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TATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John V Paul II said his encyclical on human life was designed to counter an advancing "culture of death" that seeks to legitimize practices such as abortion and euthanasia.

In the encyclical, published this week, the church wants to proclaim that all human life is sacred - whether born or unborn, healthy or sick, young or old, he said.

The encyclical, titled -Evangelium Vitae" ("The Gospel of Life"), was to be unveiled at a press conference by top Vatican officials, including Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

The pope said he wrote the document Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life) because he is worried the church and others were losing ground in the pro-life struggle.

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That's what the encyclical is designed to do While there are positive signs regarding international peace, human rights and the war on hunger, there have also been serious defeats, he said.

"A worrisome culture of death,' emerges not only in the fratricidal wars that still leave international regions bloody, and violence against the weakest ones, but above all in attacks on unborn life and on the elderly or terminally ill," he said.

"The legitimization of abortion and the

growing demands concerning euthanasia mark other defeats of the 'culture of life,'" he said.

The pope said the message of his encyclical is basic: that "human life is sacred, and God alone is the Lord of life."

This is true regardless of a person's physical, racial, social or economic standing, he said.

"It is valid for every stage of human life: for the person already born and for the one still in the mother's womb, for the person who is healthy and the one who is disabled or sick, for the young and for the old," he said.

He said every weakening in the principle of respect for life eventually threatens the foundations of social harmony, democracy and true peace.

WASHINGTON (CNS) - "Evangelitun Vitae" is Pope John Paul H's 11th encyclical in his 16 years and five months as pope. Here is a chronological list of all his encyclicals.

The Latin title comes from the opening words of each encyclical.

The English translation is in brackets.

I. Redemptor Hominis (The Redeemer of Man), 1979: On Jesus Christ and the dignity his redemption brings to the human race.

2. Dives in Misericordia (Rich in Mercy), 1980: On God the Father and the meaning of God's mercy.

3. Laborem Exercens (On Human Work), 1981: Social encyclical on workers' rights and dignity marking the 90th anniversary of Pope Leo VII's Renun Novarum.

4. Slavorum Apostoli (The Apostles of the Slays), 1985: Affirming Eastern Europe's Christian culture in a commemoration of Sts. Cyril and Methodius on the 1,100th anniversary of St. Methodius' death 5. Dominunz of Vivificantem (Lord and Giver of Life), 1986: On the living presence of the Holy Spirit in the church and the world.

6. Redemptoris Mater (Mother of the Redeemer), 1987: On Mary's role in the mystery of Christ and in the church.

7. Sollicitudo RdiSocialis (On Social Concerns). 1987: Second social encyclical, marking 20th anniversary of Pope Paul VI's social encyclical Populortzm Progressio.

8. Redemptoris Mi.ssio (The Mission of the Redeemer). 1991: On spreading the Gospel as the central and permanent mandate of the church.

9. Centesimus Annus (The Hundredth Year), 1991: Third social encyclical, analyzing the social situation in the light of communism's collapse on the 100th anniversary of Renzm Novarum.

10. Veritatis Splendor (The Splendor of Truth). 1993: First papal encyclical in history on the foundations of moral theology.

11. Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life), 1995: On abortion, euthanasia, embryonic experiments and other threats to human life, its sacredness and dignity.

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Canberra by-election message E Federal Government has said it has heard the message of the electorate.

The issue of the interest rate rise on home mortgages last December and the confusion over environmental policy are said to be the issues, says Father David Cappo, National Director of the Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission.

He adds: "I am still not sure that the Federal Government and indeed all main political parties have really got the key message.

"It seems clear that the Canberra community reflecting the feeling of the broad Australian community is telling the Government to change its priorities.

"I believe that the real message that applies to all main politcal parties is to put social and environmental priorities right up there with the economic ones.

"Also, politicians should focus more on the links between economic poli-

cies and specific outcomes for people.

"All political parties must realise that Australian society is becoming increasingly astute and will no longer tolerate public policies that do no blend economic goals with family and social goals and benifits to the community.

"The Native Title Act and the White Paper on Employment are major social policy successes for the Federal Government and noteable exceptions to an oversemphasis on economic policies.

"And hopefully we will see housing policy shift its emphasis more towards social goals in the May budget.

"Political parties of all persuasions still tend to deal with family and social policy as 'soft add-on policies' after the real game of economics has been played. I do not believe that the Australian electorate will tolerate political parties using this approach any longer.

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"The community is told by political parties to What parties that unless we get our bal- election campaign to come out with ance of trade under control, unless packages that promise a better time national savings improves dra- for all. our Australians matically and unless our industry "The Federal Government must policy is internationally competi- start to more seriously address the won't tive, then both economic and social blending of social, family, environstandards will suffer. mental and economic goals in the While this is plainly true and forthcoming May budget and the tolerate accepted by the community, it is the political plan of attack and policy response that the Australian community is seriously questioning."

Fr Cappo also says that the community is looking to its political leaders to present a blend of economic, social, environmental and family policies that respond to major economic imperatives.

It also wants political leaders to provide low and middle income families with the means to live with dignity and some sense of long term security.

Cappo, David Father I Australian Catholic Sochi n conclusion, Fr Cappo says: "It isn't good enough for political Welfare Commission

coalition must begin to put its blend of social, family, environmental and economic policies on the table for discussion and debate.

"Both sides of Australian politics should learn from the Canberra byelection.

"The community will see through a quick veneer approach to addressing social, family and environmental goals.

"And the Australian electorate will no longer accept economic policy drive in a vacuum devoid of the needs of families and unlinked to outcomes for the community."

• Thirsting for clean water E tiny West African nation of The Gambia, one sixth the size of Tasmania, is home to one million people - more than half of them living in absolute poverty.

The nation is a flat and narrow strip of land which follows the Gambia River from inland Senegal to the Atlantic Ocean.

"We take for granted the ready availability of food from our local shops. But in a lot of countries there are no shops. And no food.

"In those countries, millions wake up hungry 4 every day and most are chronically malnourished "I've found a way to put something aside to help people who have no luck, no home and can't feed their kids. I'm giving 5 cents to Project Compassion for every can of food and every frozen food pack in my kitchen.

"Each week, we'll add 20 cents for every cup of tea, coffee or other drink.

"The wayIsee it, if we all put a little aside every time we do something that we tend to take for granted, we can really do a lot to help build a better world.

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MOST Gambians live in rural villages and eke out a living as subsistence farmers.

Australian Catholic Reliefs partner, Caritas The Gambia, has identified sanitation and clean water as two of the country's greatest needs.

To date, Caritas has built 470 village, school, garden and cattle wells, with assistance from Australian Catholic Relief and several European Catholic agencies.

In its water program, Caritas gives great importance to gaining the cooperation and support of the local people. The Caritas well-digging team begins work on a well only after villagers have agreed to share responsibility for building it.

For the villagers, part of that responsibility may be to provide much of the labour to help in the construction, or some of the raw materials like sand and gravel.

They also undertake to house and feed the welldigging team during the construction period. Such a commitment can mean real sacrifice for the whole village to achieve the goal of a safe water supply.

Collecting and storing water may seem simple tasks but, in a nation where two-thirds of the adults are illiterate, this often means people have not learnt how to avoid contaminating water.

Caritas conducts training in water sanitation and hygiene and a village health committee is formed to take on the responsibility of well maintenance and sustaining the villagers' commitment to good health practices.

The goal is to use the process of building wells to help villagers become more self-reliant.

Caritas The Gambia's efforts at poverty alleviation focus particularly on rural women.

In The Gambia, women are responsible for 40 per cent of the country's total agricultural production.

While they work on the production of food crops such as maize, millet, sorghum, cassava and rice, women still retain responsibility for fetching water, collecting firewood, cooking, washing and caring for children.

This work means that Gambian women are often working 16-hour days.

The heavy burden of work and poor nutrition of women are factors which are keep Gambian women facing an average life expectancy of only 46 years - 34 years less than the life expectancy of Australian women.

One of the most time-consuming and arduous tasks for the women is the processing of the postharvest cereal grains. The necessary pounding and grinding is done by hand and done daily.

This year, funds from Australian Catholic Reliefs Project Compassion will be used to provide grainmilling machines to cluster groups of four villages.

This will greatly reduce the back-breaking work of women in the villages of Kandonku, Bulanjorr, Berefet and Dasilami, as they prepare couscous, a local staple food.

The milling machines will not only be a boon as labour-saving devices. They will provide a way for local women to learn greater self-reliance and the benefits of cooperation.

The women will form a local management committee to take responsibility for running the mill and will hire the mill to people from neighbouring villages to cover running costs.

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

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ORE than 550 people attended the University of Notre Dame Australia's Graduation Ceremony on Monday, March 13.

Seventy three students graduated during the ceremony which was held in the University's main courtyard in Fremantle.

The graduates, from the College of Education, were awarded the degrees of Bachelor of Education, Diploma in Education, Master of Education, Master of Educational Leadership and Master of Religious Education.

The guest of honour was the President of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, USA, Father Edward Malloy.

Grief and Bereavement Seminar in your parish.

Father Malloy, who last visited Australia for the Inauguration of Notre Dame in 1991, expressed his pleasure at the rapid growth and expansion of the University during the past four years.

The University now enrols almost 800 students in four Colleges: Arts and Sciences, Business, Education and Theology. It expects to grow to 2000 students by the year 2000.

This year the University opened a second campus in Broome. Twenty undergraduate students are enrolled on the Broome campus and 60 students are studying for diplomas and associate diploma programs.

Bowra & O'Dea Funeral Directors Education Division proudly present an important one-day program hosted by Gerry Smith, Grief Educator.

This program is extremely important to those struggling to cope with loss and those who live or work with people experiencing grief It is presented in your parish at no cost (minimal costs in country areas), and is a great opportunity for personal growth.

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LL known Perth businessman Bernie Prindiville was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws during the Notre Dame Graduation Ceremony.

Bernie, who was born in Mt Lawley in 1911, left school at 14. His business career flourished after he qualified as an accountant and then formed his own company, Rural Finance Ltd (renamed Prindiville Holdings in 1968).

In the late 1920's, Bernie's lifelong association with sport began, his outstanding contribution to sport in the State evidenced by the senior positions he held including president of the WA Cricket Association in 1980. His leadership in cricket was significantly responsible for the great commercial strength and far-sighted planning of the WACA during the 1980's.

In 1989, he was awarded the West Australian Institute of Sport award for Administrator of the Year.

In 1932 he became a member of the Knights of the Southern Cross and has been a continuous member since, serving in many positions and as first chairman of Southern Cross homes. He been one of the principal financial advisors to the Archdiocese of Perth for decades.

He has also been much involved in supporting the work of many religious orders.

In 1972 he was made a Papal Knight in recognition of his contribution to the charitable works of the KSC, and contributions to many other Catholic and non-Catholic charities.

In 1991 he was appointed a governor o f the University of Notre Dame, becoming involved in every aspect of the University's development.

He and his family have been the University's largest single benefactor, endowing the Chair of Theology in honourofthe support given him and their family of five children by his wife Mary O'Mahony whom he married in 1938 and who was a prominent sportswoman in her own right.

An NDA spokesman said of Bernie: "He became and remains one of Western Australia's business leaders, a man renowned for his ability, his judgement and his integrity.

"Bernie Prindiville is a man of great faith and great humour, with an extraordinary commitment to his family and t o his fellow man. His generous involvement in the Church, the cultural and sporting areas, the business arena, and the charitable sector, continues to have an impact on the shaping of the fabric of Western Australian society."

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Lutheran, Catholic divisons may no longer apply ASHINGTON (CNS) - Lutherans and Roman Catholics distinguished between disagreements at the "level of faith" and W may soon be able to say the mutual condemnations of those at the "level of theology." the 16th century no longer apply, Archbishop Lipscomb said advances do not that

recently.

The mobile archbishop delivered the inaugural lecture for the establishment of the Carl J. Peter Chair in Theology at The Catholic University of America.

Father Peter, who died aged 59 in 1991, was one of America's leading Catholic theologians and ecumenists.

He was a member for 19 years of the U.S. Lutheran-Roman Catholic dialogue which is widely regarded as one of the best examples of Catholic-Protestant theological consultation anywhere in the world, and which broke new ground in CatholicLutheran agreement on justification by faith, the central doctrinal question behind the Reformation.

Shortly before Father Peter's death the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity appointed him to a new international panel of scholars it was forming to re-examine the 16th-century Catholic and Lutheran condemnations of what each considered errors in the other's teachings.

Archbishop Lipscomb said that "largely as a result of developing scriptural insights and commitment to the word of God as we have received it and professed it, we are moving toward the affirmation that ancient mutual condemnations of the 16th century do not apply to our situation at the end of the 20th century," he said.

He said the Vatican's Christian unity council study document

ecumenical Archbishop Lipscomb stressed entail compromise on one's beliefs.

"It is important to recognize that both sides in the (CatholicLutheran) discussion were committed to the integrity of the truth as expressed in their own faith traditions," he said.

"The recognition that prior condemnations might not be applicable today is drawn not from some external force compelling toward unity at the expense of the serious and authentic concerns of the past, but from a conviction that like authenticity in the present has opened the door to new understanding."

"The doctrine of justification would seem to have loomed as the largest single road block standing in the way of a reconsideration of the condemnations of the 16th century," he said.

He said it was the U.S. Lutheran-Catholic dialogue, which struggled with issues of justification from 1978 to 1983, that "unlocked the doors" to a joint affirmation that Catholics and Lutherans share fundamentally the same faith on that issue.

He said scholars agree "that differences do indeed still exist in the respective formulas expressing Lutheran and Roman Catholic views on faith and justification."

"These differences, however, are not so mutually exclusive as, of necessity, to postulate the kind of divisions that have marked the two faith traditions over the centuries," he said.

Red glow still on ARSAW, Poland (CNS) Poland is still a communist W country where politicians are prej-

udiced against believers, says Cardinal Glemp of Warsaw.

"Mere acceptance of capitalism does not mean abandoning the tenets of Marxism," he said in reference to the numerous ex-communists at the helm of national political life, including Prime Minister Jozef Oleksy, a former member of the Polish communist party's central committee.

"I simply have my doubts" that such a person can -create a new Poland," he said.

A main unresolved problem is government ratification of a 1993 concordat regulating church-state relations agreed to by Vatican and Polish officials.

Oleksy has pledged to "take all necessary steps" to ensure passage of the concordat, and a parliamentary commission ruled March 14 that the concordat was compatible with the Polish Constitution.

Previously, Cardinal Glemp complained that "the same resentment of God, believers and the church still remains" among government leaders.

"Attempts are being made today to prevent people from publicly expressing their faith and to restrict religion to a private domain," he said.

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OME (CNS) Jesuits want to be at the ervice of the ministry of the laity says a document from their top level meeting in Rome.

The biggest changeover to laity has been in the traditional Jesuit field of schools and universities where Jesuits may find themselves working under lay directors.

But there is caution over involving laity too closely in the order itself.

The need to examine Jesuit cooperation with the laity was the most requested item coming from Jesuits around the world as 223 representatives of the order prepared for the 10 week general congregation that concluded last week.

"In the last 30 years, the largest change in the way the Society of Jesus works has been the involvement of lay people," said Father Stephen Sundborg, the Jesuits' Oregon provincial.

In schools where there once were 20 Jesuits and five lay teachers, the ratio is now reversed, he said. The same is true of parish

staffs, with the exception of the position of for North America. pastor.

"But vocations are shifting from vocations Twenty years ago students enrolled in min- to religious life to vocations to apostolic lay istry training institutes connected to Jesuit involvement," he said. universities were almost all priests and reli"Many lay persons recognize their Christgious: now the opposite is true, Father Sund- ian action as ministry and seek to be trained borg said. for and commissioned to this service." the As the delegates began drafting a docu- document on laity said. ment, the focus was on how lay people fit The document called on Jesuits to help lay into the Jesuit mission, and delegates began people realize their role in the church and trying to draw up guidelines for contracts society, while maintaining their own identity and lay involvement in decision making, said as Jesuits, priests and religious.

Father Sundborg, who chaired the drafting It emphasized the need to educate lay cocommittee. workers in the Jesuit mission and spirituality But as the discussion went on, the emphasis to ensure that their institutions maintain shifted to "recognizing the mission of the their Jesuit identity. laity and how we can serve that," he said.

The document also officially recognizes the The emphasis shift was not over declining possibility of something which is already a numbers of priests. "In the last 11 weeks, I reality in the United States and other places, Father Sundborg said: "A lay person can be heard only three or four comments on that. the director of a Jesuit work." don't think that's the main motivation."

Jesuits who work in an institution or aposThe consensus among delegates seems to be that plenty of vocations exist in the church tolate headed by a lay person receive their today, said Father Frank Case, Jesuit assistant assignment from their provincial superior.

but fulfill their mission under the direction of the lay person, the document said.

The delegates also recognized that some lay people want to have a closer identification with the Society of Jesus.

The congregation approved a 10-year experimental period in which lay people could have "some form of contractual agreement" with the Society of Jesus involving not only their ministry, but formation in Jesuit spirituality and informal association with a Jesuit community.

Such experiments are already under way in Jesuit provinces in Wisconsin, Peru and Austria, Father Sundborg said.

"I don't think it ever will be a large movement," he said.

"We don't want to make these people quasi-religious." Grafting lay people onto the Society of Jesus is not what Jesuit cooperation with the laity is about, he said.

"We want to empower them in their mission," he said.

Hate of Hitler - by Vatican man ME (CNS) - Hitler had a "fanatical hostility" toward 1940, he said. hristianity, and one of his main aims was to destroy R2 These controls included: it "as an identifiable force" by dismantling it and persecuting its members, according to Jesuit Vatican historian said Father Graham.

Adolf Hitler's,hatred and persecution of the Catholic Church was so great that Pope Pius )UI feared a Nazi war victory would mean Christianity's demise in Europe, father Graham wrote in Civilta Cattolica, Rome-based Jesuit magazine.

Father Graham quotes Pope Pius as telling his close advisers in 1942 that "a victory by the Axis could mean the end of Christianity in Europe."

Principal cause of concern was a German plan put into action in a captured part of western Poland called the Wartheland, said Father Graham.

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Legally, churches did not exist, only religious associations, societies or unions with no leader exercising responsibility.

Membership was limited to adults, while confessional movements such as youth groups were forbidden. Germans and Poles could not meet together in the same church.

Religious associations could not own property except for the space reserved for worship.

"For Catholics, of course, there could be no relations with the pope in Rom" said Father Graham.

In 1941 the government announced the formation of the "Roman Catholic Church of German Nationality in the Reich District Wartheland," Father Graham said.

A similar status was assigned to several Protestant churches, he added. Catholic officials in the region wrote the

pope to warn him that what was happening in Wartheland was planned for all of German-controlled territories, said Father Graham.

The Vatican complained to German authorities but received only "evasive answers," he said.

The plan failed because "it was unrealistic," said Father Graham. "It did not take into account the determined resistance that it would encounter on the plane of reality from dedicated believers, Catholic or Protestant." Father Graham noted that after the war, Pope Pius appealed for clemency with Polish authorities on behalf of Arthur Greiser, the German official in charge of the Wartheland during the Nazi occupation. Greiser had been condemned to death.

His article reprinted a 1946 Vatican statement noting that Greiser was responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths and was "a very fierce enemy of the church and harshly persecuted it."

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ANILA, Philippines (CNS) - Islamic extremists planned to kill Pope John Paul II during his visit to the Philippines in January using a suicide bomber who believed he would enter paradise by killing the pontiff, a former Muslim rebel said.

"Bombs would be strapped around him and then he would go near the pope and blow himself up. He would sacrifice himself because by sacrificing himself for the cause of Islam he would go to paradise. That is the belief," Edwin Angeles told a news conference in Manila.

The bomber was to have approached the pope during a public appearance in Manila, Angeles said, but "there was no Opportunity."

Angeles, described by police as the operations and political officer of the Abu Sayyaf fundamentalist group operating on the country's southern islands, surrendered to the authorities in February but was presented to the media for the first time at the press conference.

Police said the surrender was kept under wraps for some time so as not to jeopardize operations against other extremists.

The police have blamed Abu Sayyaf for a spate of bombings and kidnappings in the southern islands in the past two years. A number of the kidnap victims were foreign missionaries.

Angeles said the plot to kill the pope was hatched by Abu Sayyaf members and foreign extremists, allegedly including Ramzi Ahmed Yousef who was captured in Pakistan in February and turned over to U.S. authorities to face trial for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Centre in New York.

Philippine officials first divulged the plot against the pope in January after police raided a Manila apartment allegedly used by Yousef to manufacture liquid-type bombs a few days before the John Paul's arrival.

Yousef escaped during the police raid.

Angeles said he was in the group that plotted the killing of the pope and met Yousef several times in Manila before his apartment was raided.

He said that besides the pope, Abu Sayyafs other targets for assassination were priests, missionaries and politicians considered to be obstacles to Islamic revival in the Philippines, a predominantly Roman Catholic country.

Priest murdered...

W ORLEANS (CNS) -A local parish is stunned that its 56 year old priest is now a murder statistic in the file of street crime.

Father Petersen was murdered as he took his dog on their nightly walk

As one of his last acts was to take a couple through their wedding rehearsal.

Moments later, the 56-year-old priest became a grim statistic in the country's deadliest city. While taking Florence on her walk around the block at about 9:30 p.m., a man on a bicycle accosted him and killed the priest with a gunshot to the back.

The gunman rifled through Father Petersen's pockets for change the casu-

ally dressed priest had left his wallet in the rectory until a neighbor who heard the gunshot chased him away. A week after the killing, police had few leads and a $6,000 reward was posted for information leading to an arrest.

"We would be less than honest if we did not say that many of our fists are clenched in anger and all of our hearts are wrenched with pain," said Archbishop Schulte at the funeral Mass.

"The Lord Jesus said several words on the cross," he continued. The words were 'my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' That's wherek the clenched fists are. But we have to open those fists to receive the pardon that we all need. We know that our hands are

EXICO CITY (CNS) -As many as 3 0 died and another 36 were injured when the chartered bus in which they were riding en route to a Lenten religious festival careened off the highway into a deep ravine in the state of Morelos.

The driver of the speeding vehicle failed to negotiate a sharp curve and plunged the bus full of 66 religious pilgrims down a sharp embankment.

After negotiating a series of curves at high speed, the driver allegedly sped up on a straight section and could not brake dangei cos •11;%-p. iii time to n(

Police said the bus ran off the highway and through a corn field before flipping over twice and landing at the bottom of a 20-metre-deep ravine.

Police said that in addition to travelling at high speed, the right rear tire of the bus apparently hit a hard object in the middle of the curve, causing it to careen out of control.

After years of service with the Estrella Blanca public transport company, the Dieseles Nacionales bus had been sold two years ago to an individual who chartered the bus out to tour groups.

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dog at night and apparently did not fear for his safety in an area where gunfire and drug activity have become common.

His one concession to neighborrhood crime had been to begin putting a chair in front of his door at night so that if an intruder came the noise would wake him, said Jean Ruiz, a family friend.

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New Orleans has the highest nnirder rate per capita in the country, with more than 400 murders last year.

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The passengers had paid a round-trip ticket from the working-class Iztapalapa neighborhood of Mexico City to the town of Tepalcingo to partake in the annual Lenten religious festivities.

On consecutive Fridays during Lent each year, important religious festivals are held in Tepalcingo, a town of about 10,000 about 3 hours south of Mexico City. The religious fair attracts pilgrims from throughout Morelos and the neighbouring states of Puebla, Mexico, Guerrero, and the Mexico City Ferienql nistrict.

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Unity: Good signs but few hiccups

Parishioners' rights get backing

M Sister Smyth said she found ject to explore how sectarian atti-

UBLIN, Ireland (CNS) - An D expert on Christian unity from encouragement in the growing tudes are formed in Northern IreNorthern Ireland sees encouraging number of groups that signs of ecumenical progress in her homeland but is discouraged by the general ecumenical climate in the region.

"The churches tend to keep ecumenism on their fringes," said Dominican Sister Geraldine Smyth.

"There is not much time devoted to ecumenical theology in the seminaries. Neither do the churches give much time to shared worship."

In February Sister Smyth was appointed director of the Irish School of Ecumenics in Dublin, under the patronage of religious leaders of several Christian churches.

have been formed in Northern Ireland to help break down enmity and to increase understanding between Catholics and Protestants.

These groups are ready to cooperate on issues, such as the British province's high unemployment, she said. Sister Smyth is a native of Belfast, Northern Ireland, and conducted seminars for interdenominational groups of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, the provincial police force.

There is hope in the impatience of young people with what they regard as meaningless divisions, she said.

The Irish School of Ecumenics is starting a three-year research pro-

land and the dynamics of sectarianism in the workplace, schools, neighborhoods and churches. It also will examine sectarianism in cultural identity.

She said that churches must investigate if there are hidden ways in which some of their structures and practices could reinforce sectarianism and prejudice.

"I would hope that at the end of the decade there will be a formal withdrawal of the anathemas pronounced by some of the churches against each other a long time ago. I think there is a growing recognition of the need to learn about each other's tradition from the inside," she added.

Govt-approved bishop ordained by 'mate' ZHANJIANG,

China (CNS) A 73 year old government approved bishop was ordained by his bishop seminary classmate of 50 years ago.

For the ceremony in the government-approved diocese of Zhanjiang in southern China, Bishop Chongyi of Guizhou travelled 28 hours by train to ordain Bishop Joseph Chen Chu, on his patronal freast of St Joseph, and his birthday.

The two studied philosophy together in the major seminary more than 50 years ago. Bishop Chen was ordained a priest June 11, 1949, in Guangzhou.

Bishop Wang told UCA News he was happy that the first episcopal ordination he presided at was that of his old friend.

One co-ordaining prelate, China-appointed Bishop Anthony Zhong Quanzhang of Meizhou, was Bishop Chen's schoolmate at South China Regional Seminary in Hong Kong just aftei: World War II. The bishops of China's "underground" Catholic Church, who have maintained an allegiance to the Vatican, earlier this year declared the government-approved church and its clergy non-Catholic for their rejection of papal authority.

After his ordination, Bishop Chen told UCA News his primary task would be to strengthen formation of new priests and nuns because the new diocese has too few religious personnel to serve the church community.

Besides the bishop, the new diocese has four priests - one 85 years old and three in their 30s and some 20 nuns to serve more than 20,000 Catholics known to be living in Zhanjiang.

The new bishop said lay religious formation will be a second-stage priority, since most Catholics are rural peasants who have too little education to master Catholic doctrine easily.

Noting that the Catholics preserved their faith by passing it from one generation to the next, he said he is glad "there are new baptisms of young people" and expressed hope more will respond to God's call to religious life.

One of his former students, Father Stephen Chan Tat-ming of Hong Kong Diocese, said he was happy but worried about his teacher, who suffers heart problems, having to take up the responsibilities of the episcopacy so late in life.

Some of the thousands of Catholics at the ordination said they were especially glad their long wait for a bishop of their own was over. Many admitted being curious because most never saw an ordination, even of a priest.

Some local religious officials told UCA News they wanted to attend since they had never seen a bishop or an episcopal ordination.

Despite some chaos at the start as thousands of Catholics from various parishes struggled to enter the church, which could accommodate only a few hundred, the Chinese liturgy closed with joy, cheers and a group photo.

Bishop Chan thanked Hong Kong and Macao Catholics who generously contributed funds to build the bishops' compound and expressed appreciation for the help local government officials provided in building it.

Zhanjiang is about 500 km southwest of Hong Kong.

Bureau to help poor Asian women S

INGAP0RE (CNS) - Women religious in Singapore and Malaysia plan to establish a bureau to help poor Asian women in a variety of ways.

The plans grew out of a five-day follow-up meeting to the 10th Asian Meeting of Religious, held last May in the Philippines.

About 50 religious from six congregations in Singapore and Malaysia learned about women in poverty in Asia and discussed the May meeting's call to active solidarity with poor women, 6 The Record, March 30, i 9

Malaysia. "Despite limited resources, personnel and power, local women religious are determined to take the first steps toward creating an environment in which peace, justice, equality and barmony are ways of living." a participant said, The women's desk is expected to be a network for existing support groups: personnel and know-how, the participant said. It would also organize seminars, bring in resource people, and plan studIns on feminist perspectives, women's

spirituality, women in Scriptures and women's rights.

The Singapore meeting also proposed establishing food, furniture and clothing banks to collect and distribute aid to poor families.

Preceding the meeting the Malaysian nuns visited and stayed with families in plantations and squatter camps. The Singaporean nuns stayed at a home for abused women and their children.

OSCOW (CNS) - The Vatican's new representative in Russia, Archbishop John Bukovsky, has backed the right of Moscow's Immaculate Conception parishioners to regain use of the entire church building.

They have all the rights to the building," he said in a Catholic News Service interview.

"It was confiscated from them, taken away unjustly. Any government which succeeds an unjust government has the obligation to do justice to the injured party," he said.

Archbishop Bukovsky, a naturalized U.S. citizen of Slovakian origin, visited the parishioners twice after the disturbances of March 7-8, when riot police hauled away parishioners who were trying to regain parts of the confiscated church.

The makeshift chapel on part of the ground floor where Masses are held is "unsuitable," he said.

"In all my life (never saw a church in such a bad state as the Immaculate Conception Church," said the 71-year-old archbishop.

"The reason for the delay in the restitution of the church seems to be economic," he said.

A construction firm occupies much of the building and seems to have sublet parts of it to other businesses.

"But spiritual and cultural values must take precedence," he said, pledging to use his contacts with the government to achieve full restitution.

Archbishop Bukovsky also expressed concern about the Moscow Church of Sts. Peter and Paul, also confiscated in the 1930s and turned into offices. it is impossible to turn it back into a church because as far as one can see there is nothing left of the church," he said.

The archbishop said Russia should follow the pattern of several other former communist countries.

"Many Central and East European governments have returned the churches or, when this was impossible, have given an indemnity so that the church can build something new," he said.

The archbishop said he was happy to see construction work at Moscow's Christ the Savior Orthodox Church, destroyed by communists in the 1930s.

"Then I saw the Immaculate Conception Church, which was just the opposite. There should be the same procedure for all, for Orthodox, Catholics, Protestants and Jews," he said.

New man on a mission...

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OSCOW: The new Vatican representative in Moscow says his task is to help the local church become organized and return to normal after 70 years of "quasi-existence."

A main aim is developing seminaries to train local priests, he said.

"Importing priests is a necessary, but temporary solution," he said.

Missionaries, meanwhile, "are helping to get the church on its feet," he said.

At the same time, some missionaries are drawing criticism that "they don't know or understand the country," he added.

The development of enough local clergy, however, will take time because "we are beginning from scratch," he said.

Currently, there are two church territorial jurisdictions in Russia, called apostolic administrations, each headed by a bishop.

"Maybe this is not sufficient given the difficulty of the vast distances between communities. The bishop has to be packing and unpacking every day," he said.

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Jesuits on justice..

So solidarity with women an integral part of their mission, says document EIME (CNS) - Solidarity "We place ourselves in solidarity we are called to fulfill this plan," led the way in bringing greater Ri vith women is an integral with the struggle for equality it said. equality between men and part of theJesuits' mission to between men and women."

work for justice, said a document adopted by the order's general congregation.

The unjust treatment and exploitation of women is "a central concern of any contemporary mission which seeks to integrate faith and justice," the five page document said at the conclusion of the general congregation, the Jesuits' highest decisionmaking body.

The congregation brought together 223 Jesuits from more than 80 countries representing some 23,000 Jesuits throughout the world.

"It is clear we are speaking as men to men, first of all," said Irish Jesuit Father Gerry O'Hanolon, who chaired the document's drafting committee.

The document affirms that "we as Jesuits understand this issue to be a justice issue," he said.

Pope meets the widow of Oskar Schindler TATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II met V with the widow of Oskar Schindler, the German businessman credited with saving hundreds of Jews from Nazi gas chambers, and thanked her for the couple's efforts during World War II. Emilie Schindler invited the pope to come to Jerusalem and inaugurate a memorial for the persecuted, which is to be established in thecouple's honor.

The pope said he would like to come, but no date was mentioned for a visit. The pope's longstanding desire to travel to Jerusalem has been frustrated by political problems in the region.

Mrs. Schindler, 86, said afterwards that the inauguration date depends on the pope. A Catholic who has lived in Argentina for 46 years, she said she was very moved by the papal meeting.

She said the pope told her that she and her husband were well-known figures in Poland, and that Poles were "very grateful" for what the couple did during the war.

Oskar Schindler, who followed the German army into Poland in 1939, saved Jews potentially bound for the Nazi death camps by giving them jobs in his Krakow, Poland, factory and later at another plant in what is now the Czech republic.

His story was the basis of "Schindler's List," a book by Thomas Keneally that was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1993.

Mrs. Schindler said she had seen the movie and liked it.

"The film was excellent - but the reality was much crueler," The Emilie and Oskar Schindler Room of the Casa Argentina in Jerusalem was planned as an ecumenical means of honoring the memory of all the persecuted. Cardinal Antonio Quarracino of Buenos Aires, Argentina, was instrumental in establishing the memorial.

"It is a call to conversion" and an acknowledgement that "we ought to listen to women more because we are not in touch as much as we should be," he said.

The situation of women in the world includes discrimination in education and the job market, a disproportionate burden of responsibility in the home, a lack of influence in public life and "sadly, and only too frequently, outright violence against the person of women," the document said.

Systematic discrimination, it said, "is embedded within the economic, social, political, religious and even linguistic structures of our societies."

"The original plan of God was for a loving relationship of respect, mutuality and equality between men and women, and

The church's teaching on the equality of men and women must be put into practice both in society and within the church, the Jesuits said.

"The Society of Jesus accepts this challenge and our responsibility for doing what we can as men and as a male religious order," it said.

"However unwittingly," it said, Jesuits have been part of a "clericalism which has reinforced male domination with an ostensibly divine sanction."

The document also expressed regret for "the damage to the People of God brought about by the alienation of women in some cultures who no longer feel at home in the church, and who are not able with integrity to transmit Catholic values to their families, friends and colleagues."

The Jesuits vowed to support and join the women who have

women. They had special thanks for women religious "with whom we feel a special bond and who have been pioneers in so many ways in their unique contribution to the mission of faith and justice."

Jesuit schools and universities must explicitly teach the equality o f men and women, and they must work to ensure an equal educational opportunity for people of both sexes, it said.

It also called for the presence, promotion and collaboration of women in Jesuit institutions and ministries and asked members of the order to use inclusive language in speech and official documents.

"Above all," it said, "we want to commit the society in a more formal and explicit way to regard this solidarity with women as integral to our mission."

Spanish police arrest man wanted in Italy Cardinal ordain for the murder of crime-fighting priest HICAGO (CNS) As C Cardinal Bernardin ordained three new

Caught.

TALENCIA, Spain (CNS) - Spanish police V have arrested a man wanted in Italy for the murder of a crime-fighting priest.

Spanish police apprehended Giuseppe Quadrano, a 41-year-old Italian, in the eastern port city of Valencia.

Quadrano is suspected of shooting to death 36year-old Father Giuseppe Diana in March 1994 in a town near the Italian port city of Naples. The Naples area is where the Camorra crime organization has its base.

Reports said that Quadrano was a Camorra boss and killed Father Diana because the priest

refused to celebrate a funeral Mass for a memher of Quadrano's crime gang.

Father Diana also had been active fighting organized crime in Casal di Principe, near Naples, where he worked as a parish priest.

Several days before his murder, the priest presented evidence to police about crime activity in the region. Previously, he had urged voting for candidates who are free of ties to crime figures.

Father Diana was killed by three shots to the head as he was about to celebrate Mass in his parish church.

auxiliaries to the episcopacy he was assisted by t wo other auxiliaries who have turned 75 and retired.

Three other continuing auxiliaries read out the letters of appointment.

The youngest of the new three, George Murry, 46, a Jesuit, is the 12th active black bishop in the country.

Bishop Murry has been named episcopal vicar of Vicariate 6.

That vicariate, covering Chicago's South Side and southern suburbs, was under Bishop Gregory before he became bishop of Belleville.

Good treatment for Church and Bishops call for talks priest in this AIDS film A

ASHINGTON (CNS) - A priest portrayed W in an upcoming made-for-television movie about a Catholic family facing the AIDS crisis says both he and the Catholic Church are treated well in the film.

"In so many AIDS films the church is either not there or the church is an enemy," said Atonement Father James Gardiner, who is portrayed in "My Brother's Keeper."

"What I liked is that the church is there throughout," he said. "The priest is there as quiet but consistently present."

The fact-based film concerns Catholic twin brothers Bob and Tom Bradley, both of them highly respected, well-liked teachers. For several years, Torn has been receiving treatment for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. It is a secret known only to Bob. When insurance money is denied Tom for a potentially life-saving operation, he must sue, an

THENS (CNS) I The Catholic bishaction that forces both brothers to come out of ops of Greece have the closet as homosexuals. asked for talks with govFather Gardiner's character, he said, is a com- ernment officials on posite of himself and a layman. He said TV took improving civil rights a few liberties with events. for the minority "When they win their court case they had me Catholic community.

They have requested there helping them pack" for the trip to the hospital, Father Gardiner said. "In fact,Iwas cooking equal rights with the Orthodox a dinner for them. But the scriptwriters said Greek Church, the state relinobody would ever believe that." gion.

Father Gard r, who works at the National There are 50.000 Pastoral Life Center in New York, is a member of among the National Catholic AIDS Network, a group of Catholics Greece's 10 million AIDS ministers which meets annually. inhabitants.

Most "It's part networking, it's part retreat, it's part Greeks profess Orthorelaxing together," he said. "It's also edifying to doxy. see how people do with resources and without The Catholic bishops resources." asked that they no Father Gardiner met the Bradleys nearly 10 longer be required to years ago when he was in full-time ministry at a seek authorization from the Orthodox Church to parish in Greenwich Village. establish places of worship The Record, March 30, 1995 7 rAt ,"-rcz39 f F

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y teenage daughter spent a week with other Love is being other-focused - wanting the good of

By Neil A. Parent someone or something else, even at the expense of onevolunteers her age at a diocesan work camp last summer. At the camp, teens and adult supervi- I saw this change in the teenagers in the parking lot self. sors live in community and do repair work on the upon their return. They were exhausted, a bit disori- • The soldier who throws himself on a hand grenade to homes of people who are unable to manage the ented after an intensive week, but also deeply affected save his buddies acts from love. repairs themselves. by the experience. Many of them sat around in quiet • So does the brother who donates a kidney for a sick Many of those assisted are impoverished elderly discussion, reluctant to leave for fear of severing the sister. joyous feelings that came from having done something • So does the anguished parent of a difficult teen who women. good. in the face of daily abuse never stops caring.

A few weeks ago, my daughter received a letter from These teens had set out like crusaders to help, but in In each instance, something new and great is added to a woman whose roof was repaired by the work campers. The letter was a touching testimonial of the the end they were the ones helped. God's love the world. God's creation is being beatified and perfected by these magnanimous gestures. power of love - the love of kids and adult volunteers touched them in the act of loving. who willingly gave a week of their time to help others Rightly so. We are created to love. As sparks of the Mysteriously, we often experience God's love more divine flame, love is what we are meant to do, and love intensely in the midst of pain or suffering. For example, in need. is what we get in return. when we cope with a debilitating disease or struggle in In language that was faulty but nonetheless eloover a failing marriage, we can discover God's anguish quent, the woman explained that shortly after the When we love, we are being most like God, for God that surprise and awe us. love in ways is love (John 4:8). summer work camp she was hospitalized with a heart attack and other serious ailments. She apologized for the suffering becomes a vehicle for God's is as if It "God's love has been poured into our hearts through writing so belatedly. misfortune, we consider ourselves Despite our touch.

Holy Spirit," wrote the author of the letter to the the blessed As children of God and disciples of Jesus, we Romans.

She went on to say how grateful she is for the help for having tasted God's consoling love. she received from the volunteers and how much she have both the gift of love and the duty to love. misses everyone who assisted her that week. She "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, So, too, our love, which is an extension of the divine asked that her gratitude and greetings be extended to and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is love, needs to be present in the difficult moments, in the the others who had worked on her home. the first commandment. And a second is like it, You pain and anguish that segment people's lives. Human The woman's words evinced love's transforming shall love your neighbour as yourself," said Jesus suffering cries out for a response. It is a situation that seems to be in disharmony with the intended order of power. In being helped by people she barely knew, (Matthew 22:37-39). she was filled with feelings of gratitude and affection. When we love we go beyond ourselves; we create things. Love is an act of compassion, an attempt to make These feelings stayed with her over many months and something mysteriously wonderful that wasn't present the situation right. through new trials. before. In loving, we support, or heal, or care for, or When we reach out this way, we are pulled out of ourIndeed, the woman's recent medical problems guide, or unify, or do one or more of 100 other things selves, out of our customary self-obsession. We enter seemed to have become more bearable because of that add something new and important to people's into union with others and support them for a greater cause. the loving attention she received during the summer. lives and to the created order.

People had cared about her, people had helped her. Love is the divine intention for the universe. Love is In loving, we build human community, bring harmony She was affected by the experience. But so where the the means God chose for pushing creation forward to creation and give praise to God. Loving is our primary vocation as disciples of Jesus. teen-agers. Love is that way. toward its ultimate, glorious fulfillment.

How the ancient Christians bickered

By Father John J. Castelot delivered an ominous warning to the Paul Christians in Galatia. He told them: devouring one

"If you go on biting and another, beware that you are not consumed by one another" (Galatians 5:15).

That note of warning indicates that there were early Christians who found it difficult to love even the members of their own community.

Maybe Paul's words offer a sober corrective to the message we tend to digest from these words of Luke: "The community of believers was of one heart and mind" (Acts 4:32).

Remember, it was love that Paul considered the "still more excellent way" (1 Corinthians 12:31: 13:13). After listing several of the commandments, Paul went on to write: "The commandments ... are summed up in this saying, (namely) 'You shall love your neighbour as yourself.' Love does no evil to the neighbour hence, love is the fulfillment of the law" (Romans 13:9-10).

Paul repeated this in a later letter: For the whole law is fulfilled in one statement, namely, You shall love your neighbour as yourself."'

Of course, in the Gospel parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus defined "neighbour" as every human being without exception.

The love so insistently urged in these words was not of the warm-fuzzy-feeling variety, however. It was, and is, selfless dedication to the well-being and happiness of others.

Precisely because love is selfless, it goes against the grain of human self-interest.

So love is difficult.

Love's power to break pain cycle

By Jane Wotford Hughes

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upermarket cashier was telling me about an event that occurred a week earlier when two men vying for first place in her line with their grocery carts starting shouting and then shoving. Others nearby were frightened and pulled back.

This week's discussion point: Complete this sentence: "Love makes an impact on us because..."

Selected responses from readers: 1 without love we cannot know who we are, and without love we're not safe enough to be wrong.

Being loved implies that the one who loves us recognizes and names our goodness." - Nancy Boyles.

1 it's God. God 'is' love. God makes his presence in each one of us known through love. Love is what unites families and communities. Love is the glue of life." - Andy Beeting.

1 it connects, confronts, absorbs and dissipates evil, and gives us a way to forgive.... Love is a transcendent experience. It comes into our lives from beyond ourselves, passes through our interior selves and by its very nature calls us to give beyond ourselves. 'Where two or more are gathered..." - Bob Padberg and Ellen O'Shaughnessy.

1 without love, our lives are ... meaningless. Both receiving and giving love ... can change the worst human being. But it's got to be a two-way thing.

We're created for love." - Patsy Eike.

1 if you don't have love, you don't have anything. All that really matters is faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love." - Isabel Funkhouser.

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The woman managed to say something to defuse the confrontation. But she shook her head in bewilderment as she told the story to me. "I see it too often: What should be no more than an annoyance sets off a fuse that must have been smoldering under the person's skin for some time. It makes no sense.

What happened to the commandment to love one another? It's sad!"

Yes, it is sad. God intended every life story to be a love story - a story of loving not only those we choose but also the stranger, those who are ill and people who are poor, angry. dangerous, different. Everyone!

After Jesus said "I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another" (John 13:34), he became more explicit: "For if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.... Love your enemies and do good to them, and lend expecting nothing back" (Luke 6:32-35).

But there is a tendency to forget or misunderstand what love in this context means. Is Jesus asking us to simply submit to others who may be unreasonable in one way or another? I would say instead that Jesus calls us to empowerment - the kind that comes from breaking out of the vicious cycle in which the victim in turn becomes a victimizer.

If we act in merciful and forgiving ways - as God does - we stop the cycle of retaliation and revenge, oppression and violence.

But is it possible for everybody to love to this extent? It is hard, but it is possible.

Granted, when we have been betrayed, abused, oppressed, we fail at times to love as God loves. But if we are honestly trying, God knows and supports us.

Furthermore, loving as God loves is possible when we detach ourselves from the love of power, pride or possessions. Only we can know our own particular weakness or obsession. But the more we can detach from these "loves," the more "space" we give to God's love, which we then may carry to others.

I like to think that when we meet someone who reflects God, we know it. I "knew it" whenI met Ann, the nurse in the recovery unit after my husband's quadruple heart bypass surgery.

As I watched Ann move from patient to patient, I felt God's healing power coming from her. I said to Ann, "You love your work."

She replied, "I love my patients, especially the cranky ones! Medicine can control their pain but it takes love to calm their fears and ease their loneliness.

"I cry for those who have no one with them, and I attempt to stop by their bedsides more often. Everyone is so vulnerable and fragile of spirit when they are ill or after they have been through one of the tests."

Her dark eyes shining, Ann continued: "I am from India. I once met Mother Teresa of Calcutta. I will never forget her. She said we must be Christ to others, and we must not be afraid to show love to everyone."

I told her I had the privilege of hearing Mother Teresa say something similar: "Christ asks for our total surrender to love until it hurts."

Which is also why a later Pauline author urged: "Husbands. love your wives, even as Christ loved the church and handed himself over for her" (Ephesians 5:25). This was a demanding instruction - to love as Christ loves.

No wonder there is so much insistence on love in the New Testament. The biblical authors knew love wasn't easy.

There are so many instances of disagreements, bickering, pettiness in the biblical books. For example, Paul pleaded with two women at Philippi to resolve their differences: "I urge Euodia and I urge Syntyche to come to a mutual understanding in the Lord" (Philippians 4:2). He was appalled at reports from Corinth: "For it has been reported ... that there are rivalries among you" (1 Corinthians 1: 1 1).

Difficult or not, love is essential, the hallmark of authentic Christianity: "This is how all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another" (John 13:35).

Jesus had ust said: "I give you a new commandment: Love one another." And the criterion for this love is his own utterly selfless love for them: "As I have loved you, so you also should love one another."

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Adrian van Leen...investigator of cults and the occult it-WUNG people \known who had never of it are being

a ttracted to the beauty and reverence of the traditional Latin Mass, say members of a fraternity dedicatted to the Tridentine form of celebration.

"Many of the young who attend the Masses we celebrate are attracted by the beauty and the reverence, the sacredness of it and they have no problems adapting to that Mass and receiving the education that comes with it," said Priestly Fraternity of St Peter Father Arnaud Deviltiers who with his associate Fr Josef Bisig was on a three day visit to Perth.

"Because of its history and because of its richness in symbols and rites and its theological structure, it brings them something which they are not used to and they really enjoy this discovering of the theology of the Mass of the Church. Once they go to it, once they are exposed to it, they respond very strongly to it and generally become very strong supporters of the Latin Mass," he said.

Over 200 people attended a final Mass in St Mary's Cathedral celebrated by the Fraternity which had been invited to Perth as part of a national tour organised by the Ecclesia Del Society.

Mass was also celebrated in St John's pro-Cathedral.

The Priestly Fraternity of St Peter, a congregation of Priests based in Europe and America exclusively celebrate the "Tridentine" rite of the Mass.

One of the newest and youngest orders of the church, the Fraternity was founded in 1988 at the invita-

'religious watchog'?

Yes indeed! That's exactly what Adrian van Leen, investigator of cults and the occult, really is.

Of course he's more than that, being a former teacher, and a Church of Christ minister - but without a parish because his field of work lies within the primarily investigative and counselling area as director of the Concerned Christians Growth Ministries (CCGM) at 80 Harrison Street, Nollamara.

Increasingly interested in cults and the occult since his teen years because of the %Auction of the young and old - by seemingly Christian groups in many cases, Adrian

brought this 20 year background accumulated information into tangible being with the formation of the now 16 year old CCGM. It has achieved national and international recognition as a well researched information and archival source about the hundreds of thousands of occult, pseudo-Christian, and cult groups which currently abound in Australia and globally. (In fact last year Adrian was a witness in a Singapore case between a newspaper and a Christian fringe group).

But what is the occult and what is a a cult?

In response to that question, Adrian defines the occult not so much as joining a

find cultic groups attractive, because their own survival techniques allow them to spot a 'con' especially a religious 'con' very easily."

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religious group and finding community, as about the promise to find supernatural powers, which ultimately amount to the comparison of being God. In relation to young people, Adrian states, "you very rarely find street kids who would

They are not interested in the "luxury of finding religious truth and involvement, but they are concerned with their own personal survival," he asserts, and because of that the promise of the occult is very attractive to them "because here they are promised power, including the power of taking control of one's life and ultimately of others."

Cults he defines as primarily religious groups, centred on the leader, seeking involvement, commitment and conformity in return for

Old Mass, young admirers... tion of Pope John Paul II himself. Initially located at the invitation of Cardinal Ratzinger, head of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine oi the Faith, in Wigatzbrad, a Marian shrine in Bavaria, today its international headquarters and seminary there house a growing body of seminarians keen to lead their priestly lives under the auspices of the old Latin Mass.

Since its foundation the Fraternity has witnessed a marked growth in vocations and now operates two seminaries in Bavaria and America.

One of the Fraternity's main goals has been to assist in the conversion of Catholics who have either lapsed or fallen into schism by following the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.

Archbishop Lefebvre incurred excommunication following lengthy attempts by the Vatican to negotiate a reconciliation which ultimately failed when Archbishop Lefebvre illegally ordained four bishops against the orders of Pope John

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"Most people have vide our ministry and a seminary in the Although this heard of us but usu- help in building the United States which played a prominent ally it's second-hand unity of the church provides an Englishand there," he said. speaking formation to part in the Fraternity's information, foundation its aposto- sometimes they have "Our main work in its seminarians. In late nevertheless a false impression of a parish is to provide only its second year of includes the offering what we do and who for the Latin Mass and operation, Our Lady of the Latin Mass for we are," said Fr Dev- all the sacraments as of Guadalupe Semiall Catholics who illers. we have been given nary has 33 students wish to attend it.

"Our mission is to the power to do so and is planning to add Under the terms of bring back to full according to the litur- an academic year in the motu proprio (an communion with the gical books in opera- each succeeding year.

Apostolic Letter pro- Church any people tion in 1962 and we For 1996 Fr Devillers mulgated directly who have fallen away function like regular is planning to accept from the Pope rather from the practice of parish priests in that another 25 students.

Father Devilliers than through any par- their faith through sense," said Fr Devidoes not believe peoticular Congregation) adherence to splinter flers. entitled Ecclesia Dei, groups or through dis"But we are also ple find Mass in an issued by Pope John affection with the committed to Catholic obscure language Paul II in 1988, the changes in the church schools and we start incomprehensible.

Fraternity has spread and also to celebrate schools wherever we "People seem to its devotion to the tra- the traditional Latin can. We currently appreciate the opporditional Latin Mass of liturgy for those who have three Catholic tunity to pray silently, the Church around want to take advan- schools in the USA." where there is more the world. In that tage it", he said.

"In our parishes stress on internal pardocument the Pope The Fraternity has and wherever we are ticipation as opposed strongly urged all been well received we also do a lot of to external participabishops and priests to throughout the work educating peo- tion in an Englishassist in answering church, both by the ple in the teachings of spealdng Mass. the needs not just of laity and the clergy. the church, especially "They are usually those who had fallen Established in dioce- with the new Cate- struck by the silence into schism but also of ses at the invitation of chism. We notice that and the sacredness. all Catholics who the local bishop the there is a lot of thirst The traditional liturgy wish to have access to Fraternity is now for truth among speaks much more by the tridentine liturgy. worldng in Germany, young people and we symbols, gestures and Fathers Devillers Switzerland, Austria, have also found that actions, than by and Bisig noted that France, the USA and we have had a lot of words - for example conversions too, the reverence, the the Society's current Canada. growth has also coin"Especially in either from other genuflections, the cidedwith a popular France and the USA Christian denomina- signs of the cross, the rediscovery of Grego- there has been a very tions or from people incensations of the rian chant and the good response and who are of no particu- Blessed Sacrament Latin liturgy, both we have over 20 lar religious back- teach them a lot more within the church and priests in both coun- ground at all," he said. about the Real Presin contemporary soci- tries. We are invited Apart from schools ence than any disety. by the bishop to pro- the Fraternity also has course which they

which they promise love, acceptance and salvation.

What focussed world attention on the dangers of these groups, was the tragedy of the November 1978, 913 Jonesville killings in Guyana, Africa, orchestrated by their religious leader Jim Jones, said Adrian.

He and his team specialise in gathering information and material not only about groups, but from them, in order to provide a factual resource base from which they can quote with accurate assessments and statements.

Many enquiries to CCGM are about groups already known to them, but others are of groups, leaders or

Mass in the Blessed Sacrament chapel, St Mary's Cathedral.

might hear. In addition, they can also follow the prayers of the Mass in a missal which carries both the Latin text and the English translation beside it."

Fr Devillers observed that there appeared to be two main reasons why young people were attracted to the Latin liturgy and why the Fraternity has no problems in attracting vocations.

"Firstly, we are very faithful to the Magisterium of the Church, not only to the past Magisterium but the living Magisterium.

Young people today are looking for the'real thing and they want to know for sure that what is taught to them is in conformity with the teaching of the Church, which teaches what Jesus Christ revealed to us.

"The second reason is the beauty and reverence of the traditional Latin Mass."

• Dr Tom Whipple, Ecclesia Del Society

me a religious watchdog personalities unknown to them, requiring research and investigative work to find the facts.

This becomes complex with new groups, especially new extreme Christian fringe groups constantly appearing, said Adrian.

The CCGM's files (being continuously updated) on the vast numbers of groups and personalities are truly extensive and would be a shock for the average Suburbanite to realise that so many of these groups actually exist within our suburbs and frontiers.

Adrian van Leen's initial interest was sparked when he noticed the effect cultic groups had on church groups; young people would invite friends along to their church

and were then asked to return the compliment.

Although that appeared seemingly fair, Adrian pointed out, they in fact became caught up in groups which proclaimed to be Christian but were in fact pseudo or false Christian groups.

Information is the key, Adrian believes, and despite death threats to him and his family and nasty 'phone calls, his organisation continues to expose, and to be there for crisis intervention and preventative education.

Crisis intervention is needed when a person becomes involved in an extreme religious group or the occult, causing a family crisis.

Such people then require helpful, accu-

rate information, counselling, and resources which assist the family in reconciliation, says Adrian,"because cults do cause alienation and separation".

As a researcher/educator, Adrian speaks to schools, parent groups, churches, and community groups right through to consultation with business leaders, government and semigovernment departments, as well as providing information through the media, CCGM publications, and other appropriate ways "but always with the aim of trying to help people rather than just cause aggravation."

Not that there is anything 'shadowy behind the scenes' with Adrian, who publishes full names and addresses with associated facts!

Freedom of religion is endorsed by CCGM, maintaining that people have a right to believe whatever they want, "but with the right to know what they are getting involved in and what effects this may have on them".

Adrian asserts people need to be aware that there are many religious groups which may be correct in their own teaching and need not be guilty of so called 'Christian heresy', but who in spite of that correctness are cultic in the way the leadership dominates, controls and manipulates the members.

"And that needs to be exposed. Wherever people are used or abused to feed the ego of power hungry people, it is wrong,

unChristian and unbiblical."

But it's not always easy to know where groups will lead, said Adrian, noting that in the past few years he had prior information onfile of the Waco group, before it culminated in tragedy,- also about "the bizarre group The Order of the Solar Temple - which had members dying in Europe and Canada, and more recently the equally bizarre Aum Supreme Truth in Japan," with reputed links to outback WA. Outlining the nature of cultic groups, Adrian says people don't join them generally because of their belief systems, or even what they practice, but rather in a moment of crisis, need, vulnerabili ty, loneliness

when"they meet nice, friendly and apparently caring people who are warm towards them."

Assuming that "nice, caring people couldn't be wrong and wouldn't deliberately deceive them, they assume the group they belong to must be right!"

This is a dangerous assumption, Adrian points out, because "nice people" can easily be wrong and with all good intentions lead their friends astray.

A further problem is that most Australians, including church attenders or who claim to be Christian, are generally religiously naive, in Adrian's view, and biblically illiterate.

Many have just a touch of religion which is enough to be dangerous, he believes, and o ften are caught up

Cults in Australia run into several thousand

sclrian claims there are several thou- and inflated prices for programs and call themselves The Family), these A and cultic type groups in Australia products to their gullible following. groups are not rapidly expanding, with a fair number within WA. though they are still around."

He divides these groups into categories in order to examine them, and cites the Eastern Mystical cults, most of which with few exceptions, he says, are based on Hindu or Buddhism principles "with the bottom line being that ultimately we are divine. We are God. And we need a guhru to help us discover our divinity!"

Their teaching is that when we discover that we are God, it ends the cycle of reincarnation and we merge with total reality.

Within WA there are numerous Yoga and Eastern type cults, Adrian states, "some of which in the past have obtained endorsement and approval from the pope and other Catholic leaders".

He then gave the example of groups such as Transcendental Meditation "which claims you can be a good Catholic and do TM!" But this was then exposed by Catholic leaders and other Christians who showed how incompatible TM is with Christianity.

Adrian cited another group - the Western pseudo-Christian Exclusivists who come from America "and are generally aggressive in seeking converts while claiming to be true Christians...in fact the only true Christians!"

This category, says Adrian, includes groups such as the Jehovahs Witnesses and the Mormons.

And the New Age Movement (NAM) which he describes as being an umbrella term covering numerous practices, programs, and people both individual and in groups, with an eclectic mixture of beliefs borrowed from Eastern religions, ancient gnostic heresies, the occult, and other sources.

He concedes that many of the people are sincere and well motivated in wanting a better world and a New Age in which people will live together in love, peace and harmony, and are involved in a wide range of altnerative healing practices while generally seeking to be of help to other people in need.

"But much is based on erroneous beliefs" and there's a strong commercial aspect to the NAM, which he describes as a burgeoning industry charging high

The Human Potential Movement is closely linked to the NAM, says Adrian, Other groups such as the NAM, the which using motivational courses, seeks occult, and extreme Christian fringe to convince people they have unlimited groups have now become the cultic potential and can achieve anything they groups of the nineties and are currently want! - "providing they do the course in their expansion stage. offered by these groups which tend to "Trends within the cults may wax and be expensive and ongoing. wane," concludes Adrian, "but overall "But you never quite make it to the there is a continuing growth and this top...!" growth includes both membership of Again, asserts Adrian, many of these groups and the emergence of new human potential motivational groups groups."

Adrian believes all have a responsibilhave sought to infiltrate the Christian community, and include such names as ity. and especially parents, to ensure our the Church of Scientology, and families are aware of the reality of these groups and the subtle enticements used Forum/Landmark.

"Then there's the occult which to make them attractive to genuine seekincludes teenagers dabbling with ers of meaning and purpose to life.

In response to the question: Do you seances and ouija boards, with adults involved in astrology, numerology and consider there is an increase of evil in the like, right through to Western white the world?, Adrian replied in the affirmative, stating "There is!" witchcraft and satanism."

The bible clearly points out why, he Adrian then illustrated the extreme Christian fringe groups "who emphasise states, because rejection of God creates the need to have a right relationhip with a vacuum which will be filled by someJesus Christ as Lord and Saviour - with thing else "and I believe that something else is satan's desire to have God diswhich all Christians can agree!"

But they, he said, then go to extremes placed by himselr.

He then suggests various scriptural in some of their doctrines and practices, "particularly in the power and authority passages which clearly indicate the evil of the leaders who are often manipula- consequences of death and destruction tive and force members to be obedient resulting in people's rejection of God to their whim and wish - all in the name "when they should have known better". of God!."

And pointed to the ensuing chaos Those who don't conform, he went on when people ignored the "lessons of histo say. are frightened with "God's retri- tory," and quoted how before the Secbution and judgement" and fear is a ond World War philosophers and othcommon ingredient in many of the ers promoted the notion that mankind learned the lessons of history and was groups.

We have groups from all of these cat- now on the verge of human perfection.

"But the Second World War totally egories active in WA, said Adrian, and the cults in general continue to grow in destroyed that naive optimism and in spite of exposure, "as people seek for spite of this 50th anniversary post war deeper meaning and purpose for their focus, we are just as naively optimistic lives within the difficulties of our pre- as they were!" sent time".

Some blatantly promote the perfecSome cults which were at their expan- tion of man while ignoring the reality of sion stage and aggressively growing man's sinfulness, said Adrian, "which during the late seventies and eighties, will lead to history repeating itself all have now levelled off to their consolida- over again. tion stage, Adrian observed, while other "When politicans and preachers don't groups have replaced them and are now take God seriously, the consequences expanding rapidly. will be serious.

"So while we have groups like the "Only if people turn to God and Hari Krishnas, the Moonies, and the change their lifestyles and values, will Children of God (who after 12 years of we stop this suicidal plunge to destrucabsence have returned to Perth and now tion."

with religious tradition, but have no real personal relationship with Our Lord and no real understanding of what they believe or why they believe what they believe as Christians.

Those who don't think through their own faith are prime targets, Adrian warns, and candidates for the of persuasiveness those who maintain "We know better!" but who meanwhile subtly distort their faith.

There's also a real danger for many people who seek experiences without relationship to the Lord and without thinking that action through, he continued, and within the Catholic Church and elsewhere, there is a great fascination for mystical experience and Eastern meditation.

Cardinal Ratzinger has warned Catholics of the dangers of Eastern meditation and techniques, other which often have the appearance of being Christian but which in fact are contrary to the doctrines and practices o f the Church. said Adrian.

"Many however don't consider the doctrinal issues and meaning but rather that they have a good experience which they perceive as a closeness to God, but which in fact may be merely a form of deception."

The four things Adrian emphasises are: Firstly, one has the right and responsibility to ask questions, particularly in areas of religious commitment Secondly, people need to ensure that they do their own thinking and not let another person, no matter how nice or qualified they may be, do the thinking for them.

Thirdly, one needs to very thoroughly and carefully check out religious claims including bible quotes in the widest possible context.

Fourthly, if people are going to make a religious commitment, they need to make it primarily to Jesus and not some religious group or leader. "If we have our relationship right with Him, then the group and fellowship within that group will fall into place."

Far too many groups, including some which start within the Church, seek for total commitment and allegiance to the authority of the group's leader, says Adrian, "and once we allow someone other than God to take charge of our lives, we are heading for trouble".

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Letters to the editor from Helen FORMENTIN, Booragoon.

Sir, I attended for the first time the "Rite of Elections", for those people hoping to join us in the Catholic faith.

It was a splendid occasion but could have been greatly enhanced by a more thoughtful selection of music to accompany the ceremony.

Contemporary songs, guitar and keyboard are all very well at a suburban parish liturgy, but this is our cathedral which has a grand

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By publication immediately before Christmas the expectation was that its appearance would

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It is disgusting for our Minister of Health, Carmen Lawrence. to use taxpayers money to promote her views like this. and to encourage sodomy.

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Set for effective youth outreach launch A new approach to / youth in parishes is about to be launched in early May of this year in the Perth Archdiocese. Comprehensive Youth Mnistry as it will be known will enable parishes to organise an effective youth outreach in the local setting.

P arishes are being invited from around Perth to meet with the staff of the Catholic Youth Ministry to commence the planning process.

C omprehensive Youth Ministry is a practical step by step approach to enable parishes to establish their own youth ministry. Representatives from parishes will meet together to develop an individual parish based youth series of different ministry. types of events run in a No parish will be variety of ways. This required to fit into a approach seeks to set model but rather draw on the human will develop this for resources of the parish themselves with the in very small ways. direction of the parish priest.

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This will be followed by an evening with the Convention Band at the Cathedral Parish Hall. Do not miss a great night.

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April May 1-2, 8-12, 15-16, 22-25, 29-June 1 June 5-8, 9-11, 16-18, 26-29 July 3-7, 10-13, 20-21, 22-23, 24-25, 31-Aug 3 August 6-8, 14-17, 21-22, 28-31 11-13, 15-17, 18-22, 25-29, 30 -Oct 1 September 2-6, 7-8, 9-13, 16-20, 23-26, 27-29, 30-Nov 3 October November 3-5, 6-9, 12-17, 18-19, 20-24, 25-26, 27-Dec 1 December 11-15, 16-17, 18-22 For Bookings and Enquiries, phone Eagle's Nest direct on 574 7030

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January 14-20, 1996 Start planning now.

Come to a weekend at Eagles Nest with all the crew from the Catholic Youth Ministry.

May 26-28, 1995 For more information call us on 328 9622.

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1. Pictured with her two favourite men at the St Patrick's Day Irish Club breakfast, is former Irish Club President Lena Costello celebrating 39 years of 'heaven!' with husband Paddy, joined by Camillian Father Sean Bredin.

2. Also fraternising at the Irish Club breakfast, is 1995 Irish Club President Pat Ducey with wife Maura and children Yvonne and John.

3. Without a doubt, the St Patrick's Day Mass at Subiaco organised by the Irish Club is the most beautiful part of the day and was as usual overflowing, with Irish and non-Irish, Catholic and non-Catholic alike. Music and singing was by the Irish Club choir, led by Veronica Byrnes with a beautiful rendition of Panis Angelicus by Mary-Attracta Connolly and Anne Watson. The church procession here is led by Irish Piper Matthew Cormack and included Irish dancers from the McDonald and Kavanagh schools of dancing, along with the Irish Club committee, 1994 Rose of Tralee Eileen Milligan and 1994 Irish Colleen Suzanne Kelly.

4. Beating out an Irish rythm on the bodhran is Paddy Larkin, proprietor of the Blarney Castle which drew a full crowd to their St Pat's Day luncheon and dinner, in response to wife Vera's superb home cooked menu.

5. And just to prove my words - here's Vera with her giant, oh-so-delicious Irish soda bread!

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1. Caught 'hopping into Murphy's stourat the Celtic Club luncheon was Pat Doody who said he considered it his duty to help keep the breweries in business!

2. John White with Celtic Club president John Devine (rear) along with Janne O'Dwyer and husband Paddy, thought that was a jolly good idea also and so attempted to assist Pat in this noble (albeit off-beat!) cause.

3. Meanwhile in like manner celebrating their 30 years of wedded bliss and St Patrick's Day, were Bernie and Betty Daly.

4. Sporting his Murphy's apron to further encourage the drinkers, was Celtic Club manager Nicholas Skinner in the company of Dr Delia McKnight and Maread McCory.

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Post Festival of Perth Round-u

HE Festival of Perth glitz. glam and Lotteries Commission Festival Finale was The Moscow Conservatory Trio perform- able to give the orchestra that enigmatic T dust has settled for another year. and indeed cause for disquiet and unfortunately ing at the Perth Concert Hall (PCH) was magic which is brought out by a more excitfor some has left mixed feelings and a left a distasteful residue for those offended excellent and well worth seeing, as was the ing conductor.

sense of disquiet.

Why? Well it started off with a bang and a spectacle worth seeing with the Lotteries Commission Opening Fireworks Concert under the baton of David Measham and our own terrific West Australian Symphony Orchestra.

It was great to have David Measham back after his overseas engagements as he's always an exciting conductor to watch as he enthusiastically engages himself with his musicians and singers - in this instance Fiona Campbell and Andrew Foote.

Many thousands relaxed in the Supreme Court Gardens under our superb star studded clear skies as the glorious music swept over them, but I felt however that the audience response should have been better for the quality performance offered and the efforts of so many who'd made this night such a success. Not to mention the spectacular fireworks display.

Apathy? I guess so, but then it's so easy for some to accept free of charge yet not bother to give back gratitude for a night to remember.

This was a great start to the Festival, but the

by the violent sex act which was a matter of great concern to many.

The message that comes out of this, is that many people are disgusted by obscenity, and the blatancy of it, seen by thousands, sending a distinct message to Festival of Perth organisers.

That unless the decent lobby can rest assured that the Festival of Perth is maintained at a high and emphatically moral standard, so they and their families can participate without offence and scandal, then that section of the population will simply not attend. In effect, if the offensive act was unscheduled, then it is extremely important the director ensures that no more unscheduled acts take place at future Festivals, to protect their image - and the public's right to decency.

Our own Perth Jazz Orchestra - Jazz in the Wardle Room provided great jazz to an appreciative audience. Singing with them was a young, and exciting, superb Western Australian ja7.7 singer. Suzanne Wyllie who was absolutely terrific! Without a doubt she has a great future in entertainment.

Laurent de Wilde Quartet - Jazz in the The Lithuanian Folk Song and Dance Wardle Room which provided some inter- Company had some interesting concepts esting visuals of these performers as well as in music and dance and provided a pleastheir playing technique! ant night's entertainment at the New ForSergei Terentiev when playing Jazz in the tune Theatre at UWA Wardle Room, a solo rectial at the PCH, Roy Bailey. folk singer and guitarist from and then playing with the Odessa Philhar- the UK gave attendees what they wanted monic Orchestra, was nothing less than out- in the delightfully relaxed and lovely setstanding. Perth audiences saw this ting of the Sunken Garden at UWA. It is a extremely talented pianist, who is at home particularly good venue for families in an with jazz right through to his marvellous clas- informal atmosphere. sical renditions - invariably without sheet Irish playwright Synge's The Well of the music! - last year during the Festival. Excel- Saints was overall well performed at His lent idea to bring him back as he is a superb Majesty's Theatre. The play, I believe, cerperformer and magnificently gives great tainly had an anti-established Church bias, value to patrons. but was nevertheless superbly acted with the The Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra Abbey Theatre's chief actors Pat Leavy with talented young American conductor and Derry Power. The character of the Hobart Earle's superb performance cer- Saint though, Stuart Graham, I had a probtainly made for beautiful music at the PCH, lem with. Ithink he was mis-cast because the while although the Stuttgart Chamber character he played and how he played it, Orchestra with the Prague Chamber were unconvincing and simply 'didn't ring Choir technically performed very well true', and if anything, left a jarring note of indeed. I believe it lacked passion and verve concern about the play and/or his acting. under the baton of Polish conductor Nevertheless the moral message of the story Tadeusz Strugala who wasn't, in my opinion, was interesting and digestible.

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The Venue: 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:

Week I: "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".

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ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF RELIGIOUS LIFE - (APREL)

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ST JEROME'S FETE St. Jeromes School Grounds (Near Cable Ski Park), Sunday April 9, 11am to 3pm.

COLUMBAN FAREWELL On Monday, April 17 a farewell for Father Patrick Connealley at St Columban House, 48 Riversdale Road, Rivervale.

Mass at 11.00am, followed by sharing of meal. Please bring a plate and your own drinks.

Enquiries: 272 1379 or 227 1444.

BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE On Palm Sunday April 9 at 11 am Mass and Procession in honour of the 48th Anniversary of the first Apparition of the Virgin of the Revelation, at the Church "Virgin Mary Mother of the Church" 36 Chittering Road Bullsbrook. Bishop Healy will be Celebrant. Blessing of palms prior to Mass. Please bring palms. For bus reservations please ring 444 7565 or 458 6302 for buses to and from Bullsbrook via Marangaroo, Tuart Hill, Perth, Highgate and Midland and for Fremantle bus call 339 4015.

Further anniversary celebrations on Wednesday April 12. Rosary Procession 10.30am, Mass 11 am. The association will not be providing buses for this Pilgrimage. Public transport is available through Transperth M3 timetable. Bus No. 311 stops in front of the Church. For further enquiries please ring 444 2285.

Sacri Association Inc. P.O. Box 311 Tuart Hill 6060.

HEALING MASS Apostles of Christ Prayer group, Willetton charismatic healing mass with anointing of the sick Friday, April 7 at 7.30pm at the St. John and St. Paul Church, Pinetree Gully Road, Willetton.

Fellowship and refreshment thereafter.

BINDOON STATIONS The Secular Frinciscan Order will conduct Stations of the Cross at Catholic College Bindoon on Palm Sunday. Concluding with Benediction in the Chapel. Bring a picnic lunch.

EAST VICTORIA PARK This year Our Lady Help of Christians Parish in East Victoria Park is celebrating its 60th year at 10.30am Mass on Sunday December 10 at the parish church, followed by a lunch.

Interested people are asked to : Gather up photos, articles and memorabilia and send them with your name to the parish at 43 Camberwell Street, East Victoria Park 6101 (Father Brian Harris).

Express interest in attending the function on the December 10 ( with numbers ) by phoning Father Harris on 361 1167, Dennis Kelly on 361 5135 or Cathy McCabe on 361 4314.

DOCTORS MASS The annual Catholic Doctors retreat sponsored by the Catholic Doctors Association, will be co ducted on Sunday April 9 at the U Goody Bioethics Centre, 39 Jugan Street, Glendalough, by Fr. Tim Quinlan SJ, c ommencing at 10am. BYO lunch, tea and coffee provided.

Spouses warmly welcomed.

Blessing of the palms and Mass at 2.30pm, to which all family members are invited. For more information please phone 242 4066.

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

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

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

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

ARMADALE MOVE Fr. Tony Pires of Kalgoorlie will be parish priest of Armadale from the end of April.

CHRISTIAN UFE Thanks to the generous support of Christian Life Groups, the Cahtolic Social Apostolate/Christian Life Group Committee has been able to re-employ Mrs kaye Cox as part-time field worker. Kaye, who lives in Gosnells, is available to help groups get started, or to encourage and support existing groups. The Committee hopes some parishes doing the Lenten Programme may be interested in continuing meeting after completing the programme.

Any Parish in starting a Christian Life Group interested could contact either Kaye Cox on 398 7751 or Julie Etrelezis on 448 8065.

The Annual Mass and Meal takes place at the Redemptorist Retreat House, Camelia Street, North Perth, on Sunday, 2nd April, 1995 commencing with Mass, celebrated by the chaplain, Father B. Whitely at 6pm followed by a meal. Please bring a plate. Tea and coffee and cool, drinks for the children will be available.

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 St. Ruislip A rchangel, 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 Adults $15.

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

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.

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YAe ghonzaa C/frze antw invitesyou to a public lecture on THE FAITH FOR LIVING: Somefocal points and special issues. Fr. Kevin O'Brien, CSS.R. Deputy President cy'APREL

THE FAITH AND ITS COMMUNICATION: Tides can turn. Mr Gerard Gaskin, Assistant

Director ofEducation (Religious Education), Diocese cy Wagga Wagga to be held at

JAMES NESTOR HALL, 50 RUISLIP STREET, LEEDERVILLE at 7.30pm, Tuesday, April 4 The Association for the Promotion of Religious Life aims to ,promote religious life according to the mind of the Church through prayer and sacrifice, vocation awareness and fostering the witness of religious life to the kingdom of God. These public lectures on topics related to living and communicating the Faith reflect APREL's conviction that religious vocations can only flourish where the Catholic Faith is cherished and shared with vitality and integrity.

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CENTREC.ARE MARRIAGE AND FAMILY SERVICE

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BOARD MEMBERS Two positions Expressions of Interest are invited from individuals wishing to become members of the Board of Centrecare.

Centrecare is one of the state's leaders in providing a high quality professional counselling service. It is a non-profit community service which provides broad range of innovative counselling, mediation and community education and support services. Centrecare also contributes to social policy development and formation.

The role of the Board is to set objectives for Centrecare, formulate and determine policy, and generally oversee the broad priorities and direction of the agency. The Board is accountable to the Roman Catholic Archbishop who authorises all appointments.

If you are supportive of the ethos of Centrecare and have expertise in the areas of finance and / or accountancy we would like to hear from you.

Also, people with business acumen, skills in marketing and fund raising or experience with human service organisation management would be welcome to apply. Selected applicants will be invited to attend an initial briefing session.

Expressions of Interest forms and Selection Criteria may be obtained from the office of the Director on (09) 325 6644. Completed forms should be forwarded to: THE CHAIRPERSON CENTRECARE MARRIAGE AND FAMILY SERVICE 456 HAY STREET, PERTH WA 6000 by 5(X)pm on Friday, 7 April 1995

Archdiocesan Calendar MARCH 31 Fr. Johnston's Christian Meditation - Archbishop Hickey.

Board of Continuing Education for Clergy - Bishop Healy.

2 Induct parish priest, Attadale Archbishop Hickey.

Consecrate St. Luke's Church, Woodvale - Archbishop Hickey 4 Meet staff and students, Santa Maria - Archbishop Hickey.

5 Italian Apprentice Award - Archbishop Hickey.

Holy Week breakfast, Uniting Church - Fr. Tom McDonald.

6 Council of priests meeting.

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