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Touch of young blood Exciting new plan to rejuvenate parishes to be launched in August

Bruce Downes, Director of Catholic Youth and Young Adult Ministry (the Youth Ministry), based at 32 Claverton Street, North Perth, is introducing a Parish Based Youth Ministry (PBYM), in response to the dilemma facing many parishes namely the desire to coordinate parish youth ministry, but lacking the dynamics of how to do it.

culminating in the official August launch.

In a step by step process, the Youth Ministry staff of Mr Downes and his assistant Mrs Penny Ashcroft - will first speak to parish councils on PBYM. Subsequently they will address a wider parish audience.

And then they will meet with the Planning Team of 10 to 15 parish nominees of 50% adults, and 50% young people, to explain the process.

The Planning Team will ascertain the needs of youth and young adults, and to answer those needs, a parish program will be developed using the talents and skills of any interested parishioners, regardless of age, and then delegate leaders of these skill areas.

Each parish can tailor the program to their own requirements, and the Youth Ministry will supply activities and ideas if required.

Mr Downes now believes they have the answer and following a structured plan, six to eight parishes will initially take part,

Mr Downes cited as an example that if some of the young wish to learn to cook, or maintain a car, then a job description

But as emphasised by Mr Downes, it's not just "fun and games" because the series of activities are firmly based around

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard .nI EXCITING new youth and parish N itiative will be launched in August which is predicted to rejuvenate parish life blood, harness talents, and prove the catalyst to revitalise parishes with the involvement and integration of all age groups.

would be forwarded to parishioners, asking if they could assist in giving the young expertise in those areas.

This has the distinct advantage, he pointed out, of integrating the parish through interaction with everyone from the priest, through all parishioner age groups in an endeavour to assist the young.

Mr Downes sees this as meeting a personal need as well as an area of faith in a situation where both the young and older retirees can enrich each other in a Catholic parish environment.

"kids, personal development, and faith issues."

Mr Downes said in response to eastern states interest, he'd been invited to help implement the PBYM into their dioceses "which has the advantage of broadening our knowledge base when youth ministry directors come over here."

Running parallel to the PBYM initiative, the Youth Ministry has a comprehensive diocesan youth ministry program dealing with areas of faith, youth conventions, training of older young people to involve them in parish work, "as well as doing a lot of parent work" Enthusiastic as to where the PBYM can lead, and the positive results he expects from it, Mr Downes said after the August launch, more and more parishes will be attracted to come on stream "in order to pass on the Good News of the gospel to our kids within the parish setting."

Encyclical calls for new talks on role of the Pope

By Cindy Wooden

A TA11CAN CITY (CNS) - As a concrete sign of

V his commitment to Christian unity, Pope John Paul II has called in his latest encyclical for a new discussion of one of the thorniest issues dividing Christians: the authority and ministry of the Pope.

In an encyclical letter on ecumenism released on Tuesday at the Vatican, Pope John Paul said the unity of all Christians is God's will and is at the heart of the mission Christ entrusted to his followers.

The encyclical, "Ut Unum Sint" ("That They May Be One"), ends with a call to "everyone to renew their commitment to work for full and visible communion" and with a specific exhortation to the world's Catholic bishops "to be especially mindful" of their mission and duty to work for Christian unity.

The Pope apologized for times when Catholics have contributed to the divisions among Christians and for ways in which Catholics have contributed to other Christians' difficulty in accepting the ministry of the bishop of Rome.

"The Catholic Church's conviction that in the ministry of the bishop of Rome she has preserved, in fidelity to the apostolic tradition and the faith of the Fathers, the visible sign and guarantor of unity constitutes a difficulty for most other Christians, whose memory is marked by certain painful recollections," he wrote.

"To the extent that we are responsible for these, I join my predecessor Paul VI in asking forgiveness," the Pope said.

But he said the search for Christian unity must be a search for the truth about Christ and His will for the community of believers.

"To uphold a vision of unity which takes account of all the demands of revealed truth does not mean to put a brake on the ecumenical movement," he said. "On the contrary, it means preventing it from settling for apparent solutions

which would lead to no firm and solid results."

True Christian unity must include a common understanding of the profession of faith and the sacraments as well as bonds of communion between members of the hierarchy, he said.

The Pope said that when Christians enter into a dialogue with one another, he said, both sides must make an examination of conscience because division "is an evil from which we need to be healed."

"All the sins of the world were gathered up in the saving sacrifice of Christ, including the sins committed against the church's unity: the sins of Christians, those of the pastors no less than those

of the lay faithful," he said.

Christians must enter into dialogue motivated by love and with a humble awareness that mistakes and offenses were made by both sides, the Pope said.

In that spirit, he said, legitimate differences will be seen as sources of enrichment for the entire Christian community rather than as obstacles to unity or even sources of tension and conflict.

"Legitimate diversity is in no way opposed to the church's unity, but rather enhances her splendor and contributes greatly to the fulfillment of her mission," the Pope said.

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Priest for landmines conference Father Gore named by Australian bishops

By Peter Rosengren

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S11 OPPOSITION to landines and their capacity to maim both combatants and innocent alike grows, the Australian Bishops have announced that they will be sending a delegate to attend an international conference on landmines im Cambodia next month.

Fr Brian Gore, one of Australia's best-known priests and Regional Director for Australia and New Zealand of the Society of St Columban, will take

part in the Landmines Conference in Phnom Penh from June 2 to 4.

The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference voted earlier this month to send a delegate to the conference after endorsing a policy opposing the production and distribution of landmines.

The Bishops Conference has since written to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Gareth Evans, calling on the Australian Government to change its policy and support a full international ban on anti-

WA Catholics present papal birthday gift

Perth's Vicar-General Monsignor Michael Keating with Pope John Paul and West Australian pilgrims after the presentation of a spiritual bouquet to the Pope from the Catholics of Western Australia.

personnel mines.

Fr Gore gained international attention when he was arrested with two other priests and six church workers on charges of murder, incitement to rebellion and illegal possession of ammunition and explosives on the island of Negros in the Philippines in 1982.

"In going to the landmines conference I feel that I am supporting the view not only of the Australian Church but also of the majority of Australian people," Fr Gore said.

"All decent people are

repulsed by the horrific nature o f landmines and by the appalling number of deaths and injuries they cause."

Fr Gore will not be the only Australian religious attending the Phnom Penh Conference.

Sr Pak Poy, an Adelaide Sister of Mercy will also be attending on behalf of her Congregation.

Last week a Congregational meeting of the Adelaide Sisters of Mercy also announced its support for the International Campaign to ban antipersonnel landmines.

Sisters of Mercy currently

work with people in Cambodia, Vietnam and parts of Afriica where landmines from regional conflicts still cause constant death and maiming.

"We acknowledge that our Govennment has given quite generously to the clearance of landmines in Cambodia and has supplied personnel to clear mines in Afghanistan and Mozambique, but it needs to do even more - it needs to support the world movement for a total ban," said Sr Mary Densley, Leader of the Adelaide Congregation.

Chesterton still a prophet for today E

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nalist, poet and author,G.K. Chesterton, who died in 1936 and was later made a Defender of the Faith byPope Plus XII, oncc said in a famous essay published in 1909 entitled On Lying in Bed: If there Is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals it is the modern strengthening of minor morals."

He was speaking, among other things, of the preoccupation with cleanliness and matters of hygiene prevalent in society at exactly the same time that society was happily disregarding religion and ethical principles.

Today, Chesterton's words ring even truer as contemporary society busies itself hap-

banning things such as smoking advertising while moral standards on abortion and euthanasia are abandoned. In 1995 you may kill an unborn child or an elderly hospital patient, but you may not light a cigarette in a restaurant.

These, and the other e xtraordinarily prophetic views and writings of Chesterton, were the theme for visiting University of New England librarian and Chesterton authority Karl Schmude, speaking at the University of Notre Dame in Fremantle last Monday night, when he delivered the annual Chesterton Memorial Lecture on behalf of the Chesterton Society of WA. Chesterton, whose

continued to fascinate generations since his death, was one of the outstanding Catholic journalists of his day and of the century.

Concerned with the direction in which modern society appeared to be going, his writings were largely devoted to his fascination with life in all its circumstances and warning his contemporaries of the consequences of their abandonment of fundamental things like religion and morals.

But like all prophets he was destined to be largely disregarded especially by those for whom he wrote. As Mr Schmude pointed out, a similar inheritor of Chesterton's journalistic tradition, the famous English jour-

By Peter Rosengren nalist Malcolm Muggeridge, once expressed surprise that when Chesterton has so often been proved right in his judgements, he should still be less seriously regarded by contemporaries like George Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells, who were almost invariably wrong.

A t the core of Chesterton's views, which revelled in the small and detailed things of life and the defence of the apparently indefensible, was a deep and abiding joy in the created world that he saw around him and a profound belief in God. Mr Schmude said some of the most farseeing of Chesterton's prophecies are to be

found in his writings on matters such as political philosophies; marriage, sex and family; and the encroachment of the all-encompassing, oppressive modern state.

Thus, contemporary culture was prone to unconscious dogmas; and "an unconscious dogma," Chesterton wrote in 1919, is the definition of a prejudice."

More colourfully, Chesterton said on another occasion that "the problem for modern man is not that he has lost his way. Man has always lost his way. The problem now is that he has lost his address."

Like T.S Eliot, who came after him, Chesterton saw clearly the inherent dangers in liberalism of the kind in existence in the

first half of the twentieth century and its connection to other utopian totalitarian political philosophies.

It was this, in part, together with his love of the small and the natural, which led him to create his own political philosophy of Distributism, based on the notion of private ownership of property for all and the value of small business, as opposed to the impersonal State or the profit-driven monopolies so characteristic of capitalism.

It was the fact that Chesterton was so attuned to the spirit of the times and could see clearly the logical consequences of abandoning the commonsense and the fumdamental in favour of things such as profit and pleasure which make him even more

Encyclical calls for talks on Pope's role From page 1 While praising the advances made in the ecumenical movement in the 30 years since the Second Vatican Council, especially the growing frequency of ecumenical prayers services and common work for justice and peace, the Pope said Christians cannot be content with what has been accomplished.

"The greater mutual understanding and the doctrinal convergences already achieved between us. . . cannot suffice for the conscience of Christians who profess that the Church is one, holy, catholic and apostolic," he said.

"The ultimate goal of the ecumenical movement is to re-establish full visible unity among all the baptized," the Pope said.

To achieve that unity, he said, agreement must still be found in several areas, including: • The relationship between sacred Scripture, as 2 The Record, June 1 1995

the highest authority in matters of faith, and sacred tradition, as indispensable to the interpretation of the Word of God. • The meaning of the Eucharist.

• Ordination as a sacrament.

• Church teaching on Mary.

• The teaching authority of the Pope and bishops.

Pope John Paul welcomed calls made by many ecumenists and Christian leaders, including the 1993 world assembly of the World Council of Churches' Commission on Faith and Order, for a new Christian examination of "the question of a universal ministry of Christian unity."

According to the Catholic faith, he said, that ministry is to be exercised by the Pope - the Bishop of Rome and successor of St Peter who received the ministry directly from Jesus.

While Pope John Paul called for a discussion on new ways the bishop of Rome could exercise his

ministry in the context of a reunited Christian church, he emphasized the fact that without real power and authority, the ministry would be ineffective.

He also said unity with the Bishop of Rome is an absolute requirement for full Christian unity and therefore for Eucharist sharing.

• General Secretary of the Conference of Churches of Western Australia, the Reverend Wes Hartley, said that the new encyclical was both timely and welcome.

"Usually encyclicals of this nature are directed to the bishops, clergy and faithful of the Catholic Church, but on this occasion it has universal appeal," he said.

He also stressed "that the important thing is the re-affirmation of the Catholic Church being committed irrevocably to the path of the ecumenical venture."

relevant today than in his own, said Mr Schmude.

"Chesterton argued that a purely intellectual conspiracy would soon threaten the very existence of civilisation," he said.

"The destruction of the future would come, not from the commonly supposed seedbed of revolution the lower classes - but rather from the educated and affluent, those who have been cut off from their cultural roots and lost contact with spiritual truth and moral wisdom; who combine intellectualism and ignorance and thereby indulge in a weak worship of intellect and force."

"The most dangerous criminal now," concluded Chesterton, "is the entirely lawless modern philosopher."

But one of the most finally frightening of Chesterton's prophecies was his foresight of the breakdown in human relationships as a logical outcome of the commercialisation of sexuality and the a ccompanying destruction of sexual morality.

It was Chesterton's surpassing achievement, Mr Schmude said, to have seen the signs of the times - and to have grasped their significance.

NT kii Bill threatens elderly

By Peter Rosengren 0 LJSTRALIA'S Catholic BishA ps have expressed deep concern over the legislative efforts

that ended in legalising assisted suicide in the Northern Territory.

A rchbishop Eric D'Arcy of Hobart said that he was especially concerned for the aged and infirm who feel that they are a nuisance and that they would be better off put to death.

"For such people the Territory vote is ominous. For those who believe that every human life is of a unique value, it is a bad step backwards," he said.

The 25-member Northern Territory Assembly passed the Rights of the Terminally Ill Bill legalising doctor-assisted euthanasia in a 15-10 vote on May 25 after a 14hour debate. Under the new law terminally ill patients from anywhere in Australia can obtain assisted suicide in the Northern Territory.

The law sparked a national debate as legislators in other states considered whether to follow the Northern Territory's example. In Canberra Attorney General Michael Lavarch said

other states might now consider adopting similar laws.

In New South Wales the Sydney Morning Herald said in its editorial that "When euthanasia is legal it becomes too easy for the patient to look at that as a solution. And it becomes easier for others to persuade the patient to that solution, not necessarily for good reasons."

Meanwhile, the Australian Medical Association (AMA) said through its national president, Dr Brendan Nelson, that "society should not sanction the ending of human life." While cases where palliative care could not prevent pain were rare, it said that organisations and governments should focus on "the real issues and problems associated with the care of the dying - making sure that there are well-funded and effective palliative care programs in place using modern techniques and practices." The Bishops also warned that the Northern Territory Assembly's decision to legalise euthanasia should not stampede the rest of the country into following suit.

Responding to the announcement of the Assembly's decision to legalise the ending of termi-

nally ill patient's lives, the Bish- prolonging life to the absolute ops' Committee for the Family limit. The patient has a right to and for Life said that the land- choose whether a particular form mark decision should make all of treatment is appropriate in the Australians think very carefully situation of his or her life. The about similar possible moves in option to forego treatment which others states. will serve only to prolong the final "Once a single human life is stage of life is always the prerogaseen as expendable, many other tive of the patient. What is unaclives are placed in jeopardy", the ceptable is taking direct means to Committee said in a statement kill the patient." released on Friday.

Commenting on the passage of "Compassion should lead to the Bill, Director of the LJ Goody good medical, nursing and pallia- Bioethics Centre in Perth, Fr Waltive care. It should motivate the ter Black, said "this Bill has been family and friends of a terminally pushed through in sweaty haste ill person to support their loved without being given the necessary one in the last stages of life. Com- time and public discussion that passion literally means to suffer such an important topic with a person, not to hasten the thouroughly deserves." person's death," the Committee "It is a dark day for Australia statement said. when a licence to kill has been "If euthanasia becomes accept- given to doctors, reversing the traable in the community, how vol- ditions of thousands of years of untary is it in the case of a dying medicine," he said. person who may feel a burden on Responding to the announcefamily and friends? What choices ment on behalf of the Church in are given to doctors and nurses South Australia, Fr Robert Egar, being asked to be agents of Vicar General of the Archdiocese death?" of Adelaide said that the Bill's The Bishops also pointed out passing marked a sad day in the that a patient's decision to discon- history of South Australia. tinue treatment is not euthanasia.

"Emotive arguments are not a "Good ethical practice does not good basis for law making," he bind patients or their doctors to said.

Our Patroness honoured Salute to priest ATHER Michael F Delahunty, (right), the former parish

Italian community members carry a statue of Our Lady Help of Christians through Midland streets last Sunday to mark the patroness of Australia's feast day.

Jesuits' pay-TV A

l o,READY WELL established n the Internet, the Jesuits are about to enter the pay-TV market with plans for a five channel service to begin transmission as early as this December.

The Jesuits' service will not resemble the extremely conservative programs of US tele-vangelists like the Rev Jimmy Swaggart or the Rev Jim Bakker.

The project is led by Father Michael Kelly, SI, the executive director of Jesuit Publications. He is also a director of Albion Productions, a video company used by the Jesuits and Melbourne Archdiocese and which will play a role in the project.

Jesuit TV is the brainchild of two Catholic executives in the television industry, Tony Lucians, who works for two cable services in the US, and Bill Childs, a media consultant.

Jesuit TV will also offer programs on health, food, recreation and easy listening popular music 'videos - JTV instead of MTV.

The main channel, Lifevision, will broadcast news and documentaries and films that do not depend on gratuitous sex and violence to succeed at the box office.

Jesuit TV will be aimed to the whole community, particularly people who seek to live according to Christian values. - The Catholic Weekly.

priest of East Fremantle who died last week, will long be remembered by the parishioners he served in the Church of Western Australia, Bishop Healy said as he preached the panegyric last Tuesday at East Fremantle.

Born in Rathdowney, Ireland on September 15, 1917, Father Delahunty was educated at the lay and ecclesiastical St Kieran's College, Kilkenny, until his ordination on June 7, 1942.

Arriving in Perth on October 30, 1942 he was curate at Leederville until 1945 when he was transferred to Maylands for the next five years.

Appointed parish priest to the new parish of Bruce Rock in 1955 he moved on to Corn gin in October 1962 where he remained for the next seven years.

Parish priest of Brentwood from 1969 t o 1976, he became parish priest of East Fremantle until 1992 when he retired. He remained in the parish there until ill health necessitated his shift to the Little Sisters of the Poor at Glendalough for the last few months of his life.

Bishop Healy said Fr Delahunty remained a student all his life with his great love of reading but, despite this and his proficiency at golf - "He was always the priest, and even during his retirement at East Fremantle, he continued to offer his services to the parish priest and people."

People will long r emember his kindness, his good humour and wit, said Bishop Healy, "and his determination during his

"Here in South Australia we have concentrated on the importance of good palliative care with the passing of the Medical treatment Bill. And much has been achieved in South Australia in developing good pain control and palliative care services," he said.

Fr Egar also said that the "indecent haste" reflected very badly on the Northern Territory legislators'understanding of their role in a democratic society.

"Sadly, it appears that much of the NT discussion has been dominated by emotive arguments based largely on personal experiences. It also seems to illustrate an absence of good palliative care in the Northern Territory," he said.

Catholics and Christians from all other denominations were invited to join with the WA-based State Prayer Tree on Sunday evening, June 4, at 8pm to pray the Rosary asking Mary's intercession in preventing the legalisation of euthanasia in Western Australia.

The State Prayer Tree is a network of Catholics throughout the State who activate the network whenever there is a need for concerted prayer at a state, national or international level.

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Catholic Youth Ministry May mayhem

The Catholic Young Adults group formed last year to help the Catholic Youth and Young Adult Ministry at their first dinner dance in St Keiran's Parish Hall. The group meets at the Catholic Education Office in Leederville to plan activities and take the opportunity for prayer and personal formation.

The inaugural Catholic Youth Ministry Mayhem Camp was held last weekend at Eagles Nest in Gidgegannup. More than 35 people, above and below right, from Perth and country areas came together for a weekend of talks, reflection and activities.

The next Mayhem weekend will be held during the July school holidays from Sunday July 16 to Wednesday July 20. Places have already been taken for what will be another fantastic weekend.

US adolescent health in a serious decline D

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Issues Consultation held "The life of adolescents has between May 21 and 23 at the deteriorated significantly, cer- University of Dayton. tainly in the last 40 to 50 years," Sixty providers of health care, Ms Callahan said, pointing to increases in violence, suicide, human services, education and pregnancy, sexually transmitted pastoral counseling met to disdiseases, drug use and depres- cuss ways to use Catholic teachsion among American adoles- ings to improve health care for cents. adolescents.

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Bishop flies into sunset

By Colleen McGuniess-Howard

In accordance with Canon Law, he offered his resignation to the Holy Father on his 75th birthday in February.

But he has much to tell. To ensure a century of Catholic Church history in the Kimberley from 1884 to 1984 is captured, he has recently had published a book "From Patrons to Partners" by Margaret Zucker, which is through available Notre Dame University and Pellegrinis for

On 25 March 1959 the newly ordained Pallotine Bishop John Jobst was virtually dragged "kicking and screaming" back to the Kimberley where he had spent two years after his arrival in Australia in 1951.

With the psychological and cultural shock of the Aboriginal Beagle Bay mission (126 krns north of Broome) $15.95. "where I caught almost The Broome Diocese every tropical disease covers 773,000 sq km under the sun from bordered by WyndRoss River virus to hamandKununurra to malaria!" fresh in his the north, the 23rd parmind - returning to the allel to the south, the Broome region had no Indian Ocean on the appeal. west and the Northern This was reinforced Territory border on the when he took up his east. accommodation cerIt was a tough assigntainly no bishop's ment. palace- atthe end of the The first two months presbytery verandah in were spent travelling Broome "where the through the sparsely defied populated Vicariate on conditions description." bad roads to ascertain He had been sent to the of numbers Beagle Bay initially to Catholics, Aboriginals, gain experience to train schools, and to deterSydney Pallotine novi- mine the focus of his tiate students for their future work. future missionary work Returning to Broome but, weakened with ill- he concluded the situaness at Beagle Bay, he tion looked "pretty was convinced that he hopeless"; mission stawanted to return to his tions hadn't recovered native Bavaria as soon from the ravages of as possible. war, morale was low, Of course even there, and the Vicariate was life had not been too 880 Australian pounds rosy. in debt "equivalent to Born near Regens- about $40,000 these burg in 1920, the eldest days." of 12 children, So a nation-wide life was uncompli- proposal was put to the cated until he joined Australian Vicarfor the the seminary just prior Propagation of the to the outbreak of the Faith, Monsignor Second World War, Thomas, who advised a during which the semi- target of 40,000 pounds. nary was raided by the Labouring under Gestapo, its property education debts themtaken, and the remain- selves, the Australian ing five seminarians bishops nevertheless jailed. gave approval, but A fter his release Bishop Jobst now faced within a few days, John the need to advertise Jobst fought in the but without funds.

Panzer Corps on the Then a request to Russian Front and was friend, historian and captured by the Ameri- author - Mary Durack, cans in April 1945. whose name is inextriAfter his return to the cably linked to the seminary and ordina- Kimberley - solved the tion in 1951, he came to problem.

Australia and encounBishop Jobst travtered Beagle Bay ... and elled with Dame Mary that's where his story of and a West Australian the Kimberley begins.

Newspaper photograAfter recovering his pher, preparing materihealth and then giving als for five articles retreats to religious which were successand spiritual direction fully published in Austo Sydney seminarians, tralian Catholic newsthe then Apostolic Del- papers. egate Archbishop Upon Bishop Jobst's Romolo Carboni urging. her "wellreasked Fr Jobst to accept searched, excellent the position of Bishop articles" took book of the form and were pubKimberley Vicariate. lished as The Rock and Wary, and distinctly the Sand. lacking in desire, The relative windfall FrJobst declined. o f 50,000 pounds However "the final donated to Savethe trump card was played, KimberleyFund by genAustralian and I was told it was erous God's will for me to Catholics saw urgently needed building progo!"

Now, 36 years down grams surge ahead.

In 1961,the Vicariate the track, Bishop Jobst the o f Broome Diocese purchased (changed from Kimber- 202,500ha Thangoo ley Vicariate in 1966) Station on which La has helped write part Grange stood, so it -of the Kimberley's could provide food and training experience for unique history.

work as having been Catholic priest and "somewhat thwarted" some Catholic sisters however due to the who teach and nurseindustrial unrest in the La Grange, KulumKimberly caused by the burru, which have state introduction of award schools, and Balgo, rates for pastoral work- Beagle Bay and Lomers. bardina who retain Hitherto, pastoralist- Catholic schools. shad taken care of the Regarding CatholiAboriginal workers and their families on cism, Bishop Jobst their properties, sup- points to the humanists plying food and health and intellectuals "who care instead of a wage. pertain that the ChrisBut when they had to tians destroy Aborigipayaward rates, they nal culture and tradicould not afford to tions; but the contrary employ them. is the case because Thus large numbers Christianity not only o f Aboriginal people helps the Aboriginal left the properties and peopleappreciate their settled as fringe own traditions, culture dwellers around the and religion, but also township. helps them to put The scene then meaning into their trachanged dramatically, ditional beliefs." said Bishop Jobst.

Reinforcing this, By the 1970s, legal restrictions on the sup- Bishop Jobst said he ply of alcohol to Abo- has "never, ever met rigines were lifted, and with opposition or liquor, with ease of resistance to the good purchase and social things given by our benefits, teachers, priests, and security changed the Aborig- religious. ines' lifestyle and dev"Because they realise astated their families and society, the stan- that if they want a dard of health dropped rightful place and because of alcoholism, future in Australian with resultant child society, Christianity is neglect. the only way."

"On the missions Referring to the long before the government presence in Catholic took over the adminisBishop Kimberley, the disciwas there tration, Kimthe in Church the of history Bishop John Jobst with Margaret Zucker's it has believes Jobst pline, and the people berfeys. were happy and had a great impact on healthy because they the Aboriginal people Aborigines to qualify Sisters of Mercy, St me".

Sow party of WA grew their own fresh and cites one of the them for future station Joseph of the Apparibusinessmen came to meat, vegetables and main reasons that "contion, Our Lady employment. trary to Protestant funthe resuce and bought fruit." and Missions, the of also money The In 1981, Bishop Jobst damental religions, we financed a Broome then the Christian and him a two-engine Cessna. was awarded the CBE respect Aboriginal culpresbytery in 1961, the De La Salle Brothers.

The religious weren't in the Queen's Birthday ture and build on it The outstanding conBroome Cathedral in tributors to the work in keen to fly, but Bishop Honours list which like grafting Christian1964, a residence for Kimberley Jobst was, and has now joins place of pride ity on to the other culmissionaries n 1965, the and a new school in were.however. the St clocked up 6,000 flying with his Iron Cross for tural and spiritual valbravery received in ues."

1966. A prayer meeting John of God Sisters hours.

Not that travelling World War 11 place for Aborigines who began teaching in He looks back over was also bought at 1908 under primitive was trouble free from Looking back over Morgan's Camp on conditions; they have then on - in 1978 13km his 36 years. Bishop " the heartaches and now taught and nursed out of Derby he Jobst believes he has tears" but states with Broome's outskirts. the generations of Aborigi- crashed, incurring seri- achieved what he set appreciative pride of "Meanwhile ous injuries which hos- out to do. the efforts of so many, Apostolic Delegate nal people.

Constantly under pitalised him for ten impressed on me that I There remain five that "the Kingdom of must establish a church threat of Japanese weeks. missions in the Broome God has grown in the Currently Bishop Diocese, all with a Kimberley." in Wyndham - their bombing at times durfirst, which I did in ing World War 11, the Jobst flies a six-seater 1965, and every first Sisters' dedication Cessna - a far cry from Saturday of the month extended to tending to communication in the I'd fly there." A small their patients for three fifties whenthe mispresbytery was built weeksinthe bush as sionswere givenanalloOptometrists part of a fugitive party cated time slot on the later.

R eal i s ing , of 244 Derby Leprosar- Flying Doctor network Contact Lens Consultants however,that the Abo- ium evacuees, chang- to exchange information. by rigines needed asolid ing dressings nightly 4 Cantonment Street, FREMANTLE Pushing on with his Catholic education in covered lantern light, achieve to endeavour Jobst Bishop Phone 335 2602 order to gain good jobs, self-respect and inde- expressed his gratitude his vision for the "ecopendence,Bishop Jobst for all the selfless nomic,social and spirieducation a priority for endeavours of mission- tual development of aries, lay and non-lay the Kimberley", Bishop thenext25 years. who spent their ener- Jobst has heavily 15 approached He Catholic orders for gies and lives there, - encouraged lay misteachers, all of whom and those who died for sionarysupport,and schools have continued the cause. refused.

Countless heroes' to open all over the A desperation trip to Rome bore fruit after names are nobly east Kimberley.

Conditions improved appealing tothePope, woven into the coarse 71;\ 5 1 which saw Bishop Jobst fibres of the beautiful "and moreandmorereS WEET liaising with Cardinal but demanding and ligious established harsh Kimberley his- schools and new misAgagianian.

But then Archbishop tory, whoall gave up sions."

Bishop Jobst said Carboni urged the therelativeeaseof EuroJosephite Sisters to pean civilisation to they concentrate on the S PE( IALL1 FI LT1. 1(1..1) send two of their sisters bring the Word of God Aborigines at their misGuaranteed as pure grape ,ute made in contomp, sion schools and to Wyndham. Subse- to a people they loved.

MTh ecclesiastcal conditions tor church je For Bishop Jobst, Bushie schools and quently the Josephites Produced by ISAIAPTV opened the Wyndham however, the remote- through them, "help the CLAREVALF school in 1964 and at ness and isolation of Aborigines regain their VID his flock made life diffi- pride, train them for Kununurra in 1966. and opportunities, cover to job having other cult, Gradually orders followed them 3500km a month over of course Christianise 684 ALBANY HIGHWAY, EAST VICTORIA PARK dirt and sand tracks them." to the Kimberley TELEPHONE 470 4333 He describes this the Loreto Sisters, "which nearly killed •-• t t.

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Monsignor O'Shea with the commemmorative stained glass window

Monsignor O'Shea, champion of the seafarer, respected by all

By Peter Rosengren DING union official LV orm Pickles fondly remembered a little "white-headed

man" who had frequented the ports of Fremantle and Rockingham for the last thirty years.

Mr Pickles was talking about none other than the retiring Director of the Stella Marts Seafarers' Centre in Fremantle, Monsignor Sean O'Shea.

Mr Pickles said that there were countless times when he recalled

seeing the "little white-headed man" going up and down the gangplank of a ship, a satchel in one hand and an armful of books in the other.

Monsignor O'Shea was always there to assist the seafarer, make them feel welcome and at home, and even on occasions to fight their cause, he said.

But he was always respected by all sides because he could walk the line between shipping agents and unions, respecting both and never forgetting the seafarer.

Archbishop Hickey, left, views old photographs of the Apostleship of the Sea with Mgr O'Shea, second from the left.

Also present to pay tribute to Monsignor O'Shea was Archbishop Barry Hickey, who spoke of Monsignor O'Shea's 34 years of outstanding service to seafarers and unveiled a commemorative stained glass window in the foyer of the centre.

Monsignor O'Shea's contributions to the spiritual and material welfare of seafarers during his chaplaincy was also acknowledged by Western Australian Liberal Senator Sue Knowles on behalf of the community and by Fr Michael Richardson, Mel-

bourne-based National Director of the Apostolate of the Sea. Monsignor O'Shea, who was invited to take up the position by Archbishop Prendiville in 1961, came to the Stella Mans Centre as a young assistant priest from St Mary's Cathedral in Perth and eventually became the National Director of the Apostolate of the Sea. From 1961 until 1995 he oversaw the expansion of the Stella Mans apostolate nationally as well as in Fremantle, including the organisation of regular

socials for seafarers, volunteer work in the centre, ship visits and the extension of accommodation at the centre itself.

Monsignor O'Shea's abilities were recognised by the Vatican in 1986 when he was seconded to Rome to organise the World Congress of the Apostolate of the Sea, held in Mombasa the following year; it was in recognition of his services to the Apostolate that he was given the title of Monsignor.

CSJC seeks prison opinions Woodlands Rosarians

By Peter Rosengren E Catholic Social justice Ti Commission (CSJC) of the Perth Archdiocese is seeking

people who are willing to share their experiences on the issue of women in WA prisons.

The CSJC has nominated injustices suffered by women in WA prisons as one of the key issues that it will be focussing on in 1995.

Convened in 1994, the commission is concentrating on several issues in 1995, including the social problems faced by people with mental disabilities and the rehabilitation and accommodation of Aboriginal people with alcohol-related problems.

The CSJC hopes that it will be able to draw on the experiences of those who have experienced life as a prisoner in a women's prison or from people who have had family members, friends or relatives incarcerated in womens' correctional facilities in WA. CSJC project officer, Elizabeth Way, said the commission

wished to investigate the experiences of women in prison in order to uncover the "human face" of their experiences.

"Therefore we're canvassing input from people in the parishes and the community, who have either been in prison or have experienced a friend or family member being in a women's prison," she said.

"We're not so interested in the statistical information as the actual experiences that women in prison undergo," she said.

Dr Lyn Bloom, deputy chairperson of the commission and the main force behind the CSIC's investigation of the issue, said that the commission had already sent letters out to parishes asking for interested parties or people with some experience of the issue to contact the CSJC. "We're interested in the sorts of aspects that characterise women's experiences in WA correctional facilities and things which impact on that experience, such as the lack of separate minimum security facilities for women prisoners, the lack of adequate facilities for prisoners who are pregnant

and the fact that women in country areas are placed in special sections in male prisons," she said. Dr Bloom also emphasised the commission report wanted to concentrate on individual experience rather than statistical apalysis, the latter being more easily carried out by government bodies such as the Ministry of Justice, which had more immediate access to the data.

"We want to be able to say: these cases exist - here are some that have happened,' she said.

In preparing its report, the CSJC will also examine matters such as the disproportionate number of Aboriginal women in prisons and investigate the number of women imprisoned over the last twenty years, their ages and backgrounds, the lengths of their sentences, tlic nature of their offences and subsequent difficulties suffered as a result of their prison experience. Anyone interested in sharing their experience should contact the commission on (09) 325 1212.

First major NCCA conference E Council of and society. recumenical rChurches Cih in Australia, the body created in

poet, Father Tony Kelly, traditional Aboriginal Reverend Dhal1994 will be new questions facing the nganda Garrawurra, Uniting to facilitate ecumenical dialogue churches in the 1990s, their rele- Church minister Lisa Meo from and activity between churches, is vance, and how to develop an Fiji, Rabbi Betsy Torop and to hold its first major conference authentic spirituality for modern Brother Ghislaine of the Taize in Melbourne on the theme The times as a new century community.

Household of God. approaches.

Conference organisers say the Planned for January next year, Over forty workshops and sem- conference will be open to all the conference will centre on the inars are planned for the five-day Christians, lay and ordained, who the household of God "living meeting of prayer, theology, ecu- wish to make a contribution to an under the Southern Cross." menical worship and arts which Australian faith and who find The conference will emphasise will draw participants from Aus- themselves within "the household of God". discovering new possibilities and tralia, the Pacific and Asia. engendering renewed hope in the Keynote speakers, reflecting Anyone interested in participatmidst of an era pf rapicl,qncI , the conference's diversity, in the conference, should conriee+fairi Iienge for cirurdie:4 ' tiltPude TtetteriVfoti§f Midst ," qtttt•Ann Paul on (03) 9650 4511.

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still going strong

Rosarians and some of their past and present helpers: Back row - Marie Kelly, Eileen Conroy, Glenys Duffy, Nola Woulfe, Barbara Harris, Marl Hopkins, Peg Granger, Gwen Slavin, Beryl Symons, Doreen O'Loughlin and Aimee Davidson. Front row: Molly Fisher, Leaf Brown, Eileen Forrestal and Gwen Green.

organisations formed within the Church for the highest of motives and good will often fold up and cease to function.

MANY

One that has stood the test of time is a unique group, the "Rosarians" of Our Lady of the Rosary Parish in Woodlands, which recently celebrated a quarter of a century of support, friendship and entertainment for the senior citizens of the parish.

It was the brainchild in 1970 of the then parish priest, the late Father Tony Costello OP, who approached the Majellans to form a social group for the elderly.

The twenty-fifth anniversary gathering of about eighty people, including some of the original helpers, was held in St Catherine's convent on May 9.

Father Stephen Tarrant OP celebrated Mass in the convent chapel. This was followed by an afternoon of fun, laughter and the recall of twenty-five years of memories.

Little did Fr Costello know that when the Majellans organised the first meeting of the "Rosarians" in the home of Barbara Harris and elected Peg Granger as President, that his simple charitable suggestion would be flourishing twenty-five years later.

The enthusiastic team of workers has ensured that the Rosarians meet regularly and enjoy a range of entertainment and companionship. But it is the special occasions, such as the Mothers Day Mass, the annual concert and Christmas lunch that are enjoyed most.

Prom Mrs Angela Swain '446 6857.

Serb bishop helps end hunger strike AGREB, CROATIA (CNS) - A Bosnian bishop has ended a hunger strike after a Serbian Orthodox bishop urged Bosnian Serb political leaders to protect Catholic lives.

The Catholic Press Agency of the Zagreb Archdiocese reported that Bishop Franjo Komarica of Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina, ended his hunger strike after receiving a visit from Serbian Orthodox Bishop Atanasije Jeftic on May 24.

The agency said the information was received by telephone from Banja Luka diocesan officials.

Bishop Komarica began his hunger strike on May 17 to protest against Serb actions against Catholics.

According to the agency, Bishop Atanasije represented Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Pavle of Belgrade and spoke in the name of the Orthodox church's governing synod.

He told Bishop Komarica that he regretted the actions against Catholics in the Serb-held northern Bosnian region and said he had asked Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to protect the area's Catholics and their church buildings.

Most Serbs profess Orthodoxy, while most Catholics in Bosnia are ethnic Croats.

Previously, Bishop Komarica, who was put under house arrest in early May, had asked neighbouring Croatia to intervene to save the Catholics in his diocese from Serb persecution.

"Help us!" he said in a letter to

Protect women, says Pope The main message of the conference, Mrs Mongella said, is that "women are human TATICAN CITY (CNS) - beings with rights and responV The United Nations sibilities," an affirmation found World Conference on Women in Catholic teaching and in should foster a universal com- international agreements, but mitment to ensuring that no still not a reality in the world. woman is put in a situation The most obvious signs that where she feels abortion is the human rights of women her only option, Pope John were not universally recogPaul II urged. nised were seen in violence True solidarity with women against women and girls, the did not mean increasing fact that illiteracy rates were access to legalized abortion, higher among women than but addressing the questions men and in the fact that the and pressures that make majority of the world's poor some women feel they cannot people were women and chilcontinue a pregnancy, the dren, she said.

Pope said in a May 26 mesPope John Paul's message sage to Gertrude Mongella, addressed each of the issues secretary-general of the UN and committed the Church to conference. continuing its efforts to protect The Pope gave the message women, educate them and to Mrs Mongella after they lobby for changes in economic met privately at the Vatican to systems, inheritance laws and discuss the conference, which banking practices that have is scheduled for September 4- kept women poor.

15 in Beijing.

Promoting the dignity of At a press conference later, women meant recognising Mrs Mongella, a former offitheir special role in family life cial in the Tanzanian Governwhile at the same time encourment, described her 30- aging their full participation in minute meeting with the Pope society, the Pope said. as "very wonderful" and To help all the world's quoted long passages from his message as reflecting her women, he said, the UN conference must avoid extreme posigoals for the conference.

"In the Pope's message, one tions that either ignore a thing which has made me woman's family connections or really happy is the mention of see her value exclusively in the role of fathers, because terms of her potential roles as a that has been missing. We wife and mother. "No response have always looked at the role to women's issues can ignore of women in the family, and women's role in the family or very rarely is it mentioned take lightly the fact that every that men have a role in the new life is totally entrusted to the protection and care of the family," she said. carrying it in her woman "Society needs to call huswomb," the Pope said. bands and fathers to their He urged greater help for family responsibilities," the Pope said, "and ought to strive pregnant women, especially by for a situation in which they the children's fathers.

In societies where sexuality will not be forced by economic circumstances to move was trivialised and where sexaway from the home in search ual activity without restraint or responsibility was considered of work."

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Croatian President Franjo Tudjman.

The letter said that basic human and civil rights of Catholics were being trampled on.

The bishop urged Croatia's leaders "to take charge of our present and future predicament, before it is, God forbid, too late for us and for you."

His letter said that 80,000 Croats in Serb-controlled northern Bosnia are "without basic practical protection."

But the letter stopped short of asking for military intervention.

Meanwhile, Croatian Cardinal Franjo Kuharic of Zagreb has written a letter to United States President Bill Clinton urging him to push for a United Nations human rights monitor in the Banja Luka area.

Catholics are being forced to abandon their homes "to render this territory under Serbian authority ethnically pure," the cardinal said.

During May, two priests and one nun have been killed and several church buildings destroyed, he said.

Also appealing for a human rights monitor were the 29 Precious Blood nuns still in Bosnia.

In a May 25 open letter to world leaders, they said several of their members already had been expelled from the region, several others had been mistreated and the rest feared for their lives.

The letters of the cardinal and the nuns were made public on May 25 by the Catholic Press Agency.

acceptable, "the temptation to use abortion as a so-called 'solution' to the unwanted results of sexual promiscuity and irresponsibility is very strong," he said.

"And here again it is the woman who bears the heaviest burden: often left alone, or pressured into terminating the life of her child before it is born, she must then bear the burden of her conscience which forever reminds her that she has taken the life of her child," the Pope said.

Avoiding abortion was best not only for individual women, but for society, he said. "There will never be justice - including equality - development and peace, for women and men, unless there is an unfailing determination to respect, protect, love and serve life every human life at every stage and in every situation," he said.

Mrs Mongella said she was hopeful that differences over abortion would not become the central focus of the Beijing conference."I think it would be wrong to take it as a central issue, because we have discussed enough about abortion in Cairo and we have come to agreement" at the 1994 UN World Conference on Population and Development, she said.

Also in his message, Pope John Paul called for an end to attitudes that saw motherhood as a form of oppression and family life as an obstacle to personal growth.

Men and women, he said, were made to be in communion with one another, to give themselves to each other and to work together, according to their unique talents and characteristics, to build a better world.

Spiritual hunger feeds cults: bishop Controversial priest dies KYO (CNS) - Since the Tokyo poison gas subway attack, Tokyo's Auxiliary Bishop Paul Kazuhiro Mori says he is "more convinced than ever of the pathological state of Japanese society and religion's responsibility to respond to people's thirst for salvation."

The bishop said that people who renounced the world to join the Aum Shinri Kyo sect, accused of the subway attack, "are sincere in their search for some spiritual experience."

"There is a thirst that comes when our humanity is sapped dry," he told the newspaper Sankei Shimbun. "In placing the emphasis on economic development, we have lost our very selves," he said.

He said that "in a consumer society where money is everything, we have lost the feeling for the interior world of the heart which cannot be touched, let alone bought by the power of money." The people who joined the cult "were trying to establish a way of life that did not depend on money."

"The fact that children, too, left home to join the religion surely points to a weakening of the bond that should exist among family members," he said.

He said that Japan's information-oriented society suffered from a flood of information, and if people do not have a firm sense of independence, they could not think and judge for

themselves, losing the ability to shape their own lives.

"Aum followers seem to have cut off communication with normal society in an attempt to achieve a sense of independence by the sole means of information given them by their 'revered master,— he said.

Bishop Mori said this raises questions regarding lack of dialogue.

"The opposition between Aum and modern society is striking and raises the problem of their isolationism," he said.

"This is the age when we should all join forces, irrespective of ideologies, personal codes and religion, and take responsibility for solving the world's problems.

Pro-life pilgrimage with a punch

sis pregnancies who cannot afford the costs of childbirth.

"I plan to pray for the women who benefit from HICAGO (CNS) - More than once, Curtis the maternity fund and for pro-life concerns in Williams has laced up his walking shoes for general," Mr Williams said before he began his the annual Hike for Life, a 16km walk that raises walk. Donors are pledging money to the fund on money for a Chicago-area crisis pregnancy cen- his behalf. ter.

Mary Hallan, director of the Respect For Life Now, the 31-year-old Williams has embarked office, praised the idea.

Mr Williams, who is between jobs, is paying his on a hike for life that's 100 times longer.

A former religion teacher at Mount Carmel own way. Several sponsors have helped with the High School in Chicago, he started a 1600km pil- trip's cost. In return, he will pray for their intengrimage on May 16 from Chartres, France, to San- tions, which are carefully recorded in a book that tiago de Compostela in Spain to benefit the he plans to leave at the tomb of St James, who Maternity Fund of the Archdiocese of Chicago's was, according to legend, reburied in Santiago de Respect Life Office. The fund helps worpen in cp.% Compostcla qfter his,martyrdlign

By Heidi Schlumpt Kezmoh

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of AIDS in San Francisco

CAN FRANCISCO (CNS) L./Father Robert Arpin, who made headlines when he announced that he was a homosexual after he was diagnosed with AIDS in 1987, died of the disease early last week. He was 48.

His funeral was scheduled to be held at Most Holy Redeemer Church in San Francisco on May 27.

Father Arpin was a priest of the Diocese of Springfield, Massachusetts, but he moved to San Francisco 20 years ago, three years after his ordination, and took up an unofficial ministry as a counselor and chaplain in the city's large homosexual community.

He was involved in the founding of local chapters of Dignity, a national organization for homosexual and lesbian Catholics.

Dignity groups were barred from using Catholic facilities in many dioceses in the late 1980s after a Vatican statement reaffirmed Church teaching against homosexual activity warned bishops against giving any kind of support or approval to any group which did not clearly support that teaching.

When Archbishop John R. Quinn of San Francisco ordered Dignity of San Francisco to halt its worship services at St Boniface Church in December 1988, Fr Arpin led the final service, which he labeled an "exodus liturgy."

He concluded the service by leading the 500 worshipers in a milelong candlelight protest march to the Cathedral of St Mary of the Assumption, where they sang and broke bread at the edge of the cathedral grounds.

Fr Arpin is survived by his mother, Jeannette Arpin of Chicopee, Massachusetts, who moved to San Francisco to stay with him in the final months of his life.

Archdiocesan spokesman William Mitchell said Archbishop Quinn visited Fr Arpin several times during his final weeks, of life.

The Archbishop issued a brief statement in which he expressed his condolences to Mrs Arpin and said, "I join her in praying that he will now enjoy the gift of everlasting peace with God."

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The 150th anniversary of the Catholic Diocese of Perth Pope Gregory XVI established the Diocese of Perth 150 years ago on May 6, 1845. The principal of Lumen Christi College, Gosnells, Clem Mulcahy, recalls how the diocese came to be and its early tribulations.

A youthful looking Bishop John Brady, above, became the first Bishop of the Perth Diocese, despite Sydney's Archbishop Polding's reservations as to his suitability for the job. Benedictine Dom Rosendo Salvado, left, founder of New Norcia, came with the new Bishop Brady in 1846, as did Mercy Sister, Mother Ursula Frayne, below left, and a party of Mercy Sisters who set up Perth's first successful school.

St John's Pro-Cathedral on the site of the first Catholic church in Perth, St Johns, begun by Fr John Brady on St John's feast day January 27, 1843.

As 1993 saw the celebration of 150 years of Catholic Education in Western Australia, it may come as a surprise that only in May 1995, does the Perth diocese mark 150 years.

But perhaps this is as it should be; Archbishop Bede Polding of Sydney, a Benedictine, was greatly surprised to learn in 1846 that Western Australia had been excised from his direct jurisdiction, and that a diocese of Perth had been created in 1845 without direct consultation with himself.

This was barely two years after he had sent a very small group of people to Western Australia to minister to the local Catholics and to preach to the Aboriginal people. The leader of that group had been Father John Brady, and he had left the colony without consultation and been appointed the founding bishop.

In February 1846, Archbishop Polding, Primate of New Holland as his official title declared, sailed from Sydney for Rome to present another viewpoint.

Fr Brady had applied for two Vicariates also. One in the south of the colony, centred upon Albany, and had appointed Father Peter Powell as Vicar General of Perth and Pro Vicar of the Vicariate of King George's Sound District.

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runners of the modern Darwin. sus of 1844 that there were 160 Ultimately Archbishop Polding's persons identified as Catholics advice prevailed and the concept whereas he had anticipated of vicariates under the direction 30 Catholics. o f the Perth Diocese was Yet in Rome, as he touted for dropped. aid, Fr Brady was declaring there Archbishop Polding's Vicar were thousands of Catholics in General and fellow Benedictine, Perth while, even four years Dr W. G Ullathorne had recom- later, the number had barely mended Fr Brady to New South doubled.

Wales, and Archbishop Polding He also published "A Descriphad found Fr Brady a diligent tive Vocabulary of the Native worker among the Aboriginal Language of Western Australia", people, the settlers and the con- claiming the research as his own. victs.

Unfortunately, he largely plagiaThe latter included some rised the works of Captain Grey French Caledonians with whom and George Fletcher Moore who he worked closely in their own publicly denounced the work language. when it arrived in the colony.

Fr Brady had arrived in Albany This foolish act of Fr Brady, who via the vessel Water Witch on had gained some knowledge of November 3, 1843 and pro- Aboriginal culture over five ceeded to Fremantle where a years in New South Wales, further five days were spent would have caused a loss of before travelling to Perth. He credibility among the people of immediately applied for land, Perth. requesting Perth town lots numThis instability was to be a sign bers 6,9, 10 & 11. of worse to come. Characteristics While a start was made on the not previously noted in his dislittle mud hut of St John's Church charge of duties and pastoral on December 27, 1843, the work now peppered his patronal feast day, the founda- approach to subordinates as well tion stone was not laid until as his interaction with others in Tuesday January 25, 1844. It is authority. probable the first school classes Fr Brady was in his mid 40's at began in the building soon after the time of arrival in Perth and this. while he proved an inept adminIt was then that Fr Brady made istrator, and a dominating his unauthorised departure for manipulative authority figure, he Europe to put a case for brought with him a reputation increased support. He had for zeal and prudence. By the learned from the February cen- time he was forced to leave the

colony in September 1853, the characteristics of zealotry and imprudence would have seemed more in character.

He alienated the Sisters of Mercy whom he had introduced into the colony; he reduced the local church to schism and public scandal. Bishop Brady proved totally unsuitable for the role of administrator and leader and was directed to withdraw from the diocese, and the Benedictine Joseph Benedict Serra was appointed Administrator in his place.

The elderly Archbishop Polding had to make an arduous journey from Sydney to implement the directives given from Rome and attempt to reconcile the opposing forces that had polarised the c ommunity. Yet Bishop Brady had lived simply and his episcopal title did not set a barrier between himself and many of the lay members of his small church.

The need for a Catholic education for their children had greatly concerned the colonists and Bishop Brady's experience in New South Wales would have alerted him to Governor B ourke's NSW Church Act of 1836. This reflected an instruction of Colonial Secretary Glenelg which directed that the Church of England could not be the only church endowed, and that all denominations were to

Contemporary governments housemaids, and so were not be able to freely worship and did not see it as a public respon- aimlessly tracking about the also to educate.

Glenelg, of course, was giving a sibility to provide schooling for settlement. belated directive for the imple- the children of the "lower Bishop Brady's return from mentation of the British Catholic orders", although in the colony on the Elizabeth in early Europe government was limited there Emancipation Act of 1828. This Act technically removed many of support for the spasmodic 1846 with a large missionary the old barriers to Catholics to attempts by private individuals party of Benedictines, Mercy practice their religion openly to offer educational opportuni- Sisters, French missionaries, and enter public life within the ties to children from the more clergy and catechists, excited a British Isles, and by extension, wealthy classes. Nor did the pre- good deal of popular attention. dominantly Anglican population Included among the latter group the British colonies. were Timothy Donovan, Terence As that Act had been passed in establish a system of church Farrelly and Father Peter Powell arrival of after the until schools the year immediately preceding who undertook teaching roles the foundation of the Swan River the Sisters of Mercy. within the newly established The official, and Anglican, colo- schools. They or Father John Colony, the first group of settlers Reverend had obviously been reared in the nial chaplain was the Joostens and catechist Patrick age of religious discrimination Wittenoom. He had exercised O'Reilly, may have been the and prejudices. These forces considerable influence though, "mere professors" who attracted were part of the cultural baggage in the staffing and curriculum of a tart comment from Eliza Brown brought by the migrants to the the few designated government in a letter to England to her Swan River. schools that had been attempted, father William Bussey in NovemThe few Catholic families in the thereby establishing a de facto ber 1846: "The means for giving Swan River colony faced a prob- church-state relationship in colo- a liberal education do exist in the lem common to all the settlers - nial education.

Colony. I had some hope from the lack of suitable teachers. In Charles MacFaull summarised the Catholics who have what an age that well proceeded com- the situation in an editorial in the they call a school and undertake pulsory education there had Perth Gazette of March 2, 1833: to educate the youth, but their been no adequate provision of "The difficulty generally felt in a Professors are mere professors, educational opportunities for new colony of obtaining suitable they have been publicly shown their children, including the instruction for the youths of the up as most illiterate, though the training of apprentices. higher classes of the community, "Sisters of Mercy" maintain their While the Irish advocate has been experienced here . . . good report, fulfilling their Office George Fletcher Moore might Many families of respectability and ministry with the characterlament from his holding on on . . . are deterred from emigrating istic benevolence of their Order". the upper Swan: " A difficulty in consequence of their reflectnow arises; my children want ing that their children must of Not everyone would have schooling and I want pig feeders necessity run wild in the track- agreed with the hearsay related and shepherds", the reality was less woods of a new settlement" by Eliza but the quality of that such tasks in a pre-industrial - the youth from the less colonial teaching was often variage did not require a literate respectable classes presumably able and Mr Donovan certainly work force. were occupied as shepherds or may have been a weak teacher.

The effectiveness and popularity of the Mercy Sisters' school may be reflected in the estimate that by 1850 nearly half of the school population of Perth was being educated by them. The nuns then went on to establish the first secondary school in the colony and enjoyed strong interdenominational support. This enabled Mercedes College to trace its highly successful record to 1846.

As would be expected, the provision of denominational educational opportunities in an age noted for rigourously defended doctrinal differences, was not likely to go unchallenged. Nevertheless, the general support received by the Catholic schools helped to stem, if not overcome, prejudices that often reflected traditional national and sectarian rivalries as much as any real knowledge of theological differences.

The emphasis upon education by the newly established diocese of Perth reflects Bishop Brady's response to the direct requests of the few Catholic families as well as the wider community. It also established a pattern for successive Administrators and Bishops to follow, and was ably implemented by Bishops Serra, Salvado and Griver in their various capacities in the colonial period.

The Record, June 1 1995

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Bringing the bacon to Germany

By Christine Decker

64CIXTY miles to the east a city lies in

Liruins. There is practically nothing left of it but a gigantic bunker. Thousands are left here, crowded together. The stench of decay hangs in the air. Each family lies huddled on a few square feet of concrete. And yet Christ wishes to dwell among these people too, in all His purity, love and goodness..."

The words are those of a young, unknown Norbertine priest, written at Christmas, 1947 in his abbey magazine in Tongerlo, Flanders. His name was Werenfried van Straaten and the town he was describing in these moving words was a town in Germany.

But it was not words this 34-year-old Priest was demanding, but deeds:- "Every poor man, in the fullest sense of the word, is Christ. Give clothes then, and food parcels, to your brothers in Germany and do not demand theiriast ounce of coal in return. Let them see your love and your mercy, your forgiveness and your smiling face!"

Belgium had been liberated by the Allies in September 1944. The prisoners of war were the first upon whom the pentup hatred of the Belgians against Germany and the Germans was vented. They were interned in thousands in prison-camps and forced to work in industry, the mines, steelworks and quarries.

In the camps they suffered great deprivation. Hungry and in inhuman conditions, they had no clothing and many fell sick. Some of their guards sold the rations destined for them to the local farmers. And the Belgians kept silent.

Some of the camps around the Belgian capital, Brussels, were ministered to by Father Anton Dens, a Scheutist priest. He saw their misery and found that there Father van Straaten (left) with Mother Teresa of Calcutta were not just Germans but also Lithuanians, Poles, Hungarians, Ukrainians and many other Eastern Europeans among Dens began to organise a soup-kitchen in eastern Europe of their homes and all them. They also included many who Aachen. For the first time the young Fr their possessions in the subsequent years Werenfried van Straaten came with him to (1945 to 1950). wanted to become priests.

These refugees, overwhelmingly Father Dens informed the papal nuncio Germany.

As the last remaining prisoners of war in women, children and old people, now in Belgium of the plight of these prisoners and was authorised by him to work on Belgium were deciding whether to stay on found themselves stranded - starving, halftheir behalf. He helped many of the East- or retum home, Germany was on the naked and unwelcome, in West Germany. ern Europeans to regain their freedom and verge of collapsing under a massive flood Around half of them were Catholics. Of set up a seminary for these "Germans" in a of refugees. The Yalta and Potsdam agree- the Catholic priests who had accompanied ments secured by Stalin in February and them on this sorrowful journey barely retreat house belonging to his order.

When the last German prisoners of war August of 1945 effectively robbed around three thousand survived. Most of these were freed in the summer of 1947 Father 12 million people in eastern and south- ministered to the Catholic refugees of the

German diaspora, scattered over dozens of different villages. They lived in attics, in cellars, on top of cowsheds and their dwellings were at one and the same time chapels, schools of religion and parish offices. Of these three thousand "rucksack priests" only 36 were under 30 years of age, while most of them were over 50.

Such was the situation in December 1947, the moment when Father Werenfried van Straaten's organisation, Aid to the Church in Need, as it became known, was born.

By May 1949 Fr Werenfried was tirelessly travelling the length and breadth of the land, preaching and begging. And this is where he got the name Bacon Priest.

While on the way to a meeting of the farmers' wives he told a truck driver: "I've been travelling up and down the country like this for a few months now, spending ten minutes or so telling our good Flemish mothers about the plight of the refugee priests from the East. That's how I collect the bacon, which I then send in parcels to Germany. It was at one of these gatherings that I got my name. As I was getting up to speak one of the farmers wives, who had already heard me speak elsewhere, called out in a loud voice, Look, it's our Bacon Priest!"

Each month the campaign for the Eastern priests sent 10 to 15 tons of aid to Germany. Thus in the first two years some 400 tons of bacon, milk powder and other foodstuffs were collected, plus clothes, shoes and blankets. There was scarcely a person left in Belgium and the Netherlands who had not heard of the bacon priest and the Eastern priests' campaign.

It was the Flemish and the Dutch who laid the foundations of "Aid to the Church in Need". Today the organisation appeals to Christians in fifteen countries of the Western world to be active in Christian charity and gives help to the Church in need in Eastern Europe and the Third World. And what about the bacon priest himself? Now 82 years old, he only last year launched a new campaign of reconciliation between the Catholic Church in the West and the Orthodox Church in Russia.

This message of reconciliation and active Christian charity is still as relevant today as it was 50 years ago. But are there as many hearts today as in those days who are ready to hear this message and follow it?

Priestly vocation spawned during horrors of war

By Lou Baldwin EIHILADELPHIA (CNS) - In 1944, Lou DeSimone was

far from being an auxiliary bishop of Philadelphia. Then, he was just another GI called to serve America in World War II. At the outbreak of war, he had two brothers who had already opted for the priesthood. Young DeSimone had considered entering the seminary himself, but at this point any such plans would have to go on hold.

He was a pre-law student at Villanova when, in 1942, he signed up for the Army Enlisted Reserves. He was called to active service in 1943.

The Fifth Army was winding down its African campaign and was poised for a landing in Italy, creating a critical need for servicemen fluent in Italian; DeSimone had learned the language at home.

After Signal Corps training at Camp Crowder, Montana, he joine4,7,000 soldim who crowded aboard the troop ship id Vhi'Fee66ki;

Andes for the Atlantic crossing. ranean passages, the Germans I. Ryan, a colonel and chief It was a converted British pas- couldn't be driven out." chaplain for the Fifth Army. He senger liner a greyhound comBut the historic abbey of traveled the countryside with pared to most transports - mak- Monte Cassino was indeed the priest, seeing much of the ing the perilous crossing to bombed. The great mass of misery left by warfare.

Casablanca alone in just six bombers flying overhead But he was most influenced days. "looked like a swarm of gnats," in choosing his vocation, he The Italian campaign was in the bishop recalled. The dull, said, by Padre Eustortio da Verfull swing when the Fifth Army distant thuds meant the abbey ano, a humble Capuchin who caught up with it. Even though was being pounded into rub- rode a donkey to the different Italy had officially surrendered, ble. units and begged for food and German troops were fighting "We could hear the bombs clothing to give to the poor of on. drop in the distance," he the war-ravaged countryside.

"I gave him some things I Soldier DeSimone landed on remembered. "It was blown to January 24, 1944, in Naples, bits but the Germans were still had," Bishop DeSimone said, where a firm beachhead had up there." "and I had several talks with been established. But the Allied Monte Cassino eventually him. He was such a spiritual drive to Rome was stalled not fell to Polish troops. In later guy. Maybe with so much distoo far north at the Gustav Line, years, Bishop DeSimone aster around, I thought that's with the ancient abbey of returned to visit Monte what I wanted to do."

Monte Cassino blocking the Cassino, now rebuilt. Of speThe Fifth Army entered way as a virtually invulnerable cial significance to him are the Rome on June 5, 1944. The Vatanchor for the German forces. hillside cemeteries for the vari- ican was literally a walled city, "Many of us were hoping ous nationalities - German, with wooden barriers setting it Monte Cassino wouldn't be British, Polish and American - apart from the rest of the Eterbombed, because it was so his- who had fought so desperately nal City. toric," Bishop DeSimone told in 1944.

On June 10, Pope Pius XII The Catholic Standard and During his time in Italy, received 10,000 GIs in an audiTimes, Philadelphia's arch- Bishop DeSimone recalled, he ence, and the GI who would be diocesan newspaper. made up his mind to be a bishop was among the lucky "We had heard it wouldn't priest. ones who got to be right up make a diff*ence, because ,One of his assi$rprpnts, was front. there were so many subter- as interpreter for Father Patrick id me and asked

me where I was from," the bishop said. "I told him of my desire to become a priest and he said he would pray for me."

Bishop DeSimone said that he finished out the Italian campaign, came home, and was discharged on November 11, 1945. The next year he became the first returning GI to enroll at St Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia.

He wasn't there long when the rector suggested he might be eligible for the GI Bill, a federal program that allowed returning servicemen to attend college.

For most of the bishop's time in the seminary, tuition and room and board were paid for

by Uncle Sam - not only that, but "I got a $60 cheque every month for myself," he said.

Bishop DeSimone doesn't dwell on his war service. "I don't think I did anything special," he said. "I never had to fire a gun. We were bombarded but never hit, and we saw many poor guys that were killed or wounded. God was very good to me."

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Commit and find your true self things we have agreed to do, often only for a period of time.

My agreement with the homeless youth EN I agreed to help a homeless was a commitment of substance. It tied boy some years ago, virtually me to some specific actions that would becoming his foster parent, I took the cost me in terms of time, money, effort obligation seriously. Things went fine - and in a host of other ways.

These are commitments to our jobs, for awhile. Then he began to test my neighborhood groups, softball team. resolve.

I had expected this, and I was deter- We have given our word that we will mined to win the battle of wits and con- be involved, personally involved, with the trol. I did win the first few times. But one things that need to be done.

The motivation behind commitments of of the boy's actions was so bad, so out of line, that I decided he had to leave. I told substance can vary. Maybe we hate the him to pack his things. He yelled at me job but need the money, maybe we love the job but still need the money. Maybe and ran to his room, locking the door. we join Rotary or Save Our Zoo for perI let the boy stew for a couple of hours and was just about to go and tell him sonal advancement or sing in the parish again that he had to pack when he choir because there is someone else there came out of his room, walked downstairs that we would like to get to know better.

The motivation is not the same as the and stood before me. commitment.

"You told me that you were committed to helping me.. Just because I screw up Commitments of substance are imporand do things wrong, why does that tant because they provide a picture of change your commitment? You're just who we are. We live most of our lives in like everybody else in my life, letting me a maze of commitments of substance. be around when it's convenient but get- The substantialness of those committing rid of me when its hard." ments and our fulfillment of them is I hate it when the people I'm arguing called our reputation. with are right, and the boy was right.

Commitments of integrity are my third Yes, there is a mutuality to many com- variety: These are statements of self-defimitments, but the bottom line is that I nition, the core of our being put into can't call myself committed if my resolve words and actions. is tied conditionally to what someone else If grace is the blood of the soul, comdoes. The boy stayed. mitments of integrity are the veins though There are different types or layers of which it flows. commitment.

The primary commitment of this kind is First are the surface types, commit- our commitment to ourself, our primary ments of habit: These are things we do belief that we can receive and give love because as human beings we need God's love and the love of others. This habits to get through life. I'm thinking of forms the base for our baptism, marriage, habits such as punctuality, veracity, parenthood, perpetual profession, ordination - the things we have done that define cleanliness.

Everyone around us knows if we are us.

But commitments of integrity are dancommitted to these things and responds to us accordingly. If we are gerous, hot molten glass to be touched not truthful, people expect us to lie. If we carefully. Because we change, they are not clean, people don't come around change, they are never static. very often.

What it means to be committed at the Second are commitments of sub- level of integrity is that we have to work stance: These build on our habits. constantly to reshape that commitment to They are promises we have made, meet the new demands that life presents,

By Father W. Thomas Faucher

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of a young mother or by actions of a sometimes sinful church.

We live in a constant movement these three types of commitbetween As we become persons of greater traveling back and forth from one ment, integrity, these commitments should deepen, unlocking new layers of color to the other all day long, renewing each and vibrancy contained within that origi- commitment in the process. Our commitments reinforce and strengthen each nal commitment. other.

Commitments of integrity have a It is sometimes fashionable for people power to grow when we nurture them. to say they don't know who they are.

But they, in turn, nurture and support us Maybe there are times when we are all when we begin to fail. like that.

So we need to look around - and I strengthen my commitment to priesthood by living, praying, and serving as I within. Our commitments tell us where should; my commitment strengthens me we have been, where we are going and, when my faith is challenged by the death fundamentally, who we are.

to utilize the new resources life gives to us. Real commitments of integrity should intensify as we age.

ent: Commitm Without Life Sticking to the game plan The Agony of Uncertainty

By Wally Carew

C

AL RIPKEN JR., US baseball's classy ‘....."Baltimore Orioles' shortstop, is zeroing in on Lou Gehrig's record for longevity, a milestone of playing in over 2,000 consecutive games that no one thought ever would be broken.

He could break that record this year.

For almost 14 seasons, neither injuries nor off-the-field complications have sidetracked Ripken from his commitment to play every day.

He did not set out to eclipse the record for perseverance, set almost 60 years ago

by Gehrig, the ex-New York Yankees great who was nicknamed "The Iron Horse."

Instead, Ripken just piled one day and one game of good deeds on top of another.

That, as I see it, is exactly what we Christians do: We fry our best every day and trust that God will send the necessary grace to us.

Although sports are merely games, if examined carefully they can become a mirror linage of our pilgrim journeys of faith.

Sports, like life itself, are filled with commonly experienced struggles to make and keep commitments.

for unselfish concern for the interests of others, for true community.

Commitments are especially hard EN God's people were in when the prevailing mood of society exile far from home, they is one of rugged individualism and complained that God had for- consuming self-interest. Commitsaken his commitment to them: ments require a certain stability.

"The Lord has foresaken me; my When mobility is the order of the Lord has forgotten me." day - when individuals can simply The answer came back: "Can a take off in pursuit of their own intermother forget her infant, be without ests, regardless of how this affects tenderness for the child of her others - the solid structure of society womb? Even if she should forget, I is cracked and insecure. will never forget you" (Isaiah 49:14Life in biblical times was remark15). ably stable. People were strongly Commitments are the glue that attached to family, to locality, to holds society together on all levels. home. Here is where they found Without this glue the structures of security and contentment. society simply disintegrate.

The people's covenant with God When spouses cannot rely on the took the form of a warm and relifidelity of their mates, when chil- able interpersonal relationship. It dren cannot be sure that their par- formed the basis for all the relationents are there for them and parents ships by which they committed cannot trust children to stand by themselves to each other. them in their efforts to form a Families today contend with strong, supportive family, life shockingly different public attitudes becomes an agony of uncertainty. and pressures. But unless families All the Ten Commandments, the struggle with these issues, commitbasic "law" of the covenant, are ments are at risk of becoming temdesigned to promote healthy rela- porary, unstable, unreliable. Thus, tionships - with God and with other society crumbles. people.

Biblical values call for a certain Necessary as commitments are, amount of adaptation to modern they are not easy to make or keep. times. But basically these values Of their nature, commitments call remain not only valid, but essential.

By Father John J. Castelot

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Cardinal Rossi a nenerous evancielizer

By Cindy Wooden TATICAN CITY (CNS) - Brazil's Cardinal Angelo Rossi, a former head of the Vatican Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, died last week in his native Brazil.

In telegrams of condolence, Pope John Paul II called the former dean of the College of Card1nals a man of deep spirituality and commitment to the Church's missionary effort.

Cardinal Rossi, 82, died last Sunday week

in Campinas, Brazil. He had returned to his native archdiocese after he celebrated his 80th birthday and a successor was elected to the largely ceremonial post of leading the college of cardinals as dean.

The cardinal had spent 14 years as Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and later served as head of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See. In a telegram to Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, head of the college of cardinals and Prefect of the Vatican Congregation for Bishops, the Pope said Cardinal Rossi would be

remembered for his "deep spirituality, generous pastoral commitment, his work of evangelization in the diocesan communities entrusted to him, and his precious collaboration in the Roman Curia."

In a message to the Brazilian bishops' conference, the Pope said the cardinal was "a dedicated and faithful pastor who generously consecrated his life to building up the Church."

Born on May 4, 1913 in Joaquim Egidio in the Archdiocese of Campinas, Cardinal Rossi was ordained to the priesthood in 1937 and named Bishop of Barra do Pirai in

1956. Six years later he became Archbishop

of Ribeirao Preto, where he served just over two years.

He was named Archbishop of Sao Paulo in 1964 and was made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI the following year.

In 1970, he was called to Rome to lead the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, the Vatican office that oversees the Church's missionary work.

His death leaves the College of Cardinals with 164 members, 120 of whom are under 80 and therefore eligible to vote in a papal conclave.

Leper priest, today's Aborted fetal tissue furthe use will r saint, to be beatified confuse public: Jesuit

By Agostino Bono

By Tracy Early

TATICAN CITY (CNS) - The V "leper priest", Father Damien of Molokai, will be beatified in his native Belgium by Pope John Paul this weekend.

The Pope will use his June 3-4 visit to Belgium to honour the 19th-century priest whose missionary zeal and identification with outcasts are cited as examples for today.

Focus of the trip is a June 4 Mass in the capital, Brussels, to beatify Father Damien de Veuster for his work more than a century ago with victims of Hansen's disease on the Hawaiian island of Molokai.

Beatification is the step before sainthood. Father Damien was known as the "leper priest" because of his strong defense of his flock and his death in 1889 from leprosy, now known as Hansen's disease.

At the time, there was no cure for the disease, and it was considered contagious. Its victims were social outcasts, and people discovered to have the diser se were shipped to an isolated But Father Damien's example Damien," he said. peninsula on the tiny Hawaiian should spur missionaries to seek Island.

"He is an example of the need the outcasts of today, said Span"Damien is an eminently mod- ish Father Enrique to cross social, economic and culLosada em holy man," said the Belgian Adame, superior general of Fr tural barriers to get within the bishops in a May letter read at Damien's Congregation of the lives of people.

Masses throughout the country. Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

"He is above all the apostle of "He had a radical obsession Contemporary "lepers" for human dignity." the outcasts" because leprosy patients were "the great outcasts include AIDS victims, immigrants, street kids and exploited Fr Damien was sent to Hawaii of their era," they said. women, especially in poor counInscribed on Father Damien's tries, said Father Losada Adame. as a missionary in 1864. He volunteered in 1873 to work with tomb in Leuven, the town near Several communities of the the Molokai leprosy patients and Brussels where he was a seminarian, is his reason for working male religious order are dedi- contracted the disease in 1884, with lepers: "I find my greatest cated to working with AIDS vic- but refused to leave the colony happiness in the Lord in serving tims, while groups of Sacred for treatment. He organized the His poor and sick children whom Hearts Sisters work with poor inhabitants, started schools, women, he said. other men have forgotten."

Improved medical services and Today, Hansen's disease is Missionaries working with founded a band. He continued curable and no longer carries the marginalised, socially isolated working at the colony until a social stigma of a century ago. people are "illuminated by month before his death at age 49.

Anglican bishops now Catholic priests

1 0LYMOUTH, ENGLAND (CNS) - Two retired, married bishops of the Church of England who converted to Roman Catholicism last year have received Vatican permission to be ordained as priests, said Catholic Bishop Hugh Christopher Budd of Plymouth May 23.

The two are Conrad Meyer, 7 2, formerly the Anglican bishop of Dorchester and honorary assistant bishop in the Eitocdieof Tram'? Curhienill; 12 The Record, June 1 1995

and Richard Rutt, 69, Anglican bishop of Leicester until 1990.

Both were received into the Catholic Church in 1994.

They will be ordained at Buckfast Abbey in Devon on June 8.

Bishop Budd said that he was pleased permission had been given for the ordinations.

"I am sure the diocese will benefit from their extensive pastoral experience," he said.

The bishop added that "this event does not reduce the corn-

mitment of the Catholic Church to both practical cooperation and theological dialogue with the Church of England."

The ordinations do not undermine the tradition of celibacy within the Latin-rite priesthood, he added.

Neither of the two new priests will take up full-time active ministry within the Plymouth Diocese, but will be available to help in local parishes, Bishop Budd said.

EW YORK (CNS) - Jesuit N Father Richard A. McCormick, ethics professor at the University of

In other cases, such as treatment of blood and immune systems, medical opinion now holds it could be beneficial, he reported.

Father McCormick rejected the arguments of researchers who contended the issue of using fetal tissue could be separated from the question of how it is obtained.

Notre Dame, has warned in a New York address that use of fetal tissue from elective abortions would increase acceptance of abortion.

If researchers find use can bring In response to the argument that important medical benefits, he said, organs of murder victims are used, that will "provide a social legitima- he replied that the public recogtion of abortion and a blunting of nized the wrongfulness of murder our sensitivity to its wrongfulness." and would not be "confused."

Speaking at St. John's University He said the ethical issues were last week, Father McCormick said more comparable to medical experthat when the door was opened for iments on Holocaust victims. such a practice as fetal tissue use, it t ended to be gradually opened In a particular case, use of tissue wider and wider. Using fetal tissue might be separated from the deciwould "deepen the confusion" in a sion of a woman to secure an aborpublic already suffering from "con- tion, Father McCormick said. fusion" about abortion, he said.

But he said use could not be sepa"It's time to stop and take a good rated from the general practice of look," he said. performing elective abortions.

He noted that one of United States Father McCormick appeared at President Bill Clinton's first acts in office was to end a moratorium that St. John's University as a participant his predecessors had maintained on in a one-week seminar co-sponfetal tissue research by the federal sored by the Catholic Medical Center of Brooklyn and Queens for Government. administrators of Catholic health Referring to Mr Clinton's stated care institutions. goal of making abortion safe, legal and rare, Father McCormick comWhile there, he was also asked to mented, "He has made it legal and assess the new version of the Amersafe. The question is, what has he ican bishops' directives for Catholic done to make it rare?" hospitals. He called it a -vast Elective abortions provided the improvement" over a preliminary most convenient source of fetal tis- draft, but he questioned its overall usefulness in the current context. sue, Father McCormick said.

Spontaneous abortions occured The directives, approved by the about 750,000 times a year in the US bishops last November, are a US, he said. But he said they were national code to guide Catholic not a good source of tissue because health care facilities in addressing a they often occurred outside hospi- wide range of ethical questions. The tals and became subject to contami- 48-page document looks at such nation, and they often occurred in questions as abortion, euthanasia, cases where the fetus had abnor- care for the poor, medical research, malities; the fetus also commonly in vitro fertilization and organ donahad died two or three weeks before tion. it was expelled.

Father McCormick said the direcSimilar difficulties limited securing tissue from ectopic or tubal tives would likely reinforce a public impression that the Catholic identity abortions, he said. of hospitals lay only in the "things Father McCormick cited some we don't do." medical benefits that had come The directives would not help in from research on fetal tissue or transplantation of it. Fetal tissue was meeting the immediate challenge of used in development of the polio maintaining a sense of Catholic misvaccine, he said. sion and ministry when economics He said fetal tissue was valued for was driving so many decisions, he transplants because its cells devel- said. oped more rapidly than adult cells, With hospitals driven to become were "plastic" enough for diverse short-stay "fixing" institutions, often use and had qualities that made because of mergers or network them "less likely to be rejected" than arrangements with institutions of other transplants. diverse character, Catholics in the There had been reports of future may find their main opportupatients with Parkinson's disease nities for health care ministry in receiving benefits from the trans- such "hands on" work as home and planting of fetal tissue, but questions hospice care, Father McCormick remained, Father McCormick said. suggested.

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Library theft Rf dismays humanist.

By John Thavis TATICAN CITY (CNS) - The V first theft of rare manuscript pages since 1902 has left Vatican Library officials dismayed but determined to keep their unique collection open to visiting scholars.

"We're not going to start introducing vast new security measures," Father Leonard E. Boyle, Vatican Library prefect, said last week. He noted that under existing rules, all bags and potential receptacles were checked at the door.

It was apparently the first theft since 1902, which demonstrates that visitors can generally be trusted, he said. The manuscripts have been recovered.

"This is a research library, with scholars coming in from all over the world. If you can't trust the scholars, shut the place down," he said.

Fr Boyle made the comments after three hand-written manuscript pages, bearing precious miniature illustrations of early Roman agriculture, turned up for sale in the United States.

A fter being tipped off by US experts, the Vatican Library discovered the three pages had been cut out of one of its own volumes, a 14th-century copy of a Roman text.

The volume had once been owned

by Petrarch, the Italian poet and

US Customs officials questioned a 68-year-old Ohio State University professor and authority on medieval manuscripts, Anthony Melnikas, who, according to Fr Boyle, had access to the book in 1987 during one of his periodic visits to the Vatican Library.

Bruce Ferrini, an Ohio manuscript dealer, said Melnikas brought two o f the book's pages to him for appraisal in early May. Mr Ferrini, who estimated the value of the pages at $US500,000, alerted other art historians, who then tracked down the origin of the pages and contacted Fr Boyle.

Fr Boyle said Melnikas had been coming to the library every summer for some 30 years and had published three volumes in cooperation with the library. He emphasized that he had no knowledge of whether Melnikas was actually responsible for removing the missing pages: that would be up to U.S. authorities to determine, he said.

From Columbus, Ohio, Melnikas' lawyer James E. Phillips said that "we're in the process of collecting the facts."

"I am not going to confirm or deny that he had them (the pages) in his possession," Mr Phillips said.

By John Thavis

OME (CNS) - A sixth nun, the fifth rom Italy, has died from the Ebola virus in Zaire, as world health authorities work to contain the spread of the deadly disease.

Church officials in northern Italy said Italian Sister Annelvira Ossofi, 59, died on May 23 in the town of Kilcwit, where the outbreak began in late April. A member of the Italianbased Sisters of the Little Poor, she had travelled to the region from the Zairian capital in early May to care for other stricken members of her religious community.

Four of the previous victims were Sisters of the Little Poor from Italy working as nurses or hospital administrators in Kilcwit.

A Zairian sister, a nursing student who belonged to another religious community, also died from the disease.

Church officials said another Italian sister was suspected of having contracted the disease and was being kept in isolation in Zaire.

The World Health Organisation said that as of May 22, 101 of 123 people infected with the virus have died. The virus has an incubation period of 21 days and more cases were expected.

The outbreak began in the Kikwit hospital, which was staffed largely by women religious.

Pope John Paul II said he was following the news of the epidemic with deep concern and prayers.

Buddhists, Christians meditate call

By Cindy Wooden

A TATICAN CITY (CNS) - As Buddhists

IV mark the anniversary of Buddha's enlightenment, Christians should join them in reflecting on the principles their religions share, Cardinal Francis Arinze, the President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue has said in a letter to Buddhist leaders.

His letter marking the anniversary, known as "Vesakha," was a sign that Christians "want to share in your joy (and) to meditate on the teachings that concern us all."

Cardinal Arinze focused specifically on the Buddhist belief in "karuna" or compassion.

"Buddha links compassion to harmony and peace; moreover, compassion is not limited to human beings alone, but it is to be practiced toward all beings; compassion, in Buddhism, is 'the basis of morality ... the voice of

the cosmos heard in the ear," the cardinal wrote.

The Buddhist concept of compassion for all creation called for commitment to safeguarding the environment, Cardinal Arinze wrote.

As he did in his annual letter to Muslims marking the end of the Ramadan month of fasting, the cardinal called on Buddhists to work with Christians in protecting the environment and in educating followers of all faiths to understand the religious basis for environmental concern.

"Ignorance of the teachings of our respective religions" on the origins and purpose of creation "has led our world to certain disastrous consequences," Cardinal Arinze said, fisting air and water pollution, deforestation and the extinction of plant and animal species.

The world's ecological crisis was a moral problem, he said.

Better care for the dying to cut euthanasia: doctor

By Tracey Early EW YORK (CNS) - The medical community should N provide better physical and psy-

chological care for the dying and not go along with those who say they want to commit suicide, according to a physician on the staff of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

Dr Kathleen M. Foley, chief of the center's pain service, said most patients who expressed a wish to die were suffering intense pain that could be managed better.

"I see patients daily who say they would like to die," she told a seminar for administrators of Catholic hospitals. "I say let's get your pain under control."

Ms Foley, a Catholic and a graduate of St. John's University in New York, spoke on May 23 to some 50 administrators.

In addition to enduring intense pain, many of the terminally ill patients asking for help with suicide were suffering from profound depression or some other psychiatric disorder that should be addressed. Ms Foley said.

But physicians assisting them to die, such as Dr Jack Kevorkian and most of those in the Netherlands, lacked any special competence for dealing with pain or recognizing psychological disorders, she said. She recommended that each hospital have someone, or perhaps a doctor-nurse team, trained as pain specialists.

Ms Foley said media reports on the issue and soap opera dramatisations had led to a public opinion shown by surveys as "overwhelmingly in favor of euthanasia."

"There seems to be no other voice," she said.

But she called a television portrayal of a Netherlands case as an example of "the pornography of

death."

In the Netherlands, euthanasia has wide public support. It is illegal, but physicians can expect immunity in euthanasia cases if they follow a series of government guidelines stipulating that the patient must be terminally ill, have pain that cannot be relieved, and must have repeatedly and lucidly asked to be killed.

She said American Broadcasting Corporation correspondent Sam Donaldson introduced the program by saying, "This is a story of love and courage." But she said no one told viewers the physician had spent little time with the patient before assisting with the suicide, never interviewed the patient alone, and failed to get any psychiatric assessment.

Ms Foley questioned the common assumption that patients were exercising autonomy when they committed suicide. "How can you say patients are using their

powers of free choice if they are

delirious?" she asked. "Often the psychiatric symptoms are not identified."

She also reported that her own patients were often quite ambivalent, expressing one wish now and something different an hour or day later.

Ms Foley said giving terminally ill patients better treatment during their last days would help reduce the public support for euthanasia.

"When people have seen a member of their family or someone else close to them die a horrible death, they want to control their own death," she said. "We must improve care of the dying to improve the perspective of survivors."

Current medical training prepared physicians to help sick people get well, not to care for those who are dying, she said. So when physicians decide there is nothing they can do to help patients

recover, they might spend less time with them and leave them feeling abandoned, she said.

"We must re-frame medical education, or decide caring for the dying is somebody else's task." she said. Nurses might do better, she suggested.

Patients should be helped to talk about their pain, and told that if it became too severe, they had options such as sedation, she said.

She said patients and doctors both often needed to have it explained to them that use of sedation to control pain was not euthanasia, even if a secondary effect might turn out to be a hastened death.

Ms Foley also said family members and friends of dying patients should be taught to become their advocates in getting physicians to control their pain.

Chicago Archdiocese experiments with new racial harmony plan

By Jay Copp

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HICAGO (CNS) - The Chicago Archdiocese is developing a program to increase racial and ethnic harmony in parishes and, by extension, in city neighborhoods and suburbs.

The program to sensitise people to racial and ethnic traditions is expected to be piloted in six parishes later this year.

Cardinal Joseph Bernardin and the ,

Chicago Archdiocese were "not just trying to be current or copy what others are doing," Teresita Nuval, the Asian-American consultant to the Ethnic Ministries Office, said. "That would fizzle out. What I love about this is that they're trying to create a structure and a process for multiculturalism."

The program is part of the ambitious Decisions process, initiated by Cardinal Bernardin to upgrade evangelisation, education and ministerial leadership in the Archdiocese. The

Decisions process is in its final stages - the implementation of 40 goals over a five-year period.

Coordinating the design of the racial harmony program are Ms Nuval and Sheila Adams, also from the Ethnic Ministries Office.

Details of the programs are still being worked out.

Catholics in the Chicago Archdiocese, where Mass is celebrated in 20 languages, will not be asked to give up their identity but to be welcoming to the culture of others, Ms Nuval

said.

"There's a paranoia about the word 'uniformity," she added.

"The correct word is 'unity' or 'complementarity.' People should relate to one another without conflict."

The program should be able to pave the way for the success of all of the wider decisions program, Ms Adams, the African-American consultant to the Ethnic Ministries Office, said. "If racial and ethnic harmony takes place, everything else would fall into place," she said.

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US Catholic hospitals co-operation warning

By Tracy Early

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EW YORK (CNS) - Catholic hospital administrators increasingly must consider under what conditions they can cooperate with institutions that do not share their values, according to American theologian Father Michael D. Place.

Financial pressures were forcing many hospitals into "uncharted waters" as they found survival required involvement in various cooperative relationships and networks, he said last week.

Many such arrangements involved

agencies engaged in practices that were unacceptable to the Church, and presented problems of what traditional ethical teaching has treated as "material cooperation" with evil, said the priest, who is working on such issues for the Archdiocese of Chicago.

"People of good will come to different conclusions," he said.

Father Place, research theologian for the Chicago Archdiocesan Curia and consul for policy development, spoke at a seminar for hospital administrators at St. John's University in New York co-sponsored by

the Catholic Medical Center of Brooklyn and Queens.

He said the new cooperative arrangements could bring problems not only in areas related to reproduction, including abortion and sterilization, but also in social justice and Catholic concern for such matters as the dignity of employees.

But primary attention should focus on the positive goal of carrying out the church's mission in health care rather than on the problems, he said.

Father Place said "material cooperation," - involvement with a person or institution doing something wrong when the Catholic party was not performing the act

directly or intentionally - had sometimes been approved when the alternative seemed to be a greater evil.

He said such cooperation is sometimes judged permissible where the Catholic party was acting under "duress", depending on the gravity of the evil, the nature of the cooperation and the degree of duress.

The threat of a hospital facing bankruptcy and loss of its opportunity to serve those in need might today be rated as that kind of justification, he said.

Father Place cautioned, however, that the closing of a hospital was "not as bad as having the Catholic name on something that is not really Catholic."

Irish abortion Look to New Testament to renew Italy, says Pope on demand coming: Bishop us to a nostalgic withdrawal back to the work already accomplished by the Lord."

By Cindy Wooden

A TATICAN CITY (CNS) -

protests from pro-life supporters.

By Patrick Nolan

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UBLIN, Ireland (CNS) Archbishop Desmond Connell of Dublin has said easy access to abortion will be the outcome of an Irish Supreme Court ruling that a law allowing distribution of information on abortion in Great Britain is constitutional.

Ireland was -headed down the road to abortion on demand," Archbishop Connell said.

Catholic doctors and legal experts also joined in criticising the ruling.

They said the decision was an erosion of the Irish Constitution's amendment protecting the right to life of the unborn.

-To claim that the bill is about information and not about abortion is misleading and incorrect," said the Archbishop.

It was now -impossible to predict how the Supreme Court will determine any question in the future," he said last week.

The Supreme Court judged the law constitutional on May 12. Parliament passed the law several days before the ruling, allowing the distribution of information about British abortion services.

It means that family doctors can tell pregnant women where in Britain abortions take place and the cost. But doctors are prohibited from advocating or promoting abortion.

The 75-member ruling council of Irish College of General Practitioners already has approved an information packet and has begun sending it to physicians, drawing

Many doctors object to the college's decision to send them abortion information packets without prior consultation, said Janina Lyons, a member of Doctors for Life.

Irish doctors were now allowed to provide "abortion referral in all but name," she said.

The Irish legal situation regarding abortion is complex, despite two referendums in which a majority opposed abortion.

In a 1983 referendum, a two-toone majority decided to amend the constitution to prohibit abortions.

After the vote, it was widely believed that abortion could not be legalized without a further referendum.

In 1992, however, the Supreme Court ruled that the amendment which guaranteed and recognized the right to life of the unborn permitted abortions in certain cases.

The ruling said that further measures were needed to clarify the constitutional and legal situation and to ensure that these new measures reflected the wishes of the majority.

The Government then proposed a referendum on a constitutional amendment that would have removed the threat of suicide as a grounds for abortion, but which would have allowed abortion in the case of substantial risk to the life of the mother.

But the proposal was defeated 65.4 percent to 34.6 percent. But there were majorities for permitting travel abroad and for making abortion information available.

V The new evangelization o f traditionally Catholic countries calls for new energies and ideas, not a nostalgic longing for the past, Pope John Paul II has told the bishops of Italy.

The Pope addressed the bishops on May 25 during their weeklong annual general assembly, held at the Vatican.

The central focus of the bishops' discussion was the relationship between faith and culture in a country where the vast majority of people identify themselves as Catholic, but only a small portion attend weekly Mass.

Pope John Paul urged the bishops to model their pastoral plans on the workings of the early Christian community.

The New Testament communities, he said, were marked by

"It is the gift of the Holy Spirit and the task entrusted to us to celebrate the Resurrection today not only in the liturgy, but also in what we show the world around us," the Pope said.

The Church must be a community "which, in encountering the presence of the risen Jesus in the Word and Bread, works to spread the message to the world," he said.

Pope John Paul II. a renewed outpouring of the Holy Spirit "at essential moments", attentive listening to the Word of God through the teaching of the Apostles, sharing the Eucharist, living in community and ministering to the poor.

Recalling the early days of Christianity and of the Catholic Church, he said, "must not lead

One of the greatest challenges for the Church in modern Italian society, he said, was to help people understand the full truth about being humans created in the image and likeness of God. The Pope said Christians must have a firm spiritual basis on which to make judgments between good and evil, not only as it applies to individuals but to all society, and especially to the weak and defenseless.

Inside the Vatican with CD-ROM

ASHINGTON (CNS) ers of the CD-ROM, said that St. Peter to present.

W - The newest projects Monsignor John Burns of the But there's also "an on-line to grace the growing field of Vatican Archives and Guido

CD-ROMs include an inside look at the Vatican - done with help from Vatican officials and employees - and a treatment of the four Gospels.

"Inside the Vatican," based on the public television documentary series hosted by Peter Ustinov, received the assistance of United States Archbishop John P. Foley, head of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications.

Jay Alan Samit, president of Jasmine Multimedia, produc-

Cornini and Patricia Bonicatti of the Vatican Museum also lent their assistance.

Bible so you can read the Scriptures yourself," Mr Samit said.

Inside the Vatican will use most of the TV series as its base. It explores the institution of the Papacy and the development of the Curia. It shows rare footage, hundreds of paintings and one-on-one "interviews" with historic figures whose lives helped shape the church. Actors reenact pivotal moments in the creation of the church from

Pauline Software, a division of St. Paul Books & Media, is a CD-ROM that uses the Gospel texts as the launching point to examine paintings, music and sculpture, as well as research into language, history and geography. Comparisons of the Synoptic Gospels and word searches are also possible.

US Senate committee recommends abortion doctor for top job

ASHINGTON (CNS) - The United final confirmation - or even to fend off a supervised; for his connections to Planned Republican Senator Nancy L. KasseW States Senate Labor and Human parliamentary move to block a vote by the Parenthood; and for having overseen a baum, who chairs the labor committee, Resources Committee voted last Friday full Senate. study of an abortion drug.

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to recommend that Dr Henry Foster, who has confessed to performing abortions, be the next US surgeon general.

But whether the full Senate will even vote on his nomination remains unsettled.

In the vote for Foster, the seven Democrats on the committee were joined by Republican Senators James Jeffords of Vermont and Bill Frist of Tennessee, a physician who has known Foster for years.

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At least one organization, the National Right to Life Committee, said it would ignore any actual vote on the nomination and report to its membership only the vote on closure on debate, the parliamentary procedure by which a filibuster is blocked and the nomination put to an immediate vote. The committee said it regards a vote for closure as a vote for Foster.

Foster, an obstetrician-gynecologist from Nashville, has been criticized for supporting abortion; for confusion about the number of abortions he performed or

His supporters have pointed to the success of the "I Have a Future" program he started for inner-city Nashville youths; his long career serving poor and rural Tennesseans; and his plans, not detailed during confirmation hearings, to focus on reducing teen pregnancy if he is approved for the post.

A closure vote by 60 senators is required to end a filibuster and call a vote on the nomination. Only a simple majority, or 5 1 votes, is necessary to approve the nomination. ,

voted against Foster in her committee vote, but has said she believes the nomination deserves a vote by the full Senate.

The National Right to Life Committee's intention to count only a closure vote would effectively lump together with Foster's supporters anyone who, like Senator Kassebaum, would push for an immediate vote by the full Senate even though they vote against him on the floor. Senator Kassebaum generally supports legislation that makes abortion available.

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ADULT FAITH GROUP All Saints Parish, Liwara Place, Greenwood, Adult Faith Group invites you to attend talks by Fr Vincent Glynn, Thursdays June 8th and 15th, 7.30pm to 9pm followed by refreshments in our meeting room, Liwara Place, Greenwood.

Topics: What does the Eucharist mean to me? Further explanation of the Eucharist and Eucharistic prayer.

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EUCHARISTIC REPARATION The next Holy Hour of the World Apostolate of Fatima will be held on Sunday, 11th June at 3pm in the Immaculate Conception Parish Church, corner Preston Point Road and Canning Highway, East Fremantle. Rev Fr S. Jones will officiate.

BROTHER ANDREW Perth workshops by Br Andrew: Queen of Apostles - Tudor Ave Riverton. Monday 12th June 7.30pm including sharing time over a cuppa. Tuesday 13th June 10.00am-3.00pm including Mass. Please bring lunch, cuppa provided. Enquiries: 457 2424.

COUNTRY REFLECTION The next country Day of R eflection is to be held on Monday, 14th August, 1995 at St Joseph's Church, Kellerberrin, commencing 9.30am and concluding 2.00pm with Holy Mass.

The theme for the day is "Peace" with Fr Gerard Dickinson, P.P. St. Mary's Cathedral, Perth, guest speaker.

B.Y.O.L. Tea/coffee supplied.

Please wear name tags. Contact No: Keller (090) 45 4021.

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UTURGICAL RETREAT 26 June-1 July 1995. Conducted by: Fr Jerome Neyrey SJ, Fr Russell Hardiman. Monday 26 June-Saturday 1 July. Registration: 4-5.30pm Monday. St John of God Retreat House, 47 Gloucester Road, Safety Bay. $285 all inclusive. $30 deposit (non-refundable), balance due at registration. Please Bring: Bible, Missal/Lectionary, Musical Instruments. For further information contact: Fr Russell Hardiman, University of Notre Dame, PO Box 1225 Fremantle WA 6160. Phone: (09) 336 0618 Fax: (09) 430 4228.

PRAYER AGAINST EUTHANASIA Catholics, and all other Christian denominations who care to take part, are called to be united in praying a special Rosary on Sunday evening, June 4th at 8pm, or as close to this time as possible, asking Our Lady's intercession to prevent the legalisation of Euthanasia in W.A. or any other part of Australia. People through-out W.A. are invited to take part, Rosary can be said at home, Church, wherever convenient.

Organised by State Prayer Tree Committee. Further information phone (09) 446 1935, or 448 9062.

CHRISTOPHER WALKER VISIT The Parish Liturgical Musicians Network is hosting the visit of Christopher Walker, composer• of such works as Sing of the Lord's Goodness, We Are Your People, Lead Me 0 Lord, and Come Set Us Free.

The Choir is Not Dead: Sunday 18 June, 2pm-4pm at the South Perth Anglican Church, Cnr Ridge and Karoo Streets, South Perth.

Music and the Spirituality of Children: Monday 19 June, 1pm3pm at James Nestor Hall, Catholic Ed. Office, 50 Ruislip Street, Leederville.

Making Stones Sing: Monday 19 June, 7.30pm-9.30pm at St Thomas More Church, Cnr Dean and Morsengo Roads, Bateman.

Cost S10 per workshop or $25 for the three. For further information and registration please c ontact the Archdiocesan Liturgy Office, phone (09) 221 1548.

Archdiocesan Calendar May 18/5 4/6 Ukraine, Delegation of Bishops Australian Archbishop Hickey June 1 - 2 Diocese of Broome, Education Festival - Bishop Healy Celebration Mass, 150th 4 Anniversary of the Catholic Church in WA, St Mary's Cathedral - Archbishop Hickey Australian Kidney Foundation, Service of Thanksgiving - Fr Sean Bredin OSCam Reception of Lord Mayor 6 Bishop Healy Induction of New Acolytes, St Mary's Cathedral - Archbishop Hickey Visit of German Ambassador, 7 Dr Klaus Zeller - Archbishop Hickey, Bishop Healy Council of Priests Meeting 8 9-11 Visitation and Confirmation Floreat/Wembley - Bishop Healy

& HEALING SERVICE 7pm Sunday June 11th Celebrant: Fr. Michael Brown OFM The evening will consist of: Praise & Worship, Holy Mass & Healing Prayer.

"Holy Family Church" Thelma Street, Como Enquiries: Telephone: (09) 382 3668

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ADVERTISE! This space costs $30 THE CATHOLIC EDUCATION COMMISSION OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA invites applications for the position of

Principal OUR LADY OF LOURDES SCHOOL. DARDANUP Our Lady of Lourdes School is a small rural school catering for children from Pre-primary to Year 7.

The school promotes Gospel values and prides itself on academic excellence and sporting achievements.

Computer facilities are of a high standard. Italian is taught through the grades and the First Steps program is nearing completion.

The successful applicant will take up the position at the beginning of 1996.

Applicants will be actively involved in the Catholic Church and be experienced educators committed to the objectives and ethos of Catholic education. They will have the requisite theological, pastoral and managerial competencies together with an appropriate four year minimum tertiary qualification and will have, or be prepared to complete, appropriate Accreditation requirements.

Further information and official application forms are available from Sr Clare Rafferty, Consultant, School Personnel Team, Ph. (09) 388 4268.

Official application forms should be addressed to The Director, Catholic Education Office of WA. PO Box 198, Leederville WA 6903 and received by Monday, 12 June 1995.

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