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Recognize that your love of freedom version of Pope John Paul thing which every human heart longs for NlJ'sEDITED inner peace, that peace which comes from and justice will come to nothing if you do National Anthem and sing the words "our farewell speech in Australia: knowing that one is loved by God, and not strengthen respect for the sacredness land abounds in Nature's gifts of beauty
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As I say goodbye to your fair land, I heartily thank everyone for the hospitality which has been extended to me at each moment of this short stay. With your warmth, cordiality and enthusiasm, you have confirmed my belief that the people of Australia remain the greatest of the gifts in which you nations abounds. Among the vivid memories I will take away with me is that of a great and holy woman. God took this daughter of your land and made her a sign of spiritual greatness, a model of personal holiness and of service to the common good, to be contemplated and admired by all peoples, not only in Australia but throughout the world. Mother Mary's life speaks eloquently because it was firmly anchored in some-
from the desire to respond to his love. This is the simple yet profound lesson of Blessed Mary MacKillop. She knew that God loved her and she did not doubt: freely and unassumingly she responded to this love with confidence and courage. In facing every obstacle, in turning no one away, in the compassion and understanding she showed towards all, she was able to inspire this same inner peace and strength in others. To all Australians I make this appeal: do not hesitate to tap your spiritual resources in order to renew your families and the whole society. Use your rich multi-cultural diversity to foster ever greater mutual esteem and enrichment among yourselves.
of life and the human dignity of every person, created in God's image and likeness (cf Gen. 1:26-27). Meeting so many of you over these past two days I have been forcefully reminded of the greatness of your country and the abundance of your blessings. Your advantages and resources put you in a position of responsibility in Oceania and the Pacific Region, and towards the vast and quickly developing continent of Asia. With God's help, you must continue to work with others to advance the cause of peace. foster integral human development and relieve, as far as possible, the oppression of poverty, hunger and disease. Dear People of Australia: I say farewell with great confidence in your future.
...for the memories AT POPE John Paul 11 said (edited version) on arrival in Sydney: From my previous visit in 1986 I remember the vastness of the land, its majestic features and natural beauty, your modern cities, the rich variety of your people and the impressive signs of their energy and enterprise. From the original inhabitants to the most recent immigrants. in the young and the old, among parents with families, I was privileged to discover the most precious of your national treasures: the Australian people themselves, with all their creativity and determination. The abundant fruits which this heritage can produce when illuminated by a deep faith in God are evident in the example of an outstanding Asutralian women: Mother Mary MacKillop. Mary MacKillop embodied all that is best in your nation and in its people: genuine openness to others, hospitality to strangers, generosity to the needy, justice to those unfairly treated, perseverance in the face of adversity, kindness and support to the suffering. I pray that her example will inspire many Australians to take new pride in their Christian heritage to work for a better society for all. This they will do by acting with courage and commitment wherever there is poverty or injustice, wherever innocent life is threatened or human dignity degraded. In the years ssince my last vist much has changed in the world, and much has chanaged in Australia. One the international level, the fall of totalitarianism based on idealogy, and the lessening of political and military tensions between blocs, are undoubtedly the most striking events.
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rich and rare", give hearfelt thanks to God for his many blessings. Thanks him for the freedom you enjoy, freedom to choose what is good and right. Thank him for your families, for your children who are the sure pronmise of a better tomorrow. Treat the poor and needy among you with real concern and practical solidarity. Think of Mother Mary MacKillp and learn from her to be a gift of love and compassion for one another, for all Australians, and the world. May God protect your beloved country! Advance, Australia Fair!
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Yet, the benefits which would be expected from such enormous transformations have not always been forthcoming, and new sources of tension and conflict have appeared. Like many other developed countries, Australia too has faced economic and social challenges, to which it is responding. But many people, especially the poor and disadvantaged, still need society's help. There exists a cultural and spiritual crisis which leaves many, especially young people, confused regarding the meaning of their lives and the values which would give sense and direction to their efforts. At the very heart of modern culture there is a growing sense of the need for moral and spiritual renewal: the need for a new attitude, one in which people will have more importance than things and human dignity will take precedence over material gain. Dear Australian friends, your own Mary MacKillop offers a key to such renewal. She was a woman of courage who placed the spiritual and material well-being of others ahead of any personal ambition or convenience. The honour which the Church will give to Mother Mary MacKillop by declaring her among the Blessed is in a sense an honour given to Australia and its people. It is also an invitation, an invitation to the whole of society to show genuine love and concern for all who are weighed down by life's burdens. I dare to say that your response will greatly determine the knd of society you will pass on to future generations in this land of promise.
Many thanks for coming over here
E PRIME MINISTER, Mr Keating, anked thr pope for coming so far and said the contribution of women, such as Mother MacKillop and others, had not always been properly acknowledged in this country.
"The labour and love, the courage and perseverence and not least the moral strength that women brought to the frontier of Australia - and now bring to the modern Australian community - have
been fundamental defining forces in Australia's development," he said. "In honouring this great Australian woman you have honoured all Australian women and all Australians." Mr Keating said the nation was trying to formulate both a culturally diverse and cohesive society through formulation of "inclusive" policies. "We recognise that we will not create a more cohesive and stronger Australia
without creating a fairer and more just Australia," he said. "When we talk of inclusion, therefore, we mean that the poor and disadvantaged must not be left without care. We mean the basic comforts and opportunities to lead fulfilling lives must be extended to them. "We do not say we have done enough, but these are our priorities and we know very well what you mean, Your Holiness, when you say that our response to such
human needs now will largely determine the kind of society we pass on. "We know there is no greater challenge facing us than the challenge of our youth. There have been developments in the modern world which have the potential to greatly improve the lives of people. And these same developments have the potential to impoverish them. We know technological progress, like the wealth that will flow from our economic growth, will never be enough."
Polish nolish smooths the wa yr helped to speak Polish at Sydney's action-packed one 1day papal celebration of Blessed Mary of The Cross. "We are 150 pilgrims who have come 5000km to be here," called out the rarely shy pastor of Ballajura, Fr John Jegorow, who caused Pope John Paul to look up and wonder who on earth was calling out to him in Polish.... But the incident was not over yet. Father Jegorow called out the same Polish language message to the pope's private secretary who was trailing
the pontiff and who over the years has got to know the pope has a devotee in Ballajura Western Australia. "We can cope with you all," quipped the secretary back in a Polish reply as he promptly despatched 150 special cards across the heads of the other onlookers to the Ballajura group. But he had not counted on other hands eager for a bit of this manna from heaven. So by the time the cards reached the Ballajura pilgrims
they were 65 less than when they started.... The Polish connection was not to be outdone. At the St Mary's Cathedral residence where the pope's entourage was staying, a discreet message filtered through to the top of what had gone wrong. Back came the missing number of cards, specially blessed by the pope. A touch of Ballajura Polish polish had smoothed the way.
A pressing issue... Understanding of the dignity, mission of women needed: Pope YDNEY: Australia's People of God needs an L/. understanding of the dignity and mission of w omen, in the family, in society and in the Church, which is faithful to the gospel, Pope John Paul said in Sydney. It is a "pressing issue" he told a large gathering of Sisters of St Joseph in St Mary's Cathedral. The Church stands against discrimination, and a misunderstanding of anthropology is behind the failure to understand Church teaching, he said. Mary MacKillop is an outstanding model of a woman who embraced the Cross, not as a burden but as the most effective way of being united to the Lord. "An authentic theology of woman, based upon an anthropology revealed in the mystery of creation and redemption, brings to light women's feminine 'originality' and particular 'genius—, the pope said. "Women who seek a true Christian concept of femininity can look to the free and active role assumed by Mary of Nazareth. In her all women can discoverthe secret of living their femininity with dignity and achieving their own true advancement'.
Josephite Sisters Consilio Maura Collins, Mary Kirrane, Anne Kavanagh, Emilie Cattalini, Sharon O'Donoghue and Margaret O'Sullivan waiting to join the pope for morning prayers at Sydney's St Mary's Cathedral. "The Church stands against every form of discrimination which in any way compromises the equal dignity of women and men. "The complete equality of persons is however accompanied by a marvellous complementarity that concerns not only the roles of men and women but also their make-up and meaning as persons. "For that reason I am convinced that a mistaken anthropology is at the root of society to
understand Church teaching on the true role of women. "That role is in no way diminished by - it is In fact enhanced by being related in a special way to motherhood - the source of new life, both physical and spiritual. "The Church therefore faces the challenge of finding fresh and creative ways of recognising and integrating the specific charisms of women that are essential to building up the Body of Christ in unity and love.
Vocation in focus...
ARY MacKillop cannot be understood without reference to her reli- world which is deceived by false promises needs the distinctive and visible M gious vocation. Pope John Paul told the gathering of St Joseph Sisters witness of holiness and moral integrity provided by religious consecration. in Sydney's St Mary's Cathedral. "People look to religious to walk side by side with them along the path of life, precisely as those who are wise in the ways of God. "Mother Mary of the Cross did not just free people from ignorance through schooling, or alleviate suffering through compassionate care. "She worked to satisfy their deeper, thoughsometimes unconscious longing for 'the unsearchable riches of Christ'. "Through Christ, the Kindgdom of God is taking root in history and you are tending to its growth. Making 'contemplation of divine things and prayer' your foremost responsibility you become leading agents of society's transformation. "The Lord has consecrated you' to bring good tidings to theafflicted' . The
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"God's people are helped and supported more by what you are than by what you do . They need to see in yourlives the values of fidelity to the Church's sacramental and liturgical life, personal prayer centred on Christ and the Trinity, simple and warm community life, preferential love for the poorest, freedom in obedience and the joy of always belonging to God. "In a word, what the Church and society look for in those who embrace the copnsecrated life is that they be living witnesses of what it means to follow jesus crucified. "Mother Mary of the Cross shines before us as an outstanding model of a woman who embraced the Cross, not as a burden or scandal, but s the most effective way of being united with the Lord her spouse. "She once wrote that the Cross is a 'sweet and dear instrument in the hands of a great and good Father in making His children all that such a Father has a right to expect His chosen children to he.'"
WA Province leader Maria Casey with Sisters Bridie O'Sullivan, Sharon Donaghue and Alma Cabbasi outside the MacKillop tomb.
Sisters get reminder of those last words ARY MacKillop's last words "Do M not be afraid" have rel-
evance for the religious institutes facing the Third Millennium, Pope John Paul told a cathedral gathering of Josephite Sisters. "To cross the threshold of the Third Millennium without fear, our hearts must be set firmly on Christ, 'the hope of glory'", he said. "The whole Church, including religious institutes must be ever more sensitive to all the Spirit is saying as the great jubilee draws near. "Individuals and communities are being challenged - I said r ecently - to 'purify themselves, through repentance, of past errors and instances of Infidelity, inconsistency and slowness to act'. "In these last years of the century we will be in a new Advent, a time of conversion of mind and heart, called by St Paul a spiritual revolution. "As Mother Mary of the Cross lay dying she sent her Sisters a message of evangelical simplicty and power: 'Do not be afraid. Love one another, bear with opne another, and let charity guide your life.' "This is the spirit we need to live the new Advent. "We praise you God for Mother Mary of the Cross, for the wonders of holiness you wrought in her as a disciple of Jesus and faithful daughter of the Church "Sisters and friends: Henceforth you will have a powerful intercessor before the throne of God. "I pray that Mary of the Cross' example of ardent love for the Chjurch will inspire you to serve the Lord with gladness in the weak, the brokenhearted and the oppressed. "In Mary MacKillop all Australians have a sign of the flowering of holiness in their midst. Let us truly 'rejoice and be glad.'"
The MacKillop example Pope on the kind of commitment multi-cultural Australia needs in modern times AUSTRALIA needs the kind of commitment of which Mary MacKillop is such a striking example, said Pope John Paul 11 in Sydney. Consider your country's history: present-day Australia has sprung from the men and women from all parts of the globe who come to your shores looking for a better life or seeking freedom, justice and tolerance. Consequently, yours is a society of multi-cultural diversity. In a world where unity is increasingly threatened by ethnic rivalry and racist attitudes, you must continue to be firmly ground in the ideals of harmony and solidarity, based on respect for the inalienable dignity of every human being, without exception. Here in the Sydney Domain, we are surrounded by impressive symbols of modern Australia, striking buildings which are as it were monuments to the blessings which God has lavished upon your country. We are reminded of all that the arts sciences, government and religion have contributed to the creative and vigorous society which has developed in your mind. To the believer these works of human hands bring to mind a deeper, more mysterious, reality: the face that we ourselves are the living stones which God chooses in order to build up his kingdom among us. He wishes to use each one of us so that the world will be re-established In justice and peace. In the midst of the modern achievements surrounding us in the Sydney Domain, I give the simple reminder that each one of us is called to be a part, a unique and indispensable part, of a structure which is greater by far than anything we see here. God who created all things in order to communicate his love and wisdom Is infinitely more expert than any human builder will ever be: seek to be willing instruments in his hands. Wok to the example of one of your own herioc women, to the saintly daughter of the Church Mary MacKillop. Let her stir up in each of you the desire to be God's own handiwork. It is my ardent prayer that today too the Church in Australia will inspire, encourage and guide with the light of the Gospel the building of a nation whose history, as fully as possible, will be a history deeply marked by love of God and neighbour. Your have just seen a drama presenting the life and work of Mary MacKillop, Mother Mary of the Cross. She is an eminent example of how God uses a person, indeed any person who really wishes to be God's instrument, to change things for the better, and to bring light and hope to the human heart. Her story challenges all Australians to a radical personal and social renewal, calling you to embrace and live the hope which is ours in Christ Jesus. Mary MacKillop consecreated her whole being to God, and by fulfilling the demands of her religious vocations she sought every day to fulfil the first of all the commandments You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart." and the second commandment You shall love your neighbour as yourself." Because the love of God inflamed her heart, she tenaciously defended the weak, the poor, the suffering and all those on the margins of society. She worked to assist women and families in distress and to eradicate ignorance among the young. With a resolute will and a compassionate heart, she recognized in each of her brothers and sisters the image and likeness of God: she saw in each individual a priceless soul for whome Christ had shed his most Precious Blood. In her, the unwanted, the unloved and those alienated from society found comfort and strength. Through her work she became a powerful source of inspiration to other like-minded women, and from their shared experience the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph was born. Mary MacKillop's faith and commitment have become a part of your Australian heritage: a faith immersed in the knowledge of God, a hope Imbued with the presence of Christ, a love expresed by the selflessness of a sincere and undivided heart.
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Sisters Pauline Dundon, Maureen Willans, Kathryn Summerfield, Maureen Hodge and Margaret O'Connor with special preview tickets to the MacKillop museum.
ABOVE: Bishop Justin Bianchini of Ceraldton with MacKillop friends Flo Cronin, Derral Shreeve, Brother Pat Cronin, Sr Eileen Lenihan, Verna Mullins, Sr Eileen Johnson and Harlan Mullins.
Sister Joan Luff (South Perth centre) guided the Kimberly contingent through the Mary MacKillop place.
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Cardinal named the grand marshal of this parade... EW YORK (CNS) - Cardinal John J. N O'Connor has been named grand marshal of New York's 1995 St. Patrick's Day
Parade, which has made headlines in recent years because of efforts by an Irish homosexual rights group to participate. John Dunleavy, parade chairman, said Cardinal O'Connor had been chosen because he was the leader of the Catholic community of New York, and parade officials wished to emphasize the religious character of the St. Patrick's Day observance. "We have asked him before, and he turned us down." Dunleavy said. "We're glad he accepted this time." Cardinal O'Connor noted that on Jan. 15 he reached the ststutory retiring age for bishops of 75. It seems likely he will be still in office on Mar 17 however. The archbishop of New York normally reviews the parade from the front steps of St. "atrick's Cathedral and greets officials and leaders of marching units as they come by. Cardinal O'Connor said that for 1995 after he marches as marshal at the head of the parade - he would return to the cathedral to review the rest of procession as usual. It normally takes several hours for all the bands and other marching units to pass. To a reporter saying the Irish gay group had already protested the choice and said it would demonstrate, Cardinal O'Connor replied: "It's a free country. I've never objected to being protested against." He said that he had not made the decision against participation by that group in the past, although "of course the decision was attributed to me." Cardinal O'Connor said he was pleased by his selection, and commented that the church in New York owed a lot to the Ancient Order of Hibernians, parade sponsors. He recalled particularly that they defended the Old St. Patrick's Cathedral in the 19th century when anti-Catholic agitators threatened to burn it. He said research indicated that only about five members of the clergy had been grand marshals for the parade, which began in 1762, and no other cardinal was known to have been chosen. Dunleavy said grand marshals were picked by a designated group of Hibernian and parade officials, and that the decision for Cardinal O'Connor was unanimous. The 1995 parade will have as its theme r emembrance of the 150th anniversary of the 1845 famine in Ireland, Dunleavy said.
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V French bishop whose controversial statements on married priests. AIDS and homosexuality caused him trouble with the hierarchy was removed from his job by Pope John Paul II. Bishop Gaillot was removed as head of the diocese of Evreux after ignoring several warnings from church officials. After learning of the decision, Bishop Gaillot said he had no intention of leaving the Catholic Church. "I feel a bit shut out now. I will try to serve as best I can with other outsiders," he said. The 59-year-old bishop said he planned to say his farewells in Evreux, then retreat to a monastery to consider his future. The pope in 1992 gave the bishop "a strong warning to no longer act outside church communion," a Vatican statement said of the bishop, who once had called for the ordination of married men for the Latin-rite church and who favoured use of the RU-486 pill to induce early abortions.
Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, head of the Congregation for Bishops, held talks with Bishop Gaillot in 1987, 1992 and 1995 to discuss "the questions, concerns and negative reactions provoked by his behaviour, his positions and his frequent trips outside the diocese," the Vatican said. The bishop "never took into account" the warnings and advice offered him by his superiors, it said. The Vatican noted that Bishop Gaillot had been cautioned by successive presidents of the French bishops' conference, in 1989 and 1994.
Archbishop Duval of Rouen, current president of the French bishops' conference, said he had appealed to Bishop Gaillot to refrain from activities which harmed communion with his fellow bishops and with the Vatican. Archbishop Duval said he also asked the Vatican to show patience. "But I note with pain that Bishop Gaillot has given no sign that he is willing to live in close communion
with the pope and the bishops," said Archbishop Duval. In 1989, following a string of outspoken comments on church issues and social problems, Bishop Gaillot made a "common declaration" with the then-president of the French bishops' conference, the late Cardinal Albert Decourtray, affirming his fidelity to church teachings. The declaration was worked out after Bishop Gaillot had publicly called for lifting the celibacy requirement for Latin-rite priests, backed a publicity campaign for the use of condoms to prevent AIDS and criticized a 1983 French bishops' conference document that approved nuclear deterrence. He had been quoted as saying, in trying to exclude homosexuals, Christian communities weaken their witness." He had also said he was prepared to bless homosexual unions. Bishop Gaillot wrote several books and appeared frequently on popular television programs that his critics said brought his office into disrepute.
atican gag..•.? OME (CNS) - An Italian Cornboni priest who is Father Sesana said he believes the Vatican put R ieing replaced by his order as editor of the out- pressure on his superiors to remove him. spoken African magazine New People said he believes his removal stems from Vatican efforts to silence the publication. But Comboni officials said the replacement of Father Renato Kizito Sesana was part of a normal rotation of personnel. made in consultation with the priest. News reports and other sources said there had been complaints from high in the Vatican. Father Sesana, 51, who started the magazine for English-speaking Africa in 1989. said he was "surprised and disappointed" by the decision of Comboni superiors. He said he was convinced the magazine's March 1993 open letter to the pope, which criticized holding the Synod of Bishops on Africa in Rome instead of Africa, had upset some Vatican officials.
Cardinal Tomko, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, according to news reports and other sources had complained to Comboni officials about the magazine. Father Sesana said he was afraid the magazine. which has focused on sensitive issues facing the church in Africa such as inculturation, human rights and democracy, would now "change drastically and take a very traditional line." Comboni provincials from eight African countries wrote to their superior general asking him to allow Father Sesana to remain at the Comboni media center in Nairobi. They said they fear that without him. the magazine could lose popularity and that plans for media expansion might he shelved.
'I have found a new friend in cardinal' 1110HILADELPHIA (CNS) - Steven Cook says he has a new friend Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago, the man he once accused of sexually abusing him.
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 "It almost feels like I have a new are unreliable." friend now in Cardinal Bernardin," he But when Cook began the last month's told the Philadelphia archdiocesan meeting with Cardinal Bernardin, he newspaper. "was still very confused" and wasn't "I'm very impressed by the man and ... absolutely sure that the abuse had not by our meeting. It was grace-filled. I taken place, he said. went to him to apologize to him, the He told Cardinal Bernardin: " 'I'm 95 man, not to him as a church representapercent sure that you didn't do it, but I tive or as a leader of a church." need to look into your eyes and ask you Cook, 35, and Cardinal Bernardin met so that I can put this to rest.' And I did. for two hours in Philadelphia Dec. 30, He looked into my eyes and said, 'No, the cardinal revealed in a four-page Steven.I did not abuse you.' It was like, thank you. statement on the meeting Jan. 4. I wanted to believe it. I needed to Cook, who has AIDS, had filed a $10 million lawsuit in November 1993 believe it.I needed to let go of that." accusing Cardinal Bernardin of having Cook said he has heard from Cardinal sexually abused him once in the mid- Bernardin by phone twice since the 1970s, when Cook was in high school in meeting, and "it's just been real positive Cincinnati and Cardinal Bernardin was all the way around. I've put it at peace archbishop there. and learned what a really neat man he
was, which is not the impression I had before." Cook said he saw the meeting as -an opportunity to make amends for a mistake I made that hurt (Cardinal Bernardin).Iknew Iwasn't a bad person and I wasn't filled with shame. It was very, very powerful - lots of tears on my part.... I'm really glad the cardinal and I met. I'm glad he's at peace with it, too." The meeting also provided a chance to tell the cardinal "what it felt like to be a gay in the church" and to talk about his concerns for Catholic youths "who are gay or coming to terms with being gay" and their place in the church, he said. Cook, who was diagnosed as HIV-positive in 1990 and began fighting AIDS in 1993, has also come to terms with his own mortality. "I have a realistic view of my own health and I know I probably only have a couple more years, if that," he said. "It's a real struggle. I feel like I have AIDS - I really do, but I'm OK with it."
The pope has still another 805000km to go Don't be fooled by this yawn in Colombo. The pope said he's fit and ready for more travel.
TATICAN CITY (CNS): With his 10 day V swing through Asia now behind him, the Pope still faces an extremely busy year of papal travels. Vatican meetings and important documents. 1995 will take the 74-year-old pope has still to visit another four continents, adding nearly 50.000 miles the most in 10 years - onto his frequent-flyer total. Separate papal visits are listed to Belgium. the Czech Republic and Slovakia in April and May. The pope plans to crisscross Africa in September on a tour of English-. French- and Portuguese-speaking countries, probably including South Africa. During the visit, he would like to unveil his apostolic letter on the African church. a follow-up document to the African synod held in 1994. In November. The pope is scheduled to address the United Nations on its 50th anniversary, then shuttle around the Northeast on pastoral visits to New York Newark and Baltimore. The trip was postponed last year because of the pope's slow-healing broken thigh. If all this isn't enough. Vatican planners say the pope is still determined to visit Beirut. Lebanon. and Sarajevo. Bosnia-Herzegovina, whenever security conditions are right. The cancellation of both trips last year left the pope deeply disappointed. Back home in the Vatican one of the first items on the papal agenda is publication of his
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If he had it to do over, he W YORK (CNS) 1\Jew York's Cardinal said, he would spend more \1E 1 time with people in the O'Connor, who offered his resignation on his 75th birthday Jan. 15. said he thought he had a "good shot" of still being in his post when Pope John Paul H makes his planned visit to New York in September. Asked by reporters to identify the best and worst features of his 11-year tenure and to confess any mistakes he thought he had made. Cardinal O'Connor stressed enjoyment of his role as priest - saying Mass, preaching. hearing confessions and other activities.
parishes. He has visited virtually all 413 parishes of the archdiocese, but noted he would have liked to be out of the office more. He acknowledged that on some occasions he might have been able to make his points in a gentler way, saying he regretted any unnecessary pain he may have caused. But he also reiterated his oft -repeated statement that his job is to declare and defend church teaching. "For some, it is a hard teaching." he said.
long-awaited encyclical on human life, "Evangelium Vitae" ("The Gospel of Life"), reportedly a 185-page encyclical on abortion, contraception, artificial fertilization, euthanasia and experiments on human embryos and fetuses. The pope offers theological reflection and practical ethical guidelines. The pope is said to be working on a major document on ecumenism, to be published during a year of important ecumenical events. The Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople plans to make his first visit to the Vatican and the pope in June, giving the two religious leaders an opportunity to strengthen strained relations between their churches. The pope will be working throughout the latter part of 1995 on the follow-up document to last fall's synod on religious life. In addition, over the next several months he is expected to guide initial planning for several regional synods to be held in the period leading up to the year 2000. In 1995 the International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee plans to meet in a major dialogue session, the first since 1992. Among the probable topics was a Catholic statement on the Holocaust that has been under preparation for several years. To two important U.N.-sponsored meetings the Vatican will be sending high-profile delegations. In March, the World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen. Denmark will provide a forum for church social teaching on issues ranging from economic justice to population control. In September, the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing is already being billed in some quarters as a showdown between the church and women's liberation proponents on such issues as abortion, sterilization and birth control. The Vatican, however, wants to use the event to demonstrate that its concerns go beyond those of sexual morality to include the broader aspects of women's rights. including violence and exploitation aimed against women. Back at the Vatican, another debate will no doubt pick up steam in January when U.S. and Vatican scholars meet to discuss use of English inclusive language in Scripture and the liturgy. The talks could affect the fate of two Scripture translations intended for liturgical use that have been approved by U.S. bishops but held up by the Vatican. Sometime in April the pope is expected to squeeze in a visit to Trent in northern Italy to commemorate the 450th anniversary of the historic council there, which was considered the church's answer to the Protestant Reformation. For the pope, 1995 brings a full plate of activities. What Vatican officials point out is that all this comes in addition to the fixed or semifixed calendar of annual events, which keeps growing: major liturgical ceremonies at Easter and Christmas; papal messages on world peace, refugees, missions, the priesthood and vocations; yearly Vatican-sponsored meetings on health care problems and scientific issues: and the hundreds of "routine" papal meetings and audiences with bishops. world leaders and groups of international experts. For the pope, it doesn't leave much time to recover from jet lag.
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N the vastness of Australia Mary MacKillop was I not daunted by the great desert, the immense outback or the spiritual wilderness of the citizens,
Pope John Paul said at her Ftandwick beatification ceremony. Today there are other deserts and wastelands in people's lives, he told a quarter of a million people during his Mass. "Isaiah said: 'Make straight in the desert a pathway for our God'. He is referring to the Holy Land. but do not the same images refer to Australia with an enormous desert at the centre and only the edges rich and fertile? Along with the harsh terrain do we not find pleasant and hospitable counytryside ? "The contrasts go beyond topography. Through migration Australia has come to be an encounter between very different cultures and civilisations. "The Aboriginal people have been here for tens of thousands of years and are said to be among the most ancient people on earth. "Australia today is a land of diversity and unity, enriched by contributions which various groups and individuals make to the building up of society. "Here in your own land the way of the Lord should be prepared '...where the glory of the Lord shall be revealed.' This glory has already been abundantly revealed in Mary MacKillop. "By declaring her blessed the Church is saying that the holiness demanded by the gospel is as Australian as she was Australian. "Be assured, Sisters of St Joseph. that the Church needs your witness and your fidelity: Australia too values your presence and your dedicated apostolate. "Mary MacKillop. giving her congregation the name of St Joseph, a man of boundless trust, who in the Church has always been a model of holiness, was expressing her own spiritual life, a charism for her followers, and for us who learn from her today. "The Lord speaking on providence says: 'Do not worry..The Father knows you need all these things...but strive first for the kingdom... and his righteousness "In the history of Australian Catholicism this striving for the kingdom has been realised in an eminent way by Blessed Mary of the Cross. "May MacKillop was not daunted by the desert, the outback, nor the spiritual wilderness of many of her fellow citizens. "She boldly prepared the way of the Lord in the most trying situations. With gentleness, courage and compassion, she was a herald of the Good News among the isolated 'battlers' and the urban slum-dwellers. "Mother Mary of the Cross knew that behind the ignorance, misery and suffering which she encountered there were men and women, young and old, yearning for God and his righteousness. "She knew because she was a true child of her time and place - the daughter of migrants who had to struggle to build a life for themselves. "Her story reminds us of the need to welcome people to reach out to the lonely, the bereft, the disadvantaged. To strive for the Kingdom of God means to see Christ in the stranger, to meet Him in them and help them to meet Him in each one of US.
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Cathedral Dean Tom McDonald, Fr Jegorow and Claremont's Fr Brian Rosling made sure they were early enough to get best seats in the members stand. Archbishop Hickey pretends he is Pope John Paul II plunging into the crowd to the amusement of Fathers Brian O'Loughlin and Tim Corcoran. tr •
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Ballajura parishioners who were special ministers at Randwick. From left: Anne Duflin, Monique and Will De Smedt and Peter and Marian Lewis.
Fr Tony Pires and the Kalgoorlie Josephite pilgrims. Inset: Sr Marg.1.--e: O'Sullivan with the priceless security pass that permitted her to carry burning incense within metres of the pope celebrating Mass.
Still smiling after having met Pope John Paul at St Mary's Cathedral earlier in the day are from rear Vi and Ngoc Nqoyen. Melanie McNeil. Front: Neville Pires and Domenic Mendonca The Record, ,January ,61 195 )
Integrity beg ns at ho By Mary Jo Pedersen parents unknowingly develop integrity
in their children by modeling it in everyday situations. Take for instance the dad who returned the $5 dollars to the theatre cashier when she gave him too much change. Children learn what "integrity" means without ever hearing the word. A young mother of three small children packed up all the kids and drove back to the grocery store to return the package of gum her boy unthinkingly took from the checkout counter. In teaching virtue, an old Spanish proverb holds true: "An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy." When parents tell the truth to the patrolman who stops them, the example speaks louder to their pre-teen children than words can. Or watching parents pass up snacks between meals dudng Lent because they are fasting impresses kids with the fact that their parents' beliefs about Lent are pretty important to them. Integrity means your words and your actions match up!
We all appreciate meeting a person we can really trust, one who keeps his word. This kind of integrity develops slowly over the years when children see parents and other significant adults who keep their word. The dad who says he'll go sledding with the kids, then gets hooked on a game on television, or who says he'll be home at 5 and never arrives until 6 can make an important negative i mpression without realizing it. Nobody's perfect and some parents are too hard on themselves. But time has proven that "Do as I say, not as I do" just doesn't work! It's almost as if integrity is learned by osmosis!
Being a person of integrity doesn't come easily. Sometimes what we "believe" is difficult to "do." In an instant-gratification and me-first culture, we're tempted to compromise Christian values of sacrifice, fidelity and honesty. Integrity requires self-discipline. Parents help children develop this founfo r dation by integrity affirming children when they follow through on chores they agreed to do or when they are with honest friends. Children also learn self-discipline when they are taught to suffer the logical or natural consequences of their mistakes. Thus, a 16year-old who ran over a neighbours lawn on a muddy day with his motor bike was required to pay $15 to the neighbour to replace the ruined sod.
As children get older, there are more opportunities to learn from parents about integrity. When all the other college-age boys were pocketing their summer earnings from mowing lawns, one father made his sons report their earnings and pay taxes on them. "It's the law," he said. "You might as well get used to it, it'll never get easier to pay taxes." Parents cannot pass on integrity like they do red hair or long legs. But good example and responsible parenting can help develop future adults who understand what integrity is and value it as something to work toward. No one ever "has" perfect integrity. But it's a virtue children and parents can always gain a greater measure of. Of course, before any one of us can become "whole" (from the word "integer," meaning whole or complete) we must love ourselves as we are. That's why children who do not experience the security of knowing they are loved and cared for are at a great disadvantage for being "whole." Like so many other virtues, integrity begins at home.
What it looks Iike CHORTLY after the fall of the Berlin Wall, L./Leonard Bernstein conducted a rousing performance of Beethoven's ninth symphony with members of the London. New York. Berlin and Moscow orchestras. The ninth symphony concludes with a chorale singing of Beethoven's arrangement of the poem "Ode to Joy." For this occasion Bernstein changed the word "joy" (in German. "freude") to "freedom" (in German, "friede"). citing scholars who believe that was the word in the original poem. "I think this change is very appropriate ior the occasion." Bernstein said. "and it does not violate the integrity of the composition." What did he mean? Integrity comes from the word "integer." "Integer" literally means untouched. unsoiled. undamaged. More positively it refers to something which remains intact or complete despite changes which might occur. A brief lesson from elementary mathematics (which is the limit of my math knowledge) confirms this. In maths, an integer is a whole number. It's not a traction: there's nothing missing or lacking. To be integral, to have integrity, is to include everything which is essential and to leave nothing necessary out. For Bernstein, the integrity of the ninth symphony is to perform it the way Beethoven intended. This does not mean a slavish adherence to the score but a powerful interpretation of its meaning, played out in circumstances Beethoven could never have imagined. Integrity for Christians is similar. To live the Christian life with integrity is to live as Jesus intended. This means many things, but above all it means putting beliefs into practice. This is one of the greatest challenges Christians face. It is not enough to recite prayers and say amen to doctrines, though this is certainly part of the integrity of the Christian life. It is equally
Third, integrity may require Christians to be By Father Robert L. Kinast countercultural when most us would prefer to feel at home in our culture. It's uncomfortable necessary to act on the motives of prayer and being called an enemy of women for defending the rights of the unborn. It's frustrating to practice the principles of doctrine. This is what Jesus meant when he said, "Not be called soft on crime for opposing the death everyone who says to me. 'Lord. Lord' will penalty and wanting to deal with the sources enter the kingdom of heaven. but only the one of crime rather than the symptoms. It's annoying to be ridiculed for caring about who does the will of my Father in heaven" the poor and unemployed or advocating care (Matthew 7:2 1). The same point is made just as forcefully in of the environment. the letter of St. James: "So also faith of itself, if Such pressures make integrity a challenge it does not have works, is dead" (fames 2:17). for Christians. ,Apparently the early Christians were not Even the most sincere and committed Chrismuch more successful at integrity than con- tians do not always show consistency between temporary Christians. what they say and do. Why is it so hard for Christians to practice This type of human inconsistency causes the integrity of word and deed, of ideal and some to accuse Christians of being hypocrites. practice? A hypocrite deliberately deceives people. preFirst, the Christian message is so personally tending to be or act one way while actually appealing. The image of a loving. parentlike being the opposite. God who enters fully (integrally) into our life But inconsistency is not hypocrisy: it is and calls each of us by name to a banquet-like human failure, and Christians are as feast is mesmerizing. Individuals can spend all acquainted with failure as anyone. Some, howtheir time and energy caught up in thinking ever, find it hard to deal with the inconsistenabout, but not necessarily acting upon. the cies in their lives. They think they should meaning and implications of this inexalways be perfect. haustible mystery. As a result, they may become rigid, selfSecond, the practical side of Christianity is righteous and intolerant of any alternative very demanding. It is moving to hear Jesus viewpoints. of neighbour until we are speak loving our Jesus was not kindly disposed toward peoconfronted with obnoxious, self-centered, ple with such an attitude. He saw them diminannoying neighbours. It is admirable to hear Jesus tell us to turn ishing their own lives and imposing unfair the other cheek - until we are mugged or a burdens on others. In their claim to integrity they were missing important parts of life. loved one is violated by a criminal. It is consoling to listen to Jesus describe how Jesus preferred to mingle with those who God takes care of the birds of the air and the had plenty of failures but were willing to flowers of the field until we measure our admit them and keep working toward a new, financial security against the cost of raising a more integral life. Jesus, I think, would have family, caring for elders and providing for loved the way Bernstein preserved the retirement. integrity of Beethoven's ninth symphony.
Food for thought
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TlilS week's discussion point: What can make it 1 difficult to act in accord with one's beliefs? Selected responses from readers: "Overwhelming opinions from other people being unsure of where you stand yourself. We try to please others because we're afraid of being alone if they reject us." - Tina Lyons. "When you have strong beliefs, it implies more responsibility to take action. That involves the risk of pain. So I'm afraid that if I act on my beliefs it will take me out of my comfortable little world ... and run the risk of encountering pain." -
Lynn Tropio. "Family pressures - people that are close to you and that you love and respect. If you feel that it would not set right with them, that can make it difficult to act in accord with your beliefs." Monica Hohner. "Pressures of society. Too many people are too concerned about what others think and say." Monica Cherniak. "People pride themselves on their own selfsufficiency. This myth gets extended to egoism and gratification of self. Our consumerism makes objects and things more important than people.... (And) there is a terrible rivalry, a need to get ahead at all costs." - Bob Sipos.
"%TOUR vocation to integrity isn't a curse, though practising integrity - matching actions with belief sometimes feels painful. Just ask the parent who finds (believes) he must say no to the plan his teen's social group has concocted for next weekend. Just ask the employee who felt compelled to (believed she should) question the rightness of a supervisor's decision and was met with a blank stare - or retribution. People might not like it. might feel threatened by it or might just find you a curiosity if you act with integrity. Some will welcome the effort. But don't look to integrity for the praise it earns. Integrity must balance selfrespect with respect for others. Doing what you believe is right doesn't mean you get to run people over with a truckload of your views and doesn't mean you never have to listen. For me. integrity is linked to freedom. "The more one does what is good. the freer one becomes." says the new Catechism of the Catholic Church (No. 1733). This is worth thinking (praying) about: that doing what is good is a path to freedom. That suggests that acting with integrity is a big responsibility, leading to fuller adulthood.
How basic goodness repairs brokenness By Father John J. Castelot E prophets often warned people where their faults Ti could lead them. One frequently cited danger was lack of integrity, of "wholeness." There was a split in people's lives between what they professed to believe and how they actually behaved. They were cracked, broken, not whole. Such lack of integrity makes people inconsistent, unreliable, and strains interpersonal relationships. God's people, especially, were to be holy - whole - as God was holy. God was their model of integrity, of consistency. Would God break :rust with the people?
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Yet "this people ... honours me with their lips alone, viction that the king, as the Lord's anointed, was worthy of though their hearts are far from me" (Isaiah 29:13). respect, a "sacred" person. This conviction led him to David was admired, among other reasons, for his make difficult decisions. integrity. He had principles and lived by them, sometimes On more than one occasion he had Saul at his mercy. at great cost to his perceived self-interests. He could have killed him and put an end to his murderous King Saul feared David's popularity and made frequent harassment. It would have been so easy, and so tempting, attempts on his life. Saul was a tragic character - broken, but David would have destroyed his own integrity and urmhole. Deep down he loved and esteemed David, but lowered himself to the level of his assailant. Saul's paranoia, his fear of losing his own prestige, drove David stuck to his principles and maintained his him to homicidal, and eventually suicidal, lengths. A lack integrity. He could live with himself and hold his head of integrity is perilously self-destructive. high. David. on the other hand, was known for his wholeness No human being, however, is perfect, and David was a and consistency in this relationship. He had a deep con- very human being. His scandalous affair with Bathsheba
led him to commit murder to "save face." Passions of all sorts can tear down a person's integrity, lead him to act contrary to his own convictions. Fortunately, David's basic integrity enabled him to acknowledge his fall from the heights and to climb back to his former status, to restore his integrity. Peter was genuinely devoted to Jesus as friend and leader. But fear and the desire to save his own skin led him to deny his deeply held convictions, to deny Jesus himself: "I do not know this man" (Mark 14:71). The Rock cracked under pressure and sacrificed integrity to self-interest. But. like David, Peter's basic goodness enabled him to repair his brokenness2:and become once again strong, firm and reliable (Luke The Record, January 26, 1995
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A place for healing and grace... By Colleen McGuiness-Howard
away in Cowaramup with T sea views and bush walks through thick and beautiful vegetation that only UCKED
the South West can claim, are 200 acres given over primarily to God and His retreatants.
'rhe property owned by Betty Peaker has dual names - Gracewood, and God's Farm; perhaps the apt description would be God's Farm - where there is grace. God's grace is everywhere of course for those who seek it but a healing took place there which a lady had been awaiting for six and a half years, always with the firm belief it would ultimately occur. A nurse whom we'll call Lucy for anonimity. had injured her right shoulder and neck, rendering them largely useless and resulting in constant pain; all of which forced her to cease nursing. After years of operations and consulting everyone in the medical and natural medicine fields, she resorted to pain killers "so strong that it was a wonder they didn't do me in!" and anti depressants to help her cope with a problem nobody could alleviate or cure. Lucy had been on retreat to God's Farm once before, and particularly sought on her intended second retreat under Brother Andrew, a silver caravan which was near the Blessed Sacrament and was relatively isolated "so I wouldn't have to be involved with other people". However when booking. Betty told her how the silver caravan had become home for a beautiful big framed picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe - the inference being she couldn't have the silver caravan.
Betty Peaker inside her beautiful chapel built largely from stone and timber on God's Farm, for the greater glory of God.
That picture had been given to Betty use her formerly useless arm and it is the focus of chapel attendees as they and showed much sign of ageing with painful neck without pain or hindrance. face the altar. Meanwhile the magnifibubbles and generally in bad condition. Stunned with the realisation of the cure cent priest's vestments are embroidered Striving to have it rejuvenated, Betty that had taken place. she danced around by the Carmelite Sisters at Gelorup. had been turned down by a few framers with the mailee root praising God and The chapel's genesis is however very who said it simply couldn't be done. swinging it in the air - completely liber- interesting - because it was built by a But she went back to one of them ated from the enslavement of incapacity Surfie, who'd never been a builder but who'd rejected it, and begged and and pain. who'd cherished his dream of building a That was 18 months ago and Lucy church. pleaded once more for him to try even harder. deems herself recipient of a miraculous The practical realisation of that dream Refusing to accept his: "It can't be cure. is The Perfect Joy of Jesus and St Francis In response to the question did she feel chapel with the tall crosses representing fixed!" and to avoid any more pestering from Betty, he resignedly said he'd "give Our Lady of Guadalupe (who'd been the 14 Stations of the Cross; the original ousted from the silver caravan for Lucy!) bush ones having been built by Father it another go". The result despite the barrage of nega- was also involved, apart from the obvi- Leo Curran OFM during his time there. ous power of God from whom all power tivity? Wonderful! Meanwhile word spread about God's Thus since her 'meant to be' restora- comes, Lucy thought a bit and suddenly Farm and 42 Indonesians flew in from tion, Our Lady of Guadalupe's sanctuary remembered that although she herself Djakarta accompanied by their priest. was a convert, and not overly familiar specifically for a weekend retreat a few was in the silver caravan. with Our Lady, she did have an aunty months ago. Positions were allocated for the forth- who had great devotion to Our Lady of coming retreat but whichever way Betty Guadalupe. The Our Lady of the Rosary Bible moved the numbers around, Lucy kept group gave the weekend over strictly to A connection? "Well yes! I guess there God and His mother. "and didn't even ending up with the silver caravan! must be!" she slowly and thoughtfully have time for a bush walk!" exclaimed Facing the inevitable and with no way replied in newly discovered wonderBetty. out. Our Lady of Guadalupe's picture ment as the link dawned on her. was removed for Lucy. After many exchanged farewell kisses God's Farm in itself is a bit of wonderDuring Brother Andrew's retreat, in ment too, because the adjacent proper- and tears, they flew straight back to silence and in communion with God. ties have no natural water, and although Indonesia. Lucy sat on a granite outcrop looking at the 200 acres was purchased with that Although definitely Catholic, other the sea and talking to God, when she knowledge. owing to some prayerful groups such as the Anglican Ministers' had an unexpected urge to take home a requests, water was discovered and is wives, and the Uniting Church ministers. mallee root! have also had retreats there plus a wide amazingly pure, fresh, and clear. Not understanding why, she idly The God's Farm stunningly beautiful variety of individual and Catholic groups glanced down and noticed the pointed chapel (consecrated by Bishop Quinn throughout the year. end of one sticking up from the ground. accompanied by other ministers of reliAnd one very important body of supUnthinkingly she reached down with gion), also has a history. port who assist in the good work on her right (injured) arm to retrieve it. but Made from property stone and timber, God's Farm is The Companions - there to it resisted. the altar is a huge sheoak root sur- lend a hand and pitch in whenever posSo she pulled and pulled until it mounted by a flat shined sheoak top. sible. and "indispensable!" as far as Betty released its stubborn earthy hold, while the Blessed Sacrament tabernacle is concerned. wrenched it free, and joyfully started is set in a sweeping column of stone. Next focus on the God's Farm agenda is walking off with her prize. Another stunning effect coup, is the Brother Andrew's retreats scheduled Suddenly she stopped dead: the mag- strategic placement of a 15 foot crucifix from May 24 to June 14 this year. nitude of what she'd just done struck outside the windows behind the altar; For further information please contact her and Lucy found she could now freely spotlighted at night. during the day also Betty on 097-55-6212.
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!RECENTLY visited Spain and Italy on the invitation to attend a meeting of the Mission Families of the Neo-Catechumenate. Two Mission families live and work in St. Gerards Mirrabooka parish, in addition to those in Darwin, Sydney and now Brisbane. The Mission Families have grown out of the Neo- Catechumenal communities. When a family has "walked" in the community for some time the parents may experience a call to go on mission to wherever they may be needed. At the invitation of a bishop and parish priest, the family is sent to a parish or a locality where the Church has not been established, to live there as the presence of a Christian family, and where possible to announce the Gospel to their neighbours. At St. Gerards, the families have become a haven for people who have encountered a crisis: the crisis family receives encouragement from a family which encounters the same problems and yet remains united and happy because they draw on spiritual faith. I visited Madrid and the shantytowns where Kiko Arguello and Carmen Hernandez initiated
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small Christian communities. Today there are people still living in appalling conditions in makeshift houses of cardboard, corrugated iron and bits of packing cases. They are gypsies, drug addicts, homeless and dispossessed people. The parish priests of Madrid heard of this work, and so the communities developed in ordinary parish settings, giving new life to communities where 90% of people were alienated from the Church. Kiko and Carmen saw that through these communities adults could rediscover the meaning of Baptism and the Christian life. On visits to parishes where the communities have functioned the longest. I was amazed at the vigour of their clergy and people. People from the communities are involved in every aspect of parish life -the pastoral councilliturgy, sacramental preparation of children and adults, marriage preparation, administration, youth ministry and catechetics.
I sensed a renewal of the Church beginning at the grassroots, much as I guess the Vatican Council envisaged. At the Meeting of the Families in an Adriatic resort I heard of new initiatives, the fruit of which was the renewal of family life in the light of the Gospel and the teachings of the Church. Present with these families were another 120 new families, each offering themselves for mission, to leave everything and go to the Churches of Latin America, Africa, Asia and some First World countries. Courage and apostolic spirit shone from five families off to assist the young Polish bishop of the former-Soviet Kazakstan whose diocese is the area of Europe and mainly Muslim, and who works with the help of only three priests. These families are sent only after a very long process of discernment within their own communities and in Rome. Each family was personally sent and blessed in Rome by the Holy Father at a special audience which received wide coverage by all the media throughout Italy. It was good to see the interest of the wider community in this event.
Power of Love concert 'Tillie February 12 Power of Love I _ Supreme Court Gardens concert will be a night of spectacular entertainment illustrating the life of Mary MacKillop in drama. dance and song. The script for the Concert has been written by Sarah McNeil who previously wrote the video script. "Mary MacKillop - a legend for today" commissioned by the Sisters of St Joseph and launched last year in Perth. The script for the concert in part draws on Ms McNeill's previous work
Sarah McNeil who scripted the twohour long Power )f Love concert.
but has been expanded to include the the education and support of the poor and common people. songs and dance routines. Ms McNeill explained how she sees "Mary MacKillop continues to be Mary MacKillop and what she is try- relevant to us today because she ing to bring to the audience at this shows us how to see the hand of concert: God in adversity, how to overcome "Mary MacKillop was an extraordi- it and win. The road to this is nary Australian. Her cause was to summed up in one word: love. bring education and God to the poor. This concert is about the Power of Before she died, she had attracted Love - for it was the power of love that more than one thousand other women Mary MacKillop's life." characterised to also put their trust in God. The The concert will feature the popular 'Brown Joeys', as they were affectionately dubbed, devoted their lives to Australian singer. Karen Knowles,
who is specially travelling to Perth from Melbourne for this Concert. Popular Perth actress, Jenny McNe, will be playing Mary and the concert will be compared by Eoin Cameron. Mr Cameron is well-known as a radio broadcaster and more recently as a member of Federal Parliament. Less well-known is that he is related to Mary MacKillop and his personal connection to Blessed Mary of the Cross has been carefully scripted into the concert.
Glimpse of heaven...
Off to Senegal...
MILLION beaming faces it saying that they had the gift of the A reeled our overwhelmed Aus- spirit. tralian group as we made our way
Our Lady of the Missions Province leader Sr Marie Therese Ryder (left) farewelling Associate missionary Maria Kennington (centre) with the help of former missionary Sr Veronica Martin. OUTH Lake parish had come of age, the out- with the Sisters of Charity and her subsegoing parish priest Fr Bianchini said recently quently deciding on a missionary vocation. S as Maria Kennington was farewelled to her mis-
sionary appopintment in Senegal West Africa. She has gone to work alongside a team of Our Lady of the Missions Sisters, an associate of the order from which she received her early education at Palmyra and Tuckfield St schools. The missionary move has meant her resignation from her theatre nurse position in which she has served at Fremantle Hospital over some 20 years. It is not her first missionary venture, having in 1993 spent her long service leave in Ethiopia
Her Senegal appointment means working in bush dispensaries alongside other Sisters from Vietnam and New Zealand, including Sister Margaret Spain of Western Australia. who conduct women's library classes and other courses in education. The Senegal mission was inaugurated by the OLM order in the wake of Vatican II and since then other missions have been opened in the Philippines, Kenya. Peru, and most recently in North Vietnam, Romania and Bolivia.
through the thick crowds of Manila. One boy with a huge smile touched John Burke on the shoulder and said: "I'm sending you my smile." John's face immediately lit up and so did mine at such a loving gesture. Another Filipino boy clapsed my hands in his and told me: "You're very welcome here, thank you for coming." Our group was treated with such love and enthusiasm that without doubt everyone was morally and spiritually uplifted. I asked a Filipino girl why they were so happy to have us in Manila, and she smiled and said: "Because you are our brothers and sisters." This obvious Christian love for one another was what touched me above all else on the tour to see the pope in Manila. Many material things were important to these people, but most important was their love for their neighbour. The pope, too, could see the love of the people and praised them for
Colourful concerts of song and dance were put on for the pope at his talks and various world delegates gave personal witnesses.
One particular girl from Sarejevo moved the crowd to tears as she tearfully told the pope of her fears for her country. "We are suffering so much. Please, please pray for us." The pope responded by taking the distressed girl in his arms as though he wouldn't let her go. This beautiful gesture demonstrated not only the love that the pope feels for the youth of today, but also the desire to hold and comfort his flock The feeling of unification was electric as people from over the world felt a universal suffering, but each gave one another hope by sharing their love. A glimpse of heaven was seen on the pilgrimage, and this was evident in the people. - Danuta Crees.
Rekindling the faith To celebrate in Western Australia the Beatification of Mother Mary MacKillop Bring a picnic tea to a gala evening of entertainment celebrating the life of Mary MacKillop in dance, drama and song at the
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time how they can beat the system with no standard of any kind. . ." "while the non-genuine, perpetually feasting off handouts, cry out that there's no work . . . I agree that there is a certain percentage of people in any community, be they migrants, or, as Colleen quaintly puts it *all people who are Australians or who live here, that rort the social security system. Perhaps Colleen should apply for some society security and find out how difficult it is to qualify. I can also agree with Colleen that all is not well with Australian society: "In the past 20 years . . . households with a combined household income exceeding S72.000 per annum (in 1992 dollar terms) have doubled from 15 per cent to 30 per cent . . . households with a combined household income of less than $22,000 per annum have increased from 20 per cent to 30 per cent. . . the Australian middle class has been shrinking steadily down from 70 per cent to about 40 per cent of households in the oast 20 years." Lecture by Hugh Mackay, 1993 So the rich are getting richer, and the poor. poorer.
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Colleen seems to ascribe the above to the
shifting from a Christian to a non-Christian community, and refers specifically to the increase in the Islam community. May I ask since when has Australia been and acted like a Christian community? I would refer Colleen to a book entitled "Pemubruy" by Eric Willmot which describes the treatment of A borigines in the early colonisation of New South Wales. She could also refer to descriptions of Aborigines literally chained together in the north west of WA Or she could travel to Rottnest and view the resting sites of allegedly criminal Aborigines. Then there was the appaling treatment of convicts, and the forced separation of Aboriginal families which c ontinued until recent times. Yet Colleen says "Our illustrious pioneers had it right." even though ". . . we've devastated our land, polluted the waters and air in many ways."
Colleen also refers to
non-Christian values in our , presumably State) schools. If Colleen lived in a Moslem country would she be happy for her children t o be indoctrinated in islamic values? Note the
problems referred to by Archbishop Hickey relating to the Bosnian conflict. Regarding the flying of the Australian flag in our schools, the Archbishop r efers to 'exaggerated nationalism". Perhaps the UN flag should be flown to show on a humanistic (but unfortunately not necessarily Christian) level, that all nations are comprised of people and each and every individual is a human person observing equal consideration. In Catholic schools the Papal flag could also be flown.
Colleen goes on: "We've allowed the happy settlement of Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Romanian and Italian crime gangs to infect our society . . " From my reading of statistics Asians at least have a lower crime rate than, how shall I put it "ordinary" Australians. If Colleen looks up the results of the TEE examinations young people of Asian origin seem to outshine "ordinary" Australians even though they make up only around five per cent of the population. Does this suggest a higher level of 10 or commitment to a work ethic? i have read in some detail the report of the Royal Commission into WA
Inc. All of the villains seem to have been "ordinary" Australians.
Colleen is entitled to her opinion on freeloaders, society's bludgers, nonChristians, crime gangs etc. But I find it extraordinary that such views are purveyed in a Catholic publication which to again quote Archbishop Hickey refers to Jesus offering the Kingdom of God to all, without distinction. A s a final comment I showed Colleen's article to a relative. Her comment was: "Thank God I'm not a Christian".
from Keith GREENWELL. South Perth
Sir, I have always found Colleen McGuinessHoward's articles to be of great interest but the article in last week's paper was absolutely great I found her insight into todays problems of Australia to be so basically true. I commend Colleen for having had the integrity and courage to write as she did. if only more people would speak out and even be prepared to take a leading role in our countries affairs, we may again become the "lucky country".
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THANKS HOLY Spirit, thou who makes
me see everything and shows me the way to reach the ideal You who give me the divine gift to forgive and forget the wrong that is done to me and who are in all instances in my life are with me. I want in this short prayer. to thank you for everything and confirm I never want to be separated from you no matter how great the material desires may be. I want to be with you and my loved ones in your perpetual glory. Amen. Say this prayer for three consecutive days stating your favour. On the third day your prayer will be granted no matter how difficult it may be. Promise publication as soon as your prayer been has answered. Thankyou Holy Spirit Liz. MY GRATEFUL thanks to the Holy Spirit, and St for Joseph favours received. PRAY the followoing prayers daily. St Joseph, Holy Spirit. Blessed Virgin, S acred Heart. All these prayers are printed weekly. T hanks saints and deities for prayers answwered.
Thanks again Colleen f or a very 'refreshing breath of fresh air". from Stephen GETHIN, Midland Sir, I am outraged that the ABC charged the Catholic Church $500.000 to cover the Pope's visit to Australia - yet it covered the "gay" mardi gras for free. The ABC is funded by all taxpayers. Catholics comprise about 25% of the population. Homosexuals comprise about 1%. Events of interest to Catholics should thus receive - not merely coverage equal to that given to homosexual events - but a significantly greater level of air time. Lay Catholics must, because of inaction, bear part of the blame for this situation. Media coverage of the homosexual lobby is almost universally positive. because the "gay" lobby is well organised. Any media organisation which publishes material hostile to the "gays" will receive a barrage of telephone calls and letters of complaint They soon learn that it is best not to antagonise these people. On the other hand the media knows that Catholic-bashing is a perfectly safe past-time.
DEATH K ONRATH :In loving m emory of my son V alentine Konrath, b rother of Michael, Paul, and Celia, who died peacefully January 21 1995. May he rest in peace with Jesus and Mary. Mum.
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PRAYER to the Blessed
Virgin never known to fail. 0 most beautiful flower of Mt Carmel, fruitful vine, splendour of heaven, blessed Mother of the Son of God, immaculate Virgin, assist me in my necessities. 0 Star of the Sea, help me and show me herein you are my mother. 0 holy Mary. Mother of God, queen of heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you fromn the bottom of my heart to succour me in my necessities. There are none that can withstand your power. 0 show me, here. you are my nmother. 0 Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have r ecourse to thee (three times). Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (three times). Thank you for mercy towards me and mine. Amen. This prayer must be said for three days and after that the request w ill be granted. Prayer must be published. With thanks from Mario and Jan. THANKS to St Clare and the Sacred Heart for prayers answered.
I exhort Record readers never to let a biased story concerning the Church or its moral teachings to go unanswered by a letter or a phone call to the station c oncerned. We should demand air time for the Catholic position on all issues with which the Church is concerned.
from Mrs Georgie BRUCESMITH. National President Catholic Women's League
Sir, Congratulations to G.F. Morrow for the story
(The Record, January 12) about his life with the Christian Brothers. How refreshing to hear a man publicly recall events of his young life which were spent in places such as Tardun and Castledare with such loyalty and respect for the brothers who gave him a chance to enjoy life. If there were more people ready to speak out on the goodness of the Church and its institutions we may not be in this complicated situation now of not having young men joining the priesthood. If it was the "good news" instead of great media publicity for the "bad news' that was heard, I am sure it would make a vast difference.
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TOMORROW TODAY with Father Joe Parkinson
The new face
...of youth ministry today r E new shape of outh ministry in the Catholic Church is no longer a secret reserved to young people, following a most successful parents' evening held at Aquinas College during the recent "Solid Ground" Catholic Youth Convention. Disregarding the heat and humidity of the night. well over 100 parents gathered on Thursday 5 January to hear a report on the convention, and on youth and young adult ministry in general, delivered by the Director of Catholic Youth Ministry, Bruce Downes. For many parents, youth ministry in the Church still conjures up memories of the heady YCW-NCGM days of the 1950's and 1960's, when a lot of sporting and social activity served to keep young people in touch with the Catholic community during their early adult years. The value of those years is evidenced today in many parishes where
many former members o f these organisations figure prominently in parish leadership. But as the shape of society changes, so do the needs and aspirations of young people, and youth ministry in the Church has had to keep pace with the new situation. For the benefit of the parents gathered at Aquinas College, Mr Downes explained how the new approach to youth ministry combines personal formation with education in Catholic faith, all conducted in an environment and a language familiar to young people today. This more explicitly Catholic approach used in all Catholic Youth Ministry projects is captured in a special way in the annual Youth Conventions. which have drawn over 1500 young people in the last five years. Conventions create an environment in which
young people can discover more about their personal faith, and can talk about it freely with o thers who are also growing toward God. They are opportunities to express and celebrate Catholic faith in appropriate ways, and of praying openly and confidently, without the risk of seeming out of place or strange. If any of the parents thought that this was unlikely for their son or daughter. that belief was shaken when the parents joined the young people for evening prayer in the Aquinas College gymnasium. There the parents saw first-hand how this new approach is so successful with youth, as many of the delegates shared their prayer openly and with obvious sincerity of heart. It may seem strange to question the older, established ways. but the fact is that new and more direct approaches have long been needed
Director of Catholic Youth Ministry, Bruce Downes, addresses a crowd of 100-plus who attended the Parents Evening during the "Solid Ground" Youth Convention on 5 January. in order to deepen Catholic faith in the lives of young people. And young people appreciate the direct approach - as Mr Downes explained, our young people are confronted with so many alternative and conflicting messages, they really appreciate it when someone puts before them the simple, open truth about God, about themselves, and about
the deeper realities of their lives_ The new ways of youth ministry in the Catholic Church take young people seriously, providing them with environments in which to ask and seek answers to these deeper questions. Towards the end of the parent evening. before joining the delegates for night prayer, several of the parents
present spoke very highly of the effect that this new approach has had on their own children. One father of two young adults said that he now was confident that his children had real faith, even though they expressed it in ways which differed from his own. Other parents recognised the need for the work of Catholic Youth
Ministry to be activeiy supported by parents and other adults in the Church, and asked how they might best offer this support. Mr Downes said that there were many areas of need, and that a meeting would be convened In the near future to give parents the opportunity to decide for themselves the best ways of offering help.
1995 Catholic Youth Convention "Solid Ground"
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The Old Mass Shandrydan (by John O'Brien, pen name of Father Patrick Hartigan, PP for 27 years at Narrandera in southern NSW, from his first collection Around The Boree Log (Angus & Robertson). I can see it in my dreaming o'er a gap of thirty years, And the rattle of its boxes still is music in my ears: With a bow to family vanity it rises from the past As the pride of the selection where my humble youth was cast. It was fashioned in a nightmare by some wandering genius, And it wasn't quite a waggon, and it wasn't quite a 'bus; 'Twas an old four-wheeled gazabo that was something in between, And the wheels were painted yellow, and the rest was painted green (It would waken lively interest in the antiquarian) And 'twas known to all the country as the Old Mass Shandrydan. It did duty on a week-day in a dozen ways and more, And it seemed just made to order for whate'er 'twas wanted for; It would cart the chaff to market, carry wood and hay in turn, And the neighbours in rotation used to cadge the old concern. But the Sundays we were due for Mass would cancel every loan, For the Little Irish Mother then would claim it for her own. She inspected it the day before (and criticized it, too), And the ten of us were set to work to make it look like new. There was one to every yellow wheel - ay, one to every spoke; One to nail a piece of hardwood on the part "them Careys" broke; Another from the floor of it the chips and straw would rake, While the Dad went searching rubbish-heaps, for old boots for the brake: - 14 The Record, January26, 1995
So we rubbed and scrubbed and hammered up, and beat the rattertan Till it stood in all its glory as the Old Mass Shandrydan. When at last, with velvet sandals shod, the Holy Morning crept Through the mists above The Sugarloaf, that silent vigil kept O'er a little old slab dwelling which the years have brushed away, You would hear the Little Mother stirring round before the day, Rousing sleepy heads from blankets, washing faces, doing hair, Scolding, coaxing, bustling, breathless in her hurry everywhere. Half the night before she laboured, and We'd hear her come and go With the Sunday suits of "reach-me-downs" to place them in a row. There was this to patch, and that to darn, and something else to mend; She would see to every single thing before her work would end, To the dresses and the pinnies - oh, the memory she had! There were lace-up boots for Morgan, and a clean white shirt for Dad. And the hubbub and the murder that the household used to make, When she had us tumbled out of bed, and painfully awake. Here a voice in anguish lifted to announce a button gone; Someone calling from the back-room "Mum, what socks will I put on?" While "himself' was like a Bolshevik athirst for human blood, Shouting "Mother," as he wrastled with a fractious collar-stud. But she kept the tumult under till she had us spick and span, Packled like pickles in a bottle in the Old Mass Shandrydan. We had ten good miles to drive to Mass - and Mass was sharp at eight; But we'd never heard the end of it if something kept us late; So we started ere the morning hung its bunting in the sky, And the kookaburras chortled as we rumbled slowly by.
Australian days For the frost was on the barley, and the rime was on the trees, And our little faces smarted with the whip-lash of the breeze, Still we watched the branches redden to the first kiss of the sun And we counted all the cart-wheels that the busy spiders spun, Then the magpies sang to greet us, and our little hearts began •To forget that we were shivering in the Old Mass Shandrydan. So the old contraption lumbered, safely towed, as Dad knew how, By a pair of hefty elephants promoted from the plough, And it rattled like a saw-mill, and it thundered like a dray; Faith, you'd hear the circus coming a half-a-dozen miles away! All along the road the neighbours used to take the time from us, For they never made a start until they heard our omnibus; Then a shrill soprano shouted, "Put the horses in the van, "Them's The Sugarloaf O'Briens in the Old Mass Shandrydan." We were first to Carey's Crossing, first to reach Moloney's Mill, But the opposition caught us as we laboured up the hill; Then the air became electric as they tried to pass us by, For "himself' for family reasons (which I needn't specify) Kept the road in deadly earnest, and would never seem to hear The abuse of the procession that was gathering in the rear. Oh, they whistled and they shouted till their feelings overflowed, But the old man in the Dreadnought was the master of the road. It was suicide to bump it, and the horses wouldn't shy So he trundled on before them with a bad look in his eye. Then, as suddenly the whistling and the bantering shouting ceased And a solemn hush denoted the arrival of the priest,
by Colleen McGuiness-Howard Would a fine "good Catholic" thunder "Yerra, shame upon you, man! Pull one side there, Pat O'Brien, with your Old Mass Shandrydan." Pull! Bedad, he'd pull the town down when His Reverence hove in sight, Pulled his hat off with the left hand, and the pipe out with the right; Pulled his family in the gutter, pulled the horses off their feet, And a shower of small O'Briens went skedaddling from the seat. Then they rattled loudly past us, and a wild stampede began, For they all had family reasons to outpace the other man. There were buggies, traps, and turnouts there of every shape and rig; There were Murphys in a spring-cart, and the Caseys in a gig; There were Barnes' ponies pounding twixt a gallop and a trot, While the Careys with their pacing-mare went sailing past the lot. Faith, we had it in for Carey, and our disrespect increased At the cheek of "them there Careys who would try to beat the priest." No, we wouldn't stoop to things like that; we'd act the gentleman Half a mile behind the others in the Old Mass Shandrydan. It's a long way back I'm gazing, and the stage has changed since then; Just an echo finds me sometimes, bringing back the scene again, Oh, the heart beats slower measure than it used to beat, alas, When a Little Irish Mother dressed us all in time for Mass. I have lounged in fast expresses, I have travelled first saloon, I have heard the haunting music that the winds and waters croon, I have seen the road careering from a whirring motor-car, Where the Careys couldn't pass us, or our sense of fitness jar; But the world is somehow smaller, somehow less enchanting than When I saw it o'er the tail-board of the Old Mass Shandrydan.
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SIN Mary MacKillop's time, the Christian ommunity today is faced with many modern "deserts", Pope John Paul told the massed crowd at the Ranclwick beatification ceremony.
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"The deserts are the wastelands of indifference and intolerance, the desolation of racism and contempt of other human beings, the barrenness of selfishness and faithfulness. "Sin in all its forms and expressions and the scandal of sin is magnified by the means of social communication. "The Church recalls God's law, not because of some arbitrary attachment to past tradition and outmoded views, but because mankind detached from the Creator and Redeemer cannot fulfill its destiny and will not have peace. "By defending life against the evils of abortion and euthanasia, by encouraging strong family life in the face of old and new threats to its stability, by advancing justice at every level thorugh her social doctrine, the Church is the
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love..., with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness and patience.'.... 'bearing with one another and forgiving each other;and...'the need to give thanks in all things.' "Today the Church expreses thanks to Mother Mary of the Cross, the community she founded and all religious communities. "We express our thanks to Christ for the great service that consecrated men and women render Australia in education and healthcare and other activities for the common good. 'Let us pray for a new springtime of vocations so that these communities will be a vital sign of Jesus' presence in your midst. "Yes, Christ is present in Sydney and throughout Australia. Through him humanity is capable of thanking the Father for the gifts of creation and redemption. People today forget and think they are the creators of goods and they lose sight of God, failing to strive for the kingdom and having no concern for God's righteousness "The saints on the contrary teach us to see
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