The Record Newspaper 05 January 1995

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TAMAN CITY: Pope John V Paul's speeches in the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Sri Lanka are expected to include a papal critique of the Asia-wide struggle toward democracy and economic development.

A month before Pope John Paul's last visit to the Philippines in 1981. then-President Ferdinand Nlarcos lifted the martial law which he had imposed eight years earlier to consolidate his rule over the nation.

Papal speeches throughout that trip focused on the need to protect human rights and to establish democratic inslltutions.

In the Philippines. where Muslim rebels on the southern islands have waged guerrilla warfare in a bid for independence. the Moro Islamic Liberation Front said it would suspend activity during the papal stay to comply with the Koran's prohibition against harming "men of God." In Sri Lanka the beatifying of a 17th-century Goan priest. Oratorian Father Joseph Var.. will give Pope John Paul an opportunity to recall the history of positive Catholic-Buddhist relations on the island.

Father Vaz was given refuge in the southern Buddhist Kingdom of Kandy during the late 1600s when Dutch colonial officials

severely limited Catholic sionary activity in the north.

In Papua New Guinea, the pope will beatify Peter To Rot. a married lay catechist martyred in 1945 during the Japanese occupation of what was then called New Britain.

Lay c.atechists were and still are the backbone of the church's missionary activity on the island. but their preaching and teaching was outlawed by the Japanese.

Despite the ban. To Rot continued to evangelize. to serve as the church's witness at Catholic weddings when a priest was not available and to preach against an occupation-era law legalizing polygamy.

He died in a Japanese prison aten. leaving a fter being behind a young pregnant wife b* and two children. !kccording to documents filed %%ith the Vatic.an. the proc•ss for his beatification was begun in 1952 but soon discontinued when the local parish priest judged that To Rot's widosv "was far from obsening an edifying point of conduct from a it, view.When a new archbishop was appointed for the Archdiocese of Rabaul in 1980. he decided that although some pastoral concerns might have been raised by the widow's conduct. it did not detract from To Rot's holiness and, besides, in the meantime

she had begun "to offer an Irreprehensible witness of Christian life."

The road to beatification for Sister Mary Helen MacKillop. who will be the first Australian to be proclaimed blessed, i,vasn't much smoother.

In fact. the co-founder of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart was briefly excommunicated in 1871 and her order temporarily disbanded after conflicts with loc,a1 church officials who disapproved of the sisters' living in tiny. isolated communities sometimes only two to frequently cut off from the sacraments in the remote Australian outback.

And although local work on her sainthood cause began in the • after 1920s. it was suspended rumors surfaced that she suffered from alcoholism. The rumors were later proven to he untrue. and her cause was formally opened at the Vatican in 1973.

Sister MacKillop's persistence and fidelity to the church despite her sometime rocky experiences with church authorities will give Pope John Paul an opportunity to I.''. one of the clearest messages from the October world Synod of Bishops on religious: dialogue between religious superiors and local bishops is the only way to ensure diversity does not become division.

Promoting dignity of vitomen Respect for the dignity of every human being from the moment of conception is the only guarantee of true and lasting peace in the world. Pope John Paul's message said.

'The siolence which so many individuals and peoples con"Women have the right to insist that their dignity be to experience, the wars which still cause bloodshed in tinue respected." the pope said in his message for the Jan. celeJ; 1 areas of the world and the injustice which burdens the bration of World Day of Peace. life of whole continents can no longer he tolerated." the pope 'They also have the duty to work for the the dignity of all wrote.

Education for peace is a lifelong process which must begin persons. men as well as women." he said. with each verson seeking inner peace. he said. That peace "Become teachers of peace with your whole being and in all comes from -knowing that one is loved by God and from the your actions," he urged women. desire to respond to his love."

The message highlighted the special role mothers have as "Be witnesses, messengers and teachers of peace between individuals, generations, in the family, in the cultural. social peacemakers thmugh their c,are of their infants and their eduand political life of nations. and particularly in conflict and cation of their children. * See Pages 2 and 3 war," he wrote.

TATICAN CITY (CNS) - Promoting the dignity and gifts V of women is essential to building peace in the world. Pope John Paul II said.

TATICAN CFTY (CNS) - Some may see V Pope john Paul ll's January trip to Asia and Australia as a test of his health. but few can doubt it is a proof of his affection for young people.

And there will be some other political concerns on his agenda.

Pope John Paul's last foreign trip outside Europe was 16 months ago for his August 1993 celebration of World Youth Day in Denver.

Since then. he has made a one-ixeek visit to the Baltic nations and an overnight trip to Zagreb. Cmatia.

This month's will be the longest papal trip since 1989.

Although the papal schedule is filled with important meetings with government officials. bishops. leaders of other religions - and beatification ceremonies on the last three stops bolstering the faith and missionary zeal of young Catholics in Asia is Pope john Paul's key goal for the trip.

Expected to draw at least 500,000 registered delegates for five days of celebration. prayer, study. discussion and sharing, World Youth Day 1995 has as its theme. "As the Father sent me. so I send you."

The percentage of Catholics in Asia. as in Africa, has jumped in the last 20 years: but with just under 3 percent of the population professing Catholicism, Asia has the lowest percentage of Catholics in the world.

By holding the World Youth Day gathering in Asia. Pope John Paul wants to underline the importance and potential impact of young Christians "becoming evangelizers of other youths in response to God's call." Msgr. Boccardo. Vatican youth affairs official, said.

The Philippines is Asia's most Catholic nation with 83 percent of its almost 63 million L people belongin ' I

With my gaze fixed on the 2000 millennium I again address to you men and women of good will a pressing appeal for peace. Violence, wars and injustice can no longer be tolerated. The time has come to move from words to deeds: citizens, families, believers, churches, nations must all recognize they are called to renew their commitment to work for peace! To be effective, work for peace cannot be concerned merely with co-existence; it must affect hearts and appeal to a new awareness of human dignity. Peace is only possible if the dignity of the human person is promoted at every level of society, and every individual is given the chance to live in accordance with this dignity.

11110rilen: A special call to them from the pope TWISH to direct my Message for this l year's World Day of Peace espedally to women, and to invite them to become teachers of peace with their whole being and in all their actions.

Be witnesses, messengers and teachers of peace.between individuals and between generations, in the family, in the cultural, social and political life of whole of society, inconflict and war.

It is a path which many courageous and far-sighted women have walked before them!

To women as teachers of peace God -entrusts the human being in a special way", - not in an exclusive sense. but according to thecomplementary roles in the common vocation to love, which calls men and women to seek peace with one accord and to work together in building it.

From the very first pages of the Bible God willed that there should be a profound communion between man and woman.

In woman, man finds a partner with whom he can dialogue in complete! equality, - a desire for dialogue not satisfied by any other living creature: "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh (Gen 2:23).

This was the first cry of love to resound on the earth!

Even though man and woman are made for each other, this does not mean that God created them incomplete.

God created them to be a helpmate to the other, for they are equal as persons and complementary as masculine and feminine.

Reciprocity and complementarity are the two fundamental characteristics of the human couple.

Long history of sin in the way A LONG history of

11.sin has disturbed God's original plan for the couple. thus standing in the way of its complete fulfilment.

We need to return to this plan, to proclaim it forcefully, so that -

women in particular -

who have suffered more from its failure to be fulfilled - can finally give full expression to their womanhood and their dignity.

In our day women have made great

strides in this direction, attaining a remarkable degree of self-expression in cultural. social, economic and political life, as well as. of course, in family life.

The journel, has been a difficult and complicated one and not without its share of mistakes.

But it has been substantially a positive one, even lilt is still unfinished, due to

obstacles which still prevent women from being acknowledged. respected. and appreciated in their own special dignity.

The building of peace can hardly overlook the need to

acknowledge andpromotethe dignity of women as persons, called to play a unique role in educating for peace.

I want everyone to reflect on the critical importance of the role

of women in the family and in society, and to heed the yearning for peace which they express in words and deeds and, at times of greatest tragedy, by the silent eloquence of their grief.

How the Church can help

1E Church must be quick to "As a Church we must do much wr show compassion so women more in this area. Fr Casey said. will be speedily assured there is an Women

alternative to abortion.

No young woman should feel so unsupported and totally alone that she feels no option but to abort her child. Father Steven Casey told the St Mary's Cathedral congregation at Mass celebrated by Archbishop Hickey on the feast of the Holy Innocents.

In the St Mary's Cathedral grounds thousands of white crosses commemorated the babies aborted in WA during 1994.

Fr Casey said that many young women who would otherwise not do so are having abortions because they are single and poor. and because of the general breakdown of family life are feeling totally isolated, alone and afraid.

Not knowing where to turn, they are easily persuaded by pro-abortion aagencies who seem to be the first to offer some sort of comfort and support.

religious and the St Vincent de Paul had done much to

support single mothers but their efforts were not being sufficiently supplemented by ordinary Catholics, he added.

"It is a selfish society which is to blame for abortion," Fr Casey said, " rather than the poor unfortunate girls whose desperate circumstances force them into an abortion, and who seem to have been exploited and abused more than anything else.

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Dean Tom McDonald taps the first cross in St Mary's Cathedral grounds.

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The Church has a hard task ahead, he said. it is difficult to impress upon teenagers today the wrongfulness of abortion when they are brought up in a society that virtually condones it merely as a form of birth control, a mere inconvenience necessary for personal fulfillment, just one of those side-effects that accompanies pleasure."

Teachers of peace Nurture peace within self first...

IT I O be a teacher of

peace, a woman must first of all nurture peace within herself.

Inner peace conies from knowing one isloved by God and responding to his love.

History is filled with marvellous women who were sustainedbythis knowledge, and dealt successfully with exploitation, discrimination, violence and war.

Nevertheless, many women, throughsocial and cultural conditioning. do not become fully aware of their dignity. Others are victims of a materialistic and pleasure-seeking outlook which views them as mere objects of pleasure, and exploits women, even young girls, in a despicable trade.

Special concern needs to he shown for these women, particularly by other women who, thanks to their own upbringing and sensitivity, are able to help them discover their own inner worth and resources.

Women need to help women, and to find supportin the associations, movements and groups which have proved capable in this regard.

Mothers and their important role

In this decisive and sensitive task, no mother love of truth and justice, a sense of responsible OTHERS have a singularly important M role. Through herspecial relationship she should be left alone. Children need the presence freedom, esteem and respect for others. gives the child that sense of security and trust and care of both parents. The quality of the relawithout which the child would find it difficult to develop properly its own personal identityandto establish positive and fruitful relationships with others.

This relationship has a very particular educational significance in the religious sphere, directing the mind and heart of the child to God long before any formal religious education begins.

tionship between the spouses has profound psychological effects on children and greatly conditions both the way they relate to their surroundings and the other relationships which they will develop throughout life.

If relationshipswith parents and other family members are marked by affectionate and positive interaction, children learn from their own experience the values which promote peace:

Family is first E family is the first and fundamental school of social living andthe first and fundamental school of peace.

Tragic consequences occur when the family experiences crises which undermine or even destroy its inner equilibrium. Often, inthese circumstances, women are left alone.

His then that they most need to be assisted, by the practical solidarity of other families, by religious communities, byvolunteer groups, by thestate andby international organizations.

In places there is still the intolerable custom of discriminating between boys and girls. If, from the very beginning, girls are looked

down upon or regarded as inferior, their sense of dignity willbe gravely Impaired and their healthy development inevitably compromised. Discrimination will have lifelong effects and prevent women from fully taking part in the life of society. acknowledgeandencouragethe invaluable efforts of so many wommincluding congregations of women religious, who make the education of girls and women the principal goalof their activity. Aisoall those women who work in health services, often in precarious circumstances. and who are frequently responsible for the very survival of great numbers of female children?

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EN women and international level- women should not W are their gifts sis thus a very positive detract from their with the whole commu- development. unique role within the nity, the way society understands and organizes itself is improved.

- It reflectsin a better waythe substantial unity of the human family.

The growing presence of women in social. eco-nomic and political life at the local, national

Women have a fullright to be actively involved in all areas of public life; this right must be affirmed and guaranteed, where necessary. through appropriate legislation.

Acknowledgment of the public role of

family wheretheir contribution to the welfare and progress of society is not sufficiently appreciated and is truly incalculable.

I ask that more decisive steps he taken in order to recognize and promote this very important reality.

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Archbishop Hickey kneeling amongst the crosses that covered the cathedral grounds.

As they grow up in a 'Normand accepting environment, they are able to see reflected in their own family the love of God himself; enabling them to mature in a spiritual atmosphere fostering openness to others and to the gift of self to their neighbour.

Education in peaceit needs particularly to be encouraged during adolescence when young people are called to make choices which will be decisive for life.

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violence.

Individuals andwhole groups have lost any sense of respect for human life.

Women and even children are unfortunately the most frequent victims of this blind violence, of outrageous and barbaric behaviour which is deeply abhorrent to the human conscience.

We must do everything possible to banish from society not only the tragedy of war but also every violation of human rights, beginning with the right to life, which every person enjoys.

The violationof the right to life contains the seeds of the extreme violence of war.

I appeal to all womenever to take their place on the side of life.

I urge everyone to help women who are suffering, particularly children, especially those scarred by war. Only loveandcompassion concern will enable them once again to look to the future with confidence and hope.

EN Pope John XXIII saidthe participation of women in public life wasas one of the signs of our times, he also stated that they would no longer tolerate being exploited' Women have the right to insist that their dignity be respected At the same time, they have the duty to work for the promotion of the dignity of all persons. men as well as women.

I hope that initiatives planned for 1995- some devoted specifically to women, such as the UN Conference in Beijingon equality, development and peace- will provide a signiflcantopportunity formaking interpersonal and social relationships ever more human, under the banner of peace.

Mary, Queen of PeAce, is dose to the women of our day because of her motherhood, her example of openness to others' needs and her witness of suffering.

Mary lived with a deep sense of responsibility the plan which God wffled to carry out in her for the salvation of all humanity.

When she was made aware of the miracle which God had worked in her by making her the Mother of his Incarnate Son, her first thought was to visit her elderly kinswoman Elizabeth in order to help her.

That meeting gave Mary the chance to express her gratitude to God who, with her and through her.had begun a new creation, a new history.

I implore the Most Holy Virgin Mary to sustain those men and women who, in the service of life. have committed themselves to building peace.

With her help. may they bear witness before all people_ especially those who live in darkness and suffering and who hunger and thirst for justice. to the loving presence of the God of peace!

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lS1'1N, Texas (CNS) - It's not as hough the 20 million inactive Catholics in the United States never come to church, says Paulist Father Jac Campbell.

"They're at baptisms, marriages, Ash Wednesday, Easter, first Communions," he said. "They want to know why the people kneeling around them are still in the church. They want to know, 'What do they see that I don't see?'"

To help them find the answers, Father Campbell developed a program called Landings in 1989. Since then, it has grown and has touched an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 people.

Its success can be directly attributed to the way Landings is structured, said Father Campbell.

"It's really a program to empower lay Catholics to evangelize," he said.

"They learn that Catholics can sit in a room and discuss religion without getting Into a fight."

Lay volunteers lead a group of inactive Catholics in weekly two-hour sessions. At the end of eight to 10 weeks, the group goes on retreat and has a chance to receive the sacraments together.

Then each member comes back to participate fully in the parish.

"These are card-carrying Catholics.- said Father Campbell in explaining the length of the program and its somewhat private approach.

"We don't want to send a message that you have to go through a long ritual" to be accepted into parish life.

A central element of the weekly meetings is a sharing of personal stories.

"People who have been away want to tell their story, why they've been hurt," said Joan Horn, who coordinates the Landings program.

The lay volunteers, who are trained, limit the discussions and have resources for those who need professional advice.

Annulments, post-abortion trauma, homosexuality, substance abuse and child abuse are some areas the group can't resolve for people. Father Campbell said.

"We tell the volunteers that you are no more equipped to help that person than you are to give them legal or medical advice."

Father Campbell said Landings has "boomed in ways we never would have dreamt" over the past five years. even though many parishes can't find room in their budgets for the program.

Despite the fact statistics show there are 10 potential returning Catholics for every Potential candidate for the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, parishes are reluctant to allocate funds for programs for inactive Catholics, the Paulist said.

"We kind of throw away these people." he said. "They're not around when budgets are being made by the finance council."

For more information on Landings, contact Paulist Father Jac Campbell at 5 Park St., Boston, Mass. 02108-4897

These Irish are hopeful

...that new year will lead to prosperity for their economically-hit region The peoHe added that securing a fair deal for trial firms to establish branches or sub- bishops in to become their voice.

JJ ple of western Ireland approached the region and for other deprived areas sidiaries in the region or elsewhere in The bishops responded by setting up the new year hopeful that a develop- Is an issue of justice, as well as a social the Irish Republic. The Irish tax on profUBLIN, Ireland (CNS) -

ment program initiated by their bishops and economic matter. will lead to a prosperous future for the "We see ourselves as partners in a economically depressed region. concerted effort to revitalize the West The program aims at cutting a debili- and to bring constructive change into tating decline in population which has the lives of our people," said Bishop persisted for more than a century, Finnegan of Killala. expanding employment, and raising liv"We do not claim to be economic ing standards over a five-year period. experts," he said. "What we do claim is Officials and ordinary citizens in the the right and the duty to speak on the region, which encompasses County problems of the West from the perspecDonegal and the province of Con- tive of the church's social teaching." naught, say the main credit for the proForestry, farming and fishing are ject goes to the local bishops - Arch- expected to make big contributions to bishop Cassidy of Tuam along with the economic regeneration of the West. seven other Catholic bishops and an Tourism is also expected to develop Anglican prelate. Connaught includes rapidly because of the appealing coast Counties Sligo, Roscommon, Mayo, Gal- and mountain scenery. way and Leitrim.

Officials say that neighborhood coopTheir project has received strong eratives are likely to expand the shellpublic and private support. fish industry. Sea fishing will be pro"The bishops are involved because of moted and aquaculture extended. the church's passionate insistence on New marketing techniques are aimed the dignity of human life from concep- at expanding the horticulture industry tion to death," Archbishop Cassidy said. on a large scale.

"Our conviction about human beings The government's Industrial Developis that they should be enabled to live ment Authority is offering inducements with dignity." and concessions to entice foreign indusThe Record. January 5, 1995

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its is 10 percent.

Several American firms have already set up operation in the region.

The development authority is promoting the West as a site of well-trained and educated workers which also has convenient access to the expanding European Union.

A government-appointed agricultural training and advisory service, Teagasc (Gaelic for Instruction), is inaugurating what is called the most comprehensive rural training program ever undertaken in Ireland.

More than 100 million Irish pounds is to be spent on the rural development program, with about 60 percent of the funds coming from the European Union. About 50 million pounds is earmarked for the Connaught and Donegal area, with the remainder going to Counties Clare, Cork and Kerry. Much of the funding will go to stimulating small business.

The project began after five farmers, who reflected a general concern about the bleakness of the future, asked the

a two-day conference in Galway in 1991 to boost awareness of the region's decline.

They followed in 1992 with a series of meetings in the region aimed at building momentum for development.

In a further step, the prelates commissioned an expert study of the local economy. That report. titled "A Crusade for Survival," was studied by a government task force which recommended ways of boosting employment and raising living standards.

The program aims to guarantee that by the turn of the century the region's population will be stabilized at the level of the 1991 census - 551.000.

The Connaught-Donegal region comprises 32 percent of the republic's land mass, but holds just 16 percent of the country's population. In the 65 years leading up to 1991, regional population decreased by 155,000 - nearly one-fifth.

It is estimated that if a regional effort were not made, a further decline of 100,000 would occur during the following 20 years.

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/ debate over legalizing divorce m ire1 land may heat up in the new year. with all the political parties agreeing that the public should have the opportunity to decide the issue by referendum.

Some politicians say they would not be surprised if the voters turn the proposal down as they did in 1988 when it was brought before the country. Others take the opposite view.

The lobby for legalized divorce is described by observers as determined and vigorous.

Those campaigning against legalization appear to be more confident and better organized than they were nearly nine years ago when the vote was almost 2-1 against allowing divorce.

Thus far, there is no indication of what form a legalization proposal will take.

The minister for equality and law reform under the now-fallen government of former prime minister Albert Reynolds had assured the public that legislation would not "demean or belittle marriage" - which was taken to mean no easy or rapid divorce.

There are about 60.000 separated couples in the Irish Republic and some Irish go to other countries where divorce is allowed in order to terminate their marriages.

But a leading campaigner against divorce. Louis Power, said that the rate of marital breakdown in Ireland is lower than any other Western nation.

He said that the 1991 census showed the rate at 3.51 percent of marriages, compared to much higher frequencies such as 13 percent in Portugal. 32 percent in Germany and 46 percent in Denmark.

Figures from the Irish Central Statistics Office show that the number of separated persons in the republic increased from 37.425 in 1988 to 55.143 in 1991. broken down into 33.793 separated females and 21.350 separated males.

Most of the increase was in the categories of deserted and legally separated individuals.

Those statistics also include couples whose marriages were annulled and

those divorced abroad.

During the 1986 divorce referendum

campaign, a confusing controversy took place concerning property and inheritance rights.

Many voters seemed to fear that divorce would endanger these rights.

Legislation since then has aimed to relieve such fears.

The 1986 proposal would have allowed divorce only in cases where a marriage was determined to have been In failure for five years and where there was 'no reasonable possibility of reconciliation."

While the divorce question may be waiting in the wings, new family law reforms are being proposed and the government has boosted its family support funding.

Pope will see Vatican and Macedonia a better set up ties Philippines John Paul II M will find the Philippines ANILA. Philippines (CNS) - Pope

profoundly better in many ways from his visit 14 years ago. says Cardinal Sin. but he will also find serious problems that remain unsolved.

Pope John Paul will see the progress brought about by the restoration of democracy and an economic take-off, he said.

But the pope will also hear about social instability, the gap between rich and poor, and the corruption that threatens the country's fragile progress.

The pope's first visit to the Philippines was in February 1981 for the beatification of St. Lorenzo Ruiz. the first Filipino saint.

During that visit. Cardinal Sin said, the Philippines was still under the control of the late president Marcos. who was ousted six years later.

But, said the cardinal, the country's fragile economic takeoff has not created the new wealth necessary to eradicate poverty." The poor have been pushed aside and left behind. He also said the country's democracy is currently in danger because "legislators have failed so abysmally to improve the very heart of our democratic society: our electoral system."

CITY (CNS) - The I )TATICAN Vatican and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia have established diplomatic relations following assurances by the government that the new nation would uphold democracy and

respect human rights.

The republic the last to establish diplomatic relations with the Vatican.

The Vatican announcement on diplomatic relations used the U.N.-

approved name.

Greece has strongly opposed the republic's use of the name Macedonia, partly because one of its main geographic and political subdivisions is also called Macedonia and lies within the historical boundaries of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia - birthplace of Alexander the Great.

Byzantine-rite Catholics number about 6,100 people with five parishes in the republic, and Latinrite Catholics include about 4.500 people in three parishes. The republic has a total population of more than 2 million, most of whom are Orthodox or Muslim.

As it did with the other former republics of Yugoslavia. the Vatican made diplomatic relations conditional on the new government making a formal commitment "to respecting the principles of international law. particularly human rights and basic freedoms, democratic institutions and principles and the rights of minorities," Navarro-Valls said.

One proposed reform before parliament would raise the minimum age for marriage from 16 to 18.

The government has raised its budget for marriage counselling. family mediation services, and for a free legal aid plan much of which Is concerned with family law.

Ireland's Catholic hierarchy has ken forcefully during the debate.

Archbishop Desmond Connell of Dublin has called divorce "radically anti-social."

He said the "'weakening of family life must be regarded as an immeasuratth social misfortune, and so the church cannot conceal her anxiety about attitudes and behavior that injure and ma. even eventually destroy the foundations of family life."

Archbishop Clifford of Cashel said that there are "groups in Ireland who wish to remove from our laws all measures which have a Catholic or Christian origin or inspiration."

Responding to allegations that the Catholic Church is trying to impose church teaching on civil law. Cardinal Cahal Daly of Armagh. primate of all Ireland. said the church is simply calling attention to the moral responsibilities of voters and legislators.

He said the church is pointing out the disastrous consequences of divorce for the stability of the family.

Croatian denial

Croatian Z Af-ACardinal Kuharic denies persistent Serb claims that Orthodox children are "ZAGREB. Croatia (CNS)

being forced to undergo Catholic education as part of a campaign to "convert" the republic's Serb minority.

Cardinal Kuharic of Zagreb said the accusations had first been made to him during a meeting in Geneva with Serbia's Patriarch Pavle in September 1992.

He added that some non-Catholic parents in Croatia had asked for their children to receive religious education in Catholic schools. However, the church would continue to uphold the mutual tolerance urged by the pope during his September visit, the cardinal stressed.

"If such a parent asks a catechist to allow his children to attend lessons with their friends, what should we do?"

Before the outbreak of war in 1991. ethnic Serbs made up 11 percent of Croatia's 4.8 million citizens. At least half are believed to have left the country in the last three years, creating a severe shortage of Orthodox priests and teachers.

Serbian children from neighboring Bosnia and the self- proclaimed Serbian Krajina republic comprise 5 percent of the half- million refugees currently living in Croatia.

Serbian church officials repeatedly accuse Catholic leaders of turning a blind eye to the -forced conversion" of more than MOM Orthodox adults and children.

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So barbaric... ...but I pray to God that the sacrifice of the four religious would become the seed of reconciliation, peace and dialogue liquida-

TATICAN CITY (CNS) - The murder of four Missionaries of killed as part of a campaign of "annihilation and physical V Africa by a radical Islamic group in Algeria was a "barbaric tion of Christian crusaders." assassination," Pope John Paul II said.

The group, which has emerged as one of Algeria's most hard-line "I pray to God that the sacrifice of the four religious would Muslim fundamentalist factions, said the killings came after four of become the seed of reconciliation, peace and dialogue and mutual its own "soldiers" died in the hijacking. understanding without which there is no future for a truly human The four were members of the same unit that shot the priests society." the pope said. dead, it added. were priests the that said Group Islamic Armed radical Algeria's

Israeli honour for Govt ban on use of retired bishop scarves comes under fire rescuers of Jews.

wartime Gentile ARSAW, Poland (CNS) - A retired W Polish bishop has been awarded a special Besides having their names inscribed on honour by Israel for saving the lives of Jews recipients

during the World War II Holocaust.

Bishop Malysiak. retired auxiliary of Krakow. was given the 'Righteous Among Nations" medal by Israeli Ambassador Gershon Zohar at a ceremony attended by Polish church and state representatives in Warsaw's Jewish Historical Institute.

An accompanying letter from the Yad Vashem Memorial Institute in Jerusalem praised the bishop for acting out of "humanitarian considerations' only, noting that he had later refused gifts of gratitude from the families of rescued Jews.

In 1943, while serving as a chaplain at an Ursuline-run home for disabled people in Nazioccupied Krakow. then-Father Malysiak obtained false birth certificates for five fugitive Jews. enabling them to he admitted.

Father Malysiak later hid and fed the Jews during an evacuation to the Gestapo-controlled town of Szczawnic,a Zdroj. Ursuline Sister Bronislawa Wilemska. the home's director who helped with the Jews' escape. died in 1946.

Bishop Malysiak, 77. was nominated for the award by Maria Rolnicka, a New York-based doctor whose mother was one of the five rescued Jews.

Dr. Rolnicka said that after she traced the bishop to Krakow three years ago, it took time to persuade him to accept the nomination. She said Father Malysiak and Sister Wilmeska had been "fay aware" of the consequences of harbouring Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland, which was the only country in which that action carried a mandatory death penalty.

Poles hold almost half the 10.000 "Righteous Among Nations" medals previously awarded to

Jerusalem's "Wall of the Righteous." are given honorary Israeli citizenship.

Documentary information about 872 Poles executed by the Nazis for giving support to Jews was shown in a Warsaw exhibition last year.

The exhibition also included detailed material on help provided by Catholic priests and nuns. a number of whom also hold "Righteous Among Nations' awards.

Bishop Malysiak said neither he nor Sister Wilemska had believed they were acting "heroically or courageously." adding that their only concern had been for the efficiency of their efforts.

"In hiding the Jews. we were simply following their voice of conscience." the bishop said. "All we wanted was to fulfill Christ's evangelical command to love your neighbour."

Auxiliary Bishop Tadeusz Piemnek of Sosnowiec said the "Righteous Among Nations" was helping to build "better relations between the Catholic Church and our elder brothers in faith."

"It is also building a new history - although not always easy and at times highly dramatic and helping clear the atmosphere, something for which we all care."

Poland is home to an estimated 15,000 ethnic Jews, compared to a pre-World War II total of 3 million.

The first Jewish school since the 1940s opened in Warsaw Sept. 1. funded by the Lauder Foundation.

The first church-run Institute for Catholic" Jewish Dialogue is to open Oct. 1 at the capital's Academy of Catholic Theology.

S (CNS) - Many French bishops have criticized the government for barring Muslim girls from wearing head scarves in public schools.

French policy bans religious symbols from public schools and education offi-

cials consider the scarves religious symbols. not simply articles of clothing.

Catholics 'do not fear the wearing of religious symbols when it means nothing more than one's freely chosen belief." said Archbishop Joseph Duval of Rouen. president of the French bishops conference.

Other French bishops have attacked the government measure as a sign that France's church-state separation policy is being used by some public school officials to promote a secular view of life and to downplay the role of religion in society.

Father Gilles Couvreur. head of the French bishops' Secretariat for Relations with Muslims, said the scarf decision raises broader questions, such as the "social exclusion" from French life of the 4-million-strong Muslim community.

The government decision in early November has sparked national controversy and several hunger strikes by Muslim girls who were refused entrance to schools because they wore head scarves. It is part of an overall policy banning public school students from wearing visible religious symbols such as crucifixes.

Government officials have defended the ban, saying the head scarves tend to isolate Muslims from the rest of the school community and could constitute a threat to public order at a time when French citizens are being killed by Islamic fundamentalists in the former colony of Algeria.

But Cardinal lean-Marie Lustiger of Paris said that Muslim girls who weac scarves are not deliberately disobeying public officials.

It is like saying that crucifixes on Christians and yarmulkes on Jews 'will become tools to seize power or to destabilize the republic or to subvert human rights." the cardinal said.

Bishop Gerard Daucourt of Troyes asked if an aim of French secularism is to respect the religious convictions of everyone. "can people really respect the conviction of their students if they never speak" of these convictions?

"The wearing of an Islamic head scarf does not in itself prevent the observance of community rules" at school. Bishop Daucourt said.

Bishop lean Dardel of Clermont said French secularism and church-state separation are meant to guarantee "respect for beliefs" and a school that follows this principle 'will not ban the wearing of religious symbols."

Father Couvreur said the head scarf issue hides the more basic problem: France's failure to accept the Muslims in its society.

"How have we received, after a few decades, the 4 million Muslims in France?" he asked.

The total French population is 57 million. with PLRSLOA E 8 3.5 percent professing Catholicism. Islam is France's second-largest religion in terms of adherFUNERAL ents.

HOMES "Have Christians and French society really in dialogue?" Father Couvreur asked. engaged Our fams/y sming ,w)ur famsly stnce I906 He criticized the stereotypical labeling of all MusNorth Perth 444 4g3-5, Midland 274 3M6. lims as supporters of the Algerian fundamentalists Victoria Park 361 11M, Wanneroo 409 9119. responsible for murdering foreigners.

Northam tow 22 1137 The 'great mass of Muslims in France" do not Marna Purslowe and Av4nciates. Suhiacn. 38$ 1623 sympathize with fundamentalists, he said.

About 400,000 Muslims in France come from Algeria.

We thought that planning our funerals would he an uncomfortable business. But the Purslowe family made it very easy."

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Catholic Church and people crumbling BELGRADE, Serbia (CNS)

Serbia's small Catholic Church is not just seeing its buildings damaged. The population is crumbling as well.

Since Archbishop Franc Perko was Installed eight years ago as Belgrade's archbishop, the number of Catholics in his jurisdiction has plummeted from a pre-Balkan War 90.000 to 8,200.

"Catholics were always acutely aware that they formed a tiny minority in this overwhelmingly Orthodox society," Archbishop Perko said.

"Technically speaking, we have no problems with the Serbian government and are legally free. But in the current anarchic situation, people have found it very difficult to stay."

Although officially unrestricted in its activities, Serbia's Catholic Church is made to feel unwelcome.

Nuns, whose number has fallen in recent decades from 900 to 41. face taunts and other verbal abuse in public.

In small parishes far from the capital, the Catholic Grand Duke Franz Ferdinand Catholics have undergone frequent intimi- in Sarajevo and helped spark World War I. dation.

The see was intended for Croats, Slovenes In June, the 18th-century St. Michael's and Hungarians as well as native Serbs. But church in Subotica was damaged by a since Yugoslavia's breakup began in 1990, bomb, and other churches and monasteries, most non-Serbs have packed and left. including Subotica's twin-towered St. The breakup of the old Yugoslavia also Teresa Cathedral, have also been damaged complicated church jurisdiction. by bombs. One, St. Dimitry's at Sremska Serbia's Kosovo and Sandjak regions Mitrovica, was demolished in 1992. form part of the Diocese of Skopje, now Anti-Catholic propaganda has been capital of independent Macedonia, and the spread by Serbian state-controlled TV and border between Serbia and now-indepenradio, accusing the Vatican of backing dent Croatia divides the Diocese of Djakovo. forced conversions of Orthodox in Croatia In Belgrade, three of 15 parishes have no and Bosnia and of plotting against Serbia. pastors and just 200 children are receiving The Serbian and Montenegran republics religious education.

In 1993, the diocese registered 240 form the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, what was left after the breakup of the larger Catholic funerals and 81 baptisms.

Yugoslavian entity. Of the republics' 10.3 Archbishop Perko said the church in Sermillion combined population, approxi- bia needs outside help. mately 550,000 are Catholic_ "Our few parishes simply cannot find the The Belgrade archdiocese was founded resources to maintain themselves," he said. under a Vatican concordat in 1914. just "Our church may not even survive without before a Bosnian Serb student assassinated support from Catholics in the West."

Take 2 on socialism, sex and salvation

Chesterton and Shaw reUnder socialism, he argued, the worker simply W lived their historic debates on stage at the Catholic exchanged a private boss for a government-bureaucrat University of America recently. boss. He also championed the right of the common man to ASHINGTON (CNS)

Two of the greatest writers and wits in the English- own private property, however small.

Shaw would have none of this argument. stubbornly speaking world re-enacted G.K. Chesterton and George Bernard Shaw engaged in a debate on "Socialism, Sex and extolling the glories of socialism.

The two agreed even less on religion. Shaw was all for Salvation." what he called the Life Force, with man as a sort of superChesterton was portrayed by Dominican Father Malcolm MacMahon, provincial for the Dominican order in man who created his own deity from within.

Chesterton's Christianity permeated not only his writing England. and Shaw by Owen Dudley Edwards. senior lecbut his whole life. Although he is thought of primarily as a turer in history at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

Catholic writer, he didn't actually convert to Catholicism The debate, based partly on Chesterton's and Shaw's from Anglicanism until he was well into middle age. actual recorded debates in the 1920s and partly on their Shaw had a grudging admiration for Calvinism and its writings, was a feast of language. rhetoric and wit. teachings on predestination. while Chesterton - who usuChesterton and Shaw were good friends, but they had ally had the last word - merely commented that he'd opposing views on practically everything, and very differ- rather God judged him after his death instead of before ent personalities. his birth.

The rotund Chesterton was the personification of the Shaw and Chesterton also differed profoundly on matsaying. "Eat, drink and be merry," while Shaw was a tee- ters of sex and marriage. Shaw. ever the feminist and freetotaler and a vegetarian and had what Chesterton consid- thinker, thought marriage made slaves of women. ered ultra-puritanical ideas about daily living.

Chesterton, a happily married man himself, thought it While Shaw was an avowed socialist, Chesterton brought them true freedom and a complementary role. argued for "distributism." which held that the means of The -free love" of which Shaw spoke so approvingly production should belong to the community instead of to was contemptuously dismissed by Chesterton as "free the government. lust."

Salvos' top honour for cardinal N

EVV YORK (CNS) - The Greater New York Division of the Salvation \rniv gave Cardinal O'Connor its annual Pinnacle of Achievement Award.

In accepting the award, the cardinal thanked the Salvation Army for what he said was the first time publicly for standing with him in one of his first battles as New York's archbishop.

Shortly after his March 1984 installation, a controversy erupted over an order by then-Mayor Koch, requiring all agencies receiving city funds to pledge they would not discriminate against homosexuals in employment.

The Salvation Army announced that

rather than comply it would give up its city contracts for providing child care and other services.

Cardinal O'Connor took the Archdiocese of New York into a court battle. and ultimately won a ruling at the highest state level that the mayor had exceeded his authority.

At the award. Cardinal O'Connor told the audience that he was "terribly distressed" by an order that would have "gravely and adversely affected the kind of child care we had been trying to provide for more than a hundred years."

The Salvation Army and the Orthodox Jewish organization. Agudath Israel,

were the only agencies that "stood by our side." Cardinal O'Connor said.

Cardinal O'Connor. noting the number of Catholics present at the award. told them to keep supporting the Salvos.

'There is no greater cause.- he said.

"They are always available to those most desperately in need. and act to meet their needs physically and spiritually."

Alluding to his military chaplaincy service. Cardinal O'Connor said that if he did not already have a Navy commission, he would he glad to have one in t he Sak .. ion Army.

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Talking point

Balanced faith looks inward and outward

TiiFrowS week's discussion point:

does private prayer aid your relationship with others? responses from readers: elected S "Prayer focuses me on who I am in relationship to who God is. In doing that, it takes away my sense of self-sufficiency. When I see my need for God, it helps me be more compassionate and patient with others." - Janis Erb. "Prayer makes me more open with others. It strengthens my confidence in dealing with other people." - Frank Senka.

When I pray for others, it opens up my heart to them and helps me make friends with them." - Brian Cain (age 7).

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By Father Robert L Kinast 66 COME people are a..1too busy to pray.

Some people are too busy praying to help others in need. I was determined to find a happy medium."

The speaker was a devout Catholic, retiring after a long career as a social worker.

I wanted to know where that happy medium is found. "It's in the mystical body of Christ." he replied. If I didn't believe in that. I would have burned out long ago.'

I was surprised by his answer. but I shouldn't have been.

The mystical body of Christ. one of the oldest and most profound of doctrines, reminds us that we are united to each other in real, spiritual ways and that we affect each other even though we may not always be aware of it.

In other words, we're not isolated individuals. We're connected.

When someone prays, acts in faith. acknowledges God's presence. serves others, practices virtue, that person contributes these experiences to the larger mystical body.

This spiritual strength is then available for others to draw upon when they face a crisis, are asked to make a sacrifice or try to discern the right thing to do.

You might call this a network of spiritual interaction. The private prayer of a cloistered nun in India might provide the very courage needed by a community organizer in Mexico to win justice for village workers.

All worlds come together in the mystical body.

In the mystical body each person is expected to contribute take to balance our what he or she can. world of personal faith. based on personal gifts directed inward, and and circumstances: our world of public • Some are in a posi- faith, directed outward tion to be more active. to others. others to be more conThree basic steps templative. should prove helpful in • Some are able to working toward this articulate a principle balance. 1. First, meet persuasively, others your immediate reponare able to make it sibilities. work in practice.

This is where peoThe whole body is ple's lives are centered. built up by each member's contributions, as where they have the St. Paul proclaimed most direct impact. For long ago (1 Corinthians most people, immediate responsibilities 12). include their relationThis does not mean. however, that we ships - to spouse, chilshould take for granted dren. other family our connections within members, close friends.

It r i '` means their the mystical body or contributions to it. WOr )ourhood There are steps wt! can and (,, , •s 8

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"When you pray and you're comfortable with yourself and God, it carries over to all your other relationships. The peace I find in having a quiet time with God helps in getting along peacefully with everyone else." - C. Richard.

"My prayer is an important way for me to draw close to others. I make a special effort to remember all my mends and benefactors in my prayers." - Frances Fordyce.

"When I pray for someone, I try to walk in their shoes. It makes me more thankful for my own blessings. And that makes me more generous and mindful of others." - Joe Golebiewski.

Regain your focus

IF I set aside quality time for meditation, am I depriving others in my life of the quality time they need from me?

As a parent, I feel confident that this question is familiar to every other parent. Parents have moments of imagining that time taken for themselves is time taken away from children.

But I think of many others - for example the justice workers and social servants who sense that no amount of activity on behalf of others is enough.

"Meditation is above all a quest," the new Catechism of the Catholic Church says. "The mind seeks to understand the why and how of the Christian life" (No. 2705). And by engaging "thought, imagination, emotion and desire," meditation mobilizes the faculties needed to "strengthen our will to follow Christ," it says (No. 2708).

Meditation isn't inaction. In fact, meditation can improve the quality of all our action as Christians.

Is it part of the human condition to be suspicious that time for oneself represents a form of selfishness? Maybe.

Still, I've come to believe that time for personal meditation and time for others are simply two sides of one coin. Each needs the other.

By David Gibson

well as care for the environment.

The world of immediate responsibilities is the world of personal prayer, participation in liturgy, Bible and spiritual reading, and conscientious moral decisions.

These may seem like small activities without much influence on the larger world. Within the mystical body, however. there is no limit to the effect of a positive action.

When Martin Luther King jr. was asked during the sanitation strike in Memphis. Tenn., what strikers should doto ensure justice in the future, he told them to be the best sanita-

tion workers they could be.

Fulfilling immediate r esponsibilities advances ultimate causes.

2. Second, take advantage of opportunities to do something "extra" when they arise. Often these are appeals to serve as a volunteer.

The challenge is to know how much *extra" a person can do when so many requests and demands are made. A good friend of mine expresses it this way: "i am concerned about many things butI can rare about only a fe

That's why soIn people serve by focusing on a single issue like abortion or hunger.

It also is why some people attempt to identify their talents carefully: one person, asked to teach in the parish religious education program, responded by saying she felt more qualified to become a facilitator for one of the parish's faith-sharing groups.

Naturally, people's circumstances change over the years. Thus, one married couple was very involved in Catholic schools and family devotions when their children were growing up.

Now, taking care of their own parents. the couple is more active serving in programs for the aged.

3. The third and most difficult step is to integrate one's personal world of faith with the public world of faith.

A parish lector I know does this by studying the Bible texts she is to read at Mass and using them for personal prayer.

A business executive does this by always concluding staff meetings with a question about how their decisions will affect the community's poor and needy.

The temptation to measure the value of

one's private, spiritual acts by tangible results on a large scale must be resisted here. however. This is the temptation to think that your concern and prayers are worth little unless all poverty is eliminated, all child abuse prevented, all exploitation stopped.

A better approach is e xpressed by the bumper sticker urging people to think globally and act locally.

A retired social worker put it another way. "just do what you can and watch what happens." Spoken like a true member of the mystical body.

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By Brother Cyprian L. Rowe, FMS

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8, I have to let ohn off at the bus and at 8:10 Sherrie has to take the school bus.

There's no creamer in the office, so I'll have to get that.

On the way to the store, I'll try to figure out what to do for my next client."

Thus another day begins.

"Life's ultimate question is still 'who' in one of its forms: Who made me? Whose am I? To whom must I send back all the labors of my life? A person who feels lost must ... stop ... to bring answers to those questions."

littered with a million "things" to do. The world falls out of focus again.

God, faith, purpose: All are swallowed up into the quicksand of a day that lurches forward on the pogo stick of necessity and habit.

Your world begins to wobble like a top running out of momentum. A sense of pain or confusion may become the force that causes you to stop and to question life.

Life's ultimate question is still "who" in one of its forms: Who made me? Whose am I? To whom must I send back all the labours of my life?

A person who feels lost must make a commitment to stop and to bring answers to those questions into the centre of life: into mind and heart: into all the interchanges between people: into the ways that things are used.

To refocus and begin to find balance in your life, ask yourself, "Who am I?" You are a person of a particular age and culture. You live in a particular place with particular people. Do these mean anything? Do these realities define you or do you define them? Do you get confused about this?

That confusion can be cleared up only by asking and answering the "why" questions. What is needed to give focus to life is the conviction that you have a mission.

"The" question for refocusing your life is still.

"Why did God make me in the way God made me?"

This question invites a person to look inward, into an imaginary space between the self and the world.

Ultimately a person is led t o ask. What can - or should - we do for one another? Why are we here together?

Asking why God made us leads us toward understanding that while human life is lived in community, it must at some awesome points be shared, alone. %vith the Spirit, who whispers in and through the silence!

Part of this process of asking why God made us is asking what specific gifts the Lord has given us, and why. How can these gifts benefit God's creation in the everyday wodd?

A pattern is needed: being with others at times: being by oneself at other times. Remember that even Jesus walked with his people. but withdrew at times for prayer - alone.

The "hidden life." that private time when the "why" questions are asked in order to shine some light on our action and vocation in the world, must he lived daily. It must he lived in the pockets of all parts of the day - in those moments between tasks when you ask "Why am I doing this? How is this related to God's kingdom?"

Stop! That's the first step.

But remember that ultimately a balanced life of faith flows from the realization that it is the Spirit who works. So, as you ponder these questions - Who? Why? - give yourself over to the Spirit and ask to be shaped, directed for your daily life. Your meditation reveals that you are not self-sufficient.

Give the Spirit time - and place.

The way to sharpen your vision

By Father John J. Castelot

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tl work and no play makes Jack a ull boy. Similarly. all work and no pray makes anyone dull.

Work is important. What, for instance, is more important than raising a family?

But work is absorbing, time- consuming. demanding.

Unless a person takes time frequently to reflect prayerfully on the purpose of work, it can become frustrating. maddening.

Why am I knocking myself out like this?

Does anyone care? Does God? Feverishly busy as Jesus was, he had to find time for prayer. Mark tells us of a typical day. a day whose work began when

most people were ready to call it a day: after sunset.

Crowds flocked to Jesus with their troubled friends, and he tended to them all. As on another occasion. "the crowds gathered, making it impossible for them even to eat" (Mark 3:20).

The work that began at sunset left him exhausted. but also exhilarated. Popularity like that can be unsettling. Sleep brought some relief. Then. "rising very early before dawn, he left and went off to a deserted place. where he prayed" (Mark 1:35).

But he couldn't call even his solitude his own. His disciples tracked him down and reproached him: "Everyone is looking for your

They had a lot to learn. All they could see was the enthusiasm of the crowd and an opportunity to exploit it.

They didn't stop to ask: "For what?"

They did not realize that work had to be balanced by prayer if it was to make any sense.

Jesus could have scolded them for this. hut he said simply: "Let us go on to the nearby villages that I may preach there also. For this purpose have I come."

Prayer had sharpened his vision, given him fresh insight into his purpose. It made his work meaningful. This was not an isolated instance. The Gospel of Luke shows Jesus frequently at prayer.

• `In those days he departed to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God" (6:12).

• "He took Peter, John and James, and went up the mountain to pray" (9:28).

• "He was praying in a certain place. and when he had finished, one of his disciples said, 'Lord, teach us to pray.- (11:1).

Someone was getting the message!

By his example, Jesus taught the need for prayer - the importance of pausing in the midst of our legitimate activity and talking things over with God. We have to balance action and reflection. This is essential for sanity. emotional and spiritual health. St. Benedict gave his followers a simple formula for keeping balance: 'Work and pray." Both are of the essence.

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'Cure' tale behind shrine Luigi and LillS3 at the shrine LLNESS was the I I catalyst for the Bove's family shift to jindong in the South West...and that's how it all began.

Luigi and Luisa were comfortably established in suburbia when Luisa injured her back after the birth of their third baby. With it also came terrible head pains like nails being driven into my head" which forced her to rest frequently during the day and even the smallest chore became hard to accomplish.

Shifting to the fresh air of the country in 1975 was the only solution Luigi could think of with the absence of any medical cure, or even diagnosis in regard to the head pains.

Praying constantly for a cure. Luisa a ttended a healing prayer group and

hands were laid on twice during this.

Next morning she hopped out of bed without pain or discomfort which had been unthinkable for years without much pain atld difficulty.

Head pains had gone too and she had in fact regained perfect health.

In great gratitude.

Luisa. Luigi and their three children. Fernando, Paul. and Maria decided to build a tree shrine to honour God for this cure.

The small tree selected however posed a problem because of only three puny branches and the need for a niche to he cut in the trunk to place a statue of God's mother.

In their dilemma. prayers were offered to Our Lady at the base of the tree to find the right spot.

A tiny branch was t hen removed, bark peeled off in preparation for the cutting of an aperture - and then a discovery...a perfect niche was revealed! just the right size for the small statue at the perfect eye level.

The Bove family who subsequently recited the rosary daily there in thanks to God, wanted it consecrated as a tree shrine to Him so the date set by their parish priest was Christ the King in November.

A fter the church announcement, the word spread and the shrine was consecrated with big numbers attending from all the surrounding districts, including a busload of school children.

Now the Bove's and others expressed interest in having a shrine to Our Lady for the first Sunday in May.

By Colleen MoGuinesit• Howard So a heautiful shrine

was built in 1987 with an internal altar for Mass and dedicated to Our Lady by MonDowney. signor assisted by priests, acolytes and many people.

By ten years later attendances on each first Sunday in May on the Bove's property grew to such huge proportions that although It is on a 'BYO picnic lunch' basis, the hospitality of the generous and warm hearted Bove family required that Luisa spend the following week or so in bed recovering from the effort.

Five years ago before the feast day in honour of Our Lady, and not looking forward to more gross post fatigue. Luisa asked God to indicate

Around a thousand attended with the typical format of arrival around 10.30 am stress). tant physical That night she had a allowing for private or dream depicting big public prayer in front numbers of people of the grotto, followed pouring onto the prop- by lunch and proceederty and in it God say- ings starting with Mass, a procession ing: -Yes!" with the statue of Our So she went ahead Lady, and then Benewith it and next day, diction. despite vast quantities Meanwhile, a few o f people, not the ago it was sugyears slightest fatigue from gested the Feast of then on.

Christ the King should And other good he moved to the things continued to church. flow with more people This took place but pitching in to help and died out. alleviate the load.

However the Bove's through Mainly word of mouth, num- day for Mary continues bers swelled to such an to grow year by year. extent that on the last Also through the goodMay Marian honour- ness of the Bove family, ing day. 20 busloads on each first Sunday of came from Perth alone the month, the rosary (with another five not is recited for all who departing because of wish to come. - with false information it had attendances from up to been discontinued). BO people. plus many private cars Meanwhile, positive from far and wide. healings and happen-

if He really wanted her to continue with this (in view of the resul-

ings have taken place for many who've attended these days of honour for Our Lady. and people frequently ring to ask permission to come and pray at the grotto for healing or in gratitude for those which have already taken place.

The delightful Bove family always make themselves available to allow this whenever possible and modestly see themselves, as instruments of God. Only to be there to do His will in gratitude for the goodness He has shown them.

"A.s good things have happened to us. they can happen to anyone.

The main thing is to believe: they say.

And obviously in their case - to be a very willing part of His eternal plan.

For any information please ring the Bove family on 097-557-554.

Sex charges, so the axe Natural falls on this order S

YDNEY: The Society of St Gerard Majella, an this should not distract from the overwhelming order of brothers founded in Sydney in 1958, has integrity and lasting contributions made by the great disbanded on canonical advice, following accusa- majority of Brothers. tions of sexual misconduct by some brothers.

"Personally and also in the name of the Church. we The announcement was made by Bishop Bede wish to apologise to all those who have suffered as a Heather after a meeting of parishioners - closed to result of any misconduct." media - in the hall of Our Lady Queen of Peace The Majellan Brothers, founded by Brother, later parish Greystanes. in mid December.

Father Sweeney. for many years had a strong presGreystanes parish in which the order's headquar- ence in Bunbtuy diocese in the area of catechetics. ters were sited, was formerly administered by the In 1985 the Catholic Directory listed the society as order but is now in the care of former Manly semihaving some 30 members. Over the years a number nary rector Father Gerry Iverson. of brothers received priestly ordination.

The statement issued after the meeting by Bishop The society administered Newman Boys High Heather. the Majellan superior general Bro Taylor and a retreat centre at Bowral.

School and Fr Iverson said the society withdrew its comSweeney was directed in 1992 to hand Brother mitment to the parish due to the findings of an inquiry initiated by the bishop following allegations over offices in the order to Brother Robinson. but to of sexual misconduct and problems of governance continue as parish priest of Grevstanes. orinally part of the greater Sydney archdiocese when the society within the society.

These findings had far-reaching implications for was founded and now part of the eastern Parrathe society in general. which made it impossible for matta diocese. it to continue.

In 1993 following the April conviction of a brother over the abuse of a retreatant. Bishop Heather insti"The Church recognises that many people beyond the confines of the parish may have been seriously tuted a canonical investigation affected by these events and the ultimate dissolution of the order by canon lawyers Fathers Roger of the society.

Austin and Peter Blayney. Subsequently, two mem"It is important to stress that only a very small bers including the convicted brother were removed minority of persons was involved in misconduct and from the community.

By Dr John Gallagher in The Catholic Weekly

ODERN natural M family planning methods are practical. teachable, and highly effective in regulating family size and limiting population growth.

In 1995 this is unarguable. The method's efficiency is well proven by research.

Scientists in the family planning field accept that couples who are properly taught and abide by the rules of the method can expect to achieve a 97 to 98 per cent success rate in avoiding conception.

The Fairfield University and the World Health studies are but two of many recent evaluations substanti-

ating the high reliability of natural methods.

The ability to use a natural method is usually achieved within three months.

The goal of the learning phase is proficiency in observing and interpreting bodily indicators of fertility.

Some 97% of the women in the WHO study reached the required standard of proficiency by the end of their third menstrual cycle.

There are other criteria besides competence.

In the first place. a couple must acknowledge that its integration into their marriage will require mutual motivation. joint sexual decision ,,,, , ,

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ASHINGTON (CNS) - Shootings at Wprompted abortion clinics in the a barrage of condemnations Boston area

have and other reaction from church, government and pro-life leaders.

Cardinal Law of Boston called the shootings, in which two people were killed and five wounded, "reprehensible acts of violence with absolutely no justification whatsoever."

Asking "those in the pro-life movement who express their commitment through prayerful presence at abortion clinics" to refrain even from peaceful protests, Cardinal Law said. it is impossible to affirm the right to life of some while advocating violence against others."

The Pro-Life Office of the Archdiocese of Boston postponed its annual New Year's Eve prayer vigil, with director Barbara Thorp saying, "We feel it would be best to wait for a calmer time lest the purpose of this vigil be misunderstood."

Bishop O'Neil of Manchester, N.H., said "the killing of people directly violates every Catholic moral principle concerning life." He too called for a temporary halt to peaceful protests outside abortion clinics.

"My personal opinion is we should use every means in the political arena to make our position known and teach the public

about the principles of life," Bishop O'Neil ics. Violence is not a solution to the abortion said at Mass on the day after the shootings. tragedy of 1.5 million deaths per year."

Cardinal Bevilacqua of Philadelphia said: Benedictine Father Matthew Habiger, presi"No one is ever justified in adding to the vio- dent of Human Life International, said: "One lent deaths of unborn babies, already occur- should take up spiritual arms, not physical ring at these clinics.... Along with abortions, arms, in the fight against abortion." such intolerable acts stain this Christmas sea"The only way to stop this hateful cycle," he son of peace, love and joy." added. "is through prayer, education and Archbishop McCarrick of Newark said: "All peaceful protest." our efforts to defend the right to life of innoJudie Brown, president of the American Life cent children in the womb are jeopardized League said pro-life leaders now have two and diminished by the actions of any individ- obligations: "to recognize, publicly, that each ual who presumes to take from God the ulti- human being's life is sacred from fertilization mate power over human life itself." onward" and "to foster within our society a President Clinton said: "Our commitment to love and appreciation of the human person, the rule of law is being tested by those who no matter how small, no matter how weak, no believe that their opposition to abortion gives matter how young or old." them the right to commit acts of violence, At the site of the Norfolk clinic, where no even murder." one was wounded despite the two dozen From its Washington headquarters, the shots Salvi allegedly fired, three dozen peoNational Right to Life Committee condemned ple gathered for a candlelight vigil Jan. 1 to the clinic shootings in the strongest possible honour people killed at abortion clinics. The terms." vigil was sponsored by the Tidewater chapter The organization said it "opposes any use of of the National Organization for Women. violence as a means of stopping the violence Elsewhere in Norfolk, outside the city jail that has killed more than 31 million unborn where Salvi was being held, eight protesters, children since 1973." led by the Rev. Donald Spitz, director of ProPaige Cunningham. president of Americans Life Virginia. cheered Salvi and called for his United for Life, said the Chicago-based law freedom before bowing their heads to pray firm and educational organization "emphati- for him, according to a Washington Post cally condemns all violence at abortion din- report

Accused disrupted Christmas Mass

ASHING-TON (ENS) - The man Seabrook. N.H.. Salvi stood up in front of wanted the parish to distribute pictures of the day before he is alleged to have opened fire on the clinics.

W accused of killing two abortion the congregation and spoke out against aborted foetuses. clinic employees in Massachusetts and Catholicism. saying the church exploited shooting at a Norfolk. Va., clinic has had strong ties to the Catholic Church but disrupted Christmas Eve Mass at the church he attended with his parents.

John C. Salvi Ill, a 22-year-old hairdresser trainee, shot at the Norfolk clinic last Saturday. killing the receptionists from t wo clinics just outside Boston, and wounding five others.

Reports say that during a Christmas Eve Mass at St. Elizabeth's Church in

Father Edmund Sviokla, pastor of people and wasn't doing what it should. A state trooper in the congregation escorted Immaculate Conception Catholic Church In Everett said that when he rejected the Salvi out.

Idea. Salvi passed out such materials himHe wanted to go back in and have his self from his pickup parked outside the say again." said Colon Forbes. "I said. church.

'You've had your say. Those people don't want to listen to you.'"

Other acquaintances said Salvi and his The pastor of a church in Everett. Mass.. parents argued over his behaviour and where Salvi lived in 1993. said the young career choice when they visited him at his man had complained that the church apartment for Christmas. His parents live didn't do enough to fight abortion and in Florida and had returned to their home

The Boston Globe said Salvi had attended a meeting of Massachusetts Citizens for Life in February and handed out photographs. but that he wasn't known for joining anti-abortion activities in the area.

"All we know was there was this strange guy handing out these awful photographs" of aborted foetuses, said Frances Hogan. vice president of the group. 'You just knew there was something wrong with this guy."

But, he added. "no one ever heard him talk about violence."

family planning effective Natural methods making, sexual disci- method for health and pline, and the devel- philosophical reasons. are preferred by many because they do not opment of non-genital It suits particular Interfere with the expressions of affection, and attention to life styles. It appeals to reproductive process the sustaining of the those who put a high and have no medical value on human side effects. love relationship. worth, human life, The couple need to children, health and It is true that some perceive and achieve the integrity of the couples may find the the benefits of natural person. use of natural methfamily planning. The ods inconvenient, conmutual postponement It appeals to those fusing or frustrating. of intercourse is a who regard human but this also applies to time for shared activi- sexuality as a gift for artificial methods. ties and the communi- relating, loving and Personal, medical. cating of fidelity and procreating, and who occupational, relaaffection. hold that sexual inter- tional and psychologiIt brings a height- course is meant to be cal factors all impinge ened awareness of the a love-giving and life- upon the choice. dignity and individu- giving activity, and application and effiality of the partner, a whose deprival is not ciency of all birth conwith trol methods. rise in self-esteem. consonant nature. and a marital enrichNo method is 100% ment through sharing It appeals to those effective against prega love relationship who recognise the fer- nancy and the sustaindeeper tility of one's spouse ability of method will seeking Involvement, bonding as an attribute to be vary with couples and and permanence. valued, respected, with the stage of couples accepted and left reproductive life of Most the woman. choose a natural Intact.

Natural family planning will increase in popularity with the advent of urinary dipstick methods of delineating the fertile phase of the cycle.

Catholic The Church's teaching is not based on biological considerations alone. It comes from a view of the nature and role of sexuality and intimacy within the Christian marriage covenant. Contraception is not consonant with nature.

In marriage contraception is a contradiction of the marriage covenant where the whole self needs to be given in love without reservation. The contraceptive embrace by excluding fertility is a form of loving with a serious reservation.

It is quite wrong and more efficient for the unjust to equate world debate on overCatholicism with inef- population, resources, fective birth control. environment poverty. clearly and health to be conResearch demonstrates that nat- ducted against a backural methods are reli- ground of truth rather able, acceptable and than fallacy. effective as any other "It is therefore method in most cul- Important that the tures. Dr Ryder in the misconception that British Medical jour- Catholicism is synonynal says: mous with ineffective "It might be argued birth control is laid to that natural family rest.

Some say wrongly planning being cheap. effective, without side that normal mareffects, and potentially riages, abstinence particularly effective being unnatural and and acceptable in therefore couples are areas of poverty may at high risk of marital be the family planning conflict unhappiness, and choice for the Third breakdown divorce.

World.

Yet, natural family "The case for or planning users report against this may be their personal satisfacargued and debated, tion. the whatever but They say natural standpoint there is no doubt that it would be family planning is a

gateway to personal fulfilment, marital enrichment, fidelity. and a deep and abiding relationship. benefits These accrue from the integration of sexual discipline.

In advocating modern natural family planning and its pro life philosophy. thc Church is promoting not only a way to highly efficient birth regulation, but also a way to happy marriage and stable family life.

These are the very reasons why thousands of natural family planning couples throughout the world have committed themselves to teaching it to others.

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1995 Festival Odessa at Abbey-Vale

E demise of the Soviet Union has unearthed some extraordinary jewels in the cultural fields of both Russia and the Ukraine. None more so than in the beautiful Black Sea resort of Odessa, the summer retreat of Tolstoy and Gorky. The discovery of the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra (Ukraine) has been one such find and the Festival is dlighted to give these outstanding musicians their first taste of Australia.

Under brilliant young American chief conductor, Hobart Earle, the Orchestra's virtuoso programs in Perth include Stravinsky's virtuoso ballet score, the Rite of Spring. Rachmaninov and Schumann piano concertos with soloist Sergei Terentiev and Marhler's Symphony No 2 (Resurrection) with soloists Natasha Yutesh, Fiona rr HE eternal conflict between good and evil in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment is dramatically brought to life at Swy Theatre, in A drej Wajda's award winning stage adaptation. Director Kristof K aczmarek reveals the depth of the plot through the antagonistic relationship of the two central characters: Porfiry, the Chief of Police and Raskoinikov. the criminal. As the two match w its in the interrogation room, and the layers are peeled away, the conflicting morals of each of these men forces us to turn the mirror on ourselves.

Love's idiotic triangle portray ingtragedy,, love, betrayal. jealousy, passion and murder are all explored in Nastasia, Kristof Kaczmarek's stage adaptation of Dostoyessky's novel The Idiot. Theatre Zart's production picks up the Russian novel at its most poignant point. The relationship between rival suitors Rogozyn and Nlyshkin undergoes an incredible development as they come to terms with their desire for Nastasia.

March 18, tickets from $7 to $15.

Campbell and the Festival Chonic Tickvis frmil $12 to $49.

A highlight of the Festival will be the Odessa' performance at Abbey-Vale Vineyard Yallingup. on Saturday 25 February at 6.30 pm.

Beside the lake, surrounded by vines and spectacular karri forests, the orchestra will let its hair down in festive style with selections from Johann Strauss, Verdi and Sousa.

Organisers encourage you to enjoy a picnic before the performance and suggest you will be swept up in the magical atmosphere as the sun sinks slowly below the lake and the Orchestra weaves its magic to the people and adjacent forests. Tickets (reserved seating) are $80.

Stasys from 19 February to 2 April and Court Out W omen and the Law from 24 February to 2 April.

IF magnificent A four centuries old University of Vilnius S tasys, shows the boasts one of the most celebrated and highly original work of colourful Folk Song Lithuanian artist Stasys and Dance companies Eldrigevicius which has very much in Europe. Although been the performances of moulded by his childthe widely travelled hood, despite his later Lithuanian Folk Song move to Poland. The and Dance Company brooding and melanare firmly rooted in cholic slence of rural the wonderfully rich Lithuania permeates legends and traditions much of his art producof Lithuania, the com- ing an uneasy reaction in missioning of new the viewer. This exhibichoreography and tion of works on paper. new music has mixed media, pastels. brought a contempo- masks and performance rary relevance and contains elements of post excitement to its per- w ar Eastern European surrealism and symbolformances. ism. It appears to quesThe Company's highly skilled orches- tion the place and role of tra uses exclusively not only the artist, hut also humanity in the Lithuanian folk instruments which world today. are, for the most part, With Court Out unknown to Aus- Women and the Law, tralian audiences. this dynamic and unusual The members of this exhibition is part of an c ompany are all Australia wide celebrayoung students at the tion to commemorate University of Vilnius. the 20th anniversary of They will be perform- International Women's ing at the New For- Day on 8 March 1995. tune Theatre, the Uni- While the institution of versity of Western the Law affects all indiAustralia from March viduals, women have a 7 to II at 8.30 pm, tick- unique relationship with ets from $10 to $26. it that is not often

Performances at Swyfor Crime and PunishHE Lawrence Wilment are from February son Art Gallery on 6 to 18, tickets from $9 to the University of WA $18, and for Nastasia campus, Nedlands, offers from February 13 to two presentations with 14 The Record. January 5, 1995

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acknowledged in our society. In the WA community the traditions of European and Aboriginal law intersect in varying ways. Women artists

from both traditions cutically examine the different aspects of law in their artworks. Conciding with the exhibition is a publication of an essay collection on the issues framed by the artworks by local women lawyers, academics and writers.

AUSTRALIAN Eri,-

Bogle has dominated the Australian folk scenefor more than a decade and is regarded as one of Aus tralia's best known song writers and performer., His music is prwerful, personality magnetic and style unique. Eric will be joined

by Brent Miller and Andy McGloin for a night of music that's bound to stab at the heart and tickle the funny bone in peifirrmances at the Fly By Night Club, Fremantle on lIarch 3 and 4, tickets 527.

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HE Moscow Conser vatory Trio brings together three eminent musicians now living in the United States who share common roots with the famed Moscow Conservatory. Founded in 1991, the Trio has already established itself as one of the world's f oremost chamber ensembles and makes its Australian debut at the Festival. They will per form at the Perth Concert Hall on Monday February 20 at 8 pm. playing Mozart. Schubert and Tchaikovsky; tickets from $10 to $24.

writer ERY reveals some fact of his or her identity through writing. The 1995 Perth Writers Festival follows the resounding success of the 1993 event with a judicious blend of experienced writers and tyros, the popular and the less well known genres and the broad sweep of writing from overseas and Australia - all in four days of stimulating talk about identity and writing.

Set in the sun dappled courtyards of the Fremantle Arts Centre. the Perth Writers Festival features a variety of meet the writer, workshop, and panel sessions together with opportunities to hear readings by the authors and story telling by indigenous people of Western Australia and Northern India. Events are free except for workshops and cabaret ($7 2).

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TRONG, physical performances, incredible set designs, sharp and fast theatre - that's what audiences have come to expect from Barking Gecko.

Its latest production, The Egg, delivers the goods again as these master performance makers spin an amazing and engaging tale of football, museums and a gigantic egg.

His return to the Festival as soloist with the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra has enabled the programming of an additional solo recital and further jazz performances which will no doubt reinforce his recorded CD from the 1994 Festival. He will perform at the Perth Concert Hall on Sunday 26 February at 5pm, playing Schumann and Liszt: tickets $15.

Inspired by a true story, The Egg is a fictional account of three Western Australian children who accidentally stumble upon a prehistoric egg and make international headlines. Brilliantly told, The Egg is an hilarious and moving story of kids growing up and adults becoming childish!

The Egg is a magical excursion to the wildest museum exhibition ever seen. Discover the amazing Egg for yourself 2.000 years old and big enough to feed five famished football teams, showing at the Hellenic Gallery at the WA Museum from March 2 to 18, tickets from $9.90 to $12.50.

Back from the Ukraine

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Sergei Terentiev made a huge at last year's Festival with his outstanding virtuosity, versatility and muscianship in both the classical and jazz idioms, which endeared him to devotees in each discipline.

Roger Smalley Pierre Valade

DIERRE Andre Valade is one of

the most gifted young musicians in France. His prowess as a flautist

is universally recognised and his many solo engagements with Pierre Boulez and the Ensemble Inter Contemporain have been widely acclaimed. He has an extensive discography and innumerable recording awards. In 1991 he founded the Ensemble Court-Circuit for the exclusive performance of 20th century music and since then has become increasingly in demand as a conductor. In addition to this

recital with Roger Smalley he will conduct the WASO 20th Century Ensemble on 26 February. .Appearances will heat the Octagon Theatre on Sunday 5 larch at 5 pm playing

Debussy, Widor, Roussel, and Prokofiev. (Tickets from $10 to $20).

With the WASO 20th Century Ensemble his program will feature Hurel, Murail and Stravinsky at the Perth Concert Hall on Sunday 26 February at 2 pm. (Tickets $15).

of Perth

by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

Perth jazz men make great music

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INCE the Festival of Perth first organised the Northbridge Festival in 1981, the long weekend on March 4 and 5,has always been the signal for some street partying in Northbridge.

The heart of the restaurant precinct shakes off its veneer of respectability as the people of Perth celebrate la dolce vita with dancing in the streets and much more. Australian and international artists amaze, amuse, enthral and energise the many thousands who attend this long established event.

Abbey Theatre

Meanwhile the West End of Perth (between Milligan and William Streets) is fast developing into a sophisticated happening place for those in search of inner city excitement. So it's not surprising that the Festival of Perth, the pioneer of street fcsti vals, has teamed up with the dynamic businesses in the area to start a new free event guaranteed to have the family on the streets for the last weekend of the Festival on March 11 and 12.

IAll in the Wardle Room J(Perth Concert Hall, Riverside Plaza Level) takes over from Jazz in the Red Room at L t year's Festival.

The venue is bigger and better and affords a great place for those who love to listen to iazz It's from February 19 to march 11 featuring the Perth Jazz orchestra, Lau-

rent De Wilde Quartet, Sergei Terentiev and the Petras Yysnouskas Quartet. Tickets $10 to $15.

The resident Wardle Roan big band, the Perth jazz Orchestra (Australian), has created quite a following in the last few months and Festival time will give people another opportunity to hear this line up of young virtuosi

and youthful veterans from the Perth scene. Their ensemble is equally adept at blowing you away with power or caressing you with a powder Puff. most Sundays during the Festival they will dust off a few standards as well as some lesser known tunes which 15 a great way to finish off the weekend.

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finishing it off, the Swan Festival Club is worth visiting from $5 to $12 entry fee.

classic, The Well of the Saints, played by the Abbey Theatre Dublin (Ireland), two blind beggars are given the gift of sight. Yet their inability to cope with the real world sees their lives crumble, only to end as they began.

In the tradition of Samuel Beckett, this tragic, absurd humour is part black comedy, part morality tale.

Universally acclaimed at the 1994 Edinburgh Festival, Patrick Mason

Orchestra of Stuttgart E legendary Stuttgart Chamber 1 Orchestra, Europe's oldest chamber .,chestra. celebrates its 50th anniversary year. Founded by karl .11urnhinger, le• Orchestra quickly won a reputation a 11(11, style of Bach interpretation and its adainted performances were the catalyst or Baroque music's increased popularity. The orchestra has visited every ,-ontinent, perfonninkfrequently at all the ,laror international Festivals arid produ& an immense and enviable catalogue 4 recordiiTs. The orchestra's appealing programs ildre allonvd the illCillSiOPI of a major birthday bonus for audiences - the Prague

Chamber Choir. Established in 1990 in the mike of the 'velvet revolution', the Choir has enioyrd a rapid rise to international prominence through its outstanding concerts and recordings, further enhancing the rid: traditions 4choral performance in Eastern Europe. In addition to its concerts with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra the Choir will also perform sacred music (free entry) at St George's Cathedral ors Saturday 26 February at 5 pmthe Sacred Afotets of Anton Bruckner, arid at St .‘lary's Cathedral on Sunday 2 6 February at the 10a:,: Mass Domenico Scarlatti's Alessa a 4 Voci.

The Choir will in addition, give a special

lurid:time concert qf popular secular MUSK al the Perth Concert Hall on 27 February at 11 an:, tickets $10.

The combined concerts will be conducted by the Polish conductor Tadeusz Strugula who was previously at the Festival with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra in 1980. be at the Orchestral performances Perth Concert Hall on Tuesday 28 February at 8 pm playing Schubert, Stravinsky and Iivaldi and again on It'edneday 1 March at 8 pm performing I3a,-;: Stravinsky, Haydn and Mozart, t: _ from $12 to $36.

directs an extraordinary cast in this bitingly funny production.

The Abbey Theatre, Ireland's premier compam, dates back over 90 years. With a reputation built upon the strength of Ireland's greatest playwrights, its unsurpassed performances have been hailed by critics and the public alike.

Performances will be at His Majesty's Theatre from 28 February to 11 March at 8 pm plus matinees.

Tickets from S10 to $39.

WASO and Finale!

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Orchestra plays a pivotal role in the Festival, giving the traditional al fresco opening Fireworks Concert the first and last major orchestral concerts in the Concert Hall, and providing its 20th Century Ensemble for a major concert of contemporary music between times A s part of the Festival's Stravinsky celebrations the Orchestra will play the great Firebird and Petrouchka Ballet scores under Vladimir Verbitsky and Chief Chief Conductor.

Vernon Handley respectively Pascal Roge makes a welcome return for the final concert.

Venues will be in the Supreme Court Gardens for the opening concert on Saturday 18 February at 7.30 pm, admission free, and at the Perth Concert Hall on Friday 17 February at 8 pm playing Rismky-Korsakov. Ravel and Stravinsky, while on Friday 10 and Saturday II March at 8 pm, they will play Roussel, Ravel and Stravinsky's Ballet Petrouckka Tickets from SIO to $36 A 2 pm performance On Sunday 26 February (tickets $10) will feature Berio, Murail, Hurel and Stravinsky.

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WO free concerts funded by the Lotteries Commission will be the Opening Fireworks Concert in the Supreme Court Gardens on Saturday 18 February at 7.30 pm and the Festival Finale in Murray Street and Forrest Place on 12 March at 8 pm.

Intially, to celebrate the start of the 43rd Festival of Perth, the sky over the city will be lit with colour during the family fireworks c oncert in the Supreme Court Gardens.

The Festival will be o fficially opened by His Excellency Major General Michael Jeffery, Governor of Western Australia and Festival patron.

While the performance will be conducted by David Meashama with the West Australian Symphony orchestra performing popular classics and showstoppers including a selection from Car-

men, Jupiter from Planets, The T chaikovsky's Capriccio ltaliane and items from Jesus Christ Superstar. Joining the orchestra will be singers Fiona Campbell and Andrew Foote. Word is bring a blanket and picnic basket, sit back on the grass and be awash with music!

As for the Finale well just when you thought it was safe to go out - think

again!

Who would have dreamed that last year's Festival Finale would contain ducks. sheep, exploding cakes, tall poppies, seven metre high queens, pr -Tia donnas, guerii...- street cleaners -iid Sri Lankan drurmers?

If you cc -1't get

more biza ---e than that, you're wrong.

Come and see for yourself and be part of the celebrations to end Perth 43rd international Festival.

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