustly treated by the other," the bishops said. They said that they had repeatedly condemned violence as a means of achieving political progress and remedying injustice.
about 7500 new Irish immigrants received information and guidance in parish centres in the Bronx. The immigrants have problems finding jobs, housing and health care, the report said. Another problem is stress among individuals, without family contacts, who are adapting to a new culture. More serious problems encountered are alcoholism, depression, drug addiction, single parenthood and prolonged illness.
Boom for charismatic Catholicism in Kerala
COCHIN, India: Charismatic Catholicism has had a boom in popularity among the faithful of the ancient Keralan church that traces its beginnings to the arrival of the Apostle Thomas in India. Too numerous for any church building in Kerala to hold some 50,000, convention participants including many Hindus knelt and prayed on the pebbly ground in the shade of coconut plantations or rubber estates. They shared loaves of bread that were distributed to them once a day. "The Catholic Church in Kerala is experiencing the salvific presence of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit in a tangible manner, perhaps for the rust time in the 2000 years of its existence," one onlooker commented. The Kerala Church has 24 dioceses belonging to three rites, Syro-Malankara, Syro-Malabar and Latin, and has about 3000 parishes. Kerala had 4217 prayer groups in 1989. Their number is estimated to be around 6000 now.
The movement began to spread following the first charismatic retreat preachekl in the state in 1974. In 1977, with a sizeable following of nuns, college students and seminarians, the All Kerala Charismatic Convention was held in Cochin, central Kerala. But the Keralan hierarchy has raised some warning flags. Malankara Archbishop Benedict Mar Gregorios of Trivandrum says the movement has "some bad elements". "Mere singing and praying is not enough to become Catholic. Sacramental life is more important," said the archbishop. "But there is no idea of banning the movement" despite reports that some bishops were planning to bar it from their dioceses, he said. "How can the hierarchical church collide with the pneumatic (spiritual) church?" he asked. "The Holy Spirit is one."
Why not choice for all? SIOUX CITY, Iowa (CNS): Vice President Dan Quayle demanded choice for parents in selecting schools for their children in an address to the Midwestern Governors' Conference. "Why not choice for all?" Quayle asked. "Unfortunately, choice
has been largely relegated to parents who can afford other options." Quayle said he was talking about more than the simple choice between public and private schools. "I'd rather you think of it," he said,
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between good schools and bad schools."
Jawbone of St Anthony stolen
PADUA, Italy (CNS): Armed men entered St Anthony's Basilica and stole a reliquary containing the jawbone of St Anthony as frightened pilgrims looked on.
Two men with stocking
caps over their faces held
visitors and a custodian at gunpoint as they removed the 12-pound gold reliquary and a gold tabernacle.
The men left quickly after an alarm sounded, escaping in a car with two accomplices. The Gothic reliquary, made in 1349, holds what is believed to be the
saint's mandible, or jawbone, along with a few teeth. A number of other relics of the saint were left untouched. Police have not ruled out extortion as a motive.
Lesson to be learnt from Sisters
At a CEO Presentation centenary ceremony Dr Tannock hands Sr Gabriel Burns a perpetual music scholarship to be administered by the Presentation Order.
... WHO CELEBRATE 100 YEARS OF SERVICE IN WA The Presentation Sisters and other orders have made a unique contribution to the development of the cultural heritage of Australia, Dr Peter Tannock said last week. The breadth of education offered by the pioneer sisters had a real lesson for 1991, he said at a ceremony honouring the 100 years of the Presentation Order in WA. "It reflected a belief they had and continue to have in the potential of every young person whatever their background
or culture," he said. Dr Tannock announced the establishment of a perpetual music scholarship that would be administered by the Presentation Order. It would be available to a Catholic primary or secondary student and could be used at any school and in any way determined by the Presentation Sisters. Dr Tannock said that there had been a staggering rapidity in the establishment of
Presentation foundations in WA in the two waves, the first out of Geraldton in 1891 and the second starting at Collie in 1901. Citing the 1913 grade six curriculum at Sandstone — English, reading, spelling, literature, writing, geography and commerce — Dr Tannock said the sisters were prepared to offer a tremendous array of subjects in what were tough
surroundings and to be an inspiration to students right down to the present day. He pointed out that the origins of the Presentation Order in Ireland was not only to serve the poor but also to bring about their advancement and this approach had been translated to Australia by the Presentation Sisters and other orders to help people overcome conditions of tyranny and injustice.
Prison the last option By Judith Amey Prison is degrading, destructive and oppressive to all who come in contact with it — offenders, their families, prison officers. In Western Australia many more people suffer the indignity of prison than in any other state. The conference "Prison the Last Option" looked at reasons, the effects for the community and alternatives to imprisonment. Because there is a high proportion of aboriginal people in our prisons their special needs were discussed also. Community concern with the whole issue of law and order had people calling for longer prison sentences. This demand arises in part from frustration and from a fear of being the next victim. More than 260 people from the judiciary, police, Corrective and Community Services, Aboriginal groups and the churches attended the conference organised by the Social Responsibility Commissions of the Anglican, Catholic and Uniting Churches. Profesor Richard Harding of the University of WA called for a ceiling to be placed on the number of people in WA prisons. For the past thirty years WA has had the highest
rate of imprisonment of any state in Australia. The rate has varied but it has been continuously thirty five to eighty per cent above the national average. This means that for every 10,000 people in WA, 114 are in prison. Studies and experience have shown that a high imprisonment rate does not mean a reduced crime rate. Each year the courts in WA sentence 12,500 people to prison. About 11,800 are sentenced in the lower courts by magistrates and justices of the peace. The vast majority of prisoners are therefore serving short sentences for minor crimes.
It can only be Oven by those who deal with the offenders. Justice should include a commitment by the community to improve the lot of the offender and his family. When offenders are able to see that commitment, then we will have a compassionate justice. Too often our social situation determines the outcomes of our life.
with Australian courts regarding prison as the only option for Aboriginal offenders. Although commending this conference, Rob Riley pointed out that it was addressing the problem from the end, not the beginning, of the crime cycle. To do something constructive we should be looking at why young people, particularly Abo-
Members of this panel would meet and talk with first time and minor offenders and their families. This would provide a link between the Aboriginal people and the judiciary. Aboriginal people relate far more easily with people of their own race than they do with authority figures from other communities.
Harding Professor called this the "custodial free lunch" and it is this frequency of sentencing, not the length of the sentences, which results in the high number of people in our prisons. Legislation does provide alternatives. Harding Professor believes that in not using these alternatives, the lower courts are flouting the law which states that prison is to be a last resort as a penalty for offenders. Father Frank Brennan reminded the conference that, for a Christian, justice must be both just and compassionate. Compassion cannot be institutionalised.
The poor, the Aboriginal, the intellectually handicapped are more likely to serve a prison sentence than someone with a white middleclass background. This last issue was elaborated further by Rob Riley from the Aboriginal Legal Service. For 200 years the aboriginal people have had an alien and inappropriate system of law
riginal young people, offend. No one seriously believes that a child sets out with a deliberate aim to become a hardened criminal by the age of 15. One possible solution, suggested by Mr Riley, would be to set up an advocacy panel of Aboriginal people to work with the Children's Court.
In the last decade, there has been a world wide movement recognising the needs of victims of crime. Andrew Patterson is the director of the South Australian Victims of Crime Services which began as a self-help group when the parents of the Truro murder victims came together to provide mutual understanding and support.
The South Australian unit, funded by a surcharge on offenders' fines, provides information, counselling, advocacy and support. Community recognition of the experiences and pain suffered by the victim is provided through a financial compensation program. Victims of crime have a vested interest in crime prevention and prison reform. Unless prison offers inmates opportunities and choices leading them away from crime, prison will continue to contribute to the maintenance of high crime rates. Professor Christian Pfeiffer, a German professor of criminology, spoke of ways his country has used to reduce the prison population. Fines are directed to non-profit organisations or to individuals to help the offender feel he is making a genuine reparation for his offence.
been helpful to the victim as he copes with his trauma. In Germany the churches played an enormous role in gaining public acceptance of mediation. Some years ago Germany reformed its prison system, built new prisons and employed extra social workers, educators and officers to work in the prisons. The rate of imprisonment went up. When prisons were shut and became unavailable as a sentencing option, other penalties were imposed with no increase in the crime rate. Prison is a dangerous solution and its use should be avoided. However any scheme to reduce imprisonment rates must be a joint effort of all concerned — judges, police, social workers, researchers and the public.
In summing up the conference, the chairA proposed new law man, Sir Ronald Wilson, will mean that no fine said the aims to raise can be imposed until public awareness and to reparation has been provoke debate had been made to the victim. achieved. Professor Pfeiffer spoke The problem is a comstrongly in favour of plex one with no simple mediation between the answer. It calls for victim and the offender. interaction and positive In Germany, this has led action from government to a decrease in punitive agencies, decision makattitudes held by the ers, the media, people community. As well, the working in all parts of the chance to confront the justice system and the offender personally has general community. The Record, October 31, 1991 7
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How the sacraments 'speak' in human terms It was a dark and need to experience God stormy night, and four- with our senses. year-old Mary had just That is the purpose of been put to bed. sacraments. Lightning flashed and Sacraments make the thunder rolled, and i nvisible presence and shortly after she was put action of God visible. to bed Mary called for Sacraments enable us to her mother. experience spiritual realMother came in and talked to Mary to calm ities through our senses, her down. But every time making the intangible mother tried to leave the tangible. Since we humans are room, Mary would cry embodied spirits, our and beg her to stay. Finally Mary's mother fullest experiences of reminded her that God God must wed the physwas always with her and ical and the spiritual. she shouldn't be afraid. To meet this basic human need, God took Mary pondered that a moment and then said: "I on our human condition; know God is here, but I the Word was made want somebody with a flesh. face!" The incarnation — or Mary is not alone in enfleshment — of the wanting a God to see and Son of God enabled touch and hear. We people to see, hear and know God is with us, yet touch the God who had there is a basic human been invisible.
The incarnation continues after the resurrection-ascension of Christ through the Church, the body of Christ in the world today. The sacraments are the incarnate actions of the risen Christ in our lives. Using symbols drawn from human cultures, the sacraments attempt to express in human terms the mystery of God's action in our lives. The success of this depends on several factors. One is that the symbols used must "speak" clearly to those present. This means the symbols need to be appreciated either because they are drawn so directly from the local culture that their meaning is obvious or because the tradition of using them has been
By Father Lawrence Mick handed down from earlier generations as a living custom. The power of the symbols to speak to us also depends on using them in all their richness and fullness. Our experience of the sacraments can suffer if symbols are used in a way that stifles their power to speak to us. Symbols are a rich language. They can communicate to the mind, the heart and the senses all at the same time. Symbols speak of realities too rich and mysterious to capture in words alone — of love and life and death and God. In order to speak as effectively as possible at all those levels, symbols
need to be used richly and fully. For several centuries we focused almost exclusively on what makes the sacrament valid, that is, what is the minimum necessary to make the sacramental symbol and to produce the sacramental effect. This vas a valid concern but too exclusive attention to that question caused us to lose sight of the richness of the sacraments. A bit of bread and a few drops of wine might suffice to celebrate Eucharist in a prison during persecution, but the normal celebration of the sacrament requires much more than the minimum if it is to be
fully effective for our spiritual growth. For example:
• The potential of the experience of baptism to touch us is reduced if only a few drops of water are used. Think how powerful the experience of immersion in water is — water that could drown, but also can give life. • And how much richer is confirmation or the anointing of the sick if the oil is sweet smelling and used in abundance as a symbol of God's power and love anointing our lives! • Even the sacrament of penance calls for the imposition of hands and a clear and sensitive proclamation of forgiveness by the Church (through the priest) as a
powerful symbol of accomplish their purGod's forgiveness. pose is that we approach The reform of the them with the right sacraments called for by expectations and attiVatican Council 11 has tudes. We need to be sought to renew the open to the power of the sacraments by adapting symbol to speak to us on them a bit more closely to many levels. local cultures (for exam- Our culture is not very ple, celebrating them in comfortable with symour own languages) and bolic communication. So by encouraging a fuller there is a tendency to use of the symbols (for deal with sacraments too example, restoring Com- literally, demanding one munion under both clear message and ignorbread and wine). ing the poetic and myste"Sacraments cause by rious quality of the signifying," St Thomas sacramental symbols. Aquinas insisted centurWe need a sensitivity ies ago, and the better we and openness to let the make the signs (symsymbols speak to our bols), the more powerminds, emotions, hearts fully the sacraments can and senses. We need to make God's presence felt ourselves to allow be in ways that truly change immersed in the sacraour lives. mental symbols. Then Another requirement if they can show us the face sacraments are to of God.
"Sacraments make the invisible presence and action of God visible," says Father Lawrence E.Mick. "Sacraments enable us to experience spiritual realities through our senses, making the intangible tangible."
'Language' of sacraments By Jane Wolford Hughes It was a simple meal, a bowl of soup, French bread and a small glass of wine. Father Frank Granger had prepared it himself. He could not afford a cook in his poor inner-city parish. We had been friends a long time and had been there for each other in sorrow and joy. The meal followed the Eucharist we had just celebrated in church in memory of my late husband. There seemed to be no break in the spirit of holy peacefulness as we moved into his kitchen. The fare may have been uncomplicated. But the most elegant banquet could not have satisfied me more as nourishment for the body, nor could it have filled my spirit with such peace and unity. The author M.F.K. Fisher writes: "There is a
mmunion of more than our bodies when lead is broken and wine is drunk." The breaking of bread is a communal act. Its s Tabolism is powerful. Almost instinctively, people grasp the r mning and experience the effects of this a tion. People who by force of circumstances must e t alone often say: "I don't fuss much anymore. list eat enough to get by." Perhaps we can heighten our own preciation of the symbolism of bread if we at other cultures. How do they reverence iead and what symbolic meanings do they see it? This year my daughter Maureen and her family stayed on the Hopi Indian reservation. The Hopi, whose name means "peaceful cies", celebrate ceremonies all year for the italth and prosperity of all living things. Their bread — piki — is made of cornmeal aid is part of each ceremony as well as other ally rituals.
For example, the sacred cornmeal is sprinkled to mark the outline of a new room to be added to a household. One ritual takes place when a woman is about to give birth. She retires to a separate room with her mother and other clan women, taking some sacred cornmeal with her. Twenty days after the child is born, the father who has not yet seen the the child comes at dawn to sprinkle a path with the sacred cornmeal to the edge of the mesa so that the young Hopi will be properly set on the road to life. The Hopi seem greatly sensitive to the symbolic. When my daughter purchased some Hopi art — kachina dolls and exquisite pottery — the Hopi storekeeper sprinkled the purchases with cornmeal as he gave the art pieces a blessing. Signs and symbols — bread and wine — are part of each eucharistic celebration in the Christian community.
So are actions, gestures, community — and words too. And all are vital to our human ways of understanding. Christ, in his body and blood, satisfies our individual hungers and thirsts — responding to each person uniquely. But there is more to the Eucharist than what is received. We who are satisfied become, in turn, Christ bearers meant to give ourselves to others. Isn't that what the priest's words at the conclusion of each Mass imply: "Go in peace to love and serve the Lord." Or do we even hear the words? Just as bread is basic to our body, the Eucharist is basic to our spirit. Jesus assures us, as he did the crowds who followed him after the multiplication of the loaves and fishes: "I myself am the bread of life. No one who comes to me shall ever be hungry, no one who believes in me shall ever thirst." (John 6:35)
Sacraments are for human beings Moses and all the presence of Christ to his prophets he interpreted community in this celeRemember the familiar to them what referred to bration of the Eucharist. story in Luke 24. Two him in all the Scriptures." But there is something disciples, crushed by (Luke 24:27.) For human beings, it significant here that Jesus' death, are walking would be all too easy to not go unnoticed: should Close to the village now, disconsolately toward they invite him to share witness signs and symJesus' revealing gesture the village of Emmaus. bols without grasping their supper. is preceded by the explatheir significance at The risen Christ joins He accepts and, as he nation of the Scriptures, all. them, unrecognised. has done so often before, by the word. b reaks the ceremonial The word is necessary One risk for human He asks why they are so loaf and shares it with for understanding the understanding is that disturbed, and they tell these signs, then, might him. Then he chides them. sign, the sacrament. be regarded as meaningT heir eyes are opened Look again in Scripture, them for not having less elements in "magiby time at the beginning this this characteristic understood the message cal" rites. g esture and they recogof Chapter 6 in John's in Scripture pointing to nise him (Luke 24:31, 35). where Jesus feeds Gospel This is why word and the necessity of his death. L hungry crowd. the uke sign are inseparable for wants his readers "Then beginning with to see the continued us — as is seen in The next day many who By Father John J. Castelot
It is difficult — maybe God's people can make impossible — to survive themselves available to life's fiercest struggles each other — helping to without a little hope. communicate the hope, Curiously, it is at love, faith or courage that moments of real struggle give life meaning. that people frequently Some might suspect need others most, relying that during a liturgical on others to keep giving celebration individuals hope back to them. isolate themselves in That is a reason why it order to petition God for is only fitting that sacra- their needs of the mental celebrations — moment — that the . occasions when the ulti- sacrament is an end in mate meaning of life is itself, in other words. confronted — are celebrated in a community Experience shows, setting. In such a setting, however, that sacra8
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ments open people up to their own capacity to act on behalf of others. And so the grace of the moment extends far beyond the moment; a sacrament is a beginning point. You might say that a community setting is natural to the "language" of sacraments. There is a sense in which the members of a good community parish become a sign that the sacraments really do make sense.
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were fed came looking for him. He reproached them for coming not because they had "seen signs", but because they had gotten a free meal. They had seen the sign, but had not caught its significance. So Jesus proceeded to instruct them, and there are at least two main Bread of Lifefliscourses. In the first verses 3550), Jesus explains himself as the true bread come down from heaven.
Here the bread is a metaphor for truth, teaching, revelation. Jesus means that he is the incarnate truth, the ultimate revelation of the Father. This is followed by a discourse (verses 51-58) in which the bread is identified unmistakably as the Eucharist, with the emphasis on eating his flesh and drinking his blood. Once again there is that same sequence: the word, which stengthens faith, then the life-giving sacrament.
Without the enlightening word, the sacraments could easily degenerate into meaningless "magical" rites, signs without real significance. Sacraments need to be approached with faith, with appreciation of their meaning. Herein lies the importance to we human beings of the Scripture readings at Mass during the Liturgy of the Word. Without this the action that follows would risk being meaningless ritual for those who are present.
DISCUSSION POINTS Bread and wine are things physical which in the Eucharist become true sacramental signs. But, on a natural level, what does bread as a sign signify to you? Or wine? What natural "sign value" do bread and wine possess? Selected responses from readers: "Bread is the most basic source of nourishment. It is found on the table at all meals regardless of whether one is rich or poor. It feeds all alike. Likewise, wine is a drink commonly accepted in most cultures. It is the spirit of the spirits." — 0. Pasquarelli "There has been a saying around for years that 'you are what you eat'. The more sacramental 'body' and 'blood' I consume, the more I become like Jesus. I try to remember that and behave accordingly." — Irmalee Adair "(They signify) a way of life, the ordinary things of life." — Victor Bull Bear "I am a eucharistic minister and when I bring Communion to the sick . . . I need strength and courage from the Lord — strength to be able to deal with any sickness, courage
— so I can give them courage. The Eucharist we know brings strength and courage." — Rose Bronson "Nourishment for the body." — Ashley Laiewski "We often hear bread called the 'staff of life'. Webster defines the word 'staff used in this context as something that sustains. And that 'something' includes all the wondrous shapes and sizes of breads, be they made from refined flour or whole grain or many grains. Truly bread is satisfying to the body and to the spirit." — Evelyn Murphy "As one for whom both (wheat) bread and wine have become poisons (I have severe food in tolerances) and who struggles daily to find foods my body will tolerate, 'bread and wine' have become a sign of my dependence on God. I can no longer take ordinary things for granted and need God for my very survival." Lucyann Stamm
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A parish home for those in a crisis
surplus, they set up the outgoing newcomers with these extras to give them a start. The refugee family is given subsidised rent and they are looked after by the committee and parishioners for six months; being taught how to live in our community by putting their children into schools and teaching them how to shop along with all the mechanics of Two years ago the daily life. After the first few weeks parish of Brentwood/ Willetton decided of instruction, the comthey'd do their bit, mittee backs off and lets them find their own way. spurred on by the Year of Mission, and set up The first family the parish housed and initiatives through helped was Polish, the their Home Shelter second Sudanese and the Group, to help settle- third is expected to be ment of refugees, from South America. homeless youth and The Polish family who families in crisis. arrived February last As a result Foley House year, only had their was purchased in Willet- suitcases. ton around 18 months Today, with the help of ago and furnished by the committee, they now supportive parishioners. have their own home The parish expectation with a good command of Committee chairman Mr Noel Ashcroft telling how under the Brentwood/Willetton Home Shelter Group was that they would buy English. the first house and then The Sudanese family of much can be achieved for the benefit of others in need. the committee would parents and six children there. Homeless youth Anglicare Homesharers ensure it was kept viable are now in independent sleeping in local shop- Program for long or short by their own endeavours. rental accommodation ping centres and other term accommodation Committee chairman while the husband is places, were there appar- needs. Noel Ashcroft said they upgrading his electronic ently because of choice have achieved tax qualification to meet our and insufficient With the Family Crisis deductible status and standards. numbers existed to jus- Support aspect of their have good parishioner On the homeless youth tify settting up a costly outreaching care, the support by way of gifts, scene, the parish com- operation. committee were successfood, clothing, furniture mittee found when they However the parish ful in gaining a Homesand toys. did some research that encourages those who do west grant of $8000 last When they have a the need just wasn't need help to contact the year to rent a house for a
year, under the Com- parish is right behind the monwealth Government active members, said Mr Crisis Accommodation Ashcroft, with money Program. and goods, as is total support given by their Since November last year they have accom- parish priest Father modated four split Richard Doyle. families. The committee is Once again the parish accountable to the parish came to the fore and council and report helped set it up with monthly formally by way some electrical and of a written chairman's heavy expenditure items, report and financial said Mr Ashcroft and the statement to the annual house has had an occu- general meeting. pancy rate of 92 per cent. "So we run this very "Once again we help as much along business much as we can without lines, producing a final getting to the point statement each month where we become a with a balance sheet and welfare agency." budgeting on a cash flow A subsidised rent is basis." charged in accordance And despite some very with Homeswest's crite- heavy expenses, said Mr ria which the committee Ashcroft, they'd mainis required to adhere to tained themselves "in the in every scheme, and black and not only run they also hope to pur- these programs but also chase a house under the assist any other person program to allow them who can't meet certain additional flexibility for expenses through unemcrisis accommodation. ployment, or their high It will be a government rental commitments and owned house held in inability to get out of trust by the archdiocese. their contracts". Management is split at So they look at their organisational level with income versus rent and a member on each com- contract, and along mittee to gain feedback Homeswest guidelines and communication top them up to help through them. reduce their outgoings. They hold their own Mr Ashcroft said if any meetings and advise of other parishes are interany extra problems so if ested in setting up such necessary support is initiatives as Brentwood/ needed, the committee Willetton have in place, organises it. they will help them with And of course the the expertise to do so.
Silver joy in Carlow When Father Tom McGree arrived in Fremantle in October 1966, little did he know that he would be the last Irish priest trained in Ireland to be heading for Bunbury diocese. Now the parish priest of Mt Barker/Denmark, he recently returned to St Patrick's College, Carlow, to join with 21 other priests celebrating the 25th anniversary of their ordination on June 11, 1966. Of the 29 priests ordained that day one had died and six had left the priesthood. The other 21 were all working in parishes in North and South America, England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. "I doubt any more priests will be coming to Australia from Ireland," said Fr McGree. "Back in my time big numbers of young priests were sent overseas but now all the old priests are dying and the numbers being ordained are only sufficient to meet the needs of the Church in Ireland."
Before studying theol- land, replied, he ogy at Carlow, Fr McGree "Converts." attended Mungret Jesuit Despite this, a dreamy College from 11 years of faraway look comes into age until he was 18 when his eyes when he talks of he completed his philo- Ireland. "I may go back to sophy studies. end my days and settle It was not until he had on the west coast in a finished the first year of little cottage," then with a his theological studies laugh he added, "with that he finally decided to modern facilities of be a priest. "I had ideas of course." being a teacher at a Fr McGree cannot private school and earn- afford the luxury of a ing more money but," housekeeper. "Once I looking skywards he couldn't even boil water added with a smile, "He but hunger is a great had other ideas." motivator. I eat what I Part of the attraction to cook, which is a miracle!" work in Western AustraHe does not use notes lia was that three of his for his "fireside chat" brothers had already sermons — "Perhaps I settled here. should," he quips. "I'm After the Emerald Isle, not eloquent, so I keep the sun-burnt country, my talks short with a its laid-back people and thread running through the vastness of the land them and try to apply the were a great cultural lesson of the day to our shock to the young priest. own lives." "My young, harsh judgeAn avid Claremont ments of the land and its football supporter, it is people have softened not unusual for his with the years and I've enthusiasm to spill over come to love the land, its into his talks. people and its challenges. "People should relax It's fantastic!" and enjoy their religion. Asked what challenges They are heirs to the a priest had here that he Kingdom of God. I am would not face in Ire- lucky being in the midst
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of so many beautiful people — spiritually. "They create a beautiful atmosphere. "It is better to err on the side of leniency. I would not refuse baptism, for instance, to punish or enforce some dictum but prefer to bring people around by talking with them — it gets a great response." He must be doing something right. On the eve of his departure for Ireland, his parishioners organised a celebratory 25th anniversary Mass at which Bishop Peter Quinn was the chief celebrant with four priests and a number of deacons. This was followed by a sit-down dinner for 420 present and former parishioners in the Plantagenet Hall. They came from Bunbury, Narrogin (his first parish), Denmark, Walpole, South Stirlings, Franklin River, Kendenup, Cranbrook, Busselton and Albany. His duties during the past 25 years have included administrator in Bunbury for five years
and chaplain at the Pardellup Prison Farm. Fr McGree has been parish priest at Mt Barker for six years which entails his travelling an average of 600km a week to visit parishioners and say Mass weekly at some centres and fortnightly at others. He says four Masses every weekend. "I could not minister to my big parish without the great community effort of lay people and particularly those key folk at each centre — they are brilliant!" he said. There are eight schools at which he gives religious education before or after school hours and there are four Catholic Church buildings and three community or other denomination church buildings in which he says Mass. He is never lonely which is believable when you talk to the man. "I sometimes wish I could get more time to myself," he observed with his ready chuckle and tongue in cheek.
Fr McGree . . ordained 25 years ago.
Historic move by college By Colleen McGuiness-Howard
Trinity College undertook an historic initiative in May this year when the junior school was separated from the secondary, by its moving into a newly refurbished and extended building which used to be the Christian Brothers' former residence. This new location is significant, because it emphasises the important link between the pioneering brothers who had dedicated their lives in establishing Trinity College and its place of origin — CBC on the Terrace, said Head of the Junior School, Mr Mark Hales. The move has also brought a lot of other good things with it, because the years four to seven now have "incredibly improved teaching facilities available and they've established their own identity". "It's now a very effective and dynamic learning centre." The boys think it's really tops too because after gathering a random cross section of student comment, it sounds as though they're as equally enthusiastic and impressed. According to the boys they now have lots of
opportunities to do different things and select different options. On the sports scene there are summer and winter sports involving yachting, canoeing, ten pin bowling, croquet, squash, cricket training at the WACA, tennis, recreation, basketball courts and full use of the gym and pool. Musically they have a choice of six different instruments — the bagpipes being one. One of the great Trinity traditions is the pipes and drums band. From as early as year five the boys are able to participate in music and learn the skills of the bagpipe and drums and also have access to other musical instruments with the additional learning scope of joining school bands. The school "feels cleaner too!" says one of the boys and generally the students agree they share a great sense of pride. Trinity junior school is now uniquely able to have its own specialist teachers, Mr Hales pointed out and in summing up what they now have, he added — "What more could anyone wish for?!"
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Top right: Photographed against the original Trinitarian motif which used to grace the foyer of the Christian Brothers' former residence and which is now installed in the junior primary school, are Tim Macdonald (left) and Kim Stranger. Right: "School isn't all hard work, you know!" state junior primary students Selim Petale (left), Darren Hutchinson, Matthew Yeend, Peter Noble and head boy Adrian Zorzi, as they take "time out" against the backdrop of the beautiful extension to their new school — formerly the brothers' residence.
Help ease boredom of refugees call were in possession of The St Vincent de Paul Government. Society is appealing to "But," he added, "these such items — and found people of all religious services need to be they no longer required denominations to help supplemented quickly if them would, hopefully, make life a lithe easier these people are to be make a gesture of goodand more bearable for encouraged to put their will, by making them the hundreds of refu- idle time to good use, and available as soon as gees whose home, for to help them overcome possible. some time, will be the the boredom of being Sporting equipment C ommonwealth detained for long periods was also essential for the Government's refugee in this kind of facility." well-being of the refuprocessing centre at He stressed that there gees.Tennis, soccer, basPort Hedland. was an urgent and ketball, volleyball, base-
of sporting equipment are almost non-existent within the centre, and a good response for donations of these would help to provide a healthy/ pastime for the refugees and at the same time indicate to them that the people of Western Australia are responsive to their needs," Mr Lambe said.
The society's president, Mr Gerry Lambe, said this week the accommodation and most other
The St Vincent de Paul Society had already transported four sewing machines from Perth to Port Hedland.
personal requirements
were being provided by the Commonwealth
immediate need for refrigerators and water coolers. People, companies and business houses who the society. The refugee processing
ball and similar "hardball" games could be played on the hardsurface grounds which surround most of the centre's other facilities. "Supplies of this range
The machines were
proving a boon with the surface from time to women who were busily time, and Mr Lambe said making clothes for them- the Catholic parish priest selves and their families. in Port Hedland, Father Larry Wrightmeyer had But these efforts needed told him the increasing to be supplemented with demand could not be met donations of light entirely by the residents summer-weight mate- of Port Hedland. rials if their enthusiasm He would liaise with St was to be maintained and if the women were to Vincent de Paul in bringing such requirebe gainfully employed. ments to the attention of A quantity of sun hats centre is expected, ultihad also seen sent and it mately, to accommodate was anticipated more from 600-700 men, would be required at a women and children, mainly Indo-Chinese later stage. boat people who had Other needs would arrived in Australia
without a legal right to do so. They are being housed at the former BHP single persons quarters at Point Cook, Port Hedland. pending assessment of their situation and a fina determination as to it. and when they should b. sent back to their respec tive homelands. Donations can be sent to St Vincent de Paul shops/centres throughout the state; to the society's headquarters, 19 Bronte Street, East Perth, or telephone Perth 325 3882.
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Defending champ bows out All but two finals were decided last weekend in almost perfect conditions. An upset was recorded in the Ladies' Singles when many times and defending champion, Geraldine Alderman, went down to Alison Thomas in three exciting sets 6-3, 2-6, 6-3 giving Alison her first Association singles title. Tim Fanowrios also won his first Association crown when he beat another defending champion, Paul Horsten, in the Men's Singles 6-3, 4-6, 7-5. This match produced some fine
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However, the Messer family had their revenge in the Men's Handicap Doubles when Peter and son, Simon, downed Vish Achari and Jason Oxley 10-8. The Messers were in big trouble, down 5-8 when they stormed home winning the last five games in quick time. The Ladies' Handicap Doubles saw another Messer pairing when Leonie and Christine Messer played Delys Achari and Fiona Dunleavy, but this time Achari/Durileavy were
the winners with a 10-8 score line. The Men's Handicap Singles saw young Simon Messer battle it out with John Ward and go on to win 9-2. This score belies the closeness of the match with many long rallies with all Simon's winning games going to deuce. The Mixed Handicap final is to be played at another date. Congratulations to all the winners and to Mike Messer for conducting yet another successfully run tournament.
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TOMORROW TODAY with Father Joe Parkinson
I.eallers Lisa Shannon and Danny Bos present crosses after Whitford Antioch's closing Mass, as parish priest Fr Tim Corcoran looks on.
Twelve recruits joined Whitfords Antioch community during their weekend held at the Whitfords Catholic Primary Schoo. on October 11-13.
Why buy the lie? Recent sensationalised reports on the incidence of teenage suicide have sidestepped some key issues.
Godsquad members Bernadette and Anne Donovan, and Gabby Calleja, played a vital role in Midland Antioch's weekend.
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Counselling those who show symptoms of stress and depression will not solve the suicide problem because it does not address the real causes.
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FOR PEOPLE 20-30 YEARS OLD • A seven-week series of ecumenical • seminars offering guidance on practical Christian responses to a range of • current issues: money, politics, law, conflict, power, enemies, aid.
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Whitfords' weekend leaders were Lisa Shannon and Danny Bos.
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1. "Serious musicians!" Brendan Broughton (left), Ralph Guadagnino and Paul Tudor strike a great note at practice. 2. Junior sports stars playing in the new Foley Centre gym which was part of the building program significantly funded by past and present parents and the Trinity Old Boys Association. 3. Planning their next critical chess move in the new library are Tim Rogers (left), Thomas Spencer and Marcus Piffer. 4. Art is such a creative experience according to Michael Taylor (left) and Stuart McClorey who are working on a joint art masterpiece! 5. Peter Noble practicing outdoors (for obvious reasons!) on the traditional bagpipes. • ,„ , •
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Pastoral stop at Kambalda
Kambalda has been one of Archbishop Hickey's first pastoral stops. He is pictured with Father Lim and instructors Mary Steery (left) and Mary O'Niel (right) and the 10 youths he confirmed. Photo by Kathy Lindup.
Allan Croll, one of Ballajura's keen supporters for naming the community in honour of Mary MacKillop together with Sister Margaret O'Sullivan and Parish Priest Father John Jegorow. Archbishop Hickey is visiting this Sunday the youngest and yet unnamed Catholic c ommunity of Ballajura. After 12 months of prayer and discussion
involving over 50 people at a series of meetings, three names were submitted to the archbishop for approval: namely, Mary MacKillop Catholic Community, Mary of the Cross, and
FAMILY SERIES Highgate Parish is running the "Families Do Matter" program on the second Sunday of each month. Next session on Family Celebrations on Sunday, November 10, 11am12.30pm in Parish Meeting House, Harold Street. Open to all. WAROONA FEAST For the Our Lady of Mt Carmel Festa at Waroona Mass will be celebrated at St Patrick's Church, Waroona at 10am on Sunday, November 10 followed by a procession and a communal anointing of the sick. Light refreshments available. Open to all. ROTTNEST FUN Rottnest Family Fun Can December 29-January 3 organised through Marriage Encounter offers low cost family holiday, meals catered. Extended family and single parents welcome. Contact Eileen Bott 313 1749, Helen Mary Sykes (097) 21 4547. ENCOUNTER EVENING 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 sharings to follow. Ends 10pm with supper. BYO. Circle programs, jewellery, tapes and books available. Further information 367 6769. CUP LUNCHEON 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.
St Therese's Catholic Community. Archbishop Hickey will officially name the community and the Catholic school which opened 18 months ago will also share the same name.
Mandurah Catenian president Reg Newman (centre) is flanked by Grand President Bert Murnaghan and Provincial President Graham Pittaway and foundation circle members. Mandurah Circle of the Catenian Association inaugurated by the Grand President Bert Murnaghan KHS
Mass celebrated in
HE PARISH S CENE COUNTRY PRAYER The combined country Catholic parishes hold their seventh day of reflection at St Joseph's Church, Northam on Monday, November 11, commencing at 9.30am and concluding with Mass at 2pm. Archbishop Hickey will give an address on the theme of the day, —The Love of God". Fr Paul Fogarty will also speak on the theme of the day as it affects the world, particularly the youth. Wear a name tag showing parish. BYO lunch. Tea/coffee supplied. Contact numbers (096) 22 3109, (090) 44 7035. (If seat required on bus from Perth phone 385 1308.) NEWMAN SOCIETY On Wednesday, November 13 at 7pm in the Senior Common Room, St Thomas More College, Crawley the annual general meeting will be held. At 7.30pm Professor David Link, Vice-Chancellor NDA, will lecture on NDA and "Ex Corde Ecclesiae", the statement on Catholic universities by Pope John Paul II. Vatican II Study Group, Wednesday, November 12 at 11am at 27 Ballot Way, Balcatta. Decree on ecumenism, Chapt I. This meeting and Professor Link's lecture open to all interested. Contact number 446 7340.
Our Lady's Assumption Church, Mandurah by Bishop Quinn on the following morning was
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Archdiocesan Calendar NOVEMBER 2 Bedford Parish Mass, Archbishop Hickey. Ballajura Parish Mass, Archbishop 3 Hickey. Coalition for the Defence of Human Life, Archbishop Hickey. Confirmation City Beach, Bishop Healy. Confirmation Embleton, Monsignor Keating. Confirmation Girrawheen, Monsignor McCrann. Confirmation Kalamunda, Father G. Carroll. Visit New Norcia, Archbishop 4 Hickey. St Charles' Day Mass and Dinner, Archbishop Hickey. Aranmore Year 12 Graduation Mass, Bishop Healy. 5 La Salle College Graduation Mass, Archbishop Hickey. Meet migrant chaplains, Archbishop 6 Hickey. St Norbert's College Presentation Night, Archbishop Hickey. 7 8
Catholic Social Justice Commission meeting, Archbishop Hickey. Brigidine Convent Mass, Archbishop Hickey. Confirmation Karrinyup, Bishop Healy.
attended by Catenians and wives from England. the Eastern States and the archdiocese of Perth.
Confirmation Lynwood, Father Chris Ross. Bless Girrawheen Centre, Archbishop Hickey. Confirmation Cottesioe, Archbishop Hickey. St Rocco Procession, Archbishop Hickey. Confirmation Carlisle, Monsignor Keating. Confirmation Mirrabooka, Monsignor McCrann. Northam Day of Reflection, Archbishop Hickey. Convent of Mercy Mass, Archbishop Hickey.
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"MEDJUGORJE THE MESSAGE" and
He is in constant touch with the latest happenings at Medjugorje and will be speaking on subjects such as:
"LETTERS FROM MEDJUGORJE" Speaks about Our Lady's call to him to spread her message of peace to the world.
Hear Wayne speak at the following venues FRE MANTLE NORTH PERTH
St Patrick's Church Redemptorist Church
Thurs, November 14 Fri, November 15
WHITFORD/CRAIGIE GREENMOUNT
Our Lady of the Missions St Anthony's Church
Sat, November 16 Sat, November 16
LEEDERVILLE
Nestor Hall Catholic Education Centre Redemptorist Church St Patrick's Cathedral
Sun, November 17 Mon, November 18 Mon, November 18
NORTH PERTH BUNBURY
7.30pm 11.30am (after Mass at 11am), 7.30pm 2pm 6.30pm (Mass) 7.30pm (Rosary) 8pm (Talk) 2pm 7.30pm noon
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S TUDENTS Progressive Home Tutors 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
Memorial Service for the VICTIMS OF ABORTION
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St Vincent's Hospital
F ETE Sunday, November 3 10.30am to 3.30pm 224 Swan Street, Guildford
*****.************** FOR ALL RELIGIOUS ART WORKS CONSULT
DAN MAZZOTTI
293 2268
Paintings — mosaics — sculptures For churches and homes
Postponing your baby? There's a natural way to do it ... Call us at
NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING 221 3866 Country dients welcome. Phone or write. Phone (008) 11 4010 (local charge)
Natural Famay Planning Centre 29 Victoria Square Member of the Australian Council of Natural Family Planning Inc.
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Women Hurt By Abortion and The Coalition For The Defence Of Human Life invite you to
An interdenominational service Commemorating the thousands of children killed by abortion in Western Australia
SUPREME COURT GARDENS 2pm to 3.30pm
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3 SPEAKERS Dawn, National Coordinator of Women Hurt By Abortion. The Most Rev Barry Hickey, Archbishop of Perth. Bring flowers to present in memory of the children. The Lamb shall be their shepherd and God shall wipe away every tear from their eye.' Revelation 7:17