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Parish helps resettle families COLOMBO; Sri Lanka (UCAN): The second phase of a parish-initiated community housing project ended when 76 families at Sinhapura, 20 kilometres south of Colombo, were given the keys to their newly built houses.

The project began in 1976 when 330 families — shantydwellers — were evicted from their homes by government authorities.

The Pannipitiya parish, led by pastor Father

Francis Fernando, began a housing and community centre project to help resettle the families.

The project was financed by the German Development Assistance Association for Social Housing (DAASH).

The Sinhapura housing project, started in

1980, comprises 234 houses, with a community

center, health center and preschool. The people

of Sinhapura are involved in the planning and construction of the houses, as part of a community development program.

Because of the Church's help the people are now leading meaningful lives, Sandya Fernando, a Buddhist youth leader in Sinhapura, said.

"We are happy to receive the Church's service," which has not discriminated against "caste, creed or colour," she said.

Act now on jobs

...AND STOP THAT FINANCIAL LOSS AND SOCIAL ISOLATION, SAY BISHOPS

Their exclusion of the unemployed from the country's life and their isolation are unacceptable, say the Catholic bishops of Australia.

Work is not just a commodity for the economy and people have to feel their work is wanted and valued, they say.

The bishops want action to deal with the financial loss and social isolation brought about by unemployement.

At their half yearly meeting in Sydney the bishops said unemployment may cause long term damage to Australia.

"We cannot accept a situation which excludes large numbers of Australians from full participation in the life of their own country" say the bishops.

To the people who say a long term of unemployment is good for the economy of the country the bishops say: "Whose economy? It sounds as if people are at the service of the economy rather than the other, right, way around".

"The Catholic Church has never accepted the view that reduces human labour to a commodity, to be bought and sold — or not — merely according to the laws of supply and demand.

Human labour has a dignity because of the dignity of the person who works.

Through work, women and men realise their humanity through using the gifts of the earth, building community and sharing in the work of the Creator".

Unemployment is not an abstract problem, they say, because it affects young, middle aged, the no longer employable and all their "Unemployment means that a person's work is not wanted, or not valued.

It can mean real losses: of participation in the life of

the community; of esteem and self esteem; of financial security.

"The losses can multiply into loss of emotional and physical health and disturbance in personal relations.

"Even if statistics were to tell us there was full employment, many Australians could still claim that their work was not wanted or not valued".

A great deal of work is not classed as "unemployment simply because it attracts no payment; work done within families; of caring for the young, the sick and the old; of helping children grow up;

of building enduring relationships".

Not only is the value of this work often underrated, it is actually discouraged by many of our economic policies.

Country rates of unemployment are higher than the cities but the real rates are higher still, say the bishops, "masked by the ineligibility of many farmers for unemployment benefits; the migration of the young unemployed to the metropolitan areas; and the withdrawal of many women from a futile and expensive search for work".

Unemployment problems

will not simply vanish when the economy starts to grow again, say the bishops.

"The long term problem of structural unemployment remains. The present situation will do some good if it rouses us from the complacency about unemployment: and makes us realise that although some jobs have gone forever, there are new jobs waiting to be created.

"This is not a responsibility for Government alone. The challenge of national reconstruction needs entrepreneurs and their wealthproducing initiatives; it needs union leaders who

will embrace labour market reforms; it needs commitment from government, employers and unions to education and training to equip our people for the new tasks that lie ahead.

The bishops say they do not "speak as politicians or economists, but as pastors and teachers.

"We speak in the belief that political and economic discourse is distorted if it lacks a moral dimension, if its focus on the dignity of the human person is blurred.

We ask for that focus and that dimension in the of discussion unemployment."

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Abortion: Envoy to of rotting nations VATICAN CITY (CNS): A society that permits legal abortions "is passing into decay," Pope John Paul ll told the new Australian A mbassador to the Holy See Terence B. McCarthy.

Nations pledging respect for human rights "can be true to this conviction only to the degree that they respect the human person at every stage of life," the pope said.

The pope praised Australia's "ordered freedom", which guarantees religious liberty, allowing the Catholic Church to develop wide-ranging education and health care systems.

He also supported Australia's foreign policies favouring arms reduction and aid to poor nations.

In practice, the world is faced with a paradox regarding observance of human rights, the pope said.

"The most basic of natural rights, namely the right to life and the value of life, are increasingly threatened, and this often in the very societies which view themselves as defenders of the cause of justice," he said.

"The enactment of laws permitting or encouraging abortion, enthuanasia or any other attack upon life is a sign that a

Mr McCarthy

community has become a society of death and is passing into decay," he added.

Such a society "lapses into measuring the value of each life according to merely utilitarian criteria so that government is no longer the guardian of life but the arbiter of its public usefulness," said the pope.

Earlier this year Cardinal Edward B. Clancy of Sidney blamed the pro-abortion mentality on growing secularist attitudes and said this was creating an attitude favourable to euthanasia.

The pope told McCarthy that the church and Australia share common foreign policy concerns.

"The efforts to reduce the level of armaments and the threat of war throughout the world deserve to be highlighted," the pope said.

"Peace is effectively pursued by remedying the unjust situations which can impel communities to violence," he added.

This includes "developing the economic and social life of those peoples whose diminished share in the goods of the world could cause them in their discontent to take up arms," said the pope.

Vatican post a 'privilege' SYDNEY: The Ambassador to Ireland and the Holy See, Terry McCarthy, is not daunted by his new task as he prepares to take over a post last held by former West Australian Premier Brian Burke.

The former Waverley College student (19461949), ex-seminarian and transport department clerk said he was delighted about the

appointment and there was "no secret" that he had put his "hand up" became when it available.

He said to serve Australia abroad was a privilege, especially when serving as an ambassador to a country which had such close social and historical links with Australia as did Ireland.

"And being of Irish extraction of course is no harm either," he added.

Mr McCarthy said his

father's family came from County Limerick.

There had been a t radition in the earlier days of not appointing Catholics to the positions of Ambassador to Ireland, but that had long gone, Mr McCarthy said.

The first Catholic to be appointed as ambassador to Ireland was Keith Brennan, followed by Sir Peter Lawler and then Brian Burke, he said.

Mr McCarthy said there was no conflict of interest

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Australia's interests One being that it is the abroad. headquarters of the "Quite contrary to what Catholic Church and some might think, hav- secondly that it is home ing some affinity with to the heads of the the country allows the various religious orders messages to be delivered who were responsible for in a far more friendly, large numbers of personnel and resources which upfront way."

As to the Holy See. Mr gave them a certain McCarthy said it was degree of influence in the something that was done international sphere, he on an ad hoc basis, six said. times a year.

A parishioner at the "The Holy See has two Marist run Kensington major interests to the church, Our Lady of the Australian government. Rosary, Mr McCarthy is

married with four children.

He joined the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1967 as assistant director in International Training.

For the past three years he has been the Regional Director for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's Sydney office developing closer ties between the department and the community especially the corporate sector.

Refugees: Bishops' call Australian Catholic bishops nave called on

the Government to increase its annual intake of refugees.

The Committee for Migrant Affairs of the Catholic Australian Bishops also drew the Government's attention to its treatment of asylum seekers from Cambodia in detention centres.

The Bishops said: "Panic and anxiety are high among stateless people in detention centres in Port Hedland and Sydney, as they await a decision on their refugee status.

"Given the uncertainty of the new political arrangements in Cambodia, we earnestly request the Government to show flexibility and compassion to these people who fear repatriation to a country where they have

known violence and terror."

Addressing the issue of immigration policy, the Bishops acknowledged that times of economic gloom result in migration policy becoming a target for the insecurity of Australians.

The Bishops urged: "We must not lose sight of the fact that we are a comparatively wealthy, developed country, and that while our foreign aid and immigration levels are low, we are enjoying a disproportionately large share of the world's resources."

The Bishops appealed to community groups and individual parishes to sponsor migrants and refugees.

They expressed concern that this avenue of social activity which so many had worked for in

the past has been closed by Government restrictions.

"Government policy should not stand in the way of the welcome which Christian communities wish to extend to migrants and refugees.

"If there are groups and parishes within our community ready to sponsor migrants, then policy Government should not interfere to prevent that exercise of a fundamental vocation of a Christian to share what he or she has in solidarity with those in greater need."

Addressing the issue of sustainable population levels the Bishops said: "We do not believe Australia is overpopulated although we do over-consume.

Secondly, migration does not increase world population but rather redistributes the population."

Blast for the Yugoslav Army, too

Black garbed East Timorese carry a mock coffin and white crosses to the St Mary's Cathedral Mass.

Probe Dili killings AUSTRALIAN BISHOPS WANT U.N. INVOLVED -

The World community has a legitimate interest in human rights abuses, say the Catholic Bishops of Australia about the Dili massacres.

They dismiss the claim by some Indonesians that the events in East Timor are an internal affair.

The bishops call for a credible and independent investigation by the United Nations — both into the recent killings and into human rights abuses.

The bishops' remarks were issued at their half yearly meeting in Kensington last week.

They were timed to support the 16th commemoration of the invasion of East Timor on December 7.

"We note that our Catholic brother bishops in Indonesia have asked searching questions about the details alarming gathered by their own representatives, and have insisted on the need for the events in Dili to be subject to "an objective probe".

"We also support the Holy See's defence of "the rights of all the Timorese to social peace, fundamental liberty, and their reli-

gious and cultural identity and human rights".

Papal social teachings recognises the growing importance of the role of international agencies like the United Nations in helping to resolve such conflicts.

According to reports reaching us, the atmosphere in East Timor continues to be one of fear and apprehension. Any investigation into the human rights situation there should not be limited to the events of 12 November but should also examine allega-

tions of abuses, including summary executions, disappearances, detentions and other forms of harassment before and since that date".

The December 7 anniversary is an appropriate moment for Australian Catholics to express solidarity with all those who suffer from injustice and persecution anywhere, says the bishop.

"Both geography and history give us especially compelling reasons for such a response.

"Thousands of its people, our near neighbours, died to protect Australian service personnel during the Pacific War, which commenced exactly fifty years ago. We have an unpaid debt to those largely, unsung heroes.

"We call on all to accept the call of Pope John Paul II, the Indonesian Bishops' and Conference Bishop Belo, the Apostolic Administrator of Dili, for a renunciation of all recourse to violence as a solution to social conflicts".

The Yugoslav Army appears to be a law unto itself and not under political control, say the Catholic Bishops of Australia.

At their half yearly meeting in Sydney last week, the bishops said they united with Pope John Paul and other countries' bishops to condemn the war in Croatia and the treatment of Croatian people by the Yugoslav Army.

"Pope John Paul has called this a 'fratricidal and useless war'. He has repeatedly reminded the world, as he did throughout the Persian Gulf conflict, that war is an unacceptable and counter-productive way of trying to solve differences between peoples," says the bishop.

"For some time, a degree of inertia unfortunately characterised the outside reaction of the terrible events in Croatia. This can be partly explained by the baffling complexity of the past and present situation in the Balkans.

"The principle of selfdetermination is central to the eventual resolution of the struggle in Yugoslavia. We refuse to accept the dismal and unfactual view that Croations and Serbs, both of whom have such strong Christian traditions, are incapable of living side by side in harmony.

"Our concern is deepened because of the presence of so many Croations and Serbs in this country.

We understand and sympathise with the present anguish of the members of these valued migrant communities.

"We applaud the efforts of Cardinal Kuharic of Zagreb, and the Catholic bishops of Croatia, Slovenia and other republics to work in cooperation with the leadership of the Serbian Orthodox Church and other religious leaders to promote a peaceful and just solution to this conflict.

"We hope that, following a genuine cease-fire, the United Nations will send an effective peace-keeping force, which has been requested by both Croatia and the Yugoslav State Presidency."

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Record The raiders have stolen the doors, the locks and the windows to lay their hands on what they thought lay beyond.

They have stolen Advent and dumped it at the side of the road because they are impatient to get their hands on Christmas.

"They" are the shrewd operators who beat their competitors to pump those hypnotising carols into the shopping centre audio systems; who have taken quaint Saint Nicholas and used him as carpet bombing assault on the spenders.

"They" are not some aliens from outer space.

"They" are we who are trapped on the merrygo-round called Christmas shopping and partying — we who have done Christmas to death before ever it starts and who slump at the thought of facing the feast itself. Don't talk about the celebration that should take place after the feast . . .

Advent should be a sentry at the door, sorting out the grumbling crowds, calming the dusty and weary travellers who want to know if anyone can save them from their empty lives.

Lent too should stand at the door of Easter but it does only marginally better because it speaks of prayer and penance. But the crowds are impatient to get their hands on a four day holiday at the employer's and community's expense. Chocolate eggs and rabbits Jo the rest.

Advent is the time to stand with the Old Testament prophets and look across the harsh wastelands of life and see if there is any relief in sight.

Australia surely needs an Advent as never before. It is tired, bruised, brooding and melancholy — not because we are starving or the shops are empty as in Russia — but because at the other end of the spectrum capitalism has failed to produce the goods of happiness, while we sit literally on mountains of gold.

Advent, the call to self-discipline and soul searching is replaced by self pity and finger pointing at other causes. It must be the fault of the other side of the globe, we bleat about nations who must be smarter than us if they are going forward and we are going backwards.

Yet even Australia's real real poverty today is an obscenity of affluence to the hundreds of millions in the world's shantytowns, slums and rubbish dumps. Advent is the time to ask why but we don't want Advent; we want Christmas . . . and now.

Australia without Advent becomes the butt of its own humour — the headless chook running in circles, yet so powerless and so helpless.

The nation becomes a media circus ring of mindlessness and loss of hope. Politicians become the pawns of ringmasters — the one sentence commentators and news readers for whom political debate is only about decapitation, backstabbing and personal abuse. No time to stop for Advent in that mad menagerie of shouting.

The numb suffering souls are told that it is a charade worthy of a Wild West shoot-out.

Fightback becomes the slick expressionless expression of what is proposed as a serious look at the issues to be confronted.

The reply is equally puerile. 'Holes will be shot' in their opponenet's claims, says the government, as if a million ordinary peole are not lying bleeding in the streets from the holes of their wounds.

Advent, where are you to diagnose the sickness, pride, selfishness and isolation that can engulf and destroy a society not from without but from within?

Old Testament foes were often the foreign armies against God's peoples but not always.

There were the internal evils against which the prophets railed.

Who would be a prophet today? Don't try it as a prophet bishop in a mainstream church.

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Isaiah said a future John the Baptist would have to cry like a lonely voice in the wilderness.

Advent could be that time to pause, to listen, to hear God's pleading in the midst of the mess we make of things.

But there's no time. We're busy celebrating Christ — before He comes. . . and catches us.

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We must pray for vocations, he says VATICAN CITY, (CNS): Preoccupation with the shortage of priests can lead to "hypothetical solutions" that cause confusion about the meaning of ordained ministry, a Vatican official said.

Cardinal Jose T Sanchez, prefect of the Vatican Congregation for Clergy, asked participants at the Synod of Bishops on Europe "to be watchful" and to "fearlessly combat this dangerous tendency".

"The Lord has promised to give workers for the vineyard.

We must pray for vocations," he said.

The Filipino cardinal did not specify what "hypothetical solutions" he meant, but he was understood to include proposals for ordaining married men in the Latin rite and discussions about ordaining women.

Cardinal Sanchez said that priests should be seen as the "primary agents" of evangelisation with their ministry of preaching, teaching, celebrating the sacraments and guiding Catholic communities.

A new evangelisation of Europe, he said, requires a new evangelisation of priests. Therefore, bishops will have to renew their programs for seminary and permanent formation.

Priests on the continent are facing several crises, he said, including a misunderstanding of priestly identity, a shortage of priests, a "superabundance" of work, and the social and cultural isolation of their priestly roles.

The cardinal said there were 246,916 priests in Europe

in 1978 and 224,606 in 1990, a 9 percent drop. In 1990 in Europe 3350 priests died and 186 left the ministry.

Priests who lived under communist repression were "called to live the mystery of the cross" and were "enriched" by sharing in the experience of martyrdom, he said.

"They bring to the West the gift of Christianity purified and more free from the conditions of constant change" experienced by many in the West. They are the bearers of a "faith made firm in the victory over materialism and Marxist atheism," he said.

Priests in Eastern Europe who were largely cut off from the West need to study the documents and developments of the Second Vatican Council, but such an education must be "purged of the distortions and aberrations found operative in the West".

"In Western Europe," the cardinal said, "the priest must rediscover authentic priestly spirituality so that he might effectively be a credible witness to the values of the Gospel in a society ever more secularised".

Priests in the West also must strengthen their resolve to adhere "in faithfulness and docility" to church teaching, "especially about the nature of Catholic priesthood and individual and social morality".

In the new evangelisation of Europe, he said, priests and lay people must work together, but it must be according to a "correct collabortation".

"We must deny and impede any tendency to clericalise the laity," he said.

Access to those scrolls widens

WASHINGTON (CNS): Access to the Dead Sea Scrolls has become significantly wider with the recent announcement by the Israeli Antiquities Authority that scholars wishing to view the scrolls will no longer be required to promise not to publish the texts.

Access to the more than 800 scroll fragments has been a major issue among scholars since shortly after their discovery more than 40 years ago in caves near the Dead Sea. The fragments are stored at the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem under the

control of Israel's Antiquities Authority.

Several sets of 3000 photographic negatives were made in 1980 as backup in case the scrolls were destroyed; the Huntington said it would make public its copies of the negatives without restrictions.

"The rules of the game have changed," said Toy, a professor at Hebrew University and editor in chief of the scrolls project. "We have now realised that it's to the benefit of scholarship in general that we do this".

Writing off youth as amoral

ST PETERSBURG, Fla (CNS): Society should be encouraging young people not writing them off as hopelessly amoral, says a bishop of condoms targeted at youth.

Referring to a Sarasota, Fla., firm's plan to market condoms targeted at a teen-age market, Bishop Favalora said that "condoms are not 100 percent safe" and called it "dangerous to imply that they are".

The Sarasota firm, Schmid Laboratories, plans to call its product "Safe Play — Condoms for Young Lovers" and begin placing it in stores next year. The bishop said the name "trivialises sex in the minds of children".

Bishop Favalora called "cynical" the widely held idea "that young people are promiscuous anyway and that they should not only be allowed but assisted to have 'safe sex".

Such reasoning for promoting condom use "denies the attitude of hope that normally characterises young people and certainly characterises Christianity," said Bishop Favalora.

"We are very much aware of the emotional challenges of adolescence and the heavy temptations of this often hedonistic age," he said.

Talk more about God, says Ratzinger VATICAN CITY, (CNS): Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said that in devising evangelisation strategies, the church may "talk too much about itself" and not enough about God. Cardinal Ratzinger, head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, addressed the European Synod of Bishops.

Cardinal Ratzinger said evangelisation is the biggest job the church faces, but that God is not getting enough emphasis in the performance of that job.

"The church speaks too much about herself, polishing her own structures, with the consequence that God doesn't shine through enough," he said.

"If our heart does not believe, it seeks to fill itself with substitutes for belief. We first then must speak of God, and not first of the urgent social, economic and political factors" in modern society, he said.

The church needs to emphasise to people the immortality of the soul and the resurrection.

Christmas a special time of prayer VATICAN CITY, (CNS): Christmas is a special time of prayer for peace, said Pope John Paul II. "We are already preparing to celebrate Christmas and the feast of the Prince of Peace. Do not forget to pray for peace in the entire world," the pope said at weekly general audience.

Christmas also is growing in meaning to non-Christians, the pope said to Japanese at the audience.

"It is felt as an occasion of celebration even in non-Christian circles. Christmas is a call to open oneself to others and to stimulate the growth of solidarity," he said.

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Catholic charities among biggest, best WASHINGTON, (CNS): Catholic Charities USA is not only among the largest charitable organisations in the United States, it's also one of the most efficient, according to lists compiled by various groups this fall.

The NonProfit Times, gave Catholic Charities the top spot on its list of America's biggest charities, while the Chronicle of Philanthropy ranked it eight in the country for private donations, excluding government grants.

Money magazine, ranking the country's 100 biggest charities in order of efficiency, placed Father Flanagan's Boys' Home first, Catholic Relief Services eighth and Catholic Charities 10th.

Father Flanagan's Boys' Home, also known as Boys Town, ranked first because it spent 152.8 percent of its 1990 income of $40.9 milion on programs. The organisation, spent $9.7 million of its reserve funds in 1990 on a national expansion program.

Catholic Relief Services, the US bishops' overseas aid and development agency spent 94.9 percent of its 1990 income of $220 million, placing it eight on Money's list.

Catholic Charities, was 10th, spending 94.6 per cent of its $1.5 billion income in 1990. It includes some 1200 local agencies throughout the United States.

Other groups with Catholic ties in the top 100 were the Christain Appalachian Project, founded and run by a priest, and Covenant House, the New York shelter for homeless youth that was founded by a priest.

The NonProfit Times also named Father Thomas Harvey, president of Catholic Charities USA, among five "top executives" for US charitable endeavours.

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uery on church's teachings VATICAN CITY, (CNS): The church must ask itself if it unduly burdens people by banning artificial birth control and remarriage after divorce, a German bishop told the special Synod of Bishops on Europe.

Auxiliary Bishop Werbs of Schwerin also urged the bishops to ask themselves if the Gospel requires the church to exclude women from positions of authority and to exclude lay people from the process for selecting bishops.

Effective evangelisation. he said, requires the church to continually ask itself if it is being faithful to the spirit of the Gospel — including the practice of not unduly

burdening believers — and to the teachings of the Second Vatican Council.

"We should seriously ask if certain practices should be imposed in the way they are now".

He said the Second Vatican Council affirmed the right of couples "to determine the number and timing of births" of their children.

"Should we not take the burden from parents of the distinction between artificial and natural" means of family planning, he asked. "Is this distinction really asked for by the Gospel or is it more a result of philosophical considerations?

"We must ask ourselves if we are not asking too much" of Catholic couples, he said.

The bishops also cautioned against the position some church leaders have taken in placing "tolerable contraception" on the same level as "abominable abortion".

Bishop Werbs said there is "no question that the church insists on the indissolubility of marriage. However, there might be a question on if Christ himself would deal with remarried divorced people as we do in the church today".

The practice of denying those people communion, he said, causes many to think the church is showing "a lack of compassion".

The "tremendous push for the emancipation of women in the world" also effects women in the church, he said.

"More and more don't understand why authority in the church at all levels is given to men," the bishop said. "Do we really ask ourselves with necessary seriousness if this scandalous situation must be maintained in fidelity to Christ?"

The Second Vatican Council, he said "underlined the priesthood of all believers" and the necessity of involving laypeople in church life.

"But when new bishops are appointed, many Catholic feel they have no input," even though in previous centuries that was not always the case.

Catholic laity know that the local bishop must be "in communion" with the pope, "but some recent appointments have not been under-

stood. Must it be like this?"

"As messengers of the Good News, we should be witnesses to the freedom to which Christ has called us. But our church is held by many to be the church of regulations and tutelage".

The bishop said he realised there were no ready or easy answers to the questions he posed, but he asked for sensitivity to the questions that are being raised more frequently.

"As messengers of the Good News we have to examine continuously what rules we have to impose in the name of Christ and what rules we are authorised to lift from human shoulders," he said.

Vatican restates stand on Jerusalem NATIONS, UNITED (CNS): The Vatican, taking note of the Middle East negotiations begun in Madrid, reaffirmed its position that Jerusalem should be given a special status.

Archbishop Martino, the Vatican's permanent observer to the United Nations, cited "the general spirit" of UN decisions in the late 1940s "regarding the internationalisation of Jerusalem — decisions that have never been officially rescinded".

In that spirit, "the Holy See maintains that the city must enjoy a special,

privileged status with international guarantees," he said.

A rchbishop Martino said the special status of Jerusalem had to include guarantees of equality of rights, including freedom of worship and access to the holy places, for "the three monotheisreligious tic communities."

Guarantees must also be given, he said, that the Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities can "continue to exist and live in peace, pursuing their religious, cultural, civic and economic activities".

The question of sovereignty over Jerusalem, A rchbishop Martino said, is "important and delicate," but a "subordinate consideration".

Martino said the Vatican hoped for "a long-term resolution for the security of the State of Israel and the recognition of the rights of the Palestinian people."

"Whatever concrete "It has long been the solution might be found Holy See's policy to for that issue," he said, "it defend consistently and will have to be in equally the rights of two conformity with the peoples — Jews and principles of justice and Palestinians — to a brought about by a homeland," he said. agreement peaceful which assures that above He said Jerusalem must mentioned guarantees be preserved as "a uniwill be met and fied, historical and cultusafeguarded". ral entity," without any attempt to separate the Referring to the Madrid holy places from the city conference, Archbishop as a whole.

"As we all know," the Vatican nuncio said, "the present situation of Jerusalem is that of an occupied territory and. as such, must not be subjected to changes in its status before a negotiated settlement is reached, as the international community and the Security Council itself have stated".

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Show of seriousness...

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Vatican officials have been saying for months that they had finished the Catholic Church's official response to the final report of a dialogue with the Anglican Church completed some 10 year ago.

Cardinal Edward I Cassidy, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, said in May that the document was completed and should be published by now.

A Vatican official said that it was wrong to assume there were problems with the response, or with the dialogue, just because of the length of time involved.

Even without an official response to the first commission's work, a second commission was named in 1982 to continue working toward unity between the churches.

Once finishing touches were put on the official Catholic response last May, it had to be approved by the pope and printed. The Vatican also is writing and editing background and educational articles to accompany it.

Besides all that, "the reception of ecumenical documents is still a new experience," said Msgr John A Radano, an American offical at the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

"We have more experience in dialogue than in reception at this point," he said.

"Reception" refers to an official process of receiving, studying and responding to ecumenical documents and to educating church members about the results.

The response to ARCIC I will be only the second offical response of the Roman Catholic Church to a modern ecumenical document, Msgr Radano said.

The first was the 1987 response to the 1982 document,

"Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry" issued by the Commission on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches.

Conducting the dialogue, drafting statments about its results and formulating an official response is more than a lengthy process, it is a reflection of the seriousness with which the churches involved search for unity.

"Our faith is the most important and basic thing we have" Msgr Radano said. "We have a responsibility to pass on the faith we hve received from the Apostles".

Dialogue is nothing like a political process of finding compromoses people are willing to live with, nor of finding such elastic ways of describing the Christian faith that real differences are hidden.

"We are seeking common ground and we think we've found a lot of it," Msgr Radano said.

The Christian churches are not putting aside theological differences in the name of unity.

"What we have to put aside are misunderstandings and prejudices — which are many — not our faith," he said.

The ARCIC Idialogue brought together 10 Anglican and 10 Roman Catholic bishops and scholars who held 13 weeklong meetings form 1970 to 1981 in addition to researching, writing and exchanging papers between sessions. Additional meetings were held by various sub-commissions of the dialogue team.

The 20 members of the dialgoue were appointed by the highest authorities of their respective churches.

But their work "is only one step," Msgr Radano said.

The final report is an important document reflecting the experience of a limited number of

people, "but it must be submitted to the church at large" through official channels.

"Dialogue points the way," in effect saying to the churches, "perhaps we can find reconciliation using this language".

After hundreds of hours of studying, talking and listening, the dialogue members gain a unique perspective on the topics involved.

In their final report, "they must show the churches how they arrived at the conclusions; how they can say something in the light of our understanding of the Christian faith.

Just as the Anglican Communion did before making its offical response to ARCIC I in 1988, the Catholic Church sent the final report to its bishops throughout the world for their reflections.

Accompanying the request for reflection was a 1982 set of observations about the report made by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

It takes years to produce, analyze and synthesize the work of the scholars and Vatican officials together with the reflections by the world's bishops and the doctrinal congregation. But that is what makes the response the official position of the entire Roman Catholi Church.

The dialogue with the Anglican Communion is aimed at uniting two churches that split more than 400 years ago, so historically speaking, 10 years is not an excessive maount of time to formulate a response to the ARCIC I statements on Eucharist, ministry and ordination, and authority in the church.

"Looked at in a historical context, the importance will be that it was done seriously, because the matters are serious".

World remains scene of injustices

VATICAN CITY (CNS): The Catholic Church cannot think that just because communism is out of the way, faith will flourish in Europe, said a document prepared for the special Synod of Bishops on Europe.

On both sides of the former Iron Curtain, Christianity has been pushed to the sidelines of many people's daily e xistence, said the docu-

rnent released recently at East and West Europeans connected in order to the Vatican. must choose whether fully respect human The "Summarium," or their freedom will begin dignity. summary, is a 44-page with love for God, which "While giving thanks to synthesis of responses by requires one to search for God for the end of the bishops, bishops' confer- truth and help others. ences and Vatican offiThe failure of commu- oppression, the church cials to a pre-synod nism, which tried to must prepare itself for questionnaire. The docu- push God from people's new and difficult tasks," ment will be used as the lives, is an invitation to the document said. basis for discussions at the church to put The document said the the Nov 28-Dec 14 synod. renewed efforts behind church must remember "The problem of Europe its message that "the that although commuis the problem of free- cause of God and the nism has failed, the dom," the document said. cause of man" must be .world remains the scene

D(e)ad right!

CLAYTON, MO (CNS): A Missouri probate judge has again affirmed a father's right to transfer his daughter to another state so that her feeding tube can be removed.

His 21-year-old daughter Christine Busalacchi, has been hospitalised since an automobile accident four years ago.

Pete Busalacchi, the woman's father, has been seeking to remove Christine from a Missouri hospital and transfer her to a hospital in Minnesota, where her feeding tube could legally be removed. The Missouri Health Department has opposed Busalacchi's request.

The judge said Miss Busalacchi was in a "persistent vegetative state," thus rejecting testimony that she was improving and was able to smile, laugh, eat and recognise certain people.

"I think she did do those things, but I think (they) were strictly reflexive," Kohn said. "There's certainly no doubt in my mind that she's lost her cognitive function".

Carolyn Roston, director of the Midtown Habilitation Center testified at the weeklong hearing that Miss Busalacchi was "probably doing much better than I'd say over two-thirds of the people we have there".

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of injustice, hunger and underdevelopment — which led many people to embrace communism in the first place.

In Eastern Europe the church's evangelisation efforts are challenged not only by a lack of resources, but by the fact that two generations were subjected to "wide and pressing" atheistic propaganda. There is also a

common feeling that the church may be just another institution pushing another ideology.

In Western Europe the church's efforts are hindered by "the excessive attachment to material reality, indifference, relativism and the hedonistic tendency" those attitudes bring.

divisions in the church and a lack of obedience to church authorities make it more difficult to present the church as a community of love and the way to salvation.

"The West must not 'export' to the East the problematic and antiRoman attitude which

troubles some areas of its theology and some sectors of its ecclesial life,"

Some bishops also said that theological dissent,

the summary said.

in power, Cardinal Sin warned the armed forces to stay out of politics, saying, "it is not the military who will judge the validity of the elections".

The electoral process

must result in "the free selection by our people of their leaders, not in martial law," he said, warning against "overhasty" moves to rehabilitate army rebels within the military.

No guns, goons or gold in this election M ANILA, Philippines (CNS): Cardinal Jaime Sin of Manila said the church would be active in next May's national elections to ensure free polls and unmask bad politicians who might try to use "guns, goons and gold" to rig the ballot.

Cardinal Sin, who played a prominent role in the "people power" revolt that toppled dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986 and installed President Corazon Aquino,

said the church would not endorse a specific candidate.

But in a sharply worded speech to religious, titled "In Faith: Freedom Not Martial Rule," the cardinal called on fellow priests across the predominantly Catholic country to organise nationally to ensure free elections throught vigilant participation.

Following six coup attempts during Mrs Aquino's almost six years

'Guarantee our abortion ban' BRUSSELS, Belguim (CNS): Ireland wants leaders of the 12-nation European Community to sign an official declaration that its constitutional ban on abortion will not be undermined by changes in the community's founding treaties.

Ireland has never allowed abortion and is the only European Community state to write such a ban into its constitution.

The European Court of Justice ruled in October

that the ban was enforceable but also defined abortion as a "service" under EC law — Leaving open whether foreign abortion clinics could advertise inside Ireland.

An Irish spokesman

said other community countries raised no objections to the signing of the declaration when Ireland first brought up the idea at a meeting of foreign ministers earlier in November.

Passing through the cathedral grounds Archbishop Hickey blesses the thousands waiting to enter the cathedral.

Re-awake mg of the faithf •

A great spiritual revival, a re-awakening and a desire for prayer and spiritual growth is taking place, Archbishop Hickey said last Sunday.

For the past 12 months, he told the crowd which packed St Mary's Cathedral, he had sensed this movement and asked if they too were having similar feelings.

In Geraldton and Perth dioceses, he said, he had noticed people coming together in their homes to pray and read the scriptures.

Country prayer meetings at Merredin, Northam and Bullsbrook were capped by the cathedral gathering around the eucharistic Lord, he said.

More than 3000 people marched from Langley Park to the cathedral grounds to which Archbishop Hickey carried the Blessed Sacrament from St John's Pro-Cathedral.

Asking if it was the result of chance of the Holy Spirit moving among the rank and file, Archbishop Hickey said: "I must be honest. This revival has not been led by the bishops, nor by the priests many of whom have become unsure of the direction the Church is taking, nor by the religious who have undergone enormous changes over the past 25 years and are working and praying hard to understand what God is asking of them in this confusing age."

Pointing out that the movement for renewal had come from the laity Archbishop Hickey said "people everywhere have sensed that the false promises of change and new directions have not ushered in a new age of spiritual growth and meaning.

"So the lay people have drawn together to pray and support one another in small groups and in large expressive gatherings like this."

The awakening, he said, has been led by Marian groups who "love the Church and the sacraments, and the Holy Father and the priesthood and the true conversion of heart that Jesus called for".

The archbishop said he wrote recently to support groups to encourage them because they need guidance.

"Excesses and bizarre offshoots can and do' happen but genuine Marian devotion must always lead to Christ and to fidelity to the church. I ask you all to love your priests and draw them into your circles of prayer."

Transformation through prayer, he said, would open eyes to the appalling things happening in the world — starvation, war, injustice and the denial of human rights and freedoms.

"Close to Christ we will gain the wisdom to see what is to be done and the energy to persevere in building up God's kingdom of love."

Archbishop Hickey urged the congregation to believe deeply in the presence of Jesus in the eucharist, in the truths of their Catholic faith and to present them to their children as Good News that alone can bring peace of heart and peace to the world.

"Beware of being led astray by seductive but false messages that are introspective and self directed and live the message of Jesus that turns us away from ourselves and outwards to others and to the world that Jesus loves."

Brisbane's new archbishop...

Brisbane's new archbishop is a former Rockhampton priest who spent 10 years as spiritual director of Brisbane's Banyo seminary.

For the past five years he has been bishop of Cairns.

After seven years in the parish of Goondiwindi after his ordination in 1961 he went to Rome for further studies in

spirituality.

Archbishop Bathersby succeeds Archbishop Frank Rush who reached the statutory retirement age of 75 in September and who was the former bishop of Rockhampton who ordained Father Batheraby in 1961.

Archbishop Bathersby is a member of the International Catholic Methodist dialogue.

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How the liturgica ea, works Every year Catholics notice some strange talk coming from their religious leaders and publications about one full month before New Year's Day — talk about beginning a new year.

The new year they refer to, of course, is the new liturgical year. It begins with the season of Advent.

The liturgical year's cycle of feasts and seasons developed over a long period.

The determination of the dates for various feasts and the seasons

that prepare for or follow them is a complicated system derived from natural seasons (spring, the winter solstice, etc.), Jewish feasts (for example Passover/Easter), historic events (like the date of a saint's death) and simple logic (for example, the feast of the Annunciation is exactly nine months before Christmas).

While studying the liturgical year's origins can be fascinating for scholars, it leaves unanswered a basic question. Is the liturgical year only of interest to professional

religious personnel or does it have meaning for every Christian?

One common misunderstanding of the liturgical year is that we are supposed to "walk with Christ" through the events of his life and death and resurrection.

People then try to pretend that Christ is being born again, growing up in Nazareth again, preaching in Galilee again, dying and rising again, appearing to the disciples for 40 days and ascending to heaven again.

Besides finding such

"lotendings" a bit teibus after a few years, people are baffled by he seemingly inappigiate readings that octir through the year.

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By Father Lawrence E. Mick growth for each of us.

Reflecting on the different events of Jesus' life and various aspects of his teaching gives us opportuntities to gradually deepen our assimilation of his meaning in our lives.

The liturgical year consists of two major seasons separated by "Ordinary Time".

Advent-Christmas runs from the first Sunday of Advent until the feast of the Baptism of the Lord (the Sunday after Epiphany).

Lent-Easter runs from Ash Wednesday until Pentecost.

Ordinary Time includes a few weeks between the end of the Christmas season and Ash Wednesday, and a much longer period from Pentecost to Advent.

During Advent we are invited to prepare for the coming of Christ, not so much for his first coming as for the Second Corning at the end of time.

Are we rady for his coming again? Even if the world does not end in

our lifetime, we will each meet Christ at the end of our lives. Are we living each day so that we will be prepared whenever that day comes?

Christmas invites us to rejoice in the incarnation, the fact that God took on our flesh and that he sanctified human life.

The babe in the manger can help us realise that God shared our existence. It should also make us more aware that God still dwells among us and can be met in the people and events that make up our everyday lives.

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Apathy, the attitude of not caring, does not open onto new beginnings. But that only suggests that one step toward a fresh start in life is to recognise — Try listing! — what you do care about.

Negative attitudes and hopelessness also work against new beginnings.

One way to counteract these forces is to ponder whatever is good about your life.

Many people find that taking time daily to focus on what is good within them and around them actually constitutes a valuable new beginning.

To make a new beginning, a person may first need to overcome the power of fatigue with some rest.

Reflection, meditation: These, too, are important for envisioning any new course, clarifying your thoughts.

But remember: Start somewhere — start to pray a little, to make some changes in your weekday patterns, to excercise, to listen better to someone who needs that from you.

A big new beginning may emerge from a series of small beginnings that made a larger difference than one thought possible.

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Selected Responses From Readers: "We exchange gifts on St Nicholas Day, Dec 6. Getting that part of the holiday tradition over early enables us to focus on other parts of the season besides the anticipation of getting gifts. The weeks before Christmas don't rush by. It is wonderful". — Sarah Yaworsky.

"One of the best Christmases I ever had was when we exchanged prayers, daily Masses, poems and letters of appreciation instead of gifts."

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"We try to do some service projects. For example, a few years ago our 4-year-old son decided to bake nutbread and sell it to friends to raise money and buy toys for children." — Felipe Salinas.

"We're having the children slowly set up a Nativity scene one character a day. We discuss their meaning with the children". — Debbie Baum.

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"In the weeks before Christmas I give homemade cakes — hundreds of them — to friends and to total strangers. What a joy to see the surprise and pleasure when I give a bag of sweets to a homeless man or woman on our city streets! That's Christmas!" — Ricky Rogers.

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Fertile ground for the Divine Natural clocks of sacred time The liturgical year is far more than its two most prominent seaAdvent— sons Christmas and LentEaster.

It is a tapestry of patterns within patterns, covering every inch of life.

In fact, the fundamental pattern in the liturgical year is Sunday.

From the time of the apostles, the first day of the week has been called "The Lord's Day," said Sister Linda Gaupin.

"We rank Sunday as the first holy day," she said. That means the Sunday liturgy is the key to living the liturgical year.

People will enter into "the rhythm of the liturgical year if they go to church on Sunday," Sister Gaupin said. But this connection will be effective only if the Eucharist

becomes the pattern

By Richard Cain for the rest of the week.

The Christian com- (especially toward the and munity gathers alienated together to proclaim oppressed) and praythe word of God, to ing about and discussbless, to break and eat ing how the Sunday bread, and be dis- readings apply to their missed. This latter part lives and what it of the Mass "is criti- means to be Eucharist cal," Sister Gaupin in the world.

In these ways, the said. basic pattern of the "A liturgical dismissal is a dismissal 'to,' liturgical year penenot a dismissal 'from'. trates daily living.

We are dismissed to The Jewish culture in gather people to which the liturgical Christ, proclaim the cycle has its roots was word and be eucharis- primarily agricultural. tic for the world".

But that does not To be eucharistic make it inaccessible or within the world irrelevant to a modern, means to be broken so urban culture, accordthat others may have ing to Gertrude life.

M ueller -Nelson, Specific ways people author of "To Dance can integrate the euch- with God: Family Ritarist into their lives ual and Community include developing Celebration" (Paulist the habit of blessings Press). at mealtime and other "It's not just an times, practicing the agrarian cycle, it's a habit of hospitality human cycle," she

said. "We all have times of lying fallow or being pregnant with something".

For example, Advent is the season of harvest she said. "We have to sit back and receive".

Seen in this way, the Advent -Christmas tradition of gift giving becomes uniquely appropriate. "The instinct is right — we do have needs," she said. People hunger for the incarnation where the spiritual and the material become one.

The problem in gift giving is that people play it out at too literal a level, she said. We make material things into a god instead of seeing matter as a container for God. Thus, living the liturgical year more fully means not so much being countercultural as being a kind of

anthropologist search ing the deeper connections between one\ culture and the Gospel, between customs such as gift giving and the deeper meaning of life.

"It is time for us to look back at our folk customs to see how relgious a people we really are," Ms Mueller-Nelson said.

The problem is that "we just don't go deep enough into it".

We know how to make order out of our things, but "we don't make order out of.our bodies, our homes and our relationships and so become fertile ground for the divine." she said.

For participants in the worshiping corn mutiny, becoming fertile ground for the divine might be called the basic challenge of the liturgical year.

By Father John Castelot

Time is a succession of measured moments.

Dawn and twilight are events by which to measure days; phases of the moon measure the months; the birth, death and rebirth of vegetation measure the seasons.

These are "natural clocks": the rising of the sun or moon; wet seasons, dry seasons; times of growth, decline.

"There is an appointed time for everything . . . a time to be born, and a time to die, a time to plant" (Ecclesiastes 3:1-2).

In the biblical story of the flood, when the waters receded and chaos gave way to order, God renewed his covenant with humanity and promised: "As long as the earth lasts, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease" (Genesis 8:22).

The Israelites were basically agricultural. They lived close to nature. Their lives were governed by its regularly fluctuating seasons.

For them time was a gift of God. As the years went on, they "sacralised" it — made it sacred — and celebrated it gratefully.

Using times and seasons to celebrate God's favours, they developed a "liturgical year," marked by special ceremonies. Their great feasts originally were agricultural festivals.

The Sabbath every week gave rest from the hard work in the fields and commemorated God's "rest" from the work of creation.

Passover was celebrated on the first full moon

after the spring equinox. That was when nomadic shepherds migrated to fresh pastures. The longer daytime sunlight and the nocturnal moonlight enabled them to travel around the clock.

Later Passover became the occasion for celebrating their great "passing over" from slavery in Egypt to liberation as an independent people, God's people.

The Feast of Weeks was celebrated seven weeks after passover, much as Pentecost is celebrated 50 days after Easter among christians. The Feast of Weeks was originally an agricultural feast, marking the gathering of the spring wheat crop.

Later this feast was connected with the exodous.

Specifically, it commemorated the giving of the Law on Sinai, the event that formed the Israelites as a special people, God's people.

The Feast of Tents (Booths, Tabernacles) marked the principal harvest and the climax of the agricultural year.

The people gave joyful thanks to God for his bounty. (The analogy with our Thanksgiving is obvious).

There was dancing, singing and general revelry.

This feast's later name (Huts, Booths) derived from the popular custom of erecting rought shelters in the fields as protection from the sun during breaks from the harvesting.

Later this custom was given religious meaning by being associated with the "huts" in which the Israelites lived during their desert sojourn after the exodus from Egypt.

Actually, however, they lived in tents those years.

So the connection is more liturgical than historical.

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Squeezed into an old damp Communist Youth camp near Lviv, 250 seminarians await your aid. Lacking in food, heating, even blankets . . . They have 30 books between them. The Rector says: "Look! This is our library for our 250 future priests. Please help us, please tell your benefactors".

THE THIRD WORLD . .

Young men are queuing up to enter the seminaries. The buildings are too small and too old, the dioceses too poor to rebuild them . . . Many more priests are needed to meet the spritual starvation of the people. The Synod of Bishops says: "We live in a time of hope . . . We should not forget to thank God that the number of students for the priesthood has risen 53 percent throughout the world in the last 13 years."

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Sr Mary gears up for job at the deep end In at the deep end of refugee work is how Sister of Mercy Mary Keeley describes her two-year appointment to help in a refugee camp outside Kuala Lumpur.

But she is not unprepared, having spent 12 months at the Columban missionary institute in Sydney to get to understand what she will meet.

She joins her Perth colleague Sister Joan Kelleher who has already spent two years there and two other Mercy sisters from the eastern states. They will travel by bus each day to the camp.

Sister Mary's task is described as working with unaccompanied minors — children whose parents have died, or who have been sent on ahead.

With the Bedong coastal refugee camp now closed some 5000 Vietnamese refugees are now at the Sungai Besi camp outside Kuala Lumpur and the volunteers working under the direction of the Red Crescent.

For Sister Mary Keeley it is a sharp turn from the teaching career she has followed since entering Victoria Square convent in 1956 with postings at Santa Maria, Harvey and Kalgoorlie before a 15-year stint at East Victoria Park where she was principal in three stages of the school through to the Ursula Frayne amalgamation.

It is a long change, she says, from 45 years ago buying her white ankle length convent nightdresses to fitting herself out with cotton slacks and tops for a tropical posting.

But she wanted to become more radically involved in justice issues and felt she would get more involved at the grass roots overseas. After that, she says, she can turn her interests to similar issues in WA. Yet it may have been the school preparation that sparked the flame.

From East Victoria Park a pen-friend connection meant becoming involved and friendly with a Vietnamese family who eventually settled in Perth.

At a missioning ceremony at the McAuley Centre last week one of that family Phat Nguyen anointed her symbolically for her missionary task. Also sending her off was the provincial superior Sister Maura Kelleher, and from the Keeley family her sister Joan Dailly.

The Vallis family roll call after Father Tony's ordination last Saturday: from left Noreen Vallis widow of Oscar Vallis, Joyce Dunn of Seattle, Lauraine Toledo of Girrawheen, Maureen Marsh of Rivervale, Lette Vallis of Nollamara, Warren Andrews, son of the late May Andrews and Nancy Allen of Ocean Reef.

38-year-old The gift dream fe of li becomes a reality "Still high and still very emotional," was Father Tony Vallis' description of himself after his long journey to the priesthood.

His ordination last Saturday was the culmination, he says, of a dream that started 38

years ago at the age of nine.

It was a journey that took him across three continents, two seminaries and a swathe of West Australian parishes.

And he nearly died on the way, he says of the five heart blockages that had to be bypassed in March 1990 when the goal of the priesthood was in sight.

Born in India, raised in Burma, it was via the USA he came to Australia. By then he had six years in a Salesian seminary behind him but he put in a further 22 years in WA transport companies.

His mother saw him into one seminary but died only months before his August 1985 entry into St Charles and later Adelaide seminaries.

From strong family associations with Highgate and Yokine parishes his links widened to Rockingham where he spent his pastoral

Christmas is a time of many things. Of love. Of sharing. And of giving.

Of all the gifts you can give, there are none more precious than the gift of life. Yet, of all gifts, the gift of life can be the least expensive and the most rewarding.

For unlike most gifts, it grows and keeps on growing.

It can take the form of vital sustenance - food and water, or of education, health, or a spark of hope for the future.

While our children might dream of that special toy - a bicycle, a doll or, in this age of technology, a computer the other children in our family are dreaming too. But their dreams are of the simple and basic needs that we so easily take for granted.

To choose the gift of life is the easiest gift decision you can make this Christmas.

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Father Vallis says that when he asks people what they want of a priesthood they say a spiritual and a pastoral person.

"That's been the encouragement I have received from all the people I've been associated with. They feel my ability to relate to them spiritually would be my strong point.

Father Vallis says his priesthood model is a Father Vincent whom he knew in Burma.

"Isaw the figure of Christ in him as he moved amongst the people. In choosing my motto All For The Goodness of Christ, that was my image of priesthood".

Many people he said had spoken of the liturgies they had experienced on Saturday and Sunday last and of the affirmation of priesthood spoken by Archbishop Hickey and Monsignor Keating.

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Year One and Two pupils of St Mary's School in Northampton recently held a Teddy Bear's Picnic and invited the local Pre-primary children to join in the fun.

Pictured are: Amanda Bellenzier, Stacey Morgan (and teddy) and Samantha Nairn.

-eC-7L to the Editor

Generous review of dangerous book claim from Brian PEACHEY, Woodlands Sir, I read the uncritical review by Colleen M cGuiness- Howard (The Record, November 28) of Into the Vineyard sub-titled Understanding Ministery in Todays Church by Sister Sonia Wagner, the Director of Pastoral Planning.

The book, which does not have an imprimatur, is dangerous and should not have been given such a generous review by the Record.

A lthough beautifully presented with some excellent colour photography, it is a blue-print for a "new church" and it is clearly and blatently in opposition to the Magisterium of the Church.

Any reasonable person reading the whole text would form a conclusion that Sister Sonia would

be pleased to see a priest -less church or the priests only as "sacramental boundary riders", unless of course the priests were women.

She misinterprets Acts 131-2 and 1 Corinthians 1 2:28 when she says: -It was communuity leadership it seems that entitled one to preside over the Eucharist" (her emphasis) (p19). This is the teaching of the discredited, Leonardo Boff, which he advocates in his concept of the contemporary basic Christian communities.

from Peter SHARRY, Subiaco

funded birth control, abortion and migrant restriction, the aphorism "the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world", levels of maternal productivity, an allusion to Keynesian economics, and concludes 'Thus we are becoming the sick man of the southern hemisphere prone equally to being bought up or nibbling annexation".

Sister Sonia asks some incredible questions such as Who presides at Eucharist?, What happens when no ordained minister is available?, Who should be ordained anyway?

And then continue with: "The celebration of the

Eucharist is the ever present reminder that, no matter what the rhetoric, women and men simply are not equal. Any discussion of the Eucharist that does not address the issue of the exclusion of women is dishonest and naive." (p27).

Ignoring the Encyclical of Pope John Paul ll Mulieris Dignitatem, on the Dignity and Vocation which Women, of endorsed the teaching on of "admission t he women to the ministerial priesthood- in Inter Insigniores, published on October 14, 1976 at the behest of Pope Paul VI Sister Sonia insults the Popes when she writes: 'The refusal to admit women to ordination is just one of the symptoms of the disorder that exists in our Church."

And "Some women in the Church believe that when the Church is freed from the limited world view of patriarchy, the ordination question will be taken care of itself.

There will be a new Church and a new sense of ministry for all of us" (ID43).

I do not want to belong to a "new Church". I want to belong to the one true Church of Christ.

If Sister Sonia and her followers want a "new Church", then with sadness I say that they should go and establish a "new Church", but they should not take wages while damaging the one true Church by publicly attacking the teaching of the Popes.

Such public dissent with the ordinary Magisterium is scandalous.

Somewhat confusing...

I found Paul Donnelly's letter (The Record, November 21, 1991) somewhat confusing, and I disagree with his conclusion.

He linked together Indonesian activity in East Timor, Australian governmental policy of

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I presume he meant that as Australia is in such a bad way, Indonesia is likely to buy us out or take us over.

I, for one, don't think this is even remotely likely.

Indonesia's claims in East Timor have at least some arguable basis at International Law, whereas no such claim could be made with respect to

Australia, and not even such an audacious international actor as Indonesia is likely to go out on a limb within the international community Furthermore, Indonesia has economic and commercial interests (eg offshore oil) which it would not want to jeopardise by such wild actions.

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1. SEXUALITY AND RELATIONSHIPS

A chance to develop an understanding of your own sexuality and ability to grow in relationships.

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Serving in your parish community in a practical way. Serving your church in areas of parish and community service.

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What does it mean for me to be engaged? Am I ready for it? Growing in a loving relationship after becoming engaged.

Some basic skills for leadership in youth groups, work and life.

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'Dream' time onger The registration deadline for January's "Dare the Dream" Youth Convention has been extended until January 8, giving delgates an extra week in which to nominate for the big event.

Organisers of the convention, to be held at Aquinas College in Manning on January 17-21, this week issued a plea for all youth groups to forward names to the Youth Office in North Perth as soon as possible, so that adequate supplies can be ordered before Christmas.

In addition, final payment for the convention can now be made as delegates register on Friday evening at Aquinas, but the $30 deposit should accompany all registration forms.

Letters for all registered delegates were mailed out this week, detailing arrival and departures times, travel arrangements, a list of what to bring, and other vital information.

The convention, expected to attract over 400 youth and young adults from around the state, is shaping up as a worthy successor to last January's "Crossroads to Tomorrow" conference, which saw 300 delegates joined by nearly 1000 others for the two closing events.

Notices went to all parishes this week, inviting parishioners to a Youth Mass on Sunday January 19 at St Mary's Cathedral, and to the closing Youth Rally at the Claremont Superdrome on Tuesday January 21.

Both events being at 7.30pm sharp.

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8. REACHING YOUR POTENTIAL Living responsibly in a fragile world.

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Developing more fully into the person that God intended you to be. Recognizing your gifts and talents and using them to the best of your ability.

KNOWING WHY

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DARE THE DREAM

Coping with "Peer group pressure, rising above it. Developing your self-esteem. Developing your individuality, and having a sense of belonging.

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What Catholics believe, what they do, and why.

BEING A CHRISTIAN

Being a christian man or woman. Developing a Catholic lifestyle, being proud to he a christian in today's society.

LIVING A MORAL LIFE Discovering where the church stands on fundamental life issues.

DOUBTING YOUR BELIEFS Learning to overcome your doubts, accepting them, and maintaining a healthy and active inquisitiveness.

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How to make your celebrations better for young and old alike.

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by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

Catholic marriage

WORLD-WIDE MARRIAGE ENICOMIE

ME's celebration ball testimony to good and inspiring married love Catholic Marriage Thus was born ME. Encounter has been up It grew and was taken to and running for the past 15 Belgium and England in years in Western Australia 1971 and then spread which seemed a good rapidly ground the world. excuse to celebrate with a Today it is present in 76 ball! countries in their own About 24() people got language. together at a Scarborough Here in Australia two reception centre in what couples and a priest from turned out to be, broadly America brought it to speaking, a celebration of Sydney and then it came to marriage.

Perth with the first weeThe unity and good vibes kend being held here on t hese happily married November 12, 1976. couples showed and gave Since then ME hasn't out, was an inspiration in looked back, with around these times of so many 5500 couples, priests and unhappy, uncommitted, religious having expeand broken marriages. rienced the weekend in It made you feel that WA. there are married couples An ME weekend is in good marriages and in designed to give married love, still around to inspire couples the opportunity to the jaded and cynical. examine and revitalise It was an excellent their married love. evening with ticket prices The uniqueness of margeared merely to the cost ried love is such that there of the evening with the is perceived to be a power only fundraiser being a in the love between husraffle to raise money for a band and wife which stereo system for ME generates more love in weekend. themselves and those Showing their support of around them.

ME were also couples This is believed to be the from Catholic Engaged power of Jesus' love Encounter and Anglican working through couple Marriage Encounter. relationships and is the ME began in Spain in love which children need 1952 with Father Gabriel to experience through their CaIvo who developed and parents. presented a weekend And the love which the retreat to married couples Church needs to selfwhich gave them questions enrich and build upon so to look at in terms of their that people can love one own relationship. another as Christ loves us.

Its success spread to This, ME exponents Latin America and to believe, is a far cry from the Spanish speaking couples independent, self centred in the United States. and self protective lifesIn 1967 it was refined by tyles which leave such Father Chuck Gallagher emptiness and lack of trust Si and seven couples in the lives of so many. who'd experienced the Thus, they state, the weekend. marriage enrichment

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which a couple receives on an ME weekend, is more important that ever today.

One longtimer in ME, is Father Pat Rooney of Leschenault. Encouraged

by Father Doug Conlan, who'd experienced the program in Sydney, and Father Bernie Dwyer, he made one of the early WA weekends and since then is enthusiastic about their efficacy and marriage enrichment they give.

The process of becoming priest for the ME weekend team was not easy, according to Father Rooney. But with loving help, support and getting in touch with his own feelings, it proved rewarding and he enthusiastically says that even after 13 years and helping on a couple of weekends yearly, "I get an emotional and spiritual boost from being involved.

"Each time I come away with a renewed sense of the value of marriage and renewed hope for the growth of God's kingdom."

God is strongly present in the love of the couples on the weekend, he says, "and awareness of this reaches a climax for me during the final Mass".

Spanning the years, Father Rooney remembers the early days when there were around 30 couples on each weekend with much enthusiasm and many nonCatholics wanting to attend as well.

He recalls the couples who attended, with a tinge of sadness for two or three who separated since "ME isn't a cure all!" he admits, but most of those he's met up with since those early

years, are still enthusiastic about ME. And for those who've let their communication slide a bit and the rush of lite makes them a little too busy for each other, there's a fresh commitment to go back for another. To give their marriage a bit of a spring clean and a recharge.

On that score, Father Rooney says the ME people have put a lot of effort into a follow up to the weekend, providing a bridging program to help couples consolidate what they've gained.

An opportunity to learn from the experience of team couples and others — benefitting from the mutual support and enthusiasm.

This effort has paid off, said Father Rooney, "as have our efforts to persuade ordinary couples from parishes to experience a weekend.

Couples who wouldn't have thought about leaving their children and going away by themselves for two nights and two days.

"But it's heart warming to see how they benefit from it and go back to their homes with renewed romance and joy in their marriage. "With enthusiasm to continue to work at growing in love and deepening their relationship."

Enquiries for ME weekends may be made to Chuck and Gloria l,ush on 370 4414.

By COLLEEN McGUINESS-HOWARD

Encounter ball

by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

1. ME Unit Coordinators in WA Father Pat Rooney with Mary and Clive Samuels of Willetton.

2. Loretta and Michael Sherrell of South Perth 'tripping the light fantastic!'

3. Spiral Coordinators of Anglican Encounter, Eric and Beryl Rumbold.

4. Graeme and Elizabeth Bain of Inglewood showing their style on the popular dance floor.

5. Doreen and Neil Fisher of Sorrento having a quiet cuddle!

6. Paul and Carolyn Stinson of Glendalough with Garry and Debbie Rodd of DianeIla, taking time off to fraternise.

7. Laurie and Pat Hassett of Greenwood chatting to Jackie and Andy Schelfhout of Greenwood (seated).

Noddy's back

Noddy goes to Toyland. Recent changes to the Noddy is back in a brand Noddy books to reflect new production from today's non-sexist, multiMelbourne's Alexander cultural society have been Theatre and Garry Gin- the subject of much ivan Attractions, Austra- emotional debate. Howlia's premier producers of ever, fears that Noddy's very appeal has been children's theatre. threatened have been Noddy Goes to Toyland dispelled by soaring sales to be played at the Regal of the new print run.

Theatre Subiaco, comScript development, mencing Monday, Januand original songs designs ary 6 to be played at the Goes To Noddy for Regal Theatre Subiaco, is Toyland, have all been a colourful stage adaptaclosely supervised by Enid tion of Enid Blyton's "new Blyton's family company edition" Noddy books, in London, including released in Australia late direct involvement from last year. Opening for the her daughter, Imogen January school holidays, Smallwood. This has this lively musical for all that the producensured ages tells the story of how tion maintains the essence Noddy first meets his of Blyton. Combined with friend Big Ears, how he the successful formula builds his very own House evident in other recent For One and the muddles Alexander Theatre hits he gets into at Mr Spark's as The Magic Farasuch Toy Garage. All Blyton's Tree and Possum way most loved characters are — The Musical, Magic there, Mr Plod the policewill provide outNoddy man, Mr Tubby the bear, holiday enterstanding Little Dolly and even the for the whole tainment goblin, mischievous family.

Gobbo!

Noddy Goes To Toyland One hundred million opens at the Regal TheaNoddy books have been tre on Monday January sold worldwide since his 6th for a strictly limited birth in 1949. It was the season with daily perfororiginal drawings of mances Mondays to Dutch artist, Harmsen Van Saturdays. Tickets go on Der Beek that inspired sale Saturday December 7 Blyton to first create at the Regal and all BOCS Noddy. outlets.

Handel's Messiah magnificent!

It was a privilege and great pleasure to attend the Western Australian Symphony Orchestra's performance of Handel's Messiah on Friday 6.

What a fitting prelude to Christmas!

Combined with the WASO chorus with Graham Abbot conducting, Joanna Cole as soprano, Andrew Dalton as counter tenor, Thomas Edmonds as tenor and bass John Wegner with orgaAnnette nist Goerke, it made for a marvellous evening of superb music

splendid and singing.

This majestic oratorio was made even more so to watch the patrons of the filled concert hall, stand for the rendition of the magnificent HaIleluja chorus.

A bsolutely superb!

Western Australia has much to be proud of with its talented many artists whose performances are even further embellished on such occasions, by other interstate Australian artists.

by COLLEEN McGUINESSHOWARD

THE ART OF

MAKING CHRISTMAS

Margaret Uhels The Art of Making . prepare the tree and yuletide Christmas by Margaret fare; and shows us things to l'bels (Collins New Zea- make. There's something land $19.95). here for the whole family For many people the that will make Christmas increasing pressures and really worth making and commercialisation of the celebrating.

Christmas season have had a Margaret Ubels is the eldest negative impact on the way of five children born to a we approach and celebrate farming family in the Waithe occasion. The real kato. Hard times meant meaning seems to have make-do or do-it-yourself. become obscured and the Now as a mother of four, traditional Christmas all but Margaret takes family celelost. brations seriously which The Art of Making Christ- gave her the inspiration to mas attempts to remedy the write a book that will situation before it is too late. rekindle the joy and essence It brings hack the real of Christmas for her readers.

Christmas — they joy, the celebration, the fun and the Margaret is an honours spirit of this season. It graduate of Waikato Univerreminds us of its customs sity and currently teaches and tradition; shows us how languages in an Auckland to re-create the atmosphere secondary school. Her hobof our Christmases past; how bies include music, theatre to decorate the home, and craftwork

l'nmentionable, More amazing stories by Paul Jennings (Puffin $7.95).

I stopped and stared down at the waves.

Then I closed my eyes and jumped, still clutching tht ice cold girl to my chest.

Down I plunged. For a frozen moment I hung above the ocean. And then with a gurgle and a groan. I took the ice lady to her doom.

Fans and new readers will be well and truly hooked when they start reading this new collection of nine short stories from Australia's funniest, wackiest children's author — Paul Jennings.

Paul took up writing children's books as a new career in 1985. After six months of research and planning he created a set of stories which would engross the reader from the first paragraph to the final quirl,, twist. It was this type of stor that Paul hoped would entice all young readers.

Success! Six years and eight hooks later all of Paul's publications have reached best-seller status

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INTER -FAITH MEDITATION Dom Francis Byrne will speak on Silence After Meditation at St Joachims Parish Hall, corner Duncan St and Shepperton Road, Victoria Park, 8.30-11.30am Sunday, December 15. No fee. Bring your own meditation cushion. Enquiries Pat Toohey 362 6993, Mark Edwards 453 6120.

Father Sean 0'Laoire Missionary, Kenya

Follow Christ's e xample this Christmas reach out in love to an innocent, helpless child.

FAMILY NEEDED A long term caring family is needed

Archdiocesan Calendar

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Preparing for Christmas with religious, Archbishop Hickey.

Christian Brothers Jubilee, Bishop Healy.

for Kylie a 11 year old Aboriginal child 17 multiply disabled and in a wheelchair and requiring two adults to help her; 18 Rotary Club breakfast, Archbishop Hickey. she is used to living in a family and Fremantle zone of priests, Archbitransport to and from her school is shop Hickey. available. Support available from Chapter Sisters of Mercy, ArchbiDepartment of Community Services shop Hickey. and lrrabeena. For further details 21 Camillus House Mass, Archbishop phone Kerry Ewings 279 9411 or Hickey.

Amanda Perlinski 279 5300.

"For only $25 a month you can make sure a desperately needy child receives nutritious meals, clothing, medical attention and a chance to go to school.

"Christian Children's Fund sponsorship goes beyond answering physical needs alone - there's a spiritual dimension as well. When a child sees that someone on the other side of the world cares, he or she feels special, blessed with a chance to rise above poverty."

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Belmont farewell to Marist Fathers, Archbishop Hickey.

Aboriginal and Islander Community Mass, Archbishop Hickey.

Carols by Candlelight, Archbishop Hickey.

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Little Sisters Mass, Bishop Healy.

Ocean Reef Mass, Bishop Healy.

Midnight Mass St Mary's Cathedral, Archbishop Hickey.

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DePaul Centre visit, Archbishop Hickey.

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Sisters of Mercy Jubilee, Archbishop Hickey.

MASS TIMES

Alterations to Mass times published last on December 20, 1990 must be lodged in writing no later than AM Monday, December 16 with The Editor, PO Box 50 Northbridge 6865 or to 587 Newcastle Street (cnr Douglas) Perth.

CCF Australia guarantees at least 80cents in every dollar will directly benefit your sponsored child - you won't find a better sponsorship pledge. ('CF is one of the world's largest child care organisations, supporting more than 600,000 children throughout the Developing World, regardless of race, sex, or religious beliefs.

BAPTISM ADVERTS

Phone Christian Children's Fund on 008023600 or write to 159 Kent Street Sydney NSW 2000 to learn how you can help. Sponsorship is tax deductable.

destitute children this Christmas Priests and nuns caring for families in the poorest areas of India have appealed for funds to support over 30,000 school children whose parents are unable to pay S12.50 a year for education. Without education these children face a grim future with little hope of worthwhile employment.

There is no better Christmas gift than helping these children escape the vicious circle of perpetual poverty. The reward for you is the realisation that you are helping the most deserving of God's people to a future filled with faith and hope. In our village schools: S25 educates 2 children for a year.

S50 educates 4 children for a year.

S100 educates 8 children for a year.

They will be grateful to you for the rest of their l ives. Donations are tax deductible. Please make your cheque payable to the "Australian Jesuit Mission Overseas Aid Fund" and post it with the coupon. All donations are gratefully acknowledged.

Australian Jesuit Mission in India cares for the poorest of the poor

GOD BLESS YOU

Announce a BAPTISM FREE in The Record Classifieds. Post or deliver (no phone advts) the candidate's name, parents' name, date of ceremony and the church.

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December 14 Mass at Karrinyup and breakfast, Archbishop Hickey.

Candidacy of priesthood Michael Rowe, Archbishop Hickey.

15 St Lucy Mass, Archbishop Hickey.

and be assured of a special place in the Masses and prayers of our missionaries and the children you helped this Christmas.

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Catholic Day & Boarding School for Girls require a

Boarding House Parent

The College has a vacancy for a full-time residential Boarding House Parent to c ommence in January, 1992. The position involves the after school care, study, recreational and spiritual development of secondary school female boarding students.

Persons who are practising Catholics supportive of the Catholic ethos, and committed to the well-being of teenage girls living away from home are asked to submit their applications, including the names and addresses of three referees to:-

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