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Aussie pardon Flashback! The Pope waving goodbye at Perth airport in 1986.

Aboriginal rite of purification will be used at the opening of Papal Mass Eucalyptus smoke will replace the opening Elements of local cultures will characterize the celeThere are priests and bishops, incensation at next Thursday's Papal Mass.

SThis brations in the four countries that Pope John Paul will is widely used, the Missal explains, among the visit: The use of musical instruments such as drums, a YDNEY:

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Aborigines around Australia as a rite of purification and wholeness.

Green gum leaves are placed on the first and participants walk through the smoke, washing it over their faces with their hands.

The entrance procession will move through the smoke and a brazier brought to the altar where a deacon will place green leaves.

The Holy Father will move past the smoke to greet the people and reverence the altar.

This is one of the many cultural elements that will characterise the pope's journey.

Rubrics and Mass texts will be in English. though local languages such as Pidgin and Motu (Papua New Guinea) and Sinhala and Tamil (Sri Lanka) will he used.

rondalla band, liturgical dancers and the use of candles, flowers and incense throughout the ceremonies.

The pastoral visit of 33,415km is the seventh longest of his papacy and the longest in the last five years and includes Papua New Guinea. Australia and Sri Lanka.

The Pope's 63rd foreign trips centres around the 10th World Youth Day in Manila, his second vist there, the fourth centenary of the elevation of Manila to the rank of archdiocese and the establishment of the dioceses of Cebu. Caceres and Nueva Segovia. and three beatifications in Port Moresby. Sydney and Colombo.

The Philippines is the only country of Asia with a Catholic majority.

It has 65.650.000 inhabitants of whom 55,047.000 or 83.8 per cent are Catholic.

During his first trip in 1981. the Holy Fathers beatified Lorenzo Luiz - the first beatification outside the Vatican and canonized him in Rome in 1987. giving the Philippines its first saint.

He also visits Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea, a country of 3,920.000 inhabitants of whome 32.2 per cent. 1.261.000 people. are Catholic. There are 22 bishops. 510 priest and 1.277 religious.

He previously visited Sydney in 1986. Australia has 17.660,000 people. of whom 4.994.000 or 28.3 per cent are Catholic. There are 60 bishops, 3.563 priests and 10,622 religious.

Sri Lanka is being visited for the first time. There are 17.620.000 people and 6.8 per cent or 1.191.000 is Catholic. It has 15 bishops. 847 priest and 2.561 religious.

Sydney and Melbourne diary

ow it will happen in Sydney: Wednesday. January H • Performances by Josephite schools at 18

6pm IN An Inter-faith welcome to the Pope at 7.30pm

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by Cardinal Clancy, in the presence of representatives of member churches of the National Council of Churches and the representatives of the Jewish and Islamic communities.

• A Mary MacKillop Pageant "The Legend is Alive" featuring the music of Tommy Tycho's orchestra and performances by Julie Anthony, Peter Cousens, Genevieve Davis, Mame Johnson. Grace Knight, David Lemke. Bobby Limb. Felicity Urquhart and Normie Rowe.

Thursday, January 19 • Gates will open at 12.30pm. Tickets are NOT required.

• Strategically placed, large video screens will carry filmed material as preparation for the Mass

and Beatification. Close-up shots of the altar and the words of songs and prayers will be displayed at appropriate times.

• Activities commence at 2pm (approx.) with adults and children's choirs. There will be a rehearsal of the people's parts earlier in the afternoon.

• Aboriginal Elders will welcome all to honour the sacredness of the land.

• A dramatic bringing together of soils from the countries and regions. in which the Sisters of St Joseph carry out their ministries, will precede the Mass symbol of the cultures represented by Scotland. Peru, Ireland. New Zealand and various regions around Australia.

IN The Prayers of Intercession will be offered in a number of languages. representing the ethnic diversity of Australia.

• Preparation of the gifts will include bread, wine

and a book describing the breadth and rich variety of josephite ministries.

And in Melbourne...

On the 15th January. 1842 Mary MacKillop was born in Brunswick St. Fitzroy. She spent nearly a third of her life in Melbourne.

At her 153rd birthday Mass in All Saints church Fitzroy Archbishop Frank Little will be assisted by Father Ted Murphy, parish priest of Roybridge.

Scotland. the birthplace of Mary MacKillop's father.

Alexander.

Fitzroy soil will be taken to the beatification Mass at Randwick to be placed in an urn with other soil from significant places in Australia, New Zealand.

Scotland, Ireland and Peru.

At the Fitzroy Birthday Mass an icon of Mary MacKillop will be blessed and hung in All Saints Church.

Following the Mass, a birthday celebration, with the customary birthday cake, will take place.

I'm okay, now how about your canoeing and skiing? jATICAN CITY (CNS) - A relaxed Pope John Paul II V told Polish pilgrims that despite growing older, he feels pretty good.

"The hair is still in, and the head isn't doing so bad either," he said Jan. 7, a few days before embarking on his longest foreign trip in five years.

"They say the pope is getting old and that he's not able to walk without a cane. But somehow, he keeps going on and on." he said.

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"So if people are interested in these things in Poland, tell them: This pope isn't doing so badly," he said.

The 74-year-old pontiff, who was still walking tentatively following thigh bone surgery in 1994, has joked publicly about his age and physical condition in recent weeks.

The pope made the remarks to pilgrims who accompanied two new bishops he had ordained the previous day. Recalling his own outdoor activities - especially

canoeing and skiing - as a young priest and bishop in Poland, the pope joked about the latest crop of bishops.

"It seems to me this new generation is weaker. I ask the new bishops: So, do you canoe? And they answer with a yes that is not very convincing. Then I ask them: Do you ski? And they respond: A little," he said.

"That's what they should say about me in the future: Not only was he pope, but he skied and canoed. And sometimes he broke his leg," he said.

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Road to damnation or smelling a rat in the Can of Worms Waiting to be Opened Bill 1994

IS Human Rights (Sexual Conduct) Bill for strong protests front the Catholic Church, the Like the Christian parliamentarians who argue T1 passed through the Senate recently Salvation Army, the Baptist Churches and some in vain against the Bill one would suspect not after great haste in its drafting.

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This Bill is the Federal Government's response to a United Nations human rights committee ruling in April that the Tasmanian provisions breached the international covenant on civil and political rights.

Even though we are being told the Bill ensures sexual conduct between two consenting adults will not be outlawed, the reality of the Bill is much more than that, and therein lies a can of worms sent to plague us.

It is on the cards to be known as The Can of Worms Waiting to Be Opened Up Bill 1994.

What a victory just in time for Christmas! What rejoicing! Yet where is the victory, and where is the rejoicing?

That is the question. Many indeed have opposed the legislation put forward by the attorney general (who has maintained the Bill is necessary to protect homosexual rights) and have consulted the best legal brains in the country, including Queen's counsels (who state this legislation will give power to the legal profession to argue successfully in defence of crimes such as pornographic behaviour. incest, abortion). On the other hand many in the halls of parliament do not give a hoot for these opinions; nor indeed

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other Christian denominations.

For what is at stake here is political power, (not forgetting the votes) and the compromise being made for the supposed good of the individual by granting supposed human rights through dubious law.

The freedom of the individual must come first, says the elected government, even before the rights of State to decide upon the freedom which people may or may not have.

Do we rejoice at the ruling from the United Nations Human Rights Committee, shouting three cheers that sanity prevails? Or does it? Is it really sanity and good news for all the people?

Is it really a fact that hordes of police regularly burst with great fanfare into the bedrooms of hapless homosexual couples to arrest and cart them off to the police station for severe reprimand and punishment?

Like National Party Senator Ron Boswell and others who have eyes to see and ears to hear, many are not convinced it is a Bill purely to protect human rights of homosexual people, or anyone else, because it is devious, insidious legislation, another example of crooked logic gone haywire.

ROSARY CAMPAIGN CONTINUES To GROW

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Our initiative of praying the Rosary together with Orthodox Christians has the full approval of Pope John Paul U. On the 11th of December 1992 Father Werenfried was invited to the Vatican, where he had lunch with the Holy Father. After lunch, Father Werenfried offered the Pope a rosary booklet. This was however refused with the words: 'Thank you, i know it already' Every day I read one page of it' The Holy Father gladly welcomes the help that Aid To The Church In Need is now giving the Orthodox Church for the re-evangelisation of Russia On the 13th of October 1992 Father Werenfried prayed the Rosary on Red Square in Moscow. With him were two nuns from the Nunciature and a small group of friends. II was a small beginning with great consequences.

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only a can of worms waiting to be opened, but also a rat to be smelt in the inherent evils of the Bill.

The Australian Catholic Bishops have already spoken out about the questionable impact the legislation will have on understanding marriage and family life, as well as condemning other negative aspects of the Bill, which will demonstrate clearly into our children and our children's children that the road leading to damnation is wide, the road is clear, with many choosing to travel it: but how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it! (Matthew 7: 13, 14) A letter sent to my mother on the eve of her wedding, from her loved uncle Jim, the Hon. Senator J.J. Kenneally, (he was away in Sydney at the time - no plane trips home, travel then was by the train in the 1930s) contained words of wisdom and encouragement for the years ahead; (yet his perception of wisdom was not the demanding of human rights, but of human sacrifice, that noblest of human traits, far above the demands of human rights.

"I hope your married life will be smooth and happy. This can hest be contributed by both parties to the happy union realising that each is human, and that in marriage, as indeed in all undertakings in life, one must necessarily bear with and help the other party when troubled limes temporarily cloud the horizon..."

In his research into the life of Mother Mary MacKillop. Paul Gardiner S.J. finds in her letters much evidence of necessarily hearing with and helping others in troubled times and of the great sufferings this brought to herself, as expressed in her letter to her old friend and assistant Sister Calasanctius: "I feel as if all my old friends are dead to me. and beyond trying to do my duty wherever Placed. am, in a measure, dead myself. The past with its many sorrows and few joys is a dream ...

Leave yourself in God's hands - willing to live and suffer as long as He pleases. asking Him only to keep you in His grace and love."

She was to endure this life of suffering with few earthly joys for another thirty nine years!

Clearly it is human sacrifice and self denial for the good of others that brings peace on earth, and sainthood.

And, believe it or not, this is a sure way to ensure human rights for all.

How is it then that the word going around is that the way of perdition is wide open for the masses? Step this way folks! (But not if you want to he saints of God!) The shedding of blood and man's inhumanity to man in Bosnia today. and other places torn apart by war and conflict is an outward sign of the scourge afflicting the world because of its rebellion against the Word of God. the Word made flesh Who dwells among us.

Surely we experience that same death and conflict when the morality of the nation is put in danger through devious legislation rejecting the Christian law.

Peace on earth certainly will not result from the 1994 Human Rights (Sexual Conduct) Bill.

Any legislation allowing for justification of behaviour contrary to God's love and mercy is no cause for rejoicing. The wages of sin is death.

Harsh words, and who can accept them?

Only, it seems, the mere children of God, those who share in the foolishness of God which is far deeper than human wisdom and understanding.

"Holy cow! Or, stone the crows! How come we get such gloom and doom?

All this talk about death, and the wages of sin, and foolishness of God. All everyone really wants is their human rights, right?"

Yet, sadly, when conscience is compromised for earthly gain, and the things of heaven are denied, then the result can only be disaster and chaos, as we discover the wages of sin is truly death.

The learned and the clever may argue till kingdom come that human rights are our first priority, while hell bent on pursuing this god of human rights.

Yet the more the rights of God are trampled on, the more human rights, and even the very Kingdom of God itself, may elude us.

'Abortion Not guilty, says the accused ad a desperate attack'

0STON (CNS) accused abortion "merits no recognition or support as a Catholic B clinic shooter John Salvi pleaded inno- organization" and is funded mostly by noncent to murder and attempted murder in Catholic sources.

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EW YORK (CNS) - In response to calls for a moratorium on protests N at abortion clinics following the killings at two Boston-area clinics.

Cardinal O'Connor of New York said he would agree on condition that a

Boston a debate was emerging among Catholic Meanwhile, a clearer picture was emerging and pro-life leaders about whether there of Salvi, the 22-year-old hairdressing student should be a national moratorium on peaceful arrested Dec. 31 for the shootings in Brookline, protests outside abortion clinics.

Mass., which killed two and wounded five othAlthough Boston's Cardinal Law had asked ers, and for firing shots at a clinic in Norfolk, for such a moratorium in his archdiocese Va., where no one was hurt. immediately after the Dec. 30 shootings at two In a lengthy, often-rambling statement Salvi Boston clinics, New York's Cardinal O'Connor said that if he is found guilty of the charges he said at a Jan. 8 Mass that he would take that faces, he wants to be executed. If he is acquitaction only if a moratorium were called on ted, he said, he wants to become a Catholic abortions. priest.

Cardinal O'Connor said he would follow In Boston, police were stationed around the Cardinal Law's example of initiating scheduled cardinal's residence, which is next to the periods of prayer in churches for the cause of chancery. human life.

Father Conley, editor of The Pilot, archdioceBut in New York archdiocese, he said, they san newspaper. said neither he nor Cardinal would be "in addition to any prayer vigils that Law had heard from Salvi, who had expressed responsible individuals or groups believe that an interest in contacting the cardinal and other they should conduct legally and nonviolently." Catholic leaders. Father Conley said The Pilot A priest who heads a diocesan pro-life group would not provide a forum for Salvi's views. in Brooklyn, N.Y.. said his group would conIn the The Pilot. Cardinal Law said his heart tinue to conduct peaceful vigils outside abor- was "filled with heavy sorrow" over the shoottion clinics in Brooklyn and Queens, the two ings.

New York boroughs that the diocese encom"May the God of love and mercy bring those passes. who were killed to that place where every tear Cardinal Law's call for a moratorium in his will be wiped away, and may the compassionarea was "not meant to be a national policy," ate Lord console all those who knew and loved said Msgr. Reilly. director of Helpers of God's those two young women." he wrote.

Precious Infants.

An editorial in the same edition concluded: In Camden Bishop McHugh issued guide- "But while we psychoanalyze John Salvi, lines for peaceful demonstrations at abortion express outrage at a violence that can never be clinics, saying that they 'must always reflect justified, and carry on a national debate about Gospel values and be law-abiding." a moral issue as vital as slavery, we must never Bishop O'Neil of Manchester, N.H., the dio- forget the names of cese in which Salvi lived at the time of the Shannon Lowney and Leanne Nichols. May shootings, also called for a temporary halt to a gentle Lord give them rest." peaceful protests outside abortion clinics. -My Ms. Lowney. 25, and Ms. Nichols, 38, were own personal opinion is we should use every killed at the Planned Parenthood and Preterm means in the political arena to make our posi- Health Services abortion clinics. respectively. tion known and teach the public about the A full-page ad in The New York Times that principles of life." he said. said Catholic leaders "incite terrorism and Catholics for a Free Choice asked Catholic death" by their words against abortion brought leaders to "distance themselves and cease to an outraged response from the head of the U.S. participate in protests at clinics and other simi- bishops' pro-life office, as well as from the lar events on a permanent basis."

Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights Urging cancellation of the 1995 March for and the Knights of Columbus.

Life, scheduled for Ian. 23 in Washington. the Gail Quinn. executive director of the bishops' group added. 'We hope that if it proceeds. no Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, said the ad member of the Catholic clergy participate in placed by Planned Parenthood of New York this event at this time and Catholic schools City to solicit contributions for additional secufrom grammar through university not support rity at abortion clinics was a "crass attempt to or send students to this march." use Friday's murders to scapegoat the Catholic Catholics for a Free Choice was denounced Church in order to fund raise and to silence in 1993 by the U.S. bishops' 50-member Admin- public discussion of what abortion is - the istrative Committee, which said the group destruction of innocent human life."

moratorium he called on abortions."

In his Sunday homily at St. Patrick's Cathedral, he noted that Cardinal Law of Boston had made the "prudential judgment" for a moratorium on protests in the Boston archdiocese.

Cardinal O'Connor said that he might issue a similar call if he were Boston's archbishop, and in any case would follow Cardinal Law's example of initiating scheduled periods of prayer in churches for the cause of human life.

But in the New York Archdiocese, such prayer periods will be "in addition to any prayer vigils that responsible individuals or groups believe that they should conduct legally and nonviolently," Cardinal O'Connor said.

He also called the monthly rosary vigils led by Bishop Thomas V. Daily of Brooklyn at abortion clinics "wonderful examples of peaceful processions and prayers."

The cardinal's homily was implicitly a response to criticism in a full-page ad published by Planned Parenthood of New York City in The New York Times and a public letter issued by the agency's president. Alexander C. Sanger, the same day. revive all the old anti-Catholic fears and prejuHowever, neither of those was mentioned dices." directly.

Cardinal O'Connor also said he could not "Words Kill" was the heading of the ad, which imagine that "anyone could believe that in New said "words of hate pulled the trigger" in the York today such tactics could dissuade the abortion clinic killings, and that "leaders of the church from continuing to appeal for the unborn extreme religious right are heedlessly using a or the aged and the vulnerable - for all whose war of words to inspire killing." lives are threatened."

"Fair-minded people" would not want an "act "The clearest example occurred," the ad asserted, "when New York's John Cardinal of madness" to be used to "demonize" the many O'Connor issued a backhanded apology for the nonviolent people in the pro-life movement or attackers by stating you cannot prevent killing end the movement, he said. by killing,' thereby labeling abortion providers as Disputing charges that his own pro-life work incited violence, the cardinal reiterated "for the killers."

In the letter. Sanger repeated criticism of the record" his total rejection of violence. "Anyone comment one "cannot prevent killing by killing," who would make such charges would have to be and asked Cardinal O'Connor to "call upon your desperate indeed, and has my sincere sympamovement to refrain from any actions at clinics thy," he said.

"I categorically denounce the hypothesis that or at doctors' homes." to kill an abortionist is justifiable in order to save "In the current atmosphere. I fear that clinic babies," Cardinal O'Connor said. "I have publicly prayer vigils are misinterpreted by those with murder in their hearts as providing legitimacy or denounced the violence of an abortion clinic even holy sanction for violent acts (which they bomber."

He added that he had "signed every renunciasee as the answer to the prayers)," Sanger said. tion of the use of capital punishment" issued by The cardinal's spokesman, Joseph Zwilling, the bishops statewide or nationally, denounced wrote Sanger that his charges had been based on even verbal violence in strikes and condemned twisting a single statement out of context. He violence directed against people because of their added, "I found your Times attack despicable sexual orientation. and your letter an exercise in sophistry."

Responding to frequent allegations that pro-lifWithout mentioning Sanger, Cardinal O'Con- ers are not concerned about the welfare of peonor said he could not imagine that "any decent ple after they are born. Cardinal O'Connor cited person or organization" would revive tactics the record of the New York Archdiocese in child described in a book by Bernard Nathanson, a care, education of poor and minority students, doctor who came to reject abortion after a period provision of housing for senior citizens and of directing an abortion clinic in New York. maintenance of "the largest number of beds desHe said that in a chapter on "Catholics" in "The ignated for persons with AIDS in the private secAbortion Papers: Inside the Abortion Mentality." tor in the U.S." Nathanson detailed how he and other abortion"That the church cares as deeply about the ists "designed strategies and propaganda explic- born as about the unborn should be obvious to itly to discredit the Catholic Church ... and to all," he said.

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Spirit of reconciliation Cardinal Bernadin issues a statement aimed at inspiring others

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HICAGO: Cardinal Bernardin has released the following statement of his meeting, six days after Christmas, on the feast of the Holy Family, with his one time accuser Steven Cook Shortly after Steven Cook accused me of abusing him sexually, I wrote a personal letter requesting that we meet so I could pray with and for him.

Inow know that he never received it.

Nonetheless, I am happy to report that on Dec. 30, 1994. I flew to Philadelphia and spent two hours with Steven.

In accordance with Steven's wishes, I would like to tell you about this grace-filled meeting which brought closure and peace to both of us. May this story give to anyone who is hurt or alienated the inspiration and courage to be reconciled.

In mid-December I decided I wanted to meet with Steven before the year ended. Even though I had never heard from him, I sensed he also wanted to see me.

Not knowing his address or phone number and not wanting to take him by surprise, I spoke with Father Philip Seher, a personal friend of mine and pastor of St. William Parish in Cincinnati, where Steven's mother. Mary, lives.

Father Seher contacted Mrs. Cook, who in turn spoke with Steven, who expressed not only a willingness but a real desire to meet with me.

We met in Philadelphia, where Steven lives.

Through the courtesy of the rector. Msgr. James Malloy, we met at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary.

A priest friend from Chicago accompanied me, and a friend came with Steven.

I began by telling Steven that the only reason for requesting the meeting was to bring closure to the traumatic events of last winter by personally letting him know that I harbored no ill feelings toward him, and to pray with him for his physical and spiritual well-being.

He replied that he wanted to meet with me to apologize for the embarrassment and hurt he had caused. In other words, we both sought reconciliation.

Steven's apology was simple, direct, deeply moving. I accepted his apology. I told him that I had prayed for him every day and would continue to pray for his health and peace of mind. It was very evident that he was in precarious health.

I also told him that while I would not want to go through such a humiliating experience again, nonetheless it had contributed to my own spiritual growth and had made me more compassionate.

I then asked whether he wanted me to celebrate Mass for him.

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(CNS) C meeting of reconciliation with Steven Cook, the man who falsely accused

HICAGO - Cardinal Bernardin has shad a two hour

him of sex abuse.

The cardinal has released the story with the approval of Cook.

Cook, who has AIDS, had filed a $th million lawsuit in November 1993 accusing Cardinal

Bernardin of having sexually abused him once in the mid-1970s, when Cook was in high school in Cincinnati and Cardinal Bernardin was archbishop there.

Cook's allegation was widely publicized, causing Cardinal Bernardin to say he was "publicly

humiliated before the world."

On Feb. 28. 1994. at Cook's request. a federal

judge in Cincinnati dismissed all claims against Cardinal Bernardin.

In court papers, Cook said he realized that his memories of abuse by the cardinal "which arose during and after hypnosis are unreliable."

It transpired that the hypnosis sessions in which Cook claimed to have recovered memories were conducted by a trainee with only three months experience.

Cook also said then, "I am doing this because it's the right thing to do. I have not asked for nor have I been offered anything in exchange for what I am doing."

Following the February court action, Cardinal Bernardin reiterated his offer to meet with Cook and pray with him, an offer he said he originally made in a personal letter to Cook.

In his statement, the cardinal said he now knows Cook never received the letter.

Cook did not withdraw accusations against a Father Harsham who has since left the priesthood, but about whom Cincinnati Archbishop Pilarczyk settled out of court, saying it was only

At first he hesitated, saying he felt very alienated from God and the church for several reasons which he shared with me. He said that on several occasions while in a hotel he threw the Gideon Bible against the wall in anger and frustration.

Perhaps, he said, just a simple prayer would be more appropriate.I told him that I would not press the issue but did want to show him two items I had brought with me.

I reached into my briefcase and brought out a Bible whichI had purchased for him the day before.

I told him I would not be offended if he did not accept it.

With tears in his eyes, he reached for the Bible and held it tightly to his chest.

Then I took out of the briefcase a chalice which someone (whomIhad never met) had sent with the request that I offer a Mass for Steven. I told Steven that even ill did not celebrate Mass on the occasion of our visit. I would do so later.

Again, with tears in his eyes. he said, "Please, let's celebrate Mass." Never in my 43 years as a priest have I witnessed a more profound reconciliation.

The words I am using to tell you this story cannot begin to describe the power of God's grace which was at work that afternoon. It was a manifestation of God's love, forgiveness and healing which I will never forget.

We went to the chapel. where I anointed him and celebrated Mass for the feast of the Holy Family. In my few remarks after the Gospel. I told him that in every family there are times when there is hurt. anger, alienation. But we cannot run away from our family.

We have only one family so we must make every effort to be reconciled. The church. I added, is our spiritual family. Once we become a member, we may be hurt or become alienated but it is still our family. Since there is no other, we must work at reconciliation something we were doing that very

afternoon.

Before Steven left, he told me that a big burden had been lifted from him. He felt healed and was at peace.

He also asked me to tell the story of his reconciliation with the church and with me.I promised him I would and that I would walk with him in the weeks and months ahead. Steven is very realistic about his future.

Happily, our exchange and the celebration of the sacraments were the instruments God used to give him the peace and courage he needs in the time he has left.

May this story of our meeting be a source of joy and grace to all who read it. May God be praised!

because defence costs could have gone into six figures and that the settlement was no admission of guilt.

Anonymous Koreans give $7m to Catholic television S

EOUL, South Korea (CNS) - Forty anonymous Korean Catholic donors have given more than 5 billion won ($7 million) to help the church-operated

Pyongwha Broadcasting Corporation launch a special cable television channel in early 1995.

About $32 million is needed to begin operations on March 1 for a cable TV project that the South Korean government had approved in 1993.

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marked about $12.6 million for the project.

When plans for a nationwide 30-channel cable television system were announced more than a year ago. the government said that Pyongwha Broadcasting Corporation would operate Channel 33, a slot dedicated to religious and values education programming.

Channel 33 will feature broadcasts of Masses, special religious programs, and high quality movies and dramas.

Father Raphael Pak Shin On, president

of Pyongwha Broadcasting Corporation, says it will help the Korean church meet the Gospel challenge to be "salt and light in this world."

Father Pak said the project had been under financial stress until last October. when "the earnest contributions by laymen and the positive support from the archdiocese" eased the money crunch.

"Now, it is our turn." Father Pak said.

"We will try our best to produce programs

of high quality."

A lay Catholic observer professed "shock" at the size of the anonymous Ile said that in 1989 only about 500 million won (about USS7000,000) was raised for Seoul's International Eucharistic Congress among Catholic laity in Korea's 14 dioceses.

The Korean government has also asked the Buddhist Broadcasting System to provide Buddhist religious programing for the cable television system.

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W ment by accused abortion clinic Canon law forbids the ordination of do." shooter John C. Salvi III that he wants to anyone who "has committed voluntary either be executed or become a Catholic priest "shows how confused and deeply disturbed he is," said a spokesman for the U.S. bishops.

In a statement shortly after Salvi agreed to be extradited from Virginia to Massachusetts, he said he wanted to be ordained a Catholic priest if he is found innocent of the charges against him.

"If convicted of the charges I am accused of. I wish to receive the death penalty." the 22 year old Salvi said. "If I am not proven guilty, upon release I will become a Catholic priest."

But a bishops' spokesman has a different view.

"The idea that he would consider the death penalty and the priesthood as his options is a sign of how confused he is," said Msgr. Francis I. Maniscalco, media relations director for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Salvi. a 22-year-old hairdressing student from New Hampshire, is accused of killing two women and injuring five other people at two Boston-area abortion clinics Dec. 30, as well as of firing

homicide" or "positively cooperated" in one. The prohibition is contained in Canon 1041.4, which also bans ordination for anyone who has "procured an effective abortion" or cooperated in one.

Another part of canon law forbids ordination of anyone "who labors under some form of insanity or other psychic defect due to which, after consultation with experts. he is judged to be incapable of rightly carrying out the ministry."

Salvi also spoke in an often-rambling statement of "the persecution which the Catholic people face" and suggested that the Catholic Church begin printing money to help low-income Catholic people make ends meet.

"What the Catholic Church needs to do is to start printing a currency so that Individuals who work and make minimum wage can have a supplement to their incomes so that their families will have what they need." he said.

"The Catholic Church is a government within a government only it does

Salvi said there was "a movement in society which seeks the destruction of the church" and which was buying up businesses in order to put Catholic employees out of work. "This layoff procedure for Catholics occurs to a great extent in the U.S. school systems, police departments, fire departments. etc.," he said.

He also targeted the Free Masons as persecutors of Catholics, calling them "intelligent, mean, nasty and judicious."

"These individuals run society and have a good system for themselves but seek to keep the Catholic Church from printing a currency and having the same system." Salvi added.

Commenting on Salvi's charges that the Catholic Church is being persecuted. Msgr. Maniscalco said. "It's sad that he would consider this something religious."

Salvi also said he had been fed tainted food at the Norfolk City Jail and had been refusing food for the past four days.

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Gail Quinn. executive director of the bishops' Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, said of the advertisement in which Planned Parenthood of New York City solicited contributions for additional security at abortion clinics: "We reject Planned Parenthood's crass attempt to use Friday's murders to scapegoat the Catholic Church in order to fund raise and to silence public discussion of what abortion is - the destruction of innocent human life," Ms. Quinn said.

"They use the very tactic they profess to condemn and inflame the debate by blaming the church for violence it has consistently denounced." she added.

In addition to a coupon for sending money to Planned Parenthood, the ad included coupons to send to Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles. chairman of the U.S. bishops' pro-life committee: the Rev. Pat Robertson, president of the Christian Broadcasting NetWork: and House Speaker Newt Gingrich, The ad called them 'leaders of the anti-choice movement who have become the arms merchants in this war of words."

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The ad also took to task Cardinal John J. O'Connor of New York. saying he "issued a backhanded apology for the attackers by stating. 'you cannot prevent killing by killing.' thereby labeling abortion providers as killers."

Cardinal O'Connor had called the shootings "absolutely abominable" and said. "I cannot believe that anyone. inside or outside the pro-life movement. who understands the meaning of human life that every person is sacred, made in the image of Almighty God - would feel anything but total revulsion over these latest shootings."

Planned Parenthood also contended in the ad that Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston had "called for a two-day moratorium on protests in that city," and asked. "How many more murders will it take before we see a permanent national moratorium."

Cardinal Law's statement after the shootings gave no time line for the moratorium on peaceful protests at abortion clinics. He also called the shootings "reprehensible acts of violence with absolutely no justification whatsoever."

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clinics as a way of helping to cool passions.

His moratorium call provoked wide discussion. Some religious and pro-life leaders backed it at least as a temporary local measure. Others said there was no need for a moratorium on peaceful demonstrations in their areas.

Bishop O'Neil in neighbouring Manchester. N.H.. joined with Cardinal Law in calling for a halt to all clinic protests.

To the south in Rhode Island, Bishop Gelineau of Providence expressed support for Cardinal Law's position but did not call for a moratorium on demonstrations in his state.

He reiterated earlier statements

In Washington. the head of the Christian Defense Coalition. the Rev. Patrick Mahoney, said he was telling people in the coalition's network that the hest way to reduce violence was to step up peaceful demonstrations, not to halt them.

Meanwhile, the priest who heads a diocesan pro-life group in Brooklyn. said his group would continue to conduct peaceful vigils outside abortion clinics in Brooklyn and Queens. the two New York boroughs that the diocese encompasses.

Cardinal Law's call for a moratorium in his area was "not meant to he a national policy." said Msgr. Reilly, director of Helpers of God's Precious Infants.

"About 100 people went in. There were 40 abortions there today," he said.

"Forty-two people did not have abortions and some of those said they would bring their babies to full term."

He condemned the Boston shootings, saying. "You're never going to stop the violence inside the clinic by having violence outside. That's just nuts!"

But in response to Planned Parenthood of Manhattan's appeal the previous day for an end to all prayer vigils outside clinics, he said he "would gladl stop praying outside the clinic if they would stop the abortions inside."

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Praise for Jesuits and a tip, too

jATIC.AN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II the Society (of Jesus) is, totally and without reti- understanding of Catholic doctrine, helping them V praised the myriad ministries of Jesuits cence, of the church, in the church and for the learn to distinguish the affirmations which must throughout the world and told them that to be church," the pope said. be maintained, those which are left to free diseffective, everything they do must be done in The Jesuit general, Father Peter-Hans Kolven- cussion and those which cannot be accepted." complete harmony with church teaching. bach, said the meeting with Pope John Paul at the As priests and religious, the Jesuits must He also recommended the Jesuits not shorten beginning of the congregation is a clear sign that ensure that "the faithful do not become disoritheir long period of preparation for priesthood. the delegation "has no desire to act as an ented by doubtful teachings, by publications and He told the 223 delegates at the Jesuits' general autonomous or isolated body" and that the order speeches in open contradiction with the faith congregation: it is obvious that one cannot hope receives its missions and directions from the and moral teaching of the church or by attitudes to heal the wounds and divisions of the world if pope. which offend the spirit of communion," he said. one does not make a total commitment to the The first task of the congregation and of the The pope praised the long and comprehensive communion of the church.

Jesuits who make up the church's largest reli- formation process for men entering the Society The general congregation was called to exam- gious order of men is to reaffirm and strengthen of Jesus and asked the congregation ine the best ways the Society of Jesus could par- the Jesuits' fidelity to the ideals of their founder, sider shortening or "sweetening" not to conthe process ticipate in the church's new evangelization St. Ignatius of Loyola. the pope said. because the way it stands now was what St. efforts.

Your charism asks you to be witnesses to the Ignatius wanted it to be and what the modern In addition to praising traditional Jesuit min- primacy of God and his will," the pope said. All church needs it to be. istries in education, theological research, social that is done must be done for "the greater glory Because a person fully alive is part of the glory services, the missions and pastoral care, Pope of God." of God, the pope said. the Jesuits must maintain John Paul highlighted the Jesuits' special vow of Jesuits' theological research, he said, must be their commitments in the social field and in the fidelity to the pope. animated by a spirit of faith and conducted in service of the poor. in the footsteps of your founder and his first harmony with the official teaching of the church.

"But this service should never be separated companions, with this gesture of adhesion to the Education activities "should aim at furnishing from a global service to the evangelizing mission ministry of the Roman pontiff you declare that the students with a clear, solid and organic of the church." he said.

Three pilgrims die in bus crash 11U1 ADRID (CNS) - A Mbus carrying C atholic pilgrims c rashed outside B arcelona killing t hree and injuring m ost of the other passengers.

T he pilgrimage c onsisted mostly of C atholics from northern and central A rizona who were on a pilgrimage to r eligious shrines in Portugal, France and Spain.

T he accident did not involve any other v ehicles and occurred on a curve during a light rain a bout a half-hour out of Barcelona on t he highway leading to Lourdes.

Court: Cathedral belongs to the Church

and kings until the 17th century. The state power rather than as a Catholic place Czech President Vaclav Havel, welcomP After five years of dispute, a Czech cathedral contains the tombs of Charles IV of worship. ing the Prague court ruling, said the cathecourt has ruled that Prague's St. RAGUE, Czech Republic (CNS) -

Vitus and members of the later Austrian HabsCathedral is the property of the Catholic burg dynasty.

Church.

In 1955, as part of a communist nationHowever, the decision is being con- alization program, the building was tested by city council officials and mem- declared "the property of the whole bers of parliament, who say the cathedral nation." was built for nonreligious purposes and The Catholic Church reasserted claims should belong to the government. Some to the cathedral after communist rule was opponents said they would appeal. overthrown in the 1989 "Velvet RevoluThe Gothic St. Vitus Cathedral. in tion."

Prague's Hradcany Castle, was begun However, some Czech parliamentariunder Emperor Charles IV of Luxembourg ans, who have resisted the church restituin 1344. It's current configuration was tion claim, say the building was financed completed in 1929. from Charles 1V's royal treasury as well as The twin-spired edifice stands next to by a tax on local Bohemian inhabitants the Royal Palace, the seat of Czech princes and originally was intended as a symbol of

Protest over woman's role

HAKA. Bangladesh (CNS) - A member of the D Bangladeshi bishops' justice and peace commission staff played a

major role in organizing some 80,000 workers in 270 Bangladeshi garment factories into the country's first independent garment workers' union.

That activity drew anonymous protests from what union officials say they believe are industry sources and calls for the ouster of the commission's executive secretary. Holy Cross Father Richard Timm, an American missionary with 42 years in the country.

Commission staff member Rosaline Costa was deeply involved in the organizing campaign.

In addition to being chief adviser to the new Bangladesh Independent Garment Workers Union, she is also a consultant to the Asian American Free Labor Institute which supported the effort. Earlier, banners appeared in public condemning her and calling for Father Timm's deportation.

The goal of forming an independent union of garment workers had been announced May 1, 1994.

Terry Collingsworth, country director for the institute, at a rally marking the adoption of the union constitution in December said the charter symbolizes "victory over fear and ignorance; victory over conflicts between workers."

"I hope it will also be a victory over miserable working conditions and lack of job security," he added.

The labor organization has 80,000 registered

members in an industry with about 1.2 million workers employed in more than 1,500 factories.

The union constitution guarantees that 60 percent of union leadership will be women, who comprise the majority of garment workers.

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Among other proposals, a group of leading Czechs recommended the cathedral should be assigned a "special status" and that keys to its main doors should be symbolically lodged with the Catholic Church. presidency, government and city council.

Cardinal Miloslav Vlk of Prague said he believed "everyone had won" through the ruling.

"The cathedral and other churches were always administered by the church, and no one has ever placed in doubt the fact that they belong to it." the cardinal added.

"But of course, as priceless art treasures, they must be recognized as belonging to our nation's cultural heritage."

Funeral salute

A LGE1RS (CNS) - Thousands of Algerian Muslims and Christians

attended funeral services for three of the four Missionaries of Africa slain Dec. 27 by Muslim extremists. Archbishop Teissier of Algiers recalled that the priests chose to live in the Cabilia region of Algeria, where "the population welcomed them with great emotion."

The Berber Cultural Movement and the Rally for Culture and Democracy party called on their supporters to pay tribute to the slain priests.

Berbers are the indigenous people of North Africa.

They comprise 25 percent of Algeria's population. which is mostly Arab. A large crowd, which included political leaders, offered respectful applause as the bodies of the three - two French and a Belgian were brought into the Christian cemetery of Tizi-Ouzou, the town where they had worked and where they were killed. The body of the fourth was repatriated for burial in France.

Algeria's radical Armed Islamic Group said it murdered the missionaries after four of its members were killed when French commandos stormed a jetliner to end a hijacking in Marseilles, France. The slaying of the priests was condemned by Pope John Paul II as "barbaric."

French Cardinal Lustiger of Paris said the four missionaries were clearly "Christian martyrs of charity." It was significant that the local Christian community wanted to bury them in Tizi-Ouzou and honor their tombs, as the early Christians did with their martyrs, he said.

The cardinal said the killings demonstrated the urgent need for Western countries to build better relations with predominantly Muslim countries of North Africa.

"The countries of the West should make much greater efforts in the Mediterranean and should try to see more clearly the nature of Islam how to deal with Arab countries on questions of social, political and economic life," he said.

"Up to now, in fact, the West has undervalued global relations with Islamic countries, This must urgently be reversed. It is a great and dramatic problem that will require a major effort on the part of all Western countries in the coming years." he said.

Algeria and the Catholic Church have an ancient connection through a native son, the theologian and Doctor of the Church St. Augustine, founder of the Christian tradition of the West. Augustine was born in Tagaste. now the town of Souk-Ahras near the border with Tunisia.

dral would remain "in a psychological sense the property of the Czech nation."

Havel. who had supported the church's ownership claim, said he believed the Czech parliament should announce its position on the issue.

Since the Velvet Revolution, the church has submitted claims to 3.400 buildings and almost 400.000 acres of its former land holdings.

Although 280 church buildings were returned in the Czech Republic in 1990, the largest party in the coalition government, the Civic Democratic Party, has since attempted to reduce the scale of church demands.

Bishop ends his protest

CAN S - Bishop Ruiz Garcia of San Cristobal ended a 15-day hunger strike for peace after govCRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico

ernment and rebel leadership in the southern state of Chiapas moved toward new peace talks.

Bishop Ruiz, who suffers from diabetes and had refused to take insulin during his protest. said he was ending the fast because the danger that fighting would erupt again in the troubled state had been eased by a temporary truce, the reversal of recent troop movements and concessions involving peace negotiations.

"The dynamic of war is already moving away.

Not completely, but it is in retreat," Bishop Ruiz said.

The bishop began his strike Dec. 19, saying he wanted to pressure both sides in the Chiapas conflict to reach a peaceful settlement. He invited others to join him.

He ended it near the first anniversary of the 1994 New Year's Day outbreak of the largely Indian-led Zapatista National Liberation Army rebellion. The Zapatistas charged the government with denying indigenous people democracy and prosperity.

Bishop Ruiz began his protest as rebels occupied town halls and established roadblocks throughout the state in moves that appeared to threaten renewed shooting.

As he ended his fast, Bishop Ruiz warned that peace was not assured and criticized the government for the number of troops being sent to Chiapas.

Guidelines now for pro-life protests

New bishop: We are not supermen

AMDEN, N.J. (CNS) - Pro-life those who reject or ignore the policies of "attentive to anything that might disrupt C demonstrations "must always the local pro-life group should be asked the order or intent of your gathering."' reflect Gospel values and be law-abid- to leave.

ing," said Bishop McHugh in guidelines for peaceful demonstrations at abortion clinics.

"Neither the diocese nor the parish promotes or condones any conduct which is illegal or unlawful. We wish to give public witness to our beliefs about the dignity of the human person, the sanctity of human life and the wrongfulness of abortion," he said.

The guidelines were issued in response to the late-December shootings at abortion clinics in the Boston area and in time for the monthly firstSaturday protests at abortion clinics in the diocese.

The guidelines say that only law-abiding individuals may gather on diocesan or parish property before demonstrating In front of clinics: protesters should obey any local laws or injunction regarding action at a particular facility: commitment to pro-life philosophy must be the basis of all public demonstrations: and

Catholics are among those who demonstrate at clinics in Atlantic City and Cherry Hill.

Retired Auxiliary Bishop James L. Schad leads a rosary vigil outside the Cherry Hill clinic after an early-morning Mass at St. Peter Celestine Church, which is walking distance from the clinic.

In Atlantic City, Catholics pray the rosary for an hour in front of a clinic before going to St Nicholas of Tolentine Church for Mass.

The diocese's pro-life office has encouraged its volunteers to align themselves with a group known as the Helpers of God's Precious Infants, which insists demonstrators obey all laws and refrain from even arguing with their opponents.

In a letter accompanying the guidelines, Bishop McHugh encourage Catholics to continue with peaceful demonstrations but asked them to be

"If other groups that are committed to more radical or disruptive activity gather for demonstration, you should attempt to find a different time for your own activity," he said.

The guidelines should be given to all newcomers, and problems should be immediately referred to the pro-life office, he added.

B ishop McHugh was among the church leaders condemning the Dec. 30 shootings at two clinics outside Boston In which two people were killed and five wounded.

"There is no justification for such violent and irresponsible behavior," Bishop McHugh said in a statement issued immediately after the incident.

"Violence and killing do not protect unborn children. Instead, such acts become a part of that disregard for the sanctity of human life which encourages permissive abortion," he said.

'First' for the pope COW (CNS) - Pope John Paul II has been chate," Bishop Duprey said. The local ade the first honorary member of a new Orthodox leader, Bishop Prokl of Ulyanovsk and MIT Russian Orthodox parish in the hometown of com- Melenka, sent a message of thanks to Catholics on Russian

munist icon Vladimir Lenin.

The honour is for his support for a local Orthodox cathedral.

A medal conferring the honour was sent by the parish council in Ulyanovsk. a town on the Volga River, 800 km southeast of Moscow. in Russia's Mordova Republic.

Pope John Paul donated S10.000 for the new Cathedral of the Resurrection, in response to a request from the council chairman. Protodeacon Aleksij Skala. The donation, personally handed over by the Vatican's outgoing nuncio to Moscow.

Archbishop Francesco Colasuonno, is believed to be the first ever made by a pope for the construction of an Orthodox place of worship.

Bishop Pierre Duprey, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, sent an accompanying message saying the pope was "constantly praying" for quick completion of work on the cathedral.

"John Paul is delighted with this possibility of cooperation between Catholics and Orthodox. which also serves as an example of brotherly relations between the Vatican and Moscow Patriar-

behalf of Orthodox faithful and citizens of the town.

Ulyanovsk. formerly Simbirsk, is the birthplace of the founder of the Russian Communist Party and architect of the now-defunct Soviet state, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Lenin was born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov to a middle class family in 1870.

He took the alias Lenin, sometimes calling himself Nikolai Lenin. in 1901 while working clandestinely for the communist cause. Lenin died Jan. 21, 1924, while still head of the Soviet state, after a long illness and a series of strokes_ In a separate development. the Vatican agreed to donate 400 volumes on church history, dogmatics, liturgy and paleography to Russia's State Library in Moscow to make up for its lack of material on Western religion and spirituality.

Igor Fillipov, library director, said the outgoing apostolic nuncio Archbishop Colasuonno told the Vatican about the needs of Russian readers.

He added that the gift demonstrated the Holy See's appreciation of the current problems facing Russian culture as well as its respect for "fraternal Christian churches."

HETEK, Wis. (CNS) - In their first before." said Mrs. Bayer. The couple over- earned a master's degree in pastoral week as directors of St. Boniface sees the day-to-day operations of the ies from Loyola University in Chicago.

C In 1990. Bayer retired and the couple Parish in Chetek. John and Shirley Bayer parish, such as leading morning Commustud-

nion services two days a week, leading Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, marriage preparation and adult education classes, and visiting the sick and elderly at nursing homes and hospitals. Their day typically begins at 8:30 a.m. and sometimes ends at 9 p.m. after adult education classes or meetings.

The reality of a priest shortage hit home at St. Boniface Parish in 1993 after the pastor, there for almost 10 years, retired. He was temporarily succeeded by two other priests, whose appointments there totaled just over six months. In January 1994, the rectory was vacated and local priests took turns celebrating the sacraments.

By then the diocese was preparing to hire a parish director, work that had interested the Bayers for 12 years.

Bayer first considered full-time lay ministry after attending a retreat where the shortage of priests was discussed.

They decided that one of them had to receive some formal training. Because Bayer was still working in a building company, Mrs. Bayer went back to school and

organization is based more on prayer than on alleged worldly influence.

We don't consider ourselves supermen, but people like everyone else - able to make mistakes, but capable also of loving God utterly in everyday life,' said the bishop who was ordained with nine others by Pope John Paul on the feast of the Epiphany.

Unlike most bishops who will administer dioceses, the 62 year old Echevarria heads the Opus Dei personal prelature, whose worldwide membership includes some 75,000 lay people and 1,500 priests.

Bishop Echevarria acknowledged that some critics of Opus Del suspect the organization of using its members to build power inside and outside the church.

"Certainly, there are those who insist on the fact that some members of Opus Dei are rich or influential. But there are many more who are unknown, poor or destitute, since the prelature's membership reflects the make-up of the church and society," he said.

He said Opus Dei today includes the welloff, the poor and the unemployed, who are "unfortunately so numerous in modern society." All are called to live Christian generosity. detached from worldly goods, he said.

The power of Opus Dei is prayer and daily work transformed into prayer, by innumerable Christian communities." he said. Its members aspire to nothing more than spreading the faith in all professions and in all areas of culture, he said.

Bishop Echevarria said the organization ,s deeply loyal to the pope and the church. but he downplayed the idea that Opus Dei is the pope's "modern army."

It would be more accurate to say the whole church is the pope's army. but in any case these kinds of military metaphors are often inaccurate, he said.

He said that like other church organizations, Opus Del has been expanding its activities in Eastern Europe. especially in Poland. the Czech Republic, Hungary and Lithuania.

In addition. Opus Dei has begun apostolic work in India and will start soon in Cuba and Angola, he said.

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The never-ending jobs of priests discovered what priests have known for years: running a parish is an endless job.

In their first 10 days, the couple assisted at three funeral services. "We hadn't even unpacked our bags and we were digging for clothes to go to funerals," said Mrs. Bayer with a laugh.

But after the first 10 days things started to fall into place."

The Bayers are the first husband-wife parish director team in the Superior Diocese. A third lay parish director, Michele Rein, is in charge of two other parishes in the diocese.

Father Mike Tupa, pastor of nearby parishes and supervisor of St. Boniface, handles the sacramental duties reserved for priests, but allows the Bayers to direct all other parish functions.

The Bayers said one of their responsibilities is to train other lay people for roles in the parish, and they believe other Catholics are more willing to offer their services after seeing them in action.

"We've had people step forward who want to do things they've never done

ME (CNS) - The newly ordained head Rt? f Opus Dei. Spanish Bishop Javier Echevarria Rodriguez, said the power of his

enrolled in a new lay ministry program sponsored by the Archdiocese of Chicago.

Bayer got involved in hospital and nursing home ministry while his wife did crisis pregnancy counselling. They were also involved in some lay ministry at other parishes before they started their full-time work at St. Boniface in July 1994. At that point, they said, they learned to appreciate the role of a pastor."

Albert Drost. a longtime parish member and chairman of the pastoral council, splits duties with the Bayers leading weekday Communion services. He sees the addition of full-time parish directors as a boon for parish ministries and services.

He thinks the shortage of priests will leave other parishes in a similar situation as St. Boniface. But what the Bayers are doing. he said. may have a profound effect in turning the situation around.

"If you get the kids a little more conscious about religion, that's a good way to start them thinking" about vocations, he said. "I think John and Shirley are trying to do that."

TATICAN CITY (CNS) - Ten new bishops. ordained by Pope John Paul on Sunday. the Epiphany, were thanked for putting their gifts at the service of Christ and the church. Epiphany. the pope said in his Mass homily, is a celebration of the light that came into the world on Christmas and the light of the Holy Spirit that leads people to Jesus.

Referring to the Magi. the pope said it is a day for celebrating gifts: God's gift of his Son for the salvation of the world, and the gift people can make of themselves for others.

-The journey of the Magi from the East is a great symbol of all of those pathways which men and women, from near and far, even to the extreme ends of the earth, have travelled in the course of centuries toward the light of Christ," the pope said.

The new bishops, and all successors of the Apostles, have the task of showing people the way to that light, he said.

"You have brought your own gifts: the gift of your humanity, the gift of vocation, the gift of priesthood, the gift of service."

With their ordination the new bishops leave enriched with new gifts to serve the church, he said. The pope also offered special prayers for the Eastern-rite Catholics and Orthodox preparing to celebrate Christmas the next day and for full unity between the churches. The 10 new bishops included one from the United States, a Latin-rite auxiliary from the Ukraine. a Bulgarian, an apostolic nuncio to Panama. an Italian, a Filipino, the head of Opus Del. the Vatican secretary for social communications, and two auxiliaries from Poland.

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H ope

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OPE is the unknown virtue, I lispect.

St. Paul says there are three great virtues: faith, hope and love. Most people have pretty good ideas about what faith and love are. But what is hope?

I suspect that many of us would have a harder time coming up with a definition for "hope." Maybe it is easier to illustrate hope than to define it.

I know a man, a good man I believe, who is not religious.

He is a loyal and generous friend. a good father and I think his neighbours would consider him a good citizen.

Several years ago he went through a family crisis that burned him badly. He and his wife separated and then divorced.

During their marriage she had developed a drug addiction that went from had to worse, finally taking over her life.

He was reluctant to separate from her, but finally decided it was his only option. Sadly, In my part of the has this worldd become a common situation.

I guess I assumed he would find someone else and marry again.

But Ilearned he had no such intention.

And I discovered that after his painful years of suspicion and confrontation and counselling, and then the separation and the divorce, he felt little of what I call hope.

My second story is brief and closer to home religiously speaking. Recently, a member of my parish was seriously injured.

It was one of those injuries where there isn't much doctors can do other than to wait and pray with the rest of us. And we did gather to offer prayers for his recovery.

In each of these two stories, people felt helpless.

My friend could not do anything to cure his wife, and we could not do anything to cure our Injured parishioner.

But my friend also saw his situation was hopeless. He did not see room for hope.

Our parish group, by contrast, did not experience that same hopelessness.

Our hopefulness is not medical: our religious tradition gives us something that, left on our own, we probably would not come up with. It makes us conscious of hope.

The virtue of hope is the conviction that whatever we have to face in the years to come. God will be with us.

That conviction, like faith, is God-given. We cannot claim credit because we have it.

And I think we would be wrong to fault my friend, or anyone else, because they may not have it.

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The realization we need,I think, is that hope, like faith, may be God's gift, but we can try to strengthen that gift.

We can try to cultivate the human foundation on which God's gift of hope can grow. But how?

Start by paying more attention to hope. Realize that there is such a reality as hope - that it is more than just a fantasy or a pipe dream. It is possible to take charge not just of our present situation but our future as well. We need to remind ourselves of this ability.

I wonder if my friend, so sadly familiar with hopelessness, has thought much about its opposite: hopefulness.

It is possible to become so focused on the present moment t hat we think little about the future.

We don't deny the capacity to shape our future, we just don't give it that much thought. But the effect is the same: underestimating our ability to give direction to our future.

Many people have been so victimized by events over which they really may not have much control in the present moment - family problems, economic downturns, heath situations - that the control they could have over their present and their future doesn't come Into view.

Counsellors tell us that the tuming point in many marriage and family crises comes when people realize that they do not have to be victims in their own lives.

Hopefulness then can grow.

But there is something more that people must do: Make a connection between taking charge in the present and having cause for hope in the future. This doesn't always happen.

For a Christian, this might involve consciously reflecting on areas that he or she has taken charge of in life, then pondering areas in the future that are going to be troubling and asking.

"Can God be with me then?" The answer, of course, is yes - if we allow it.

My friend did a remarkable job of taking charge of his family and his life at a difficult time.

Yet, he is not hopeful.

This friend has not made a connection between his own remarkable abilities to take charge of his life and to manage his affairs, and his ability to look to the future with hope. Perhaps his hurts are still a little too fresh.

One recommendation to him - and others like him - is to spend time meditating on hope and attempting to envision its very possibility.

I hope that his innate goodness and love of life eventually will open the door to a hopeful future for him.

TURN 10 THE HIP SIDE OF TRUST

You must learn to envision the possibility of hope, says Father David K. O'Rourke, OP

VE a close friend I'll call Sue. We met years ago through a 12-step program for families who live ith a I members gambling addiction. Sue taught me a lot bout hope at a time when I frequently felt hopeless.

Sue told me a story once that may sound ridiculous to people unfamiliar with gambling problems. Her husband's gambling addiction before entering his own 12-step program had progressed to the point of financial ruin for her family, despite his good job and income.

Bills were not paid, and eventually the water was turned off.

Sue had several small children, and she shared the hopelessness she felt because no money was forthcoming to have the water turned back on.

For several days the family waited until the neighbours went to bed so they could use their water hose. run it through the window, flush the toilet and fill the bathtub.

I asked Sue how she survived those hopeless days trying to care for her children without water. She told me how she began by praying hourly for God to meet her needs.

And she tried not to project - to imagine - what would happen in the coming days, but chose instead to have faith that as she helped herself, God would help her care for her family.

When I asked her to sum it up for me, I discovered that her formula for hope was called -faith."

Her faith in God, her husband's ability to obtain help and her own desire for a better life paid off.

Today Sue continues to live one day at a time with a tremendous faith that God will help her through any situation.

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Selected responses from readers: "Close friends in my parish who supported and encouraged me in times of unemployment ... in both spiritual and practical ways - through prayer and phone calls, and even job-prospect leads." - Jim Rupp.

"During a difficult time changing jobs and moving to a new city, with many small children,I unexpectedly stumbled on a small Christian community in my new parish. They became my support system. We've been through everything together." Stephanie Russell.

"A passionate trust in God - an increasing trust, not a static trust. The worst thing is to give up all hope in God. What prevented me from doing that is focusing on the total humanity of Christ, which for me is a mainstay of my trust." - Tina Befthulzen.

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By Father John J. Castelot OPE is the flip side of trust. The Israelites hoped because they H took seriously God's promise to be faithful to them. Actually. they hoped even when there was no ostensible reason to hope -

when, as far as they could see, their situation was hopeless.

It is easy to be upbeat and hopeful when everything is going well. But what are people supposed to do when things seem a hopeless mess?

The whole history of God's people is a story of indomitable hope. It began with Abraham, who "believed, hoping against hope. that he would be 'the father of many nations.' according to what was said, 'Thus shall your descendants he.'

"He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body as (already) dead (for he was almost 100 years old) and the dead womb of Sarah. He did not doubt God's promise in unbelief."

Abraham, we are told, "was empowered by faith" and was fully convinced that what God had promised he was also able to do" (Romans 5:18-21).

This was how the history of God's people began, and this was how it continued: with unwavering hope in spite of crushing defeats and bitter disappointments. Repeatedly threatened with extinction by powerful empires like Egypt, Assyria and Babylonia.

driven into the hopeless darkness of exile, the people were repeatedly rescued by their God. After the Israelites' astonishing liberation from exile in Babylon and their return to their homeland, where the situation was often depressing, the prophet known as Third Isaiah gave voice to their continued hope: "Look down from heaven and regard us from your holy and glorious palace! Where is your zealous care and your might, your surge of pity and your mercy? 0 Lord, hold not back, for you are our father.... You, Lord, are our father, our redeemer you are named forever.... For you have hidden your face from us and have delivered us up to our guilt. Yet, 0 Lord, you are our father" (Isaiah 63:15-16; 64:6-7).

Another close friend suffers from leukemia. She is at the point where she must soon make a decision about a bone-marrow transplant.

She sings at church - beautifully, I must say! I listened to her last week and felt sorry for both of us, wondering how I could ever stand not being able to hear her voice.

I fought back tears as I thought about the good and bad days she has. But I have learned that more often than not it is she who ministers to me through her illness and the way she deals with it.

We both are youth ministers for the same region. and we are busy women with families to care for.

When I see her overworked or feeling tired I always say something out of my own fear for her. She is quick to tell me that God will give her the strength to do whatever is necessary.

My friend carries on her tasks with a faith that is instructive. In fact, she amazes her doctors by insisting that her life is totally In God's hands. I am always humbled by her circumstances and how she handles them.

All people experience times when they feel hopeless because the answers just aren't there yet. These can be the most trying and difficult times in which to cope.

For me, however, a glance back in time reveals that God already has brought me through many hopeless times. .

That makes me realize that this will surely happen again.

In this way, faith grows. Faith gives birth to hope.

And. with any luck, my faith becomes contagious to others, just as my friends' faith has been contagious to me.

Thus the pilgrimage into hope continues.

Centuries after all the oppressive empires that had appeared invincible had been consigned to the dustbin of history, God's seemingly helpless people lived on. Their trust in their Father had been repeatedly vindicated.

And people still live in hope, because God's love for them is a proven love. This gives them a basis for continued hope. As long as people trust God, they will survive in spite of overwhelming odds.

Trust begets hope.

And, as Paul assures us, this "hope does not disappoint, because the love of God (for us) has been poured into our hearts through the holy Spirit that has been given to us" (Romans 5:5).

married for about 14 years. After the stress and hubbub of raising kids, the retreat ... was a turning point in my marriage and my relationship with my family. My relationship with God also became much more personal." David Lay. "I faced two deaths in our family in an eightweek period.... What restored hope to me was entering into the mystery of the Eucharist even more than in the past. The Mass of the Resurrection gave me hope in the resurrection, and this restored my perspective." - Father Doug Leonhart.

"The presence of the Holy Spirit. The most dramatic example was when my husband and daughter were hit head-on while driving.... So many little things and coincidences happened that gave me a strong sense that the Holy Spirit continued to be with us.... My husband and daughter both made a complete recovery. I try to remember that the same Holy Spirit who sustained me then is with me every day." - Karen Heusel.

Food for thought FEEL no hope is to feel trapped. But what traps

you? And how do you get out of the trap?

There are many possible responses. For example, when had things happen to good people. the good people may begin to feel that God has abandoned them; this may yield to a loss of hope and become a trap.

A first step out of it is to reflect on our idea of God. Who said God is only present when things go well?

When had things happen, try to see whether God is bringing something good from it. The new Catechism of the Catholic Church suggests that hopeful people don't underestimate God's goodness (No. 2091).

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Again, people may get trapped by their sense of over-responsibility for everything and everyone. They may become discouraged and hopeless by realizing they can't resolve all the problems afflicting those they love.

A way out of this trap is to trust: Leave something up to God: recognize that God works through other's as well as through you. Anyway. would God want the weight of impossible demands to crush you?

The new catechism suggests that not becoming discouraged by difficulties is a sign that hope is alive (No. 1818).

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Centu of giving We had no choice...Our 'families' were not ini the position to take care of us G.F. Morrow who spent 10 years in two Christian Brothers' institutions looks back with gratitude and salutes his mentors

riashback! The main wing of Tardun in 1957

Flashback! Playing basketball in 1957

A sketch of Edmund Rice, founder of the Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers.

Christian Brothers have celebrated direction of Brother O'Doherty. A locker room How could we forget the fact that the NeeT one hundred years of giving their lives was built, the picture theatre was renovated, a sham family had a cricket side of their own and talent to many thousands of boys new chapel was E

constructed and the kitchen (eleven children) and yet they would give throughout Western Australia. and dining room were renovated.

Terry and I gifts on occasions.

I spent just over ten years of my early life at Other changes included new handball and In 1959. I was transferred to St Mary's TarCastledare and St Mary's Tardun. Many boys toilet block, dormatories and infirmary renodun.

I was one of the lucky ones. At St Mary's. may look back on their years with the Broth- vations.

I spent the happiest years of my youth. ers and think how hard times were.

A new bus was purchased with the aid of Br. R Hewat had just become principal and We had no choice as to where we were the Lotteries Commission. These improvebrought up. Our 'Families' were not in the ments were not only welcome, they greatly on his way to Tardun, he collected five boys (including myself) from Castledare and we position to take care of us. Most of us were Improved our quality of life. put into institutions by our families or by the In 1957 Mrs Joyce Kelly arrived at Cas- drove 480 km north to an isolated, largely government of the day. tledare, to treat the many ailments boys can wheat growing area known as Tardun.

I respect and admire the numerous young develop.

Brother Hewat, like most of the Brothers, men who chose to become Christian Brothers.

This wonderful lady was affectionately had something special about him. who gave up their family way of life to give known as 'Matron' by all the boys.

What never ceased to amaze me, is the boys like myself, a chance in life.

She also cared for our clothing and like the wealth of talent the Brothers possessed within The Brothers clothed and educated us. with Brothers was on call 24 hours a day. their community. what assistance they could obtain from the The Brothers would try to arrange a foster government and the Lotteries Commission.

In those days, the principal combined teachhome for us at holiday times. Families in ing as well as managing the farm.

Other support came from family carers who Perth and in the country would take us for the supported C.B's field days and other activities. School and Christmas holiday seasons.

This required many skills when the size of Many boys have been brought up in this sitIn addition, every third Sunday of the the Tardun's acreage is considered. uation and their families have never been month, a Brother would drive us all over the Brothers, nuns, and priests have all given asked to contribute towards their upbringing. metropolitan area so we could stay with our their lives to us, the people of Western Ausholiday people for the day.

Following my arrival in Western Australia tralia.

In 1954, I spent five and a half years at CasLater in the afternoon the same Brother I wonder how many of us go through life tledare under the then principal Brother Pat would collect us. You would think that they O'Doherty. would be pleased to see the back of us for the without discussing this vocation with our chilAt the time, there were 130 boys and four day, however they spent most of the day on dren? We expect someone else to make that the road arranging our delivery and collec- sacrifice for our church who is going to make Brothers as carers. tion. Many of the families like Bill and the change?

Our meals were cooked in an old wooden Daphne Coleman, from Palmyra, whom I garage.

Many Brothers are elderly and in their stayed with, had four children of their own to retirements. Let us not forget all they have Rose Finucane, an Aboriginal woman from accommodate. contributed to the thousands of students who New Norcia, cooked all our meals, working Yet they always found time to take myself have progressed through their schools.

They from 6 am to 6 pm. six days a week. and another boy Terry Parker at holiday have given us many Christian values which Her only day off was a Wednesday, when times. we can pass on to our families. Many of us she would go shopping.

We had many happy times with their family may have stopped practising our faith, but During this time the school was vigorously and friends, such as the Millers. Regans, the deep within the seeds of Christianity will improved in every area under the wonderful Sheehys, McManus and Neesham families. remain.

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New name as college goes senior 1 the former Keaney College at Bindoon assumed its ONnewJANUARY Agricultural College Bindoon.

Catholic of title 11 students The change co-incides with the college taking in its first Year and the opening of a residential hostel for girls as well as boys in Years 8 to

12.

For the past 30 years the college has been a junior agriculatural school and now passes to senior status.

At the end of year function to mark the passing of the former school a courtyard outside the students' dining room was blessed and named Keaney Court by Father Joe Walsh. former chaplain, and currently chiarman of the college board.

Students planted a time capsule, to be opened in 50 years time, beneath the plinth carrying the relocated statue of Brother Keaney.

College principal. Brother Negus paying tribute to the board members, committees and staff noted the retirement to Fremantle of Brother Tuppin who spent 40 years at Bindoon, the departure of woodwork and maths and sports teacher Neil Leckie who during his four years at Bindoon did the woodwork for the chapel renovations in his spare time, a sabbatical year for Brother Toomey who was responsible for the chapel artistic design and the college liturgies as well as college formal occasions.

Year 10 student Jamie Brickwood, making the valedictory address said: "I remeber my first day at Keaney College. looking out over the land as the sun was setting with beautiful golden light and saying to myself: 'This is a good place'.

"From those early years there were hardships but there were always strong loving hands to help whether they be from a Brother, a student or someone from the teaching staff. Someone was always there to help me overcome my problems.

-By sharing my problems with friends and dealing with them together, we have formed strong bonds which over three years have become inseparable."

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Bindoon parish priest and college chaplain Fr Paul Raj at the dedication of the new Keaney courtyard.

E blessing of a new reredos shrine for the Blessed Sacrament culminated e remodelling and refurbishment over several years of St Joseph chapel at Keaney College.

The new feature has involved local artists, the college staff and the students.

The leadlighting and design are the work of Mr and Mrs Andy Gomeisall (Read) of Bindoon while the woodwork was executed by staff member Mr Neil Leckie.

The greens and browns of the lower portion reflect the rollings hills and fertile earth of Bindoon. ackowledging the Father, while the upper portion's yellow/orange shades represent the sun and the Son. The Spirit in the form of a dove hovers over all.

The reredos is dedicated to the memory of Don and Betty Read, long time Bindoon residents, who in earlier years suffered the loss of three children in infancy.

Their daughters Carolyn Gomersall and Betty Houston were present for the deication ceremony.

The ceremony concluded with the blessing of crosses which were taken to the cemetery that forms part of the Catholic Church complex in Binddon, on which the church building was destroyed by a cyclone in the 1940's and never rebuilt, with the college chapel becomning the parish Mass centre since that time.

can reflect on 1994 as a year of intense ecumenical activity on many fronts.

Among the significant ecumenical advances in 1994. even a short list would have to include: A major international Catholic-Lutheran agreed statement on 'Church and justification."

A Catholic-Assyrian accord ending church-dividing differences that go back more than 15 centuries.

A U.S. Catholic-Orthodox statement settling the difficult issue of "uniatism."

Pope John Paul II's strong emphasis on church unity and ecumenism in his apostolic letter on preparations to mark the start of the third millennium of Christianity.

The theme for this year's Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is "Communion in God - Life Together." The theme reflects a strong focus of churches in recent years on the need to translate the growing expression of common faith among theologians into concrete shared life and witness on the local level.

The yearly week of prayer for unity was begun in 1908 by Father Paul Wattson. an Episcopalian convert to Catholicism who formed the Graymoor. or Atonement, friars as a Franciscan religious order dedicated to Christian unity.

Originally called the Church Unity Octave and later the Chair of Unity Octave, the week of prayer was extended throughout the Catholic Church in 1916 by Pope Benedict XV. Since the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s. when the Catholic Church really entered into the Christian ecumenical movement, it has become an occasion for innumerable interfaith services in which Catholics. Orthodox and Protestants come together in common prayer for unity. Since 1966 the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches has joined the Vatican as official cosponsor of the week.

Among the ecumenical advances of 1994. the Catholic-A.s.syrian accord last November was issued as a formal "Common Declaration" by Pope John Paul It and Patriarch Dinkha IV of the Assyrian Church of the East.

They declared that Catholics and Assyrians share a common faith in the divine and human nature of Christ, in effect ending the Christ°logical differ-

Lutheran-Roman Catholic International Dialogue addressed one of the most fundamental points of division between Roman Catholics and the churches of the Reformation.

In December the leaders of the Lutheran Church in Germany presented the pope with a declaration that their church's 16th-century condemnations of Roman Catholicism do not apply to the modern church. They expressed hope that an analogous Roman Catholic document would be approved soon.

Many hope a mutual lifting of Catholic and Lutheran condemnations, a project under active consideration on both sides for more than a decade. can be completed by 1997. the 450th anniversary of the Council of Trent's decree on justification condemning what Catholics then understood to be Lutheran teachings.

At one level Catholic-Anglican relations came up against another stumbling block in 1994 when the Church of England. mother church of the Anglican Communion, ordained its first women priests.

But authorities on both sides were agreed that it was a serious issue needing further ecumenical discussion and that dialogue on other issue of faith and church life should continue.

The Vatican took a major step toward approval of earlier Anglican-Catholic consultations last March when it said that no further work is needed for the present to clarify the statements of substantial agreement on Eucharist and ministry contained in the 1982 Final Report of the first Anglican-Roman Catholic International Consultation.

In addition, the second consultation. which began its work in 1982. issued a major joint statement on ethics, affirming that even when their churches differ in judgments on certain moral issues, they share a common ground of fundamental Christian moral principles.

The Disciples-Roman Catholic International Dialogue issued an agreed statement. "The Church as Communion in Christ."

The World Council of Churches announced -Return to God: Rejoice in Hope" as the theme of its next world assembly, to take place Aug. 24-Sept. 7, 1998 in Harare, Zimbabwe.

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to the Editor from Mrs AQUILINA Lynwood Sir, We in WA are indeed fortunate in having the guidance of Archbishop Hickey who has the perception to see clearly the moral issues of abortion, and the courage to speak out in defence of the unborn (The Record, December 22).

However, I would like to look at it from a woman's angle.

For years we have heard abortion referred to as a great advantage for women. In fact it is no such thing, for it strikes at the very e ssence of womanhood, making her go against her very nature.

Sooner or later, every

normal woman comes to the realisation of the e normity of what she has done.

The actual result of giving women the "right to choose" is that they are left with no choice at all. This comes about because, as abortion is available to fall back on, there is no longer any real fear in the community of an unwanted pregnancy. As a result not only women, but young girls in particular are under pressure to be at men's/boys' beck and call or risk being discarded. If they give in and should become pregnant they still face the prospect of being discarded unless they make the "right" choice ,

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of having an abortion.

That is the so-called choice they have. Meanwhile, boys turn elsewhere, scot free.

A young girl is now left to literally hold the baby alone because it has become "her" c hoice, should she decide not to have an abortion.

It seems that a couple of decades of so-called "Women's Liberation" have succeeded in stripping young girls of the respect and protection it took women centuries of civilization to establish. from Philip SHIELDS. Bruce Rock Sir, The beatification of Mary McKillop could

well come and go b efore many Catholic people, let alone nonCatholics realise it It seems to be a "Sydney" event rather than an celebration for all Christians.

The fact that Pope John Paul himself is coming does not really seem to have sunk in.

To solve this problem Catholic clergy and lay especially people, heads of parish councils, could courteously write, fax or phone the ABC and other television networks in Perth or Sydney to encourage and at the same time thank the networks for putting the coverage of the ceremonies on at a c onvenient family, I

stress, "family" viewing time eg 8.30pm.

The networks need to know how we appreciate their efforts. Catholic people, since the programmers cannot read our thoughts, we must tell them.

The ecumenical welcome to His Holiness is on the ABC AMradio 585 at 4pm-5pm on Wednesday 18 January.

Parish groups such as Legion of Mary, Majellans, CWL etc could gather at 3pm and have a special devotional session prior to listening to the broadcast then a shared tea to honour the event O n the evening of Thursday. January 19, the evening of Beatifica-

tion (seen, we hope, on ABC N. Catholic parish youth groups of various make-ups could meet, have a shared devotion and discussion of the event, then watch the telecast followed with a shared supper afterwards.

These are simple things that parish priests and parish leaders need to organise, but it is this creativity in the small things that will underly the huge importance and magnitude of this event in the Australian church calendar.

This is our first ever beatification.

After the Sydney celebrations, why not do something in your own parish.

You could invite some of the Josephite Sisters and people returning from the East to share the event with c ongregations during Sunday Masses.

What a marvellous o pportunity it would have been to have interfaith discussion groups on the concept of "sainthood" and holiness in our lives as well as the Catholic concept of c anonisation.

A fantastic opportunity perhaps lost Some contact numbers ABC TV Tel 02-437 8000, Fax 02-950 3546 Programming.

C h 10 Tel 02844 1010 Fax 02-281 5163 Programming.

TOMORROW TODAY with Father Joe Parkinson

A bove: -In Christ's Church we stand together on Solid Ground". The window from St Mary's Cathedral was painted by a team led by Adam Phillips of Applecross.

Above right: Solid Ground meant a lot of singing.

Below: Solid Ground delegates settle into silence before night prayer.

Right: Diarmuid Tyson and Chris Dallimore, with Matthew Box on drums.

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by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

According to Luke: Insights for Contemporary Pastoral Practice by Michael T' rainor (Collins Dove $29.95).

Trainor's latest book draws a parallel between modern man's dilemma's and the gospel of Luke. It explores the practical contribution which the Bible can make to pastoral action and faith education in the c ontemporary Christian community.

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EDITED BY PAUL AVIS The Courage to Care: The impact of cancer on t be family by Susanne Baxandalland Prasuna Reddy (David Lovell Publishing) What happens when someone close to us develops cancer? How do we manage the tasks and emotions of caring?

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Brother and sister saints

According to St. Gregory the Great, who wrote their biographies. Scholastica was able to visit Benedict once a year. There they spent the day talking. laughing and praying.

St. Gregory describes their last visit. Scholastica seems to have sensed they would not see each other again.

A s they ate dinner that e vening.

Scholastica begzed her brother to stay overnight. There was so much more to talk and pray about.

Benedict said hem too. would love to spend more time with her, but that the rule he wrote for his monks required that they be in their monestry at night. He had to obey his own rule.

Scholastica pleaded with God to keep her brother there with her until morning. As Benedict and his companions were getting When Benedict moved to ready to return to their Monte Ca.ssino in Italy and monestry. a violent storm founded a large monastery blew up. The lightning for monks. Scholastica and rain were so fierce that joined a convent in nearby the monks could not leave.

Plombariola so she could "God forgive you, sister; be closer to her brother. w hat have you done?" guidance, Benedict asked. "I asked a his With S cholastica founded a favour of you and you monastery of nuns about refused it," Scholastica five miles from Monte responded with a twinkle Cassino. She became its in her eyes "I asked it of abbess.

God, and God has granted Scholastica, like her broth- it!" er, has a great impact on Scholastica and her brother the lives of those who lived talked, laughed an prayed in their communities. until the sun came out in Their influences touched the morning. the lives of people all over Three days later Scholastica Europe. died. Benedict buried his B enedict founded the saintly sister in the tomb he Benedictine order of men had earlier prepared for and Scholastica was the himself at Monte Cassino. first Benedictine nun. The church never has forE ven though they lived gotten the goodness and c lose by. Scholastica and love of Scholastica and her Benedict could not visit brother, Benedict, and often. honors them as saints. other each

S CHOLASTICA grew up in the town of Norcia in Italy about 14 centuries ago. It was a time of great c hanges in Europe, with almost constant battles and w ars.

Benedict was Scholastica's brother and he may have twin. her been Scholastica•s parents provided their children with more than most children of the time had.

Scholastica and her brother Benedict were not attracted by their parent's comfortable life. Already as youngsters Scholastica and Benedict decided to live lives of poverty and service to others.

Scholastica stayed at home with her parents while Benedict studied in Rome as a teenager. After he finished his studies and moved, his sister went to live near him.

by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

Words from our beloved Mother Message from Our Lady, Queen of Peace, given to Maria Pavlovich Lunetti on December 25, 1994.

"Dear Children,

Today I am joyful with you and I pray with you for peace, peace in your hearts, peace in your families, peace in your desires and peace in the whole world.

May the King of peace bless you today and give you peace. I bless you and! carry each of you in my heart Thank you for haying responded to my call."

Medjugorje news from him to help him in a is devoted to the blessMessage Sister Emmanuel. special way. Everyone ing of homes. "The picks out from a basket priests go to every Ntedjugorje, 1.1.95. slip of paper on which house. pray with the a Dear children of is written the name of family and go into all Ntedjugorje! t he Saint who will rooms to bless them.

Praised be Baby Jesus accompany that person. At the begirming of the and His Mother! together with a thought apparitions. Our Lady Great was the joy in related to the Saint. I spoke about this Since Medjugorje over this had said to the Gospa: this blessing not only Christmas. prepared for -You choose the Saint protects the house from by much prayer and cel- for me!" Then I picked t he evil one but also ebration by many pil- out a piece of paper and draws great graces into grims. Vicka. Ivan and who did I get but it. it is important that Marija saw the Gospa Maximilian Kolbe! He every family takes this serously. dressed entirely in gold. who was madly in love message holding and covering with the Immaculate! Vicka also says over and Baby Jesus in her own This greatly touched me over again to the pilveil. Jakov also saw her. since this very year I am grims: 'Place blessed but in Italy (expecting preparing a children's objects in your houses.' the For example crucifixes. on book his first baby). pictures of Jesus and I was personally very Immaculate Heart of of the Sacred Mary. senAnd the Mary. blessed by a great closeHeart. the that 'Pray was: tence ness to Heaven. A Croat from the village Immaculate reigns in all If a priest or deacon said: 'Heaven But it is hearts.' (This really hit cannot come to bless here. within our grasp! the target!) the house. the head of There is hardly a thin the family can at least this sharing am If I veil between us'. On with you, it is to invite gather the household Christmas Eve, we were of together. go from room Child each about ten of us to join to room, sprinkling holy to benefit Medjugorje with Marija for the from water while praying and gifts same the from apparition. We learned Heaven, and do like- singing He can ask the a fterwards that Our One has only to Lord to become the Lady smiled with happi- wise. names of Saints. King of the house, of all prepare ness on seeing us when to offer who live there and visit. she appeared. She t o pray. and fami- What a great pity our whole the to them looked at each of us Our couritries have removed etc. and friends. ly individually and said: It the crucifix from our delighted. be will Lady is beautiful to be togethschools. our hospitals. the supports this s a er. Such intimacy with and bedrooms. Because our Mother can only message of October 25. driving God out, we by encourage us to make when she invited us to the door not to open her loved in this cold take the Saints as examreedom but to the f chocoof box A ples. world of ours.

Year's Desurtyer of Peace.

The second thing, lates for a New but a great. is greeting ord. bless us at concerns a lovely tradibeteven is name Saint's inning of this tion within our commulow us each day nity everyone receives a ter!

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Catholic Social Justice Commission There are some

positions available on the Catholic Social Justice Commission.

Would interested potential participants apply to

Archbishop B.J. Hickey Catholic Church Office Victoria Avenue PERTH WA 6000 Applicants please state interest in social justice and include a curriculum vitae.

NATIONAL DIRECTOR AUSTRAUAN

Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office Applications are called for from priests or Religious for the position of National Director of a new office that will absorb functions of the Federal Catholic Migration Committee and the Australian Refugee Office.

LOCATION: CANBERRA. ACT COMMENCEMENT: 1 July 1995 DUTIES: To advise the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference and act as an official Church voice on migrant and refugee issues; To promote consultation and co-ordination among Catholic bodies in migration; To make representation to Government on migrant and refugee matters; To supervise staff and be responsible for the management of the office.

Fuller duty list for Director available on request

APPUCAT1ONS: By Friday 17 February 1995 to Most Rev B.J. Hickey Secretary Bishops' Committee for Migrant Affairs St Marys Cathedral Victoria Square PERTH WA 6000 Tel: (09) 325 9177 Fax: (09) 221 1716

THE, PA S CENE, CLERGY MOVES

PERTH Father Peter Bianchini, recently appointed director of the Office for Marriage and Family, a nd former parish priest of Soputh Lake, will reside at St Anne's Hospital Mount Lawley as chaplain.

Father Peter Growney, for the past three years on service in W estminster diocese will b ecome joint chaplain to St John of God Hospital Murdoch.

Pallottine Father Dean Bradbury will become parish priest of Riverton in succession to Father John Luemmen who will be pastor emeritus.

GERALDTON Mill Hill Father Stephen Giles will become parish priest of Newman.

Father Joseph Fernando, currently at Newman and on loan from Tuticorin diocese in India to which he will return later in t he year, will move to Northampton/Kalbarri.

Father John O'Keeffe of Northampton will transfer to the Eastern States.

Father Bertus van der Geest of Meekatharra/Cue/Pvtt Magnet will move to Morawa/Perenjori.

Father Johnny Carpenter of Morawa/Three Springs will become assistant at Bluff Point, succeeding Fr Mirek Redwane SDS. S alvatorian Father Karol Szojda will become parish priest of Carnarvon/Shark Bay/Exmouth.

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SECRETARY/ ADMIN. ASSISTANT The LJ Goody Bioethics Centre is an office of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Perth providing a resource centre for the study and teaching of moral values in medicine and health care.

Duties: A responsible person is required to provide a wide range of secretarial duties for the Director.

This computer literate person will have skills in shorthand, minute taking, filing systems, reception duties, assistance in administration of Centre and lecture hall. A demonstrated ability in dealing with confidential matters is essential.

The applicant will be committed to Catholic moral values and able to relate confidently to a wide range of professional people.

Please apply in writing by 27 January: Fr Walter Black MSC, Director LJ Goody Bioethics Centre 39 Jugan Street, Glendalough WA 6016 Tel: 242 4066

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Father Brian Ahearn of Bluff Point will move to Tennant Creek on exchange with Fr Rudy Hoffman.

Father Harry Middleton of Wickham/Pannawonica has retired and will be overseas for a period.

Monsignor John Barden, formerly of Rangeway parish is now retired In Perth.

Father Noel Tobin, former diocesan chancellor is now retired in Perth.

CENTERING PRAYER Fr Doug Conlon will conduct a one day workshop on centering prayer from 9.30 am to 3 pm on Saturday January 21 at 101a W atkins St Hilton. Bookings: Mandy and Stephen 3305541, 530 3332. Facility charge S25; concessions available.

WiLLETTON PRAYER Of A postles Christ Charismatic Fellowship Night on Wednesday, January 18 at 7pm, St John & St Paul Catholic Church, Willetton. Refreshments and fellowship after.

A rchdiocesan Calendar JANUARY 9-16 Pilgrimage for World Youth Day, Manila, Archbishop Hickey.

17-19Beatification of Mary MacKillop, Sydney, Arch bishop Hickey, Bishop Healy.

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OBITUARY Christian Brother Richard Baptist Healy who last weekdied suddenly, aged 81, at Edmund House Wembley had an outstanding scholastic and teaching career in English and Latin.

The son of an Adelaide school teacher he gained honours in English and Latin in his Leaving at Rostrevor College.

For his part time BA over 12 years while teaching in Sydney he majored in English and Latin, completing his MA a year later on the thesis: Lucullus - A study of the Man and His Age. He was headmaster at Lewisham and served in other states before coming to WA as a founding consultor in 1967 of the newly formed WA-SA Holy Spirit province.

In 1975 he completed his Ph.D at UWA on The Carmine Natalicia of Paulinus of Nola.

His classical interests w ere to the fore when from 1980-90 he was seconded to the order's general house in Rome as a historian and editor of the Christian Brothers Educational Record.

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During his final years at the Brother's retirement hostel InWembley his poems were a regular feature at gatherings which

included the neighbouring Sisters of Mercy.

His funeral Mass and burial took place in Adelaide and a memorial Mass will be celebrated in S t Joseph's Subiaco at 9.30 am on Saturday January 21.

May he rest in peace.

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