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Rich marriages make a richer Church Enrichment of mar- holm conference cenried life and enrich- tre, the bishops says: ment of the Church to They were so enthube ready for Christ are siastic after that weekend the themes of Bishop that they could not thank Quinn's Advent pastoral me enough for the letter to Bunbury opportunity. And we hope to make more such diocese. weekends available in Speaking of his the future. recent meeting with Marriage enrichment married couples who weekends help couples took part in a marriage to look at how their enrichment weekend, marriages are growing — at Pemberton Karri- in a right direction or a
wrong direction. It helps couples to recognise ways by which they can grow closer together, accept each others foibles and differ without being nasty. A most enjoyable and valuable experience so the couples told me. Apart from married couples needing enrichment and help to grow so do all of us as partners of Christ and members of
his church. To give us encouragement and advice on how to enrich our lives the church in the Liturgy draws our attention to things we need to think about and apply to our lives. So in these few weeks of Advent we await the coming of Our Saviour Jesus Christ: not only his first coming at Bethlehem but his future
coming at the end of time. The readings in the Church's liturgy for Advent help us to be prepared to receive Him when He comes. We are reminded to be on the alert for the unknown moment when Jesus calls us to Himself. "Be ready" your Lord is coming. To help enrich your lives so that you can 'be
ready' Christ offers you vices are both instructhrough the ministry of tional and uplifting and a the Church the great gift help for a fruitful and of the sacrament of devotional confession of sins. Reconciliation. By reflection of our lives I would ask all priests to and helped by sacramenpreach on and explain tal grace we can truly be the power of this Sacra- enriched by the movement during the Sun- ment of the spirit in our days of Advent. minds and hearts and so Prepare for Christmas give our Lord a heartfelt by communal penitential welcome at Christmas services according to the time. second form of the Rite of I wish you all the Reconciliation. Such ser- hlmsings of Our Saviour. 9
'Give Cambodia $20m more' Australian Catholic Relief wants the Australian government to increase humanitarian and development aid to Cambodia to $20 million as soon as possible. Early action on this by Australia will provide a lead that other governments might follow, says ACR This contribution should be additional to any contribution made to the costs of the UN peace keeping operation. ACR hopes that the four Cambodian factions and those governments which signed the recent agreement and will do all in their power to ensure that a lasting peace is achieved and that the Cambodian Supreme National Council and
"It also appreciates the support that the the United Nations will be able to organise free and fair elections. Government has given up to now to "The suffering of the Cambodian people over rehabilitation programs. the last twenty years has to be ended as soon as "Australian Catholic Relief has been pleased possible. to be part of this co-operative effort. "They must be given the opportunity to again "The needs of the Cambodian people continue have free access to the basic necessities of life. to be overwhelming. A more normal political "The utmost concern of the international solution will speed up restoring the health community must be the dignity and well-being services, food production, education system and of the Cambodian people," ACR said. ACR added: "Australian Catholic Relief infrastructure to the level required in the commends the Australian Government for the country. role it has played, and is continuing to play, in "A mine clearing operation is needed as soon finding a permanent solution to the difficulties as possible so that more rural people will not be confronting Cambodia. maimed."
$86 million deficit the forecast
VATICAN CITY (CNS): measures adopted by The Vatican forecasts a Vatican offices to budget deficit of $86 make it $1 million less million for 1992 and than that predicted for said it needed an 1991. increase in local church According to contributions. November 7 Vatican The predicted deficit statement, the Holy would be one of the See's expenses for largest in recent years, 1992 are expected to despite cost-cutting reach about $180 mil-
lion, with income foreseen at about $93 million. The resulting deficit is slightly under that predicted for 1991 — a result of holding spending to a 2.1 per cent increase for next year. The Vatican has
made up most of its chronic budget deficits by applying Peter's Pence, to the following year's shortfall. For 1992, the Vatican said, Peter's pence is expected to increase about 7 per cent to about $62 million. More help in cover-
ing the deficit will That still leaves ceses can help keep from the more than $16 million Vatican come finances Vatican City State's to be made up. In the solvent. expected surplus of past, the Vatican has to During a two-day $7.9 million, the state- dip into its investment meeting at the Vatican, portfolio to bridge the officials stressed that ment said. they could not keep The city-state makes gap. relying on Peter's much of its income in Last April, the VatiPence to cover annual museum tickets and can asked the world's sales of stamps and bishops to examine shortfalls in operating ways in which dio- expenses. other items.
Interest in ethics incr asing, he says There is an increasing awakening of interest in ethics, Archbishop Hickey said last Sunday and it is time for parents to speak up against what their children are being taught. At a Cottesloe parish confirmation ceremony the Archbishop said the last couple of decades had seen a free-wheeling rejection of Christian values. "Thank God that at long last we begin to hear of business ethics after the disasters of the 1980s. "Medical research people are anxious to set up ethics committees because they are beginning to see the far-reaching possible effects of unbridled experimentation with human life. "Unless they bring God into their discussions they will probably make terrible mistakes."
Archbishop Hickey said he recently encountered a secondary school text on contraception "that turns Catholic teaching and Christian values about sexuality upside down". While he might succeed in keeping it out of Catholic schools he feared for the children at state schools, he said. "Surely there must be plenty of Christian parents and parents of other faiths that reject this assault on the morals of their children. They need to make their voices heard. "I call on Catholic thinkers to contribute to the re-awakening of the search for ethics. Do not leave the running to others who start from a completely different value base.
"Are you with me in this effort to make the Christian voice heard?" he asked. He told the confirmation candidates they were committing themselves to a way of life that is different. "It is the way of Christ and not the way of the world. You will have to stand firm to resist the false values of individualism and subjective morality that surround you." He called on them to constantly reflect on the gospels and the Church's tradition in order to follow Jesus in their own lives. Those alive had to be marked by love and compassion combined with a faithful pursuit of the truth that alone gives peace and meaning. "The Holy Spirit will give them the power to change the face of the earth," he said.
Place for God's people The Girrawheen parish centre is a place of assembly for God's people, Archbishop Hickey said at the blessing last Saturday. We belong to Jesus and we belong to each other," he said noting that the centre was for all ages, all walks of life in a parish that came together from many countries. Anne Fisher, speaking for the parish representative group said that it was t he culmination of dreams and she was speechless at the wonder of what to do next. It would be the service of the very young to the
very old and to those of ethnic many backgrounds. "It will be able to be used by people from their birth and baptism right through to their marriage and by their children as well." The $192,000 price tag was a bonus to the parish as a result of current tight tendering conditions, said Father Gaine, the parish priest. The building is the last stage of the original 1985 plan that saw the construction of a church, presbytery and amenities block. One small room in the
amenities block had served as a centre till now and already the new centre was being used by prayer groups, SVDP, catechism classes, a northern suburbs support group.
Centrecare Outreach, adult faith education, Knights of the Southern Cross and other community groups advised it too. Archbishop Hickey said Mass after he blessed the centre and later joined 200 parishioners in a dinner for which the food was supplied by parishioners and the drinks by the parish.
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Above: Archbishop Hickey surrounded by parishioners as he blessed the centre of Our Lady of Mercy parish Girrawheen that completes the courtyard plan of the original design. On his way to the Church Archbishop Hickey found one enthusiastic admirer (picture on right).
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CHANGES SOON FOR BUNBURY DIOCESE Bishop Quinn has announced the following clergy changes for the diocese of Bunbury to take effect from January 12 next year.
land, he studied at St Kieran's College, Kilkenny, before his ordination in 1942, arriving in Australia in October that year.
Father Noel FITSIMONS, vicar general, and parish priest of Albany for the past seven years will become parish priest of Harvey. Originally from East Victoria Park where he was educated by the Sisters of Mercy and later at St Pat's Perth and Trinity College, he studied for the priesthood at Guildford and Manly before his ordination in 1954. He was assistant priest in Wagin and Collie and then for seven years in Albany before taking the parish of Gnowangerup. He subsequently spent seven years in Bridgetown, and seven years at Brunswick Junction. His period in Albany saw the construction of the new Holy Family church at Spencer Park. He is a defensor viculi in Metropolitan the Tribunal.
at Palmyra and Collie before becoming parish priest of Waroona, followed by appointments at Kojonup, Pemberton and Bridgetown. After a period on supply he moved to Wagin in 1979, returning there in 1987 after a three year term at Dardanup.
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Father John Jo McGRATH, currently at Donnybrook will become parish priest of Dardanup. Originally from Omagh County Tyrone, Ireland, he studied at St Patrick's College Carlow before his ordination in 1946. His early appointments were at Highgate, Kalgoorlie and Albany before his first parish priest appointment to Margaret River. He was Bunbury cathedral administrator and then moved to Albany, Harvey and Waroona before taking charge of Donnybrook in
Father Hugh GALLOWAY takes charge of the 1986. parish of Albany where he has been stationed in Father Kevin JOHNrecent years and has STON of Narrogin been instrumental in becomes parish priest of establishing the Albany Katanning. Hospice. Originally from County Originally from Katan- Sligo, Ireland, from ning where he was where he went to study educated by the Sisters of for the priesthood at All Our Lady of the Mission, Hallows College, Dublin, he attended Katanning he was ordained in 1959. High School and AquiHe was assistant priest nas before studying at St at Bunbury, South BunCharles and at Adelaide bury and Albany before before his ordination on becoming cathedral December 13, 1969. administrator followed His early appointments by parish priest appointwere to Esperance, Bus- ments at Boyup Brook selton and Bunbury and and Manjimup before his in 1976 was appointed appointment to Narrogin parish priest of Lake in 1986. Grace. followed by periods at Mount Barker, Father Douglas CONOngerup. LAN, chaplain at Aquinas College for the past Father Hubert KELLY three years becomes at Boyup Brook since parish priest of Pinjarra. 1986 becomes parish He studied at Wesley priest of Narrogin. College Perth, Prince Originally from South Alfred College Adelaide Perth he was educated by and Applecross High the Presentation Sisters School before entering St in Geraldton, at St Francis Xavier Seminary Joachim's and CBC Kal- Adelaide and having goorlie before training been received into the for the priesthood at Catholic Church in Manly before his ordina- Applec.ross in 1965. tion in 1948. After his ordination in He was assistant priest 1973 he spend five years at South Perth, West in Bunbury and later at Perth, Shenton Park, Albany before becoming Palmyra, parish priest of GnowanHighgate, Wagin and Narrogin gerup and of Tambellup, before his first parish followed by postings to appointment Narrogin, Katanning and priest in1956 to Margaret River. Brunswick Junction, He has since been in after which he was for charge of the parishes of three years parish priest Kojonup, South Bun- of Lake Grace. bury, Pemberton and Boyup Brook. Father Tony CHIERA He is the liaison priest receives his first parish for charismatic renewal. priest appointment to Donnybrook. Father Stephen HAWE from Originally of Wagin moves to the Waroona where he was parish of Boyup Brook. educated by the Sisters of Originally from Callan, St Joseph to Year 10, he County Kilkenny, Ire- then entered St Charles'
Seminary and completed Ireland, where he stuhis secondary schooling died until his ordination at Trinity College. in 1954. He took a BA in English After one year of philosophy at Guildford, St and French at Cork Charles' closed and he University, followed by a completed his course at Diploma in Education at Adelaide before his ordi- Cambridge before going nation at Waroona in in 1958 to the diocese of 1982. Ondo in Nigeria where After a four-year he was engaged in appointment in Albany schools and education he spent a year in administration. Dundalk, Ireland, study- In 1978 he commenced ing adult education and nine years as a general has been attached to St councillor of his congrePatrick's Cathedral Bun- gation in Rome and in bury for the past six 1987 started four years as editor in Ireland of the years. Missions He was in charge of the African training and formation magazine. program for the recent intake of six deacons. He The new priest in charge is a member of the of Mount Barker is Michael Diocesan Liturgy Com- Father mittee and is chairman of DZIEDZIC. the Diocesan Adult Faith He is originally from Education Committee. Cracow, Poland, where He is a member of the he studied for the priestBishop's Pastoral Plan- hood before his ordinaning Committee and is tion in 1975 and where extensively involved in an uncle and two of his parish based programs in nephews are priests. liturgy and general for- He was assistant priest mation for parish coun- in four parishes and a cillors and other church parish priest for two ministers. years before coming to Australia on December Father Tom McGREE 30. 1989. parish priest of Mount He spent time briefly in Barker moves to Mar- Perth and then in Bungaret River. Originally bury learning English. from County Kilkenny, He went to Sydney to do Ireland, he studied a missionary course with initially with the Jesuits the Columban Fathers at Mungret College, and since February has Limerick, and completed been at Katanning. his theology at Carlow where he was ordained Father Machael SLATin June 11, 1966. TERY currently relieving His first appointment at Kojonup will become was to Narrogin and then assistant priest at became administrator in Bunbury. Bunbury in 1971. He was Originally from Edinlater in Albany and burgh, he later trained at Busselton before moving the University of WA and to Mount Barker six Mount Lawley Teachers years ago. College during the six years he spent in formaFather Elisha O'SHEA tion with the Servite SMA will be priest in order. charge of Kojonup. OrigHe trained for the inally from Tralee priesthood at St Paul's County Kerry he was Seminary, Kensington, educated there by the before his ordination in Christian Brothers and December 1985. then entered the Society He has since spent three of African Missions in years in Albany and two 1945 being ordained in years at Ongerup and 1951. Borden and most A fter a degree in recently has relieved at science at Cork he spent Bunbury and Kojonup. 10 years in the diocese of He is involved in the Benin, Nigeria, teaching RCIA program, school and building science chaplaincies and the facilities. music ministry for In 1964 he became the liturgists. foundation principal of St Brendan's College, Father Brian MORBeaconsfield, handing GAN, currently at Bunover in 1973 the position bury will become priest to Mr Peter Davies Moore in charge at Wagin. the first ever lay princiOriginally from pal of a Catholic seconQueensland he spent 40 dary college in WA. years with the Christian Father O'Shea then Brothers, 20 of them at returned to Ghana until Tardun, seven at Binhis return to Australia doon and nearly five last year to become years at Geraldton. relieving priest at PinHe studied for the jarra in the interim. priesthood in Manila and in July 1990 was Father Michael EVANS ordained in the MissionSMA, recently arrived in aries of Our Lady of Australia will become Perpetual Adoration. assistant priest at Albany. He spent eight months Originally from Lon- in Mirrabooka before don, he joined the taking up service in Society of African Mis- Bunbury diocese earlier sions in 1848 in Newry, this year.
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Sydney's Catholics donated an extra six per cent overall to the 1991 Project Compassion (Lenten) Appeal, despite the recession and its accompanying high unemployment. Parish donations in the three metropolitan dioceses — Sydney, Broken Bay and Parramatta — totalled $852,638.
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Record When Europe's pall of smoke and death began to lift over after 1918 and the obscene horror of it all sank in, most of the world said it had to stop. The League of Nations would ensure wars would be nipped in the bud. It was built on the assumption that any nation unfortunate enough to have suffered the never ending European wars of the previous hundred years would not ever want to be involved again. That 1918 war 'to end all wars' did not stop an even worse European — and Pacific — war barely 21 years later. That second (atomic) war may by the skin of a USSR ignominious collapse now have defused World War III but it has not silenced war. The lessons clearly are not being learnt. There is no lack of compelling evidence. The shaky film clips of 1914-18 through Spain and Abyssinia to the epic recording of 193945 are surely enough evidence for noncombatants not to start a war. The generations of 1918-39 however had only a few radios, a cinema primarily to entertain, and their newspapers. The memory of the scorched European countryside must have evaporated quickly in their human consciousness. Why? The late 20th century sits up night after night pondering the futility time and time again of that 1914-1945 footage and chronicle. Its horror circulates even yet again, in Adelaide's war crime hearings this week. For all the attempt to paint the mushroom cloud as the ultimate horror and suffering — it never happened, almost to the doomsday disappointment of some. It is far more gruesome to study the endless mangling of human bodies that goes on far more persistently in the so-called 'conventional' wars that simply will not stop or be stopped. There is a perversity and evil intent lurking in human society. It surpasses any hysteria about putting the earth out of business once and for all by a final atomic flash or cutting down the last tree. An industry now employs hundreds of thousands of media workers and their advertising sponsors precisely to be first and best with the latest about wars — any war that is good enough to start. The corporate conglomerates too are prepared to go to war to control that worldwide media industry. The mockery of Maxwell's dead body floating helplessly out of range of his space age toy boat would be lost on the millions who would fight to fill one of his shoes if they got half the chance. In the same way, the lessons of war are obviously lost on those who want to wage them. In the end that must mean all of us. On the hour the Serbian/Croatian crossfire is broadcast to the world but it never stops. Nor do reports of the umpteenth ceasefire about to take place. The feelings of the aggrieved Croatians, and Serbs, are too well known. But the mystery of war still defies explanation. No-one knows why the Ethiopian war that overlaid starvation on top of famine is suddenly nowhere on the television screens. The Sudan, Mozambique, Angola and the Congo were never 'ratings' wars. They must simmer out of sight like brooding volcanoes. The undeclared and unfinished war of Northern Ireland produces no lessons notwithstanding its brutal and incessant exposure into every corner where Irish or British feelings are likely to be exploited. The Soviet republics that had to shrug at the decade of massacres on both sides in Afghanistan are themselves on the brink of suppling the world with its next round of brushfire wars. Forget about the Kurds and Iraqis who have slipped off the screen. Australians fantasise from a safe distance — in the back stalls of a Gulf War and in sending a handful of men to 'keep the peace' in Cambodia which 99% of Australians could not find on a map (near Bali?,) still less
understand politically. The pope and a team of Vatican officials shake hands and talk endlessly with whomever will drop in — from President Bush last week after Middle East Madrid talks to this week a Mozambique resistant fighter. The religious and other pious zealots who monotonously ask who is in favour of peace are obviously asking the wrong question. They should ask really: can anyone stop the latest war? 4
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Unity move more than being 'nice' DETROIT (CNS): American Catholics and Protestants working toward Christian unity must be wary of viewing covenant agreements between churches as "sort of a statement that it is OK to be separated as long as we are nice to one another," according to Father Richard John Neuhaus. Father Neuhaus, a former Lutheran pastor who was ordained a Catholic priest in September, made the comment before giving the homily at a covenantsigning ceremony by Catholic Archbishop Maida of Detroit and Bishop Wahl of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. "Among many Lutherans, andIthink, among many Catholics, there is a confusion about ecumenism," he said. "They think ecumenism really means that Catholics and Lutherans simply belong to two different denominations." That belief "is incompatible with Catholic doctrine but very common among some Catholics," Father Neuhaus said. "I mean, you know, you are a Catholic, well, I am a Luthern, she's a Presbyterian, or he is a Baptist and well, to each his own, you know. Isn't it a wonderful world." He described that viewpoint as "the downside of so much contemporary ecumenism," saying it is "very
superficial" and "very false to a Catholic understanding of what it means to be the church". Father Neuhaus described Christian unity as "one of the great compelling questions at the edge of the third millennium". The Detroit covenant and other agreements like it should be seen "not as a goal accomplished or not as an end of a process but as the beginning of a process," Father Neuhaus said. "It is a covenant not in the sense of a truce or a saying 'Well now, we are going to pretend that our differences don't make any difference'. If that's how people understand it, well, that's very bad and it is certainly a step backward". "It is a convenant of mutual engagement which includes mutual challenge. And if it brings alive what is the necessary theological arguments between the Lutheran Reformation and the Roman Catholic Church, then it will be a great contribution to both Lutherans and Catholics." He said Catholics "have the primary burden of keeping the question of Christian unity and ecclesial reconciliation on the agenda of other Christian denominations. If we don't do it, the question of Christian unity is going to get lost".
Albanian Church in recovery bid KONIGSTEIN, Germany ( CNS): The Albanian Catholic Church is trying to recover from its dismantling under nearly 50 years of governmentenforced atheism while the country struggles with economic deprivation. The Mirror, published by Aid to the Church in Need, said the complete eradication of church's infrastructure by the communist former regime has left behind a few aging priests, some tumble-down churches and a laity with a little
formal schooling in their faith for the past two generations. Between 1945 and 1975, of the 90 diocesan priests, 56 either died in labour camps or were executed, the publication said. Another 43 order priests, 10 seminarians and eight nuns died in the same manner. In 1945, there were 123 parishes for the 13 per cent of Albania's population who were Catholic, Mirror said. Today, 117 "centres" are left, it said. Centres are defined as a
village containing two or more Catholic families. Village churches were destroyed "or transformed beyond recognition into 'palaces of culture' or sports halls," it said. "These churches are either in ruins or must be completely renovated". Faith was passed from generation to generation, with little more than the resources of memories. "Newly born babies were baptised by the oldest members of the
family," but "the faithful were deprived of all other sacraments". But the faith survived, it said. Mirror quoted an Albanian elderly Catholic who said: "We have been downtrodden for 40 years. If we as much as mentioned the faith, we got seven or eight years in prison. "Despite all that, like many other Catholic families we brought our children up in the faith."
'Don't grant amnesty' W ASHINGTON, (CNS): Twenty-six US senators have urged Salvadoran President Alfredo F Cristiani not to grant amnesty to two Salvadoran military officers convicted in the case of the Jesuit slayings. Thomas Quigley, US bishops' policy adviser for Latin American affairs said that a move by the Salvadoran government to undo the convictions "would make a travesty" of
the judicial process and negate the "forward movement that the trial represented" which was "limited, but something". The senators said that while an amnesty permitting combatants to lay down their weapons without fear of persecution for their participation in acts of war is a "necessary and desirable part of a legitimate peace process," the murder of the Jesuits "was not an act of war".
"Absolving the perpetrators of this ghastly crime would do nothing to advance justice or peace in El Salvador," the letter said. "To the contrary, it would demonstrate the lack of justice for one of the most notorious crimes of the past decade," it said. In their letter the senators noted that a central principle that emerged from the Nuremberg trials at the end of World War
II was that individuals should not be tried for serving in their nation's military during a time or war. "They only persons tried at Nuremberg were individuals who had committed crimes against humanity — such as the torture and killing of civilians and prisoners," it said. The thrust of the laws embodied in the Geneva Conventions, the senators noted, "grew out of this
fundamental distinction between legitimate activities by soldiers and officers and prohibited acts against civilians and prisioners of war". "Providing an amnesty to the only military officers ever convicted of human rights violations in El Salvador would be contrary to the Geneva Conventions and would raise serious questions about El Salvador's commitment to the rule of law," they said.
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LONDON (CNS): One of London's most famous "We've never noticed anything odd in the Catholic churches, Brompton Oratory, was used as chapel of St Patrick," he said. a drop for spy materials by the Soviet KGB, The Sunday Times said it tested the drop site according to a new book based on revelations by by putting a clear plastic film container holding a former KGB agent. a note offering the finder 20 pounds wrapped i But according to the British they had the drop n a page of the Sunday Times, which is printed on pink newsprint, and left behind the column. on the drop all the time. There were 1200 schoolboys in the oratory for "People go in and out of it all day, and no one a Mass on All Saints' Day, when the canister was pays any attention to them," the agent who planted, and the lighting was brighter than defected in 1985 wrote. "The church is not 'state usual. property' so there are no people keeping a But six hours later, the container was still in round-the-clock watch . . . I would be inclined its hiding place. central to think that there is no safer place in KGB agents used to let each other know that London." material had been deposited in the oratory by The drop point was behind a large marble leaving chalk marks on lamps posts and benches column in the chapel of St Patrick, located near the U.S. Embassy. within the oratory. But the elaborate game of hide and seek might "This part of the church is very poorly lit," the have gone for naught. alleged agent's memorandum said. The Sunday Times said British intelligence knew about the drop site for at least a decade, the charge of Father Michael Napier, who has and British agents always got there first. oratory, expressed surprise at the story.
Officials play while the nation totters BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (CNS): Argentine Catholic bishops, criticising government officials for their public partying and frivolous behaviour, said the country's leaders had an insensitive attitude toward the poor. "There is a nonchalance in many sectors, even in areas of the government, for the plight of the poor at this time of economic belt -tightening," said Bishop Gerardo Sueldo of Oran. spokesman for a meeting of 80 Argentine bishops. "Neglect and frivolity can be seen in the public appearances and parties of those who should at least make the gesture of sharing the austerity they demand of the people," Bishop Sueldo added. The bishops were espe-
cially angry at the flippant mood at a dinner hosted by a Catholic charity recently — even though President Carlos Menem auctioned off a car to raise funds for the poor at the event. newspapers Local reported that Menem had joked with aides about not being stingy with their bidding. Menem's administration is carrying out a tough stabilisation program that includes plans to cut hundreds of t housands of public sector jobs over the next two years. Menem often defends his policies, arguing that he has halved the unemployment rate to 6 per cent since he took office in 1989, creating over 500,000 new jobs.
Scottish bishops open their meeting to others GLASGOW, Scotland (CNS): Scotland's bishops have opened portions of their twice-yearly discussions to Catholic organisations and individuals and plan to establish a national assembly of Catholics. More than 200 representatives of organisations attended the open session in Glasgow. The bishops later went into private session. Archbishop Keith O'Brien of Edinburgh cited the Second Vatican Council's emphasis on the "people of God" in a homily on the new policy. He said that the church had developed from a close, interdependent body to an institution divided into the hierarchy and the people of God.
Vatican II showed "we, all of us, are the people of God and we, all of us, are responsible for the Good News," he said. "We are called upon to share our vision of the church." Archbishop Thomas J. Winning of Glasgow, president of the conference, said a national assembly of Catholics would allow representatives of different groups within the church to meet on a more formal basis and forge closer links with the bishops' organisation. The archbishop also said he wanted a single major seminary set up as soon as possible. There are currently two seminaries, serving the eastern and western parts of the country.
Outrage over train attack PRETORIA, South Africa (CNS): The Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference "is absolutely outraged by the latest act of savagery", a train attack in the black township of Soweto, and has suggested disarming people who have a history of violent behaviour. Nine people died and 36 were wounded in the attack on a commuter
train. The murders raised the death toll in Soweto and the surrounding area to 45 in five days of violence. "We repeat the call on the government, and especially the South African Police, to take effective action to eradicate this cancer, which is rapidly killing off any chances of a reasonably peaceful transition to a
attack on the train was "yet another attempt to sabotage an initiative by n on -governmental bodies to lay the foundaThe African National tions for peace and Congress and the Ink- promote the process of atha Freedom Party, rival negotiations. We therepolitical organisations, fore urge the security blamed each other's forces to be extra vigilant. supporters for the "It is absolutely essenkillings. tial that the security Bishop Napier said the forces totally disarm all bishops believed the occupants and residents just and peaceful society," Bishop Wilfrid Napier, president of the bishops' conference said.
of known trouble spots, particularly those hostels with a history of violence," the bishops said. "Now is the time for decisive action on the part of the authorities," the bishops statement said. "Our appeal is that not another life be lost. The tally was already unacceptably high when the first person died violently."
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Help stop that Vietnamese home-going call WASHINGTON (CNS): Citing human rights abuses in Vietnam, Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk of Cincinafti urged President Bush to publicly oppose the forced repatriation to Vietnam of Vietnamese refugees in Hong Kong. "I urge that you continue a strong and public stand of the United States against the forcible return of asylum seekers to Vietnam," said Archbishop Pilarczyk, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. About 57,000 Vietnamese boat people are in refugee camps in the British colony of Hong Kong waiting to see when they will be sent back to Vietnam. The Vietnamese and British governments signed an agreement October 29 to repatriate the Vietnamese refugees. The US bishops strongly oppose forced repatriation, particuarly in the case of Vietnam, which continues to violate human rights and "continues to be one of the few remaining self-
proclaimed communist regimes in the world," Archbishop Pilarczyk said. Archbishop Pilarczyk expressed concern about the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The UN organisation has a "strong bias which views this as a population of largely economic migrants, and has expressed an overly optimistic view of improvements in the political atmosphere of Vietnam," he said. Archbishop Pilarczyk said more than 80 per cent of the people who apply for refugee status are rejected by the UN organisation. "The result of all this has been to label, as economic migrants, many asylum-seekers whom we and other independent observers view as genuine political refugees, even up to and including persons who have spent years in a prison for political offenses," Archbishop Pilarczyk said.
Rome says archbishop's plan rout of place' MILWAUKEE: A US archbishop's statement that he would ordain married men in a priest shortage has been ruled by the Vatican as "out of place". Archbishop Weakland in a 30-page final draft of a pastoral letter reveals the reaction of the Vatican to his proposal in the January first draft earlier this year. Archbishop Weakland's proposal — that when a priestless Catholic community met certain conditions of faith and vitality he would be
willing to present to Rome a married male candidate for the priesthood — prompted international headlines when it was made public in January. In the subsequent final draft, Archbishop Weakland reported that he had been "informed by the Vatican Secretariat of State that my suggestion of proposing a married man was regarded as 'out of place' ". He said the Vatican response also noted that an "apostolic exhortation" currently being prepared by Pope John
Paul II would lay out "universal Church orientations and directives to face adequately the same delicate issue". "We look forward to the publication of that document," wrote Archbishop Weakland in his pastoral letter. He wrote that many readers were unhappy with his assertion in the pastoral letter's first draft that "only in extreme necessity and under very rigid conditions" would he be open to presenting to Rome a married candidate for ordination.
Proponents of a married priesthood argued, he said, that he had not treated on its own merits t he possibility of a married clergy. Others, he said, "mistook" his intention as "that of promoting a married clergy to take the place of the current celibate tradition". "For the record let me say that I remain convinced that celibacy for the sake of the kingdom, in its long and venerable tradition and especially as an essential aspect of religious life" is a "valuable" way of following
Christ who was celibate, wrote the Milwaukee prelate. "Lived fully, the celibate life has so many advantages for the person committed totally to ministry in the Church," wrote Archbishop Weakland. In the pastoral letter's first draft the archbishop wrote that if in the future — in light of a clergy shortage — he would present to Rome a married candidate for the priesthood, "we would have done all possible at the local level and could feel that we had
been responsible stewards of God's goods and graces". After that, he wrote, if the "strength of the Church then should diminish here because of the continued lack of ordained priests and sacramental opportunities for the faithful, our consciences could remain in peace. We had done our best". The final draft of the pastoral letter said at the end of 1990 there were 434 active priests in the Milwaukee Archdiocese, which boasts 658,000 Catholics. By the year
2000, it said, the archdiocese forecasts an estimated 336 active priests, and by 2010, 264 active priests. Among ways the archdiocese anticipates dealing with the clergy shortage, the pastoral letter cites: greater involvement in parish life by permanent deacons; more lay people working as parish business managers, lay pastoral associates and pastoral directors; and a heightened supervisory role for parish priests who will delegate administrative details to laity.
New host practice not spiritually healthy MILWAUKEE: The practice in clergy-short dioceses of distributing previously consecrated hosts is neither adequate nor spiritually healthy, according to Archbishop Weakland. "This is a totally new and non-traditional practice, one that can so easily become individualistic and devotional rather than communal . . . and could easily distort the nature of the theology of the Eucharist," wrote Archbishop Weakland in a 30-page pastoral letter. Titled "Facing the Future With Hope", the letter was published in the November 7 issue of the Catholic Herald, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee.
In the letter Archbishop Weakland also was critical of the practice used in some dioceses experiencing clergy shortages of celebrating a Liturgy of the Word without distribution of Communion. "We then so easily resemble all the other churches of the word that do not have a strong sacramental tradition," he wrote. Both practices, he said, "could lead to a new kind of church that is not rooted in the one we know, the one that has come to us from the apostles. We would not be a eucharistic community in the fullest sense of the term". The pastoral letter
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focuses on ways in which the Milwaukee Archdiocese can face the future in light of a clergy shortage. He said that concerns about the Sunday Mass obligations were also raised, including the proposal by some that the obligation be transferred to a weekday. While it would be "wonderful" if those "deprived of Sunday Mass through no fault of their own" would go to Mass on a weekday, the archbishop said, the obligation cannot be transferred. He said that some suggested a solution to the clergy shortage would be to seek priests
from other countries where they are more numerous. "This kind of temporary measure certainly has its merits, but one should not exaggerate the number of priests in other countries nor underestimate the difficulty of cultural adjustment involved in such transfers," he wrote. In addition, he said, the local Church should be "spiritually vital enough" to produce its own vocations. As far as retired priests being asked to be more active, he said they are already "extraordinarily generous in their service" and more should not be expected of them.
Archbishop Weakland said it was evident that in the future "sacrifices will have to be made" and some Catholic ways of thinking and acting would have to change. He said that it takes "great courage" for a parish to see that it is no longer viable and that for the good of future parishioners it should merge with another parish. A sign that a parish should consider a merger is lack of growth indicated by few baptisms and weddings, deficit budgeting and "in general, the inability to serve properly all the needs of the parishioners in all the ministries" necessary, he said.
A "viable" parish, he said, alone or in collaboration with other parishes, should be able to offer religious education on all levels. Archbishop Weakland said his "dream" parish of the future would be a "centre of good worship with qualified and trained musicians and liturgists to make sure that what is done is in the best of the Catholic tradition". He said it would have a program of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults for newcomers, access to a Catholic school for children, good religious education classes, youth and young adult ministry, a good confirmation program,
adult religious learning copossibilities, ordinated parish outreach ministries and many support groups for parish members. In the future, Archbishop Weakland said he envisioned "priests will become more involved in the spiritual needs of the parishioners and freed up somewhat from administrative burdens and numerous meetings". He said more lay people would take posts as pastoral associates and pastoral directors. Among tasks of pastoral associates, he cited the preparing of candidates for baptism and marriage, visiting the sick and organising support groups.
Globe-viewing is his job Then there is the polit- gave a terrible glimpse of and reflecting with them cating media offering a the world, observed Father Anthony While producing on one McSweeney, SSS, is a ical violence in countries the rawness and cheap- on the challenges which new set of values based Father McSweeney, "so hand negative things, he Victorian superior such as Peru, with its ness of life where, citing face Christianity today, on consumerism and on gradually a new shape of notes, it's a learning general of the Blessed militant Shining Path the state of Bahia, death "especially in the light of the fulfilment of self, and the Church in line with process we have to go through and in the heart Sacrament Fathers; a guerillas, Columbia and squads have been formed the need to approach the on the individual rather Vatican H is emerging out Central America. Father gospel afresh, which the than society." of the difficulties of the of it, the Church, he position he has held for McSweeney told how to kill street children. hopes, will find new The thinking behind pope calls the new This, said Father post conciliar years". the past ten years. As humanity has sunk to evangelisation". ways of showing how the this is that McSweeney, they'll probais steamrolAmong these positive such his visits to his such a low level in some "This simply means ling traditional cultures, things, he said, are the gospel is a source of bly grow up to be c ongregations' com- places, where the traf- criminals wisdom, "teaching us to anyway, so it's helping people to hear destroying them, and RCIA program and the munities take him to 32 ficking in human parts is better to kill them now — the Christian message in penetrating into every lay ministries in the live as God intended and c ountries globally, seen by the unscrupu- just in case. society where many corner of the globe Church which are quite to find true happiness involving travel for five lous as being a great way people have lost contact offering an inadequate massive in many places. while serving others for The tragic story, there at to seven months of the to make money. image of human life. least, is that half of the with it." "Lay people are taking the growth of all". He cited the tragic case year. "And especially learnchild population lives on And their particular "On the positive side responsibility for Church For the last two and a of a little girl in the city the streets because the emphasis as a congrega- from the Christian point life and evangelising, also ing to find ways of half years he has been of Medellin in Columbia parents are incapable of tion, he said, is in the area of view, people are catechising and telling overcoming the gross of worship and their looking for more new the Good News in inequalities between president of the Union of when he was visiting last supporting them. rich and poor which Superiors General in year, who disappeared In the case of social specific task, to help meaning in their lives society." currently exists — where Rome and in 1989 was for a few days and was breakdown with families people understand the now that consumerism We're just going appointed by the pope to then returned with her breaking up, men leaving Eucharist better. has been discredited and through a learning expe- only a small percentage the Congregation for eyes removed. women with children "To be able to celebrate many more are turning rience in the Church and of the human race enjoys This is all done with the and the women being it more meaningfully to religion with the society he Religious. said, which is an abundance of wealth." full collaboration of Father McSweeney freedom to practice and unable to cope with the Father McSweeney in a period of great tensions, and to pattern our life on February represented doctors and hospitals, he numbers of children they what it teaches about propagate. This will be but we're learning a new likened this to the mesthe superiors general at said, "and with the have, the children are service, brotherhood and one of the themes of the style of being a people sage of the Eucharist which is about gathering the Assembly of the rampant lawlessness in put out on, or turn to, the witness, according to the forthcoming synod of Church. as brothers and sisters European bishops to be Confederation of the these countries, no one streets. values of Jesus Christ." "And never before has a around the table and Conferences of Religious will catch up with them". In Brazil and other such Another emphasis he held in Rome in "The degeneration of countries, there is grind- states, is to help create a November this year, said society, despite the reces- breaking bread to share it Men and Women of Latin America which life in such countries is so ing poverty he says, and community in a world of Father McSweeney, who sion, had so many possi- as Jesus taught — learnbilities in terms of ing to carry that over into was held in Mexico City terrible where the greed gross inequality with the increasing individualism will be a participant. money, leisure and our lives. and he has participated of the rich man knows no world's current eco- and to sensitise Christian "To examine the mean- travel. in three synods of bounds and they are as nomic system, "which communities as to the "This represents true ing of all this and the utterly unscrupulous as must be changed". bishops. relatively "These are brotherhood rather than needs of the weak, poor, Church's role in this new things for people the excessive accumulaGiven his travel back- the medicos who aid and Father stated the death lonely and forgotten. evolving social/political and so we have to learn tion of the part of a few ground, Father McSwee- abbet such practices to squads don't merely kill The Blessed Sacrament situation, is our task," he to deal with them in a and terrible deprivation ney is knowledgeable on make money, as are the the children, but also the Fathers live in small said. properly human way." on the part of the many." world happenings and hospitals concerned." homosexuals. with five or fraternities Vatican II changing society and was The post The operational centre In most of the Latin six men in a group, church, 25 years later, able to give some graphic for such trafficking is countries, working in the local has come through a American descriptions of lawless- reputed to be a major "officially 90 per cent are diocese, "trying to give period of uncertainty he ness, violence and the African capital, he said. Catholic, but only 10-15 witness to our belief in stated, and some tensions new horrific money "So the task of the Jesus Christ through our have arisen out of maker in third world Church to preach the per cent practice". community life, prayer debates about the best Commenting on westcountries — the traffick- gospel is enormous, to and service while work- way to apply the changes ern society, Father for ing in human organs. affect a change on these ing to help the Church". McSweeney to the noted there of Vatican H But at the end of the people in their horrific Although their resour- Church. day, despite the grinding societies, where the is a fairly high level of "Today there are propoverty, inequality and masses are exploited, well being for many, but ces may seem very tiny conversely a growing like the grain of mustard tests by people against gross injustice meted out helpless and hopeless." minority group becom- seed Jesus spoke about, bishops allocated to their to the poor majority, Another tragedy he ing poorer and unable to said Father McSweeney, diocese; problems in the those countries have a somehow He is getting area of young people and burgeoning of religious outlined in Africa is the cope. vocations, while ours are collapse of traditional Another complex prob- His harvest. "But still He an abandonment by diminishing. While we're cultures which leaves the lem area in western asks us to pray for more many of them in the scaling down our opera- older people clinging to countries "is where peo- labourers to harvest." western world to reliWith the increasing gious practice." tions, they're building their traditional culture ple are dissatisfied with and the abandonment of the current materialism lawlessness and violence, more seminaries. But against this, "there it by the young who have or finding it hard to cope Father McSweeney is a great enthusiasm in Father McSweeney has chosen the worst of with life and look for believes it is part of the religious movements, just returned from Brazil western culture. some meaning and sup- epochal change through and this is a concrete where he said there is a This has created a great port in sects and new which the world is going. balancing factor". huge disparity between the rich and the poor. He void of values and ideals, religious orders". "Never before in human There is real growth about states the enormous said Father McSweeney. These are some of the history has change at taking place in the Alongside that is the challenges for the every level been so rapid, Church, he noted, "And problems there along with the country's scourge of AIDS which is Church to carry out a deep and universal on while there are difficulindebtedness and the rampant along with mission, learning to the level of economics, ties and tensions, there at St. Charles' Seminary, 30 N.1eadow St, Guildford. "which apply the gospel to these social values, the family, are also a lot of good spiralling of violence corruption, creates great obstacles to situations and helping distribution of wealth, things with an increasing there and in many communicating involvement of lay peocountries, is related to development in these people to discover ways the of dealing with them. media offering a new set ple in the life of the the increasing poverty countries". Reczins at 10.30am and concludes with Mass 4.00pn-. Turning to Brazil, among the poorer sectors His work, outlined of values, the family, Church. Parishes and Enquiries: Fr. Justin Rianchini 1091 2711 >10 of the countries who are where he has spent some Father McSweeney, is in distribution of wealth, basic communities are in such misery. time, Father McSweeney visiting his communities culture, the communi- growing in many parts of
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Before Julius Caesi into Italy to engage P the Rubicon River. According to Plutar event, Caesar — decisiveness — delibe lay ahead. Finally, he cried out immediately crossed t Let's face it, thougi He didn't have to dec send his kids to or, for he could afford to sell! Caesar didn't have should call his marria round of counsellin decide whether to t paying job or settle f benefits; he didn't an accept the doctor's adi on poor grandpa. The descendants always have had to nil But there is somet quantity and corn decisions that can ove What is more, whi better and faster decisj
Briefly ... Making decisions is tough. Allowing others to make decisions can be even tougher.
Our decisions powerfully shape our existence. So we badly want our decisions to be right. We know too well that it is our responsibility to make decisions and to make them responsibly. That's a lot of responsibility — and a potential source of stress. No wonder making a big decision can seem like work, and facing many decisions at once feels so confusing. Whan an avalanche of decisions thunders toward you, ask: Do I really need to make all these decisions alone? And do some of these decisions belong to others? Allowing others to make responsible decisions requires trust that their decisions will be OK for them and for me too. Furthermore, it requires that I relinquish some control — control I retain by making the decisions myself. Trusting others who have shown they deserve to be trusted, however, can be a liberating experience. Making big decisions may never become easy. But neither should decisions to be made take the appearance of a threat, a horror. For Christians, decision making is a means of opening up the world and putting a positive vision of life into action — part of a process of growth.
Making intelligence a fa By Father John J Castelot No sooner were human beings created than they faced a decision — a momentous. one: Should they accept their condition as creatures dependent on a generous Creator's love, or should they strike out on their own, becoming like gods (Genesis 3:5)? They decided to strike out — and they struck out. The freedom to choose, to make decisions, was their most precious endowment.
With that freedom, subtle suggestion that however, went personal humans could become responsibility, and like gods, determining responsible people have their own fate, becoming agonised over their deci- their own standard of sions ever since. right and wrong. That looked too good to turn The biblical story of the first human decision down. Had they, however, implies that, left to themselves, the first considered the consehumans would have quences of that choice, decided correctly. But they might have decided factors always seem to be differently. at work making choices Whenever they contemdifficult. plate an attractive choice, One of the most peole must use their influential factors is self- intelligence to ask: "Then centredness, a fierce what?" desire to be independent, The sad regret, "If only even of God. I had known!" really As the story is told, the means, "If only I had deciding factor was the stopped to think first!"
Mark's Gospel tells of a young man who asks Jesus the secret of perfect happiness (Mark 10:1722).
The young man is a thoroughly good fellow. He was sincerely looking for an answer, but when he got it he couldn't accept it. It presented him a choice that proved too much for him. Jesus told him to sell all he had and give to the poor. At bottom, this was not a call to poverty. It was a challenge to abandon self-sufficiency, to
recognise he couldn't buy happiness. The young man had to acknowledge that only God could bring him what he sought. He had to "let go and let God". This was scary. This young man, after all, could call his own shots. Give that up? No, thanks. "And he went away sad, for he had many possessions." But he did go away sad, and his inability to follow Jesus' path to happiness brought him the opposite: sadness. Even Jesus started his ministry with a decision.
The essentials of decision m By Father Robert Kinast
A tertiary student has to choose which degree program to follow. A widow considers whether to marry again. Parents discuss a job promotion which will mean moving their family out of town. A parish wrestles with whether it can maintain uarochial school. 8
Decisions, decisions! Everyone faces decisions, everyone makes them. The decisions people make create the life they live, yet few people ever receive training for making decisions. Businesses and professions train people to solve problems which arise at work, but these skills cannot always be applied to other areas of life like forming good
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relationships, influencing public policy for the better or planning intelligently for the future.
than it deserves.
1. Define what the decision is about.
For example, if you're asked to help out with the neighbourhood soccer team at a specific time in a specific place, that's what your decision is about. It is not about whether you have cornmunity spirit or are willing to work with kids.
Decisions arise in specific situations but situations overlap. Be sure you don't attribute greater meaning to a decision
Conscientious people may see numerous implications in a single decision. Friends or advisers in a parish,
How do people make decisions in these areas of life? The following steps are common to many.
neighbourhood, or company can help clarify what is really at stake.
groups) are a n guide.
2. Pay attention to your
league suggests a business deal that makes you feel immediately uncomfortable, pay attention to that feeling.
These first impulses represent decisions you have already made, values you have already affirmed, the direction you have given your life so far.
Young people and those facing a particular decision for the first time may not have as well developed or reliable a first impulse as someone with more experience.
3. Examine you impulse. This is tb, mental part of making. It requiti to ask questio information, ad outcomes and everything in Ui what you beliel espouse.
If you have been living a good life (as most people do), trust your hunches. When a col-
In this case the customary reactions of one's community (family, school, church, civic
Examining yoi impulse can bei0 simple question; do I feel this wa?
first impulse or intuition.
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NOVEMBER 1991
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A STEP BACK IN TIME
VOLUME 8, No. 4
Catholic college pilots education re-think Major changes to senior secondary education in WA, aimed at giving students more direction in their subject choices, will be introduced on a trial basis at a Catholic college next year. St Norbert College, Queens Park, will pilot the new project, known as Pathways, along with five Government high schools. It is the only Catholic school and the only independent school to take part in the pilot project. The education re-think will help students of all academic abilities by helping them choose subjects according to their future study and/or work goals. The changes were prompted by a marked increase in the numbers of non-university bound students staying at school after Year 10. While the current system gives clear direction to students planning to undertake university study after graduation, it was felt more could be done for those Year 11 and 12 students who are not university bound. All Catholic schools to benefit St Norbert College became involved after the Catholic Education Office approached the Ministry of Education about the possibility of a Catholic school taking part in the pilot project. Senior coordinator of Secondary Education at the CEO. Jennifer Nicol, said the CEO felt it was important to understand what impact the Pathways Project would have on Catholic schools. Mrs Nicol said the individual participation of St Norbert College will aid all Catholic schools interested in the new approach. Throughout the pilot period, representatives from St Norbert College, the five Government schools. the CEO and the Ministry will meet regularly to discuss any problems or concerns that may arise with Pathways. St Norbert College principal, Mr Tom Corcoran, said he was very pleased the school had been given the opportunity to participate. "I can only see benefits for the schools and students participating in the Pathways Project," Mr Corcoran said. "Pathways is not necessarily a solution to the long-term unemployment problem," he said. "In the short-term, however, it will give meaning to the lives of many of our students."
History came alive for students at Chisholm Catholic College, Bedford, when they were paid a visit by one of the school's original principals, Brother Innocent Keenan. gamated with St Thomas Australia. both in his teaching of Australia's most senior Chrishundreds of children in Catholic Aquinas College, Bedford. to tian brother, 88-year-old Br schools and the many years he create Chisholm Catholic ColKeenan, journeyed from Sydney lege in 1989. devoted to training young to Perth recently to take a step Christian Brothers to be back in time at the invitation of However Br Keenan's ties with teachers," he said. Chisholm Catholic College's the college aren't just a matter of Br Keenan, who spent time principal, Graham Cooney. history . His influence is also a visiting both College campuses Br Keenan's links with Chisholm part of daily school life — a and meeting the students, was Catholic College go back school house, Keenan House, full of praise for the school as it to the very beginnings of was named after him and is today. Catholic education in the principal, Graham Cooney, "It is a wonderful school," he Highgate and Bedford areas. trained to be a teacher under Br said. "I feel like these students In its second year he became Keenan's guidance. are my grandchildren." Principal of Christian Brothers High As part of his Western AustralMr Cooney described Br School, Highgate, from 1937 to 1943. during which time the ian trip Br Keenan also visited St Keenan as an outstanding Patrick's College, Geraldton, school became known as St Christian Brother. "He has made Mark's College. St Mark's where he was principal from an outstanding contribution to College was to later be amal1944 to 1948. Catholic education all over
More direction for students About 60 per cent of Year 11 and 12 students at St Norbert College do not go on to university or other tertiary institutions. "This has been a consistent number for a few years," Mr Corcoran said. "Under this new program these students will have more direction and we will be able to provide them with a course of study more attuned to their future needs." Courses offered will remain the same under the scheme but subjects will be grouped to make it easier for students to choose subjects according to their particular needs. St Norbert will offer six pathways under the headings of: • applied science • art and design • business systems • community services • hospitality/food and tourism • technology and design Students will have to choose one mathematics and one English subject, three from the vocational program list and one of their own choice. The system is organised around a career end-result but will be flexible enough so that students can change pathways if they wish. The program addresses the needs of TEE students but nonuniversity-bound students will benefit the most from the changes.
Building a future for Perth's newest Catholic college
COMMUNITY IS UNITY National Aboriginal Week 1991
Sophie Bishop has not laid a single brick in the construction of Mandurah Catholic College but she has helped build a solid future for Perth's newest Catholic school. Without Sophie and the long struction of stage one (comprisCatholic college in the area for list of classmates that will join ing a two-classroom block and some time, so we are expecting her on the school's first day next science block) began earlier this a high degree of community year, there would have been no year.. participation," Mr Finucane said. point in even thinking about a As the first classroom walls "We recently held our first Catholic college for the Mannear completion, the formation Parents and Friends meeting durah area, let alone building of a special school spirit is well and everyone was very keen and one. underway — the local communenthusiastic," he said. ity is just as enthusiastic about Sophie, who is currently a The college will service the the opening of the new college student at Assumption Catholic needs of students in the as 12-year-old Sophie. Primary School, Mandurah, was Mandurah, Pinjarra and Principal, Mr Dick Finucane, the first student to enrol at the Waroona areas. said there had already been a lot college. of community involvement in It will open with a three-stream She has been a regular visitor the school. enrolment of Year 8 students, to the school's 12 hectare site, in The Mandurah community progressing to a Years 8 to 12 Coodanup Drive, since conhas been hoping to see a college by 1996. Graham Clinch (left) and Clinton Blurton welcomed family, friends and students from other schools to visit their school for a day as part of National Aboriginal Week celebrations.
Sophie Bishop, the first student to be enrolled at Mandurah Catholic College, outside the almost completed classrooms of her new school.
Culunga Catholic Aboriginal School, West Swan, found a fitting way to put the theme of National Aboriginal Week 1991 — Community is Unity — into action when it held a School Open Day as part of the recent celebrations. For the school's 120 Aboriginal students, opening the school doors to family, friends and students from non-Aboriginal schools was one way of involving the whole community in National Aboriginal Week. Principal of Culunga Catholic Aboriginal School, Sr Bernadette Doyle, said encouraging community involvement in the school's National Aboriginal Week celebrations was important for a number of reasons. "Our Open Day is a chance for people to familiarise themselves with Aboriginal culture as well as a way of breaking down the racial barriers that exist because of a lack of understanding of the Aboriginal people," Sr Bernadette said. As part of the day, students from the school's modelling course took to the catwalk with their first public parade of Aboriginaldesigned fashion, while others performed Aboriginal songs and displayed classroom work. Art work by students was also exhibited. Other key events held during National Aboriginal Week were the Mass to open the Week, held at the Catholic Education Centre Chapel, Open Day at Clontarf Aboriginal College and a Cultural and Religious Celebration held in the James Nestor Hall at the Catholic Education Centre.
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Building a bridge of friendship
Racing to help asthma research Students at Chisholm Catholic College, Bedford, are off and running again in their race to help breathe new life into asthma research. In what has become an annual The grant, administered by the WA Asthma Foundation, awards event, the whole school stepped $10,000 each year to a local out of the classroom for a 90 minute test against time to raise unrecognised and unestablished researcher to improve both asthma awareness and a massive $10,000 for asthma their knowledge and expertise in research. the field of respiratory disease and so contribute to the care of Students and teachers alike WA asthmatics. used the time to see how many The fight against asthma is not aerobic routines they could an easy one — for reasons perform and how far they could researchers and doctors don't jog in an afternoon of moneymaking exercise for the Kym understand, morbidity and mortality resulting from asthma Madaffari Asthma Grant. The grant was set up three has risen significantly amongst years ago by students at young people in the last 10 years. Chisholm Catholic College as part of a pledge to create a Since the grant was establasting and positive memorial to lished, Chisholm Catholic Coltheir 16-year-old classmate, lege has raised a total of $30,000 Kym Madaffari, who died in 1989 for asthma research and the f ollowing an unexpected promise of a better life for young asthma attack. asthmatics.
Mercy College student. Domenica Emanuele and Burbridge School student, Karina Jambanis — the best of friends thanks to the special exchange program. A unique weekly exchange program has built a special bridge of friendship between a group of Catholic college students and students from a nearby school for children with disabilities. Started as a learning exercise ties with the Burbridge students, them with a rare chance to for students from Mercy College and once a week more academinteract with students from in Koondoola and students from ically capable students from another school. neighbouring Burbridge School Burbridge School join regular "It is just fantastic to see the — an education support school classes at Mercy College. development in our students," for those with mild to severe said Burbridge teacher, Debbie Living Christianity disabilities — the program has Delacy. It has been an exercise in living been a success in more ways Christianity for the Mercy "Our students learn in a very than one. College students according to protected environment," she By spending time together Brendan McFaull. said. "It can be a big shock for both groups of students have "The time they spend at them when they leave school not only learnt a lesson in Burbridge School is hands-on, and have to interact with people awareness, they have also practical and necessary," Mr who don't necessarily underbecome the best of friends — McFaull said. stand their problems. breaking down the barriers of "It revolves around sporting isolation that so often come "This project has enabled them activities such as basketball and from living with a disability. to overcome some of these other ball games because it is a The program was established potential difficulties." necessary part of the Burbridge earlier this year by Mercy students' therapy." The Burbridge and Mercy College's Physical Education He said one of the greatest students have become such firm coordinator, Brendan McFaull parts of the program was that friends that activities have been and Religious Education coordithe Mercy students had learnt to planned outside of the weekly nator, Sheila Doran, together deal with disability. program. with Clayton Taylor, Burbridge "Their acceptance and underSchool's Physical Education A barbecue and disco has been standing has been fantastic," he coordinator. organised and Mercy College said. Under the scheme, Year 11 students are spending extra time students from Mercy College Best Friends helping the Burbridge students devote part of their weekly For the Burbridge students the train for a coming basketball religious education time to program has been of tremendcompetition which they will also participating in sporting activious benefit socially, providing help umpire.
Students make young cancer sufferers the stars Theatre arts students from St Norbert College, Queens Park, took to the stage at this year's Camp Quality only to turn the audience instead of themselves into the star attraction. The fun reversal of roles won a standing ovation from the 85 youngsters at the recent camp who unexpectedly found themselves in the spotlight. Camp Quality is an annual event organised to provide a special experience for children with cancer. The week-long camp gives the children a chance to forget about their i llness in a fun-filled environment. The group of about 25 St Norbert College theatre arts students were invited by camp organisers to take part in the camp for the first time this year. The Year 11 and 12 students jumped at the chance to entertain the campers, aged from 6 to 16, for a night during their third term holidays. They staged a brief concert and then surprised their audience by turning them into the performers during a session of theatre sports. The young campers, who showed no signs of stage fright, took to the idea with a "star quality" enthusiasm that left the St Norbert students calling for more.
Ready for the race to aid asthma research are (back: left to right) Ryan Nelms, Michelle Ciffolilli, Michelle Hutson, (front: left to right) Dominik Swalski and Simone Madaffari.
A LESSON IN COMMUNITY AWARENESS
Year 12 theatre arts student, Susan Perrett, shares the stage with Camp Quality 'star', Casey.
Students at Aranmore Catholic College, Leederville. stepped out of the classroom recently for a lesson in community awareness. As part of the 100th anniver- Margaret Hospital and other sary of Rerum Novarum, institutions, providing swimprincipal, Mr Val Murphy, ming lessons for Vietnamese invited the College community refugees and fundraising to "stop and become aware of drives and clothing appeals for the inadequacies and injust- a host of charity organisations. ices in our society" for a term. A "social awareness" quesStudents devoted pastoral tion was also printed in the care time, play time, out of daily college bulletin and was school time and some class the focus of intense discussion time to develop and carry out and positive action. activities designed to raise the Mr Jeff Middleton, deputy social consciousness of the principal at Aranmore Catholic school. College, said the exercise was One of the highlights of the deliberately aimed at more program was a sports day held than purely fundraising. at Rocky Bay Village when a "It was an effort to have team of Aranmore students everyone consciously retook part in a fun day of sport evaluate practices and and games with a team of assumptions both in the wider wheelchair -bound athletes, community and the college suffering from Multiple itself," Mr Middleton said. Sclerosis. "The college takes seriously Other activities included its mission to develop all visiting and providing a aspects of its students. The concert for elderly people in real value of a Catholic the nearby area, visiting education is measured by the children at the Mosman Park degree to which our students School for the Deaf, Princess contribute to society." he said. Intercom — Page 3
PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL
Arts festival attracts a cast of thousands A cast of thousands, made up of students from Catholic schools throughout WA, took to the stage for this year's Performing Arts Festival for Catholic schools and colleges. During the two-week long performance extravaganza — big enough to rival any Broadway production — more than 4000 students stepped out of the classroom and into the spotlight. The festival of singing, dancing, drama and instrumental talent, now an annual event for Catholic
schools, again culminated in a finale of entertainment at a special concert held at Winthrop Hall at the University of Western Australia. The aim of the event, sponsored by Zenith Music of Claremont for the second year, is to encourage the performing arts in Catholic schools and colleges. Speaking at the final concert, Dr Peter Tannock, Director of Catholic Education in WA, said the main goals of the festival were to provide an opportunity for students to perform to a wider audience and to encourage students and teachers to pursue the
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AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN PERFORMANCE Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart Perpetual Award Instrumental Ensemble: Mazenod College Swing Band and Corpus Christi Senior Concert Band Catholic Education Commission Perpetual Award Liturgical Movement: St Columba's School, Bayswater Brigidine Sisters Perpetual Award Primary Choral Music: Our Lady's Assumption School, Dianella Sisters of Mercy (West Perth) Perpetual Award Piano Solo: Eleanor Koay, John XXIII College, Mount Claremont Monsignor Michael Keating Perpetual Award Speech: Year 4, Newman College Junior School, Doubleview Archbishop Foley Perpetual Award Liturgical Music: St Columba's School, South Perth Dominican Sisters Perpetual Award Musical: Sacred Heart College, Sorrento Sisters of Our Lady of the Mission Perpetual Award Vocal Solo: Anne-Marie Duce, Bunbury Catholic College Sisters of St Joseph of the Apparition Perpetual Award Liturgical Drama: John XXIII College Theatre Arts Group Sisters of Mercy (Perth) Perpetual Award Instrumental Solo: Benjamin Burgess, Aquinas College, Manning Premier of WA, Dr Carmen Lawrence Perpetual Award Drama: Ursula Frayne Catholic College, Victoria Park Presentation Sisters Perpetual Award Mime and Movement: Ursula Frayne Catholic College, Victoria Park Loreto Sisters Perpetual Award Secondary Choral Music: Mercedes College Choir
When it comes to rock 'n' roll, students at Lumen Christi College, Gosnells, know how to dance. Months of rehearsal went into They proved it when they took Lumen Christi College's proto the stage with their winning duction — choreographed by dance formula, The Surfer's drama teacher, Kathleen Cocks Dream, in the recent 1991 and directed by drama and Medibank Private Rock 'n' Roll languages coordinator, Shane Eisteddfod. Glass. Forty Lumen Christi College Mrs Glass said taking part in students from Years 8 to 12, the competition was not only including stage crew, jived, great fun for the students jitterbugged, twisted, bopped involved but an exciting time for and rocked their way to third the whole school. place in front of an audience of Community Effort 5000 onlookers at the Perth "The performance was a real Entertainment Centre. community effort. It brought Excellent Entertainment together all the years and had a Thirty-one Western Australian wonderful flow on effect of schools put on their dancing energy throughout the whole shoes for the event, described school," she said. by chairman of the judging The college received a trophy panel and Dean of the WA and $1000 in prize money which Academy of Performing Arts, Dr will go towards the purchase of Geoffrey Gibbs, as "excellent equipment for the school's entertainment." drama department. Forty Lumen Christi College students put on their dancing shoes for this year's Medibank Private Rock 'n Roll Eisteddfod.
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Primary Scholarships were awarded to students Veronica Barber, Frances Bendotti, Donna Furgusson and Charissa Marshall, who have undertaken to teach in Kimberley Catholic primary schools in 1992 and 1993 and to Joanna Browne, Michael Hollow, Margaret O'Meara, Angela Parker and Kate Stevenage, who will teach in Catholic primary schools in country areas. Intercom — Page 5
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Mrs Chris Scali (rear) is back at school to help students, (from left) Linda Boreham, Kathleen Murphy, Colleen Murphy and Nathan Boschetto, with a lesson in bike education.
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One example of St Maria Goretti School's innovative approach to learning is the school's special summer hours, introduced last year for the comfort and safety of the students. During the very hot summer months, school starts and finishes one hour earlier so that the children aren't learning and playing in the hottest part of the day. Another highlight in the life of the school is the elective program. Using the skills of both parents and teachers, one afternoon a week is devoted to activities outside of the normal classroom program. During this time, students group together according to interests rather than age to do things such as bike education, cooking, wood work, dance, sewing and pottery.
Crafting a lesson in clay is Mrs Sarina Pruiti with (left to right) Christie-Lee Simpson, Alem Matthees, Robbie lannolo and Belinda Baines.
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Past St Maria Goreti student, Agata Chmielewski took a step back in time for work experience. She helps students (from left) Crystal Martin, Quade Kempton, Graeme Jones and Stacey Pamham with their work.
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Founded in 1956, St Maria Goretti School has been providing an education for children in the suburb of Redcliffe and surrounding areas for almost 35 years. It might seem like an old school on the outside but St Maria Goretti School is all new on the inside, having undergone extensive refurbishing during the past five years. The school boasts many modern facilities, including a Computer Centre and Maths and Science Resource Centre. As well as offering the standard school subjects, Italian and Chinese are taught and consideration is currently being given to developing a special music program. In line with traditional Catholic education philosophies, special emphasis is placed on educating the whole person. The spiritual, intellectual, emotional, physical and social development of the students is very important, we try to find a balance between all of these areas," Mr Pearce said.
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Happy classrooms St Maria Goretti School, Redcliffe, is a place where learning is fun. Just ask any of the 120 boys and girls enrolled at this small primary school and they'll tell you they don't just come to school because they have to, they come to school because they want to. It is one of St Maria Goretti School's guiding philosophies that school must be an enjoyable place to be. For principal, Mr Ian Pearce, the happy classroom is where students learn best. "If the school environment is not a happy one then the students won't feel good and positive about themselves and they won't want to learn," he said. It's a philosophy that achieves results. "Our students are enthusiastic about learning," Mr Pearce said. "I'm not aware of any of our students who don't like coming to school. In fact we even have a lot of past students coming back to say hello," he said.
Enthusiasm for learning isn't restricted to the students, education is a team effort at St Maria Goretti. Teachers, auxiliary staff, the Parents and Friends Association, the school board and the parish priest are all regarded as being responsible in some way for the education of the students. "It is an important aspect of our school community that everybody works together," said Mr Pearce. "We especially encourage parental involvement in the school, parents regularly help in the classroom and with special activities," he said. "It is a relatively small school and the teachers work hard to make sure that the children don't miss out on anything because of the school's size. "We are always looking at ways of improving the facilities, resources and learning environment for the children. We provide many of the same opportunities as larger schools," Mr Pearce said.
From left: Natalie Duggan, Lisa Scali, Ben Millar, Alison Ryan and Terese Cencic conduct an experiment with water.
Lucy Spina (left) and Andrew Campbell (right) practising liturgical movement with Mrs Maureen Brown.
St Maria Goretti students, (from left) Lisa Scali, Chantal Dillon, Brendan Of e, Robert Orsi and Laura Devenish, proudly display their school flag.
Tucking in for a friendly lunch are (from left) Jason Vansnick, Simon Devenish, Tanya Pearton, Linda Boreham and Paul Ellison. Intercom — Page 7
NDA's College of Education read to o Student enrolments in The University of Notre Dame Australia's first courses have exceeded expectations.
Students from Culunga Catholic Aboriginal School took Perth shoppers on a dreamtime journey when they staged a display of Aboriginal dancing as part of WA's annual Children's Week celebrations.
The Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor David Link, said that there will be approximately 30 students, who intend to be secondary teachers, in the Diploma of Education program. There will also be approximately 40 part time students undertaking post graduate studies in Educational Leadership and Religious Education. Professor Link said that the opening of the College of Education in January will be an historic moment for the Church, for Catholic education and for the State. Distinctiveness "We will directly, and in cooperation with others, offer something unique to newly trained teachers so that they will bring a distinctiveness to their school assignments. These new teachers will transfer the sensitivity to moral values, which they have explored at the University, to generations of students for years to come," said Professor Link. "Ethics will permeate everything we do. It will be involved in our teaching, our research, our supervision of residence life, our development of student behaviour." Professor Link says that being Catholic is the most unique feature of NDA. "Because we are a Catholic University we will be different."
Students from the West Swan school joined other local Catholic schools in taking the talents of their classrooms out into the community for all Western Australians to see during a special concert in Perth's Forrest Place. Students from pre-primary to Year 3 at Culunga Catholic School performed traditional Aboriginal dances to the sounds of the bush and the song of the didgeridoo. A concert was also held in Fremantle by Catholic schools in the area and St Francis Xavier Primary School, Geraldton, celebrated the week with a Mass and school Open Day.
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Phillip Taylor, from Culunga Catholic Aboriginal School, performing the Dance of the Emu during WA Children's Week celebrations.
Teacher launches Aranmore into outer space It wasn't the latest in space age technology that launched Aranmore Catholic College, Leederville, into outer space recently but the creative talents of music teacher, Karl Dietrich. His imagination was enough to take more than 100 students from Years 8 to 12, plus audience, on a musical journey to the planets and back in the school's annual musical production, Aranmore Goes to Outer
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In what was a first for Karl, who is usually only involved in the musical side of the school's annual performing arts event, he both developed the concept for this year's musical/drama and wrote the script himself. Coming up with a new idea for this year's stage event, which always follows the theme, Aranmore Goes to . . ., didn't prove to be a problem for Karl at all. He had the outer space idea in mind almost as soon as the curtain went down on last year's production, Aranmore Goes to
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"I thought the outer space theme left a lot of room for creativity, I had a lot of ideas and felt confident I could write the script myself," Karl said. Combining well known songs with an original script, as well as the musical, dancing and dramatic talents of the students and the support of other staff, made the show a sell-out production.
Music teacher, writer and producer of Aranmore Into Outer Space, Karl Dietrich, with one of the production's space-age props.
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COOKING UP A CAREER A group of Year 11 students at Bunbury Catholic College are cooking up a possible career by taking a unique catering course. The school-based course, which has been end of year Mass for Year 12 students and their accredited by the Secondary Education parents. Authority, was designed by the college's home economics teacher, Nan Martella. Camp Catering Students undertaking the course learn all the Another major undertaking is the catering for skills involved in catering to large groups of the Year 8 camp in fourth term. For this project people, including planning, food preparation the students are responsible for planning, and serving. Several students have continued preparing and serving all meals for the three day their interest by moving into hospitality courses camp. at a TAFE college and have later found Mrs Martella said the course has a two-fold employment at local restaurants and tourist function. It provides students with a basis for a facilities including the Lord Forrest Hotel. possible career in the hospitality industry and at During the school year the students practice the same time gives the college the ability to their skills by catering for college functions cater for its own functions. including the annual dinner which raises funds for the Parents and Friends Association, hors The course is very popular with students — d'oevres for Art Extraordinaire, an annual art only 20 can participate each year and this year exhibition, and providing supper following the there were more than 40 applications.
There's no doubt about it — applied art students at Aranmore Catholic College, Leederville, are a canny bunch. They proved it by sculpting Hours of designing, sorting their way to first prize in the through aluminium cans for recent Comalco/6WF Alumicolours needed and cutting and nium making, went into the creation of Can Sculpture Competition. the sculpture. Titled Song of the Using aluminium cans as their Golden West, the sculpture was inspiration, they not only put designed to represent a slice of Western Australian natural life. conservation and the importance of recycling into practice The competition is an annual — they turned it into a work of event aimed at promoting art. environmental awareness in Four applied arts students at Western Australian secondary the college — Naomi Button schools. (pictured above), Marie Carr, The $1000 cash prize awarded Sarah Sowter and Andrea Romiti — collected more than to the winners will go towards 2000 cans for the intricate helping underprivileged childsculpture which depicted a ren in Romania and Mozamswan as the centrepiece surbique and to providing equiprounded by Western Australian ment for the Art Department at native flora and fauna. Aranmore College.
ART AWARD TRADITION Seton Catholic College, Hilton, established last year through the amalgamation of St Brendan's and De Vialar Colleges, has set in motion an event which it hopes will establish itself firmly in the traditions of the new college. The Brother Francis Art Award was established in the college's inaugural year by the Art Department led by Mrs Elvira France and supported by past St Brendan's student, Alastair McKay. The award has been named after Br Francis Murphy SMA, an original member of the staff of St Brendan's College. Awards are provided at different year levels for both religious and secular works. The overall winner is announced at the annual Speech Night. An exhibition of all entries was held during September this year. Selected pieces of work by student artists have been donated to the college and form the basis of what is expected to become an extensive collection.
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Blessing at Newman Junior A special blessing ceremony at the Newman Junior School Brigidine campus celebrated the opening of a second preprimary classroom, new administration offices and the refurbishment of the existing pre-primary room. The Director of Religious tions and additions complete the Education, Fr Gerard Holohan, development of the Brigidine blessed the pre-primary rooms campus. Deputy principal, Sr and placed crucifixes in them. Ann McFarlane, said that the He told the pre-primary students opening this year of the second that whenever they saw the new classroom has allowed the c rucifixes, they should school to offer full day preremember that they were special primary education to its people to Jesus. The renovastudents.
for the future Christian Brothers' Agriculture School (St Mary's School), Tardun, celebrated more than just the opening of new facilities when the school's new classroom block was unveiled recently. The occasion was also a celebration of the school's commitment to the future education of many more generations of boys. Monsignor J. Barden, who o fficially opened and blessed the new buildings, said the Christian Brothers had made a valuable contribution to education in the area since they first arrived in Tardun in the 1920s and established the school. He said many boys had grown in wisdom, age and grace at the school and that this would be a continuing tradition.
The Minister for Mines. Mr Gordon Hill, invited pre-primary student, Helen Bologa, to join him in the unveiling of the plaque which marked the official opening of Matthew Gibney Catholic Primary School at High Wycombe. Perth's newest Catholic school, the primary school at High Wycombe, has been named Matthew Gibney Catholic Primary School, after one of the Church's pioneers in Western Australia, Bishop Matthew Gibney. The new school became the many achievements of his first to be blessed by the newly lifetime, Bishop Gibney is installed Archbishop of Perth, remembered for his work for the Most Reverend Barry Hickey state aid for Catholic schools, during a special opening the establishment of The Record ceremony in September. newspaper, his journeys to the The Minister for Mines and Kimberley to find out for himself local Member, Mr Gordon Hill, the situation of the Aboriginal officially opened the new school people and the selection of on behalf of the State GovernBeagle Bay and Lombadina as ment which assisted with its sites for missions. establishment through a low Bishop Gibney placed great interest loan, emphasis on a Catholic education as necessary for the Community Choice development and nurturing of The name Matthew Gibney our children. Catholic Primary School was chosen by the school communJanuary Start ity and approved by the The new school took its first Archbishop of Perth. Bishop students in January this year. Matthew Gibney was Bishop of The first stage of the new school Perth from 1887 until 1910. His comprises a pre-primary classDiocese comprised the whole of room and a block of four Western Australia until 1898 classrooms which accommowhen the Geraldton Diocese date the Years 1 and 2 classes, was established. Among the library and administration area.
"We don't wish this tradition to be lost at all," Monsignor Barden said.
Senior students proudly carry the school banner into the hall at the beginning of the ceremony to bless the additions and alterations at the Brigidine campus of the Newman College Junior School.
"I see the opening of these classrooms as a commitment to the future and that St Mary's will go into the future offering its particular blessings to many, many more generations of boys.-
PRE-PRIMARY STUDENTS - A REAL PART OF ST BRIGID'S The building of a new pre-primary centre at St Brigid's Primary School, Lesmurdie, has meant not only brand new facilities for the school's youngest students but a welcome change of location as well. For years the school's pre-primary centre was housed in a separate building, away from the rest of the school — now the pre-primary has become a part of the general school area for the first time. Incorporated into the junior primary building next to Year 1, construction of the new centre was not the only building activity happening in the school grounds. Also part of the $466,000 project, blessed recently by Fr George Ryan OMI, was the construction of three new classrooms, a toilet block, extensions to the library to allow space for the school's 470 students and upgrading of the school grounds. "The project has made the school very comfortable all round, nobody is crammed in anywhere or in temporary accommodation," said principal, Sr Clare Rafferty.
A quiet revolution in Catholic education
A TRIBUTE TO TRADITIONS
The official blessing and opening of a new pre-primary centre and administration block at Notre Dame School, Cloverdale, was a welcome opportunity to pay tribute to a quiet revolution in Catholic education in WA. Speaking at the opening "We have been trying to offer in on faith and the belief that the ceremony of the new facilities, whole child needs to be Catholic schools throughout the the Director of Catholic EducaState, the opportunity for a full developed rather than just one tion in Western Australia, Dr time education for five-year-old part of the person. He said the Peter Tannock, said a quiet children," Dr Tannock said. two new facilities would help "Five years ago we started with revolution had been taking place further this aim. very little, now there are over 100 in Catholic schools in recent The pre-primary centre and years resulting in a significant such centres in Catholic schools administration block were offii mprovement in educational in WA," he said. cially opened by Dr Tannock opportunities for young people Dr Tannock said schools like and blessed by parish priest Fr in Catholic schools. Notre Dame School were built William Buckley.
Pre-primary students help Bishop Peter Quinn unveil the plaque at the official opening and blessing of the new pre-primary facility at St Joseph's School. Waroona.
Pre-primary students at Notre Dame School, Cloverdale, celebrate the opening of the school's new preprimary centre and administration block. Intercom — Page 10
A new pre-primary facility was officially opened at St Joseph's School, Waroona, marking yet another stage in Catholic education's tradition of integrating pre-primary and primary education. The occasion was also an allocation of non-government opportunity to pay tribute to school funds to the State another tradition — the cooperGovernment, a possibility which ation that has long been enjoyed has been talked about from time between the Catholic education to time. system and the Commonwealth The new pre-primary unit was Government. made possible with the help of Bishop Peter Quinn, who a Commonwealth Capital Grant officially opened and blessed of $104,000, a State Government the school's new pre-primary Low Interest Loan, the hard classroom, said he would be work of the parents in the local very sad if the Commonwealth community and the school passed its responsibility for the board.
Catholic colleges at their sporting best Records tumbled and new champions were made when Catholic colleges gathered for the 1991 series of Associated Catholic Colleges (ACC) Athletics Carnivals held at Perry Lakes Stadium. Hundreds of secondary students from 35 schools took part in the annual event held over four days in September. They were on their sporting best for the challenge to see which schools would be the winners in the long line-up of athletic events. Catholic schools came from far and wide to take part, with Stella Mans and St Patrick's Colleges, Geraldton, Keaney College, Bindoon, St Joseph's School, Northam, St Edmund's College, Collie and Bunbury Catholic College all travelling to Perth to participate in the carnivals. Victory in the A Division series went to Newman College in a very close competition — the combined St Brigid's and Mazenod team (last year's A Division winners) were only six points behind the leaders at the end of the day. Chisholm Catholic College managed to keep a tight hold on the lead for most of the day to win the B Division competition. The combined St Patrick's and Stella Mans team from Geraldton claimed C Division honours and Kolbe Catholic College was awarded with victory in the D Division event. Results A Division: Newman College, 1151; St Brigid's/Mazenod, 1145: John XXIII College, 1108; Seton Catholic College, 1075; Corpus Christi College. 1046: Santa Maria/CBC Fremantle, 937: Aranmore Catholic College, 790; Mercedes College, 609. B Division: Chisholm Catholic College, 1194; St Norbert College, 1070; Lumen Christi College, 946; Sacred Heart College, 925; Mercy College, 890; Bunbury Catholic College, 879; La Salle College, 823. C Division: Stella Mans/St Patrick's, 1349: Prendivi lle Catholic College, 1221; Ursula Frayne Catholic College, 915. D Division: Kolbe Catholic College, 1070; St Joseph's
Students from Catholic schools and colleges off and racing in the 1991 series of ACC Athletics Carnivals at Perry Lakes Stadium. School, 1045, St Edmund's College, 638; Keaney College, 439. Record Breakers The following records were broken during the series. A Division Boys open javelin: P Jeffrey, John XXIII College, 57.68 metres Boys U/15 hurdles: D. Demasi, Newman College, 13.24 secs Boys U/15 1500m: C. Wright, Mazenod College, 4.24.50 mins Boys U/15 high-jump: S. Patterson, Newman College, 1.79 metres Girls U/16 hurdles: G. Ragus. Mercedes College, 14.31 secs Girls U/16 400m: S. Goodman, John XXIII College, 58.63 secs Girls open 400m: S. Bradley, Santa Maria, 57.59 secs B Division Boys U16 1500m: D. Valenti, La Salle College, 4.13.00 mins Boys U/16 hurdles: R. Kennedy, La Salle College, 13.97 secs
Students put their athletic abilities to the test in the discus and high-jump events at the carnival.
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Schools in the News • Aquinas College, Manning: Robert Wallace, Year 9, was recently awarded the Christobel Matting ley Medal for the best overall entry in the Christobel Mattingley Awards for creative writing conducted by the City of Perth. Shaun McCormack and Nigel Sprigg were first and second respectively in the prose section for Years 11 and 12. Bennie Ng (Year 11) has been awarded a Joseph Gentilli Geography Scholarship. Only five scholarships, open to some 7000 geography students State-wide, are awarded each year.
LEARNING THE INTERNATIONAL WAY
• Bunbury Catholic College: Natasha Woods won her age division in the recent South West Cross Country Championships held in Harvey. Adrian Spinelli was selected in the Western Australian Soccer Team to compete in the Australian Championships held in the Eastern States recently. Brad Cunningham and Adrian Spinelli were both nominated for the Junior Sports Star of the Year Award. Alison Abdo has been awarded one of five Joseph Gentilli Geography Scholarships for excellence in geographic studies. • St Columba's Catholic Primary School, South Perth: Johnathon Cuypers, Year 7, has been selected to train with the State Hockey Team with a view to an eventual place in the State team. • Servite College, Tuart Hill: Servite College competed in both the junior and senior finals of the Federation Soccer Club recently. The junior team won the shield for the second year running, retaining their mantle as both the ACC and State champions of WA. The senior team lost by a goal to John Curtin Senior High School, making them this year's silver medal winners in the final. • Prendiville Catholic College, Ocean Reef: Stephen Carrol, Adam Coffey and Greg Jacobson won the recent State Chemical Analysis Competition sponsored by BP and the Royal Australian Chemical Institute. They were among 83 teams of Year 12 chemistry students who competed in the competition held at Curtin University. • Mazenod College, Lesmurdie: Steffen Etherton, Glenn Jamieson, Anaf Masood and Michael Bulb o are the members of Mazenod College's Junior Debating Team which won the recent Western Australian Debating League School's Competition. Michael Monterosso has been chosen in the U/13 soccer team to play in the Australian Championships in Cairns. Justin Smith gained sixth place overall in the Australian Road Cycling Championships held in Victoria recently. • Sacred Heart College, Sorrento: Recent fundraising efforts by students at the college resulted in the donation of infant milk formula to the value of $650 to the Perth City Mission and an $855 donation to the Sudden Infant Death Foundation. • Liwara Catholic Primary School, Greenwood: Gymnast, Stuart Fisher (Year 6), was awarded a bronze medal in the recent State championships and represented WA in the National championships where he was awarded a gold medal in the team event and finished seventh overall in the individual event. • St Luke's Catholic Primary School, Woodvale: Year 3 students celebrated Hiroshima Day recently with a day of Japanese cooking, literature, origami and Japanese brush writing. The day was also an opportunity to share a prayer for world peace. • St Joseph's School, Southern Cross: St Joseph's School won three out of four trophies awarded in the recent Southern Cross/Yilgarn Athletics Carnival, including the trophy for the "Most Cooperative and Best Behaved School". Students in Years 1 to 7 also travelled 230 kilometres to take part in a fun sports carnival with St Mary's School, Merredin. The trip was made possible by funding from the Priority Country Areas Program.
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Seton Catholic College student, Diana Risucci, tries her hand at traditional Cambodian dancing. Learning took on an international flavour at Seton Catholic College, Hilton, when students joined together recently for a week of multicultural activities. A different event was planned for each day of the Multicultural Week which was designed to increase students' awareness of the cultural diversity that exists in Australia. An international soccer game, an Italian day of food tasting, games and a concert featuring Cambodian and Latin American dancing and music, were just some of the highlights of the week. Celebrating Australia's multicultural heritage was also the idea behind a Multicultural Day held at Aranmore Catholic College, Leederville. Demonstrations of boomerang throwing, Tai Chi, Japanese sword fighting, Indian, Irish and American dancing, as well as international food tasting and displays of craft and drama, gave the students an insight into the different way people live.
Soccer with a difference Young soccer enthusiasts at Our Lady's Assumption School, Dianella, might only be relative newcomers to the game but they have already played alongside one of the world's best. The youngsters joined exfor Soccer. He visited one Liverpool star, Craig Johnston primary school in each State to (pictured below), for the training launch the "soccer game with a session of a life-time when he difference". was in WA recently for the Our Lady's Assumption national launch of a new game School was the only primary of soccer called RooBall. school chosen by the Western RooBall is a modified version of Australian Soccer Federation to the traditional game of soccer take part in the WA launch of specially designed to suit RooBall. primary school age children. The new game, played by both Craig Johnston, who was the boys and girls, is sponsored by first Australian to play for the National Drug Offensive. It Liverpool and played for the has four main aims, maximum English club for five years, is the participation, gender equity, skill Australian Youth Ambassador acquisition and most of all fun.
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still are working with the same decisionmaking mechanism as when our forebears first began to walk erect. Well, almost the same. Recent research is helping to show, however, that people differ significantly in how they make decisions. Some take more time to make decisions,
A problem with a slower, more intuitive style of decision making is that it tends to heighten our anxiety when needed decisions start backlogging. Even so, there are some things we can do to help. The first, I'm convinced, is to know one's best style of decision making and take steps that support it.
some less. Some of us like to keep our options open, some of us get anxious if we don't bring things to closure. Some of us like to "feel" our way into a decision, others operate by a series of logical deductions. One way isn't better than another; it is simply different — kind of like how we feel about broccoli.
If you need time, for example, make sure you start thinking about the situation long in advance. Many people know that to make a decision they have to get their minds off the problem — that the solution frequently comes to them while they are doing the
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When you know a decision you must make is important, what are two guidelines you try to remember? Selected responses from readers:
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"How will it benefit or not benefit me and my family in the long run as opposed to just right now? Does it benefit anybody other than myself? — Debby Phillips.
'he Gospel story of the nptation shows him .uggling with the alterlives. Should he use s extraordinary powers cater to self-interest? hould he perform spector stunts like jumping I. a temple tower and nazing the assembled lgrims by landing fely in their midst?
"Does the outcome make me feel good in my head, heart and stomach (do I have a clean conscience)? How will it affect the people around me — my loved ones?" — Tom Van Petten. "If God is in something, it will work. If I don't keep God in my major decision making, I can make a fool of myself." — Mary Ann Wilcox. "Every decision must be rooted first in love . . . The pros and cons of the issues need to be prayerfully examined so that the 'why' of what is decided is very clear and the decision can be lived with long after it is made." — Margaret Davis.
2onventional wisdom ight answer those iestions in the affirmaie. But Jesus chose the polish" path of selfless. iffering love.
"Honesty and loyalty . . . It is best to do with little and have much in the kingdom of God." — Janet Tantlinger. "When in doubt on moral issues, I consult the Scripture readings and consult religious teaching. If it still isn't clear, I seek a religious counsellor." — Camille Caulfield.
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Suppose your first reaction is to oppose closing the parish school. Upon examination, you realise this was the school you attended, and closing it means a part of your history ends.
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Often, when you have questions you can't answer by yourself, you will need to seek additional information before making a decision. Before choosing a degree
dishes, walking the dog or, for that matter, praying about something else. A second bit of advice is to establish priorities. What decisions have to be made now? Which ones are not very important? Which require personal action? Forget about decisions that can be legitimately avoided. Lord Falkland said that "when it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision". Some decisions we should throw back on our kids or mate, or on the person to whom they more properly belong. Finally, when the time to make the decision arrives, make it and don't cultivate second-guessing. A certain amount of spiritual abandonment is healthy here. I recently came across this saying: "Tomorrow has two handles: the handle of fear and the handle of faith. You can take hold of it by either handle". Faith suggests that God is with us in our decisions; we cannot lose — not in the long run, anyway. Where does prayer fit in? At the top of the list, of course. Pray for wisdom, pray for courage. And pray that next time someone else has to make the decision instead of you.
program, you want to know its requirements, its benefits, how helpful it has been to students who chose it, how well it fits your goals and talents. Friends in your church or community, school counsellors and teachers can be valuable sources of information for you. Anticipating outcomes of a decision gives you a chance to think ahead and get a sense of how your decision might
affect you. No projection is flawless, of course, but if you agree to sponsor an exchange student, you should have some idea what that decision will entail for you and your family. Weighing a decision in terms of your beliefs often leads to prayer as you sort out what the Lord expects of you. This kind of reflection can also lead to unexpected changes or challenges.
A woman who believes marriage should last until death finally admits that her husband will not cease his violent physical abuse of her, and they separate. A homeowner who always opposed racism property discovers values are declining as A frican-Americans move into the neighbourhood, but he refuses to sell. 4. Relax. Especially if the decision is difficult or complex, give yourself a
little time off after position you have taken, where God's voice echoes defining the issue, the reasons for it and the in a person's depths, as Vatican Council II put it. attending to your first effect you intend. impulse and examining For example: I have it. Decisions should be In addition, making to put my father decided reflex not acts, human decisions conscienreactions or forced in a home for the elderly tiously is a communal act because he will get better choices. whereby "Christians are Friends with whom you care there thanIcan give, joined to others in the can relax are an asset at and he will be happier. search for truth and for this point. Decision making is a the solution to so many 5. Decide. When the complex and demanding moral problems which basic steps have been process, but it is also a arise both in the life of carried out carefully and creative and sacred activ- individuals and from you have put yourself in ity, especially when social relationships", an open and peaceful decisions are made in ("Constitution on the frame of mind, decide. conscience, that secret Church in the Modern Describe to yourself the core and sanctuary World." 16). The Record, November 14, 1991
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Link with past A Latin Mass next week in St John's pro-Cathedral will forge links with the past and stave off condemnations in the future, says Archbishop Hickey. "We will rightly be accused of cultural barbarism if we jettison our artistic and spiritually moving heritage," he said of the new rite Latin Mass he intends to celebrate with priests of the diocese.
He said that St John's, the oldest Catholic Church in WA, was a link with the patt. "I see clearly that despite the struggles and scandals of the early days, the Holy Spirit brought the Church safely and securely into the 1990s. We should never despair of the Church because of the frailty of human beings." Archbishop Hickey said
that the 7.30pm Mass on Tuesday, November 19, would be said for all deceased priests and bishops of the diocese from Bishop John Brady through to Archbishop William Foley. The public are welcome but the pro-cathedral is small, the archbishop pointed out. "I hope not too many come otherwise they will spill out into the street . ."
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Reflections "Can you remember departed for Rome, in G.K. Chesterton's order to have Swan River poem, 'The Donkey'?" Colony made into a asked a friend of mine diocese, and also to this week. That poor, collect money and discarded remnant of a recruit helpers for his mission. vital historical event? He made a good impresYes, I could, at least the sion on the Roman important lines: authorities, who erected "Starve, scourge, deride Perth into a diocese and me:Iam dumb, annexed to it huge tracts Ikep my secret still. of country in northern Fools! ForIalso had my Australia as well. honour: Without consulting One far fierce hour and Archbishop Polding or sweet: anyone else in Australia, There was a shout they appointed John about my ears, Brady as bishop of Perth. And palms before my He was very successful feet." in collecting money and Each day I observe personnel for the new traffic and pedestrians diocese. hurry past the ProHe sailed from GraveCathedral of St John in Victoria Avenue before send with a party of t urning into Victoria twenty eight persons, Square; how few are many of whom were aware that they are unlikely to be of practical passing the theatre help in his mission. To pay passage money where were enacted the great dramas of the early for so many strained his years of the Church in finances, and in any case he was an incompetent Western Australia. Few places can have financier. concentrated more joy and sorrow, more hope and disappointment, and more tragedy than this apparently discarded remnant of history. Late in 1843 Archbishop Polding of Sydney sent two of his priests to minister to the isolated Catholics of Swan River Colony, Father John Brady and Father John Joostens. Father John Brady was born about 1788 at Castle They arrived in Perth Tara near Cavan, in the on January 8, 1846 and Diocese of Kilmore. trudged through the He studied for the sand to the little church. priesthood at the SemiThey'sang the TeDeum nary of the French and prepared for a Colonies in Paris, and solemn High Mass on the arrived in the island of following\Sunday. Reunion in 1827. Brady haft been absent The archives of that for almost two years, and mission cast light upon the church was far from his prolonged disputes finished. with his ecclesiastical Mother Ursula Frayne superiors, and he found it: describes himself in Rome in 1837 "The 4urch — what without bishop or was it like? Imagine a diocese. about thirty feet room He was recruited by Dr fifteen feet wide l ong by Ullathorne for Sydney, and arrived there in and twelve feet high; a 1838. He was appointed shingle roof, through which the sun, moon, to Windsor and served his people with dedica- and stars could be tion in a laborious distinctly seen: a few planks laid loosely on the district. ground did duty as On his arrival in Perth flooring: door spaces, but he proceeded to build a no doors; window spaces, church. but no windows; an old Catholics were very few wooden counter, the gift (perhaps 100 in 1848), of a retired shopkeeper, and were the poorest of served for altar. A faded the poor. green tablecloth, with Governor Hutt granted yellow corners, did duty him land on which to as an antependium, and, build, and the Church of a strip of calico, St John was commenced unhemmed, was the on December 27, 1843. only altar-cloth." After nine weeks resiThe High Mass was dent John Brady impressive: the Sisters of
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Mercy and the Monks sang, and Salvado played the piano. Two weeks later saw another joyful celebration at the religious profession of Sister Mary Ignatius, but on the next day was the solemn Dirge and Requiem of one of the French priests, who had died shortly after arrival. This was followed a little later by the death of one of the Sisters of Mercy. On January 25 the little church witnessed a touching ceremony of heroic dedication and farewell. After a solemn High Mass the bishop appointed the various groups of missionaries to their far-flung missions. On February 6 the French Fathers departed for Albany on foot with scanty supplies of food, little money, and no means of making a home in the bush. They wandered fruitlessly in search of Aborigines, suffering much hardship; they eventually settled near Mollyalyup where they suffered from malnutrition and sickness. They were forted to eat frogs in the swamps. and after two years of hardship, they were compelled to depart for Mauritius. The Benedictine group departed for the northern limits of settlement, where they would eventually found New Norcia. One of the party fell sick, another was killed by an accident with a gun, the third went temporarily out of his mind, and Fathers Serra and Salvado suffered much want and hardship following the Aborigines in their wanderings. Salvado returned to Perth and begged at the church door for food and clothing for his mission, but was far more successful when he gave a concert to the citizens of Perth. Father Angelo Gonfalonieri and two catechists were sent to the settlement at Port Essington, at the northern extremity of Australia. Brady had paid their passage as far as Sydney; there they were forced to beg to continue their journey. They were shipwrecked in Torres Strait, the two catechists were drowned, and Father Gonfalonieri landed at Port Essington with barely the clothes he stood up in.
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He was assisted by the Commandant of the British garrison and made fruitful contact with the natives, but after about two years he contracted a tropical fever and died on June 9, 1948. Because of these deaths and departures Brady's party of 28 had been reduced to 10 — six Sisters of Mercy, one catechist, one student, and two priests. Serra and Salvado. Brady's finances were chaotic; he had received 144,000 francs from the Society for the Propaga-. tion of the Faith; when investigated later by the Roman authorities he could account for only 11,000. What had happened to the other 133,000? The Sisters of Mercy and the bishop lived most austerely and his accommodation was a lean-to at the side of the church, and later a belfry only partly boarded up. He owed money everywhere in Perth. He sent Serra to coiled money and reinforcements in Europe, and later sent Salvado also. Lest he should be a bishop in a diocese without a single priest, he decided to ordain Timothy Donovan, and the little cathedral witnessed his ordination early in January 1849. At the same time two
promising native boys from New Norcia, John Dirimera and Francis Conaci were baptised in the little cathedral. They departed with Salvado and received the Benedictine habit from Pope Gregory XVI, and joined the Monastery of Cava in Naples.
Abundant money, volunteers The cathedral Register of Baptisms also records about this time the baptism of Mary Christian, a little waif whom Salvado rescued from a cannibal feast and carried down to Perth where she lived with the Sisters of Mercy. Serra returned to Perth on December 29, 1849. He brought with him abundant money and many volunteers from Spain and Naples. The Holy See had also appointed him Coadjutor Bishop, and given him sole control of the finances of the struggling diocese. Serra and his numerous reinforce-
ments were received in the cathedral with jubilation and the Te Deum. After Serra had paid most of Brady's debts, Brady, who disliked Serra, went to Rome to have Serra's appointment as Coadjutor rescinded. Rome investigated the case with deliberate care; after four years in Perth, a large dossier on Brady had accumulated in Rome, containing 503 printed pages. On October 3, 1851 Rome made a permanent decision — Brady was suspended from all episcopal functions as bishop of Perth, and was forbidden to return to Perth. Brady evaded the prohibition and arrived in Fremantle on December 17, 1851. The little cathedral now becomes the stage for a miserable tragedy. On Christmas Eve, Brady, surrounded by a group of followers, tried to take over the little cathedral.
Brady settled himself in the Emerald Isle Hotel in Fremantle, as the base for his schism, which he carried on for about six months. Archbishop Polding was given plenipotentiary powers by Rome to heal the schism, and after an epic journey arrived in Perth about the end of June. His Pastoral Letter on obedience to lawful authority was read in the cathedral on June 27. At the Solemn High Mass on Sunday, July 4, Brady appeared before Archbishop Polding, and on his knees asked pardon for the scandal he had given his flock by his own disobedience to the Holy See. He resigned the temporalities by legal documents which were placed upon the altar, and the metropolitan proceeded with the Mass, to the great relief of the people.
formula of the anathema was read, the lighted Candles which the bystanders held were flung down and cast outside the church: the doors of the church were shut against them. So ended the schism of Bishop Brady. Brady himself would never surrender his original title of bishop of Perth, but after he had been absolved from his censures, he retired to his native Castle Tara, where he received a pension of £100 yearly from the impoverished Diocese of Perth. He died in France in 1871.
Salvado and his team of Benedictine Oblates. On Serra's return, he rededicated it under the title of the Immaculate Conception. As the Catholic population increased it became plain that the church was too small.
Cathedral opened in 1865
It is only fair to recall the summing up of Archbishop Polding: "This proceeding on the part of Bishop Brady, inclines me to believe that either he is devoidof religious and honourable principle or that he is not sane in his intellect. The latter opinion receives confirmation from the circumstance of his father and some having relatives laboured under some mental malady."
In spite of this apparent submission, some of Constable Chipper, the Brady's schismatical sole policeman of Perth, party made public proin order to preserve the tests against Archbishop peace, cleared the Polding, who then procathedral. ceeded to a formal On December 28, excommunication with In 1854 Serra visited Rome where he took part according to the orders of Bell, Book and Candle. i n the ceremonies assoPope Pius IX, Serra At the cathedral on ciated with the declarapublished the letter of Sunday, August 1, 1852 tion of the Dogma of the Cardinal Fransoni in the Bell of the church which Brady was threa- was rung to summon the Immaculate Conception. tened with suspension if faithful, the Book with During his absence, the he returned to Perth; the transgressions of the church was extended to since he had, he was. delinquents and the double its length by
Serra obtained from the government the grant of the beautiful site of the centre of Victoria Square. He went to Rome in 1b59 and took pains to procure a suitable marble altar for the new cathedral. In Rome in 1862 he resigned his administration of the Diocese of Perth and never returned to Western Australia. Father Martin Griver succeeded Serra in the administration, and was consecrated bishop in 1870.
The building of the new cathedral fell upon his shoulders and those of
the clergy and laity of Perth. The new cathedral was opened in 1865 and the old pro-cathedral continued to fulfil a useful function. It was used as a meeting room for the Sodalities, especially the Children of Mary. It was here that Bishop Griver was welcomed on his return from Rome, and Matthew Gibney on his return from Glenrowan, and Father W.B. Kelly on his return from Ireland — the first native-born priest of Western Australia, who later became the first Bishop of Geraldton. The registers of the church record the baptisms and marriages of the early Catholic families of Perth with many familiar names and others now unfamiliar. The registers also contain the names of the priests who served the people of Perth. Among these is the signature of Father Anselm Bourke, ordained by Serra in 1858 in the little cathedral. Many years of his long life would be devoted to the people of Perth. Let not ambition mock their useful toil Their humble lot, their destiny obscure Nor grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor.
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Ballajura gears up for big day on A packed crowd is Community expected this Sunday November 17. on First Communion The children come day in Ballajura and the from three state and one new library facilities Catholic Primary school will be put to the test. in the area. This year's Grandparents from as far away as Poland have already flown in for the occasion. Forty-eight children will celebrate their first Holy Communion in the Mary Mackillop Catholic
numbers have doubled from 1990. Two retreat days have been a feature of their preparation where all 48 have had an opportunity to get to know each other. Parents have attended an adult formation pro-
gram in conjunction with their children's preparation. The Sedar Passover meal has helped in their appreciation of the Eucharist.
Mrs Yvonne Liebeck, Mrs Una Scott, Miss Lina Bertolini, Mrs Rhonda Thompson and Sister Margaret O'Sullivan made up the Catechist team.
Above: Elio Mazza, Alan and Lucy Jones, Sue and Wayne Elhers at the Sedar meal in Ballajura's Mary Mackillop Catholic Community. Left: Monika Szoska whose grandparents have flown in from Poland heads the procession at
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Holy Spirit, you who solve all problems, light all roads so that I can attain my goal. You gave me the divine gift to forgive and forget all evil against me and in all instances of my life you are with me. I want in this short prayer to thank you for all things as I confirm once again that I never want to be separated from you ever, in spite of all material illusions. I wish to be with you in eternal glory. Thank you for your mercy towards me and mine. This prayer must be said for three days after which the favour will be granted. The prayer must be published immediately. My grateful thanks. T.G.
Grateful thanks to Our Lady of Ozestochova, Sacred Heart of Jesus, Blessed Virgin of the Revelation, St Jude, St Autonuis, St Martha, St Clare, St Rita, St Teresa, St Joseph, Sr Faustine and all saints. We still need your urgent help and protection. You are our only hope; please hear our prayers, we promise devotion alld publication. By your power our prayers may be answered B
Holy Spirit you who solve all problems, light all roads so that I can attain my goal. You gave me the divine gift to forgive and forget all evil against me and that in all instances of my life you are with me. I want in this short prayer to thank you for all things as I confirm once again that I never want to be separated from you ever in spite of all material illusions. I wish to be with you in eternal glory. Thank you for mercy towards me and mine. (This prayer must be said for three consecutive days).
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Thanks to Our Lady and St Clare. Pray nine Hail Marys for nine days, lighting candle and letting it bum out. Request three favours publicise this devotion. IMW.
Thanks to Saint Martha for prayers answered. Novena — I resort to your protection and my faith. I offer this light each Tuesday, comfort me in all my difficulties and through the great favour you enjoyed through lodging in the house of the Saviour intercede for me and my family that we may always hold God to our hearts and be provided for in all my difficulties. I beseech you to have infinite pity on the favour I ask of you St Martha. (Here state favour), that I may be able to overcome all my difficulties as you didst the dragon at your foot. 3 Our Fathers, 3 Hail Mary's and 3 Glorias for the intention of the Holy Father. Say this prayer for nine consecutive Tuesdays and each Tuesday bum a candle and leave a copy of this prayer in the Church to help another soul in distress and to support devotion to St Martha. This miraculous Saint grants everything no matter how difficult and before nine Tuesdays terminate. BA.
May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified , loved and preserved throughout the world now and forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus hear our prayer. Saint Jude, worker of miracles, pray for us. Saint Jude helper of the hopeless, pray for us. Say nine times for nine days then publish. Never fails. C.H. Fischer. 0 Holy Spirit you who solve all problems, light all roads so that I can attain my goal. You gave me the divine gift to forive and forget all evil against me and that in all instances of my life you are with me. I want in this short prayer to thank you for all things in spite of all materials. I wish to be with you in eternal glory. Thank you for your mercy towards me and mine. Thank you Sacird Heart of Jesus, Our Lady St Anthony, St Jude, St Joseph.
TOMORROW TODAY with Father Joe Parkinson
A moving "hurting and healing" ceremony capped a great weekend for the Lukers.
Willetton's Luke 18 community take a break during their weekend at Corpus Christi College, October 18-20.
Heavenly help! Forty-five young people in Years 8-10 pushed their way through the "gates of heaven" on Friday, October 18 to start Willetton parish's most recent Luke 18 weekend, held at Corpus Christi College in Bateman.
The sign of penfe took on new meaning for many during Willetton Luke 18's closing Mass.
Drawn from neighbouring high schools, the lively Lukers enjoyed the
Choir Auditions
Disciples of Jesus Mission Team
Fire of Love Weekend
Up to fifty male and female voices are needed to form a choir for the main Mass of the Convention, to be held in St Mary's Cathedral on the evening of Sunday, January 19, 1992.
NOVEMBER 29-DECEMBER 1 7.30pm Friday — 2pm Sunday
Eagle's Nest, Gidgegannup
Auditions will be held on Sunday, November 24 at 1pm in the Claremont Parish Centre, Melville St, Claremont. All ages welcome!
Involving: Drama * Music * Sharing * Mime For single men and women aged 18-35 years. COST: $40
To register interest, phone the Youth Office on 328 9622 during office hours.
Information: Stephen 341 3392 Jennifer 341 4317
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NANGA BUSH CAMP Just 7km from Dwellingup COST: ONLY $60 A great summer camp for Catholic young people, run by trained leaders from the Salesian family. Open to youth from all parishes, the camp will include a wide range of outdoor and indoor activities, sports and games. Fully supervised. Transport provided.
For full details and bookings: Fr A. Moester, SDB Ph 361 1057 or by mail: PO Box 167 Victoria Park WA 6100
Team leaders Jo Merrey and Steve Ting received great support from adult couples Cecil and MarieAnne Pontre, Rhonda and Ennio Tavani, Ros and Geoff Merrey and parish worker Sister
1Crystyna. Highlight of the weekend for many was Saturday night, when Lukers shared their hurts and resolved to heal them before symbolically consigning their cares to God in a roaring fire. The weekend closed with Mass at the college, joined by many parents and families.
"Dare the Dream" Youth Convention 1992
"I have come to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were blazing already." Luke 12:49
Salesians of Don Bosco present a
hospitality of many parishioners, who hosted small groups each night and provided meals for the weekend.
The applicants: • Must have experience of the YCS movement. • Must be committed to the mission of the Church shown by an involvement in Christian action in their daily life. * Must have a knowledge of Jocist principles and experience and/or understanding of the Review of Life method. • Own transport desirable. Applicants should apply for either a twelve month or two year term. For criteria and job description, contact:
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DARE THE DREAM CATHOLIC YOUTH CONVENTION 1992
AQUINAS COLLEGE, MANNING JANUARY 17-21, 1992 Meet and share with other young people, learn, be inspired and explore our future in the biggest Catholic youth event in recent times. For information and registration form: Call KRISTI on (09) 328 9622 office hours The Record, November 14, 1991 12
by Colleen McGuiness-Howard
Cultural mix
Evangelising isn't always easy Recovery As a follower of Christ, the far, stands a small "Would you allow this and believe. If the Chris- under these circumstanI find myself regularly bridge. "Ah ha" this f riend to take this tian message is not even ces, a blatant testimonial attempting to justify why friend thinks, "this must doomed path, despite the known, then it is need- is actually detrimental. it is that I preach to surely be the place I have initial reaction?" I think less to say a certainty Rather, an approach that another will not based on understanding persons who quite been searching for; but not. frankly, are totally unin- am Ito trust this bridge to As followers of Christ come to know Christ. and genuine friendship is terested in the Christian carry me over this horri- we see day after day However, by challenging likely to prove more message. Too often I am ble ravine?" people treading the others to disprove the successful. In particular, it is imporwe are greeted with comments Sensibly, the friend wrong path, and ulti- Christian faith, such as "stop preaching pauses for a moment to mately meeting with a effectively encouraging tant in so much as it is and leave me in peace", examine this bridge a horrible fate. Yet we are them to research, under- possible, that we are available when others or "I can respect your little more closely, finally asked, indeed expected stand and evaluate. beliefs, but don't try and concluding that it is a to sit back and allow our Throughout this process are experiencing perFORCE them upon me". finely crafted fixture. brothers and sisters in of discovery, we should sonal crises. It is common knowledge that In situations such as Indeed, "surely it is Christ to perish, when c onstantly pray for the during such periods, these, there would perChristian message — strong enough to rescue the conversion of our brother people are likely to be haps appear as though me from the horrible the roadmap to eternal or sister, whilst at the more receptive to advice there is little one can say death that would await life — is there for all to same time, providing change, as their own and or do — indeed an me below". Convinced see. direction and insight into personal crisis is often a individual does have the then that the greener Hence, whether the the ways of the Lord. As realisation that some G od-given right to grass afar is within C hristian message is the bearer of the Gospel aspect of their life is not choose whether or not reach, the first eager step seen as right or wrong, it is important that we do as they would wish it to they are to listen to His forward is taken . . others must understand not become discouraged be. very words. However, Unbeknown however, why it is that we preach with any apparent lack of On such occasions, a there is a little parable I bridge is deceptively — to ignore our role as progress. Perseverance, few choice words tailored the use from time to time to disseminators of the patience and empathy to the individual needs of attempt to explain my unsafe. For although it Christian message is to are essential in any the situation, are likely to actions, and I shall relate commenced its life at the sellout our very faith. Christian activity. Indeed, prove more effective than craftsmaster hands of a that the hope it here in Further to this, it is it may take the testimo- t he same re -hashed others may also find it man, it now stands little of its relic essential that others are nies of an enormous testimony. In addition, more than a useful . . even number of followers to we must be living role Certainly, any encouraged, formerself. Imagine a close friend is finally bring another to to challenge path is demanded, of this traveller models, so that others travelling an unfamiliar Christ. Yet without the may see the commitment head-on. horrible THE MESSAGE a to die doomed route, and happens one c ommitment of each of within each of us, and day upon a fork in the death in the hideous It is no good to simply attack the bearer; rather these believers, the con- through this be further road. Both of the depths below. version may never take convinced of the mesbranches appear to head Now just suppose for a they must be brought to place. that the path understand sage we bear. in the direction that this moment, that you were It is however, perhaps But above all else, we friend wishes to travel. able to meet our friend to silencing a "Christian The first of these is rocky where the path divides, do-gooder", is through worth noting that there must attempt to keep the and far less trodden than and warn of the perils proper address of the will indeed be times underlying message of the bottom of the two, that await the traveller of message itself. For as when the best form of the new testament — and consequently the this lower route. Further, long as followers are preaching is not to love — foremost in any imagine that this mes- committed to the Word of preach at all! My own Christian activity. For it is lower path is chosen. After travelling for some sage was looked upon God, we are committed personal experiences through a ministry of love time, this path falls upon with mockery and laugh- t o the process of abound with instances in and mercy rather than which apathy, ignorance, condemnation, that we a fiercely raging river, ter, and that despite your dissemination. beyond which extend hills and paddocks of immense beauty. Ahead affixing the near bank to
testimony, our friend By challenging others in temptation and other are most likely to bring chose to tread this lower this way to "destroy" the tools of the devil, appear the love of Christ to path nonetheless. The Word, may very well more alluring than the others. By Romano Sala-Tenna beckons: carry them to understand truth of the Gospel. Often question
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St John of the Cross and Pierre leilhard de Chardin both drank passionately from the chalice of pain in their own lives and then wrote insightfully on the providential and transtbrming effect of working through the dark night of suffering wherein, through faith, the Lord is encountered beyond the pain, not in spite of it. Recovery from addiction, codependency and attachment is a process of getting in touch with and accepting both one's human reality and the Reality of a Power greater than oneself. In that perspective pain can be faced peacefully and endured with joy. and the darkness can become for the one who suffers a truly Blessed Night.
Last Friday the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, the nation's first multi -arts venue, was officially opened at the m agnificently refurbished historic building, formerly the James Street Technical College and Perth Boys' School.
residencies and workshops will run throughout each month. PICA's publishing branch, PICA Press, will produce catalogues, artists' books and documents to assist in writing about our cultural life. PICA will open with events indicative of the breadth of activity which will become the norm, such as: • Blue Funk — an installation by six Irish artists. • The world premiere of "Ariadne's Understudies", based on the novel "Not Being Miriam" by Western Australian Marand ion Campbell Noelle directed by Janaczewska. • An exhibition by Australian visual artist, Mike Parr, in conjunction with the launch of "Identities", a critical study of the artist by Dr David Bromfield. • An installation and Artist -in-residency by Lorna Green from the United Kingdom. • Performances, workshops and a residency by renowned New York film/video performance installation artist, Stuart Sherman.
Three years of research, planning and design has resulted in a multipurpose venue offering performance and theatre space, multi-functional exhibition and installation galleries, large and small rooms for contemporary and experimental art, a library and coffee shop. This wonderful addition to Perth's Cultural Cen • tre will become a major resource and exhibition vehicle for international and Australian music, film, craft, video, performance installation and the visual arts. Director of PICA, Mr Noel Sheridan, believes that the central location and energetic calendar of events will be a magnet for the widest constituency of people living and visiting Perth. A plethora of performances, exhibitions, lectures,
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Our fine Australian Opera
The Turn of the Screw with Anson Austin (left) as Quint, Andrew Phipps as Miles, Lanneke Jones as Flora and Wendy Dixon as Miss Jessel.
WHAT'S ON
Messiah date change The West Australian The change of date is Symphony Orchestra's essential because Chant wo performances of nel 7's annual parade Handel's glorious Messiah through the streets of will now be presented in Perth will take place on the Perth Concert Hall on Saturday, December 7 Thursday, December 5 and the parade will make and Friday, December 6 parking and access to the — and not as published in Concert Hall difficult for the WASO Diary and in concertgoers. the orchestra's 1991 This therefore means that the performance of catalogue.
Messiah on December 7 has been re-scheduled for Thursday, December 5! The West Australian Symphony Orchestra's office will be contacting those people who have booked or purchased tickets for Saturday, December 7 and offering them tickets on either December 5 or 6.
November Conference of Churches of WA, Fr D Sproxton. 16 Mass for Vietnamese, Archbishop Hickey. 17 Mass with Assisi Choir in St Mary's Cathedral, Archbishop Hickey. Mass and blessing Schoenstatt Armadale, Archbishop Hickey. Confirmation Victoria Park, Mgr McCrann. Confirmation Kelmscott, Fr G Carroll, Murdoch Hospital Reception, Archbishop Hickey. 19 St John's Pro Cathedral Mass for priests. 19&20Confirmation Moriey, Bishop Healy. Confirmation South Lake, Mgr Keating. 20 "Iona" College Mass and awards, Archbishop 21
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finishes Tuesday 19 at 7.30pm. The second Australian for event Opera November in Perth is one concert only of Wagner's masterpiece Tristan & lsolde. Marilyn Richardson and Horst Hoffmann will sing the principal roles of this the greatest of all love stories. The performance with t he WA Symphony Orchestra begins at 6pm on Saturday, November 30 at the Perth Concert Hall and will be conducted by Heribert Esser. Tickets for both these outstanding operas are currently on sale as either single performances or as a two opera subscription.
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November in Perth will seem like heaven for opera lovers. The Australian Opera will be performing two works from their repertoire — Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw and Richard Wagner's Tristan & lsolde. These performances will feature the cream of the opera talent which the country has to offer. At His Majesty's Theatre for four performances only, Britten's dramatic piece based on the story by Henry James will feature Eilene Hannan as t he governess and Anson Austin as Quint. This outstanding production is directed by Neil A rmfield. The Turn of the Screw opened last Monday and
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'A SPECIAL INVITATION'
THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME AUSTRALIA
to the OPENING and BLESSING of THE SCHOENSTATT SHRINE OF OUR LADY with Holy Mass by Archbishop Barry. Hickey Date: Sunday 17th November 1991. Time: 1.45pm Venue: Schoenstatt Shrine 9 Talus Drive (off) South West Highway Armadale WA A fternoon tea to follow
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The Catholic Women's League will hold their annual Bursary Card Day on Monday, November 18 in the Cathedral Parish Centre, 450 Hay Street, Perth commencing at 11am. Bridge and rummy; admission $3, door prize, raffle, light luncheon available. Proceeds to Seminary.
Admission is open to university graduates holding degrees with majors or concentrations in secondary school teaching areas and who are interested in a teaching career in Catholic or other secondary schools. The Diploma meets standard certification requirements for teaching in Government. Catholic and other Independent secondary schools. It does, howeven emphasise professional formation especially appropriate to Catholic schools. The course provides extended teaching practice in two subject arms nominated by the student and in Religious Education.
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The Catholic Women's League will hold their annual stall on Thursday, November 28 on the Hay Street side of Wesley Centre. Donations for sale would be appreciated: cakes, jams, pickles, preserves and novelties will be on sale. The stall will operate from 7.30am to 2.30pm.
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On Sunday November 24 at 2pm at the church "Virgin Mary Mother of the Church" Chittering Road, Bullsbrook. Mass will be followed by a eucharistic procession and benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. For further information and bus reservations please ring 444 7565 for buses to and from Bullsbrook via Marangaroo, Dianella, Perth, Highgate and Midland and 339 4015 for Fremantle bus. Sacri Assoc. Inc. PO Box 311, Tuart Hill WA 6060. Telephone number of the Church is 571 1699.
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The monthly meeting of the Marian Movement will be held at Swanbourne, 2 Frazer Street on Tuesday, November 19 at 10.30am.
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VOCATIONS DAY
A day of information for the priesthood will be held at St Charles' Seminary, 30 Meadow Street, Guildford on Sunday, December 1, from 10.30am to 4pm. Lunch is provided and Mass will conclude the day at 4pm. This is for men or lads who are about 16 years and older. Enquiries: Fr Justin Bianchini (09) 279 1310.
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BLOOM...where you are planted!
The Catholic Nurses Guild is holding their meeting at 11 Ellesmere Road, Mt Lawley on Tuesday. November 19, 1991 at 7.30pm. Guest speaker: Fr Trevor Simon. President Mrs Margaret Hubery.
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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
Collegium Musicum Choir tTWA Chamber Orchestra and soloists Conducted by Peter Moore invite you to
Missionaries of the Sacred Heart Priests and Brothers A modern Religious Order meeting the challenges of moving with the Church to build communities of faith, hope and justice. Living in communities, we administer parishes, schools, houses of retreat, and many specialised ministries. Many work in our missions in N.T., Papua New Guinea, the Pacific Islands, Japan and India. Men seeking information on our ministries, formation programmes (both younger and older-age entrants), and admission procedures for next year should contact:
Fr Roy O'Neill, MSC, RO. Box 252, COOGEE NSW 2034 Phone: (02) 665 8999; Mobile: 018 217 301, Fax: (02) 664 2962 16 The Record, November 14, 1991
MOZART'S REQUIEM Thursday, December 5 (The exact date of Mozart's death 200 years ago)
Chapel of St Michael the Archangel
Catholic Education Centre Ruislip Street, Leederville
6.30pm concert performance 9pm Mozart Memorial Service Celebrant: Father Tarditti
Tickets $10 & $8 (conc) Suggested retiring collection $10 & $8 (conc)
It is necessary to prebook for both 6.30pm & 9pm All bookings: Debbie Gwynne, 66 Riley Road, Dalkeith (Ph 386 1001)