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Pope's tribute to housewives: "They are true astisans of the home" OASTELPETROSO, Italy (CNS) - Housewives k.ilare "true artisans of the home," skilled labourers who work hard for the good of their families, Pope John Paul II said on the feast of St Joseph.

"After a period marked by some confusion and ideological pressures, there is a call from many sides today to look with more serenity and objectivity at the relationship between women, the family and work," the pope said during last Sunday's visit to Castelpetroso.

Marking the feast of St. Joseph, patron of workers, the pope called for recognition of "maternal tasks, the hard work they require and the need children have for care, love and affection."

He prayed for "all women who work daily so that the domestic community can live in industrious harmony."

Artisans and craftspeople were the focus of Pope John Paul's visit to several towns in the Molise region of Italy, an area southeast of Rome famous for its production of church bells.

As part of the St. Joseph's Day festivities, the pope Although the region has been hit by economic hard times and a wave of emigration, the pope visited the Pontifical Marinelli Foundry, a bell-makencouraged the artisans to persevere because their ing business founded in the year 1000 and operated traditional way of life is balanced in such a way as by the Marinelli family without interruption since 1300. to show the true dignity of work.

Marinelli bells toll from several Vatican towers.

"Work must contribute to people's development, The pope gave special thanks to Enrico Marinelli, not to the suffocation of their dignity," the pope said. a member of the foundry family, who is the Italian People must come before profits, work is not a state police prefect in charge of papal security outcommodity and people are not instruments of proside the Vatican. duction, he said.

The foundry gave Pope John Paul a special bronze Skilled crafts show the direct relationship between bell with an inscription from the Book of Isaiah: a person and his or her work, he said. They allow a "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neiworker autonomy and independence while relying ther shall they learn war any more." on initiative, creativity and hard work The pope plans to give the bell to the United to meet one's responsibility to self and to one's Nations during an October visit. family.

"It seems to me that the fusion of bronze and other The flexible work schedule, workshops close to metals for the realization of this bell is a beautiful home and the training of children in their parent's metaphor of hope for a world which now more than skills are other traditional values of an artisan's ever needs to harmonize, almost fuse, its diversities work, the pope said. into a solid project of peace," the pope said.

Punishment fits the crime VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Priests should consider pro-life work as a possible penance for people confessing to abortion, Pope John Paul II said.

Likewise, charity activity could be advised for those confessing to sins against social justice, he told a study group of church experts last Saturday.

The pope was making the point that concrete acts of penitence, and not only prayer, can be useful as penance - especially when they are designed as an "opposite medicine" to the sin.

Such penances are suitable when the sin is one committed against a fundamental good, he said.

"For example, for the crime of abortion, which is tragically widespread today, there could be the penitential response of a commitment to the defense of life," he said.

The form of this penance should be carefully considered to meet the needs of the sinner and those of society, he said.

On the other hand, the pope said, sins against justice are "poisoning relations between people and polluting society." An ideal response in the confessional, he suggested, should begin with the restitution of what has been wrongfully gained.

But restitution should not be limited to what has been gained. The pope said a good model was provided by Zacchaeus in St. Luke's Gospel, who promised Christ he would repay extorted money "four times over."

"It will not be difficult, judging with the criteria of the faith, to find similar responses for other sins," the pope said.

He said that physical penance still has a place in the confessional. Such penances are generally covered under the term of "fasting," and "except in cases of disease of weakness, a reasonable limitation of food is normally possible" for penitents, he said.

But he cautioned confessors against assigning, or even allowing, penances that are too physically demanding.

He advised confessors to strive for a balance between the penance and the spiritual needs of the person confessing. Prayer is the simplest and first response, because in it the individual naturally praises God and sees sin as an offense.

But here, too, he said, there is a risk of overloading the penitent. He reminded confessors that "a modest penance that is done with enthusiasm is better than a huge penance which is not done or which is performed with annoyance."

He said confessors are often called upon to read the complex spiritual attitudes of the people who come to confess. In general, the priest should offer the penitent trust and hope while assigning a penance that acts to repair the offense against God, he said.

This means that in the confessional, the priest should be a teacher of truth, a doctor of souls and "a sensitive friend who does not reproach as much as he corrects and encourages," he said.

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A time to remember...

Australian Catholic Reliefs deputy chairman, Bishop HILTON DEAKIN, reflects on his visit last year to the slums of South Africa, where he viewed local projects supported by Project Compassion funds.

I live comfortably enough. As I move around my house, I find in various places the things I need from time to time. A switch here, a tap there, a fridge door in the comer, a cupboard full of food, light, heat ... it is all there.

I expect it to be so. And why?

Well, I don't know really. Except that such is the way of things with my way of life, with the way of Australians - you and me, for instance. We have surrounded ourselves with plenty of the things we need ... and then some.

A friend took me through the "I'm pretty lucky.

Ifinally got a job and lanes and byways of Soweto in South Africa, through the lines of saved enough for a car. hovels where lived hundreds of "The freedom of driving thousands of migrants around the big cities. is somethingItake for They are poor places, places of granted. But Lent is one rare commodities. time whenIthink, 'Hey, Water is a very precious and I'm pretty lucky to be rare commodity. Women somehealthy enough to do the times walk up to 10km a day to things thatIdo'. bring home a jerrycan of water to drink, to wash clothes and dishes "In some countries, an for they have no taps. old bomb like mine would • And they need to do their washprobably make someone a ing in the daylight, for they have better home than they no switches. There is the faint light of an occasional fuel lamp, have now. And when it but such are for the few with comes to basic healthcare, more money to spend. they have nothing.

Toilets - well, they are as primi"It's not easy to help, but tive as one's imagination will perI've found a way to put aside mit the gutter outside the front door, or a communal hole in the a little to help people who have no home, can't feed their ground somewhere down the hill.

When the rains come, there is kids and face the constant little enough protection, tin roofs threat of disease. I'm logging with gaping holes, walls with my car trips and giving cracks to let in the wind and dri5 cents a kilometre to Project ving rain, and earthen floors that easily turn to slippery mud.

Compassion for healthcare This is what informed people work in other countries. call Third World poverty. There I " reckon that if we all try to • is nothing quite like it back home, put just a little aside every time except for some Aboriginal homes in the outback. we do something that's a bit of a But there is more. A casual visiluxury, we can really do a lot to tor does not catch sight of it easily. help build a better world.

I suppose people are on their best "It's as easy as believing that behaviour when a stranger comes through or passes by. we can make a difference" But in a quiet moment, someIMO IMO INII one will whisper a word about a punch in the face, an arm broken Australian Catholic Relief in anger, a stab wound, a hit GPO Box 9830, in your state II across the head that flattens. capital city Young women will tell of virtue I'd like to know more about ACR's work robbed, of rape and abuse.

People speak softly about drugs 0 Ienclose my Project Compassion donation $ and drunkenness, and about the 1Please debit my 0 Bankccrrd Ej Visa 0 Mastercard terrible, miserable ugliness of daily life in the black towns, the III 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 / 1 I 1 / /I . sad slums of South Africa.

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In Soweto, Saturday is burial day. It is the one day people can get away from the rotten grind life imposes on them, so that they gather to bury their dead. They come from everywhere. Distance is no problem.

Some people die in their beds but all too few of them. Many are murdered, die from injuries, or disease. People tell stories of painful lives, broken families, violence, struggles for survival, with no father, or mother.

And violence seems to be the thread that holds it all together. In a particularly demonstrative fashion, they process to the burial place. They encourage religious expression and fervour - and they bury their dead.

The dead are now free of the hell that engulfed them in life.

Free at last.

Now and again, one catches glimpses of life, of hope, through the seeming universal hopelessness.

A little drab house with a painted door. A small tin cottage with bricks edging a path to the road and open sewer. A flower pot on a window sill. Children with clean-washed clothes, all bright, and plaited hair, and smiles that money can't buy.

Mothers who work from first dawn to dusk, earning money to buy food and clothes, and perhaps an education for their children. They want to give them the one break they need to get off the treadmill.

Australian Catholic Relief, through the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference, gives financial support to the people of sad slums.

Monies from Project Compassion help set up pre-school creches - concrete floors, tin walls and roofs, a tank of water and portable toilets - not much, but enough to give little children a chance.

A good wash, a solid feed, a sleep and then some time in learning literacy and numeracy skills fills the day. It is the beginning of a new, brave world for them.

I visited 16 such ventures, built with Australian Catholic Relief help. Another sign of hope, I am sure. I think of it all especially during Lent when I flick a switch back home, or turn on a tap. I am sure those people thank you for any help you can give them through your gifts to Project Compassion.

Donations to Australian Catholic Reliefs Project Compassion appeal can be made through Catholic parishes or to GPO Box 9830 in any capital city.

Cheers all the way for cardinal at parade And it is probably his last formal St Pat's Day appearance NI W YORK (CNS) - On his likely last formal Pat's Day appearance Cardinal O'Connor of New York had his day on March 17.

On a clear day with the temperature just right for marching, he became the first archbishop to serve as grand marshal of New York's St. Patrick's Day Parade, an annual event begun in 1762.

Cardinal O'Connor, 75, who has endured a few protest demonstrations during his 11 years in New York, was cheered and applauded all the way up and down the parade route.

In what has become an almost a routine event, the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization protested its exclusion. Many participants were arrested for attempting to conduct their own march without a permit.

Some public officials came out to support the gay rights protest, but officials did not mar the parade by boycotting it to express solidarity with gay group as some have in past years.

Governor Patalci marched in an Irish sweater.

Mayor Giuliani marched up the avenue twice, first as mayor, then as a member of the class of '65 from the Christian Brothers' Manhattan College.

After celebrating a cathedral Mass he donned the green, white and orange sash of the grand marshal over his cassock, and walked the 42 blocks of the parade.

After completing the route, he came back down Fifth Avenue in a golf cart to the front of St. Patrick's Cathedral. From there he reviewed marching units, greeted dignitaries and other individuals.

At Mass the cardinal spoke told an overflow crowd that gratitude was due to the officials of all sides who worked out the Anglo-Irish framework document for Northern Ireland peace negotiations "whatever its weaknesses."

But he warned those negotiating a settlement not to give in to the temptation to abandon Catholic values and "support moral compromise for the sake of peace."

Cardinal O'Connor

Later in comments to Catholic News Service.

Cardinal O'Connor recalled an effort to make the permissive abortion laws of some countries in the European Economic Community apply to all members.

The possibility something similar could crop up in the negotiations for Northern Ireland settlement should he avoided, he said.

Cardinal O'Connor, 75, said he was so exhilarated and the people so friendly he felt like marching a second time.

Danger of moral famine NEW YORK: The Irish potato famine caused

much devastation but there is danger today of a widespread spiritual and moral famine, Cardinal O'Connor of New York said in St Patrick's Cathedral.

Coldbloodedly, they were allowed to starve when food was available, he said. When the potato crop failed, he said, other food was not distributed for relief but used for landlords and for export.

Cardinal O'Connor said those who recalled the Irish potato famine should work to avoid similar suffering imposed today on other peoples through "inhuman embargoes" that he said hurt only the poor, not the ruling regimes targeted.

Recalling the immigration of many Irish to He said the starvation was not an accident, America to escape the famine, he also said and that Irish Catholics were "subjected" to Irish-Americans should beware of supporting restrictive immigration policies. the suffering.

Because this year's celebration fell on the 150th anniversary of the Irish potato famine, Cardinal O'Connor devoted much of his homily to recounting the suffering of the famine and the restrictive laws imposed on the Irish Catholics in that era.

Marycare is launched

The cardinal also added that Catholics today were in danger of surrendering the values of the faith that sustained the Irish through the suffering of 150 years ago. He said there is a "potential of a moral and spiritual famine right here in America that could be infinitely more devastating."

Recalling he had led a group of New Yorkers several years ago to Ireland to pray for peace.

Cardinal O'Connor suggested that the progress in peace talks and the 150th anniversary of the famine might make this a year for another pilgrimage to "express on Irish soil" gratitude for "peace with justice." and to pray that tragedies like the famine would never again happen in Ireland or anywhere else.

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Pope scores Chinese "first" His photo appears for the first time in "Catholic Church in China"

EIJING (CNS) - A photograph of Pope attend the conference. critical."

B John Paul II has appeared for the first time Below the photos of Pope John Paul and Liu in "Catholic Church in Liu told UCA News in early February in Bei-

China," the official magazine of the government -approved church.

The pope's photo appeared on the back cover of the magazine's first issue of 1995, but he is only in a group photo and not identified.

The photograph was apparently taken in Rome last November, during a session of the World Conference on Religion and Peace.

The white-garbed pontiff is shown seated with other panelists on the dais, but neither he nor the others are clearly identified by name in the photo's caption. The pope is shown glancing downward, as though photographed as he read the text of a speech he was delivering.

To some, publication of the photo intimates that the many recent reports of approaching normalized Beijing-Vatican relations may be justified.

At the least, say observers, it signals a shift from harsh criticisms of the pope that typified the magazine's issues during the early 1980s.

The photo next to that of the pope's is of Anthony Liu Bainian, vice president of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, a powerful figure in the officially approved church, and the only Catholic delegate from the mainland to

on the back cover of "Catholic Church in China" are two photographs taken in December in London at the Second European Ecumenical China Conference.

At the lower right, a fifth back-cover photo depicts seven Chinese Catholic bishops of Shanxi province involved in an episcopal ordination.

There are two cover photos of Cardinal Wu of Hong Kong visiting the Catholic Church in China in November.

It was the Hong Kong prelate's first visit to the mainland since becoming a cardinal in June 1988. The magazine did not publish any photographs of him on two earlier visits to China as bishop of the Hong Kong Diocese.

"Catholic Church in China," a bimonthly, was launched in 1980. The magazine is jointly published by the patriotic association and the Bishops' Conference of the Catholic Church in China, both government-approved bodies.

In the magazine's third issue, published in October 1981, Pope John Paul's speech to Chinese Catholics during his first visit to Manila, Philippines, earlier that year was strongly criticized as "pleasant words but completely hypo-

jing that the church in China is the same as the church outside China, in that Chinese Catholics recognize the pope as the spiritual leader of the church and pray for him every day.

But Liu reiterated the government-approved church's position that to improve relations between China and the Holy See, the latter must drop its diplomatic links with Taiwan and recognize the sovereignty of the People's Republic of China.

China watchers and Vatican officials emphasize that the church situation in China is very delicate. Besides the government -approved church, which spurns Vatican authority over its affairs and elects bishops without Vatican approval, an "underground" church exists, maintaining allegiance to the Vatican and rejecting government efforts to align religion with state policy.

At the parish level, there is some mingling of the "underground" and "patriotic" churches.

Additionally, a number of government approved bishops are said to have secretly reconciled with the Vatican.

Yeltsin told about nuns, riests hurt by oolice MOSCOW (CNS) - The head of Euro- century and serving as a parish church for pean Russia's Catholic Church has com- more than 30 years, was give to the Soviet plained to President Yeltsin after riot metal firm after being closed and ranpolice broke up a sit-in by Catholics at a sacked in 1935 under the rule of Josef disputed Moscow church, leaving several Stalin. priests and nuns injured and arrested.

Although Catholics have been allowed Archbishop Kondrusiewicz, Moscow- to use its basement and first-floor room based apostolic administrator for Euro- since the fall of 1993, Masses with large pean Russia, told Yeltsin to "ensure jus- congregations had to be celebrated outtice" by protecting Catholic rights and side the locked main entrance. maintaining state promises to return Archbishop Kondrusiewicz, in an open Catholic churches confiscated under com- letter to Yeltsin published, said the new munism. opportunities for spiritual rebirth in RusThe incident was caused by Catholic sia still face major obstacles. anger at the government's failure to return Two years have passed since Yeltsin all of Immaculate Conception Church to ordered the return of church properties worshipers, said the archbishop. but "repeated promises" by local authoriPolice forcibly removed Catholics from ties remain "only on paper," said Archthe Polish-built church after they tried to bishop Kondrusiewicz. dismantle a barrier between the small The archbishop asked Yeltsin to use his area assigned for worship and the offices authority to resolve the dispute, which has of a major Russian firm that also occupies caused "justified outrage" among the building.

Moscow's 65,000 Catholics.

The church is known as the "Polish The delays in resolving church property church" because of its historical ties to Issues show that anti-Catholic prejudices Moscow's tiny ethnic Polish community. exist, he said.

The neo-Gothic church, built by Polish "Attempts to obtain a big share of mateworkers during the first 10 years of the rial property, placing this above any con-

cern for spiritual renewal, has led to churches being rented out and used for unintended purposes," he added.

"When the return of churches to believers is refused through malicious will, then we should seriously reflect," he said.

In February 1994, after Russian authorities had twice promised to return the church, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzkov decreed that Mosspecprojekt and 25 other companies were to vacate the building.

But the decree was overruled the following month by a government statement postponing the building's return to Catholic control until the end of this year.

Moscow's 65,000 Catholics, mostly young, are grouped into four parishes which share a single functioning church, French Assumptionist-owned St. Louis, adjoining the former Lubyanka prison.

Immaculate Conception, administered

by Belarussian Salesian Father Jozef Zaniewski, is expected to become the city's Catholic cathedral.

It was visited in 1992 by Polish President Lech Walesa and Cardinal Glemp, who celebrated an outdoor Mass there.

D NATIONS (CNS) - The VatiI_PcNia7las objected to the United Nations giving accreditation to Catholics for a Free Choice for the upcoming Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.

Sheri Ann Rickert, an American lawyer on the staff of the Vatican Mission to the United Nations, raised the objection March 15 at the opening session of the preparatory commission for the Sept 4-15 Beijing conference.

A U.N. press release said the objection applied to four chapters of Catholics for a Free Choice, based in the United States, Brazil, Mexico and Uruguay.

-The question of their accreditation to the conference and its preparatory process will be reviewed at a later date," the release said.

Meanwhile, it said, more than 1,300 other nongovernmental organizations, known as NG0s, received provisional approval.

It said the Vatican spokeswoman objected to the fact that Catholics for a Free Choice organizations use "Catholic" in their name but oppose positions of the Catholic Church,

In an opening address, she said that the draft Platform for Action being prepared for Beijing sets forth more than 200 proposed actions "to address poverty, decision-making, violence against women, economic empowerment, health, education, women's human rights, the media and the environment."

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including its position on abortion.

She was reported as saying that such groups are not authentically Catholic and so do not merit recognition as such.

The Vatican is represented at the preparatory meeting by a 12-member delegation headed by Archbishop Renato It Martino, permanent observer at the U.N. headquarters In New York.

In 1993, Catholics for a Free Choice was denounced by the U.S. bishops' 50-member Administrative Committee, which said the group "merits no recognition or support as a Catholic organization" and is funded mostly by non-Catholic sources.

In other actions on the opening day, Patricia Licuanan of the Philippines was chosen to chair the Commission on the Status of Women, which is serving as the preparatory body for the Beijing Conference.

Gertrude Mongella, a U.N. assistant secretary general who heads the Division for the Advancement of Women, is general secretary for the conference.

'The most critical of all decisions here and in Beijing will be the institutional and financial arrangements that enable and motivate institutions to carry out the platform's mandate," she said.

The conference general secretary said that despite the efforts of past women's conferences the world still faces the challenge that "500,000 women die every year - that is, one every minute of pregnancy -related causes that could be prevented almost completely with basic, comprehensive reproductive health care, including family planning services." Previous conferences have been held In Mexico City in 1975; Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1980; and Nairobi, Kenya, in 1985.

Leaders are afraid to stand up to Serbs claim

LAN, ITALY (CNS) - World leaders M are unable to end the fighting in BosniaHerzegovina because they are afraid to

stand up to the Serbs, says Cardinal Puljic of Sarajevo.

Bosnian Serb leaders are "responsible before God and the world for many tragedies."

"I have no confidence in any political strategy because the powerful of the world speak on their knees to those who are armed, to those who want war," Cardinal Puljic said.

"By this current behavior, 20th-century civilization is being destroyed," he added.

Bosnia's minority Catholic community, mostly Croats, is also having problems with the more numerous Muslim community, he said.

"Muslim radicalism is constantly gaining a greater foothold at the expense of Catholics," said the cardinal.

"There are zones in Sarajevo, controlled by Muslim militias, where Catholics are not even given a house," he said.

Catholics are asking "why their politicians do not protect and help them," said Cardinal Puljic.

Two weeks earlier, he issued a joint statement with Bishop Franjo Komarica of Banja Luka in Serb-controlled Bosnian territory criticizing world leaders and the international press for aiding the Serbs.

"The mass media, by failing to inform the public, have greatly assisted those who commit evil and violence, allowing them to continue unhindered and unpunished," the statement said.

News organizations, "perhaps unintentionally, place themselves on the side of the criminal," it said.

"It is impossible to comprehend the indifference and inertia of the domestic and international politicians with the greatest responsibility, who despite knowing what is happening to the innocent and peace-loving civilians of this territory, have failed to take effective action to stop the ongoing serious crimes against humanity," it said.

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Thousands want to be Catholic W

ASHINGTON (CNS) - Tens of thousands of men, women and children declared their intention to become Catholic in diocesan ceremonies across the USA during the first few days of Lent.

More than 1,400 catechumens and candidates came forward in the Phoenix diocese, more than 1,400 in the Cincinnati archdiocese. in Philadelphia archdiocese had more than 1,200: Seattle, 1,100: Atlanta, 1,000.

Even smaller dioceses had numbers in the hundreds. Manchester had 437, Portland and Maine, 382, Salt Lake City more than 500.

There were 125 in St. Cloud. 182 in Lafayette, 330 in Greensburg, 642 in Fort Worth. and 762 in Austin.

The diocesan numbers often represent only twothirds or three- fourths of the total number as many others go through the ceremony at their parish.

"My daughter's taking first Communion this year.

That's my incentive," said David Vaughn, one of 581 candidates and catechumens in Kansas City diocese.

A high school teacher, he is joining the church this Easter after attending Mass for nine years with his wife, Shelly.

In the diocese of Camden, the 476 in this year's ceremonies were about 50 more than last year and 100 more than in 1993.

Father Philip Murnion of the National Pastoral Life Center in New York calls the revived catechumenate

one of the major signs of hope in the church today.

Some 163,000 adults were initiated into the church in 1994, he said. That is more than double the 75,000 adults who joined in 1974, when people were just starting to implement the RC1A, and it has surpassed the previous peak figures for adult conversions in the years before the Second Vatican Council.

Correspondents in 28 dioceses who responded to a Catholic News Service inquiry reported a total of just under 18,000 catechumens and candidates who participated in diocesan ceremonies on or near the first Sunday of Lent.

Reports from 15 dioceses that included a breakdown by category, candidates outnumbered catechumens by about 2-to-1 overall, but the ratios varied considerably from one place to another.

In the Atlanta area Archbishop John F. Donoghue held four ceremonies in different churches this year in place of the single ceremony in recent years at the Atlanta Civic Center or Georgia World Congress Center. It has been years since the newcomers, their sponsors and their families were few enough to fit into a single church.

Among other dioceses reporting figures were Brooklyn, 871: Boston, 462: Pittsburgh, 935; Joliet. Ill., 654; and Rockford, III., 454.

Nun taught jazz legend UHILADELPHIA (CNS) - Jazz legend Lionel Hampton started out as a drummer and it was a Dominican nun who introduced him to music.

Hampton, 81, who worked with Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman as far back as the 1930s, is best known for his virtuosity on the vibraphone.

"Father Stephen Eckert, a Franciscan, was forming a drum and bugle corps for the boys at Holy Rosary Academy. Sister Petra, a Dominican Sister, was in charge of the music. I applied for the drums, and right from the start she taught me all the rudiments, like scales and all, for the drums."

Hampton had a tough time at first because "I always wanted to play the drums from the right side: the correct way is from the left side." he said. "She used to beat my knuckles all the time to make me play right. The way she taught me is the way I play today. I play with the same ideals she gave me then."

Hampton told the story of his personal musical epiphany during an appearance at a jazz concert in January honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at West Philadelphia's Episcopal Cathedral Church of the Savior.

Born in Birmingham, Ala., but raised in Chicago, Hampton said it was his grandmother who placed him at Holy Rosary.

"The schools were pretty rough in Chicago at the time. They had a lot of trouble in education and there were gang wars, and the kids weren't doing anything.

"My grandmother found out about this school in Corliss and the next thing I knew, I was up in that school."

Baptized and confirmed Catholic. Hampton continued his education at Chicago's St. Elizabeth School after leaving Holy Rosary, because "my grandmother would never let me go to public school," he said. At St. Elizabeth, "I was raised by the Blessed Sacrament Sisters," he said.

Hampton, who still travels with a 17-piece orchestra, has received the Kennedy Center Achievement in the Arts award as well as 16 honorary degrees from colleges and universities.

He takes special pride in one of them.

"They (the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament) have a university in New Orleans - Xavier University.Igot a doctor's degree from there about five years ago," he said. "I'd like to come back here (to Philadelphia) and play for the Blessed Sacrament Sisters sometime."

Feeling like a newborn...

AYS, Kan. (CNS) — Agnesian return to Russia in March along maybe find two litres of paint," SisSister Lucy Ann Wasinger says with a fourth member of their com- ter Wasinger said. her first year living in Siberia with munity, Sister Deborah Golias.

The situation is distressing two fellow Sisters of St. Agnes made "I expected the culture and people because "that is not why I came to her feel "like a newborn." to be more rustic, crude and much Russia," she said. "But in the process "I had to learn how to walk, how less civilized," Sister Wasinger said. I learned much about the culture to talk, how to run to catch the bus, "What I saw was a First World coun- and the wonderful people." how to sleep, how to write and even try with a terribly broken economy."

Sister Schippers, who ministers to how to pray," said the 74-year-old The sisters have encountered the elderly and homebound, said nun. "I was just like a newborn." their own economic frustration her inability to communicate was Sister Wasinger and Sisters Mary when trying to repair a 35-year-old the most difficult adjustment.

Ann Schippers and Mary Elise house to live in, and the church.

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TATICAN CITY V (CNS) - What Catholics and ASHINGTON (CNS) - Just punch up "God" and urged him to "call your vocations director directly.... So he Lutherans have in "Catholic" if you want to explore a priesthood voca- did." common "is much tion on a computer network A recent message from a man named David Clifton more than what You can reach Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles at: read: "If one is 39, how would one go about looking into divides us," Pope ubys57a/prodigy.com. a vocation? Or has the window closed? I appreciate your J ohn paul told a time."

Cardinal Mahony who is also a helicopter pilot and a meeting of Catholics ham radio buff in his spare time - said he got started surfand Lutherans.

"So I sent him back a message: 'Absolutely not, the wining on computer networks when he signed up with the dow is not closed.

The fact that you're 39 is fine, no probWhile they cannot Prodigy network service a few months ago. lem.'" ignore issues separatSoon after he signed on, he set up his own bulletin ing them they should Scrolling through other parts of the "Catholic" menu in not emphasize those board, "priestly vocations" under the "God" menu and Cardinal Mahony said he finds the discussions Prodigy, issues so much that "Catholic" submenu. there "generally very good." they forget the faith "It's just wonderful," he said as his fingers ran across the they share, the pope "A lot of it is prayer requests. Someone is going to have keyboard of his IBM 486 laptop, flipping through onsaid in reference to an operation, someone has cancer, whatever it might be." screen menus to get to his latest E-mail.

30 years of dialogue between the two His opening message on the board said "we really need Asked about the quality of exchanges on doctrinal or churches. to pray for vocations and work for them, and if anyone moral issues, he said, "What I have been surprised at is has an interest, etc., let me know." how knowledgeable a lot of Catholics are on these issues.

"When we look at what has already Somebody will ask a question and you will get a number He's had about 25 responses so far. been achieved, we of men and women responding to it. I've been very ediA high school senior said he was interested in the fied, actually." have every reason to priesthood but feeling discouraged: He had written to his face the future with The cardinal said he usually goes on-line about 15 to 20 bishop but "other than a nice letter of encouragement confidence grounded minutes every morning and again at night. in faith," the pope I've gotten little information." said.

The cardinal said he informed the young man how to "This stuff is so addictive, I try to limit myself to 15 to 20 He said the key get in touch with his diocesan vocations director and minutes MaXiMUM," he said. moment in the official international Catholic -Lutheran dialogue came in 1986, when scholars from both sides spotlighted the doctrine of justification.

Differences in understanding and explaining the doctrine, particularly WARSAW, Poland (CNS) - II in October 1982 for his "martyrregarding the place of The Polish Catholic who dom of charity." human freedom, was saved from death at Gajowniczek had joined the responsibility and Auschwitz by the future St. Maxigood works in salva- milian Kolbe has died at his home army at age 18 in WWI and tion, were at the heart in Brzeg, Poland, at the age of 93. earned a commendation for his role in the defeat of an invading T ONDON (CNS) - Cardinal Martini of Milan said on the BBC in London that of the churches' Franciszek Gajowniczek, who Bolshevik army in 1920 in a battle Lithe church should be open to allowing married Latin-rite priests in places mutual 16th-century was one of 10 inmates at the Ger- Poles call the "Miracle on the Vis- where the cultural situation would allow it. condemnations.

The cardinal also favoured studying the possibilities of ordaining women as deaman concentration camp slated tula," referring to a Polish river. cons and of allowing Communion for some divorced Catholics in subsequent marThe international for execution in July 1941 in In 1940, then-Sgt. Gajowniczek riages not approved by the church. dialogue commission reprisal for a fellow prisoner's is trying to finalize a escape, was saved when the was captured by German troops Priestly celibacy is a "historical decision which could be changed, but I don't document that would imprisoned Franciscan priest and held for more than five years think it will be wise to change the decision hut to adapt it to the situation of diflead to the lifting of asked camp authorities to let him at Auschwitz and at the Sachsen- ferent people," the cardinal said. hausen camp in Germany. He those condemnations take Gajowniczek's place.

"This has been studied and has been proposed many times, and there is openbore the Auschwitz prisoner tat- ness for this understanding of the different cultural situations in the different conin 1997, the 450th The condemned man, who was too No. 5659 on his left arm for tinents," he said. anniversary of the 40 at the time, later testified that the rest of his life.

Council of Trent's The cardinal later elaborated his celibacy views in a statement issued in Milan. solemn condemna- Father Kolbe knew he had a famThe former soldier, who would He defended the "unquestioned evangelical value of celibacy for the kingdom of tion of a number of ily and that was the reason the describe later his mission as God" while noting that the Latin-rite church already makes "reasonable exceppropositions under- priest made the offer. being to "repay a debt," spent tions" to the rule for "the good of souls or special circumstances." stood by the council The Franciscan priest died on much of his last two decades givRecent examples include ordination of married men who converted to Catholito represent the Aug. 14, 1941, in the underground- ing talks about St. Maximilian, cism after being ministers in non-Catholic churches, said the cardinal's statement. teachings of the starvation cell at Auschwitz. He making a five-city tour of the Priestly celibacy, "even though it is not unchangeable, is destined to last, and Lutheran reformers. was canonized by Pope John Paul United States last January. even the adaptations of this practice, as in the exceptions mentioned above, will

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always be within the policy of sustaining and promoting in the church the presence and expansion of evangelical charisms," it said.

The statement did not mention the other issues in the BBC interview.

The cardinal told the BBC that "in a synod some years ago it was decided to study further the question of women deacons.

Therefore, I would be glad if this could be studied and maybe brought to a good conclusion."

At the 1987 synod on the laity, the possibility of ordaining women deacons was discussed, but the synod's recommendations to the pope contained no explicit request to study the matter.

Communion for divorced Catholics in invalid marriages is "a very serious problem," said Cardinal Martini.

"This problem comes up again and again, and this is a sign that we are not at ease with this problem. We want to give the best possible solution in each case," he said.

"There has been development in the last 20-30 years, and therefore it shall continue," he said, without elaborating.

Lead-up to the Fourth UN Conference on Women in Beijing

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NITED NATIONS (CNS) - The Vatican wants preparation for the Beijing c onference on women to emphasize women's role in the family as well as in other areas of life.

Archbishop Martino, nuncio to the United Nations, quoted Pope John Paul II's World Day of Peace message that "women have a full right to become actively involved in all areas of public life."

The quality of public life depends on people's experience in private life. and "particularly in the family." the archbishop said.

"The world community should be concerned at the growing scandals involving the girl-child from the earliest stages of life, including neglect. physical and sexual abuse, child labor, son preference. prostitution and pornography," he said.

Archbishop Martino also called for the international community to address the issue of women's freedom of conscience.

"There is a reluctance by some in secular societies to recognize that religion can and does play an important positive role in women's lives," he said.

Archbishop Martino emphasized the needs of those in extreme poverty being deprived of such basic services as safe water._ literacy and health care.

"While significant international attention is being given to increasing women's participation in leadership and decision-making, the most basic of needs of so many women are still unattended." he said.

What the Vatican wants

Pope's 1995 kick-off JATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II V began 1995 with a campaign to explain to the world the Catholic Church's teaching on the role of women.

With an eye on the U.N.'s September World Conference on Women, in Beijing, the pope dedicated his Jan. World Peace Day message to women as peacemakers and is following it up with Sunday talks about individual Catholic women who worked for peace in the church and society.

The papal remarks, combined with work by local Catholic leaders and Vatican officials, are laying the foundation for the Vatican's efforts at the U.N. conference.

Alternative MEW DELHI, India (CNS) - Women's groups in New Delhi have published an alternative paper for the U.N.Conference on Women in Beijing in September, saying a government report fails to reflect the "reality of Indian women."

The alternative paper said the government document was "devoid of content" because it failed to identify root causes of the deterioration of the status of Indian women.

"The government paper whitewashes its failure to improve the status of women in the country," said Brinda Karat, general secretary of the All India Democratic Women's Association.

She said the government paper was drafted in an undemocratic manner, neither considering the grass roots nor consulting active women's groups.

The New Delhi women's charter deplored the official document's failure "to challenge global hierarchies," which it said

One Vatican official acknowledges the church would have a tough time making its points in Beijing.

In some feminist circles, the litmus test for an acceptable attitude toward women includes the acceptance of artificial contraceptives and abortion.

The church's opposition to both, along with its ordination of only men to the priesthood, is all the ammunition some groups need to write the church off as chauvinistic.

The Vatican official said the church is concerned that the Beijing meeting truly be a conference about promoting women, not an international rally to push a narrow feminist agenda.

"We are conscious of women's and men's 'right to be different. Consequently, and almost paradoxically, we see a need to affirm a woman's 'right to be a woman,'" said the Vatican position paper for the European preparatory meeting.

In each of the five regional meetings held in late 1994, Catholic input emphasized church teaching that women and men have an equal dignity and equal human rights.

But, said the Vatican's envoy to the UN, Archbishop Martino, "perfection for woman is not being like man, becoming masculine to the point of losing her feminine qualities, but her perfection ... is to be a woman, equal to man but different." Archbishop Martino said, quoting Pope John Paul.

Her unique role is not confined led to "feminization of poverty and redistribution of hunger between men and women."

U.N. programs for raising the economic status of women should be based on land reforms and granting land rights to women, the declaration added.

The Indian women said they want special international conventions to protect the rights of women, agricultural workers and laborers in unorganized sectors, besides equal wages and maternity benefits.

Their declaration urged the Indian government to enact laws to help victims of organized sexual violence by police, paramilitary forces and employers.

The declaration said equal rights and status for women in the family and inheritance rights to matrimonial property will help Indian society move "toward an egalitarian and democratic family system."

TATICAN CITY: Catholic contribuV lions are trying to clear up any lingering suspicions that the Vatican believes that "unique role" of being wife and mother is a woman's only role.

"Women have a full right to become active in all areas of public life; this right must be affirmed and guaranteed, also, where necessary, through appropriate legislation," the message. pope said in his peace

home are needed, Vatican officials added.

At the social summit and in the Beijing preparatory meetings the Vatican also has pushed for governments to recognize the value in monetary equivalents - of the unpaid work performed by women at home.

The push has a twofold aim: to ensure that women who stay at home are not labeled unproductive members of society and to fight any tendency to denigrate childbearing. motherhood and homemaking.

The Vatican has pushed hard for government commitments to mater"A 'liberation' of women consisting nity leave, flexible work hours and in seeing family life and motherhood expanded day-care programs to as a humiliating burden, a handicap enable women to continue earning hazard, is a clearly false liberaor an income while fulfilling their for it neither respects women tion, responsibilities to their families. nor leads to genuine human develPrograms to ease a woman's re- opment," said the Vatican's position entry into the job market after her paper for the European regional children are in school or have left meeting.

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The basics of the virtuous life Do you suppose that a school coach might have told basketballer Muggsy Bogues around the time of 7th Year that he was a great little player but that he shouldn't get his hopes up about being in the big time? I can imagine that. And I can imagine a senior coach making a similar comment to someone like Bogues, though probably with some small reservations.

Eventually, however, I imagine that someone understood what is true - that if Bogues dreamt himself a star and could make dream plays outside the court of his own mind, he could very well land a spot on a national squad.

Perhaps no one - other than Bogues dreamt of a professional basketball career for a man only 63 inches (1.57m) tall. But only one person had to believe it, Bogues.

He asserted his vision, and the professionals bent to his will. And in 1995 the name of this Charlotte Hornets' star

appears regularly in the sports pages.

It was different, many years earlier, with blind and deaf mute Helen Keller. Annie Sullivan, a genius of mind and patience and perseverance, saw a human universe behind the vacant eyes and deaf ears of this child, and knew that the "world out there" could be "brought inside."

Interestingly, Helen Keller's learning to name her world is not really unlike Muggsy Bogues conquering his world. In both cases, what happened began inside with the birth of belief.

Bogues had analyzed the game of basketball. He understood this game and how it worked. And he understood what he could do.

It was that way with Helen Keller too.

Once Annie Sullivan broke open the world, Miss Keller feasted upon it; and having been nourished, she could now nourish others. This is the story we know as "The Miracle Worker."

But let it be said that with both Miss

Shaping: Even Jesus had to prepare for workings of their minds and hearts, one his mission in his particular culture,I am was lifted up, the other cast down. sure. I always say, "That which is wellBoth men looked at the same material done is well-prepared for - even when it r eality.

But they created two realities, two appears to happen by chance." different universes, two different direcPersevering: This is a synonym for "faithfulness." And it is essential, for you tions and two different fates. have to be faithful to your gift from God. I Human beings first live or die in their imagine that Mtq gsy Bogues spent hun- minds. People might expect that I, a psydreds of hours keeping faithful to his gift, chotherapist, would say that! What I believing in it. By persevering, our belief mean is that those who put the mind to that our life has purpose can become a strong use and who have a willing heart dominant force for us. can transform their worlds.

That's why I would say that belief is the Shakespeare was correct when he had beginning and the end of the virtuous life.

Cassius say, "The fault, dear Brutus, is not The person who permits belief to become i n our stars but in ourselves that we are the abiding motivator in life is truly virtuunderlings."

I would translate in this way: ous - and powerful, in the best sense.

The fault, dear Christian, is not in our A poet once wrote: "Two men looked from prison bars, one saw mud, the other God, nor in the tools we are given, nor in the harshness of teachers, or pupils, or stars." spouses or children; it is in ourselves.

Both men, the poet would have us understand, were looking out the same We will mine the greatness the Lord has window at the same scene. Yet in the given each of us. Or we will not.

By Brother Cyprian L Rowe, FMS

Keller and Bogues, the miracle was the believing, the discovering, the shaping and the persevering.

Believing, discovering, shaping and persevering: In the human enterprise, these are ways of trying to fulfill the promise the Lord has given.

Believing: There is no accounting for the value of believing that one's creation was no accident - that we are called to a life that has meaning and purpose. The life of virtue is the life lived in the power of belief.

Discovering: Beyond this, people must consult the mind and the heart to find out what their specific meaning is. Attentive prayer - the kind of prayer that helps reveal us to ourselves and helps us to affirm what we discover: This along with the sensitive counsel of others we respect helps us discover what the Lord intends.

The survival of faith and hope

By Fr Herbert Weber

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while visiting my brother's family on the East Coast, I took my two nephews to their favourite beach. Both boys were good swimmers.

We were riding the waves and trying to catch "the big one" when suddenly the lifeguard entered the water and rushed past me, negotiating his way through the waves to help a swimmer caught by the strong undertow.

Much to my dismay, the swimmer in trouble was Scott, the younger of my two nephews.

That episode occurred in the early 1980s, but it came back to me recently when I went scuba diving with Scott, now a young man finishing college.

Instead of letting the undertow sour him on water sports, Scott became even more determined to be good in the water. In the years that fol-

lowed, he became a lifeguard, certified diver and even secured a job in underwater work.

The image of struggling to regain composure after being swept away by a vicious undertow applies to many aspects of life. It is important not to allow the undertow to control or demoralize us.

This analogy applies especially to men and women cultivating the virtues of hope and faith. To experience a particular crisis of belief or some moments of near despair does not necessarily mean that the virtues themselves are lost.

After Larry, a young father of two, lost his job, he feared he was losing faith. He felt worthless and hated to rely on his wife's income.

He tried to pray for strength, but sometimes didn't even know how to pray. It surprised him to find how empty he felt in regard to God. For a few weeks Larry's desperation led him to hang out at

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On one occasion he met a group of shepherds in the employ of one Nabal.

They feared that his rough and ready followers might rough them up. But to their delight, they found David and his men hospitable and protective.

Hospitality, by the way, was among the most valued virtues in the culture of the clay.

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By Fr John Castelot Nabal how kind they had been to his defenceless shepherds. It was shearing time, a time of general festivity, and David asked if triey could share in the conviviality that marked the season.

But Nabal wouldn't even listen; he spoke insultingly of David as a runaway slave. The Bible describes Nabal as "wealthy, (but) harsh and ungenerous."

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Before David became king, he led a sort of Robin Hood existence, wandering about with his band of faithful followers.

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Now see what you can do, for you must realize that otherwise evil is in store for our master and for his whole family. He is so mean that no one can talk to him" (1 Samuel 25:1417).

They knew that David could not just take this insult and do nothing. A man's honour was a prized virtue in those days, and an insult to honour had to be avenged.

The whole household was in mortal peril.

Abigail proved to be a besmirching his conwoman of outstanding science with an act of viovirtue - wise, enterprising, lence. courageous.

Quickly and quietly she Here was a virtuous formed a little caravan woman: wise, brave, diploladen with all sorts of provisions, and she started out matic, willing to risk everyto intercept David and his thing. advancing forces.

David was deeply When the two groups met, she alighted from the Impressed (she was also burrow on which she rode, fell at David's feet very attractive) and, when shortly thereafter Nabal and, quite literally, put her life on the line. died as a result of his unreAcknowledging that David strained debauchery, was destined for greatness, she prayed that he would David asked Abigail to not spoil it by marry him. She accepted.

a local bar. But the alcohol only seemed to make matters worse, and he quit that.

Eventually, his faith started to return. He assured me it was not because of anything spectacular: no visions or miracles.

Instead, it was the regular practice of attending church and of saying prayers with his family that started to help him.

Larry said he rediscovered his faith. I suspect it never was lost. There's a big difference between losing fatih and experiencing its ebb and flow.

In the same way, having the virtue of hope does not mean people never will struggle of wonder what God's plan for them might be.

For some, the struggle occurs when a senseless tragedy is experienced, like the death of a child in an auto accident. Faith may get the parents through the crisis.

However, it is not unusual for faith to waiver at such a time.

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sense.

At other times, however, the setbacks in faith seem to come for no apparent reason. I have known people who somehow seem to have lost sight of God in their lives or have forgotten how to hope in God. Amazingly, such snags in the development of faith can happen at the same time progress is being made in career, education or other aspects of life.

It is almost as if faith takes a back seat while energy is being refocused elsewhere.

In short, remember that a life of virtue is not necessarily a life without some setbacks or struggles. As happened when the undertow took my nephew into dangerous waters, such episodes may require some assistance from others.

For the committed person, however, it is necessary to get back into the water.

Food for thought

Talking Point HIS week's discussion point: TWhat virtue would aid you most

of faith faltering, especially when things aren't working out. It takes real faith sometimes to believe that God hasn't abandoned you." - Kevin Sexton.

right now? Why? Selected responses from readers: "Patience ... helps me focus on "Perseverance, because it would what's most important rather than just what's impending." - Brian enable me to keep going and not lose hope.... We all have our days in Brianda. the furnace when we are tested like gold." - Margaret Whetham.

"It would have to be love. If you "Patience.... If we're patient, we let truly love other people then all things become possible.... You can God have more control of our lives." be motivated to do what they need. - Bill Grzelak.

You can have the barriers - fear, "The older I get, the more IunderInsecurity, lack of trust - that somestand the importance of the contimes come between people discepts of mercy and justice.... All peosolve." - Richard McGinnis. ple on earth are my brothers and "Faith.... We all face the problem sisters." - Shirley Cox.

FRTUES "forge character" in us, the Catechism of the V Catholic Church says (No. 1810).

That sounds good. I'm sure most people want to be recognized as having "character."

Actually, we tend to link virtues to character. We'll say, "It's in his character to be hopeful," or "She's a decidedly prudent woman."

Of course, you'll also hear, "It was out of character for him to act so impatiently." If we categorize patience as a human virtue, does that sort of statement suggest that people fall in and out of virtue?

Not exactly. But I suspect that to speak of someone "having a virtue" does not mean the person has that virtue in finished form.

Virtues are good habits. Virtues show up in attitudes, dispositions (Catechism, No. 1804), making it easier to do what is good (No. 1810), allowing us to give the best of ourselves (No. 1803).

Still, "having a virtue" doesn't mean we always give the best of ourselves, as though we were on automatic pilot. Sometimes the patience of a patient person gets tested, in other words.

It's not easy "to maintain moral balance," the catechism acknowledges. So we need to "persevere in the pursuit of the virtues" (No. 181 1).

There's always room to grow - room for virtue to expand. David Gibson.

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ERSAILLES, France (CNS) The bishop of Versailles has withdrawn his approval of the French version of a modern Bible that has sparked complaints of antiSemitism from Jewish leaders.

Bishop Thomas, who also wrote a preface for the French edition of the "Christian Community Bible," asked the publishing company to remove all copies still on sale and to ensure that remarks considered anti-Semitic are expunged from the second edition, currently under preparation.

The Jewish complaints were about the footnotes and commentaries, not the Bible text, and a Vatican official has said the material fails to reflect Second Vatican Council teaching.

This Bible was prepared and translated by two priests from the Versailles diocese, Fathers Bernard and Louis Hurault, primarily for use among grass-roots communities and working-class Catholic groups.

It has sold an estimated 18 million copies in Spanish and English in Latin

America, the Philippines, South Korea linked in part to its entire history," and other countries. says one of the commentaries.

Father Bernard Hurault, a former This "fanaticism" and belief in the missionary in Chile now working in promised land had led to the excesses Taiwan, wrote the Spanish version of Zionism, said the commentary. while in Latin America to counter the Jewish customs and rituals are proselytism of the growing Protestant described as "folkloric duties involvchurches in the region. ing circumcision and hats."

His brother, Father Louis Hurault, This Bible was first published in works in a poor suburb south of Paris France last year by a publishing house and prepared the French-language controlled by the International edition.

Catholic Bible Society, an organizaJewish leaders complained to the tion created by the Society of St. Paul.

Vatican about the footnotes and com- It has sold 40,000 copies in France and mentaries, saying they reflected a Belgium. viewpoint and language out of step Bishop Pierre Duprey, vice president with Vatican II. of the Vatican commission, wrote to The footnotes and commentaries Bishop Thomas expressing Vatican accuse the Jews of deicide, describe complaints about the footnotes and them as fanatics and say that circum- commentaries. cision for the early Judeo-Christians Dominican Father Remi Hoeckman, was considered a good way of making secretary of the Vatican commission, business contacts. confirmed Vatican involvement in the "For centuries, the Christian people situation. have spoken of the Jews as the people "A lot of elements don't conform to that killed God. This was true in a the teachings of the Second Vatican sense, because this people had not Council on Jews and Judaism," said been able to control its fanaticism, Father Hoeckman.

ANCHESTER, England (CNS) - A former Anglican priest has been ordained to the Roman Catholic clergy at the age of 91.

Father Harold Riley, ordained in mid-February by Cardinal George Hume of Westminster, is believed to be the oldest man ever to enter the Catholic priesthood.

He had been a priest in the Church of England since 1927, when Cardinal Hume was 4 years old.

Father Riley said that he had always been interested in the "Catholic" side of the Anglican Church.

"I always worked for Catholic things. I had hopes that the Church of England might develop more along that line and restore the faith to the people of England," he said.

In recent years the Church of England has been moving in a different way, he said.

Father Riley added that no longer felt able to go along with it.

"The one ambition I've had in my life is to be a priest, and so I was delighted when the cardinal was willing that I could be ordained" in the Catholic Church, he said.

Father Colin Davies, a priest at the parish church where Father Riley was ordained by Cardinal Hume, praised his new colleague.

Father Riley will not be celebrating Mass regularly, but may occasionally preach, said Father Davies.

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RIS (CNS) - French bishops ire i. distancing themselves from ousted Bishop Jacques Gaillot for what they say is his exploitation of a Vatican invitation to resume dialogue.

Although many bishops remain unhappy about the ousting of Bishop Gaillot as head of the Evreux diocese and about the fact that they were not consulted beforehand, they disagree with the interpretation he has given to the Vatican offer.

Bishop Gaillot, now living in a Paris building taken over by homeless families, has told journalists that Pope John Paul II agreed to meet him because of the support he has received from priests and lay Catholics since his dismissal.

"The pope does not act under pressure," said Father Jean-Michel Di Falco, bishops' conference spokesman after a meeting of the bishops' execu-

I ATICAN CITY (CNS) - The number of V priests worldwide decreased in 1993 say Vatican statistics, reflected in the drop in new ordinations.

tive council and the heads of the country's regional bishops' conferences.

Conference sources said the mood was one of animosity toward Bishop Gaillot and his well-publicized statements.

"Jacques Gaillot gives the impression that the pope is ready to receive him because there have been demonstrations, letters and various reactions here and there," Father Di Falco said.

"If he continues in this vein, there are reasons for concern.

Without belittling those who express their views, the government of the church and the pope do not act in response to the letters they receive," he said.

The Gaillot affair has attracted a heavy amount of mail, Father Di Falco said, but many of the letters contained crude and racist insults about Cardinal Gantin, the black African head of the Vatican Congregation for Bishops,

who informed Bishop Gaillot that he was being removed from his diocese.

Only in "a climate of confidence" and mutual respect for each other's role could a meeting between the pope and the bishop take place, Father Di Falco said.

"It is not an invitation by the pope, but a response to a request made by Archbishop Duval," Father Di Falco said.

Father Di Falco said the bishops were not divided over the Gaillot affair.

Some bishops who initially expressed reservations about the Vatican's position had retracted them, he said.

Many bishops were angry that Bishop Gaillot staked out a position as the representative of the poor and the marginalized, said Father Di Falco.

"The church has never, in centuries, abandoned its preferential option for the poor," he said.

At the same time, the steady increase in the number of seminarians has given church leaders hope for the future, said a Vatican statement.

The Vatican said the number of priests who died or left the priesthood in 1993 was greater than the number of new ordinations. In the years from 1989-92, the number of priests had increased - a source of deep satisfaction at the Vatican.

The number of priests who died in 1993 was the highest in 17 years. At the same time, the number of ordinations suffered a "sharp decrease" for the first time since 1979.

On the other hand, the number of major seminarians continued to rise, with an increase of 1.68 percent in 1993. Since 1978, the year in which Pope John Paul was elected, the number has increased 65.5 percent, from 72,670 to 103,709, the statement said.

The Vatican statement expressed hope that these numbers will mean a consistent increase in new ordinations over the coming years.

What Catholic youths want SAN JOSE, Calif. (CNS) - Catholic youths want more relevant homilies, Bible study and more opportunities to discuss issues that affect them such as drugs, sex and family problems, they told Bishop R. Pierre DuMaine of San Jose.

February with Catholic teenagers and young adults in his diocese.

homilies that relate to their everyday experiences.

The bishop - who held 15 dialogue sessions with lay parish leaders last year - also plans to meet with groups of students from local colleges and universities in the future.

An invitation to participate more in a variety of ministries in parishes, especially in liturgical ministry.

Continuing a consultation process he began months ago, the bishop met in

The teenagers told Bishop DuMaine that their needs included: More relevant

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An opportunity to discuss and deal with issues which particularly affect their lives today, such as drugs, gangs, sexuality, pregnancy, abortion, broken

families, blended families, decisions about careers and relationships.

Bible study to help those in public schools who are challenged by fellow students who are Protestant and wellschooled in the Bible.

The young adults told the bishop that they had a strong sense of personal faith but were searching for ways to make their faith relevant in the world.

Telling young about the lAin sexuality ing about how young people are thinking, and preparing to act in their own lives.

Grappling with big decisions such as whether to engage in relationships, indulge in casual sex or remain virgins, is often made easier when one gauges the attitudes of their peer group in such discussion forums.

And one very reassuring aspect which does emerge, is that virgins still exist and are applauded by other peers for this choice!

It also gives the young people a chance to listen to the views of the opposite sex and realise what they appreciate in a male or a female.

According to Christina, as a result of these instructive talks and sessions, the majority of ducation of school age adolescents is an students, whom she very much admires important side to the work of The Natural because of their thoughtfulness and intelliFamily Planning centre at 29 Victoria Square gence, now further armed with knowledge, which belongs to the Australia wide organisa- tend to re-think their own values and are tion of the Australian Council of Natural Fam- slower to rush into situations which most ily Planning, and which has been set up under realise will have a profound effect on their the auspices of the Catholic Archdiocese of lives.

Conceding that the Church's teachings on Perth. seem to have little impact on them at morality Its educative role, apart from the obvious serthis stage, they do nevertheless have their own vice educators give to families, also includes moral standards as regards how their actions going into schools when invited to give talks to adversely affect another in their may hurt or students in Years Ten and upwards. dealings with each other, observes Christina.

The program agenda embraces natural famThe facts she gives them also serve to clarify ily planning (a method of family planning situations by making them aware of the danwhich involves being aware of the women's fertility and avoiding or targetting that time), gers and pitfalls of careless sexual behaviour balanced information about contraceptives, and highlights the fact that they cannot guarand 'care of fertility' - healthy sexual behav- antee a non-pregnancy or aquisition of an STD unless they say No! or stick with the one sexiour. ual partner throughout life.

Christina Graves is one such educator whose Abortion is covered, life after abortion for typical sessions would cover a wide area from anatomy right through to sexual behaviour those who've had one, and living with STD's.

Anonymous testimonies are also given of stuand the reality of pregnancy and sexually dents who've made the right or the wrong transmitted diseases today.

With broad social acceptance today of lax decisions, and their resultant joys, or regrets.

Christina quoted one year 12, whom we'll sexual mores on the part of adults and young people, students are being called to make call Jacquie. decisions on a sexual lifestyle which was once She and her Year 12 boyfriend had discussed rarely an issue prior to marriage. the pro's and con's of having a sexual relationThat being the case, the role of Christina and ship and Jacquie had consulted her parents others like her, is to tell young people the facts who gave her their "one hundred percent supabout their own sexuality and the repercus- port!" sions of inappropriate sexual activity.

Still unsure, Jacquie rang up Christina at the It's not simply information put out by an edu- centre several times, obviously not certain cator, but also, after input, there is a session what decision to make but Christina's role was time, plus questionnaire which is also reveal- not to advise but merely present the facts.

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Mabo ruling pleases 'The heads of the Anglican Roman 1 . Catholic and Uniting Churches have applauded the High Court decision which ruled the WA Government's Land (Titles and Traditional Usage) Bill 1993 invalid.

Many church organisations have actively opposed the State Government's Land (Titles and Traditional Usage) Bill 1993, which extinguished Native Title in WA.

reparations are well advanced Sister PaulaQuinn; and Larissa "Today the High Court has made a strong P for the Catholic Womens League Knowles, a student at Notre Dame and unequivocal decision. Now is the time Australia national conference that Australia University. and co-operation

takes place this year in WA. The conference which takes place at Aquinas College October 8-13 opens with a Cathedral Mass celebrated by Archbishop Hickey.

Keynote speaker for the conference whose theme is Women of Hope in the Year of Tolerance, Dr Sheila Cassidy, medical director of St Lukes's Hospice Plymouth, England.

While working among Chile's poor, she wasarrested,charged with treating wounded opponents of the Pinochet regime, imprisoned and tortured.

Other speakers will be Bishop Quinn of Bunbury; Fr.Brian Gore, Columban director who suffered imprisonment in the Philippines; Carole Carroll, campaigner for assistance to full-time mothers comparable with that given to working mothers; Fr Paul Fogarty, rector of St Charles's Seminary; Presentation

for constructive talking The Premier of Western Australia between Federal and State governments. It and the City of Perth will hold provides a window of opportunity to work receptions for the delegates.

In a constructive way to address Aboriginal The conference is led by the economic injustice" said Anglican Archnational executive which currently bishop Carnley. is vested in WA and for the first The Moderator of the Uniting Church, time has been sited in a country Mrs. Lillian Hadley said "It is time we all town, in this case Busse1ton.

It could be as long as 14 years recognised that Native Title is not about losbefore Western Australia again ing something but about gaining something hosts the national executive and the priceless - valuing the dignity of Australia"s national conference of the Catholic indigenous people and recognising their Womens League, Australia. prior ownership of this land which we now During 1994 submissions to Parlia- share". ment from the national executive at "The just and speedy resolution of Native BusseIton included: Title is in everybody's interests" said Arch• review of privacy guidelines in bishop Hickey. "I hope that all concerned the conduct of medical research; will now work together in a national • in vitro and embryo transplanta- approach to settle the question of title, tion guidelines; beyond politics, and beyond vested inter• R classification. Pay TV. Media ests. The ftnal outcome should be reconciliethics. ation and the restoration of the rightful • Computer Bulletin Boards. place of indigenous people in society".

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The couple who loved each other and wanted to go to university together, decided they would commence a sexual relationship.

However, distraught, and saying she wasn't ready for a sexual relationship, Jacquie and her boyfriend had to go to a medico the next day accompanied by her mother to obtain a 'morning after' pill.

The whole experience had been shattering for the young girl who was given the okay by her parents, but couldn't handle the traumatic emotional repercussion.

As Christina pointed out, often the parents are confused with permissive trends, and are unsure of what advice to give their children because their own base is not always sound.

"They also frequently don't know the effects sexual activity will have on their children."

Although some students are sexually active, others make a decision to delay sexual activity. possibly till after marriage and when they discover that there are other virgins still around, "they feel good about themselves and it gives them encouragement to be more discerning."

In Christina's view, through this sex education students realise the worth of themselves and their bodies, and the importance and profound significance of sexual decisions they make, which can affect them for the rest of their lives.

"By and large," Christina maintains, their sessions are very well received, so if any schools are interested, would they please contact Christina at the Natural Family Planning centre on 221-3866.

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yberspace surfing is currently the rage at St Charles' Seminary at Guildford.

Through the library computer students have opened up personal accounts on the Internet Highway.

As wellas the students' addresses, the seminary itself has itsown Internet Intemet address.

If you would like to E-Mail St Charles' Seminary the Internet address is Stchrsem@Perth.DIALixoz.au.

Through Internetstudents are able to contact other Catholic institutions throughout the world for little more than the price of a local phone call.

As well as this, other valuable information is only a keyboard and a modem away.

For example, a student can access the library catalogue of Notre Dame University inIndianaina matter of a couple of minutes, as well as download journal articles from sites all over the world.

Some students have taken to becoming evangelists of cyberspace. Is this the beginning of a 'New' ministry?

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OBITUARY Father Vernon Thomas, who died aged 81 last week, had spent the last eight years as a Catholic priest after a lifetime in the Anglican ministry in Bournemouth, England, moving to Australia in 1980.

It was his 73rd birthday on November 23 1 986 when Archbishop Hickey ordained him in t he chapel of the Little Sisters of the Poor at tHendalough where he spent the next three years as chaplain before retiring to live with his daughter Mrs Margaret Clare, returning to the Home last year and where his funeral Mass took place on March 17.

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to the Editor from Peter BERTOLA, Gairdner.

Sir, I congratulate Patricia Barnett and Paul lzzett of Albany (The Record Feb 9) for attending the World Youth Day convention in Manila and their stories of the faith of Filipinos.

These reminded me of childhopod days of our northern Italian village life - very poor in materials but with a constancy of faith.

From my experience the essential for this faith development is primarily the result of utterly dedicated motherhood. It is from the

mother that a child is nurtured bodily and spiritually, loved, taught and transmitted by the one most suited, so God-ordained, so natural.

There is an everlasting spiritual umbilical cord from mother to child.

Our Western ways and sheer materialism impede and erode this union. We lose the c apacity to love, replaced by fleeting pleasures and unsatiated feelings.

Good on you, Patricia and Paul!

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National worker Australian Young Christian Students Movement has e mployed a second National Worker for 1995.

The National Worker from 1994, Jackie Mott will continue to work for the A.Y.C.S from the National office in Adelaide along with the new National Worker.

This person is me and my name is Carla Lynx.

I am from the Mary MacKillop Ballajura Community and I have worked for the Perth Y.C.S Movement for one year in 1994.

As well as being a worker I was involved in Y.C.S for many years as a student who attended Servite College.

I value the leadership skills I have gained and the Review of Life method which helps me relate Christ and his teachings to my every day life.

All that I have learnt from the Y.C.S has allowed me to attain the position as the National Y.C.S Worker.

I also treasure the many special life time friendships I have made across Australia.

The unique quality the Y.C.S has is the fact that it is a student run Movement, run for students and by students.

It is students reaching out to their fellow peers and taking action to change our world for the better.

Belonging to the Y.C.S has shown me the important role I play in the Church and civic community.

While in Perth I hope to work closely with key leaders in the Movement, adult assistants and the Perth workers.

I also hope to meet more students and share with them the experiences I have had and the knowledge I have gained from the Movement.

I am grateful to Archbishop Hickey and Monsignor Keating for allowing me to use 459 Hay Street as a base for the National Y.C.S office.

I hope I can be of service to all students in the Perth Diocese, especially while I'm in Perth.

Take Care.

Carla Lynx, National Y.C.S., Australia

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Faith in YCW...

Perth movement gathers strength, it would be easy to lose sight jufTHE the basic beliefs and values of YCW. bible study group and it is not

YCW is not a social youth group, it is not a an artificial environment for young people to practice their faith.

YCW is a collective of young workers who celebrate their Faith through ordinary everyday acts.

Our actions are based on our Christian beliefs making faith a very real and vital part of our lives.

YCW's starting point is the reality of the young worker, it is the effect of daily situations on young workers that we work with. We listen to workers stories, we ask them to reflect on their experience and how it contradicts with their faith and we offer support as they search for actions to change the situation.

YCW does not stop there, once an action is completed it is important to evaluate and then celebrate the action.

YCW is an ongoing process, when the action is followed through the situation changes and creates a new situation, we reflect on this situation and see if it contradicts with what our faith says and we keep creating action that in some way unite our Faith and our reality.

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1. (Left rear) Karen Mills and John Italian° with 4. Helping at the bar for the 6.30 am St Shandra Moran and Marc Reader.

Patrick's Day Rosie O'Grady's breakfast, was Mine Host proprietor Maurice Brockwell. 'Tis 2. Brian and Kath Power with Celtic Club prestrue they were drinking Guinness Stout - at ident John Devine, wife Frances, Lorraine Court breakfast! and Sir Charles Court 5. Opera singer Mary Attracta Connolly 3. (Left) Sally Desmond, co-organiser of the delighting Celtic Club patrons with her rendinight Conor Horgan, Dr Felix McKnight, Presi- tion in gaelic of Roisin Dubh at the pre-St dent of the Australian Irish Heritage Assoc., Patrick's night Opera in the Club dinner last c,4 Gabrielle O'Connor and LeIla Page.

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3. Bishop Healy, chief celebrant of the St Patrick's Day highlight the Subiaco Mass, which overflowed with Irish and lovers of the Irish. Pictured with him is PP Father Holmes and delightful year old Rosie Donnelly from Ballajura with mother Madeleine.

4. Beautiful wide-eyed 8 months old Bethany Hill with brother Liam and mother Shama at the St Patrick's Day breakfast at the Irish Club.

5. Some of the St John of God Sisters who turned out in force at the St Patrick's Day Mass at Subiaco - (left) Sisters Tarcisius, Carthage, Fedelma, Dionysius, Osmond, Madaleine and Ita. MORE ST PATS PHOTO'S NEXT WEEK!

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PARISEr SCENrE AUSTRAUAN HYMN BOOK Rev. Dr D'Arcy Wood, one of the representing c ommittee Anglican, Churches of Christ, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic and Uniting Churches in Australia currently working on a revision of the Australian Hymn will introduce some of the music currently being assessed for inclusion, in two sessions at the Willetton Uniting Church, 16 Herald Avenue, Willetton (off High Road) on Friday March 31 at 7.30pm, and Saturday April 1 from 9 - 11.45am. $5 to cover cost of the booklet required, and refreshments.

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Week 3: "Healing Through Forgiveness". Week 4: "The Holy Spirit & His Gifts".

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Ikek 6: "Righteousness". litek 7: "The Authonry of the believer".

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Week 15: "The Great Commission".

PURCELL MUSIC The Madrigal Singers, directed

by Joan Hind, will present a concert to commemorate the 300th Anniversary of the death of the great English composer Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695), at the Chapel of St. Michael the A rchangel, Ruislip St. Leederville, on Friday March 31 at 8pm and Sunday April 2 at 2.30pm. The singers, with Brass and Timpani Ensemble, will perform Music For The Funeral of Queen Mary by Purcell. Also the masterpiece Miserere Mei Deus

by Gregorio Allegri which was written for the papal choir and traditional sung during Holy Week.

Tickets: Adults $15.

Concessions $10 available from The Madrigal Singers on 4577556 or 446-4284.

3 Retreat Weekends

Are essential to the Seminar & occur at week 5: week 10: & week Cost determined by Numbers A Ventre.

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Enquiries: 382 3668 Flame Ministries International An organisation n the Catholic Church serving the Body of Christ

Flame Ministries International

Presents a Ten Week Series on St. Paul's Letter to Ephesus, Chapter 6

"THE COVENANT ARMOUR OF GOD" S

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St. Mary's Cathedral Prayer Meeting Cathedral Parish Centre.

450 Hay Street, Perth.

The Date: 7.45pm. Each Thursday from April 6th to June 8th 1995.

The Programme:

CLARKSON MASS TIME Saturday 6.30 at Anglican Church, Ocean Drive, Quinns Rocks; Sunday 8.30am at Gumblossom Hall, Quinns Rocks; Sunday 11.00am at St James (Anglican Church), Yanchep.

Week 1: "The Covenant Nature Of God".

Week 2: "Christian Authority & the Nature of the Conflict".

Week 3: "The Belt of Truth".

Week 4: "The Breastplate of Righteousness".

Week 5: "The Shoes of the Gospel".

Week 6: "The Shield of Faith".

Week 7: "The Helmet of Salvation".

Week 8: "The Sword of the Spirit".

Week 9: "Prayer Power in the Spirit".

Week 10: "Our Victory in the Name of Jesus".

This Seminar is FREE. (A Love Offering will he taken up to defray costs).

DARDANUP PRAYER April 13 - 16 Reflective time preparation for Easter.

April 23 - 28 Directed retreat with Sr Anne Noonan. R.N.D.M. June 17 - 18 Enneagram, Sr Anne Noonan.

Oct 8 - 14 'Praying with St Francis' Fr Michael Brown, O.F.M. All enquiries for the above to Sr Rita Mary Duffy, R.S.J. Ph: (097)281 148.

INFORMATION (09) 382 3668

MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL

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NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING 221 3866 Country clients welcome. Phone or write.

Phone (008) 11 4010 (local charge) Natural Family Planning Centre 29 Victoria Square Member of the Australian Council of Natural Family Manning Inc.

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CATHOUC NURSES GUILD MEETING on Tuesday March 28 - 7.30pm, at 11 Ellesmere Road, Mt. Lawley. Tel: 272 5471.

ROSARY PILGRIMAGE A nnual Pilgrimage to Rosary Grotto Roy Road, Jindong via Busselton Sunday May 7, Mass 1pm followed by the procession, r osary and Benediction., C ontact Paul Galea (09) 244 2626 Bove (097) 557 554.

25 Blessing of school extensions, Merredin - Bishop Healy 28 Teacher's Mass, St Kieran's Archbishop Hickey 29 Teacher's Mass - Bishop Healy 31 Fr Johnston's Christian Meditation Archbishop Hickey.

Education for Clergy Bishop Healy

7 .30pm. Sat. April 1st. 1995 Aranmore College Hall Cnr. Franklin St. & Oxford St. Leederville.

"Discerning the Body & Blood of the Lord" International Speaker &. Catholic Evangelist

Eddie Russell (fini)

FLAME MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL

A Teaching/Preaching Organization in the Catholic Church Serving the Body of Christ

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PRINCIPALS MICHAEL QUIN & KARLEENA BALLARD PROPERTY SALES - RENTALS - STRATA MANAGERS

SOUTH OF THE RIVER

474 1533 WE CARE! The Anglican Parish of Lake/cods presents the

Fremantle Symphony Orchestra Fremantle Town Hall * Sunday, 9th April 1995 from 3.00pm to 5.30pm Programme includes Carmen Suite - Bizet L'Arlesienne - Bizet Peer Gynt - Grieg S 10 single, 58 concession & 525 family

for-tickets please phone 417 2480 or 4114265

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Pilgrimages 1995

MARCH 24-26 Diocese of W agga Wagga Symposium Archbishop Hickey

A Teaching/Preaching Organization in the Catholic Church Serving the Body of Christ

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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.

Archdiocesan Calendar

FLAME Sex, love and common sense!

Couples making it together through

BUSINESS MASS At All Saints Chapel, Allendale Square, Perth on Friday March 31 at 7am, followed by a breakfast meeting at The Venice Cafe, Trinity Arcade Perth. Cost of Breakfast S8.00. Kerry from A>A> will be the guest speaker.

Enquiries phone 384 0809.

CHESTERTON SOCIETY First meeting of the year on Tuesday March 28 at 7.30pm at Notre Dame University, 19 Mouat St. Fremantle.

A Chesterton Symposium: members read extracts from their favorite Chesterton works and discuss and defend their choice. those All interested in Chesterton are wlecome.

R efreshments provided.

Enquiries 399 1403.

"PASSENGER MACDONALD" Using her mother's maiden n ame, "Mrs MacDonald", Blessed Mary of the Cross, stepped ashore in Albany 122 years ago, off the "Rangatira" f rom Adeliade to join the "Bangalore" for Ceylon and Europe, staying as a local guest house for the night and attending Star of the Sea church then "on the edge of settlement" Albany will commemorate that stopover, April 2/3 1873, on Sunday April 2 with outdoor Mass at 11 am at Residency Museum (special display inside) followed by BYO family picnic.

Further information (098) 411 129.

PRAYERS AND REFLECTIONS Prayers and reflections on April 2 at 1.30pm at the St. Mary's Cathedral will include Rosary by Fr. Benedict on "The Holy E ucharist" Divine Mercy Benediction. As 3.30pm at the Mercy Convent a film "Our Greatest Treasure".

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A few highlights of our programme:

Monthly

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• to Medjugorje *

Easter at Medjugorje - April 11 - 4 nights Rome, 10 nights Medjugorje 14th Anniversary - June 20 - 18 days with Fr. Vin Curran Holy Land - Rome - Medjugorje - 26 days with Fr. Bill Hannon and Leon & Carly LeGrand for $4,490.00, or Rome - Medjugorje for 15 days Medjugorje - Fatima - Rome - Shrines of Italy 21 days Fr. Bill Robley Holy Land - Rome - Medjugorje - 27 days with Mons. Toomey

$3,180.00 $3,280.00 $3,090.00 $3,850.00 $3,980.00

ALL PILGRIMAGES INCLUDE:

* THE ARCHBISHOP OF SPLIT WILL SPEAK All groups * AIRFARES & TRANSFERS TO OUR GROUPS ABOUT MEDJUGORJE ACCOMODA * TION 200 METRES FROM THE escorted * FREE FLIGHT OPTIONS ON SOME TOURS CHURCH with a priest * PRIVATE FACILITIES * MOST MEALS * VISIT TO FR JOZO ETC.

* RETURN FROM OTHER EUROPEAN CITIES * GUIDED TOURS IN ROME

MEDJUGORJE, FATIMA, ROME, ASSISI, LORETO, LANCIANO, HOLY LAND and more ring Centre Travel on (03) 882 9822 or fax (03) 882 9675 for our brochure or write to 91 Auburn Road, Hawthorn East, Vic 3123 Centre Travel is part of and subsidised by the Medjugorje Centre for Peace, Melbourne