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MONROVIA: Five American nuns murdered last week in Liberia had gone back to the US in 1990 because of danger but decided to return the following year.

Archbishop Michael Francis of Monrovia lays the blame for the killing of the five nuns and four Liberian novices squarely at the feet of the rebel Charles Taylor's forces.

Two of the nuns who had been kidnapped two weeks ago were found dead along a street.

The other three were found outside their convent.

In Monrovia's cathedral Archbishop Francis said: "They call themselves freedom fighters but they kill innocent people... the are destroyers not builders.., who murdered the sisters".

The five dead sisters' ages ranged from 54

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to 69. The eldest had worked in Liberia for 21 years and before that in Vietnam.

They belonged to the Illinois based Adorers of the Blood of Christ who have worked in Liberia since 1972.

The murdered nuns were nurses and teachers at a Monrovian high school. At the time of their death the section of Monrovia in which they worked was behind the rebel lines.

Pope John Paul said that "despite the danger of the civil war the sistsers remained until the end beside a threatened population.

"May their sacrifice give rise to proposal and concrete initiatives for dialogue and peace in that martyred country."

US ambassador to Liberia William Twaddell said of the siain nuns: "The safety and the

welfare of the wounded and the defenseless motivated them and were their only concerns in the midst of war."

Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles wrote to the order: "They faced danger constantly with the uncertain political future of the country and even without the basic governmental protection they remained at their posts with commitment and self giving.

Modern day Liberia has some 78,000 Catholics out of a population of 2.8 million, cared for in three dioceses.

Portuguese missionaries had visited the territory in the 1400s and Jesuits and Capuchins served the area inthe 1600s.

Twenty years after the 1820 colonisation by freed US slaves Pope Gregory arranged for two American priests and an Irish catechist to minister to the Catholics there.

Over twenty young Catholic Vietnamese men and women gathered at Sandy Beach Reserve in Bassendean recently to socialise and reflect on the religous and priestly life.

The day was organised by Peter Hung, a Redemptorist seminarian, along with Chien Nguyen, Quang Nguyen, Nhut Tran and Hpong Nguyen who are currently resident at St Charles Seminar) Guildford.

"Get to know you" games began a day that was followed by an "Aussie" barbecue. In the afternoon Peter Hung talked on the vocation of priesthood and seminary formation. This was followed by a group discussion and gospel sharing.

Back at St Charles Seminary there was more socialising, canoeing and the evening meal. The enjoyable day produced calls that similar days should be organised for the future.

Any Vietnamese men and women interested in being part of these days of reflection can contact Chien Nguyen at St Charles Seminary, phone 279 1310.

Galileo reprieved: 'tragic Church decision VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul It has formally acknowledged that the church erred when it condemned 17th-century astronomer Galileo Galilei for maintaining that the Earth revolved around the sun.

In a solemn ceremony attended by international theologians and scientists, the pope said the Galileo case was an example of "tragic mutual incomprehension" that showed the limits of theology and science.

"This sad misunderstanding now belongs to the past," the pope told members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences October 31.

The pontiff made his remarks after accepting the findings of a commission he had appointed in 1981 to study the Galileo trial.

The commission said Galileo's ecclesiastical judges acted in good faith but were "incapable of dissociating faith from an age-old cosmology" — that of the Earth as the fixed centre of the universe.

This was a "subjective error of judgement" one that caused Galileo much suffering, said Cardinal Paul Poupard, presenting the commission's conclusions.

Galileo, after being found guilty of "vehement suspicion of heresy" by the Roman Inquisition at the age of 69, spent his remaining eight years under house arrest. This year marks the 350th Anniversary of the death of the astronomer, best known for his pioneering discoverings with the telescope.

The pope said the Galileo case held important lessons concerning "the nature of science and the message of faith".

It is possible, he said, that "one day we shall find ourselves in a similar situation, one which will require both sides to have an informed awareness of the field and of the limits of their own competencies".

The pope said 17thcentury theologians were deeply challenged by Galileo's defence of the Copernican theory that the planets revolve around the sun. Because the church relied on an overly literal interpretation of the Bible, the idea that the Earth was the centre of the universe "seemed to be a part of scriptural teaching itself," the pope said.

The emergence of

science, with its methods Pope John Paul said the and freedom of research, church has learned from obliged theologians to the Galileo case. examine the way they For one thing, he said, it interpreted Scripture, illustrates "the duty for but "most of them did not theologians to keep know how to do so," he themselves regularly said. informed of scientific advances" so they can see "Paradoxically, Galileo, whether there is cause a sincere believer, for "introducing changes showed himself to be in their teaching". more perceptive in his The pope acknowlregard than the theologians who opposed him," edged that this can create the pope said. Galileo pastoral difficulties. had said scriptural inter- When theologians are pretation must go faced with new scientific data — as in the Galileo beyond literal meaning. case — it may be necesAt the same time, the sary to overcome strong pope noted that Galileo popular habits of rejected the church's thought, he said. suggestion that he presIn general, he said, a ent the Copernican system as a hypothesis, pastor ought to show "a boldness," instead of as demon- genuine strated truth. No one at avoiding both hesitancy that time had laid out and hasty judgement.

The pope recalled that "irrefutable proof" of the Copernican model, the the church changed its position on Galileo's pontiff said.

arguments and in 1820 approved a book presenting Copernican astronomy.

Yet the Galileo controversy, he said, helped create a longstanding "myth" — that of "an incompatibility between the spirit of science and its rules of research on the one hand and the Christian faith on the other".

The pope said there is a distinction but not an opposition between the knowledge found in revelation and that found in experimental sciences.

"The two realms are not altogether foreign to each other; they have points of contact," he said, and together they bring out "different aspects of reality".

He said the church today must continue to closely follow scientific

advances, especially in areas of biology and biogenetics, because their applications affect human beings "more directly than ever before".

In 1979 the pope told the pontifical academy that he wanted theologians, scholars and histor ans to take a closer look at the Galileo case in order to openly recognise "wrongs from whatever side they come" and help dispel mistrust between science and faith.

In 1981 the pope took the next step, appointing the study commission of church and lay experts to look at all sides of the historic dispute. Cardinal Poupard, a member of the commission and president of the Pontifical Council for Culture. read a three-page report of the finding during the October 31 ceremony.

Small communities build new Church

By Colleen McGuiness Howard

Irish born, Dublin based Salesian Father James O'Halloran spent two weeks in Perth giving sessions and workshops on small communities.

Father O'Halloran is himself a member of a Small (Basic) Christian Community (SCC) in Dublin so in effect practices what he preaches. They are the focus of his local and worldwide initiatives.

Seeking to educate on them and further them, along with many others, he believes they reflect the vision of Vatican II which sees the Church as people of God. That the Church should be a community — as the Blessed Trinity is a community — "Because to really experience that in a parish of a few thousand, or even of a hundred, is impossible," he said.

The life of the Trinity which is a life of living and sharing, can only be experienced in small groups, he believes, and says our parishes can become a network of small communities.

"God is community and these little communities make God present in the world in a very observable, palpable way."

You can feel it and put your finger on it, he describes, "and that is hard to do with any big parish.

"So in a very real way, there are sacraments of the Trinity which make the Trinity present in the world.

"And they make the body of Christ present in a very observable way."

Father O'Halloran suggests that without this presence, it becomes impossible to evangelise, catechise and work for peace, justice, communication and morality because all these things "are shot through with the need for right relationships, which is what community is all about".

What is the good of telling a child that God is love, he asks, if that child doesn't feel that love.

"It's then an empty word."

But what are SCC's?

Father O'Halloran has been involved with their support and encouragement for the past 22 years, but they date further back than that when they began in Brazil in the mid 1950s.

Father O'Halloran sees SCC's as a new way of being Church, and a model for the future, he notes that there are now more than 200,00 SCC's in Latin America also where they focus on justice and liberation while there are many thousands more in Africa, Asia, Western and Eastern Europe, North and South America, the and Isles British Australia.

Having spent 10 years initially in Latin America and the last 12 years abroad, working from his Dublin base, Father O'Halloran said there were three essential components in the SCC's.

The rust is bonding with an effort to relate on a deep level.

And here he pointed out is a difference between a group and community.

In a group he says, people may not relate all that deeply even though they meet regularly.

But in an SCC, he differentiated, there is that effort to share all aspects of life — worship, ideas, dreams, friendship and to share the apostolic work of the SCC, and even their material possessions.

And within that context, "it's a question of accepting and loving people as they are, while helping them to grow as persons, through that love and acceptance.".

The second element is contemplation. Father O'Halloran qualified that as being prayer, the Eucharist, the Word of God, and also deep reflection.

There should be deep reflection going on in the community, about all aspects of their life in common.

outreach to the community, especially to those most in need.

"Especially to those people whom the world pushes aside as of no account."

Thus the Word of God takes on it full meaning when we do something about it and it isn't simply on our lips, he states.

"Because as St James states: Faith without works is dead."

Father O'Halloran expressed the hope that these little communities will grow in the neighbourhoods of our parishes and that their growth will make our parishes become communities of communities.

Speaking on their aims.

Father O'Halloran said the SCC's identify with the poor, not because of what they will do for them "but what they will do for us! — namely save This involves not encouraging poverty as misery, because he sees no virtue in that, "but there is virtue in poverty as simplicity. To live simply as Christ did.

"To reach out, live and share, especially with those most in need.

"With a priority as the Kingdom and its justice."

A lot of religious and Christian communities run out of steam he said, because this deep reflection is not going on.

"And because of that there is no good, critical evaluation or worthThe most important while dialogue since this thing is the Kingdom, he deep reflection is not pointed out, and everygoing on. thing else is relative.

The third SCC criterion Jesus' priority was to is reality. From all this work with the Kingdom bonding and contempla- and it should be ours too, tion should emnate an said Father O'Halloran,

"which means upholding goodness and supporting it wherever we find it. No matter who's doing it".

And we need to work for a world where there will be harmony rooted in justice.

"Understanding justice at right relationship with God, but firstly with ourselves, then our brothers, sisters and the environment.

"So that we're servants and partners of that environment."

There are a lot of people who want the peace but not the justice, Father O'Halloran said. But it's important the two go together.

He said there are a lot of people searching for this and there is a great need in people for relationships in communities.

"There is so much isolation, yet there's an enthusiasm too with people feeling a need for a community model of Church as people of God." There's a great longing for active participation, Father O'Halloran believes, and outlines that we should implement the model of Vatican ll's proposal "because the traditional model is not meeting the needs of people, and particularly the youth.

They are drifting away he said, because they cannot identify with the traditional model, but in his experience they relate very well to the model as expressed in SCC's.

"What Ihave discovered and sensed is a tremendous longing and searching for belonging relationships in community.

SCC's throughout the world are generally not residential, but rather neighbourhood people who come together in groups.

Some of the SCC's Father O'Halloran cited in Perth were the Exodus in Mirrabooka, Sundowners at the De Paul Centre, the Redemptorist Lay Community in North Perth, the Christian Brothers in Morley, and ecumenical group at

the Uniting Church in West Leederville, and said an Aboriginal representation had come from Beagle Bay, Broome in order to take Father O'Halloran's model back to the SCC's operating outside Broome.

Father O'Halloran has written three books on SCC's — his latest Signs of Hope: Developing Small Christian Communities (Columbia Press, Dublin & Orbis Books, New York 1991); Living Cells (1984) and Signs of Hope ($16.95, Orbis Books, Maryknoll New York).

Lourdescare celebrated its first year of service to the Lesmurdie community at the 9.30am Mass last Sunday.

Tony McA linden told the congregation that Lourdescare was an integral part of the Outreach Parish Centre programs now operating in about 20 parishes, representing over 1500 volunteers who were delivering approximately 3000 services to people in needper year.

In their own community Lourdescare had helped the sick, assisted people with handyman tasks and those who were shifting house, provided transport and delivered many casseroles to those in need.

One of the recipients of the Lourdescare service told The Record that she was very grateful for the clean-up job done in her garden — a chore she was unable to do because of a chronic back injury.

Birthday celebrations followed after Mass with light refreshments and a cup of tea.

Perth group hears latest covenant message Nine members of Perth's Bethel Convenant Community were among representatives from Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Italy, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, New Zealand and the United States who convenend in Dallas for the Catholic Fraternity of Charismatic Convenant Communities.

The Fraternity was canonically recognised by the Vatican in November 1990.

Bishop Paul Cordes, vice president of the

Council for the Laity told the conference: "Your love for the Holy Father and your willingness to be obedient seems to be a true sign of openness to the Holy Spirit. I am convinced that someone without prejudice would find in you a spirit which is not in many places of our Catholic Church. I confirm you and give you courage to continue your apostolate. You are a very important part of the Church's mission.'

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pared the local diocese and the Universal Church to two pillars supporting the faithful to seek and follow the will of God. Like the early monastic orders, charismatic prayer groups arose from the laity. They altered or stablised depending a hostile or friendly environment in the local parish and diocese.

have been encouraged by the Popes in many real situations. Because of this there was less danger to move toward the fringe of the Church.

More and more they come full circle into the Universal pillar of the church.

worldwide. This is not new, but the recognition give the Fraternity a new broadness, a new responsibility to serve in the Church and the Charismatic Renewal as a 'chance for the Church' as Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II said.

French Bishop Albert De Monleon defined the dual roles of the Fraternity service in the Today too, he said, Catholic Church as the people wanting to relate witness of their lives and in a more committed way by the variety of calls on form communities. They their communities

Communities have different gifts such as encouraging religious vocations, fostering families, giving retreats, working with youth, street witnessing, publishing, television, video, radio — but all have the

basic call to evangelisation. The community can serve the Church by making their resources available to their bishop, their parishes and national ministries.

"This conference is different," he said.

"We are drawing from the riches of the Catholic Church and pouring them back into our communities. This distinct difference shows that the Catholic Frater-

Fraternity President Brian Smith, from Brisbane commented that for 22 years he has been nity is giving new input speaking to conferences where communities in the life of the Church draw upon the er_sources on all levels helping of one another s expe- bishops. parish priests riences o turther ‘pd lay people in their instruct community mission of leaders. evangelisation."

Groups the faith education task National educators share goals

Adult faith education is more important than ever and its thrust is likely to be in the formation of small Christian communities.

These were some of the thoughts circulating at the 14th annual conference of the Catholic Education Association which drew a record 11 diocese representation at its St Charles' Seminary conference last month.

"Historically, adult faith education has always been important in the religious formation of Australian Catholics: at this time, however, it is assuming a place of unprecedented importance in the formation and development of committed adult Catholics," said Sister Sonia Wagner, association president.

"The diversity of opportunities being provided in different dioceses, the depth of personal and spiritual formation being offered and the superb skills displayed in leadership, facilitation, program development and publications are a consequence of the resources which the Church is increasingly committing to adult education in the Australian Church."

This was a happy development, said Sister Sonia, but not a uniform one. There remain discrepancies among the dioceses in Australia in regard to resource allocation for adult faith education, contrasts that reflect differing priorities. Reports on the increasing demands for adult faith education confirmed that adults experienced needs that

can only be addressed in adulthood, that are related to owning their faith and living it in a unique vocation as Christian persons in the family, the Church, in the workplace and in society generally.

Data emerging from the Review of Adult Faith Education commissioned by the Religious Education Committee of the National Catholic Education Commission by researcher, Holy Faith Sister Vivienne Keeley reveal the positive response of adults to faith education programs in which life experience is shared and reviewed with the help of Scripture, doctrine and moral teaching.

The data indicated how important to people were programs on personal

David Shinnick prayer and liturgy. People's participation in adult faith education had clearly led to great involvement in their local church community.

Small. Christian communities were to the fore

also when the conference was addressed by Salesian Father James O'Halloran.

Loreto Sister Christine Burke of Melbourne said the conference confirmed the direction of the Church towards small communities characterised by equality and adulthood giving faith a relevance to daily life.

A pioneer member of the association and now studying the link of faith to life Sr Christine said she would like to see Catholics with a real sense of involvement in the world and supported by group reflection with other Christians who care about the gospel, and supported by church leadership.

"Faith is so easily boxed off into an area that is irrelevant and churchified when it is really incarnational and about the world."

In the 200 years since the Enlightenment, Catholics had been withdrawn from public issues and were finding it hard to get back into dialogue, she said.

"We don't know how to come in on a discussion as equal partners rather than as having all the answers."

Sr Christine also noted that while women are being treated poorly in the Church more and more women are moving away rapidly and young women are refusing to be part of the Church.

"That has a terrible impact on our future and on the Church's young mothers. There is concern in groups I meet about how does a

Christine Burke and Paul Tuckerman.

Church that has no equality try to change that. It is an uphill battle and will take generations I suppose."

Adult education she said had changed much over 15 years and was now into pastoral planning and small group development but it was still "extraordinarily under-resourced" in some dioceses.

Paul Tuckerman of Wollongong, attending his first association conference believes that faith education is primarily through personal contact with people with talents and resources who can give the spoken word on scripture, on social justice commitments, prayer and sacramental life and "all the things that make a difference about being Catholic".

"In secular life people are better educated in what the whole of life means and our faith commitment and understanding has to run parallel."

In Wollongong diocese where he has been a part time voluntary director for three years each parish is represented on adult education committee to discuss needs and this he said was in stark contrast to what he heard of other dioceses' resources.

"What I have learned is that those resources exist and nationally there is the offer of sharing those reS0

"The Church is truly national and is deeply committed to an understanding of faith" he said at the conference.

Small communities would be a challenge to the Church of the future but were also a commitment to come back to parish life and bring back gospel activities and the graces of the world to Sunday parish liturgies and take them out again.

David Shinnick, now in pastoral planning in Adelaide, and attending his first conference for eight years picked up the relevance of adult education ot the formation of small Christian communities.

Another task he said was to work out the kind of adult education needed for the growth of these small christian communities.

A further issue of adult education he said was to promote awareness of social justice and what

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the Church had to offer biblically and theologically.

He cited a recent ecumenical workshop in Adelaide which attempted to work out a new ethic for economics that would not merely critique present party packages but look at underlying principle and produce material that would help people think at voting time.

He said small dioceses were now doing more for adult education possibly because of Renew programs and the Guildford meeting would lead to a stronger networking of resources.

Peter Gagen full time director of adult faith education in Brisbane for the past 18 years picked up the conference's stress on the small Christian community

Peter Gagen and the need for local involvement.

"If parishioners are involved these days it will mostly be in an inchurch ministry but all of them have been

Sr Sonia Wagner involved in a neighbourhood or work ministry, some quite consciously.

The task is to help them be aware of the goodness of what they are doing for the Kingdom and to help them be more attentive to God's presence in the world.

Of the task of adult education Mr Gagen said: "When the learner is ready the teacher will appear. With adults we won't be around when the teachable moments arise, when they are motivated. The best we can do is to resource their general interest and to be attentive to what are the shifts in needs and support them.

"Adults are going to do their own learning. We can provoke them or help identify their needs.

The curriculum is discovering where the kingdom is and what the

signs of the time what are the issues and what are we saying about them.

Over four days conference groups studied ministry training, formation for leadership, formation aimed at unifying faith and life, education in justice, the need for adult education to include all adults, the family and the financial implications of new priorities in the Church's evangelising mission. and the strategies for an increasingly effective adult faith formation.

The conference acknowledged the need to refine its charter to provide a wider base for on-going critical reflection concerning the place of adult education in evangelisation, ecumenism and the promotion of justice, for greater collaboration and for the coordination of resources and personnel.

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Scots hear Christianity spelt out VATICAN CITY (CNS): Christianity offers an alternative to the isolation and excessive individualism that mark modern Western society, Pope John Paul II told Scots bishops.

In its new evangelisation effort, the church continues its proclamation of "a faith that reveals the true meaning of life and gives access to God's saving and sustaining grace," the pope told the bishops of Scotland on ad limina.

The indifference to religion found in Scottish society is part of the "practical atheism" and individualism found throughout the Western world, the pope said.

Although most people do not explicitly deny God's existence, he said, many act in a way that shows God has little importance in their lives.

Any form of individualism that sees selffulfillment as the primary purpose of human life and views social order simply as an organised system for pursuing selfinterests contradicts God's original design for human beings, who were created for each other, the pope said.

The Christian vision for relations between individuals is "a civilisation of love built upon communion and solidarity," he said.

It is a vision that provides an antidote to the "distressing isolations" of modern society.

Promoting the Christian vision of community must start with Catholic parishes and with the encouragement of small communities where people can experience fellowship with Jesus Christ and with one another, he said.

A positive experience of Christian faith and community life not only will combat feelings of isolation, but also can give individuals the strength they need "to offer themselves wholeheartedly to the service of the church and of suffering humanity.'

Catholic schools, which the pope called "an immense treasure" for the church in Scotland, also must be shaped by the Catholic values and its vision of community.

While they must pursue academic excellence, he said, Catholic schools must not adopt secular attitudes that skeptically view the existence of religious truths and moral absolutes.

The pope also thanked the Scottish bishops for their efforts to defend human life.

"The unborn and the dying depend on the power of your voice to rescue them and to witness that the church 'believes that human life, even if weak and suffering, is always a gift of God's goodness."

"Direct abortion and euthanasia are never morally justifiable, no matter what the laws of a country may permit," he said.

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Big money boost for Latin sects SAO SALVADOR, BRAZIL: The sects he said. flourishing in Latin America are part of a "At this rate, the most pessimistic say the well-funded campaign, says a Brazilian Catholic Church will become a minority church leader. within 30 years," he added. He noted that Cardinal Neves said one reason sects are the sects reportedly have some 60,000 growing quickly in Latin America is pastors in Brazil. because of "money that comes from the The cardinal said for the church to resist United States". the spread of sects, it needs to appeal not "In Brazil a great number of baptised have only to people's heads but "to their turned to Protestant sects imported from the imagination and to their sentiments".

United States. In our country the followers "For my part, I bless the charismatic of these congregations are said to be about renewal: thanks to this movement and its 20 million. Their churches number about development over the last decade, many 80,000 and are growing like mushrooms," parishes have been revitalised," he said.

Looking after seafarers not all plain sailing HOUSTON, (CNS): "We cannot be interested just in a person's soul. We must be concerned for his whole life," said Archbishop Giovanni Cheli, president of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerants, at a congress for maritime ministry leaders.

At the 19th Apostleship of the Sea world congress in Houston, Archbishop Cheli said the apostleship "can no longer be content with doing things for seafarers when they come into port".

"These good actions must be supplemented by helping seafarers to see that they also are the church," he said.

"All of us together are church: cardinals and fishers, family members and religious, priests and seafarers, volunteers and bishops. We all have a responsibility in and to the church, laity as well as clergy," Archbishop Cheli said.

filled our mission" to make seafarers "an integral part of the universal church", he added.

"Some pessimists may say that we have failed."

Some challenges maritime ministers face include "quick turnarounds, problems exacerbated by the multiplicaflags of tion of convenience, technical developments, unscrupulous manning agencies" and the "cross-cultural and multilingual milieu" in which seafarers live, Archbishop Cheli said.

"We have not yet ful-

"We admit that it is easier to build community among people who think and act out of the same value system. But often we do not have that luxury and we must expand that sense of community," he said.

But with the majority of all seafarers being Christian, there is hope, Archbishop Cheli said.

This is especially true for seafarers today. It can be a problem, but the challenge and the opportunity is just as great.

Nun wins $1 million WASHINGTON (CNS): Sister Josephine Contris is in the money. The 71 year old woman, who is a Sister of St Francis of Penance and Christian Charity, has lived under a vow of poverty for most of her life but she just one $1 million from California's state lottery.

As her order's provincial treasurer, she is used to working with money, but she is not accustomed to the fame of riches.

"If only my phone would stop ringing," said the former primary school teacher.

At a television studio, cheered on by fellow sisters, she picked two numbers that gave her the choice of $40,000 or an opportunity to try for more money by spinning the wheel.

"The sisters told me to go for it because I'm always so lucky," Sister Contris said.

She took the chance and now has $1 million that she is giving to her order. She has requested that the funds be used to support the order's retirement home.

with a priest, or a nun who have heard the call, and who has left everything in order to follow Jesus," Cardinal Margeot said.

The calling is such that Archbishop Cheli noted "when you return to "the enormous navigaafter a few weeks' land, tional feats" of Columbus, and said the quin- rest or holiday, you begin centennial "demon- to grow restless and strates the results of suddenly you realize in seafarers living their yourselves that you miss faith as they sought to the sea", he added.

"Like us priests you claim these new lands for have had to give up some Christ and the church". of the things you rightCardinal Jean Margeot, fully cherish the most.

Mauritius' episcopal But there is no vocation promotor of the Apostle- without detachment," ship of the Sea, said in a Cardinal Margeot said. homily for the congress "Some days you suffer that being a seafarer is because you know that "following a vocation". your wife and your "It is somewhat similar children miss you."

Also, it may be less a problem for seafarers than for theologians. On ship everyone is seen as a co-worker and a companion."

Vatican ties with former Soviet states VATICAN CITY (CNS): The Vatican has established dipomatic relations with the former Soviet republics of K azakhstan and Vzbekistan.

The Vatican said the decision shows the desire "to develop mutual friendly relations" with both countries.

Earlier this year, the Vatican established diplomatic relations with the Soviet former of republics Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Kyrgyzstan.

The Vatican now has diplomatic relations with 142 countries.

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'Catholic life wiped out' Z AGREB, Croatia (CNS): Organised Catholic life in Banja Luka, about 150 miles northwest of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, has been effectively wiped out by Serbian occupation forces, according to a local priest recently allowed to visit Croatia.

The priest, who asked not to be named, confirmed that 40 per cent of Catholic churches in and around Banja Luka had been totally destroyed, while virtually all the rest, including the city's St Bonaventure Cathedral, has suffered heavy damage.

He said Catholics in Banja Luka, now part of the self-proclaimed "Serbian Republic of Krajina," had faced constant harrassment and intimidation. Most Catholic parishes are without priests, while in those where priests still lived, lay people were usually barred from attending church.

At least 150 Catholics under military escort, the had been killed in their priest said. own homes after the The bishop had urged righting had stopped, the the diocese's inhabitants priest added. not to fight back, fearing grater bloodbath "Many have been hid- an even Catholics retaliated ing in the forests for if against militant Serbs. months, while their "He has been forced, possessions homes and were looted," he said. unwillingly, to take a "Most Catholics outside political stand, since the Banja Luka would prefer occupiers have banned to leave everything and all non-Serbian political activity," the priest said. go abroad."

"But for now, he Many priests from the remains the only person Banja Luka Diocese for whom the Serbs show needed medical treat- any respect and who can ment after spending time conduct some kind of in Serbian prison camps, discussion with more he said. He said he could moderate Serbian only confirm the disap- officials." pearance of one priest but added that there had The priest quoted Red been persistent rumors, Cross sources as saying denied by the Yugoslav that Banja Luka's SerNational Army, that bian controllers now several priests had been believed the region's killed in remote part of "ethnic cleansing" was the diocese. more or less complete.

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While acknowledging that the Bosnian conflict had no religious basis, the priest accused Serbian Orthodox leaders of sharing responsibility for communal breakdown. communist "The regime always disliked the fact that we enjoyed good relations with the Orthodox Chruch, which had no reason in the past to see Catholic as any kind of danger. But while serbs describe themselves as Orthodox. 70 per cent are not even baptised.

"The Belgrade regime is using the Serbian "They aimed to cleanse Orthodox Church as an totally all the non- element in its campaign, Serbian population, accusing the Vatican of deporting people to the inflaming the conflict by camps and demolishing forcibly converting Serbs their homes. They now to Catholicism," he said.

Cardinal's 'dialogue' LOS ANGELES: The Caucus of Hollywood Producers, Writers and Directors overwhelmingly positive response to Cardinal Mahony's September pastoral on films seems to lay to rest concerns in the entertainment industry over his position on censorship.

In brief remarks to the caucus, Cardinal Mahony repeated his opposition both to censorship and to any type of restrictive movie code.

Instead, he focused his attention on the entertainment industry's potential "to be a positive and useful force in the world community".

The cardinal told the gathering that as producers, they were at "the cutting edge of defining the human person today.

I see in you a wonderful force for good in the world."

After his remarks, one thanked producer Cardinal-Mahony for "invoking what we can be rather than what we can't do."

Another said the pastoral, "Film Makers, Film Viewers' Their Challenges and Opportunities," had sparked a discussion between him and his staff on how to implement some of its suggestions.

A number of producers and writers complained about the difficulty of getting value-centered productions past networks and movie studios guided primarily by profits and ratings.

One producer called upon Cardinal Mahony to take the pastoral's message to the leaders of the major networks and studios "again and again and again".

He also asked the Church to take a more active role in educating Catholics to support well-made films.

Jack Valenti, head of the Motion Picture Associa-

tion of America, said he believed there was a growing frustration on the part of producers with the way the networks decide what gets shown on television.

"The four networks in this country have absolute life and death power over what you see or don't see on prime time," Valenti said.

"What the cardinal needs to do now is to sit with the networks and talk with them."

Paulist Father Ellwood "Bud" Kieser, president of Paulist Productions, said the meeting was "a very good start of the

dialogue" between the church and the entertainment industry.

"People are thinking.

They're thinking about their moral responsibilities to the public. And as long as we can get them thinking, we're way ahead," Father Kieser said.

The next step, he added,

is "to get the pastoral to

every major player in Hollywood. We're doing that with a personal letter from the cardinal included. We're also running portions of the pastoral and articles in (entertainment) the trade journals."

Denial over pope's retirement

VATICAN CITY, (CNS): The Vatican has denied that 72-year-old Pope John Paul II plans to retire in three years.

The denial was issued after London Sunday Times article said there is "serious speculation" in some Catholic publications "that, for the first time in 700 years. a pope may retire from office".

The article said that

the pope might be too ill to continue in office beyond the age of 75 because of his July surgery to remove an intestinal tumour.

The retirement report is "foolish and without foundation", said Mons Piero Pennacchini, Vatican spokesman.

Church law allows a pope to resign, and there has been at least one

pope who did.

"If it should happen that the Roman pontiff resigns his office, it is required for validity that he makes the resignation freely and that it be duly manifested, but not that it be accepted by anyone," says the Code of Canon Law. To fulfill the requirement, a pope must freely make the resignation in

writing or orally before two witnesses and communicate the decision to cardinals eligible to elect a new pope.

The resignation takes effect at the moment it is communicated to the cardinals as no one has the poweer to accept or

reject a papal resignation. There is no age criteria for a papal

resignation.

Pope Celestine V resigned in 1294 after five months in office and died in 1296.

• Last week, Vatican watcher Peter Hebblethwaite admitted on radio that he had started the retirement rumour but only because it was possible and had happened in the past.

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Marriage violence a church target WASHINGTON (CNS): titled "When I Call For Pastoral A A statement issued Help: jointly by two U.S. Response to Domestic Against bishops' committees Violence Women," the bishops declares that violence hope will be an initial against women, in the step in a continuing home or outside the effort by the church to home, can never be combat domestic viojustified. lence against women, opens with two dramatic scenarios:

"Violence in any form — physical, sexual, psychological or verbal — is sinful; many times it is a crime as well," says the joint statement.

The statement, which offers practical advice to battered women and those who batter them, says abuse against women exists everywhere, including within parishes and dioceses.

Women may need the church's help to break out of domestic violence, it says.

The 16-page statement,

• "She told the psychotherapist that she was living in the dog house because her husband locked her out when he was in a rage.

• "He told the abuse counsellor in group therapy that after the first couple of beatings, he didn't have to beat her up again. All he had to do was raise his fist."

The statement, citing statistics from the Journal of the American

Medical Association, says: • An estimated 3 million to 4 million women in the United States are battered each year by their husbands or partners.

• Approximately 37 per cent of obstetric patients of every race, class and educational background report being physically abused while pregnant.

• More than 50 per cent of women murdered in the United States are killed by their partner or ex-partner.

Both battered women and male abusers "need Jesus' strength and healing," the statement says.

It says part of the reason for writing the document was an "awareness that times of economic distress, such as the present,

when wage earners lose their jobs or are threatened with their loss, often are marked by an increase in domestic violence."

Violence against women in the home has a cyclical effect, the statement says.

"When the woman is a mother and the violence takes place in front of her children, the stage is set for a cycle of violence that may be continued from generation to generation," it says.

It says a child raised in a home with physical abuse is "a thousand times more likely to use violence in his own family."

At the same time, it says, 25 per cent of men who

grow up in an abusive home choose not to use

violence.

The statement defines abuse as "any kind of behaviour that one person uses to control another through fear and intimidation," including emotional and psychological abuse, battering and sexual assault.

Abuse, it says, cuts across racial and economic backgrounds and occurs in families from every ethnic, economic, religious and educational background.

Because violence usually takes place in the privacy of people's homes, it is often "shrouded in silence", says the statement.

Traditionally the abuse of a wife by her husband has been considered "not only a family matter but virtually a husband's perogative," it says. Even

today some people "mistakenly argue that intervention by outside sources endangers the concept of the sanctity of the home," it continues.

Men who abuse women convince themselves that they have a right to do so, says the statement.

"They may believe that violence is a way to dissipate tension and to solve problems — a view often society that supports."

Abusive men, the statement says, tend to be extremely jealous, possessive and easily angered. They often believe women are inferior to men, it says.

Alcohol is often tied to domestic violence, the statement says. It lessens inhibitions and can heighten anger, impair judgment and increase

AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED STARTS THE ROSARY ACTION "Bacon Priest" Werenfried van Straaten in Moscow for the first time DEAR FRIENDS, By the time you read this letter, I will have returned from Russia. At the invitation of the Moscow Patriarchate and of Archbishop Kondrusiewicz I preached before Orthodox and Catholics in Moscow, Novgorod and St Petersburg, before students and journalists, on radio and television.

God is now entrusting to us the mission for which I have been waiting for forty-five years: the re-evangelisation, reconciliation and re-establishment of love in the Communist wasteland. The conviction is growing that our organisation has a place in the heart of the Fatima message and is perhaps called to be Mary's instrument for reconciling divided Chnstendom. Perhaps that is the reason for the miracle that we are not going East with empty hands. Our new mission vehicles are already travelling in the region of Kaliningrad, in Bohemia and Albania. We are building seminaries in Ukraine, White Russia, Slovakia and churches everywhere. The printing presses in Poland, Romania and Hungary, are producing spiritual nourishment for all the countries of the East. Daily God's word falls like manna from the heavens, spanned now by a network of radio and television transmitters which send our programmes into the most distant corners of the former Soviet Empire.

Now we are launching heart and soul into a worldwide ecumenical campaign of prayer. Its objective is that the Church in the West and the Church in the East might be converted together and together take the last step along the road to reconciliation. That we might rise again together from the spiritual ruins of the twentieth century and together prociai.:1 the Gospel credibly to a generation which has lost faith in Marx and is now called to be the herald of the Kingdom of God in the third Christian millennium.

But if we are both to be converted, then for Russia as for us, the grace of this conversion must first be sought through the prayer of the Rosary; then it is not merely to the West but to Russia, too, that Mary's appeal is addressed. For over seventy years Satan prevented her from being heard in Russia but on 13th October 1991 we broke through this blockade with our FatimaMoscow television link-up. Forty million Russians have

On 14th May 1992 Cardinal Jan Korec and Fr Werenfried visited Sr Lucy, the last surviving Fatima visionary.

The diminutive Sister and the entire convent community listened to the report about "Aid to the Church in Need", an organisation which, in the opinion of the former Bishop of Leiria, "has a place at the heart of the Fatima message". Fr Werenfried asked for their spiritual support for the initiative he wants to launch amongst the Orthodox and Catholic faithful to pray the Rosary together To a question by the Slovakian caltilnal, Sister Lucy replied, "What Fr Werenfried is doing is just the right thing".

seen our broadcasts. Millions want to know more.

Millions will be ready to ding to this last spiritual lifeline which Mary is casting to them.

The vehicle of this ecumenical prayer campaign Is a little Rosary Booklet: "We Fly to Thy Patronage." The booklet Is an introduction to the Rosary prayed In an ecumenical spirit by Catholics and Orthodox and inspired by the message of Fatima. It Is a valuable aid to meditation on the 15 Mysteries of the Rosary, illustrated in colour with profoundly religious pictures by Bradi Brath.

The Russian edition will sent free together with a Rosary, to all believers in the former Soviet Union, who write to our Moscow office. Through our access to the media in Russia we will appeal for their participation.

In Russia I invited the faithful to pray the Rosary with us: 1 . for the conversion of the materialist West; 2. for the victory of Christ in Russia; 3. for reconciliation between the Catholic and Orthodox Church.

This common prayer has nothing to do with latinising or proselytising. The Orthodox Church is an integral part of the Mystical Body of Christ. For many years we have been helping her in the liturgical and pastoral fields. We now wish to substantially increase this help.

To do so we will found a new project department. In a spirit of fraternal co-operation and together with the Orthodox children of Mary, we intend to do together what Mary has asked of both Western and Eastern Christianity.

As this spiritual enterprise requires an enormous investment I would invite those who wish to share in this prayer campaign to donate, if possible A$10 for this purpose. In return you will receive a Rosary booklet (English version) and at the same time pay for two booklets and two Rosaries to be sent to Orthodox believers who have requested them in the former Soviet Union.

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the amount of force used, it says.

The statement acknowledges that it is difficult to explain why women sometimes stay with their abusers.

Psychiatrists report that abusive relationships usually start out "loving and rewarding to both parties," it notes. Later, when the first violent act occurs, "the woman is likely to be incredulous and willing to believe her spouse when he apologises and promises that he will never repeat the abuse."

When it is repeated, many women accept blame for their abusers' actions, it says. "In time, as their self-esteem plummets, they feel trapped in the abusive relationship, especially if they have children and no other means of support."

The statement says part of the problem is that the women may be ashamed to admit the man they married and whom they love "is the one who is terrorising them".

It

advises abused

women to:

• Talk about their situation in confidence to someone they trust.

• If they must stay in the situation temporarily, set up a "safety plan of action", such as hiding a car key outside the house and keeping a small amount of money accessible in a safe place.

• Investigate area resources available to battered women and their children, and contact the diocesan Catholic Charities or family life office.

It advises male abusers to: • "Have the courage to look honestly at your actions . . . Begin to believe that you can change your behaviour if you choose to do so."

• Contact their parish and Catholic Charities or area shelters for the name of a program for abusers.

It advises pastors and pastoral staff to: • Make the parish a "safe place" where abused women and male abusers can come for help.

• Make sure parish homilies address domestic violence.

• In marriage preparation programs, check couples' methods of handling disagreements and their families' problem-solving patterns. Suggest postponing marriage if signs of abuse or potential abuse are identified.

• Have an action plan ready if an abused woman calls for help.

Build a relationship with police and domestic violence agencies.

Praise for improvement in Lutheran-Catholic ties ROME (CNS): The Council of the Lutheran World Federation praised 25 years of improving Lutheran-Roman Catholic relations, but expressed disappointment with two recent Vatican documents.

The documents — a letter to bishops from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on the church as communion and the Vatican's response to the final report of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission — have been similarly criticised by other churches.

Despite the disappointments, the Council of the Lutheran World Federation said that on the 25th anniversary of international theological dialogue, "we recommit ourselves to continue with the Roman Catholic Church on the path to visible unity."

The Lutheran World Federation, which includes 114 Lutheran churches and represents some 70 million believers, is the Vatican's official dialogue partner.

The council said there had been a "decisive improvement" in Lutheran-

'Apartheid' move in Pakistan

Catholic relations marked by mutual trust and growing co-operation in many areas, including humanitarian aid and efforts toward justice and peace.

"At the same time, we are painfully aware of a resurgence among both Lutherans and Catholics of theologically defensive attitudes which endanger ecumenical progress by seeking to turn the churches in upon themselves."

And, council members said, "we feel constrained to express concern" about the two recent Vatican documents.

The December 1991 response to the Catholic Anglican dialogue results seemed to apply "a standard of judgment that inappropriately" asks for an identical formulation of theological beliefs rather than for unity in faith, the council said.

"That response raises questions for us about official responses to Lutheran-Roman Catholic documents in the future."

The document on the universal church as a communion of churches was released by the doctrinal congregation in mid-June. The

Parents killed

SAN MARCOS, Guatemala (CNS): The parents of human rights activist Rigoberta Menchu, first Native American winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, were killed by human rights violations.

She plans to use the $1.2 million prize money to FAISALABAD, Pakistan: Including a religion establish a fund in column on the national identity card "is the memory of her father, worst form of apartheid in the name of religion", the Pakistani bishop's conference say Vincente Menchu. who was killed in a rights in a letter to the country's president and prime protest. minister.

The elder Menchu was burned alive with 37 Religious fundamentalist forces have made a other peasant farmers in mockery of the citizenship of Pakistan by 1980 by the national forcing all Pakistanis to declare their religion police who set fire to the and note it on the national identity card, the Spanish Embassy in bishops said.

Guatemala City which "Now the truth has dawned on us — we are the demonstrators had occupied to aliens in our own country," said Martin Aslam, peacefully protest massacres and coordinator of the ecumenical Institute for land seizures in the Justice and Peace in Karachi.

Indian highlands.

The national identity card was first issued in Three months later, Ms Menchu's mother was Pakistan in 1974 during late prime minister kidnapped, tortured and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's tenure. There was no killed.

column for religion on the original cards.

Citizens above the age of 18 are required to carry the card.

Bishop John Joseph of Faisalabad, condemned the amended identity card.

"When Pakistan came into being, the "maulanas" (Muslim religious leaders) opposed the creation of Pakistan, and it was the Christians who voted with the liberal Muslims for the creation of Pakistan," bishop Joseph said.

"But today, without even taking one minority member into confidence, a committee of maulanas has decided to change the national identity card into a religious card," he said.

Bishop Joseph said Christians and other minorities will continue to campaign until the religion column is withdrawn from the identity card.

Lutheran council said its subject matter "must concern ecumenical partners even though its intention is to shape Catholic understandings of communion".

The doctrinal congregation's document said the idea of the church as a communion of churches implies a unity of faith, a common baptism, shared Eucharist and structural unity through the local bishop with the pope.

In so far as non-Catholic churches and Christian communities share some of those elements, there is "a certain communion, albeit imperfect", the document said.

But the document described as "wounded" those Christian communities that are not united with the pope.

The Lutheran council said it was disappointed that the 25 years of dialogue "has not influenced the document's conceptuality".

"Its impact is all the more painful because it breaths a different spirit from that which we encounter in so many other LutheranRoman Catholic relations," the council said.

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When home is hurt is the where Abuse among people who should love each other Preventive programs include any education offered for engaged or married couples about handling conflict, solving problems, communicating more effectively.

Also included is education for all parishioners about the extent of abuse and recognising its symptoms.

Battering thrives on sexism. So making sure that educational programs are free of sexual stereotyping is a necessary step in preventing abuse.

Preaching and teaching about the equal dignity of men and women, and the mutual respect each owes the other, can also be an effective strategy.

In addition, there are many steps parish leaders and members can take to remedy abuse. For example: • Make the parish a safe place where abused women can come for help; communicate a feeling of hospitality.

• Train staff members and volunteers to recognise the physical and psychological signs of abuse.

• Take every abused woman's story seriously. Listen carefully and assess as quickly as possible the degree of danger she may be in.

• Have a plan ready to help victims: For example, provide physical protection, refer the person to a shelter, offer legal services and counselling.

• Identify in the parish bulletin certain parishioners, groups or agencies an abused woman might contact for help.

• Offer prayers at Mass for abuse victims, for men who abuse women and for those who minister to both.

• Encourage parishioners to volunteer at shelters or crisis hotlines.

• Organise recovery groups for victims.

• Don't forget the abusers. If possible, urge them to seek treatment.

By H. Richard McCord Jr.

The headlines were mind-boggling: "Little Lisa Beaten to Death."

"Parents Starve Child to Death." "Eleven-Year-01d Dies of Cardiac Failure, Starved By Parents."

Abuse, the assault on another person through words, blows or silence: How can this happen among real people whose lives together should be made up of the stuff of love?

But there it is in the headlines — daily! And what we hear about and read about are but leaves from full forests. We know little of the forest — only about the abuse that ends in dramatic headlines. (Lawyers in family courts around the country know that there are thousands of little Lisas.)

I began to understand all this one night, years beforeIbegan to practice helping people overcome the effects of abuse.

Toland sat opposite me.

The table between us was filled with the breads and the cheeses and the other little things restaurants use to cover the wait and to sell the drinks.

"I treat myself to a great 8

meal out at least once a week!" he noted.

"But that must be very expensive,"Isaid.

"Listen," he said as he was jutting his finger back and forth at me for emphasis, "when you grow up like I did, you not only deserve it, you need it . . .

"One of my parents died whenIwas a few months old. There were so many of us that we were put into a foundling home first and then into foster care.

"When I started to remember things, I was with a family where there were two adopted children, a boy and a girl, and I was the foster child . . .

abuse, yes. But so is the withholding of an embrace from one who needs to be held.

So is the deep silence of deserve it . . . and need fathers and mothers and it." children and teachers and siblings and friends Moments passed. He when words of care are held me with his eyes. needed.

"An atom bomb went off It it abuse for fathers in my life when I was a child. If I had dealt with and mothers, sisters and it then, I would have brothers never to say they love one another died." and to show it. Even the I didn't eat that night showing of it as a way for with Toland. The food in never saying it might be front of me got cold. But insufficient in a world he finished his meal. where language, at some helps us to name point, Years later he told me and know what is real. that he was back into It is abuse for husbands therapy, explaining: "The bomb's got a world of and fathers and mothers fallout. Every day it gets and wives to come home night after night and use into my eyes andI cry." fatigue as the battering Physical abuse with its ram for driving their "Every night I was sent up to bed early. And black eyes and broken children and their while I was trying to get arms, cigarette burns, spouses away. to sleep, I could hear the imprisonment in closets, It is abuse for children others downstairs having chainings — an assault to ignore the human their 'midnight snacks'. on the weak and dependThis happened every ent — plays well on needs of their parents. night and I was always television and gives rea- Parents need to be left out . . . hungry for son for universal moral understood and not ignored and taken for love at night and beaten outrage. granted, to be attended during the day."

But abuse is any sort of to, touched, smiled at and It was almost as if he violence, active or pas- included in their childhad fallen into a reverie. sive. Yelling, whipping, ren's lives. Children, He shook his head, his screaming, cursing, slap- especially teens, can be voice brightened, "So ping, shaking, constant as abusive with their now you know why I teasing — these are silences as parents.

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By Brother Cyprian Rowe, FMS

It is abuse to casually stay away from home when expected and never see the need to let people know that one is safe.

Abuse, ultimately, becomes a way of dealing with the world and if a nation makes violence part of its repertoire of usual (not to whipser ordinary) behaviours, abuse becomes part of its way of life.

So television is filled with children who are smart-alecks and pepper their parents with wisecracks at which everyone laughs because someone else has been "hit by a word bomb"; every crime show fills us with the sort of rage that calls for us to "beat" those who would dare transgress. And all of this is related to abuse.

Victims of abuse and abusers themselves must work hard against coming to believe that abuse is the ordinary and routine way of dealing with interpersonal frustration. Prisons and the offices of psychotherapists are filled with people who never learn these things.

Home is where the heart is — for many people. But for increasing numbers of women and children, home is where the hurt is.

Violence within family life's privacy is becoming a widespread social problem, health risk and moral challenge.

Domestic violence assumes many forms.

It may be physical, sexual, verbal or psychological. Women, children and the elderly are its most frequent targets.

For the sake of brevity and focus, let's consider just the physical abuse of women.

Almost four million women are battered each year by their husbands or partners.

Thirty per cent of the women who visit emergency rooms do so for abuse-related reasons.

The Ford Foundation recently described battering as the single greatest cause of injury to women.

Abusive behaviour can no longer just be some other family's embarrassing secret or private terror. We must face this situation as a society and as a church, allowing the truth to be told by victims and seeking justice and healing for victims and abusers alike.

The American Medical Association recommends that physicians routinely ask women patients whether they have been abused. And the AMA urges doctors to offer battered women information about protection, shelter, legal options, etc.

When an abused woman summons the courage to seek help she may contact her doctor, but she might just as likely turn to her church.

The U.S. Catholic bishops' Committees on Marriage and Family and on Women in Society and Church recognise this. They soon will issue a statement condemning violence against women in the homes, published along with practical suggestions for women trying to escape abuse and for parishes wanting to minister to them.

What steps could parishes take to combat domestic abuse of women? There are preventive and remedial measures.

Domestic violence has serious repercussions, not just for its victims but for all of us. For example, when children witness such violence the stage is set for abuse to continue into the next generation.

Churches can play a role in breaking this cycle and encouraging behaviour that strengthens family life.

The biblical story of violence

By Father John Castelot The biblical story of humanity's alienation from God is followed by several stories about the violent results of that estrangement. All have to do with people's alienation from each other.

Almost immediately the man turns against the woman and blames her for the break with God. This is not just the alienation of this man from this woman, but of men from women. It is not physical violence, but the kind of emotional rejection that can cut

more deeply than a knife-thrust.

This boast is a subtle warning that if his wives cross him they can expect a savage beating.

People were created in God's image, given the

Then comes the story of Cain and Abel, another instance of shocking domestic violence, with one brother brutally murdering another.

Cut off from God, the source of love, people set out on a trail of hatred, rejection, violence.

The next character spotlighted in this sordid drama is Lamech, who introduces bigamy and uncontrolled violence.

He boasts to his wives: "Listen to my utterance:I dignity of sharing in the have killed a man for divine creative love.

To fail or refuse to love wounding me, a boy for bruising me." (Genesis is to be subhuman, brutish.

4:23).

It is not a matter of falling from the supernatural to the natural, but from the truly human to the subhuman.

Since the Bible is a story

of humanity's persistent rejection of God's plan for their happiness, it is inevitably a tragic story.

People often are repelled by the repeated tales of

conflict, war and violence.

Since the authors were men, we never hear the women's personal reactions to all this macho posturing, to the senseless slaughter of hus-* bands and sons.

We rarely read accounts of wife-bashing or family violence. But, given the prevailing social structure, it surely happened.

Occasionally an ugly incident is recorded, like the one in which some men threaten to abuse a traveller. To save his own skin he practically throws his concubine to them. She is subjected to gang rape all night and in the morning collapses at

the door of the house where the man is staying.

He finds her, and when they finally get home he destroys her in a ghastly way (see Judges 19:2230).

Jesus' own disciples, heirs to a tradition of violence, reacted instinctively when a Samaritan village denied them entrance. James and John asked, "Lord, do you want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?" Luke tells us that "Jesus turned and rebuked them" (Luke 9:51-55).

There is no place for violence in the new order inaugurated by Jesus.It is the ultimate obscenity.

DISCUSSION POINTS As one involved in a church ministry, how do you advise a person who is suffering abuse in the home?

Selected responses from readers: "First I would listen to them and hear their story so I could understand their pain.

"It is important that they tell their story to someone, otherwise it stays bottled up inside.

"I would also suggest strongly that they see professional a counsellor.

"Even though I'm a church minister, I'm not an expert in this area and thus alone I could do more harm than good without the professional expe-

rience." — Sister Lousie M. Olsofka.

"Get physically safe from the abuser.

"The next thing is counselling for both the abused and the abuser.

"The same things apply even if the abuse is emotional rather than physical. Emotional abuse is more subtle . . .

"That's why it can be so destructive because it is harder to recognise and people can feel more guilty trying to leave the abuse.

"The key is helping the victim not feel guilt or blame." — Rod O'Connor.

"Often the abused take responsibility for

the abuse by feeling something they said or some way they acted caused the abuse when in fact there is never an excuse for abuse.

"The family has to get to the point where no abuse is acceptable.

"I stress to parents that it is their responsibility to ensure the safety of their children.

"Often there is a lot of love in these families.

"It's just that . . . they have never learned to express what they need in a safe, appropriate way." — Donna Gould.

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Rediscovery in hurting marriages

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard Retrouvaille (Rediscovery) is being introduced into Western Australia this weekend at the Kum-Ba-Yah Centre, 12 Lennard Street, Marmion.

Its initial debut is in the form of a training weekend in order to help couples and priests experience the major concepts, techniques and values of Retrouvaille.

This will enable them to participate as team members once the ministry is established here in WA. Originating in French Canada in 1977, Retrouvaille is now in most Canadian provinces, about 20 USA states and in several countries in Central and South America as well as the Philippines, Trinidad and Korea.

In Australia its incep-

tion was in Geelong, Victoria, in 1992 under the umbrella of the Family Welfare Bureau which speak very highly of its results.

Although Catholic in origin and orientation, couples from diverse religions are also welcome.

Rediscovery is a minis-

try to couples whose marriages are in trouble and offers a relationship building ministry rather than a problem solving program.

Nevertheless it cooperates with marriage and family counsellors.

Over here from the USA to start the program through the initial training weekend, are International Expansion Coordinators Chuck and Anita Lewis and Monsignor Carlos (Charles) Fortier.

They've been brought out by the Parish Life and Mission office in Perth and the Marriage and Family Enrichment office in Bunbury with a healthy financial injection from the Office of the Family and said they hope to leave couples and priests with enough enthusiasm to establish the ministry here in WA. Rediscovery offers a weekend experience with follow-up sessions which help couples reflect on the strengths as well as the difficulties in marital their relationship.

Couples come from all ages and backgmunds, some separated, some divorced but who want to try again. many And have struggled to stay together, said the Lewis',

sometimes with outside help but generally often not knowing where to turn.

"Because marital damage occurs over a period of time, so does the healing process."

Thus the post weekend provides a support group as couples discuss concepts of the weekend plus new insights into conflict resolution with an emphasis on the importance of listening and intimacy.

Statistics indicate that 40% of marriages break down within the first three years so the Catholic Church sees a need to help those in a hurting situation.

Chuck says people need that support.

"If a priest gets hurt," he can get some time off with a retreat or whatever, "but when a couple gets into trouble, they're told if they go to the Church for help to go home and make it work!

"But they're in misery.

And when you're in misery you see your problems as 'all their fault'!

"So we try to provide an atmosphere so they can see the other person in a different light," said the Lewis'.

"And to give them some hope that they can survive.

"They need to look at their spouse with different eyes and recognise they're experiencing pain too; so they have to change themselves also."

The Lewis' said Rediscovery presenters are not facilitators "because we see ourselves as peers to them and sharing our hurts."

And although they are not problem solvers or counsellors they recognise the importance of counsellors, one of whom sent 50 couples to the program which in combination with his counselling, saved 48 marriages.

One of the Rediscovery communities in New York sent a survey to all of the couples who'd attended over a two year period.

There was a 70% response, of which 98% were still together and said Rediscovery had made a significant contribution to their ability to their re-build marriage.

The Rediscovery program runs for three months and has four phases.

The first is the interview — and here the Lewis' stressed that confidentiality is strictly maintained.

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Riverton's mission prays in 'tongues' On the last evening of Queen of Apostles Mission Riverton the Rosary was prayed in 13 different languages which showed the cosmopolitan nature of the parish.

The mission which was conducted by Redemptorist Fathers Pat Kearney and Des Fitzgerald ran for two weeks.

During the first week, 25 zone gatherings were held in homes throughout the parish. These brought many neighbours together who had not known each other before. The mission priests visited many homes during the day.

The second week was a preached mission with Mass and instruction each morning; prayer, sermon and benediction each evening. Great number of parishioners attended all sessions.

Four to five hundred parishioners were in attendance during the evening sessions.

A special highlight of the evening sessions was the active participation of parishioners in "role plays" to demonstrate a particular message.

Each day was allocated a special colour in keeping with the theme and many people came dressed in theme colours for the day.

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enabled the parish to come alive with the message of Jesus and the love of Mary. Many positive comments were heard around the parish: - "the mission brought the parish closer together" . . . "very refreshing" . . . "could we have another one next year" . . .

Parish priest Father Luemmen said the mission's success was due to prayer, good planning and involvement of many parishioners and excellent mission priests.

Josephites go to Peruvians' aid

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard Josephite Sister Edith years before they usually Prince who's been die of a haemorrhage. working in Peru since Peruvian families are 1981 has been back in large with around 12 or Perth on a year's home 13 in the older families leave and is due to and about six in the return to Peru in younger ones.

January next year.

The Josephites teach She's based in Lima, natural family planning speaks Spanish, and in their area which has a apart from a three month predominance of younstint in Huasa Huasi has ger families — mostly spent her years there young folk who've working currently with migrated down from the four other Josephites in a mountains. Some bring variety of initiatives to their parents down but help the Peruvians. in fact there are very few After the slaying of older people in the Sister Irene McCormack parish. by the Shining Path In order to better obtain guerillas last year, the overseas loans, the J osephites have not government accepted as returned, as Sister part of that deal, a family Dorothy Stevenson was planning program in also on their hit list and accordance with the by chance was away that World Health Organisaday. tion (WHO), which is As a trained nurse, now currently in place.

Sister Edith works in the Prior to this there was health area with mal- already a natural family nourished children, planning council in Peru assessing, treating and with 15 centres in Lima providing a nutrition and in a number of program. provincial areas as well.

Citing the worsening However a lot of people economic situation, Sis- objected to the intensive ter Edith said there were government family planmany who were dying of ning scheme which the effects of mal- denied them the value of nourishment. natural family planning, And tubercolosis which said Sister Edith. had always been present The people have a love mainly among teenagers and respect for fertility and young adults, has and children and accordnow become more pre- ingly it was difficult for valent among children. the government to impleWith insufficient drugs, ment their program government programs because it proposed are now running out she artificial methods. stated, resulting in the Consequently with the TB bacteria manifesting people-favoured natural itself more vigorously method, a large number and more resistant. of medicos have been Sister Edith illustrated taught the system to how this very long explain it to the people. running disease usually Other health programs takes at least one year to to help the Peruvians kill, even when on understand the relationconstant treatment. Thus ship between germs, those without this con- disease, infection and the stant treatment may have need for hygiene have the disease for five or six been implemented.

Sister Edith and her Peruvian friends.

Another health prob- is not possible for the lem plaguing the people majority "who are very, was gastro-intestinal very poor. infections, Sister Edith "In Peru there is a big pointed out, with many gap between the poor children dying from and the few very rich, dehydration of diar- with no middle class in rhoea; so women are between." taught how to treat it in Trying to do their best their own homes, avoidhelp educate and to their death of the ing the sisters work nourish, children. with groups of women She also cited cholera as who have formed comnow running through munity kitchens to prothe country and "which vide nourishing food for will never be eradicated". their children.

Previously confined to In Sister Edith's parish Asia it has now entered there are over 100 cornSouth America where mtmity kitchens, supplethe same lack of hygiene mented by some relief and a bad economic food from overseas and situation have made it with the locals pooling impossible to eradicate. their resources to buy With normal hygiene of better for their money. boiling water, cooking Most people only have utensils and carefully one meal a day consisting washing food, it can be of vegetables, beans or avoided said Sister, but lentils. once a victim succumbs Within the relief food the hospitals don't have abroad, there is from the or drips of stocks wheat and soya crushed fluid to give patients and protein to their add to only those with access to money can afford to buy diet and sometimes milk.

"But you never see fresh the necessary from the in Lima," said Sister. milk procedure chemist. This Peru hasn't had a census since 1981, when it showed a population of six million in Lima out of a total Peruvian number of 23 million.

Sister Edith said it's been estimated Lima's population has at least doubled with the influx of country people looking for work, education, health facilities and somewhere to live.

The poor mud brick houses in which Peruvians make do.

They come looking for a home and land because lots of villages have been destroyed by terrorism and the civil war in which thousands have

been killed. because of a rapidly Peru, said Sister Edith.

The Shining Path is the dropping underground is in chaos. main terrorist group, said level which is not being "Lots of young people Sister, and there is replenished and a conlost hope and their have tinually increasing another called Tupac lives and vision are Amaru. These two fight poplation. see it, the armed forces and Another work of the purposeless as they of majority then the but police. sisters' is to help establish fantastic have people Then there are also the craft workshops, provid- hope which is evident in Rondiros — a type of ing a working place and popular organisations home civil guard found the finance to get started which help one another. mainly in country vil- plus paying for teachers The Peruvian populalages but now formed in and a full time carpenter. tion is mainly Catholic, the cities also.

Sister Ursula, works in Sister Edith said, and the "dreadfully overA typical Peruvian dwelling Sister described crowded prisons where prayer and religious as being made from there is no food provided processions are important to them. bamboo matting (very for prisoners. fragile) which was ade"Prisoners have to rely Within the parish the quate for the people of on what they get from sisters also work with Lima because there is no their relatives; if they youth groups and family rain there; but in the have none, then the catechetics whereby mountains with the church workers provide children are prepared for heavy rains, people con- some relief food which First Holy Communion struct their houses out of comes in from overseas." by their parents who are mud with a thatched Currently church educated to prepare roof. workers are not allowed them with the sisters cothese The typical home starts in the prisons because of ordinating programs. the recent crisis which off with one room and It is the same for the some manage to extend it resulted in the country over the years with the being given over to Confirmation programs. more fortunate in Lima military rule.

On the parish team are reinforcing their houses In regard to terrorism, three fully paid Peruvian with mud bricks.

Sister Edith described lay women for religious Cooking is done on a the extreme form of purposes, as well as the one-jet small kerosene Communism in China as sisters, who also run a stove on the floor being seen in the Maoist program for three special kitchens which provide because there is no wood Shining Path guerrillas. malnourished children "They want people to for fuel, but in the with free meals. revolution so accept their mountains cooking is This provision is possidone on open wood fires they can control the country. Consequently ble with funds from outside the houses. they're against any Australia and New Lima is built on a desert improvement which will Zealand. plain, said Sister Edith, give the people what they Sister Edith says the with the main water call 'false hope'.

Josephites, despite set source emanating from "So they attack the backs such as the slaying an inadequate reservoir because it assists of Sister Irene and other church proonly supply which the population with self religious and priests vides about a quarter of such who've also lost their organisations help the population. as the women's kitchen lives for the cause of the Extra is drawn from and milk program and Peruvians, have a long wells but it is envisaged thereby gives people term commitment to there will be great diffi- hope in helping them to their mission in Peru and culty in providing future help themselves and yes! water to satisfy needs change the situation."

She's keen to go back!

Tasty treat at top Top young community workers got a real taste of Parliament House last week.

Ten winners of Silver Chain Awards of commendation for voluntary service work to the community had lunch and a meeting with the

Premier Dr Lawrence.

Nicolette Madry of College Chisholm received an award for her assistance at the Special Religious Educator Centre for the Handicapped at Morley, and for her involvement in the St Vincent De Paul Society. she also orga-

nised fund raising at her college and participated in doorknock appeals.

Vanessa Smith of Newman College was recognised for her two and a half years of helping to relieve the loneliness of the elderly people at Concorde Nursing

Home.

Vanessa has regularly helped to arrange special functions, served as a waitress, assisted at craft activities, accompanied the more active to shops, organised games and generally brought happiness to the older people.

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Bindoon's Keaney College has been busy about its recent celebrations.

Above: When Archbishop Hickey blessed the renovated chapel the music team was out in force with Jary Scott on saxophone, Mrs Norma De La Costa vocalist with soloist Nathan Whitely and organist Mrs Helen Morris.

Music was the order of the day last Sunday

Sir, the real reason for the morale booster that the Irish President Mary Robinson claims she received in Western Australia (The Record, October 29) is because she faced little or no opposition while she was here to her well publicised, pro-choice feminist views.

That is something that your correspondent, writing for our Catholic newspaper did not think important enough to inform the readers of.

In Ireland she still has to face the staunchest opposition wherever she goes because there is still a lot of faith left in that dear country yet.

This is even though, like most places in the Catholic world, that faith is being eroded by precisely the same liberalism that Mrs Robinson adheres to.

Mrs Robinson does to some extent distance herself from the radicalism of the feminism of the sixties because as an extremely intelligent and informed woman she is aware that there is a new kind of feminism emerging.

It's a pro-life feminism and it is beginning to emerge

because of the undisputed evidence of the exploitation of lower class women by the feminist movement. It is stronger in countries such as the U.S. where the exploitation of Hispanic and Negro women is particuarly noticeable.

Unfortunately, this is something that Mrs Robinson like others of her more privileged sisters seem not to be taking into account judging by her position on abortion.

In Ireland, feminist issues have always taken second place to the nationalist cause until recently. This is the reason for Ireland's late introduction to feminism.

The Australian sisterhood is also behind its American counterpart but trends are usually contagious so change may be coming.

Mary Robinson is typical of the "old style- feminists of the sixties trying to make a smooth transition between old and new style feminism.

That is precisely where the danger lies.

Like others of her ilk she will walk a political tight rope between issues such as a natural compassion for starving Somalian children a nd keeping pro-choice feminists and t he power

environmental lobby happy on the issue of abortion.

What is so sad is that her influence and example will help to ensure that many unborn Irish children will never see Ireland's haunting beauty because they will never be allowed to be born.

Abortion on demand will happen in Ireland as it has

happened in other countries. Unborn Irish children, as all children born and unborn world wide should be, must be protected from exploitation through law.

If justice does exist as I believe it does, then Mary Robinson, like so many others, will not be able to have it both ways forever.

from Paul DONNELLY Claremont

citizen opposition detailed; and the need to be vocal instead of staying silent through disapproving.

There is one national body with both facilities, finance and membership to raise protest. I refer to the Australian Parents Council with its associate State Federations reaching down to a multiplicity of school associations.

These parents and the organisers are failing in their duty to their children if they do not organise to resist porn spread here as the good Bishop urges in Mexico

Pornography pressure Sir, "Pornography is slithering into the living rooms of the nation" you report Bishop Pfeifer of San Angelo, Mexico (The Record October 22).

This is precisely what is also taking place in Australia where our TV channels vie for rating by pornographic portrayals of women. Slithering in precisely describes the sleaze to which the scientific miracle of colour TV has sunk.

I hope that your article is read especially for its

TOMORROW TODAY with Father Joe Parkinson

Right: Willetton Antioch held another successful weekend recently.

Left: Paul McInnes and Barry Newman provided music for Riverton Antioch during their recent weekend.

Below: Willetton Anticoh leaders Emma Harrison and Peter Duff.

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The 20-minute video, produced by convention organisers and released to schools recently, is also available for use in parishes.

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Many adults have commented that the video gave them, for the first time, a real sense the value of such large youth gatherings, and the importance of these events in the formation of Catholic young people.

But the project has also proved popular among senior schools, many of whom will make the journey to Aquinas College for "Radical Grace" in January.

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by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

Our Lady and her people

Me dju gor je Mundaring's special day messages from Mary

Mundaring Holy Communicants on their very special day: Nigel Johnson, Holly Tomlinson, Jacob Berry, Daniel Morris, Jordan Richards, Tara Scott, Thomas Da Costa, Jacinta McIntosh and Kate Schleicher, with PP Father Joss Breen in the background.

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It's just great when your sister visits you from the other side of the world! says Mundaring accolyte Otto Gehrmann with Maria Gehrmann from Germany, wife Marie-Liaise, and daughter Rosalie.

Cead Mile Failte Mary!

Dear Children: I invite you to prayer now when Satan is strong and wishes to make as many souls as possible his own.

Pray, dear children, and have more trust in me, because I am here in order to help you and to guide you on a new path towards a new life.

Therefore dear little children, listen and live whatItell you, because it is important for you, when I shall not be with you any longer, that you remember my words and all which I told you.

I call you to begin to change your life from the beginning and that you decide for conversion not with words but with your life.

Newly appointed Irish Club Manager Tom Croghan (left), reading The Records article on Irish President Mary Robinson's visit to their club with lrena Jaremowych (giving a wink!), Dominic Hyde and John Murphy.

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Thank you for having responded to my call!

Message from Our Lady, Queen of Peace, given to the visionary, Marija Paviovic, for the village of Medjugorje and the World on September 25, 1992.

Dear Children, Today again I wish to tell you: I am with you in these restless days in which Satan wishes to destroy everything that I and my Son Jesus are building up.

He wants to destroy your souls.

He wishes to lead as far away as possible from Christian life as well as from the commandments, to which the Church calls you to live.

Satan wishes to destroy everything which is holy in you and around you.

Therefore, dear children, pray, pray, pray, in order to be able to comprehend all that GOD is giving you through my coming.

Thank you for responding to my call.

Do angels really exiSt?

The Angels

Just how real the fight Father Gerard with evil can be, the Dickinson whole story of Our temptation and on the angels Lord's His crucifixion show.

A re they merely The death of Christ, s weet inventions which Satan thought brought to us in child- was his crowning vichood in the same way tory was in reality his that Santa Claus, and utter defeat. Christ is Christ is the Easter Bunny are r isen. triumphed over Principresented?

Or is there a reality palities and Powers, behind this beautiful and the devil has been notion that we can cast out of heaven.

But not out of earth. believe in and draw Father reminded us strength from?

A s mentioned rec- that what is happening ently in The Record, in the world is a Father Gerard Dickin- tremendous batle of son was the guest spiritual forces. " Around us are all the speaker on this topic at the September forces of godlessness, A fternoon with Jesus lust, and ambition, the and Mary. His words worship of false Gods, blasphemous were so beautiful and the thought provoking we denial of God, and the have reprinted them idolatry of self.

"These are the evil here — to share with forces of which St. Paul you all.

Father Dickinson often speaks, and described the angels which are near to you as being like the and to me every single microscopic forms of day that we are alive.

"It is in this battle that life in a sample of pond water. They are the angels are the not immediately ap- champions of God. "In this battle we parent to the naked eye, yet their existence need, more than ever before, a firm belief is a reality.

"It is very difficult to that each and every one e xplain what the of us is cared for, and angels are like when watched over by our there is nothing like own, special guardian them in ordinary life. angel."

Father Gerard intro. .. And I don't think pictures of anaemic duced us to the angels present right throughlooking creatures with wings do much to out the bible — those c ommend them to who defended the human thought," he prophet Elijah, and Daniel amongst the said. lions: the angel who " When they have strengthened Jesus in appeared, it would the garden of Gethseseem that they do mane; those who adopt human form — helped Peter and later however it is not necPaul escape from essary to see them to prison. be conscious of their There are the angels presence and help." who carried Lazarus to " After all, we very the bosom of Abraham; rarely see evil spirits, those who rejoiced for but we know when the one repetant sinner; they are about their the childrens' angels, business. who are continually in "Like most really the presence of the helpful people, the Father. angels so quietly Angels announced about their business, the birth of Christ to unobserved by the the shepherds, and the unseeing eyes of resurrection of Christ human beings. to the women at the In the Old Testament tomb. It was angels the angels are con- who spoke to the aposstantly spoken of as tles on the day of Jesus' the army or the host of ascention. heaven. We read here Not to mention those and there of the orders who are known to us by or ranks among them. name: Michael — 'he We are told of cheru- who is like God' — to bim and seraphim. Of who God assigns angels and archangels mighty deeds with who take on certain complete trust; Gabriel responsibilities.

— 'the strength of God': "Amongst these are and Raphael — 'the one those whom we call sent to cure the 'guardian angels' — afflicted'. intelligent, spiritual Father Dickinson creatures, enlisted by closed his presentation God to exercise indi- with the prayer that all vidual care and protec- of us may live through tion over each one of our daily lives "ever us. To assist us in our conscious of that heavattainment of eternal enly host. ...Knowing salvation. that numbered among The concept of a them is one whose guardian angel as a special task is to watch distinct spiritual over and care for you being sent by God to and me." protect individuals is How beautiful is this a development of God of ours! He has Catholic theology and spared no measure to piety not literally to be make our paths to found in the bible, but heaven lighter to tread.

Let us draw often on fostered by it.

Father Dickinson this spiritual resource spoke of the spiritual He has given to each war on earth which one of us — and invoke reflects that war which the protection and aide took place in heaven at of these mighty guardthe time of the casting ians who watch over us out of Satan. This war, from cradle to grave.

Reported by he said, much concerns NANA HOWARD each one of us

What does our church teach on angels?

With the quantity of New Age deception being levelled at us from all directions in society today, it is a valuable exercise to return to the teachings of the Church before embracing any religious concept or belief with which we are not familiar.

With this in mind, let us examine firstly how the Church teaches: and then look at what She teaches on the angels.

All Church teaching is derived from scripture and tradition, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

The Church teaches us at various levels. On some occasions the teachings are an exhortation to goodness, advisory to a better life.

While we are not obliged to follow them, yet it would be rather imprudent not to do so.

Sometimes the Church teaches "de fide" (i.e. of faith), and we are obliged to believe and to obey; if we do not do so, then we are in trouble spiritually. De fide teachings must come through the infallible voice of the Pope.

A Catholic must accept all such teachings — the dogmatic teachings of the Church — otherwise he or she is not truly a Catholic.

On the topic of angels, de fide teachings include: "In the beginning of time God created spiritual essences (angels) out of nothing."

The creation of the angels is indirectly attested to in Ex. 20,11: "In six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them," and directly in Col. 1.16: "For in Him (Christ) were all things created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominiations or principalities or powers." The number of the angels is, according to Holy Writ, very great. The Scriptures speak of myriads (Hebr. 12,22) of thousands and thousands (Dn. 7.10. Apoc. 5,11), of legions (Mt. 26,53).

"The nature of the angels is spiritual."

As distinct from human nature, which is composed of spirit and body. the nature of the angels is purely spiritual, that is, free from all materiality.

The Church may also teach on the level of `sententia communis' — teachings which are the general opinions of some theologians; and `sententia certa' — a widely held theory by most theologians.

On this level of teaching we may understand that: "Angels are by nature immortal." (Sent. communis.)

"The primary task of the good angels is the glorification and service of God." (Sent. certa) "The secondary task of the good angels is the protection of men and care for their salvation." (De Fide on the ground of general teaching) "Every one of the faithful has his own special guardian angel from baptism." (Sent. certa).

According to the general teaching of the theologians, however, not only every baptised person, but every human being, including unbelievers, has his/her own special guardian angel from birth. The view is biblically founded on the words of Our Lord. Mt. 18,10: "See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I say to you that their angels in heaven always look upon the face of my heavenly Father."

Since 16th century, the Church celebrates a feast in honour of the Guardian Angels. A beautiful prayer we may pray to our guardian angel is this: "0 angel of God my guardian dear, To whom God's love commits me here.

Ever this day be at my side, To light, to guard, to rule, to guide. Amen. ' (Sources for this article were The Marian Centre Newsletter, and Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma by Ludwig Ott.)

by NANA HOWARD

Our Lady's words To compliment and the road which I have Father traced out for you. complete Dickinson's words we giving you that medithen heard a reading cine which heals you from the book Our of all your spiritual Lady Speaks to her illnesses. Every day.

He makes your steps Beloved Priests.

This book is a record more sure, your resoof messages given by lutions less uncerOur Lady to Priests tain, your acts of love and the world in the and of apostolate form of inner locu- more courageous . tions to an Italian and you fight your Priest named Father battle, strengthened Don Gobbi since 1972. by his heavenly balm.

Michael's Like all forms of -Saint private revelation in task is that of defendour Church, we are ing you against the not required to be- terrible attacks of lieve them, but may do Satan against you. . . . Satan is attackso . . .

The book has been ing you in the spirittranslated into many ual field, with every languages and re- kind of temptation ceived the impri- and suggestion, in matur of fourteen order to lead you to The evil, to confusion. archbishops. messages within it doubt and loss of are greatly inspired confidence. He freand very beautiful, quently makes use of and we will share his favourite weapon. with you here some which is that of diaparts of the reading bolic suggestion and given on September 6, impure temptation. after Father Dickin- "It is the Archangel Michael, Patron of the son's talk. universal Church.

"The Function who intervenes with of the Angels" "This is their func- his great power, and tion: . . . they are goes into battle to fighting a terrible deliver you from the battle against Satan Evil One and from his and all his evil spir- dangerous snares. its. It is a struggle For this reason I which takes place, invite you to invoke above all, at the level his protection with of spirits, with intelli- the daily recitation of gence and perfect the short, but very commitment to the effective, prayer of plans of the two great exorcism composed and opposing by Pope Leo the 13th.

"That is why the leaders . . .

"The task of Saint Angels of the Lord Gabriel is to clothe have an important you with God's own role in the plan of the battle which is being strength.

"He fights against fought out; you must the most dangerous of always live in their Satan's snares, that of company. weakening you, lead- "They have a preing you to discour- cious and irreplaceaagement and weari- ble task: they are at ness. So many of you your side, fighting have halted along the the same battle; they road . . . because of give you strength and this human weakness couarage. they heal you of your numerous of yours!

"It is weakness wounds, defend you which leads you to from evil and, with dour,' to uncertainty, you, form the strongto fear, to distur- est part of the victorbance. This is the ious army under the temptation of my orders of the heavAdversary, with the enly Commander." aim of rendering you PRAYER TO harmless, closed SAINT MICHAEL: powerful within yourselves, This brought to a halt by prayer of exorcism your problems, incap- was composed by able of real apostolic Pope Leo XIII; in a vision, he had been zeal.

"The Archangel shown the fearful Gabriel has the taks battle to be waged of helping you to between Satan and St. grow in confidence, Michael, over the clothing you with the Church of the future. strength of God. And This prayer used to be in this way he leads recited after every you every day along mass. Now, when we the road of courage, need it more than ever steadiness, heroic and before, it has been omitted. . . pure faith. the "The task of Saint St. Michael Rapahel is that of Archangel. defend us pouring ointment on in the hour of battle: be our safeguard your wounds.

"How many times against the wickeddoes Satan succeed in ness and snares of the wounding you with Devil. sin, striking you with May God restrain his wily seductions! him, we humbly pray He leads you to feel and do Thou. 0 Prince the weight of your of the Heavenly Host. misery, of your powe- by the power of God. rlessness and wea- cast into Hell Satan kness, and brings you and all the other evil to a halt along the spirits, who roam road of your perfect through the world, seeking the ruin of gift. of yourselves.

"Then it is Saint souls.

Raphael's task to Amen.

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