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The Vatican delegation was pleased with the success it had in getting other delegations to accept two of its proposals dealing specifically with women, Navarro-Valls said. The first was inserted in a chapter on the importance of work for enabling people to become active participants in society. The Vatican proposal called on governments to report in their gross national product statistics the value of unpaid work that women perform at home. The final language adopted also recognized "the great social importance" of the unpaid work of those who care for children, the elderly and persons with disabilities. The second Vatican proposal was included in the summit declaration's commitment to equal access to health care and education for boys and girls, men and women. The amended and adopted passage called for an international effort to promote respect for human dignity and protect "all women and children, especially against exploitation, trafficking and harmful practices such as child prostitution, female genital mutilation and child marriages." The Vatican along with many Latin American countries and most Islamic nations also worked to ensure the summit recognized the central place of strong, stable families in creating strong, stable societies, Navarro-Valls said. Cardinal Sodano told the summit its goals could not be met without government support for institutions which teach people the values of solidarity, love, friendship, tolerance and cooperation. "Undoubtedly, the first of these institutions to be safeguarded is the family, the basic unity of society," he said. • See Page 7
Church proposals get into final World Summit on Social Development document The Vatican delegation agreed at the summit that behind OPENHAGEN, DENMARK (CNS) - After bargaining C that went into the early hours of the morning, the Vatican every social and economic proposal made, there must be a was able to support the conclusions of the World Summit on moral commitment not only to giving to the poor, but to
Social Development. "We share the consensus, and overall we are pleased with the documents," said Vatican spokesman Joaquin NavarroValls, a member of the Vatican delegation. The last hurdle faced by the Vatican in getting a document it could support was convincing other delegations to recognize the rights of parents in overseeing the sex education and health services provided to their children, Navarro-Valls said. The Vatican's point was accepted at 2 a.m. barely making the deadline for completion of the declaration and plan of action signed by some 120 presidents, vice presidents and prime ministers on the summit's closing day. The meeting began with a proposal that industrialized nations earmark 20 percent of their foreign aid to social projects and that the countries which receive such aid allocate 20 percent of their government spending to similar projects. The summit ended up promoting the "20-20 formula" as a purely voluntary target. "At first I was pessimistic because it is only voluntary," Navarro-Valls said. "But all of these heads of state are making a public commitment to this goal. It will be a moral obligation."
changing the patterns of spending and consumption in rich nations which monopolize the world's resources and lock poor nations out of the global market. Msgr. Diarmuid Martin. secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and head of the Vatican delegation, told the summit: "The leaders of the world's nations at this summit will make a promise to those 1 billion people in today's world who live in abject poverty, to do something concrete and definitive about their situation," said Msgr. Martin. One area where the Vatican had hoped for stronger action was on the question of the foreign debt burden of poor countries; many of those nations pay more in interest on their debts each year than they receive in development aid. Msgr. Martin had told the summit the saga of foreign debts and out-of-control loan payments had a historical beginning and must have a historical end. "The summit did not accept the challenge to cancel the debt of the poorest countries. but it did accept the need to study ways to do so," Navarro-Valls said. At the same time, the summit recognized the need to reform programs imposed on debtor nations as a condition for new loans.
Our Lady statue unveiled at NDA
Notre Dame Indiana president Father Malloy (left) and vicepresident Father with Beauchamp sculptor Peter Schipperheyn.
"What has been done here (in Fremantle) Father Beauchamp said that Father Sorin he Catholic universities of Indiana and Father Beauchamp compared the beginTFremantle share a name in common, nings of Notre Dame US and Notre Dame was a man of great faith and vision, but that is again a reflection of the protection of Australia. even he might be shocked today to see the Mary." "but more importantly they share the dedication to Mary and her son," the vice president of the American institution said at Fremantle on Sunday.
Father William Beauchamp said that just as the Notre Dame US has the Golden Dome surmounted by Our Lady's statue as a symbol, Notre Dame Australia needed a symbol of Our Lady and that is why they donated a statue of Our Lady to Notre Dame Australia. The statue, which stands in the main entrance of NDA was sculpted in marble by Peter Schipperheyn, Australia's pre-eminent sculptor.
In 1842, a 26 year old Holy Cross priest, reality of his vision, as the University of accompanied by six Holy Cross brothers, Notre Dame Du Lac has grown so large. Father Beauchamp said that the Univerarrived in the wilderness of northern Indiana to found a university. On the day he sity has grown and prospered because all arrived Father Sorin wrote that the white that was done was under the protection of snow reminded him of the Virgin Mary and Mary, the Mother of God. straight away he named the site, Notre Father Beauchamp then recalled when a Dame Du Lac (Our Lady of the Lake). group of men from Australia arrived at the The university had its early trials. "When same site in Indiana in 1987. Father Sorin was an old man he watched as "They had a dream, but no students, no the university burnt down." facilities, no resources." "They wanted to set up the first Catholic However, he immediately began to rebuild and the first thing he did was to university in Australia. in Fremantle, a place construct the now famous Golden Dome, just about as far away from Notre Dame with a 19-foot (5.7m) Statue of Our Lady on Indiana as you can get, and they wanted to call it Notre Dame." top.
In thanking Father Beauchamp and the University of Notre Dame US, the Chancellor, Terry O'Connor QC, said the statue represented the strong bonds between the two universities. Scultpor, Peter Schipperheyn, said the statue of Our Lady and Jesus, was the culmination of many years of work. "I completed my first sculpture when I was 11 years of age," said Peter. "It was of a `mother and child' and it is still sitting in my mother's home today." The Vice Chancellor of Notre Dame, said Schipperheyn's statue will become a landmark in Fremantle. .1.1010"'717MT •
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sign of our solidarity and fits well with this year's Project Compassion "Let us build a better world," says Bishop Hilton Deakin of Melbourne. Fortunately, there are two virtues that help us to see, feel and act globally: patience and prayer. Usually, we view them as very personal and private virtues, and their practice an intimate affair between us and God. In fact, both patience and prayer are very public insofar as they relate to others, especially the newcomer, the person different in appearance, the stranger, the needy. The virtues imply compassion. I heard this unusual story. A man was building his house. He wanted to make it the most attractive, warm and inviting house in the whole world. While he was busy at his work. people came to him asking to give a hand because the world was on fire. "I can't", he said, "I must finish my house first!" When he had finished build the house, there was no-one to invite to the opening. The world around him had been totally destroyed. Patience is the discipline of compassion because through patience we can live in the fullness of time and invite others to share in it. When we know that God is offering salvation to us, there is ample time to be with others and to celebrate life together. On the other hand as long as we remain the victims of the clock which forces us into rigid patterns and time slots, we are doomed to be without compassion. When we live by the clock - or by the law. We have no time for each other. We are always on the way to our next appointment, or to our next obligation. We do not notice the person on the side of the road in need of help. Patience also allows us to take ourselves less seriously, making us more aware of the persons around us and of the richness they can share with us. Prayer too becomes an all-embracing intimacy. Many people tend to associate prayer with separation from others. Yet real prayer brings us closer to our fellow human beings. Prayer is the first and indispensable discipline of compassion, precisely because prayer is the first expression of human solidarity, because the Spirit who prays in us is the Spirit by whom all human beings are brought together in unity and communion. It is through the power of the Spirit that people from the most diverse social, political, economic, racial and ethnic backgrounds are brought together as sisters and brothers of the same Christ, and daughters and sons of the same Father. This is not romanticism or pious sentimentality. It is the challenge of true prayer! God loves all members of the human family. I believe that one of the most powerful experiences in a life of compassion is the expansion of our hearts into a world-embracing space of healing from which no one is excluded. The Minister for Agriculture one day decreed that sparrows were a menace for the harvest and as such they were to be destroyed. People welcomed the decree, and very quickly sparrows were a species of the past. Soon after their disappearance, swarms of insects - which sparrows used eat - appeared, invading the fields and ruining the harvest. Thus, the Minister decided to use pesticide. Because of its cost the prices of produce went up and the food was contaminated. Too late people realized that sparrows, in spite of their little damage to the crops, were contributing to healthy food and low prices. Perhaps, migrants too are not so bad if through compassion we can perceive their positive contribution to the life of our country.
Opposition to euthanasia
"I've never really planned my life. Only my funeral."
South Australian churches speak out HE ANGLICAN, Catholic, approach to the care of the to provide all possible support T both for the dying person and Lutheran and Uniting dying. Churches in South Australia all who are affected by his or have issued a joint statement opposing attempts to legalise euthanasia in the state. "In whatever guise it appears, we believe the practice of euthanasia which is the intentional killing of one person by another strikes at the basic value of human life and destroys the fabric of trust and solidarity essential for life in our society. "But true compassion for our dying loved ones requires us to offer care and support. The Medical Treatment and Palliative Care Bill at present before the House of Assembly offers a much more contstructive
"While human life is a basic value that should not be attacked this does not oblige us to keep a dying person alive at any cost. It may, at times, be judged necessary to withhold or withdraw certain treatments because they are considered futile or unduly burdensome for the dying person. "Prudent decisions of this sort differ radically and in a morally significant way from intentional killing which euthanasia is. Euthanasia places an unacceptable burden on doctors. "We acknowledge the tragic dimensions present at times in the dying of our loved ones. This calls us, as a community,
'Protect the sacred nature of the Mass'
thhishop Hickey called on priests to proA; ect the sacred nature of the Mass in a five-page document released this week enti-
tled Priests and the Eucharistic Liturgy. Recognising their irreplaceable role in the celebration of Mass he urged them to be always faithful to the liturgical norms and laws so that the sacred mysteries celebrated in Mass would clearly emerge. "The frame must never appear to be more important than the picture," he said. Archbishop Hickey commented that the Mass is generally very well celebrated in the Archdiocese, with the enthusiastic involvement of the various altar ministries and of the people. "At the same time," he said "one has to be careful of certain modern currents that would attempt to alter the theological understanding of the Eucharistic Sacrifice or give the impression that the Mass can be altered at will. "The Mass is both the action of Christ and the action of the Church. "The priests are special custodians of the Mass, the central act of worship of the Church. "For this reason I have encouraged them to continue to celebrate Mass with love and dignity, and to protect it from harmful trends."'
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"Killing such persons is often presented as a kindly solution in tragic situations - enhancing choice, taking control, diminishing pain and suffering, etc. This thinking is misguided and wrong. "Human life is jeopardised and the trust and support essential for a flourishing common life are destroyed. We need to recognise the probability that legalised voluntary euthanasia will lead to non-voluntary euthanasia as has occurred in the Netherlands."
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Japanese priests on comfort women problem CEOUL, SOUTH KOREA S - Two Japanese priests told a Korean forum on wartime
Japanese sex slavery that they are trying to educated Japanese Catholics about the sensitive issue. "The problem of 'comfort women' is basically a human rights problem. Therefore, it is natural for the Catholic Church to be involved in solidarity with them," Fathers Okura Katzyoshi and Uehara Katzhiro said to the Third Asian Women's Solidarity Forum on Military Sexual Slavery by Japan. "What we do for the comfort women issue is very little." they said. "But we will fight against our government to get its official apology and right reparation and fair compensation." During World War II, the Japanese army forced some 200,000 mainly Korean but also Filipino. Taiwanese. Indonesian and Dutch women into army-run brothels in the war zone. Fathers Katzyoshi and Katzhiro pledged to continue educating Japanese Catholics about the Issue and the demand of the victimized women for compensation. Father Okura is president of the Tokyo archdiocesan Justice and , Peace Committee. Father Uehara is president of the Yokohama diocesan Justice and Peace Committee. The committees campaigned against the Japanese government plan to compensate Pacific War victims of military sexual slavery through private funding instead of public money. Supporters of the victimized women insist on compensation from public funds. The Tokyo archdiocesan committee has sponsored hearings on the issue at which former comfort women spoke. It has also supported a lawsuit against the government and published education booklets on the issue.
Picture of Jesus must come down
ASHINGTON (CNS) - A W Michigan public high school cannot continue
to display a picture of Jesus that had been in a hallway for 30 years, a U.S. Supreme Court justice has ruled. A federal judge ordered that the 2by-3-foot print be removed by March
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Bloomingdale High School senior Eric Pensinger had brought a suit against the school to demand the picture be removed. He feels its presence indicates the school sees something wrong with him because he is not a Christian. U.S. District Judge Benjamin Gibson said the school's display of such a picture could "subtly coerce students to acquiesce to the promoted religion" and therefore was unconstitutional. The portrait has been removed, but he school said it would be put up again if an appeal judge decided other4
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When sex distorts loving friendship ONDON (CNS) - Loving friendship sexual person, while it is not in itself a sin, is a L between homosexual or heterosexual indi- more or less strong tendency to behaviour which viduals is to be treasured and respected, Cardiintrinsically
is evil from the moral point of view, nal Hume said in a statement earlier this month. and should therefore be considered objectively Friendship is a gift from God, and is a way of disordered itself." loving, said the cardinal. The cardinal stressed that the church recogBut "to equate friendship and full sexual nizes and respects the dignity of all people - and involvement with another is to distort the very does not define them in terms of their sexual oriconcept of friendship" in any circumstance, he entation. said. But the church could not in any way equate a It is also a mistake to assume that because two homosexual partnership with a heterosexual people enjoy a deep friendship that they must he marriage, nor could t he church approve of sexually involved, he said. homosexual genital sexual acts, he said. "When two persons love they experience in a "No individual, bishop, priest or layperson is in limited manner in this world what will be their a position to change the teaching of the church unending delight when one with God in the which she considers to he God-given," Cardinal next," he said. Hume said. In the eight-page statement on the teaching of Homosexual inclination or orientation is not a the Catholic Church concerning homosexuals, moral failing, Cardinal Hume said. the cardinal said: "To love another is in fact to "Being a homosexual person is neither morally reach out to God, who shares his lovableness good nor morally bad: it is homosexual genital with the one we love. acts that are morally wrong," he said. "To love one another, whether of the same sex "When the church speaks of the inclination to or of a different sex, is to have entered the area of homosexuality as being an 'objective disorder.' the richest human experience. "But that experience is spoiled, whether it is in the church can be thinking only of the inclination marriage or in friendship, when we do not think towards homosexual genital acts. "The church does not consider the whole perand act as God wills us to think and act." sonality and character of the individual to be The cardinal's document draws on the background advice offered by the Congregation for thereby disordered," the church leader said. Cardinal Hume said church teaching could the Doctrine of the Faith three years ago to the U.S. bishops on how to assess the impact of leg- never be used to justify violence against homosexuals or their victimization. islative proposals concerning homosexuals. He also quoted from the congregation's "Letter "Homophobia" should have no place among on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons," Catholics, he added. published in 1986. "Catholic teaching on homosexuality is not In a synthesis of the document, the Vatican founded on and can never be used to justify said that "the particular inclination of the homo- 'homophobic' attitudes."
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ARSAW, POLAND (CNS) - Russia has approved the inauguration of Catholic military cemeteries at two sites where Polish Army officers were massacred by Soviet secret police during World War II. Joint events in May will commemorate the 55th anniversary of the mass killings. During the ceremonies, cemetery marker stones blessed by Pope John Paul II are scheduled to be laid at both sites, said Bragin. The massacres have been a longstanding
source of Polish-Russian tensions. ered three years ago in mass graves at MiedAbout 5,000 Polish officers detained after noye. Russia. and Kharkhov, Ukraine. the 1939 Soviet invasion of eastern Poland The cross-shaped marker stones for the were shot in Katyn Forest in April 1940 by the forerunner of the KGB, the Soviet cemeteries at Katyn and Miednoye are topped by barbed wire, from prison camps Union's secret police. TheSovietUnion admitted responsibility where then-Polish officers were first for the massacres in 1990, as it nearedcol- interned. The stones were brought from lapse. Until then, it had blamed invading Rome to Warsaw last Christmas by a Germans for the murders. Catholic priest after they were blessed by A further 9,300 Polish bodies were discov- the pope.
Anti-church campaign in Prague
threatened to go on strike over the issue. whole nation" as part of a communist nationP public campaign to have Prague's St Vitus Pope John Paul II visited St. Vitus Cathe- alization drive. The church reasserted claims Cathedral declared State property is part RAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC (CNS) - A
of a dral in 1990 and is expected to visit it again tendency "to make Czechs atheists", says during a tentatively scheduled May 20- 21 Cardinal Vlk. visit to the Czech Republic. The campaign is led by anti-church groups, Ownership of the cathedral is historically he said. controversial. It is located on a hilltop comThe campaign by leading politicians and plex alongside the Hradcany Castle that once public figures began after a January court housed emperors and communist leaders. ruling declared the Catholic Church the legal Now the castle is the home and offices of the owner of the cathedral. Czech president. A petition favoring state ownership has It was started in 1344 by Emperor Charles gained tens of thousands of signatures, and IV but not completed until 1929. students at Prague's Fine Arts Academy In 1955 it was declared the "property of the
to the cathedral after the fall of communist rule.
TATICAN CITY (CNS) - The bishops of V Zaire say the gOvernment is stalling on political reforms and they want fair elections to save the country from disaster. Their 12-page message says the "emptiness and damaging character"" of the administration of President Mobutu Sese Seko is "progressively leading the country to destruc-
Mobutu has ruled in Zaire since 1965, but as economic, social and political life began to collapse in the late 1980s, Zairians called for democratic reforms. In 1992 a national council was charged with drafting a new constitution and overseeing a transition to democracy, but Mobutu's tactics have so far barred the way to real change.
Opponents of church ownership have said that it was financed mostly from Charles IV's treasury and public taxes and was meant as a symbol of state power rather than of Catholic worship. Cardinal Vlk said the church is not seeking exclusive rights and would support a special agreement granting a dual status to the cathedral.
Gold stalling on reforms say Zaire's bishops tion and a state of disintegration." They said Zairians are facing rapid deterioration in areas of communication and transportation, health services, economy and education. They pledged the church's support for a nonviolent struggle for Zaire's development, but said elections are urgently needed as a first step.
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UBLIN, IRELAND (CNS) - The Irish said, "it is the duty of everybody to offer .,,,bishops are concerned about a bill the solidarity that a woman in such cirD before the Irish Parliament that would cumstances needs and deserves." allow health care professionals to provide information on abortion services available outside the country. The measure makes effective a 1992 referendum that also recognizes the equal right to life of the mother and unborn child. The bishops said there should be a clear recognition of the right of health workers to refuse to do anything they regard as participating in or approving of the destruction of human life. While recognising the difficulty legislators face in the bill, they said, the Irish Constitution requires lawmakers to recognize the equal right to life of the child. Abortion is illegal in Ireland. Irish citizens seeking abortions often go to Britain to procure them. The proposed legislation would provide for giving information likely to be required for procuring an abortion and would permit others to knowingly assist a woman or girl in obtaining one. While a pregnant woman is called on to respect the life of her unborn child, they
"The genuineness of our convictions about the right to life of the- unborn child must be measured by our willingness to give the necessary support," the bishops said. "No woman should feel that she must face an unhappy pregnancy alone." Archbishop Connell of Dublin said the information about abortion services in other countries amounts "to knowingly assisting such a woman or girl to obtain an abortion. He said that the bill accepts abortion as permissible and would facilitate its procurement. The bill would transgress moral law and to cooperate in implementing it would be as gravely wrong as abortion itself, no matter where it took place, he said. Archbishop Connell said he was aware of the problems of women faced with a "a heartbreak pregnancy," but added that help is available from Catholic and interdenominational organizations apromoting alternatives to abortion.
Near three-fold increase to Jesuit council )IME (CNS) - In a move designed to create daily a.m briefing, he can consult with up to 16 ftv 'der consultation within their society, the people and have a much broader level of input." Jesuits have enlarged their general council from 8
six to 16 members. The change was adopted during the order's 34th general congregation, the supreme governing body of the Society of Jesus. The Jesuit superior general, Father Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, had asked the general congregation if the council could be widened to include both general and regional assistants. The reason, explained Jesuit spokesman Father Thomas Lucas, was that "the general likes to talk to a lot of people before making a decision." "In the past the general only met with his general councilors," Father Lucas said. "Now at his
The enlarged council includes four new general assistants elected by the general congregation and 10 regional assistants appointed by the superior general, who will also choose two additional general assistants.
Jesuit general assistants are responsible for monitoring the superior general's personal welfare - mainly his health - and his government. The regionals, said Father Case, act as -the eyes and ears of the general in their cluster of provinces." They prepare dossiers, coordinate regional activities and review appointments, he said.
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lc DME (CNS) - At least a third of all Jesuits in sacramental life," he said. R hina work with the government-controlled "Their real allegiance is to the primacy of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association but still feel loyal to Rome, a leading Jesuit official said. Father Aloysius Chang, provincial of the Jesuit Chinese province, said that 20 out of 60 Jesuits in China chose to join the official church for pastoral reasons. "They feel it's better to follow government policy so they can be with the people and provide a
Holy See."
The Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association the government-sanctioned body for Catholics was set up by the communist government in 1957. It does not recognize papal authority over its activities and it appoints bishops without Vatican approval.
Russia gives back three churches ARSAW, W POLAND (CNS) — Three churches confis-
cated under communist rule in Russia have been returned to the Catholic Church during the first two months of 1995, said Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, Moscowbased apostolic administrator of European Russia. The returns raised to the number of churches available to the 300,000 Catholics in European Russia, he said. 33
The latest returns are in small, isolated Catholic communities, he said. Two churches are in the Volgograd region and the other is in Novograd, he said. Return of seized churches has been a key Catholic demand since t he end of communist rule. There were 150 Catholic churches open in Russia before the communists came to power in
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Attacks don't Pope ready mean to meet violence... sacked bishop
OME (CNS) — Attacks by Mus- that the church and Islam can and R im fundamentalists in Algeria must coexist, he said. Many Musare deplorable, but do not mean lims agree, and there are less-publi-
that "Islam is violent," said Archbishop Teissier of Algiers. Over the past year, eight nuns and priests have been among those recent meeting in Rome the pope listened to slain by Muslim extremists in the what was told him about the current reac- North African country. The 65-year-old French-born tions of Catholics in France. The pope may speak on sopme of these issues during a archbishop, who has long experience in Arab countries, said one visit to France next year, the archbishop must be careful not to overgeneralsaid. ize about the Muslim religion. Bishop Gaillot said a meeting with the "I've learned that there is a popupope could improve the situation. lar Islam, a mystical Islam and a "This can remedy a few things. There is an totalitarian Islam. They are different opening rtowards me. There have been so things," he said. He said he thought it was inaccumany misunerstandings. I will explain to the pope that an injustuice has been done to me rate to portray the wave of Muslim fundamentalism as a type of modand to the people of Evreux diocese. ern religious "crusade" aimed Archbishop Duval said the French bish- against the West. ops were not aware of the bishop's removal "The fundamentalist movements until they heard it in the news reports of today do not arise from tensions A fter the recent Rome meetings the with the West. Above all there are French bishops released a letter by Cardi- internal tensions in individual counnal Gantin written to Bishop Gaillot before tries. Challenging injustice is the main argument of the fundamentalthe removal announcement. ists," he said. The cardinal said that he had waited in In Algeria, extremist Muslim vain for a long time "for some sign" on the groups have accused the church of bishop's part that he was willing to continue obstructing the authentic developa dialogue. When no response was forth- ment of Islamic society - in effect, of coming, the Vatican proceeded to make "polluting" the culture, he said. public its decision to remove him, the letter "I am convinced instead that relisaid. gions lead people to solidarity" and
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cized episodes that illustrate this, he said.
For example, armed men recently broke into the home of an Algerian priest and threatened to shoot him. When the priest calmly explained, in Arabic, that he worked among local Muslims who all respected the Koran, the group left without harming him. Archbishop Teissier said he feels that one of his main tasks now is to protect the men and women religious who work in schools and hospitals. Church workers have become easy targets for the extremist groups, but most do not want to leave the country. He recounted how he recently went to say goodbye to four sisters who were supposed to leave their work at a childbirth clinic. "They smiled and firmly disobeyed. They told me they would stay and keep doing what they've always done," he said. Archbishop Teissier said he does not keep an armed guard at the door of his residence, despite threats. He said one reason is that he is convinced he would have little real defence against an attack.
Caught in crossfire
ARSAW, POLAND (CNS) - lish a branch of Caritas, the church's December. W The tiny Catholic community in relief agency, in Prohladnji to help all In December, Russian troops barred the Chechen capital of Grozny has refugees who face become a casualty of the fighting between Russian troops and Chechen rebels, said Father Bronislaw Czaplicki. a Polish priest who ministered to the community for two years. Most of the 120 Catholics have left Grozny and the only Catholic church, Holy Virgin, and a house alongside it used as a chapel were destroyed by Russian shells, Father Czaplicki said. Most of the refugees who fled during the three-month siege of the capital are being sheltered in the Russian city of Prohladnji by that city's 100strong Catholic community, he said. Father Czaplicki said he has obtained Russian permission to estab-
"desperate conditions." But trained personnel are needed, he added. Father Czaplicki asked for foreign church volunteers to help organize relief programs for the 500,000 war refugees. "They will be welcomed with open arms here not only by Catholics but by Muslims too, in whose world there is great respect for ministers of other religions," he added. Father Czaplicki, 42, is based in Prohladnji, 120 miles from Grozny. At the end of February, he became the first priest allowedto enter Grozny since Russian troops invaded last
him during an effort to reach the embattled city. Before the fighting. he used to visit Grozny's Catholics twice a month. He is one of several circuit-riding Polish priests ministering to Russia's isolated Catholic communities. Father Czaplicki said most of the refugees in Prohladnji are ethnic Russians. About 25 percent of Chechnya's 1.5 million people are ethnic Russians. In Poland, there have been many efforts to help the victims of the Chechen fighting. Two nationwide collections were held in January and the Polish church has helped organize aid convoys for the victims.
Towards better ties
OSCOW (CNS) - A Polish Kirill said that continuing conflicts system, he added. M Catholic award to a Russian Ortho- between Catholics and Orthodox were The award was given several months dox leader is a step toward improving preventing "appropriate conditions" for a bilateral relations, said authorities of both churches. The Brother Albert Prize was given to Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk, head of the Orthodox foreign relations department, by Poland's Catholic Social Union. The award was for Metropolitan Kirill's involvement in Catholic-Orthodox relations, said Kazimierz Morawski, Catholic Social Union chairman. Strong Catholic-Orthodox ties are important for Polish-Russian understanding, he said. In accepting the award Metropolitan
visit to Russia by Pope John Paul II. Catholics in Russia should not be seeking converts in areas which "for thousands of years have belonged to the Orthodox church's sphere of culture," he said. Relations between the Catholic and Orthodox churches had been "much better" when Poland and Russia were both "threatened by state-imposed atheism," the metropolitan said. Christians from both countries should act together to combat the "results of moral dissolution" left by the communist
after Polish and Russian religious authorities began discussing possible top-level Orthodox participation at the 1997 International Eucharistic Congress in Wroclaw, Poland, and a possible separate visit to Poland by Patriarch Alexei II of Moscow, head of the Russian Orthodox Church. Morawski said he was told by Patriarch Alexei that his Polish visit depended on the evolution of ecumenical relations. The eucharistic congress is a major world Catholic event which Pope John Paul is expected to attend.
Copenhagen summit roundup
Value of housewives Vatican pushing that concrete recognition be given to their work at home OPENHAGEN, DENMARK (CNS) governmental organization lobbying for not related in any way to the Koran," the In Nigeria, experts estimate than nearly - The Vatican is pushing - but so far women's rights and equality at the Copen- Muslim holy book, he said. "There is no 100 percent of women in the mainly C unsuccessfully - the U.N. Summit on hagen summit, said Joaquin Navarro- basis for saying this barbaric practice is Christian southern part of the country
Social Development in Copenhagen to give concrete recognition to the unpaid work women perform in the home. And the Vatican wants a stand taken against female circumcision mutilation, and against early childhood marriage. The money value of caring for children, the elderly and disabled at home should be included in what are called "satellite accounts" in reports on gross national product, the Vatican delegation said. The Vatican had pushed the suggestion in the summit preparatory meetings, but did not manage to get it included in the summit draft documents. "We stuck to it and have won the backing of the United States, Canada, Australia and the Women's Caucus," a U.S. non-
Valls, the Vatican's press spokesman and member of its summit delegation. The Vatican is pushing the suggestion because "it is just," Navarro-Valls said. "It could be the first step toward the remuneration of this kind of work," he said. But even more, he said, it is real work with a real social impact" and governments should recognize that fact. On the practice of female genital mutilation, the Vatican calls for the protection of all children, especially the protection of the girl child. The ritual is practiced in at least 28 African countries, Navarro-Valls said. Although most of those countries have a mostly Muslim population, the practice is
religious." Female genital mutilation is rooted in the traditions of many African ethnic groups and in some cases is related to beliefs about childbirth, as well as sexual activity. National laws barring it are unevenly enforced. In one African country, Chad, Catholic women were found to have the highest rate of female genital mutilation, 86 percent, of any group of urban women identified by religion in the country. In one rural area of Chad, 96 percent of Catholic women had had their genitals ritually mutilated. Studies said the practice is strongly advocated by many Chadians, both men and women.
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DENMARK OPENHAGEN, - Allowing skepticism to replace concrete action in the fight against poverty is "unworthy of humankind," said the head of the Vatican's delegation to the U.N. Summit on Social Development. Msgr. Diarmuid Martin, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, said the Copenhagen summit must take action to help the estimated 1.1 billion people who live in extreme poverty and not give in to the skeptical view that the summit's task is unrealistic. "People living in poverty have the same dignity as every other person," he said. "They have potential which they have a right to see recognized." Economic systems which leave large
groups of people on the margins of social and economic life have not only failed morally, but economically, he said. The poor must be involved in programs to eliminate poverty, and one aim of those programs must be to allow "all people, especially women and persons with disabilities, to be active participants in the economy and in society," he said. Connected to the debt problem, he said, adjustment programs imposed by lenders to restructure economies and make repayment possible, often involve the borrower nation cutting social services and domestic government spending. "People are prepared to accept hardship when they know that they are on
the road to something better," Msgr. Martin said. "But when the initial impact ... brings with it a situation in which the poorest are the first to suffer even more, we cannot be surprised when the very goal toward which we are moving becomes discredited in their eyes," he said. Msgr. Martin told the summit that because the family is the first human community people experience, it is an invaluable resource for eliminating poverty and building peaceful societies. Special attention should be given to families with disabled or elderly members and to single-parent families and households headed by women, "who are often exposed to extremely precarious situations."
have undergone female genital mutilation. The number is somewhat lower in the Muslim North, they say. On the early childhood marriage issue, Msgr. Diarmuid Martin, said youth should have education and maturity before marriage. "Early marriages are detrimental, especially to women," said Patricia Donahue, a member of the Vatican delegation. As the education of girls improves, they tend to marry later and bear children later, both factors which contribute to a decline in maternal and infant deaths, she said. "The education of girls is important for family and for society," Ms. Donahue said.
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corresponding increase in job creation, he said, and the gap between rich and poor continues to grow. "If economic growth is absolutely necessary to eradicate poverty, then why has it not done so during decades of growthoriented development strategies?" he asked. According to U.N. statistics, out of a global population of 5.3 billion people, 1.1 billion live in "absolute poverty."
some 700 million are underemployed, working full time but not earning enough to meet their basic needs.
Disastrous debt blight ONDON, ENGLAND (CNS) - The L United Nations' Summit on Social Development provides an outstanding
opportunity to tackle the "disastrous blight" of debt borne by the world's poorest nations, Cardinal Hume of Westminster said in The Times. And the overconsumption of resources is unstainable and immoral, he said. "In Africa. particularly, many of the world's least developed countries are still crippled by unpayable external debts," he said. "Their condition is often worsened both by social disintegration and corruption and by the conditions sometimes imposed by lending institutions. He also said the summit's bow to social
development is a break with past thinking. "The summit's draft declaration stresses that social development is indispensable for peace within and between nations," Cardinal Hume said. "It also proclaims that social development is a necessary foundation for sustainable development and economic prosperity," he said. By contrast, "it has often been thought right as well as necessary to put off social development in the short term to achieve immediate economic growth," the cardinal said. Cardinal Hume said two truths - that justice demands the protection of the
weak and that God has given the fruits of the earth to everyone - resonate through the U.N. summit documents. "A moral dimension has been i -;gnized beyond the calculation of national and sectional self-interest," he said. On the issue of natural resources, he said the level at which they are consumed by countries in the Northern Hemisphere is ecologically unsustainable. "The overconsumption of the world's resources by developed countries is not only immoral, it deprives both rich and poor alike of authentic social development," he said. "It is unsustainable and indefensible," the cardinal said.
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Food for thought THINK I've found out something noteworthy about the Catechism of the Catholic Church: When it talks about sin, it also talks about mercy. It seems that to speak of one is to speak of the other. Some things are important! Mercy is one of them. And forgiveness. Sin is important too. What is noteworthy, however, is that when the catechism speaks of sin it tends to bring mercy into the picture right away too. When the catechism presents its outline for a "catechesis for the 'newness of life'" in Paragraph 1697, one of its nine topic areas is "sin and forgiveness." The two are coupled. Later on the topic of "sin" is examined in the catechism. But the discussion begins with a sort of preface on mercy and sin" (Nos. 18461848). The result? An exploration of sin's meaning begins with this sentence: "The Gospel is the revelation in Jesus Christ of God's mercy to sinners." One advantage of this approach is clearly proposed by the catechism. We need to acknowledge that we are sinners or we won't discover the truth about ourselves, it says. However, "without the offer of forgiveness" we won't "be able to bear this truth" (No. 1697). David Gibson
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BISHOP was an avid fisherman who travelled the diocese, stopping often to test the river. What he caught he shared with families along the road, often giving them four or five beautiful trout. People were talking about the bishop one Sunday when a young boy asked, "Does the bishop use hooks when he fishes?" "Yes he does," I answered. "But hooks sin the fish don't they?" he asked. It was the first time I ever heard the word "sin" used as a verb with an object. "To sin" someone. The boy's word usage contained deep wisdom. We don't just sin. And we don't just sin against someone. We really do "sin someone." It is like a fishing hook_ The object of the sin is caught by the sin's hook, its barb. Sin always has an object, and that object, whether it is ourselves or someone else, is the active victim, the catch of the sin. That victim has no choice but to react to having been sinned. That is why we cannot talk about sin without talking about the victim's reaction, without following the hook into the catch and seeing what happens to the sin. The victim of sin has been hurt, pained, injured, violated, infected. The reactions - or responses - to this infection, this violation, can take many forms, including anger, revenge, hatred, despair, self-pity, loathing. These are all ways in which the sin, the infection, is carried along, kept alive. The victim becomes the next perpetrator, the next sinner. But forgiveness, Jesus told us, is the real response, the only response that kills the infection and stops the sin.
By Father W. Thomas Faucher Forgiveness is a difficult concept because forgiving often is confused with forgetting. People think that to forgive is to pretend something did not happen, to erase it from the board. I think the word "acceptance" is a better word. Real forgiveness is not forgetting; real forgiveness is acceptance. Acceptance stops sin. This involves four steps. First is the Christian realization that the sin happened, that the event took place, that what was done was indeed done. Second, acceptance is a way of saying that I am not going to let that event, no matter how terrible, destroy me by turning me into a sinner. Third, acceptance is then turning to the person who "sinned" me and both acknowledging what he or she did and acknowledging further that he or she is still responsible for the consequences of what was done. Fourth, acceptance means praying for this person the best I can - and meaning it. Perhaps in the future I will find myself not fully trusting that person again or being careful when dealing with him or her. But most of all, acceptance means I sincerely hope that person grows in personal wisdom, grace and holiness. Acceptance - forgiveness - is easiest if the person asks for forgiveness. Acceptance is hardest when the person does not ask for it. There is nothing harder than being sinned against and having the person not even ask for forgiveness. But even then real forgiveness/acceptance must be given, because forgiveness heals the victim even more than the sinner.
Err on the side of forgiveness
The model we have for learning how to react to sin is God. God's reaction is to give us powerful medicine to kill the infection of sin. It is important that God has raised the moment of giving the medicine to the level of divine worship. In the liturgy itself we do not always stand before God in our Sunday best; we come in our tattered rags of having sinned, standing there beating our breasts and saying: "This is what Idid. Can you still love me?" And God scoops us up in a graceful parental embrace and says: "Of course I love you. I accept you - scars, sins, failings, mistakes and all. There is nothing you can do that will make me stop loving you. Now take my hand and let's walk on again. And this time don't let go!" That is what we call the sacrament of penance. It is when we go to God and say that we have been out there sinning" other people and ourselves, and by that very fact "sinning" God. And God reacts - thereby teaching us how to react - by accepting us and giving us another chance. But God does not pretend we didn't do it. We are still responsible for the consequences of our sin, we still have to live with what we have done. It is not a make-believe world where consequences disappear. It is a real world where sin causes real pain and true destruction. The sinner - no matter how sorry, and no matter how well forgiven and accepted still is accountable for what he or she has done. Sin is an infection, an infection with a hook. We are "sinned" by someone else, and we either continue the sin or end it with forgiveness/acceptance. The more forgiveness there is in the world, the less sin there will be.
It's essential to forgiven.. By Father John J. Castelot
By Dan Luby HE FUNERAL home was crowded. T People talked quietly, greeting each other with subdued smiles and sad looks.
THIS WEEK'S discussion point:
What does it mean for you to be merciful? Selected responses from readers: "As a manager, when someone makes a big mistake I try to look at it as a growth experience rather than as a detrimental experience. For me, being truly merciful is as beneficial to the person doing it as the person receiving it." - Michael Collins. "I live close to where a woman (charged with murdering her children) lives. Real mercy would mean not just praying for her children, but praying for the accused, too. People here have not been very merciful to the accused. I think that God's mercy is that big." - Jeanne Scott. "The first place to be merciful is with yourself - to accept God's mercy for you. By accepting that, you become able to be merciful in your dealings with others." - Charlie McCarthy. "To help everyone that I can.... I have done prison ministry. Many people, even good Catholics, have ridiculed me for that.... But many of these prisoners have heard little about God's love for them. They are shocked that anyone loves them." - Betty Criag. "Mercy is when someone hurts you very badly and you still forgive them even though the hurt may still remain." - David Callahan. "Mine is a simple answer - to act as Jesus did. To feed the hungry, clothe the naked, give drink to the thirsty." - Betty Thompson.
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The family stood near the open casket. receiving the murmured condolences of those who knew and loved Belinda, their wife, mother and grandmother. Into this solemn scene of dignified grief and warm affection came a sudden chill. A woman entered and stood in the back of the room, staring at the casket. She was the sister of the woman who had died. Her's had been a life of taking advantage. of blaming, of demanding without thanks. Belinda's children never had pried the details out of their mother, but they had seen the tears and felt the anguish when she talked about Diane. Diane had no place in this funeral home. with this family, they thought. Collectively. but wordlessly, they ignored her. They were horrified when the father - a husband devoted to his wife for almost half a century - rose from his seat and walked unsteadily to the back of the chapel to Diane. The silence was electric as he stood before her and looked into her defiant. angry face and smiled. "Diane," he said softly. "I'm so sorry about Belinda. It must be hard to lose a sister." He took her hand and led her to the casket where her sister lay. The children watched in shock as Diane's eyes overflowed with silent tears. "Sh2 looks good, doesn't she?" he whispertm. Diane nodded, a tear falling from the end of her nose. "She so wanted you to come. We're glad you're here," he said. It was, they said later, the most heroic thing they ever had seen. All the lessons about mercy, all the inspired preaching
that had urged on them the importance of forgiveness faded utterly in light of the great lesson their father had taught them. After the funeral, his children asked how he had found the courage to do it. "Well," he said, "I didn't think I could at first. I remembered all the pain she'd caused. But then I thought about your mother and what a forgiving person she was to me. I loved your mother all my life, but I hurt her sometimes too, and she always forgave me. "When I saw Diane back there, alone, I knew I had to bring her up, to bring her in. Iknew I had to forgive her too. So I said, 'Belinda, pray for me, honey.' AndI just got up and went to her. I'm glad." Most of us never will have an opportunity to forgive as dramatically as the man at the funeral home. But all of us have chances to pardon those who hurt us. Whether it is for a violent outrage or a thoughtless remark, for life-long pain or a moment's discomfort, we who are disciples of the Lord Jesus are called to forgive. It is never easy. There are always good reasons for not doing it. No one wants to look like a chump; nobody wants to be taken advantage of; nobody wants to let go of the illusory sense of moral superiority that goes with holding on to a welldeserved grudge. But if Jesus is our model, we have to err on the side of forgiveness, to risk mercy to someone who doesn't "deserve" it. After all, who among us really deserves God's mercy? It is always a gift, lavishly poured out by God who stops at nothing to heal and redeem. And in the end, forgiveness - modelled on God's mercy - is what marks us as Christian.
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ID is eager to pardon our sins. But that doesn't mean God's ve is forced on us. A forced love is a contradiction. Love requires a willingness to be loved. After giving his version of the Our Father, Matthew's Gospel singles out one of its petitions for special comment: "If you forgive others their transgressions, your heavenly Father will forgive you. But if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive you your transgressions" (6:14-15). If we are not open to God's pardon, we cannot profit by it. It cannot penetrate our hearts. Matthew tells about a question Peter posed to Jesus: "Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him? As many as seven times?" Jesus answered: "I say to you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times" (Matthew 18:21-22). Then we are told of the ungrateful servant whose astronomical debt was written off by his king; but this servant refuses even to listen to a fellow servant who begs for an extension on a paltry debt. When the king hears of this he is outraged and reinstates the first man's debt. "So will my heavenly Father do to you. unless each of you forgives his brother from his heart" (Matthew 18:35). The fact that this passage in Matthew occurs in the context of instructions for the life of the community indicates the importance of forgiveness for the community's health. The author of Colossians lists the attitudes that must characterize the members of his community: "Put on ... heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience, bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if one has a grievance against another, as the Lord has forgiven you, so must you also do" (Colossians 3:12-13). Why this concern about forgiveness? The most obvious reason is that all these authors realized the importance of community, and without forgiveness genuine community is just about impossible. How many marriages, families, neighbourhoods, cities, countries have been ripped apart by long-standing resentments, emotional grudges stemming from real or imagined slights, fierce ethnic and national pride! How much of this anguish could have been prevented by forgiveness offered and accepted. An even more profound reason is that the really distinctive Christian virtue is love - a love which is not just a warm fuzzy feeling. In his famous hymn to love, Paul lists its practical characteristics: "Love is patient, love is kind ... it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury" (1 Corinthians 13:4-5). The Record, March 16, 1995
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Vou've got to admit that families have a cerAdmitting that a child with severe disabilities tain magic about them! can put a burden on the family, they believe Something warm, fun loving and 'oozing love' everyone has a cross to carry and it needs to be emanating from them which attracts - whether seen in that light. they are a one or more child family. Then illustrating their own marriage, they Pre-war families, especially of Catholic stock, refute the suggestions by some "that the Ryans were quite large but then with war intervention don't have any problems." "It simply isn't true," they shrunk, and post-war remained small. they maintain. So to come across a large family today, can The fact is, says Gail, "we've had heaps of be quite a treat and worth zeroing in on to catch problems, and walked sometimes very rocky a bird's eye glimpse as to how it works with roads between each other, or with our children, lots of 'chicks in the family nest'. and it isn't always happy sailing. But our family One such family is the Ryan family of Middle and marriage are Christ-centred and that gives Swan. Kieran and Gail are an attractive couple, the strength to overcome problems. with nine children. "The fact we do receive strength from God is Arriving for a photo' at 7.30 am there seemed evidence of God right beside us!" to be children everywhere with nevertheless a Then Gail, after saying how she and Kieran great sense of order - hair being arranged, have just renewed their marriage vows with shoes being put on and a general bustle of good their children present, adds a telling line - "But humoured activity. we work at our marriage because we want to Some people associate children with chaos keep it!" and disorder, but in fact, where children are Kieran scoffs at the current lobbying for around there is generally a 'presence' of love, acceptance of homosexuals and lesbians with joy and well-being, and the Ryan family bore children as being termed a family. "Absurd!" he this out. says, "acceptance of that view is damaging to Only eight Ryan children fronted for the the long term stability of families and in my photo (the second eldest child Julie 23 was in view, it is against the natural order of everyVictoria), and then they dispersed for school thing; and as such will not achieve good". and work Gail's attitude was that a mother and father The devil's advocates have put the family have different roles to play and what they give under enormous attack in this latter part of the is unique and vital to the well balanced child. century, - the onslaught resulting in a signifi"They need to see mother and father interact cant crumbling of families under the strain. and give an example to their children. And with the current social climate and poli"How can you give a child a balanced view of cies, there is little chance of preventing further the opposite sex if it is raised in a one sex famdestruction - without enormous family resisily with two people of one gender playing the tance and input. respective roles of mother and father?" So what makes the Ryan family a success? They added that children raised under such Well, firstly, there is no gender, nor role concircumstances would possibly be given an fusion between Kieran and Gail. unhealthy attitude to the opposite sex if there He's the head of the family, Gail asserts, (but was a bias against males or females in a nonadds with a laugh that she's also "a power heterosexual family. behind the throne') "and so supportive of the On that note, Kieran alluded to "radical femifamily". Gail and Kieran Ryan with eight of their nine children - Michelle nism and women's liberation" which he considKieran supports this by saying "all the wonbecause when you 25, (Julie 23 not present), Michael 21, Anthony 17, Robert 15, ers is "absolute 'nonsense derful things which happen in our family are look at the role of the mother in the home, she because of Gail." She returns the genuine com- Kieran 12, Clare 10, Jonnene 8 and Patrick 6. has always been the pivotal point around pliment by saying which the family t hat "God handrevolves. picked my husband "She has always Kieran, just for me." been the binding There is true love force and educator of and respect between children." this husband and Kieran said much wife - and a romance of their children's at which they work at education was at the maintaining, apparevening meal where ently with great sucthe whole family cess. assembles, (plus And then it all guests on occasions), becomes very clear to say grace, then dishow and why their cuss their day, and marriage and relainteract with each tionship with their other. children works so "But we couldn't do well. that if Gail didn't play her vital part in preparing the meal in the first Married for just over a quarter of a century Gail still receives flowers place." from her husband who says: "I want to be with her. Spend time with her" Summing it up, Kieran asserts the biological nature of man and woman - and that they do, by deliberately putting time aside for an occasional determine that they have separate, but essential roles, "and it will always overnight outside the home, or a bottle of wine with a dinner for two be the same". cooked by Kieran after they've fed their family. They see their sharing time as a bonding and strengthening factor to Or an afternoon out together, and maybe an occasional weekend which other people are attracted - Kieran pointing to the "stream of peosnatched from a busy routine, aided and abbetted by their children who ple around Gail, attracted by the stability of the home, some with special affirm these decisions to be together, perhaps too it's the little notes they needs or problems - and even a 'street kid' and a couple of others who leave each other - or the fact they aren't shy to hold hands in public. turned up with their belongings in a garbage bag, having run away from It's not a matter of neglecting their children because as well as their home". eight children at home, there's Kieran's father whom they deem a blessBut Kieran got them to apologise to their mother and Gail reunited ing "because he spends time with ,the children and sees nothing but good another mother and child. in them while giving them much love as well". Nominated for Mother of the Year in 1994, Gail says she has no fear But there's also a down to earth commitment by these parents, not only because there is too much in today's world, and she simply trusts in God to their children, but also to society and their parish. and leaves the rest to Him, saying that if you live according to God's and Kieran is a financial planner, state president of the National Civic Counthe natural law, things occur naturally and everything will work out. cil (having spent four years in Melbourne as Victorian president), a member of St Never having worked outside the home since her wedding, Gail echoes the familiar Brigid's parish council and also chairman of St Brigid's primary. strain of today's non work force mothers, when she notes they are socially highly Gail helps out at school with children who have special needs and is an organiser of undervalued and not sufficiently acknowledged. Midland's Perpetual Adoration chapel. "Yet being a mother is the most important career of all." Asking for their views on contraception, Kieran states that if you have a love for life, Proud that he's father of a large family, Kieran said the advantages far outweigh any then you understand creation and have a better understanding of the world about you. disadvantages and sometimes other men will seek his advice with family problems. "True love manifests itself from that and if you live like that, all other principals and An important factor in child raising, Kieran pointed out, is affirming one's children, virtues flow from that into the family." and demonstrating one's pride in them. For her part, Gail says she's never minded being pregnant and loves children. But at "Even though they may feel they have nothing they can be proud of and as yet have the heart of it, they state, is how the husband and wife love each other. achieved nothing, it has to be instilled in them that everyone is good at something and Thus, in their view, if in a large family all have love, understanding and respect for that given time they will prove themselves outstanding in certain areas and surpass each other, the children grow up with a balanced view of life and healthy self-esteem anyone else". "and this gets back to recognising each one as a unique individual with different wants Parents must build up their children to give them confidence and self esteem, and needs and fulfilling that requirement". "because everyone has doubts at some stage," Kieran says. "But children can grow up Questioned whether they can give individual attention with so many children, Gail with a psychological terrorism which can be worse than physical abuse." showed how on birthdays each selects their favourite dish and has no chores that day; He maintains a father must be able to say "I love you" to his sons, and hug them, no Kieran adds that one of their children was born with a minor disability, who required matter what age or height they are. a lot more attention and time with physiotherapy. Noting he did it to all his sons, Kieran stated his opposition to the 'Aussie male At differing times, they pointed out, each child may require more attention than the matcho image' which he sees as false and can lead to the destruction of a man's real others; also the type of discipline varied according to the child "one responding to extra self. love rather than discipline". "It's okay to show your feelings, express your love, and cry." Regarding abortion, Kieran describes it as a terrible crime which takes life, "yet there Kieran and Gail finished by saying - "One of the most important things is acceptance are so many childless couples with a vacuum which cannot be filled because of a lack of each one the way they are". of adoptee babies". Everyone has faults, they admit, and no one is perfect, "but if we accept that and our While not critical of an amniosintesis or ultra sound test, Gail said even if she'd had differences, then the family will never break down. one, it wouldn't have dissuaded them from having a child should a disability have been "When we have a problem we state we are not going to let it divide us and Christ picked up. remains at the centre of our lives and family." All life comes from God, Gail and Kieran point out, "and you put your faith and trust Gail, said Kieran, is best friend to all her children "and we have great communicain Him," adding that children with disablities bring their own special love. tion between ourselves and with them".
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Project Compassion will help to support Sri Lanka's rehabilitation. Near Trincomalee, 430 people live in an old corrugated iron 1200 square metre storage shed, built by the British during World War II, and which has been a safe haven from war foran entire Sri Lankan village for the past four years.
Resettling families are helped with building materials, supplementary rations, seeds and equipment to rebuild farms and loans for people starting their own businesses. Hundreds of families still in nearby refugee camps are helped with thatched roofing materials and supplementary rations.
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The official government ration is the equivalent of just SA0.60 per person per day. Fr Anthony Soysa says the people of Trincomalee are more optimistic than they have been for years.
The atmosphere inside the shed Is stifling as the tropical sun beats down on the roof and 85 families prepare their daily meals on small fires.
"People are just fed up with the fighting and killing. It is the ordinary people who have suffered the most."
The old Clappenburg base is one of 23 refugee camps in the Trincoi% For the refugees at the old Clapmalee district and one of 440 such A family in a refugee camp at Nilaveli, near Trincomalee in Sri Lanka. Half a million Sri Lankans penburg military base, resettlement camps in Sri Lanka's north and remain displaced by the civil war in their country. will be hard work. Their village has east. years and has largely been reclaimed by the for most of the past 12 been unoccupied Since 1983, the civil war's estimated death toll is 34,000. jungle. In the Trincomalee district, 52,000 houses were destroyed in a military offensive five The refugees will be helped with temporary houses as they battle to reclaim their years ago- 36,000 of which have since been rebuilt with the help of the Sri Lankan Gov- farms and try to re-establish viable crops. ernment and a highly coordinated group of 20 non-government organisations. Many families will never forget the violence they have suffered and the loved ones they have lost. During the height of the war in 1990, 500 families in the Nilaveli refugee Sri Lanka's Social and Economic Development Centre (SEDEC). is Australian camp lost 59 of their men arrested by the army, singled out by a hooded informer and never seen again. Catholic Relief's partner, and has helped resettle more than4500 families.
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very student of Notre Dame Primary School in Cloverdale has responded tw-call by the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka by sending postcards to the Sri Lankan president of and the leader of the Tamil Tigers of Tamil calling for peace to a civil war that has raged there for12 years.
Catholic agencies worldwide throughout the world are taking part in a postcard campaign initiated by the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka which in turn has been responsible forbringing some Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim and Christian leaders together to work for peace.
"Postcards for Peace" will help pressure those who have the power to make peace, and as the postcards flow, the Church in Sri Lanka will organising peace rallies and marches. Notre Dame Cloverdale heard of the project through Australian Catholic Relief which is currently running Project Compassion. For the school it is an opportunity to become aware that other people can be helped more than by just raising money, such as through prayer, discussions and Postcards for Peace creating solidarity by our young people with the young people of Sri Lanka.
Manning parish hosts World Day of Prayer Manning parish hosted the World Day of Prayer for Catholics, Anglicans, Uniting Church and Baptist representatives in the Como. Manning and South Perth area last Friday. Augmenting the Ghana theme for 1995, South African-bornparishioner Lynette Rose spoke of life and culture in South Africa and the contribution Christians made to the lead-up to the first democratic elections held in 1994. An African ladies singing group responded with the South African national anthem, once a Baptist hymn, and an African folk song. .The Prodigal Son parable acted out in a context of Ghanain village life was presented by Eris and
Delta Tool) and Mark Prziestly and Nathan Winnett. A St Augustine's Anglican group with Rev Raymond Cheek responded in prayer. Noelene Winnett who had spent two and a half years in South Korea spoke on the origins of Catholicism there over 200 years ago. The St Pius X choir under Mrs Mary McKeaig led the singing. Peter Jones directed the proceedings. Fr Gatt welcomed the congregation and gave a final blessing, with help in the prayers from Rev Joyce Wilkins of Manning Uniting Church.
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Former YCW athletic coach dies OBITUARY
Gerry Hogan, the person mainly responsible for developing the YCW Athletic Club into the most powerful athletic club in Australia during the 1950s died peacefully on the Feast of St John of God in Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital after a short illness. He was 88. For 10 years, until 1955, Gerry Hogan, as coach, and with the help of others, built the YCW into a broad club, participating at every level, that dominated West Australian athletics for years. He was also an outstanding athlete in his own right, winning Western Australia's premier professional running event, the York Gift in 1930. In a 1953 "Record" article, written mainly for parents, Gerry Hogan said: "YCW for the past two years has been the undisputed champion track club in Western Australia, winning 22 trophies of the 26 awarded by the WA Athletic Association." Good administration and leadership at all levels was a feature of the club, but it was Gerry Hogan's coaching and grading of hundreds of young athletes that made it so powerful. All his adult life he worked for the WA Government Railways. His free time was spent generously. He gave hundreds of hours, dedicatedly coaching, encouraging and counselling, forming many ordinary young people into outstanding athletes and responsible Christian citizens. It was the large number of well trained athletes that made YCW so strong. But the club also produced national title holder and Australian representatives, like Herb Elliott, Bill De Gruchy, Kevan Salt, John Goodman, Frank O'Connell and Bill O'Grady. The list of State and junior champions is too long to record. Gerry Hogan was not just interested in success on the track. In his many "Record" articles he wrote of the healthy camaraderie; the competitive trips to country centres; annual communions; the popular alcohol-free club dances and that seminarians (including the now Archbishop Hickey) competed during summer vacations. He was a man of faith and emphasised "...the fact that God can be associated with all youth activities." Gerry Hogan was an active member of the Maylands, Trigg and Woodlands parishes. His main focus in life was his family. His wife Vivienne, who died in 1990, will be remembered by many as the popular pianist at YCW dances. He is survived by his four children, 24 grand children and 12 great grand children. From Brian Peachey 12
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Old and young together UTH leaders and Adult Support from a dozen Antioch Groups in Perth met together for a day of review, prayers and discussion co-ordinated by Margaret Fennessy.
It was a time for sharing ideas and renewing enthusiasm. The first half of the day held at St. Mary's Parish Centre Leederville centred on different ways of keeping Christ at the centre of our lives within Antioch. Emphasis was given to the importance of good communication, utilising gifts and reviewing the status of each group. The second half of the day took all present through an exercise of preparing "a team" for an Antioch week-end. This was led by Adam Phillips who shared personally from his own experience in his group at Applecross. It was a great day in bringing "the old " and the young adult leaders' together to affirm each others role, to renew our commitment to Antioch and our faith in an ever present Christ. Derek Boylen (Stirling Antioch).
Above: Greenwood Antioch weekend (Feb 24-26) with 22 new recruits. Left: Greenwood leaders Natalie Parker and Daniel Phillips. Right: Claremont leaders.. From left are Kirstan Larsen, Polly Harrison, Anne and Alistair Harrison. Below lefet Applecross leaders. From left: Adam Phillips, Collette Armstrong. Nick Yin and Judy Phillips. Below right: Midland Antiochers. From left: Angelo Papiccio, Sue and Manuel Calleja, Sarah Jane Cusworth. Below: Stirling Antioch leaders (from left) Cicily Fitzgerald, Anda Boylen and Derek Boylen.
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by Colleen McGuiness-Howard
Art, music and books Enduring ad of Elizabeth Durack UAMOUS Western
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beth Durack's works are in four concurrent exhibitions with three in Perth and the fourth in Canberra. Chosen as the artist for International Women's Year, Elizabeth's art is featured in an exhibition of her work at the Art Gallery of WA, entitled Derivations and Directions, (open to the public until April 301, embracing her work during the 1930's to the 1950's. Elizabeth deems this a great honour and said it was 'a thrill to see the old Broome paintings of the 1940's so splendidly displayed in this exhibition and also the Cord to Altcherina set, owned by the University of WA which has been included," depicting her work of the early fifties. Derivations and Directions is aptly named, because it shows how Elizabeth's work is deeply linked with the landscape and the people of WA especially the Aboriginal people with whom she has so long been associated with and continues
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during which time 'there to be so. Women Book Illustra- was a lot of interchange tors is the Canberra exhi- of painting between us". bition featuring her book Elizabeth is phoillustrations which were done when working with tographed here with her her author sister, the late painting of Grandmother Dame Mary Durack (oil on masonite 1945, Quoting one character on loan from Australian in a featured book The City Properties) and Way of the Whirlwind, two interesting Elizabeth said it was Jeff another Chunuma of Ivanhoe sta- works are War and Peace tion back in the thirties, a group of Aboriginal whom AGWA arranged women in the pools of to bring down from the Ord River which was Kununurra for the exhibi- below her bower shed tion opening last week studio, and the other Every picture, she entitled Displaced Perstates, has a background sons from the AGWA story to it because the collection, acquired in the image in Elizabeth's art fifties. at this stage of my life, was always very imporThe third exhibition tant". held at the old GPO in Her subjects were Forrest Place during Minalways real people, she's quick to point out, of ing Week showed Elizafriends or people she beth's recent art for Hamknew up north, and then mersley Iron. went on to describe the And the fourth entitled portrait she's made of Old Jubel - an old Abo- From Archival to Recent riginal who was an influ- will run for a couple of ence on her own art. weeks at the Stafford GalFrom the Northern leries, Cottesloe as from Territory, he'd visit Eliza- April 11. beth when she was painting on the banks of the by Colleen McGuinessOrd River in the forties, Howard
Young talent recital in the Swan Valley Australian W Opera is putting on a young artists' recital
hope. Hope for Ireland, for their o wn future and for their survival under a cruel oppressive colonial system of justice. One passage tells us of when O'Reilly was near his labour camp, his overseer was intent on catching him in some infraction of the many regulations governing the c onvict settlement, O'Reilly being minutes late for prison duties one day, was not allowed
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alL3TARTETTO eethoven di Roma was founded in 1970, the bicentenary of the birth of Beethoven, with the precise aim of exploring the relatively little known area of chamber music for strings and pianoforte which is nevertheless unquestionably rich in mas14
terpieces. Since its first tour f or Musica Viva in 1972, the quartet has been widely recognised as one of the world's finest piano quartets. Each of its subsequent tours has aroused extraordinary enthusiasm among Australian in audiences, r esponse to the
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group's supreme interpretive sensitivity and technical mastery. Now on its eighth Musica Viva tour, after regular appearances throughout Europe, the USA, Canada, South America and Japan, Quartetto Beethoven di Roma will perform at the Perth Concert
Hall on Thursday, March 23 at 8 pm with a program featuring a range in character. It will comprise Piano Quartets by Ludwig van Beethoven (in E flat major, Op 16), Carl Maria von Weber (in B flat major, J 76) and Robert Schumann (in E flat major, Op 47).
at Olive Farm Winery, Guildford on Saturday, April 1 at noon for an all inclusive ticket price of $ 26 which includes wine tasing and lunch, courtesy of hosts Ian and Judy Yurisich and West Australian Opera. (For bookings 'phone Judy Reid on 321-5869). It will feature soprano Nicole Giezekamp and tenor Aldo di Toro with accompanist Marilyn Phillips. The recital includes a range of musical styles from Aria Antiche to Broadway musicals, with some Lieder, Australian songs and opera. A complete variety of musical enjoyment is a ssured to suit opera lovers and first timers alike.
Selected Poems, Speeches, Dedications and letters ofJohn Boyle O 'Reilly compiled by Liam Barry. Reviewed by Walter McGrath (The National Gaelic Publications, CFN, $14.95 plus $2 postage, to 9 Francine Street, Australind 6230). This second book on O'Reilly was compiled by Liam Barry, now resident in Australind Western Australia, who is son of the late Dan Barry of National Publications Cork. Liam has been working on this 340 page book for several years past and has gone to great trouble culling the writings of O'Reilly from America, Ireland and Australia. What strikes the reader of this book is the tenacity of the individuals to hang on to
to receive or send post for six months. A few days after this incident the overseer c alled O'Reilly into his office and held in his hand a letter, heavily bordered in black. He said, "O'Reilly, here is a letter for you." O'Reilly knew his mother back in Ireland had been dangerously ill for some time. As O'Reilly held out his hand the overseer tossed the letter into a drawer, and said "you will get it in six months." The book is backed up by dozens of photographs and sketches, and included are sections of O'Reilly's recently discovered 1868 diary, which vanished over 100 years ago. It was dedicated to Fr. McCabe of Bunbury, who assisted and arranged his escape.
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Our Catholic Faith PICTURED
here is the Disciples of J esus Youth Mission Team (YMT) for 1995 - with left rear Michelle Jones, Branka Seselja, Therese Ouwendyk, Lynda Brown. (left) Paul Whitely, Adam Howard, and Andrew Clark, being commissioned by City Beach parish priest Father Thomas Phelan. Normally there are four young men but unexpected illness forced one to withdraw. These are very fine. young committed people who have left studies. careers. or newly won university degrees. to give a year to God. Commendably, they refuse to 'rort the system' by using Social Security funds, and go out to work on Mondays and Tuesdays to earn enough money to entirely support themselves in the separate male and female residences, so they can go out into schools the other days to evangelise youth. Their methods are top quality presentations and dramas with a God directed theme. encouraging youth to
enrich their lives with Jesus, and a basic message of which is you don't have to follow your peers - you can follow Jesus-. Last year the YMT did a did a total of 64 presentations, visiting 14 Catholic schools. two private schools, two government schools, and five youth groups, in some instances visiting the same schools up to six times, and a similar program is in place this year with the addition of more follow-up. This will include activities with the young such as prayer meetings. surfing, ice skating. horse riding and video nights. YMT. presentations may be as short as half an hour or up to two days long. Last year the YMT spoke to. shared the gospel message with, and gave witness to over 3,500 WA students; they also ran four weekend retreats. These. young people are truly selfless and live on very meagre rations. (for example only $30 weekly was the food and general household provisions
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Meet your 1995 YMT!
amount available for housekeeping between four for a period last year), with almost no financial resources for themselves, and no time for their own pursuits, in order to help youth. Their very busy, tightly structured sched-
ules invariably start as early as 5 am, and often earlier, in order to fit in personal and community prayer. run the two respective households, train for their presentations, and then give their all, for schools. In return for these
invited presentations, schools give a donation. These young people are truly committed, orthodox Catholics who are a shining example to people of any age group or religion, and whose daily practice of their Catholic faith, unselfish
giving of themselves. and dedication to the youth cause can only be commended and applauded. They are chronically short of funding and support however, and if anyone is prepared to give these wonderful
young people a hand by sponsorship or assistance of any kind in spreading the gospel message among our young. please contact Chris Brennan on 3413392 or 243-2377.
THE TRIMMIN'S ON THE ROSARY
Ah, the memories that find me now my hair is turning gray, Drifting in like painted butterflies from paddocks far away; Dripping dainty wings in fancy - and the pictures, fading fast, Stand again in rose and purple in the album of the past. There's the old slab dwelling dreaming by the wistful, watchful trees, Where the coolabahs are listening to the stories of the breeze; There's homely welcome beaming from its big, bright friendly eyes, With The Sugarloaf behind it blackened in against the skies; There's the same dear happy circle round the boree's cheery blaze With a little Irish mother telling tales of other days. She had one sweet, holy custom which I never can forget, And a gentle benediction crowns her memory for it vet; I can see that little mother still and hear her as she pleads, "Now it's getting on to bed time; all you childer get your beads." There were no steel-bound conventions in that old slab dwelling free; Only this - each night she lined us up to say the Rosary; E'en the stranger there, who stayed the night upon his journey, knew He must join the little circle, ay, and take his decade too. I believe she darkly plotted, when a sinner hove in sight Who was known to say no prayer at all, to make him stay the night. Then we'd softly gather round her, and we'd speak in accents low, And pray like Sainted Dominic so many years ago; And the little Irish mother's face was radiant, for she knew That "where two or three are gathered" He is gathered with them too.
O'er the paters and the ayes how her reverent head would bend! How she'd kiss the cross devoutly when she counted to the end! And the visitor would rise at once, and brush his knees - and then He'd look very, very foolish as he took the boards again. She had other prayers to keep him. They were long, long prayers in truth; And we used to call them "Trimmin's" in my disrespectful youth. She would pray for kith and kin, and all the friends she'd ever known, Yes, and everyone of us could boast a "trimmin'" all his own. She would pray for all our little needs, and every shade of care That might darken o'er The Sugarloaf, she'd meet it with a prayer, She would pray for this one's "sore complaint," or that one's "hurted hand," Or that someone else might make a deal and get "that bit of land"; Or that Dad might sell the cattle well, and seasons good might rule, So that little John, the weakly one, might go away to school. There were trimmin's, too, that came and went; but ne'er she closed without Adding one for something special "none of you must speak about." Gentle was that little mother, and her wit would sparkle free, But she'd murder him who looked around while at the Rosary: And if perchance you lost your beads, disaster waited you, For the only one she'd pardon was "himself" - because she knew He was hopeless, and 'twas sinfill what excuses he'd invent,
So she let him have his fingers, and he cracked them as he went, And, bedad, he wasn't certain if he'd counted five or ten, Yet he'd face the crisis bravely, and would start around again; But she tailed all the decades, and she'd block him on the spot, With a "Glory, Daddah, Glory!" and he'd "Glory" like a shot.
She would portion out the decades to the company at large; But when she reached the trimmin's she would put herself in charge; And it oft was cause for wonder how she never once forgot, But could keep them in their order till she went right through the lot. For that little Irish mother's prayers embraced the country wide; If a neighbour met with trouble, or was taken ill, or died, We could count upon a trimmin' - till, in fact, it got that way That the Rosary was but trimmin's to the trimmin's we would say. Then "himself" would start keownrawning* - for the public good, we thought "Sure you'll have us here till mornin'. Yerra, cut them trimmin's short!" But she'd take him very gently, till he softened by degrees "Well, then, let us get it over. Come now, all hands to their knees." So the little Irish mother kept her trimmin's to the last, Ever growing as the shadows o'er the old selection passed; And she lit our drab existence with her simple faith and love, And I know the angels lingered near to bear her prayers above, For her children trod the path she trod, nor did they later spurn To impress her wholesome maxims on their children in their turn. Ay, and every "sore complaint" came right, and every "hurted hand"; And we made a deal from time to time, and got "that bit of land"; And Dad did sell the cattle well; and little John, her pride, Was he who said the Mass in black the morning that she died; So her gentle spirit triumphed - for 'twas this, without a doubt, Was the very special trimmin' that she kept so dark about. But the years have crowded past us, and the fledglings all have flown, And the nest beneath The Sugarloaf no longer is their own; For a hand has written "finis" and the book is closed for good There's a stately red-tiled mansion where the old slab dwelling stood; There the stranger has her "evenings," and the formal supper's spread, But I wonder has she "trimmin's" now, or is the Rosary said? All, those little Irish mothers passing from us one by one! Who will write the noble story of the good that they have done? All their children may be scattered, and their fortunes windwards hurled, But he Trimmin's on the Rosary will bless them round the world. *Grumbling, "grousing." By John O'Brien, pseydonym of Father Patrick Hartigan, parish priest for 27 years at Narrandera, NSW, from Around The Boree Log. For more information on Father Hartigan and his book please contact his nephew Fr Frank Meacham, 97 Dalhousie Street, Haberfield NSW 2025. The Record, March 16, 1995
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imminwri THE PARISH 4414._ S CENE CHILDREN'S LITURGY Children's Liturgy for new and experienced parish ministers of children's Liturgy of the Word workshop sessions: i) for those new to this ministry; ii) for experienced ministers, concluding with a session on music and movement. For further details and registrations contact the Archdiocesan Liturgy Office by Friday 24 March, phone 2211548. CANTORS WORKSHOP Presented by the Parish Liturgical Musicians Network How the cantor fits into the Eucharistic liturgy and practical the cantor as leaders of song. Saturday March 25, 2-4pm, St Peter's Church, 93 Wood Street, Inglewood. $5 donation. phone (09) 221 1548. VISITING SPEAKER A uthor and TV producer Fr. Richard Leonard S.J. will speak at John XXII College Hall on Unity Within the Church (Friday March 24 7.30 - 9.30pm) and Women in the Church (Saturday March 25 10am - noon) and Sustaining our Relationships (Saturday 2 - 4pm). Cost $10 per session (donation pensioners and unwaged) Payment on Entry. Contact: Murray Graham 384 1122. BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE Stations of the Cross, homily and Benediction Sunday March 26 at 2pm at the Bullsbrook Church "Virgin Mary Mother of the Church" 36 Chittering Road, Bullsbrook.
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CATHOUC NURSES GUILD MEETING on Tuesday March 28 - 7.30pm, a t 11 Ellesmere Road, Mt. Lawley. Tel: 272 5471. TAIZE HOUR OF PRAYER LENT 1 995 "Stay here: Keep watch with me" Friday March 24, 7.30pm St Mary's Cathedral. MARIAN MOVEMENT T he monthly Cenacle of the Marian Movement will be held at St Paul's Swanbourne on Tuesday March 21 at 10.30am.
Archdiocesan Calendar MARCH 17 Mass, Irish Club, Subiaco Bishop Healy Mass and Bless extensions, lona College - Archbishop Hickey, Bishop Healy 18 Golden Jubilee of Fr E Rogers - Archbishop Hickey, Bishop Healy 19 St Joseph Association Procession - Archbishop Hickey Mass and Blessing of School Building, Armadale Bishop Healy Opening of James Watson Hostel - Bishop Healy 20 Graduation, Curtin University Concert Hall - Bishop Healy 21/22 Central Commission, Canberra - Archbishop Hickey 22 AGM Church's Commission on Education, Anglican Education Centre - Bishop Healy Degree Ceremony Murdoch University - Fr Michael McMahon SAC
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Application forms for all Scholarships and Bursaries are available from the College office.