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New places and new faces... ARCHBISHOP HICKEY ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR CHURCH GOVERNMENT In the first of moves affecting his governance of the diocese Archbishop Hickey has filled a new canoonical position and has appointed priests to other positions. Monsignor Michael Keating will become Moderator of the Curia according to the terms of canon 473, the first time the position has been filled in Perth. He will carry the position of vicar general and will remain parish priest of Highgate. In other moves Father Barry Whitely of Spearwood has been named episcopal vicar for clergy and fathers Justin Bianchini of St Charles' and Father Tim Corcoran of Wtiitfords as his assistant vicars. FT Tim Corcoran
Father Greg Carroll has been re-appointed as
judicial vicar with Father Brian O'Loughlin and Father Kevin Henry CSSR as assistant vicars. Archbishop Hickey said that in the new year he would be appointing vicars and episcopal deputies to the areas of education, social welfare and social justice, health and migration. The positions have been worked out in consultating with the Pastoral Planning Office. The vicars and deputies will meet from time to time as an advisory council to the archbishop. Those positions that require a cleric under canon law will be called episcopal vicars. Other positions will be filled by episcopal deputies whether they are clerical lay or religious, male or female. The archbishop said
that the complexity of modern dioceses had increased the load to the point where significant delegation was a necessity. "I expect the new positions will lighten my load considerably so that I might have more time for pastoral visitation, study and public comment. "I have felt hampered and even exhausted by the heavy administrative load that is part of the office of bishop," he said. Monsignor Keating commences his position on January 1 for a period of five years. His duties will be part-time, based at the Cathedral office. Archbishop Hickey said Monsignor Keating had shown great competence in administrative matters as vicar general under the late Archbishop Foley.
"He will be involved in the co-ordination of administrative matters and, inthe words of Canon 473, will 'ensure that the others who belong to the Curia properly fulfil the offices entrusted to them'. "In particular he will be responsible for the oversight of the Finance Committee and the Diocesan Chancery, the Diocesan Resources Committee, the Cathedral Office, the Diocesan Development Fund and the Pastoral Planning Office. He will also accept other administrative responsibilities that arise from time to time." "He will also convene the Advisory Council of Vicars and Deputies." The new vicars for clergy would show great concern for the welfare of priests, be a listening ear, offer encouragement
and represent priests' needs to him, Archbishop Hickey said. The priests had been chosen following a consultation of priests shortly after he took office. "These vicars carry on the work shouldered for many years sirdy by Bishop Healy, who was Vicar for Priests under Archbishop Foley," Archbishop Hickey said. "They will be closely involved in all matters pertaining to priests, inservice training, retirement issues such as accommodation, remuneration, retreats, parish appointments and so on." "We all know how vital it is for the life of the Church that priests' morale is high and that they feel encouraged and valued in the difficult apostolate they are called to."
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Third rite guide Archbishop Hickey has sent priests a set of guidelines for the proper use of the third rite of reconciliation. Priests applying for the faculty will have to give reasons why the people cannot avail themselves of individual confession and the third rite cannot be advertised in advance, according to the spirit of canon 961.
The priests will contact the archbishop or the vicars general for permission to use the rite. The bishop will make the judgement
as to whether the necessary conditions are fulfilled or not. The guidelines state that if individual confession is already available in a parish, a large crowd for a feast is not in itself sufficient justification. Penitents receiving general absolution at the third rite are to be carefully instructed as to its meaning and their obligation to confess serious sins in individual confession at a later time. In the revised liturgical practice for the sacrament of penance three distinct rites are
provided. The first rite of reconciliation is the private and full confession of sins to a priest with personal and penance absolution. The second rite provides for communal preparation followed by individual confession, penance and absolution. It generally requires a number of confessors. The third rite involves general preparation, general penance and absolution. Its use is restricted because the tradition of the
Church has demanded individual confession of serious sins and individual absolution. Archbishop Hickey said the Church has always provided for general absolution when suffificent confessors are not available, for instance, as for troops going into battle. In the revised rites guidelines are laid down so that the third rite does not become the norm. "The existence of conditions for the use of the third rite is a matter of episcopal said judgement,"
Archbishop Hickey. "Very broad guidelines are given which must be interpreted according to each situation. One could take a very strict line which would virtually rule out the use of the third rite completely, or one could be very liberal and undermine individual confession. "As the legislators obviously intended it be used sometimes, I am inclined to grant it mainly at Christmas and Easter in those areas where priests are few and the demand is strong."
War, peace story in charcoal A picture, it is said, tells a thousand words. Displayed in St Brigid's Church in West Perth are three "pictures" (they are really charcoal drawings) which do just that. They are the thoughts of a young parish group working in collaboration with Father Dino Torresan, CS, co-ordinator of Multicultural Affairs and Pastoral Care. The artist is 17-year-old Sophie Bertuol, who came here with her family as migrants from Chile about three years ago. Her drawings are about war and peace. And church-goers to St Brigid's would have obviously got the Christmas message: • That there is killing, destruction and hatred going on in this world today.
By Roy Lazaroo • That people are being driven away from their homes because of turmoil. • That Christmas must take away from their hearts — and attitudes — anything that may be a source of suffering. • That we must work for a better world. Sophie, an art student from John XXIII school, completes her Year 12 next year and eventually hopes to be an art teacher. She can't remember being witness to cruel scenes in her country before coming here. But the news that she gets these days makes her said. "What I have heard about what's happening in Chile really hurts. It is
Don't support arms display, says Catholic body The Australian government should not support arms trade exhibitions says the Catholic Social Justice Council. -Trade in arms should not be based merely on market analysis. Arms trade should be permitted only when in the national interest and by government-controlled negotiation," the Council said. Expansion of Australianmade arms trade at this time within our region would be seen to be a contradiction of the American-Soviet Union process of massive arms reduction. Bishop William Brennan, council chairman, said it should be the government that decides what is in the national interest and it is up to interest groups to make sure that happens. The council is concerned about unnecessary arms sales in south-east Asia and the Pacific as a result of the Australian International Defence and Equipment Exhibition (AIDEX) held in Canberra recently and said, "Unfettered arms trade is a war risk factor". But the council welcomes the recently announced more stringent guidelines for Australia's defence exports. "We should take special note of the example set in Europe where there have been huge arms reductions." The Australian government to commit itself to the immediate introduction of similar measures in the Asian and Pacific regions, said the council. The end of the Cold War, it said, is a great opportunity which "should be seized now in the name of all humanity". 2 The Record,, December 2.ek. 1991
my people who are suffering all the time," she said. So she decided to express her raw feelings in three drawings which tell the story of peace and war. One piece took her only 30 minutes to complete. That was a drawing about war and its consequences. Another — on peace — took her two hours and a third on torture — the result of war, hatred and racism — took her two days. There was a deft touch in all three of them and one need not necessarily be an art lover to understand them. Said Sophie: "I have always loved art — especially aborigine art of South America. I also love European art . . . things like expressionism."
Sophie's work on peace and serenity on one of the walls in Sc Brigid's Church.
Parish makes award to college Adam Franklin showing off his inaugural pastoral leadership award to Bindoon parish priest Father Joe Walsh.
Keaney College students are up to the mark on the environmental
issues affecting WA such as
salinity.
James Lockyer and Kenneth Lee both Year 8 students from Port Hedland are seen testing water and soil salinity as part of their
course in agriculture.
Gingin-Chittering parish has made its inaugural award to Keaney College for pastoral leadership amongst the students. Adam Franklin formerly of Dandaragan received the award initiated by the local parish pastoral council, at a dinner where Father Joe Walsh explained the award's origin and the council president Mrs Connie Zampogna made the presentation. At the dinner attended by nearly 100, the Year 10 students were guests of honour and the waiters came from Year 8. Anthony Alvaro of Merredin gave the valedictory address and guest speaker was Mr Jim Kenneison of Muresk College and a member of the Keaney College interim board. Certificates were presented by the headmaster Brother P.L. Jones and his deputy Br F. Donohoe. At Mass celebrated next day by Father Brian O'Loughlin, representing Archbishop Hickey, Mark Grossman representing the senior class for 1992 received the college banner from Adam Franklin, the 1991 senior class representative. In a later ceremony, Fr O'Loughlin presented awards for religious education and Mr Bill McNee, MLA presented the citizenship award to Brett Edwards and spoke to the students about the role of faith in their lives. Brother Jones spoke of the importance to the rural community of the type of education offered at Keaney College and said he was happy with the enrolments for 1992. He praised the benefits the college received from the efforts of the P & F Association.
New sister superior
Sister Kaye Bolwell (right) and the council which will assist her for the next five years (from left) Sisters Carmel Wringe (vicar), Clare Rafferty, Margaret Tallon and Janina Pascoe.
Sister Kaye Bolwell, vicar of the West Perth Mercy congregation for the past five years will be the congregational superior for the next five years. She succeeds Sister Beverley Stott who held the position for two terms. Sister Kaye will be assisted by Sisters Carmel Wringe (vicar), Margaret Tallon, Janina Pascoe and Clare Rafferty. The appointments were made during a riveday chapter at St Brigid's Lesmurdie which was facilitated by Sr Nerida Tin'der, executive officer of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy Australia. The chapter closed with Mass celebrated by
Archbishop Hickey and priests from parishes with which the congregation is associated. Relatives and friends also joined the closing gathering. Among issues studied at the chapter were the sisters' role in Australian culture, the meaning of vowed religious life in the modern world, and involvement in Aboriginal and multi-cultural aspects of today's society. Sister Kaye has been on the congregational council for the past 11 years. Formerly a secondary teacher and principal of St Brigid's College, Lesmurdie, she has more
Religious programs face big threat The directors of Australia's Catholic media agencies have attacked the draft of the new Broadcasting Services Bill for deleting existing statutory requirements for religious programs on commercial and public radio. The directors including Mr Kevin Smith of the Perth Catholic Communication Office stressed that religion continues to be a vital and integral part of Australian culture. To delete it from commercial and public radio would be a traversty and a denial of one of the stated objects of the new Broadcasting Services Bill which is to promote the role of broadcasting services in developing and reflecting a sense of
national identity, character and culture, they say. "Statutory time" is the one per cent of time that stations presently are required to provide for religious broadcasting under section 103 of the existing act. In WA, the Catholic Church pools its due proportion of time with the Anglican, Uniting Church, Churches of Christ and Salvation Army bodies through the Christian Television Association. In this way the churches approach the industry with a united voice and better programming schedules can be requested of the stations. Disturbed by the claims that radio is a "mature"
medium, no longer in need of regulation, the directors said that until there is clear evidence that radio has become a narrowcast medium it is premature to delete the provision for religious programs. They stated that the government, or at least the Department of Transport & Communication, appears to be under the impression that the churches would want to "buy-in" to commercial or public radio. The church has consistently said that it wants to remain in mainstream broadcasting rather than enter the public or community narrowcast areas. Presently the churches provide thousands of programmes each year on commercial and public radio stations.
The church has radio counselling, music and values programs, a range of spot material, magazine style programs etc. In rural Australia, stations, in conjunction with local Minister's Fraternals, have "Thoughts For the Day", "Epilogues" and local church news. In a de-regulated environment, said the Directors, it is the survial of those who can afford to pay. "We abhor this so called economic rationalism and plead a special case for religion. "Religion needs legislative provision in broadcasting because it would not survive alongside other commercial considerations. There is no commercial gain for a station to broadcast religion."
recently completed studies in a Bachelor of Divinity course at Murdoch. She has also been directly involved in the Community Refugee Support Scheme. Sr Carmel Wringe is presently the principal of Padbury Catholic School. Sr Margaret Tallon after spending five years in the mining town of Newman is completing a masters degree in psychology (counselling). Sr Janina Pascoe is currently a staff member of Aranmore College. Sr Clare Rafferty is the principal of St Brigid's Primary School, Lesmurdie.
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Christmas a time to forgive Even Dickens' Ebenezer Scrooge eventually got the message and joined in the Christmas spirit. The Christmas Carol anti-hero remains a popular symbol of the power of Christmas to persuade us to abandon our pettiness and pride, if only for a few days. Most of us don't live up to the Christian ideal, so it's not surprising that we, like the reluctant Scrooge, welcome the opportunity to buy Dad the same pair of socks as last year and Mum the bottle of perfume that she will never use, but gratefully accepts anyway. One of the great joys of family life is its regenerative quality. The knowledge that squabbles and differences which would sunder other relationships will heal in the fullness of time. When Peter inquired of Jesus, "Lord, how many times can my brother sin against me and I have to forgive him? Seven times?", Jesus answered "No, not seven times but seventy times seven." We have a closer understanding of what the Lord is saying at Christmas than at any other time. It's when we gather as family that the grievances which often divide us appear so ridiculous. And so at Christmas, when we recognise ourselves as part of a greater Family, we should wipe the slate with all those we believe have wronged us and ask forgiveness of those we have hurt. That workmate we treat so rudely ("Doesn't he know I'm busy"), the neighbour who is always borrowing the lawnmower ("Why can't he buy his own") and the inlaws with their interminable visits ("I didn't marry them"). Nor should we forget those we rarely, if ever, make personal contact with. The homeless, the imprisoned, the poor and marginalised who are so often excluded from normal suburban life. But, as Cardinal Clancy points out in his Christmas message, "Christmas bids us have hope". We should fill our hearts with joy and cast aside the despair it is all to easy to become locked into. Every time we harbour a grudge or fail to forgive we lock within ourselves a small slice of unhappiness. Many of us make the mistake of saving the Confessional for "the really big sins", believing Father wouldn't want to hear of my trivial indiscretions. It is appropriate then, in this season of Goodwill to all men and women, that we rid ourselves of the past and all its failings, so that we can smile warmly at
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other Teresa says thanks Philadelphia: Mother Teresa met Cardinal Bevilacqua to thank him for donating a former convent for its future use as a home for women infected with the virus which causes AIDS. On the day before she had been present at the final profession of 27 sisters at the national shrine of the Immaculate in Conception Washington. Under an agreement with the order the Philadelphia archdiocese will continue to own the building and has begun a $200,000 renovation. The order will pay most future costs connected with Gift of Mary House, save for major structural repairs. The home, will be able to care for 15 women with either AIDS or HIV, as well as their children. Four Missionaries of Charity, along with several volunteers, will staff
the home. Referrals to Gift of Mary House will come from local hospitals and social service agencies. The county in which Gift of Mary House will be located has 248 AIDS cases and an estimated 3000 others with the virus. After the Washington profession ceremony when asked why her order continues to grow during a time of declining vocations, she broke into a smile and responded softly, "I don't know". She said her order's growth was "God's choice because there are so many poor people in the world. Many poor people are praying for our support." Contributing to this story were Carol MacLeod in Washington and Lou Baldwin in Philadelphia.
$2 million Salute to faith donation NEW HAVEN, Conn. (CNS): The Knights of Columbus presented Pope John Paul II with a two million gift for his personal charities recently. The contribution came from earnings on the Knights' $20 million "Vicarius Christi" fund, established in 1981. More than $14 million has been turned over to the pope since the fund was established. During their visit to Rome, contributions also were turned over to the rectors of the North American College, the Canadian College and the Mexican College.
WIESBADEN, Ger many (CNS): Former hostage Terry Anderson says his faith kept him from "giving in to my despair" during his six-and-a-half years in captivity in Lebanon.
The 44-year-old Anderson said that as a Catholic, he felt compelled to forgive his captors, "no matter how hard that may be". Although his Shiite Muslim kidnappers "did great wrong to me and my family", he said, "I don't hate anybody.
"I am a Christian and a Catholic and I really believe that it is required of me that I forgive, no matter how hard that may be," he added. He said he was given a Bible during his captivity, and "my faith kept me from giving in to my despair. The Bible gave me a lot of hope". Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press and the longest-held Western praised hostage, former hostages Ser-
vite Father Lawrence Martin Jenco and the Rev Benjamin Weir as men of great faith and said he was grateful they had shared their faith with him. Father Jenco, who was released in July 1986, now works as campus minister at the University of Southern California at Los Angeles. Anderson described his captors as very religious and said he did not understand how they could feel so strongly about their Islamic faith and still do what they did.
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Bishop dies in police custody HONG KONG (CNS): Auxiliary Bishop Paul Shi Chungjie of Baoding, clandestinely ordained in 1987, died in police custody in November, said mainland Chinese Catholic sources. The 71-year-old bishop in Hebei province was believed to have died of a heart attack as a result of maltreatment. An unconfirmed report alleged that the bishop was beaten to death in police custody. But according to the Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post the bishop died in a senior citizens' home where he was supervised by the police. Bishop Shi was arrested a year ago and had been detained along with 23 priests, nuns and laypersons. The bishop, who was almost blind, had long been suffering from a series of illnesses, including heart disease. He reportedly needed special medication which is expensive in China. The lack of medication might have contributed to his death. Bishop Shi ordained a priest in 1947, was in 1987
"Now we have only polemics, but we have no dialogue," said Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, apostolic administrator of European Russia. He said it was unlikely that Pope John
Paul II could visit Moscow until Catholic Orthodox relations were improved. "I don't know if our meeting will be succesful, but I believe that we must speak. because I think that without dialogue it is impossible to go far in our relations," the archbishop said. Archbishop Kondrusiewicz added that he also supported the idea of a
Vatican man in Timor VATICAN CITY: Pope John Paul ll has sent a high-ranking Vatican diplomat to East Timor to help the local church in the "difficult circumstances" following a bloody incident in which the Indonesian army killed numerous mourners in a cemetery. The killings sparked international criticism and rekindled controversy over Indonesia's 1975 invasion and annexation of East Timor. The annexation occurred at a time when East Timor was in the process of being decolonised by Portugal and there was widespread opposition to union with neighbouring Indonesia. The pope named Archbishop Giovanni De Andrea, an official of the Secretariat of State, to assist Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes, apostolic administrator of Dili, capital of East Timor. Archbishop De Andrea's role will be to "listen and encourage", the Vatican said. The Vatican asked for an investigation of the incident. Bishop Ximenes, an opponent of Indonesian rule, said that at least 180 people died when the military opened fire on the 2,000 mourners.
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ordained an auxiliary bishop by clandestine Bishop Stephen Li Xinsheng, after Vatican-appointed Bishop Peter Xueyan of Baoding was imprisoned and the health of his auxiliary was deteriorating. Bishop Xueyan has been jailed several times in the past decades and has been under house arrest since 1987. In September 1990, he resigned from office and chose his successor. Bishop Shi's health deteriorated a few years after his episcopal ordination. Authorities in Baoding ordered the funeral held within two days of his death to avoid large crowds at the service. Nevertheless, about 1,000 people attended, the South China Morning Post reported. Soon after Bishop Shi's death, the governmentapproved Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association named Father Matthew Pan Deshi bishop of Baoding. China-appointed Bishop Joseph Zong Huaide, head of the pro-government bishops' conference which rejects papal authority over Chinese church affairs, officiated at the episcopal ordination in Tangshan.
Bid to get dialogue back on track V ATICAN CITY (CNS): Moscow's top Catholic official is meeting with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexei It to get ecumenical dialogue back on track.
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ble when there are two sides," he said. He responded indirectly to Orthodox accusations that the pastoral reorganisation of the Catholic Church is aimed at "proselytising" Orthodox faithful. The church, he said, is not interested in setting up a "parallel mission" or evangelising among Orthodox, but only in fulfilling its duty to "go and teach" the Gospel.
Bishops snipe at corruption BRASILIA, Brazil Brazil's (CNS): bishops have criticised what they described as growing government corruption and denounced the "scandalously high salaries" of officials and businessmen. The Brazilian bishops' conference lamented growing poverty, hunger, unemployment and misery among the country's 150 million people. "This situation is aggravated by corruption, which is stretching out further and further, destroying society's sense of the common good," they said. "Complicity and impunity favour the
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corrupt and stimulate violence in the city and countryside". Asked what evidence the church had Auxiliary Bishop Queiroz of Sao Paulo, secretary general of the bishops' conference said. "You only have to look all around you. The newspapers are full of it". "There are so many cases of corruption in Brazil today," said Archbishop Ponte of Sao Luis in northeastern Brazil. The current crisis has a special nature. It is not just political or is economic. It ethical". The bishops' conference also appealed to
Brazilians to urgently pursue a dialogue of national unity. Unions, employers, the politicians, church and other representative organisations had to be brought together to avoid social and economic disaster, the bishops said. The church, the added, had a special duty to "unmask the worship of money and of a lifestyle based on the accumulation of riches, and, at times, exhibitionism and waste, which is all the more scandalous in the face of the hunger and misery of millions of Brazilians".
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No inte tion to co vert VATICAN CITY: The Vatican "did not have the slightest intention of proselytising, our only motive was pastoral," Vatican official told the synod of bishops. He was answering an Orthodox archbishop's claim that the Catholic Church is proselytising.
Secretary of State Cardinal Sodano said the pope's pastoral concern should not be misinterpreted.
Metropolitan Spyridon of Venice, Vatican's toldOrthodox the synod that Catholic relations with the Orthodox were "seriously compromised". 'only The main problems, he said, were the rebirth of Eastern-rite Catholic Churches in Eastern motive is Europe and the Vatican's establishment of apostolic administrations in Russia, Siberia and pastoral' Kazakhstan, where there previously were no Catholic jurisdictions and where the small Catholic communities did not require bishops.
Cardinal Sodano went back to 1783, to the church's presence in what was to become the Soviet Union. He added that in areas not covered by church structures before the Russian Revolution of 1917, "successive deportations" of Catholics by communist leaders created Catholic communi-
ties in areas where they did not exist before. "Should not the Holy Father ensure a minimum of religious assistance to these Catholics who had already suffered so much from their tragic deportations and the neglect in which they have been left?" he asked. "The Latin-rite Catholics in European Russia, in Siberia and in Kazakhstan are a minority, but a substantial minority who had the right to an adequate spiritual assistance?' he said. The Vatican did not establish dioceses in those places nor did it name residential bishops. The apostolic administrations with their administrators are "a provisional organising structure", Cardinal Sodano said. Because the administrators carry the personal title of bishop, he said, "confusions could have arisen" when someone used a shortened reference, such as calling the apostolic administrator for European Russia the "archbishop of Moscow". "But the impropriety of this language cannot be attributed to the Vatican," he said. Cardinal Sodano said the situation was explained on numerous occasions to the Russian Orthodox patriarch and that the Orthodox "agree that it is the duty of each religious
community to take care of its members wherever they live". As to the rebirth of the Eastern-rite Catholic churches "brutally suppressed" by the communists in the 1940s, the Vatican "insistently tried by all possible means to forestall and prevent" the tensions that developed in disputes over church property. The Eastern-rite church "underwent a great injustice when it was suppressed," he said. "A common will to make up for and repair this injustice could have contributed to a different atmosphere between the two churches." Cardinal Sodano also seemed to criticise positions taken by some Orthodox in dialogues held before the Eastern-rite churches were legalised in 1990. Because the Eastern-rite churches of the Ukraine and Romania were declared re-united with their Orthodox counterparts during communist -manipulated synods, some Orthodox leaders claimed in the dialogue that the Eastern-rite churches no longer existed. The attitude "adopted in the face of the reality of a church that was considered dead did not favour the resolution of the practical problems which arose in regard to the distribution of the places of worship," he said.
Travel record
VATICAN CITY: Pope Paul VI was the first Pope ever to travel by plane and also the first to visit all five continents. His successor, Pope John Paul II, has not only broken all travel records for a pontiff but set a few of his own and his next scheduled foreign trip will bring the total miles travelled to over 500,000 (800,000 km). Each year the anniversary of John Paul's election to the papacy, Vatican Radio releases a booklet containing dates and statistics on papal trips. The October 1991 edition includes both his latest Italian trip to Latina in September and his latest foreign trip to Brazil in October. As of October 21, 1991 (the 4752nd day of his pontificate) Pope John Paul had spent 487 days, 8 hours, 50 minutes travelling both within Italy and abroad, covering 832,721 kilometres. He has travelled more than twice the distance of 384,440 kilometres between the earth and the moon. His time out of Rome amounts to 10.24 per cent of his pontificate. He has visited 100 of the 175 nations on earth and his foreign trips account for 369 days and 781,290 kilometres of travel and for 1759 of the total of 2443 speeches and homilies. None of these statistics include the Pope's visits to 482 Roman parishes or his shorter trips to the summer residence of Castelgandolfo.
Franciscan plea for 4 ZAGREB: A Franciscan provincial has appealed for help for four Croatian Franciscans captured by Serbian troops. A witness claimed the priests are "close to death from the consequences of heavy beating". The witness said Serbian "chetniks" — or paramilitary forces — beat the priests and seemed to be asking them "to confess the things they do not know". The witness said the chetniks were especially harsh to Father Branko Stjepan Kosec, former superior and parish priest in Vukovar. 6 Minh-
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Repair bills crisis WASHINGTON (CNS): US and Canadian theological seminaries, Catholic and non-Catholic, face a $385 million backlog in work needed to maintain and renew their buildings. The huge shortfall in "capital renewal/ deferred maintenance" threatens some $3.5 billion in religious assets, says a study paper. For the study, 67 of the 202 institutions that form the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and
Canada underwent a detailed study of the maintenance costs and current maintenance and capital renewal needs of their campuses. The average institution has campus facilities worth about $17.4 million in replacement value by conservative estimates, but a backlog of $1.9 million in needed maintenance, repairs or replacement to keep them up, the study said. The basic problem, it
said, is that theological institutions have generally allocated too little of their yearly budget to facilities maintenance and renewal, leading inevitably to a deterioration of the buildings and their services. One-fifth of the institutions studied were Catholic theological schools, about the same proportion as the general Catholic representation in the Association of Theological Schools.
A study spokesman said some of the Catholic institutions in the study ranked high in timely maintenance and renewal, while others were among the lowestranked institutions. But even the high-ranked institutions had backlogs, he said. As an example he cited St Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia, which has a maintenance and renewal backlog of about $3.2
Since the study's estimated replacement value of St Charles facilities is about $47 million, that backlog is considered within the "good to fair" range in facilities upkeep, placing it among the top third of the institutions studied. The renewal/maintenance backlog for some Catholic facilities was nearly one-fifth of their total replacement value, he said.
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Archbishop Murphy infection and we have SEATTLE (CNS): Archbishop Thomas J. said in his letter, "The moral obligation to do Murphy of Seattle said AIDS crisis, despite its what we can to prevent a condom distribution deadly consequences, its transmission." But "we believe that plan for Seattle's public can act as a catalyst for schools "can be coun- life-giving dialogue, edu- abstinence is the best and cation and compassion way to prepare for full terproductive sexual expression within could lull students into toward one another." Christian marriage and a false and possibly He added: "We need to to grow up safe from of acknowledge that the sexually transmitted dissense fatal security". HIV virus is a deadly eases", he said.
Catechism ready for pope's okay VATICAN CITY (CNS): The long-awaited universal catechism, substantially rewritten in two sections dealing with morality and prayer, will be presented for papal approval early next year. catechism, The designed as a compendium for religious educators and bishops' conferences, is in four parts: the Creed, the sacraments, the commandments and the Our Father. After a review of criticisms and suggestions from the world's bishops, the third section — which deals with morals — was substantially revised to put more emphasis on the human virtues, the basic commandment of love and the "great problems of today", Cardinal Ratzinger told the synod of bishops. For example, family problems are treated as part of the fourth commandment, the subject of
war and peace as part of the fifth commandment and the Church's social doctrine as part of the seventh, he said. The section on morals now starts with "the fundamental question that every person asks: How can Ibe happy?" he said. In the fourth section, the catechism presents the Our Father as a text on the doctrine, history and methodology of prayer, he said. This section is new to catechisms of the Church, he said. On another point, the catechism responds to comments on original sin, whose traditional understanding in terms of Adam and Eve has been affected by scientific knowledge. The cardinal aid it explores why people were in need of the salvation brought by Christ, he said. Significant quotations from the saints were
included in the catechism, with an attempt to find a balance between men and women saints, so that "we could present a picture of doctrine carried out in practice", he said. While Cardinal Ratzinger emphasised that this was a "major" rather than a "minor" catechism — that is, one suited for professional r eligious educators rather than those taking instruction — he said the final version includes small doctrinal summaries that are "easy to learn by heart" and that can "create a common language of doctrine". The official version will be in Latin, with translations into English, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, the cardinal said. The commission that prepared the catechism will oversee its translation, which he called a "very delicate problem".
School hit, 66 hurt BELFAST, Northern Ireland (CNS): When a oneton bomb planted by Irish Republican Army guerrillas wrecked a Northern Ireland police station, a Catholic school was damaged and 80 worshippers at an Advent service in nearby St Anthony's Church Catholic scrambled for cover under the pews. "It is a miracle no one
was killed," a spokesman ern Ireland by the IRA said after the bomb and was hidden in the shattered the police back of a coal van. The station at Craigavon, IRA gave no warning as County Armagh. "This it had done previously in was a terrorist Christmas December with three car box to the community of bombs that blew up in the Belfast city centre. Craigavon," he said. The IRA quickly admitSix police and 60 civiLited responsibility for the ans were injured in the Craigavon blast, which blast. left a 40-foot crater in the It was one of the largest road and could be heard bombs set off in North- 30 miles away.
'Sinful' violence
VATICAN CITY (CNS): Political violence in Northern Ireland "is sinful and unjustifiable", Pope John Paul II told Ireland's new ambassador to the Vatican.
"It is also the expression of outmoded political and social positions," said the pope. "Those who follow this path pursue an unjust and undemocratic struggle," he added. "The only real path to peace is the path of
respect for human rights, respect for legitimate differences, respect for the rule of law, on the part of everyone," he added. All sides must work "in practical ways to break down the barriers of mind and heart", he said. On a Europe-wide level, the pope asked Ireland to be a leader fostering a Christian culture able to unite Eastern and Western Europe. The collapse of communism has produced "a
"We must recognise that our sexuality is good and comes from a loving God. It is an integral part of being a fully human person," Archbishop Murphy said. "Why should we assume that our young people cannot make responsible decisions
about their sexuality with consciences formed by loving parents, pastors and teachers and informed by sound Catholic teaching?" In King County, Wash., where Seattle is located, there were five reported AIDS cases among people ages 13-19, and 330
AIDS cases among people ages 20-29. But one Seattle health official said since the HIV virus can incubate for 10 years, many in their 20s may have contracted HIV in their teens.
Archbishop Murphy said if the public schools
adopted a plan that dealt with sexually active teens, "I would hope that it be done on a case-bycase basis that acknowledges the pluralism of the community, the conscience of the individuals and the importance of their family values and their church teaching."
The gift of life 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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"When the subject of martyrdom comes up, it Is of those who died that we think. But there are living martyrs too."
By Father Eugene La Verdiere, SSS
His face is wrinkled, but his eyes are bright and he has a great smile. I shall call him Father Cheng, which is not his real name, for I want to spare him any possible trouble. It is already hard enough ministering as a Catholic priest in the People's Republic of China. Father Cheng is agile for a priest in his 80s. He gets around, celebrating Mass every Sunday in a couple of
Living martyr
Far more numerous are parishes quite distant St Stephen, whose story Christians. is told in the Acts of the from one another. And when the subject the living martyrs, peoof martyrdom comes up, ple like Father Cheng, From his laughter, you Apostles. it is of those who died who go on witnessing he stoned would never guess St Stephen was day after day knowing spent many years in to death with a young that we think. prison. man named Saul looking But there are living full well the risks on. too, people like involved. martyrs Father Cheng is active, There are many such with a special ministry to Years later, Saul him- Father Cheng. the mentally and physi- self, better known now as Martyrs are witnesses. Christians today in placally disabled in addition Paul, also was put to They witness to Christ ces like Peru, for example, where a longto all his ordinary minis- death, but not by stoning. and his Gospel. try. And he is a happy As a Roman citizen, Paul Those who die a violent standing revolutionary priest. had a right to be death do this giving their movement known as Shining Path has been witness to the full. Father Cheng is also a beheaded. martyr. They accept the risk turning against church In this century, many martyrs of comes with being a people, both Peruvian thousands that We all know all about martyrs, especially those have died in gas Christian, and they never and foreign. chambers. Thousands of swerve from the Gospel. who died. Several missionaries They reach out in their have been killed. All There have been Chris- others have been shot. tian martyrs, people who Dying for one's faith is mission to others like know the risk of remaining in Peru, yet most died for their faith, from not just a thing of the Jesus did. wittheir to do so to makes Death choose the happening days of keeps earliest It the past. continue serving God's church beginning with wherever there are ness irrevocable.
The difference ' between living martyrs and those who have died is not the quality of their witness but the fact that for the living martyrs this witness is not yet irrevocable."
people in Peru. When danger looms, it is no time for missionaries to abandon their brothers and sisters! Those missionaries — many from the United States — are living martyrs, following in the footsteps of Christ and witnessing to our common faith. The difference between living martyrs and those who have died is not the quality of their witness but the fact that for the living martyrs this witness is not yet irrevocable. There is yet another kind of martyr today, many of them living but
not all.Irefer to children, thousands upon thousands of them, who are thrown away, some quite literally. Early one morning this past year in New York City, a janitor found an infant boy crying where he had been dropped in an incinerator. How many infants are never found. Parents abandon some children in hope they will be found and cared for. Others die after being severely beaten or starved in isolation. There is no need to describe it all. Our newspapers do that for us.
The child-martyrs alwap have been with us, hat I think we are more aware of them today. In Mdthew's Gospel we readi the Holy Innocents.thildren two years old ad under whom Herot massacred to elimisate any future threat from the child king ri the Jews. Not for this isHerod called "the Great" We b have holy innocents.' ike the massacred innoonts of Herod's reign, oday's innocents have lo idea why they are rected and thrown away. If ths! are infants, they
are not even aware. If they are older, they know what is happening but cannot possibly understand. How can they understand when we adults cannot? These children witness to Christ just by being children. Nothing more is expected of them. It is our responsibility to see and appreciate their child's witness. Who are the Herods of our day? It is too easy to point a finger at a young mother barely out of childhood herself and abandoned by her child's boy-father. The question to ask is, "What would Jesus do?"
Are there forms of martyrdom unique to our age? Perhaps. We have the martyrs such as those of China and Peru. In many ways, martyrs like Father Cheng put us in touch with the church's long tradition of martyrdom. For unique forms of martyrdom, we should perhaps look to the childmartyrs. They have much to teach us in their unprecedented numbers. And in a throwaway society, even adults can be thrown away. We cannot help the martyrs who have died. We can help those who live.
What is the danger? Armed drug-dealers.
She talks to the city council. She organises neighbourhood people and talks to them. She talks to the county supervisors. And her message is usually the same: Don't let these people into our neighbourhood. One of her neighbours, an older women living alone, once told the
deals to get away from her is tse.
What does this have to do with possible martyrdom? Where does faith come in? Dora is a Catholic doing what she believes in. But there is an even better answer.
Ibelieve." Lay people like Dora define faith more relationally "This is who my people are."
Lifestyle of a modern martyr By Father David K. O'Rourke, OP The word "martyrdom" has regained its power to frighten us. Not many generations ago, when the church lived securely, we spoke of "glorious martyrs". But most of us have
seen the TV news of bodies under sheets: church workers shot down because of their beliefs. Or, like the housekeeper and her daughter who were killed in 1989 in El Salvador, along with six Jesuit teachers, simply because of their association with the church.
As with the early Christians, the reality is grim, too close at hand to think of images of glory. Fortunately for many of us, that kind of violence seems foreign. But there are situations close to home where Christians trying to live their faith can face that kind of violence, or at least the threat of it.
Dora, as I will call her here, is a widow and grandmother. I met her in the '60s when she was training as a nurse. She is strong-willed and intelligent, a woman who worked hard to provide for her children after her husband died prematurely. Her neighbourhood —
families doing their level best to hang in there financially — is on the edge of a high-crime area. Dora is one of the neighbourhood leaders determined to keep that crime away from her home, her neighbours and especially the grandchildren she watches during the day.
"We put up the walls, but they lean. They lean hard, and if you don't push back, then they come in," she said. Dora's danger comes from the way she puts up those walls. As she describes it, "I've got a mouth.I talk."
Pope of Sylvester Night By Janaan Manternach Sylvester was born in Rome at the end of the third century. It was difficult to be a Christian in those days. Many Christians died as martyrs during bitter persecutions by Roman emperors. Even when there were no persecutions, Christians had few rights. Young Sylvester may have watched fellow Christians die horrible deaths in the Roman Colosseum while he was growing up. Actually we know nothing about Sylvester's early life except that he was a Roman and that his father was named Rufinus. We do know he became Pope Sylvester 1 in 314 AD. It was an exciting year
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to be a Christian because it was the first full year that Christians were free to live and worship publicly as they pleased. In 313, the Emperor Constantine granted religious freedom to Christians in the Roman Empire. So Sylvester became pope less than a year after Christians experienced their new freedom. He had the task of helping the church learn to take its new place in the world. Now that persecutions from outside ended, divisions among Christians within the church became more dangerous. Pope Sylvester helped divided Christians deal with their differences. But in many ways Pope Sylvester had little power or authority. Emperor Constantine ruled the empire, and for
all practical purposes ruled the church as well. Constantine decided who would be bishops. It was the emperor, not the pope, who called the bishops church's together at Nicea in 325 AD for the first ecumenical council. Pope Sylvester sent two delegates to Nicea to represent him. There the bishops agreed to an official creed we still say in almost the same words at Sunday Mass. They also decided on a date for Easter. While Sylvester was pope, Emperor Constantine built many great churches for the Christians in Rome. He also saw that public shrines were built in honour of martyrs. Now that the church was free and Christians could take an active role in the life of the empire, the church grew rapidly.
Pope Sylvester worked hard to keep Christians living in many parts of the vast empire united with him and with one another. He struggled dangerous against heresies. The pope died in Rome in 335. Because he was pope at such an important time, many legends grew up about his life. Pope Sylvester was honoured as a saint. Christians named the last night of the year Sylvester Night. They gave each other gifts and celebrated the coming of the new year during Sylvester Night. Now we give our gifts at Christmas and no longer call New Year's Eve Sylvester Night. Yet as each year ends we owe Pope St Sylvester a prayer of thanks for helping the church learn to cope with freedom and take a responsible role in the world.
Thats all she said. But they g me by later and hrokel erfront windows. Donl.nows her danger could le even greater. She i interfering with the eig dealers' businessond it's big business. iut she refuses to be ii*iidated.
Professional church frequently workers define faith by using creeds. They say, "This is what
Dora's "people of God" are her grandchildren and her old neighbours. Like the good shepherd she is, she is keeping the wolves away from them. Some day it might cost her dearly.
Me martyrs fanatics? . . . asks Fathe John Castelot In our liturgy thecelebration of Jesus' bili is followed the next that of St Stepn's death. Of course, this Irst martyr's death wg in the Christian view the day of his birtl in eternity. What we really lelei brate is not preiely Stephen's death, hi! his heroic witness. Tb; is what the word "rnotYr" means: a witness. s of wh tneersesare nr ito naC nhyrisi vil By being Christian" an unchristian world one witnesses to, ackilwledges, Christ. In fact, this is proesed in the Gospels as all of criterion: "I tell mu, everyone who aclOwledges me before cers will acknowledge Ir•-'re my heavenly FatheiBut whoever denieil before others I wiienY
before my heavenly Father" (Matthew 10:3233). These verses, and their parallel in Luke 12:8-9, occur in an exhortation under to courage persecution. Clearly, giving witness to one's Christian convictions could be hazardous to one's health. This was so right from the beginning, and Matthew exhorts his readers: "Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather, be afraid of the one who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna" (10:28). In Matthew's version of the Beatitudes, the beatitude on persecution is first stated quite briefly (5:10) and then in significant detail: "Blessed (happy) are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you (unjustly) because of me. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be
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great in heaven" (5:1112). Still, though the supreme reward was prom-
ised for this supreme act of witness, people did not actively seek out persecution and martyrdom.
They were courageous, but not fanatical. As a matter of fact, they were advised to avoid
persecution: "When they persecute you in one town, flee to another" (Matthew 10:23).
Paul had his share of persecution for his bold witness to Christ. But there is a revealing passage in Philippians. He was in jail at Ephesus, and his situation was precarious. The imprisonment could end with either execution or release, and he was not sure which he preferred. His "eager expectation" was that "now as always Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death . . . "If I go on living in the flesh, that means fruitful labour for me. And I do not know which I shall choose . . . "Ilong to depart this life and be with Christ, (for) that is far better. Yet that I remain (in) the flesh is more necessary for your benefit" (Philippians 1:20-24). His main concern was that he give faithful witness to Christ. How he gave it he left up to God.
He did not actively seek a martyr's death. In spite of all his suffering he did not develop a "martyr complex". When he did refer to his hardships. he was and embarrassed apologised. The authenticity of his apostleship was under attack and he was constrained to defend it. "What lam saying lam not saying according to the Lord but as in foolishness, in this boastful state" (2 Corinthians 11:17). True martyrs are quiet, steady witnesses. If they have to suffer for this, so be it. But they do not actively seek martyrdom and, above all, they do not flaunt their heroism. They are witnesses to Christ, not to themselves (2 Corinthians 12:9-10). (Father Castelot is a Scripture scholar, author and lecturer.)
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Help stem vocations drain call VATICAN CITY, (CNS): Pope John Paul II has called for new initiatives to stem the decline in vocations to religious life. "We cannot deny that in some areas the number of those that agree to consecrate themselves to Christ is diminishing," the pope said in his 1992 World Vocations Day message. "We see the need for an increasing pledge
of prayer and initiatives" to stop the vocations drain, he said. The message was released at the Vatican, December 17. The next World Vocations Day is May 10. According to Vatican figures, the number of religious priests dropped from 152,537 in 1983 to 146,239 in 1989, the last year for which worldwide figures have been published. During the same
See you later
period the number of religious brothers dropped from 67,081 to 62,942 and the number of women religious dropped from 935,221 to
"See you later," was what Oscar D'Souza (right) told his mate Declan Burke before he left for a rugbyplaying tour in Europe. Oscar is a member of Trinity College's rugby team who will be matches playing against schools as well as clubs during their tour. The touring team will be back in Perth sometime next month.
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The pope urged bishops to promote "knowledge of and high esteem for consecrated life" and said seminary curricula must include "instructions on the value of religious consecration".
• Picture, words by Mary Urquhart
Will these Seminarians ... ... ever be ORDAINED?
Christmas 'capsule' countback By Roy Lazaroo I decided to spend this Christmas in a "capsule" of reminiscence.
16,000 SEMINARIANS need your prayer and your giving
IN POLAND . . . Ten thousand seminarians need your help to complete their training for the priesthood. We have already promised over $2.5 million for this year alone. Father Werenfried says: "Will you help them to take on the pastoral care of Poland, Russia, the Third World . . . and perhaps also the West?"
IN THE UKRAINE. . . 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."
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD . . . How will Mass be offered unless priests are ordained? The Church in Need is your Church: Help your future priests.
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This, I thought, would still be consistent with the usual Yuletide mood of caring, sharing and remembering. For the first time in my life it was Christmas without my father. He died earlier this year at a ripe old age. So spending Christmas thinking of him was inevitable. The old man had a good innings, one would say, but it was difficult to accept his demise so readily. After all his was the very first death in the family. His exit left an inexplicable emptiness in me and the family. In this reflective mood I could not help but think of the unstinting love he had not only for my mother but also all seven of his children. He unselfishly saw all his kids through a good education, no matter how much it cost him. He taught us good values — why we must save for a "rainy day", how to share, how to help the not so fortunate, how to be tolerant of others who don't know better and most importantly how to keep away from trouble. For my elder brother and I he had an additional service: "Never lay your hands on a woman. Only cowards do that." No doubt he would be giving us both the thumbs up from heaven. Yes. Dad was one of the finest persons one could ever meet. Small wonder he was able to celebrate 65 "platinum" years with Mum seven months before he died.
We don't hear much of long-lasting marriages these days, do we? If I was still hanging over from his loss, then it must be more intoxicating for dear Mum who stuck with him through thick and thin. Mum, too, is at the sunset of her life, and although she would have her children, grandchildgreatand ren grandchildren around her this Christmas, life would not be the same for her. She does not have to say it. We know it. Emotionally, Mum is an introvert. She did not shed a tear at Dad's burial but the family knew how badly she took it. Of course it was painful to lose a loved one, especially a kind and caring person. It must also be painful for children, men and women who through no fault of theirs are separated from the ones they love. There are numerous forces destructive around us. Whether such devastations are caused by greedy, power-hungry, stupid or egotistic people who can't see further than their noses, the bottom line remains the same: We must pray and continue to pray for those who can't see or don't want to see the light. Only then can we hope to have peace and fewer feuds. Whether my mother will live to see next Christmas, God alone knows. But one thing is certain: she prays fervently for peace among her children and peace around the world she is slowly forgetting.
Back to promote Mary's messages American Lutheran crusader for Our Lady of Medjugorje, Wayne Weible, is back in Australia on his second visit to Perth to promote the messages of Our Lady given to the seers at Medjugorje. Having visited Australia, Wayne is off to New Zealand, Singapore and Indonesia. A journalist, newspaper publisher, and author of two books with another on the way, Wayne is an intrepid worker for Our Lady by spreading her message of peace and conversion back to her Son, through fasting, penance and prayer. His two published books are titled — Medjugorje: The Message ( which has sold over a quarter of a million copies in five English speaking countries and is now going into French, Spanish and Italian) and a more recent book — Letters from Medjugorje (30,000 copies sold). These two books are available from St Vincent de Paul, 19 Bronte Street, East Perth, tel: 325 3244, and Gatto & Co, 449 Charles Street, North Perth, tel 444 5700 and 444 5163. Wayne is somewhat of an authority on what is happening in Medjugorje because he knows the seers very well and has been there 17 times. And he points to the incredible fact that never in the history of Marian apparitions, has Our Lady come so frequently over such a long period of time.
Our Lady appeared to six children in Medjugorje, Croatia, on June 24, 1981, and since then has appeared to the four remaining seers (two are now married with children but nevertheless Our Lady appears to them at least once annually) each evening. And why does she come? Precisely because she wants the world to turn away from sin and return to her Son. To follow God's path and not ours, which with the deterioration of good Christian values, family breakdown, watering down of moral principles, and neglect of faith practice, has led to constant warring among some nations, corruption of many, and the propagation of evil and vice. She warns that unless we seriously change our lifestyles for the better, and do penance, fast and pray for the conversion of others and the creation of peace in a strife-torn world, we can be sure of God's punishments. Some have taken the massage seriously and have done as Our Lady has requested. Others continue with their undesirable lifestyles and thus leave our future uncertain. In essence, Our Lady has come to try and get us to ward off these c,atastrophies which she says God will send, unless we change our ways dramatically and soon. And the way to avert them is by affecting life changes where necessary and increasing our prayer
Intrepid crusader for Our Lady, American Lutheran Wayne Weible, whose Australian series of lectures has focussed on the sharing of the gifts he's brought from Medjugorje with the emphasis on returning to the simple values of family, loving one another, and giving total allegiance to God's church. life, plus penance and fasting. There is a sense of urgency too, says Wayne, because Our Lady has been giving messages for the world through the seers on the 25th of each month. On October 25 this year, her message, which according to Wayne would normally be around two paragraphs long, consisted of an urgent Pray! Pray! Pray! Wayne says his purpose in promoting Our Lady's messages is to bring them to others and relate them to the gospel of Jesus. And as to how a message of peace can come from a currently war torn country such as Yugoslavia, Wayne says that since the time of Jesus, there has always been conflict, but God comes to this conflict by pouring out his mercies and it's yet another reason why Our lady has come. "Our Lady has always come to us in times of crisis to lead us back to the love of God," said Wayne, "and for many her call has brought a great sense of peace through their visits to Medjugorje or reading about the apparitions there." Referring back to Our Lady's October message of Pray! Pray! Pray! with its sense of urgency, Wayne also believes it relates to what is happening now in Croatia itself and the dangers the recently liberated people of the former Soviet Union now face in
embracing materialism. "So I see this particular tour of Australia as extremely imporiant for the Australian people. "Because it is a country which I see has embraced great materialism and many of the wrongs I've witnessed in the United States over the past decades, have been repeated and have become even more refined here!" One would have thought we'd have learned from their mistakes, said Wayne, but not so. "Nevertheless even in these times, I find the hunger of the Australian people for God as keen as in other places. "However, I don't see myself as coming here for a crusade to save Australia, but rather to share the great gifts that have come from Medjugorje, which are: Return to the simple values of family and loving one another. And total allegiance to God's Church." The apparitions of Medjugorje demonstrate the greatest outpouring of
the Holy Spirit since Jesus, says Wayne, "andI look at this as a miracle of the first magnitude. "It's purpose? In summary, it's to bring us back to God and develop an individual peace in the hearts of all people so we can be united as one family in God." That's not to say we should have one world religion, he states, in as much as none of these doctrines of the Church is valid, but rather to bring us back to our roots to the original Church established by Jesus Christ. Mother Mary is like a concerned mother who cries out to her children, says Wayne, alerting us to the dangers of the world. "Dangers such as abortion which is so often looked on as an individual right rather than a sin against God. "There is no greater gift which God has given us than life. "And there is no greater rejection of God than to return that gift unused and unopened." Wayne pointed out that with all the drugs and the total apostasy of the faiths which just keep spreading like a group of amoeba, people are dividing themselves into more and more pieces, "and the more pieces we divide ourselves into, the harder it is to divine God's love. Because we're so busy fighting." We've even legislated against God's command given to Moses and had it made legal, Wayne said,
and we can now buy public acceptance rather than adhering to what is right and wrong. Being a Lutheran makes him somewhat unique to be speaking about the Virgin Mary, admits Wayne, "who most believe to be Catholic". "But she is not Catholic in the religious sense but rather as a universal mother of all children and our spiritual mother." And her role at Medjugorje is exactly what it was at the wedding feast at Cana, says Wayne, when she asked: "Do as my Son tells you." Finally, Wayne asks for prayers for Yugoslavia for the cessation of hostilities and for all the people involved in the crisis. For the present, he says, refugees are moving into Medjugorje where they are being taken care of by those good people and all pilgrimages have ceased for the present.
Wayne illustrated the case of a very well known Lutheran in the US who recently converted to Catholicism, and said he summed up his own feelings when he said: "The Reformation has been over for a number of years. So it's time we came back to the one family with the one shepherd." He too realised that, concurred Wayne, "And it would be a sham for me to say I am a protestant when I have nothing left to protest about!" Wayne's current reason for delaying becoming a Catholic, "is because I want to come in under the obedience of the Church. To do it the proper way. "And because of my past marriage and divorce, it has taken a length of time." It's important for people to realise we must be obedient to the Catholic Church, Wayne stated. "Because obedience is As for Wayne, he says one of the major planks his desire for the last five in the structure of the years has been to become Church." FOOTNOTE: At the a Catholic, but he reaNew Orleans conference lised that the more held on the Fast of the important mission was to Immaculate Concepbe able to reach people of tion on Sunday, all faiths and so he December 8, attended by remained as a protestant three bishops, 48 priests with hopes that some- and 6000 people, at the where in the future he summation of the conferwould become a ence it was announced Catholic. that all clearance papers And his reason why, "is had come through for based on the presence of Wayne and his wife to Jesus in the Holy Eucha- enter the Catholic rist who lives among us Church. This they then at every Mass." did watched by the I see this as a greater assembly and their son miracle than who was an altar boy for Medjugorje!" the occasion.
'Catholics should help Orthodox' (CNS): MOSCOW Catholics should help the Russian Orthodox Church preach conversion in Russia, rather than proselytise among the Orthodox faithful, said an official of the Russian church.
"We think that the responsibility to speak to the Russian people, calling them to conversion, is ours," said Metropoli-
tan Kirin of Smolensk, who is in charge of ecumenical relations for Moscow the Patriarchate. "Our brother Catholics should help us in this task (instead of) sabotaging us with parallel structures, exploiting our weaknesses," he said. Metropolitan Kirill said, "there are not great between conflicts" Orthodox and Catholic bishops and faithful.
"The dispute is with the policy that the Vatican pursues toward the Russian Orthodox Church," he said.
The Russian Orthodox have said the establishment of apostolic administrations in Russia, Siberia and Kazakhstan were unnecessary for the small number of Catholics in those areas. They charge the jurisdictions are part of a Vatican plan
to convert traditionally Orthodox peoples to Catholicism.
toral needs and have led to "proselytism in the midst of our people".
Metropolitan !Grill said there is some truth to the Vatican's response that new communities of Catholic faithful exist in those areas because of deportations carried out communist under regimes.
He said that during the synod, "I noted a great difference between the bishops of Western Europe and those of the East, who see the former communist countries — particularly the Soviet Union — as a land for conquest."
But he said the "great structures" are out of proportion to the pas-
Metropolitan Kirill said Catholics are going into
universities in Moscow, Novosibirsk and Saratov, telling Orthodox youths, "You must come with us, move away from the mother church."
Catholics also tell young people that the Russian Orthodox Church "compromised itself" with the communist regime, he said. Metropolitan Kirill said he still believes in ecumenical dialogue and
hopes discussions with the Roman Catholic Church will begin again. The two churches should speak "not so much about theological problems, but about c oncrete questions which have opened recently". "Personally, I am open to meeting any person in any place to return to fraternal relations with the Catholic Church," he said.
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OBITUARY Mrs Eileen Maud Kirby who died earlier this year aged 101 years and eight months and her parents appear amongst 600 men and women noted as pioneers of the Moora district. ,She was one of only three still living when the honour board was unveiled in November 1988 as part of the Australian Bi-Centenary, being represented at the ceremony by her son Patrick. Born in Bathurst, her family of which she was one of 13
children came to Davilak south of Fremantle in 1896. Her father later began farming at Dalaroo in the Moora district and built the homestead "Finbar", which still stands today. In St John the Baptist church in Moora on April 2, 1918. She married Patrick James Kirby and they lived in Coomberdale where he worked for the then Midland Railway and she operated a small store and the local post office. Their home was the centre for
Sunday Mass when the parish priest visited from Moora. For the sake of their children's education the Kirby family moved to Northam late in 1926. Mr Kirby joined the then Western Australian Government Railways and retired in 1956. He died on June 19, 1975. The Kirbys had eight children, two sons and six daughters. One of their daughters, Sister Monica, taught at St Joseph's School in Northam for several years.
Mrs Kirby had 16 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren all of whom, with her own family, survive her.
April 26, 1983. He was a catechist in the state primary schools at Yerecoin and Calingiri, and was also a CRE in Salvado College in 1982-83. At the same time he studied theology with Melbourne College of Divinity, from which he gained his Diploma in Divinity, followed by external studies with Murdoch University, from which he graduated B.A. in 1987. With his considerable talent in drawing and painting, he was asked to undertake the
three-year Diploma in Fine Arts at esteemed Claremont School of Art, which he completed. His keenness for his subject was shared over the next few years with students at New Norcia Catholic College.
For her 100th birthday on January 13 last year she had Mass in her home and later that month she was the guest of honour at the Australia Day opening of the mall in Northam, cutting birthday cake provided by the mayor and later being his guest at the luncheon in the Lesser Town Hall. Until recent years she was a keen gardener and a successful
exhibitor at the Northam Agricultural Society's annual shows and on its centenary in 1990 the Eileen Kirby trophy for the most outstanding exhibit in the garden produce section each year was established. Devotion to the Blessed Eucharist and the Rosary were prominent features of her faith. She received communion every day for the last three and a half years of her life, and died with her beads in her hands. May she rest in peace.
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Flashback! The late Mr and Mrs Kirby at their golden wedding.
Benedictine monk Dom Bartholomew Spadaro died instantly in an accident when his car got involved in a two truck collision just south of Bindoon last week. He had attended a preChristmas meal with his younger brother Martin and his wife Katherine. He was born in Malta on April 17, 1953, seventh in what grew to be a family of nine children. The Spadaro family migrated to Australia in 1954, settling in Sydney where Bart's father
worked for many years at Garden Island. Young Bart did his primary schooling at St Francis' C.B.C. Paddington, then at Bondi, St Anne's C.B.C. He studied for a structural engineering certificate at Sydney Technical College and worked for nine years as a draughtsman with the Sydney Water Board. Entering New Norcia in 1977, Dom Bart made his temporary profession for one year, in 1979 renewing his vows each year until his solemn profession on
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Look from new angle. • •
from Fr Ben McKENNA SM, Belmont Sir, Brian Peachey's attack on Sister Sonia Wagner's thought provoking and possibilityoffering book Into the Vineyard (The Record, December 12) deserves reflection from a different angle. Since the beginning of the Church we have had the stabilising, groundholding, at-home responsibility of Peter; and the progressive; groundbreaking, missionary responsibility of Paul. The tension was there then, has always been, and will always be. It does not help for one to condemn the other. Both are necessary for the life and growth of the Church. It might be sobering though for Mr Peachey to reflect that when conflict arose between Peter and Paul on the issues of circumcision and dietary laws it was the progressive thought of Paul which eventually became Church doctrine. The prophets have always had a hard time from the establishment; and have very often been subsequently exhonerated. The Church needs prophets just as much as it needs the establishment.
Reflect for a moment on Galileo and the treatment he got for his proposals on cosmology! Who came out of that one best in the long run? There are great Saints in the Church who were held highly suspect and severely criticised in their day: Thomas Aquinas, Ignatius of Loyola and Theresa of Avila are but three. In our own country we have Mary MacKillop: due now for canonisation but excommunicated for a period in her own day. Thank God for the prophets and the groundbreakers. Thank God for people of courage like Sonia Wagner! In the words of Pope John XXIII; who managed to incarnate both the establishment and the prophetic roles: "We are not on earth to guard a museum. Rather we must cultivate a luxuriant garden bristling with life and destined for a brilliant future." Let those who wish to guard the museum do so; but don't hinder those who wish to tend the garden. Sr Sonia's book offers some possibilities for a garden bristling with life and destined for a brilliant future.
TOMORROW TODAY with Father Joe Parkinson
Schools a high point The year just past has young people to share been one of many high their faith journeys, and points, both in my work the commitment and with the Young Chris- vision they have for tian Movement and in incorporating their faith in their daily lives. the diocese. One area of significant growth was the number of YCS groups that formed during the year. At the beginning of 1991 the YCS fulltiming team put together a School Visit Program which proved extremely successful, resulting in the launch of at least five new school groups. Another significant aspect of my work over the year has been the willingness of many
Many YCS groups have been involved in various actions which are rooted in faith and contribute to building up the Kingdom of God here on earth. These actions have included 'adopting a beach'; to care for the environment; education days on drug and alcohol abuse informing other young people of the effects of such addictions; and volunteer work for the St Vincent de Paul Society.
All of these actions have been an example to me, and a real witness to others of how to live our lives as Christian people. The year has also been significant for the whole Catholic youth scene in the archdiocese. In January 1991, the Catholic Youth Conference "Crossroads to Tomorrow" was held at Aquinas College. This single event brought together three hundred young people for five days to share their faith, grow in their love for God and the Church, and also to have a lot of fun along the way.
"Crossroads" helped many friendships to develop, and many of these continue to be strong almost a year later. Also in January 1 witnessed the first Catholic Youth Rally come alive with music, talks and drama. Since that first event the rallies have become more popular, and have given young people a sense of what it means to be Catholic and the role they play within the Church. This year was also my second, and last, working for the Catholic Youth Office in North Perth. Ihave been privileged to
have met so many people who have challenged and touched my life. Looking forward to a new year can be both exciting and daunting, but Iencourage all young people to become involved in the many youth options available to them within the diocese. I encourage you to acknowledge the Os and talents you possess to contribute to the Church, within your parishes, schools and families. Most of all, I wish everyone all the very best for the coming year.
After two years' fulltime work with the YCS, Lisa Legena leaves the Youth Office on January 3.
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Victoria Park Antioch held a great weekend on January 6-8.
Victoria Park weekend leaders Natalie Ballinger and Damien Denyer.
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Over 200 young people have already registered for the 1992 Catholic Youth Convention "Dare the Dream" at Aquinas College in January.
Organisers are expecting to top the 350 mark for the big event, since last year's gathering drew most registrations in the post-New Year period.
Registrations will be received up to the January 8 deadline, either by mail or personal delivery to the Catholic Youth Office at 30 Claverton Street in North Perth. Telephone bookings also will be accepted up to the deadline, or delegates may leave their name and phone number on the 24-hour convention line, 328 9622.
Youth Office 328 9622 Father Finian 274 1159 Pat Meek 349 1474 Father Andrew 349 2837 I .
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INVITATION Parents, families and parishioners Join hundreds of Catholic youth and young adults at two public events of the "Dare the Dream" Youth Convention YOUTH MASS Sunday, January 19 St Mary's Cathedral 7.30pm
YOUTH RALLY Tuesday, January 21 Claremont Superdrome 7.30pm
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by Colleen McGuiness-Howard
Fourteen helpers went along to supervise and frolic with 14 Luke 18 children from Mundaring on their recent retreat camp. Down at Hillarys near the beach and on lush lawns with plenty of space at the Ern Halliday camp site, everybody got to know each other and God, that much better, over a fun and activity filled weekend.
Above: Camp leaders Melissa Fong (left), Adam Howard with Hannah Telfer and Leanne Schokker ready to "shoot 'em down" with her water pistol. Left: Nana Howard with little Angela McGuckin playing tree games at the Hillarys camp site.
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Irish celebration at Club's dinner dance
1. Former Irish Club president Paddy Costello (left) with current president Chris Scarry holding a replica of the Sportsman of the Year trophy awarded to Michael O'Connor of St Finbar's, at the recent Christmas Dinner Dance, watched by Irish Club chaplain Father Sorahan of Wembley. 2. Eithne Scarry wining and dining at the dance with George and Anne Early. 3. Amazing sportslady Breda Gilsenan dancing with Billy White. Breda played touch rugby for the Ex Pat's Golden Oldies, and also plays touch football, hockey, tennis, squash, swimming and power walking. Some fit lady! 4. A delightful couple celebrating 39 years of wedded bliss, were Armadale parishioners Jo and Lindsay George who thoroughly enjoy "tripping the light fantastic" at the Irish Club. You couldn't really say the Irish Club's Christmas Dinner Dance was a wind-up to the club year, because the fact is the Irish never stop celebrating and having their marvellous "hooleys!(parties and fun get-togethers) all year round! It's this attitude which makes the Irish so worthwhile fraternising with.
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Wanneroo parish musicians earlier this month thought it worth springing a surprise on the Servites reaching 40 years in the parish. A full complement of Choristers, together with organ, keyboard, guitars, trumpet and ' flute made an occasion of the Sunday Mass when ten parish council members made their commitment. Then it was off to surprise Servite parish priest, Father Paddy Boyle with a birthday cake decorated with the Servite emblem and commemorating December 2, 1951 when the Ser-
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foundation in Australia. Father Boyle however, was not totally surprised it seems and thanking the initiators and organisers for their effort said he had
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Assisted by Mercy and Servite sisters Father Paddy Boyle makes short work of the Service 30th birthday cake.
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C OUNTRY MOVE Fr Richard Rutkauskas has been appointed to the parish of Southern Cross for a term of three years. Born in Subiaco, he is the eldest of four children of Gedas and Wendy R utkauskas He was educated at St Gerard Majella school, Mirrabooka, and CBC Leederville.
BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE
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He spent a month at St Charles' Guilctford followed by seven and a half years at St Francis Xavier Seminary Adelaide. Following his ordination in December 1987 he served in Rockingham for two years until his appointment to the Cathedral parish where he was chaplain to Trinity College and in charge of the St Francis Xavier church.
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